Might be easier to start with truecrypt rather than boot and nuke.
Why's that?
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Apothe0sisHave you ever questioned the nature of your reality?Registered Userregular
Well insofar as anyone knows an appropriately configured truecrypt partition already looks nuked. Provided you have a sufficiently strong encryption key/passphrase in use that is.
The other thing is that it is, in effect, pre-nuked. If someone takes it/whatever there's no lead time to getting it into an unrecoverable state.
But now I realise that I might have misread your question. By which I mean, I know that I did.
Hmm once I get the basics down well I will look into these plugins. Thanks for the tip!
I recommend getting CtrlP (Or Command-T) set up asap. Opening files and switching between files is SO MUCH NICER. Don't even worry that it's not a default thing; I haven't met a Vim user who don't use one of those (or something similar).
What do you guys think of this SteamOS announcement? Personally the only reason I use windows is games, so it would be nice to drop that.
SteamOS won't be replacing Windows for gaming anytime soon. The only games that will be playable on it will be games that have a Linux port already (or runs in DOSBox). SteamOS looks like it's just going to be a customized version of Ubuntu (or something along those lines) using a modified BPM as it's DE.
Right now I think Steam's Linux usage is around 1-2% of all users, which is why so few games are getting Linux ports. The hope is that with a widely available distro targeted specifically at gamers this number will climb, which will get more developers interested in Linux. SteamOS will be capable of streaming gameplay from a Windows PC though, which means that technically any game on Steam will be "playable on Linux", even if it means there is a Windows box hiding behind the curtain.
The biggest allure for a SteamOS box (at first, anyway) seems to be leaving your high powered gaming rig in your office or bedroom, and hooking up a cheap Linux box to your bigscreen TV in the living room and streaming gameplay to it. It won't be viable as a dedicated game platform until more developers are onboard.
On the other hand, I would not be surprised if Valve has been courting devs into porting games to Linux for a while now, and that there will be a bunch of new ports announced once SteamOS goes live.
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I never use my tv but this may get me to change that if for no other reason than to grow linux gaming.
...and when you are done with that; take a folding
chair to Creation and then suplex the Void.
So, I started getting all kinds of I/O errors on my little ArchLinux server, and some files couldn't be read, so I figured it was time for an fsck. Gave it a reboot, just because I'm lazy.
This did, in fact, fix the file system errors.
But, despite the fact that I'd already previously set udev rules to ensure my two network interfaces came up with the right names... it swapped them again. Fucking infuriating.
Fuck ArchLinux. I'm done with this distro. Back when I started supporting it, it was all cool and configurable and sane, but it seems that over the years it's been run with more and more elitist, "who gives a shit if updates are going to break everything it's more correct this way, so fuck you" attitude, and I don't need it. I'm done. Once my wife finishes backing shit up, this goose is getting Ubuntu'd.
So, I started getting all kinds of I/O errors on my little ArchLinux server, and some files couldn't be read, so I figured it was time for an fsck. Gave it a reboot, just because I'm lazy.
This did, in fact, fix the file system errors.
But, despite the fact that I'd already previously set udev rules to ensure my two network interfaces came up with the right names... it swapped them again. Fucking infuriating.
Fuck ArchLinux. I'm done with this distro. Back when I started supporting it, it was all cool and configurable and sane, but it seems that over the years it's been run with more and more elitist, "who gives a shit if updates are going to break everything it's more correct this way, so fuck you" attitude, and I don't need it. I'm done. Once my wife finishes backing shit up, this goose is getting Ubuntu'd.
It's a headless server, so I wouldn't be installing a DE anyway, heh. At this point, it's largely just a firewall/router with some harddrives for network storage; I don't do anything else with it. I'd almost prefer to replace it with a NAS, set my wireless router to route the full network and put the firewall rules on it, but a decent NAS ain't cheap.
It's a headless server, so I wouldn't be installing a DE anyway, heh. At this point, it's largely just a firewall/router with some harddrives for network storage; I don't do anything else with it. I'd almost prefer to replace it with a NAS, set my wireless router to route the full network and put the firewall rules on it, but a decent NAS ain't cheap.
Grr. More I/O errors. I think that drive might be going; I replaced the SATA cable, and it hasn't coughed again yet, but it's making some pretty nasty clicks on boot. I don't think it's long for this world; luckily, the whole reason I noticed it was because my wife was backing everything off of it already anyway. Everything's backed up now, so if it dies, it dies. No skin off my data.
It used to be fine, but they have always been really shitty about upgrading core packages in a destructive way. If you subscribe to the mailing lists, update regularly, and always follow the work-around instructions to fix behaviors and config that breaks when they make major updates, it's a workable system... but I ain't got time for that shit no mo.
It used to be fine, but they have always been really shitty about upgrading core packages in a destructive way. If you subscribe to the mailing lists, update regularly, and always follow the work-around instructions to fix behaviors and config that breaks when they make major updates, it's a workable system... but I ain't got time for that shit no mo.
It used to be fine, but they have always been really shitty about upgrading core packages in a destructive way. If you subscribe to the mailing lists, update regularly, and always follow the work-around instructions to fix behaviors and config that breaks when they make major updates, it's a workable system... but I ain't got time for that shit no mo.
This man speaks the troof.
Third'd. I'll probably switch back to using it again for a while, but I've found the stability of Slackware very difficult to break away from. It's a distro that's more or less me-proof.
Also, Uselesswarrior, you're not alone. I like Unity alright. I like Gnome Shell better, and it's honestly the biggest draw of Arch to me at the moment... Gnome 3 is fucking damn-near impossible to get working on Slackware apparently. Oh well.
It used to be fine, but they have always been really shitty about upgrading core packages in a destructive way. If you subscribe to the mailing lists, update regularly, and always follow the work-around instructions to fix behaviors and config that breaks when they make major updates, it's a workable system... but I ain't got time for that shit no mo.
This man speaks the troof.
Third'd. I'll probably switch back to using it again for a while, but I've found the stability of Slackware very difficult to break away from. It's a distro that's more or less me-proof.
Also, Uselesswarrior, you're not alone. I like Unity alright. I like Gnome Shell better, and it's honestly the biggest draw of Arch to me at the moment... Gnome 3 is fucking damn-near impossible to get working on Slackware apparently. Oh well.
All of you should try out Cinnamon from Mint. It's got a nice, no-nonsense UI (i.e. its not trying to get all experimental with new concepts, but internally uses the Gnome 3 tech).
It used to be fine, but they have always been really shitty about upgrading core packages in a destructive way. If you subscribe to the mailing lists, update regularly, and always follow the work-around instructions to fix behaviors and config that breaks when they make major updates, it's a workable system... but I ain't got time for that shit no mo.
This man speaks the troof.
Third'd. I'll probably switch back to using it again for a while, but I've found the stability of Slackware very difficult to break away from. It's a distro that's more or less me-proof.
Also, Uselesswarrior, you're not alone. I like Unity alright. I like Gnome Shell better, and it's honestly the biggest draw of Arch to me at the moment... Gnome 3 is fucking damn-near impossible to get working on Slackware apparently. Oh well.
All of you should try out Cinnamon from Mint. It's got a nice, no-nonsense UI (i.e. its not trying to get all experimental with new concepts, but internally uses the Gnome 3 tech).
I've been running Xubuntu on my primary work box for awhile now; xfce has always been a neat, simple DE that does exactly what you'd expect a DE to do.
Installed Cinnamon out of curiosity. Within 15 seconds found that there were no options in the settings to move the panel to the left edge, only top/bottom, and uninstalled it.
*edit* It was also appearing on the "wrong" monitor, and while that could probably be fixed, I didn't want it on the top or bottom anyway so didn't bother.
Installed Cinnamon out of curiosity. Within 15 seconds found that there were no options in the settings to move the panel to the left edge, only top/bottom, and uninstalled it.
*edit* It was also appearing on the "wrong" monitor, and while that could probably be fixed, I didn't want it on the top or bottom anyway so didn't bother.
Conclusion: Cinnamon's not for me.
Wrong monitor means you had the wrong primary display set. Top/bottom, well, can't help you at the moment. (does give me an idea for a patch).
Installed Cinnamon out of curiosity. Within 15 seconds found that there were no options in the settings to move the panel to the left edge, only top/bottom, and uninstalled it.
*edit* It was also appearing on the "wrong" monitor, and while that could probably be fixed, I didn't want it on the top or bottom anyway so didn't bother.
Conclusion: Cinnamon's not for me.
Wrong monitor means you had the wrong primary display set. Top/bottom, well, can't help you at the moment. (does give me an idea for a patch).
Like I said, I was sure there was a fix; but haven't most DEs using the panel paradigm allowed you to just drag the sucker around since, like, the late 90s?
Yeah, maybe someday it'll get there, but right now, it's not for me.
Well, instead of going from GRUB to the login screen, it was going to a black screen with a non-blinking cursor. The issue is fixed, I think it was a problem with my video driver (I was using proprietary ATI tech). When I used flgrvx (or whatever) and updated to 13.10, it fixed the problem.
I think it was an incompatibility between the last 13.04 package update and those drivers.
By the way, how essential is a firewall to Linux computing?
If you have other recommendations, I'd be thankful.
How far into Linux are you trying to get? Because unless you want to really dig into the guts it is unnecessary to buy a book in my opinion. An Ubuntu installation is roughly on par with a Windows installation at this point in terms of difficulty. Especially if you are doing a single operating system. Dual booting is a little more complicated but not much. The community around it is pretty huge and there are tutorials and forums aplenty. I can't really speak to the book though.
Sometimes I feel like I'm the only person who likes Unity and GNOME 3. I mean, I only use Xfce these days because I only use Linux on my netbook, but whenever I'm using Linux on a desktop, it's GNOME 3 for me (not so much Unity these days because the privacy policy doesn't sit so well with me). In terms of aesthetics and usability, though, I'm perfectly happy with GNOME 3 and Unity.
Gnome 3 is pretty great, imho. All I really need is a quicksilver-like launcher and Expose. It just gets out of the way. This is coming from a former Openbox user, mind you. ;-)
originally neither unity or gnome3 liked running under a virtual machine or on my netbook, so I pretty actively avoided them
But I also really don't like unity, and no I don't like OS X either
I haven't touched it a lot, but maybe I could get used to gnome3. However, I've set up xfce pretty much the way I like it, so I don't feel like there's much point
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One of the reasons I took to Unity quite well is the taskbar. Under Windows, my taskbar is always icons only on the left, and I set up Xfce much the same way.
So it looks like fglrx out of the ubuntu repos (13.1) finally supports Composite and accelerated graphics together? Just installed it on my desk and the experience seemed pretty steamless. I'm going to chaulk that up to Valve yelling at GPU makers to stop being idiots when they could make millions more dollars selling high end graphics cards to people for the exact amount they save not buying a Windows license.
So now that SteamOS is available for download, has anyone here had a poke at it yet?
It looks like it's currently a pain to duel boot. I've seen people say that they accomplished it by unplugging all their hard drives but one, running the installation, then manually adding the grub entry.
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I think it's time I learned from Gnome Python and implemented a graphical client with inotify for realtime backups.
Why's that?
The other thing is that it is, in effect, pre-nuked. If someone takes it/whatever there's no lead time to getting it into an unrecoverable state.
But now I realise that I might have misread your question. By which I mean, I know that I did.
I recommend getting CtrlP (Or Command-T) set up asap. Opening files and switching between files is SO MUCH NICER. Don't even worry that it's not a default thing; I haven't met a Vim user who don't use one of those (or something similar).
What do you guys think of this SteamOS announcement? Personally the only reason I use windows is games, so it would be nice to drop that.
SteamOS won't be replacing Windows for gaming anytime soon. The only games that will be playable on it will be games that have a Linux port already (or runs in DOSBox). SteamOS looks like it's just going to be a customized version of Ubuntu (or something along those lines) using a modified BPM as it's DE.
Right now I think Steam's Linux usage is around 1-2% of all users, which is why so few games are getting Linux ports. The hope is that with a widely available distro targeted specifically at gamers this number will climb, which will get more developers interested in Linux. SteamOS will be capable of streaming gameplay from a Windows PC though, which means that technically any game on Steam will be "playable on Linux", even if it means there is a Windows box hiding behind the curtain.
The biggest allure for a SteamOS box (at first, anyway) seems to be leaving your high powered gaming rig in your office or bedroom, and hooking up a cheap Linux box to your bigscreen TV in the living room and streaming gameplay to it. It won't be viable as a dedicated game platform until more developers are onboard.
On the other hand, I would not be surprised if Valve has been courting devs into porting games to Linux for a while now, and that there will be a bunch of new ports announced once SteamOS goes live.
chair to Creation and then suplex the Void.
This did, in fact, fix the file system errors.
But, despite the fact that I'd already previously set udev rules to ensure my two network interfaces came up with the right names... it swapped them again. Fucking infuriating.
Fuck ArchLinux. I'm done with this distro. Back when I started supporting it, it was all cool and configurable and sane, but it seems that over the years it's been run with more and more elitist, "who gives a shit if updates are going to break everything it's more correct this way, so fuck you" attitude, and I don't need it. I'm done. Once my wife finishes backing shit up, this goose is getting Ubuntu'd.
Try Linux Mint. Ubuntu sans Unity is good times.
Oh yeah in that case go Ubuntu server definitely.
Also am I the only one that likes Unity?
It used to be fine, but they have always been really shitty about upgrading core packages in a destructive way. If you subscribe to the mailing lists, update regularly, and always follow the work-around instructions to fix behaviors and config that breaks when they make major updates, it's a workable system... but I ain't got time for that shit no mo.
This man speaks the troof.
Third'd. I'll probably switch back to using it again for a while, but I've found the stability of Slackware very difficult to break away from. It's a distro that's more or less me-proof.
Also, Uselesswarrior, you're not alone. I like Unity alright. I like Gnome Shell better, and it's honestly the biggest draw of Arch to me at the moment... Gnome 3 is fucking damn-near impossible to get working on Slackware apparently. Oh well.
All of you should try out Cinnamon from Mint. It's got a nice, no-nonsense UI (i.e. its not trying to get all experimental with new concepts, but internally uses the Gnome 3 tech).
I've been running Xubuntu on my primary work box for awhile now; xfce has always been a neat, simple DE that does exactly what you'd expect a DE to do.
*edit* It was also appearing on the "wrong" monitor, and while that could probably be fixed, I didn't want it on the top or bottom anyway so didn't bother.
Conclusion: Cinnamon's not for me.
Wrong monitor means you had the wrong primary display set. Top/bottom, well, can't help you at the moment. (does give me an idea for a patch).
Like I said, I was sure there was a fix; but haven't most DEs using the panel paradigm allowed you to just drag the sucker around since, like, the late 90s?
Yeah, maybe someday it'll get there, but right now, it's not for me.
Well, instead of going from GRUB to the login screen, it was going to a black screen with a non-blinking cursor. The issue is fixed, I think it was a problem with my video driver (I was using proprietary ATI tech). When I used flgrvx (or whatever) and updated to 13.10, it fixed the problem.
I think it was an incompatibility between the last 13.04 package update and those drivers.
By the way, how essential is a firewall to Linux computing?
Would this be a good book for starting? amazon.ca/Linux-Pocket-Guide-Daniel-Barrett-ebook/dp/B007JWIAGS/ref=sr_1_4_bnp_1_kin?ie=UTF8&qid=1385647032&sr=8-4&keywords=linux
If you have other recommendations, I'd be thankful.
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How far into Linux are you trying to get? Because unless you want to really dig into the guts it is unnecessary to buy a book in my opinion. An Ubuntu installation is roughly on par with a Windows installation at this point in terms of difficulty. Especially if you are doing a single operating system. Dual booting is a little more complicated but not much. The community around it is pretty huge and there are tutorials and forums aplenty. I can't really speak to the book though.
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But I also really don't like unity, and no I don't like OS X either
I haven't touched it a lot, but maybe I could get used to gnome3. However, I've set up xfce pretty much the way I like it, so I don't feel like there's much point
It looks like it's currently a pain to duel boot. I've seen people say that they accomplished it by unplugging all their hard drives but one, running the installation, then manually adding the grub entry.