Couple questions about partitions in linux.
Question 1:
I have three partitions on my laptop:
/
swap
/home
Let's suppose that I am distro-hopping and want to install some crazy distro on my "experimentation" laptop. Let's further suppose that this new distro is not really similar (in terms of kernel as well as windows manager) to the older distro which was on the laptop.
If I don't format my /home partition, will the older settings (brightness, power management, folder options, screensaver, desktop background etc) be preserved on all old-distro-> new-distro transitions? Why or why not?
Question 2:
Why is it that the installation programs for all linuxes (linuxi?) don't allow me to tick the format checkbox for the swap partition while installing? All the other partitions have "tick-able" format checkboxes.
Thoughts?
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04/03/2011 12:38 #53967
Partition QuestionCategory: linux
04/02/2011 09:20 #53962
Bizet done the Bartoli wayCategory: music
I absolutely adore this performance. I love how she brings so much of her larger-than-everyone-else personality into a song that was written more than a hundred years ago. Who knew Carmen could be so much fun!
Cecilia Bartoli performs Bizet's Près des ramparts de Séville or the Séguedille from the opera, "Carmen", accompanied by Jean-Yves Thibaudet on the piano...
Cecilia Bartoli performs Bizet's Près des ramparts de Séville or the Séguedille from the opera, "Carmen", accompanied by Jean-Yves Thibaudet on the piano...
04/01/2011 23:05 #53959
E:Strip security warning...Category: e:strip
What is this about?!
tinypliny - 04/02/11 10:06
I just changed it. It was definitely broken.
I just changed it. It was definitely broken.
metalpeter - 04/02/11 10:05
I logged out and logged back in and it is back to the mouse on rice picture?
I logged out and logged back in and it is back to the mouse on rice picture?
tinypliny - 04/02/11 10:00
You know, I thought it was my browser's cache issue, but you are seeing that too, huh? I have no idea why it is different from my other small avatars. I will try changing it and see if it synchronizes. Something broke when I tried SSL for a while yesterday.
You know, I thought it was my browser's cache issue, but you are seeing that too, huh? I have no idea why it is different from my other small avatars. I will try changing it and see if it synchronizes. Something broke when I tried SSL for a while yesterday.
metalpeter - 04/02/11 09:57
I have another question why next to your name are you using the sepia avatar?
I have another question why next to your name are you using the sepia avatar?
paul - 04/02/11 00:00
Because your browser needs to encrypt all the traffic before sending it.
Because your browser needs to encrypt all the traffic before sending it.
tinypliny - 04/01/11 23:43
Now that you mention it, I do remember reading that post of yours and wondering what it was. It didn't make much sense then... it makes a bit more sense now. :-)
Why is the SSL version of estrip much slower than the regular version? What is it doing before sending the pages over?
Now that you mention it, I do remember reading that post of yours and wondering what it was. It didn't make much sense then... it makes a bit more sense now. :-)
Why is the SSL version of estrip much slower than the regular version? What is it doing before sending the pages over?
paul - 04/01/11 23:16
The last paragraph of the warning also explains what is happening. You basically nee to import the estrip root certificate - then certs issued by estrip will be trusted.
The last paragraph of the warning also explains what is happening. You basically nee to import the estrip root certificate - then certs issued by estrip will be trusted.
paul - 04/01/11 23:15
If you read the instructions at (e:paul,53226) that I wrote when I added it, you will see.
If you read the instructions at (e:paul,53226) that I wrote when I added it, you will see.
paul - 04/01/11 23:13
Because my server is the authority. First you need to import the cert authority as trusted authority before you can trust certificate issued by it. On firefox you just visit estrip.org/trust. I am not sure how you do it in chrome.
I am not paying for SSL certs. These are issued by my server so that you can connect encrypted when in a cafe, at work, etc. If you don't want to use it or trust it just use the http site - its purely an extra luxury that you do not need.
Because my server is the authority. First you need to import the cert authority as trusted authority before you can trust certificate issued by it. On firefox you just visit estrip.org/trust. I am not sure how you do it in chrome.
I am not paying for SSL certs. These are issued by my server so that you can connect encrypted when in a cafe, at work, etc. If you don't want to use it or trust it just use the http site - its purely an extra luxury that you do not need.
03/29/2011 02:29 #53939
Flying...Category: the odes
Loving the nexus...
tinypliny - 04/01/11 21:05
I went to DC and flew over NYC. That was a shot from one of the flights, I forgot which one... It was very cool to fly in daylight for once. I am perennially stuck on red-eye flights to save money but this time it was so last minute, all the red-eye flights were booked out and I landed a daylight flight. It was awesome, I kept the blinds open all the time (much to the annoyance of my fellow-passengers) and snapped pics like a Japanese tourist, made friends with a German immunologist, an Italian immigration expert, an Israeli lawyer, a hip hop dancer from New Jersey, a federal employee from Rome, NY, an insurance expert from Batavia, an Italian housewife on her first trip to Niagara falls (she spoke in spanish while I replied in English, it was so wild. But we understood each other!), several biospecimen experts from around the world, a bunch of epidemiologists from NCI and finally a snowbird who has homes in Buffalo and Florida... It was a very hectic travel and meeting experience.
I went to DC and flew over NYC. That was a shot from one of the flights, I forgot which one... It was very cool to fly in daylight for once. I am perennially stuck on red-eye flights to save money but this time it was so last minute, all the red-eye flights were booked out and I landed a daylight flight. It was awesome, I kept the blinds open all the time (much to the annoyance of my fellow-passengers) and snapped pics like a Japanese tourist, made friends with a German immunologist, an Italian immigration expert, an Israeli lawyer, a hip hop dancer from New Jersey, a federal employee from Rome, NY, an insurance expert from Batavia, an Italian housewife on her first trip to Niagara falls (she spoke in spanish while I replied in English, it was so wild. But we understood each other!), several biospecimen experts from around the world, a bunch of epidemiologists from NCI and finally a snowbird who has homes in Buffalo and Florida... It was a very hectic travel and meeting experience.
libertad - 03/29/11 19:29
Very mysterious Tiny!
Very mysterious Tiny!
metalpeter - 03/29/11 17:29
Nice Shot! Why Only One! Where ever you are off to or by now at have a great time.......
Nice Shot! Why Only One! Where ever you are off to or by now at have a great time.......
03/26/2011 18:19 #53915
C.O.S.S.O.MCategory: dance
We danced a nifty sequence of moves to this particular song in my latest hip hop class. The steps were synchronized to a three-stepping boom-boom-boom beat that underlies the song, a kind of hip hoppy version of the waltz rhythm...
More accurately, others in the class danced while I gave up after the first two steps and just had fun goofing around. Turns out I got the true spirit of this song - relaxing at a spelling bee.
Take that, you overachievers-at-dance-class!
R.E.L.A.X
More accurately, others in the class danced while I gave up after the first two steps and just had fun goofing around. Turns out I got the true spirit of this song - relaxing at a spelling bee.
Take that, you overachievers-at-dance-class!
R.E.L.A.X
enknot - 03/29/11 15:20
I want you to take me to one of these class oh tiny mouse like one. I must see what goodness there might be therein.
I want you to take me to one of these class oh tiny mouse like one. I must see what goodness there might be therein.
Actually, this is not for my newest laptop - which is running fedora and totally disconnected from the internet... just because I just run statistical models on it.
It's for my oldest laptop. I have converted it into a linux experiment and learning box.
Another dumb question, but what exactly is the difference between a "desktop environment" like gnome and lxde and a "windows manager" like openbox? I thought a desktop environment consists of the entire graphical interface of any system including windows manager.... but a few forum hops later I am not sure this is a correct interpretation.
You need virtualbox. Its free and it will let you install whatever test distros in a virtual machine so you can play with them. You can install windows that way too. I can help you set it up on your new laptop if you want.
As for settings those may or may not stick depending if the new district stores them in the same files/format. Usually between different versions of the same OS and window manager you should be good. E.g between fedora 13-14.
Not totally sure about swap but I don't think it asks you to format swap because there is generally one type used for all modern linuxes and I think it autoselects that format for you when you identify the partition as swap.