RobinJ

248 reputation

bio	website	robinj.be
	location	Belgium
	age	18
visits	member for	1 year, 11 months
	seen	Apr 2 at 14:51
stats	profile views	12

My name is Robin, I live in belgium, and am 17 years old. I started programming at... I think it was the age of 12. I started with Visual Basic 6, later moved to VB.NET, then to C#, and I'm now trying to learn Python and PHP. I have also made a websites for a few people. I grew up with Windows 98, then moved to Windows XP with the greatest regrets, as I've always thought it was a piece of garbage. Tried Windows 7 for a few months until I got totally sick of Wind(bl)ows. Then I learned that there were more operating systems out there than only Windows. However, Mac was way to expencive, and not really worth the money, in my opinion. I knew there was something like Linux, but I didn't actually know what it was. I started googling around a bit, fiddling with a few distro's, and am now a very happy Linux Mint user.
Update: Which has recently fallen in love with Ubuntu's Unity interface and has been a happy Ubuntu user ever since :p Update: And I got sick of Ubuntu 11.10's extreme slowness and bugginess, switched to Elementary OS, distro-hopped a bit, used Arch Linux for a few weeks, and ended up with the development branch of Ubuntu 12.04.

	248 reputation	bio	website	robinj.be	visits	member for	1 year, 11 months
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Dec 31	accepted	System often freezes without warning
Dec 31	answered	System often freezes without warning
Dec 31	awarded	Citizen Patrol
Dec 17	comment	System often freezes without warning Hmm.. Ok. But this also occurs with Ubuntu 11.10, I've just tried from the LiveCD... There's only one distro I haven't experienced any freezes with in fact, and that was Bodhi Linux. But Bodhi had its own problems :\
Dec 17	comment	System often freezes without warning Why the *** was this migrated? It's about Ubuntu isn't it??
Dec 17	comment	System often freezes without warning ... Now I'm really getting sick of this... I had 4 freezes in a row yesterday evening. I ended up holding the power button to shut it down and going to bed, as I couldn't get my work done anyway.
Dec 16	comment	System often freezes without warning `xorg.conf` didn't exist. But I still had a backup of the file, with the `driver "nvidia"` part in it. I renamed it to `xorg.conf`, rebooted... and was stuck with a frozen system at the boot screen.
Dec 16	comment	System often freezes without warning I unmounted all swap partition (sudo swapoff -a), and it froze after a while all the same. The strange thing is that it seems to occur with certain applications... I've noticed that when I'm using LibreOffice Writer, a freeze is almost guaranteed within 5 minutes. When using GIMP, it takes a bit longer (about 15 minutes, I think) but it will freeze.
Dec 16	comment	System often freezes without warning Message is too long... Great >.< pastebin.com/vfi1Be2n Those swap errors start appearing more frequent it seems :\
Dec 16	comment	System often freezes without warning Or swap partition? But what can be wrong with that? Doesn't it get cleared every time you shutdown?
Dec 16	comment	System often freezes without warning My system froze for a few seconds just now (but unfroze again after that). `dmesg` show some more messages about Nouveau: pastebin.com/b5c1S6MS
Dec 16	comment	System often freezes without warning No, I haven't done any manual editing in `xorg.conf`.
Dec 15	comment	System often freezes without warning It just froze again, but I was prepared. I SSH'ed into the machien without any problems. `killall compiz` didn't seem to have any effects. `killall deadbeef` stopped my music. `sudo reboot` gave me a glimpse of my wallpaper, a terminal, and the plymouth screen before it rebooted. I thought `killall compiz` would do the trick :\ Anyway, the volume control buttons on my laptop's keyboard didn't to anything. Neither did CTRL+ALT+F1 and some other key combinations.
Dec 15	comment	System often freezes without warning It froze again just now. The strange thing is that my music kept playing as if nothing had happened.
Dec 14	comment	System often freezes without warning Yes, I use Compiz to get my work done more easily (for instance by having a webpage with info I need on the background and having a transparent word processor window over it). Is there no way to make Compiz behave? ANd is it referring to Compiz in general or to a specific plugin for Compiz?
Dec 14	comment	System often freezes without warning No, the system froze before I rebooted of course.
Dec 14	comment	System often freezes without warning It froze again just now -.- pastebin.com/XZtPpwpJ
Dec 11	comment	System often freezes without warning Nopes, none of those. The bounty is running to an end, so I'm going to award it to you, even though the problem isn't fixed yet. You're answer was very informative, and I think in a normal case (somehow mine doesn't seem to be normal) it would have worked. So you deserve it :)