Re: [arch-general] Last networkmanager in testing busts everything in gnome ?

2010-01-07 Thread Allan McRae
Frederic Bezies wrote: Hello everybody. Yesterday, my computer installed from testing last networkmanager version, 0.7.998-1. It worked OK until I shut down my computer. This morning, I cannot get any single program to be launched in gnome, even xterm using alt+f2 dialog box. After I downg

[arch-general] Last networkmanager in testing busts everything in gnome ?

2010-01-07 Thread Frederic Bezies
Hello everybody. Yesterday, my computer installed from testing last networkmanager version, 0.7.998-1. It worked OK until I shut down my computer. This morning, I cannot get any single program to be launched in gnome, even xterm using alt+f2 dialog box. After I downgraded to version 0.7.2-1

Re: [arch-general] Adding new partition to system from unpartitioned space - any reason to not use ext4??

2010-01-07 Thread arch
On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 11:26:05AM -0600, David C. Rankin wrote: > Guys, > > This is just a quick request to make sure I don't screw myself playing > with new technology. I have a server 5 existing ext3 partitions on a dmraid > array with several hundred gig of unpartitioned space. I have

Re: [arch-general] Adding new partition to system from unpartitioned space - any reason to not use ext4??

2010-01-07 Thread David C. Rankin
Thomas Bächler wrote: > Delayed allocation might lead to data loss of recently created or > overwritten files in case of power failure or system freeze. The most > common case of overwriting files in badly written programs has been > worked around in ext4, but theoretically it might still happen >

Re: [arch-general] Adding new partition to system from unpartitioned space - any reason to not use ext4??

2010-01-07 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 07.01.2010 18:26, schrieb David C. Rankin: > Guys, > > This is just a quick request to make sure I don't screw myself playing > with new technology. I have a server 5 existing ext3 partitions on a dmraid > array with several hundred gig of unpartitioned space. I have created the new >

[arch-general] Adding new partition to system from unpartitioned space - any reason to not use ext4??

2010-01-07 Thread David C. Rankin
Guys, This is just a quick request to make sure I don't screw myself playing with new technology. I have a server 5 existing ext3 partitions on a dmraid array with several hundred gig of unpartitioned space. I have created the new partition and I'm about the create the filesystem. With

Re: [arch-general] Arch Linux Law Office? (Was: Re: go-openoffice not opening templates - anybody else?)

2010-01-07 Thread Vincent Van Houtte
2010/1/7 David C. Rankin > Believe it or not, our Federal Government has done a good job with a Linux > backend for a good part of the CM/ECF electronic filing system for the > Federal District Court system. Wow - that's impressive from the viewpoint of a Belgian lawyer. We still live in the mi

[arch-general] Fwd: [Vorbis] vorbis-tools release soon?

2010-01-07 Thread Ray Kohler
The Xiph.org people are looking for some help getting things out the door. I expect that there are a good many capable Ogg/Vorbis users here in Arch-land... Anybody interested? Reply to the thread below on vor...@xiph.org. -- Forwarded message -- From: Date: 2010/1/6 Subject: Re

Re: [arch-general] high CPU temperature with 2.6.32

2010-01-07 Thread David C. Rankin
Jim Clark wrote: > Hate to state the obvious, because it was my problem. Dropped my > laptop from 75C to 50C... cleaning the hairball out of my heatsink. > > On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 11:47 AM, daniel robinson wrote: >> On Jan 5, 2010 7:05 AM, "Dimitrios Apostolou" wrote: >> >> On Tue, 5 Jan 2010,

Re: [arch-general] Arch Linux Law Office? (Was: Re: go-openoffice not opening templates - anybody else?)

2010-01-07 Thread David C. Rankin
Vincent Van Houtte wrote: > 2009/12/13 Logan Rathbone > >> David, are you running (Arch) Linux in your law office? If so, could >> you describe your experiences? What do you use for time and >> billing >> > > I'm also running an entire law office on linux. We chose Debian Linux, > because the