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Old 03-15-2010, 11:24 PM   #1291
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Geez, why bother anyway?

Everything in ubuntu is a PITA
Doing anything administrative is a PITA with Ubuntu, but it's default configuration is perfect for what I do at work all day. The only complaint I have about it is the weird

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SIOCSIFFLAGS: Resource temporarily unavailable
thing it likes to do with wlan0 after a whole lot of "suspend/hibernate and wake" cycles. The only fix that I've found is to physically pull the battery out of the laptop for a few seconds. But except for installing nmap I can't think of anything that I needed on this laptop that wasn't ready to go in the first 15 minutes of the install being completed. It doesn't get me excited the way my slack boxes do, but it serves it's purpose 100% and lets me focus on my job instead of having to second guess my tools the way everyone else at work (I haven't won a single convert to linux, even though they'll want me to use my laptop to troubleshoot!) has to with their windows machines.
 
Old 03-15-2010, 11:35 PM   #1292
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Doing anything administrative is a PITA with Ubuntu, but it's default configuration is perfect for what I do at work all day. The only complaint I have about it is the weird

thing it likes to do with wlan0 after a whole lot of "suspend/hibernate and wake" cycles. The only fix that I've found is to physically pull the battery out of the laptop for a few seconds. But except for installing nmap I can't think of anything that I needed on this laptop that wasn't ready to go in the first 15 minutes of the install being completed. It doesn't get me excited the way my slack boxes do, but it serves it's purpose 100% and lets me focus on my job instead of having to second guess my tools the way everyone else at work (I haven't won a single convert to linux, even though they'll want me to use my laptop to troubleshoot!) has to with their windows machines.
I have noticed that error usually occurs when a task is attempted to configure or set the device as a normal user. You need to be root to set or configure the device. Now, if this is just happening randomly; that is kinda weird.

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Old 03-15-2010, 11:44 PM   #1293
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Googling seems to suggest it's fairly common. It's something that happens rarely, maybe every 2 or 3 weeks or less, and it always seems to happen when I've been suspending and waking a lot and when the laptop comes back up, the wireless doesn't follow. It is weird, but except for having to power down, it's not the end of the world. I don't really use the wireless that much anyway, or at least not compared to the ethernet.
 
Old 03-16-2010, 06:17 AM   #1294
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You need to be root to set or configure the device.
Be root? In Ubuntu?

I think that's one for the silly jokes thread.

I do love laughing at Ubuntu, says the Slackware person.
 
Old 03-16-2010, 06:23 AM   #1295
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Be root? In Ubuntu?

I think that's one for the silly jokes thread.

I do love laughing at Ubuntu, says the Slackware person.
So, how goes those dependencies?
 
Old 03-16-2010, 07:35 AM   #1296
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So, how goes those dependencies?
No problem here
 
Old 03-16-2010, 07:49 AM   #1297
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Or here. Nowthen, children, I want you all to repeat after me: "Dependencies are not a problem with Slackware." If we all say that ten times, the whole Slackware "has no package-management and dependency-checking" myth will disappear.
 
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The ultimate question: can you update every package in a Slackware system with a single short command?
 
Old 03-16-2010, 07:56 AM   #1299
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Two short commands. Even I, a self-confessed lazy ****er, don't find it too arduous a task.

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Old 03-16-2010, 08:00 AM   #1300
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Two short commands. Even I, a self-confessed lazy ****er, don't find it too arduous a task.
Well, OK then, it's not as bad as I thought.
 
Old 03-16-2010, 08:25 AM   #1301
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So, how goes those dependencies?
Permission denied. You need to be root to ask that.
 
Old 03-16-2010, 09:06 AM   #1302
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Permission denied. You need to be root to ask that///ERROR: Missing dependency. Operation aborted.
Looks like you might have to reinstall that post.
 
Old 03-16-2010, 09:39 AM   #1303
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Looks like you might have to reinstall that post.
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Old 03-16-2010, 01:02 PM   #1304
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I'm going nuts here trying to find a way to once and for all stop my speakers from picking up radio! It's ever so faint, but it gets to me...

I've tried moving the speakers, moving the power cord, unplugging other analog audio-related things (e.g. line in, microphone), none of which seem to help! I guess that's what I get for having cheap speakers

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Old 03-16-2010, 01:10 PM   #1305
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@ MrCode -- peobably the best solution will be to replace all the wires connecting the speakers to the computer, using decent shielded cables, and make sure that the shield is actually grounded to the computer, and that the motherboard is properly installed & grounded..

The cost & time involved may not be practical though -- getting better speakers would perhaps be easier, *IF* the problem is simply cheapo speaker wires & connectors.

FWIW, I too have cheapo speakers, but I don't get any radio but then again, I live in the sticks, so radio signals are perhaps less prevalent.
 
  


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