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Well, today was less terrible than I expected. I went to the school's sysadmin during the two free hours I had and before I knew, my two free hours were spend discussion everything computers with him. That was a nice moment of my day, at very least not boring.
Monday, 17-Dec-12 15:52:56 UTC from web-
@omni Why did you expect your day to be terrible? Sorry to pry! I probably missed something.
Monday, 17-Dec-12 15:56:44 UTC from web-
@celestiaforequestria Because I had 8 hours of school, eight lessons total, of which four lessons would be self-study hours, two lessons wouldn't be telling me anything I didn't know yet and one lesson was a test. Therefore, only one lesson would be "worth my time". The fact that my phone's battery is utterly broken makes everything a lot harder, because I can't listen to music for longer than 25 minutes before I have to recharge my phone again, but it was less awful than I expected. Also, today I got an e-mail about my FSFE Fellowship SmartCard being printed successfully, and that I could expect it to arrive in the coming days, yay! <3
Monday, 17-Dec-12 16:00:54 UTC from web-
@omni I'm still confused but glad for you! Have to go now!
Monday, 17-Dec-12 16:07:58 UTC from web-
@celestiaforequestria Bye you!
Monday, 17-Dec-12 16:08:37 UTC from web-
@omni https://www.dropbox.com/s/xgvvmrl804hjb3f/Screenshot%20from%202012-12-17%2013%3A56%3A56.png I've got Ubuntu set up to use 4.3 GB of space on my flash drive for persistence, but I can't access that space. It seems to work in that it keeps my settings, documents, and installed programs between sessions. But is it normal not to be able to access that file system? My laptop took a dive while LiLi was formatting that space which caused the laptop to close and enter sleep mid formatting. When I opened it back up and clicked past the user login screen it looked like it kind of skipped the formatting to me and went on to the next phase, so I'm obviously wary.
Monday, 17-Dec-12 16:27:35 UTC from web-
@pony You should be able to access that space just fine, so the formatting obviously went wrong. /cow is a really strange place for storage to be mounted anyway. This would normally be under a subdirectory in /media/, /mount/ or /dev/. I would recommend you to retry it, as I haven't run into this issue and it sounds like that could be the reason why. (This is one of the best "knowing computers" situations. Guessing random stuff which may work for whatever reason and sounding smart. I love that part)
Monday, 17-Dec-12 16:30:36 UTC from web-
@omni awesome thanks! and I'm sorry I keep bugging you about this stuff. You're always so helpful ^_^
Monday, 17-Dec-12 16:31:34 UTC from web-
@pony If it doesn't work and you get the same output, open a Terminal window, type "nautilus" and give me the output after the error occurs. That should hopefully give me more detailed info on what is going wrong :P
Monday, 17-Dec-12 16:36:07 UTC from web
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@pony Am I the only one getting the creeps, when I see this screenshot instead of a terminal dump?
Monday, 17-Dec-12 16:34:14 UTC from web-
@kamikaze Not really. Ubuntu makes me shiver a bit as well, albeit less than Windows does. Terminal dumps are a lot more useful in general, though.
Monday, 17-Dec-12 16:35:24 UTC from web-
@omni @kamikaze xP I'm a GUI type of guy. Not ashamed, though it does make me feel out of place among techies.
Tuesday, 18-Dec-12 00:19:25 UTC from web-
@pony xD I love my graphical interfaces as much as I love my consoley-techy-stuffs. :p
Tuesday, 18-Dec-12 00:20:29 UTC from web-
@minti You keep your desktop environments looking pristine if I'm not mistaken. :3 Nothing like a nice clean interface
Tuesday, 18-Dec-12 00:22:25 UTC from web-
@pony Yep. Embrace simplicity. :p
Tuesday, 18-Dec-12 00:22:48 UTC from web
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@pony I started with GUIs as well, and still use them a lot, but whenever possible I prefer the CLI due to a lot of commands being quicker to execute than to use a GUI for that. Also because it makes me look like a 1337 h4x0r which makes people think I'm good with computers.
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@omni "Now hack into the government! :D"
Tuesday, 18-Dec-12 00:24:13 UTC from web-
@redenchilada "sudo apt-get install openoffice", according to our news station a year back or so.
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@omni They should have shoved some regex in there, would have made it look fancier.
Tuesday, 18-Dec-12 00:26:03 UTC from web
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@redenchilada Do I have time to program a GUI in VisualBASIC first?
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@scribus Nah, just use the HTML ping of death that's still unpatched
Tuesday, 18-Dec-12 00:27:59 UTC from web
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@omni To be honest, to understand a good portion of the cli magic linux users use on a daily basis you have to be at least SEMI DECENTLY good at computers... so.
Tuesday, 18-Dec-12 00:24:20 UTC from web-
Tuesday, 18-Dec-12 00:26:07 UTC from web
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@pony In general, you can do practically everything the average user wants to be able to do through GUIs. That's the whole point of GUIs. The real power-user stuff, like defining the login manager used and manage daemons, is something which you do on the command line. The command line is also, obviously, nice for useful scripts. For my Android, I have written a VERY simple script which can detect all the .apk files in a directory and install them in a matter of seconds. "find --name "*.apk" --exec pm install {} \;" is the script in question, if I could recall correctly. All it does is fine all .apk files, and lets the package manager install is when it finds one. These simple things can save so much time at times, and that's why I like the CLI. Also: https://identi.ca/climagic
Tuesday, 18-Dec-12 07:32:20 UTC from web-
@omni It's odd for me.. being a computer science minor, yet never being taught this kind of stuff. I mean I'm familiar with command line and programming, but really there's so much to learn.
Tuesday, 18-Dec-12 07:43:39 UTC from web
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@omni 1337 h4x0r reason is best reason. xD I mean, it takes so much focus to use the terminal that for me it's less efficient. :P
Tuesday, 18-Dec-12 00:25:05 UTC from web
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