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[QUOTE=Doritos_Man;39591883]Is it using Wubi?[/QUOTE] No, it just creates a partition and all that magic for you.
It should happen automagically, but if you have a lot to lose (if the Win7 install is important) it might be advisable to put Ubuntu on its own hardrive. This way you can let your BIOS "dual-boot" by selecting a different device, and neither of the installs have to know about the other.
I just tried half life and it works under ubuntu 12.10 for me. However when i start TF2 it just turns the screen back for 1 sec and then i see the desktop again. I am using the priority drivers for my HD7950. Is it better to install the drivers with the software packages or through the terminal using chmod?
Hey guys, figured I'd ask my unrelated question in here since I (generally speaking) hold linux users as more knowledgeable than the average pc user. Problem: Spilled water on laptop screen. The screen is cloudy / has some weird stuff going on. It's currently in the closet, on a towel, with a light pointing onto it. Heard this was the safest route, making sure the light isn't too hot though, of course. The Question: Anyone suggest something else? It needs to be under the light for hours on end for it to all dry up, was hoping for something faster. Thanks.
[QUOTE=Relaxation;39592428]Hey guys, figured I'd ask my unrelated question in here since I (generally speaking) hold linux users as more knowledgeable than the average pc user. Problem: Spilled water on laptop screen. The screen is cloudy / has some weird stuff going on. It's currently in the closet, on a towel, with a light pointing onto it. Heard this was the safest route, making sure the light isn't too hot though, of course. The Question: Anyone suggest something else? It needs to be under the light for hours on end for it to all dry up, was hoping for something faster. Thanks.[/QUOTE] Let it dry off somewhere overnight, if it's still cloudy then see if you can get it fixed under insurance or whatever
[QUOTE=Relaxation;39592428]Hey guys, figured I'd ask my unrelated question in here since I (generally speaking) hold linux users as more knowledgeable than the average pc user. Problem: Spilled water on laptop screen. The screen is cloudy / has some weird stuff going on. It's currently in the closet, on a towel, with a light pointing onto it. Heard this was the safest route, making sure the light isn't too hot though, of course. The Question: Anyone suggest something else? It needs to be under the light for hours on end for it to all dry up, was hoping for something faster. Thanks.[/QUOTE] Why didn't you ask in the quick question thread or CIPWTTKT&GC?
Brace yourselves for the wave of idiots breaking their boxes because they wanted a penguin in TF2. I'm pretty sure that a bunch of people will and probably have already wiped their whole drives to install ubuntu so they can get that penguin.
I'm actually helping one of my friends get Ubuntu booted right now. This is going painfully. Somehow he has an entirely different boot menu that lacks options and his system blows up as soon as the kernel tries to set the resolution He also somehow booted to grub from the liveUSB which makes no sense because it uses syslinux...
I got a "problem" here. I installed to try out Ubuntu with their windows installer on the homepage, yada yada it installs fine and boots up and everything is fine. But, for some reason my computer is making alot more noise than when i run W7. Dunno if it's the GPU fan or CPU fan, but it's really going 100% whenever i'm running on Ubuntu.
Well. It's about time I started to learn to use Linux properly. So tonight I got off my arse and tasked myself to install Debian and set-up a simple web server using UNIX commands and accessed it through another PC on my LAN. I'm an absolute beginner when it comes to CLI Unix, but I'm proud of myself! Next step, fanny around with PHP / SQL services.
[QUOTE=Strikebango;39592297]I just tried half life and it works under ubuntu 12.10 for me. However when i start TF2 it just turns the screen back for 1 sec and then i see the desktop again. I am using the priority drivers for my HD7950. Is it better to install the drivers with the software packages or through the terminal using chmod?[/QUOTE] The reason it is black screening is because you do not have the required OpenGL Version. Like me, it did the same because I did not have the right OpenGL Shader Language version.
I don't know if there's enough time for that, but someone might make a liveCD with steam shipped on it that takes an existing TF2 install and launches it. Doesn't seem too hard to do.
Will there be a way to use 5" floppies with linux?
[QUOTE=WhiteHusky;39595955]Will there be a way to use 5" floppies with linux?[/QUOTE] I don't think Linux is compatible with any system that used floppies like that.
The drivers are still there, so if you have a system running Linux and can get a drive attached, it'll probably work.
I have a 660 TI, i5 2500k - Ubuntu 12.10, 120hz 1920x1080 monitor and a 1280x1024 (monitor 2). I experienced lines on my second screen while the game was running (Have NEVER experienced anything alike this before only happens in Linux), the game also runs slower than it should (running nvidia-current)
[QUOTE=Killervalon;39596059]I have a 660 TI, i5 2500k - Ubuntu 12.10, 120hz 1920x1080 monitor and a 1280x1024 (monitor 2). I experienced lines on my second screen while the game was running (Have NEVER experienced anything alike this before only happens in Linux), the game also runs slower than it should (running nvidia-current)[/QUOTE] Try installing nvidia-experimental
Also my catalyst is 7.12, why do i have a driver from 2007? Can't you use the software source to upgrade to 12.13 beta ?
Anyone know how to get/set the master volume in pulseaudio through their API? Looking through their documentation they only have examples on how to play files.
[QUOTE=nikomo;39596016]The drivers are still there, so if you have a system running Linux and can get a drive attached, it'll probably work.[/QUOTE] Oh nice, that means I get extract these MS-DOS files if I ever find a functional 5" Floppy drive. [editline]15th February 2013[/editline] Which brings me to this. I have an old Emerson computer with a 5" floppy drive. Could I plug it into a floppy connection on the XP PC I have?
As far as I know, that should work.
[QUOTE=nikomo;39596710]As far as I know, that should work.[/QUOTE] Alright, might do it tomorrow because I'm tired as [B]FUCK[/B].
[QUOTE=IpHa;39596331]Anyone know how to get/set the master volume in pulseaudio through their API? Looking through their documentation they only have examples on how to play files.[/QUOTE] You could look into how pavumixer does it
[QUOTE=Lyoko774;39595959]I don't think Linux is compatible with any system that used floppies like that.[/QUOTE] Linux is compatible with surprisingly many things.
Why hard disk performance is generally worse in linux based operating systems compared to windows?
If you can connect it to the motherboard, then yes...
[QUOTE=.EDI;39598064]Why hard disk performance is generally worse in linux based operating systems compared to windows?[/QUOTE] Is that "Why, hard disk performance is..." or "Why is hard disk performance..."? To answer the latter, I haven't seen any statistics on this but generally have noticed no real difference between Linux and Windows. (That is, with frequent defragging on Windows. Eschewing that, Windows is much more sluggish.)
[QUOTE=.EDI;39598064]Why hard disk performance is generally worse in linux based operating systems compared to windows?[/QUOTE] It's not. Show us what benchmark you ran?
Whenever I start my computer and boot into Ubuntu I get an error saying I have ~300mb space left. Though, my partition where I installed Ubuntu is 150gb big. Anyone happen to know a fix?
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