From my post a long time ago, fuse-ext2 mounts as read only and in spite of what is in the documentation I could not mount as read+write and I found other people saying they had the same problem, so I tried Virtual Box with Ubuntu 11.10 instead and after some difficulty with getting it to recognize the USB drive I was able to decrypt and untar the files and hopefully it will be done when I get back from lunch.
― youn, Tuesday, 25 October 2011 17:17 (1 year ago) Permalink
Virtualbox on fedora is a nightmare.
― John Lennon, Tuesday, 25 October 2011 18:44 (1 year ago) Permalink
i downgraded modemmanager to the natty version, as suggested by a german ubuntu forum page, and my mobile broadband works again on oneiric. lol, progress.
― koogs, Wednesday, 26 October 2011 16:34 (1 year ago) Permalink
WORKSPACES would be so nice in windows XP where I spend my work days
― did you c/p that randomly or what (Latham Green), Wednesday, 2 November 2011 19:49 (1 year ago) Permalink
(virtuawin?)
― koogs, Wednesday, 2 November 2011 21:51 (1 year ago) Permalink
virtuafuckdat
― did you c/p that randomly or what (Latham Green), Tuesday, 8 November 2011 18:41 (1 year ago) Permalink
otm
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 18 November 2011 17:51 (1 year ago) Permalink
oh god yes, that's my two decades of linux in a nutshell
― Autumn Almanac, Saturday, 19 November 2011 01:37 (1 year ago) Permalink
yes.
― occupy the A train (difficult listening hour), Saturday, 19 November 2011 01:43 (1 year ago) Permalink
Man, and here I am about to build an Ubuntu 64-bit system and use VMWare to run Windows 7. Am I crazy?
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Saturday, 19 November 2011 03:17 (1 year ago) Permalink
11.10 isn't too bad, just expect to hit a few unique bugs that nobody will ever fix.
― Autumn Almanac, Saturday, 19 November 2011 03:46 (1 year ago) Permalink
Is there a good "So you've used Windows for the past 20 years but now you've seen the light of Linux" online guides or books?
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Saturday, 19 November 2011 04:25 (1 year ago) Permalink
I never finished. The decryption stopped twice at a particular file with the following message:
gpg: [don't know]: invalid packet (ctb=05)gpg: WARNING: message was not integrity protectedgpg: [don't know]: invalid packet (ctb=7b)
I googled and found messages about possible ascii encoding errors. Is this an encryption error originating with the people who sent the files? Is there anything I should check first on my end? The checksums for the files match. They were transferred on a USB drive.
― youn, Saturday, 19 November 2011 18:04 (1 year ago) Permalink
What file, and where did you get it from?
― Autumn Almanac, Saturday, 19 November 2011 20:17 (1 year ago) Permalink
^^^^^ I've tried Linux every so often over the last few years, the last around 6 months ago, and I can't make head nor tail of it. A little something to help me find my way around linux after a lifetime of MS would be awesome.
― get ready for the banter (NotEnough), Monday, 2 January 2012 14:55 (1 year ago) Permalink
Linux is damn convenient when you're and IT tech or programmer. anyone else here LOVES using Vim?
― V79, Monday, 2 January 2012 15:46 (1 year ago) Permalink
Raspberry Pi might be enough to make me learn.
― 50,000 raspberries with the face of Peter Ndlovu (aldo), Monday, 2 January 2012 15:53 (1 year ago) Permalink
vim is nothing to do with linux
― caek, Monday, 2 January 2012 16:15 (1 year ago) Permalink
technically you're right
― V79, Monday, 2 January 2012 16:19 (1 year ago) Permalink
yes, in the technical sense that it wasn't written on/for linux, the editor on which it's based wasn't written on linux, it's been ported to like 30 OSs so it's basically platform agnostic, and it's the default $EDITOR on the most popular unix os in the world (clue: not linux)
― caek, Monday, 2 January 2012 17:11 (1 year ago) Permalink
<3 u caek
― mh, Monday, 2 January 2012 21:32 (1 year ago) Permalink
<3
― caek, Monday, 2 January 2012 22:20 (1 year ago) Permalink
argh, I just like the damn thing! stop fucking nitpicking
― V79, Tuesday, 3 January 2012 00:08 (1 year ago) Permalink
I'm a disgusting savage that uses Emacs.
Is this thing getting traction/publicity? I don't really follow tech news, but the project is closely associated with where I work so the I'm seeing Raspberry Pi mentions everywhere at the moment but I don't know what conclusions to draw from that.
― questino (seandalai), Tuesday, 3 January 2012 00:24 (1 year ago) Permalink
the
Looks pretty cheap for what it is, but what are people looking at doing with them? Seems a lot like some of those hard drive-based media center things that just play video, like the ones WD sell, but without built-in storage.
― mh, Tuesday, 3 January 2012 00:39 (1 year ago) Permalink
maybe this should be the year I learn to do more than 3 things in vi/vim before running away to nano or a clicky windows editor like the big menu-loving girl's blouse that I am
(this will not be an editor holy war, as I am fully aware that nano isn't very good, but at least it tells you how to use it and you can't get it stuck in some lisp state machine mode or accidentally delete half your document just because you thought you'd try a half-remembered arcane key combo without looking it up)
― Schleimpilz im Labyrinth (a passing spacecadet), Tuesday, 3 January 2012 10:00 (1 year ago) Permalink
I've been very happy with my Ubuntu experience so far. I really love how running processor-intensive applications doesn't kill my system, if I need to do something else at the same time the CPU cycles are just taken away from and given to me.
I'm running Win7 in VMWare anyway, though in the long-term I'd like to migrate entirely to Linux. But I'm still committed to my Windows music management software.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Tuesday, 3 January 2012 20:02 (1 year ago) Permalink
this is now running on linux. I'm glad they have
service
svcadm
no way would i run it on my desktop, tho
― stet, Tuesday, 3 January 2012 20:04 (1 year ago) Permalink
If only I coul dget my sodding netlink usb wireless receiver to work in Ubuntu 10 - I could dream
― did you c/p that randomly or what (Latham Green), Wednesday, 4 January 2012 20:14 (1 year ago) Permalink
i spent a second going "wtf is dget"
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 4 January 2012 22:32 (1 year ago) Permalink
it's like wget but for the ddd
― mh, Thursday, 5 January 2012 01:34 (1 year ago) Permalink
Its just my typical typing fail
― The Cheerfull Turtle (Latham Green), Monday, 9 January 2012 17:18 (1 year ago) Permalink
http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/939
LOVE this
― Autumn Almanac (Schlafsack), Wednesday, 25 January 2012 05:26 (1 year ago) Permalink
ok real time command line gave me nerdbonerz
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 25 January 2012 06:05 (1 year ago) Permalink
i used to use gnome-do a lot and have been jonesing for something like it for windows for years--nothing nearly as robust outside linux. this looks like a sleeker version of that, so i'm p much automatically in love.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 25 January 2012 06:32 (1 year ago) Permalink
Is that the new HUD? Also love it. But is there a way to show all an apps menus?
― stet, Wednesday, 25 January 2012 07:53 (1 year ago) Permalink
command line 2.0 interaction is not exactly going to set the mass market on fire
― caek, Wednesday, 25 January 2012 10:16 (1 year ago) Permalink
Yeh, this tempts me out of using Windows how?
(saying that, I might try re-installing ubuntu. Last time I tried it wouldn't play nice with my monitors, but we'll see)
― get ready for the banter (NotEnough), Wednesday, 25 January 2012 10:33 (1 year ago) Permalink
I don't think Ubuntu is about tempting Windows users anymore. Shuttleworth has bigger pans.
― Autumn Almanac, Wednesday, 25 January 2012 10:49 (1 year ago) Permalink
srsly. they should forget about the mass market, and work on making an environment for nerds that isn't still founded on the idea that you're essentially interacting with a dot-matrix printer.
― stet, Wednesday, 25 January 2012 10:56 (1 year ago) Permalink
is not command line, it's just letting you type app names / menu items rather than clicking icons. nobody's going to be piping any grep output to sort using this.
and all this hands to mouse to keyboard and back to mouse would drive me batshit.
gentoo here i come...
― koogs, Wednesday, 25 January 2012 10:56 (1 year ago) Permalink
obviously things like this are great for some computer users (prob less than 0.1% these days), incl me.
but if i'm typing nouns and verbs to interact with a computer then to say it's not qualitatively similar to the command line is delusional. and for commercial entities like ubuntu to not make the next logical leap re: how this is going to go over in the market... smdh.
― caek, Wednesday, 25 January 2012 11:15 (1 year ago) Permalink
looks cool though
If they do it right, that shouldn't happen. You can almost drive firefox entirely from the keyboard already (especially with LoL installed); this would make that complete. GUI shouldn't preclude good keyboard-driving.
― stet, Wednesday, 25 January 2012 11:19 (1 year ago) Permalink
I don't see this setting the world on fire but I still love the idea. Navigating application menus would be exactly 200 times easier if you could just type what you want to do.
― Autumn Almanac, Wednesday, 25 January 2012 11:28 (1 year ago) Permalink
― caek, Wednesday, 25 January 2012 11:32 (1 year ago) Permalink
i hope it's clever enough for that and it's just word-matching. Mac OS X already has this with Cmd-? (which is v. useful)
― stet, Wednesday, 25 January 2012 12:09 (1 year ago) Permalink
*not just
> You can almost drive firefox entirely from the keyboard already
but the example in the video was inkscape...
― koogs, Wednesday, 25 January 2012 12:13 (1 year ago) Permalink