Posts by Sturm

First disable the network manager. Then use Joe's solution:

# iwconfig ath0 essid my-network
# dhclient ath0

or use wifi-radar. Once you have created a network in wifi-radar press the connect button. It should connect to your network. If you are too lazy to do this everytime you boot up then add wifi-radar -d to your startup script.

rm *.<extension>

Because its not a very useful language?

>I AM ONLY 14! i only want linux to work so i can then mess around iwht it

Getting a supported wireless card to work is a pretty simple problem, if your not willing to edit one file then maybe linux is not for you.

>ummm...i've had linux crash and be just as flaky as windows.

You have had linux crash? Impossible. The X server might crash or a tty but Linux (almost)never has kernel panics.

It is hard to write an OS (i would assume) that requires the support of nearly every peiece of software / hardware developed.

Thats no excuse for being unstable. Linux supports the more pieces of hardware than any other OS ever made and it is extremely stable.

An easier pain free way is just nvidia-xconfig

Try rebooting to update your path (I don't have access to a windows machine currently). If that doesn't work you could manually locate all of the necessary files.

http://www.gtkmm.org/docs/gtkmm-2.4/docs/tutorial/html/ape.html

What doesn't work?

Why did it post three times??!?

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Main characters that aren't self centered annoy me.

yeah when I was installing ubuntu on my parents computer the wireless card refused to actually work. Try using wifi-radar. After a few tries it should start working...(or at least it started working for me)

>That's because you're evil.

You should'nt believe in evil. Its just a tool that politicians use to force their own morals on the country.

Use emacs.

>i would rather say that it is very difficult to corrupt the pure of heart. but if one really is pure of heart one would believe that dictating to others is wrong.

I don't.

>is it any different from christians praying for a safe journey? or any other form of praying in times of need.

No its not any different.

>That's very true, the same could be said of Adolf Hitler.

Hitler was a failure at being a dictator, Stalin was not.

lol your pigs pretty funny

my pig is 1337: http://drawapig.desktopcreatures.com/gallery/large.asp?id=1522647&p=0&hof=1&q=personality+test

Actually for noobs I would recommend a traditional/hardcore unixish distro. This allows you to start learning immediately. Also with a tradition unixish distro, the skills learned will carry over to almost any *nix.

>Can you post some links to those lots of music players that are so much better?

Sorry it was a comparison in a pcworld article. (really don't know why I still have a pcworld subscription...) I know that sounds convenient... sorry.

I don't like apple because their products all seem to be targeted to the weird hip college generation. Its really annoying how people swear by their ipod when there are lots of music players with higher quality sound and more features. Apple makes their money off perceived innovation, the "coolness" factor, rather than actually making something I would want to use. I personally think that brilliant execution is a lot more important than brilliant or creative ideas.

Thats the problem.

I think you can use the dd command...joeprogrammer seems to be the expert on the matter...

Power might corrupt the lesser, but not the great.

You could have a good dictator.

offtopic but the wig looks pretty stupid... Do all UK judges wear them?

>Yeah... but which one do you think is better, democracy or dictatorship?

A dictatorship all the way. I much rather have a bad government than a weak, fickle, or non-existent one. So a dictatorship is a win-win situation.

Wait a second... I thought this was the 21st century...

I think an oligarchy is the best balance of efficiency and intelligence. If America had an oligarchy campaign ads would be unnecessary, and all people of merit could be elected. (not just white male millionaires)

There are lots of algorithms for finding prime numbers. The simplest and most crude would be to check every odd number up to 1/2 of the number.It works fine as long as you don't particularly care about performance.

I think its the same as using your harddrive. On my dads computer I have linux installed on an external harddrive w/ grub being on the main one. But people install grub to all sorts of things like floppy disks, flash drives, cdroms, etc. So I think its the same principle.

installing vmware tools might speed things up a bit

Thats the definition of a test.

Great it got my personality completely wrong.

heres a function that should work:

SDL_Surface* getImage(string filename, int r=255, int g=0, int b=198) 
{
    SDL_Surface* loadedImage=0;
    SDL_Surface* optimizedImage=0;
    
    loadedImage=IMG_Load(filename.c_str());
    optimizedImage = SDL_DisplayFormat(loadedImage);
    SDL_FreeSurface(loadedImage);
    
    Uint32 colorkey=SDL_MapRGB(optimizedImage->format, r, g, b);
    SDL_SetColorKey(optimizedImage, SDL_RLEACCEL | SDL_SRCCOLORKEY, colorkey);

    return optimizedImage;
}

I would agree that, like most of our bloated under effective government, it needs to be rebuilt. But the poll options are a bit misleading.

a better way to check if the process is running is:

if ! ps -C <yourprocesshere> > /dev/null
then
#...
fi

>Thanks.. I really wish I knew more about computers... because I would definitely help a lot of people out.

The quickest way to become 1337 is learn linux. I know this may sound biased but learning linux is _a lot_ easier than becoming a programming guru. You probably can learn linux in about ~2 months if you jump in the deep end. (aka use slackware, gentoo, arch, etc.) In the process of learning linux you will learn about operating system design, how to compile programs (and especially the kernel), how to troubleshoot effectively, networking, video cards, sound cards, cpu architecture, how to use regular expressions, and much much more. In fact you will inadvertently learn a programming language while your at it! Without even trying you will learn the fundamentals of bash and maybe lisp. (if you use a real editor that is ;-p) Incredibly you will also learn a bit about politics and law!

So if you want to be 1337 learn linux!

I've gone back to Windows myself. It has the everything-just-works -easily factor, and it's compatible with everything I need. I liked running Gentoo, but the rare broken ebuild and lack of just-works-easily eventually wore me out. Vista ftw.

Seriously? Why not try a better distro, a distro in where all the packages work flawlessly and has a boot up time of ~14 seconds? Cough cough arch cough.

>Linux isn't for everyone. Neither is Windows, and neither is Mac OS X. There isn't, and probably never will be, an "end-all be-all" operating system. You just have to try them all out and choose the one that best suits your needs.

Linux has the potential to be for everyone(in fact with ubuntu this time may have already come), Mac and WIndows do not,

Not that anyone uses Dev-C++ on linux.

>If the pilot's fate is to die, do the passengers come along?

Depends how he's fated to die.

Its only the illusion of choice that keeps people going.

>I think fate is a dangerous notion. You can get wrapped up with the idea that if anything was meant to be -- it would happen. So you end up living your life just waiting...and that's the worst thing you can do, because at the end, you just can't help but think what if?

I agree, but none the less I don't believe in free will.

>Which is exactly what im saying although you just use a different way to descibe it. Faith takes off from where evidence leaves you.

So do I have faith that my computer has a cpu? If you call this faith, I think you need to pull out a dictionary.

>Now lets look at this on the scale of Christianity. The two peices of evidence that we have are the Bible and the things that we see around us in nature that confirm what the bible says.

Bible is no more evidence than the science fiction book I finished yesterday. Nature contradicts the bible. Nature also supports evolution and natural selection.

>What about all the things in the evolution theory that have not been tested or looked into.

Such as?

>Faith comes into most of our everyday life. For example nobody here has seen the entire world and yet we still believe it exists. Why? We read it in books, see it on TV and hear about it from friends who have seen it.

Actually no. There is enough evidence for me to conclude that the whole entire world does in fact exist. My belief in the existence of the world is not based on faith, even though I haven't seen most of the world, but logical assumption.

For example I am sitting at my computer right know and I can only see the screen and the keyboard nothing else. I am 99.9999% confident that the rest of my computer exists. I am pretty sure I have a graphics card, cpu, etc. Do I have faith that the rest of my computer exists? No I do not. Do I know the rest of my computer exists? No I do not. Do I think that there is enough evidence to assume the rest of my computer does exist? Yes I do.

You know jwenting, I heard that in the Netherlands there are alot of serial killers. Maybe we should nuke the Netherlands to get ride of this blight. Obviously Netherlandian society promotes and encourages such behavior, its only logical.

>You need just as much faith to believe in a meaningless universe full of logic and half proven theories.

First of all, if its half proven its not a theory. Second of all why do I need faith to believe in a meaningless universe? Surely you can't be arrogant enough to actually believe we have a purpose and are special?

>anything at all? faith in your team (whichever sport you like), faith your gf is not cheating... no faith at all?

Don't like sports.
Don't have a girlfriend.(and probably never will)

I don't have faith in anybody or anything.
Every decision I make is usually based upon logic, not faith or belief. Faith is irrational, and there is nothing I hate more irrationality. (damn you e)