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Posted: **Mon Sep 10, 2007 1:48 pm**

inflater wrote:
Dex wrote:PS: How have you gone from Mr bean to that monster as your avatar ?.
Well, I have the Mr. Bean avatar on some three forums, should I remove the face from Exorcist back to Bean? Or should I use Tux like piranha or Alboin are having?

Make your own OS logo and use that, i am designing one for DexOS, but the one i made, the other team members do not like it.
So i am working on a new one (DragonFly), so i am donating the old one ( He's called "Mr USB" ) to FOS, any takers ?

Posted: **Mon Sep 10, 2007 6:23 pm**

How was that made? It looks hand drawn. It's really nice!

Posted: **Tue Sep 11, 2007 9:08 am**

Thanks, its hand drawn, then scanned in to a PC, than the color's were added with gimp, but its the first time i have used gimp, so it hard to use if you do not know how to use the functions.

Posted: **Tue Sep 11, 2007 10:23 am**

Dex wrote:so i am donating the old one ( He's called "Mr USB" )

Your avatar looks like Grim Reaper btw.

That attachment is cool man

Did you draw that by yourself?

Regards
inflater

Posted: **Tue Sep 11, 2007 11:25 am**

inflater wrote: Your avatar looks like Grim Reaper btw.

Thats from my days has a hacker (white hat

).

That attachment is cool man Did you draw that by yourself?

Yes i draw-ed it myself, here is the scanned drawing, but the idea came from a drawing of a pencil.
We decide to have a Dragonfly as our logo, because there:

Small, efficient, fast, and Cool.

Just like DexOS .

Posted: **Tue Sep 11, 2007 12:36 pm**

Dex wrote:Yes i draw-ed it myself

That's pretty NICE!

... compared to "my logo"...

Well, I do not have talent in handwriting...

especially when I listen to SuperStar's freaky singers...

Well, so much for a good laugh, check my attachment.

Anyone can draw perfectly as Picasso, like me?

BTW. Ubuntu has found my scanner, but the programs (Kooka or something) wont scan properly, the scanner's flourescent LED and motor aren't active and the app will just "scan" the black color...

But like said, it isnt a big problem as I do not scan much (but i do the printing

).

Regards
inflater

Posted: **Tue Sep 11, 2007 1:56 pm**

Cool, i see he's using DEX

Posted: **Fri Sep 21, 2007 8:33 am**

When I would update system specific packages (like if newer version exists), some packages do search for Linux possible kernels and they rebuild GRUBs boot menu, erasing Windows XP from it. It is annoying to rebuild the menu it back again, and again, and again...
Can I prevent it somehow?

Another thing:
I do not have in Windows XP "user accounts", nor in Ubuntu. I am the "Capo di tuti Capi" of the whole PC

... but, when doing root stuff in Ubuntu, I always must append the "sudo" before the command, and then, I must every 15 minutes confirm my password...

It is really annoying to type 20 character password almost every time doing a system-specific action. Can I make myself "root" ? I tried to select my group as "root", but I must use "sudo" every time, or else "permission denied", and the user "root" cannot log into X (I must press CTRL+ALT+F1 and log into command line only for becoming root)...

Thank you for your kind answers

Regards
inflater

Posted: **Fri Sep 21, 2007 8:45 am**

If I understand your question... why not use the "su" command when you "absolutely" need root access?

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$ whoami
brynet
$ su
Password:
# whoami
root
# exit
$ whoami
brynet
$

Good luck... read man pages..

(Just remember... You don't have to run everything under root.. avoid using sudo on "every" command )

Posted: **Fri Sep 21, 2007 9:06 am**

Dex wrote:We decide to have a Dragonfly as our logo, because there: Small, efficient, fast, and Cool

Sorry to say, but I am afraid that one is already taken:

regards,
gaf

Posted: **Fri Sep 21, 2007 10:41 am**

Thanks Brynet-Inc, I discovered that I can use "sudo -i" too, I should google more often

Anyways, after 30 times of running "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg" (due to refresh rate misconfigurations) and attempts to install the newest Geforce driver for my video card, it was a success, I even made to run, configure and play on the net OpenArena

I tried to download nvclock_gtk, and I overclocked my graphics card just like in Windows, but it had a strange limitation: using Windows control panel, I was able to overclock to 290/300 (the second number is the RAM clock), but the slider (where I can oclock, in the GTK one) doesnt let me above 215 MHz (my card has strange low clocking, 250/143 from the factory settings

, and the "new" clocking is working three months without an additional cooling system

). Maybe I should use the console version

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jojo@jozef-i386:~$ nvclock -m 300 -n 290
Warning!
You entered a memory speed of 300.000 MHz and NVClock believes 214.000 MHz is the maximum!
This error appears when the entered speed is 25% higher than the default speed.
If you really want to use this speed, use the option -f to force it.

Really.

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jojo@jozef-i386:~$ nvclock -f -m 300 -n 290
Requested memory clock:         300.000 MHz
Requested core clock:           290.000 MHz

Adjusted low-level clocks on a nVidia Geforce 4 MX440
Memory clock:   300.375 MHz
GPU clock:      290.250 MHz

Eureka, the display is not corrupted and the PC case itself does not smell !

Regards
inflater

Posted: **Fri Sep 21, 2007 11:52 am**

gaf wrote:
Dex wrote:We decide to have a Dragonfly as our logo, because there: Small, efficient, fast, and Cool
Sorry to say, but I am afraid that one is already taken:

regards,
gaf

Oh no, back to the drawing board

Posted: **Sun Sep 23, 2007 11:12 am**

I have gone for a Humanized ANT, for DexOS's logo.

Posted: **Sun Sep 23, 2007 11:29 am**

Copyright infringement!!

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120587/

back to the drawing board?

Posted: **Mon Sep 24, 2007 1:44 pm**

Okay, so, well...

When installing Ubuntu the X time [where it worked

], I have chosen the ReiserFS filesystem, because Ext3 would take 200 MB right after formatting (lost-found dir?), and Reiser would only 30 MB. Okay, so I've configured Ubuntu, installed my favorite apps, and I've installed Americas Army. I have successfully completed some training missions, but one took too long to load, 7 minutes

... I have loosen my patience and I rebooted the system, because there was no progress bar thing (that could show me the results)... and there it was. GRUB took almost 40 seconds to load the boot menu:

GRUB Loading stage 1.5...

Loading GRUB, please wait....

took 40 seconds. After selecting Ubuntu... it took more than minute to show something... I rebooted the system, and tried to do it again. I thought my disk is pwned, so I didnt wait very much, rebooted the system *again*, sticked the WinXP installation CD into the drive, got into recovery console, fixmbr, reboot, ... thank God I haven't anything clobbered in NTFS partition.

The unlikely long time of loading GRUB was, because the boot menu is read from the reiserfs partition. I haven't waited very much and I did a quick fixmbr only to doublecheck NTFS and all my data are safe (yeah I have made backups, but reinstalling everything all over again...

)...

What should I do now? I can, of course, boot only into Windows, from now on... I will, tomorrow (9:46 PM now

), try to boot from Live CD and ... what? rebuild GRUB?... how?, but I think the whole reiserfs partition is, ... gone. I think it could read something (the bootmenu would display from the partition, but loading the OS would be an over-night job for sure

)... Or... reformat, repartition, reinstall ? I should be ashamed as I have made the error myself. I didn't have on my machine the patience

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