Re: [arch-general] top posting

2008-05-15 Thread Sten Larsson
If everybody used Gmail this wouldn't be a problem :-) On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 5:35 AM, Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 10:22:01PM -0500, Aaron Griffin wrote: >> On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 8:06 PM, Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > Ok, to be serious for a minute, judg

Re: [arch-general] Anyway to tranlate installer?

2008-05-15 Thread Aaron Griffin
On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 12:48 AM, gan lu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 1:09 PM, Aaron Griffin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 11:56 PM, gan lu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I hope I can, or I will report a bug for tracking, thanks. > > >

Re: [arch-general] Anyway to tranlate installer?

2008-05-15 Thread gan lu
On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 1:09 PM, Aaron Griffin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 11:56 PM, gan lu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I hope I can, or I will report a bug for tracking, thanks. > > > > Right now the installer isn't really ready for translations. I'm sure > it could be

Re: [arch-general] Anyway to tranlate installer?

2008-05-15 Thread Aaron Griffin
On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 11:56 PM, gan lu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I hope I can, or I will report a bug for tracking, thanks. > Right now the installer isn't really ready for translations. I'm sure it could be switched to gettext macros in the same way makepkg does it, but it's just not done ye

[arch-general] Anyway to tranlate installer?

2008-05-15 Thread gan lu
I hope I can, or I will report a bug for tracking, thanks.

Re: [arch-general] top posting

2008-05-15 Thread Scott
On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 10:22:01PM -0500, Aaron Griffin wrote: > On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 8:06 PM, Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Ok, to be serious for a minute, judging from a few posts, not everyone > > understands, so just to clarify for newcomers, or for anyone who doesn't > > have Engl

Re: [arch-general] top posting

2008-05-15 Thread Aaron Griffin
On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 8:06 PM, Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ok, to be serious for a minute, judging from a few posts, not everyone > understands, so just to clarify for newcomers, or for anyone who doesn't > have English as their first language. (Though many of the latter write > better

Re: [arch-general] top posting

2008-05-15 Thread david
Angel Velásquez wrote: I understand that top posting is to do something like this: > Denis Alessandro wrote that: > bla bla bla bla bla And that's wrong because the e-mail list have the history so you don't have to copy part of the text, because the copy is available, the e-mail list have dif

Re: [arch-general] top posting

2008-05-15 Thread Scott
Ok, to be serious for a minute, judging from a few posts, not everyone understands, so just to clarify for newcomers, or for anyone who doesn't have English as their first language. (Though many of the latter write better than we native speakers, but that's another thread.) :) You old timers who

Re: [arch-general] top posting

2008-05-15 Thread Angel Velásquez
I understand that top posting is to do something like this: > Denis Alessandro wrote that: > bla bla bla bla bla And that's wrong because the e-mail list have the history so you don't have to copy part of the text, because the copy is available, the e-mail list have different net-etiquette rules.

Re: [arch-general] top posting

2008-05-15 Thread Denis Alessandro Altoe Falqueto
On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 6:20 PM, Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. > Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? > A: Top-posting. > Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail? > > > :) > > (I bet a bunch of other

Re: [arch-general] top posting

2008-05-15 Thread Marc Deop i Argemí
On Thursday 15 May 2008 21:21:21 Xavier wrote: > http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/T/top-post.html > Good link to show to many newbies(or not), thanks > What about using a consistent style, at least for one given ML? I'm not sure I really understand what you mean and, if I do, don't know how you

Re: [arch-general] top posting

2008-05-15 Thread Timm Preetz
On Thu, 2008-05-15 at 16:34 -0500, Aaron Griffin wrote: > On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 4:24 PM, R. Dale Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Sorta like using a date format of MM/DD/YY, huh? > > inches. fluid ounces. grams. > This reminds me of something. There is no such locale as "international"?

Re: [arch-general] Problem installing webcam

2008-05-15 Thread Mordechai Peller
Alessio Bolognino wrote: Anyway, your webcam *could* be supported by this project: https://groups.google.com/group/microdia/web/testing-microdia-driver-draft I'm getting the feeling that it isn't. They don't list :627c and they don't list HV7131R as a sensor. While I followed the instructions

Re: [arch-general] top posting

2008-05-15 Thread Aaron Griffin
On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 4:24 PM, R. Dale Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Scott wrote: >> >> A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: >> Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most >> annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail? >> >> >> :)

Re: [arch-general] Problem installing webcam

2008-05-15 Thread Mordechai Peller
Jon Kristian Nilsen wrote: Ouch, it's lsusb, hehe i must be tired;) Just post the output of lsusb Here's the relevant line: Bus 005 Device 044: ID 0c45:627c Microdia

[arch-general] cups depend on ghostscript? WAS: troubles with Brother HL-2040

2008-05-15 Thread Ryan Sims
On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 3:53 PM, Thayer Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 5/15/08, Ryan Sims <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I just installed Arch on my print server at home; it had been running >> another distro and chugging along happily. It's got a Brother HL2040 >> attached to it via US

Re: [arch-general] top posting

2008-05-15 Thread R. Dale Thomas
Scott wrote: A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail? :) (I bet a bunch of other people wanted to do that.) Sorta like using a date fo

Re: [arch-general] top posting

2008-05-15 Thread Scott
A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail? :) (I bet a bunch of other people wanted to do that.) On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 02:29:16PM -0500, Aaron

Re: [arch-general] top posting

2008-05-15 Thread bardo
What's the problem? OMGSRY, didn't read the link, my time is valuable. On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 9:21 PM, Xavier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/T/top-post.html > > What about using a consistent style, at least for one given ML? > arch-general is really painful to read s

Re: [arch-general] troubles with Brother HL-2040

2008-05-15 Thread Thayer Williams
On 5/15/08, Ryan Sims <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just installed Arch on my print server at home; it had been running > another distro and chugging along happily. It's got a Brother HL2040 > attached to it via USB, and I use cups to share it around the network. > > Well, I got the server is

[arch-general] troubles with Brother HL-2040

2008-05-15 Thread Ryan Sims
I just installed Arch on my print server at home; it had been running another distro and chugging along happily. It's got a Brother HL2040 attached to it via USB, and I use cups to share it around the network. Well, I got the server is up and running so I followed the instruction in the wiki[1]

Re: [arch-general] Problem installing webcam

2008-05-15 Thread Alessio Bolognino
On Thu 2008-05-15 21:33 , Mordechai Peller wrote: > Jon Kristian Nilsen wrote: >> well did you load the correct module then? > If the module isn't included in the kernel, probably not. Which module > should I have loaded? >> What's the output of lspci ? Err... not very useful. Anyway, your webcam

Re: [arch-general] top posting

2008-05-15 Thread Aaron Griffin
On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 2:21 PM, Xavier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/T/top-post.html I'm not sure > > What about using a consistent style, at least for one given ML? > arch-general is really painful to read sometimes. what you're talking about. > > Thanks! You m

Re: [arch-general] Problem installing webcam

2008-05-15 Thread Jon Kristian Nilsen
Hmm, and you connected the camera before doing lspci? the reason im asking is because I can't see it in that list. On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 6:33 PM, Mordechai Peller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jon Kristian Nilsen wrote: > > well did you load the correct module then? > > If the module isn't incl

[arch-general] top posting

2008-05-15 Thread Xavier
http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/T/top-post.html What about using a consistent style, at least for one given ML? arch-general is really painful to read sometimes. Thanks!

Re: [arch-general] Problem installing webcam

2008-05-15 Thread Jon Kristian Nilsen
Ouch, it's lsusb, hehe i must be tired;) Just post the output of lsusb On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 7:22 PM, Jon Kristian Nilsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hmm, and you connected the camera before doing lspci? the reason im asking > is because I can't see it in that list. > > > On Thu, May 15, 2008

Re: [arch-general] Problem installing webcam

2008-05-15 Thread Mordechai Peller
Jon Kristian Nilsen wrote: well did you load the correct module then? If the module isn't included in the kernel, probably not. Which module should I have loaded? What's the output of lspci ? 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82945G/GZ/P/PL Memory Controller Hub (rev 02) 00:01.0 PCI bridg

Re: [arch-general] Problem installing webcam

2008-05-15 Thread Jon Kristian Nilsen
well did you load the correct module then? What's the output of lspci ? On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 5:58 PM, Mordechai Peller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks, but no change. > > Jon Kristian Nilsen wrote: > >> I belive it is incuded in the gspcav1 package, so just do a pacman -S >> gspcav1 >> >>

Re: [arch-general] Problem installing webcam

2008-05-15 Thread Mordechai Peller
Thanks, but no change. Jon Kristian Nilsen wrote: I belive it is incuded in the gspcav1 package, so just do a pacman -S gspcav1 On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 5:19 PM, Mordechai Peller <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: Hi, I'm trying to install a sn9c201 webcam, but I

Re: [arch-general] Problem installing webcam

2008-05-15 Thread Jon Kristian Nilsen
I belive it is incuded in the gspcav1 package, so just do a pacman -S gspcav1 On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 5:19 PM, Mordechai Peller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to install a sn9c201 webcam, but I can't find any drivers. On > the wiki, the sn9c102 driver is listed, but not the 201.

[arch-general] Problem installing webcam

2008-05-15 Thread Mordechai Peller
Hi, I'm trying to install a sn9c201 webcam, but I can't find any drivers. On the wiki, the sn9c102 driver is listed, but not the 201. dmesg only listed the following: usb 5-1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 42 usb 5-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice The device only

Re: [arch-general] Linuxtag 2008 Berlin

2008-05-15 Thread domanov
> Is anyone going to the Linuxtag in Berlin I (currently) live half mile away from the messegelände (fairground) and I didn't know about this LinuxTag Berlin! Of course I will be there, even if not the whole program. Sorry, I cannot provide a couch or something else for guests (myself being a gues

Re: [arch-general] Linuxtag 2008 Berlin

2008-05-15 Thread Georg Grabler
I'll drive from Vienna to Berlin on the 28th of March. Since we're going by car, and will take a longer break (most likely), I'll arrive in Berlin somewhen in the eve'. On 5/15/08, Peter Feuerer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > I'll be on the linuX-gamers.net booth presenting the arch based

Re: [arch-general] Linuxtag 2008 Berlin

2008-05-15 Thread Peter Feuerer
Hi, I'll be on the linuX-gamers.net booth presenting the arch based live.linux-gamers.net livedvd. --peter On Thu, 2008-05-15 at 10:51 +0200, Didi wrote: > Hey > > Is anyone going to the Linuxtag in Berlin > > http://www.linuxtag.org/2008/en/home/welcome.html > > Would be cool to meet up, as

[arch-general] Linuxtag 2008 Berlin

2008-05-15 Thread Didi
Hey Is anyone going to the Linuxtag in Berlin http://www.linuxtag.org/2008/en/home/welcome.html Would be cool to meet up, as fellow archers, and have a beer or something. Cheers Didi www.cern.ch/ribalba / www.ribalba.de Email / Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone (Work) : +41 22 7679376 Skype