LinuxQuestions.org Member Success StoriesJust spent four hours configuring your favorite program? Just figured out a Linux problem that has been stumping you for months?
Post your Linux Success Stories here.
Notices
Welcome to LinuxQuestions.org, a friendly and active Linux Community.
You are currently viewing LQ as a guest. By joining our community you will have the ability to post topics, receive our newsletter, use the advanced search, subscribe to threads and access many other special features. Registration is quick, simple and absolutely free. Join our community today!
Note that registered members see fewer ads, and ContentLink is completely disabled once you log in.
If you have any problems with the registration process or your account login, please contact us. If you need to reset your password, click here.
Having a problem logging in? Please visit this page to clear all LQ-related cookies.
Get a virtual cloud desktop with the Linux distro that you want in less than five minutes with Shells! With over 10 pre-installed distros to choose from, the worry-free installation life is here! Whether you are a digital nomad or just looking for flexibility, Shells can put your Linux machine on the device that you want to use.
Exclusive for LQ members, get up to 45% off per month. Click here for more info.
Distribution: Ubuntu 11.4,DD-WRT micro plus ssh,lfs-6.6,Fedora 15,Fedora 16
Posts: 3,233
Rep:
learning to program c++ with a REAL c++ compiler, SSHing to my computer at home to do the programs for class instead of the visualstudio.net at school ... through their firewall to boot!!!....
setting up an OLD joystick to play a gameboy emulator
adding a serail port to my computer to attach a WYSE terminal
being 100% microsoft free in my room
using a 20x4 serial lcd as a clock
using a shell script and an mp3 player as an alarm clock
Making simple shell scripts, I made a basic frontend for DooM and I was satisfied. I realize that's not a great accomplishment in the world of computing, but I'm happy I made something simple and useful
This is going to sound really lame. Seriously. Ah well. I've finally learned how to do multitasking in the console. It;s realy neat to me, especailly since I came from a DOS/Windows background and I've never been able to multitask in a pure console.
working with kde3.1 using
limewirelinux for p2p,
amsn for msn
and my desktop is looking so nice and friendly saying to me everytime i start SuSE: im no going to crash......
after trying wine on kazza, mldonkey, etc...
im free from M$
now im trying to run AutoCad with wine...
tell u later about that
cwaidelich
PS: And learning to use fstab...
Last edited by cwaidelich; 03-09-2004 at 11:35 PM.
Location: Alpha Quadrant, sol system, earth, asia, Israel.
Distribution: Computer I : Slackware 9.1 ; Computer II : Windows XP
Posts: 144
Rep:
Programming a shell script that will automaticly download porn via mldonkey
I'm just kidding (though it's one of my best ideas so far)
The automatic curse generator is something I'm proud of. And putting a stardate calendar on my WindowMaker dosktop is pretty neat either.
But the coolest of all was of course, telling my friends!
"I have a Linux machine with kernel 2.6 on!"
"I can run apache nativly!"
"I can play all sorts of nice games!"
"My desktop is prettier than yours!"
etc.
I erased Windows from my machine at work to demonstrate that for the office needs Linux is as good or better. I've been useing Mandrake Linux without any trouble for last six months. I use Novel client to connect to the LAN and Lotus Notes to access databases and as a mail client. And I don't know much about computers. After all, I'm just a lawyer.
Last edited by MATJA_KAE_92; 03-12-2004 at 07:38 AM.
I just made a shell script that takes the pid of devfsd, then restarts it so my ipod is detected, then mounts the ipod, launches gtkpod, waits till gtkpod is finished and then unmounts and ejects the ipod
Now I can just have it in the dock on my desk, and click on the script to start writing
LinuxQuestions.org is looking for people interested in writing
Editorials, Articles, Reviews, and more. If you'd like to contribute
content, let us know.