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Okay. Thanks guys... L D--nice desktop. I had that wallpaper once ^_^

Now, that situation I gave was hypothetical... still planning to fix the 20gig... somehow. Maybe I'll just go buy one... <_< or just... better yet... get me a blank ASUS laptop and load ubuntu studio on it. or just go notebook... choices choices... why is even choosing a computer and OS (for school) so difficult?

/random inner thoughts and feelings about my experimentation with computers...


$ sudo apt-get decision

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[quote name='Sacred Music Man' post='1602089' date='Jul 17 2008, 03:49 PM']/random inner thoughts and feelings about my experimentation with computers...
$ sudo apt-get decision[/quote]

:lol: Hilarious

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[quote name='nLEyETn' post='1601890' date='Jul 17 2008, 12:43 PM']SMM, you'll also need to update your /etc/fstab since it will still be pointing to the UUID for your old partition.[/quote]

Oh, I forgot that step. I'm so used to the heavy manualing that I had to do on Gentoo and FreeBSD, where we didn't have fancy things like UIUDs to trouble with. Honestly, I don't understand their purpose at all, apart from further confusing n00bs. Whatever happened to the nice and easy: "/dev/hda#" in the fstab?

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[quote name='mommas_boy' post='1602428' date='Jul 17 2008, 10:13 PM']Oh, I forgot that step. I'm so used to the heavy manualing that I had to do on Gentoo and FreeBSD, where we didn't have fancy things like UIUDs to trouble with. Honestly, I don't understand their purpose at all, apart from further confusing n00bs. Whatever happened to the nice and easy: "/dev/hda#" in the fstab?[/quote]

Yeah, I know what you mean. The first time I ran into UUIDs I really didn't see any benefit. I think they really are meant to make things easier but that's not always the case. I once was using a secondary hard drive and I decided to do some clean up because of the junk on it, so I went ahead and formatted it and then partitioned it just like I had it previously setup. I forgot the UUID changed so I ran into a little snag when I tried to boot again. It's easy enough to fix, but just a different way than I'm used to thinking about it. Now if I physically changed the connections for my hard drives without messing around with the partitions, I suppose the UUIDs would make it easier in that case. The nice thing is that you can still use the old format in the fstab file if you want.

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Heck with it. I got nothin important on the 4 gig to transfer over. it was mostly experimentation anyways. Just curious if it could be done.

Btw no one but L D like my joke?

Oh, L D... I need you to do me a favour... could you test out Finale Notepad on Ubuntu Studio? I need to see if Finale will emulate well, meaning sounds happen when you click notes on the page, and that there's playback. i couldn't get it working on heron.

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[quote name='Sacred Music Man' post='1602509' date='Jul 17 2008, 11:19 PM']Heck w/ it. I got nothin important. Just curious if it could be done.

Btw no one but L_D like my joke?[/quote]

I thought it was good, I LOLd :lol:

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[quote name='Sacred Music Man' post='1602509' date='Jul 18 2008, 01:19 AM']Heck with it. I got nothin important on the 4 gig to transfer over. it was mostly experimentation anyways. Just curious if it could be done.

Btw no one but L D like my joke?

Oh, L D... I need you to do me a favour... could you test out Finale Notepad on Ubuntu Studio? I need to see if Finale will emulate well, meaning sounds happen when you click notes on the page, and that there's playback. i couldn't get it working on heron.[/quote]


Sure! I'll take a look at it sometime this weekend. :)


Btw, I've been going going to[url="http://www.getdeb.net/"] GetDeb.net [/url]lately and checking out some of the games. I recently checked out SMC, which is a great Mario Bros clone. It's actually quite a lot of fun (maybe more fun than Mario Bros?), and runs great. I am currently trying out Assault Cube; a very smooth and straightforward fps.

The website is worth a check. It's like tu-cows for Deb packages.

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Oh, one thing about the GetDeb site for any first timers. When you wanna install a program, take a look at the download screen and you will see the regular "download: program" followed by another link that reads "program.data"
You probably will need to run the install for the ".data" package first, and then the regular program install after. I was scratching my head at first wondering why the package wouldn't install after I clicked the first link. ;)

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[quote name='Sacred Music Man' post='1602509' date='Jul 18 2008, 01:19 AM']Heck with it. I got nothin important on the 4 gig to transfer over. it was mostly experimentation anyways. Just curious if it could be done.

Btw no one but L D like my joke?

Oh, L D... I need you to do me a favour... could you test out Finale Notepad on Ubuntu Studio? I need to see if Finale will emulate well, meaning sounds happen when you click notes on the page, and that there's playback. i couldn't get it working on heron.[/quote]

Oh croutons, SMM. I'm sorry--I removed Ubuntu Studio. I had decided that I needed to use some things in Vista for college and I re-installed it on my notebook and then installed generic Ubuntu on another partition. I totally forgot to give that program a spin first!

Forgive me... ? :)

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  • 2 weeks later...

It's okay. I just got a new laptop for school today. It's an MSI PR600.... basically core 2 duo, 1 gig of ram, 160gb hdd (something like that). its nice. i migrated to Studio right away. It's sweet. It runs Finale Notepad 2007 perfectly (which i had trouble getting working w/ my desktop). I can run Warcraft 3, but strangely i have to crank down the graphics... ima talk to a friend about the problem. Starcraft wont let me go on battle.net... and... uhh... yeah. that's it. i might put Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory on. I might not. But, for sure, I have no "limit" to hard drive space, unless i do a ton of recording audio. Ill be doing that frequently cause I can carry it to my piano(s) :P. Woot woot for Linux! It's beautiful when it works the way you want it to.

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