Yes, Solaris, Ubuntu, Red Hat, BSD, AIX, etc. all have their differences. The point is that despite these differences, the difference for the user is often relatively small. Most open source programs just ./configure; make; make install just fine across the board. But on OSX you always need to end up doing some extra weird different thing than you don't need to do on the others despite their differences.
YMMV on this. I've never had that difficulty with most of the open source packages I've compiled on my Mac via ./configure; make; make install. On the other hand, I definitely have had issues with ./configure; make; make install compilation on various other Unixes. HP/UX was particularly difficult to get stuff to build on. So was NCR Unix, but it was such an ancient Unix at the time that I wasn't surprised it had issues.
I think most open source packages are written such that they assume every Unix is a Linux and the devs don't bother (perhaps due to lack of access) to test their build scripts/software on non-Linux systems.
I think most open source packages are written such that they assume every Unix is a Linux and the devs don't bother (perhaps due to lack of access) to test their build scripts/software on non-Linux systems.
Yeah, you know. The more I think about it, I think it's really just Linux that is awesome and actual UNIXes that give me the trouble all the time, except Open/FreeBSD which work nicely.
I think most open source packages are written such that they assume every Unix is a Linux and the devs don't bother (perhaps due to lack of access) to test their build scripts/software on non-Linux systems.
Yeah, you know. The more I think about it, I think it's really just Linux that is awesome and actual UNIXes that give me the trouble all the time, except Open/FreeBSD which work nicely.
I'll drink to that. With the exception of Solaris, which is still my favorite Unix and probably the most commonly used commercial Unix before OS X came along. I also rarely had trouble getting open source packages to build on it.
Then again, my CS department in college was a Solaris shop at the time, so I'm biased since that's what I started on.
Yeah, you know. The more I think about it, I think it's really just Linux that is awesome and actual UNIXes that give me the trouble all the time, except Open/FreeBSD which work nicely.
You're just a Linux guy, there's nothing wrong with any of these OS's. I got along quite well with the Solaris machines I had to admin at work, maybe because I didn't have the strong Linux base you have.
You're just a Linux guy, there's nothing wrong with any of these OS's. I got along quite well with the Solaris machines I had to admin at work, maybe because I didn't have the strong Linux base you have.
That's cause Solaris is also awesome (at least until if/when Oracle screws it up). Consider yourself lucky that you don't have to administer HP/UX (ugh).
Yeah, add Solaris to the list of good ones with the BSDs. OpenSolaris was actually pretty great. Sad Oracle killed it.
maybe because I didn't have the strong Linux base you have.
I think it's mostly because you weren't doing the same things with the machines I was.
If you want to do boring normal stuff like setup really popular, or important and old packages, it's no problem. Setting up pf, apache, postgres, dhcpd, these kinds of things are easy. The thing is in my line of work you end up using much newer things, and you need really new versions of them. Things like sphinx searchd, rabbitmq, redis, couchdb, web servers that aren't apache, memcached, etc. These hot new packages pretty much all work perfectly on Linuxes with no sweat, but often they are a nightmare on OSX and such.
I think it's mostly because you weren't doing the same things with the machines I was.
If you want to do boring normal stuff like setup really popular, or important and old packages, it's no problem. Setting up pf, apache, postgres, dhcpd, these kinds of things are easy. The thing is in my line of work you end up using much newer things, and you need really new versions of them. Things like sphinx searchd, rabbitmq, redis, couchdb, web servers that aren't apache, memcached, etc. These hot new packages pretty much all work perfectly on Linuxes with no sweat, but often they are a nightmare on OSX and such.
Yeah, I was upgrading an Oracle system that's a simulation of the client's production system. Very admin heavy work, not developer work.
If you want to do boring normal stuff like setup really popular, or important and old packages, it's no problem. Setting up pf, apache, postgres, dhcpd, these kinds of things are easy. The thing is in my line of work you end up using much newer things, and you need really new versions of them. Things like sphinx searchd, rabbitmq, redis, couchdb, web servers that aren't apache, memcached, etc. These hot new packages pretty much all work perfectly on Linuxes with no sweat, but often they are a nightmare on OSX and such.
That I'll believe. I'm not blaming the devs here, but I bet that most, if not all, of them do their development work on Linux boxes and hence it's natural that the bleeding edge stuff works first on Linux. Ports to other platforms are understandably lower priority (especially since most web servers are Linux-based these days anyway) and hence typically not done right away by the primary dev teams if at all.
Granted, I also come from a different developer background than you. It was (and still is) pretty much SOP for me to edit my code on a machine on my desktop that wasn't used for compiling or testing and then ssh to a machine in "the lab" to do everything else. I've never had a job where I've been able to build and test my code on the same machine that I edited it on. I also never had to work with bleeding edge software like that either -- the most in the way of external dependencies I've ever had to rely on was typically libc.
My new (homebuilt) PC won't recognize either of the drives I have plugged in. One is a brand new 1 terabyte drive that has no OS on it, and the other is a 320 GB hd that has Windows Vista on it (from my old PC). The weird thing is, once it gets past the "No Hard Drives Detected!" point it loads the Windows error recovery screen, then a black screen with (c) Microsoft Corporation and a loading bar. Then I got a brief flash of a blue screen with white text and it returns to the startup screen. Both drives are SATA, and I've triple checked all the connections. I'm at total loss at this point.
Are the SATA drives enabled in BIOS? A lot of BIOSes have the ability to shut off various SATA connectors. Make sure both are turned on, the SATA bus of the drive and the motherboard connection are compatible, and the right type of cable has been used. A SATAII drive will not work with SATA I ports or cables.
Are the SATA drives enabled in BIOS? A lot of BIOSes have the ability to shut off various SATA connectors. Make sure both are turned on, the SATA bus of the drive and the motherboard connection are compatible, and the right type of cable has been used. A SATAII drive will not work with SATA I ports or cables.
I enabled them in the BIOS, and the drives are plugged into the proper ports (6gb/s for the 1 tb. 3 gb/s for the Vista drive.) No change. For reference here is the MoBo, and drive 1 and two. I also tried to boot from my Vista install disk, with no more success.
Lately the family computer has been having an extremely strange problem. Instead of describing it, I'll link to a few photos I took. I would just paste screenshots, but the issue doesn't show up in screenshots. Whole Monitor Closeup of part of the monitor Extremel closeup This tends to happen most when I play games (especially 3D games, and never while emulating an old system), but not exclusively so. It is sometimes accompanied by a message that driver R300 has failed but when I tried to update my drivers I was told that they are all up to day. It sometimes becomes more intense in parts of the screen. Right now, it is normal in the upper third and right third but cyan checkerboard everywhere else. It is almost always resolved by a re-boot. Sometimes the system crashed during this state and I get a blue screen with white text telling me that the computer has encounter problems and is shutting itself off.
So massive crisis averted. It wouldn't boot for a few hours but things seem to be better now. It seems like the video card was causing both crashes and failures to boot (for several hours), so tomorrow I'm going to clean off the pins and make sure it is connected. I'll also update to Windows 7 ASAP which better supports the graphics card. If I feel like it, I'll update with the details.
So, last week I spill water on my Macbook Pro like a dumbass. Flipped it over to get some of the water out, however the shift key was permanently stuck or something. (Not physically, but the function was there) I took it to my Mac Repair Store, sadly learned that Applecare doesn't cover spillage, nor the damage on my charger which needed to be replaced. So they confirmed that they would replace the old keyboard and fix the issue. I got it back yesterday and worked fine, and I noticed they reset the NVRAM. And my Mac worked JUST FINE throughout the 32 hours I still have it.
So tonight the same issue happens again. First time I see it happen, I immediately turn it off, let it cool down, and then start it up again. And it works again for another hour...and then the Shift Key gets stuck again function-wise, and I can't do anything. I turn it off, but this time the computer booted into Safe Mode, meaning I had to log in again...which I can't do because all my letters will be capitalized. Nothing happened to the Macbook this time, no idea what the fuck happened. I'm hearing it's because of a microswitch got set off, but I know I have to take it back to a repair place to get it fixed. I don't want to have to pay for another repair, but this is such a pain in the ass.
I tried fucking around with Chrome OS and had to make a bootable flash drive for it. It turns out it made a partition for the OS thats hidden, so my flash drive is seen as only 250 megs. I've tried deleting the other partition but it says I can't delete a partition from a removable disk. I tried some other 3rd party partition program but it wouldn't work either. Any suggestions?
Has anyone on here hacked their wii lately? I originally had when the twilight hack first came out, but that stopped working after an update or two. I just reinstalled the homebrew channel and have only 3 emulators on my sd card. It randomly crashes when I'm in the menu's of them, but not when I'm actually playing a game. I get a an "Exception (DSI)" a stack dump and a code dump. Has anyone else has similar problems? I've already tried using a different sd card and reinstalling the homebrew channel.
Edit-I tried redownloading them in the hopes that maybe one of them was just corrupt, but I still had the same problem. I did find a backup of my old Wii sd card, and all those apps seem to run just fine. Hmm.
Edit 2- Seems to be fixed. No crashes anymore. I had to edit the Meta.xml file and delete a line from each of the apps file. I'm not sure why but it works fine now.
This sounds so stupid, but I need to know if this is an issue or a thing that happens.
The longer I got without shutting down my laptop fully, the slower and more fickle the internet to it gets. The Mac doesn't suffer this problem, my mom's school laptop doesn't suffer this problem, but mine does. I don't quite know why this would happen, I don't know what to check for, and I don't even know what to search.
If someone wouldn't mind putting up with my ignorance and help out that would be very nice.
This sounds so stupid, but I need to know if this is an issue or a thing that happens.
The longer I got without shutting down my laptop fully, the slower and more fickle the internet to it gets. The Mac doesn't suffer this problem, my mom's school laptop doesn't suffer this problem, but mine does. I don't quite know why this would happen, I don't know what to check for, and I don't even know what to search.
If someone wouldn't mind putting up with my ignorance and help out that would be very nice.
I was screwing around with virtualbox, trying to get Windows 8 to display at larger than 800x600 and I changed a file for my graphics card driver. Now it looks like my computer had an acid trip. What do I do?
I was screwing around with virtualbox, trying to get Windows 8 to display at larger than 800x600 and I changed a file for my graphics card driver. Now it looks like my computer had an acid trip. What do I do?
I was screwing around with virtualbox, trying to get Windows 8 to display at larger than 800x600 and I changed a file for my graphics card driver. Now it looks like my computer had an acid trip. What do I do?
Safe mode. Reinstall video driver.
It's Ubuntu. I'm not aware of a safe mode but the video might be passable enough for me to get through a driver install.
Edit: or perhaps this low graphics mode option I have on boot now. Edit2: Still tripping, but able to see enough to get by.
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I think most open source packages are written such that they assume every Unix is a Linux and the devs don't bother (perhaps due to lack of access) to test their build scripts/software on non-Linux systems.
Then again, my CS department in college was a Solaris shop at the time, so I'm biased since that's what I started on.
If you want to do boring normal stuff like setup really popular, or important and old packages, it's no problem. Setting up pf, apache, postgres, dhcpd, these kinds of things are easy. The thing is in my line of work you end up using much newer things, and you need really new versions of them. Things like sphinx searchd, rabbitmq, redis, couchdb, web servers that aren't apache, memcached, etc. These hot new packages pretty much all work perfectly on Linuxes with no sweat, but often they are a nightmare on OSX and such.
Granted, I also come from a different developer background than you. It was (and still is) pretty much SOP for me to edit my code on a machine on my desktop that wasn't used for compiling or testing and then ssh to a machine in "the lab" to do everything else. I've never had a job where I've been able to build and test my code on the same machine that I edited it on. I also never had to work with bleeding edge software like that either -- the most in the way of external dependencies I've ever had to rely on was typically libc.
Whole Monitor
Closeup of part of the monitor
Extremel closeup
This tends to happen most when I play games (especially 3D games, and never while emulating an old system), but not exclusively so. It is sometimes accompanied by a message that driver R300 has failed but when I tried to update my drivers I was told that they are all up to day. It sometimes becomes more intense in parts of the screen. Right now, it is normal in the upper third and right third but cyan checkerboard everywhere else. It is almost always resolved by a re-boot. Sometimes the system crashed during this state and I get a blue screen with white text telling me that the computer has encounter problems and is shutting itself off.
What should I do?
So, last week I spill water on my Macbook Pro like a dumbass. Flipped it over to get some of the water out, however the shift key was permanently stuck or something. (Not physically, but the function was there) I took it to my Mac Repair Store, sadly learned that Applecare doesn't cover spillage, nor the damage on my charger which needed to be replaced. So they confirmed that they would replace the old keyboard and fix the issue. I got it back yesterday and worked fine, and I noticed they reset the NVRAM. And my Mac worked JUST FINE throughout the 32 hours I still have it.
So tonight the same issue happens again. First time I see it happen, I immediately turn it off, let it cool down, and then start it up again. And it works again for another hour...and then the Shift Key gets stuck again function-wise, and I can't do anything. I turn it off, but this time the computer booted into Safe Mode, meaning I had to log in again...which I can't do because all my letters will be capitalized. Nothing happened to the Macbook this time, no idea what the fuck happened. I'm hearing it's because of a microswitch got set off, but I know I have to take it back to a repair place to get it fixed. I don't want to have to pay for another repair, but this is such a pain in the ass.
Edit-I tried redownloading them in the hopes that maybe one of them was just corrupt, but I still had the same problem. I did find a backup of my old Wii sd card, and all those apps seem to run just fine. Hmm.
Edit 2- Seems to be fixed. No crashes anymore. I had to edit the Meta.xml file and delete a line from each of the apps file. I'm not sure why but it works fine now.
The longer I got without shutting down my laptop fully, the slower and more fickle the internet to it gets. The Mac doesn't suffer this problem, my mom's school laptop doesn't suffer this problem, but mine does. I don't quite know why this would happen, I don't know what to check for, and I don't even know what to search.
If someone wouldn't mind putting up with my ignorance and help out that would be very nice.
Edit: or perhaps this low graphics mode option I have on boot now.
Edit2: Still tripping, but able to see enough to get by.