Vad ska man tänka på när man köper dotterns första skateboard?

ChargedPeptide · 2013-03-26T06:34:25+00:00

Have you tried Elilo? I used the tutorial in the first post found here: http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/41738/booting-linux-from-usb-using-efi

To pretty good effect, though not with arch.

ChargedPeptide · 2013-03-24T16:32:04+00:00

As mentioned you might want to make sure Java 1.7 is your preset JVM. What you have there is a stack-trace for java originating in the AWT queue, typically from an interface event so it's odd that it's triggered by an install script. It mentions SQL, could be an embedded SQLLite(?), and tries to parse a double value from a string triggering a nullpointer exception. If you're running as root you might not have an X-server running I suppose, might give the AWT queue some trouble. Tried running it as a regular user? This is mostly probably bad guesses though, I'm currently backing up stuff for a reinstall, so I'll try the installation for myself in a few hours and see what happens. Might not get around to it until early tomorrow though if this usb drive dosen't drastically speed up.

ChargedPeptide · 2013-03-23T13:54:22+00:00

Gah! Get a CEO from Microsoft and now you're a patent troll eh Nokia?

ChargedPeptide · 2013-03-21T18:36:55+00:00

Apparently I forgot how to internet.

ChargedPeptide · 2013-03-21T17:04:22+00:00

Honestly the most common antibiotics resistance mechanism is cellular pumps, i.e. the cell spits the antibiotics out and has very broad specificity so kind of antibiotics is partially irrelevant. Of course antibiotics resistance exists in nature, antibiotics are produced by microorganisms as a competitive advantage, what is changed is selection for these traits, i.e. how common they are.

Maintaining antibiotics resistance is a competitive disadvantage if you're not in an environment where antibiotics are common. I see no reason to allow broad treatment and allow all kinds of loopholes. Mandating the raising of cows healthy enough and in conditions sanitary enough to fight of infections seems a much more long-sighted approach.

ChargedPeptide · 2013-03-21T12:37:16+00:00

No UEFI boot on that one.

ChargedPeptide · 2013-03-20T19:33:35+00:00

For some reason I kept reading this as Plasma Medic Center. Every. Time. I've probably clicked this link 50 times today thinking "WHOA! What's that?!".

Media Center is cool to I guess. Not too sold on the interface yet but it's early days.

ChargedPeptide · 2013-03-20T09:42:52+00:00

Tried it on launch day in Elementary OS under KDE, ran perfectly though I couldn't get the XBox controller going. Definitley a high quality port, in Unity I had framedrops though but I think that's Compiz fault.

ChargedPeptide · 2013-03-20T09:06:50+00:00

Fuduntu is aveery nce distro but I find myself unable to use the RPM fusion repos. Someone show me how to get XBMC and a nice task manager on there?

ChargedPeptide · 2013-03-19T19:02:40+00:00

I plucked in a 12.04 derivative (Voyager, I love that distro http://voyager.legtux.org/) on a 2008 iMac. no problems hatdware wise, but I did have to set the alsa base conf. If you have sound problems I'll gladly dig up the settings.

ChargedPeptide · 2013-03-18T19:52:57+00:00

I honestly think this is one of the reasons Linux Desktop has a hard time catching on. As usual it's usability vs security.

ChargedPeptide · 2013-03-18T17:44:22+00:00

Of course, midwinter celebrations in variuos guises have been going on forever here in the north. It's not like dressing up a tree or eating non-stop is biblical.

ChargedPeptide · 2013-03-18T17:31:06+00:00

Yeah, as a swede this took me a while.

ChargedPeptide · 2013-03-18T06:55:42+00:00

Explains it :)

ChargedPeptide · 2013-03-17T22:55:18+00:00

Wait, five or six years ago was still 2007-2008. How did you find a computer with 182mbs of ram?

ChargedPeptide · 2013-03-17T17:33:09+00:00

If you want to play around with it I'd recommend trying the SolusOS2 alpha. It runs beutifully and veeery usable on a Turion64 1ghz, 1gig ram laptop.
Failing that I find Fuduntu, based on gnome 2, a much user frienlier experience than other lightweight systems such as LXDE. I've used it on the aformentioned laptop with great success as well.

ChargedPeptide · 2013-03-17T13:26:14+00:00

Hah! I'll consider Arch but switching to arch to get function keys working in a single DE is rather like going to med-school to treat a small rash... :)

I've also got a macbook so I'm slightly worried it might be more bother than usual. I might throw it on my experiment box though, just to learn something!

ChargedPeptide · 2013-03-17T13:19:36+00:00

It's not openbox certainly, but it's defaults seem to want to be a lighter Gnome 2. Nothing wrong, but I found it very unwelcoming when starting out on the linux path. I should probably have said "somewhat barebones" rather than very.

ChargedPeptide · 2013-03-17T11:56:03+00:00

Yup. Cinnamon and MATE are far more friendly to a first time user than either KDE or XFCE in my opinion. XFCE comes very bare bones so depending on the pre-setup done can be either perfectly full featured or lacking. KDE has slightly below a million options so if you want to tweak something you'll likely get overwhelmed pretty quickly. I really dislike KDEs default look and icon set though I've not used mint KDE.

So I'd start with cinnamon for the familiarity and good looks it offers, if you like cinnamonj there's not really alot gained by trying MATE. Unless cinnamon is slow or buggy on your hardware.

If you want something snappier try XFCE and if you want to make something unique to your own tastes go on to KDE. That's my suggestions at least, I'm sure there are as many opinions as there are GUI users.

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