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General Discussion / Re: Bay12's Desktops
« on: May 14, 2011, 11:02:58 pm »Hmm... Do you use 360Desktop? Because I can't imagine having a desktop that wide normally.Spoiler: New (click to show/hide)
Unless I'm horribly mistaken, he's rocking a dual-monitor setup
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Other Games / Re: The Lacuna Expanse
« on: May 13, 2011, 07:11:24 pm »Still playing this; am I the only one? My US1 empire is huge, but I don't play it much. Currently focusing my efforts on the tourny server.
I'm still playing, more or less. Sign in about once a week
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DF General Discussion / Re: DF IS IN SPAAAACE!
« on: May 12, 2011, 09:34:59 pm »More like there's magma underneath the crust. Not sure why that's very special compared to, say, Earth.
I think Earth's mantle is super-hot rock, not actually molten rock (i.e. magma). Where the line between the 2 lies, I don't know.
And as I'm no geologist, I could be completely wrong...
Still, very cool
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DF General Discussion / Re: This game needs a tag line
« on: May 12, 2011, 09:29:18 pm »Building a Fortress? a handful of Dwarves
Fighting a Megabeast? A couple hundred dwarves
Guarding your Entrance from invaders? 10 to 20 traps
Watching all your work as it gets destroyed by an onslaught ofclowns&'s? Priceless.
There are some things you can win.
For Everything else there's Dwarf Fortress
fixed
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General Discussion / Re: Bay12's Desktops
« on: May 08, 2011, 08:51:46 pm »
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Other Games / Re: Minecraft - It has blocks.
« on: May 05, 2011, 03:07:22 am »Green dye?
I'm try to expand the compound to encompass the country side (and get my sugar can farm under wraps), but I need more coal!! Isn't Duke a mod on the MC forums?
Easy, infinite coal: start a tree farm, "smelt" logs in furnace, get charcoal.
Unless you need the coal for a mod (like IC), charcoal works just as well.
Alternately, mine more. Coal's everywhere...
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General Discussion / Re: Bay12's Desktops
« on: May 01, 2011, 01:45:37 pm »Using date and feh (or in my case gconftool) in the .xinitrc would work only when I start X. I want something to change my wallpaper at, say, 7 pm or something. I'm pretty sure gconftool can change the wallpaper from a terminal regardless of the display. (Nautilus should read gconf and update itself accordingly.)
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#!/bin/bash
#begin loop of your choice, prob a while
# format string, prints hour as 0-23 (might be 00-23)
if [ $(date +%H) = "19" ] ; then
#set wallpaper cmd here
;
fi
#adjust the delay to your preference
sleep 60s
#end loop
not familiar w/ gconf et. al., but a crontab's fairly simple, try editing w/
VISUAL=gedit crontab -e
if you've got gedit. Read the crontab manual page for the fomat
you will may still have to write a separate script.
a word of warning about using cron: many distros "anacron" (or something similar) that "catches up" by running cron jobs that came up while the system wasn't booted, this may or may not be what you want
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General Discussion / Re: Da heck?
« on: April 30, 2011, 10:47:49 pm »
Tried manually clearing your cache? Looks kinda like a broken stylesheet...
Shift+F5 should've fixed it (if that's what the problem is), but you never know...
Shift+F5 should've fixed it (if that's what the problem is), but you never know...
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General Discussion / Re: Bay12's Desktops
« on: April 30, 2011, 10:44:08 pm »Tried to have the desktop change according to the time of day, but I don't understand cron either.
Doing it via cron would be... possible but not easy? Pretty sure it'd require some deeeep magic (or an ugly hack) to get the right $DISPLAY...
Easier method: write a script that determines the time of day (probably easiest to use date(1)), then runs your wallpaper-setter. Wrap the functionality in a loop with a call to sleep (figure out how often your delay should be), then call the script from .xinitrc. (Since it's called from there $DISPLAY is already set)
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General Discussion / Re: Bay12's Desktops
« on: April 28, 2011, 10:16:37 pm »dwm... tiling right? I've heard a lot of love thrown in that direction, but never tried it.Personally, I use dmenu (bound to WinKey+R in openbox config) for most of my app launching. That is when I don't already have a term. open. I guess it's about 50/50 between dmenu and something like "lowriter Final-Project.doc" from a terminal...+1 for using dmenu and openbox, I'm a dwm and dmenu user myself, I have literally no gui apps besides firefox and eclipse.
Yes, I'm a CLI dork: I don't even have a GUI file manager on Arch. mv(1), cp(1), and rm(1) FTW!
openbox does have a pretty nice menu system, but I only regularly use maybe a dozen gui apps...
dmenu's really nice, but takes a but of knowledge about scripting to get the full use out of. I've got a wallpaper switcher based on it
Eclipse... it's a nice app, but I tend to prefer vim; admittedly I haven't worked on a really large project since I heard of Eclipse
my main GUI apps: chromium and pidgin... and this week GIMP... and qemu for school projects >_>
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General Discussion / Re: Bay12's Desktops
« on: April 28, 2011, 03:23:36 pm »I've seen a bunch of Linux users here remove all their panels and (presumably) make a larger right click menu to keep everything. Now, I can't seem to do it in Gnome, so what do you guys use?
Personally, I use dmenu (bound to WinKey+R in openbox config) for most of my app launching. That is when I don't already have a term. open. I guess it's about 50/50 between dmenu and something like "lowriter Final-Project.doc" from a terminal...
Yes, I'm a CLI dork: I don't even have a GUI file manager on Arch. mv(1), cp(1), and rm(1) FTW!
openbox does have a pretty nice menu system, but I only regularly use maybe a dozen gui apps...
dmenu's really nice, but takes a but of knowledge about scripting to get the full use out of. I've got a wallpaper switcher based on it
WinKey+W and browse around.I agree. I dual boot because I value my games and various non-Wine compatible programs, and it works well.
Alternatively, use Wine and PlayWithLinux.
+1 for Wine, never used PlayWithLinux though
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Other Games / Re: Minecraft - It has blocks.
« on: April 28, 2011, 02:28:00 pm »Intertube Records. Genius.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2rDbRUDkds
I've come across this before (might've been linked from here before...), but it's still awesome/hilarious
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General Discussion / Re: Bay12's Desktops
« on: April 27, 2011, 09:03:18 pm »You can always learn a few keyboard shortcuts
Then it won't matter too much where stuff is on-screen.
Not too sure what the usefulness of this is, when I mainly use the bar for accessing programs or checking stuff on the systray. I do use keyboard shortcuts for just about anything else.
(assuming we're talking about Windows machines here)
Launching apps: unless you're stuck on XP, WinKey and start typing should get you there 90+% of the time
Switching apps: Alt-Tab is your friend, or WinKey+Tab if you wanna look cool
Systray: fair point, but how often do you actually need to click on something down there? "Safely Remove Hardware" probably the most often if you're moving between computers often (also, if your bar's on the right, the tray doesn't move much
)
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General Discussion / Re: Bay12's Desktops
« on: April 27, 2011, 08:15:34 pm »Bottom bar is too ingrained. Default windows set-up for 15 years. I do have to switch back and forth between home/school/work computers, after all. There's too much usability shock if I make my home rig too much different from the others.
You can always learn a few keyboard shortcuts
Then it won't matter too much where stuff is on-screen.