Re: [arch-general] 4k sector drives

2010-04-29 Thread Marti Raudsepp
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 2:37 AM, bardo wrote: > Parted automatically warned me about an unoptimal sector alignment > when I tried to put the first partition at 0 (the first partition > should start at 2MB), but if you want to be extra-sure just check the > the '-a optimal' parameter. Great to hea

Re: [arch-general] [*] Re: How to take screenshot of ring switcher ?

2010-04-29 Thread Nilesh Govindarajan
On 04/30/2010 09:47 AM, Piyush P Kurur wrote: On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 10:41:25PM +0530, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: On Thursday 29 April 2010 10:10 PM, dave reisner wrote: I don't use GNOME (I don't have it installed, switched to KDE completely). As far as I have seen, the moment people hear th

Re: [arch-general] [*] Re: How to take screenshot of ring switcher ?

2010-04-29 Thread Piyush P Kurur
On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 10:41:25PM +0530, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: > On Thursday 29 April 2010 10:10 PM, dave reisner wrote: > > I don't use GNOME (I don't have it installed, switched to KDE completely). > > As far as I have seen, the moment people hear the name 'Linux' it > reminds them of the

Re: [arch-general] How to take screenshot of ring switcher ?

2010-04-29 Thread Nilesh Govindarajan
On 04/30/2010 12:19 AM, Xavier Chantry wrote: On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 8:03 PM, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: I know this is a silly reason, but this is the general trend I've observed dealing with people in real life and on the internet. They fear from using Linux because they think it has no GUI

Re: [arch-general] How to take screenshot of ring switcher ?

2010-04-29 Thread Nilesh Govindarajan
On 04/30/2010 06:20 AM, Ng Oon-Ee wrote: On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 2:19 AM, Denis Kobozev wrote: On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 1:58 PM, Xavier Chantry wrote: On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 7:28 PM, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: That's the main aim for which I want to do this. By showing them the screenshot

Re: [arch-general] How to take screenshot of ring switcher ?

2010-04-29 Thread Arvid Picciani
> > What if we're elitist and don't want newbies like you switching to Linux > The ml is not the place for you to be a jackass. Take it elsewhere *gasp* How long till this whole community just figures it hates itself and vaporizes to dust? I'll be there and fuel the vaporizer.

Re: [arch-general] How to take screenshot of ring switcher ?

2010-04-29 Thread Ng Oon-Ee
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 2:19 AM, Denis Kobozev wrote: > On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 1:58 PM, Xavier Chantry > wrote: >> On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 7:28 PM, Nilesh Govindarajan >> wrote: >>> >>> That's the main aim for which I want to do this. By showing them the >>> screenshots which will look "awesom

Re: [arch-general] 4k sector drives

2010-04-29 Thread Robert Howard
How did you get two drives into RAID5 and if so, why? On Apr 29, 2010 7:38 PM, "bardo" wrote: 2010/4/29 Caleb Cushing : > On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 9:22 PM, Marti Raudsepp wrote: >> However, this WD disk ... Just two days ago I built an Arch NAS/HTPC with two 2TB WD Caviar Green WD20EARS (the on

Re: [arch-general] 4k sector drives

2010-04-29 Thread bardo
2010/4/29 Caleb Cushing : > On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 9:22 PM, Marti Raudsepp wrote: >> However, this WD disk crashed after barely 3 days of operation and I >> replaced it with a normal 512-byte sector Seagate. >> > eek! hope the ones I ordered today don't do that. Just two days ago I built an Arch

Re: [arch-general] Time for an arch-security mailing list?

2010-04-29 Thread Allan McRae
On 30/04/10 09:08, Ananda Samaddar wrote: Does anyone agree with this? If so how do I go about requesting the creation of such a list? The list would be for discussion around security in Arch, implementations and user/dev input etc. It seems like package signing has moved up the agenda now and

Re: [arch-general] Time for an arch-security mailing list?

2010-04-29 Thread Denis A . Altoé Falqueto
On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 8:08 PM, Ananda Samaddar wrote: > Does anyone agree with this?  If so how do I go about requesting the > creation of such a list?  The list would be for discussion > around security in Arch, implementations and user/dev input etc.  It > seems like package signing has moved

[arch-general] Time for an arch-security mailing list?

2010-04-29 Thread Ananda Samaddar
Does anyone agree with this? If so how do I go about requesting the creation of such a list? The list would be for discussion around security in Arch, implementations and user/dev input etc. It seems like package signing has moved up the agenda now and I've also got a few things I'd like to sugg

Re: [arch-general] How to take screenshot of ring switcher ?

2010-04-29 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 15:09, Gaetan Bisson wrote: > What if we're elitist and don't want newbies like you switching to Linux > and polluting the signal-to-noise ratio of our beloved mailing-lists > with useless, off-topic questions? > > -- > Gaetan > The ml is not the place for you to be a jack

Re: [arch-general] [xmonad] Screenshot of all workspaces?

2010-04-29 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 16:31, Nick Stepa wrote: > Hello all! I use xmonad and want to make screenshot of all workspaces at > once. How can I do it? > > Plz don`t say: "For each workspace - switch to it and use scrot" (= > > For each workspace, switch to it and use import :)

Re: [arch-general] How to take screenshot of ring switcher ?

2010-04-29 Thread José M . Prieto
2010/4/29 Gaetan Bisson : > [2010-04-29 22:58:10 +0530] Nilesh Govindarajan: >> That's the main aim for which I want to do this. By showing them the >> screenshots which will look "awesome" to them, it may be possible to >> win their minds. > > What if we're elitist and don't want newbies like you

[arch-general] [xmonad] Screenshot of all workspaces?

2010-04-29 Thread Nick Stepa
Hello all! I use xmonad and want to make screenshot of all workspaces at once. How can I do it? Plz don`t say: "For each workspace - switch to it and use scrot" (=

Re: [arch-general] Package signing

2010-04-29 Thread Linas
Ng Oon-Ee wrote: >> Under which circunstances would you envision the need to trust an old, >> compromised signature? >> > New install, dev for a coupl of [extra] packages has already left the > team. Having to recompile everytime a dev leaves the team is additional > (unnecessary) hassle IMO,

Re: [arch-general] How to take screenshot of ring switcher ?

2010-04-29 Thread Gaetan Bisson
[2010-04-29 22:58:10 +0530] Nilesh Govindarajan: > That's the main aim for which I want to do this. By showing them the > screenshots which will look "awesome" to them, it may be possible to > win their minds. What if we're elitist and don't want newbies like you switching to Linux and polluting t

Re: [arch-general] How to take screenshot of ring switcher ?

2010-04-29 Thread Xavier Chantry
On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 8:03 PM, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: > > I know this is a silly reason, but this is the general trend I've observed > dealing with people in real life and on the internet. They fear from using > Linux because they think it has no GUI or it is bad. > Well that's not complete

Re: [arch-general] How to take screenshot of ring switcher ?

2010-04-29 Thread Denis Kobozev
On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 1:58 PM, Xavier Chantry wrote: > On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 7:28 PM, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: >> >> That's the main aim for which I want to do this. By showing them the >> screenshots which will look "awesome" to them, it may be possible to win >> their minds. >> > > This i

Re: [arch-general] How to take screenshot of ring switcher ?

2010-04-29 Thread Nilesh Govindarajan
On Thursday 29 April 2010 11:28 PM, Xavier Chantry wrote: On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 7:28 PM, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: That's the main aim for which I want to do this. By showing them the screenshots which will look "awesome" to them, it may be possible to win their minds. This is the sillie

Re: [arch-general] dual ISP: 1)cable broadband (DHCP) 2){shudder} dial-up (ppp?) Please help!

2010-04-29 Thread Dario
Hi In data giovedì 29 aprile 2010 15:08:07, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook ha scritto: > I thought the solution would be to fall back on my external v92 serial > modem BUT unfortunately I wasn't thinking about the fact that this laptop > doesn't have a serial port connection to plug it into. (And not havi

Re: [arch-general] How to take screenshot of ring switcher ?

2010-04-29 Thread Xavier Chantry
On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 7:28 PM, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: > > That's the main aim for which I want to do this. By showing them the > screenshots which will look "awesome" to them, it may be possible to win > their minds. > This is the silliest reason I've ever heard for switching to Linux. Her

Re: [arch-general] Crisp Rendering Fonts

2010-04-29 Thread Xavier Chantry
On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 7:37 PM, Michishige Kaito wrote: >> >> Anti-aliasing is turned off for >> small point sizes and turned on for larger sizes. >> >> Denis. >> > > I'd be very interested in finding out how this is controlled. Could you > point me at a resource on the topic? > http://wiki.arch

Re: [arch-general] Crisp Rendering Fonts

2010-04-29 Thread Michishige Kaito
> > Anti-aliasing is turned off for > small point sizes and turned on for larger sizes. > > Denis. > I'd be very interested in finding out how this is controlled. Could you point me at a resource on the topic?

Re: [arch-general] How to take screenshot of ring switcher ?

2010-04-29 Thread Nilesh Govindarajan
On Thursday 29 April 2010 10:55 PM, Dan Vratil wrote: On Thursday 29 April 2010 19:11:25 Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: On Thursday 29 April 2010 10:10 PM, dave reisner wrote: On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 12:25 PM, Nilesh Govindarajanwrote: Hi, I want to impress my friend by showing them the Windows

Re: [arch-general] Package signing

2010-04-29 Thread Denis A . Altoé Falqueto
On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 12:40 PM, Allan McRae wrote: > Has anyone had a good look at the other implementations of package signing > (Debian, Fedora, ...) and made a summary of how they handle it? (Long email ahead, sorry...) Good idea, indeed. This is what I've found about Debian: http://www.de

Re: [arch-general] How to take screenshot of ring switcher ?

2010-04-29 Thread Dan Vratil
On Thursday 29 April 2010 19:11:25 Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: > On Thursday 29 April 2010 10:10 PM, dave reisner wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 12:25 PM, Nilesh Govindarajanwrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> I want to impress my friend by showing them the Windows 7 Look on Linux > >> and persuade them

Re: [arch-general] How to take screenshot of ring switcher ?

2010-04-29 Thread Daenyth Blank
>> Govindarajanwrote: >>> I have enabled compiz and some effects. Anybody knows how to take >>> screenshot of the Ring Switcher ? Bind a key to scrot with the right settings, or just call it with a delay

Re: [arch-general] How to take screenshot of ring switcher ?

2010-04-29 Thread Nilesh Govindarajan
On Thursday 29 April 2010 10:10 PM, dave reisner wrote: On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 12:25 PM, Nilesh Govindarajanwrote: Hi, I want to impress my friend by showing them the Windows 7 Look on Linux and persuade them to ditch Windows and use Linux. I have enabled compiz and some effects. Anybody kno

Re: [arch-general] How to take screenshot of ring switcher ?

2010-04-29 Thread dave reisner
On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 12:25 PM, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: > Hi, > > I want to impress my friend by showing them the Windows 7 Look on Linux and > persuade them to ditch Windows and use Linux. > > I have enabled compiz and some effects. Anybody knows how to take > screenshot of the Ring Switcher

Re: [arch-general] Crisp Rendering Fonts

2010-04-29 Thread Denis Kobozev
On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 11:22 AM, Michishige Kaito wrote: > Aren't "raster" and "bitmap" similar, if not equal, concepts? Yes, they are equal (or similar). There are bitmap (or raster, or pixel, whatever you want to call them) fonts that only work well for specific resolutions. Examples are Dina

[arch-general] How to take screenshot of ring switcher ?

2010-04-29 Thread Nilesh Govindarajan
Hi, I want to impress my friend by showing them the Windows 7 Look on Linux and persuade them to ditch Windows and use Linux. I have enabled compiz and some effects. Anybody knows how to take screenshot of the Ring Switcher ? -- Nilesh Govindarajan Site & Server Administrator www.itech7.com

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Chasing various signoffs

2010-04-29 Thread Allan McRae
On 24/04/10 11:09, Allan McRae wrote: These are signoffs I need and the dates they were requested: I am still looking for these signoffs: 2010-04-18 cracklib (i686) ed (i686) inetutils (i686) rp-pppoe (i686) 2010-04-19 bridge-utils (i686) ndiswrapper-utils (both) User signoffs are fine.

Re: [arch-general] Package signing

2010-04-29 Thread Dan McGee
On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 10:40 AM, Allan McRae wrote: > On 30/04/10 01:29, Thomas Bächler wrote: >> >> Am 29.04.2010 00:36, schrieb Linas: >>> >>> Thomas Bächler wrote: We must have a system that allows pacman to automatically verify new developer keys and revoke old ones ... even mo

Re: [arch-general] Package signing

2010-04-29 Thread Allan McRae
On 30/04/10 01:29, Thomas Bächler wrote: Am 29.04.2010 00:36, schrieb Linas: Thomas Bächler wrote: We must have a system that allows pacman to automatically verify new developer keys and revoke old ones ... even more important, revoke them in a way that signatures made before a certain date are

Re: [arch-general] Package signing

2010-04-29 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 29.04.2010 00:36, schrieb Linas: > Thomas Bächler wrote: >> We must have a system that allows pacman to automatically verify new >> developer keys and revoke old ones ... even more important, revoke them >> in a way that signatures made before a certain date are still accepted, >> but newer ones

Re: [arch-general] Crisp Rendering Fonts

2010-04-29 Thread Michishige Kaito
2010/4/28 Denis Kobozev > On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 9:42 AM, Denis Kobozev > wrote: > > [..] bitmap fonts, ms-ttf-fonts (which are raster fonts, but include > [...] > > Buh, ms-ttf-fonts are vector or outline fonts, not raster fonts. > > Denis. > Aren't "raster" and "bitmap" similar, if not equal

Re: [arch-general] dual ISP: 1)cable broadband (DHCP) 2){shudder} dial-up (ppp?) Please help!

2010-04-29 Thread Joe(theWordy)Philbrook
It would appear that on Apr 28, Rogutės Sparnuotos did say: > Since you haven't tested your modem yet, the first thing to do would be > running minicom or some other serial terminal on your /dev/ttyS?, issuing > the ATZ command and see if you get OK. There is no point worrying about > anything el

Re: [arch-general] Package signing

2010-04-29 Thread Aleksis Jauntēvs
On Wednesday 28 April 2010 16:39:53 Allan McRae wrote: > On 28/04/10 23:32, Aleksis Jauntēvs wrote: > > Hello, > > > > The idea is to implement package signing for Arch similar to rpm GPG > > package signing. > > Good to see someone interested in this. I suggest you join the > pacman-dev list wh