[QUOTE=robmaister12;23863602]I know this isn't ENTIRELY related to Linux, but I just recently started using GPG. (The main reason I'm posting this here is because Windows lacks very many GPG utilities, and I prefer to do things in terminal anyways)
What prompted me to do so was that one of my middle school friends made a facebook account, and added me. Then he started talking shit on a bunch of our old middle school friends, which seemed odd. Three days later, I got a friend request from the same friend, but with a different account. They both managed to get a similar amount of friends and are currently indistinguishable from each other. Apparently the fake one has done enough damage to make some people have their parents talk to this friend's parents (which I assume prompted the real one to make a facebook).
Now I know that my friends wouldn't have the tech know-how to create a web of trust, but it made me think about how someone could do that to me. So I'm trying to build a web of trust among 10-15 of my closer friends who actually use linux.
Also, I'm relatively new to this specific linux forum, but I've had ubuntu on my netbook for a few months now and I'm considering repartitioning my desktop and installing either install ubuntu or step it up a bit and install arch or something.
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Oh yeah, and sending encrypted stuff to friends will make us seem like 1337 h4x0rz in front of anyone else... /sarcasm[/QUOTE]
That shit is awesome :v:
[QUOTE=Lego399;23866127]That shit is awesome :v:[/QUOTE]
Not only that, but then stuff like [url=http://xkcd.com/364/]this XKCD[/url] start making sense.
[QUOTE=robmaister12;23866433]Not only that, but then stuff like [url=http://xkcd.com/364/]this XKCD[/url] start making sense.[/QUOTE]
:v:
I had a kernel panic today.
Figured it would be a good time to upgrade my hardware (threw in one of my spare hard drives) and go ahead and do a clean install (my setup was running 500 MB idle, pretty high for an Openbox-based system). of course I couldn't find my Arch installation disk, so I scrounged around and found an Ubuntu 9.04 disk that wasn't scratched to a point where it couldn't boot. Installed it (because k3b doesn't work so well with a livecd, pretty ridiculous since I've got two optical drives, but whatever) and downloaded an Arch Linux install disk.
this is where it starts getting shitty. Apparently Arch doesn't like something about my new setup (what it is I have no clue, the only difference is that I've got another identical drive in) and the boot process freezes once udev fires up, and the screen goes totally blank, preventing me from checking what's wrong. I tried Arch netinst and core images for both i686 and x86_64, and even tried a Chakra project disk, all having the same issue each time.
5 CDs and a dozen installations (with a dozen reformats to go with it) later, here I am, using Ubuntu 9.04, with ubuntu's distribution upgrade program running behind my Firefox 3.0 window.
:suicide:
Rated heart because no one should be forced to use Ubuntu.
I don't see whats all that bad with ubuntu. I'm using it right now, I am new to linux but still, the only things i hate about it are some of the included software. Can anyone fill me in?
You're new to linux, Ubuntu is perfectly fine for you.
When you get better with linux and give distros like Arch and Gentoo a shot you'll see that most of the stuff work a lot better because you have to set it up. When something doesn't work with ubuntu it's as bigger pain in the ass to fix it than in arch for example.
It is and OK distro but when you know your way around linux and you become a control freak ubuntu is one of the worst things that can happen to you.
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I started with Ubuntu then went to Open Suse and Xubuntu finally. After that I went back to windows for a bit because I was gaming a lot.
When I installed arch I was amazed at how easier shit went then with ubuntu and similar distros. It was way more stable and since I built the system from the ground up I knew where stuff was and how to fix shit.
I'm not new to Linux and I'm using an ubuntu-based distro (mint).
It just has everything and it looks nice. I'm just lazy to install arch or something alike.
Speaking of being stuck with ubuntu.
I'm going to my mom's for 3 days and I only have my laptop which has #! (Ubuntu-based). Hopefully I don't go insane...
Does arch require some coding, or terminal commands to set it up?
A buttload of terminal commands. That is it really. [url=http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Beginners'_Guide]This tutorial will tell you everything you could ever need to know on how to do it.[/url] It literally gives you each and every terminal command to use to get things rolling.
It is a good idea to know what you want going into it though. Like what programs you are going to be using. The guide makes installing it so easy that the only real limiter for new people is that they don't know what they want. Know your window manager, desktop environment and other preferred things since you will be given nothing but the very minimum in packages to get yourself going.
I think I may have figured out what was happening. when I finally finished upgrading to ubuntu 10.04, it spit out an issue about nouveau on bootup. so I pulled out my graphics card and plugged into integrated graphics, and suddenly it works.
so here I am, using Ubuntu on an igp. not even decent igp, it's a Geforce 7025.
:suicide:
I figure it's another good opportunity to upgrade my system. I suppose I'll pick up a 9800GT or something. I'll see what I can get cheap.
[QUOTE=Wombo194;23895394]Does arch require some coding, or terminal commands to set it up?[/QUOTE]
No coding. Terminal commands, Yes!
When you are done installing arch you will not have any kind of GUI installed. You'll have to install Xorg and your Desktop environment through the console. Guides make it very easy.
Seems good, basically however i want it to look like. Cool, but I still have learning to do.
Yeah a bit.
You could try Debian without Desktop Experience installed first off.
Noob running Ubuntu here, what's the best theme manager?
So I want a Linux distro to possibly run wine on, and use my RSBot (if it doesn't work, so be it. i can use it for something else). And i'm wondering, because i have 2 monitors, if it's possible to run Windows 7 coming from one monitor, and a Linux distro on the other, but still on the same machine.
It probably isn't possible, but just thought I would ask.
[QUOTE=TheJiggler;23924076]Noob running Ubuntu here, what's the best theme manager?[/QUOTE]
For gtk I recommend gtk-themeswitch2.
lxappearance/lxappearance2
I use lxappearance
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[QUOTE=NeoShinsei;23925382]So I want a Linux distro to possibly run wine on, and use my RSBot (if it doesn't work, so be it. i can use it for something else). And i'm wondering, because i have 2 monitors, if it's possible to run Windows 7 coming from one monitor, and a Linux distro on the other, but still on the same machine.
It probably isn't possible, but just thought I would ask.[/QUOTE]
you could try a VM
[QUOTE=ButtsexV2;23928583]I use lxappearance
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you could try a VM[/QUOTE]
Not a bad idea, I could probably get hold of it from work and run it on the other monitor. Thanks
Hey guys, I just felt like sharing:
I used Wubi to install Ubuntu Lucid on the family computer but whenever I start it I have to input a pile of commands at the grub command prompt. Well, once when I started it, it kernel panicked (with the reason "unable to sync" or something), I looked further up, and it tried to divide by zero for some reason.
It only happened once, but does anyone know how this would happen? :S
Wubi.
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I actually fucked up my GRUB config yesterday while installing Fedora. Turns out Fedora overwrote my MBR without me saying it should do that :colbert:
I booted Ubuntu from the GRUB command prompt, and now I feel pro for doing it :v:
[QUOTE=Sonicfan574;23935792]Hey guys, I just felt like sharing:
I used Wubi to install Ubuntu Lucid on the family computer but whenever I start it I have to input a pile of commands at the grub command prompt. Well, once when I started it, it kernel panicked (with the reason "unable to sync" or something), I looked further up, and it tried to divide by zero for some reason.
It only happened once, but does anyone know how this would happen? :S[/QUOTE]
Wubi. Don't install with wubi.
Tiling WMs are awesome. (Including awesome)
I tried awesome, but i can't stand tiling wms... I like moving windows where i want them.
I hate tiling wms
[QUOTE=Lego399;23941514]Tiling WMs are awesome. (Including awesome)[/QUOTE]
dwm :smug:
scrotwm :smug:
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