So, popped in the Fedora 11 live cd. It got to the desktop, and holy shit... biggest fonts ever. Quite an annoying bug. I'm not exaggerating when I say two of three words (small words, like "please" or "select") take up 100% of my screen.
Figured I might try installing it and seeing if it's just the live cd being shitty, but I can't even navigate the installer with these ridiculous clown fonts.
If modifying files on an ntfs mount bugs you under linux, mount it as read-only. Presto, all better, not even root can change stuff. You can also mount the filesystem giving access to a specific user id, this doesn't effect root's access, but you could use it to give a single user access (to the entire drive).
I guess if you were really serious about it you could set up selinux acl's to control access.
But expecting a linux install to somehow parse and respect native windows permissions is 100% ridiculous. If you really want that level of control.. the best option is to put all your data on a network accessible drive, and control access with one of the many ways to share files on a network.
I'm completely baffled by Linux code and what not but wanted to give Ubuntu a try. I have two partitions already, one with Windows 7 and the other 20GB's of empty space totally formatted. I downloaded the 9.04 Ubuntu and tried to install but when it got to the partitioning part of the install I got utterly lost and confused by the wording and how it was going about doing that. Google searches didn't seem to help me because they kept saying to choose "Use the largest contentious space" option, which I didn't have.
Basically, I just got super nerves i was going to destroy my Windows 7 install. What's the trick installing 9.04 when I already have Windows 7 installed on one partition and a second partition already ready?
I'm completely baffled by Linux code and what not but wanted to give Ubuntu a try. I have two partitions already, one with Windows 7 and the other 20GB's of empty space totally formatted. I downloaded the 9.04 Ubuntu and tried to install but when it got to the partitioning part of the install I got utterly lost and confused by the wording and how it was going about doing that. Google searches didn't seem to help me because they kept saying to choose "Use the largest contentious space" option, which I didn't have.
Basically, I just got super nerves i was going to destroy my Windows 7 install. What's the trick installing 9.04 when I already have Windows 7 installed on one partition and a second partition already ready?
If you created the partition from within windows ubuntu wont be able to install onto it (at least i don't think so). If you aren't confident for your first install i'd recommend booting into windows where you are comfortable and deleting the 20gig partition, which can be done through the windows disk management software. You can then simply tell ubuntu to use the free space, and everything will get done for you automagically.
Edit: to be clear, all this can be done from within the ubuntu installer, but i dont have an ubuntu disk on hand to guide you through it, so windows (or whatever other method you used to create the partition in the first place) seems a safer option.
I'm pretty sure I made both partitions using GParted when I was installing Windows 7. Previously, I had Vista on the larger partition and Windows 7 on the smaller, but then used Gparted to format and partition both before getting completely rid of Vista and installing Windows 7 on the larger partition leaving the smaller blank.
I just kinda figured I'd get the option like in Windows install to just choose which partition to install it. but I guess not.
I'm completely baffled by Linux code and what not but wanted to give Ubuntu a try. I have two partitions already, one with Windows 7 and the other 20GB's of empty space totally formatted. I downloaded the 9.04 Ubuntu and tried to install but when it got to the partitioning part of the install I got utterly lost and confused by the wording and how it was going about doing that. Google searches didn't seem to help me because they kept saying to choose "Use the largest contentious space" option, which I didn't have.
Basically, I just got super nerves i was going to destroy my Windows 7 install. What's the trick installing 9.04 when I already have Windows 7 installed on one partition and a second partition already ready?
Once you get used to partitioning, it's always pretty easy. Most major (and non-major) linux distros have similar partitioning dealies that help you through the process. That said, one time I got burned by an install (I think it was PCLinuxOS, but I'm not sure) where I assumed it would bring up a partitioner, but ended up wiping everything without asking me. That was a bit... annoying.
Off topic though. Anyway, for Ubuntu's specifically, there should be like a dialogue with two multi-colored bars and some check boxes and stuff. Click the bottom check box (I'm pretty sure) that says something like "manually partition," then click "next."
It'll bring up another dialogue with your hdd's partitions, so in your case, you should see two. Double click on the partition that isn't your windows partition, and it brings up another dialogue with some options. What I usually do is set the file system to ext3/4 and the mount point to "/". I can't recall what the third option is (even though I just reinstalled 9.04 like, two hours ago... I'm a bit of an idiot sometimes), but it's nothing too complicated.
Click okay. Back where it's listing your partitions, the "format" checkbox should be checked on your linux partition now. Click "next" and continue on with the install.
This is all assuming you've got a decent amount of ram and don't need a swap partition. Traditionally, you would set one up, but in this day n' age of people with 4-8 gigs of ram standard, it's not as necessary. If you want one, you'll have to resize that empty partition to one gig less than one it was, and format your new 1 gig partition with "linux-swap" as the file system. I haven't used Ubuntu's partitioner to do it personally, since I've had a swap partition on my laptop for years, but I assume it's as described... nice and easy.
yeah, i think at one point I just tried the default and it made a 2.5GB unallocated partition for Ubuntu and I had to repair Windows when I canceled out of the install... Whoops. Now i have 2.5GB's of unallocated space on the Disk Manager in Windows. Suppose I need to drop in GParted and put that back into the windows Partition or probably just and 2GB's to the Ubuntu one for the hell of it and to not screw up the Windows stuff.
Not a huge deal. Like the Photon was saying, it might be easier to use the "install into empty space" option or whatever it is than to do what I suggested. So you could just delete your linux partition, and have that + 2.5 gigs of space to install Ubuntu into.
That's how I'd do it, anyway. Reformatting only takes like, ten seconds anyway.
But would I do your previous walkthrough to specifically put it on the second partion I already have created? I mean, it's already there ready for it and I want to put it on the 20GB (now 22.5GB...) partition.
I honestly can't remember if there's a "use this partition right motherfuckin' here" option before "going advanced" and doing it the manual way. If not, you'll need to do it manually as I described earlier. If you're against formatting again for whatever reason, just do the mount point option when you double click on the partition and leave the file system alone. That should do the trick.
Right before you click the last button in the install, the installer shows you a dialogue (styled almost like an EULA, except it's just your install options), and if shit doesn't look right, you can always go back and edit stuff.
Worst comes to worst, you'll borke your linux install and be no worse off anyway, so go nuts. Just don't format your windows install.
There isn't an option for "Using this partition right motherfuckin' here' sadly. How when I trying to do what you mentioned above, it's saying I need a swap area, which I guess I don't have (Considering I have no idea what it is). Would I just set the partition that I'm trying to put Ubuntu on as that or what?
Man, I figured the hard linux stuff would happen after I had installed it.
EDIT: re-read the end of your previous posts. Just went ahead without a swap area since I have 4GB of RAM. lets see what happens.
There isn't an option for "Using this partition right motherfuckin' here' sadly. How when I trying to do what you mentioned above, it's saying I need a swap area, which I guess I don't have (Considering I have no idea what it is). Would I just set the partition that I'm trying to put Ubuntu on as that or what?
Man, I figured the hard linux stuff would happen after I had installed it.
EDIT: re-read the end of your previous posts. Just went ahead without a swap area since I have 4GB of RAM. lets see what happens.
Swap is where the operating system puts stuff when it runs out of memory, or if it needs to toss something that's not being used to make room for an active program.
Right up to the point of apparently forgetting my password so I can't log in for the first time. Which is incredible odd since I'm pretty positive what i put it, it's just not accepting it.
Right up to the point of apparently forgetting my password so I can't log in for the first time. Which is incredible odd since I'm pretty positive what i put it, it's just not accepting it.
There's a thing you can do at boot to reset your password, but I can't remember it.
Right up to the point of apparently forgetting my password so I can't log in for the first time. Which is incredible odd since I'm pretty positive what i put it, it's just not accepting it.
There's a thing you can do at boot to reset your password, but I can't remember it.
Considering I hadn't even gotten into the OS, I just said screw it and went back and reinstalled since it didn't take long. Now I'm all set up and got logged in this time.
THe font different is throwing me off the most, oddly enough. And I know jack nothing about Linux so this is kinda weird.
EDIT; So, one of the major reasons I did this install is that I wanted to try out Boxee. I got it to install (I think. It shows up in Audio/Video) but when I click it, nothing happens. It shows "Starting Boxee" at the bottom bar for a bit then disappears.
Right up to the point of apparently forgetting my password so I can't log in for the first time. Which is incredible odd since I'm pretty positive what i put it, it's just not accepting it.
There's a thing you can do at boot to reset your password, but I can't remember it.
Start recovery mode (single user) which logs you in as root, then use passwd <user> to set the password.
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Right up to the point of apparently forgetting my password so I can't log in for the first time. Which is incredible odd since I'm pretty positive what i put it, it's just not accepting it.
There's a thing you can do at boot to reset your password, but I can't remember it.
Start recovery mode (single user) which logs you in as root, then use passwd <user> to set the password.
What's annoying is that I knew all this, but couldn't remember the exact key and startup command, and was too lazy to look it up.
School has kept me away from Linux for way too long.
Right up to the point of apparently forgetting my password so I can't log in for the first time. Which is incredible odd since I'm pretty positive what i put it, it's just not accepting it.
There's a thing you can do at boot to reset your password, but I can't remember it.
Considering I hadn't even gotten into the OS, I just said screw it and went back and reinstalled since it didn't take long. Now I'm all set up and got logged in this time.
THe font different is throwing me off the most, oddly enough. And I know jack nothing about Linux so this is kinda weird.
EDIT; So, one of the major reasons I did this install is that I wanted to try out Boxee. I got it to install (I think. It shows up in Audio/Video) but when I click it, nothing happens. It shows "Starting Boxee" at the bottom bar for a bit then disappears.
After you get used to the fonts (which are rendered more OSXish) and get your desktop set up in a nice easy-to-use manner, it will be hard to go back to windows. It will be hard to pin down at first until it suddenly occurs to you that everything is using the same menus and icons and shortcuts (for the most part), and it all looks very unified. There are exceptions to the rule of course.
Also for some reason the icons for various desktops that come with Linux distros tend to (for some reason) be wildly better than what you get with Windows (or even Mac in some cases). I'm not sure why that is considering people are getting PAID to do the icons for those OSes.
Tried out Fedora 11 yesterday with nothing but problems. Wound up going to Ubuntu (already somewhat familiar with it). I wanted to like Fedora, but it doesn't "just work" nearly as well as Ubuntu does (and Ubuntu itself has some issues).
But the moral of the story is that I've moved my Lenovo T61p from 80gbs of windows vista to 500 gb of Vista and Ubuntu, without having to reinstall my Vista system.
It really is nice to have both, and I think I'll be spending most of my time in Ubuntu (once I install my old copy of XP in VMware in order to run the zune software, anyway).
Tried out Fedora 11 yesterday with nothing but problems. Wound up going to Ubuntu (already somewhat familiar with it). I wanted to like Fedora, but it doesn't "just work" nearly as well as Ubuntu does (and Ubuntu itself has some issues).
The Kubuntu guys were pretty careless with how they released Amarok 2.1. I finally upgraded to Jaunty and decided to install it, so I enabled the repository that they said to add. The problem was that there were pre-release packages of KDE 4.3 (which is currently in testing for Karmic) in the same repository as Amarok, so I was welcomed with a broken KDE installation. Once I got it working again manually downloading and installing the Amarok 2.1 packages (and the lone dependency I needed) got things back to normal.
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Hi guys, I have a USB disk that I'm having a little trouble playing some video files from - some working some time and the other times they don't. How do I run a disk check on a USB disk?
Tried out Fedora 11 yesterday with nothing but problems. Wound up going to Ubuntu (already somewhat familiar with it). I wanted to like Fedora, but it doesn't "just work" nearly as well as Ubuntu does (and Ubuntu itself has some issues).
The Kubuntu guys were pretty careless with how they released Amarok 2.1. I finally upgraded to Jaunty and decided to install it, so I enabled the repository that they said to add. The problem was that there were pre-release packages of KDE 4.3 (which is currently in testing for Karmic) in the same repository as Amarok, so I was welcomed with a broken KDE installation. Once I got it working again manually downloading and installing the Amarok 2.1 packages (and the lone dependency I needed) got things back to normal.
My experience with Kubuntu was about on par with my Fedora experience. I initially installed Fedora because I wanted to play around with KDE 4.2, but it's not worth the hassle so I'll stick with Ubuntu / Gnome for the time being.
I can't do crap with crontab and I have no idea why. Anything I do just gets sent to my user in a mail. I'm trying to start my NZB-client and then close it at a set time. crontab looks like this:
crontab -l
# m h dom mon dow command
0 1 * * * hellanzb >> /dev/tty1
30 9 * * * killall hellanzb
No luck with that. Also, I made a new directory. I don't remember how I made it, but I usually just mkdir it. Anyway, this is different. My bash color coding makes it light up and when I do a "file" on it, it says: directory-in-question: setuid setgid sticky directory
where it normally just says directory. I didn't have write access to it as a user either, but I fixed that with a chmod a+r, so this is mostly a curiousity question.
The path in cron might be messed up. Try listing the full path of the command you're trying to run.
Also, any output from the job (stdout or stderr) will be sent via email to the user who ran the job. So if you don't want that output.. send it to /dev/null. Ie:
/usr/bin/killall hellanzb > /dev/null 2>&1
(the 2>&1 forces stderr to go to the same place stdout does)
Tried out Fedora 11 yesterday with nothing but problems. Wound up going to Ubuntu (already somewhat familiar with it). I wanted to like Fedora, but it doesn't "just work" nearly as well as Ubuntu does (and Ubuntu itself has some issues).
The Kubuntu guys were pretty careless with how they released Amarok 2.1. I finally upgraded to Jaunty and decided to install it, so I enabled the repository that they said to add. The problem was that there were pre-release packages of KDE 4.3 (which is currently in testing for Karmic) in the same repository as Amarok, so I was welcomed with a broken KDE installation. Once I got it working again manually downloading and installing the Amarok 2.1 packages (and the lone dependency I needed) got things back to normal.
My experience with Kubuntu was about on par with my Fedora experience. I initially installed Fedora because I wanted to play around with KDE 4.2, but it's not worth the hassle so I'll stick with Ubuntu / Gnome for the time being.
Keep in mind that these are extra repositories that you have to add manually, but I think there's only one or two people that are paid to work on Kubuntu proper. That said, I personally like KDE and its apps much more than GNOME (which I usually describe as clunky and/or slow). At least it seems that they have fixed the problem with Nautilus and the file dialogs being slow to bring up directory listings, because that has been a problem since I started using Ubuntu (started with Dapper). Even when I used GNOME I replaced almost everything with KDE/Qt apps :P
That said, KDE 4.2 is actually pretty nice (I had been using it in Intrepid for several months).
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The path in cron might be messed up. Try listing the full path of the command you're trying to run.
Also, any output from the job (stdout or stderr) will be sent via email to the user who ran the job. So if you don't want that output.. send it to /dev/null. Ie:
/usr/bin/killall hellanzb > /dev/null 2>&1
(the 2>&1 forces stderr to go to the same place stdout does)
Why not just use &> /dev/null ?
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I can't do crap with crontab and I have no idea why. Anything I do just gets sent to my user in a mail. I'm trying to start my NZB-client and then close it at a set time. crontab looks like this:
crontab -l
# m h dom mon dow command
0 1 * * * hellanzb >> /dev/tty1
30 9 * * * killall hellanzb
No luck with that. Also, I made a new directory. I don't remember how I made it, but I usually just mkdir it. Anyway, this is different. My bash color coding makes it light up and when I do a "file" on it, it says: directory-in-question: setuid setgid sticky directory
where it normally just says directory. I didn't have write access to it as a user either, but I fixed that with a chmod a+r, so this is mostly a curiousity question.
I hate cron. However, a sticky file/directory is a (in this case) directory that can only be appended to. Meaning it should only be able to have files added to or current files can only have contents added to. Nothing can be deleted.
No, the sticky bit on a directory specifies that only root or the owner of the directory can remove or rename files inside that directory. It ignores group ownership of the file.
Fucking hell... I've been trying to install Ubuntu (first Eeebuntu 3.0 Standard and now Ubuntu Netbook Remix) on my Eee PC 901 for several hours now but to no avail... After installing or booting I always get a black screen with a flashing underscore at the top. I've been searching through several forums since the beginning of this afternoon but I can't seem to find a fix to this particular issue.
This sucks.
edit: Ok, great now it just takes me to a black screen saying GRUB...
edit2: I can't believe this. All I had to do was change the hard drives order...
Yeah, a blinking cursor shortly after post is usually a boot loader issue.. such as not being able to find the hard drive where it was told to look for.
Also, apparently Win32disk-image-writer, the little app needed to put Moblin on a USB drive under Windows doesn't appear to work correctly with Windows 7 atm. Just a heads up. I needed to use it on a XP machine to get it to work.
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Figured I might try installing it and seeing if it's just the live cd being shitty, but I can't even navigate the installer with these ridiculous clown fonts.
Guess it's time to move on to Jaunty.
I guess if you were really serious about it you could set up selinux acl's to control access.
But expecting a linux install to somehow parse and respect native windows permissions is 100% ridiculous. If you really want that level of control.. the best option is to put all your data on a network accessible drive, and control access with one of the many ways to share files on a network.
Basically, I just got super nerves i was going to destroy my Windows 7 install. What's the trick installing 9.04 when I already have Windows 7 installed on one partition and a second partition already ready?
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If you created the partition from within windows ubuntu wont be able to install onto it (at least i don't think so). If you aren't confident for your first install i'd recommend booting into windows where you are comfortable and deleting the 20gig partition, which can be done through the windows disk management software. You can then simply tell ubuntu to use the free space, and everything will get done for you automagically.
Edit: to be clear, all this can be done from within the ubuntu installer, but i dont have an ubuntu disk on hand to guide you through it, so windows (or whatever other method you used to create the partition in the first place) seems a safer option.
I just kinda figured I'd get the option like in Windows install to just choose which partition to install it. but I guess not.
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Once you get used to partitioning, it's always pretty easy. Most major (and non-major) linux distros have similar partitioning dealies that help you through the process. That said, one time I got burned by an install (I think it was PCLinuxOS, but I'm not sure) where I assumed it would bring up a partitioner, but ended up wiping everything without asking me. That was a bit... annoying.
Off topic though. Anyway, for Ubuntu's specifically, there should be like a dialogue with two multi-colored bars and some check boxes and stuff. Click the bottom check box (I'm pretty sure) that says something like "manually partition," then click "next."
It'll bring up another dialogue with your hdd's partitions, so in your case, you should see two. Double click on the partition that isn't your windows partition, and it brings up another dialogue with some options. What I usually do is set the file system to ext3/4 and the mount point to "/". I can't recall what the third option is (even though I just reinstalled 9.04 like, two hours ago... I'm a bit of an idiot sometimes), but it's nothing too complicated.
Click okay. Back where it's listing your partitions, the "format" checkbox should be checked on your linux partition now. Click "next" and continue on with the install.
This is all assuming you've got a decent amount of ram and don't need a swap partition. Traditionally, you would set one up, but in this day n' age of people with 4-8 gigs of ram standard, it's not as necessary. If you want one, you'll have to resize that empty partition to one gig less than one it was, and format your new 1 gig partition with "linux-swap" as the file system. I haven't used Ubuntu's partitioner to do it personally, since I've had a swap partition on my laptop for years, but I assume it's as described... nice and easy.
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That's how I'd do it, anyway. Reformatting only takes like, ten seconds anyway.
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Right before you click the last button in the install, the installer shows you a dialogue (styled almost like an EULA, except it's just your install options), and if shit doesn't look right, you can always go back and edit stuff.
Worst comes to worst, you'll borke your linux install and be no worse off anyway, so go nuts. Just don't format your windows install.
Man, I figured the hard linux stuff would happen after I had installed it.
EDIT: re-read the end of your previous posts. Just went ahead without a swap area since I have 4GB of RAM. lets see what happens.
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Swap is where the operating system puts stuff when it runs out of memory, or if it needs to toss something that's not being used to make room for an active program.
Right up to the point of apparently forgetting my password so I can't log in for the first time. Which is incredible odd since I'm pretty positive what i put it, it's just not accepting it.
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There's a thing you can do at boot to reset your password, but I can't remember it.
Considering I hadn't even gotten into the OS, I just said screw it and went back and reinstalled since it didn't take long. Now I'm all set up and got logged in this time.
THe font different is throwing me off the most, oddly enough. And I know jack nothing about Linux so this is kinda weird.
EDIT; So, one of the major reasons I did this install is that I wanted to try out Boxee. I got it to install (I think. It shows up in Audio/Video) but when I click it, nothing happens. It shows "Starting Boxee" at the bottom bar for a bit then disappears.
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Start recovery mode (single user) which logs you in as root, then use passwd <user> to set the password.
What's annoying is that I knew all this, but couldn't remember the exact key and startup command, and was too lazy to look it up.
School has kept me away from Linux for way too long.
After you get used to the fonts (which are rendered more OSXish) and get your desktop set up in a nice easy-to-use manner, it will be hard to go back to windows. It will be hard to pin down at first until it suddenly occurs to you that everything is using the same menus and icons and shortcuts (for the most part), and it all looks very unified. There are exceptions to the rule of course.
Also for some reason the icons for various desktops that come with Linux distros tend to (for some reason) be wildly better than what you get with Windows (or even Mac in some cases). I'm not sure why that is considering people are getting PAID to do the icons for those OSes.
But the moral of the story is that I've moved my Lenovo T61p from 80gbs of windows vista to 500 gb of Vista and Ubuntu, without having to reinstall my Vista system.
It really is nice to have both, and I think I'll be spending most of my time in Ubuntu (once I install my old copy of XP in VMware in order to run the zune software, anyway).
The Kubuntu guys were pretty careless with how they released Amarok 2.1. I finally upgraded to Jaunty and decided to install it, so I enabled the repository that they said to add. The problem was that there were pre-release packages of KDE 4.3 (which is currently in testing for Karmic) in the same repository as Amarok, so I was welcomed with a broken KDE installation. Once I got it working again manually downloading and installing the Amarok 2.1 packages (and the lone dependency I needed) got things back to normal.
My experience with Kubuntu was about on par with my Fedora experience. I initially installed Fedora because I wanted to play around with KDE 4.2, but it's not worth the hassle so I'll stick with Ubuntu / Gnome for the time being.
I can't do crap with crontab and I have no idea why. Anything I do just gets sent to my user in a mail. I'm trying to start my NZB-client and then close it at a set time. crontab looks like this:
No luck with that. Also, I made a new directory. I don't remember how I made it, but I usually just mkdir it. Anyway, this is different. My bash color coding makes it light up and when I do a "file" on it, it says:
directory-in-question: setuid setgid sticky directory
where it normally just says directory. I didn't have write access to it as a user either, but I fixed that with a chmod a+r, so this is mostly a curiousity question.
Also, any output from the job (stdout or stderr) will be sent via email to the user who ran the job. So if you don't want that output.. send it to /dev/null. Ie:
/usr/bin/killall hellanzb > /dev/null 2>&1
(the 2>&1 forces stderr to go to the same place stdout does)
Keep in mind that these are extra repositories that you have to add manually, but I think there's only one or two people that are paid to work on Kubuntu proper. That said, I personally like KDE and its apps much more than GNOME (which I usually describe as clunky and/or slow). At least it seems that they have fixed the problem with Nautilus and the file dialogs being slow to bring up directory listings, because that has been a problem since I started using Ubuntu (started with Dapper). Even when I used GNOME I replaced almost everything with KDE/Qt apps :P
That said, KDE 4.2 is actually pretty nice (I had been using it in Intrepid for several months).
Why not just use &> /dev/null ?
I hate cron. However, a sticky file/directory is a (in this case) directory that can only be appended to. Meaning it should only be able to have files added to or current files can only have contents added to. Nothing can be deleted.
Or so my simple understanding is.
Will remove the sticky bit.
In gnome when I click in the bar it just puts the cursor there. Any way to get first click highlight or whatever you call it?
pseudoedit: find "browser.urlbar.clickSelectsAll" and set it to true.
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This sucks.
edit: Ok, great now it just takes me to a black screen saying GRUB...
edit2: I can't believe this. All I had to do was change the hard drives order...
Also, apparently Win32disk-image-writer, the little app needed to put Moblin on a USB drive under Windows doesn't appear to work correctly with Windows 7 atm. Just a heads up. I needed to use it on a XP machine to get it to work.