First full universe simulation:
http://www.deus-consortium.org/
1 2012-04-13 06:15:39
Re: the cool random internet stuff thread 1.0 (1,883 replies, posted in Off Topic / General Chat)
2 2012-04-12 11:12:00
Re: Distro-hoppers Anonymous (1,253 replies, posted in Off Topic / General Chat)
LMDE Maté-Cinnamon is really good!
There also is Salix MATE 13.37beta1 that has just been released; it's not a live one, only installable one, but worth it:
http://www.salixos.org/forum/viewtopic. … amp;t=3396
3 2012-04-01 20:01:02
Re: April Fools Day :) (17 replies, posted in Off Topic / General Chat)
This one was funny: http://techlaze.com/2012/03/richard-sta … hion-line/
and that one too:
https://mail.google.com/mail/help/promos/tap/index.html
4 2012-03-30 15:31:50
Re: Coffee is a food group (1,038 replies, posted in Off Topic / General Chat)
For those of you who want coffee on the go, the ultimate is this:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/artic … chine.html
5 2012-03-09 16:01:57
Re: Crunchbang recovery mode security: no password asked? (2 replies, posted in Help & Support (Stable))
Thanks, that's the conclusion have been led to,
plus added rootpw to Defaults in visudo file (Defaults env_reset,rootpw)
but is it a good idea?
6 2012-03-09 14:13:23
Topic: Crunchbang recovery mode security: no password asked? (2 replies, posted in Help & Support (Stable))
Lately, I've been booting into the recovery mode of my Crunchbang Openbox installation (which I never did previously) and have been really shocked by the fact that I was appointed root without being even asked for a password!!!!
Checking on the Internet, I've seen that the single-user mode is linked to /sbin/sulogin, with access to it through /etc/inittab.
Has any of you some idea on how to enable root password's asking in recovery mode?
Here are my files:
/etc/inittab
# /etc/inittab: init(8) configuration.
# $Id: inittab,v 1.91 2002/01/25 13:35:21 miquels Exp $
# The default runlevel.
id:2:initdefault:
# Boot-time system configuration/initialization script.
# This is run first except when booting in emergency (-b) mode.
si::sysinit:/etc/init.d/rcS
# [b]What to do in single-user mode.
~~:S:wait:/sbin/sulogin[/b]
# /etc/init.d executes the S and K scripts upon change
# of runlevel.
#
# Runlevel 0 is halt.
# Runlevel 1 is single-user.
# Runlevels 2-5 are multi-user.
# Runlevel 6 is reboot.
l0:0:wait:/etc/init.d/rc 0
l1:1:wait:/etc/init.d/rc 1
l2:2:wait:/etc/init.d/rc 2
l3:3:wait:/etc/init.d/rc 3
l4:4:wait:/etc/init.d/rc 4
l5:5:wait:/etc/init.d/rc 5
l6:6:wait:/etc/init.d/rc 6
# Normally not reached, but fallthrough in case of emergency.
z6:6:respawn:/sbin/sulogin
...~~:S:wait:/sbin/sulogin seems to be what is needed to use a password for root login in single-user mode
/boot/grub/grub.cfg
menuentry 'CrunchBang Linux, with Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (recovery mode)' --class debian --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os {
insmod part_msdos
insmod ext2
set root='(hd0,msdos1)'
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 430a8956-02e3-4b74-b256-04ee2f4d640d
echo 'Loading Linux 2.6.32-5-686 ...'
linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-5-686 root=UUID=430a8956-02e3-4b74-b256-04ee2f4d6340d ro single
echo 'Loading initial ramdisk ...'
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-5-686
}
### END /etc/grub.d/10_linux ### man sulogin
Name
sulogin - Single-user login
Synopsis
sulogin [ -e ] [ -p ] [ -t SECONDS ] [ TTY ]
Description
sulogin can be invoked by init(8) when the system goes into single user mode. (This is done through an entry in inittab(5).) Init also tries to execute sulogin when the boot loader (e.g., grub(8)) passes it the -b option.
The user is prompted to give root password for system maintenance (or type Control-D for normal startup):
sulogin will be connected to the current terminal, or to the optional device that can be specified on the command line (typically /dev/console).
If the -t option is used then the program only waits the given number of seconds for user input.
If the -p option is used then the single-user shell is invoked with a dash as the first character in argv[0]. This causes the shell process to behave as a login shell. The default is not to do this, so that the shell will not read /etc/profile or $HOME/.profile at startup.
After the user exits the single-user shell, or presses control-D at the prompt, the system will (continue to) boot to the default runlevel.
Environment Variables
sulogin looks for the environment variable SUSHELL or sushell to determine what shell to start. If the environment variable is not set, it will try to execute root's shell from /etc/passwd. If that fails it will fall back to /bin/sh.
This is very valuable together with the -b option to init. To boot the system into single user mode, with the root file system mounted read/write, using a special "fail safe" shell that is statically linked (this example is valid for the LILO bootprompt)
boot: linux -b rw sushell=/sbin/sash
Fallback Methods
sulogin checks the root password using the standard method (getpwnam) first. Then, if the -e option was specified, sulogin examines these files directly to find the root password:
/etc/passwd,
/etc/shadow (if present)
If they are damaged or nonexistent, sulogin will start a root shell without asking for a password. Only use the -e option if you are sure the console is physically protected against unauthorized access.No /etc/passwd, nor /etc/shadow nor working getpwnam on my system.
7 2012-03-05 11:04:55
Re: Distro-hoppers Anonymous (1,253 replies, posted in Off Topic / General Chat)
@merelyjim
SystemRescueCd has all you want.
I have it on a USB key and it has saved me from many bad patches (drawbacks of distrohopping, I guess!).
http://www.sysresccd.org/SystemRescueCd_Homepage
How to put it on USB key:
http://www.sysresccd.org/Sysresccd-manu … _USB-stick
Screenshots:
http://www.sysresccd.org/Screenshots
8 2012-02-26 09:54:08
Re: What is the price of Gasoline where you last filled up? (31 replies, posted in Off Topic / General Chat)
£1.37 here, so £5.18 or $8.16 for a gallon (if I'm right in thinking it's liquid US gallon that's used, so 3.785 liters per gallon).
9 2012-02-02 06:46:31
Re: Overheating Issue (3 replies, posted in Help & Support (Stable))
Hi, the Debian wiki about Toshiba laptops is pretty scarce ( here) ; but this page about one Satellite talks about the fan problem and leads to this bug page that states that the patch seems to be included in upstream kernel 3.2.0-1
10 2012-01-28 13:42:16
Re: [SOLVED] Asus eee 4G Boot Problems (8 replies, posted in Help & Support (Stable))
Darn!
I've been perusing the pages I had been printing from the Debian Eeepc wiki in 2008, back when there were only 701 eeepcs.
Quoting Tim AUTON: There seems to be a pathological behavior on USB flash and SD cards with the cfq IO scheduler - it's slow and far from fair. Use another elevator; deadline seems the most effective. Add the kernel parameter "elevator=deadline" to the kernel line in /grub/menu.conf to use deadline as a default.
You can have a look at this elevator business here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/SS … _Scheduler
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/In … on_SD_card has some things that might interest you.
PS: If you want your eeepc to be less warm and to use less CPU, you can force the Linux ACPI support by doing the following:
Edit /etc/default/grub as root, then add acpi_osi=Linux" to the GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT line, like this:
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash acpi_osi=Linux"
Then update Grub
11 2012-01-28 12:58:27
Re: [SOLVED] Asus eee 4G Boot Problems (8 replies, posted in Help & Support (Stable))
You might try this trick from the Debian Eeepc wiki: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEeePC
Other SD card reader problems (throwing I/O errors, access is hanging) or hanging fdisk or hanging grub os-detect can be caused by the BIOS setting "OS Installation". It seems as if must be set to "finished" to make the SD card reader behave properly
quoted from here: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEeePC/HowT … :_overview
12 2012-01-28 12:55:14
Re: [Solved]No wireless on laptop :( (7 replies, posted in Help & Support (Stable))
The Debian Wiki pages regarding the HP dv6 are located here:
http://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebian … DV6_2113sa
Your wifi should be working with wireless-tools and the ath9k driver: http://wiki.debian.org/ath9k
13 2012-01-23 22:12:21
Re: Help Me Buy My First Printer, Copier, Scanner, Please (43 replies, posted in Off Topic / General Chat)
pvsage wrote:
I don't know how well Epson printers are supported by Linux...
Then head towards here, OpenPrinting: http://www.openprinting.org/printer/Epson/
My experience with Epson scanners under various Linux distros is that it's not easy at all to install (been fiddling with friend's previously0.
Been always having HP devices and their site is really helpful, very detailed for every distro, enabling you to get the best of your machine, espescially when there's a built-in scanner.
http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/in … index.html
I've jut finished (5 minutes ago), to install my HP 2050 under CentOS 6.2 and it was as easy as a pie.
14 2012-01-14 08:32:43
Re: Distro-hoppers Anonymous (1,253 replies, posted in Off Topic / General Chat)
Il est plutôt cool, ce nouveau forum, Dartthwound! La mise en page / présentation est très originale.
The new forum is rather cool, Darthwound! The layout is really original.
15 2012-01-10 13:27:04
Re: Can't configure keyboard layout as keyboard is not listed (3 replies, posted in Help & Support (Stable))
You have different solutions:
- one is to install an applet in your tray, it's called 'Character palette' and provides a convenient way to access non-standard characters, such as accented characters, mathematical symbols, special symbols, and punctuation marks.
Character palette is included in gnome-applets package, so if you want to test it first, install gnome-applets without the recommended packages (that will bring a few Gnome dependencies):
$ sudo apt-get install --no-install -recommends gnome-applets
You'll have the manual here: http://library.gnome.org/users/char-pal … ex.html.en
You can customize it the way you want.
That's what I'm using on my 901 which has a UK keyboard when I want to type French on it.
- The other solutions require more tweaking, but there are a few links here:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=16996 has a script
'US_keyb_solution_portuguese.zip ' you might be interested into (Ajuda em Portugues para configurar o teclado US)
http://por.proz.com/forum/getting_estab … board.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modifier_k … characters
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/0138?page=0,1
http://www.reference.com/browse/writingpad (about dead keys)
16 2012-01-09 11:45:20
Re: about the universe (208 replies, posted in Off Topic / General Chat)
There's an excellent book about the universe, introducing the notion of Multiverse; it's John D Barrow's The book of universes.
A review of it can be found here:
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-enter … 51929.html
From http://www.amazon.com/Book-Universes-Ex … s-Cosmos/:
John D. Barrow explains the latest discoveries and ideas that physics and astronomy have to offer about our own universe, showing how these findings lead to the concept of the "multiverse"—the Universe of all possible universes. New ideas force us to confront the possibility that our visible universe is a tiny region, governed by its own laws, within a Multiverse containing all the strange universes that could be—an idea that is among the most exciting and revolutionary in all of modern science.
17 2011-12-17 18:14:21
Re: The official "I was wrong" thread (25 replies, posted in Off Topic / General Chat)
I was wrong to think that Opera 10.60 would be an improvement. Following the general trend to upset everything for tablets and touchscreens, the built-in mail reader has turned to be a disaster on small screens like the ones in eeepcs; it's unusable on them.
Been pinning down Opera to stay to its 10.52 release and moving to Firefox and Thunderbird, which means learning totally different ways of behaving, importing hundreds of bookmarks...a real nightmare!
More than 15 years of faithfulness to Opera gone away right now, what a disappointment! (As if it wasn't already enough to have to put up with Gnome2 vanishing away.....).
18 2011-12-17 12:05:19
Re: Distro-hoppers Anonymous (1,253 replies, posted in Off Topic / General Chat)
Viperr is quick, the pre-made customizations are nice, especially when you have a very small screen like on eeepcs.
Jupiter is working and the computer's temperature is lower than when running CrunchBang with/without Jupiter.
When installed, Viperr has an post-installation script (just like Crunchbang) that needs 15 minutes to install LibreOffice, remove Gnumeric and Abiword, add Dropbox and printing support (LAMP can be installed too, as numlockx) and do the yum cleaning; so here are which applications you get once it's over:
(rpm distros are more friendly to eeepcs and Jupiter works better with them, that's why I prefer them to Debian or Ubuntu ones.)
19 2011-12-17 11:22:09
Re: Distro-hoppers Anonymous (1,253 replies, posted in Off Topic / General Chat)
Tested and installed!
Added Fewt's Jupiter.
20 2011-12-14 17:59:49
Re: oblogout in systray or ? (9 replies, posted in Help & Support (Stable))
Been following your method 2, Tunafish, modifying the script to replace os.system('openbox-logout') with os.system('cb-exit') and it works like a charm.
Thanks a lot.
21 2011-11-28 05:40:25
Re: Updated Statler Images (477 replies, posted in News & Announcements)
gnomic wrote:
Are there any mirrors for plain old downloads, does anyone know? I appreciate why torrents are being used, but does anybody make it easy for old fogies like me (ducking and checking for incoming brickbats aimed at failure to get with the programme) who haven't quite got up to speed with torrents?
Arpinux has a mirror: http://arpinux.org/isos/statler/
Downloading it from here right now.
22 2011-11-23 16:51:56
Re: Distro-hoppers Anonymous (1,253 replies, posted in Off Topic / General Chat)
@machinebacon:
yes, on the second link, which has the list of all tested & installable OS, the ones that are written in bold characters have persistence enabled; plus it's stated at the top of the list that persistent mode is available for: Ubuntu, Fedora 12/13 /..., Debian-live, Slax, Puppy and derivatives.
That's the best stuff since sliced bread.
Been testing SalixLive LXDE among the distros I've put onto this USB system, and tried Salix Liveclone
http://www.salixos.org/forum/viewtopic. … amp;p=8363
basically, running the live session, I've removed packages that were useless to my eeepc and added a few essentials (like Opera 
), tweaked the settings, then ran Liveclone and half an hour later I was having a personalized live USB key of Salix (working without flaws, I'm using it now).
23 2011-11-23 14:10:05
Re: Distro-hoppers Anonymous (1,253 replies, posted in Off Topic / General Chat)
Having an awful good time with this ultimate distro-hopping tool, MultiBoot LiveUSB! Can't believe a thing like that exists!
There's a translation button on the right, with many languages available:
http://liveusb.info/dotclear/
http://liveusb.info/dotclear/index.php?pages/os
It's gonna make me reduce the number of USB flash drives I'm buying, as have got a spare 80 GB USB hard drive. Testing it currently on a 8 GB USB key; that's a great tool; don't hesitate trying it.
24 2011-11-10 21:17:15
Re: Distro-hoppers Anonymous (1,253 replies, posted in Off Topic / General Chat)
Couldn't resist to Sabayon Lxde, as the live USB was behaving so well compared to the previous Gnome Sabayons I had been testing previously. It ended installed on my eeepc 1000H hard disk.
Performances are pretty better than under Gnome, no freezings or enormous use of CPU; Sulfur and equo have evolved to quicker versions, it seems, or may be when you have Gnome, dependencies are so intricate that it takes ages for the package manager to check them all.
Is there an end to distro-hopping, I wonder? Or does that mean that when you distro-hopp you have an open-minded frame of mind, or that you're an obsessive-compulsive ?
25 2011-11-10 12:55:21
Re: the cool random internet stuff thread 1.0 (1,883 replies, posted in Off Topic / General Chat)
Siri doesn't understand Furbish! http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl … 8UmoIu8lII
LOL! Remember my son had one years ago; it was such a nuisance! I also remember it happened to disappear mysteriously one day and couldn't be found anymore (oops, has the bin already been collected today... 
)