General Linux Chat and Small Questions v. Install Arch
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[QUOTE=neos300;37555161]I decided that since currently the only thing on my computer not controlled by my keyboard is my music, I'm going to move all my music off of google music and onto another partition.
What are some good music players? Currently I'm wanting something mpd-based because I can interface that with awesome.[/QUOTE]
IF you haven't already, you're going to love ncmpcpp.
Yeah ncmpcpp looks really cool.
I'd suggest you grab mpc too, though, just because it's a really quick and simple program to use when you only want to change to the next song or something.
vimpc (vim keybindings and attractive curses interface for mpc) is a great mpd client imo. I used ncmpcpp for a bit but I'm a junkie for vim-like keybindings and the only thing it lacks as far as I can tell is a visualizer (would never use) and tag editing (I can just use metaflac etc). If you aren't partial to any specific control scheme then ncmpcpp is probably better as vimpc wouldn't be as intuitive.
[editline]5th September 2012[/editline]
also, because mpd is network-centric clients ask for a host and port number to connect to. This is most often your loopback if your client is on the same box as mpd, but if you don't have a loopback up for whatever reason (network is down) then you need to connect directly to the unix socket mpd produces. I set this as the default now so I don't have to have the net up just to listen to music. Not sure if this is the best way but if you run into this problem it's an easy fix.
I'm probably going to get all 3, (ncmpcpp, vimpc and mpc) just because I like choice.
Just trying to shrink my windows partition down so I can get a storage partition up on my windows HDD.
Windows disk management is taking a long time to query the volume for information, might try a different tool soon.
[editline]5th September 2012[/editline]
And I can only shrink 7GB because of unmoveable files.
I'll just make a 250GB partition on my linux hard drive.
[editline]5th September 2012[/editline]
Great, mpd does not want to search my music library recursively.
Is there any way I can get it do that? I'm open to using any client.
Torrenting music on a college connection: yes or no? (I live n on campus apartments) Is there ways to protect my privacy whether im torrenting or not? Any action I take to secure my privacy obviously must be legal, nothing sketchy. Oh and one more question that interested me but I feel as though it's a dumb question: Would encryption help with making sure whoever could be watching stuff on the network couldn't access my files?
Alright, so I have this problem. It shouldn't be a major problem, but after searching for it a few hours yesterday and today and finding nothing at all, I decided asking you clever bunch would be the best idea.
So I'm currently running Linux Mint 13 Maya 64bit, and there are so many great things I like about it.
The problem is that most of the software is really outdated. Some of it is somewhat new, and some of it is not.
Is there any way to access some sort of "testing"/"unstable"/"next" repository, to get more recent builds? I've found myself compiling a few packages, just to get started around somewhere.
Figured it out, Google music for some reason decided to download everything as rw for me only, not for everyone even though the parent dir was rx for everyone.
[QUOTE=T3hGamerDK;37560148]Alright, so I have this problem. It shouldn't be a major problem, but after searching for it a few hours yesterday and today and finding nothing at all, I decided asking you clever bunch would be the best idea.
So I'm currently running Linux Mint 13 Maya 64bit, and there are so many great things I like about it.
The problem is that most of the software is really outdated. Some of it is somewhat new, and some of it is not.
Is there any way to access some sort of "testing"/"unstable"/"next" repository, to get more recent builds? I've found myself compiling a few packages, just to get started around somewhere.[/QUOTE]
Hasn't mint got the same repos as ubuntu?
[QUOTE=Ol' Pie;37561549]Hasn't mint got the same repos as ubuntu?[/QUOTE]
I'm afraid if I'd been using Ubuntu, I probably would've been asking the same question :v:
How do I change from 'stable' to 'testing'?
[QUOTE=T3hGamerDK;37561646]I'm afraid if I'd been using Ubuntu, I probably would've been asking the same question :v:
How do I change from 'stable' to 'testing'?[/QUOTE]
Don't try to ask me linux things that aren't desktop environments and steam, because last time i tried to modify grub after reinstalling, i broke it :v:
[QUOTE=T3hGamerDK;37561646]I'm afraid if I'd been using Ubuntu, I probably would've been asking the same question :v:
How do I change from 'stable' to 'testing'?[/QUOTE]
I'm pretty sure mint/ubuntu/anything that uses apt has /etc/apt/sources.list, replace any occurance of 'stable' with 'testing' in there.
[URL="http://www.facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1210344&p=37562406#post37562406"]http://www.facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1210344&p=37562406#post37562406[/URL]
This is it guys. It begins.
hype
[QUOTE=hpqoeu;37562361]I'm pretty sure mint/ubuntu/anything that uses apt has /etc/apt/sources.list, replace any occurance of 'stable' with 'testing' in there.[/QUOTE]
Content of sources.list:
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deb http://packages.linuxmint.com/ maya import main backport upstream
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise-updates main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise-security main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/ precise partner
deb http://packages.medibuntu.org/ precise free non-free
deb http://archive.getdeb.net/ubuntu precise-getdeb apps
deb http://archive.getdeb.net/ubuntu precise-getdeb games
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[QUOTE=FPtje;34589748]arch...
bang
[url]http://archbang.org/[/url][/QUOTE]
ArchBang is terrible. Seriously.
Argh, google music manager does not want to download all of my music, only some.
Tempted to just select every song that exists on my google play and click download, but you can only do that twice so I'm not sure...
[editline]6th September 2012[/editline]
Never mind, I had the permissions set wrong again.
[QUOTE=neos300;37561382]Figured it out, Google music for some reason decided to download everything as rw for me only, not for everyone even though the parent dir was rx for everyone.[/QUOTE]
Probably because of "this way only the man who owns the music can use it".
I figure they have the RIAA breathing down their necks about it and are hoping they'll never research how permissions in UNIX-likes work
Had anybody tried systemd on Arch?
Thinking about switching to it on my arch setup.
[QUOTE=lavacano;37571352]Probably because of "this way only the man who owns the music can use it".[/QUOTE]
Well, most of the time you at least don't want write for other and group.
[QUOTE=esalaka;37575827]Well, most of the time you at least don't want write for other and group.[/QUOTE]
Way I was reading it was the files weren't even getting read permissions for group/other.
[QUOTE=kaukassus;37574057]Had anybody tried systemd on Arch?
Thinking about switching to it on my arch setup.[/QUOTE]
Yes. It's sweet. Do it now.
Noticeable boot up time reduction even though I had [url=https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/E4rat]E4rat[/url] with initscripts.
The only thing that was a pain was just re-enabling startup daemons (or "units"; that's what systemd calls them).
[QUOTE=lavacano;37577479]Way I was reading it was the files weren't even getting read permissions for group/other.[/QUOTE]
They weren't.
I've also tried systemd, didn't have to anything at all. Wicd and all my other daemons were added automatically.
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/6hH8G.png[/IMG]
it's just me or he/she still thinks linux is just a command line
[editline]8th September 2012[/editline]
also, ubuntu 12.10 beta drains battery power really fast
[QUOTE=Ol' Pie;37589097][IMG]http://i.imgur.com/6hH8G.png[/IMG]
it's just me or he/she still thinks linux is just a command line
[editline]8th September 2012[/editline]
also, ubuntu 12.10 beta drains battery power really fast[/QUOTE]
What that guy wrote is making my brain hurt.
How difficult/possible is it gonna be for me to install arch without an internet connection? If impossible will it be possible to tether my phone and use that for internet?
[QUOTE=Anthrax713;37593525]How difficult/possible is it gonna be for me to install arch without an internet connection? If impossible will it be possible to tether my phone and use that for internet?[/QUOTE]
It's possible via several means.
For one, you could download the packages you need ahead of time and drop them on your installation media or something. Alternatively, you could drop the whole ABS tree on it.
[QUOTE=esalaka;37593763]It's possible via several means.
For one, you could download the packages you need ahead of time and drop them on your installation media or something. Alternatively, you could drop the whole ABS tree on it.[/QUOTE]
Thank you.
My latest archey report.
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So I (think) I just switched to systemd permanently
I think its working right but I'm not sure. How can I check? :v:
I think I read something about systemd utterly fucking up umount in Fedora
are you SURE you made the right choice here
[editline]8th September 2012[/editline]
ah yeah, someone brought it up in #gentoo @ Freenode:
[quote]the fedora issue is systemd silently translates umounts to 'lazy' umounts. that, combined with other systemd stupidity meant that filesystems could never be properly umounted and caused data loss.[/quote]
Eh, what's the worst that'll happen?
[sub][sub][sub]he said using the only computer he has right now[/sub][/sub][/sub]
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