Re: [arch-general] `base` group replaced by mandatory `base` package - manual intervention required

2019-10-09 Thread Tomasz Kramkowski via arch-general
you’re worried about this change then there’s nothing stopping anyone from maintaining the far from perfect list of base group packages to install explicitly. — Tomasz Kramkowski >> On 9 Oct 2019, at 22:11, Tinu Weber wrote: >> >> On Wed, Oct 09, 2019 at 09:45:35 -0400, Ge

Re: [arch-general] Arch Linux USB stick won't boot

2019-03-23 Thread Tomasz Kramkowski via arch-general
Or to use a (probably not very good knowing my past record) mathematics analogy: someone who enjoys teaching and working with linear algebra might not enjoy or want to answer endless questions about the fundamentals of algebra or geometry when there is plenty of good material and good teachers who specialise in teaching precisely that kind of thing. Kind regards, -- Tomasz Kramkowski

Re: [arch-general] Arch Linux USB stick won't boot

2019-03-21 Thread Tomasz Kramkowski via arch-general
rform that task if it is configured correctly. The instructions are here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/USB_flash_installation_media#Using_Rufus It seems that after clicking "START" on the screen in the screenshot you provided the software should prompt for a mode. Select "DD Image mode." Kind regards, -- Tomasz Kramkowski

Re: [arch-general] Announcing pacpak

2016-07-10 Thread Tomasz Kramkowski via arch-general
On Sun, Jul 10, 2016 at 12:52:04PM +0200, Bennett Piater wrote: > I am very cynical about this container trend... :/ That's exactly the right attitude. -- Tomasz Kramkowski | GPG: 40B037BA0A5B8680 | Web: https://the-tk.com/

Re: [arch-general] x220 external mic

2016-05-04 Thread Tomasz Kramkowski
r it is that you're using) is incompatible? When I plug something into the headphone port the X220 automagically switches over the output to be headphone only (and vice versa). Could you check that when you plug in your headset that the built in microphone stops picking up sound? -- Tomasz Kramkowski

Re: [arch-general] Instructions to mount efivars as readonly should be linked to in Beginner's Guide

2016-02-01 Thread Tomasz Kramkowski
quite a bit more pissed off if I lost a valuable and expensive piece of hardware (granted, it would have to have a misconfigured and shitty EFI, but since when is "being misconfigured and shitty" a rare occurance?). The newbies this change is aimed for are exactly the sorts of peop

Re: [arch-general] Conflict after 3 week upgrade pause

2016-01-18 Thread Tomasz Kramkowski
ibinput to be installed. The solution would then be to just update xorg-server manually and then -Syu again... I think. -- Tomasz Kramkowski - 6FCE 8750 3AAF 42AB 3BF4 94FE 40B0 37BA 0A5B 8680 signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [arch-general] :D

2015-06-05 Thread Tomasz Kramkowski
On 03/06/2015 12:29, Simon Hanna wrote: just some "cool" stuff he just found. Some people could consider it to be spam... Some people would consider top posting to be a sin punishable by death. -- Tomasz Kramkowski

Re: [arch-general] Hello!

2015-02-07 Thread Tomasz Kramkowski
that we're saying hi not to the person who said hi in the first place, but to the person who responded. Hi! -- Tomasz Kramkowski E-Mail: t...@the-tk.com PGP: 6FCE87503AAF42AB3BF4 94FE40B037BA0A5B8680 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] Why are CA certifcates writable for every user?

2015-02-06 Thread Tomasz Kramkowski
iting and executing which act on the actual linked file depend on the permissions of the actual file linked to. (And it's needless to say that the file permissions of the symlink itself (777) can be completely ignored.) -- Tomasz Kramkowski E-Mail: t...@the-tk.com PGP: 6FCE875

Re: [arch-general] Why are CA certifcates writable for every user?

2015-02-05 Thread Tomasz Kramkowski
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Re: [arch-general] NFS server broke after reboot - *urgent* need help

2015-01-31 Thread Tomasz Kramkowski
On 31/01/15 22:02, Mike Cloaked wrote: > On Sat, Jan 31, 2015 at 9:50 PM, Tomasz Kramkowski wrote: > >> >> I've been having a few rather strange problems recently with services >> requiring an upped network interface starting before the interface is >> up,

Re: [arch-general] NFS server broke after reboot - *urgent* need help

2015-01-31 Thread Tomasz Kramkowski
ing a few rather strange problems recently with services requiring an upped network interface starting before the interface is up, this is using systemd-networkd-wait-online.service. In any case, it is possible you are having a similar problem, are you sure the interfaces nfs-server is set to lis

Re: [arch-general] KDE Issue

2014-05-07 Thread Tomasz Kramkowski
On Wed, May 07, 2014 at 08:01:01AM -0400, Hunter Jozwiak wrote: > Hi all. I tried to install KDE for testing accessibility with Orca. However, > a friend of mine told me that the only icon that shows up is a hard drive, > and it sits at this icon forever and won't load. What could be going wrong? >

Re: [arch-general] Xbmc not boot

2014-05-04 Thread Tomasz Kramkowski
On Sat, May 03, 2014 at 09:34:01PM +0200, Maykel Franco wrote: > Hi, I have installed archlinux + xbmc follow this step: > > http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=HOW-TO:Install_XBMC_for_Linux_on_Arch_Linux > > But I power on the machine: > > > [root@arch-xbmc-test ~]# systemctl status xbmc > *

Re: [arch-general] Optimizing boot

2014-04-29 Thread Tomasz Kramkowski
On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 06:28:42PM -0400, Toyam Cox wrote: > On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 6:17 PM, Jan Alexander Steffens < > jan.steff...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 12:06 AM, Toyam Cox > > wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > > > I want to have a sub-30 second boot time, so as to make it