[arch-general] Single Person ISP?

2009-11-18 Thread Brendan Long
So recently Verizon has stopped letting me do free tethering and I've been looking for a replacement. Apparently all of the free ISPs I can find all require that you use their shitty Windows program to connect, so I decided, "I have a phone line, a modem and an internet connection, maybe I can make

[arch-general] stability of pbzip2 ?

2009-11-18 Thread Ian-Xue Li
Hi, I'm quote fond of pbzip2's ability to multitask the compression, which comes really handy when backuping large archives of server files. But just heard from my friend: pbzip2 has stability issues, sometimes leads to corruption of archive, and hence unable to recover them. I wonder if this i

Re: [arch-general] We need a maintained-by-TU chrome/chromium...

2009-11-18 Thread Christopher Daley
Is there any chance of the -bin (precompiled) versions being hosted once an official release is made? I guess there's little reason for it as they're so easy to "compile" yourself, but it would simplify upgrading/maintenance for a number of users. I don't see google moving away from their custom b

Re: [arch-general] Test - Sorry but good reason for it. Please ignore

2009-11-18 Thread Ng Oon-Ee
On Wed, 2009-11-18 at 17:51 -0600, Aaron Griffin wrote: > 2009/11/18 Ng Oon-Ee : > > On Wed, 2009-11-18 at 14:38 -0600, Aaron Griffin wrote: > >> On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 2:14 PM, Geoff wrote: > >> > On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:59:33 -0600 > >> > Aaron Griffin wrote: > >> > > >> >> Seems to work now :)

Re: [arch-general] Test - Sorry but good reason for it. Please ignore

2009-11-18 Thread Aaron Griffin
2009/11/18 Ng Oon-Ee : > On Wed, 2009-11-18 at 14:38 -0600, Aaron Griffin wrote: >> On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 2:14 PM, Geoff wrote: >> > On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:59:33 -0600 >> > Aaron Griffin wrote: >> > >> >> Seems to work now :) >> > >> > Actually the last thread I posted to was one where you gave

Re: [arch-general] Test - Sorry but good reason for it. Please ignore

2009-11-18 Thread Ng Oon-Ee
On Wed, 2009-11-18 at 14:38 -0600, Aaron Griffin wrote: > On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 2:14 PM, Geoff wrote: > > On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:59:33 -0600 > > Aaron Griffin wrote: > > > >> Seems to work now :) > > > > Actually the last thread I posted to was one where you gave > > me a ticking-off for prolon

Re: [arch-general] We need a maintained-by-TU chrome/chromium...

2009-11-18 Thread Daniel J Griffiths
hollun...@gmx.at wrote: On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:42:40 -0200 "Guilherme M. Nogueira" wrote: On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 12:25 PM, Ionut Biru wrote: now is not the time. chromium doesn't have a stable release yet and the build process kinda suck. 10gb space for compiling chromium is someth

Re: [arch-general] pam settings INSECURE

2009-11-18 Thread Attila
At Mittwoch, 18. November 2009 14:07 Xavier wrote: I hope this could be a help for someone who knows how to configurate pam.-) > And I am curious to know what the pam settings of other distro are > (debian,fedora,gentoo,..). Opensuse with the KDE43 repo has no /etc/pam.d/kde file and they used f

Re: [arch-general] Test - Sorry but good reason for it. Please ignore

2009-11-18 Thread Aaron Griffin
On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 2:14 PM, Geoff wrote: > On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:59:33 -0600 > Aaron Griffin wrote: > >> Seems to work now :) > > Actually the last thread I posted to was one where you gave > me a ticking-off for prolonging it past your expression of > displeasure at its continuance. I wond

Re: [arch-general] Test - Sorry but good reason for it. Please ignore

2009-11-18 Thread Geoff
On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:59:33 -0600 Aaron Griffin wrote: > Seems to work now :) Actually the last thread I posted to was one where you gave me a ticking-off for prolonging it past your expression of displeasure at its continuance. I wondered if maybe I had been banned. Maybe I was. Maybe I shou

Re: [arch-general] pam settings INSECURE

2009-11-18 Thread Caleb Cushing
> As far as the people I know, passwd -d and passwd -l are the most > common ways to do this. They do NOT change the shell. Changing the > shell to lock out an account is laughable expiredate would be more appropriate but again it didn't seem to be instant. locking the password is good but it 'rep

Re: [arch-general] Test - Sorry but good reason for it. Please ignore

2009-11-18 Thread Aaron Griffin
On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 1:53 PM, Geoff wrote: > Sorry to post a test message, but I am an infrequent poster > whose e-mails have not been getting through.  I wrote to > the list admins about it a while ago but got no response, so > I have unsubscribed / resubscribed. Seems to work now :)

[arch-general] Test - Sorry but good reason for it. Please ignore

2009-11-18 Thread Geoff
Sorry to post a test message, but I am an infrequent poster whose e-mails have not been getting through. I wrote to the list admins about it a while ago but got no response, so I have unsubscribed / resubscribed.

Re: [arch-general] MUA

2009-11-18 Thread Rogutės Sparnuotos
vlad (2009-11-18 18:47): > On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 09:56:59AM -0600, Aaron Griffin wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 8:58 AM, Arvid Picciani wrote: > > > Daenyth Blank wrote: > > >> > > >> I just saw a link on reddit this morning for "notmuch", a sup-inspired > > >> mail reader. Might be worth lo

Re: [arch-general] MUA

2009-11-18 Thread vlad
On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 09:56:59AM -0600, Aaron Griffin wrote: > On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 8:58 AM, Arvid Picciani wrote: > > Daenyth Blank wrote: > >> > >> I just saw a link on reddit this morning for "notmuch", a sup-inspired > >> mail reader. Might be worth looking into > >> > >> http://keithp.co

Re: [arch-general] MUA

2009-11-18 Thread Aaron Griffin
On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 8:58 AM, Arvid Picciani wrote: > Daenyth Blank wrote: >> >> I just saw a link on reddit this morning for "notmuch", a sup-inspired >> mail reader. Might be worth looking into >> >> http://keithp.com/blogs/notmuch/ > > well its really "not much".  i wouldnt consider this a m

Re: [arch-general] pam settings INSECURE

2009-11-18 Thread RedShift
Caleb Cushing wrote: so here's the problem I've discovered http://xenoterracide.blogspot.com/2009/11/bypassing-disabled-accounts-with-kdm.html < links to arch bug included posting here because I believe both kde's and arch's developers responses are less than satisfactory. This is a security bug

Re: [arch-general] We need a maintained-by-TU chrome/chromium...

2009-11-18 Thread hollunder
On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:42:40 -0200 "Guilherme M. Nogueira" wrote: > On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 12:25 PM, Ionut Biru > wrote: > > > now is not the time. chromium doesn't have a stable release yet and > > the build process kinda suck. 10gb space for compiling chromium is > > something that cannot be

Re: [arch-general] MUA

2009-11-18 Thread Arvid Picciani
Daenyth Blank wrote: I just saw a link on reddit this morning for "notmuch", a sup-inspired mail reader. Might be worth looking into http://keithp.com/blogs/notmuch/ well its really "not much". i wouldnt consider this a mua. its more a search engine for muas. a pretty decent one though. mayb

Re: [arch-general] arch-general Digest, Vol 61, Issue 39

2009-11-18 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 09:36, jelle van der waa wrote: > Re: We need a maintained-by-TU chrome/chromium... (Juan Diego) > > There are enough arch user maintained repo's, you could ask them to package > it beside that how much work is AUR ;) Can you please reply to the specific thread instead of

Re: [arch-general] We need a maintained-by-TU chrome/chromium...

2009-11-18 Thread Guilherme M. Nogueira
On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 12:25 PM, Ionut Biru wrote: > now is not the time. chromium doesn't have a stable release yet and the > build process kinda suck. 10gb space for compiling chromium is something > that cannot be forgot :) > > -- > Ionut > WOW! Really?! I had no idea compiling chromium need

Re: [arch-general] arch-general Digest, Vol 61, Issue 39

2009-11-18 Thread jelle van der waa
Re: We need a maintained-by-TU chrome/chromium... (Juan Diego) There are enough arch user maintained repo's, you could ask them to package it beside that how much work is AUR ;) 2009/11/18 > Send arch-general mailing list submissions to >arch-general@archlinux.org > > To subscribe or un

Re: [arch-general] We need a maintained-by-TU chrome/chromium...

2009-11-18 Thread Ionut Biru
On 11/18/2009 03:48 PM, Hamo wrote: Dear Archlinux users, Chrome is likely to be a daily-use web browser and with the Chrome OS releasing,it will become more and more reliable.Archlinux is a rolling-release distribution and it aims at being bleeding edge.So we should have a maintained-by-TU chrom

Re: [arch-general] pam settings INSECURE

2009-11-18 Thread Aaron Griffin
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 11:56 PM, Allan McRae wrote: > Caleb Cushing wrote: >> >> so here's the problem I've discovered >> >> http://xenoterracide.blogspot.com/2009/11/bypassing-disabled-accounts-with-kdm.html >> < links to arch bug included posting here because I believe both kde's >> and arch's

Re: [arch-general] We need a maintained-by-TU chrome/chromium...

2009-11-18 Thread vlad
Hello On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 09:48:26PM +0800, Hamo wrote: > Dear Archlinux users, > Chrome is likely to be a daily-use web browser and with the Chrome OS > releasing,it will become more and more reliable.Archlinux is a > rolling-release distribution and it aims at being bleeding edge.So we > sho

Re: [arch-general] We need a maintained-by-TU chrome/chromium...

2009-11-18 Thread Angel Velásquez
On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 11:05 AM, Juan Diego wrote: > I would be happy to maintain that package, but unfortunately Im not a TU > > dont you think archlinux should have something similar to ppa from > ubuntu so that it will be easier to maintain and promote personal > repositories, aur is a good op

Re: [arch-general] We need a maintained-by-TU chrome/chromium...

2009-11-18 Thread Juan Diego
I would be happy to maintain that package, but unfortunately Im not a TU dont you think archlinux should have something similar to ppa from ubuntu so that it will be easier to maintain and promote personal repositories, aur is a good option but if I would have to choose between using a packages fr

Re: [arch-general] We need a maintained-by-TU chrome/chromium...

2009-11-18 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 08:48, Hamo wrote: > Dear Archlinux users, > Chrome is likely to be a daily-use web browser and with the Chrome OS > releasing,it will become more and more reliable.Archlinux is a > rolling-release distribution and it aims at being bleeding edge.So we > should have a mainta

Re: [arch-general] pam settings INSECURE

2009-11-18 Thread Xavier
On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 2:24 PM, Jan de Groot wrote: > On Wed, 2009-11-18 at 14:17 +0100, bender02 wrote: >> On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 2:07 PM, Xavier wrote: >> > And I am curious to know what the pam settings of other distro are >> > (debian,fedora,gentoo,..). >> > >> > Finally, maybe it makes sen

[arch-general] We need a maintained-by-TU chrome/chromium...

2009-11-18 Thread Hamo
Dear Archlinux users, Chrome is likely to be a daily-use web browser and with the Chrome OS releasing,it will become more and more reliable.Archlinux is a rolling-release distribution and it aims at being bleeding edge.So we should have a maintained-by-TU chrome/chromium and it is really useful...

Re: [arch-general] pam settings INSECURE

2009-11-18 Thread Jan de Groot
On Wed, 2009-11-18 at 14:17 +0100, bender02 wrote: > On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 2:07 PM, Xavier wrote: > > And I am curious to know what the pam settings of other distro are > > (debian,fedora,gentoo,..). > > > > Finally, maybe it makes sense to try keeping all the different pam > > login files as co

Re: [arch-general] pam settings INSECURE

2009-11-18 Thread bender02
On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 2:07 PM, Xavier wrote: > And I am curious to know what the pam settings of other distro are > (debian,fedora,gentoo,..). > > Finally, maybe it makes sense to try keeping all the different pam > login files as consistent as possible. But I don't know enough about > pam to te

Re: [arch-general] pam settings INSECURE

2009-11-18 Thread Xavier
On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 6:40 AM, Caleb Cushing wrote: > so here's the problem I've discovered > http://xenoterracide.blogspot.com/2009/11/bypassing-disabled-accounts-with-kdm.html > < links to arch bug included posting here because I believe both kde's > and arch's developers responses are less th

Re: [arch-general] pam settings INSECURE

2009-11-18 Thread bender02
2009/11/18 Ng Oon-Ee : > The *disadvantage* is that the devs/maintainers have to patch up-stream. > This should be kept to a minimum, primarily to reduce their workload, > and also because it is ASSUMED that if you use Arch, you're capable of > doing the Right Thing (tm) according to your situation

Re: [arch-general] MUA

2009-11-18 Thread Alexandr Bashmakov
http://notmuchmail.org/

Re: [arch-general] pam settings INSECURE

2009-11-18 Thread Ng Oon-Ee
On Wed, 2009-11-18 at 03:49 -0500, Caleb Cushing wrote: > > > > Minimal modification of packages. Allow users to choose for themselves > > instead of doing work for them. I fail to see the security implications > > here for the common user, why would someone want to lock out a user > > without dele

Re: [arch-general] MUA

2009-11-18 Thread Pierre Chapuis
Le Tue, 17 Nov 2009 13:23:25 -0600, Aaron Griffin a écrit : > Aha, so this is the same as the "threaded vs nested comments" when it > comes to web page commenting. As far as I know, that's a holy war no > one will ever win. Strange that you like Gmail-style but the comments on your own blog are

Re: [arch-general] archlinuxfr bad virtualbox_bin-3.0.10-1 package

2009-11-18 Thread Pierre Chapuis
Le Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:56:24 -0600, "David C. Rankin" a écrit : > On Tuesday 17 November 2009 05:50:02 and regarding: > > Am Dienstag 17 November 2009 12:22:35 schrieb tuxce: > > > I'm uploading it right now, thanks for the information. > > > > You know that redistribution of the binary package

Re: [arch-general] pam settings INSECURE

2009-11-18 Thread Caleb Cushing
> > Minimal modification of packages. Allow users to choose for themselves > instead of doing work for them. I fail to see the security implications > here for the common user, why would someone want to lock out a user > without deleting the account except a system admin, who presumably would > kno