General Linux Chat and Small Questions v. I broke my Arch Install - Hardware & Software

[QUOTE=Moofy;43125759]Elementary OS looks sexy[/QUOTE] Meh, I don't really like it The UI does look a bit boring IMHO, just another kinda simple shiny UI Although I'll always like my XFCE, I just take a favouring to it EDIT: Got something for you nerbs to help me with actually Got my Raspberry Pi on Saturday and so far I've installed Raspian and OpenELEC on it I've seen some of the cool inventions on YouTube and I wanan get into that, but I wanna be somewhat original, so you guys got any ideas for me? I want something that's actually going to be useful for me.

[QUOTE=Shotz;43126757]Meh, I don't really like it The UI does look a bit boring IMHO, just another kinda simple shiny UI Although I'll always like my XFCE, I just take a favouring to it EDIT: Got something for you nerbs to help me with actually Got my Raspberry Pi on Saturday and so far I've installed Raspian and OpenELEC on it I've seen some of the cool inventions on YouTube and I wanan get into that, but I wanna be somewhat original, so you guys got any ideas for me? I want something that's actually going to be useful for me.[/QUOTE] I use it to download proprietary software.

Make something that will make your cup of tea for you (minus the water) and even remove the teabag.

[QUOTE=Leestons;43127344]Make something that will make your cup of tea for you (minus the water) and even remove the teabag.[/QUOTE] Ugh, that sorta thing is way too advanced for meI can program little to nothing so that's way out of my reach

I've been messing around a bit with dzen2 and tint2 [t]http://novaember.com/s/985342043.png[/t]

[QUOTE=Shotz;43127424]Ugh, that sorta thing is way too advanced for meI can program little to nothing so that's way out of my reach[/QUOTE] Hmm okay, how about this. Just to get your feet wet. Make like an egg timer. You press a button and after 3 minutes (or whatever time you want) a buzzer sounds.

[QUOTE=kaukassus;43126151]sexy but old kernel out of the box.[/QUOTE] You can always change that though.

[QUOTE=XxThreedogxX;43130808]You can always change that though.[/QUOTE] Then there's the catch of drivers not being around out of the box (or if that's something kernel related) and game performance in fullscreen being total crap I believe due to the WM not being recognized (think it's custom tailored).

[QUOTE=Mega1mpact;43126655]you can just grab fedora, debian, arch etc and skin it like elementaryos[/QUOTE] Did something like that with XFCE, made it look like glass. Maybe I should do that again, however I am not a big fan of either Arch or Debian, and I seriously can't get around YUM. :v:

Debian is awesome, as long as you use testing. Took me what, fucking 4 years to figure that out? It's kind of like Arch, except with less worrying, and with less configuration to get a base system running.

[QUOTE=nikomo;43132303]Debian is awesome, as long as you use testing. Took me what, fucking 4 years to figure that out? It's kind of like Arch, except with less worrying, and with less configuration to get a base system running.[/QUOTE] I was told Debian was 10x harder than Arch :suicide:

[QUOTE=Moofy;43136102]I was told Debian was 10x harder than Arch :suicide:[/QUOTE] Considering even the raspberry pi, designed for education in schools, uses Debian. I'd like to know who told you that.

[QUOTE=Moofy;43136102]I was told Debian was 10x harder than Arch :suicide:[/QUOTE] It is indeed harder... to break.

[QUOTE=FPtje;43136702]It is indeed harder... to break.[/QUOTE] just uninstall libc [sp]i did this once[/sp]

[QUOTE=Leestons;43136318]Considering even the raspberry pi, designed for education in schools, uses Debian. I'd like to know who told you that.[/QUOTE] Believe it or not: [sp]Asians[/sp]

[QUOTE=Moofy;43136905]Believe it or not: [sp]Asians[/sp][/QUOTE] Don't worry. I've set up Debian like 3 times now (two x86 and one PPC mac mini :v:). Its much easier than you think. Only thing that was disconcerting for me was that it doesn't use vim by default and instead uses vi in compatibility mode or something, so it does strange things like backspace not removing characters from the screen, only moving the cursor back BUT the character really IS deleted. I don't know if any of you like that, but I like the actual contents of text files to reflect what's on the screen in real time thank you.

[QUOTE=Demache;43137005]Don't worry. I've set up Debian like 3 times now (two x86 and one PPC mac mini :v:). Its much easier than you think. Only thing that was disconcerting for me was that it doesn't use vim by default and instead uses vi in compatibility mode or something, so it does strange things like backspace not removing characters from the screen, only moving the cursor back BUT the character really IS deleted. I don't know if any of you like that, but I like the actual contents of text files to reflect what's on the screen in real time thank you.[/QUOTE] [code]alias vi="vim -N"[/code] problem solved (the -N is there to run in non-compatible mode in case you don't have a .vimrc - you can still use -C afterward I think)

[QUOTE=Demache;43137005]Don't worry. I've set up Debian like 3 times now (two x86 and one PPC mac mini :v:). Its much easier than you think. Only thing that was disconcerting for me was that it doesn't use vim by default and instead uses vi in compatibility mode or something, so it does strange things like backspace not removing characters from the screen, only moving the cursor back BUT the character really IS deleted. I don't know if any of you like that, but I like the actual contents of text files to reflect what's on the screen in real time thank you.[/QUOTE] Well the only distros I've used have been those self installing pretty basic ones Like Fedora, Ubuntu, Mint etc. :v:

[QUOTE=Darkwater124;43136748]just uninstall libc [sp]i did this once[/sp][/QUOTE] I once convinced like 5 people on a /g/ thread to do that. What a glorious day it was

[QUOTE=lavacano;43137763][code]alias vi="vim -N"[/code] problem solved (the -N is there to run in non-compatible mode in case you don't have a .vimrc - you can still use -C afterward I think)[/QUOTE] I just used "set nocompatible" in .vimrc. But initially I didn't know that was because of vi compatibility. Really threw me for a loop. I had never encountered that in any Ubuntu-like or Arch distros. I originally thought the screen buffer was fucked up :v:.

Anyone have any idea why I am getting absurdly slow speeds to my Linux box at home at random times? Right now I'm transferring a file over SSH with WinSCP and the speed is ranging from 200KiB/s to 5,000B/s (should be getting ~2MiB/s). This happens totally randomly, one hour its fine and I can transfer files at max speed, other hours I can't transfer shit.

[QUOTE=SPESSMEHREN;43138909]Anyone have any idea why I am getting absurdly slow speeds to my Linux box at home at random times? Right now I'm transferring a file over SSH with WinSCP and the speed is ranging from 200KiB/s to 5,000B/s (should be getting ~2MiB/s). This happens totally randomly, one hour its fine and I can transfer files at max speed, other hours I can't transfer shit.[/QUOTE] I know it sounds stupid but check your ethernet cables. Apparently I had a bad one that caused even SSH become wildly unreliable and laggy randomly.

[QUOTE=Demache;43139028]I know it sounds stupid but check your ethernet cables. Apparently I had a bad one that caused even SSH become wildly unreliable and laggy randomly.[/QUOTE] I'll have to do that when I get home, I won't have access to the server until Sunday. It's weird because other services appear unaffected. According to speedtest-cli I'm still getting 30Mbit/s down/25Mbit/s up.

so I've kind of finished my info panel: [t]http://novaember.com/s/981208592.png[/t] [url=https://github.com/Darkwater124/dotfiles/blob/master/info_panel.fish]and the sauce is a fish.[/url]

[QUOTE=SPESSMEHREN;43139123]I'll have to do that when I get home, I won't have access to the server until Sunday. It's weird because other services appear unaffected. According to speedtest-cli I'm still getting 30Mbit/s down/25Mbit/s up.[/QUOTE] Well its the easiest thing to check so that's where I would start.

[QUOTE=Moofy;43136102]I was told Debian was 10x harder than Arch :suicide:[/QUOTE] Go ahead and punch the people who told you that.

So I finally updated my Kernel and everything is much more snappy I am so happy with this.

So I just spent a few hours setting up i3 and urxvt to the point where I'm happy, and I have yet to touch vim, plugins and themes. That said, how should I back this up, and make it so I can synchronise the files to my server for example, at least for zsh?

[QUOTE=ben1066;43150281]So I just spent a few hours setting up i3 and urxvt to the point where I'm happy, and I have yet to touch vim, plugins and themes. That said, how should I back this up, and make it so I can synchronise the files to my server for example, at least for zsh?[/QUOTE] I store my config files in a git repo, and symlink to it.

[QUOTE=Larikang;43150446]I store my config files in a git repo, and symlink to it.[/QUOTE] Is there any good way to do that considering .Xresources for example isn't in a directory, or should I just symlink them all individually.