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Off Topic / Re: Go on the Blockland TeamSpeak3 server. Now.
« on: July 07, 2013, 03:45:09 PM »
Installing it just to see why :P
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Off Topic / Re: Lost 50% of battery overnight while my phone was in sleep mode?
« on: July 05, 2013, 06:12:47 PM »see peopleno
this is why i leave my iPhone on ios 6.0
see people
...this is why i don't use apple products
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Off Topic / Re: Post Your Desktop 2 / Desktop Megathread
« on: July 05, 2013, 06:04:45 PM »Royale Zune on Windows XP. So obvious :P
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Off Topic / Re: wow PSN store never works for me
« on: July 05, 2013, 05:47:01 PM »
Sounds like the typical problem where when something is released there's so many new connections coming in that the servers just lock up.
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Off Topic / Re: Linux Distro Choosing: Getting a CD Tommorow, Yes!
« on: July 05, 2013, 05:42:18 PM »So you were assuming that I used a pirated version of Windows. But shouldn't the OS ask me if I want to update? The only time it seems to do that is when you're doing a service pack upgrade (or at least in the case of the 8.1 beta).The Action Center probably has an option to choose whether or not to automatically install updates or do it manually (in which case it asks you.) It recommends the automatic option because that way Windows will just make your computer safer and less buggy without you having to think about it. Unfortunately a nasty side-effect is that it bugs you when it wants to restart or it needs you to do something in order to let it do its thing.
I did actually try to use it with my laptop once but I did not like the newer rocket dock style task bar.In my mind, the Ubuntu dosk works a heck of a lot like the Windows taskbar. The "locked" applications are like the "pinned" programs, the Dash Home is a lot like the Start Button, and the only downside in Ubuntu is you can only have it on the left side of the screen and the trash, desktop switcher and dash buttons are always there(without extra Unity modifications, of course).
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Off Topic / Re: Linux Distro Choosing: Getting a CD Tommorow, Yes!
« on: July 05, 2013, 02:49:15 AM »if you are a scared-of-command-line-thingies pusillanimous individual then get ubuntu \o/Even using Ubuntu you get a fair share of using the Terminal. It's pretty much a Linux standard.
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Off Topic / Re: Fourth Of July Refugee Topic
« on: July 05, 2013, 12:16:30 AM »-snip-This is the refugee topic, take your works of flame somewhere besides here.
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Off Topic / Re: Fourth Of July Refugee Topic
« on: July 04, 2013, 11:02:27 PM »
This made me realize how much it must suck to be blind today tonight
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Off Topic / Re: Linux Distro Choosing: Getting a CD Tommorow, Yes!
« on: July 04, 2013, 10:10:08 PM »
If you don't know what you're doing, you should stop. You're likely going to face more problems than you're willing to deal with.
Otherwise, why do you want Linux? As long as you're sure that you'll be able to do everything you currently do hassle-free on Linux and you'll be able to do something you've wanted to do but couldn't on your previous operating system, only then would I consider installing linux. Looking for linux/wine support on all the programs you use frequently will be a good start for this. Blockland, for example, has great wine support but Skype doesn't have all that great PulseAudio support.
To choose which distribution you should use, you will probably not want to look much at its presentation but rather what hoops you'll have to jump through to get it installed and what things it'll already have for you, what you'll need to install for yourself, and what you'll need to uninstall possibly to replace with something else. The beginner and basic distro would be Ubuntu, it's extremely easy to install and should have everything you'll need. Ubuntu is a modification of Debian, which is complicated to install, is very slow and has not so many features. There are plenty of reviews online for more distributions, you just have to know where to look. Blockland forums is a bit small and it may be hard to get judgement on all the distros you're looking to try out.
I second what TBP said with USBs, if you have one it's easier to use that than a disk to install things. You can wipe it and put something else on easily if you tried installing one distro but it didn't work out for you.
A final thing, you're always going to need the option to boot back into your previous OS, so keep it on its own partition. Also, do NOT delete the partition you're trying out your distro on until you're doing it while installing another. It's likely you'll have GRUB installed on it, and you don't want that breaking so you can't boot into your previous OS even if it does still exist on your system.
Otherwise, why do you want Linux? As long as you're sure that you'll be able to do everything you currently do hassle-free on Linux and you'll be able to do something you've wanted to do but couldn't on your previous operating system, only then would I consider installing linux. Looking for linux/wine support on all the programs you use frequently will be a good start for this. Blockland, for example, has great wine support but Skype doesn't have all that great PulseAudio support.
To choose which distribution you should use, you will probably not want to look much at its presentation but rather what hoops you'll have to jump through to get it installed and what things it'll already have for you, what you'll need to install for yourself, and what you'll need to uninstall possibly to replace with something else. The beginner and basic distro would be Ubuntu, it's extremely easy to install and should have everything you'll need. Ubuntu is a modification of Debian, which is complicated to install, is very slow and has not so many features. There are plenty of reviews online for more distributions, you just have to know where to look. Blockland forums is a bit small and it may be hard to get judgement on all the distros you're looking to try out.
I second what TBP said with USBs, if you have one it's easier to use that than a disk to install things. You can wipe it and put something else on easily if you tried installing one distro but it didn't work out for you.
A final thing, you're always going to need the option to boot back into your previous OS, so keep it on its own partition. Also, do NOT delete the partition you're trying out your distro on until you're doing it while installing another. It's likely you'll have GRUB installed on it, and you don't want that breaking so you can't boot into your previous OS even if it does still exist on your system.
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Off Topic / Re: Nationality Thread
« on: July 04, 2013, 09:38:35 PM »why? do you know any blocklanders who live in Antarctica?could be you never know. yeah you're right, but who lives in south america or africa??
if i add antarctica people will lie and pick that option instead of where they really live
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Off Topic / Re: new laptop
« on: July 02, 2013, 07:43:26 PM »
Nice job derailing the topic on the first page guys, you should bring it to the computer megathread
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Off Topic / Re: Let's talk....
« on: July 02, 2013, 07:41:50 PM »In the original oc, my glasses are gold, not bright green, and my eyes are blue, not redThen you should have said, "implying my glasses are green" because that's what I was implying. Anyway, despite getting some things wrong, I don't care, it was funny to see if I could recreate it from a terrible quality, tiny JPEG.
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Off Topic / Re: Let's talk....
« on: July 02, 2013, 07:03:55 PM »>implying my glasses are goldYeah lol, um, that's bright green
Oh boy, another troll. Just what this forum needs.the evidence is overwhelming