General Linux Chat and Small Questions v. Install Arch
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[QUOTE=nikomo;37733119]I switch my mind between not wanting to play games, and wanting to play games about every 5 minutes, that would get really annoying for me.[/QUOTE]
I have gotten used to this.
I am currently dualbooting with Windows and Arch. usually on weekends, I use windows to play games, and on weekdays I use arch for some browsing and programming after work.
of course I have a windows VM on my linux partition, in case I need some windows software/office suite, and some Linux VM's on my windows partition.
[QUOTE=Lyoko774;37733322]Virtual machine? Hasn't performance with VMWare gotten far better lately?[/QUOTE]
If you've got a somewhat okay computer, you should be able to just have a VM running in full screen in your Windows environment.
I've done this with Linux for years before actually getting myself together and putting Gentoo on my desktop.
It's the same computer I've had for the past 5 years.
[editline]20th September 2012[/editline]
And the only thing I ever changed was the GPU.
It has 2GB RAM and a 2.13Ghz Intel Core2Duo Viiv processor.
But I'm saying, wouldn't it be possible to just run Windows in a VM and get your gaming fix that way?
[QUOTE=Lyoko774;37733383]But I'm saying, wouldn't it be possible to just run Windows in a VM and get your gaming fix that way?[/QUOTE]
Too slow. Or well, I suppose you could have TWO GPU's sitting and through Xen dedicate one of them to a Windows VM, but I'm not sure about that.
[editline]20th September 2012[/editline]
Hold on, I think someone already tried that here on Facepunch.
Why are all the AAA game titles made for Windows?
Stuff like GOW, COD, Crysis, Borderlands, CS, Civ, eh, just about everything that people play these days.
[QUOTE=Nikita;37733506]Why are all the AAA game titles made for Windows?
Stuff like GOW, COD, Crysis, eh, just about everything that people play these days.[/QUOTE]
because the general consumer doesen't use linux.
[QUOTE=Nikita;37733506]Why are all the AAA game titles made for Windows?
Stuff like GOW, COD, Crysis, Borderlands, CS, Civ, eh, just about everything that people play these days.[/QUOTE]
If we're lucky, this might change when Steam comes to Linux, or at the very least we'll have Valve's small library to play.
[QUOTE=kaukassus;37733512]because the general consumer doesen't use linux.[/QUOTE]
I wish this was a genuine reason, but the effort to port something from one platform to the other really doesn't have to be that bad if you're using open standards in the first place.
[editline]20th September 2012[/editline]
[QUOTE=Lyoko774;37733572]If we're lucky, this might change when Steam comes to Linux, or at the very least we'll have Valve's small library to play.[/QUOTE]
Those are all I play anyway :v:
[QUOTE=Nikita;37733506]Why are all the AAA game titles made for Windows?
Stuff like GOW, COD, Crysis, Borderlands, CS, Civ, eh, just about everything that people play these days.[/QUOTE]
because directx and userbase
WINE runs most of my games almost perfectly tbh
[QUOTE=The Baconator;37732887]Like Linux can't be that because of FOSS [/QUOTE]
I don't know if you were being sarcastic, but F/OSS changes absolutely nothing at all to whether Linux can be successful commercially.
Compiling with gcc or running your software on Linux doesn't force you to release your source code. Neither does using the system libraries. I mean even VALVe is going to release some games. Give them time.
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help
cinnamon borked
I lol'd hard. But, eh, okay, let's help you out.
Switch to XFCE.
Problem solved. [img]http://puu.sh/N9y4[/img]
[QUOTE=Foxconn;37739720]I lol'd hard. But, eh, okay, let's help you out.
Switch to XFCE.
Problem solved. [img]http://puu.sh/N9y4[/img][/QUOTE]
I might just jump off of mint because i'm bored and want to venture with other distributions
I take advantage of this situation as a chance to learn :eng101:
[editline]20th September 2012[/editline]
I have no idea what could have even caused this
the last thing I did was enable AMD-v in my BIOS, didn't make any changes to my distribution today really.
So I'm the new OSG Grid Cluster Admin at my university, and we're upgrading our Rocks 5 Front End, Storage Element, and NAS to 10gb fiber networking. We got the Front End working, but we're having trouble with the Storage Element, the new fiber card is showing as 2 discrete hardware interfaces (eth2 and eth3) but then in ifconfig, eth2 wont pull an address. I think it has to be configured from the frontend, but I'm worried that something is wonky with the NIC drivers. Any thoughts?
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help
cinnamon borked[/QUOTE]
What do you think on linux Chromium or Opera and why?
[QUOTE=Strikebango;37740867]What do you think on linux Chromium or Opera and why?[/QUOTE]
Never used chromium before, biased as fuck towards opera though.
I have a cyber security competition tomorrow.
We just have to secure virtual machines from rootkits and malware and stuff and close down any non-essential services.
It's teams of six, and we originally thought it would be 6 windows computers we had to defend, which is okay because we spent the last 2 weeks preparing for that.
Got an email today that said it's actually going to be just 1 mint image, which is both good and bad because I'm a linux person but I've never worked on mint before and there are only 2 people on our team who know linux (including me)
Just thought you guys might be interested.
I've been running Fedora 17 under VMware on my Windows 7 x64 desktop, and I recently came across an issue. I'm not sure if it's related, but I defragmented the NTFS drive on which the virtual disk files exist (while the VM was powered off), and the next time I tried to fire up my VM, I got a kernel panic:
[img]http://i.imgur.com/A8xB6.png[/img]
Any thoughts?
I'm pretty sure the disk was fragmented in lots of piece over the disk, and now it's not and that's upsetting Linux.
[QUOTE=Jookia;37743241]I'm pretty sure the disk was fragmented in lots of piece over the disk, and now it's not and that's upsetting Linux.[/QUOTE]
I figured that would be the case, although I had hoped that by leaving the virtual machine off while defragmenting it wouldn't trip it up. Google-fu has not shown me any documentation or reference of this issue, and it's odd that the files are readable from a live cd, so is it possible that the issue is just with the boot record?
What would be a good distro for a small netbook that -isn't- ArchBang?
Already tried it, not really
working for me.
[QUOTE=neos300;37742127]I have a cyber security competition tomorrow.
We just have to secure virtual machines from rootkits and malware and stuff and close down any non-essential services.
It's teams of six, and we originally thought it would be 6 windows computers we had to defend, which is okay because we spent the last 2 weeks preparing for that.
Got an email today that said it's actually going to be just 1 mint image, which is both good and bad because I'm a linux person but I've never worked on mint before and there are only 2 people on our team who know linux (including me)
Just thought you guys might be interested.[/QUOTE]
just make sure, if you use ssh on these. Don't forget to set the ssh port to a non standard one, and use a whitelist for ssh with iptables.
we had a Computer security course once, and ssh'd into the other teams machine, with the default root user login (wich was given by the teacher), and fucked with their VM.
[QUOTE=Confuzzed Otto;37726621]Another question probably caused by my noobiness. I have QtSixA and PCSX, trying to emulate a few nice games. After alot of tweaking I got my Ps3 controller to work via USB, and that's enough. The only thing I can't get to work is the joysticks.
In the settings for the controller, the joysticks are activated. Anyone know what it could be?[/QUOTE]
Bumpin'
[QUOTE=neos300;37742127]I have a cyber security competition tomorrow.
We just have to secure virtual machines from rootkits and malware and stuff and close down any non-essential services.
It's teams of six, and we originally thought it would be 6 windows computers we had to defend, which is okay because we spent the last 2 weeks preparing for that.
Got an email today that said it's actually going to be just 1 mint image, which is both good and bad because I'm a linux person but I've never worked on mint before and there are only 2 people on our team who know linux (including me)
Just thought you guys might be interested.[/QUOTE]
take backtrack along and hinder your rivals!!
[QUOTE=neos300;37742127]I have a cyber security competition tomorrow.
We just have to secure virtual machines from rootkits and malware and stuff and close down any non-essential services.
It's teams of six, and we originally thought it would be 6 windows computers we had to defend, which is okay because we spent the last 2 weeks preparing for that.
Got an email today that said it's actually going to be just 1 mint image, which is both good and bad because I'm a linux person but I've never worked on mint before and there are only 2 people on our team who know linux (including me)
Just thought you guys might be interested.[/QUOTE]
If your host machine is Linux, then create a different user, wich only manages the virtual machines.
[QUOTE=calzoneman;37743165]I've been running Fedora 17 under VMware on my Windows 7 x64 desktop, and I recently came across an issue. I'm not sure if it's related, but I defragmented the NTFS drive on which the virtual disk files exist (while the VM was powered off), and the next time I tried to fire up my VM, I got a kernel panic:
[img]http://i.imgur.com/A8xB6.png[/img]
Any thoughts?[/QUOTE]
The interesting line here is "initramfs unpacking failed: read error". So somehow, your initrd got fucked up.
I'm not sure how you'd fix that on Fedora.
So. I found Hellcore, with a bit prior MOO programming experience and a bit C++ and lots of [del]satans shitty mmo platform[/del] BYOND experience.
Thing is, the thing only compiles and runs on linux, and apparently it needs bison.
Ive tried installing Arch but it dosent support danish keyboard layout. Im not ever touching shitbuntu again. Someone recommend a good distro for running and maintaining a MUD/MOO server on a VBox
[QUOTE=Alcoholocaust;37745781]So. I found Hellcore, with a bit prior MOO programming experience and a bit C++ and lots of [del]satans shitty mmo platform[/del] BYOND experience.
Thing is, the thing only compiles and runs on linux, and apparently it needs bison.
Ive tried installing Arch but it dosent support danish keyboard layout. Im not ever touching shitbuntu again. Someone recommend a good distro for running and maintaining a MUD/MOO server on a VBox[/QUOTE]
Arch supports danish layout just fine. Did you not run the language change stuff?
[QUOTE=kaukassus;37745333]just make sure, if you use ssh on these. Don't forget to set the ssh port to a non standard one, and use a whitelist for ssh with iptables.
we had a Computer security course once, and ssh'd into the other teams machine, with the default root user login (wich was given by the teacher), and fucked with their VM.[/QUOTE]
Can't, ssh is the one service we can't modify, (real world simulation bs) but we will change the root password, don't worry.
[QUOTE=neos300;37746467]Can't, ssh is the one service we can't modify, (real world simulation bs) but we will change the root password, don't worry.[/QUOTE]
What? A real world simulation would HAVE you modify it and secure it in that way.
You shouldn't know the root password, have it generate on bootup, as no user should use that account for anything but recovery, and use a well-secured sudo instead.
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