2007-12-27, 22:40 | Link #561 | |
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But please continue listing the extensions you use, I'm interested. PS: Since Firefox is installed by default in Ubuntu, it's okay to talk about it, right? EDIT: Also, as there's no conclusion to the specific reason regarding why I keep getting disconnected, may there be any speculations about how downloading makes me disconnects even easier?
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2007-12-27, 23:52 | Link #562 |
Yummy, sweet and unyuu!!!
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Re: Power over ethernet
The one my boss uses is just two little boxes which you plug into a socket and then plug a network cable into them. So you would have one in the router room connected to it and one in your room connected to your pc. http://www.ebuyer.com/product/95287
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2007-12-28, 10:08 | Link #563 |
Urusai~Urusai~Urusai~
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Well, my disconnection is extremely irregular the last couple of days. At times I don't get disconnected even after hours, then there are times when I get disconnected just after a few minutes.
In any case, regarding the --MARK-- line in my /var/log/syslog, there was one that showed up a couple of minutes ago but I didn't have disconnection then.
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2007-12-28, 11:18 | Link #564 |
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I think the power/ethernet discussion has gotten a bit confused.
What Vexx was talking about was ethernet over power lines, not power over ethernet. Both technologies exist today. The former lets you use normal electrical wiring to carry an ethernet signal, using the house wiring instead of cat-5. Power over ethernet delivers, as IRJustman writes, electricity over one of the ethernet pairs. It's quite useful when you're using something like a building-to-building laser for network relaying. You don't have to run power up to the roof for the device; you just send it over the ethernet cabling. As for your disconnection problem, I might mention that I switched from my PCI wireless card (an old 802.11b model) to a USB device (also an old 802.11b model). My signal strength measurements dropped considerably from 40-50% to 20-30%. My adapter (a Linksys) gets all its power over the USB cable which doesn't deliver a lot of current. Its radios are naturally not so powerful as the ones on the PCI card since there's more power on the bus.
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2007-12-28, 15:54 | Link #565 |
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Mouse Gestures, Tab Mix & AdBlockPlus are the trinity I couldn't and wouldn't browse without.
After that, Firebug, NoScript and Super Drag and Go are also extremely useful. Occasionally, DTA Greasemonkey quickproxy and keyconfig add value to browsing experience as well. Now with the completion toolbar in beta2, I hope it can be disabled. I quite dislike it. The browser itself seems to eat less memory, but that was a granted, given the large number of extensions that were forcefully disabled. |
2007-12-28, 18:01 | Link #566 | ||
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2007-12-28, 18:06 | Link #567 |
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Ethernet over power lines is actually pretty easy as well. I assume you realize that most network connections employ wiring, not wifi connections. Typically one uses an "ethernet cable" (sometimes called a category-5 or cat-5 cable) to connect the computers into the network. Well, ethernet over powerlines piggybacks the ethernet signal on top of the power, using the power lines instead of the ethernet (cat-5) cabling.
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2007-12-28, 20:18 | Link #570 | ||
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Anyway, anyone knows what the "-- MARK --" message in /var/log/syslog suppose to mean? In here, it says something like this: Quote:
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2007-12-28, 20:36 | Link #571 | |
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I think what they're saying is that if you have one log that's particularly inactive, you can tell when a machine managed to get rebooted. It's not a big thing; it's a part of every Ubuntu (as well as Debian, but I generally don't use anything outside these two distributions other than to check them out). --Ian. |
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2007-12-28, 20:56 | Link #572 | |
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EDIT: Speaking of which, the Network Monitor applet comes default with Ubuntu tells me that my signal strength is 60%, but in iwlist scan, I see the quality is 15/100..
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2007-12-28, 23:58 | Link #573 |
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I received my package of 7.10 Ubuntu desktop, server, and Studio today..... so off I went to take a look at Studio.
Tried Studio on a lame-ass HP notebook I have laying around --- 3 times while watching Ratatouille... Each time it took an hour to futz around and then at best I'd get the traditional background but no desktop. I'd try it a different way but same results --- however, HP notebooks tend to be pretty unfriendly pieces of crap anyway no matter what OS you try to put on them other than "what came with it". Put the notebook back in my 'pile o things'. I've got a little old Shuttle box with more typical innards... plan to try that next after I test install a standard ubuntu desktop to make sure it works well with that.
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2007-12-29, 21:40 | Link #575 |
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Just a question but since Ubuntu Studio seems to be pretty bloated with extraneous softwares, wouldn't it be better to install the standard Ubuntu CD and then get the necessary programs for anime playback?
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2007-12-30, 00:31 | Link #576 | |
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The good thing about US is that it gives people who don't want to spend the time hunting out what is a good media suite the chance to try out all of these recommended ones. The main issue for lots of people who are new to Linux is the sheer amount of choices available to them. I think projects like this help people get started and if in the future they are of the mind to do so, then can then install just the packages they wish to use.
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2007-12-30, 01:29 | Link #577 |
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Actually it whined and moaned about how "I didn't have the necessary rights to set the system clock" and then "rights to save gnome desk" stuff and then I got an empty screen with just the default wallpaper and no widgets. Haven't had a moment to try something different but that's rather odd since I gave it the usual 'primary user account/passwd' in the setup, but then it didn't put up the su-ish window to authenticate me.
Tiochopvutru: yeah, but I like to periodically see how well linus-dist combo installers are working "for the rest of the common people". Studio looked interesting though it does a lousy job up front of describing what it actually *means* by the different package combo selections (requires web research which annoys someone who just wants to throw it in and have it 'work').
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Raster Image Editor: GIMP Vector Image Editor: Inkscape 3D Animator: Blender Publisher: Scribus Audio Player: usually Amarok , then XMMS and Exaile (sad to say but I don't use any of the advance feature... basically, only playing musics) Audio Editor: Audacity (don't search for audio editor a lot so I don't know about others) Video Player: (S)mplayer, VLC (I'm sure a lot less would use VLC if there are mkv containers and softsub outside the anime world) Video Editor: Cinelerra Well... basically what I do anyway, get what most people recommend, and only try out others when the mood strikes. But I hear, Linux Mint is pretty popular as user-friendly and just-work since it comes default with media codecs. Maybe I should try it, it may magically fixes my Internet problem. On this note, anyone knows a utility that would allow me to track my network connection? Since I usually get disconnected during downloading torrent, I thought I could run such program when I do so. Speaking of which, anyone knows if there are any drawback for burning an OS iso on a CD-RW disc? The reason why I'm asking this is because (long, long ago, on the distance planet, although I probably exaggerate) I've read somewhere that it's not preferable... On the other hand... I'm not sure if I would like to install another one since I'm kinda fine with my desktop setup right now, and it's a pain to redo it again. @_@ Quote:
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My father, a Mac user for about 1-2 years longer than I've been using computers, desperately wanted my help when we were switching ADSL providers. I did hardware, and then was about to leave him when he hit a snag: he had to configure his email client to use the new service's servers. He asked me what the servers were - how on earth should I know off the top of my head? Since he had his computer right there I told him to Google it. He opened Google and asked me what he should type. A seasoned computer was lost with simply finding the server names. I gave him the terms (server provider name, SMPT, server address) and it was the first hit. I always wondered how there were such thick books on "How to Use Google" and why they were so popular, but after that I suppose it's not quite surprising. The point is, we take it for granted. Plenty of people want to just get a computer and have everything there, ready to work. No searching for software, no searching for recommendations, no trying things out - just have it all there and run with it. In this respect I think Mac OS is really doing an excellent job, as there's a very wide variety of software to meet many needs that comes with the system. Quote:
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Well, when it's about a Windows machine, I kind of understand the pain to update/install anything, seeing how a lot of time you have to do the setup in the beginning and when the installation is done, restart (albeit I do that a lot in Ubuntu already due to wireless connection, which I'm not so sure whose fault it belongs to)... Quote:
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For those who are curious as to why I have several Ubuntu discs lying around, I first decided to try out Ubuntu during summer after the Feisty release. The reason why I had the 6.10 disc was because, at that time, I thought a LTS release would be better, although somehow geared toward 7.04 after installing the 6.10. I don't remember the detail, though. The Xubuntu 7.04 was because one of the primary reasons back then was that I wanted speed, so on the old PC that I installed Ubuntu on, I put on Xubuntu instead. I left that computer for my dad to use so I never used it extensively. But when I heard that Gutsy would have native support for read-write on NTFS, in addition to Compiz Fusion, I decided to start dual-boot on my primary computer. But oh... I had one hell of a time trying to figure out the whole ndiswrapper thing and getting my wireless to work (that missing build-essential package didn't allow me to compile ndiswrapper from source, so I didn't know I missed that package until much later; and in Xubuntu, I had to hunt it on the web and transfer through a USB flash drive after a while of not knowing that there wasn't build-essential in Xubuntu disc =.='')... Quote:
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