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Linux vs. Windows (pg. 5)
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| St_Andrew |
| quote: | Originally posted by shaolin_Z
@ St_Andrew:
Driver
Module: snd-emu10k1
EDIT: I have an SB Audigy Gamer (although I don't think that makes a difference, since all SB Audigys were the same card budled with different software and hardware (external drive)) |
Hmm that should work I think. Do you have the latest drivers? And make sure you don't use any old ones/don't have everything turned up and so on. |
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| St_Andrew |
| quote: | Originally posted by trancaholic
It's the RiteOfTongue extension. Other essential ones for forum posting are BBCode (select text, right-click and insert tags to format it - like in an editor) and Smiley Xtra (insert   ).
For general browsing, I've also come to rely on the following:
AdBlock (right-click the annoying ad and it's gone for good),
antipagination (start fetching search results while you browse the current page),
Context Search (select text and search it in google, discogs, wikipedia, whatever),
Copy Plain Text (just the text - not the formatting and pictures),
Linkification (convert text designating URLs into clickable links),
Paste and Go (go directly to the URL that's in your clipboard),
easyGestures (fast mouse gestures for closing current tab, searching, switching to another tab etc.), and
undoclosetab (for those doh-moments). |
Have some of them, mouse gesutres are defently a must have! Also the bbcode one (i liked the previous version better tho, now you have to click bbcode and then again to get to the actual menu, before all the alteratives were in the root menu which was a lot better. Donno if it's perhaps possible to fix. |
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| NeoPhono |
shaolin_z (or anyone else thinking of switching to linux or a different linux release), I can make it really easy for you to run and setup Fedora Core 4 (if you'd like to switch from mandrake). Go to this link and follow the instructions.
http://stanton-finley.net/fedora_co...tion_notes.html
It's a painless step by step guide to get everything up and running. Yeah, it's more fun to figure it out and do it yourself, but if you'd like to skip that "learning" step, you can do it the painless way. After following those steps you'll have yum and yum extender installed which makes updates a breeze (as easy as they are in Windows *gasp*). I'm really impressed so far with Fedora Core 4, and I'd suggest new linux users give it a shot and experienced linux users will appreciate the many features it has.
/end FC4 rave |
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| shaolin_Z |
| @ NeoPhono: I actually installed that first and got frustrated as I couldn't play MP3s and encountered some other problems I can't remember rightnow, but thanks for the suggestion. Oh yeah, one problem I DO remember, is having trouble accessing stuff on my NTFS partitions. I could mount my windows drives but could only access files as root, and I googled for a day to figure out how to get around it and finally gave up. :( I even asked for help here on TA. |
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| shaolin_Z |
| hmm, I just visited the link and skimmed over stuff. Looks interesting. I might consider doing it when I have more time. Muchos gracias. :p |
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| NeoPhono |
| quote: | Originally posted by shaolin_Z
@ NeoPhono: I actually installed that first and got frustrated as I couldn't play MP3s and encountered some other problems I can't remember rightnow, but thanks for the suggestion. Oh yeah, one problem I DO remember, is having trouble accessing stuff on my NTFS partitions. I could mount my windows drives but could only access files as root, and I googled for a day to figure out how to get around it and finally gave up. :( I even asked for help here on TA. |
Hmm...sounds like you needed to add a umask=0222 in your fstab for mounting the NTFS partition. I use XMMS for mp3 playback (and for shoutcasts), but you can download mp3 codecs for support with other players as well. If you'd like some more info on FC4, let me know. |
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| Zombie0915 |
FC4 is very nice indeed, the biggest issue I have with it is yum repo conflicts. No single repo has everything I need so I have to use several and inevitably they conflict and eventually develop a situation where one cannot get the dependencies that they need. Of course all that can be avoided by sticking to the safer defaults but that is no fun especially if you need mplayer and mp3s and stuff. I enjoy redhat alot, it is a time-saving distro that still manages not to mimic windows, I am also somewhat loyal to them for being based in the city that I live in. I have to pass their headquarters every day to get to my classes, the thing is like in the middle of campus it is kinda weird.
I dont understand how this is a political topic, use what works for you, its too hard to find software to match political motivations but if that is what you are looking for than there probably are a few linux distros that provide what you are looking for. I notice alot of hippies and other strong left leaning people like debian's ideology. I also use debian but more because of the usability than any political motivatoin. |
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| Lepanto |
| only someone who A. hasn't used Linux or B. Doesn't know how to use Linux would vote for Windows. :haha: |
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| shaolin_Z |
@ NeoPhono (or anyone else who can help me): I was trying to install xmms from the source code but got this error when I ran "./configure"
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checking for glib-config... no
checking for GLIB - version >= 1.2.2... no
*** The glib-config script installed by GLIB could not be found
*** If GLIB was installed in PREFIX, make sure PREFIX/bin is in
*** your path, or set the GLIB_CONFIG environment variable to the
*** full path to glib-config.
configure: error: *** GLIB >= 1.2.2 not installed - please install first ***
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I already installed glib-2.2.3 (and I had to install some other stuff before that too, like gettext), I've tried to figure it out but am kinda stuck. I ran vim to check the "MakeFile" file and I'm not sure if this helps :conf: :
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SHELL = /bin/sh
srcdir = .
top_srcdir = .
prefix = /usr/local
exec_prefix = ${prefix}
bindir = ${exec_prefix}/bin
sbindir = ${exec_prefix}/sbin
libexecdir = ${exec_prefix}/libexec
datadir = ${prefix}/share
sysconfdir = ${prefix}/etc
sharedstatedir = ${prefix}/com
localstatedir = ${prefix}/var
libdir = ${exec_prefix}/lib
infodir = ${prefix}/info
mandir = ${prefix}/man
includedir = ${prefix}/include
oldincludedir = /usr/include
DESTDIR =
pkgdatadir = $(datadir)/glib
pkglibdir = $(libdir)/glib
pkgincludedir = $(includedir)/glib
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Do I need to change the value for prefix or something?:conf:
And after installing glib-2.2.3, I didn't notice a glib-config file in /bin. Is it supposed to be there? What am I doing wrong here? |
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| shaolin_Z |
I'm not sure if this helps but I've got glibconfig.h in dir:
/usr/local/lib/glib-2.0/include/glibconfig.h
should I open that in an editor and change some values there or something?:conf: |
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| trancaholic |
Ahh. The joys of compiling with glib.:)
Try:
yum update glib
yum install glib-devel
You are probably missing the development/header files, which are needed to compile xmms. However, it will be much faster simply to do
yum install xmms-crossfade
or DL that package through fr.rpmfind.net, and then
rpm -Uvh
Hope that helps. |
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| shaolin_Z |
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bash: yum: command not found
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