Re: [arch-general] Serial To USB Adapter

2010-04-01 Thread Snarkout
My experience has been that minicom is the best emulator for interfacing with serial devices. I have tried as many as I could get my hands on, too, FWIW ($DAYJOB = noc monkey). IME, If you ever have a large config you need to drop on a device (or even not-so-large) most others fail in various

Re: [arch-general] Howto handle poppler conflict with poppler-qt3

2010-03-10 Thread Snarkout
On 03/10/2010 10:37 AM, Daenyth Blank wrote: On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 12:34, Laurie Clark-Michalek wrote: Good for you :) I'm satisfied with my KDE 4.4, and though I realise not everyone can be, I shan't be loosing too much sleep over it :) FUD and Unsubstantiated claims however... Well th

Re: [arch-general] Amavisd-new Only in AUR?

2010-03-06 Thread Snarkout
On 03/06/2010 03:45 PM, Carlos Mennens wrote: I just don't see how you can use ClamAV on a MTA w/o Amavisd-new. I thought Amavisd-new was the daemon that allows email to be passed from SMTP to ClamAV and vice versa...that's why I can't believe more people don't use it. There are many options besi

Re: [arch-general] Confusion About /etc/hosts File

2010-01-23 Thread Snarkout
On 01/22/2010 01:51 PM, Carlos Williams wrote: # 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost mail 10.1.1.200 mail.iamghost.com mail I have seen multiple styles of hosts file, but I tend to set mine up like so: # 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain local

Re: [arch-general] Audio cd ripper

2009-09-04 Thread Snarkout
On 09/04/2009 12:35 PM, Heiko Baums wrote: What's aeiou? Can you give me a URL? I'd suggest grip or abcde with the (external) cdparanoia. Heiko Sorry, I had an idiot moment there. Blame too little sleep and too little coffee :-). Obviously I meant abcde.

Re: [arch-general] Audio cd ripper

2009-09-04 Thread Snarkout
Though I use KDE, I really like "grip" to rip CDs. Aeiou is also nice, but it's cmd line. On 09/04/2009 04:52 AM, o...@larstennstedt.de wrote: Hello, I am searching for an audio cd ripper for my Arch Linux box and have some questions about that. 1.) K3B fails to encode to mp3 (lame) on my c

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] initscripts changes

2008-04-07 Thread Snarkout
On Monday 07 April 2008, Roman Kyrylych wrote: > [many comments skipped] > > Could we please finally STOP insulting devs? > There are _more civilized_ ways for discussion. Agreed - this recent phenomena is absolutely absurd and completely painful to read. -Snark

Re: [arch-general] Problem with latest KDE update in testing

2008-01-07 Thread Snarkout
On Monday 07 January 2008, Karolina Lindqvist wrote: > Yes that seems to be it. So the problem did not come with the KDE upgrade, > but with the flash upgrade. > > Karolina I had that problem after the last flash upgrade (to 9.0.115.0-1) - my "fix" was to downgrade to 9.0.48.0-1 and set pacman to

Re: [arch-general] forcing speed/duplex on Intel e1000 driver

2008-01-06 Thread Snarkout
On Sunday 06 January 2008, Chuck Remes wrote: > A service provider has forced all of their switch ports to 100/full. I > need to do the same on a box running archlinux x86_64 w/kernel 2.6.22- > ARCH and the Intel e1000 driver. > > I edited /etc/modprobe.conf to contain these lines: > > e1000 Speed=

Re: [arch-general] where are the free fonts?

2007-12-15 Thread Snarkout
On Saturday 15 December 2007, Jeffrey Parke wrote: > what package contains the freesans, freeserif, and the freemono fonts. > If i said there names wrong, please correct me. I last saw these fonts > when i had ubuntu. I imagine the ttf-freefont package has these fonts in it.