General Linux Chat and Small Questions v. Install Arch
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[QUOTE=Killervalon;39290577]Guys, I just found a easier way to get Ubuntu!
[IMG]http://therning.org/niklas/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/ubuntu-cola.jpg[/IMG]
(Yes, this is a legit drink - one of my friends sent me a picture of it from "Netto" in Denmark (It's a store that's everywhere, came from germany))[/QUOTE]
Oh gee I can't wait for my digestive system to fail because of missing drivers
[QUOTE=Killervalon;39290577]Guys, I just found a easier way to get Ubuntu!
[IMG]http://therning.org/niklas/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/ubuntu-cola.jpg[/IMG]
(Yes, this is a legit drink - one of my friends sent me a picture of it from "Netto" in Denmark (It's a store that's everywhere, came from germany))[/QUOTE]
They have it in the Netto store? Geez, I must've missed it like a million times then.
[QUOTE=T3hGamerDK;39290837]They have it in the Netto store? Geez, I must've missed it like a million times then.[/QUOTE]
It's a spot product
Thanks for rating me fucking dumb - have a picture:
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/eUVAi2S.png[/IMG]
[IMG]http://elementaryos.org/sites/default/files/user/5/1024x768-pantheon.png[/IMG]
[IMG]http://www.threeees.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Screenshot-from-2013-01-11-21_54_34.png[/IMG]
most beautiful desktop environment ever
[editline]20th January 2013[/editline]
can someone post something better?
[QUOTE=The Baconator;39299177]-snip-
most beautiful desktop environment ever
[editline]20th January 2013[/editline]
can someone post something better?[/QUOTE]
I have to agree, if only because its the most well integrated DE I've seen on Linux yet.
(Plus beauty is kind of an subjective thing, some people find KDE to be beautiful, some like minimal matte colours and 1 pixel borders in tiling WMs)
[QUOTE=The Baconator;39299177][IMG]http://elementaryos.org/sites/default/files/user/5/1024x768-pantheon.png[/IMG]
[IMG]http://www.threeees.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Screenshot-from-2013-01-11-21_54_34.png[/IMG]
most beautiful desktop environment ever
[editline]20th January 2013[/editline]
can someone post something better?[/QUOTE]
NVM, should have checked link - for anyone who needs it it's elementaryos.
-- Is it just me or is badatvidyagames in here just to troll? (Rating people dumb and disagreeing)
[QUOTE=Lyoko774;39300595]I have to agree, if only because its the most well integrated DE I've seen on Linux yet.
(Plus beauty is kind of an objective thing, some people find KDE to be beautiful, some like minimal matte colours and 1 pixel borders in tiling WMs)[/QUOTE]
I'm assuming you mean subjective and not objective, right?
[QUOTE=Killervalon;39301150]NVM, should have checked link - for anyone who needs it it's elementaryos.
-- Is it just me or is badatvidyagames in here just to troll? (Rating people dumb and disagreeing)[/QUOTE]
The system is probably elementaryOS, but the DE is called pantheon, and uses the pantheon-shell and some other cool features. It's available on other systems, such as Gentoo, as well.
[QUOTE=T3hGamerDK;39301387]The system is probably elementaryOS, but the DE is called pantheon, and uses the pantheon-shell and some other cool features. It's available on other systems, such as Gentoo, as well.[/QUOTE]
Oh wow really? I think I'm going to look into that then. But yeah, his link was just pointing at elementaryOS so... Didn't know otherwise.
Hello guys, I require a bit of info. I want to do some performance tweaks on my graphics card (HIS ATi Radeon HD5670 1 GB).
lspci only detects 256 MB of VRAM. I've googled the matter and I only found a thread with the same problem with nVidia, but with no solution. I want to use all the VRAM that my graphics card can serve.
lspci output for graphics card:
[code][supervoltage@svlinpc ~]$ sudo lspci -v -s 05:00.0
05:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI Redwood [Radeon HD 5670] (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Subsystem: Hightech Information System Ltd. Device 200b
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 44
Memory at d0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
Memory at fbfc0000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128K]
I/O ports at e000 [size=256]
Expansion ROM at fbfa0000 [disabled] [size=128K]
Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 3
Capabilities: [58] Express Legacy Endpoint, MSI 00
Capabilities: [a0] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
Capabilities: [100] Vendor Specific Information: ID=0001 Rev=1 Len=010 <?>
Capabilities: [150] Advanced Error Reporting
Kernel driver in use: fglrx_pci[/code]
I have the proprietary drivers from the [url=https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/catalyst-total/]catalyst-total[/url] AUR package.
I hereby require your most appreciated assistance, fellow friends.
Have you tried the drivers that are available in the repositories? I'm using those (albeit, not with that card) and it detects everything just fine.
[QUOTE=T3hGamerDK;39301387]I'm assuming you mean subjective and not objective, right?
The system is probably elementaryOS, but the DE is called pantheon, and uses the pantheon-shell and some other cool features. It's available on other systems, such as Gentoo, as well.[/QUOTE]
I need to stop posting right before I sleep. Yes, I meant subjective.
[QUOTE=sabreman;39303677]Have you tried the drivers that are available in the repositories? I'm using those (albeit, not with that card) and it detects everything just fine.[/QUOTE]
No, I haven't since the yaourt package also rebuilds the fglrx module every linux update automatically. I might do so tomorrow, though. Thank you for the recommendation.
[QUOTE=The Baconator;39299177]can someone post something better?[/QUOTE]
Personally I prefer KDE.
I'm not saying your environment's bad, it's pretty snazzy looking, I just like mine better is all.
It is purty and all, but it all seems so unnecessary IMO. If you use an application EVERY time you sit down at your computer, why would you want to have its icon sitting around all the time... maybe it's just me (or the fact that Dr. Strangeglove was so funny) but the vimperator help file sums it up with:
[quote]
living mouseless - or how I learned to stop worrying and love the 80+ buttons I already have.
[/quote]
Why waste the time to grab the mouse and find the icon? I'm not trying to be high and mighty here, I'm genuinely interested in the rationale for a desktop full of icons and endless drop-down menus as part of some overbearing DE which can at best eat up memory and CPU time.
[editline]21st January 2013[/editline]
If you want purty, why not just get a nice wallpaper :v:
See I turn desktop icons off completely.
Or in the case of Windows, I have them hidden, but then double click to summon them when I need them (<3 Fences)
Under KDE, if I bothered to do anything about it, I could put a folder view widget for the "Desktop" folder in my dashboard. But y'know, lazy.
I just run everything from a GMrun prompt
it's quicker than finding an icon :v:
just started up an old laptop with ubuntu that I haven't touched in probably 2 years while win8 installs on my main. it's super slow but it still works!
[QUOTE=The Baconator;39299177]
can someone post something better?[/QUOTE]
[t]http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ZL5beWCRHw8/UPoxTaVX_iI/AAAAAAAAMus/FGHeToE4sd8/s1600/unity-dash-ubuntu13.04.png[/t]
Unity in Ubuntu 13.04. The dash's getting that scroll tab, plus general screen estate's nice to reserve at most under thirty-two pixels for a header bar and a hidden launcher. Now it just needs a transparent theme for the window borders and status bar. Pantheon would probably be good for a lower-end machine.
[QUOTE=Killervalon;39290577]Guys, I just found a easier way to get Ubuntu!
[IMG]http://therning.org/niklas/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/ubuntu-cola.jpg[/IMG]
(Yes, this is a legit drink - one of my friends sent me a picture of it from "Netto" in Denmark (It's a store that's everywhere, came from germany))[/QUOTE]
we have a bag of ubuntu coffee at work
spoiler: it's shit, just like the distro.
So..i think i killed ubuntu with a graphics driver update. Now it loads to a bunch of number jargon on a black screen after the purple screen shows up. :v:
I just updated an LTSP server to the latest build on lubuntu at work.
My god it has improved so much in 2 years. No longer do I have to create multiple Chroots for clients with different hardware, before I had to make an "nvidia" chroot for the ION clients and set up the DHCP server (PFsense box in this case) to handle those clients differently.
Now I can just specify "XSERVER=nvidia" in the LTS.conf file and everything is done by magic on a single fat client chroot.
Much easier to handle, rebooted all the clients and they all booted into the new install without drama and full hardware assisted graphics :D
On a semi related note, has anyone tried network booting a VM over an openVPN connection? :v:
My cursor is randomly changing to a precise selection cursor and when dragging, it shows a selection rectangle, something like puush when selecting an area to capture. (tho buggy, it shows more like an L shape than a rectangle.)
It started to happen earlier today. I don't remember doing anything that could have caused this. It happens randomly and I don't see a pattern. I don't see any processes that obviously could cause this.
I'm on Ubuntu 12.10. Has anyone experienced a problem like this?
[QUOTE=Ninjers;39313199]we have a bag of ubuntu coffee at work
spoiler: it's shit, just like the distro.[/QUOTE]
I think you mean unity is shit. The flavors of ubuntu are actually pretty good.
Ubuntu is good.
The default DE is just shit.
I prefer Cinnamon.
I feel like people bash Ubuntu for no other reason than unity. It's like mint just with another DE.
I have a little thing I need to solve.
We have lots of users that need access to a single email inbox. We can't run a local mail server to directly receive the email because our internet connection is a 3G router behind a horribly restrictive NAT (!) - Trust me there's no other internet connections available to us, no cable, and we are tens of miles away from the exchange.
It's not all bad, we are getting a rock steady 4Mb.
Anyway, we have lots of users needing access to this mailbox (which at the moment is a gmail inbox).
Giving them all an IMAP connection to the gmail account is not an option, this is how it used to be and we kept getting "IP banned" due to the amount of requests.
2 years ago as a stop-gap solution I set up a dovecot IMAP server and set up Getmail on a cron job to pull the email from the gmail inbox and mirror it locally. This works great (Not even touched it except for occasional updates in that entire 2 years) but it's one of those things that makes my skin crawl, it's a horrible cludgy solution and if it break, god help me.
Is there a better way to do this? Is there a piece of software specifically designed to achieve this?
[QUOTE=Tezzanator92;39331790]Is there a better way to do this? Is there a piece of software specifically designed to achieve this?[/QUOTE]
I've used fetchmail+mutt+msmtp+procmail for Gmail the past 4 years or so. Fetchmail running with a set daemon of 5 minutes or so IMAPing the Gmail account into a local mailbox, piped into procmail for sorting into separate boxes (so you can keep the "spam" box from going into your main mail), which mutt you can use to read/reply to the mail (which will use msmtp as the SMTP client).
It sounds complex, but it works amazing and is very efficient. If your users aren't good with CLI clients though, I am pretty sure you can use some webbased mail thing such as squirrelmail and point it to where fetchmail is saving the mbox.
I can PM you my configs if you want it, but it's not really that difficult and pretty sure there are guides online for this sort of thing. Lemme know.
[QUOTE=HarryHy;39332068]I've used fetchmail+mutt+msmtp+procmail for Gmail the past 4 years or so. Fetchmail running with a set daemon of 5 minutes or so IMAPing the Gmail account into a local mailbox, piped into procmail for sorting into separate boxes (so you can keep the "spam" box from going into your main mail), which mutt you can use to read/reply to the mail (which will use msmtp as the SMTP client).
It sounds complex, but it works amazing and is very efficient. If your users aren't good with CLI clients though, I am pretty sure you can use some webbased mail thing such as squirrelmail and point it to where fetchmail is saving the mbox.
I can PM you my configs if you want it, but it's not really that difficult and pretty sure there are guides online for this sort of thing. Lemme know.[/QUOTE]
I can vouch that setting it up wasn't too bad, but you'll probably want a visual client if any ( or in my case, most ) of the mail you get is heavily reliant upon html/images. Some people just rely on default text for images and then open them with their favorite image editor but I found this a bit too much so I gave up and installed thunderbird.
[editline]23rd January 2013[/editline]
which, once I found the key-remapper plugin, is actually a viable alternative as I could make it ( mostly ) keyboard oriented. It still feels over-engineered for just a mail client though, but I guess it has a calander and other doo-dads if that's your cup of tea. I recommend trying Mutt like HarryHy suggested, and if you have trouble look for a more suited viewer.
I'm sitting with an Android tablet (denver) - not the greatest but yea. Running 4.0 and it's like really slow and all. So I was wondering, anything like Linux for tablets? That might increase the "smoothness"? Might be a silly question but I have to be sure, I'm glad for it but really not an optimal device.
[QUOTE=Moofy;39344178]I'm sitting with an Android tablet (denver) - not the greatest but yea. Running 4.0 and it's like really slow and all. So I was wondering, anything like Linux for tablets? That might increase the "smoothness"? Might be a silly question but I have to be sure, I'm glad for it but really not an optimal device.[/QUOTE]
There's Ubuntu Phone coming up, maybe there's a tablet version too.
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