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Fossil · #2161 Post by **Fossil** » Thu 18 Feb 2016, 09:00

And not forgetting the 'Bond Bug'!

"A nice piece of Red Leicester, Grommit!"

Colonel Panic · #2162 Post by **Colonel Panic** » Thu 18 Feb 2016, 12:10

Fossil wrote:And not forgetting the 'Bond Bug'!
"A nice piece of Red Leicester, Grommit!"

Nice one. You couldn't get more '70s than that (for small cars anyway)

Bond made a bigger car too called the Equipe, which looked a bit like a baby Aston Martin (I think *it was based on the Triumph Vitesse). They were rarer than the Bond Bug, although I have seen one around Plymouth.

* Yes it was;
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bond_Equipe

rokytnji · #2163 Post by **rokytnji** » Thu 18 Feb 2016, 14:53

Even trimarans know to put outriggers so to keep from rolling over.
I think the tech is only what? Only a few thousand years old.

Only in Texas. Speed limit on roads. 85mph.
http://www.delorean.com/

Back on Topic

http://i.imgur.com/OqfvuDp.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/z7YuhFY.jpg

ETP · #2164 Post by **ETP** » Thu 18 Feb 2016, 22:10

Back off topic:

Puppy running off an f2fs partition on an SSD.

Full sized screen shot here: (Press F11 to toggle into full screen then click on link)
https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view ... HVZRDM5dmM

(Better looking than the original DINO)

Colonel Panic · #2165 Post by **Colonel Panic** » Thu 18 Feb 2016, 22:19

ETP wrote:Back off topic:
Puppy running off an f2fs partition on an SSD.

Full sized screen shot here: (Press F11 to toggle into full screen then click on link)
https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view ... HVZRDM5dmM

(Better looking than the original DINO)

Back offtopic again

Sorry, but those headlights! It's got character I suppose though.

Fiat did a car in the late 60's with a Ferrari engine called - the Fiat Dino. There weren't many made and even fewer survive now, but I was lucky enough to see one in the grounds of my local hospital a few years back and it was a beautiful car.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiat_Dino

(The one I saw was the coupe, in blue.)

Back to distros; I've taken a look at the latest Slackware beta (14.2) and Slackware are going with Pulse Audio for sound configuration, which I've never had good results with on my machine so I've reinstalled Slackware 14.1 instead which is at least adequate.

rokytnji · #2166 Post by **rokytnji** » Fri 19 Feb 2016, 00:22

I cannot get my skull candy bluetooth speakers to work without using pulseaduio.

Semme · #2167 Post by **Semme** » Fri 19 Feb 2016, 13:01

Aboard which OS?

rokytnji · #2168 Post by **rokytnji** » Fri 19 Feb 2016, 14:18

Semme wrote:Aboard which OS?

AntiX (Debian Jessie repos). Carolina Puppy. MX-15. Linux Lite 2.8 *ubuntu 14.04 repos). Just to name a few.

The speakers work out of the box on my Chromebook with ChromeOS however.
Funny how easy hardware syncing on my chromebook is.

Here is a personal example Semme.

https://www.linuxliteos.com/forums/netw ... l-speaker/

What Puppy search gives me is no results.

https://cse.google.com/cse?cx=077657124 ... sc.page=1[

Semme · #2169 Post by **Semme** » Fri 19 Feb 2016, 15:16

Is PulseAudio in some way unacceptable?

rokytnji · #2170 Post by **rokytnji** » Fri 19 Feb 2016, 20:44

Semme wrote:Is PulseAudio in some way unacceptable?

Not for me. I can't speak for others though.

Back off topic. Only in Arizona. Gets ungodly good miles per gallon and is fast as a raped ape. Under 10 grand to buy one.

http://o.aolcdn.com/dims-global/dims3/G ... shot06.jpg

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases ... 22987.html

I want one of those. Because it also has air conditioning.

Semme · #2171 Post by **Semme** » Fri 19 Feb 2016, 20:47

Then I must have misread you Harry -- I thought Pulse was an issue.

rokytnji · #2172 Post by **rokytnji** » Fri 19 Feb 2016, 20:56

Only issue is that the gear being sold seems to be requiring pauvcontrol in linux to control it. Incorporated with pulse audio. I have no problems using a new tool when needed to make something go. I am pragmatic like that.

Here is something you don't see every day. My tint2 fluxbox setup on one of my boxes.

http://postmyimage.com/img2/377_screenshot1.jpg

Colonel Panic · #2173 Post by **Colonel Panic** » Thu 25 Feb 2016, 12:55

Having had sound configuration in Slackware 14.1 fail on me, I've just installed the latest version of Slackware (Feb 14) instead and something else went wrong; networking has failed completely, so instead of posting from it I've installed yet another distro, PCLinuxOS "Full Monty." It's working well so far but I doubt if most people would need all of it (it's a nearly 4 GB download and takes up 13 GB on the hard drive when installed).

Maybe, as with Emmabuntus and XUbuntu, people with slower internet connections and smaller hard drives would be better off installing another version of PCLinuxOS and just adding the additional software they want or need.

IMO it is good though that distros like this exist for people who either need or want to install all their software in one go, although I'm glad they aren't the majority.

[N.B. Before anyone asks; yes I did try netconfig, and it gave the appearance of having worked but the network still wouldn't engage when I next booted Slackware up - so I rebooted it again and it still wouldn't engage. I suspect netconfig is broken in Slackware now.]

Colonel Panic · #2174 Post by **Colonel Panic** » Sat 27 Feb 2016, 11:10

Feeling the need of a Slack-derived distro anyway, I've now installed Salix 14.1 Fluxbox. It took a bit of fiddling about with the file permissions of .dmrc before the window manager would load but it's now working fine.

BTW, if anyone is still using Fluxbox or any other lightweight window manager, I strongly recommend the menu program DMenu. It works from the keyboard; you type in consecutive letters of a program you want to load and it presents you with a horizontal list of options. It's very lightweight itself (it comes from the same "stable" as the tiling window manager dwm) and appears right at the top of the window, so doesn't interfere with any other program which is running or being displayed.

rokytnji · #2175 Post by **rokytnji** » Sat 27 Feb 2016, 15:42

BTW, if anyone is still using Fluxbox or any other lightweight window manager,

Every day. Thanks for the tip. I'm running suckless-tools instead.

http://tools.suckless.org/

dmenu is part of that.

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harry@biker:~
$ apt search dmenu
Sorting... Done
Full Text Search... Done
dunst/stable 1.1.0-1 i386
  dmenu-ish notification-daemon

i3/stable 4.8-2 i386
  metapackage (i3 window manager, screen locker, menu, statusbar)

mediawiki-extensions-base/stable 3.7 all
  Extensions for MediaWiki -- Base package

pdmenu/stable 1.3.3 i386
  simple console menu program

shellex/stable 0.1-1 i386
  shell-based launcher

suckless-tools/stable,now 40-1 i386 [installed]
  simple commands for minimalistic window managers

Colonel Panic · #2176 Post by **Colonel Panic** » Sat 27 Feb 2016, 17:49

rokytnji wrote:
BTW, if anyone is still using Fluxbox or any other lightweight window manager,

Every day. Thanks for the tip. I'm running suckless-tools instead.

http://tools.suckless.org/

dmenu is part of that.
Code: Select all
harry@biker:~
$ apt search dmenu
Sorting... Done
Full Text Search... Done
dunst/stable 1.1.0-1 i386
  dmenu-ish notification-daemon

i3/stable 4.8-2 i386
  metapackage (i3 window manager, screen locker, menu, statusbar)

mediawiki-extensions-base/stable 3.7 all
  Extensions for MediaWiki -- Base package

pdmenu/stable 1.3.3 i386
  simple console menu program

shellex/stable 0.1-1 i386
  shell-based launcher

suckless-tools/stable,now 40-1 i386 [installed]
  simple commands for minimalistic window managers

Thanks, I'll have a look at those. I've already seen that there's a tool for creating files in a lossless image format (farbfeld) there.

bark_bark_bark · #2177 Post by **bark_bark_bark** » Tue 01 Mar 2016, 15:28

I install Linux Mint 17.3 MATE 64-bit in a Virtual machine today and the only complaint I have is that I can't get Unity Mode to start.

EDIT: Using Virtualbox instead of VMware wouldn't help because virtualbox doesn't play nicely with modified windows DLLs. I need the modified DLLs for 3rd party theme support.

jrb · #2178 Post by **jrb** » Wed 02 Mar 2016, 16:25

I downloaded Remix_OS_for_PC_64_B2016030106.iso, unzipped, mounted the ISO and copied its contents to /mnt/sda1/RemixOS (ext4 drive). Setup my grub4dos entry:

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title RemixOS (sda1/RemixOS)
  uuid 4cff4497-f6f5-46a2-b9fc-320398e8e202 #(Put your own UUID here)
  kernel /RemixOS/kernel root=/dev/ram0 androidboot.hardware=remix_x86_64 androidboot.selinux=permissive quiet DATA= SRC=RemixOS CREATE_DATA_IMG=1
  initrd /RemixOS/initrd.img

Booted up OK. Took awhile for the first boot due to autosetup but 2nd boot was reasonable.
Had to reboot to get my ethernet to autoconnect.

Problem is I have no idea how to use Android. I don't have or want cellphone.

Would post a screenie but don't know how to get one. Should be fun to play with.

James C · #2179 Post by **James C** » Wed 02 Mar 2016, 21:36

jrb wrote:I downloaded Remix_OS_for_PC_64_B2016030106.iso, unzipped, mounted the ISO and copied its contents to /mnt/sda1/RemixOS (ext4 drive). Setup my grub4dos entry:
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title RemixOS (sda1/RemixOS)
  uuid 4cff4497-f6f5-46a2-b9fc-320398e8e202 #(Put your own UUID here)
  kernel /RemixOS/kernel root=/dev/ram0 androidboot.hardware=remix_x86_64 androidboot.selinux=permissive quiet DATA= SRC=RemixOS CREATE_DATA_IMG=1
  initrd /RemixOS/initrd.img
Booted up OK. Took awhile for the first boot due to autosetup but 2nd boot was reasonable.
Had to reboot to get my ethernet to autoconnect.

Problem is I have no idea how to use Android. I don't have or want cellphone.
Would post a screenie but don't know how to get one. Should be fun to play with.

Print Screen key.

I don't use an Android phone either......

James C · #2180 Post by **James C** » Wed 02 Mar 2016, 21:50

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