recorded my ubuntu desktop[views:9997][posts:126]______________________________________ [Jul 16,2007 1:15pm - sxealex nli ""] u should get "transmission" for torrents |
| ______________________________________ [Jul 16,2007 1:15pm - sxealex nli ""] u get the cube werkin? |
| ________________________________________ [Jul 16,2007 1:16pm - DestroyYouAlot ""] the_reverend said:I have an radeo. what if I don't have a mouse wheel? Just physically turn the monitor around, Mac will sense it and form a new screen on whichever side is facing you. |
| ______________________________________ [Jul 16,2007 1:37pm - the_reverend ""] I'm at work and can't try it yet. |
| ______________________________________ [Jul 16,2007 2:37pm - sxealex nli ""] my mac is the man... eat my penus |
| ______________________________________ [Jul 16,2007 2:42pm - the_reverend ""] macs are for dudes who like other dudes. |
| _________________________________ [Jul 16,2007 2:44pm - sxealex ""] i like other doods just not sex with other doods |
| _________________________________ [Jul 16,2007 2:45pm - sxealex ""] actually id like to retract that and just say i hate everyone |
| __________________________________________ [Jul 16,2007 2:53pm - thegreatspaldino ""] the_reverend said:macs are for dudes who like other dudes. says the Mac-master |
| ______________________________________ [Jul 17,2007 9:33am - the_reverend ""] ok, there is no "beryl-manager" there is "beryl-settings" and when I do that there is no "enable" |
| __________________________________ [Jul 17,2007 10:59am - sxealex ""] go to a terminal and type beryl-manager. if its not there u didnt install all he packages when u searched beryl |
| __________________________________ [Jul 17,2007 10:59am - sxealex ""] anyway it should be under system tools now |
| _______________________________________ [Jul 17,2007 11:03am - the_reverend ""] I'm installing the dev and some other packages now, let's see if it's there after that. |
| _______________________________________ [Jul 17,2007 11:09am - the_reverend ""] ok, it makes VNC go :( |
| __________________________________ [Jul 17,2007 11:59am - sxealex ""] ? go? like uninstall? |
| _______________________________________ [Jul 17,2007 12:01pm - the_reverend ""] doesn't work with VNC so it's useless for me. |
| _________________________________ [Jul 17,2007 1:15pm - sxealex ""] write a little script to killall beryl when u log into vnc |
| ______________________________________ [Jul 17,2007 1:17pm - the_reverend ""] seeing as I only VNC in, what would the point of that be? |
| _________________________________ [Jul 17,2007 1:22pm - sxealex ""] http://shiningpolaris.com/2007/04/20/howto-berylxgl-inside-of-vnc-on-ubuntu/ |
| _________________________________ [Jul 17,2007 1:24pm - sxealex ""] i dunno why u would want desktop effects on a comp u vnc into. how long do u spend on a session? |
| ______________________________________ [Jul 17,2007 1:33pm - the_reverend ""] how ever long I need |
| _________________________________ [Jul 17,2007 1:35pm - sxealex ""] why not just connect a monitor? |
| ______________________________________ [Jul 17,2007 1:38pm - the_reverend ""] please find me a monitor that will be where ever I happen to be with my laptop at any given time. Seems to me that carrying around another monitor along with my laptop would be a pain. too bad there isn't some sort of magical way that I could view what my non-mobile linux box has on it's screen over some sort of magical wires-free method. you know what, they could just make a window on my laptop that I could see that on. now that would be cool! |
| _________________________________ [Jul 17,2007 1:49pm - sxealex ""] u like anal sex with men. |
| ______________________________________ [Jul 17,2007 2:04pm - the_reverend ""] I know that to you, that is something awesome |
| __________________________________________ [Jul 19,2007 4:13am - thegreatspaldino ""] so im like 99.9% ready to install ubuntu... i was reading it cant detect my motorola wireless card unless i get the .inf and .sys file and ndiswrapper and even then there might be little issues with network being dropped after wake up or something... i kinda dont want to spend money on a wicked long ethernet cable but i want to install the OS now. i also suppose i can save the inf and sys file as ell as the tar for ndiswrapper to a USB flash memory stick or something and transfer it that way... but if that doesnt work i have no way to check the net to fix it after that... gayyyyyy |
| ______________________________________ [Jul 19,2007 8:11am - the_reverend ""] you aren't dual booting? |
| _______________________________________ [Jul 19,2007 11:58am - sxealex nli ""] everyone is all like we should use the same hd for a dual boot... i wonder why they dont just make a cable switch for these situations? 2 hds would be better cuz then u can seperate them in the future. |
| _______________________________________ [Jul 19,2007 12:04pm - the_reverend ""] not practical. just install it on 2 different hard drives and use grub. A hard drive switch would cause the HUGE problem of it being switch while the machine is running. Have you ever hot-swapped IDE? worst thing to do ever (unless you have a hot-swap case) |
| __________________________________ [Jul 19,2007 12:24pm - sxealex ""] there could just be a circut that wouldnt allow it to be hotswapped. grub is great and all but its so fucking buggy. and the language isnt clear. so when it wont configure itself ur fucked. |
| ___________________________________________ [Jul 19,2007 12:30pm - thegreatspaldino ""] nah... i dont have much of a reason to dual boot. i found out the games i play can be run on linux through cedega so... yeah. |
| _______________________________________ [Jul 19,2007 12:34pm - the_reverend ""] there are hot-swap holder things you can buy, but their interfaces are slow and non-upgradeable. grub, milo, lilo all work awesome unless you mess something up and want to get rid of them. then you are fucked. no harder than MBR. |
| __________________________________ [Jul 19,2007 12:40pm - sxealex ""] a few power outages totally messed up something on my system grag |
| __________________________________________ [Jul 20,2007 5:06pm - thegreatspaldino ""] well... im making the absolute FINAL preparations needed to back up whatever i need to do to make the leap. i even have an xp pro cd waiting incase i cant hack it and need to go back to "the darkside". a dual boot would be great, but i kinda dont want to do it on a single HD. i DO have another HD i could possibly use, but how would i work it switching between the two? |
| ______________________________________ [Jul 20,2007 5:09pm - the_reverend ""] use either physically switching them or (better) grub. ubuntu sets up grub automatically. |
| __________________________________________ [Jul 20,2007 5:10pm - thegreatspaldino ""] ORLY? i would have to make the linux HD boot up first or... whats the deal with that? |
| ______________________________________ [Jul 20,2007 5:20pm - the_reverend ""] you can set that with grub |
| __________________________________________ [Jul 20,2007 5:24pm - thegreatspaldino ""] dayum.... well then... time to install the other HD |
| ______________________________________ [Jul 20,2007 5:34pm - the_reverend ""] and ubuntu can see the ntfs (xp) drive. you'll probably have to mount it. xp won't be able to see the ubuntu drive, I don't think. I had some issues with external drives in ubuntu. |
| __________________________________________ [Jul 20,2007 6:32pm - thegreatspaldino ""] ok... ubuntu installed on my spare 80 gig drive... load up the comp and it loads the XP drive only... so ummm... yeah |
| ______________________________________ [Jul 20,2007 6:56pm - the_reverend ""] did you set up grub when you installed it? it should ask you questions when it boots. I hope it's not gay like RH used to be with the whole "first 2.1GB" |
| __________________________________________ [Jul 20,2007 7:01pm - thegreatspaldino ""] it didnt ask me anything when i installed it. other than which drive i want to install ubuntu to... does it make a difference that my 80 gig drive is an older "ribbon connector" style and the 200 gig one is a newer smaller connector style? also the 80 gig is set as slave other wise my cd drive wouldnt get recognized at all |
| ______________________________________ [Jul 20,2007 7:05pm - the_reverend ""] ide and sata. |
| __________________________________________ [Jul 20,2007 7:09pm - thegreatspaldino ""] ide i'm assuming is the older style that isnt really used anymore... well... since my whole comp is gutted i guess if i want to use linux i can just unplug the sata drive *shrug*... it's kinda what i wanted to avoid doing (manually switching between the two) but whatever... i'll figure something else out eventually... |
| __________________________________ [Jul 21,2007 11:31am - sxealex ""] if u have windows on master hd then it wont load grub cuz that hd still has MBR |
| _______________________________________ [Jul 21,2007 12:40pm - the_reverend ""] oh so they do still have those "issues" got it. |
| __________________________________ [Jul 21,2007 12:57pm - sxealex ""] no one pays attention to bootloaders cuz programmers get it working then never have to see it again. so they don't work on it since it doesn't bug them |
| __________________________________ [Jul 21,2007 12:57pm - sxealex ""] thats my theory at least |
| __________________________________________ [Jul 21,2007 3:25pm - thegreatspaldino ""] well i cant get ndiswrapper to install. i burned the tar to a disc along with the wireless card driver i need and extracted the tar through the gui, then i go into a terminal and change to the directory and do "make install" and it seems like it starting to work then it says "permission denied". i try to log into the root and there is no root command. i try "sudo" and what not... but no dice. i read that the install cd has ndiswrapper on it but when i search the packages, it isnt there. and sudo apt-cdrom add doesnt seem to be working like they said it would on the ubuntu forums. |
| _________________________________ [Jul 21,2007 4:05pm - sxealex ""] if u want to make a root user type sudo psswd root type yer desired password |