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04-07-2018, 06:14 PM

Thread: Struggling to use linux in college
Post: RE: Struggling to use linux in college

(29-01-2018, 11:50 AM)fraun Wrote: Do you think this is subject / country(?) dependant? Very much so. At my university most comp sci/physics/hard stem students will use linux (mostly *buntu) Thoug...

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30-01-2018, 09:46 AM

Thread: Struggling to use linux in college
Post: RE: Struggling to use linux in college

(28-01-2018, 12:50 PM)spoonm Wrote: but always get this kind of "you must submit to my standards" response rather than decency I've had a similar experience, lot of teachers just are ignorant to alt...

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28-01-2018, 01:17 PM

Thread: ご機嫌よう
Post: RE: ご機嫌よう

I like your rice a lot. Welcome to nixers!

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28-01-2018, 01:15 PM

Thread: Bookwyrm — development thread
Post: RE: Bookwyrm — development thread

This is really neat! I hadn't seen this thread before but I'm glad I did. I'm sure it'll be helpful for uni.

Programming On Unix

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12-01-2018, 10:36 AM

Thread: Struggling to use linux in college
Post: RE: Struggling to use linux in college

New question. Most (all) of you have more experience than me with LaTeX, would you personally recommend I try it out, keeping in mind that I want a sane solution to the problem of writing various essa...

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11-01-2018, 11:17 PM

Thread: Struggling to use linux in college
Post: RE: Struggling to use linux in college

(11-01-2018, 05:43 AM)resk Wrote: what was wrong with the libreoffice calc stuffs?Check out: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Feat...oft_Office, for the complete comparison. What it boils down to...

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11-01-2018, 02:59 PM

Thread: Hello Everybody
Post: RE: Hello Everybody

Welcome aboard nixers!

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10-01-2018, 11:10 PM

Thread: Greetings
Post: RE: Greetings

Welcome to nixers! Now all you have to do is put Debian on your MacBook Pro like I did ;)

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09-01-2018, 09:13 AM

Thread: UNIX Diary
Post: RE: UNIX Diary

Dear UNIX diary, I am in the process of beating my macbook pro into a usable linux laptop. I say beating because the hardware seems to have a mind of it's own. Last week I was battling the high pixel...

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04-01-2018, 08:40 PM

Thread: Hello, nixers.
Post: RE: Hello, nixers.

Welcome aboard! Always good to have new faces.

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28-12-2017, 12:05 AM

Thread: Struggling to use linux in college
Post: RE: Struggling to use linux in college

Update #1 This site has lots of software recommendations tailored to economics majors. http://maxbruche.net/useful_software/index.html SC-IM looks like a really neat excel substitute. Written in c....

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25-12-2017, 12:41 PM

Thread: Struggling to use linux in college
Post: Struggling to use linux in college

Hey everyone, I thought I would share what I have been working on recently. Sadly this past semester I was forced to scrap my lean debian system and use OS X + a windows 7 vm to get my school work...

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24-12-2017, 06:50 PM

Thread: Tiling Wallpapers.
Post: RE: Tiling Wallpapers.

(15-12-2017, 04:16 AM)resk Wrote: http://squidfingers.com/patterns The squidfingers site got taken down, use the archive instead. http://web.archive.org/web/2013072312353...ngers.com/

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22-12-2017, 06:50 PM

Thread: Hi! Im nkparadox!
Post: RE: Hi! Im nkparadox!

What I did when I installed crux was press h on all the things and read though and make a judgement. It took forever and was far from precise but it turned out pretty nice. I'm sure the others have mo...

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11-01-2016, 12:31 AM

Thread: Hi! Im nkparadox!
Post: RE: Hi! Im nkparadox!

(01-01-2016, 12:26 PM)pranomostro Wrote: >shame interests we here all are ashamed of the time we spend on computers

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01-01-2016, 04:58 PM

Thread: RIP Ian Murdock
Post: RE: RIP Ian Murdock

I heard some conspiracy theories about his death, his last tweets, is that ridiculous or is something up

Off topic

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31-12-2015, 11:58 AM

Thread: Musl Distros
Post: RE: Musl Distros

(30-12-2015, 09:13 PM)z3bra Wrote: For what its worth, I finally have a working package manager! It's dead simple, not finished and certainly has bugs, but it can install, list and remove packages! ...

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30-12-2015, 09:52 PM

Thread: Hi! Im nkparadox!
Post: RE: Hi! Im nkparadox!

Cookie incoming? Welcome to nixers

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30-12-2015, 12:23 PM

Thread: Musl Distros
Post: RE: Musl Distros

Packlad is another package manager that the guy made, but that ones written in all c And spuk was interesting ;)

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29-12-2015, 03:03 PM

Thread: Musl Distros
Post: RE: Musl Distros

Init (Runit or OpenRC) :: runit Minimal Core Utils (Busybox or Toybox) :: toybox ?Package Manager? :: packlim

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29-12-2015, 10:55 AM

Thread: Hi! I'm xikuuky.
Post: RE: Hi! I'm xikuuky.

You've gotta enable messaging!

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29-12-2015, 10:46 AM

Thread: oh, hello
Post: RE: oh, hello

Hey there! Nice to meet you, and welcome to nixers

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27-12-2015, 01:38 PM

Thread: Musl Distros
Post: RE: Musl Distros

(27-12-2015, 06:02 AM)xikuuky Wrote: make a distro Keep us updated also please see the thread: https://nixers.net/showthread.php?tid=1741 There are others doing similar things to you, I know z3bra p...

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27-12-2015, 12:55 PM

Thread: Merry Christmas!
Post: RE: Merry Christmas!

Something I do want to mention is that last christmas I went to futureme.org and wrote an email to myself. I totally forgot about it until today when it arrived. It was a really neat experience.

Off topic

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25-12-2015, 01:29 PM

Thread: Merry Christmas!
Post: Merry Christmas!

Hope you're all having a great Christmas or holiday season! Going on vacation? Post about it. Interesting Christmas stories or family traditions? Post about it. Etc.

Off topic

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25-12-2015, 08:34 AM

Thread: Minimal photo editing on linux
Post: RE: Minimal photo editing on linux

(24-12-2015, 02:58 PM)artur0shaik Wrote: darktable. Used it before and have mixed feelings about it, would like to avoid it if possible

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24-12-2015, 03:08 PM

Thread: Minimal photo editing on linux
Post: Minimal photo editing on linux

Might have to move this to the linux section but I feel it fits here as well. Realizing that I am a complete failure at methods of art requiring paint brushes, pens and pencils. I have decided to ret...

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24-12-2015, 02:46 PM

Thread: Am I the Only One?
Post: RE: Am I the Only one?

(24-12-2015, 02:20 PM)xikuuky Wrote: I like FrankenWM. We are going to be good friends

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24-12-2015, 02:41 PM

Thread: Hi! I'm xikuuky.
Post: RE: Hi! I'm xikuuky.

If Only I had been like you at 14, Instead I was playing a lot of videogames, too many.

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24-12-2015, 12:37 PM

Thread: CRUX or Gentoo?
Post: RE: CRUX or Gentoo?

(16-07-2015, 06:56 AM)z3bra Wrote: You could also give alpine a go! It's simple, solid and extermely light (musl + busybox). Alpine is really cool, That and rlsd are things that I Really wanna play ...

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24-12-2015, 12:37 PM

Thread: Hai ladies
Post: RE: Hai ladies

Welcome to this nixy place!

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20-12-2015, 05:09 PM

Thread: Unix screen-shots thread!
Post: RE: Unix screen-shots thread!

snow is falling and I setup a blurred lockscreen clear: http://i.imgur.com/mNnEmPM.png Blurred: http://i.imgur.com/rFyWhOh.png Next thing to do is have a script check the weather and if its snowing ...

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20-12-2015, 03:10 PM

Thread: Unix screen-shots thread!
Post: RE: Unix screen-shots thread!

Reminder for everyone to get in the christmas spirit and throw some xsnow on that screen

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20-12-2015, 01:26 PM

Thread: Our keyboards and how they influence our thought process
Post: RE: Our keyboards and how they influence our thoug...

For neither can live, while the other survives.

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18-12-2015, 12:29 AM

Thread: Everything is a file
Post: RE: Everything is a file

(17-12-2015, 10:26 AM)ninjacharlie Wrote: Then you could do standard image editing stuff with whatever software you wanted *on each frame*. Didn't work out quite how everything would work, but I tho...

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18-12-2015, 12:03 AM

Thread: Unix screen-shots thread!
Post: RE: Unix screen-shots thread!

(17-12-2015, 10:17 PM)Dylan Wrote: Really like this, any chance of me stealing the colourscheme? Oh of course! urxvt.background: #222222 urxvt.foreground: #D2C5BC urxvt.cursorColor: #d...

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17-12-2015, 11:45 PM

Thread: Unix screen-shots thread!
Post: RE: Unix screen-shots thread!

http://i.imgur.com/VqIbkt4.png Simple and ugly. What I'm best at. Posted this on reddit like yesterday but I felt it should also go here. (15-12-2015, 08:54 AM)Houseoftea Wrote: :DLove it!

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15-12-2015, 08:54 AM

Thread: The Guess What I'm Talking About Game
Post: RE: The Guess What I'm Talking About Game

This z3bra one is so tough

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17-11-2015, 09:45 AM

Thread: The Guess What I'm Talking About Game
Post: RE: The Guess What I'm Talking About Game

systemd

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16-11-2015, 03:51 PM

Thread: The Guess What I'm Talking About Game
Post: RE: The Guess What I'm Talking About Game

Apache Am I close? I'm from outer space Made by some famous people 8 < ? < 10 I suckless

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16-11-2015, 11:02 AM

Thread: The Guess What I'm Talking About Game
Post: RE: The Guess What I'm Talking About Game

I'm free as in freedom 1 x 10^-9 Vim has 3 letters Emacs has 5 letters I have 4 What am I

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16-11-2015, 10:16 AM

Thread: The Guess What I'm Talking About Game
Post: RE: The Guess What I'm Talking About Game

Oooo this looks like fun, I'll need to think today about what this is, I feel as though it's on the tip of my toungue! Great thread venam

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16-11-2015, 09:40 AM

Thread: Am I the Only One?
Post: RE: Am I the Only one?

It's like a cli word processor that can export to different formats like rtf and PDF or LaTeX. The person who made it used it to write their book. It's pretty wonky sometimes

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12-11-2015, 11:01 AM

Thread: hi
Post: RE: hi

Anything besides utf-8 is harmful