Re: [arch-general] I'm having a brain far^Hilure... I can't find the XFCE control

2010-03-19 Thread Joe(theWordy)Philbrook
It would appear that on Mar 19, Heiko Baums did say: > Am Fri, 19 Mar 2010 14:50:36 -0400 > schrieb "Joe(theWordy)Philbrook" : > > > > could somebody give me a clue how to disable them? Thanks! > > Right click onto the desktop. Then desktop settings -> Icons or Symbols > (I don't know how it's

Re: [arch-general] DVD's won't read

2010-03-19 Thread Nilesh Govindarajan
I forgot to tell you all something which I observed. Since the DVD drive was not working with the 40 pin cable, I removed it and connected my old CD-RW drive. That used to read CD-RW too. But this DVD drive won't read. So I feel this is a drive error. What do you say ? -- Nilesh Govindarajan S

Re: [arch-general] DVD's won't read

2010-03-19 Thread Mauro Santos
On 03/19/2010 09:52 PM, Felipe Tanus wrote: > Finally, I ask again: Does someone has at least a thought about > why a 40-wired cable works in the boot of the computer but not in the OS, > and a 80-wired cable could fix the issue? Maybe because the bios sets some conservative settings and the lates

Re: [arch-general] DVD's won't read

2010-03-19 Thread Felipe Tanus
On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 5:27 PM, Guus Snijders wrote: > > I used to tell people that it couldn't hurt to use the better quality (80 > wire) cables, but i would not be suprised if those are neccesary with > current drives. Are the 40-wires types even still available? > > Getting a new 80-wire (P)A

Re: [arch-general] fdisk vs cfdisk... And is my drive borked or what?

2010-03-19 Thread Mauro Santos
> On a funny note; i read today that fdisk also has an option to "fix" an > existing partition table (under expert options)... I did try that once and I won a free system reinstall, maybe I was just unlucky or the partition table was too messed up. > Looks like the partition table is stored on th

Re: [arch-general] DVD's won't read

2010-03-19 Thread Guus Snijders
On 19-03-10 06:28, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: Okay _some_ success after converting it to SATA using IDE<=>SATA chip. It now reads DVD's inside the OS too. But it doesn't read either CDs or DVDs from the RW group. This is drive failure or I seriously need an 80 pin cable ? I used to tell peopl

Re: [arch-general] fdisk vs cfdisk... And is my drive borked or what?

2010-03-19 Thread Guus Snijders
On 19-03-10 19:34, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote: [ fixing a partition table ] I can now certify that rebuilding them with fdisk works... ;) {see below} Good work. On a funny note; i read today that fdisk also has an option to "fix" an existing partition table (under expert options)... It

Re: [arch-general] fdisk vs cfdisk... And is my drive borked or what?

2010-03-19 Thread Guus Snijders
On 18-03-10 22:34, Linas wrote: [...] It works. But you should copy the values *in sectors*. It's amazing how different tools interpret the same values on different actual positions. Indeed, that is one thing i forgot to note. Make your notes in sectors. mvg, Guus

Re: [arch-general] I'm having a brain far^Hilure... I can't find the XFCE control

2010-03-19 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Fri, 19 Mar 2010 14:50:36 -0400 schrieb "Joe(theWordy)Philbrook" : > I know it can be done. I've done it twice, once in Xubuntu, and once > in PCLinuxOS... I've managed to turn off all the other annoying > desktop icons. But I cant find the control to tell it to stop > cluttering up my XFCE des

[arch-general] I'm having a brain far^Hilure... I can't find the XFCE control

2010-03-19 Thread Joe(theWordy)Philbrook
I know it can be done. I've done it twice, once in Xubuntu, and once in PCLinuxOS... I've managed to turn off all the other annoying desktop icons. But I cant find the control to tell it to stop cluttering up my XFCE desktop up with iconic representations of my hard drive partitions. could some

Re: [arch-general] fdisk vs cfdisk... And is my drive borked or what?

2010-03-19 Thread Joe(theWordy)Philbrook
It would appear that on Mar 18, Mauro Santos did say: > Gparted (which is just a frontend for parted) may be able to resize your > extended partition without touching any of the logical partitions inside > (you may need to delete your last partition first though, it all depends > on what alignmen

Re: [arch-general] Open Konsole Here ???

2010-03-19 Thread Attila
At Freitag, 19. März 2010 12:02 Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: > How to make that action appear in context menu of the file manager (rt. > click) ? It is in the submenu "Actions" (i hope this is the word in english version because i use german) and can run for a selection too. If you use the konqu

Re: [arch-general] Open Konsole Here ???

2010-03-19 Thread Gaurish Sharma
On Friday 19 Mar 2010 4:32:11 pm Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: > On 03/19/2010 04:20 PM, Gaurish Sharma wrote: > > On Friday 19 Mar 2010 11:59:06 am Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: > >> KDE used to have an "Open Konsole Here" option as it appears in Nautilus > >> when you install nautilus-open-terminal. Wh

Re: [arch-general] Open Konsole Here ???

2010-03-19 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Friday 19 March 2010 11:59:06 Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: > KDE used to have an "Open Konsole Here" option as it appears in Nautilus > when you install nautilus-open-terminal. Where's it vanished ? Or I'm > missing some addon ? Hit F4 in dolphin :). Although it will open konsole part and not a f

Re: [arch-general] rankmirrors with arch-games

2010-03-19 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 00:38, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: > Observe the ping using ping -c 100. > > If there is some loss in packets, you need to consult your ISP unless you're > using wireless transmission. 0% packet loss, and it's not just me, it's everyone who uses rankmirrors on our mirrorlist

Re: [arch-general] Open Konsole Here ???

2010-03-19 Thread Gaurish Sharma
On Friday 19 Mar 2010 4:32:11 pm Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: > > How to make that action appear in context menu of the file manager (rt. > click) ? Hi, Try this: http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php/?content=48411 -- Regards, Gaurish Sharma www.gaurishsharma.com

Re: [arch-general] Open Konsole Here ???

2010-03-19 Thread Nilesh Govindarajan
On 03/19/2010 04:20 PM, Gaurish Sharma wrote: On Friday 19 Mar 2010 11:59:06 am Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: KDE used to have an "Open Konsole Here" option as it appears in Nautilus when you install nautilus-open-terminal. Where's it vanished ? Or I'm missing some addon ? your question is not cle

Re: [arch-general] Open Konsole Here ???

2010-03-19 Thread Gaurish Sharma
On Friday 19 Mar 2010 11:59:06 am Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: > KDE used to have an "Open Konsole Here" option as it appears in Nautilus > when you install nautilus-open-terminal. Where's it vanished ? Or I'm > missing some addon ? your question is not clear. KDE's default file manager is Dolphin. N

Re: [arch-general] [OT] ArchLinux on uncyclopedia

2010-03-19 Thread Ray Rashif
It doesn't look like it has changed since the last 3 odd years, which is probably a good thing. And i can't say i'm not guilty for part of the nonsense =p (this may be a top post) On 19/03/2010, Patrick Burroughs wrote: > On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 15:37, Brendan Long wrote: >> Parts of it are fun