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Re: The Linux guys are buying Macs?

Maurice — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 19:36:21 -0000

We bought a MacBook Pro recently - it seems great, but we were a Mac shop anyway (two aging PowerBooks). Of course we also had a Win 98 tower limping along as a print server, and the ThinkPad that you saw in class. I needed the MacBook for doing video work - the old PowerBooks would take hours to process videos of any length, and they overheated so badly I had to prop them up off the desk and train a table fan on them.

Re: The Linux guys are buying Macs?

Rob — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 09:18:56 -0000

Interesting points about Macbook. As a non-Mac guy I wonder how you would go about developing for Windows on one? Or are you stuck developing for *nix/Mac.

Re: No Bluetooth on Ubuntu because of Bluesoleil

dcbarans — Sat, 05 Feb 2011 13:35:01 -0000

I'm afraid the BlueSoleil software is not open source. I received mine with a $3 bluetooth adapter from http://www.dealextreme.com/

The software is available on their website as well individually and fully updated:
http://www.bluesoleil.com/p...

Dominic

Re: No Bluetooth on Ubuntu because of Bluesoleil

Kunal Narkhede — Sat, 05 Feb 2011 13:26:25 -0000

I am trying to use my bluetooth adaptor on ubuntu.However it's not getting connected to any of my phones. It does show my phone in seraching of devices but it's unable to pair up with my nokia 5233. It simply says error in pairing. Do you have the bulesoleil software for ubuntu with you? Can you please send me on my email kunal.narkhede@gmail.com

Re: SRCDS Linux auto-update fix

VX — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 23:35:33 -0000

run srcds_run with "-steambin /opt/tf/steam" to tell the script file where the steam binary is located. Won't break with updates.

Re: Slow SSH Logins on CentOS 5

I4810 — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 23:13:49 -0000

Yeah that was driving me crazy - thanks a lot!

Re: Slow SSH Logins on CentOS 5

Robin — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 10:29:58 -0000

I was about to kill. Thanks a lot :D

Re: Canvas Art and Data Visualization

print on canvas — Sun, 17 Oct 2010 02:51:05 -0000

Partly, of course, it's just that canvas art tends to be original. If a person has canvas art on the walls of their home, the chances are that it is the real deal – actual paint on actual canvas. And that lends an air of authenticity not just to the painting but to the room. Decorating with canvas art shows that the person doing the decorating is concerned enough about their home to make an effort.

Re: SRCDS Linux auto-update fix

SuperStromboli — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 10:58:49 -0000

The big question is, why hasn't Valve STILL not fixed this...

Re: Slow SSH Logins on CentOS 5

Mirko — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 07:10:03 -0000

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!

Re: Canvas Art and Data Visualization

dcbarans — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 11:51:25 -0000

Thanks Rob :)

The front banner is a WIP written with the processing-js JavaScript library. Really just toying with the new technology (I still have to be IE friendly). But for some quick fun with canvas (HTML5) you should check it out!

As for Prezi offline. Here's a quote from their website:

Exported prezis are supported on Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Mac OS X operating systems and no additional software is required, not even Adobe Flash Player

It's included in the free version, although there are other features available with a bit of $$.

Re: Canvas Art and Data Visualization

Rob McIntosh — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 22:04:03 -0000

Very cool new front banner.
Prezi looks interesting, but there's the problem of what to do if the presentation room doesn't have Internet access? Is there an offline presenter?

Re: Ubuntu 8.10: HAL .fdi files replace xorg.conf

Guest — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 08:13:55 -0000

I'm afraid I must agree that this is the WRONG PATH!!! I HATE Windows because things like configuration are hidden in a thousand little dark corners and handled by a wizard that is supposed to know how I want my system to work. Problem is the evil little troll has his own agenda and now rather than go to the xorg.conf file and read a TEXT file and make adjustments I need to first FIND a file full of cryptic markup tags and then try to get the settings the way I want them. Oh yeah, I almost forgot, after I make said changes I now have to reboot for the changes to take effect.

Congratulations! You have taken a giant step toward turning the solution (I'll clarify here, since the folks who decided to abort xorg.conf seem to be pretty clueless, LINUX) into the problem (clarification again, WINDOWS).

Re: SRCDS Linux auto-update fix

Guest — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 22:07:08 -0000

update() { PWD=`pwd` cd .. updatesingle cd $PWD }

Nice work so far, except you forgot the backticks around pwd.
It will do fine with backticks, but won't work without.

Explanation:
Backticks will make the shell (I think bash is used) to execute the command between the ticks and write the output into PWD. Without it would degrade to a pointless copy variable content from undefined variable, causing the error as described.

Re: SRCDS Linux auto-update fix

Dominic Baranski — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 18:23:13 -0000

lol, it's all right.

I actually have another solution as well that might take care of having two separate files and the need to check them for updates individually.

Create a "patch" with the updated code in it and run the patch on every update..

update() { PWD=pwd cd .. updatesingle patch srcds_run updatefix.patch cd $PWD }

The only downside (that is probably fixable with a > /dev/null) is every time the patch is run it creates a "rejected hunk" file for patches that were not applied.

I'll probably update the posting with the patch sometime soon.

Hope that helps!

Re: SRCDS Linux auto-update fix

Guest — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 17:31:23 -0000

Sorry, repeated the note...
OK, 03:30 local time, i beg your pardon...

Re: SRCDS Linux auto-update fix

Guest — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 17:28:44 -0000

Copy the file "srcds_run" to "srcds_run_fixed".
Steam will leave it alone and you have an working copy.

Anyways must check from time to time, if srcds_run is modified.

Again, using a regular expression to replace stuff within an executable is very keen and likely to cause unexpected results.

Re: SRCDS Linux auto-update fix

Guest — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 17:20:11 -0000

It will cause steam to install the whole game again within the orangebox-directory (for dod:s) and then run the still unpatched version from ..!

Although Valve does many stupid things with srcds, this one is on purpose.

Anyways, if steam verifys the integrity of the files it will delete that "patch". Using perl to defeat the integrity check is stupid at best. The approach described using backticks with pwd will do fine and you won't need a cron.

Interesting approach nevertheless but way off course.

Re: Ubuntu 8.10: HAL .fdi files replace xorg.conf

LtWorf — Sun, 24 May 2009 15:21:30 -0000

Yeah no more .conf editing!!! Now we have .fdi editing!!!
And as Linus says: xml is not text-file.

Re: SRCDS Linux auto-update fix

Qain — Wed, 06 May 2009 06:31:23 -0000

I had some issues with the updater as well. I tried using this fix to the "update()" function, and it caused the DS to throw this error:

HLDS installation up to date ./srcds_run_l4d: line 389: ./srcds_i486: No such file or directory Add "-debug" to the ./srcds_run_l4d command line to generate a debug.log to help with solving this problem

I decided to take a different approach to the problem and realized the real issue, was not with the update() or the updatesingle() functions. It is steam's relative location to ./srcds_run. It should be "../steam" not "./steam"

here is the patch for updating this variable:
--- srcds_run 2009-05-05 00:15:23.000000000 -0400 +++ srcds_run_l4d 2009-05-06 10:09:12.000000000 -0400 @@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ shift ;; "-autoupdate") AUTO_UPDATE="yes" - STEAM="./steam" + STEAM="../steam" RESTART="yes" ;; "-steamerr") STEAMERR=1 ;;

Or the simpler way of doing it.

Search for line 88
line should be
STEAM="./steam"

change it to
STEAM="../steam"

Save the file and you should be good.

Hope this helps everyone!

Re: Ubuntu 8.10: HAL .fdi files replace xorg.conf

Dominic Baranski — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 19:45:00 -0000

I'm sorry the link is not very visible at first glance. The direct link to the HAL wiki is https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/C...

The change to totally wipe out the xorg.conf file is rather drastic. However, in a sense necessary. How many windows installations do you remember using where you had to edit a window.conf file to get your devices working correctly? None, and I think this is what will "eventually" be accomplished.. Though it's still a long, buggy, broken road ahead.

Re: Ubuntu 8.10: HAL .fdi files replace xorg.conf

dred — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 17:01:16 -0000

What wiki ?

Thanks!

This whole HAL thing is a kick in the nads, xorg.conf wiped out with no indication of how to modify the config.

Well done ubuntu, you suck ass!

Re: SRCDS Linux auto-update fix

injate — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 15:33:21 -0000

Since updates break the `cd ..` fix I made this:

perl -pi.bak -e 's/updatesingle[^;(]/cd ..; updatesingle; cd orangebox;\n/g;' /home/hlds/orangebox/srcds_run

or crontab style:

55 * * * * perl -pi.bak -e 's/updatesingle[^;(]/cd ..; updatesingle; cd orangebox;\n/g;' /home/hlds/orangebox/srcds_run

Re: SRCDS Linux auto-update fix

frisky — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 05:01:07 -0000

thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Re: SRCDS Linux auto-update fix

injate — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 14:29:10 -0000

You're awesome. Thanks. I always wondered what I was doing wrong and why I had to run updates manually.

Have they updated the srcds_run file very often, requiring you to re-modify/fix the file?