Re: [arch-general] Adobe Releases New 64-bit Flash Plugin For Linux

2010-09-16 Thread Madhurya Kakati
On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 5:44 PM, Denis A. Altoé Falqueto wrote: > On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 9:10 AM, Rafael Beraldo > wrote: >> You may have seen this, however it is interesting to spread the word: >> http://linux.slashdot.org/story/10/09/16/0340226/Adobe-Releases-New-64-bit-Flash-Plugin-For-Linux

Re: [arch-general] Adobe Releases New 64-bit Flash Plugin For Linux

2010-09-16 Thread Robert Howard
Sadly, I won't be able to ditch adobe until gnash or lightspark supports flex fully. This day may never come. > I know it doesn't adress the problem with flash, but are a side note. Most > of us only use flash in order to view flash videos, an most of the time we > also would like to download them.

Re: [arch-general] Adobe Releases New 64-bit Flash Plugin For Linux

2010-09-16 Thread Christian Larsson
I know it doesn't adress the problem with flash, but are a side note. Most of us only use flash in order to view flash videos, an most of the time we also would like to download them. For this ytmp ( http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=40172) is a great substitute and let you view the videos i

Re: [arch-general] kernel compilation makeflags

2010-09-16 Thread Matthew Monaco
On 09/16/2010 10:27 PM, Ng Oon-Ee wrote: On Thu, 2010-09-16 at 21:25 -0400, Matthew Monaco wrote: When I am compiling the kernel (in the chroot). My -j4 makeflag is getting lost. Is this expected? Is it set in makepkg.conf within the chroot? Yes. I even threw it right in the PKGBUILD too to

Re: [arch-general] 'Local mirror' page was removed from wiki

2010-09-16 Thread Nathan Wayde
On 17/09/10 00:21, Ng Oon-Ee wrote: On Thu, 2010-09-16 at 16:16 -0700, Steve Holmes wrote: On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 09:54:16PM +0200, Stefan Erik Wilkens wrote: On 16/09/10 19:39, Matthew Gyurgyik wrote: you don't get to tell anyone how to use their bandwidth. But can we at least say that grab

Re: [arch-general] Adobe Releases New 64-bit Flash Plugin For Linux

2010-09-16 Thread Loui Chang
On Thu 16 Sep 2010 16:53 +0200, Linus Eklöf wrote: > What's kind of sad is that people support and use adobes flash. Gnash might > not work that well, but at least you'll kind of show support for free > software. What's really sad is that so many sites rely on flash in the first place.

Re: [arch-general] kernel compilation makeflags

2010-09-16 Thread Ng Oon-Ee
On Thu, 2010-09-16 at 21:25 -0400, Matthew Monaco wrote: > When I am compiling the kernel (in the chroot). My -j4 makeflag is getting > lost. > Is this expected? Is it set in makepkg.conf within the chroot?

[arch-general] kernel compilation makeflags

2010-09-16 Thread Matthew Monaco
When I am compiling the kernel (in the chroot). My -j4 makeflag is getting lost. Is this expected?

Re: [arch-general] Spell Checking in Emacs

2010-09-16 Thread Ashish SHUKLA
Steve Holmes writes: > Do I have to set up anything in advance in order to use ispell in > emacs with the aspell program? See the message below for the full > story. I can't get past this read-only problem. (setq ispell-program-name (executable-find "aspell")) HTH -- Ashish SHUKLA | GPG: F

Re: [arch-general] Spell Checking in Emacs

2010-09-16 Thread Steve Holmes
I found some more information concerning the ispell problem with emacs. It seems that if I do ispell-buffer, region, or word on clean data (correctly spelled), I don't get any errors in the mini buffer and in fact, ispell-word even tells me the word is correct. Fine - that works as it should. Ho

Re: [arch-general] 'Local mirror' page was removed from wiki

2010-09-16 Thread Ng Oon-Ee
On Thu, 2010-09-16 at 16:16 -0700, Steve Holmes wrote: > On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 09:54:16PM +0200, Stefan Erik Wilkens wrote: > > > On 16/09/10 19:39, Matthew Gyurgyik wrote: > > > you don't get to tell anyone how to use their bandwidth. > > > > But can we at least say that grabbing packages witho

Re: [arch-general] 'Local mirror' page was removed from wiki

2010-09-16 Thread Steve Holmes
On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 09:54:16PM +0200, Stefan Erik Wilkens wrote: > > On 16/09/10 19:39, Matthew Gyurgyik wrote: > > you don't get to tell anyone how to use their bandwidth. > > But can we at least say that grabbing packages without using them is > wasting mirror bandwidth, and thus not somethi

Re: [arch-general] 'Local mirror' page was removed from wiki

2010-09-16 Thread Stefan Erik Wilkens
> On 16/09/10 19:39, Matthew Gyurgyik wrote: > you don't get to tell anyone how to use their bandwidth. But can we at least say that grabbing packages without using them is wasting mirror bandwidth, and thus not something we want. In fact, something that should be frowned upon?

Re: [arch-general] 'Local mirror' page was removed from wiki

2010-09-16 Thread Tavian Barnes
>> You most certainly do not pay for the Mirror's bandwidth! Just look at >> this article: http://lwn.net/Articles/178618/ > > my contract said I paid for it... What? Sure, you may pay for n GB of download, but the mirror still has to pay for n GB of _upload_ in order to serve it to you. -- Tav

Re: [arch-general] 'Local mirror' page was removed from wiki

2010-09-16 Thread Nathan Wayde
On 16/09/10 20:10, Matthew Gyurgyik wrote: On 09/16/2010 02:59 PM, Nathan Wayde wrote: On 16/09/10 19:39, Matthew Gyurgyik wrote: [..] Ok a few things here 1. There are a *few* instances where having a local mirror is warranted not sure where you were going with that but i feel like you'

Re: [arch-general] Update: [semi-solved] community/e-svn 51937-1 BROKEN? themes fail screen resolution fail etc...

2010-09-16 Thread Joe(theWordy)Philbrook
It would appear that on Sep 16, David C. Rankin did say: > > Since you seem to like e17 themes, don't forget to check: > > http://verdegal37.deviantart.com/gallery/ > > Agust does most of the themes for e17-stuff.org Well it's not so much that I "LIKE" themes, as that I strongly dislike the d

Re: [arch-general] 'Local mirror' page was removed from wiki

2010-09-16 Thread Matthew Gyurgyik
On 09/16/2010 02:59 PM, Nathan Wayde wrote: On 16/09/10 19:39, Matthew Gyurgyik wrote: [..] Ok a few things here 1. There are a *few* instances where having a local mirror is warranted not sure where you were going with that but i feel like you've left a bit off of that sentence. 2.

Re: [arch-general] 'Local mirror' page was removed from wiki

2010-09-16 Thread Nathan Wayde
On 16/09/10 19:39, Matthew Gyurgyik wrote: [..] Ok a few things here 1. There are a *few* instances where having a local mirror is warranted not sure where you were going with that but i feel like you've left a bit off of that sentence. 2. There are many, many, many packages that are i

Re: [arch-general] 'Local mirror' page was removed from wiki

2010-09-16 Thread Matthew Gyurgyik
On 09/15/2010 12:20 AM, Fess wrote: On 19:13 Tue 14 Sep , C Anthony Risinger wrote: On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 2:27 PM, Nathan Wayde wrote: here's what I'd(and I imagine most others who know about sharing the cache) use a local mirror for: to be able to sync all other systems from it. plain and

Re: [arch-general] Adobe Releases New 64-bit Flash Plugin For Linux

2010-09-16 Thread Rafael Beraldo
On 16 September 2010 11:53, Linus Eklöf wrote: > What's kind of sad is that people support and use adobes flash. Gnash might > not work that well, but at least you'll kind of show support for free > software. > Yes, using proprietary software is kind of sad but neither Gnash or Lightspark are re

Re: [arch-general] Adobe Releases New 64-bit Flash Plugin For Linux

2010-09-16 Thread C Anthony Risinger
On Sep 16, 2010, at 10:19 AM, jesse jaara wrote: > 2010/9/16 Linus Eklöf > >> What's kind of sad is that people support and use adobes flash. >> Gnash might >> not work that well, but at least you'll kind of show support for free >> software. >> >> I would use gnash or lightspark, if they could

Re: [arch-general] Adobe Releases New 64-bit Flash Plugin For Linux

2010-09-16 Thread jesse jaara
2010/9/16 Linus Eklöf > What's kind of sad is that people support and use adobes flash. Gnash might > not work that well, but at least you'll kind of show support for free > software. > > I would use gnash or lightspark, if they could be used together whit adobes flash like having some white list

Re: [arch-general] Adobe Releases New 64-bit Flash Plugin For Linux

2010-09-16 Thread Linus Eklöf
What's kind of sad is that people support and use adobes flash. Gnash might not work that well, but at least you'll kind of show support for free software. On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 2:10 PM, Rafael Beraldo wrote: > You may have seen this, however it is interesting to spread the word: > > http://li

Re: [arch-general] Adobe Releases New 64-bit Flash Plugin For Linux

2010-09-16 Thread Dave Reisner
On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 09:14:22AM -0300, Denis A. Altoé Falqueto wrote: > On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 9:10 AM, Rafael Beraldo > wrote: > > You may have seen this, however it is interesting to spread the word: > > http://linux.slashdot.org/story/10/09/16/0340226/Adobe-Releases-New-64-bit-Flash-Plugin-

Re: [arch-general] Adobe Releases New 64-bit Flash Plugin For Linux

2010-09-16 Thread Denis A . Altoé Falqueto
On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 9:10 AM, Rafael Beraldo wrote: > You may have seen this, however it is interesting to spread the word: > http://linux.slashdot.org/story/10/09/16/0340226/Adobe-Releases-New-64-bit-Flash-Plugin-For-Linux > >

[arch-general] Adobe Releases New 64-bit Flash Plugin For Linux

2010-09-16 Thread Rafael Beraldo
You may have seen this, however it is interesting to spread the word: http://linux.slashdot.org/story/10/09/16/0340226/Adobe-Releases-New-64-bit-Flash-Plugin-For-Linux I hope this comes to the reposi

Re: [arch-general] [namcap] [PATCH] Check for packages that should be 'any'

2010-09-16 Thread Dan McGee
On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 7:47 PM, David Campbell wrote: > If a package has no elf files but is not 'any', throw a warning saying that > the package could be 'any'. > --- >  Namcap/anyelf.py |   18 ++ >  namcap-tags      |    1 + >  2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) >

[arch-general] There's no need for acpid

2010-09-16 Thread Lukas Grässlin
Hi there, I discussed with someone else in an IRC channel that actually I have to use acpid for laptop-mode-tools if I want to have settings changed when I plug in AC. Well, actually there is no need of acpid for this. A simply shell script can do the same: #!/bin/bash while read event; do