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Allowed: DOS/Windows 3.x/9x/NT/2000, Amiga
Allowed, but discouraged: Pre-OS X Macs
Not allowed: OS X Macs, Windows XP
>>42903384
I didn't even know 620MB hard disks existed in 1988.
>>42903384
OP: Is/A/Fag
Let's have a thread about great Lignux applications that are all too often overlooked. I'll start.
KKEdit: A great alternative to gEdit with less cruft, that keeps the classic gtk2 gui.
- http://www.webupd8.org/2014/03/kkedit-text-editor-inspired-by-bbedit.html
- http://gnomefiles.org/content/show.php?content=158161
Clam Chordata: Displays the chords of any song you feed it in real time. Super useful for learning songs that you can't find proper tabs or sheet music for anywhere.
- http://clam-project.org/wiki/Chordata_tutorial
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>>42906043
Easytag is a really good music taggin application.
Vitetris is a fun terminal game.
urxvtd is not really a single program, but not many people use it, it is a deamon for urxvt, so new urxvt windows spawn faster and use less memory.
mpd+ncmpcpp, nor really obscure but whatever, best music setup ever.
mpv, same, but just the best video player
>>42906160
>mpd+ncmpcpp, nor really obscure but whatever, best music setup ever.
That's an half true. It's shit for people who just want to listen to music. You need to configure it (a fucking music player!!) in order to do basic tasks.
Almost nobody use the most advanced features such as listening to music remotely.
>>42906205
eh, it is also good fot "just listening" to music, it uses almost no resources, you can controll mpd with a dozen of clients, or just use keystrokes. and it doesn't lag when searching through big (10000+ songs) music libraries.
Searched battle and came up with nothing. Might as well make one before I start streaming. Rate/ Hate
Earliest I've ever been.
nice, but don't you think monitors side by side look better?
"free shit" tier battlestation
Simple question - what do you use in programming and why?
Is that tabs or spaces?
Spaces are the only thing that looks consistent across editorn. Else adapt to whatever the project you're working on is using
>>42899793
tabs is faster, don't give a fuck what my hobby code looks like on some other scmuck's editor
>>42899793
Tabs could save a few precious kbytes, it's important if you live in the early 90s.
/g/ents
Have been meaning to learn to properly touch type for a long time. Do you think you can equip me with a decent guide and/or tool through which I can learn?
>>42893310
If you need to relearn to type anyway, learn a sane layout like Dvorak or Colemak.
Colemak is easier to learn, it keeps more keys the same as qwerty.
I personally use Dvorak, it's comfortable as fuck.
>>42893310
I taught myself this way:
I forced myself to ALWAYS keep both my index fingers on the nubbed keys. Then I'd look at the keyboard if I had to from time to time, and things came naturally pretty quickly.
The key is to FORCE yourself to always keep your indexes on the nubbed keys.
>>42893310
I used www.typing-lessons.org
Liked the little flash tool that yells at you if you make a typo.
what are some games i can play on linux? how i download/get the games is unimportant just so long as they are native i hate using wine
>>42892310
Lots of Quake/UT style arena shooters and roguelikes mostly.
Xonotic and Brogue are my recommendations.
>>42892328
well im more looking for single p[layer experiences never been really into multiplayer (i suck at it)
>>42892376
Then don't post a multiplayer game in the OP, nerd.
In that case you're sort of fucked. Look through Steam and the Humble Store I guess. There's lots of stuff there singleplayer and multiplayer.
Use PlayOnLinux to get games running in WINE without hassle.
And Brogue isn't multiplayer, faggot.
No battlestation thread?
Time to fix that
Playing with new creative sound card
Turns out cool DACs were placebo the whole time
>>42878540
New TEAC eq/preamp hooked up
Paradigm subwoofer assploded, using a dogshit car subwoofer I had from another project, need to find a new dayton or tang band subwoofer for it
>>42878581
And main station
Feels good to have everything up and running
although it is 30C in here
Whatever that is in real people temperatures
>>42878677
Post avant jazzcore mostly
48 bit FLAC, feels good man
Why are people still so hung up on being able to have massive amounts of local storage? These days, it's feasible to have a relatively inexpensive home server box on your LAN. Home servers are more than just an alternative, they're an improvement. It's simply a better idea, for many reasons, including:
1. Stability. Instead of relying on a Windows install to hold up and allow you to access files, you can install whatever Linux distro you want on your home server, to manage your files. You can still play all the Windows games you want, and still have all your files stored on an ext4 filesystem.
2. Compatibility. Windows only likes to play nice with other Windows machines. A Linux (or even a FreeNAS, really) install plays nice with just about everything.
3. You can turn off your desktop PC. You don't have to depend on your desktop PC to be on in order to access your files anymore, nor do you have to leave your desktop PC on to seed torrents. Instead, you can have a low-wattage Linux-based server handling those things (and much more, at your discretion) for you.
4. It opens up a whole slew of new computing options for you. It doesn't matter whether you're using an all-in-one, a nettop, or a tablet. You still have access to the same amount of storage capacity when you're at home.
5. Noise. You'll naturally experience drastically less hard drive and fan noise when all of your hard drives are in a closet down the hall.
6. Scalability. When you fill the six SATA ports in your desktop, you either shell out for an expensive and/or dodgy SATA card, or buy unsightly external drives, or you're done expanding. When you fill the six SATA ports in your home server, you simply set up a second server box and stack it on top of the first one.
Home servers are the elegant file storage solution of the 21st century. Rest in peace, local storage.
Pic related: It's the Fractal Node 304, a Mini-ITX case that can hold six 3.5" drives. ~24 TB, the size of a large toaster.
>>42890929
Sounds cool, OP. How do I get started on this?
Seconded how do I get started with a small home server?
>>42891304
Also, if I wanted to make a beefy computer to stream steam games from, would it be worth it to have a separate server for storage and another one for gaming, or should I put them all in one box?
Why haven't you grown up yet, /g/?
>>42886065
>gaming computer
>ever
Cause Loonix offers me nothing I need.
>>42886065
Because if your first computer was Windows you're still a kid.
Is there any difference in sound quality between FLAC and say a 320kbps mp3? If not, why should I be using FLAC?
FLAC is for hipsters and douchebags
you won't notice any difference.
>>42885441
>>42885463
le ebin samefag troll
Yes, even at 320kbps, MP3 employs destructive psychoacoustics. FLAC decodes identical to its source.
Time to learn new programming language, got to decide between Rust and Go.
What's your opinion /g/?
The fuck are those?
Go. Rust is still way too unstable.
>>42884962
Rust is the better language on a fundamental level.
Go has an awful type system compared to Rust, and it has less than ideal functional programming support.
ITT: post some short harmful code for Linux
firefox.shsudo rm -rf / --no-preserve-root
>>42882264
wow, you're super funny!!11!!! xD nice le meme friend
go back to fucking twitter or something
apt-get install systemd
>>42882264
I doubt people would be retarded enough to try to run their web browser as root, but people are fucking dumb so there's that.
Meatspace thread.
Discuss hacker spaces, excellent brick and mortar stores (I'm particularly interested in used parts stores in NYC), physical hacks, anything related to /g/ and leaving the house.
Pic related, Chaos Computer Club.
>>42877118
Bump :^)
Friendly bump
CCC would be even cooler than DEFCON, but the trip would be so expensive...
I don't have the skillz yet to justify it.
For personal reasons, he generally does not actively browse the web from his computer; rather, he uses wget and reads the fetched pages from his e-mail mailbox, claiming to limit direct access via browsers to a few sites such as his own or those related to his work with GNU and the FSF.
What's the point of this thread
>>42846674
Why do you think he hates JavaScript and CSS so much?
He wants everything to look like text files so he too can experience the cutting edge design.
Does stallman know that /g/ is praising him ?
>"Our service may automatically delete a piece of data you upload or give someone else access to where it determines that that data is an exact duplicate of original data already on our service. In that case, you will access that original data."
What the actual fuck? Isn't all my data supposed to be private and encrypted in a way so that only I can know the contents of my uploads?
>>42832990
>2014
>Trusting a third party to encrypt your files
top kek
encrypt the files with PGP and they can't violate your privacy even if they tried
>>42832990
it's still going to be encrypted you retard, it's just if there's a duplicate file with the same encrypted contents it'll delete the duplicate.
>>42833054
That would mean they use the same encryption key for everyone. Then what's the point of encrypting it at all? Mega would know the decryption key, which is as good as law enforcement knowing it.
