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Haha yeah, I saw that floating around Google. Way better than the science caption I've seen for that image.

Don't get me wrong, science captions are fine, this one just works better.



In other news, does anyone have any idea why the Debian NetInstall downloads more software for the default environment than the full DVD image has? I installed it on an old computer that couldn't boot from DVD last night and suddenly the full set of sold school GNOME games and utilities is back, which didn't happen on my last full ISO install.
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I'm trying out i3 at the moment: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I3_%28window_manager%29. It's a super-lightweight tiling window manager. It's a pretty steep learning curve - I had to google what to do just to bring up a terminal on boot - but seems pretty easy compared to other tiling wms! It's interesting to play with though. Has anyone had experience with tiling desktops?
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how to set up a linux server in 5 simple steps:
1) ???
2) ???
3) copy & paste some things you don't understand
4) ???
5) done

How to code:
1) ???
2) Copy a script from a cool site
3) ???
4) ???
5) Copy and paste some things you don't understand from Stackoverflow
6) ???
7) Done
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I learnt to code PHP and CSS though ripping apart Wordpress themes by other people and completely changing their look. Much of that was copy-pasting from StackOverflow, but that was actually really educational.

I've been playing with a few different window managers. I think I mentioned I used i3 for a couple of weeks before going back to xfce. I tried TWM for about 10 minutes before getting fed up and am now using MATE. MATE is, surprisingly, more functional than xfce, but panels are not dual monitor compatible from what I can tell.
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wiivn wrote:how to set up a linux server in 5 simple steps:
1) ???
2) ???
3) copy & paste some things you don't understand
4) ???
5) done

How to code:
1) ???
2) Copy a script from a cool site
3) ???
4) ???
5) Copy and paste some things you don't understand from Stackoverflow
6) ???
7) Done
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Keening_Product wrote:I'm trying out i3 at the moment: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I3_%28window_manager%29. It's a super-lightweight tiling window manager. It's a pretty steep learning curve - I had to google what to do just to bring up a terminal on boot - but seems pretty easy compared to other tiling wms!
You might want to use ~/.xinitrc or ~/.xsession to launch programs on startup, so that you don't have to reconfigure that each time you switch window managers. Here's an example script:

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#!/bin/bash
xterm &
exec dbus-launch i3
If you're using a display manager, there's probably a session called "default xsession" or something similar. If you choose that one, it runs the script.
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Thanks for the tips candyjack! :) I'd seen mention of editing some programs into i3's boot through the config file but decided against it - synapse appears immediately on boot and that's enough.
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A heads up to Fedora users with an AMD APU/GPU running on prop drivers: don't update to the latest kernel unless you feel like doing some patching: http://bluehatrecord.wordpress.com/2014 ... rnel-3-14/

I couldn't get that patch to work so am booting to the older kernel for now. It's issues like this that make me want to move back to Ubuntu.
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I never worked up the courage to try fedora, but thanks for the heads up! In other news... Has anyone tried tinycore linux?
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Nope, should I? How is it with AMD drivers? :p

Booted up my computer this morning to find it had forgotten the details of my multi-monitor desktop. Attack of the cloned screens. Not impressed.
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Keening_Product wrote:Nope, should I? How is it with AMD drivers? :p
It's more of an experiment in small size (10mb default) than an os for the masses. Most software you have to install from source if it's not ported to it, although that seems to describe a lot of distributions. As to AMD compatibility sadly I don't think it has full support yet but does at least in part work.
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Hmm, sounds an interesting OS but not what I'm after - I use Linux in a professional environment as well as recreational, so I need something which isn't too time consuming to get working.

If it has a USB drive install option I'll give it a look though!
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Keening_Product wrote: If it has a USB drive install option I'll give it a look though!
In Windows (shocking!) :dopekeen have you ever tried YUMI from pendrivelinux.com? it works in a pinch when I'm feeling lazy about live usb installs, just point it at a drive letter and the disk image and it does the rest. They have a more involved method (most of which is uneccesary) here:
http://wiki.tinycorelinux.net/wiki:install_usb

Just keep in mind I would not recommend this for the average user
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*Bump*
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^Does anyone know a way of running android apps in linux, or is there an alternative paddle wars game that doesn't involve running it through keen? (I need it to look like it's just the screen)

Reason: I have an idea for a project with my Raspberry Pi... ;)
Edit: on a side note are those red buttons on keen's wristwatch or some sort of twist knob? (the arrows are what I'm wondering about)
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Take your pick: https://www.google.com.au/search?q=linu ... 3&ie=UTF-8

And that pi project wouldn't happen to be a wrist computer, would it? :disguised
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