General Linux Chat and Small Questions v. I broke my Arch Install

[nikomo]

Ok.

I'm just going to leave it at that, since you included absolutely no relevant information, at all. The model of the 'dongle' would be a good place to start.

[Mors]

[QUOTE=KOManiacJim;46596135]The netgear dongle model is WNA3100. Now how do I get the drivers? I have access to a family member's Computer in order to get the files needed onto a CD-R disk and I will do the steps necessary in order to make it work.[/QUOTE]

Have a look through this thread. [url]http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2221251[/url]

[Stonecycle]

[QUOTE=mastersrp;46584628]If you want the ultimate minimalism and flexibility, dwm is always sitting in the background for anyone who dare use it.[/QUOTE]

Don't think I'd call including status bars "minimal" or recompiling just to change a setting "flexible". As much as I love many of the suckless tools, [i]dwm[/i]'s just not my cup of tea. I'd almost be happy with [i]9wm[/i] if I could get its menus to look a little more...modern. Kind of like how ricers can get Openbox to look.

[mastersrp]

[QUOTE=KOManiacJim;46596668]I'm sorry but I have already tried Mors' link and did everything I need to do but the wifi connection I tried to make cuts off automatically. I need some help on how to get it working. Maybe some commands I need to type in to make it work? I'm sorry if I bothered you guys.[/QUOTE]

[url]http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2221251&p=13010118#post13010118[/url]

That is what you're looking to do. Install ndiswrapper, copy the drivers from the dongle resource CD-ROM, and get it loaded up and shit.

The device you're using is the [url]https://wikidevi.com/wiki/Netgear_WNA3100[/url], and according to that page, no driver is available for Linux (and won't be, it seems), so that is your best bet without investing like 10-20 bucks on a different USB dongle.

If you're still having trouble, my best bet would be to use a recent kernel and a [url=https://wikidevi.com/wiki/TP-LINK_TL-WDN3200]TP-LINK TL-WDN32000[/url], because it doesn't need any proprietary drivers and simply works out of the box (or at the worst with linux-firmware installed). It's pretty cheap too, and supports 300Mbps 2.4GHz AND 5GHz, which is always nice.

[editline]29th November 2014[/editline]

oh and also i fucking love [url]https://wikidevi.com/[/url]

[MetricMoose]

[QUOTE=supervoltage;46578426]Is it possible to create a Linux gateway machine and have it limit bandwidth for certain IP's?

Say we have three machines and a Linux gateway machine, and we want the first machine to be limited to 200 kB/s download, second machine 600 kB/s download and the third machine to 1 MB/s download. How would one go about it?[/QUOTE]

PFSense should be able to do what you're after.

[Strider_07]

What kind of performance hit will I get from running (windows exclusive) steam games under WINE? I recently put Ubuntu on an old hard drive as dual-boot and my steam games that aren't compatible are my only hangup to transitioning. completely to Linux.

[lavacano]

It largely depends on the game. Generally, though, older games (and games that already use OpenGL instead of DirectX) are going to behave a lot better than newer games.

[naelstrof]

[QUOTE=Strider_07;46633121]What kind of performance hit will I get from running (windows exclusive) steam games under WINE? I recently put Ubuntu on an old hard drive as dual-boot and my steam games that aren't compatible are my only hangup to transitioning. completely to Linux.[/QUOTE]

Wine varies game to game. I find myself struggling more at configuring Wine enough for it to even play the games, but when it does work: it works great.

I usually just reboot into Windows when I want to play Windows games (I hate it though so I rarely do it).

[editline]asdf[/editline]

Wow lava you ninja.

Anyway have you guys seen [url=https://kerbalspaceprogram.com/]Kerbal Space Program[/url]? It's a game seemingly developed with Linux (The windows 64 bit version tells you to use Linux lol), it's DRM free, and has created a [url=https://github.com/NathanKell/DeadlyReentry]plethora[/url] [url=https://github.com/FractalUK/KSPInterstellar]of[/url] [url=https://github.com/MuMech/MechJeb2]multi-platform[/url] [url=https://github.com/ferram4/Ferram-Aerospace-Research]mods[/url] on github.

It's the most streamlined Linux game I've ever played. It's incredible.

[Levelog]

If any of you could help me out by suggesting a distro, it would be great. I'm looking for something that I can delve a bit deeper into that I can put on my laptop now that I put that 480gb 730 in it. Most of my experience is with ubuntu desktop/server, but I'm wanting some more customizing.

[editline]6th December 2014[/editline]

[QUOTE=benjgvps;46604557]PFSense should be able to do what you're after.[/QUOTE]

I still need to get the rest of my pfsense box together but none of the stuff for it went on sale for black friday...

[SocMinarch]

For customisability, I'd say Arch

[mastersrp]

Arch, or Funtoo if youre feeling VERY adventurious. And I am very serious about the latter, you will customize your own kernel and specify exaclty what features you want every single application and library to have (in a somewhat friendly manner, but still).
If you are put off by the latter, I suggest something like Arch or even simpler, but I highly recommend eventually running Funtoo (or even just Gentoo) in a virtual machine sometime, just to try it out. It is my main system currently on my desktop machine, and I love it to death. But it is not for the people new to Linux.

[Levelog]

Well I think I'm going to go with Arch. Time to do a couple trial runs in a VM.

[vlad]

was thinking of picking up C++ again but not sure what to use on linux. generally I'd use Visual Studio, but I'm only home during the weekends so I only have my macbook which I have linux and, of course, OS X on. mostly going to be using linux. I've tried out code::blocks in the past, but it feels clunky and awkward to use so figured I'd try this without an IDE. what are some must have utilities? of course an editor and GCC, but what else? Vim comes to mind but I'm completely green on it to the point where I've always just closed the terminal completely when I accidentally start it since I don't know how to exit it, let alone actually use it.

[nikomo]

Sublime Text, gcc, and a big ol' pile of Sublime plugins.

[Darkwater]

Vim works pretty good with C(++), especially with the right plugins.

[vlad]

[QUOTE=nikomo;46661483]Sublime Text, gcc, and a big ol' pile of Sublime plugins.[/QUOTE]

I was thinking of Sublime, but it doesn't do a very good job of scaling itself. looks tiny on this display (13'' @ 2560 x 1600). if there's a plugin or whatever which ensures it does scale properly though, any plugins you would recommend to make C++ more comfortable to work with?

[QUOTE=Darkwater124;46661551]Vim works pretty good with C(++), especially with the right plugins.[/QUOTE]

I'll try to learn my way around Vim, what plugins do you recommend for C++? if I end up using Vim, it's most likely going to end up exclusively for C++.

[naelstrof]

Use a standard makefile + vim combo. Vim should at least have the nerdTree plugin installed with smartindent and syntax highlighting enabled. (Vanilla vim has the :mak command for compiling the project).

For debugging you can use valgrind and gdb.

[shodan]

My server died today. After httpd randomly crashing and not giving any error when I tried to boot it (and failing) I decided to do a strace debug:
fish: Job 1, “strace -o outputfile -s 5000 httpd -X ” terminated by signal SIGBUS (Misaligned address error)

It made me decide that rebooting was a smart thing to do. After that the server couldn't start it's networking and thus it's now dead.
Rip my main server

[ipha]

I was looking through some of my old scripts and I found this comment in one

# Don't make me hurt you

I can't remember why I put that there.

[DrTaxi]

[QUOTE=Mega1mpact;46661976]My server died today. After httpd randomly crashing and not giving any error when I tried to boot it (and failing) I decided to do a strace debug:
fish: Job 1, “strace -o outputfile -s 5000 httpd -X ” terminated by signal SIGBUS (Misaligned address error)

It made me decide that rebooting was a smart thing to do. After that the server couldn't start it's networking and thus it's now dead.
Rip my main server[/QUOTE]

That doesn't sound like the whole server is dead.

[lavacano]

[QUOTE=PredGD;46661442]was thinking of picking up C++ again but not sure what to use on linux. generally I'd use Visual Studio, but I'm only home during the weekends so I only have my macbook which I have linux and, of course, OS X on. mostly going to be using linux. I've tried out code::blocks in the past, but it feels clunky and awkward to use so figured I'd try this without an IDE. what are some must have utilities? of course an editor and GCC, but what else? Vim comes to mind but I'm completely green on it to the point where I've always just closed the terminal completely when I accidentally start it since I don't know how to exit it, let alone actually use it.[/QUOTE]

Press I or Insert to enter "Insert Mode". This is the mode that actually edits the document.

Press escape when in Insert Mode to exit Insert Mode and enter "Command Mode". From here, type :w to save, :q to quit, :wq to do both.

:e is "open" (syntax ":e path/to/someFile")
:sav is "save as" (syntax ":sav path/to/targetFile")

/ is find forward, ? is find backward, and it's n for "next", shift-n for "previous"

and bam, that's basic Vim have fun

[nikomo]

Go through vimtutor.
Or just use nano, like everyone else sane nowadays.

[mastersrp]

[QUOTE=lavacano;46673000]Press I or Insert to enter "Insert Mode". This is the mode that actually edits the document.

Press escape when in Insert Mode to exit Insert Mode and enter "Command Mode". From here, type :w to save, :q to quit, :wq to do both.

:e is "open" (syntax ":e path/to/someFile")
:sav is "save as" (syntax ":sav path/to/targetFile")

/ is find forward, ? is find backward, and it's n for "next", shift-n for "previous"

and bam, that's basic Vim have fun[/QUOTE]

I don't even know how to compose in vim, yet I still use it if not for anything but for the fact that it can be so much easier to jump forward and backwards. Get an error? Open file at line X and fix it. This is especially useful when you're debugging SQLite3 amalgamation or whatever, so you don't have to scroll through tens of thousands of lines.

[naelstrof]

Everyone has preferences. I wouldn't say one is innately better than the other, but vim is certainly more powerful.

[shodan]

I have a bunch of systemd services that I used to run my irc bots and a bunch of software I wrote. What's the easiest way to re-write them for debain without having to bother will the clusterfuck that is initd?

[SocMinarch]

What's stopping you installing systemd on Debian?

[shodan]

[QUOTE=Adam.GameDev;46678765]What's stopping you installing systemd on Debian?[/QUOTE]

Last time I tried it broke everything.
Also unix beards started yelling at me on irc

[editline]asd[/editline]

I think I've done it. That was easier then I thought. Took me 2 minutes tops.

#! /bin/sh
# /etc/init.d/pushonauth


PIDFILE=/var/run/pushonauth.pid

case $1 in
  start)
    echo "Starting pushonauth"
    start-stop-daemon --start --exec /usr/bin/pushonauth -m --pidfile $PIDFILE --background -d /etc/
    ;;
  stop)
    echo "Stopping pushonauth"
    start-stop-daemon --stop --pidfile $PIDFILE
    ;;
  *)
    echo "Usage: /etc/init.d/pushonauth {start|stop}"
    exit 1
    ;;
esac

exit 0

[url=http://nnmm.nl/?zx6]also made one for my ircbots (I just replace bhottu with nimdok for example for the nimdok bot)[/url]

[ScottyWired]

[t]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/111996868/2014-2/general/IMAG0236.jpg[/t]

Installing Ubuntu for first time, a thing happened something something partition table what the hell did I do? Everything I touch dies

[Hookerbot9000]

[QUOTE=ScottyWired;46682138][t]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/111996868/2014-2/general/IMAG0236.jpg[/t]

Installing Ubuntu for first time, a thing happened something something partition table what the hell did I do? Everything I touch dies[/QUOTE]
[IMG]http://ismy.pw/img/923185aca5a7c30c3b928e5ad4735c00.png[/IMG]

I'd just run the installer again and see if it happens again. Let the installer manage the partitioning.

[vlad]

[QUOTE=coyote93;46685172]Hey, are there anything one has to do before one instal Linux to a ssd? Or can i instal it just like normal with default hdd settings?[/QUOTE]

you can install it like normal, though I believe there are some things you can do post-installation to optimize the SSD/reduce read/write.