[QUOTE=ROBO_DONUT;25399986]I like how Microsoft submits a 60000000000-page swiss-cheese pseudo-spec for their convoluted, inconsistent file format for "standardization" in an attempt to feign cooperation just so they can go "Sun Microsystems' [i]shareware[/i] communist Jesus-hating Office clone is out to RUIN YOUR [i]GENUINE[/i] Microsoft Office Word documents and will eat your babies" in a youtube video.
Yeah, OO.o is a train wreck. MSO is worse. One day in the distant future someone will get simple document editing right (I specify simple because Knuth already perfected complex and technical document preparation), and it won't be any of these Microsoft/Sun incompetents.
Also, nobody should ever send any final documents in doc/docx (as implied by probably-fictional [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzdykNa2IBU&feature=player_embedded#t=1m26s]shitty bitch teacher's "I give OO.o users bad grades"[/url] comment). PDF is what you use for final documents.[/QUOTE]
I once sent in an odt and ended up with a D on the report, it was terrible.
Who even needs to write documents?
Business Majors, that's who.
Nobody likes Business Majors.
pretty much any engineering major, and in many cases CS majors
I'm a CS major and I wouldn't be caught dead using a word processor.
cs is ee for pussies
no physics no balls
LaTeX is far superior to Word/OO.o for engineering. There is nothing more painful than trying to enter equations into Microsoft Word.
General word processors are crap and they try to correct everything I do (even though I'm always right :arghfist::saddowns:)
I always hated in high school typing up essays in word and it corrects my spelling in literatim quotes
I've never used a word processor that doesn't suck. Bean is the closest I've come to one that doesn't suck because it loads in 2 seconds (As opposed to 15 for oo.o and 8 for ms word). But for some reason it hates images and opening rtf file properly.
[editline]15th October 2010[/editline]
[QUOTE=ROBO_DONUT;25409027]LaTeX[/QUOTE]
>download
>1.5gb
>wat
So... Playing around on a dual boot Win7/Maverick machine... And I got to thinking, "I want to do something interesting."...
So, you know what? I'm here, asking for suggestions on something interesting. Preferably not system-damaging, as that would be bad.
Thanks.
Copy every single file from your Windows partition to your Ubuntu one.
Then delete system32
Both of those are either useless or system-damaging...
[QUOTE=Dr. Deeps;25430940]Copy every single file from your Windows partition to your Ubuntu one.
Then delete system32[/QUOTE]
Don't listen to Dr. Deeps, he hasn't got a clue on how to use linux.
Hey guys when I start up my laptop, my RAM usage is about 300MB. When I open chromium, openoffice and some other programs my RAM usage raises (obviously).
However when I close everything again it idles around 400MB. Why?
[QUOTE=FPtje;25437280]Hey guys when I start up my laptop, my RAM usage is about 300MB. When I open chromium, openoffice and some other programs my RAM usage raises (obviously).
However when I close everything again it idles around 400MB. Why?[/QUOTE]
Disk caching maybe? Have you tried running TOP or HTOP to see which processes are taking up RAM?
[QUOTE=FPtje;25437280]Hey guys when I start up my laptop, my RAM usage is about 300MB. When I open chromium, openoffice and some other programs my RAM usage raises (obviously).
However when I close everything again it idles around 400MB. Why?[/QUOTE]
Try running 'free' before and after and look at the "-/+ buffers/cache:" line. This will give you the real memory usage.
Re doing the server setup for Facepunch, doing Ubuntu server this time since there seems to be a bit better support from Canonical for doing EC2. Should I be using the latest 10.10 release or would using 9.10 be okay?
[QUOTE=compwhizii;25445295]Re doing the server setup for Facepunch, doing Ubuntu server this time since there seems to be a bit better support from Canonical for doing EC2. Should I be using the latest 10.10 release or would using 9.10 be okay?[/QUOTE]
Use 10.04 if you can. It's the long term support release, which I think is 3 years of support? The others have like 18 months or something.
[QUOTE=PvtCupcakes;25445348]Use 10.04 if you can. It's the long term support release, which I think is 3 years of support? The others have like 18 months or something.[/QUOTE]
Good point.
[editline]16th October 2010[/editline]
Following this guide: [url]http://alestic.com/2010/01/ec2-ebs-boot-ubuntu[/url]
Fuck's sake, I've set up samba on my laptop running arch, and it works fine for accessing the windows shares on one of my PCs, doesn't need a username or password, you just double click on the PC in the network folder and away you go. However, for my main PC, I get prompted for a username and password both when I try to access my main PC from my laptop and when I try to access my laptop from my main PC. I've tried loads of different username/pass combinations, but none work. It's weird, both windows PCs are running Win7, and both, from what I can tell, have the same network settings. Trying to access the share list via command line hits me with an 'error returning browse list: NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED'.
[QUOTE=Generic.Monk;25448105]Fuck's sake, I've set up samba on my laptop running arch, and it works fine for accessing the windows shares on one of my PCs, doesn't need a username or password, you just double click on the PC in the network folder and away you go. However, for my main PC, I get prompted for a username and password both when I try to access my main PC from my laptop and when I try to access my laptop from my main PC. I've tried loads of different username/pass combinations, but none work. It's weird, both windows PCs are running Win7, and both, from what I can tell, have the same network settings. Trying to access the share list via command line hits me with an 'error returning browse list: NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED'.[/QUOTE]
Have you considered trying blank username and password.
Have you considered adding a user for them to log in with.
[QUOTE=Maccabee;25448515]Have you considered trying blank username and password.
Have you considered adding a user for them to log in with.[/QUOTE]
Entering no username/password works, but only via smbclient on the command line, and it gives me the NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED error when trying to list the shares. Trying to enter no username/password via the GUI is unsupported, the button is greyed out and logging in with any credentials there doesn't do shit.
Adding a user to log on with has the same result, I can login via the command line with their credentials but I'm hit with the access denied error, logging in through the GUI predictably doesn't work.
I'm going to try setting the permissions for all my shares to 'full control', maybe that'll help.
[editline]17th October 2010[/editline]
OK no, that didn't work. Only thing different about this PC to the other one is that it has a printer connected, I'll try unsharing that.
You could use /etc/fstab to mount the samba share on startup.
I can't remember it off the top of my head but you use something like
[code]
//192.168.1.100/MYSHARE /mnt/samba cifs -username=myname,password=mypass 0 0
[/code]
[QUOTE=PvtCupcakes;25448981]You could use /etc/fstab to mount the samba share on startup.
I can't remember it off the top of my head but you use something like
[code]
//192.168.1.100/MYSHARE /mnt/samba cifs -username=myname,password=mypass 0 0
[/code][/QUOTE]
For whatever reason the 'mount' command mounts the share to a folder just fine, so I guess that'd work. I really don't want to use fstab or mount to accomplish this though, they just seem so... inelegant.
Fuck's SAKE, this doesn't even make any sense, why doesn't this work? There is NO REASON why this shouldn't work. Fucking windows.
[QUOTE=eXeC64;25436652]Don't listen to Dr. Deeps, he hasn't got a clue on how to use linux.[/QUOTE]
herp tryina make a joke that nothing would happen.
I'm trying to set up a VPN to route all traffic through my home internet connection, I have a VPN set up using PPTPD that I can connect to, but I cannot get to the internet through it, It's also assigning seemingly random IP Addresses to VPN clients.
Gonna use some of my spare disk space on my VPS to host some Linux distros, just because I feel like it.
[URL]http://www.casey-jones.org/downloads/[/URL]
So far I have Arch Linux 2010.05, SystemRescueCD 1.6.2 and CentOS 5.5.
[editline]18th October 2010[/editline]
My server is in Germany, so yeah.
[editline]18th October 2010[/editline]
Damn, CentOS has some pretty crappy mirrors. I was getting 6mb/s-ish when I was downloading the others, but 3 CentOS mirrors I've tried only get 500kb/s.
I have tomsrtbt and Kernel 0.01 mirrored on my website, I might host some others.
[editline]18th October 2010[/editline]
on an unrelated note, someone added "/B/ desu dseu we are anonemous" to the user added section on my website.
[QUOTE=ButtsexV3;25493703]
on an unrelated note, someone added "/B/ desu dseu we are anonemous" to the user added section on my website.[/QUOTE]
Wow, they are so hardcore. I wish I was able to be that cool on the internet.
I don't even know why they would do it, it's not like I get a lot of hits
I'll just leave it there they only added it once
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