Linux Ubuntu going over to the dark side

**dirtydog** · 28-07-2007, 11:32 PM

Onto Ubuntu problems, well it seems to have problems with wifi, ie mrs q and thetyim, also the fok doesn't like the beta version of skype, the messaging tends to hang quite a lot, and for some reason my mike doesn't seem to work, I suppose it could be in the wrong hole, but apart from that it all seems pretty damn good.

**friscofrankie** · 29-07-2007, 02:10 AM

I think it's more a problem with e Skype beta release DD the thing was a bitch to get workign with my sound card on SuSE The POS packagmanger installed this version The older version worked OK now I've got to go remove the package and install my older version that always has worked just fine.
I've got my Slaackware machine setup, and All my data moved over (had to burn 12 DVDs and delete over 60 GB of data) I've got Debian, Mandrivia, SuSE (64 bit but I think I'll pass) CentOS, Gentoo and BSD Free; all amd_64 bit releases. I am going to go through them all, Try very basic installs. I'll save BSD for last it is NOT linux but an open source Unix It's an OS I installed via dialup & ftp before Linux was so readily available. I think I want to try using it.

**mrsquirrel** · 29-07-2007, 08:41 AM

Don't forget that Linux Mint - there is a KDE Stable being releasednext week as well.

I am rather impressed by it. ALl the niceties of Ubuntu plus it would appear that all the niggly little things that didn't work for me inUbuntu work in Mint.

Still unusre if moving from SuSE to Mint is necessary though.

**buad hai** · 29-07-2007, 08:58 AM

Originally Posted by Marmite the Dog

I'm using Ubuntu at the moment coming live from Nong Khai.

I thought you were on vacation?!?

**Marmite the Dog** · 01-08-2007, 12:06 AM

Originally Posted by buad hai

Originally Posted by Marmite the Dog

I'm using Ubuntu at the moment coming live from Nong Khai.

I thought you were on vacation?!?

I was/am. The hotel has PCs in the rooms. Cool!

**dirtydog** · 30-07-2007, 06:48 AM

Well I now got 3 hard drives connected up to this beast and they are all working, but I hit a slight snag, obviously I am used to seeing everything in windows, there are thousands upon thousands of files on these drives, ie about 240 gb worth, so basically I cant find anything easily and I am not sure if Ubuntu even has a search function, so if you are thinking of going over to Ubuntu it's probably best to sort out all the shite you need first as everything looks just that tiny little bit different, also on going thru it quickly I got about 60gb of stuff I will never ever use but at the time I downloaded it I thought I would.

Its a bit strange not running any anti virus software every couple of days, adaware once per week, trojan remover every couple of days, spybot once per week, you know the usual sort of stuff you have to do with windows, although I still have the joys of that with my other pc, also this one has windows on it but I really have no idea which partition it is on.

So, to spend the day constructively? ie going thru all my drives and dumping crap and tidying up the rest, or, having a fok around with a bruteforcer I downloaded ages ago that my anti virus software didn't like

**buad hai** · 30-07-2007, 06:55 AM

Beagle? Kat? Google Desktop?

**dirtydog** · 30-07-2007, 07:01 AM

I don't think they will work, ie if I want to upload stuff it wont browse into my other hard drives, I have to move the stuff to desktop or the ubuntu drive, also when you start up you have to log on before ubuntu opens fully, then when you want to view other drives you have to enter your password again, I don't do many restarts on this pc as the on off button dont work so I jam a screw driver onto the circuit board to jump it, probably should get a new on off button I suppose.

**friscofrankie** · 30-07-2007, 07:26 PM

You should be able to mount all your drives. There are several ways to find stuff
KDE has a search function similar to the one in windows explorer called, kfind
it is probably a gui front end to "find" fInd search what ever directory you tell it to for what ver you're looking for for full information on find try typing "man find" at the command prompt
locate or slocate are good utils that search a Database of files on your computer you need to run "updatedb" as root to populate the DB O{n many systems it is setup as a cron job to run every morning, On my system that 's 4:30 AM the util will search every mounted volume on your system, running locate on the system after it's set up and give you a ton of returns, the search is not case sensitive and if you search for "data" it will find every instance of Data, data, DATA, dAtA and so on whether it is directory name part of a dir/file name . locate usually returns way too many hits on simple searches so pipe it through 'less'

**mrsquirrel** · 30-07-2007, 07:36 PM

DD you will need ntfs-3g to get read and write support.

It was pest to install on SuSE since it gave me a massive warning saying my kernel wasn't compatible etc etc. Which actually turned out to be complete overkill and it did work

**dirtydog** · 30-07-2007, 07:47 PM

Originally Posted by friscofrankie

You should be able to mount all your drives

Ahhh, ok that option has come up a few times but I didn't know what it meant, thought maybe it had sussed that the main drive was laying on the floor or something

Seems I got a lot more work to get it all nice and clean and tidy

**Gerbil** · 30-07-2007, 08:23 PM

Originally Posted by dirtydog

Ahhh, ok that option has come up a few times but I didn't know what it meant, thought maybe it had sussed that the main drive was laying on the floor or something

This is all going to end in tears....

Originally Posted by dirtydog

Seems I got a lot more work to get it all nice and clean and tidy

So, remind us. You started this because Windows was too complex?

**dirtydog** · 30-07-2007, 08:33 PM

Well what do you expect when it asks you if you want to mount your drive and you look down at it by your foot

**friscofrankie** · 30-07-2007, 08:42 PM

THanks DD, My Belly -laugh for the day!!

**NickA** · 30-07-2007, 11:43 PM

Originally Posted by dirtydog

also when you start up you have to log on before ubuntu opens fully, then when you want to view other drives you have to enter your password again,

Still not read that link yet DD?

**dirtydog** · 30-07-2007, 11:56 PM

ermmm, I have thought about it quite often, but I have been a bit busy, I mean you know its lent and all that so visiting temples and all that sort of stuff, but I will look at it tomorrow

**mrsquirrel** · 01-08-2007, 05:42 AM

You are at the Pantawee (Katoey) hotel near the bridge aren't you.

Have you tried the spa/jacuzzi thing outside yet?

**Marmite the Dog** · 02-08-2007, 11:33 AM

Originally Posted by mrsquirrel

You are at the Pantawee (Katoey) hotel near the bridge aren't you.

Pantawee Bungalows actually.

Btw, GoW didn't think the boss was a geezer. She was sussed in about 3 seconds.

**dirtydog** · 09-08-2007, 07:45 PM

Well it's been several weeks of using both windows and linux, linux does seem to have one problem, it doesn't seem to have the, "Windows has encountered a problem and needs to close down" screen, the poxy thing just keeps on working, with windows I generally have to do a reboot every couple or 3 days as it gets cloggy and works like shite, last reboot on this linux pc was about 5 days ago I think, never ever got anywhere near that long with windows.

Also don't seem to have the screen that says, "Internet explorer is totally foked and needs to close down" either, funny that aint it.

Still got a couple of bad points though that I haven't got round to sorting out and I reckon they maybe in NickA's link which I shall have a look at tomorrow, yep the old picture resizing and all that sort of thing, I do take a lot of pictures so I really shouldn't be such a lazy git and I should look for linux software that does all the stuff that ACDSee does, pretty sure it is out there if I spent about 60 seconds looking for it.]

So given the choice of paying 200baht for windows or having linux for free, got to admit it is a hard decision, at those prices the money don't really come into it, but to use software where you are not continually updating your anti virus stuff, your adaware stuff, your spybot stuff, your anti trojan stuff, now that sort of thing counts for a lot of time, if it was a choice between a legal version of windows and linux then Bill Gates can kiss my arse, cos that aint worth no 7,000baht, at 200baht I would have second thoughts but would probably buy it just to test it.

**NickA** · 09-08-2007, 09:40 PM

try digikam for downloading, storing and messing about with photos... it does a pretty good job, there's plenty others, but it's the best all round that I've found

**friscofrankie** · 09-08-2007, 10:47 PM

Gthumb great for browsing a directory with images or page through each image rotate, crop contrast, brightness, color balance This is what I have been using for quick crop and resize before posting pics on TD for a couple years. I even used to to rotate all my sideways pics in one go. I nvere tried resizing in bulk (prefer to crop first) so not sure if it'll do that.

The Gimp does everything Photoshop does and is just as easy to learn

There are a few others Gthumb is a Gnome app. But it can be installed and set to run in KDE or any other window manager

DigiKam if your cam is supported is OK There are literally dozens of lightweight apps oth there for simple resize

If the setupo is right your camera should be autmatically detected as a storage divice and most likel mounted under /media/some_dir With SuSe the thing just popped up a filemanager tothe root of the cam-card root.
The system I have no I have deafeated al lthat but hav quick scripts to mount my devices when I want.

**Agent_Smith** · 18-08-2007, 12:47 PM

OK, Ubuntu says my harddrive is full and now I'm getting error messages left and right when I want to do something, even just trying to access my package manager throws up all kinds of little red signs. It says I have 4.3 G available and I'm using 4.1 G and I know damn well that I've got a 120 G hard drive. So what gives?

**dirtydog** · 18-08-2007, 01:06 PM

Accidently made the partition too small?

**Gerbil** · 18-08-2007, 02:20 PM

Originally Posted by friscofrankie

The Gimp does everything Photoshop does and is just as easy to learn

The Gimp is useless for professionals working with CMYK though. There are a number of other drawbacks, but it's generally fine for most uses.

**Agent_Smith** · 18-08-2007, 06:00 PM

Originally Posted by dirtydog

Accidently made the partition too small?

Yeah, this mysterious partition thingy I've heard about. Know the theory about it: separates your hard drive so multiple OS can work on it but I haven't the foggiest how to tinker with it. I've got a partition program in my administrative files but the machine won't let me access it, says it cannot copy Xauthorization File or some such thing when I go about it. Anyway to do this from a terminal window?

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