recorded my ubuntu desktop
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[Jul 14,2007 12:00pm - sxealex nli ""]
Playing around with a desktop recording utility.
a little skippy but fun eitherway.
just gotta get sound working
bennyhillifier
[Jul 14,2007 12:15pm - menstrual_sweatpants_disco ""]
snazzy. linux is finally looking like a more friendly os for casual desktop use (in my opinion anyway. I know people have loved it for that use for years)
[Jul 14,2007 12:20pm - sxealex nli ""]
i didnt have to type a single command this was all point and click set up
[Jul 14,2007 12:23pm - menstrual_sweatpants_disco ""]
Oh I don't mean the use of the command line... I mean that generally the default setup of the GUIs with most distros is boring.
Is this KDE or Gnome?
[Jul 14,2007 12:26pm - the_reverend ""]
huh, how did you get that 3-d cube thing to work?
[Jul 14,2007 12:44pm - sxealex nli ""]
synaptic package manager type beryl click all the boxes except the debg stuff... then u can add it as a start up item. i dunno maybe i had to add a repository but i dont remember doing it.
[Jul 14,2007 2:41pm - timjohn ""]
pretty slick looking
[Jul 14,2007 4:39pm - thegreatspaldino ""]
sick... im gonna be dual booting ubuntu 7.04 and xp soon. this has made me even more excited.
[Jul 14,2007 4:45pm - the_reverend ""]
I'm running 7.04 now. it you are used to redhat, suse, or any of the others that people use, things are in different places. ubuntu is debian based like knoppix.
[Jul 14,2007 5:48pm - sxealex ""]
yea but whatever its still really similar.
[Jul 14,2007 5:51pm - sxealex ""]
menstrual_sweatpants_disco said:Oh I don't mean the use of the command line... I mean that generally the default setup of the GUIs with most distros is boring.
Is this KDE or Gnome?
its gnome. i had an almost identical set up on kde... but as u know gnome is like 1/2 as much of a system hog. The window manager is independent of the desktop environment im pretty sure u can use anything i think maybe. my friend was using enlightenment i dunno if beryl will work with that ill hav eto find out.
[Jul 14,2007 6:04pm - the_reverend ""]
I always wanted to install enlightenment, but I always forget too.
that used to be the king of hoggy windows managers.
[Jul 14,2007 6:10pm - thegreatspaldino ""]
the_reverend said:I'm running 7.04 now. it you are used to redhat, suse, or any of the others that people use, things are in different places. ubuntu is debian based like knoppix.
i used fedora core 6 for like a month... so im not really too used to how it was. ubuntu looks like it will be better for me.
[Jul 14,2007 6:47pm - sxealex ""]
the_reverend said:I always wanted to install enlightenment, but I always forget too.
that used to be the king of hoggy windows managers.
the dood i know thats using it says it takes up only 25 megs of ram
[Jul 14,2007 6:48pm - the_reverend ""]
it's just they put system things in sligtly different locations. plus with debian you never log in as root, you always have to sudo
[Jul 14,2007 6:49pm - sxealex ""]
yea the root account is disabled. makes getting hacked that much harder
[Jul 14,2007 7:43pm - the_reverend ""]
yeah, but it's just a bit more annoying cause I can't do a lot of thngs as easily.
[Jul 15,2007 12:33am - sxealex ""]
u can enable the root account
[Jul 15,2007 12:35am - sxealex ""]
just do sudo passwd root
[Jul 15,2007 8:12pm - the_reverend ""]
sxealex said:the dood i know thats using it says it takes up only 25 megs of ram
when I last looked at enlightenment, it was for a 33mhz sunOS machine with a 30MB hard drive.
[Jul 15,2007 8:29pm - sxealex ""]
im 23... my first computer had a 30 mb hd
[Jul 15,2007 8:29pm - sxealex ""]
and believe me i didnt know what linux was
[Jul 15,2007 8:32pm - the_reverend ""]
my first "computer" was an odessy II back when I was like 5-7.
http://www.videogamecritic.net/odd.htm
my second was the commadore 64 with a tape drive!
and it was running sunOS, not linux.
[Jul 15,2007 8:32pm - the_reverend ""]
how do you get it to do the 3D cube thing?
[Jul 15,2007 9:01pm - sxealex ""]
sxealex nli said:synaptic package manager type beryl click all the boxes except the debg stuff... then u can add it as a start up item. i dunno maybe i had to add a repository but i dont remember doing it.
[Jul 15,2007 9:01pm - sxealex ""]
and ps i set it up on another comp last night no repository required
[Jul 15,2007 9:12pm - the_reverend ""]
ok, let me re-phrase.
I installed beryl already. how do you activate the cube-looking feature of this OS?
[Jul 15,2007 10:06pm - thegreatspaldino ""]
i NEED to install ubuntu... my gf wants her sims game to stay though... fucking women.
[Jul 16,2007 9:03am - menstrual_sweatpants_disco ""]
Hit her.
[Jul 16,2007 9:16am - the_reverend ""]
HEY EX-TTOS FAG000T, TELL ME HOW TO ACTIVATE THE POWERS OF THE CUBE.
[Jul 16,2007 9:36am - DestroyYouAlot ""]
the_reverend said:my first "computer" was an odessy II back when I was like 5-7.
http://www.videogamecritic.net/odd.htm
my second was the commadore 64 with a tape drive!
and it was running sunOS, not linux.
Commodore VIC 20, beeyatch! Fuck you and your new-school "disk drive." Magnetic tape is the wave of the future!
the_reverend said:HEY EX-TTOS FAG000T, TELL ME HOW TO ACTIVATE THE POWERS OF THE CUBE.
The time cube?
[Jul 16,2007 9:38am - DestroyYouAlot ""]
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Word God is Bad Math
MATH SHOWN HERE IS
FAR SUPERIOR TO GOD
AND CHRISTIANITY. USE
IT TO SAVE HUMANITY.
Earth has 4 days simultaneously each rotation.
You erroneously measure time from 1 corner.
Earth body 4 corner time equals 4 leg mobility.
Your ignorance of Harmonic Cube is demonic.
Dr Gene Ray is the
Greatest Philosopher,
and is the Greatest
Mathematician.
WARNING ...
Ignore Cubic Math at your
own peril, and of humanity.
You have a god like brain -
parallel opposite & analytical,
wasted if you believe in ONE.
[Jul 16,2007 9:38am - DestroyYouAlot ""]
I'm gonna start a time cube-themed grind band.
[Jul 16,2007 9:49am - the_reverend ""]
I had the Vic-20 for like 2 days and then my tech-savvy dad returned it for a commadore 64
[Jul 16,2007 12:39pm - sxealex nli ""]
rev ur kidding right? i posted instructions like 8 timez.
[Jul 16,2007 12:48pm - the_reverend ""]
no, you posted instructions on how to install it. i've installed it. the beryl package is 100% installed. now how do i do it?
this of it as, I bought the car and the fuzzy dice. the car (adorned with fuzzy dice) is sitting in my yard. it's all insured and everything, but I have no clue how to drive it.
[Jul 16,2007 12:48pm - the_reverend ""]
I'm sure the thing isn't going to spin around in cube form on it's own.
[Jul 16,2007 12:54pm - DestroyYouAlot ""]
I don't get it: There's no system32 to delete. How do you make it go faster?
[Jul 16,2007 12:55pm - the_reverend ""]
two words: speed holes.
[Jul 16,2007 12:58pm - sxealex nli ""]
type the command "beryl-manager"
ps if u have nvidia make sure u have the proprietary drivers
[Jul 16,2007 12:59pm - sxealex nli ""]
to spin it grab the desktop with your mouse wheel click
[Jul 16,2007 1:01pm - the_reverend ""]
I have an radeo.
what if I don't have a mouse wheel?
[Jul 16,2007 1:02pm - sxealex nli ""]
hold alt and click
[Jul 16,2007 1:03pm - sxealex nli ""]
to grab
[Jul 16,2007 1:03pm - sxealex nli ""]
i suggest u install allt he stuff called emerald too
[Jul 16,2007 1:03pm - the_reverend ""]
what am I a gay mac user? wtf!
[Jul 16,2007 1:04pm - sxealex nli ""]
wtf is a radeo
[Jul 16,2007 1:05pm - sxealex nli ""]
oh radeon
[Jul 16,2007 1:10pm - the_reverend ""]
yeah, I have a cold so I'm missing n's
[Jul 16,2007 1:14pm - sxealex nli ""]
no i thought it was a type of mouse or something cuz u said it right be4 the mouse wheel thing
[Jul 16,2007 1:15pm - sxealex nli ""]
u should get "transmission" for torrents
[Jul 16,2007 1:15pm - sxealex nli ""]
u get the cube werkin?
[Jul 16,2007 1:16pm - DestroyYouAlot ""]
the_reverend said:I have an radeo.
what if I don't have a mouse wheel?
Just physically turn the monitor around, Mac will sense it and form a new screen on whichever side is facing you.
[Jul 16,2007 1:37pm - the_reverend ""]
I'm at work and can't try it yet.
[Jul 16,2007 2:37pm - sxealex nli ""]
my mac is the man... eat my penus
[Jul 16,2007 2:42pm - the_reverend ""]
macs are for dudes who like other dudes.
[Jul 16,2007 2:44pm - sxealex ""]
i like other doods just not sex with other doods
[Jul 16,2007 2:45pm - sxealex ""]
actually id like to retract that and just say i hate everyone
[Jul 16,2007 2:53pm - thegreatspaldino ""]
the_reverend said:macs are for dudes who like other dudes.
says the Mac-master
[Jul 17,2007 9:33am - the_reverend ""]
ok, there is no "beryl-manager"
there is "beryl-settings"
and when I do that there is no "enable"
[Jul 17,2007 10:59am - sxealex ""]
go to a terminal and type beryl-manager. if its not there u didnt install all he packages when u searched beryl
[Jul 17,2007 10:59am - sxealex ""]
anyway it should be under system tools now
[Jul 17,2007 11:03am - the_reverend ""]
I'm installing the dev and some other packages now, let's see if it's there after that.
[Jul 17,2007 11:09am - the_reverend ""]
ok, it makes VNC go :(
[Jul 17,2007 11:59am - sxealex ""]
? go? like uninstall?
[Jul 17,2007 12:01pm - the_reverend ""]
doesn't work with VNC so it's useless for me.
[Jul 17,2007 1:15pm - sxealex ""]
write a little script to killall beryl when u log into vnc
[Jul 17,2007 1:17pm - the_reverend ""]
seeing as I only VNC in, what would the point of that be?
[Jul 17,2007 1:22pm - sxealex ""]
http://shiningpolaris.com/2007/04/20/howto-berylxgl-inside-of-vnc-on-ubuntu/
[Jul 17,2007 1:24pm - sxealex ""]
i dunno why u would want desktop effects on a comp u vnc into. how long do u spend on a session?
[Jul 17,2007 1:33pm - the_reverend ""]
how ever long I need
[Jul 17,2007 1:35pm - sxealex ""]
why not just connect a monitor?
[Jul 17,2007 1:38pm - the_reverend ""]
please find me a monitor that will be where ever I happen to be with my laptop at any given time. Seems to me that carrying around another monitor along with my laptop would be a pain. too bad there isn't some sort of magical way that I could view what my non-mobile linux box has on it's screen over some sort of magical wires-free method. you know what, they could just make a window on my laptop that I could see that on. now that would be cool!
[Jul 17,2007 1:49pm - sxealex ""]
u like anal sex with men.
[Jul 17,2007 2:04pm - the_reverend ""]
I know that to you, that is something awesome
[Jul 19,2007 4:13am - thegreatspaldino ""]
so im like 99.9% ready to install ubuntu... i was reading it cant detect my motorola wireless card unless i get the .inf and .sys file and ndiswrapper and even then there might be little issues with network being dropped after wake up or something... i kinda dont want to spend money on a wicked long ethernet cable but i want to install the OS now. i also suppose i can save the inf and sys file as ell as the tar for ndiswrapper to a USB flash memory stick or something and transfer it that way... but if that doesnt work i have no way to check the net to fix it after that... gayyyyyy
[Jul 19,2007 8:11am - the_reverend ""]
you aren't dual booting?
[Jul 19,2007 11:58am - sxealex nli ""]
everyone is all like we should use the same hd for a dual boot... i wonder why they dont just make a cable switch for these situations? 2 hds would be better cuz then u can seperate them in the future.
[Jul 19,2007 12:04pm - the_reverend ""]
not practical. just install it on 2 different hard drives and use grub.
A hard drive switch would cause the HUGE problem of it being switch while the machine is running. Have you ever hot-swapped IDE? worst thing to do ever (unless you have a hot-swap case)
[Jul 19,2007 12:24pm - sxealex ""]
there could just be a circut that wouldnt allow it to be hotswapped. grub is great and all but its so fucking buggy. and the language isnt clear. so when it wont configure itself ur fucked.
[Jul 19,2007 12:30pm - thegreatspaldino ""]
nah... i dont have much of a reason to dual boot. i found out the games i play can be run on linux through cedega so... yeah.
[Jul 19,2007 12:34pm - the_reverend ""]
there are hot-swap holder things you can buy, but their interfaces are slow and non-upgradeable.
grub, milo, lilo all work awesome unless you mess something up and want to get rid of them. then you are fucked. no harder than MBR.
[Jul 19,2007 12:40pm - sxealex ""]
a few power outages totally messed up something on my system grag
[Jul 20,2007 5:06pm - thegreatspaldino ""]
well... im making the absolute FINAL preparations needed to back up whatever i need to do to make the leap. i even have an xp pro cd waiting incase i cant hack it and need to go back to "the darkside". a dual boot would be great, but i kinda dont want to do it on a single HD. i DO have another HD i could possibly use, but how would i work it switching between the two?
[Jul 20,2007 5:09pm - the_reverend ""]
use either physically switching them or (better) grub. ubuntu sets up grub automatically.
[Jul 20,2007 5:10pm - thegreatspaldino ""]
ORLY? i would have to make the linux HD boot up first or... whats the deal with that?
[Jul 20,2007 5:20pm - the_reverend ""]
you can set that with grub
[Jul 20,2007 5:24pm - thegreatspaldino ""]
dayum.... well then... time to install the other HD
[Jul 20,2007 5:34pm - the_reverend ""]
and ubuntu can see the ntfs (xp) drive. you'll probably have to mount it. xp won't be able to see the ubuntu drive, I don't think.
I had some issues with external drives in ubuntu.
[Jul 20,2007 6:32pm - thegreatspaldino ""]
ok... ubuntu installed on my spare 80 gig drive... load up the comp and it loads the XP drive only... so ummm... yeah
[Jul 20,2007 6:56pm - the_reverend ""]
did you set up grub when you installed it? it should ask you questions when it boots. I hope it's not gay like RH used to be with the whole "first 2.1GB"
[Jul 20,2007 7:01pm - thegreatspaldino ""]
it didnt ask me anything when i installed it. other than which drive i want to install ubuntu to... does it make a difference that my 80 gig drive is an older "ribbon connector" style and the 200 gig one is a newer smaller connector style? also the 80 gig is set as slave other wise my cd drive wouldnt get recognized at all
[Jul 20,2007 7:05pm - the_reverend ""]
ide and sata.
[Jul 20,2007 7:09pm - thegreatspaldino ""]
ide i'm assuming is the older style that isnt really used anymore... well... since my whole comp is gutted i guess if i want to use linux i can just unplug the sata drive *shrug*... it's kinda what i wanted to avoid doing (manually switching between the two) but whatever... i'll figure something else out eventually...
[Jul 21,2007 11:31am - sxealex ""]
if u have windows on master hd then it wont load grub cuz that hd still has MBR
[Jul 21,2007 12:40pm - the_reverend ""]
oh so they do still have those "issues" got it.
[Jul 21,2007 12:57pm - sxealex ""]
no one pays attention to bootloaders cuz programmers get it working then never have to see it again. so they don't work on it since it doesn't bug them
[Jul 21,2007 12:57pm - sxealex ""]
thats my theory at least
[Jul 21,2007 3:25pm - thegreatspaldino ""]
well i cant get ndiswrapper to install. i burned the tar to a disc along with the wireless card driver i need and extracted the tar through the gui, then i go into a terminal and change to the directory and do "make install" and it seems like it starting to work then it says "permission denied". i try to log into the root and there is no root command. i try "sudo" and what not... but no dice. i read that the install cd has ndiswrapper on it but when i search the packages, it isnt there. and sudo apt-cdrom add doesnt seem to be working like they said it would on the ubuntu forums.
[Jul 21,2007 4:05pm - sxealex ""]
if u want to make a root user type sudo psswd root
type yer desired password
[Jul 21,2007 4:06pm - sxealex ""]
what kinda card u got?
[Jul 22,2007 1:35am - thegreatspaldino ""]
i have a motorola wpci810g or whatever... i need ndiswrapper... i installed the 3 necessary packages for it, did ndiswrapper -i ~/driver/bcwml5.inf (or whatever) to install the driver then did ndiswrapper -l and it said "driver invalid!"... so... yeah... im pretty fucked. i need to acquire an ethernet cable thats about 50 ft to access the net on linux... but im broke. i mean... i have a ton of cables, but the range from 6-25 feet and wont reach.
[Jul 22,2007 1:36am - thegreatspaldino ""]
although i think i just remembered something i read about the default wireless driver thats installed with linux possibly getting in the wa of ndiswrapper working... man im so stupid... let me check and see if thats the problem.
[Jul 22,2007 3:27am - the_reverend ""]
you should just do
sudo su
and not set a password for root.
[Jul 22,2007 2:19pm - sxealex nli ""]
it lets you do that??? weird. seems unsafe.
[Jul 22,2007 2:19pm - sxealex nli ""]
actually i guess not u still need the username to get in
[Jul 22,2007 2:24pm - thegreatspaldino ""]
did everything i could... i even tried different driver sets that correspond with the ID number of the card... no dice. just gonna have to use a wired connection for now
[Jul 22,2007 5:23pm - sxealex ""]
TRY THIS:
The .exe file downloaded from Motorola is a self-extracting .exe, and thus it can be opened on Linux using 'unzip'.
[Jul 22,2007 5:24pm - sxealex ""]
do everything else the way you did it before
[Jul 22,2007 5:40pm - sxealex ""]
if that doesnt work try this http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=185174
[Jul 22,2007 10:42pm - the_revealer ""]
Spauldino, have you installed build-essentials? You need to install that before you try installing ndiswrapper. It's on your Ubuntu CD.
I just spent all day doing this. It's working fine now.
[Jul 24,2007 12:34am - sxealex ""]
i wonder if he fixored it?
[Jul 24,2007 1:42am - NIGGER ""]
UBUNTU IS S'POSED TO BE MULTICULTURAL
BUT HERE IN THE GHETTO I SEE NO COMPUTERS
CHOCK FULL OF STARVING NIGGERS AND OPPRESSIVE WHITE COPS
[Jul 24,2007 1:48am - sxealex ""]
http://www.freebyte.com/free_computers/
[Jul 24,2007 1:53am - NIGGER ""]
I SEE NOTHING ABOUT THE HOOD, THERE
[Jul 24,2007 3:20am - thegreatspaldino ""]
sxealex said:i wonder if he fixored it?
well... i found a not so pain in the ass way to have a wired connection so since this is my desktop... i dont NEED wireless
ubuntu is fucking awesome by the way... its actually WAY less of a pain than fedora core was. [Jul 24,2007 4:15pm - the_reverend ""]
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/NetworkPrintingFromWinXP
[Jul 25,2007 6:55pm - Spaldino NLI for no reason ""]
how do i convert from theora to a format youtube recognizes... i want to you show off my ubuntu :(
[Jul 25,2007 6:58pm - sxealex ""]
ogg? to avi? i think i used vlc. www.videolan.org
[Jul 25,2007 6:58pm - sxealex ""]
ffmpeg is what ur supposed to use but its all mucky
[Jul 25,2007 7:52pm - thegreatspaldino ""]
vlc worked great
bennyhillifier
[Jul 25,2007 8:33pm - sxealex ""]
what ur compy cant handle thecube? ps u can make the shape have as many sides as you want if u manually edit the settings in .beryl
[Jul 25,2007 8:35pm - thegreatspaldino ""]
i have the cube... (it has 5 sides) i just dont use the extra workspaces and you've already shown how that works. i also havent gotten around to editting the bg and the top/bottom part of the cube yet.
[Jul 25,2007 8:37pm - sxealex ""]
i had 32 sides once i think thats the max
[Jul 25,2007 8:37pm - sxealex ""]
it looks like a movie real
[Jul 25,2007 8:37pm - sxealex ""]
reel
[Sep 5,2007 2:33am - thegreatspaldino ""]
*phoenix down*
so i decided to stop using Ubuntu for a bit to see if i really would miss it and i did so im using it again. im about to make my "permanent" switch to linux soon. im loading up cedega, transporting the rest of my music and games, and getting the ability to extract rars... although what i MIGHT do. is make the smaller HD xp and the big one Linux. do a switcheroo with them. but then i would have to reinstall everything and that might be too much for my lazy ass right now.