[arch-general] Does Anyone have a "dial-in' server working on arch with pppd?

2010-09-29 Thread David C. Rankin
Guys, In the past I have set up 'dial-in' servers in my home to share the cable internet connection when I'm at sites with no internet connections. This has worked great for years on SuSE. The way it works is: ___ _ | other box

Re: [arch-general] Ugh.. It's Official -- OpenOffice is forked -- LibreOffice

2010-09-29 Thread Robert Howard
I personally never liked the OpenOffice.org moniker. Always felt like it was too long and just plain ugly. On Sep 29, 2010 3:48 PM, "Jeff Cook" wrote: > On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 11:38 AM, Guus Snijders wrote: >> On 29-09-10 05:24, David C. Rankin wrote: >>> >>> Guys, >>> >>> For those that rely o

Re: [arch-general] Problems mountig ftp/smb via gvfs

2010-09-29 Thread b1
On Wed, 2010-09-29 at 18:22 -0600, J. W. Birdsong wrote: > On 09/29/10 at 10:44pm, b1 wrote: > > Hello altogether > > > > Today I ran into the following problem: > > When I try to connect to an ftp Server via the "connect to Server > > Dialog" in Nautilus, the ftp Server gets mounted. Unfortunatel

Re: [arch-general] kernel26-headers breaks VMWare and VirtualBox

2010-09-29 Thread Gan Lu
On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 3:34 AM, Fess wrote: > On 06:52 Wed 29 Sep , Ng Oon-Ee wrote: >> On Tue, 2010-09-28 at 14:44 -0700, John Holbrook wrote: >> > Thanks. I just found it in testing. Install fixed my problem. Very >> > frustrating though. >> >> Kernel updates always go through [testing] first.

Re: [arch-general] [signoff] kernel26 2.6.35.7-1

2010-09-29 Thread David C. Rankin
successful reboot today > is here: > > [63k] > http://www.3111skyline.com/dl/Archlinux/bugs/everything-20100929.log.bz2 > > or > > [1M - but should be delivered compressed by apache2 anyway] > http://www.3111skyline.com/dl/Archlinux/bugs/everything-20100929.log

Re: [arch-general] Problems mountig ftp/smb via gvfs

2010-09-29 Thread J. W. Birdsong
On 09/29/10 at 10:44pm, b1 wrote: > Hello altogether > > Today I ran into the following problem: > When I try to connect to an ftp Server via the "connect to Server > Dialog" in Nautilus, the ftp Server gets mounted. Unfortunatelly there > are no files in the newly created mountpoint. I also looke

Re: [arch-general] Ugh.. It's Official -- OpenOffice is forked -- LibreOffice

2010-09-29 Thread Ng Oon-Ee
On Thu, 2010-09-30 at 00:31 +0300, Cristopher Thomas wrote: > On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 10:39, Dieter Plaetinck wrote: > > PS: hundreds of people are following this mailing list, so every mail > > you send ends up in all those peoples mailboxes, maybe you can restrict > > your emails to the more use

Re: [arch-general] kernel26-headers breaks VMWare and VirtualBox

2010-09-29 Thread Ng Oon-Ee
On Wed, 2010-09-29 at 14:04 -0600, Gary Wright wrote: > On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 1:34 PM, Fess wrote: > > On 06:52 Wed 29 Sep , Ng Oon-Ee wrote: > >> On Tue, 2010-09-28 at 14:44 -0700, John Holbrook wrote: > >> > Thanks. I just found it in testing. Install fixed my problem. Very > >> > frustrating

Re: [arch-general] ProFTPD and Archlinux

2010-09-29 Thread Christian
Hi, On 2010-09-29 at 18:26 Facundo Andrés Bianco wrote: >2010/9/29 Christian : >> >> >> >> On 2010-09-29 at 18:07 Facundo Andrés Bianco wrote: >> >>>2010/9/29 Christian : Hi all, I haven't been using Archlinux for that long so I apologize for the >>>questions. I have been using Pro

Re: [arch-general] [signoff] kernel26 2.6.35.7-1

2010-09-29 Thread David C. Rankin
atavistic issue described previously with 2.6.35.5-1. that appeared fixed in 2.6.35.6-1 but strikes back in 2.6.35.7-1. everything.log showing both failed init on 9/27 and successful reboot today is here: [63k] http://www.3111skyline.com/dl/Archlinux/bugs/everything-20100929.log.bz2 or [1M

Re: [arch-general] Ugh.. It's Official -- OpenOffice is forked -- LibreOffice

2010-09-29 Thread David C. Rankin
On 09/29/2010 09:30 AM, John Holbrook wrote: > I know a fork can be a pain but why do you say "Ugh"? > > When the project was under Sun they maintained way too tight of > control over everything and they really didn't get the whole Open > Source philosophy. > > Under Oracle? Well, we've seen what

Re: [arch-general] Ugh.. It's Official -- OpenOffice is forked -- LibreOffice

2010-09-29 Thread Cristopher Thomas
On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 10:39, Dieter Plaetinck wrote: > PS: hundreds of people are following this mailing list, so every mail > you send ends up in all those peoples mailboxes, maybe you can restrict > your emails to the more useful stuff. As you clearly see this as an obscene transgression and

Re: [arch-general] ProFTPD and Archlinux

2010-09-29 Thread Facundo Andrés Bianco
2010/9/29 Christian : > > > > On 2010-09-29 at 18:07 Facundo Andrés Bianco wrote: > >>2010/9/29 Christian : >>> Hi all, >>> I haven't been using Archlinux for that long so I apologize for the >>questions. I have been using ProFTPD on Debian and that was running as >>it's own user and that was set

Re: [arch-general] Ugh.. It's Official -- OpenOffice is forked -- LibreOffice

2010-09-29 Thread Philipp Überbacher
Excerpts from Dieter Plaetinck's message of 2010-09-29 09:39:07 +0200: > On Tue, 28 Sep 2010 22:24:36 -0500 > "David C. Rankin" wrote: > > > Guys, > > > > For those that rely on OpenOffice, and for those that prepare > > the packages, it's official, OpenOffice forked as of Sept. 28, 2010. >

Re: [arch-general] ProFTPD and Archlinux

2010-09-29 Thread Christian
On 2010-09-29 at 18:07 Facundo Andrés Bianco wrote: >2010/9/29 Christian : >> Hi all, >> I haven't been using Archlinux for that long so I apologize for the >questions. I have been using ProFTPD on Debian and that was running as >it's own user and that was set up automatically, but I don't fin

Re: [arch-general] ProFTPD and Archlinux

2010-09-29 Thread Facundo Andrés Bianco
2010/9/29 Christian : > Hi all, > I haven't been using Archlinux for that long so I apologize for the > questions. I have been using ProFTPD on Debian and that was running as it's > own user and that was set up automatically, but I don't find any instructions > on the Arch wiki to set up proftpd

[arch-general] ProFTPD and Archlinux

2010-09-29 Thread Christian
Hi all, I haven't been using Archlinux for that long so I apologize for the questions. I have been using ProFTPD on Debian and that was running as it's own user and that was set up automatically, but I don't find any instructions on the Arch wiki to set up proftpd, only a description of it. Any

[arch-general] Problems mountig ftp/smb via gvfs

2010-09-29 Thread b1
Hello altogether Today I ran into the following problem: When I try to connect to an ftp Server via the "connect to Server Dialog" in Nautilus, the ftp Server gets mounted. Unfortunatelly there are no files in the newly created mountpoint. I also looked manually in the .gvfs/FTPSERVERNAME/ Directo

Re: [arch-general] kernel26-headers breaks VMWare and VirtualBox

2010-09-29 Thread Gary Wright
On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 1:34 PM, Fess wrote: > On 06:52 Wed 29 Sep , Ng Oon-Ee wrote: >> On Tue, 2010-09-28 at 14:44 -0700, John Holbrook wrote: >> > Thanks. I just found it in testing. Install fixed my problem. Very >> > frustrating though. >> >> Kernel updates always go through [testing] first.

Re: [arch-general] Ugh.. It's Official -- OpenOffice is forked -- LibreOffice

2010-09-29 Thread Jeff Cook
On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 11:38 AM, Guus Snijders wrote: > On 29-09-10 05:24, David C. Rankin wrote: >> >> Guys, >> >> For those that rely on OpenOffice, and for those that prepare the >> packages, it's official, OpenOffice forked as of Sept. 28, 2010. Here >> is the press release: >> >> http://www.

Re: [arch-general] kernel26-headers breaks VMWare and VirtualBox

2010-09-29 Thread Fess
On 06:52 Wed 29 Sep , Ng Oon-Ee wrote: > On Tue, 2010-09-28 at 14:44 -0700, John Holbrook wrote: > > Thanks. I just found it in testing. Install fixed my problem. Very > > frustrating though. > > Kernel updates always go through [testing] first. Last 2 or 3 new kernels brought us pain. Maybe deve

Re: [arch-general] Asterisk on Archlinux

2010-09-29 Thread Christian
Hi, On 2010-09-29 at 18:28 Paulo Santos wrote: >If you install the dependencies of the AUR's package [1] you should be >able to compile it yourself from source. > >If you want DAHDI, you should install it before Asterisk so it detects >it and compiles the channel drivers. > >[1] http://aur.arch

Re: [arch-general] Ugh.. It's Official -- OpenOffice is forked -- LibreOffice

2010-09-29 Thread Guus Snijders
On 29-09-10 05:24, David C. Rankin wrote: Guys, For those that rely on OpenOffice, and for those that prepare the packages, it's official, OpenOffice forked as of Sept. 28, 2010. Here is the press release: http://www.documentfoundation.org/contact/tdf_release.html Thanks David, i had seen the

Re: [arch-general] Asterisk on Archlinux

2010-09-29 Thread Paulo Santos
Christian wrote: > OK, what will I need to compile it fro msource on Arch? > I have been trying to do it, but no luck. If you install the dependencies of the AUR's package [1] you should be able to compile it yourself from source. If you want DAHDI, you should install it before Asterisk so it det

Re: [arch-general] Asterisk on Archlinux

2010-09-29 Thread Christian
Hi, On 2010-09-29 at 17:03 Paulo Santos wrote: >Christian wrote: >> Souns great! Did you install it from the aur or from the source? > >At first I tried the AUR version. Now I use one built from source so I >could cusomize, also with DAHDI, without any problems. > >Florian Pritz wrote: >> Please

Re: [arch-general] Asterisk on Archlinux

2010-09-29 Thread Paulo Santos
Christian wrote: > Souns great! Did you install it from the aur or from the source? At first I tried the AUR version. Now I use one built from source so I could cusomize, also with DAHDI, without any problems. Florian Pritz wrote: > Please make sure your mail client adds the Message-ID header to

Re: [arch-general] Asterisk on Archlinux

2010-09-29 Thread Florian Pritz
On 29.09.2010 16:45, Christian wrote: > Hi, > Souns great! Did you install it from the aur or from the source? > > -Original Message- > From: Paulo Santos > Sent: den 29 september 2010 15:37 > To: General Discussion about Arch Linux > Subject: Re: [arch-general] Asterisk on Archlinux >

Re: [arch-general] Asterisk on Archlinux

2010-09-29 Thread Christian
Hi, Souns great! Did you install it from the aur or from the source? -Original Message- From: Paulo Santos Sent: den 29 september 2010 15:37 To: General Discussion about Arch Linux Subject: Re: [arch-general] Asterisk on Archlinux Christian wrote: > Is anyone on this list running the la

Re: [arch-general] Ugh.. It's Official -- OpenOffice is forked -- LibreOffice

2010-09-29 Thread John Holbrook
I know a fork can be a pain but why do you say "Ugh"? When the project was under Sun they maintained way too tight of control over everything and they really didn't get the whole Open Source philosophy. Under Oracle? Well, we've seen what they've done with OpenSolaris I think that Oracle is

Re: [arch-general] Asterisk on Archlinux

2010-09-29 Thread Paulo Santos
Christian wrote: > Is anyone on this list running the latest Asteriisk with or without dahdi? I'm running Asterisk 1.6 with DAHDI 2.4. Works perfectly.

[arch-general] Asterisk on Archlinux

2010-09-29 Thread Christian
Hi all, Is anyone on this list running the latest Asteriisk with or without dahdi? Many thanks, Christian

Re: [arch-general] Best Practices...

2010-09-29 Thread Pierre Chapuis
On Tue, 28 Sep 2010 18:41:20 +0300, Ionu?^? Bîru wrote: > use abs to recompile mplayer against x264-git That would be a good solution for most packages but in this case you should be aware that: - x264 is used only for video encoding, not decoding, so unless you encode videos you simply do

Re: [arch-general] [signoff] kernel26 2.6.35.7-1

2010-09-29 Thread Roman Kyrylych
On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 11:08, Tobias Powalowski wrote: > Latest kernel is in testing, > please signoff for both arches. Booted successfully via pv-grub under Xen. Sign off x86_64. -- Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)

[arch-general] [signoff] kernel26 2.6.35.7-1

2010-09-29 Thread Tobias Powalowski
Latest kernel is in testing, please signoff for both arches. greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tp...@archlinux.org signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [arch-general] Ugh.. It's Official -- OpenOffice is forked -- LibreOffice

2010-09-29 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Tue, 28 Sep 2010 22:24:36 -0500 "David C. Rankin" wrote: > Guys, > > For those that rely on OpenOffice, and for those that prepare > the packages, it's official, OpenOffice forked as of Sept. 28, 2010. > Here is the press release: > > http://www.documentfoundation.org/contact/tdf_relea