Lucid Lynx working too well

[Captain Carrot]

I've applied all the speed tweaks, embedded the terminal in my second monitor, setup virtualbox with XP, installed my favorite audio player with WINE, overcome several driver issues and changed my wallpaper. What should I do next? Nothing is broken and I'm not sure what else I should tweak. I'm losing my geek buzz. HALP!

[ubunterooster]

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Break something.....quick!

[Tahakki]

Just delete your 'boot' folder. ^^

[ubunterooster]

or remove filesystem ;)

[Captain Carrot]

I've been opening gparted, clicking the interface with my eyes closed and formatting the highlighted partition, but so far no luck.

[ubunterooster]

Uh, Gparted can't format the disk in use. Are we being serious here? Maybe you should try to try multiple distros in VirtualBox simultaneously. Iv'e gotten 4 OSs running at once before things started going loopy.

[Captain Carrot]

Well, I have it on a live disk. Either way, I'm not sure I have the desire to break something intentionally. If I couldn't fix it, I'd feel pretty silly.

[CharlesA]

I've been able to get 5 running at once on a dual core. Unfortunately it makes them all run very very slow.

[walkerchuckwalker]

Seriously: I have the same problem, I want to tweak something!

Sarcasm:

Try installing some viruses? Play with GRUB? Delete drivers? Install Wubi inside of Ubuntu?


Gparted, good joke. The one guy took you seriously! Thats funny.

[QIII]

Leave it on, walk away and tell the foster kids to go in the computer room ...

[Captain Carrot]

Question about the multiple distro thing: Can I have virtualbox run within Ubuntu using a different partition for the virtual hard drive?

[Sealbhach]

I've applied all the speed tweaks, embedded the terminal in my second monitor, setup virtualbox with XP, installed my favorite audio player with WINE, overcome several driver issues and changed my wallpaper. What should I do next? Nothing is broken and I'm not sure what else I should tweak. I'm losing my geek buzz. HALP!

Try editing an MP4 video. That's about the only thing that has given me trouble.

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[ubunterooster]

Leave it on, walk away and tell the foster kids to go in the computer room ...
Which reminds me of... Before walking away from your computer... (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1433942) (http://ubuntuforums.org/images/misc/multipage.gif 1 (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1433942) 2 (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1433942&page=2) 3 (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1433942&page=3) ... Last Page (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1433942&page=6))
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[Norm24]

I'm really liking it too but shouldn't this thread have been posted elsewhere like:
Ubuntu Testimonials & Experiences

[ubunterooster]

Question about the multiple distro thing: Can I have virtualbox run within Ubuntu using a different partition for the virtual hard drive?
This I do not know but I assume it is possible

[CharlesA]

From my understanding, you would need to create drives, and I've always had them stored in my home directory in .VirtualBox.

[daimaru]

I've applied all the speed tweaks, embedded the terminal in my second monitor, setup virtualbox with XP, installed my favorite audio player with WINE, overcome several driver issues and changed my wallpaper. What should I do next? Nothing is broken and I'm not sure what else I should tweak. I'm losing my geek buzz. HALP!
finally someone who appreciates linux :)

[Captain Carrot]

I'm really liking it too but shouldn't this thread have been posted elsewhere like:
Ubuntu Testimonials & Experiences


You're probably right. Does that mean I've graduated from Absolute Beginner? Is there a certificate or anything?

[tom.swartz07]

You're probably right. Does that mean I've graduated from Absolute Beginner? Is there a certificate or anything?

:Tom Swartz Likes This:


Quick guys! Post in here as much as you can before this thread gets moved to Recurring Discussions in the Community Cafe!! :P

[QIII]

Which reminds me of...

Well, yeah. But I thought he wanted something geeky to do. Getting things sorted back out would be fun.

[cariboo]

Not a support question, moved to the Cafe.

[Son of William]

For more geek stuff to do:

- Set up splash screens for your grub2 bootloader
- Tweak your Gnome themes and/or run emerald themes
- Install and modify Gnomenu
- Make your desktop look like Mac OSX (to show you can)
- Then make our desktop look like Windows 7 (to show you can)

Finally:

- Write a script to do as much of the of the above as you can automatically for when you later upgrade to Meerkat (10.10)

[Captain Carrot]

For more geek stuff to do:

- Set up splash screens for your grub2 bootloader
- Tweak your Gnome themes and/or run emerald themes
- Install and modify Gnomenu
- Make your desktop look like Mac OSX (to show you can)
- Then make our desktop look like Windows 7 (to show you can)

Finally:

- Write a script to do as much of the of the above as you can automatically for when you later upgrade to Meerkat (10.10)

Banhammered! I was arguably asking for support.

Thanks for the ideas! I've messed with the gnome themes a bit (I like Dust) but the emerald theme manager keeps crashing. I should fix that... I'm going to work down your list.