^ Nice one ew, well done!

Thanks, but now I`ll be focusing on VSIDO for a bit. Dowloading the new ISO now, and hopefully EFI and GPT will not stop me this time. I can`t stand being defeated. I guess swap still is required, so I`m doing a little pre-partioning while I wait for the iso to be downloaded. 14 minutes left...

I don't know if you have seen this yet maybe something there can help you.

I have not worked on many mac's.  Is you efi?  Which Intel cpu do you have?

I've had to do that in the past.

Sid breaks seldom, in my little experience, but when it breaks it can break horrible, and usually when i don't need it at all (aka: busy with other things). You could, for example, use VirtualBox and rsync the whole sheebang to a VirtualBox installation (with the according --excludes), say once a week. Or if you got an old PC use it for that. Or install in VirtualBox, too, and before you upgrade upgrade in VirtualBox. If all goes well, do the same on the main PC (not a very good solution, but better than nothing). 

On my main PC i don't do backups anymore (of the OS), as it was planned as a temporary installation. If it breaks i will reinstall (because i want to anyway that is no biggie). Problem: the dang thing doesn't break (for 1 or 2 years now).

Anyway: pop it around your head, install apt-listbugs in each case (but don't take the infos too serious), and, first of all: good luck.

ew wrote:

But if the 686-kernel works fine, then there probably isn`t any need to use a non-pae kernel. i686 should work fine if you got at least 1 GB Ram... Some would say that 512 MB is enough, but my limit for a i686 kernel, is 1 GB RAM... Otherwise I choose non-pae if they exists for the distro that I`m Installing....

Får vel takke på norsk også, da;)

Well, from the siduction-list I installed the packages for the version you suggested without pae-support, just plain 686. But, when I boot, I have the option to boot with pae.  I haven't tried it yet, though. I have 2gig ram, but a single-core processor. I read somewhere that pae is used for ram > 3 gig and dual core and up.

In general, what are the differences between the stock (?) kernel that comes with the 486 kernel, siduction and liquorix ?

Either way, my laptop seems to be running fine! I'll test it some more, but I think you just spared me the need of buying a new laptop!=)

Then I guess you will be fine booting without PAE. If you have the option to boot with PAE then I guess the default has to be non-pae, otherwise it would be strange to have the options to boot with PAE...

Anyway, with 2 GB RAM you shouldn`t have any issue running i386, i486 and i686, PAE or non-PAE. The only thing is that non-pae should perform slightly better(be a little faster), but you never ever will use more than 2 GB RAM with Crunchbang. With normal use you will find yourself using maybe 500-600 MB RAM, and you have to run a lot simultaniously to get past 1 GB..

I`m not sure what`s the differences between stock kernel, siduction and liquorix. I`ve never tried Liquorix, but as I understand it they have a special focus towards multimedia...  The stock kernel I assume is a bit more conservative than Siduction, and that`s perhaps why Siduction is a bit ahead of Debian with the Linux-kernels. Debian is still on 3.8 kernels, while Siduction is on 3.9 kernels. But others may be able to tell you more about the difference, I`m just guessing based on my experience:)

I find it hilarious that a lot of hip-hop, downtempo, club music, etc... production is done in digital and then has a record-hiss track mixed back in (E.T.B.G. - Walking Wounded, for example). Ha!!! If those recordings are also released on vinyl, does the listener hear twice the hiss, or does their brain eliminate almost all of it?

Banashark wrote:

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W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/webupd8team/java/ubuntu/dists/wheezy/main/source/Sources  404  Not Found

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i started from http://ppa.launchpad.net/webupd8team/ and worked my way up

the problem is with the /wheezy/ directory.
It's either hidden, or not there, or something weird like i have an old cached version of the directory (not even sure if that's possible).

Hopefully we all can see the problem now.
There is no Wheezy in Ubuntu.  You have to specify an Ubuntu release for the PPAs or - preferably - either find Debian-based repos for what you're trying to install or download the .deb from the developer.  Another option is to build from source.

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I am googling right now as I am a bit ignorant as to how one would go about following your advice.
Any chance you might be able to elaborate a little bit or point me in the right direction?

Glad to hear about the install.

saneks wrote:

- I love the expose-all-windows function in the heavier window managers.. is there an option in ob to tile all windows of one desktop on one screen?

1. skippy-xd

2. Cairo Composite Manager Mosaic Plugin

thanks for that, nore!   skippy-xd is pretty awesome.. (but it should show window decoration or frames, as terminal windows are hard to discern on dark backgrounds.. and the window-name popups are sometimes toooo long) - very cool it can show live video-playback and close or minimize windows with it. what a neat tiny program. a Openbox gem, truly.

yeah, connect that with cb-hotcorners.. add hotcorner to the settings in the menu to turn it all on, and add a link to  the hotcorners config file.. nice one. the expose function is the best thing since sliced bread.

can samba not fake being the win machine?

The main issues being that I needed the Win7's certificate to allow access to the wifi LAN, it wouldn't have really cut any steps out.  This is one of those, "dealing with corporate wireless security measures," answers.  If I could have figured out an easier way to do it, I would have.  I can go into the specifics for setting up a static LAN on two machines, and then using dhcp from one of their wireless adapters to allow access to the corporate LAN...and the wireless off of the other to connect to the rest of the internet, preventing the IT dept from having checks in place to check the certificates on the laptop that I actually needed to do what was being asked.

I've been looking at another minor issue with using DOS box to set up a serial connection using some ancient DOS 5.0 software with the comm protocols using the same OpenSuSe install, an Omron USB to Serial, and not having any more about what pins on the original serial were supposed to be connected to what.  Honestly, offering the option of doing programming for companies that haven't changed how they do things (or the hardware used) since 1983 is hundreds of times more complicated than using newer device-nets and programming software.

When is the last time you had to look at Assembly or "Jump" statements?  Yup...me either.

I'll get back into the reviews as soon as I get a chance to sit down with some new software for fun.  It's looking like at a bare minimum, Thursday.