Josh @ Dreamland
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Posted on: September 01, 2009, 06:46:57 pm |
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Prince of all Goldfish
Location: Pittsburgh, PA, USA Joined: Feb 2008
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I've actually been running Ubuntu for several days now. But I'm just now posting about it.
I haven't told many people at this point, but college started last Monday. Since then, I've had next to no free time. Even now I should be reading... checking what I have to do for economics tomorrow...
Whatever.
I'm trying to work, but my free time has just been sliced. Every day, a new chapter in my biology book (which I should mention has its own orbit) as well as some awful essay or other worthless priceless piece of shit information from this book calledThe Presence of Others. The thing opens "This is a book for and about reading." Jesus.
Anyway, the good news is that everything I expected to work on Linux does in fact do so. With a little luck (and less homework, mind you) I could probably get this thing working on Mac, too. BUt that's complicated in addition by the fact that I don't have a Mac. (I'll just VM It).
Also, I believe ubuntu fixed my card problem by ignoring it. It's piping things through the card, but it is slow as molasses. (Talking of screen savers, not ENIGMA, don't worry)
Now I need to come up with a molecule-based reason that gas (well, Isooctane) burns better than ethanol for my BIOLOGY class. Have a paper to write for economics on the topic that I had some say in choosing: "Does America 'going green' make economic sense?"... I imagine I can sink my teeth into that one. For the same class, though, I'm supposed to read "The Nature of Man", which is some 40 pages. <_<"
At least English... oh, no wait... In addition to that book about reading I mentioned, there's a paper due. Yeah.
Not to mention random calculus assignments, which are basically just numerous and annoying. (Rather than challenging. Our last task was to give intervals on a graph that were increasing and intervals that are decreasing. I could get a kindergartener to do that)
So basically, I'm swamped. I killed more time than I'd liked to have, just writing this.
Not sure what else to say. I'm in no position to make promises. But I will work some on it today.
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"That is the single most cryptic piece of code I have ever seen." -Master PobbleWobble "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." -Evelyn Beatrice Hall, Friends of Voltaire
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RetroX
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Reply #2 Posted on: September 01, 2009, 08:08:19 pm |
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Master of all things Linux
Location: US Joined: Apr 2008
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I use Arch Linux. I'm using the default VGA drivers right now, and it's amazingly fast for no hardware acceleration. Screensavers don't work, though, and Compiz asplodes my computer everytime I turn it on. Also, Linux is the kernel, not the OS.
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« Last Edit: September 01, 2009, 10:30:01 pm by RetroX »
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My Box: Phenom II 3.4GHz X4 | ASUS ATI RadeonHD 5770, 1GB GDDR5 RAM | 1x4GB DDR3 SRAM | Arch Linux, x86_64 (Cube) / Windows 7 x64 (Blob)Why do all the pro-Microsoft people have troll avatars?
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luiscubal
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Reply #5 Posted on: September 02, 2009, 09:39:37 am |
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The debate about "GNU/Linux" is precisely that. The fact that Linux distros include GNU code. However, since nobody bothers calling it "GNU/X11/Mozilla/OpenOffice.org/Mono/Linux"(or worst "GNU/X11/Mozilla/OpenOffice.org/Mono/Apache/PHP/MySQL/Linux"), we might as well just use "Linux" and pretend it includes all that stuff or we just call it "Ubuntu". And bothering idealistic GNU sillyheads is the best part. Good luck with your homework. Now onto the daily flame, I'm on holidays so I have no homework. BWAHAHAHAHAHA! But I fear I may not be laughing for much longer
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Josh @ Dreamland
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Reply #9 Posted on: September 02, 2009, 05:50:47 pm |
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Prince of all Goldfish
Location: Pittsburgh, PA, USA Joined: Feb 2008
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We just running low on things to argue about? Anyway, no, that wasn't a typo. I know 40 pages isn't really that bad, but to just have it dropped on us like that... And that's in addition to my other pages of reading which are about the same number from each class. Unless you were talking of the subject, which also wasn't a typo. It's really that boring. I did like this paragraph though: George Bernard Shaw, the famous playwright and social thinker, reportedly once claimed that while on an ocean voyage he asked a celebrated actress on deck one evening whether she would be willing to sleep with him for a million dollars. She was agreeable. He followed with a counterproposal: “What about ten dollars?” “What do you think I am?” she responded indignantly. He replied, “We’ve already established that—now we’re just haggling over price.”
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"That is the single most cryptic piece of code I have ever seen." -Master PobbleWobble "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." -Evelyn Beatrice Hall, Friends of Voltaire
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Reply #11 Posted on: September 08, 2009, 08:51:21 pm |
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Master of all things Linux
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Josh, Mac is the only OS you can't VM
It's UNIX. Solaris works in VM. Why won't OS X? Also, Rusky, why do you have to go through all the pain and frustration of arguing over Linux vs. GNU/Linux when you could just say "Greetings from Ubuntu" instead? And for the record, I use Arch Linux. Which, really, to be honest, is mostly just Linux when you first install it. The only difference is a fancyized installer and login.
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My Box: Phenom II 3.4GHz X4 | ASUS ATI RadeonHD 5770, 1GB GDDR5 RAM | 1x4GB DDR3 SRAM | Arch Linux, x86_64 (Cube) / Windows 7 x64 (Blob)Why do all the pro-Microsoft people have troll avatars?
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Josh @ Dreamland
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Reply #14 Posted on: September 09, 2009, 03:24:25 pm |
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Prince of all Goldfish
Location: Pittsburgh, PA, USA Joined: Feb 2008
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Basically.
I had OS X working for a glorious twelve minutes with 100 byte/second internet and basically zero applications. Didn't get as far as installing their 400GB "development basics" package before it all died, though.
(400GB is a slight exaggeration, 100b/s is not)
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"That is the single most cryptic piece of code I have ever seen." -Master PobbleWobble "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." -Evelyn Beatrice Hall, Friends of Voltaire
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