General Linux Chat and Small Questions v. Year of the Linux Desktop! - Hardware & Software

[QUOTE=Adam.GameDev;47022069]You have to delete them from the web app though, not the VM [editline]27th January 2015[/editline] Okay I lost the VHD and now I'm reinstalling SteamCMD and am getting this: [code]steamcmd.sh: 3: cd: can't cd to steamcmd.sh steamcmd.sh: 16: [: unexpected operator steamcmd.sh: 16: [: unexpected operator steamcmd.sh: 29: steamcmd.sh: /linux32/steamcmd: not found[/code] I've installed lib32gcc1 and lib32stdc++6 which made it work last time, but now they're doing nothing[/QUOTE] web app? what's stopping you from going directly to the host OS and running rm -rf ~/.azure/VMDirectory? Or is this some sort of cloud VM nonsense and you don't have access to the host OS?

You can access the host OS but the other VHD's were connected to a different (non existent) VM. You could mount the VHD's and delete all of the data on them, but the VHD itself would still exist unless you delete it through the web management thing. Anyway, it's finally let me delete them

Deadbeef is the best music player in Unix.

[QUOTE=Adam.GameDev;47022339]You can access the host OS but the other VHD's were connected to a different (non existent) VM. You could mount the VHD's and delete all of the data on them, but the VHD itself would still exist unless you delete it through the web management thing. Anyway, it's finally let me delete them[/QUOTE] So the VHDs aren't stored in a directory where you can just delete them with system tools? Or does Azure react very poorly when somedrive.vhd is suddenly not present where it's expected to be? I'm referring to bypassing Azure completely (especially this "web management" thing) and flat out deleting the VHD itself, from the shell, using coreutils.

Not stored in a directory, they act like actual drives

[QUOTE=Adam.GameDev;47022659]Not stored in a directory, they act like actual drives[/QUOTE] Stop thinking in terms of "delete the contents of /mnt/mountpoint" and start thinking in terms of "delete /dev/sdc" [editline]27th January 2015[/editline] I get what a VHD is, but the "drive" itself has to live [b]somewhere[/b]. We're not formatting the drive, we're taking it out and smashing it. Except in a virtual machine context. [editline]27th January 2015[/editline] Also, at this point I'm only speaking theoretically, since I've already cottoned onto the fact that you managed to get Azure to stop being a piece of crap and let you make a VM again.

Can somebody explain to me how to get this PCI Modem to work with HylaFax? This serial port stuff is driving me crazy. How do I find the I/O port so I can map it to ttyS1? I'm using Debian, by the way.

oh great, now MPD is shitting itself when i try to sort my playlist RIP MPD, you used to be the shit

[QUOTE=~Kiwi~v2;47026470]I've taken steps backwards and re-installed Xubuntu 14.10. Crunchbang as much as I liked it was admittibly out of date. [editline]29th January 2015[/editline] [img]http://i.imgur.com/EFPbfhg.png[/img] I'm probably going to hell going back to canocial.[/QUOTE] there are worse systems i don't think you're at risk

Hey everyone, I'm running Linux Mint (the latest LTS I believe) and it's set up to dual-boot with Windows 7. Everything is fine there. I just have a couple of questions. 1. I've got sharing set up and when I'm in Linux my shared folders show up under the network browser on my other Win7 desktops. However it doesn't appear on my Win8 laptop which is connected to the same network. I can connect to it directly with "\\IP_TO_LINUX_BOX" in the file browser and see the shares there so it's not that big of a deal. This one's probably easy but it's probably a Win8 thing more than a Linux thing and I'm not that hard pressed to fix it. 2. This one seems tricky and I can't find satisfactory answers as I've tried searching around. I have Linux auto-mount my Win7 partition so I can access those files and it works fine. Is there a way to share that mounted partition with other computers in the house? The problem I'm trying to solve here is to not be locked out of my Win7 files from other PCs while using Linux on that box. When another Win7 computer goes to access it I get a "You do not have permission to access" error. I've got ownership over that mount point, if I check permissions and ownership it's identical to my other working sharable folders. I've gone through some steps with fstab flags and smb.conf settings but nothing I've seen has really worked and I feel like I'm probably missing something obvious. If you can help me out I'd appreciate it.

[QUOTE=Aska49;47027037]Hey everyone, I'm running Linux Mint (the latest LTS I believe) and it's set up to dual-boot with Windows 7. Everything is fine there. I just have a couple of questions. 1. I've got sharing set up and when I'm in Linux my shared folders show up under the network browser on my other Win7 desktops. However it doesn't appear on my Win8 laptop which is connected to the same network. I can connect to it directly with "\\IP_TO_LINUX_BOX" in the file browser and see the shares there so it's not that big of a deal. This one's probably easy but it's probably a Win8 thing more than a Linux thing and I'm not that hard pressed to fix it. If you can help me out I'd appreciate it.[/QUOTE] For the first one, Windows can't actually read/write to Unix filesystems, by default anyway. ext4, btrfs, HFS+ etc, won't show up as local partitions in explorer. Linux has NTFS support, so you're able to see your Windows partition from Linux. If you're connecting over the network, are you using ssh? FTP?

[QUOTE=rilez;47028263]For the first one, Windows can't actually read/write to Unix filesystem's, by default anyway. ext4, btrfs, HFS+ etc, won't show up as local partitions in explorer.[/QUOTE] I think I got this figured out now, I finally found a post that suggested "force user" in the samba config when setting up the share and that fixed my permission issues.

[QUOTE=~Kiwi~v2;47026470]I'm probably going to hell going back to canocial.[/QUOTE] So long as you don't use Unity, I won't judge you too much.

hey guys, does anyone know how to enable WMV support of XBMC/Kodi on linux?

[QUOTE=Lyoko2;47046957]hey guys, does anyone know how to enable WMV support of XBMC/Kodi on linux?[/QUOTE] The problem is likely to be that WMV is usually in a container called ASF, which present an issue that you might imagine won't allow XBMC/Kodi to play the ASF container format: [quote] [url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Systems_Format#License[/url] The specification is downloadable from the Microsoft website,[4] and the format can be implemented under a license from Microsoft that however does not allow distribution of sources and is not compatible with open source licenses. The author of the free software project VirtualDub reported that a Microsoft employee informed him that his software violated a Microsoft patent regarding ASF playback.[5] Certain error-correcting techniques related to ASF are patented in the United States (United States Patent 6,041,345 Levi, et al. March 21, 2000) by Microsoft. [/quote] [editline]31st January 2015[/editline] You may however, extract the WMV from the ASF, and pack it to a MKV container instead. This will allow Kodi to play the file. WMV is likely supported, while the container format ASF is not.

Most open source software doesn't really give a shit about software patents (given that they don't even apply in a lot of places), and sure enough, my XBMC plays WMV just fine. Where did you get your package? Care to post an error log?

[QUOTE=DrTaxi;47047376]Most open source software doesn't really give a shit about software patents (given that they don't even apply in a lot of places), and sure enough, my XBMC plays WMV just fine. Where did you get your package? Care to post an error log?[/QUOTE] Most free software DO give shits about software patents, because it does apply in a lot of places. It just so happens that certain free software, such as VLC, that is located in France has no issue with this since a lot of those patents do not apply there. Were you to move a bit more north (say, Germany, GB, SE, or the like), you'd have a whooole other ballgame of shit to deal with.

[QUOTE=mastersrp;47047406]Most free software DO give shits about software patents, because it does apply in a lot of places. It just so happens that certain free software, such as VLC, that is located in France has no issue with this since a lot of those patents do not apply there. Were you to move a bit more north (say, Germany, GB, SE, or the like), you'd have a whooole other ballgame of shit to deal with.[/QUOTE] Is PGP still illegal to export from the US

Looks like the wmv/asf container does work, because i can hear the audio, but there is no video playback.

[QUOTE=esalaka;47048590]Is PGP still illegal to export from the US[/QUOTE] Export of cryptography was eased in stages up until about 2000, but it still exists. They have strong rules against exporting to "rogue states" and "terrorists". Militarized encryption equipment and TEMPEST-approved technology is still under export restrictions.

Xubuntu and Lubuntu are good picks for newbies that want something lightweight but understandable and usable. Optimus? I honestly don't know nowadays, but I've heard of people having it work.

took the plunge tonight boys. dwm and vim are the center of my universe now. if no one hears from me again, its because I unplugged my mouse and I don't know what to do

[QUOTE=coyote93;47065612]Ok, what distro is the one that's the most lightweight, but also works the best out of the box? Also it would be nice if it had an easy and simple to understand software installer. And how well does nvidia optimus work for linux?[/QUOTE] I use it on Arch with Bumblebee and it does work pretty well, there will be cases where some games just won't work with it but in most cases you are fine I think. On some laptops you can disable the integrated gpu in the bios and just install drivers for the nvidia card, which will fix any potential issues with games but obviously use a lot more power. Not something I would ever do.

[QUOTE=coyote93;47065612]Ok, what distro is the one that's the most lightweight, but also works the best out of the box? Also it would be nice if it had an easy and simple to understand software installer.[/QUOTE] Its hard to quantify a Linux distro as being the best. Let me break it down a bit For best "out of the box" experiences, people will recommend you Ubuntu, Ubuntu flavors, or Mint. All of these are Ubuntu at their core (unless you use LMDE). I think Ubuntu teaches a lot of bad practices to people new to *NIX, and a lot of problems will rear their heads once you get past the easy set up, that you won't know how to fix. There are other distros with installers. Fedora, Debian, and Manjaro are good choices. But they all have problems. Installing nonlibre software on Fedora is difficult. That means graphics drivers and certain apps like Steam. Debian has old software. Manjaro has problems pushing software to their repos, and they're kinda disorganized. You have to pick and choose your battles when it comes to distros. But if you want some generalizations: If you want the "prettiest" out of the box distro, which is familiar to Mac users, choose elementaryOS or Xubuntu. If you want an easy to use, libre OS (no proprietary software without mucking around), choose Fedora. If you want a slightly more advanced, but stable, light and in my opinion good looking OS, choose Crunchbang (Debian based). If you want something familiar to Windows users, choose Linux Mint (pref. LMDE) or openSUSE. If you want a rolling release distro that's easy to install with lots of editions, choose Manjaro. The most lightweight distro is LFS, which isn't really a distro. Runnerup would be Arch for a binary based OS, or Gentoo for a source based OS. But those aren't easy to install. They do, however, teach the best Linux practices. Beyond that, lightness comes from the software you use. There are so many window managers and environments that I can't list them all. Window managers are lighter than desktop environments. Crunchbang for example uses a window manager, so it is very light. It might not be the easiest to install, but Crunchbang is probably my best overall choice for what you're looking for.

Once void linux is possible to install with a graphical installer and a fully fledged desktop environment, that'll probably be the most lightweight distro. The base install is pretty much just the linux kernel, grub, coreutils, and runit. That's it. Weighs nothing. Well not nothing. But it isn't much. And maybe in the future someone will get the base-system-busybox part fixed, so one can dump coreutils, and use busybox instead, and maybe substitute grub for syslinux, and when that happens, holy shit. My favorite system to boot, from grub to login in <10 seconds, regardless of device. Feels great. If I'm using 5400RPM HDD, 7200RPM HDD, Class 10 MicroSD card, whatever. It also runs on RPi, Cubieboard2, ODROID U2/U3, and BeagleBone + Black. It *kind of* runs on Banana Pi (unofficially), although that device requires a specific ethernet driver not present in the sunxi-kernel repository. However, if using WiFi only, the problem is absent. Or if you install the way I do, which is to fetch the Bananian distro image, write that, mount the root filesystem and whipe it, then extract the Cubieboard2 void linux rootfs to the root filesystem of the image. Next step is to boot up the system and feel good. Such a great boot speed. One additional step may be to also copy /lib/firmware and /lib/modules to the root filesystem, from the bananian distro image, although this is not required to boot and function. It IS required for Btrfs support, amongst other things.

[QUOTE=mastersrp;47065986] Once void linux is possible to install with a graphical installer and a fully fledged desktop environment, that'll probably be the most lightweight distro.[/QUOTE] [url]http://www.voidlinux.eu/#download[/url] The `void-installer` uses the curses-based `dialog` and you can get it in Enlightenment, MATE, or XFCE flavor.

[QUOTE=Stonecycle;47066617][url]http://www.voidlinux.eu/#download[/url] The `void-installer` uses the curses-based `dialog` and you can get it in Enlightenment, MATE, or XFCE flavor.[/QUOTE] Yes, curses based, not GTK or the like. So still text. Besides, the flavors are only in the LiveCD, as the installed image is the same. I'm using it on all my devices except for my phone, and have been for a little while now, and to my knowledge this hasn't changed.

[QUOTE=rilez;47065833]took the plunge tonight boys. dwm and vim are the center of my universe now. if no one hears from me again, its because I unplugged my mouse and I don't know what to do[/QUOTE] What is it like to use a tiled window manager? For instance, dwm specifically. I mean, when I think about it, 90% of the time I use either fullscreen windows, and the pretty much single exception is Steam chat and friends tab, which are always on fixed position and fixed size on the screen, so I am quite interested into idea of scrapping floating window manager but I am not sure I see the worth.

I mainly use i3wm because it's lightweight and the virtual desktop system is good. Tiling is a bonus on top of that.

I installed dwm and logged into it, then couldn't figure out how to do anything and had to uninstall it from text console because I couln't figure out how to log out :v: Then I actually looked up a beginner's guide and found out Alt + P is actually capable of input and now I am actually capable of operating this. I have to say I am pretty damn charmed. [editline]4th February 2015[/editline] I have a weird tingling feeling of adventure and challenge It kinda feels a lot like playing dwarf fortress [editline]4th February 2015[/editline] when I need to tell the time I start "watch date" in console I am losing control over my graphics environment as well as my life