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Stulle
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 Posted: Sat Sep 13, 2003 5:29 pm Post subject: Impressive software??? |
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Hi there
I need some good, nerdy software. Which can impress my windows-freinds and convince them that gentoo is worth a try.
A good system-monitor could be a nice thing to show them - but which one should i choose?
Kind regards
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squirrel
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| Spamassassin. It's in the portage tree. It's probably the most sophisticated anti-spam method you can use. And using fetchmail you can provide spam elimination service for all the users on your network. |
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isomer
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| gkrellm2 seems to impress nerds everywhere. it's in portage |
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scriptkiddie
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Impressive Software ----> Portage
it doesn't get any better than just typing:
emerge -UD world
and then getting to watch your whole system update itself  |
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really
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dmesg impresses my friends. xfce4, transparant menus in kde, links..
people are astunished when i do something like "unlike windows linux is a multiusersystem, so here at the command prompt i can typ whoami and look it replays with my name, its a normal user, but know i wanna change fast to own the compjuter, su - root asks for the password, typing it real fast" then they ask why didnt it show you typed the pass, tell them so someone looking behind tou dont get to know the lenght of it, security. then again whoami. then they goo "aaaaaah"
tou can spice it up by telling now i am god at this compjuter.
and typing uname -a look it tells its name!
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rincewind
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HI
most impressive thing my mashine was admired for :
1. borderless root-tail running all logfiles across sweet angelina jolie
2. framebuffer console with the same picture 1280x1024 "thats how
a "dos-promt" should look like |
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kraqrawk
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1. Transparent aterms and menus in flux.
2. Flux in general.
3. Custom background with 2 borderless/transparent root windows and root-tail embedded into it.
4. kraq@the-almighty-oracle # (bash prompt)
5. being able to compile, setup, and run ftp/www/ssh servers in under 10 mins!
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neuron
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| install a few diffrent window managers and change between em real fast perhaps, they are bound to see something they like |
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Wedge_
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Show them that you can change between different versions of 3D drivers etc without rebooting.
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trajedi
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| Wedge_ wrote: | | Show them that you can change between different versions of 3D drivers etc without rebooting. |
i actually did that one and they kept sayin you have to reboot.!! that's not right.. |
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really
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| trajedi wrote: | | Wedge_ wrote: | | Show them that you can change between different versions of 3D drivers etc without rebooting. |
i actually did that one and they kept sayin you have to reboot.!! that's not right.. |
play a movie in framebuffer with mplayer or something..
or show images with fbi
my friends where impressed by the speed of q3 and enemy territory..
but they didint like not having a start menu in xfce4 and the lack of many icons on my desk.. 
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neuron
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[quote="antonik"][quote="trajedi"] | Wedge_ wrote: | my friends where impressed by the speed of q3 and enemy territory..
but they didint like not having a start menu in xfce4 and the lack of many icons on my desk.. |
heh, thats the reason I have gnome and kde installed along my xfce4, I always use xfce4, but have to switch now and then to show that yes, I can have icons on my monitor and a damn start menu  |
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nephros
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| antonik wrote: | play a movie in framebuffer with mplayer or something..
or show images with fbi |
even cooler: mplayer -vo aa <movie>
chose a badly-encoded clip that is known not to work in any windows player: mplayer will play it fine. Or a region-coded DVD  if you're in a country without Dat Magnifically Crafted Act.
There are also aaxine, aatv and ttyquake.
next: | Code: | | emerge speechd && /etc/init.d/speechd start && echo "I find you lack of faith disturbing" > /dev/speech |
also emerge 3ddesktop.
| Code: | | ssh root@other.machine.in.the.same.room "eject /dev/cdrom" |
works every time. X11-forwarding a remotely played DVD is also nice. Or NFS-mounting the mp3-collection from there. When using NFS, be sure to reboot either machine and show the mount still working.
HugeTLBs are pretty useless, but look fine in df: | Code: | scourge root # df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
hugetlbfs 16P 0 16P 0% /mnt/huge |
Petabytes! That's what I call RAM!
After you showed off, give each of them a Gentoo Games Livecd.
[EDIT:]  Stupid me, posted two posts. One deleted, merged.
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shm
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What kind of friends? Are they technical? Not?
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zez
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Play a quicktime file, realmedia file, windows media file, and divx file in mplayer one after another. I hate having a different video player for each format  |
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Squinky86
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I took my Gentoo machine to a lan party once and it knocked their socks off- I had higher fps than most of them in Half-Life and also set up the router and ran different things from my system. Someone came over and said "That OS looks hard" (I was in openbox), so I switched to KDE without rebooting. I have all sorts of eye-candy on KDE for that reason- to impress people. Get two desktops- one for work and one for play. Other impressive software:
GAIM because it just works better
nmap (nuff said)
mozilla- mmm, tabs, and it's faster on gamespy sites (doesn't download the page THEN render it- renders as it's downloading)
evoution- prettiful
It's the everyday programs that people are impressed by. QT and GTK themes are cool, too.
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The Mountain Man
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| Install a new piece of software or reconfigure your hardware settings without rebooting. Or perhaps find a program that crashes X then immediately restart your windows manager and continue on with whatever you were doing without missing a beat. |
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cgibreak
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1. Use ESD to pipe music to another machine on your network.
2. Show off vmware.
3. Hook up a multimeter to your parallel port. # outb yourport 1
4. Stream music to everyone on your network with icecast |
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pjp
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Moved from Other Things Gentoo.
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Evangelion
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Impressive software? How about this? Windows-users, eat your heart out!
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zenlunatic
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| Screw friends! The real question is what software will attract the ladies! |
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Barkotron
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| zenlunatic wrote: | | Screw friends! The real question is what software will attract the ladies! |
What software will attract the ladies  ? Does software attract ladies? You must be from a parallel dimension if you have software that attracts ladies. Can I have some of your interdimensional lady attraction software please? Is it open source? 
As to the original thing - if you're wanting to impress a bunch of Windows zealots, why not get a bunch of their favourite programs running in wine or something and show them that you can do that from Linux, and lots of other stuff too?
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NuclearFusi0n
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| zenlunatic wrote: | | Screw friends! The real question is what software will attract the ladies! |
My Hardware (!) is more than enough. 
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| The Mountain Man wrote: | | Install a new piece of software or reconfigure your hardware settings without rebooting. Or perhaps find a program that crashes X then immediately restart your windows manager and continue on with whatever you were doing without missing a beat. |
How to restart it without loosing anything? |
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gsfgf
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| professorn wrote: | | The Mountain Man wrote: | | Install a new piece of software or reconfigure your hardware settings without rebooting. Or perhaps find a program that crashes X then immediately restart your windows manager and continue on with whatever you were doing without missing a beat. |
How to restart it without loosing anything? :) |
Abiword and oo.org will save on an X crash, just like a program crash. When windows dies office won't.
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