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SwissCM posted:Stuff works okay, it's interesting that WIndows 10 is causing me more issues nowadays than my linux stuff does. We have a stick PC with Windows 10 Home that as shipped, on first boot, couldn't install windows updates because it didn't have enough free disk space. 32 GB disk and a fair bit of it free, but something about how windows cumulative updates works requires a lot of disk space if you get too far behind. We managed to work around that, but yeah. In actual obsolete tech, this thread somehow inspired me to buy the components for a simple tube headphone amp, as a teach-myself-soldering project. Tubes are superior for this in exactly two ways: They look cool, and the operating principle is nifty in a "science toy" kind of way.
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Jerry Cotton posted:Uhh I think you'll find Mac is a linux. actually it's a unix
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Linux Chat : I've ran Linux Mint on my laptop for years, that I use solely for a media machine and it was fine. It just gets finnicky if you want to do more than that and you don't have a good grasp of terminal. $sudo apt-getsuicide
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Uncle at Nintendo posted:You'll like this video: I remember when video games used to be sold like that, but I can't remember actually buying one that way. By the time I was old enough to buy video games on my own (during the PS1 era), Toys R Us let you pull your own games off the shelf and bring it to the R Zone counter, where the cashier would take it out of that huge anti-theft casing. doctorfrog posted:Looking at those prices, yeesh. What's the complete opposite of feeling bad for downloading every ROM today you could never have as a kid? I'm sure there's a German word for it. There's a German word for pretty much everything.
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Well yeah, your laptop is really old so linux is able to handle it. Try to put linux on a brand new laptop with all the latest technology and you probably can't even get the live environment to work.
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Cojawfee posted:Well yeah, your laptop is really old so linux is able to handle it. Try to put linux on a brand new laptop with all the latest technology and you probably can't even get the live environment to work. poo poo, better tell all my coworkers that all those laptops they've been buying new & installing Linux on have, for years, not actually been working. Productivity is gonna take a massive retroactive hit.
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Sep 23, 2016 22:05
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I can't think of a reason why I'd want to put linux on any of my PCs -- at least not now. The last distro I ran with any regularity was Fedora Core 4.
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I've run Mint 17.3 as my main OS for the past year. I started using it for the better debugging features of the Linux version of Nvidia's CUDA. It's quite a bit nicer than the Windows Visual Studio equivalent. Everything works and I use it for development, media, and as media server. I do have to boot into Win10 on occasion to use WebEX for web meetings. Other than that, I just have no need to boot into Windows. I never thought I'd find myself there, but everything I need works well and is stable. But I admit, if it hadn't been for my obscure development requirements (preferences, really), I wouldn't have bothered.
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Sep 23, 2016 23:25
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I'd almost forgotten that Fedora used to be a household word among nerds for totally different reasons.
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Data Graham posted:I'd almost forgotten that Fedora used to be a household word among nerds for totally different reasons. You ever wonder if the two are corelated?
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I'd be tempted to make that connection, except the logo is an actual fedora and not a trilby. :iamafag:
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Sep 24, 2016 01:50
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Like most of the people that wear them care.
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Computer viking posted:In actual obsolete tech, this thread somehow inspired me to buy the components for a simple tube headphone amp, as a teach-myself-soldering project. Tubes are superior for this in exactly two ways: They look cool, and the operating principle is nifty in a "science toy" kind of way. Can you post more about this, like where you buy the components etc? It sounds really cool. Also I'd like to hear more about tube amps. They look amazing but they're expensive as all hell, are they just an audiophile thing?
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Sep 24, 2016 02:45
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Data Graham posted:I'd be tempted to make that connection, except the logo is an actual fedora and not a trilby. :iamafag: Don't touch the poop.
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Tubesock Holocaust posted:I can't think of a reason why I'd want to put linux on any of my PCs -- at least not now. The last distro I ran with any regularity was Fedora Core 4. Fedora isn't going to give you a great impression of Linux, they like to stick to the bleeding edge so there's a lot of blood. I don't like to spend all my time fighting with the OS so I use CentOS Linux. It's probably not great with the latest hardware though.
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Alan_Shore posted:Can you post more about this, like where you buy the components etc? It sounds really cool. Also I'd like to hear more about tube amps. They look amazing but they're expensive as all hell, are they just an audiophile thing? This looks like a good guide to building including part numbers and where to source: http://diyaudioprojects.com/Solid/12AU7-IRF510-LM317-Headamp/
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Nerds in a tech thread bitching about Linux is like nerds in a card games thread bitching about Yu-Gi-Oh. Let's just end this dork-on-dork hate once and for all, guys.
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thathonkey posted:linux is really awesome and useful and all but if you use it for personal computing youre just kind of a weird loser imho While netbooks were popular it was pretty common to find netbooks available in either Windows or Linux, with the linux version being a little cheaper. I had an older HP netbook and XP just kept bluescreening. I ended up running some linux distro on it and it worked fine. The point of this story is that I make poor technology choices.
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Grand Prize Winner posted:While netbooks were popular it was pretty common to find netbooks available in either Windows or Linux, with the linux version being a little cheaper. I had an older HP netbook and XP just kept bluescreening. I ended up running some linux distro on it and it worked fine. The point of this story is that I make poor technology choices. When the first eeePC came out and I was working at a computer/electronics store the amount of people coming in to try and get their cheap computer run windows was too often.
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Computer viking posted:It's got a lump of BSD kernel code (mostly FreeBSD, now) grafted onto a Mach microkernel, with a userland that's a weird mix of BSD stuff and Apple in-house projects, with a strong NextStep inheritance. No Linux kernel code in there, though they've grabbed some GNU userland tools. OSX uses the inferior BSD versions of unix tools like sed, grep and awk.
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Humphreys posted:When the first eeePC came out and I was working at a computer/electronics store the amount of people coming in to try and get their cheap computer run windows was too often. I got my eeePC from a post GFC government stimulus package payment in 2009 (Thanks for the $900 gub'ment!) and first thing I did was install Ubuntu on it. It was great. I think I've still got it around somewhere, and if the fan wasn't heinously noisy I'd probably still use it.
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Carth Dookie posted:I got my eeePC from a post GFC government stimulus package payment in 2009 (Thanks for the $900 gub'ment!) and first thing I did was install Ubuntu on it. It was great. I think I've still got it around somewhere, and if the fan wasn't heinously noisy I'd probably still use it. Are you Australian? I ask cos we got what we called 'Ruddy Money' named after Kevin Rudd, PM. And it was a similar amount. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6XjO5-TOAw
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C. I never heard of it being called "Ruddy money" though.
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Carth Dookie posted:C. Must be a QLD thing. And bring on the QLDers are retarded posts haah.
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Carth Dookie posted:I got my eeePC from a post GFC government stimulus package payment in 2009 (Thanks for the $900 gub'ment!) and first thing I did was install Ubuntu on it. It was great. I think I've still got it around somewhere, and if the fan wasn't heinously noisy I'd probably still use it. I had an old eeepc I bought from some lady of of Craig's list and I put Ubuntu on it used it for years. I'd throw that thing in my tool box, take it to class, traveling, etc. All I needed it to do was read pdfs for manuals and check email and take notes. Finally ended up stepping I b the screen and didn't feel like replacing it. Wish I still had that crazy thing
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thathonkey posted:actually it's a unix That's what I said, it's a linux 
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Humphreys posted:This looks like a good guide to building including part numbers and where to source: That's exactly what I'm looking at, yeah.  It's kind of cheating compared to an all-tube high-voltage setup, but I'm not too bothered by that. I bought my parts from Elfa ( http://elfadistrelec.no ), but that's more about them having free shipping to Norway than anything else. I did just get everything, split over three cardboard boxes, so I'm currently thinking about some practical details. I'm building it on perfboard, which works fine for most of the parts. I need to figure out what I'm doing with the tube socket, though. I also accidentally got headphone sockets that don't fit on it, but I'll just leave them dangling for now. I also need to figure out the best place to work, this isn't a very large apartment. I'm thinking of using a steel plate (off an old pc tower) as a work surface and sitting under the extractor fan in the kitchen. (I don't know how picky the fire alarm is and I can't disable it, so I'd rather be paranoid.) Computer viking has a new favorite as of 13:05 on Sep 24, 2016 |
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I installed four different upantos on a Samsung Very Small Portable Computer (I think that's the name of the model but I'm not 100% certain) that my brother was throwing away because it came with Windows 7 but couldn't actually run it properly. With three I got sound but no wifi, with the last one I got both but it would only boot off the HDD once. I would've done LFS but all I wanted was a light-weight small system to look up Gamefaqs on if I got stuck in a computer game in the living room, and getting up and walking to the study is still less work than that and good for my back 
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Computer viking posted:I also need to figure out the best place to work, this isn't a very large apartment. I'm thinking of using a steel plate (off an old pc tower) as a work surface and sitting under the extractor fan in the kitchen. (I don't know how picky the fire alarm is and I can't disable it, so I'd rather be paranoid.) I feel ya man, before the divorce I had a 3 storey house but barely any space for my projects. Now I'm by myself I have a shittier house but so "much room for activities".
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Humphreys posted:Are you Australian? I ask cos we got what we called 'Ruddy Money' named after Kevin Rudd, PM. And it was a similar amount. South Australia, but I often heard it referred to as 'Rudd Bucks'.
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Jerry Cotton posted:That's what I said, it's a linux Linux isn't the same as Unix. It's a clone, inspired by Unix but it doesn't actually have any of the Unix kernel in it. OSX is derived from Unix, not Linux.
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1000 Brown M and Ms posted:Linux isn't the same as Unix. It's a clone, inspired by Unix but it doesn't actually have any of the Unix kernel in it. OSX is derived from Unix, not Linux. That's just SCO propaganda. Linux Torvalds invented Unix which is a linux everyone knows that 
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axolotl farmer posted:OSX uses the inferior BSD versions of unix tools like sed, grep and awk. After they switched us all to Macbooks at work, the discovery of the homebrew utilities was a life saver.
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Jerry Cotton posted:That's just SCO propaganda. Linux Torvalds invented Unix which is a linux everyone knows that Novell will rise again
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Buttcoin purse posted:Fedora isn't going to give you a great impression of Linux, they like to stick to the bleeding edge so there's a lot of blood. I don't like to spend all my time fighting with the OS so I use CentOS Linux. It's probably not great with the latest hardware though. I switched over to Ubuntu shortly after, but I eventually quit using Linux altogether. 
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You may think the first eee was crap, but just consider: it ran Unreal Tournament 99 GOTY on XP at a smooth 50+ fps without any config screwery. Sure the resolution was low (800x480?) but it was fun to do anyway. It was great for that, diablo 2, webdev stuff, and all kinds of other light-use things. Hell, they even had (admittedly small) SSDs standard before they were even an option most brands
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The whole "Linux isn't ready for the desktop" trope being repeated in this thread is definitely a tech relic.
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Sorry, but it will never be the year of the desktop.
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Cojawfee posted:Sorry, but it will never be the year of the desktop. Yes, we are stuck in the year 2004 forever.
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