[ubuntu-uk] Compiz-Fusion
Have installed Compiz through the correct channel but it has not offered me an initial cube even though all the correct box's in ccsm are ticked Can get the screen to pivot centrally, screen to wobble etc, but no **??!! cube Have been on to web site and got the green OK's that machine is OK and capable It must be a simple answer but I'm dammed if I can see it Any constructive ideas please? John Taylor -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Compiz-Fusion
2008/6/19 John Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Have installed Compiz through the correct channel but it has not offered me an initial cube even though all the correct box's in ccsm are ticked Can get the screen to pivot centrally, screen to wobble etc, but no **??!! cube Have been on to web site and got the green OK's that machine is OK and capable It must be a simple answer but I'm dammed if I can see it Any constructive ideas please? John Taylor -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/ CTRL + ALT + Click and move your mouse - if memory serves. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Compiz-Fusion
John Taylor wrote: Have installed Compiz through the correct channel but it has not offered me an initial cube even though all the correct box's in ccsm are ticked Can get the screen to pivot centrally, screen to wobble etc, but no **??!! cube Have been on to web site and got the green OK's that machine is OK and capable It must be a simple answer but I'm dammed if I can see it Any constructive ideas please? John Taylor In General Settings do you have number of desktops set to 2...I have Horizontal size 4, vert size 1 and number of desktops 2 -- Regards Ted Wager High Peak UK Using Sidux Linux -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Compiz-Fusion
Philip Wyett wrote: 2008/6/19 John Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: Have installed Compiz through the correct channel but it has not offered me an initial cube even though all the correct box's in ccsm are ticked Can get the screen to pivot centrally, screen to wobble etc, but no **??!! cube Have been on to web site and got the green OK's that machine is OK and capable It must be a simple answer but I'm dammed if I can see it Any constructive ideas please? John Taylor -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com mailto:ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/ CTRL + ALT + Click and move your mouse - if memory serves. Sorry but that doesn't work for me, thanks all the same John -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Compiz-Fusion
Ted wrote: John Taylor wrote: Can get the screen to pivot centrally, screen to wobble etc, but no **??!! cube In General Settings do you have number of desktops set to 2...I have Horizontal size 4, vert size 1 and number of desktops 2 Correct answer. The geometry of the pivoting (rotating) desktop virtualiser in Compiz is related directly to the number of horizontal sides. In Ubuntu this defaults to 2, which gives you a geometric plane with a front and back. A cube has 4 workspaces (horizontal sides) plus a top cap and bottom cap. An easy way of setting this whilst Compiz is running, is to right-click the Workspace Switcher on your Gnome panel, select Preferences and change the number of Columns (to 4, for a cube; total 6 sides when you include the top cap and bottom cap). There are other possibilities, such as an extruded triangle (3 workspaces), extruded pentangle (5 workspaces), extruded hexagon (6 workspaces) and so forth. I got up to at least 12 workspaces (extruded dodecagon) before I got bored, and both the Intel i965 and Nvidia GeForce2 graphics cards coped fine with that. If there is an upper limit, it must be a pretty silly one. For ease of use, I typically set my number of virtual desktops to the same as the number of workspaces of my cube. In that way, if I ever switch Compiz Fusion off (or it crashes - which rarely happens these days), I still have the same number of desktops. I am entirely uncertain what effect the Rows preference has in the Compiz Workspace Switcher. I can't see that it does anything at all, or at least not with the Compiz Cube. -- Andrew Oakley -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] Top 500 Supercomputers
Check this out, its quite interesting: www.top500.org Of the top 500: 452 run on *nix based OS's, And a whopping 5 run the other one! I just like reading the about the power these things have, and wish i could get that on my desktop PC! And you have to laugh... the most powerful computer in the world is an American nuke machine! What a surprise! -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Compiz-Fusion
Andrew Oakley wrote: Ted wrote: John Taylor wrote: Can get the screen to pivot centrally, screen to wobble etc, but no **??!! cube In General Settings do you have number of desktops set to 2...I have Horizontal size 4, vert size 1 and number of desktops 2 Correct answer. The geometry of the pivoting (rotating) desktop virtualiser in Compiz is related directly to the number of horizontal sides. In Ubuntu this defaults to 2, which gives you a geometric plane with a front and back. A cube has 4 workspaces (horizontal sides) plus a top cap and bottom cap. An easy way of setting this whilst Compiz is running, is to right-click the Workspace Switcher on your Gnome panel, select Preferences and change the number of Columns (to 4, for a cube; total 6 sides when you include the top cap and bottom cap). There are other possibilities, such as an extruded triangle (3 workspaces), extruded pentangle (5 workspaces), extruded hexagon (6 workspaces) and so forth. I got up to at least 12 workspaces (extruded dodecagon) before I got bored, and both the Intel i965 and Nvidia GeForce2 graphics cards coped fine with that. If there is an upper limit, it must be a pretty silly one. For ease of use, I typically set my number of virtual desktops to the same as the number of workspaces of my cube. In that way, if I ever switch Compiz Fusion off (or it crashes - which rarely happens these days), I still have the same number of desktops. I am entirely uncertain what effect the Rows preference has in the Compiz Workspace Switcher. I can't see that it does anything at all, or at least not with the Compiz Cube. Thanks Chaps, simple when you know how, will play for hours! Regards John -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Top 500 Supercomputers
Michael, Michael Holloway wrote: Check this out, its quite interesting: www.top500.org Of the top 500: 452 run on *nix based OS's, And a whopping 5 run the other one! Yeah! When you have hundreds of processors all talking to each other over some high bandwidth interconnect, *nix is the only way to do it! I just like reading the about the power these things have, and wish i could get that on my desktop PC! You should see the figures for the power consumed and the heat generated by these beasts. You would not want it on a desktop! Besides there are very few computational problems that can take advantage of such powerful machines. And you have to laugh... the most powerful computer in the world is an American nuke machine! What a surprise! I believe they model nuclear explosions! It's better than testing the real thing. Regards, Tony. -- Tony Arnold, IT Security Coordinator, University of Manchester, IT Services Division, Kilburn Building, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL. T: +44 (0)161 275 6093, F: +44 (0)870 136 1004, M: +44 (0)773 330 0039 E: [EMAIL PROTECTED], H: http://www.man.ac.uk/Tony.Arnold -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Top 500 Supercomputers
yes but does it blend...(The computer that is,not the nuke) On 19/06/2008, Tony Arnold [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michael, Michael Holloway wrote: Check this out, its quite interesting: www.top500.org Of the top 500: 452 run on *nix based OS's, And a whopping 5 run the other one! Yeah! When you have hundreds of processors all talking to each other over some high bandwidth interconnect, *nix is the only way to do it! I just like reading the about the power these things have, and wish i could get that on my desktop PC! You should see the figures for the power consumed and the heat generated by these beasts. You would not want it on a desktop! Besides there are very few computational problems that can take advantage of such powerful machines. And you have to laugh... the most powerful computer in the world is an American nuke machine! What a surprise! I believe they model nuclear explosions! It's better than testing the real thing. Regards, Tony. -- Tony Arnold, IT Security Coordinator, University of Manchester, IT Services Division, Kilburn Building, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL. T: +44 (0)161 275 6093, F: +44 (0)870 136 1004, M: +44 (0)773 330 0039 E: [EMAIL PROTECTED], H: http://www.man.ac.uk/Tony.Arnold -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Compiz-Fusion
John Taylor wrote: Andrew Oakley wrote: Ted wrote: John Taylor wrote: Can get the screen to pivot centrally, screen to wobble etc, but no **??!! cube In General Settings do you have number of desktops set to 2...I have Horizontal size 4, vert size 1 and number of desktops 2 Correct answer. The geometry of the pivoting (rotating) desktop virtualiser in Compiz is related directly to the number of horizontal sides. In Ubuntu this defaults to 2, which gives you a geometric plane with a front and back. A cube has 4 workspaces (horizontal sides) plus a top cap and bottom cap. An easy way of setting this whilst Compiz is running, is to right-click the Workspace Switcher on your Gnome panel, select Preferences and change the number of Columns (to 4, for a cube; total 6 sides when you include the top cap and bottom cap). There are other possibilities, such as an extruded triangle (3 workspaces), extruded pentangle (5 workspaces), extruded hexagon (6 workspaces) and so forth. I got up to at least 12 workspaces (extruded dodecagon) before I got bored, and both the Intel i965 and Nvidia GeForce2 graphics cards coped fine with that. If there is an upper limit, it must be a pretty silly one. For ease of use, I typically set my number of virtual desktops to the same as the number of workspaces of my cube. In that way, if I ever switch Compiz Fusion off (or it crashes - which rarely happens these days), I still have the same number of desktops. I am entirely uncertain what effect the Rows preference has in the Compiz Workspace Switcher. I can't see that it does anything at all, or at least not with the Compiz Cube. Thanks Chaps, simple when you know how, will play for hours! Regards John John.. The sphere looks good... -- Regards Ted Wager High Peak UK Using Sidux Linux -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Top 500 Supercomputers
Michael Holloway wrote: Check this out, its quite interesting: www.top500.org Of the top 500: 452 run on *nix based OS's, And a whopping 5 run the other one! Gloucestershire Linux User Group - which meets just outside Cheltenham - is very well attended and frequently discusses the subject of parallel computing and supercomputing. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheltenham#Major_employers Ahem. -- Andrew Oakley -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Top 500 Supercomputers
On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 12:29 PM, Michael Holloway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And you have to laugh... the most powerful computer in the world is an American nuke machine! What a surprise! I believe its name is WOPR and it plays a mean game of Tic Tac Toe :P --- Philip -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Compiz-Fusion
Andrew Oakley wrote: Ted wrote: John Taylor wrote: Can get the screen to pivot centrally, screen to wobble etc, but no **??!! cube In General Settings do you have number of desktops set to 2...I have Horizontal size 4, vert size 1 and number of desktops 2 Correct answer. snip Sorry to jump in here, is Compiz Fusion included in Hardy by default, or is it different? Rob -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Compiz-Fusion
Rob Beard wrote: Sorry to jump in here, is Compiz Fusion included in Hardy by default, or is it different? Yep, included. Mac -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Compiz-Fusion
Mac wrote: Rob Beard wrote: Sorry to jump in here, is Compiz Fusion included in Hardy by default, or is it different? Yep, included. Mac Ahh right, I did wonder if it was Compiz Fusion that did all the fancy effects. Best I managed was wobbly windows. I'll have to have another play as when I had it on Feisty it always made a great impression when converting eye-candy loving Windows users. Rob -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] O'Reilly maker
Hi folks, I thought this was quite amusing. I found a link to site where you can make your own O'Reilly book covers on the Schoolforge-UK discussion list. This one is quite topical considering what's been happening with Becta recently... http://www.oreillymaker.com/link/17730/quango-tango/ Rob -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Running Cutting Edge Windows PC Games on Linux Machines
On Tue, 2008-06-17 at 18:13 +0100, Kris Douglas wrote: An internal network should have no problem, even at 100mbit, but people were taking about this working on the web? No way. -- Kris Douglas Softdel Limited Hosting Services Web: www.softdel.net Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Company No. 6135915 Registered in England It would be pretty neat if this ran on a virtual Windows and virtual network. You'd only need a single box then Chris Coulson signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Running Cutting Edge Windows PC Games on Linux Machines
On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 11:54 PM, Chris Coulson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2008-06-17 at 18:13 +0100, Kris Douglas wrote: An internal network should have no problem, even at 100mbit, but people were taking about this working on the web? No way. -- Kris Douglas Softdel Limited Hosting Services Web: www.softdel.net Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Company No. 6135915 Registered in England It would be pretty neat if this ran on a virtual Windows and virtual network. You'd only need a single box then Crysis on VMware... ouch. Still.. I'm trying this out now... Sounds interesting.. may be a solution for cycling skills on EVE. -- Kris Douglas Softdel Limited Hosting Services Web: www.softdel.net Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Company No. 6135915 Registered in England -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Running Cutting Edge Windows PC Games on Linux Machines
On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 12:11 AM, Kris Douglas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 11:54 PM, Chris Coulson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2008-06-17 at 18:13 +0100, Kris Douglas wrote: An internal network should have no problem, even at 100mbit, but people were taking about this working on the web? No way. -- Kris Douglas Softdel Limited Hosting Services Web: www.softdel.net Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Company No. 6135915 Registered in England It would be pretty neat if this ran on a virtual Windows and virtual network. You'd only need a single box then Crysis on VMware... ouch. Still.. I'm trying this out now... Sounds interesting.. may be a solution for cycling skills on EVE. -- Kris Douglas Softdel Limited Hosting Services Web: www.softdel.net Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Company No. 6135915 Registered in England In review: The system is completely unusable for any game, I was running EVE Online, an MMORPG, which runs at hundreds of FPS on my main machine, I reduced the resolution to 1024x768, began the broadcaster and connected over the home network, the average data rate of the broadcaster app being 2mbit/s. Indeed, the game was visible, but it was also completely uncontrollable. The LAN was keeping up fine, even at 320x240 (PDA Resolution!) the system was incredibly slow and unresponsive. The system is a clever idea, but it doesn't work for the intended task. It's basically just a DirectX capable VNC system. -- Kris Douglas Softdel Limited Hosting Services Web: www.softdel.net Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Company No. 6135915 Registered in England -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
