ORA emacs manual, or at least the command reference card. Then all the control-h bindings to bring up your help.
There should be a lot of emacs lisp functions hanging about the web. Things like code highlighting and brace completion.
And wordcounting a region. That this isn't default in emacs, but freaking Elisa is, is a sin.
If you really want to use emacs frequently, the manual is amazing. My advisor gave me his old one when he got a new one, and I have that thing out constantly.
So I am trying to get ubuntu installed on my macbook pro 7,1 without a live cd. I first installed rEFIt and everything was fine. I then partitioned and external hard drive and installed ubuntu on the partition and it would boot fine from my pc. When I try to boot it from my macbook it shows up as an ubuntu OS on rEFIt but when I go to boot I always get a boot error. Anyone why?
Kind of related, has anyone been able to install backtrack on a macbook pro 7,1?
Okay, so org-mode is pretty much amazing-looking and worth switching to Emacs for. But it's so big I don't really know where to start with it, and there's a ton of configuration options, but lisp is...lisp. Anyone ever played with it or have even some general Emacs tutorials?
That looks neat. I'm reminded, though, of the old joke about Emacs being a great operating system, but lacking a good text editor.
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So has that fun bug in Ubuntu where the autopartitioner doesn't make a big enough swap partition for hibernation been fixed in 10.10? The fact that it was allowed to linger for two releases was pretty amazing. A third round of it would annoy me. I like letting Ubuntu partition for me.
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So has that fun bug in Ubuntu where the autopartitioner doesn't make a big enough swap partition for hibernation been fixed in 10.10? The fact that it was allowed to linger for two releases was pretty amazing. A third round of it would annoy me. I like letting Ubuntu partition for me.
So has that fun bug in Ubuntu where the autopartitioner doesn't make a big enough swap partition for hibernation been fixed in 10.10? The fact that it was allowed to linger for two releases was pretty amazing. A third round of it would annoy me. I like letting Ubuntu partition for me.
So probably a very easy question but I'm having trouble googling for the answer. So I set up an old desktop as a minecraft server for my friends and I. I have the server software set up to run at boot which works fine. If i were to run the server software manually from the terminal I would get an interactive console so I can basically view server activity, save the world, and stop the server. However when I start the software at boot I don't know how to access this console, so I don't know how to stop the server without a killall java. So does anyone know how to do this, it seems like a pretty common thing to do.
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screen <java blah blah blah command for minecraft>
ctrl+a then d will disconnect and leave it running
if you want to rejoin it
screen -r <session number>
Ooh well this seems to work, is there a way to figure out the session number that was used at boot?
EDIT: Oh figured it out, if I do screen -D -R it'll reattach the one I want. I guess that'll only work when its the only screen session I have going, but that's good enough for now. Thanks guys.
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My old, old install of debian died the other day.
I reinstalled an abolutely minimal number of packages. It is great.
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Ah, screen, obviously. Why didn't I think of that? There ought to be class wrappers that expose a telnet/SSH interface.
Some time ago a group of hyper-intelligent pan dimensional beings
decided to finally answer the great question of Life, The Universe and
Everything. To this end, a small band of these Debians built an
incredibly powerful distribution, Ubuntu. After this great computer
programme had run (a very quick 3 million minutes...or 6 years) the
answer was announced. The Ultimate answer to Life, the Universe and
Everything is...42, and in its' purest form 101010. Which suggests that
what you really need to know is 'What was the Question?'. The great
distribution kindly pointed out that what the problem really was that
no-one knew the question. Accordingly, the distribution designed a set
of successors, marked by a circle of friends...to ultimately bring Unity
to all things living...Ubuntu 10.10, to find the question to the
ultimate answer.
And with that, the Ubuntu team is pleased to announce Ubuntu 10.10.
Codenamed "Maverick Meerkat", 10.10 continues Ubuntu's proud tradition
of integrating the latest and greatest open source technologies into a
high-quality, easy-to-use Linux distribution.
edit:
Hibernation may be unavailable with automatic partitioning. The default partitioning recipe in the installer will in some cases allocate a swap partition that is smaller than the physical memory in the system. This will prevent the use of hibernation (suspend-to-disk) because the system image will not fit in the swap partition. If you intend to use hibernation with your system, you should ensure that the swap partition's size is at least as large as the system's physical RAM. (345126)
Some time ago a group of hyper-intelligent pan dimensional beings
decided to finally answer the great question of Life, The Universe and
Everything. To this end, a small band of these Debians built an
incredibly powerful distribution, Ubuntu. After this great computer
programme had run (a very quick 3 million minutes...or 6 years) the
answer was announced. The Ultimate answer to Life, the Universe and
Everything is...42, and in its' purest form 101010. Which suggests that
what you really need to know is 'What was the Question?'. The great
distribution kindly pointed out that what the problem really was that
no-one knew the question. Accordingly, the distribution designed a set
of successors, marked by a circle of friends...to ultimately bring Unity
to all things living...Ubuntu 10.10, to find the question to the
ultimate answer.
And with that, the Ubuntu team is pleased to announce Ubuntu 10.10.
Codenamed "Maverick Meerkat", 10.10 continues Ubuntu's proud tradition
of integrating the latest and greatest open source technologies into a
high-quality, easy-to-use Linux distribution.
edit:
Hibernation may be unavailable with automatic partitioning. The default partitioning recipe in the installer will in some cases allocate a swap partition that is smaller than the physical memory in the system. This will prevent the use of hibernation (suspend-to-disk) because the system image will not fit in the swap partition. If you intend to use hibernation with your system, you should ensure that the swap partition's size is at least as large as the system's physical RAM. (345126)
I don't store much locally, and it's all backed up in several places online (and isn't much to begin with--everything I store is text). I don't need a partition layout with ease of restoration as a consideration.
There are a lot of things I could do manually. I don't do most of them because the benefit is marginal or non-existent for me. When I manually partition, it's going to look exactly like the autopartitioner would have done, except the swap will be big enough.
Ok, I'm moving a computer to Linux, and I'm really surprised by it. My printer has native linux drivers, the wi-fi card just connects right to the strongest non-protected network. I could print and browse the web without typing a single command, what in the world is Linux coming to?
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edited October 2010
Well this is a lot of fun. Since the latest version of Ubuntu came out I was interested in trying it again. I had a spare laptop that I've been familiarizing myself with Linux on so I was going to dual boot Ubuntu with the existing Arch Linux installation. Arch Linux defaults to creating four separate partitions (boot, swap, root and home) and four partitions is the maximum I'm allowed on the drive sooooo I deleted the swap partition to make room for an extended partition which I then placed the root and a new swap partition into. The home directory was kept outside because I'd like to try sharing it with the Ubuntu installation.
Hours and hours later after resizing partitions, deleting partitions, moving partitions and making new partitions I had the drive partitioned exactly the way I wanted so I rebooted into Arch to see the damage I had done.
Swap no longer worked (I'm about to fix that) and the wireless failed due to something called RF-kill. Arch recognized the new location of the home directory though and everything else seems to be okay! I'm about to install Ubuntu now on a clean partition. I expect it will go very roughly. I could just wipe the hard drive and start over but I have Arch Linux running just as I like it. I even managed to get XFCE running decently.
So I upgraded from Ubuntu 10.04 to 10.10, and the fucking update broke Grub. I boot up and get an error along the lines of "symbol 'grub_xputs' not found".
I eventually manage to fix it but if I hadn't been using Linux for like six years I wouldn't have had the slightest clue what to do, and really that's not how I wanted to spend an evening after a long day of work.
Look, I know the 10/10/10 release date was important, but fucking really? Not breaking the fucking bootloader is kind of an important feature. Maybe I should switch (back) to Debian.
So I upgraded from Ubuntu 10.04 to 10.10, and the fucking update broke Grub. I boot up and get an error along the lines of "symbol 'grub_xputs' not found".
I eventually manage to fix it but if I hadn't been using Linux for like six years I wouldn't have had the slightest clue what to do, and really that's not how I wanted to spend an evening after a long day of work.
Look, I know the 10/10/10 release date was important, but fucking really? Not breaking the fucking bootloader is kind of an important feature. Maybe I should switch (back) to Debian.
Alright, someone who's working on Arch needs to add a cache clearing script to pacman or something. I didn't realize that it would keep fucking packages forever and ever, and have filled my disk up with old junk I don't need now. One clearing and crontab job later, it shouldn't happen again. Now to go back and reinstall X, from where it was broken before all this mess.
So I upgraded from Ubuntu 10.04 to 10.10, and the fucking update broke Grub. I boot up and get an error along the lines of "symbol 'grub_xputs' not found".
I eventually manage to fix it but if I hadn't been using Linux for like six years I wouldn't have had the slightest clue what to do, and really that's not how I wanted to spend an evening after a long day of work.
Look, I know the 10/10/10 release date was important, but fucking really? Not breaking the fucking bootloader is kind of an important feature. Maybe I should switch (back) to Debian.
Huh.
I installed it on a new partition for the sole purpose of playing games I got from GOG on Wine (won't work on my main install because of the video driver). Not a single hiccup.
So I upgraded from Ubuntu 10.04 to 10.10, and the fucking update broke Grub. I boot up and get an error along the lines of "symbol 'grub_xputs' not found".
I eventually manage to fix it but if I hadn't been using Linux for like six years I wouldn't have had the slightest clue what to do, and really that's not how I wanted to spend an evening after a long day of work.
Look, I know the 10/10/10 release date was important, but fucking really? Not breaking the fucking bootloader is kind of an important feature. Maybe I should switch (back) to Debian.
Huh.
I installed it on a new partition for the sole purpose of playing games I got from GOG on Wine (won't work on my main install because of the video driver). Not a single hiccup.
Maybe it's a quirk of my motherboard or RAID setup or something; there's a handful of reports on the official forums of the same thing happening.
I didn't have a liveCD, only the "alternative CD" so I needed to use that to get into a minimal busybox shell, then mount my Ubuntu root partition and then chroot into that and reinstall Grub. A new user would never have figured that shit out.
Woo, got X to work again. Remind me to never restart it again under Arch.
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edited October 2010
I'm going to make something similar to slitaz, where I have a compact suite of lightweight utilities, but using more dated pieces like kernel 2.6.35 instead of 2.6.20.
Is there a maintained config for a super stripped kernel removing support for anything less than 10 years old, uncommon hardware (like HAM radio modules, IR modules, SGI/VIA/GEODE video card drivers, and other bloat)?
Alright, someone who's working on Arch needs to add a cache clearing script to pacman or something. I didn't realize that it would keep fucking packages forever and ever, and have filled my disk up with old junk I don't need now. One clearing and crontab job later, it shouldn't happen again. Now to go back and reinstall X, from where it was broken before all this mess.
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There should be a lot of emacs lisp functions hanging about the web. Things like code highlighting and brace completion.
And wordcounting a region. That this isn't default in emacs, but freaking Elisa is, is a sin.
If you really want to use emacs frequently, the manual is amazing. My advisor gave me his old one when he got a new one, and I have that thing out constantly.
Kind of related, has anyone been able to install backtrack on a macbook pro 7,1?
That looks neat. I'm reminded, though, of the old joke about Emacs being a great operating system, but lacking a good text editor.
Confined to a tiny spit of sand, unable to escape,
But tonight, it's heavy stuff.
He is selling Theif 1 and 2 for like, 40-50 dollars, each.
Oh, and you can buy Mandrake, or Red Hat linux for 20-40 dollars from him.
Isnt there something in the GNU license or something else that says he cant do this?
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html
Or, as the saying goes, "Free as in freedom, not free as in beer." ;-)
If there was then I'd be in jail.
Not using gparted manually?
you so crazy
I'm a lazy goose
So probably a very easy question but I'm having trouble googling for the answer. So I set up an old desktop as a minecraft server for my friends and I. I have the server software set up to run at boot which works fine. If i were to run the server software manually from the terminal I would get an interactive console so I can basically view server activity, save the world, and stop the server. However when I start the software at boot I don't know how to access this console, so I don't know how to stop the server without a killall java. So does anyone know how to do this, it seems like a pretty common thing to do.
I don't really know what that means so i'm gonna say no.
edit: Wait, I think he's looking for the virtual consoles.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_console
I don't know which one the server would be starting on.
Open a terminal window
screen <java blah blah blah command for minecraft>
ctrl+a then d will disconnect and leave it running
if you want to rejoin it
screen -r <session number>
Ooh well this seems to work, is there a way to figure out the session number that was used at boot?
EDIT: Oh figured it out, if I do screen -D -R it'll reattach the one I want. I guess that'll only work when its the only screen session I have going, but that's good enough for now. Thanks guys.
I reinstalled an abolutely minimal number of packages. It is great.
edit:
Three releases and that's still not fixed? :?
edit: However, this is awesome: http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2010/10/ccleaner-for-linux-bleachbit-hits-0-8-1/
I was just wondering if there was something like CCleaner for Linux. :rotate:
Hopefully things will have settled down in about 40 days.
Confined to a tiny spit of sand, unable to escape,
But tonight, it's heavy stuff.
Once you know what you're doing you should really be using the custom partitioner anyway.
There are a lot of things I could do manually. I don't do most of them because the benefit is marginal or non-existent for me. When I manually partition, it's going to look exactly like the autopartitioner would have done, except the swap will be big enough.
Not gonna lie, seeing this is the high point of my day.
welp
edit: Microsoft is at 45.5m.
Hours and hours later after resizing partitions, deleting partitions, moving partitions and making new partitions I had the drive partitioned exactly the way I wanted so I rebooted into Arch to see the damage I had done.
Swap no longer worked (I'm about to fix that) and the wireless failed due to something called RF-kill. Arch recognized the new location of the home directory though and everything else seems to be okay! I'm about to install Ubuntu now on a clean partition. I expect it will go very roughly. I could just wipe the hard drive and start over but I have Arch Linux running just as I like it. I even managed to get XFCE running decently.
Like I said, lots of fun!
Edit: That did not work at all.
I eventually manage to fix it but if I hadn't been using Linux for like six years I wouldn't have had the slightest clue what to do, and really that's not how I wanted to spend an evening after a long day of work.
Look, I know the 10/10/10 release date was important, but fucking really? Not breaking the fucking bootloader is kind of an important feature. Maybe I should switch (back) to Debian.
LTS to LTS man. ;o)
Huh.
I installed it on a new partition for the sole purpose of playing games I got from GOG on Wine (won't work on my main install because of the video driver). Not a single hiccup.
Maybe it's a quirk of my motherboard or RAID setup or something; there's a handful of reports on the official forums of the same thing happening.
I didn't have a liveCD, only the "alternative CD" so I needed to use that to get into a minimal busybox shell, then mount my Ubuntu root partition and then chroot into that and reinstall Grub. A new user would never have figured that shit out.
Is there a maintained config for a super stripped kernel removing support for anything less than 10 years old, uncommon hardware (like HAM radio modules, IR modules, SGI/VIA/GEODE video card drivers, and other bloat)?
Pacman/yaourt -Sc?