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Is there a name for the "thingrighthere.domain.com", "otherthing.domain.com"? The thing before the main domain? I'm trying to find infomarion about it, but i don't know what it's called or what to search for.
[QUOTE=lavacano;37776752]Wouldn't it be easier on the developers to base their Linux engine on their Mac code? That's OpenGL on a UNIX based system right there[/QUOTE] Yes, developers with a game engine that integrates with Mac OS through OpenGL as well as Windows on DX would have a very easy time porting to Linux compared to devs with poorly modularized DirectX engines.
[QUOTE=needer;37777184]Is there a name for the "thingrighthere.domain.com", "otherthing.domain.com"? The thing before the main domain? I'm trying to find infomarion about it, but i don't know what it's called or what to search for.[/QUOTE] Subdomain.
[QUOTE=needer;37777184]Is there a name for the "thingrighthere.domain.com", "otherthing.domain.com"? The thing before the main domain? I'm trying to find infomarion about it, but i don't know what it's called or what to search for.[/QUOTE] There is no such thing as a "main domain". You probably want to say "subdomain", but that's a completely meaningless term that means a domain that is under control of another domain (which every domain on Earth is except one). Unless "thingrightthere" is a host, in which case thingrighthere would be the host, and its FQDN (fully qualified domain name) would be thingrightthere.domain.com. In the first case I'd simply use domain, but subdomain or "zone" might be applicable.
[QUOTE=gparent;37777212]There is no such thing as a "main domain". You probably want to say "subdomain", [b]but that's a completely meaningless term that means a domain that is under control of another domain (which every domain on Earth is except one).[/b] Unless "thingrightthere" is a host, in which case thingrighthere would be the host, and its FQDN (fully qualified domain name) would be thingrightthere.domain.com. In the first case I'd simply use domain, but subdomain or "zone" might be applicable.[/QUOTE] What do you mean.
[QUOTE=mobrockers2;37777250]What do you mean.[/QUOTE] Every single domain is a subdomain. They're all under . (which is hosted by the root servers, thus why you need to bootstrap DNS servers with root hints).
[QUOTE=gparent;37777260]Every single domain is a subdomain. They're all under . (which is hosted by the root servers, thus why you need to bootstrap DNS servers with root hints).[/QUOTE] Ah, right. I wouldn't necessarily say that the term is meaningless, everyone will know what you mean if you say subdomain.
[code]nick@shuttlecraft ~ $ arecord -D "hw:2" -f "S16_LE" | aplay # ANY variant of the aplay command results in this error Recording WAVE 'stdin' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 8000 Hz, Mono Playing WAVE 'stdin' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 8000 Hz, Mono aplay: set_params:1108: Channels count non available[/code] What precisely does this error fucking mean? #gentoo won't answer me (meaning they're probably clueless)
Can someone help me out here? I have Arch running with SLiM and the problem is that every time I try to login to Awesome using SLiM, it just goes to a black screen, then I get the standard Xorg cross cursor, then it goes straight back to the login screen with SLiM. I have my .initrc setup correctly (exec awesome). Thing is, if I go hit Ctrl+Alt+F1 to go to the tty1 screen and login from there, then type in startx it goes straight to Awesome. What gives?
[QUOTE=mobrockers2;37777328]Ah, right. I wouldn't necessarily say that the term is meaningless, everyone will know what you mean if you say subdomain.[/QUOTE] Yeah, people will understand you. It's just that functionally, subdomains and domains are exactly the same, so it's silly to make it a point to call the subs subdomains. The technical term you're looking for is probably "Zone delegation".
[QUOTE=lavacano;37777625]#gentoo won't answer me (meaning they're probably clueless)[/QUOTE] "Christ, if I was doing this in Windows, I'd be done already."
[QUOTE=lavacano;37777625][code]nick@shuttlecraft ~ $ arecord -D "hw:2" -f "S16_LE" | aplay # ANY variant of the aplay command results in this error Recording WAVE 'stdin' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 8000 Hz, Mono Playing WAVE 'stdin' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 8000 Hz, Mono aplay: set_params:1108: Channels count non available[/code] What precisely does this error fucking mean? #gentoo won't answer me (meaning they're probably clueless)[/QUOTE] It looks to me like it's unable to fully detect your hardware.
linux noob here, my curiosity has led me to download ubuntu and install it onto a virtualbox; i'm proud of myself for somehow managing to do that anyway i really can't think of any uses but i just want to get familiar with it and understand some beneficial things to do with it. all i really know about it is people use it for servers (and it's free). i didn't read through the entire thread but on the first few pages people were talking about different distros. would i just download and install those on ubuntu or would they be used as a stand alone virtual machine? [editline]23rd September 2012[/editline] testing post from virtual box
[QUOTE=T3hGamerDK;37778114]It looks to me like it's unable to fully detect your hardware.[/QUOTE] "unable to" how? I need specifics. And also apparently recording to a .wav and having aplay use that does the same thing. Having arecord go to stdout and watching what happens though, it's definitely picking up my mic's sound. My default ALSA device is a dmix, and has played sound from every thing that's played sound, except for aplay.
[QUOTE=fuck50sdiners;37780315]linux noob here, my curiosity has led me to download ubuntu and install it onto a virtualbox; i'm proud of myself for somehow managing to do that anyway i really can't think of any uses but i just want to get familiar with it and understand some beneficial things to do with it. all i really know about it is people use it for servers (and it's free). i didn't read through the entire thread but on the first few pages people were talking about different distros. would i just download and install those on ubuntu or would they be used as a stand alone virtual machine? [editline]23rd September 2012[/editline] testing post from virtual box[/QUOTE] Linux is a kernel, just like XNU is OS X's kernel. It merely provides a hardware abstraction layer to the rest of what we call the userland programs. These programs include things like "ls", "mkfs.ext4", etc., the barebones of the operating system. So people take the Linux kernel and they combine it with a bunch of other programs. They write tons of configs and software such as package managers, and it all becomes what we call a Linux distribution. Practically, some distros other kernels available like Debian with their Debian/kFreeBSD release. So you don't install distros "on Ubuntu" (unless by that you meant running a VM on Ubuntu). You install each distro on a separate VM if you want to try it. Some distros have live CDs that you can use. They boot from whatever and they load in RAM. Nothing writes to disk unless you want to so you can try the distro all you want without any modifications to your computer/VM.
[QUOTE=gparent;37777656]Yeah, people will understand you. It's just that functionally, subdomains and domains are exactly the same, so it's silly to make it a point to call the subs subdomains. The technical term you're looking for is probably "Zone delegation".[/QUOTE] It depends entirely on what you're talking about at the time. Most likely you're going to be talking about the domain, and not the top-level domain thus the usage is correct since test is a subdomain of example.com. It doesn't matter that they're functionally the same, as you'll say top-level domain if you mean com. You have to give it a name, and "zone delegation" doesn't tell you anything. "zone delegation" is more meaningless than subdomain. And I just noticed that microsoft has a completely different meaning for zone delegation, AND calls example.microsoft.com a subdomain: [url]http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc771640(v=ws.10).aspx[/url]
[QUOTE=gparent;37781000]Linux is a kernel, just like XNU is OS X's kernel. It merely provides a hardware abstraction layer to the rest of what we call the userland programs. These programs include things like "ls", "mkfs.ext4", etc., the barebones of the operating system. So people take the Linux kernel and they combine it with a bunch of other programs. They write tons of configs and software such as package managers, and it all becomes what we call a Linux distribution. Practically, some distros other kernels available like Debian with their Debian/kFreeBSD release. So you don't install distros "on Ubuntu" (unless by that you meant running a VM on Ubuntu). You install each distro on a separate VM if you want to try it. Some distros have live CDs that you can use. They boot from whatever and they load in RAM. Nothing writes to disk unless you want to so you can try the distro all you want without any modifications to your computer/VM.[/QUOTE] i gotcha. thank you ;~)
[QUOTE=mobrockers2;37781020]It depends entirely on what you're talking about at the time. Most likely you're going to be talking about the domain, and not the top-level domain thus the usage is correct since test is a subdomain of example.com. It doesn't matter that they're functionally the same, as you'll say top-level domain if you mean com. [B]You have to give it a name, and "zone delegation" doesn't tell you anything. "zone delegation" is more meaningless than subdomain.[/B] And I just noticed that microsoft has a completely different meaning for zone delegation, AND calls example.microsoft.com a subdomain: [URL]http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc771640(v=ws.10).aspx[/URL][/QUOTE] EDIT: You know what, forget it. I don't know why I bother helping. What you linked me describes the process of zone delegation, which is giving authority over another name server to host a domain under your control. I'd explain why that matters but you tried to make me look like a fool even if you had less knowledge than me on the subject. I'll let others have their chance at helping you.
Any suggested distro for a Netbook? I'll use it to play music, check some things in internet and work on it. If anyone needs it, there are some of the most important specs: 1 GB Ram, 250 GB HDD, and 1024x600 screen.
[QUOTE=Ol' Pie;37784147]1 GB Ram, 250 GB HDD, and 1024x600 screen.[/QUOTE] CrunchBang Linux Arch Linux with XFCE/LXDE/Cinnamon/MATE
[QUOTE=Foxconn;37784208]CrunchBang Linux Arch Linux with XFCE/LXDE/Cinnamon[/QUOTE] Thanks! I tested it on a Pentium III PC i got around this messy house and it went pretty neat, so i'll try it out. Thanks again!
[QUOTE=Ol' Pie;37784314]Thanks! I tested it on a Pentium III PC i got around this messy house and it went pretty neat, so i'll try it out. Thanks again![/QUOTE] Did you try CrunchBang or Arch Linux?
[QUOTE=gparent;37784380]Did you try CrunchBang or Arch Linux?[/QUOTE] Crunchbang, i just can't install arch, not even with the begginers guide.
[QUOTE=Ol' Pie;37784147]Any suggested distro for a Netbook? I'll use it to play music, check some things in internet and work on it. If anyone needs it, there are some of the most important specs: 1 GB Ram, 250 GB HDD, and 1024x600 screen.[/QUOTE] That's a tiny netbook you've got there man. I'd say throw some Arch on it with XFCE or MATE and hope for the best.
I would use a #! Persistent LiveCD for a netbook that small personally After all, you aren't going to be doing much more than basic text editing and web browsing most likely.
[QUOTE=FlubberNugget;37784997]I would use a #! Persistent LiveCD for a netbook that small personally After all, you aren't going to be doing much more than basic text editing and web browsing most likely.[/QUOTE] Hey hey, my girlfriend used to have a used netbook like that, and it ran Windows 7 and the latest Microsoft Office just fine. But beyond that, it's not much use. It can be fun for a server though.
[QUOTE=T3hGamerDK;37785077]Hey hey, my girlfriend used to have a used netbook like that, and it ran Windows 7 and the latest Microsoft Office just fine. But beyond that, it's not much use. It can be fun for a server though.[/QUOTE] Well, I do have fun times with my friends playing sven-coop, cs 1.6 and hl1 mp in those. Goldsrc games run kinda well on these even on linux @ 60 fps! It is indeed a bit small, but it's powerful enough. I didn't have performance problems on Windows nor on Ubuntu (Unity) or Cinnamon.
[QUOTE=T3hGamerDK;37785077]Hey hey, my girlfriend used to have a used netbook like that, and it ran Windows 7 and the latest Microsoft Office just fine. But beyond that, it's not much use. It can be fun for a server though.[/QUOTE] Microsoft Office is pretty much basic text editing.
[QUOTE=gparent;37784031]EDIT: You know what, forget it. I don't know why I bother helping. What you linked me describes the process of zone delegation, which is giving authority over another name server to host a domain under your control. I'd explain why that matters but you tried to make me look like a fool even if you had less knowledge than me on the subject. I'll let others have their chance at helping you.[/QUOTE] That was my point entirely, zone delegation is a process, not a term. And I wasn't trying to make you look like a fool, if anything I made myself look like a fool.
Is there any way I can make taskbar properties specific to workspaces? I'd like to have no taskbar on my Workspace 2, because that's where my VM is.
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