What part of copy/paste did you not understand? Your stupid browser can’t open hyperlinks from the page–I got that. I gave you the “raw” links and told you to copy/paste them, and what do you tell me? You say, “The links still don’t work”. Well, yes, they do, but not if you CLICK ON THEM THE SAME WAY YOU DID WITH THE LINKS THAT DIDN’T WORK, DUMBASS. Copy and paste, or just type the fucking things in manually. I give up–read the articles on another computer, or get your boyfriend (Jesus wept) to install another browser. Whatever–I don’t care, and I’m NOT typing a page to explain what is covered in detail in the article to which I linked.
I don’t mind a noob because a noob just doesn’t know, but deliver me from computer-illiterates who not only don’t know, but are too clueless to learn.
Computers > people
What possible use could there be in telling me something so important–something that I could not possibly have guessed on my own without the Psychic Friends Network–but telling me so long afterwards that there’s nothing I can do?
“…Is it down to the lake, I fear…”
In the event that any of my fan(s) might be wondering, I am a goddamned genius. I may have broken X (oh, and BADLY!) in my refusal to wait for an update to Beryl (spoilt by my spinning desktop cube), but I also…fixed X. Yaaay! Not only did I fix it, but I removed my old Nvidia driver and installed the latest one while I was at it. I couldn’t get it to work before because I didn’t have the development files for Xorg, so although it could install the updated driver, it could not compile the the kernel module for it, resulting in a mismatch.
Since I forgot from the last time and cursed the air blue until it occurred to me, when Ubuntu drops to runlevel 3, GDM is still running, and you can’t install a graphics driver with GDM running. To stop it:
sudo /etc/init.d/gdm stop
I probably won’t have to do this again because Feisty will be out in April and I think it’s going to have binary drivers in it, but if I do:
– Need make and gcc
– Need the linux-headers package that matches the installed kernel (uname -a if I don’t know)
– Need the pkg-config and xserver-xorg-dev packages installed
– Must have removed nvidia-glx (with –purge) and ensure that the file /etc/init.d/nvidia-glx does not exist.
– For Ubuntu (not Debian), linux-restricted-modules must be uninstalled, or if there’s stuff you need in it (wireless), then edit /etc/default/linux-restricted-modules to disable the Nvidia modules (nvidia, nvidia_legacy). Do that with: DISABLED_MODULES=”nv”
Okay…brand spanking new driver, check. Wobbly windows, fold-y menus and spinning cube, check. Genius geek girl, check! Now to tend the blackworms and go find the kitchen under the water change mess I still haven’t cleaned up. At least I was able to leave X broken long enough to tend ID and the fish, but it really was bugging me! 🙂
P.S. Aaaaayyynd, if you expect Emerald to draw your window borders, don’t forget (as I just did) to add this to the Screen section of xorg.conf
# Enable 32-bit ARGB GLX Visuals
Option “AddARGBGLXVisuals†“Trueâ€
You are officially a fucking idiot. The cray attacked your betta and shredded his fins. Congratulations, dumbass. NOW do you understand the explanation I gave you WHEN YOU ASKED WHETHER YOU COULD PUT THEM IN THE SAME TANK? Gawd, I could smack you!
Jesus H. Christ on a four-wheeler. Just kill the poor fish and be done with it! You’re obviously too stupid to keep anything alive; what part of, “Make the pet store guy give you the actual NUMBERS” did you not understand? “Safe” and “mid-range” are utterly useless to me as diagnostic tools because those are SUBJECTIVE descriptions. Safe by whose standards–mine, or the company selling the medications when the poor animal gets sick from exposure to toxins in the water? Arsehole. You’re an idiot and I’m sick to death of your torturing that poor fish. She’s a big, sturdy CA cichlid, or at least she was before you came along with your concrete fucking skull that seems incapable of allowing entry to even the slightest bit of useful information or common fucking sense. If you can’t learn how to take care of her and keep her alive, then bring her up here and give her to me because I fucking well CAN!
There are no words vile enough to express the hatred I have for Microsoft Windows. I often read posts/blogs/articles where people say, “I tried Linux, but went back to Windows so I could get some work done”, but I can’t for the life of me understand how the fuck they get anything done with that POS.
There is an Ice Bowl on the 20th of this month, and when Dan gave P some flyers yesterday, I noticed that although the St. Louis club had a nice logo and Gateway had one on there, too, our little club’s name was just in a plain font. Since it’s a new club, and I happen to know that it’s just a bunch of guys (AFAIK, no women unless I count as club photographer) who happen to love the game, I decided that I’d make a logo and offer it to Jeff/Dan for the club. I had in mind a simple design that would use the elliptical path of a disc in flight as the crosspiece for the letter “F”, and the disc itself as a stylised dot for the “i”. Something that would scale up or down nicely, and would look good whether in the three colours I’d planned to use (red, blue, black), or in one single colour.
I booted into ExPee (shuddered at the boring, 90s-look, lonely little single desktop), fired up Photoshop and created my document. A quick browse of the listed fonts revealed nothing that had quite the right look, so off I went to DaFont to find a free one. I found a few that I thought might work, saved the files and thought I’d be done in no time flat–just copy them to the Fonts directory, restart Photoshop and good to go, right? WRONG!
I fired up Windows Explorer and tried to browse to Windows\Fonts. Explorer crashed. Fuck. Okay, fine. I’ll try again. Crash. Jesus H. Christ. That’s okay; I’m a Linux user and when a GUI fails to behave itself, I know just what to do. Fire up a command line and start typing. Start > Run > cmd and I should be good to go. My DOS never was all that good, and I’m pretty rusty, but after the first time it told me that “ls” is not a command, I started to remember. Win cmd doesn’t support copy and paste (archaic), but even that was okay because goddammit, I was getting the best two of those fonts into Windows, whatever it took.
I typed my happy little DOS-y commands in and it told me that the files had been copied successfully. Again, I fired up Photoshop, created a new document, and looked in the dropdown for my newly installed fonts. Nope, not there. Fuck. I was a Windows user long enough to recall that it wants a reboot any time you do something more complicated than move the fucking mouse, so FINE–if that’s what it wants, that’s what it’ll get.
I rebooted, waited two hundred years for the desktop to load so I could use it, and yes, I do have 2 GB of RAM (people who complain about Linux boot times seem to forget that you can’t use a Win desktop until your antivirus and software firewall load). Again, I fired up Photoshop, created my new document and looked for my fonts. Not there. Well, fuck-a-duck. Okay, let’s look in Explorer. No, wait–let’s try command line first, just in case. “cd C:\Windows\Fonts”, “dir”…yup, there are my freshly installed fonts, right where they belong. Shouldn’t be any problem. Let’s check Explorer, too…crash.
I finally gave up. I don’t have too many more than the default fonts that install with Windows (just a few installed by Adobe), so it’s not like it’s trying to read a directory with a thousand fucking entries or something. I don’t know why it’s crashing, but I could browse other directories in C:\Windows, just not Fonts. I don’t even care why it’s crashing anymore, but I’m hoping that by some magical process, that infinitely stupid, sluggish monolith of an OS is going to find the fonts even though they weren’t (ZOMG!!!11one) dragged and dropped in the GUI, and let me create my logo. I’d do it in GIMP, but I’ve got almost eight years’ experience in Photoshop, and I know my way around it pretty well. I can do simple things with GIMP, but it’s going to take me forever because I’ll have to figure out what I’m doing as I go along. Christ.
Why did I switch from Windows to Linux? Well, one reason is that I like simple tasks to be simple, and I like having some control over MY OWN FUCKING COMPUTER. I also like to GET SOME WORK DONE! Arrrrggghhh!
P.S. I hate you, too, Adobe. Even people who use free operating systems would be willing to pay for Photoshop if you’d port the fucking thing.
Kiss my arse, Putfile. I was reading an article about some poor bastard’s problem with getting Verizon to understand that 0.002 cents is not the same as 0.002 dollars. There was a link to an audio file of a call he had recorded, and I wanted to hear it. Off I went to Putfile, but since the call was so long and I didn’t want to sit here for twenty-plus minutes, I wanted a copy of the mp3 so I could stick it on my iPod. I clicked the download link, and got taken to the first of these:
(That’s a crop, full size here.)
The obvious intent was to make me look at TWENTY (!) pages of advertising before finally allowing me to download the actual file. I clicked as fast as the pages would load, and at some point in time, it reset itself from the ninth or tenth page back to the first. I almost decided to say, “Fuck it”, but then I thought, “No. I can’t see the adverts anyway because I’ve got them all blocked, and if it meant sitting here for half an hour, clicking links just to make you give me the goddamned file without giving your advertisers one red fucking cent, I’d do it out of pure spite.” I understand “ad supported”, and I have no problem with it as long as the advertising is not overly annoying or invasive, but twenty pages? Come ON! Anyway, I got the file, and their advertisers got jack shit from me, and I don’t care. If I hadn’t had the advertising blocked, I would have carefully noted the company of each one and put them on my boycott list, just for registering with another company that tried to shove twenty pages of that shite down my throat for one fucking mp3 file that wasn’t even a song or something I’d listen to more than once. Fuck ’em.
I am not your private fish care consultant. Don’t send me PMs to ask questions that you can ask on the board. It may help you, but it doesn’t help anyone else, and it does take up my time, SO PUT YOUR QUESTIONS ON THE FUCKING BOARD WHERE OTHER PEOPLE CAN SEE THEM, TOO.