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So what happened to Ubuntu for Android?
Actually, now that I'm reading (fuck the 'keynote' video, I like to read at my own pace) about it, it actually sounds pretty awesome. I hope they allow the community to port it to phones freely.
fucking called it can't wait for the developer preview
This is amazing, I'm using my new 660 Ti with Ubuntu and cinnamon and damn it's fast. Much better experience than with my old 5870 (rip). It's a bit sad that Ubuntu 3d is so slow with nVidia drivers, things like moving a window around absolutely kills the FPS. Will probably try 310 later, currently using 304.
Ick, Arch upgraded Awesome from 3.4 to 3.5, so I have to port my config over. Plus Vicious and Obvious don't support 3.5 so I have to roll some of my own widgets now. [editline]3rd January 2013[/editline] Well got everything ported except a couple widgets that I didn't really use that were part of Vicious. I'll probably port them eventually (especially since there are a couple I will need but don't atm) or just roll my own.
[QUOTE=neos300;39084244]Ick, Arch upgraded Awesome from 3.4 to 3.5, so I have to port my config over. Plus Vicious and Obvious don't support 3.5 so I have to roll some of my own widgets now. [editline]3rd January 2013[/editline] Well got everything ported except a couple widgets that I didn't really use that were part of Vicious. I'll probably port them eventually (especially since there are a couple I will need but don't atm) or just roll my own.[/QUOTE] Can't you just downgrade to 3.4 if it's so bad using 3.5?
[QUOTE=T3hGamerDK;39090031]Can't you just downgrade to 3.4 if it's so bad using 3.5?[/QUOTE] Better to adapt now than having to do it later on just get it over and done with
[QUOTE=T3hGamerDK;39090031]Can't you just downgrade to 3.4 if it's so bad using 3.5?[/QUOTE] But it's not actually that bad, and I would have had to transfer sometime.
[QUOTE=neos300;39084244]Ick, Arch upgraded Awesome from 3.4 to 3.5, so I have to port my config over. Plus Vicious and Obvious don't support 3.5 so I have to roll some of my own widgets now. [editline]3rd January 2013[/editline] Well got everything ported except a couple widgets that I didn't really use that were part of Vicious. I'll probably port them eventually (especially since there are a couple I will need but don't atm) or just roll my own.[/QUOTE] Are Vicious and Obvious maintained? If so, you could stay on 3.4 until they updated. Not sure how you'd tell Arch not to update to certain package versions but whatever.
[QUOTE=lavacano;39094620]Are Vicious and Obvious maintained? If so, you could stay on 3.4 until they updated. Not sure how you'd tell Arch not to update to certain package versions but whatever.[/QUOTE] Add a line in the pacman.conf under the [options] heading: [code] IgnorePkg=awesome [/code] Obviously this can cause problems with other dependencies, and I've never done it myself, but for things like custom kernels I believe this is SOP.
[QUOTE=Rayjingstorm;39094894]Add a line in the pacman.conf under the [options] heading: [code] IgnorePkg=awesome [/code] Obviously this can cause problems with other dependencies, and I've never done it myself, but for things like custom kernels I believe this is SOP.[/QUOTE] Interesting in Gentoo you'd just add a line or two to /etc/portage/package.mask: [code]# optional comment explaining why you masked it >=x11-wm/awesome-3.5[/code] course if something explicitly depended on awesome 3.5 Portage would flip a bitch about a dependency being masked but that's reasonable behavior.
Question: in a linux software RAID 1, is it possible to force all reads to come from one of the disks? One of the F3's in my array keeps developing temporary bad sectors (reads fail, but writing to the sector eg via a badblocks scan fixes it), and it's not feasible to replace (co-located server) nor has it failed SMART. Edit: Didn't google enough, [url]http://tansi.info/hybrid/[/url]
[QUOTE=lavacano;39095329]Interesting in Gentoo you'd just add a line or two to /etc/portage/package.mask: [code]# optional comment explaining why you masked it >=x11-wm/awesome-3.5[/code] course if something explicitly depended on awesome 3.5 Portage would flip a bitch about a dependency being masked but that's reasonable behavior.[/QUOTE] I don't see how any package manager would otherwise be able to react, implementing such a feature.
You could also pacman -Syu --ignore <package> or whatever
[QUOTE=Darkimmortal;39095693]Question: in a linux software RAID 1, is it possible to force all reads to come from one of the disks? One of the F3's in my array keeps developing temporary bad sectors (reads fail, but writing to the sector eg via a badblocks scan fixes it), and it's not feasible to replace (co-located server) nor has it failed SMART. Edit: Didn't google enough, [URL]http://tansi.info/hybrid/[/URL][/QUOTE] Why are you running a reliability layer on top of an unreliable drive? You should mark the faulty drive as failed and replace it ASAP.
I'm a long time linux fan, and just installed [URL="http://crunchbang.org/"]Crunch Bang #![/URL] on a new box, still setting it up. The simplicity is pretty nice, I like the out of the box look and feel. Anyone have experience with this distro? Your thoughts?
[QUOTE=tinos;39107909]I'm a long time linux fan, and just installed [URL="http://crunchbang.org/"]Crunch Bang #![/URL] on a new box, still setting it up. The simplicity is pretty nice, I like the out of the box look and feel. Anyone have experience with this distro? Your thoughts?[/QUOTE] I really like their website's style sheets. Why isn't every site light on dark? Also looks like the default themeing of the desktop is sensible.
[QUOTE=tinos;39107909]I'm a long time linux fan, and just installed [URL="http://crunchbang.org/"]Crunch Bang #![/URL] on a new box, still setting it up. The simplicity is pretty nice, I like the out of the box look and feel. Anyone have experience with this distro? Your thoughts?[/QUOTE] Openbox is good. Crunchbang isn't as bleeding edge as other distributions, but it's a great distro for anyone that is somewhat new to linux [editline]5th January 2013[/editline] The community is also fantastic.
I can't believe I just learned about virtualbox, but this is really great. Installing #! in a VB because why not.
I think my wine is broken. My sound in all applications (I've tried netflix-desktop and Cave Story +) is sped up and horrible quality. When I test the sound in the wine config thingy the result is a horrible sound, and everything that isn't wine works fine. [editline]5th January 2013[/editline] How do I fix this?
[QUOTE=Rayjingstorm;39108412]I can't believe I just learned about virtualbox, but this is really great. Installing #! in a VB because why not.[/QUOTE] if you experiment with windows give seamless mode a shot it's really cool, especially if you have a second monitor to put it on [editline]5th January 2013[/editline] [QUOTE=Confuzzed Otto;39108446]I think my wine is broken. My sound in all applications (I've tried netflix-desktop and Cave Story +) is sped up and horrible quality. When I test the sound in the wine config thingy the result is a horrible sound, and everything that isn't wine works fine. [editline]5th January 2013[/editline] How do I fix this?[/QUOTE] WINE is probably relying on pulseaudio, which breaks a lot try pulseaudio -k to restart it
Well that's a working temporary solution. How do I fix this permanently? [editline]5th January 2013[/editline] Also when using an application doing pulseaudio -k just kills it, not restarting it. Leaving me without sound until I restart my application, can't get to a new save point in cave story + for example and I can't watch netflix properly either.
[QUOTE=Confuzzed Otto;39108495]Well that's a working temporary solution. How do I fix this permanently? [editline]5th January 2013[/editline] Also when using an application doing pulseaudio -k just kills it, not restarting it. Leaving me without sound until I restart my application, can't get to a new save point in cave story + for example and I can't watch netflix properly either.[/QUOTE] These types of problems are why I've given up on wine. If you have a copy of windows you might try a VM. I just installed XP on a virtualbox VM and it runs like a top. There isn't even very much overhead: virtualbox is under 100Mb in size iirc, and it can dynamically allocate space for the fake harddrive, so you don't waste space if you just watch movies and play the occasional game. Also hardware acceleration worked out of the box with no hastle.
there are ways to get close to 1:1 GPU performance in a VM too but it's finicky, I think you'd need to use xen instead of VB [editline]5th January 2013[/editline] you also need specific hardware, google around
So i've been using awesome for the past month, and just installed gnome 3 for shits and giggles. Awesome feels so much...snappier (and quite a bit less rounded). Not sure if I like this or not. [editline]5th January 2013[/editline] So...Much... eyecandy..... I think I might get eye-cavities.
I have my Ubuntu 12.10 in german. So the tab Additional drivers tells you on nvidia which driver version it is.. However with my HD 7950 it only says AMD graphics accelerators of fglrx are used and Video drivers for the AMD graphics accelerators of fglrx-updates are being used. So what does that exactly mean? Also are the amd drivers really that shit on linux? I thought they were open source.
[QUOTE=Confuzzed Otto;39108446]I think my wine is broken. My sound in all applications (I've tried netflix-desktop and Cave Story +) is sped up and horrible quality. When I test the sound in the wine config thingy the result is a horrible sound, and everything that isn't wine works fine.[/QUOTE] What version of wine are you using and on what distro? I had similar problems until I updated to wine 1.4.
[QUOTE=Strikebango;39113481]I have my Ubuntu 12.10 in german. So the tab Additional drivers tells you on nvidia which driver version it is.. However with my HD 7950 it only says AMD graphics accelerators of fglrx are used and Video drivers for the AMD graphics accelerators of fglrx-updates are being used. So what does that exactly mean? Also are the amd drivers really that shit on linux? I thought they were open source.[/QUOTE] AMD have open source and proprietary ones the open source ones are used more for legacy support iirc and what makes you think them being open source would make them somehow better [editline]6th January 2013[/editline] same deal with nvidia, except the OSS ones aren't official (noveau)
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