Th.oughts

First go here if you have no idea what I am talking about.

Step 1

Get the Make controller kit ;) Get the power supply too, it's more convenient than connecting the USB cable.

Step 2

Get the Olimex jtag-usb-tiny from Sparkfun Electronics . It's the cheapest way to get started, trust me! Also get a
USB cable A to B while you are there. You will thank me later.

It's almost a month now since rc3 was out and I was very excited about it. I got hold of an ebuild from flameeyes's overlay. I guess it's the same one that's now incorporated to the official tree. Everything went so fine and clean. The compilation, running alsaconf that detects the sound card and voila! alsamixer shows two external capture channels, left and right, as if my long awaited dream of getting capture work was about to come true!

These poor CPU companies are busy packing more power into their chips ignoring the heat that comes along. If you are on a Gentoo machine, I bet you know that your CPU has to take compiling stuff for granted. But what about overheating ? It had almost become a kind of common routine on my laptop. While compiling something or maybe just that many applications are running, the system would simply shutdown!

Reason: Critical temperature reached on one of the cores.