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The EADD Linux Technical Gibberings Thread

loving the thread idea, I don't know how I have not stumbled upon this before.

Linux is a BITCH when you have no XP on it :'(
 
Shambles said:
Ya. Just been looking around the forums and was just coming back to ask you about that. Editing the profile file does seem easiest... only I can't find it. There's no files at all in my Home folder - only the usual folders (Desktop, Music, Videos, etc). I'm sure I'm missing the bleedin' obvious cos I never used to have trouble finding the profile file. Memory of a retarded goldfish with advanced Alzheimer's me. Tried searching for it but that didn't seem to turn it up either for some reason.
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As others have noted .profile is a hidden file, because it starts with a dot.

In a file browser window, just press CTRL+H to show hidden files. (actually it toggles display of hidden files on/off)

There's a menu option to do the same thing, somewhere.

Watsons is right about the terminal commands, but there's no real need to go into the terminal. (he says console, I say terminal, same thing)
 
Found file and edited it as shown. Many thanks for assistance with somewhat basic stuffs. Am sure it's like riding a bike... Never quite got the hang of that again either once I fell off and it was taken off me :D

Have high hopes for success. WIll provide exciting update at some time more than ten minutes from now. Hopefully 8o

<3
 
You'll need to log off and back on again for it to pick up changes to .profile

You can avoid doing that for the minute by opening a terminal and entering the command

Code: 
xset s 0 0

then closing the terminal.

Next time you reboot, or log off and on again, if all is well then it'll run that xset command from the .profile without you having to do anything else.
 
Good stuff! There are no problems, only solutions as my brother always says, although I always tell him if there were no problems then we wouldn't need solutions so shut your pus. My brother, not you.
 
watsons torment said:
what is the default file manager in ubunty? nautilus?
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Yep.

I didn't know about CTRL-H either.

I have a crusty nasty Windows XP install that really doesn't work very well (as windows installations enjoy the occasional reformat, and this one is way past its due date), and so am really loving my ubuntu installation (dual boot). Amazingly, most Windows programs seem to run more smoothly and stably under WINE than they did under Windows. I love it. Especially after spending a stim session configuring the crap out of it.

I hate Unity though. Unity can fuck off!!
 
I run Xunbuntu on my old EEEPC and it's truly astounding how fast it runs on such am merger machine, I recently did some graphics work on it using Gimp by attaching a big monitor and external keyboard and was easily as good as my XP laptop with 3 times the power.

For those who are :sus: and double :sus::sus: or just have moments of :sus:, I have also been messing with the whole OS on a pen drive thing, this one seems to work well https://tails.boum.org/index.en.html

Also handy as a backup for those Microsoft blue screen of death moments;)
 
cheers angelsmoke... i love it when a lady talks linux :D

WINE is the dogs bollocks :D.. I don't think i could use linux full time without it.. some of the software in windows land is still much much better than open source alternatives.

loving http://www.playonlinux.com/en as well.. this has saved me having to have 15 different versions of wine installed all with different configurations / wine hacks for each game to work correctly.. i also install some windows apps in this so each application has the most compatible version of wine with the best config for that program
 
atm23 said:
For those who are :sus: and double :sus::sus: or just have moments of :sus:, I have also been messing with the whole OS on a pen drive thing, this one seems to work well https://tails.boum.org/index.en.html
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unetbootin - http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/ is really good for trying out distros on a pendrive

unetbootin-windows7.png


choose a distro, stick in pen drive, click OK. Done.

pure magic
 
angelsmoke said:
Yep.

I didn't know about CTRL-H either.

I have a crusty nasty Windows XP install that really doesn't work very well (as windows installations enjoy the occasional reformat, and this one is way past its due date), and so am really loving my ubuntu installation (dual boot). Amazingly, most Windows programs seem to run more smoothly and stably under WINE than they did under Windows. I love it. Especially after spending a stim session configuring the crap out of it.

I hate Unity though. Unity can fuck off!!
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I'm not fan of Unity myself, although I think it's getting better over time, (and Shambles, and angelsmoke too, if you want instructions on how to switch to the old-school XFCE interface, which is what comes as default with Xubuntu, or the swanky but resource-hungry GNOME 3 interface, then let me know, it can be done without too much trouble. Actually, why wait, here's how to convert Ubuntu to Xubuntu, and here's how to convert Ubuntu to... um... Ubuntu with GNOME 3)

I use Ubuntu Studio which is based on Xubuntu with a focus on audio, video and graphics production. I actually really like GNOME 3 too but to be honest I find the old school menu based XFCE just a bit less hassle and it go snappier.

I use WINE to run the MS Word Viewer if I've been required to submit a CV in .doc format. The only other programs I am interested in running on Windows are music production stuff (though so far I think they're just as much a mind fuck as the Linux stuff, it all depends what you're used to I guess) and games, but now that the Humble Bundles keeps releasing games that run on Linux, and now that Steam is available for Linux, then I guess the year of the Linux Gaming Machine really is upon us :D

Anyway, for the windows stuff I've actually been trying out running Windows in a KVM virtual machine on my server and accessing it remotely (either with VNC or SPICE which is the next generation virtual desktop remote access technology) and although I've had some mixed results, some of those results have been pretty fucking good!


While I'm here, it's been pissing me off that I can't use 4od on Ubuntu. Actually, you can, but you just can't access the DRM content... without a little tweaking. Here's how to enable 4od DRM content on Ubuntu:

http://askubuntu.com/questions/199113/4od-uk-cant-stream

it's this bit that fixes it:

I found the solution. The same encryption issue was preventing playback on an Irish video on demand service.

Close all browser windows and then:

Remove the adobe cache:

in a terminal:
Code: 
    rm ~/.adobe -rf

Install hal & hal-info:

in a terminal:
Code: 
    sudo apt-get install hal hal-info

Reinstall adobe player:

in a terminal:
Code: 
    sudo apt-get install flashplugin-installer --reinstall
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Shambles, I already did this to your machine.

And yeah, everyone should install Adblock Plus in Firefox, whether you're on Linux or Mac or whatever, it removes literally EVERY fucking advert, even those I thought would be impossible to remove, like YouTube and 4od adverts. Thanks to whoever it was PMd me a month or two back to let me know this.
 
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watsons torment said:
WINE is the dogs bollocks :D.. I don't think i could use linux full time without it.. some of the software in windows land is still much much better than open source alternatives.
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Damn right, I love WINE!! I play WoW under it regularely and it's so much smoother and better than it was on Windows. After I got my graphics card drivers installed and working anyway, which was a bit of a challenge but ok in the end.

I try to make friends with open source alternatives whenever I can, but I do find sometimes I wish I was using the commerical alternative. Photoshop for instance -- I'm ok with GIMP, but the lack of adjustment layers is quite painful for some jobs.

The thing that keeps me on Windows at work is Microsoft's debugger (MSVC). I love it. I can't live without it. I don't find any gdb frontends even remotely comparable.Other than that though, there's not much in Windows that I can't live without. I have a soft spot (esp on PV) for Windows' solitaire game (subtle UI with teh open source alternatives differences make my stimmed mind anxious), but that's what WINE is for!

loving http://www.playonlinux.com/en as well.. this has saved me having to have 15 different versions of wine installed all with different configurations / wine hacks for each game to work correctly.. i also install some windows apps in this so each application has the most compatible version of wine with the best config for that program
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I've heard good things about playonlinux! I haven't used it myself though as have had good luck with the latest WINE.
 
knock said:
I'm not fan of Unity myself, although I think it's getting better over time, (and Shambles, and angelsmoke too, if you want instructions on how to switch to the old-school XFCE interface, which is what comes as default with Xubuntu, or the swanky but resource-hungry GNOME 3 interface, then let me know, it can be done without too much trouble. Actually, why wait, here's how to convert Ubuntu to Xubuntu, and here's how to convert Ubuntu to... um... Ubuntu with GNOME 3)
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Nice links, thanks knock!! I'm currently running GNOME 3 but it is a bit resource nomnomnomy, especailly on my not great machine. I may well try XFCE and see if ti's a lot better.
 
Finally, no, BSD sucks, Mr Torment! ;)

Oh, angelsmoke, the debugging facilities in Eclipse are pretting fucking great, and it's a great IDE too once you're used to it's ways. It's not only for java, I've done Python coding and debugging in Eclipse too, just check for the relevant plugins. Pretty sure you can do C++ or whatever it is your doing. (probably not VB but in that case you've only yourself to blame ;))
 
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yep http://www.eclipse.org/cdt/ is good once you've configured the fuck out of it.

i use eclipse at home but THEY FORCE ME USE NETBEANS AT WORK. ARGGGHHHHHHHH. still better than kdevelop though

you are probably going to notice a %2359082305986092368 increase in performance swapping gnome3 for XFCE on a not so great machine.

openbox > XFCE as well btw
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Netbeans is gash, I was forced to use it for my OU java courses, Eclipse is much more slick. And extensible. It is almost the emacs of non-emacs development environments.
 
angelsmoke said:
The thing that keeps me on Windows at work is Microsoft's debugger (MSVC). I love it. I can't live without it. I don't find any gdb frontends even remotely comparable.
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I've never developed on Windows, so I don't have the comparison. But the front-ends to gdb and idb in Eclipse are plenty good enough for my purposes.

EDIT: didn't read the replies below the post of yours I quoted. Yeah, undoutedly Eclipse is where it's at for C++ devs.
 
knock said:
Netbeans is gash, I was forced to use it for my OU java courses, Eclipse is much more slick. And extensible. It is almost the emacs of non-emacs development environments.
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i used the Sun Studio IDE for Fortran and C++ development back then (it's based on Netbeans) and don't think it's that bad. If you're using the Sun compilers, that is. Actually, it's M$VS that looks a bit off-putting to me.
 
May give Eclipse another shot then. I've never really used it apart from for Android app development (for which it was lovely, a really good experience), but that was as a full on IDE not just as a debugger.
 
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