Fun things to do in Linux to pass time. Anything!

[gymophett]

You know when you're so bored, you just wanna slap a baby?
This is where to post your ideas.
Whether it's a certain game, VirtualBox... ANYTHING!
Maybe something you can ONLY do in Linux.. Something awesome. Something... Anything. That just sounded annoying, but you get the picture.

[HappyFeet]

I like to play around in virtualbox. If a distro seems decent, I'll then install it on my test machine.

[ArtF10]

You know when you're so bored, you just wanna slap a baby?...

Haha! NO, but now I do!:lolflag::lolflag::lolflag:

[JillSwift]

Use MPD and ICECast to make yourself an in-home "radio station".
Make a torrent slave, so all you have to do is dump a torrent file into a drop-box folder and the slave handles the rest.
Use Linux, an Arduino, and servo motors to make an automatic baby-slapper.

[gymophett]

Use MPD and ICECast to make yourself an in-home "radio station".
Make a torrent slave, so all you have to do is dump a torrent file into a drop-box folder and the slave handles the rest.
Use Linux, an Arduino, and servo motors to make an automatic baby-slapper.

Lmfao. xD

[Eviltechie]

Use MPD and ICECast to make yourself an in-home "radio station".
Make a torrent slave, so all you have to do is dump a torrent file into a drop-box folder and the slave handles the rest.
Use Linux, an Arduino, and servo motors to make an automatic baby-slapper.

MPD? You should try IDJC.

[DeadSuperHero]

Well, you can always play games. Or microblog every little detail of your life on identi.ca.

Really, when I'm that bored I go out on a walk.

[JillSwift]

Lmfao. xD
:D


MPD? You should try IDJC.
Yeah, that'd be even more fun. I didn't bother because I live alone, and - frankly - I talk to myself enough as it is. ;)

[renbla]

Screw up your root folder by using sudo ..... and then googling to try to solve all the problems come up. :lolflag:

[blah1898]

Screw up your root folder by using sudo ..... and then googling to try to solve all the problems come up. :lolflag:

I often kinda do that. But not only the root folder, also try installing another linux kernel, mess up with GRUB, format a partition, try to install unstable software or software that conflicts with others, etc. Just get ready to reinstall. :lolflag:

[Dimitriid]

I check new applications or different versions of the ones I have already. I sometimes test things I don't need or don't plan on keeping just to see them like gnome do, awn, etc.

[Sarai the Geek]

Conky, conky conky conky...

Compiz could potentially be a significant time sink too, though playing around with compiz is about 84.2% more likely to splode your graphics card than playing around with compiz.

Fun fact: 58.9% of statistics are made up on the spot!

Wow, I'm way too tired and borked to be posting.

[moster]

buddy, try to learn some programming language. You will not just spend few hours, you will spend your entire life :D

[Sealbhach]

Install tdfsb (http://freshmeat.net/projects/tdfsb/) and zoom around inside your filesystem.

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[dhayfule]

IS it available in ubuntu respositories?

[ninjapirate89]

I spend way too much of my time playing Ogame.

[Hominym]

Try to manage your files by only using the terminal. That's always fun.

[Hallvor]

Play Atomic Tanks :)

[zeroseven0183]

Move the wobbly windows and check out the Ubuntu Forums

[infestor]

i am a bit paranoid -thx to good ol' dial-up times- i frequently type
uptime

[evermooingcow]

Setup a Linux home server.

Its how I first got into Linux. Desktop came later for me.

[jomiolto]

Learn to use Vim and become enlightened (just beware of Emacs -- aka "the dark side" ;) ).

Switch to Openbox/Fluxbox/Blackbox for while and catch yourself a week later tuning a tiling window manager.

Read the perl man pages.

Learn to type with dvorak keyboard layout.

And finally: shut down your computer, sit quietly for a while to clear your mind and go for a walk to behold the wonders of Outside (TM).

;)

[gymophett]

This TDFSB thing is cool!

[Old_Grey_Wolf]

We are not allowed to have games on our computers at my job. I'm not telling them about the Easter Egg in OpenOffice.
:lolflag:

[juancarlospaco]

just...

free the fish


or create a VM, and then create a VM inside, and then create a VM inside, and then create a VM inside, and then create a VM inside, and then create a VM inside, and then create a VM inside, and then create a VM inside, and then create a VM inside, and then create a VM inside, and then create a VM inside, and then create a VM inside, and then create a VM inside, and then create a VM inside, and then create a VM inside, and then create a VM inside, and then create a VM inside, and then create a VM inside, and then try to connect this VM to the first VM using VNC or SSH.

or traducir al Español alguna aplicacion en Launchpad.

or make some new cleaners for Bleachbit.

[mp3_freak_721]

Listen to music and play around with the Compiz Cube on my integrated Nvidia Geforce 6150LE graphics. :cry:

I know. My life is sad.

[Jeruvy]

Use MPD and ICECast to make yourself an in-home "radio station".
Make a torrent slave, so all you have to do is dump a torrent file into a drop-box folder and the slave handles the rest.
Use Linux, an Arduino, and servo motors to make an automatic baby-slapper.

Is there a tool to get the slapping to match the beat mix (pun intended)?

[mamamia88]

do a 180 on your current gui

[running_rabbit07]

Or, just open the geek forums and stare blankly at the screen while contemplating what some of these people may or may not be smoking...

And, I have found myself signing into MS forums and trying to talk to people with serious PC problems about switching to Ubuntu or any other Linux. They deleted 2 of my accounts because of that.

[Cl0ud9]

Learn to use Vim and become enlightened (just beware of Emacs -- aka "the dark side" ;) ).


You will learn Emacs. It is your destiny. Resistance is Futile.

[Dr Small]

do a 180 on your current gui
That's easy. Printscreen, gimp %f, Color > Invert.

[ubudog]

Play "20,000 Light Years into Space". Awesome game, I think.

[Sealbhach]

And, I have found myself signing into MS forums and trying to talk to people with serious PC problems about switching to Ubuntu or any other Linux. They deleted 2 of my accounts because of that.

LOL! Nice try.:p

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[JillSwift]

Is there a tool to get the slapping to match the beat mix (pun intended)?
If you can shake a baby on an iPhone, you can slap one to a hip beat on Linux.

[DeadRobot]

Learn programming. Its fun!

[Twitch6000]

I just play one of my games.

Or i go and look for a new theme lol.

[rolleander]

Go to microsoft's support page and search for linux - you know the last time I did, the first item to pop up was how to uninstall linux and install windows - should be re-titled Computer Syphilis - a how to guide.

[ubudog]

Go to microsoft's support page and search for linux - you know the last time I did, the first item to pop up was how to uninstall linux and install windows - should be re-titled Computer Syphilis - a how to guide.

I just went there and searched "Remove windows and install linux" and it still gave me instructions on how to wipe out linux and install windows.

[Viva]

Supertux!!

[lukeiamyourfather]

Download and configure Conky, explore other operating systems with VirtualBox, learn Python or shell scripting, figure out all of FFMPEG. Cheers!

[sdlynx]

sudo apt-get install xjump

you won't be able to stop playing

[ubudog]

Mess around with gobuntu or something in virtualbox.

[Sarai the Geek]

I just went there and searched "Remove windows and install linux" and it still gave me instructions on how to wipe out linux and install windows.

The next step to this is to go onto IRC and organize a posse, then invade one of the variety of Windows support channels. I'm still blocked from ##windows on SpotChat and for a while was serverbanned from Freenode... oopsie. :lolflag:

[ubudog]

Maybe I'll try that.

[ubudog]

I got a couple of friends who would help maybe.

[0pul3nce]

Sometimes it more fun to just slap a baby. erm...not that i've ever done that.

I found something kewl.

gokgs.com

Get the client, and explore the free gaming world for yourself

[running_rabbit07]

sudo apt-get install xjumpyou won't be able to stop playing


It is amazing how such a simple game is so addictive.

That was the first time installing something via terminal didn't give me problems. From there I went on to install RealPlayer jus to find it doesn't play the flv files it made on Windows.

[benj1]

when we talk about "slapping a baby"
are we talking about child abuse or spanking a monkey, just to be clear, because if its the latter then i think you've answered your own question ;)

[days_of_ruin]

You know when you're so bored, you just wanna slap a baby?
This is where to post your ideas.
Whether it's a certain game, VirtualBox... ANYTHING!
Maybe something you can ONLY do in Linux.. Something awesome. Something... Anything. That just sounded annoying, but you get the picture.

Slap a baby then.

[Sarai the Geek]

I got a couple of friends who would help maybe.

You can all join my posse over on Spot Chat, then. :)

[ubudog]

Maybe.

[sdlynx]

It is amazing how such a simple game is so addictive.

That was the first time installing something via terminal didn't give me problems. From there I went on to install RealPlayer jus to find it doesn't play the flv files it made on Windows.

haha thats redundant

[EdThaSlayer]

Set up Emacs, and learn emacs, and code in emacs. :guitar:
Clamscan your whole pc, not with one clamscan daemon running, but hundreds, just to see what your machine can take. ;)

[toupeiro]

I like to visit http://themes.freshmeat.net and dig around for really cool LAMP/AJAX web apps for various needs. There is some great software out there.

[Gamfrek]

I find a pic of Bill Gates then I use draw fire on screen option to light him up!!! :P

[ArtF10]

Meh, baby slapping is a lot more fun.

[starcannon]

I like to play with different distro's using Virtual Box, I even virtualized the OS that never was, MS Neptune, and doinked with that for a bit. I also like trying out different FOSS video games, Emerald/Compiz/Cairo/Avant Window Navigator. Compiling a kernel once in awhile is good for fun, for added thrills leave stuff out and see if one can get it to work anyway lol. Anyway, breaking my install and then figuring out how to fix it has brought me a lot of free entertainment, and taught me loads about my OS; though I still am just an egg.

[Copernicus1234]

Urban Terror and kill everybody until I get kicked for being good.

[starcannon]

Urban Terror and kill everybody until I get kicked for being good.
Hahaha
I haven't played yet, am downloading it now.

[vinutux]

I am here for killing time

Yeh search around ubuntu forums and just fixing some Questz is biggest time pass xercise of mine.........

:guitar::guitar::guitar: