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Thank you very much user. I went with filelight and I am extremely satisfied.
Jack Gonzalez
Syntax question:
wget
Benjamin Morris
Does anyone else NEED to have terminal windows open to monitor "stuff?" I have one that just runs "ping google.com" so that I know I am online. Another that does "tail -f" on system.log. And a couple others that monitor various things. Just in case.
Just me?
Carter Ortiz
Just stream them to the virtual console like all the normal people do. Dunno about other distribs, but Gentoo dumps system.log into tty12 out of the box.
Jack Bailey
That's good for system.log. I also know people who stream audio which, obviously, stops when the network goes down. I don't know. I just like to have them chugging away in a green on black terminal window. It always feels like something important is going on.
Anthony Kelly
>monitor stuff That what bars/panels are for.
Jose Young
>"ping google.com" enjoy your botnet
Luke Scott
What is your image supposed to convey? You want your network mounts to appear there? Bookmark them.
Sebastian Myers
Do you use it to solve stuff? Because if you don't, it can't be important.
William Gutierrez
Come on, have some respect for his aspergers.
Zachary Wilson
Try both and see which works.
Wyatt Smith
Both work, I'm asking for the better practice.
William Sullivan
Go away Steve.
Logan Jones
The last two things I solved with it was to read a man page (for "otool") and cal, to read the calendar for this month. Stupid shit like that, usually.
And the idea of getting a botnet from pinging google.com is pretty silly. What I do know is that if my returns are much over 20 ms, something is wrong on the line.
Gavin Smith
>much over 20 ms Where are you living, in California?
Daniel Thompson
It doesn't really mattress.
Leo Perry
If you don't know it, just don't post.
Luis Bell
Nope, East Coast USA. But Google has local servers all over the place. That's why I don't ping an IP address.
Andrew Thomas
> I do know is that if my returns are much over 20 ms, something is wrong on the line.
Yeah, totally.
>ping something >looks good >start maxing out my bandwidth >ping skyrockets
Useless if you're browsing the internet normally, which is like 100% of the time. The only reason to use it is to test connectivity. By using the internet you can test your connectivity.
Zachary Jones
wget "boards.Sup Forums.org/${1}/12345" What if he doesn't want to use the internet, but just enjoy the thought that it works?
Jonathan Watson
It's funny. Even when a browser is flipping out and using tons of cpu and bandwidth, the ping times to google.com stay pretty stable. I do use "top" to see if any processes are taking off (forgot to mention that). If it's some daemon, I'll just kill it (hey, they restart themselves) and if it is some userland app like a browser, I'll just kill and restart.
Gabriel Richardson
Sup Forumsentoomen, I got a job in a small hospital, will someone indulge in my stupidity for few of the questions I have?
1. Are there some programs to use manage patients records, as well as to mange employees data?And some sort of system to contact/inform them of notices and such?
Sebastian Bennett
Sounds simple, writing one can't take more than a week
John Flores
Some flavor of SQL? They must be arranged in some sort of database.
Nathaniel Brooks
I need a good small program like Speccy that shows specs and GPU+CPU temps. The less setup needed, the better
Samuel Perry
Inxi -Fx
Camden Thomas
thanks bro this will do just fine
Leo King
Oh, I've should have clarified more. It's difficult to describe, but how things work where I live isn't exactly optimum, in the middle of a third world country. I do desk work most of the time. And I'm looking for some programs to make job easier. I've been searching and this is what I found en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_open-source_health_software
yet, non seemed to do exactly what's needed especially for handling employees and notifying them.
It's a shitty third world country based on rigid bureaucracy.
Nathaniel Gutierrez
>shitty third world country based on rigid bureaucracy Russia? Just write one yourself for fuck's sake
Liam Jenkins
You need two separate databases. One for employees and one for patients. Nothing you find online will be perfect for either one, so you will have to improvise to some degree. But they will both be based on some kind of SQL base. I think. You will have to set up the framework and if you are lucky, you can hire some data entry slob to input the data (which you will have to put into some usable form for them). If you're lucky, you will be starting from nothing.
Alexander White
Ok so i installed Linux Mint 18 Cinnamon last week (which was already unexpectedly troublesome, i'm new to this) and i still cannot boot into it regulary. It does work however when i boot with the option 'nomodeset' or in recovery mode. I have tried to install multiple drivers and packages but when i boot with defaults i get an error from the x.org server(?) saying 'caught signal 11: segmentation fault. sever aborting'. How would i approach this problem?
Nathaniel Hill
Nice titties. More?
Juan Martinez
By reading logs, namely xorg logs, kernel logs and system logs. But the most certain way is of course [spoiler]install Gentoo[/spoiler]
Jayden Thomas
Romania, I have no programing skills, in fact I have no degree in computer related stuff. I was hired because I was young and with no criminal records and know how to operate a computer. I work as a jack of all trade I do have degree in electrical engineering though. Thanks, but this solution isn't suitable for me. I guess if you can't beat them, then join them.
Aiden Gomez
Hey guys, I have a laptop with a 120GB SSD and a 1TB HDD, I want to install Kubuntu on it. Now I do need Windows or OSX for the Adobe programs and some games I play so I do wish to dual-boot Windows and Kubuntu. Now my goal is to partition the SSD to 60GB for windows and 60GB for Kubuntu, and the HDD to 500GB for Windows and 500GB for Kubuntu. Now how should I go about it so that I can keep the current windows I have installed?
Regarding printing under linux? Is it recommended to use HP printer services? Also what are the setting should be done to print fast/low quality?
Luis Scott
update: it says on the mint 18 release notes that fglrx is not useable and that radeon/amdgpu will be defaulted instead. it doesn't say so in the xorg.conf however how do i change it? the file is read-only
Angel Torres
What is the best torrent client for CLI? Rtorrent, deluge, transmission?
Aiden Anderson
The one I'm using.
Liam Parker
>paper icons together with the adwaita theme using nemo
can'tseeshit/10
Joshua Myers
Can some one suggest me a portable distro with persistence? What I want is a way to have my browser complete add-on, userscript, custom CSS with me. In addition to some other applications. Or how to make a copy of current OS to USB and make it bootable.
Christian King
Why does my firefox scroll so laggy in ubuntu? Only thing preventing me from actually adopting Linux is this shit.
Everything else scrolls fine but firefox is slightly laggy and choppy, still usable but not as good compared to Windows.
Ayden Myers
Looks like Windows is better for you.
Charles Smith
There's a certain configuration in about:config that fixes this very issue. I forgot which one; google this shit. Also
Juan Scott
Can someone help me anons?
Cameron Ortiz
>using smooth scrolling instead of fixed line scrolling Your fault
Connor Harris
Many of co-worker use it to exchange important info. Is it safe? can I use it without giving my phone number? or use fake number? And will using it under linux will compromise security?
Oliver Martin
I'm experiencing the same issue. It's not this . I turned smooth scrolling off, but the overall scrolling is still lagging and it feels "heavy" and unresponsive. Not just the scrolling, general website viewing too. I assume it's because of the lack of hardware acceleration. It's somewhat better on my laptop with newer hardware, but it shouldn't be that bad on my desktop with a CPU/GPU from 2007 (the same CPU/GPU has no problems on Windows).
Jose Edwards
Hi lads.
I think I'm going to throw Ubuntu on an old Lenovo G580 that's bogged down. It's mainly going to be used as a Netflix machine and word processor so I don't need it for much, but I am new to gahnoo/lehnucks.
Will all the drivers from Lenovo's site that say "X for Windows 8" work on Ubuntu?
Sebastian Moore
i have encountered a very weird issue ive never before encountered.
im trying to get into go programming and ive set up gopath and got the plugin for vscode. if i start vs code from the terminal everything works fine and as intended. however if i were to start vscode from the plasma launcher menu. it does not recognize my go path. ive already checked the process users and in both cases its my username.
any idea what this issue could be?
running arch.
Gabriel Allen
>using bloatbuntu on an old laptop At least get the XFCE one. Or, better, use debian and don't install anything unnecessary.
Alexander Perez
Is there a way to cleanly rename files like this into, for example Seinfeld S07E# - Title.mkv?
Bentley Stewart
Alright, I'll use your distro of choice. Will the stock drivers work?
Owen Thomas
I use Gentoo on laptop and everything werks (at least everything that I wasn't too lazy to configure yet). I would guess that Debian, having a huge community and several enterprise distribs based on it, will have no problem in regards to drivers.
Carter Morris
Thanks buddy.
Connor Murphy
If installing Debian would be too difficult, take xubuntu. Using bigger DEs on old hardware is suicide.
Thomas Jenkins
filebot does that
Ian Parker
I've been recommended Ubuntu, Xubuntu, Mint, and Debian. I figured I'd go with >it just werks to pop my Linux cherry.
Isaiah Myers
Heh, I went out and got a separate 240gb ssd for kuntbuntu on my Windows gayman pc for dev work. I don't trust windows or myself with two os on one drive
Asher Nguyen
>what is partitioning
Grayson Howard
Hello guys, I had a question:
I just began using a DE-less Debian (just i3 and lightDM) and was wondering: how can I change the error "beep" the laptop makes when you (for example) press Backspace multiple times on the terminal, to some other sound? On GNOME the default error sound is that of a drop, so I was wondering how I could go about messing with that.
Thank you very much in advance!
Jacob Flores
>I just began using a DE-less Debian (just i3 and lightDM)
Noah Russell
Why are you angry at me, mr. user?
Hunter Garcia
I'm not angry, I'm genuinely curious
Cooper Nelson
Because on my desktop at home I just use Debian w/GNOME, and I felt like using my laptop as an experiment to try out lighter stuff, since I only use it for notes and coding anyway. So if I mess it up it's no big deal, I can always rely fall back on my just werks desktop
How can I select all folders, and at once bring the files up to the same level as the folder? In other words move all the files to the same directory as the folder.
Ryder Garcia
How the fuck am I supposed to properly theme this monstrosity?
Dominic Cook
find . -type f -name "*.jar" -exec mv {} . \;
Hunter Foster
I would have to do that one folder at a time. I said all at once.
Dominic Scott
No, it'll find all the *jar files in the directories and bring them up
Hudson Wood
Ah, I was trying to change it. It works.
How can I turn this into something where I just type "moveup" in terminal and it does it?
Xavier Cruz
Why do I keep wasting time with fucks like you
Kayden Young
Make a bash script that contains the command and put it into /bin/
Owen Jones
The first time I symlinked a script into /usr/bin, I felt like a fucking wizard
Noah White
That's far too complicated for somebody who says it doesn't work before trying it.
Open the .bashrc and do
alias moveup='find . -type f -name "*.jar" -exec mv {} . \;'
>enter thread >no one is showing their tits You dissapoint me /fglt/....
Carson Howard
Nobody likes manboobs, that's why.
Ian Baker
Oh, but everyone likes manboobs, user. Don't try to deny it.
Mason Rogers
I prefer DFC on either sex anyway.
Jose Jones
Anyone?
Gabriel Moore
Read CUPS documentation.
Eli Perry
I guess you're lost. You want to:
Owen Collins
>CUPS documentation There is nothing on quality selection in it. There's only documentation on APIs. you must think "sqt" stands for "small questions thread"
