| sagaci | I just edited grub to go to a text environment first, works great | 02:41 |
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| head_victim | sagaci: glad to see you got it to where you needed it | 02:43 |
| head_victim | I cheat and use start up manager (a gui for grub conf) | 02:43 |
| sagaci | i use that just to change the grub resolution | 02:43 |
| * nisshh prefers to get down and dirty in the config files | 02:44 | |
| nisshh | sagaci, well done :) | 02:44 |
| sagaci | all I had to do was edit /etc/default/grub and append text to GRUB CMD something | 02:44 |
| sagaci | and voila | 02:44 |
| head_victim | I was just getting to know grub and then they went to grub2 and I had to start over | 02:44 |
| nisshh | yeah | 02:44 |
| sagaci | boots fast and gnome is only a startx away | 02:44 |
| sagaci | head_victim: me too | 02:45 |
| sagaci | don't like the grub2 configuration things | 02:45 |
| nisshh | i actually rather like the way you configure grub2 | 02:45 |
| nisshh | it keeps it all seperate and simple to find | 02:45 |
| head_victim | sagaci: yeah that's something I'll learn when I need to. I prefer to have the grub screen show for 5 sec every bood (I only reboot every 6 months or so except for power fails) | 02:45 |
| nisshh | i think many people just got annoyed because it was all different | 02:46 |
| sagaci | well i use it also to boot into windows automagically on some systems (aka older relatives) | 02:46 |
| sagaci | but I liked with grub that you could easily rename entries | 02:47 |
| sagaci | so if you wanted to, you could call your ubuntu entry "OMG cool operating system" if you wanted to | 02:47 |
| sagaci | with kernel 2.6.32 etc | 02:47 |
| head_victim | I'm sure you can with start up manager as well | 02:48 |
| sagaci | not really, it only does a couple of things | 02:49 |
| nisshh | im fairly sure thats possible with grub2 still | 02:49 |
| head_victim | sagaci: you're right, my bad | 02:49 |
| nisshh | in the list of entries each one can be given a name | 02:49 |
| head_victim | But yeah you should still be able to change it on the cli | 02:49 |
| head_victim | Pretty sad if you can theme it but not change the entries | 02:49 |
| sagaci | probably, that's just another thing to learn and tweak | 02:49 |
| sagaci | another thing to add to my post install list | 02:50 |
| nisshh | hehe, yeah | 02:50 |
| head_victim | Heh I'm working throuhg a very thick book for my server so I can do all the stuff I need to without forgetting stuff and dodgying it up. | 02:50 |
| head_victim | To date my theory has been "lets just make it do what I want now" rather than "lets find the best way to do it". | 02:50 |
| nisshh | something i started doing recently was to use a VCS to keep my config files between fresh installs its really handy | 02:51 |
| nisshh | head_victim, lol | 02:51 |
| head_victim | So now I'm taking my time and getting stuff done "right" | 02:51 |
| head_victim | Lets just hope my hdd doesn't fail between now and then when I get it on the raid. | 02:52 |
| nisshh | hehe | 02:52 |
| nisshh | head_victim, looks like my local computer store are dropping their prices again, the Antec 600 is down from $190 to $106 :) | 07:03 |
| nisshh | plus a whole heap of new stuff is in and other stuff has dropped in price too | 07:03 |
| head_victim | Nice work, now you just have to get the cash ;) | 07:03 |
| nisshh | yeah lol :) | 07:03 |
| nisshh | easier said than done :) | 07:04 |
| head_victim | Yeah like I said if it's more than a month away looking at prices is almost a waste of time. | 07:04 |
| nisshh | although i do have an income now, so im getting there | 07:04 |
| head_victim | I'm trying to throw together a P4 3.0 HT PC for the wife for her sewing room. | 07:04 |
| nisshh | head_victim, oh yeah, im just curious to see where stuff is at, what new stuff there is, etc :) | 07:04 |
| nisshh | oh yeah | 07:05 |
| head_victim | Hah I gave up on that long ago, kept feeling like I was misisng out on so much stuff when realistically my quad core q6600 will do my needs for some years to come. | 07:05 |
| nisshh | yeah | 07:06 |
| head_victim | I'd definitely never get anything but a quad core again though, so much handier for VM machines. | 07:06 |
| nisshh | yeah | 07:06 |
| nisshh | i will get a quad if i can i think, its well worth it | 07:07 |
| head_victim | I'd seriously consider a previous generation quad over a current dual but yeah, I'm not likely buying a pc anytime soon. | 07:07 |
| nisshh | yeah | 07:07 |
| chesty | what's the ubuntu/gnome way of integrating with gmail, specifically new mail notification | 20:43 |
| * iflema evolution (ALWAYS) on/in the taskbar... thunderbird and one of the systray addons/plugins works well.... | 21:19 | |
| chesty | evolution and thunderbird are out, I want to use the web interface to gmail | 21:21 |
| iflema | chesty: gm-notify ?? | 21:28 |
| iflema | thats in Universe ^^ | 21:32 |
| chesty | yeah, i did a apt-cache search gmail, and that came up, and I installed it. but there are 10 other packages and I don't want to have to install each one to test it out | 21:34 |
| chesty | for something that claims to be highly ubuntu integrated, being in universe is telling | 21:35 |
| * iflema drops penutbutter toast facedown :( | 21:46 | |
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