Well, downloaded it last night, installed it earlier and got everything updated. Installed VLC as well.
So a few changes. Finally can shutdown/reboot the computer without having to logout first, and VLC actually works (sadly it works better than in 11.3).
So it seems that I might move onto 12.1... as long as network manager is fixed, since it's not easy or fun to use ifup.
Haven't really seen a whole lot else changed... or at least, that's all I've noticed so far.
10 November 2011
05 November 2011
OS Installation Counts
I got bored and thought I'd make a short post of OS installation counts.
An installation is a current installation, not the number of times I've installed (which would just get ridiculous).
I would bring Triela and Lie-chan down to 1 install each, but the fact that openSUSE uses GRUB 1 bugs me. Everytime I do an install of openSUSE, the bootloader section always tells me that the boot partition doesn't entirely lie below the 128gb mark and the system might not boot. I don't know if this has something to do with GRUB 1, but it's sure annoying to see. That's really the only reason why I have an installation of Ubuntu. I read that openSUSE 12.1 is going to ship with GRUB 2 (finally!), but I need the VLC problem solved before I can migrate to it.
An installation is a current installation, not the number of times I've installed (which would just get ridiculous).
- Windows: 2 Installs (Triela and Lie-chan)
- Mac OS X: 2 Installs (Shizuma and Momiji-chan)
- Linux (any distro): 7 Installs (Triela:2, Lie-chan:2, Mei-Ren:1, Momiji-chan:1, Jukebox:1)
I would bring Triela and Lie-chan down to 1 install each, but the fact that openSUSE uses GRUB 1 bugs me. Everytime I do an install of openSUSE, the bootloader section always tells me that the boot partition doesn't entirely lie below the 128gb mark and the system might not boot. I don't know if this has something to do with GRUB 1, but it's sure annoying to see. That's really the only reason why I have an installation of Ubuntu. I read that openSUSE 12.1 is going to ship with GRUB 2 (finally!), but I need the VLC problem solved before I can migrate to it.
Hard Drive Price Hike 2
Well, so much for Samsung... Newegg raised the prices on those too. It makes sense though, if you understand the law of supply and demand.
Looks like it's time to wait it out. (LOL)
03 November 2011
Gentoo 11.2 Live
It keeps giving me a firmware bug when I try it on Triela... So as far as I'm concerned, it only works on Mei Ren for now.
I was able to use it a bit, but my Wifi card wasn't on and I didn't feel like doing the reboot trick to turn it on.
The settings (at least the monitor/screen one) was different than I'm used to.... Oh yeah, that's right, it was KDE and not GNOME. KDE tends to stretch the entire wallpaper across both screens (eww) while GNOME just duplicates it... The fix is pretty easy, since all it really requires is to make the wallpaper the full size and then tile the original wallpaper in them. I couldn't find a settings thing to change the wallpaper anyway... Though I did find the wallpaper folder (
But I think my main turn off is KDE. I don't mind it, but I honestly prefer GNOME since I think it's a bit more friendly and customizable. The little desktop thingy that stays in the top right corner annoys me, even in its translucent form.
Pretty sure there's a way to install GNOME for it, but that requires me to install Gentoo... Which I don't have any hard drive space for (if only it didn't have a problem with Triela...).
Since I wasn't really connect it to the internet, I didn't really have a whole lot of motivation to test it any further. And so I wasn't really able to test out the package manager (if there is one) or anything else.
For now, I'm just gonna give my best friend the disk and let him tinker with it if he pleases... Well, he's gonna have to find that short USB A to B cord first... (LOL)
I was able to use it a bit, but my Wifi card wasn't on and I didn't feel like doing the reboot trick to turn it on.
The settings (at least the monitor/screen one) was different than I'm used to.... Oh yeah, that's right, it was KDE and not GNOME. KDE tends to stretch the entire wallpaper across both screens (eww) while GNOME just duplicates it... The fix is pretty easy, since all it really requires is to make the wallpaper the full size and then tile the original wallpaper in them. I couldn't find a settings thing to change the wallpaper anyway... Though I did find the wallpaper folder (
~/.wallpapers).
But I think my main turn off is KDE. I don't mind it, but I honestly prefer GNOME since I think it's a bit more friendly and customizable. The little desktop thingy that stays in the top right corner annoys me, even in its translucent form.
Pretty sure there's a way to install GNOME for it, but that requires me to install Gentoo... Which I don't have any hard drive space for (if only it didn't have a problem with Triela...).
Since I wasn't really connect it to the internet, I didn't really have a whole lot of motivation to test it any further. And so I wasn't really able to test out the package manager (if there is one) or anything else.
For now, I'm just gonna give my best friend the disk and let him tinker with it if he pleases... Well, he's gonna have to find that short USB A to B cord first... (LOL)
26 October 2011
Hard Drive Price Hike 1
Yep. So the price for hard drives is going up because of the Thailand plant getting flooded.
Well, it seems that it may only affect brands that are located there, I think mainly Western Digital (maybe Seagate?). Seems like Samsung is unaffected seeing how they are Korean (what actually matters is where their plants are located, but I have no idea at the moment).
Well, I was going to get some hard drives for the jukebox... But unless I go with Samsung (which I don't mind), I'm better off waiting.
Well, it seems that it may only affect brands that are located there, I think mainly Western Digital (maybe Seagate?). Seems like Samsung is unaffected seeing how they are Korean (what actually matters is where their plants are located, but I have no idea at the moment).
Well, I was going to get some hard drives for the jukebox... But unless I go with Samsung (which I don't mind), I'm better off waiting.
25 October 2011
openSUSE 12.1 RC1 Part 3
Nope. The power button is completely ignored when pressed. So it seems like logging out then shutting down is the only way to do it besides attempting a "su halt" which crashed 12.1 when I tried it once.
Well, maybe they'll fix it, can't say. Off to install the Blackfox theme for Firefox on my other installations since I forgot about it and it's rather hard to find my scrollbar sometimes with the custom theme that I found and modified.
Well, maybe they'll fix it, can't say. Off to install the Blackfox theme for Firefox on my other installations since I forgot about it and it's rather hard to find my scrollbar sometimes with the custom theme that I found and modified.
openSUSE 12.1 RC1 Part 2
Okay, so I remembered wrong. The messages on a feed are just like OS X from under the title bar.
Also it comes up as the wrong size when I add a repository with an untrusted GPG key, but it's re-sizable so the buttons are still accessible.
I also found the slightly easier way to remove the icons from the favourites bar. If you hold onto an icon long enough, the trash can appears at the bottom of the favourites bar. Unfortunately, the easiest way to do this is to drag the icon off to the right of the favourites bar (almost like you want to open it) and while still hanging onto it, it'll appear. Slightly easier than right-clicking the icon and selecting the remove from favourites on the menu.
I have yet to test the power button to shut down. Right now I'm in 12.1, so I'll have to test that out and comment again when I get into 11.3.
Oh, one of the things I didn't mention is that I have to switch on the Wifi every boot. Dunno why, but a tad annoying. I thought it was the acer-wmi problem I had before, but blacklisting it in
I think it was just me doing a lot of stuff when the fan kicked on higher, seeing that it hasn't done so yet.
I found the way to kick-up the notification bar, it's the bottom right corner, but kinda pointless to do so when there aren't any notifications.
Oh, one of the nice things about the notification bar is that it has a spot for mounted volumes (I think mainly for flash drives and not internal hard drive partitions), so you can click on it to dismount volumes. Particularly useful when Nautilus is not managing the desktop.
That's all I can think of for now. I'll comment again when I test out what the power button does since I haven't seen an option anywhere for it.
Also it comes up as the wrong size when I add a repository with an untrusted GPG key, but it's re-sizable so the buttons are still accessible.
I also found the slightly easier way to remove the icons from the favourites bar. If you hold onto an icon long enough, the trash can appears at the bottom of the favourites bar. Unfortunately, the easiest way to do this is to drag the icon off to the right of the favourites bar (almost like you want to open it) and while still hanging onto it, it'll appear. Slightly easier than right-clicking the icon and selecting the remove from favourites on the menu.
I have yet to test the power button to shut down. Right now I'm in 12.1, so I'll have to test that out and comment again when I get into 11.3.
Oh, one of the things I didn't mention is that I have to switch on the Wifi every boot. Dunno why, but a tad annoying. I thought it was the acer-wmi problem I had before, but blacklisting it in
50-blacklist.conf didn't do anything about it.
I think it was just me doing a lot of stuff when the fan kicked on higher, seeing that it hasn't done so yet.
I found the way to kick-up the notification bar, it's the bottom right corner, but kinda pointless to do so when there aren't any notifications.
Oh, one of the nice things about the notification bar is that it has a spot for mounted volumes (I think mainly for flash drives and not internal hard drive partitions), so you can click on it to dismount volumes. Particularly useful when Nautilus is not managing the desktop.
That's all I can think of for now. I'll comment again when I test out what the power button does since I haven't seen an option anywhere for it.
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