General Linux Chat and Small Questions v.2

[PvtCupcakes]

[QUOTE=esalaka;30333292]Is 10.10 LTS

Just use the latest LTS whatever it is[/QUOTE]

10.04 is LTS

[esalaka]

[QUOTE=Lego399_;30334486]Most awesome script ever

#!/bin/bash
string="LOL"
append="OL"
for ((n=1; n<$1; n++)); do
string="${string}${append}"
done
echo ${string}

[/QUOTE]

#!/bin/bash

NETWORK=$1
CHANNEL=$2
LANGUAGE=${3:-"en"}
WPM=${4:-160}
AMPLITUDE=${5:-100}
PITCH=${6:-50}

while true
        do ssh <host etc. censored> -M "tail -n1 -f 'irclogs/$NETWORK/$CHANNEL.log'"\
        | sed -u -e 's/^[0-9:]*\s<.*> //g'\
        | sed -u -e 's/^[0-9:]*\s*\*//g'\
        | sed -u -e 's/^[0-9:]*\s*-!-.*$//g'\
        | sed -u -e 's/\b(?:(?:https?|ftp|file):\/\/|www\.|ftp\.)[-A-Z0-9+&@#\/%=~_|$?!:,.]*[A-Z0-9+&@#\/%=~_|$]/A link/gi'\
        | espeak -v $LANGUAGE -s $WPM -a $AMPLITUDE -p $PITCH
done

This is much better.

The link filtering doesn't work but otherwise it works perfectly. (If you run irssi on your local machine, you can drop the ssh part and remove the double-quotes)

[Lego399_]

[QUOTE=esalaka;30335789]

#!/bin/bash

NETWORK=$1
CHANNEL=$2
LANGUAGE=${3:-"en"}
WPM=${4:-160}
AMPLITUDE=${5:-100}
PITCH=${6:-50}

while true
        do ssh <host etc. censored> -M "tail -n1 -f 'irclogs/$NETWORK/$CHANNEL.log'"\
        | sed -u -e 's/^[0-9:]*\s<.*> //g'\
        | sed -u -e 's/^[0-9:]*\s*\*//g'\
        | sed -u -e 's/^[0-9:]*\s*-!-.*$//g'\
        | sed -u -e 's/\b(?:(?:https?|ftp|file):\/\/|www\.|ftp\.)[-A-Z0-9+&@#\/%=~_|$?!:,.]*[A-Z0-9+&@#\/%=~_|$]/A link/gi'\
        | espeak -v $LANGUAGE -s $WPM -a $AMPLITUDE -p $PITCH
done

This is much better.

The link filtering doesn't work but otherwise it works perfectly. (If you run irssi on your local machine, you can drop the ssh part and remove the double-quotes)[/QUOTE]

I admit it, your script is better.

[nikomo]

I thought about installing Arch on my laptop the whole day to replace Ubuntu.
And then I just realized everything's going to be a whole lot smoother if I go with Debian.

The internal conflict, it burns.
I'll probably force myself to install Arch anyways.

[Wyzard]

I tried out Arch once, and it seemed OK, but I'm used to Debian's infrastructure and didn't really like Arch's minimality. I want to try it out again sometime, more extensively than just installing it in a VM for a few days, but for serious use I'm concerned about the lack of signed packages.

(Package signing has been a contentious topic in Arch's history, and there've been detractors claiming that the Arch developers don't care about security, they refuse to implement package signing, that sort of thing. In reality, it's a complex thing to do, they have limited development resources, and they're open to the idea but just haven't found someone to do the work yet. I don't fault them for that, but I'd still be reluctant to trust a package system whose authenticity can't be verified.)

[editline]9th June 2011[/editline]

FWIW, I normally use Debian unstable, but I plan to install Fedora 15 on my new laptop, at least for awhile. Both to get some hands-on time with GNOME 3 for real-world usage (as opposed to a temporary test install), and to broaden my experience beyond Debian and its derivatives.

[Elecbullet]

[QUOTE=Anthophobian;30306203]Hnng, I have 50 gigs of music that is the only obstacle keeping me away from switching to Linux. I really don't want to dish out for an external hard disk, nor do I want to burn an entire stack of DVDs. Any way I can install Linux without wiping my complete HDD?[/QUOTE]

I hope nobody scared you away by failing to mention that most Linux distros include an extremely simple graphical disk partitioner that walks you through it. Ubuntu especially, that's the general beginner's Linux, has a very easy one to understand.

If you do get Ubuntu don't get the most recent version (11.04) get 10.04 or 10.10, they're much better and easier to understand IMO.

[FPtje]

[QUOTE=Elecbullet;30365359]I hope nobody scared you away by failing to mention that most Linux distros include an extremely simple graphical disk partitioner that walks you through it. Ubuntu especially, that's the general beginner's Linux, has a very easy one to understand.

If you do get Ubuntu don't get the most recent version (11.04) get 10.04 or 10.10, they're much better and easier to understand IMO.[/QUOTE]

One of the main complaints for unity is that it's way too simple.

[Elecbullet]

My main complaint is that it's bullshit

[nikomo]

Fuck, I'll never get Arch installed. I can't decide on a hostname.

[esalaka]

Nice reference there niko :h:

[editline]10th June 2011[/editline]

But yeah hostnames are impossible to think of

[nikomo]

How to post on Facepunch like a pro: Read a thread in other section, post into other section and reference to the first section.
People who haven't read the other thread won't get the reference and will think you thought it up on your own.

But, seriously, the fuck am I going to call my laptop? nikotop? nikomotop?

[Wyzard]

Choose a theme. I name my computers after characters from games; my father names his after science-fiction writers. My university's CS department named their servers after stars.

[nikomo]

my main machine is nikomo-PC
my windows server 1 is WINSRV1
my windows server 2 is WINSRV2
my linux server is LNXSRV1

i guess the laptop should be LNXTOP1

[Gaza Pen Pal]

[QUOTE=nikomo;30367862]Fuck, I'll never get Arch installed. I can't decide on a hostname.[/QUOTE]

the ubuntu log in screen has something like "username' on 'hostname" which is why I always make both my user and hostname "girl"

[ASmellyOgre]

I'm boring. I just make my hostname "myname-typeofcomputer-number(except for the first one, which has no number)," which means my first netbook is "myname-netbook" and the second server is "myname-server-2"

[PvtCupcakes]

I name mine like ${distro}box or ${distro}top for laptops.
For Gentoo I used gentoobox, and on my Fedora laptop it was fedoratop

[Lyokanthrope]

[QUOTE=PvtCupcakes;30372491]I name mine like ${distro}box or ${distro}top for laptops.
For Gentoo I used gentoobox, and on my Fedora laptop it was fedoratop[/QUOTE]
I just use joshua-${distro}top or joshua-${distro}machine. :v:

[FPtje]

falcolaptop here.
firstnamelaptop or firstnamepc.

[rieda1589]

I recently formatted my PC.

I installed Arch after setting up Win7, Gnome3 sucked, KDE sucked.. So I just installed Xfce and it's brilliant.

Super quick too.

[Elecbullet]

Regarding hostnames:

My hostnames are[list]
[*]spc (stephen PC, my PC)
[*]ssv (stphen server)
[*]fpc (family PC)
[*]fpc2 (family PC 2)
[/list]

Keep it simple. That way I can just go to terminal and type

ssh ssv.local

to ssh into my server.

Its good to have short hostnames, and if you have less than 10 computers it's efficient. My hostnames used to be long (stephen-pc, stephen-server, family-pc) but now they're much easier to use.

[kukiric]

Could anyone recommend me a good FTP server program that does not do encryption? I'm going to send files over a local network through an already-encrypted wireless network, so I don't really need the encryption SFTP and SCP offer for even more overhead.
Unless openssh can do fast encryptionless FTP and I don't know about it :v:

[esalaka]

Just use scp. It's surprisingly fast.

[editline]11th June 2011[/editline]

Also >openSSH >encryptionless
OpenSSH is an encryption library, isn't it

[kukiric]

[QUOTE=esalaka;30377893]Just use scp. It's surprisingly fast.[/QUOTE]
Since when is 80kb/s surprisingly fast? I can get 1MB/s out of torrents easily and even then that's my internet speed cap. There's something wrong.

[editline]10th June 2011[/editline]

And I think openssl is an encryption library, openssh is just for ssh and ssh-related protocol server and client applications.

[esalaka]

Oh... yeah. Durr.

Use rcp then? It's like scp without the secure

[rieda1589]

Just use http. Fast as hell over LAN with minimal CPU overhead.

[Wyzard]

From Linux to Linux you can use tar and netcat to transfer files with essentially zero overhead, if you don't mind using the command line. On one machine, create a tar archive and pipe it into netcat, and on the other machine, pipe netcat's output into tar for extraction.

[The Riddler]

Ahem! I believe I still have a question pending. Where and how can I install the needed ROM packages?

[_Twitch_]

[QUOTE=The Riddler;30380059]Ahem! I believe I still have a question pending. Where and how can I install the needed ROM packages?[/QUOTE]

If by ROM packages you mean the game ROMs, there isn't a specific "ROM package", you're going to have to do a little searching for what you want.

[PvtCupcakes]

[QUOTE=kukiric;30378290]Since when is 80kb/s surprisingly fast? I can get 1MB/s out of torrents easily and even then that's my internet speed cap. There's something wrong.

[editline]10th June 2011[/editline]

And I think openssl is an encryption library, openssh is just for ssh and ssh-related protocol server and client applications.[/QUOTE]

Scp isn't slow. I don't know why you get 80kb/s.

[Gaza Pen Pal]

I want to install awesome from the AUR but I'm not sure how to do it, specifically, I'm not sure how to acquire the files when I only have xorg installed.