Linux

Surprised to hear this. What distro?

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. I know what I'm doing so it's no problem for me to fix it, just amazed. After a quick google, it seems still VERY common. I've not seen a windows problem since XP.

Interesting. Reboot and suddenly it can find the EDID and works fine.

Fuck knows. It's working, don't care any more :)

Running Elementary OS as a test. Sure it's a little apple rip off, but it's pretty slick (and I hate Unity)

I really like elementary. If I was not so wedded to tiling window managers it would be my next choice.

I've been tweaking it all day and very impressed with it. Although unlocking is interesting, for some reason I don't get a password prompt / anything. Blind type my password into a black screen and it unlocks. Must fix that.

Interesting. Reboot and suddenly it can find the EDID and works fine.

Fuck knows. It's working, don't care any more :)

And people laugh when geeks "Have you tried turning it off and on again" them..

How depressing. It's been 10 years I've been using linux and STILL there's massive problems detecting EDID of monitors. Stuck with 800x600 on my 23" Samsung. Guess I'll have to manually write my Xorg.conf but really, 10 years and still this shit ?

Interesting. Reboot and suddenly it can find the EDID and works fine.

10 years and you have only just rebooted?

Go Linux

10 years of stuff not working. Go Linux! :)

sup, just joined here

me i gave up apple-mac when the quake iii v132 came out osx-only, after id paid for q1/q2/q3

my mate gave me a previously flung toshiba with a crazed-screen [i think she hit the wall by the window on the 18th floor, it was open but she missed]
plugged it up to my ex-reuters 640x480 [that id fabricated the 2-row 15-pin to 3-row 15-pin adaptor for to my first-love Mac IIci
think my final mac was 9600, serverclass hw
kept putting debian on the toshiba .. from isos i'd dl-ed or eventually libranet [lovely installer] and failed to d-u to sid a l*ot**
*joined/formed a team that makes a sid-based desktop distro
now called aptosid
all DFSG at the point-of-delivery
i'm the mirror-man [mostly]

10 years of stuff not working. Go Linux! :)

Your phone isn't working then?

So... EDID story... after further investigation. umm. I might not have fully plugged the HDMI lead in.

For the record, I'm really nice when I open a support ticket, as I know there's a 50/50 chance I've done something stupid (even though I am technical)

Boom. That made me chuckle. I would have repped you, but ... you're a fuck wit.

yup. I concur. That was epic failure on my part

Any suggestions as to a disk scrubbing program. I'm about to give away an old PC and want to wipe the HDD first and I guess the easiest way is to boot into the Live USB Ubuntu I have. Cheers

$ man shred

dd

dd, then shred.

dd small random files to fill the entire disk, then shred will rewrite each file a few times wit more random crap.

I've a oneliner somewhere that does this. I'll have a rootle.

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb bs=1M
Substitute sdb with the drive you want to wipe.

or use /dev/random

/dev/random will take more time for no good reason in this case.

Fair enough.

http://www.dban.org/ is what I always used to use

dd with /dev/zero is fast and works fine. Just run it over at least three times, more, depending on how paranoid you are/important the data is.

Cheers, didn't realise dd could be used for that. Any idea how long it would take for a 1TB drive, I seem to remember it doesn't show progress.