Re: [arch-general] Any particular reason for daily imagemagick updates?

2019-03-05 Thread james harvey via arch-general
On Tue, Mar 5, 2019 at 8:25 PM David C. Rankin wrote: > > On 03/05/2019 05:39 PM, Joel Klinghed wrote: > > Well, the changelog (https://www.imagemagick.org/script/changelog.php) > > is fairly clear about the upstream release cycle: > > > > 2019-03-05 7.0.8-32 > > 2019-03-04 7.0.8-31 > > 2019-03-03

[arch-general] Any objections to asking vim to fix PKGBUILD syntax highlighting?

2019-03-05 Thread james harvey via arch-general
I'd like to post the following issue at: https://github.com/vim/vim/issues/new Wanted to see if there were any objections from staff, like if even though the error highlighting is technically wrong, if it's desired to be left as-is to discourage 'pkgname' being a single element array or 'SKIP' usa

Re: [arch-general] If you have a SuperMicro board....

2018-10-05 Thread james harvey via arch-general
On Fri, Oct 5, 2018 at 8:36 PM David C. Rankin wrote: > > Worth passing along: > > We can now add motherboard stealth chips to the list of security concerns > > > https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-10-04/the-big-hack-how-china-used-a-tiny-chip-to-infiltrate-america-s-top-companies I d

[arch-general] JOB | Permanent Database Engineer (the Netherlands or remote)

2017-09-04 Thread James Tobin via arch-general
. Kind regards, James

[arch-general] Permanent job in Tokyo, Japan

2016-11-24 Thread James Tobin via arch-general
be reached using "JamesBTobin (at) Gmail (dot) Com". Kind regards, James

[arch-general] lost thunderbird icon

2015-11-27 Thread James
I lost the thunderbird icon from the lxde menu.

Re: [arch-general] unable to load virtualbox kernel module

2015-08-24 Thread James
On 08/24/15 19:00, Sean Greenslade wrote: On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 06:52:43PM -0400, James wrote: I just installed virtualbox yesterday and I rebooted and can't load the kernel module. I reinstalled the package: $ sudo pacman -S virtualbox-host-modules (1/1) reinstalling virtualbox

[arch-general] unable to load virtualbox kernel module

2015-08-24 Thread James
I just installed virtualbox yesterday and I rebooted and can't load the kernel module. I reinstalled the package: $ sudo pacman -S virtualbox-host-modules (1/1) reinstalling virtualbox-host-modules [##] 100% In order to use the new version, reload all virtualbox

Re: [arch-general] filezilla won't start

2015-08-23 Thread James
On 08/23/15 19:03, Sebastiaan Lokhorst wrote: 2015-08-24 0:37 GMT+02:00 James : I did a fresh install of filezilla and tried to start it but it didn't start. filezilla-3.12.0.2-1 Here's a picture: http://lockie.ca/test/filezilla_017.png This is a bug that has been fi

[arch-general] filezilla won't start

2015-08-23 Thread James
I did a fresh install of filezilla and tried to start it but it didn't start. filezilla-3.12.0.2-1 Here's a picture: http://lockie.ca/test/filezilla_017.png

Re: [arch-general] Komodo Edit

2015-08-23 Thread James
On 08/23/15 09:35, LoneVVolf wrote: On 22-08-15 17:13, James wrote: I installed Komodo Edit and I want to put a quick launch button on my task bar but it doesn't show up in the list of "installed applications". That is weird because it shows up in the "Menu" in t

[arch-general] Komodo Edit

2015-08-22 Thread James
I installed Komodo Edit and I want to put a quick launch button on my task bar but it doesn't show up in the list of "installed applications". That is weird because it shows up in the "Menu" in the "Programming" section. I use lxde.

Re: [arch-general] vlc core dumps

2015-07-01 Thread James
have any weird kernel modifications or sound drivers? Also do you have any files (specifically, not other directories) in your home directory? Thanks, Luna On 7/1/2015 8:54 PM, James wrote: I can play files but it core dumps when I open my home directory. Any suggestions? $ vlc VLC media pla

[arch-general] vlc core dumps

2015-07-01 Thread James
I can play files but it core dumps when I open my home directory. Any suggestions? $ vlc VLC media player 2.2.1 Terry Pratchett (Weatherwax) (revision 2.2.1-0-ga425c42) [01616168] pulse audio output error: PulseAudio server connection failure: Connection refused [01519148] cor

Re: [arch-general] usbmon

2015-06-08 Thread James
On 06/08/15 13:38, Lukas Jirkovsky wrote: On 8 June 2015 at 19:28, James wrote: I'm having lots of resets on my backup USB3 drive for no reason. A lot of resets with no reason. You need to enable debugging for the storage driver. A usbmon trace would be easier to read and just as

[arch-general] usbmon

2015-06-08 Thread James
I'm having lots of resets on my backup USB3 drive for no reason. A lot of resets with no reason. You need to enable debugging for the storage driver. A usbmon trace would be easier to read and just as good for debugging. I searched for the usbmon package but I only found this from 2011: ht

[arch-general] lxde setting problems

2015-06-06 Thread James
1. Pressing the printscreen button opens an openbox dialog that says it couldn't execute gnome-screenshot. I don't use gnome and I don't want printscreen to do anything. 2. I use lxde and I like my task bar at the top of the screen. There is always a pixel above the open tasks so I can't just mo

[arch-general] no screen grabber

2015-05-22 Thread James
$ sudo pacman --sync screengrab error: target not found: screengrab https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/screengrab/ Are the official packages binary packages and the AUR is compiling from source? That's what it seems like. How do I search for a binary screen grabber package?

Re: [arch-general] SSH security

2015-01-06 Thread Bigby James
On 01/06, Ido Rosen wrote: > Or would this be something worthy of an AUR package? That would be the way to go. Arch only ships vanialla packages where possible; a third-party patch from some stranger's blog won't make it into the official package. Before going ahead with that, though, a note: I'm

Re: [arch-general] Booting ArchLinux with `initscripts` is now broken

2014-12-19 Thread Bigby James
I can't help with your specific problems, but an Archer has been maintaining a functional collection of SysV init scripts since the systemd switch. You might consider installing those.[1][2] [1]: https://bitbucket.org/TZ86/initscripts-fork/overview [2]: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/initscrip

Re: [arch-general] systemd upgrade - run mkinitcpio automaitcally

2014-12-19 Thread Bigby James
On 12/18, Troy Engel wrote: > Does it matter? No. Arch has been running on systemd for two years now, and udev has been part of systemd for most of that time. If this were a problem, we'd know by now. -- "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof i

Re: [arch-general] mpv in [community] compiled against different version of ffmpeg than in [testing]

2014-12-06 Thread Bigby James
On 12/06, Florian Pritz wrote: > On 05.12.2014 22:32, Bigby James wrote: Thanks for clearing that up. Wasn't sure exactly what the development flow was there. -- "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuit

Re: [arch-general] mpv in [community] compiled against different version of ffmpeg than in [testing]

2014-12-05 Thread Bigby James
On 12/05, Savya wrote: > I was running mpv from the terminal today, and I got an unexpected > message: > > "Warning: mpv was compiled against a different version of ffmpeg than > the shared library it is linked against. This can expose subtle ABI > compatibility issues and can lead to misbehaviour

Re: [arch-general] ibus

2014-12-05 Thread Bigby James
On 12/05, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > Hi Marcel, hi Rasmus :) > > On Fri, 05 Dec 2014 14:34:29 +0100, Marcel Röthke wrote: > > You can remove all unneeded dependencies with the following command. > > "pacman -Qdtq | pacman -Rs -" > > Some unneeded packages might be build time dependencies, I don't want

Re: [arch-general] PS: Virtualbox downgrade - Was: FS#41424 - Virtualbox 4.3.14, USB doesn't work flawlessly

2014-11-22 Thread Bigby James
On 11/22, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > Unfortunately downgrading virtualbox (dkms) doesn't work with the current > kernel > version, IMO this is something completely different. I can downgrade, because > I > use other kernels too. You're saying that running 'dkms autoinstall' after downgrading Virtual

Re: [arch-general] PS: Virtualbox downgrade - Was: FS#41424 - Virtualbox 4.3.14, USB doesn't work flawlessly

2014-11-22 Thread Bigby James
On 11/22, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > Still odd that we still have a broken virtualbox package in the > repositories. When there's no interest to stay with a stable version, > then perhaps virtualbox should be dropped from the repositories and > become an AUR package. Following upstream when the softwar

Re: [arch-general] Plasma 5 - how to start afresh

2014-10-19 Thread Bigby James
On 10/19, Bhushan Shah wrote: > Hello! > > KF5/Plasma 5 settings are stored in to XDG_CONFIG_HOME. so if this > variable is not set you can clear ~/.config and ~/.cache.. Woah, why would you ever advise anyone to delete the entire ~/.config and ~/.cache directories? They want to reset their KDE

Re: [arch-general] HD Videos

2014-10-09 Thread James Bulmer
I think you need gst-libav <https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/gst-libav/> gst-plugins-good <https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/gst-plugins-good/> for the h.264 playback -- James On 10/09/2014 04:31 PM, Hong Shick Pak wrote: > On 10/09, Heiko Becker wro

Re: [arch-general] HD Videos

2014-10-09 Thread James Bulmer
Are you using the flash player or html5 player on youtube? What browser? -- James On 10/09/2014 04:13 PM, Heiko Becker wrote: > Replying to both: > > 1. My bandwidth did not change. On Windows 8.1 (on the same Laptop :D) > I am able to watch the videos in 1080p > > 2. I open

Re: [arch-general] Location of the pacman database

2014-09-14 Thread Bigby James
On 09/14, Tobias Hunger wrote: > > Factory reset is great, especially for a distro involving a lot of > manual tweaking like arch:-) > With factory reset you always know how to undo your own changes, > getting back to the > default state. That works for either all changes ever done to the > system

Re: [arch-general] Meetup in Paris

2014-08-29 Thread James Bulmer
When a meetup in London? On 08/29/2014 04:44 PM, tlux wrote: > On 29/08, Yamakaky wrote: >> Too bad, I'm not in Paris... > Same here, when a meet up in Switzerland?

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] systemd 216 coming soon to testing

2014-08-21 Thread Bigby James
> > It seems this is just a change in the default settings, nothing more. > > I know, but not everyone follows systemd-devel. So, just updating systemd > would > lead to syslog "mysteriously" not logging anything... Sure, *if* you didn't already explicity set journald to use an external logging

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] systemd 216 coming soon to testing

2014-08-21 Thread Bigby James
On 08/20, Leonid Isaev wrote: > > This changelog says that: > * journald will no longer forward all local data to another running syslog > daemon. This change has been made because rsyslog (which appears to be the > most commonly used syslog implementation these days) no longer makes use of >

Re: [arch-general] Arch curiosity

2014-08-19 Thread James
on top of btrfs later, unless that is what folks interested in distributed/cluster computing are already doing on Arch? (Arch) Birds of a feather on mesos et. al. ? James

[arch-general] Arch curiosity

2014-08-19 Thread James
ons I can devote to the dual purpose of cluster building/testing under arch linux. Last, I'm curious as to future arch plans, if any, to support the newest AMD_arm64 server processors? [1] James [1] http://www.forbes.com/sites/marcochiappetta/2014/07/31/amd-opteron-64-bit-arm-based-seattl

Re: [arch-general] Manual for Samsung Chromebook Needed

2014-08-08 Thread Bigby James
On 08/08, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > I'm investigating installing Arch Linux on a Samsung Chromebook, model > xe303c12-a01us, as described on the Arch Wiki page > > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Samsung_Chromebook_%28ARM% > 29 . > > To do this it would be useful to have the

Re: [arch-general] yaourt - tmpfs error: No space left on device

2014-07-18 Thread Bigby James
On 07/18, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > [rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ grep tmp /etc/fstab > #tmpfs /tmp tmpfs nodev,nosuid,size=3G 0 0 > > It's commented out, but I once had to use it and it solved the issue for > me. systemd will allocate /tmp to a ramdisk by default, whether you spe

Re: [arch-general] Change installation from 64-bit to 32-bit

2014-07-10 Thread Bigby James
On 07/11, Friedrich Strohmaier wrote: > Hi all, > > I installed 64-bit arch on a low memory laptop (1G) not thinking about the > higher memory requirement. > > Now I wonder, whether I can approach to change it by changing the pacman.conf > entry > > Architecture = auto > to > Architecture = i686

Re: [arch-general] Gummiboot and EFISTUB booting irregularities

2014-07-10 Thread Bigby James
On 07/10, Mike Cloaked wrote: > On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 2:25 PM, Bigby James > wrote: > > > On 07/10, Murari wrote: > > > Thanks! It's nice (or maybe not...) to know that this is a problem with > > > only the EFI stub loader. I do have a standalone grub e

Re: [arch-general] Gummiboot and EFISTUB booting irregularities

2014-07-10 Thread Bigby James
On 07/10, Murari wrote: > Thanks! It's nice (or maybe not...) to know that this is a problem with > only the EFI stub loader. I do have a standalone grub entry which I haven't > used in ages. I guess I will just add that to the gummiboot menu as a > fallback and wait for the next kernel update. >

Re: [arch-general] Gummiboot and EFISTUB booting irregularities

2014-07-09 Thread Bigby James
On 07/09, Murari wrote: > When I start my laptop (or restart it) and select the Arch Linux entry in the > gummiboot menu, I sometimes only see a blank screen instead of any error > messages or any of the usual boot text. This is a known issue, and yes, it's hard to describe or pin down. Some UEF

Re: [arch-general] Bring back the old X11 values

2014-06-13 Thread Bigby James
On 06/13, Dimitris Zervas wrote: > > Not helping... :/ > The new mouse movement and keyboard repeat speeds aren't to your taste. You want the old ones back. Questions: 1) Do you know what the old settings were? Kind of moot to ask for help and then give such a vacuous response when help is of

Re: [arch-general] Network configuration

2014-06-13 Thread Bigby James
On 06/13, Yamakaky wrote: > Hi all > > I write you this mail because I'm a bit lost between all these network > configuration tools available : > > - systemd-networkd > - dhcpcd service > - netctl > - wpa_supplicant > - NetworkManager/wicd > > There is two profiles I use now : a laptop (wif

Re: [arch-general] Odd Problem After Install

2014-06-11 Thread Bigby James
On 06/11, Hunter Jozwiak wrote: > After a system update this morning, it now works. It was likely a > broken package in Gnome, since many Gnome packages got updated. > Good to hear. Just remember in the future to let folks know what behavior you expect to see, or what you're trying to accomplish

Re: [arch-general] Odd Problem After Install

2014-06-11 Thread Bigby James
On 06/10, Hunter Jozwiak wrote: > There are, in fact, lines below the cleaning status. Looks > to me like part of the init process: I see a two lines from netctl > saying that it is restoring my profile, another saying that I've > reached the default user runlevel, and another that says starting >

Re: [arch-general] Recommended reading for Shell expansion mechanism

2014-05-30 Thread Bigby James
On 05/30, Heiko Becker wrote: > Hi all, > > as I'm trying to give shell programming and things like that a start, I have > a short question related to the shell expansion: > > I heard that it is possible to exclude things after using a wildcard like > ./* for every file in the current directory.

Re: [arch-general] QEMU bug report

2014-05-27 Thread Bigby James
On 05/27, Steven Honeyman wrote: > Sorry if this sounds a little rude, but could someone please actually > read this bug report before it just gets closed? > > https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/40571 > > (it has already been flagged for closure - wrongly or without good reason) > > Thanks, > Steve

Re: [arch-general] Why is it dangerous to run makepkg as root?

2014-05-19 Thread Bigby James
On 05/17, Bardur Arantsson wrote: > On 2014-05-17 22:08, Bardur Arantsson wrote: > > Hm. Rethinking this I was going to say something about listing (and > screening) all the files that a package *would* install, but it seems > that it's not possible to list files installed by a package before > ins

Re: [arch-general] Why is it dangerous to run makepkg as root?

2014-05-19 Thread Bigby James
On 05/18, Oon-Ee Ng wrote: > On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 12:57 AM, Bigby James > wrote: > > On 05/17, Dimitris Zervas wrote: > >> On May 17, 2014 5:22:32 PM EEST, Roland Tapken wrote: > >> > >> BTW: Another good idea that would be helpful is add comments on

Re: [arch-general] Why is it dangerous to run makepkg as root?

2014-05-17 Thread Bigby James
On 05/17, Dimitris Zervas wrote: > On May 17, 2014 5:22:32 PM EEST, Roland Tapken wrote: > > BTW: Another good idea that would be helpful is add comments on installed > packages on pacman. e.g. why did you install them. But that's another thread > No offense, but if you need to ask yourself why

Re: [arch-general] X11vnc in xbmc archlinux

2014-04-07 Thread Bigby James
On Mon, Apr 07, 2014 at 01:06:06PM +0200, Maykel Franco wrote: > 2014-04-07 13:00 GMT+02:00 ger...@gmail.com : > > I need start x11vnc when computer boot... > > Sorry for my english. > > Thanks for your response. -- "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Trimming down our default kernel configuration

2014-03-28 Thread Bigby James
On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 12:01:06PM +0100, Martti Kühne wrote: > I'm very much for cleaning up the kernel config from things that > factually are useless. > "Factually useless" is not a subjective standard by which to measure things. If you don't personally configure the features in question by in

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Trimming down our default kernel configuration

2014-03-28 Thread Bigby James
On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 03:05:25PM +0100, Martti Kühne wrote: > Well, they came in when people argued in favor of them. [0] > > [0] > https://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-general/2013-November/034385.html That entire thread regards the userspace packages and the kludge of a policy that a

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Trimming down our default kernel configuration

2014-03-28 Thread Bigby James
On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 12:54:44PM +0200, Arthur Țițeică wrote: > It raises a question mark that the two most important components of a system > (systemd and the kernel) have security measures disabled. > > People in this thread like to put out the over subjective "lightweight" > factor > but s

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Trimming down our default kernel configuration

2014-03-27 Thread Bigby James
On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 09:07:23AM +0100, Nicolas Iooss wrote: > > Here are three arguments to motivate my disagreement. > > * First, removing LSM support makes it difficult for users to test > LSM. Before 3.13 kernel, users needed to recompile their kernel (or to > install linux-selinux AUR pack

Re: [arch-general] Problems of using pacman and updating the filesystem

2014-03-07 Thread Bigby James
On Sat, Mar 08, 2014 at 03:56:28AM +, Cao, Renzhi (MU-Student) wrote: > I plan to use : > dd if=/dev/hda bs=512 count=1 2>&1 | grep GRUB > dd if=/dev/hda bs=512 count=1 2>&1 | grep LILO > > to check the bootloader I have. I am really new to arch linux, but I want to > fix that problem. It see

Re: [arch-general] netctl provides wifi-menu which is unusable

2014-02-26 Thread Bigby James
On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 08:56:34PM -0600, Garrett Hopper wrote: > This would be great. It's always annoyed me that it's sitting there > unusable. > I don't usually play this card, but netcl takes up 7 kilobytes of disk space---an infinitesimal amount relative to many core *NIX utils---and only run

Re: [arch-general] Error I trying update "pacman -Syu"

2014-02-25 Thread Bigby James
On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 09:36:54PM +0100, Maykel Franco wrote: > error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies) > :: haskell-haskeline: requires haskell-terminfo=0.3.2.5-3 The package "haskell-haskeline" depends on an earlier version of the package "haskell-terminfo" than th

Re: [arch-general] Forum registration requires INSANE captcha.

2014-02-11 Thread Bigby James
On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 08:27:15AM -0800, Curtis Shimamoto wrote: > On 02/11/14 at 10:11am, Bigby James wrote: > > On Mon Feb 10 12:20:45 EST 2014 Kyle wrote: > > > I'll take a little frustration of non-linux using normal > > > human beings over a captcha that compl

Re: [arch-general] Forum registration requires INSANE captcha.

2014-02-11 Thread Bigby James
On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 01:16:15AM +, Jeremy Nicoll - ml archlinux wrote: > WorMzy Tykashi wrote: > > >On 11 February 2014 00:00, Jeremy Nicoll - ml archlinux > > wrote: > >> > > > I've been lurking on this maillist for maybe a year, after reading > > > somewhere that Arch might be a good sol

Re: [arch-general] Ruby gem packages in Arch

2014-01-13 Thread Bigby James
On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 12:33:30PM +, Paul Gideon Dann wrote: > On Monday 13 Jan 2014 12:59:28 Maxime Gauduin wrote: > > IMHO, the reason why you would choose to use rubygem over pacman depends of > > how extensive a ruby user you are. I like to have gems handled by pacman, > > but I only use a

Re: [arch-general] LUKS emergency self-destruct

2014-01-13 Thread Bigby James
On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 11:57:28AM +0100, Paladin wrote: > Hi, > does anyone know if there is plan to implement this: > http://www.kali.org/how-to/emergency-self-destruction-luks-kali/ > in Arch? > > Patch https://github.com/offensive-security/cryptsetup-nuke-keys > is not too big and IMHO it woul

Re: [arch-general] Arch handbook as PDF

2013-02-14 Thread James Freer
y Dusty Phillips £8 on Amazon which is about what it would cost you to print out if there was a pdf file. james

Re: [arch-general] Still no word on Apache httpd 2.4

2012-10-26 Thread James Cleveland
On 26 October 2012 13:14, Pierre Schmitz wrote: > Am 26.10.2012 13:58, schrieb Florian Pritz: > > Some modules aren't compatible with 2.4. Around a month ago I heard at > > least mod_php and mod_fastcgi are having problems, but I don't know if > > those have been fixed yet. > > PHP supports Apach

Re: [arch-general] Iinstallation program

2012-09-21 Thread Bigby James
Please, please /please/ don't recommend spin-offs as "Arch Lite" or "Arch Made Easy" or anything like that. Neither Manjaro nor Chakra are closely related to Arch, and giving folks the impression that they are just leads them to ask for help on our forums--where they get the brush-off--and everyon

Re: [arch-general] SystemD poll

2012-08-28 Thread Bigby James
On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 5:06 AM, Kevin Chadwick wrote: > > Suppose for some reason the majority of scientists believe in the > > theory of the Big Bang. And then I come along and wonder... where is > > the evidence? Well, if the Big Bang theory has merits, there would be > > tons of evidence, and

Re: [arch-general] SystemD poll

2012-08-26 Thread Bigby James
On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 5:13 PM, Felipe Contreras < felipe.contre...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 6:30 PM, Bigby James wrote: > > > Having watched this thread (and the "Beware" thread) for some time, I can > > say without equivocation that Fel

Re: [arch-general] SystemD poll

2012-08-25 Thread Bigby James
On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 9:08 PM, Anthony ''Ishpeck'' Tedjamulia < archli...@ishpeck.net> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 10:03:44PM -0300, Denis A. Alto?? Falqueto wrote: > > You know that all this jibber-jabber could be easily avoided if you > > just asked for help or opened bug reports, don't y

Re: [arch-general] rc.local.shutdown equivalent in systemd

2012-07-23 Thread James Nelson
On 07/23/12 20:10, Manolo Martínez wrote: Hello, I've decided to try systemd and see for myself. Anyway, I need to remove a module before shutdown, which rc.local.shutdown did nicely for me. I know there is an initscripts-systemd packages that would allow me to keep using rc.local.shutdown, but

Re: [arch-general] Anything to manage user daemons?

2011-06-20 Thread James Rayner
On Mon, 20 Jun 2011 15:15 +0800, "XeCycle" wrote: > Hello. I need to start several programs after login and > after startx. Now I write these directly in my .bash_profile > and .xinitrc; but I'm not satisfied with this. They cannot > be easily stopped after logout. To do that I think I'd > record

Re: [arch-general] [netcfg] Getting rid of wireless_tools

2011-06-20 Thread James Rayner
On Sun, 19 Jun 2011 18:13 +0200, "Rémy Oudompheng" wrote: > Hello, > > wpa_supplicant is supposed to provide most of the wireless_tools > functionality. I have set up a branch of netcfg that replaces all uses > of wireless_tools by wpa_supplicant. > > http://projects.archlinux.org/users/remy/net

Re: [arch-general] netcfg 2.6 release

2011-06-20 Thread James Rayner
gt; >> wpa_actiond to manage (FS#23169) > > > > Should the syntax for this documented in the package somewhere? > > I try to keep the docs/ syntax as updated as possible. Are there > official webpages for projects? other than projects.archlinux.org? > > Rémy. The w

Re: [arch-general] [arch-announce] Deprecation of net-tools

2011-06-10 Thread James Rayner
On Fri, 10 Jun 2011 15:05 +0200, "Tom Gundersen" wrote: > On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 2:51 PM, James Rayner > wrote: > > The only reason net-tools was still a requirement was setting hostname. > > A change similar to initscripts [2] at line 121 of > > src/conn

Re: [arch-general] [arch-announce] Deprecation of net-tools

2011-06-10 Thread James Rayner
On Fri, 10 Jun 2011 08:19 +0200, "Rémy Oudompheng" wrote: > On 2011/6/9 Thomas S Hatch wrote: > > Does netcfg still need net-tools? or can it be an opt depends? It was my > > understanding that it only used ip unless specified otherwise. > > Actually, I think it only depends on net-tools because

Re: [arch-general] [arch-announce] Deprecation of net-tools

2011-06-09 Thread James Rayner
That is correct. net-utils could be made an optdepend, or the support could just be removed entirely. IIRC the iproute/netutils code was separate and equivalent. It's been a while since I've looked though. On Thu, 09 Jun 2011 15:11 -0600, "Thomas S Hatch" wrote: > Does netcfg still need net-tools

[arch-general] netcfg update & bug fixes

2010-11-20 Thread James Rayner
, but net-auto-wireless works on my laptop. James

[arch-general] libgrss, new to archlinux PKGBUILD

2010-04-24 Thread andrew james
low is a PKGBUILD that builds libgrss. the library was found as an optional dependency with tracker. http://live.gnome.org/Libgrss/ current vers 0.4.0 # Maintainer: andrew james pkgname=libgrss pkgver=0.4.0 pkgrel=1 pkgdesc="A library to ease management of RSS/Atom/Pie feeds" a

Re: [arch-general] f...@h Group Logo Missing

2010-04-05 Thread James Corley
I guess I should wrap this up by saying I did find the creator and the logo was changed. All is fixed. On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 10:48 AM, James Corley wrote: > I have found Pudge on the Arch Linux forum and have sent a message. This is > becoming a bit monologue-ish so if he isn't the

Re: [arch-general] f...@h Group Logo Missing

2010-03-30 Thread James Corley
logo change. On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 10:12 AM, James Corley wrote: > Does anyone know who Pudge is? > > > On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 9:10 PM, James Corley wrote: > >> I searched the forum and found this topic. >> http://foldingforum.org/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=4432&p=446

Re: [arch-general] f...@h Group Logo Missing

2010-03-30 Thread James Corley
Does anyone know who Pudge is? On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 9:10 PM, James Corley wrote: > I searched the forum and found this topic. > http://foldingforum.org/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=4432&p=44616 I think the > person who created the team manages the logo. It's most likely the per

Re: [arch-general] f...@h Group Logo Missing

2010-03-29 Thread James Corley
aintainer. On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 7:09 PM, Allan McRae wrote: > On 30/03/10 10:44, James Corley wrote: > >> The fold...@home Arch Linux group logo is missing. >> http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=teampage&teamnum=45032 >> > > You are best to tell

[arch-general] f...@h Group Logo Missing

2010-03-29 Thread James Corley
The fold...@home Arch Linux group logo is missing. http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=teampage&teamnum=45032

Re: [arch-general] HAL depreciation

2010-03-17 Thread James Rayner
On Wed, 17 Mar 2010 11:16 +0530, "Nilesh Govindarajan" wrote: > > I don't have seven mouse buttons. > The mouse and keyboard is already configured in xorg.conf using > drivers mouse and kbd. > If I stop hal, and then start Xorg, it doesn't work. I've to hard reset > my box. That's because you ha

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] initscripts hack-a-thon?

2010-03-02 Thread James Rayner
On Tue, 02 Mar 2010 23:29 +0100, "Xavier Chantry" wrote: > On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 11:40 AM, Pierre Schmitz > wrote: > > Am Dienstag, 2. März 2010 09:39:19 schrieb Thomas Bächler: > >> Personally, I would like to > >> remove everything but basic ethernet support from initscripts (that > >> would a

[arch-general] netcfg v2.5.2 in [core]

2010-02-18 Thread James Rayner
netcfg v2.5.2 This release brings a completely new auto wireless/wired configuration. The old net-auto is deprecated and no longer included. There are also some very minor configuration changes that may affect a few people. Move to new auto-wireless/wired The new automatic connection has proper r

Re: [arch-general] EEE 1000H - control of Wifi device

2010-02-18 Thread James Rayner
is deprecated, so I have some lofty plans to update netcfg to the rfkill tool in the next version. James

Re: [arch-general] mail client

2010-02-11 Thread andrew james
thank you for all the perspectives. fs, filesystem is raid10, ext4 for documents, mail. filesystem of system/programs is raid 1, ext4 it may try more switches to quicken the program. David, thank you for the reminder of userChrome.css. nobody wrote of the worst problem, inconsistent view

[arch-general] mail client

2010-02-10 Thread andrew james
i think I am soon tired of thunderbird 3.. I could revert to vers 2 but why is the newer vers slow, laggy, semi-stallish? has anyone else a funky thunderbird vers 3? any switch values to cause it to work quicker? alternatively, what is your favoured mail news client for POP3, IMAP, Syndi

Re: [arch-general] wkhtmltopdf

2010-02-10 Thread andrew james
On 02/06/2010 09:57 AM, Evangelos Foutras wrote: On 06/02/2010 01:58 μμ, richard terry wrote: Hi List/Evangelos: This is a really useful utility, I'd like to use it to join documents. It dosn't seem to be built against a 'patched version' of qt whatever that may mean.: "This version of wkhtml

Re: [arch-general] Netcfg after resume from suspend

2010-02-01 Thread James Rayner
On Sun, 31 Jan 2010 12:36 +0100, f...@kokkinizita.net wrote: > On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 11:37:54AM +1100, James Rayner wrote: > > On Sun, 31 Jan 2010 00:34 +0100, f...@kokkinizita.net wrote: > > > On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 05:00:04PM +0100, Thomas Bächler wrote: > > >

Re: [arch-general] Netcfg after resume from suspend

2010-01-30 Thread James Rayner
's already available in the current [core] release too. Have a look at /etc/network.d/examples/ethernet-iproute. You can pass an array of iproute options. The example there only sets a static ip and default route, but you can pass as many routes as you like. James

Re: [arch-general] Yet another step toward Arch evil plan

2010-01-13 Thread James Rayner
be necessary in userspace. The exception is when the kernel is too old to be compatible with our udev version. I build my own kernels, not via PKGBUILDs/pacman. They work fine and it's tidy too. Kernels keep to their own directories with the kernel itself a single file in /boot and modules in /lib/modules. James

Re: [arch-general] suggestion for pacman: Recommended packages.

2009-12-11 Thread James Rayner
On Fri, 11 Dec 2009 10:40 +0200, "Hussam Al-Tayeb" wrote: > The current case for many packages that use optdepends is as follows. > Let's say a package called package1 installs some extra binaries or > plugins. Those extra not so used binaries or plugins have extra > dependencies (let's call them

Re: [arch-general] Setting LD_PRELOAD cripples Firefox

2009-12-03 Thread James Rayner
On Thu, 03 Dec 2009 21:57 +0100, "ndlarsen" wrote: > Mojn. > > Strange issue here. Intended to use libtrash on my system. I added > export LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libtrash.so.3.2 to /etc/profile to set it > systemwide, LD_PRELOAD pointing to /usr/lib/libtrash.so.3.2 is needed in > order to get l

[arch-general] netcfg v2.5 in [testing] - auto wireless configuration has changed

2009-11-14 Thread James Rayner
m Pryor: Many internal changes and improvements Thomas Bächler: wpa_actiond based auto roaming/connection Thanks guys! That's all for now, please file any bug reports on the bug tracker. James

Re: [arch-general] editors graphic, video new (to archlinux) encoder decoder theora

2009-11-02 Thread andrew james
No, I was not looking to push a button only. I would rather talk with the persons who are involved in the community. Meanwhile, I will find that button. You probably did not push it. andrew Daenyth Blank wrote: On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 22:31, andrew james wrote: Uhh... what

[arch-general] editors graphic, video new (to archlinux) encoder decoder theora

2009-10-25 Thread andrew james
news at 2009 09 http://theora.org/news/ the library encoder decoder theora version 1.1 was rewritten. It is "largely an improvement to the Theora encoder " this library is old in the repository arch also, ffmpeg2theora, "A simple conver

[arch-general] firefox extension (add on) 'Microsoft .NET Framework Assistant' is insecure

2009-10-23 Thread andrew james
I have wondered why that extension was in my browser, I think the problem began because I copied a profile from the system microsoft windows xp that I use occasionally. If it is an extension to your browser, whatever system, you are advised to disable it. there is some links to reports new.

Re: [arch-general] CONFIG_CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE is not set

2009-10-22 Thread James Rayner
> Sascha Siegel schrieb: >> Hi, >> >> can someone tell my whats the reason for building the arch-kernel with >> "# CONFIG_CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE is not set"? >> >> Thank you! > > Optimizing for size sacrifices performance. Read the gcc documentation > about the -O{1,2,3,s} options. I remember a few

Re: [arch-general] Netbook recommendations

2009-09-29 Thread James Rayner
is tiny little 'nano receiver' that you can just leave plugged into the computer, as it only extends out about 3-4mm. James

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