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Your Japanese Dad posted:You can still use the nv driver but it still doesn't give you the same acceleration that the nvidia driver does. It just will take a little patience. Yea the nv driver is free software(MIT license?) so it will work on most releases, I was referring to the nvidia binary driver as you mentioned. Also to all macbook users a few other people and myself have been playing around with Two Finger Click Transformation patches for xserver-xorg-input-synaptics, they provide the 'Place two fingers on trackpad and click button for right click' configuration some of us like on OS X. Links: 0.14.6 (fedora, gutsy):http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=626112&highlight=two+finger 0.14.7 (Hardy, etc): http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=790589 tehk fucked around with this message at 00:19 on May 16, 2008 |
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tehk posted:Yea the nv driver is free software(MIT license?) so it will work on most releases, I was referring to the nvidia binary driver as you mentioned. Right. The binary driver still doesn't work but it should soon from what I've been reading.
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When I was running the newest Ubuntu release I was having some stability issues. Random lockups where the whole system would freeze hard, and of course my logs never showed anything. However I've moved to Fedora 9 and have not had any of the problems. I really like how Ubuntu worked, and I'm sure I could just go back to 7.10, but I've gotten to the point to where it's all the same to me at this point.
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May 16, 2008 02:32
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deong posted:Has anyone tried out Flash10 beta yet? From the article: Adobe's Tom Barclay posted:"Adobe is not currently providing a 64-bit version of Flash Player 10. We will evaluate that requirement, which has been requested before, for inclusion in possible future releases based on customer demand." loving damnit. Still no 64-Bit support under Linux. Still no PowerPC Linux support either! 
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May 16, 2008 10:00
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On the bright side, I haven't had problems with nspluginwrapper and 32-bit Flash 9 under 64-bit Firefox in a good while. I'm wary to give Flash 10 a spin just yet though.
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May 16, 2008 14:50
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Crusader posted:On the bright side, I haven't had problems with nspluginwrapper and 32-bit Flash 9 under 64-bit Firefox in a good while. I'm wary to give Flash 10 a spin just yet though. I had a bit of grief trying to get nspluginwrapper working, but I'm having no problems running 32-bit Firefox + 32-bit plugins. (Running under 64-bit Debian Etch with lib32 compatibility stuff installed.) I might have a look to see how Gnash is coming along tonight.
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So should I wait to upgrade to Fedora 9 since I use an nvidia card with dual monitors using twinview?
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I need to start learning about how to use Linux and Oracle. I have a copy of Oracle Unbreakable Linux, which I think is a Red Hat distro of some kind. I know absolutely jack about Linux and Oracle, and I have about a month to gain a basic working understanding of both. Does anyone have some good resources for beginners they could point me too? I need to start learning and learning fast. Any help would be appreciated.
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What would be the best way to install Linux, WinXP AND Windows Vista on a computer? I'd like to have a nice bootmanager that lets me choose what I want to boot. I know I should have three partitions and probably a FAT partition to swap files between them. What's the best order to install them? What's the best bootmanager? Is there a different thread I should have posted in? Am I a human being?
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This is more of an apache question, but it's not worth starting a thread over, so I'll try here: Is there any way to allow/deny access based on the forward lookup of a hostname? I have an automatically updated dyndns hostname on my home machine. I'd like to restrict a page on my remote web server to just my home machine. However, my IP changes whenever there's a power outage, so IP-based authorization is annoying. Using my dyndns name doesn't work, because the reverse lookup on my IP is whatever my ISP chooses (e.g. "blah-023-49-170-226.rr.com"), not my dyndns name. The comparison apache does is: code:code:
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Crosspost from the hardy threadquote:I just installed Hardy and I'm not getting sound on an Abit NForce 4 board. The sound chipset is ALC850. I've never had problems with sound in ubuntu when I checked it out a few times. It's really frustrating because Hardy was the first release that I felt I could use on a daily basis and live with until I tried listening to music and realized my sound didn't work.
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unleash the unicorn posted:What would be the best way to install Linux, WinXP AND Windows Vista on a computer? If you don't need super performance from all the OS's (ie. you just plan to use them to test cross-platform programs or web pages), install the one you'll use most of the time normally and then run the others under VMware. A FAT partition isn't really necessary anymore - Linux can write to NTFS now. (I don't know if Vista has a new and incompatible version of NTFS or anything, so you might have to go through the XP filesystem to transfer files - all 3 OS's should be able to read and write from that.)
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Yeah I considered the VMware thing but my PC isn't the fastest. It wouldn't work out so well I think, especially since I've been using Vista for a while and only want XP for some older games and stuff that don't run well or at all in Vista. (they exist) Is the NTFS support in Linux stable now? Last I heard they still recommended "read-only".
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unleash the unicorn posted:Yeah I considered the VMware thing but my PC isn't the fastest. It wouldn't work out so well I think, especially since I've been using Vista for a while and only want XP for some older games and stuff that don't run well or at all in Vista. (they exist) If your cpu supports it, you may want to try out xen. It's difficult to get working properly but its much faster than vmware and nvidia has released xen compatible drivers, so you'll be able to play 3d accelerated games. NTFS support has been stable for a while now. NTFS drives are automatically mounted now.
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no sorry, no hardware vr here... So, does anyone know any good tutorials or guidelines for this?
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It will probably go smoothest if Vista is installed first, and Linux last. If you're going to install Ubuntu, it should automatically detect your windows installations and add them to the boot menu. Vista likes to throw a fit when other OS's mess with the partition table, but booting from the Vista DVD and running a startup repair ought to fix it.
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So is xen pretty awesome? I'm just using virtualbox right now because it was simple, but it's slower than the vmware trial I did. Is the accelerated 3D support reasonably fast? I like having compiz, but don't play any intensive games. Which direction do you see the virtualization world going for desktop/workstation users?
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sund posted:So is xen pretty awesome? I'm just using virtualbox right now because it was simple, but it's slower than the vmware trial I did. Is the accelerated 3D support reasonably fast? I like having compiz, but don't play any intensive games. Which direction do you see the virtualization world going for desktop/workstation users? I don't follow these things too closely, but KVM seems to have the momentum.
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I want to set up ubuntu so that my root file system is encrypted and only the initrd and the kernel are on a separate, unencrypted partition. There doesn't appear to be much documentation on this and if anyone could point me to a tutorial that would be great.
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I've decided to reformat my XP computer and install Ubuntu for good. I'm going to use Wine to get games/programs going, but I don't foresee any big changes. I want to make this install as good as I can make it, so I ask you: What should I make sure I do in installing Ubuntu? I know I have to partition stuff, but I'm not sure what. Any guidance is welcomed.
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May 17, 2008 19:32
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Sparta posted:I've decided to reformat my XP computer and install Ubuntu for good. I'm going to use Wine to get games/programs going, but I don't foresee any big changes. the install process is all guided. it is easier than setting up xp.
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covener posted:I don't follow these things too closely, but KVM seems to have the momentum. Seconding this. KVM, KVM, KVM is the way to go. Unfortunately, it's not very mature yet, so xen still bests it in performance and stability. It also lacks the 3d acceleration support that xen has. It will probably overtake xen relatively soon, though.
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pockets posted:It will probably go smoothest if Vista is installed first, and Linux last. If you're going to install Ubuntu, it should automatically detect your windows installations and add them to the boot menu. Vista likes to throw a fit when other OS's mess with the partition table, but booting from the Vista DVD and running a startup repair ought to fix it. Thanks, I'll give it a whirl some time
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I'm installing Ubuntu 8.04 (and nothing but) on my file server. It was running Windows, but the boot disk took a shiz, and I figured what better way to force myself to learn some Linux than to make it the center of my home network. Here's my funky config: ASUS M2N-E motherboard 160GB drive on SATA1 4x250GB drives on SATA2-5 (RAID5) I set up my partitions like this (I confirmed I was editing the 160GB disk before blowing anything else away): /dev/hda1 - 100MB boot (ext3) /dev/hda2 - 1.5GB (swap) /dev/hda3 - 50% remainder (reiserfs) mounted as / /dev/hda4 - 50% remainder (reiserfs) mounted as /home Install goes through OK, but next reboot, I get: GRUB loading, please wait... Error 21 No GRUB menu, no 'press a key', no control is returned to me. /boot/grub/menu.lst looks OK. I reinstalled without my funky partition scheme (single, flat partition) same result. I also went into the "Advanced" button just before the installation begins copying files and selected /dev/hda1 as the device to install the boot loader too instead of letting Ubuntu figure it out. No change. What am I doing wrong? EDIT: To further complicate things, if I boot from the CD, then choose "Boot from first hard disk", I get: GRUB Loading stage 1.5 GRUB loading, please wait... Error 15 CUNT AND PASTE fucked around with this message at 23:44 on May 17, 2008 |
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Can someone explain the utility of virtual desktops to me? Almost all flavors of Linux seem to have them, but I don't understand why I'd want to use more than one. That's what window controls are for, isn't it?
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The Remote Viewer posted:Can someone explain the utility of virtual desktops to me? Almost all flavors of Linux seem to have them, but I don't understand why I'd want to use more than one. That's what window controls are for, isn't it? I use them all the time. Its handy when you have about twenty windows open at the same time and one monitor.
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The Remote Viewer posted:Can someone explain the utility of virtual desktops to me? Almost all flavors of Linux seem to have them, but I don't understand why I'd want to use more than one. That's what window controls are for, isn't it? Sometimes I use it to break down applications by category/task. Say I keep all communication apps on Desktop #1 (IRC, IM, mail), Work stuff goes on #2, WWW on #3, and occasionally #4 for multimedia, games etc. I have Win+[1|2|3|4] set up as hotkeys to switch to specific desktops so it's really quick to jump around tasks without too much window juggling. crab avatar fucked around with this message at 02:00 on May 18, 2008 |
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The Remote Viewer posted:Can someone explain the utility of virtual desktops to me? Almost all flavors of Linux seem to have them, but I don't understand why I'd want to use more than one. That's what window controls are for, isn't it? I have 5 virtual desktops open at all times. ^ 1: General stuff 2: twin firefox windows(grid) 3: full screen banshee 4: a grid of 8 terminals and dual buffer emacs(xft/gtk) window. 5: anjuta/wing/eclipse IDE v I use Super-Left/Right to navigate or super-number for direct switching. I use it mostly to avoid clutter and keep focus and I frankly could not live without it. I also have two monitors but one has IRC(4 channel grid)/SIPswitch open on it 24/7 tehk fucked around with this message at 02:19 on May 18, 2008 |
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The Remote Viewer posted:Can someone explain the utility of virtual desktops to me? Almost all flavors of Linux seem to have them, but I don't understand why I'd want to use more than one. That's what window controls are for, isn't it? I have 10, with Super-[0-9] jumping to each and Super-{Left,Right} going back and forth. Using the scroll weel on the taskbar or desktop also switches. My general layout is 0 : Amarok 1 : Firefox 2 : irssi 3 : pidgin 4 : videos/random 5 : uTorrent 6-9: random stuff In addition, 0-5 might have a few extra terminals open (urxvtc) . I'm stuck with one 1024x768 monitor right now, so without this things would be rather painful. Scaevolus fucked around with this message at 05:01 on May 18, 2008 |
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Gleng posted:I might have a look to see how Gnash is coming along tonight. Quoting myself, but I upgraded my Debian Etch install to Unstable just now, and installed Gnash 0.8.2. It works! Native, 64-bit YouTube support! 
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Why do macs suck so much? I have been doing this to burn udf dvds for a long time (in linux) and it has never been a problem: growisofs -speed=16 -Z /dev/dvd -udf -allow-limited-size -V "SUPER UDF DVD" -f -R -J /dir/with/files Since upgrading to the latest and greatest version of OS X, these discs are no longer readable on my macs. They mount the disc and can read the disc title but the file system always appears empty. The discs work fine under linux. So how do I burn a udf disc that OS X can read? And don't get me started on every macs inability to read dvdr dual-layer discs!
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Sparta posted:I've decided to reformat my XP computer and install Ubuntu for good. I'm going to use Wine to get games/programs going, but I don't foresee any big changes. If you haven't yet, make sure you put you make a separate partition for /home. That way when you want to change distros or upgrade, you can just nuke the root partition and keep all your data in your /home safe. It's a breeze to change or upgrade after you do this. The Ubuntu installer doesn't do it for you, you have to do it yourself, but it's pretty easy. I would set aside around 15 gigs for your root partition, the usual for swap, and then let the rest go to /home.
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amerrykan posted:Install goes through OK, but next reboot, I get: Now to get Linux to recognize my RAID array.
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Can anyone recommend a distro that still only supports python2.4 but has sqlalchemy0.4 in its repositories? I need to test an python module that uses sqlalchemy 0.4 and pysqlite(sqlite2). I know it works perfectly with python2.5 and its included sqlite3 bindings edit: VV thanks the python2.4-sqalchemy package should work tehk fucked around with this message at 03:10 on May 19, 2008 |
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tehk posted:Can anyone recommend a distro that still only supports python2.4 but has sqlalchemy0.4 in its repositories? I need to test an python module that uses sqlalchemy 0.4 and pysqlite(sqlite2). I know it works perfectly with python2.5 and its included sqlite3 bindings It's not hard to install an older version of python from source if you need to. That said, Ubuntu (and, I assume, Debian) includes python2.4 and python2.4-sqlalchemy packages. I'm too lazy to check the version number on sqlalchemy right now, though.
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The Remote Viewer posted:Can someone explain the utility of virtual desktops to me? Almost all flavors of Linux seem to have them, but I don't understand why I'd want to use more than one. That's what window controls are for, isn't it? I have a dual monitor setup, with a total 2540x960 resolution. I typically run with four desktops: 1: thunderbird:aqualung 2: firefox:xchat 3: whatever:whatever 4: whatever:whatever The neat thing is that I can use alt-[1-4] to swap between them, so I can quickly see different sets of data.
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Harokey posted:So should I wait to upgrade to Fedora 9 since I use an nvidia card with dual monitors using twinview? Anybody have any opinion on this?
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I want to add cron jobs if they do not exist in my build script. How can I do that?
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Your Japanese Dad posted:When I was running the newest Ubuntu release I was having some stability issues. Random lockups where the whole system would freeze hard, and of course my logs never showed anything. However I've moved to Fedora 9 and have not had any of the problems. I really like how Ubuntu worked, and I'm sure I could just go back to 7.10, but I've gotten to the point to where it's all the same to me at this point. Oddly enough I had the exact opposite issue. I had been using Fedora since 6, and when I installed 9 (among other more minor issues) I would get random lockups, freezes, and reboots. I didn't really bother to investigate it, though. I figured it was a good excuse to try out Ubuntu, and I like it quite a bit so far - and no freezes.
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