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pingu · 2016-04-06 19:44:42

pvsage wrote:

I'm glad that we don't include xscreensaver in BunsenLabs.
Since I use Vanilla LXDE (which ships with Xscreensaver installed), a startup splash warning stating that "your version is very old!" has compelled me to search for a way to disable said splash.
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugrepo … bug=819703
The more of his posts I read in that thread, the less I like Jamie Zawinski.

Now I'm kind of grieving my xscreensaver install (even though it's a new version, e.g. not displaying said warning) for the impolite coding practices. I immediately thought about this guy

"borrowing" his computer just to sneak in a bunch of random full-caps popups just for the funnies.
And this helped come to terms with having xscreensaver installed.

edit: there's a special place in hell for these guys. All pcs have windows 10 installed, but it never stops asking if you want to upgrade to windows 10 .g

edit2: now I just imagine RMS having to click away that popup and having a seizure as a result.
time to stop thinking about it....

Last edited by pingu (2016-04-06 19:58:29)

damo · 2016-04-06 20:43:03

Fortunately I don't care, because I don't like to use such an ugly application O:)

Head_on_a_Stick · 2016-04-06 20:56:05

jwz is with Apple these days.

I have nothing more to say

Eraph · 2016-04-06 22:31:00

Head_on_a_Stick wrote:

pvsage wrote:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugrepo … bug=819703
https://www.jwz.org/blog/2016/04/i-woul … reensaver/

MY EYES

iMBeCil · 2016-04-07 08:31:15

Eraph wrote:

MY EYES

Well, the computer monitor is bad for your eyes Erahp

Sector11 · 2016-04-07 12:42:45

Please do not adjust your sets.
We now resume normal transmission.

xaos52 · 2016-04-07 15:46:30

Are you a documentation-resistant user?

emacs 'magit' documentation wrote:

By default popup buffers also feature a section listing commands
common to all popups. To avoid conflicts with suffix commands, the
bindings of these common commands are not alphabetic characters. This
section is shown by default so that documentation-resistant users get a
change to notice them.

damo · 2016-04-07 16:28:02

xaos52 wrote:

Are you a documentation-resistant user?
....

Only when assembling flat-pack furniture. It's a guy thing

Head_on_a_Stick · 2016-04-09 20:04:37

^ I've just updated the gtk-theme-arc-git package and it seems to work.

Release 20160331 had "Lots of fixes for Gnome/GTK 3.20"

EDIT: I didn't even notice the 3.20 transition:

[2016-03-31 21:05] [ALPM] upgraded gtk3 (3.18.9-1 -> 3.20.2-1)

Arch rocks!

EDIT2: No, hold on, I remember now -- my Arc theme lost the textbox & button outlines so I had to

cd ~/git/aur/gtk-arc-theme-git && git pull && makepkg -sri

Then open lxappearance, select a different theme then select Arc again and everything was fixed

Last edited by Head_on_a_Stick (2016-04-09 23:06:37)

ohnonot · 2016-04-12 05:45:15

anybody know how to use the clipit Exclude feature?
I cannot find documentation anywhere, not even in the package itself.
All it says is "Regex list of items that should not be inserted" but i have no clue if it refers to the item itself (i.e. i should need a string representing the actual password) or its origin (the application it came from)???
it does at least work when i insert the actual password, but i find that nonsensical.

Last edited by ohnonot (2016-04-12 05:46:13)

Sector11 · 2016-04-14 15:33:56

Tremnors? I can't read Japanese.
If it is - OUCH!

Sector11 · 2016-04-14 16:44:57

OMG! Isn't John down there somewhere?

http://earthquaketrack.com/jp-21-kumamoto/recent

hhh · 2016-04-15 04:13:39

Cheap computers that are good and Linux friendly.

http://www.walmart.com/browse/electroni … and:Lenovo

My pick is the first hit.

http://www.walmart.com/ip/Off-Lease-REF … r/41177485

AndyMender · 2016-04-15 05:00:40

^ I agree. Thinkpads are great with Linux, though I recently stumbled upon a rather faulty series. Watch out for the Edge 14 & Edge 15 models with discrete AMD graphics. The heat-sink is absolute junk and doesn't contact the graphics chip's memory modules properly.

In Austria some retailers also sell refurbished Thinkpads, Dells, etc. However, for 200-300 euro one can only get a Core 2 Duo laptop. Wish I stayed in the US for the electronics .

EDIT: Just checked again. Core i5 Dells can also be bought for under 300 euro, though that's still more expensive than in the US.

Last edited by AndyMender (2016-04-15 05:03:29)

Head_on_a_Stick · 2016-04-15 06:32:23

My X201 is better supported under OpenBSD than GNU/Linux, the developers use ThinkPads themselves.

hhh · 2016-04-16 00:08:53

^Nice, thanks!

Great posts on this page, BTW, I love the Peanuts strip.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TyTXbBVaXhA

I traded a brand new Chromebook that was a gift for a refurbished 15" T500 6 months ago (insane prices indead, it was $200 delivered to the store) and was quite worried what the build-quality and noise-level would be in comparison, especially since it's a Lenovo and not an IBM. I've never heard the fan in this thing and it's built like a brick outhouse.

Why not the T420 for ~50$ more and 8G RAM instead of a meager 2G?

The cheaper one can be expanded to 8G. My first desktop had 1G RAM, and I've never needed more for what I do as long as I run XP or Linux. I currently have 2G and it's more than enough. Your, right though, if you need RAM, that's a very cheap add-on.

Head_on_a_Stick · 2016-04-16 10:31:01

^ It's been top of the list for quite a while now

Sector11 · 2016-04-16 12:59:46

YUP! Startpage too! - but that just uses Google anonymously anyway.

Head_on_a_Stick · 2016-04-16 16:37:54

Broke my virtual machine completely so I've set up a systemd-nspawn container instead using machinectl(1) to control it.

root@Arch ~ # machinectl list         
MACHINE CLASS     SERVICE       
jessie  container systemd-nspawn

1 machines listed.
root@Arch ~ # machinectl show jessie                      
Name=jessie
Id=00000000000000000000000000000000
Timestamp=Sat 2016-04-16 17:29:09 BST
TimestampMonotonic=2032888491
Service=systemd-nspawn
Unit=systemd-nspawn@jessie.service
Leader=5739
Class=container
RootDirectory=/var/lib/machines/jessie
State=running

So if I want to run a shell in the container, I can just use:

root@Arch ~ # machinectl login jessie
Connected to machine jessie. Press ^] three times within 1s to exit session.

Debian GNU/Linux 8 jessie pts/0

jessie login: empty
Password: 
Last login: Sat Apr 16 17:29:17 BST 2016 on pts/0
Linux jessie 4.5.1-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Apr 14 19:19:32 CEST 2016 x86_64

The programs included with the Debian GNU/Linux system are free software;
the exact distribution terms for each program are described in the
individual files in /usr/share/doc/*/copyright.

Debian GNU/Linux comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY, to the extent
permitted by applicable law.
empty@jessie:~$

Now to get it to connect to the X server...
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Sy … nvironment

TeoBigusGeekus · 2016-04-18 12:20:22

I don't know if it belongs here, but I've just found this:
British comedians Sean Lock and Jon Richardson play Carrot in the Box, a special Christmas game
on Reddit and I can't stop laughing...

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