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Alfajor posted:Why is Gparted not letting me resize my NTFS partition? I have about 10Gbs of unallocated space that I need in the Windows partition... I thought it'd be easy to do this, but not so much when I can't click on "resize" Last I checked Gparted wasn't able to write to NTFS partitions, just read them.
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Stevor posted:I'm trying to get the intel chipset drivers working on my laptop and I'm following the guide at intellinuxgraphics.org. I'm having trouble understanding how to install agpgart. Apparently I have to patch the kernel. I've downloaded the latest source for the linux kernel and I plan to recompile and reinstall agpgart and the new kernel source to have agpgart and the 2.6.something kernel. I have the source for the patch, but I can't copy it into /usr/src. It comes as a bzip, but I I'm denied permission to copy it into that folder. I know this has something to do with admin privlidges but I can't get it working right... First off, which distro are you using? I'd be surprised if any up-to-date distro didn't include this module by default, or at least in an easily accessible package. Regardless, you can only write to /usr/src as root, and as you're building a kernel I assume that you do have root priveleges. Either way, it's not necessary to put the kernel source in /usr/src, just customary. You can build straight out of your home directory if you'd like.
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May 22, 2007 20:19
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Pididdle27 posted:Another quick question: Try this: code:
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May 22, 2007 20:51
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Pididdle27 posted:100% is used! How do I correct that without loving things up? Delete stuff. You're out of harddrive space, so however you decide to fix that is up to you really. If your /home is mounted on the same partition as / then go ahead and remove some stuff from there for starters.
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May 22, 2007 21:34
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Stevor posted:Simple answer to a stupid question... thank you. I really have got alot to learn. I'm using Ubuntu by the way. Does that include agpgart? It should. Just do a code:
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May 23, 2007 01:21
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Twinxor posted:Incidentally, it's included with Ubuntu's kernel, like most other widely-used modules. Aye, and given Ubuntu's hardware detection I'd be surprised if it wasn't loaded already. Can't hurt to try manually though.
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May 23, 2007 14:46
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derdewey posted:I've been running ubuntu for 2 years now and I'd like to know why it always feels faster when I go back to windows. Minimizing, unminimizing, moving windows, switching tabs in firefox, all 'feels' better in windows. It always feels like there's some kind of lag. You're not alone here, I've always felt the same way. I guess it's the consistency of Ubuntu (Linux) being slightly lagged as compared to Windows getting laggier over time that makes it easier to keep running. If you were using something like Slackware or Gentoo where you had more control over your libraries I'd say maybe you have something you could improve on, but in my experience, you're stuck in the same spot I am.
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May 23, 2007 21:33
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derdewey posted:I don't like that answer Yeah I don't like my answer much either  One thing you could try is rolling your own kernel. Customize it a bit, and see if you can configure it to be a bit more snappy. I used to do this regularly, but I found it just gets tedious. A good friend of mine is a total kernel guru, I'll try and get a hold of him today after work and see if he has any tips on making the desktop feel more "snappy."
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mo- posted:Are there any gnome apps simillar to Network-Manger? I cant get it to compile. I really need to get this working and running out of options. What's the compile error? What distro are you running?
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Toiletbrush posted:Is it possible to selectively change/remove window borders in X11? I don't believe so. Though (it's been a while since I've used it) I believe that Konsole has a feature to turn off borders entirely. If you're gung-ho and you use a pure WM like Fluxbox or Openbox, they typically have an option to turn off the WM for a specific window as well, but that's as close as I can think of to what you're asking.
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Twinxor posted:Indeed. I use Konsole under GNOME, and I'm unhappy that it seems to launch a bunch of KDE crap that's not getting used by any other program. Definitely. I typically refuse to install a KDE app unless it's absolutely necessary. I'm 99.9% positive that GNOME Terminal doesn't have this feature, unfortunately.
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radarwolf posted:My distro is ArchLinux. It works perfectly on my hardware, and it is the fastest one I've used. It installed in about 10 minutes, and after that all I had to do was pacman -Syu and pacman -Sy nvidia ndiswrapper fluxbox slim rox ntfs-3g, edit my rc.conf, wpa_supplicant and xorg, and I have a fully working system in under 45 minutes. I like Fluxbox because of its simplicity and speed, and the fact that it can be used in conjunction with Xcompmgr to provide true transparency, fade in/out, and menu themability. Arch is a great distro. Back when I used the dirtier distros, that was my ultimate pick. My college roommate and I actually set up a local repository right in our apartment. It made those occasional 400mb updates way faster. radarwolf posted:Why use Windows ever again? Not going there
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Twlight posted:Is there a way to show in Fedora 5 what directories are taking up what space on the hard drive? I've got a syslog server thats at 100% Use, even after clearning up some of the older logs. Try using the "du" command. It's similar to df in usage.
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May 29, 2007 18:12
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dfn_doe posted:I'm still confused about this. Rebooting, compiling, all the rest of the gentoo-isms don't do anything that would be broken inside a VM.. did you perhaps have the wrong target arch selected or something? I tried a stage one Gentoo install way back when as well and I had the same results. Something about it just didn't stick with VMware.
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DeathChill posted:I was just curious if it's just me or are Linux developers much more expensive? I'm trying to get a Linux project started and it's simply an application set that actually utilizes existing open source Linux projects. I tried the exact same project for Windows and got quotes around $450; the Linux version had quotes of $6500+ for the EXACT same thing. A guy from my local LUG was recently complaining about this same issue on our mailing list. Good Linux developers seem to be few, and given that if you're a Linux developer you're a hot commodity to the right customer you can tend to overcharge.
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Twinxor posted:Emacs 22 is finally released - the first major release in six years. The most notable feature is Gtk+ support, and there's a lot of nice features (more Unicode support, decent fonts under X, the god damned mouse wheel works) - see this overview. I got it to build from source fine, and there's a a Debian repository here that seems to work fine for Ubuntu as well. I've been using the unstable version of this for some time to get the font anti-aliasing. It looks great and really cleans up the interface.
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Twinxor posted:Unfortunately, I think that branch is going to be Emacs 23, and the anti-aliasing isn't in 22. I spent a while trying to build that, and couldn't get the Xft support to work, but I found a good unstable snapshot here. You just shattered all my hopes and dreams. But on the other hand, Xft still seems to crash Emacs for me with some regularity. Loading up my C# mode almost guaruntees a crash.
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Chuu posted:I am trying to get a directx app working in a VM. It uses a ton of features not supported by VMWare's DX compatibility so that's a no go. You could just do a barebones Ubuntu server installation without any actual server software (it lets you choose during install) and install the WM setup you need.
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Chuu posted:Thanks for the advice, downloading ubuntu server now to test this out. Can you recommend the best lightweight WM? I actuality really liked twm from my Solaris days but I don't see it supported by Ubuntu. TWM is nice and hardcore if you're going for super lightweight. If you're a bit more lenient and can deal with more than two colors on your desktop try: Window Maker, IceWM, Fluxbox, or Openbox. Really though, if you're looking for the bare minimum twm is in Ubuntu and that'll suit you just fine.
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Cucumbers posted:Is there any way to download an .iso (preferably the new openSuSE) and install it through Windows? Ubuntu's current alpha (Hardy) has a method of doing this but it won't be in stable condition until the end of April I believe.
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Ashex posted:Can someone verify real quick the proper way to chroot into a system? You're doing it all fancy like, I do it this way: code:
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While we're on the topic of iPods and Linux, let me throw out there that Floola is an awesome iPod management app for Windows/Mac/Linux that runs straight off the iPod. No need for any synchronization or whatever. 
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parasyte posted:So last I checked, syncing Windows Mobile phones is kind of a major pain in the goddamn rear end in Linux. I *was* using Outlook 2007 I got with a free license of Office, but I'm switching over to Linux almost entirely and this is one of the few things that hasn't been a seamless transition. Last time I tried syncing Windows Mobile to Linux it was through a program called SynCE which can interface with Evolution via something called Multisync. It was lackluster at best, but did the job. Mind you, this was Windows Mobile 2003. Since I've been running Windows Mobile 5 I haven't tried, much less Windows Mobile 6.1.
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Mysterious Aftertaste posted:This is kind of on topic. 2.6.25 kernel released today. I got into Linux about 6 years ago. I guess a year or two in I started rolling my own kernels almost daily on Gentoo and patching it with whatever super cool new patch was out. Man I'm glad I'm not doing that anymore 
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tehk posted:Banshee 1.0, it is in alpha but is already amazing and stable. It is designed to work fast with large music collections(unlike the earlier version). Other then that amarok. I've been using this for some time, it really is fantastic. It's still not as fast as Rhythmbox, but Rhythmbox almost looks archaic anymore even with it's recent UI modifications.
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Slow is Fast posted:That sounds like what I want to do. I'm just not sure how to do it. Which directory is the apache directory and how would I hit the html page from a networked computer? This tends to change from distro to distro. Try reading through /etc/apache/httpd.conf and seeing if you can make sense of where it might be.
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Coupon Wizard posted:Can you just run "rm -rf /"? I believe this may be the only legitimate use of this response I have ever seen.
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Kaluza-Klein posted:
I used to use Gentoo as well for the same reason. The forums are really great, as are the wiki articles. Ubuntu is my desktop of choice anymore just because it's so easy and I don't have the patience for stuff like Arch or Gentoo anymore. Back in my early college days I would literally recompile my kernel almost daily, using a variety of patchsets and squeezing that last ounce of performance out of the thing. You're not missing much on the Ubuntu forums unfortunately. Along with Ubuntu's popularity comes a lot of dumb users. It's basically GameFAQ's for Linux these days.
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So given my lovely knowledge of the detailed inner workings on file containers I figure I'll explain my predicament and maybe some of you guys can shine some light on this for me. I used Handbrake to rip nearly my entire DVD collection down to H.264 encoded mp4's so that I could stream them easily to my Xbox and use that as a media center. All is well and then I decide running Zune network share on my PC is way too much work, so I push those movie files off onto my Ubuntu server. I got TwonkyVision installed and running last night and the only H.264 vid it ran was the one I accidentally ripped to an mkv container. So I poked around a little, and found that simply changing the extension of the mp4's to mkv will fix the problem. This worked for about 50% of the files. The others don't seem to be in a format that the Xbox can read (they all streamed fine as mp4's). So my first question is: would finding an app to convert mp4 to mkv do the trick here? And also: is there a Linux based app that would do that? (a batch operation would be tits)
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kujeger posted:Does anybody know of a program that will seamlessly magnify another program's window? I'm not sure this is exactly what you're looking for, but would the compiz zoom plugin do the trick?
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Last I tried Arch Linux it was pretty minimal and had a really fast package manager. Pretty slick distro. Also, an Ubuntu server installation would be super minimal but I believe adding the desktop to that would bring back all the bloat you're trying to avoid anyways.
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Is there any way to have GDM log straight into a Windows domain? I'd like to move my work machine over to Ubuntu, but for PCI compliance I need to be logged into the domain at all times. I know that Samba can register onto a domain, but I'm needing the entire login process to go through Samba as well.
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chizad posted:If you're using Ubuntu (or another distro that has packages for it), you can install likewise-open and use that to join your machine to the domain. It handles all the behind the scenes stuff chryst was talking about, plus UID/GID mappings and all that other fun stuff. In my limited testing, it really didn't work any differently from logging on to a Windows box. This would be ideal. Thanks for the pointer!
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GregNorc posted:Is there a way to force Fedora to install the latest kernel? I haven't used Fedora in a while (years) but I'd assume that the only updated kernel you'll be getting for your Fedora version is whatever kernel it shipped with. Typically if you want to get a different kernel on your distro you'll want to either compile yourself, or find somebody who provides an RPM package.
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What's the consensus on Gentoo these days? It looks like the main installer hasn't been updated since early 2008, and I know the main guy left some time ago. Is it's still a decent distro? I used to love it years ago. The only reason I stopped using it is because I would always emerge something that was hardmasked because I'm totally impatient and want updated packages asap.
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LiquidRain posted:You can pretty much get all of that in Ubuntu these days without the compile times. Most popular packages (kernel, X drivers for Intel, Firefox, or in-development apps like Chrome) all have package repositories you can add to Ubuntu's package manager and then just download the latest version/latest nightly and install it. Yeah, I've been using Ubuntu since 4.10 which is right around when I phased away from Gentoo. I've just had the craving for a more hands-on distro lately.
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Lucien posted:Arch linux is a very hands-on binary distro with a decent package management. Arch was my other favorite from way back when. Pacman is definitely the fastest package manager I've used.
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juggalol posted:I have very little experience with yum/rpm, but I'm a big fan of apt. Portage is the reason I eventually ditched Gentoo in favor of Ubuntu - it just didn't make sense to keep using a package manager that required me to spend so much goddamn time compiling code and fixing broken dependencies. I mean, isn't that the whole point of a package manager? To avoid having to do that poo poo? I dropped RPM's after the 5,000th time I would do something trivial, like uninstall Gaim, and have it try and take Apache or some other totally completely unrelated package with it. Granted, this was back in the Redhat 9 days. But either way, it discouraged me for a lifetime. Apt has been very good to me, and I'm a huge fan of "apt-get build-dep".
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