Re: [arch-general] Getting firefox to use the PDF I want?

2010-07-22 Thread Nathan Wayde
On 22/07/10 23:31, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote: It would appear that on Jul 21, Magnus Therning did say: After installing Gimp it became the default application for PDFs, something I didn't really want. How do I get firefox to use the correct application? It would appear that on Jul 21,

[arch-general] Better NILFS2 Support

2010-07-22 Thread Alex Matviychuk
I just spent some time setting up my new laptop with an SSD to use NILFS2 as its root filesystem and I'm very pleased with the performance. In an effort to get better support for NILFS2 in arch I've added a request to move nilfs-utils to the base group and submitted a patch to initscripts to bring

Re: [arch-general] Getting firefox to use the PDF I want?

2010-07-22 Thread Joe(theWordy)Philbrook
It would appear that on Jul 21, Magnus Therning did say: > After installing Gimp it became the default application for PDFs, > something I didn't really want. > How do I get firefox to use the correct application? It would appear that on Jul 21, Nilesh Govindarajan did say: > > Firefox->Edit-

Re: [arch-general] X11 forwarding: X Error: BadAccess (attempt to access private resource denied) 10

2010-07-22 Thread Guus Snijders
On 21-07-10 18:59, Mauro Santos wrote: On 07/21/2010 03:49 PM, David C. Rankin wrote: [...] For some reason, I recall copying some magic-cookie or maybe ICEAuthority from one box to the other. I wish I could find my notes. I'll google a bit more. If you think of anything else, let me kno

[arch-general] Clarfication request regarding mkinitcpio code

2010-07-22 Thread Dave Reisner
There's a few things in mkinitcpio I'd like to cleanup, but I need to have one issue clarified before I proceed. The header of mkinitcpio itself states that various parts need to run under Busybox's ash, and thus various standards need to be adhered to. However, the file itself sports a /bin/bash s

[arch-general] Hard lockups during boot

2010-07-22 Thread Chris Bannister
Hi, I used to use a zen kernel but that stopped working which is an unrelated story so I switched back to the Arch kernel, but im getting hardlocks during boot. It happened twice just now, first time was after ATA got init'd but before the SCSI came up. The second time it got to the waiting for ud

Re: [arch-general] simple iptabels question

2010-07-22 Thread Ashish SHUKLA
writes: > Hello, > I have a question on iptables. On the arch wiki, the tutorial on a simple > stateful firewall includes the creation of the following rule. > # iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --syn -m state --state NEW -j OPEN-TCP > Which, to my understanding, meant only pass new TCP streams with

[arch-general] Archlinux Wiki Backup

2010-07-22 Thread Francesco Turco
Hello, As I said in the forums (https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=94201), I started contributing to the wiki (minor edits for now), but I'm concerned about the absence of a proper way to obtain a snapshot of it for backup reasons. I looked at the arch-wiki-docs package, but it's onl

[arch-general] simple iptabels question

2010-07-22 Thread aerospace1028
Hello, I have a question on iptables. On the arch wiki, the tutorial on a simple stateful firewall includes the creation of the following rule. # iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --syn -m state --state NEW -j OPEN-TCP Which, to my understanding, meant only pass new TCP streams with the syn flag (the