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Linux - Distro-Junkies Unite!

#83
ehque said:
Just updated Ubuntu 8.04 LTS to 10.04 LTS. No problems whatsoever, although i had to re-disable my pointingstick (it tends to wig out in Linux).

Is it me or does it feel blazingly fast?
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I found 9.04 to be noticeably faster than 8.04.1.

10.04.x is great for notebooks because it shuts down quickly thus allowing one to push battery life closer to the edge. And of course it offers more hardware support.
 
#84
I've failed to get u 10 going on my notebook. I have the Broadcom B44 wireless board, which is notoriously finicky.

Meanwhile Lucid Puppy works just fine, but both are built on top of the same basic innards.
 
#85
jp58 said:
I've already been dual booting with Windows XP, I'm not really sure if the compe will handle a tri-boot.

I would abandon XP, except for the fact that it runs SPSS (soon to be on linux with 19), and some other programs (namely word/excel, but there are some others like minitab) I need for the Biology and Psychology departments here.

If I could find an OS version of excel and not spreadsheet, and if open office was a little bit easier on class documents, I could do away with xp and try, but I've yet to find a solution that didn't involve Microsoft Word/Excel.

This is more for just giving debian a shot, and seeing if I like it better or not, but I might keep ubuntu because its just about perfect now. If I wasn't such a tinkerer, I'd probably be okay with leaving things alone.
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Triple-booting a mission critical machine is risky. Perhaps you could use an alternate machine as a distro test-bed/parallel workstation via file synchronization software?

'Almost forgot VirtualBox.

Yet more software I wasn't aware of before:

"SPSS is a computer program used for statistical analysis. Between 2009 and 2010 the premier software for SPSS was called PASW (Predictive Analytics SoftWare) Statistics..."

"post #210 is a statistics package. It was developed at the Pennsylvania State University by researchers Barbara F. Ryan, Thomas A. Ryan, Jr., and Brian L. Joiner in 1972. Minitab began as a light version of OMNITAB, a statistical analysis program by NIST..."

As for prospective GNU/Linux replacements for Windows applications...

post #210

Also: Invalid Link Removed.

+1 on tinkering: exploring the new and/or rediscovering the tried & true.
 
#86
MIJ-VI said:
Triple-booting a mission critical machine is risky. Perhaps you could use an alternate machine as a distro test-bed/parallel workstation via file synchronization software?

'Almost forgot VirtualBox.

Yet more software I wasn't aware of before:

"SPSS is a computer program used for statistical analysis. Between 2009 and 2010 the premier software for SPSS was called PASW (Predictive Analytics SoftWare) Statistics..."

"post #210 is a statistics package. It was developed at the Pennsylvania State University by researchers Barbara F. Ryan, Thomas A. Ryan, Jr., and Brian L. Joiner in 1972. Minitab began as a light version of OMNITAB, a statistical analysis program by NIST..."

As for prospective GNU/Linux replacements for Windows applications...

post #210

Also: Invalid Link Removed.

+1 on tinkering: exploring the new and/or rediscovering the tried & true.
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I would go with a new machine, but this is the only computer I've got. Its old and ont he way out, so I'm counting down until I get a new one and can completely use this one for play.

I prefer SPSS to minitab, but then again SPSS is tailored more to what I do than math in general.

Thanks for the links, I'll look into some of that. Open-office would be fine if it wasn't so hard to format papers for classes. MLA and APA are difficult, but Chicago style is impossible on O.O.
 
#87
jp58 said:
I would go with a new machine, but this is the only computer I've got. Its old and ont he way out, so I'm counting down until I get a new one and can completely use this one for play.

I prefer SPSS to minitab, but then again SPSS is tailored more to what I do than math in general.

Thanks for the links, I'll look into some of that. Open-office would be fine if it wasn't so hard to format papers for classes. MLA and APA are difficult, but Chicago style is impossible on O.O.
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Are these dependant upon fonts which aren't included with Open Office? Is so, which fonts are required? There may be Open Source equivalents.

Are there other factors involved in achieving the needed document formats?

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EDIT: I just found this...

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From the comments section:

" M. says:
September 20, 2008 at 2:08 am

“APA” and “Turabian” are citation styles for articles, reports, etc. The former stand for “American Psychological Association” citation style and the later is based in the Chicago Style. At this moment I am using an extension for firefox called Zotero (zotero.org) with a plugin for openoffice that are very useful for write in any style. Go to the website for a tutorial."

" M. says:
September 22, 2008 at 5:12 pm

“APA” and “Turabian” are not proprietary fonts. They are formats and styles to cite references in writing. I think that the confusion may lie in the fact that Office 2007 has an layout or template to write and put reference in APA Style that may can facilitate the use of these formats. But as I said before, you can achieve better results using openoffice and zotero firefox extension. There are reports that Office 2007 has problems in the layout of the APA style. For an overview of the APA Style as an example check this: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/ "

Zotero
 
#88
MIJ-VI said:
Are these dependant upon fonts which aren't included with Open Office? Is so, which fonts are required? There may be Open Source equivalents.

Are there other factors involved in achieving the needed document formats?
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MLA is double spaced with headers, APA is a little different than that, and Chicago is headers, footers, and a bunch of other complicated tie ins that OO either doesn't do or I can't figure out.

I wish they would all take MLA, but some professors feel like it is beneath them to take something in another department's paper format.
 
#90
ehque said:
Ok my pointingstick keeps re-enabling itself upon logout. I used xinput to disable it, but does anyone have any idea how to make the changes permanent?
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What's the make and model # of your notebook?

Code: 
In Terminal please run [FONT="Courier New"]sudo lshw[/FONT] then select the entire output (either via Edit-->Select All or by dragging the cursor to the end of the list) and then post the results here and wrap them in code tags (by clicking the # symbol in the TalkBass message window's menu bar).

EDIT:

How do I enable a stick pointing device in Ubuntu?

This link has instructions re the installation and configuration of gpointing-device-settings (it can be found in Ubuntu 10.04.1's Synaptic Package Manager).

A description from SPM:

"GUI tool for setting pointing devices. Currently it can configure mouse type device (mouse, trackpoint etc.) and touchpads.

For mouse you can configure middle button emulation, wheel emulation and scrolling.

It can enable and disable touchpad, or srolling on it as well as additional
parameters like palm detection, locked drags, tapping and scrolling.

It is a successor of GSynaptics."
 
#91
I have gpointing-device-settings installed. I think it is what is messing with the xinput, because there is no "disable" function in the config tool. I can disable my trackpad, but it's not my trackpad that's wigging out, its the nub (pointingstick) and there's no "disable" for that.

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#92
ehque said:
I have gpointing-device-settings installed. I think it is what is messing with the xinput, because there is no "disable" function in the config tool. I can disable my trackpad, but it's not my trackpad that's wigging out, its the nub (pointingstick) and there's no "disable" for that.

Code: 
ehque-laptop              
    description: Notebook
    product: 8896A22
    vendor: LENOVO
    version: ThinkPad T61
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OK then. I couldn't figure out which item from your T61's sudo lshw output is its TrackPoint (although it's likely to be one of the USB devices).

However...

From the Thinkpad T61 Hardware Maintenance Manual (2008-06-25):

"If the TrackPoint does not work, check the configuration as specified in the BIOS Setup Utility. If the TrackPoint is disabled, select Automatic to enable it.

After you use the TrackPoint, the pointer may drift on the screen for a short time. This drift can occur when a slight, steady pressure is applied to the TrackPoint pointer. This symptom is not a hardware problem. If the pointer stops after a short time, no service action is necessary.

If enabling the TrackPoint does not correct the problem, continue
with the following: v Interactive Tests --> Mouse"

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"To enter BIOS Setup Utility, do as follows:

1. Turn on the computer.
2. When the ThinkPad logo comes up, immediately press F1 to enter the BIOS Setup Utility.

Note: If a supervisor password has been set by the customer, BIOS Setup Utility menu appears after the password is entered. You can start the utility by pressing Enter instead of entering the supervisor password; however, you cannot change the parameters that are protected by the supervisor password.

On the BIOS Setup Utility screen, press F9, Enter, F10, and then Enter..."

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So go into your Thinkpad T61's BIOS and disable the TrackPoint. If the TrackPoint is already disabled then enabling it may cause it to work properly under Ubuntu.

If decide that you'd rather have your T61's TrackPoint working properly, and checking/adjusting the BIOS setting doesn't yield that desired result, then perhaps the info in this guide will (please scroll down to the comments section for more links if the initial solution presented doesn't work for you):

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#94
I have shared Linux tonight on 3 occasions.

Gave my parents computer a fixing. They needed it. They only use it for the internet, emails and budgeting, so I gave them that in a safe, fast, and easy to use/maintain package. Since I got home tonight, dad has been raving about how fast the new OS is.

Installed openSUsE on an old roommate's pc for school, and showed him how it worked so that he may prosper with his new found OS. In the process I got to try it out, and I may end up trying it after I test drive debian. I'm not keen on it being supported by Microsoft, but he needed help with the install so I figured I'd teach him how to fish in the process.

Helped a new roommate who was struggling with Vista, my least favorite of ALL OS's. I haven't worked with 7 o I have no idea how it stacks up, but Vista was a step backwards. He had a static IP address and and needed that changed because his internet wouldn't work in his new room (imagine that?). And I used that time frame to plug a linux advertisement in. Word of mouth people...

I told all of them to "pay it forward" which seemed to be the theme of the day.
 
#96
So I talked the kind people at IBM into letting me upgrade to the NEW version of SPSS for linux for FREE because I'm a student, provided I let them know of any major bugs and the like.

I'm gonna call this a moral victory because I'm one more step closer to dumping windows altogether.

Also, we are but a month away from TUX day!
 
#98
Philbiker said:
Oops. Shouldn't have upgraded to Ubuntu 10 I guess. The light on my network card blinks and Opera reports that I have a slow connection.
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Hi Philbiker.

Backing up one's files (on a regular basis & before doing anything major to a computer) and then doing a clean OS install trumps upgrading an older version of an OS to a newer version due to the frequent presence of user-installed third party software which may not be compatible with the new OS. (This goes for any platform I've used.)

So that we can see exactly which hardware components your PC is comprised of, could you please run sudo lshw in Terminal and post the entire output here (bracketed with
Code: 
 tags via the # symbol in the TB Message window's menu bar)?

Thank you.
 
#99
jp58 said:
So I talked the kind people at IBM into letting me upgrade to the NEW version of SPSS for linux for FREE because I'm a student, provided I let them know of any major bugs and the like.

I'm gonna call this a moral victory because I'm one more step closer to dumping windows altogether.

Also, we are but a month away from TUX day!
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:cool:

Yes we are! :hyper:
 
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