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Clements · Post by **Clements** » Thu Nov 03, 2005 9:13 pm

I use Windows XP

Noxious Ninja · Post by **Noxious Ninja** » Thu Nov 03, 2005 10:32 pm

MisterJones wrote:
MCP wrote:I've used solaris unix and red hat linux for programming and those are very nice for school projects and research projects, however I am finding the IDE in Visual Studio to be pretty nice for a fairly large project in C/C++.
http://www.codeblocks.org/ ?

Ooh, looks nice. I'll have to give it a shot.

snkcube · Post by **snkcube** » Fri Nov 04, 2005 12:18 am

Clements wrote:I use Windows XP

Same here. I always wanted to try Linux...

kode54 · Post by **kode54** » Fri Nov 04, 2005 12:52 am

Aerdan wrote:And this is why Gentoo is superior. You only have to download the sources, never multi-megabyte binaries.

Usually, for most of the large projects, the source code is larger than the resulting set of binaries, and they also require so much space for all the intermediate files. And don't forget all that time compiling. Most people can probably download the entire Qt and KDE distribution faster than they can compile it.

Of course, if you go with a binary distribution, you're limited to the selection of features that are enabled in a global configuration. This can range from partial functionality to every feature being enabled and downloading all of the libraries which you happen to be missing.

In the case of X applications, this can be biased towards the standard configuration, so if you already have the default desktop up and running, you will have the brunt of the libraries installed. Have fun if, say, you prefer using a minimal window manager, and a particular program imports half of Gnome or KDE. ( BEWM, you don't have KDE's RPC daemon running? Or something else equally annoying. )

Aerdan · Post by **Aerdan** » Fri Nov 04, 2005 1:09 am

Gentoo does feature binary packages for particular applications [OpenOffice, Firefox, Mozilla, etc] where compiling by hand is excessively long or excessively painful.

nailbiter · Post by **nailbiter** » Fri Nov 04, 2005 2:09 am

Clements wrote:I use Windows XP

Me too.
I've never used linux and I can already do just about anything I want to, excluding things that are too heavy for my machine to handle in the first place.

Also, I'm too lazy to learn linux, or to care about learning it.

Noxious Ninja · Post by **Noxious Ninja** » Fri Nov 04, 2005 2:21 am

OK, Code::Blocks is sweet. Thanks.

kode54 · Post by **kode54** » Fri Nov 04, 2005 3:56 am

Aerdan wrote:Gentoo does feature binary packages for particular applications [OpenOffice, Firefox, Mozilla, etc] where compiling by hand is excessively long or excessively painful.

Or not even possible. I hear that OO.org still doesn't compile on x64. ( And boy, that sure is a huge package to be filled with non-portable assumptions of long/int/pointer sizes. Or something. )

soulmata · Post by **soulmata** » Fri Nov 04, 2005 9:06 am

what are we saying, kode, OO.org rarely even compiles on x86 32bit

Noxious Ninja · Post by **Noxious Ninja** » Fri Nov 04, 2005 4:33 pm

It's amazing how something so successful as OOo can have such a sucky internal architecture, but everything I've heard says it does.

Go go KOffice development and KDE4/Windows.

MisterJones · Post by **MisterJones** » Fri Nov 04, 2005 10:34 pm

Noxious Ninja wrote:OK, Code::Blocks is sweet. Thanks.

You are welcome :P

It's my fav IDE currently, paired with DevC++

adventure_of_link · Post by **adventure_of_link** » Sat Nov 05, 2005 8:58 pm

Now I'm a 50/50 Linux and Winblows user.

KUbuntu 5.1 codename Breezy Badger on my server
Windows XP Home w/ SP2 on my notebook.

'Nuff said.

PS: How do you make the text bigger, one of my biggest irks with Linux is that I have to kill my eyes while reading a phpBB based board.

Post by **Agozer** » Sat Nov 05, 2005 9:21 pm

adventure_of_link wrote:PS: How do you make the text bigger, one of my biggest irks with Linux is that I have to kill my eyes while reading a phpBB based board.

Do look around the menus in your browser, there should be a way to adjust the size of the text.

Or is there?

Post by **Nach** » Sat Nov 05, 2005 9:35 pm

If you're using FireFox, View -> Text Size.
If in general, if you use KDE.
K -> Control Center -> Appearance and Themes -> Fonts.

Aerdan · Post by **Aerdan** » Sat Nov 05, 2005 9:42 pm

Simple solution: Set Firefox's 'minimum' fontsize.

adventure_of_link · Post by **adventure_of_link** » Sat Nov 05, 2005 11:22 pm

Thanks for the suggestions, I'll try em later on.

I also have to fix the 403 forbidden thing for my site, I'll look at Evan's thread, then ask questions later.

xaimus · Post by **xaimus** » Sun Nov 06, 2005 1:49 am

adventure_of_link, what is your DPI? Run "xdpyinfo | grep resolution".

adventure_of_link · Post by **adventure_of_link** » Sun Nov 06, 2005 5:00 am

Nach: Thanks dude, that fixed it, yet again, Nach to the rescue.
xaimoot:

xdpyinfo | grep resolution wrote:root@Zero:/var/www# xdpyinfo | grep resolution
Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
Xlib: No protocol specified

xdpyinfo: unable to open display ":0.0".
root@Zero:/var/www# "xdpyinfo | grep resolution"
bash: xdpyinfo | grep resolution: command not found

Also, my Apache problem seems to be fixed, for now, thanks to Evan's thread and soul.

See dudes, it pays to do a board search.

And one more thing... I tried to get up here to do my Ubuntu shit, turn my montior on, and it gives an out of frequency error message, so I did the little restore trick thing xaimoot taught me, and now everything's fine. What would cause it to do that, thanks.

xaimus · Post by **xaimus** » Sun Nov 06, 2005 5:40 am

Run the command as a regular user inside an X11 session.

Additionally, give me the output of "xrandr".

adventure_of_link · Post by **adventure_of_link** » Sun Nov 06, 2005 9:12 am

xaimoot:

Those two commands you told me to use wrote:crono@Zero:~$ xdpyinfo | grep resolution
resolution: 63x63 dots per inch
crono@Zero:~$ xrandr
SZ: Pixels Physical Refresh
0 1024 x 768 ( 321mm x 241mm ) 85
*1 800 x 600 ( 321mm x 241mm ) *85
2 640 x 480 ( 321mm x 241mm ) 85
Current rotation - normal
Current reflection - none
Rotations possible - normal
Reflections possible - none
crono@Zero:~$

Hope this helps.

xaimus · Post by **xaimus** » Sun Nov 06, 2005 6:47 pm

adventure_of_link wrote:xaimoot:
Those two commands you told me to use wrote:crono@Zero:~$ xdpyinfo | grep resolution
resolution: 63x63 dots per inch
crono@Zero:~$ xrandr
SZ: Pixels Physical Refresh
0 1024 x 768 ( 321mm x 241mm ) 85
*1 800 x 600 ( 321mm x 241mm ) *85
2 640 x 480 ( 321mm x 241mm ) 85
Current rotation - normal
Current reflection - none
Rotations possible - normal
Reflections possible - none
crono@Zero:~$
Hope this helps. :)

what the boat~!~!2

okay. Do you have a file named "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"?

adventure_of_link · Post by **adventure_of_link** » Sun Nov 06, 2005 8:16 pm

I sent the file your way via e-mail as you said on IRC

OK another thing:
My CPU fan will NOT STFU in Linux, normally when I run Windows, it'll stfu unless I run ePSXe or Unreal Tournament or something, but my fan isn't STFU'ing.. what's up ? Thanks !

Oh, and quanium:

quanium wrote:I've used slackware many a time. Haven't been active with it in about 6-8 months. Got fed up with slackware, worked great but too much to configure all the time. What is kubuntu like?

Go here:
http://linksadventure.no-ip.org/pictures/snapshot1.png

soulmata · Post by **soulmata** » Mon Nov 07, 2005 12:33 am

What CPU? If its an A64 and you want cool n quiet functionality, you'll need the powernowd program

xaimus · Post by **xaimus** » Mon Nov 07, 2005 1:15 am

He told me he had a Celeron, earlier.

adventure_of_link · Post by **adventure_of_link** » Mon Nov 07, 2005 1:52 am

Yeah.

Intel Celeron, 2.7GHz, 400MHz FSB and 128KB L2 cache, forgot the socket for it >.<

I can't be assed into taking the heatsink off my CPU while the computer's off to find out, is there something like CPU-Z/WCPUID/<other CPU detection tool> for Linux, and if so, what's it called, thanks for the help guys.

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