[QUOTE=Pery;29951003]"==" ?[/QUOTE]
It's been a while since I touched on programming, but doesn't == mean 'is', rather than a singular = which usually means 'becomes'?
[QUOTE=Sir Whoopsalot;29953283]It's been a while since I touched on programming, but doesn't == mean 'is', rather than a singular = which usually means 'becomes'?[/QUOTE]
Usually == is the equivalence operation instead of =, yes.
Got steam working. Portal plays well (actually better than when it was on Windows) although the render windows in the portals seem to lag everything. Anyone know a way to stop/reduce the lag?
[QUOTE=Niteshifter;29949940]I forgot how long it takes to wipe a drive with dd...[/QUOTE]
Consider also (or instead) doing an [url=https://ata.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/ATA_Secure_Erase]ATA secure erase[/url]. It's done by the drive's own firmware, which can do things you can't via normal I/O requests, so it's more thorough and potentially faster.
[QUOTE=Wyzard;29956067]Consider also (or instead) doing an [url=https://ata.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/ATA_Secure_Erase]ATA secure erase[/url]. It's done by the drive's own firmware, which can do things you can't via normal I/O requests, so it's more thorough and potentially faster.[/QUOTE]
It's finished already. I just needed a clean wipe on the drive so I could symlink it to steam (and I needed a refresher on the dd command). I'll consider that in the future though, thanks.
[QUOTE=Niteshifter;29956544]I just needed a clean wipe on the drive so I could symlink it to steam[/QUOTE]
…what?
Symlinks make one filename be an alias for another. I don't see how it makes any sense for a blank hard drive to be an alias for a Windows program.
[QUOTE=Wyzard;29956953]…what?
Symlinks make one filename be an alias for another. I don't see how it makes any sense for a blank hard drive to be an alias for a Windows program.[/QUOTE]
Well, not to the steam program itself. I have a symlink to ~/.wine since I couldn't do it to steamapps.
I originally had the drive there to backup my stuff for my switch to Linux, then when I finished installing, I no longer needed it so I decided to use it for large files (such as games for steam) since sda is only 70GB.
[QUOTE=L1B3R4710N;29946668]I know this is gonna turn out to be an incredibly obvious fix, but for now, I have no idea what's wrong. Whenever I fire up awesome, it gives me an error about an "unexpected symbol near '='" on line 177 of my rc.lua. I've looked at it and I can't see anything wrong.
Here's the actual error:
[code] mylayoutbox[s],
mytextclock,
s == 1 and mysystray or nil,
mytasklist[s],
[b]layout = awful.widget.layout.horizontal.rightleft[/b]
}[/code]
Line 177 is in bold. Anyone have any ideas, or am I just an idiot?[/QUOTE]
I can make two guesses.
Either the variable layout is not declared and it hates you for that.
Or, layout is of some type that doesn't want you to assign it to a "awful.widget.layout.horizontal.rightleft"
IIRC there's a variable named layout and it's an array. So number two would be your problem.
[QUOTE=Niteshifter;29957672]I no longer needed it so I decided to use it for large files (such as games for steam) since sda is only 70GB.[/QUOTE]
OK, so you mean that you made a filesystem on it, mounted it somewhere, and made your ~/.wine be a symlink to the mountpoint so that Wine's files are stored on that drive. That makes more sense.
You didn't have to wipe it with dd, though. If you just need to remove all the files from a filesystem, you can recreate the filesystem (e.g. with mkfs, which you had to do anyway after wiping), or just do "rm * -r" on the contents. You probably know already that deleted files aren't [i]really[/i] deleted, and can sometimes be recovered with the right tools, but that's OK if you just want them to appear gone under normal usage.
A full wipe is only important if you want to ensure that the old contents can't be recovered even by professional recovery services or forensic analysis, such as if you're giving the drive to someone else and you don't want to inadvertently give them any of your data along with it.
[QUOTE=Wyzard;29958535]OK, so you mean that you made a filesystem on it, mounted it somewhere, and made your ~/.wine be a symlink to the mountpoint so that Wine's files are stored on that drive. That makes more sense.
You didn't have to wipe it with dd, though. If you just need to remove all the files from a filesystem, you can recreate the filesystem (e.g. with mkfs, which you had to do anyway after wiping), or just do "rm * -r" on the contents. You probably know already that deleted files aren't [i]really[/i] deleted, and can sometimes be recovered with the right tools, but that's OK if you just want them to appear gone under normal usage.
A full wipe is only important if you want to ensure that the old contents can't be recovered even by professional recovery services or forensic analysis, such as if you're giving the drive to someone else and you don't want to inadvertently give them any of your data along with it.[/QUOTE]
Yeah, I stopped half way through the wipe and had a "Why am I doing this?" moment.
I've managed to get Wine/Steam installed, tried to play Terraria but for some reason it says it can't detect my graphics card, I know for a fact that I can play it on my laptop, though. It took me an hour to get to that stage but now I'm stuck :(
Why, Fedora? Why do you have to make it fucking impossible for me to get my wireless working!
I just realized I've never experienced a kernel panic.
I refuse to believe they exist.
[QUOTE=nikomo;29966449]I just realized I've never experienced a kernel panic.
I refuse to believe they exist.[/QUOTE]
Ah, you're a physicist then?
[QUOTE=nikomo;29966449]I just realized I've never experienced a kernel panic.
I refuse to believe they exist.[/QUOTE]
Got one a few months ago, hard drive failure.
[QUOTE=POWA KILLERDeux;29967753]Got one a few months ago, hard drive failure.[/QUOTE]I got one from fullscreening a flash video. No joke. :v:
[QUOTE=L1B3R4710N;29968076]I got one from fullscreening a flash video. No joke. :v:[/QUOTE]
On Fedora 15 I've seen fullscreening a flash video (or un-fullscreening) freeze the entire system. I don't know if it caused a panic, but everything stops working.
[QUOTE=nikomo;29966449]I just realized I've never experienced a kernel panic.[/QUOTE]
Reboot, go into edit mode in GRUB to change the commands it executes, and remove the initrd line.
(The changes aren't saved, so there's no lasting harm; just reboot again.)
Can someone tell me what I'm doing wrong?
I recently was given an hp dm4 1160us and I wanted to dual boot ubuntu alongside 7.
I burned my iso popped it in and it gets to the splash screen which gives me options to install or run ubuntu without installing.
Problem is when I select one of those options everything goes black and I have to shutdown.
I've already created a 40 gig partition and i dont know if the cd is messed up or my laptop won't allow it.
Someone should do this:
[img]http://hackles.org/strips/cartoon191.png[/img]
[QUOTE=Ins4ne;29970334]Can someone tell me what I'm doing wrong?
I recently was given an hp dm4 1160us and I wanted to dual boot ubuntu alongside 7.
I burned my iso popped it in and it gets to the splash screen which gives me options to install or run ubuntu without installing.
Problem is when I select one of those options everything goes black and I have to shutdown.
I've already created a 40 gig partition and i dont know if the cd is messed up or my laptop won't allow it.[/QUOTE]
Should I just try wubi instead of the live cd?
Oh hell no
[QUOTE=Ins4ne;29970334]Can someone tell me what I'm doing wrong?
I recently was given an hp dm4 1160us and I wanted to dual boot ubuntu alongside 7.
I burned my iso popped it in and it gets to the splash screen which gives me options to install or run ubuntu without installing.
Problem is when I select one of those options everything goes black and I have to shutdown.
I've already created a 40 gig partition and i dont know if the cd is messed up or my laptop won't allow it.[/QUOTE]
Looks like a problem with your GPU. What's your GPU?
It's Intel HD Integrated graphics
I need help fixing my Ubuntu install, after upgrading to 11.04 after therestart, it fails to boot fully, stopping when it can't find webcamstudio to install, any methods of stopping this happening? I'm reluctant to do a fresh install...
[QUOTE=nikomo;29971745]Oh hell no[/QUOTE]
What's wrong with wubi if you don't mind me asking?
[QUOTE=Ins4ne;29978387]What's wrong with wubi if you don't mind me asking?[/QUOTE]
What isn't wrong with WUBI? You're installing Ubuntu to your Windows partition, which means you lost some important features. Also, Linux is unstable on NTFS partitions. You also get troubles upgrading. The point is that you should never use WUBI.
[QUOTE=Ins4ne;29978387]What's wrong with wubi if you don't mind me asking?[/QUOTE]
pretty much everything. you almost always end up with unstable installations using wubi
[QUOTE=ButtsexV2;29978456]pretty much everything. you almost always end up with unstable installations using wubi[/QUOTE]
Wubi works if you're really [b]really[/b] [i][b]really[/b][/i] careful with your computer.
If you're like me and shutdown your machine improperly (eg, power switch or reset button) all the time, it..well, fails hard.
no even then it's pretty bad.
[editline]22nd May 2011[/editline]
the problem comes from the fact that NTFS doesn't properly support Linux's permissions system.
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