i had been having an issue with a phantom upgrade not getting installed do to some sort of issue in the update manager, and it was annoying me by telling me i had some dependency issues
plus when i would alt-tab through windows the names of the windows just showed up as those []ish characters
so, i decided to just say "fuck it" and did a nice little sudo aptitude install -f to let it sort itself out
apparently aptitude decided that the only way to solve the dependency issues i was having was to remove the ubuntu-desktop, leaving me with no working GUI
took me half an hour to figure out what the fuck had happened, but i was able to solve everything with an update, upgrade, and reinstall of ubuntu-desktop
linuxquestions.org is pretty great too.
I swear there are guys who just sit and refresh that site all day, climbing all over each other to be the first one to correctly answer your questions.
i had been having an issue with a phantom upgrade not getting installed do to some sort of issue in the update manager, and it was annoying me by telling me i had some dependency issues
plus when i would alt-tab through windows the names of the windows just showed up as those []ish characters
so, i decided to just say "fuck it" and did a nice little sudo aptitude install -f to let it sort itself out
apparently aptitude decided that the only way to solve the dependency issues i was having was to remove the ubuntu-desktop, leaving me with no working GUI
took me half an hour to figure out what the fuck had happened, but i was able to solve everything with an update, upgrade, and reinstall of ubuntu-desktop
scared the hell out of me
that was my excitement for the day
Most of the linux machines I work on don't have a gui installed anyway.
bash shell all up ins.
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FramlingFaceHeadGeebs has bad ideas.Registered Userregular
I seriously considered switching to Ubuntu but I simply don't trust it to run the apps that I use regularly, especially games.
Why not dual-boot?
like Rank just said, I don't want the headache
I don't really see the advantage of dual booting since like I said, most of the stuff I run probably will have problems or not run at all in ubuntu so I'd still be in Vista 95% of the time
too much effort for negligible to no gain
The snipping tool is the only reason I've found so far to use Vista.
Framling on
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I seriously considered switching to Ubuntu but I simply don't trust it to run the apps that I use regularly, especially games.
Why not dual-boot?
like Rank just said, I don't want the headache
I don't really see the advantage of dual booting since like I said, most of the stuff I run probably will have problems or not run at all in ubuntu so I'd still be in Vista 95% of the time
too much effort for negligible to no gain
The snipping tool is the only reason I've found so far to use Vista.
it looks pretty, the media controls\apps are bit nicer
but otherwise, yeah...that's pretty much it at this point. I still like it though. Been running Enterprise over a year now and have not had a single issue so far.
Just do that start menu search thing and put in 'snipping.'
I would need vista to do that.
But apparently it's a screenshot tool. Pretty much every OS has that already. :P
Yes, but the SnipTool freezes your desktop and allows you to draw a highlight box over whatever you want on the screen and sends it directly to your clipboard
Incredibly helpful when writing documentation and such
FramlingFaceHeadGeebs has bad ideas.Registered Userregular
edited October 2007
This is a really clean one.
You click the deal, and it kinda whites out everything, then you select your box, and it pops your selection up in a window, you can draw on it a little bit, and then just copy it to clipboard or save it or whatever, and it closes.
It's all really tight and fast and efficient.
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plus when i would alt-tab through windows the names of the windows just showed up as those []ish characters
so, i decided to just say "fuck it" and did a nice little sudo aptitude install -f to let it sort itself out
apparently aptitude decided that the only way to solve the dependency issues i was having was to remove the ubuntu-desktop, leaving me with no working GUI
took me half an hour to figure out what the fuck had happened, but i was able to solve everything with an update, upgrade, and reinstall of ubuntu-desktop
scared the hell out of me
that was my excitement for the day
linuxquestions.org is pretty great too.
I swear there are guys who just sit and refresh that site all day, climbing all over each other to be the first one to correctly answer your questions.
Most of the linux machines I work on don't have a gui installed anyway.
bash shell all up ins.
The snipping tool is the only reason I've found so far to use Vista.
your = belonging to you
their = belonging to them
there = not here
they're = they are
Snipping tool?
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Just do that start menu search thing and put in 'snipping.'
your = belonging to you
their = belonging to them
there = not here
they're = they are
That + OneNote = fucking awesome
edit: nevermind. I think that's just the hotkey *I* created it for it
the best part of vista is the sceenshot tool?
your = belonging to you
their = belonging to them
there = not here
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your = belonging to you
their = belonging to them
there = not here
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it looks pretty, the media controls\apps are bit nicer
but otherwise, yeah...that's pretty much it at this point. I still like it though. Been running Enterprise over a year now and have not had a single issue so far.
I would need vista to do that.
But apparently it's a screenshot tool. Pretty much every OS has that already. :P
Yes, but the SnipTool freezes your desktop and allows you to draw a highlight box over whatever you want on the screen and sends it directly to your clipboard
Incredibly helpful when writing documentation and such
You click the deal, and it kinda whites out everything, then you select your box, and it pops your selection up in a window, you can draw on it a little bit, and then just copy it to clipboard or save it or whatever, and it closes.
It's all really tight and fast and efficient.
your = belonging to you
their = belonging to them
there = not here
they're = they are