The EADD Linux Technical Gibberings Thread

[Pagey]

So I'm looking for a new computer (laptop) and I've unfortunately forgotten absolutely everything about how to choose them/what the different numbers mean and all that (should've listened to the computer-obsessed ex a bit more). Basically the priority is to find something that'll let me play video games without too much trouble (preferrably in high resolution, and by video games I mean starcraft if that helps) sooo I know I need a good graphics card but yeah. I don't really care about the rest, just need something that works properly and that'll last. I've currently got a toshiba satellite T230-131 and it's a bit shit tbh, I got it under 3 years ago and I can barely keep it on for a few hours without it crashing. Also I've never been able to play games on it because it overheats and shuts itself off.
Anyway if anyone could point me in the right direction or just explain real quick what the kind of numbers I'm lookign for are, would be much appreciated!

 

[jancrow]

HP laptops got good build quality.

 

[tragiclemming]

I reckon it ain't bad-looking with a little tweaking. Bit old skool, possibly but I'm not really enamoured of glossy transparent bizness, and I don't think it's any worse than Ubuntu 2D. Also, I can run Chrome again happily, which has been an absolute no-go for about six months.

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That looks like Thunar file manager from XFCE. Your halfway there!

 

[jancrow]

Honestly, fuck knows what it is! It's what I've ended up with but I'm happy enough with the look of it. Halfway to what, anyway?

 

[tragiclemming]

Honestly, fuck knows what it is! It's what I've ended up with but I'm happy enough with the look of it. Halfway to what, anyway?

Thunar is the default file manager in XFCE. So, you may as well load up the full XFCE experience (Xubuntu if you want to stick with Ubuntu distro). But, if it works for you no point in fixing it. Enjoy

 

[Allein]

So I'm looking for a new computer (laptop) and I've unfortunately forgotten absolutely everything about how to choose them/what the different numbers mean and all that (should've listened to the computer-obsessed ex a bit more). Basically the priority is to find something that'll let me play video games without too much trouble (preferrably in high resolution, and by video games I mean starcraft if that helps) sooo I know I need a good graphics card but yeah. I don't really care about the rest, just need something that works properly and that'll last. I've currently got a toshiba satellite T230-131 and it's a bit shit tbh, I got it under 3 years ago and I can barely keep it on for a few hours without it crashing. Also I've never been able to play games on it because it overheats and shuts itself off.e
Anyway if anyone could point me in the right direction or just explain real quick what the kind of numbers I'm lookign for are, would be much appreciated!

This HP Pavilion G series has been great, nice big screen, light, good battery life and pretty good built quality, the're about 3-£400 depending on spec, mine has a Dual-Core Laptop processor, clock speed of 2.20 GHz and 16GB of Ram.

I've been using onw of late with Dreamwear, INdesign and OS CS6 all open at once and it's been faultless, I find the keyboard a little cheap and I've prefer an no glossy screen but overall its a good machine, I've always had ThinkPads in the past ( a T60 last time ) but have ended up with a truly horrible HP Probook, so use the HP whenever I'm working off the docking station.

 

[jancrow]

gparted, you are killing me

 

[knock]

wassup? gparted is lovely!

 

[jancrow]

It is moving a partition to the left and it is taking forever! I only realised that this can take a while after starting. Boo, hiss.

 

[knock]

Oh yeah if there's data it can take some time. Time waiting for computers is never time well spent. Installing operating systems is severely tedious, but at least they try to entertain you a bit. Maybe gparted should come with some kind of game to play while you wait.

 

[Pagey]

HP laptops got good build quality.

Ok cool thanks

This HP Pavilion G series has been great, nice big screen, light, good battery life and pretty good built quality, the're about 3-£400 depending on spec, mine has a Dual-Core Laptop processor, clock speed of 2.20 GHz and 16GB of Ram.

I've been using onw of late with Dreamwear, INdesign and OS CS6 all open at once and it's been faultless, I find the keyboard a little cheap and I've prefer an no glossy screen but overall its a good machine, I've always had ThinkPads in the past ( a T60 last time ) but have ended up with a truly horrible HP Probook, so use the HP whenever I'm working off the docking station.

Great thank youuu, I'll look into them. Would be perfect as that's right within my price range too.

 

[jancrow]

AUGH

Gparted became apparently unresponsive overnight and so around eleven this morning I decided to kill it and just axe the old partition and do a clean install of lubuntu on it as I had backups. So boom, format partition, new OS on top. Now to replace the backed-up shit.

Then I discovered that my most recent mail backup (previous is mid January) is about 800MB smaller than it should be, and corrupt. SHIT. Also, FUCK. So I'm making an image of the partition and copying it to my gf's mac via ssh cos I don't have any other sufficiently large external storage, the laptop's internal drive is not very large, and I couldn't work out how to make it talk nicely to Windows.... so that's the best part of a day pissed away and I have no guarantee that there'll be anything recoverable in the image once it's copied over. hates me.

 

[tragiclemming]

AUGH

Gparted became apparently unresponsive overnight and so around eleven this morning I decided to kill it and just axe the old partition and do a clean install of lubuntu on it as I had backups. So boom, format partition, new OS on top. Now to replace the backed-up shit.

Then I discovered that my most recent mail backup (previous is mid January) is about 800MB smaller than it should be, and corrupt. SHIT. Also, FUCK. So I'm making an image of the partition and copying it to my gf's mac via ssh cos I don't have any other sufficiently large external storage, the laptop's internal drive is not very large, and I couldn't work out how to make it talk nicely to Windows.... so that's the best part of a day pissed away and I have no guarantee that there'll be anything recoverable in the image once it's copied over. hates me.

Ouch. Sorry to hear that. I guess your mail is pop3? Time to switch to imap? All the best with the recovery process. Linux is never dull

 

[jancrow]

So like yeah right I should basically listen to myself, yeah, and ditch evolution mail, right, because it's, like, doing my nut in. It seems that it when it's making a backup of all mail and settings it likes to make a backup which is corrupt and cannot be opened by itself at a later date. But it doesn't want to tell you that at the time, oh no. You need to wait until you need the backup to find that out.

Should have listened to myself in the angry thread two years ago

Incidentally, I found the above post by typing 'fuck "evolution mail"' into Google, to see who else hated it.

 

[jancrow]

Eating works well for me. I don't think they'll work up the hooter at all. No idea about bum dropping. You might be in the wrong thread though.

 

[knock]

So like yeah right I should basically listen to myself, yeah, and ditch evolution mail, right, because it's, like, doing my nut in. It seems that it when it's making a backup of all mail and settings it likes to make a backup which is corrupt and cannot be opened by itself at a later date. But it doesn't want to tell you that at the time, oh no. You need to wait until you need the backup to find that out.

Should have listened to myself in the angry thread two years ago

Incidentally, I found the above post by typing 'fuck "evolution mail"' into Google, to see who else hated it.

I ditched evolution a while back, thunderbird is good.

My dad uses evolution and he likes the calendar/contacts etc, it's very like outlook so he's happy with it.

But there is definitely buggy code in there, fucking Novell cunts.

mutt obviously is the best email client. And yes I do use it.

Straight to the point.

 

[jancrow]

I moved to Thunderbird for a bit but there was SOMETHING up with it which meant that I ditched it. I strongly suspect that I'll be finding out what that something was all over again over the next couple of weeks. Boo, hiss, fuck evolution mail, see you in two years. Jancrow, when your posting style is even sloppier.

Did you see that thread btw? I think that was our first interaction.

I didn't know if you were a man or a woman.

 

[knock]

I moved to Thunderbird for a bit but there was SOMETHING up with it which meant that I ditched it. I strongly suspect that I'll be finding out what that something was all over again over the next couple of weeks. Boo, hiss, fuck evolution mail, see you in two years. Jancrow, when your posting style is even sloppier.

Did you see that thread btw? I think that was our first interaction.

I didn't know if you were a man or a woman.

Nice reminder, and I'm yours whatever gender you think I am


edit: fucking odd reading posts I've made of technical shit I have completely forgotten :D

 

[tragiclemming]

I moved to Thunderbird for a bit but there was SOMETHING up with it which meant that I ditched it. I strongly suspect that I'll be finding out what that something was all over again over the next couple of weeks. Boo, hiss, fuck evolution mail, see you in two years. Jancrow, when your posting style is even sloppier.

I use Roundcube (webmail) with Dovecot (imap). Servers are better at storing and backing up mail than clients Chunderbird is much better than it used to be and I'm speaking as someone who used to use the integrated Netscape Communicator package! Lots of nice add ons (enigmail) to play with.

 

[knock]

I use Roundcube (webmail) with Dovecot (imap). Servers are better at storing and backing up mail than clients Chunderbird is much better than it used to be and I'm speaking as someone who used to use the integrated Netscape Communicator package! Lots of nice add ons (enigmail) to play with.

Very true, I should have mentioned that I also use Dovecot as an IMAP server together with fetchmail to retrieve it and exim4 to load it into my mail folder, in maildir format.

Backups. Yes I should get back to that idea I once had of taking a backup :D