Thursday, April 05, 2007

MG 1/100 RX-93-2 Hi-Nu Gundam

Recently I've just purchased a Hi-Nu Gundam MG. The box art is not as impressive as the Strike Freedom Full Burst Mode. The overall size of the box is almost identical to Srike Freedom Full Burst Mode. Judging from the content, it seems that the joints are not using polycap anymore. It gives me an idea that I need to be careful when I'm constructing this model, otherwise it might end up like my F91, which I've broken the joint that join the palm with the arm (even though I've fixed it, it will not be able to move like it used to be).

Speaking of F91, because I've broken the hand, therefore I need to purchase another F91 in order to see it in perfect condition. So I bought the other version of Blue F91 from the Crossbone Gundam universe. I thought of not fixing the Blue F91 because I wanted only the joint; but after much consideration, I might as well just fix the F91 now and fix the Blue F91 later, so that the Blue F91 could accompany my Crossbone Gundam X11 :D :D :D

Gentoo Linux - Important command

It's a very tedious work to ensure Gentoo Linux to be up-to-date with the latest distribution. The module/packages sometime will collide with each other, causing the update process take a much longer time to finish. But I can't deny that fact that in comparison with Fedora, Gentoo Linux does not give me problem like software compatibility issue.

When I'm doing the update for Gentoo, I found out that there are 2 importants commands that need to be executed before running the updated software. These commands are as follow.

1. env-update
2. source /etc/profile

I was wondering the other day over the reason of not able to emerge the necessary driver when I'm updating Xorg-X11 even though I've specified the necessary information inside /etc/make.conf and doing a deep update. After I performed the above commands, it seems to be able to install the necessary drivers into the system.

The other note on the latest Gentoo Linux, is that once the portage tree has been sync with the latest version, there will be possibility that updating certain software such as the Xorg X11 will be blocked by previous old version, which will display a wrong version number (Like mine, I have 6.8.2 installed, but it shows that version 6.9 is blocking). Probably the reason is because I've not been updating the system frequently to the latest portage, thus such problem will happened?