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the comments on this are so WIN.

http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comm … ion_in_it/

i love it! this is going straight into my autostart. many thanks ADComp!

also double check to make sure that when you installed to the USB drive with Unetbootin that you made the drive bootable, as i think it's optional.

Working on a kind of winter look, as it's getting into the teens at night now.

wallpaper: Desktopography
conky: shamelessly borrowed from corenominal, tweaked for my hardware and the info i want.
conky titles font: David Rakowski's ToneAndDebs

Personally, I remain in favor of the GIMP as an installation default, but I do feel the need to play the voice of dissent for a moment, while everyone rails against Ubuntu for 'losing the plot'.

To the contrary, anyone who's been following Ubuntu's development for a while will see that this falls right in the line with the direction Ubuntu's been heading since the beginning. Ubuntu's aim has always been market-share, and i don't mean that in a greedy, corporate sense. Ubuntu has, to my mind at least, always been the 'missionary linux', bringing the 'truth' of free and open source software to the masses.

Just like a missionary in the real world, Ubuntu has appraised their target market, the crossover linux user, having only recently left the windows-only 'heathen' lifestyle. So in what way will Ubuntu encounter the most success in this goal? by presenting familiar, simple-to-understand options, and the added benefits of a vast array of free software and enhanced security and stability.

On the other hand, GIMP's aim has always been to provide a FOS alternative to the power-house image editing softwares (and i'll say they're doing a damn fine job.) but imagine if every version of windows dropped Paint in favor of Photoshop. To the artistically inclined and the power-users, i know this sounds great, a dream come true, but imagine the untrained user, dear Oma and Opa wanting to rotate, resize, or crop  an image and being confounded by such a dazzling array of options, most of which are meaningless to them. (Layers? I thought only ogres had layers!)

The decision to drop GIMP from the default install has raised a lot of hubbub with fans of the GIMP and Ubuntu nay-sayers, but in reality this decision is inevitable as the 2 projects progress, and is, rather than an affront, a measure of the success of both.

hi Holi, sorry about your grief w/ wicd. i've not got much to recommend w/ regards to the freeze-ups, but i actually went through the same thing where i'd mussed about with switching back and forth, not realizing that installing wicd auto-removed nm, and then removing wicd left me sans network manager, so no network connection whatsoever. i had to use the laptop to download the wicd deb file from packages.ubuntu.com, and install from usb with dpkg.... seeing as you're posting about it, i'm guessing you probably got it figured out, anyways...

as far as the signal strength discrepancies between nm and wicd, one of the things i like about wicd is the option to select the wpa supplicant driver that works best with your card (wext works best for my belkin usb wlan nic), so if anybody's having difficulties getting good signal strength from wicd, try playing around with that option under preferences from the main configuration window.

as far as making wicd the default for #!, i personally prefer wicd, but it's so easy to install that it's kind of a non-issue. for the distro, since crunchbang seems to be particularly popular in the netbook market, it makes more sense to provide a default network manager capable of the broadest range of connection modes, particularly 3G, which i guess tilts my opinion toward nm for #! default, though i personally have no use for it.

+1 nm

honestly anonymous i don't know, it's been so long since i dug into the guts of a windows machine. i half-remember finding an option in Tuner that reconfigured TCP/IP to remove an arbitrary maximum speed, but like i said, it's been a while.

anyways, off to watch a vid for psych class, please post any other questions, i'll check for an update after the vid! good luck!

you can just ctrl-alt-f2 into a separate session, sign in to tty and use nano/vim/joe/whatever to edit your config files. or if you're able to reach the gui desktop, super-t should bring up your terminal, alt-f2 will bring up gmrun so you can exec 'gedit ~/.config/openbox/menu.xml'

EDIT:

also, once you're able to reach command line, you may want to do something like...

cp /etc/skel/.config/openbox/* ~/.config/openbox/

and then....

openbox --reconfigure

and i'm not sure but if crunchbang has stuck w/ the ubuntu tradition, you can ctrl-alt-f7 back to your graphical login.

i'm assuming you have looked at jockey-gtk and verified the driver is both installed and activated?  have you looked at your /etc/X11/xorg.conf to verify it's loading the nvidia driver?  below is an example xorg.conf from my system which properly runs the nvidia...

# xorg.conf (X.Org X Window System server configuration file)
#
# This file was generated by dexconf, the Debian X Configuration tool, using
# values from the debconf database.
#
# Edit this file with caution, and see the xorg.conf manual page.
# (Type "man xorg.conf" at the shell prompt.)
#
# This file is automatically updated on xserver-xorg package upgrades *only*
# if it has not been modified since the last upgrade of the xserver-xorg
# package.
#
# Note that some configuration settings that could be done previously
# in this file, now are automatically configured by the server and settings
# here are ignored.
#
# If you have edited this file but would like it to be automatically updated
# again, run the following command:
#   sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier    "Configured Monitor"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier    "Default Screen"
    Monitor        "Configured Monitor"
    Device        "Configured Video Device"
    DefaultDepth    24
EndSection

Section "Module"
    Load    "glx"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier    "Configured Video Device"
    Driver    "nvidia"
    Option    "NoLogo"    "True"
EndSection

am i the only one who war-boots the PC's in the retail stores with their favorite distro? it's fun and i can generally come back in a few min and find a small cluster of people around the pc wondering what's going on w/ that computer.

well, thanks for your input folks, i don't like running things in wine at all, now that wine's gotten good enough for Linux to catch a virus from it. and none of my other research turned up anything as powerful as digikam, so for now i guess that's gonna do it, and i'll just have to live w/ the KDE dependencies. thanks for your assistance.