[QUOTE=T3hGamerDK;31478496]If you portforward the ports you're using, and remember the IP (or set up something like dyndns.org), you won't have any trouble. Works for me anyway.[/QUOTE]
I have a domain so I might use that.
[QUOTE=PvtCupcakes;31477875]I'm really hoping Fedora will put the KDE 4.7 packages into the repos for Fedora 15 and I don't have to wait for F16.[/quote]
[url]http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/kde/2011-July/009953.html[/url]
[QUOTE=toaster468;31476426]I am getting a computer and I want to set up a small server (maybe minecraft) and I want to control the server from my desktop using PuTTY. But I have a question, say I go on vacation and need to control the server, can I use PuTTY over WAN or is it just LAN?[/QUOTE]
Basically, PuTTY enters the server using SSH program. SSH, if you haven't changed any settings, works on port 22.
Log into your router, look for "Port forward" or "Virtual server" setting, and forward the port 22 to the local IP address of your server (192.168.x.x). If you don't know the IP address use ifconfig (in terminal) to find it
Now, if you were to use PuTTY to SSH to your domain name or IP address of your home computer, it will forward it to your server
[editline]1st August 2011[/editline]
On an unrelated note, I've decided: Fuck Ubuntu. For months I've had a 32-bit version installed on my personal computer, because that was the version on the DVD that came with a book I got, and I never thought about it. It's time I upgraded my Linux manliness to Arch.
However Arch has been bitching about non-alignment to cylinders so I'm working with gParted off of Live DVD before I begin.
My family's computers will continue running Ubuntu 10.04 LTS.
Haha. Fedora released kernel 2.6.40 for F15. It's 3.0 in disguise.
Apparently the reason for the version number was
[quote]
Rebase to 3.0. Version reports as 2.6.40 for compatibility with older userspace.
[/quote]
I saw that in my list of updates and the first thing I thought was how could 2.6.40 exist?
[QUOTE=PvtCupcakes;31481798]Haha. Fedora released kernel 2.6.40 for F15. It's 3.0 in disguise.
Apparently the reason for the version number was
I saw that in my list of updates and the first thing I thought was how could 2.6.40 exist?[/QUOTE]
They're probably doing that so they can strip out all kernel26 dependencies or whatnot
[QUOTE=Elecbullet;31479818]However Arch has been bitching about non-alignment to cylinders so I'm working with gParted off of Live DVD before I begin.[/QUOTE]
Cylinders have been meaningless for a long time, and cylinder alignment is actually detrimental to performance on modern (AF or SSD) drives. The new convention is to align things on 1MB boundaries, which is typically 2048 sectors. (When disk manufacturers start selling native-4k AF drives, it'll be 256 sectors on those.)
Does anyone know what version of KDE kubuntu 11.04 uses?
I have been trying fedora 15 but gnome 3 doesnt work for me, also I just prefer ubuntus way of doing things.
I have only ever used GNome so I dont know what is different with KDE, but I dont really want to use ubunut 11.04 as there seem to be quite a few bugs with it (mainly unity apparently)
[QUOTE=Richy19;31486796]Does anyone know what version of KDE kubuntu 11.04 uses?
I have been trying fedora 15 but gnome 3 doesnt work for me, also I just prefer ubuntus way of doing things.
I have only ever used GNome so I dont know what is different with KDE, but I dont really want to use ubunut 11.04 as there seem to be quite a few bugs with it (mainly unity apparently)[/QUOTE]
iirc You can use the menu at the bottom on the screen where you type your password and change it to 'Ubuntu Classic' to get GNOME 2 back.
Ladies and gentlemen, I'm about to venture into the magical world of Python, I bid you adieu.
Feel free to go to the programming forum, everyone's nice in there
Installing Arch for the first time.
Shit's tough, a step up from Ubuntu
[editline]2nd August 2011[/editline]
Dammit, the bootloader install is killing me, refusing to install to /dev/sda with error "Invalid device requested" or something
[editline]2nd August 2011[/editline]
God dammit this is killing me, my /dev/sda partitions seem to be spontaneously mounting, and I think that's why it won't install bootloader. I can't umount because it says they're all busy. Help!
If it's busy make sure you don't have anything like a terminal that is cd'd into the mount point for that device.
I.e. if you try to umount your /boot partition and you have a terminal that is in /boot it will say it's busy and can't unmount.
Same for things like GUI file managers or text editors.
For some reason my touchpad wont "tap" on fedora 15
As in I cant click with the touchpad, anyonne have any ideas?
Have you tried installing the synaptic drivers?
[QUOTE=nos217;31495932]Have you tried installing the synaptic drivers?[/QUOTE]
yes
Oh.
[QUOTE=Richy19;31495850]For some reason my touchpad wont "tap" on fedora 15
As in I cant click with the touchpad, anyonne have any ideas?[/QUOTE]
It's turned off by default, but you can turn it back on in the mouse control panel.
If I have Steam and other stuff on my external HDD , will it be possible to launch it from Wine , without installing stuff on my Linux?
[QUOTE=superstepa;31499891]If I have Steam and other stuff on my external HDD , will it be possible to launch it from Wine , without installing stuff on my Linux?[/QUOTE]
No, because steam has a bunch of registry shit that it needs to run. You can either find it and export it to wine (harder) or install steam on Linux and tell the installer to install it to the folder containing your existing steam installation. IIRC it will create the needed registry entries but leave the rest of the folder untouched (so you don't have to redownload everything). Everything else basically depends on how much each program uses the registry for settings, etc.
steam doesn't touch the registry afaik. I used to keep one partition specifically for games, and steam was on that. I ran steam on many occasions from both windows and linux
as for other programs, most will probably have registry entries
So I have 32bit Ubuntu 10.04 LTS on my family's computers. (2.0Ghz Athlon X2, 4gig DDR2)
I decided to reinstall, and install a 64bit version.
Should I install 10.04 x64 or go on ahead to 11.04?
Depends. Do you like Unity? The answer is 11.04 either way, because you can just use Ubuntu Classic (GNOME panel, etc).
[QUOTE=ButtsexV3;31500067]steam doesn't touch the registry afaik. I used to keep one partition specifically for games, and steam was on that. I ran steam on many occasions from both windows and linux
as for other programs, most will probably have registry entries[/QUOTE]
Most of stuff , installed is a portable software , which should not use the registry
Welp I decided on 11.04. It's not all that bad anyway. I'm sure I'd get a lot of shit for Unity from family, so default is Classic for now
[editline]3rd August 2011[/editline]
Well gonna have to say FUCK YOU to Arch for the time being. Figured out my bootloader problem, installed bootloader successfully, booted into correct hard drive after reboot, and grub gave me an error 22 and left me at rescue>.
Fucking arch installer. Fucking Gentoo's gotta be better than that shit. Goddamn.
Maybe I will change my mind in the morning
[QUOTE=Elecbullet;31501574]Well gonna have to say FUCK YOU to Arch for the time being. Figured out my bootloader problem, installed bootloader successfully, booted into correct hard drive after reboot, and grub gave me an error 22 and left me at rescue>.
Fucking arch installer. Fucking Gentoo's gotta be better than that shit. Goddamn.
Maybe I will change my mind in the morning[/QUOTE]
I simply fail to understand how you can be unsiccesful in installing Arch when you have a wiki that lists pretty much every possible problem and its solution.
ArchWiki is the very reason Arch is so easy to use. You just look up the issue and its solution.
Yeah well it's 3:30 I'm going to bed, I'll wiki it up tomorrow
[editline]3rd August 2011[/editline]
I'm sorry, okay? I've had a stressful night, and every time I rebooted the live CD I had to start from the beginning, it made me, even though all I had to do was fix the damn bootloader.
[QUOTE=superstepa;31499891]If I have Steam and other stuff on my external HDD , will it be possible to launch it from Wine , without installing stuff on my Linux?[/QUOTE]
It'll be possible, but you'll need special mount settings, as the defaults mount settings in most distro's won't allow you to execute from an external HDD, and as such, running Steam wouldn't work. I tried circumventing this once, but I ended up just writing my own ftab. And I had steam itself installed on my internal drive, with a link to the steamapps folder on the external drive.
How do I update glibc on debian?
[QUOTE=Nexus435;31506720]How do I update glibc on debian?[/QUOTE]
Are you compiling it from source or using a deb package?
[QUOTE=Elecbullet;31502468]Yeah well it's 3:30 I'm going to bed, I'll wiki it up tomorrow
[editline]3rd August 2011[/editline]
I'm sorry, okay? I've had a stressful night, and every time I rebooted the live CD I had to start from the beginning, it made me, even though all I had to do was fix the damn bootloader.[/QUOTE]
You can manually reinstall the bootloader from the terminal, even on a live CD.
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