Re: [arch-general] NAS drive revisited

2012-05-20 Thread Martin Cigorraga
Hi Nikolic, If you don't plan to share your NAS with (nasty and mediocre) Windows systems you should mount it as a NFS4 share, I use it to access my download and media home servers from various PCs in my home and it's quite a smooth experience.

Re: [arch-general] Powertop tunables and performance

2012-05-31 Thread Martin Cigorraga
>From my subjective own experience, it don't, the only thing I don't activate when my laptop is plugged is the mouse switch since it instructs the system to turnoff the USB port whenever there's no activity on it and that can be very annoying, believe me xD Combining Powertop 2 with Liquorix kernel

Re: [arch-general] Powertop tunables and performance + Other optimizations

2012-06-11 Thread Martin Cigorraga
On 31 May 2012 10:31, Sergi Pons Freixes wrote: > 2012/5/31 Martin Cigorraga : > > From my subjective own experience, it don't, the only thing I don't > > activate when my laptop is plugged is the mouse switch since it instructs > > the system to turnoff the USB po

Re: [arch-general] Mailing lists vs Forums

2012-06-11 Thread Martin Cigorraga
> Personally, I prefer mailing lists, >> > > So do I. > Mailing list is, in my VERY humble opinion, the place where you find > higher quality discussion than on web forums. > > But, that's just my opinion. > > +1 I tend to use ML to catch up the news -I'm subscribed to all MLs- and ask for help wh

Re: [arch-general] KDE Dolphin crashes on click

2012-06-11 Thread Martin Cigorraga
I have Strigi disabled and yet until yesterday's night I was receiving segfaults when clicking on any type of fire; finally after trial and error an before going insane and start ripping my hair out, I found that the crash is connected with the Enable tooltip option, disable it and you shouldn't ha

Re: [arch-general] Shutdown and reboot not working after last weekend update

2012-06-13 Thread Martin Cigorraga
[OT] @Victor: Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and Arch? What a combination! [/OT]

Re: [arch-general] KDE Dolphin crashes on click

2012-06-25 Thread Martin Cigorraga
> > > Dare I say it...I think this is fixed now. I've re-enabled tooltips and > haven't got Dolphin to crash so far. > > Paul > I can confirm that (fuck yeah!). -- -msx

Re: [arch-general] Arch as a web server

2012-06-26 Thread Martin Cigorraga
Hi guys, may be you'll find ArchServer an interesting project, you'll find more here: www.archserver.org. The idea behind this project is to create a rock-solid, server-oriented Arch flavor ready for mass deployment with all the pros we love about Arch -easy to maintain, lightweight, ultra-stable,

Re: [arch-general] Arch as a web server

2012-06-26 Thread Martin Cigorraga
> > > Have you considered flavours like mail, web. > > A recent thread showed atleast one person who probably would have liked > an out of the box web arch? > > Sorry Kevin, I don't follow you. -- -msx

Re: [arch-general] Can't suspend or hibernate

2012-07-04 Thread Martin Cigorraga
On 29 June 2012 08:48, Sébastien le Preste de Vauban wrote: > > I can suspend and hibernate but my computer can't boot after a /sudo > pm-hibernate/. Not sure why, anyway If I unplug it from the power source > for a couple of seconds, then it will boot again almost normally > (sometimes I get a

Re: [arch-general] my Arch box randomly becomes irresponsible

2012-07-17 Thread Martin Cigorraga
@Not To Miss If you are using GRUB Legacy (the one that you can choose when installing a fresh Arch) all you have to do to add a parameter to the kernel is to edit /boot/grub/menu.cfg and add it to the kernel line. For example, this is a typical section of Arch's GRUB Legacy fresh menu.cfg: # (0) A

Re: [arch-general] Installing without using AIF?

2012-07-17 Thread Martin Cigorraga
> > > That's a good point. Gentoo for example has a good in-depth > explanation of all the steps involved in an installation. Maybe some > inspiration can be taken from there. > > Hi all. While indeed Gentoo have a detailed step-by-step guide to install the system I also find it somewhat boring and

Re: [arch-general] /lib to /usr/lib : custom kernel

2012-07-17 Thread Martin Cigorraga
On 14 July 2012 19:13, Tom Gundersen wrote: > On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 11:18 PM, set wrote: > > I updated one machine following instructions on archlinux.org and the > process > > was flawless. That machine was running the Arch kernel. > > > > I dare not do it on another machine running a custom

Re: [arch-general] Trinity - post usrlib move - builds fine!

2012-07-17 Thread Martin Cigorraga
Me too, I was waiting for this to try Trinity on a single-core Pentium 4 / 1.25gb RAM :) -- -msx

Re: [arch-general] My end-user $0.02 on /etc/rc.conf splitting.

2012-07-23 Thread Martin Cigorraga
On 22 July 2012 13:41, Damjan wrote: > Also, by splitting it in different files you make it more robust. You > don't want to bork your network setup just because you were editing your > locale and forgot to close a quote. @Damjan: this isn't completely true because if the config file parser is

Re: [arch-general] Roadmap for user-intervention upgrades [was: Still Glibc problems]

2012-07-23 Thread Martin Cigorraga
The problem is not Arch is bleeding edge nor this deep change from /lib to /usr/lib, the problem is that _people don't read_: everything was *clearly* explained in the website's frontpage news and in the wiki. Here's what the people at Project Zomboid had to do to ensure it's customers READ a noti

Re: [arch-general] Roadmap for user-intervention upgrades [was: Still Glibc problems]

2012-07-23 Thread Martin Cigorraga
On 23 July 2012 23:42, David C. Rankin wrote: > On 07/23/2012 09:22 PM, Martin Cigorraga wrote: > > Again: people don't read, screw up their system and then blame the > > change... :P > > In some case yes, in some cases, that's not quite true. The usrlib change >

Re: [arch-general] My end-user $0.02 on /etc/rc.conf splitting.

2012-07-24 Thread Martin Cigorraga
"What exactly is wrong with ini files and/or registry? Perhaps it is your misunderstanding..." Oh please, if you ever dealt with windows registry then you know it's a totally disfunctional way to keep record of anything. Over time it gets oversized, filled with crap, slow and totally impractical,

Re: [arch-general] vboxbuild: command not found

2012-07-24 Thread Martin Cigorraga
> > Somewhere on a mailing list was announced by a maintainer, that > vboxbuild would be replaced by the use of dkms. But I can't recall > completely where this was mentioned. > Here!: http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-general/2012-July/028477.html -- -msx

Re: [arch-general] vboxbuild: command not found

2012-07-24 Thread Martin Cigorraga
Oh well! -- -msx

Re: [arch-general] [Bulk] Re: My end-user $0.02 on /etc/rc.conf splitting.

2012-07-25 Thread Martin Cigorraga
Guys, relax, we are all in the same wagon, it's a nonsense to make anything personal nor to demonstrate who has the bigger dick, fuck off all that shit. As some _DEVS_ had actually stated, let's discuss everything from a TECHNICAL point of view, arguing and ranting because personal dislikes of pro

Re: [arch-general] How do I should install and configure arch linux

2012-07-25 Thread Martin Cigorraga
Hi, I'm in a hurry to work so I will try to be the most clear but succint possible, forgive any typo then :) "[...]So if I do not have installation guide previously printed on paper, I just become consused what to do next.[...] But for the present I would like at least to have installation guide i

Re: [arch-general] My end-user $0.02 on /etc/rc.conf splitting.

2012-07-26 Thread Martin Cigorraga
On 26 July 2012 16:08, Jeremiah Dodds wrote: > In fact, at some point you realize that while there are a lot of > beautiful and clean systems, a lot of our entire computing stack is ugly > hacks on top of ugly > And we get used to our particular ugly hack and then complain like hell when someone

Re: [arch-general] How do you extract version from pacman?

2012-07-26 Thread Martin Cigorraga
On 26 July 2012 06:37, Christian Hesse wrote: > Morris on Thu, 2012/07/26 11:24: > > On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 11:19 AM, Oon-Ee Ng > wrote: > > > Or the same with cut: > > $ pacman -Q virtualbox | cut -d' ' -f2 > 4.1.18-4 > > Getting the complete package information is not required. > - > I was

Re: [arch-general] Systemd : Analysis of reactions of Users

2012-07-26 Thread Martin Cigorraga
May be this is a silly question but: will there be a general announcement when systemd became officially adopted? As T. G. said in the Dev list: "If a move should happen, I suggest waiting a bit longer until more unit files have been added to our various packages. And to allow some more time to se

Re: [arch-general] New install media 2012.08.04 uses ZSH, if I may ask, why?

2012-08-05 Thread Martin Cigorraga
On 6 August 2012 00:21, David Benfell wrote: > > That'd get my vote, but I'd be amazed if any distribution ever did > this. Doesn't zsh take more--a lot more--memory? David, I don't think in modern systems this could be of any real issue, choosing, for instance, sh over zsh because memory consu

Re: [arch-general] New install media 2012.08.04 uses ZSH, if I may ask, why?

2012-08-05 Thread Martin Cigorraga
On 6 August 2012 01:16, David Benfell wrote: > Indeed--those incompatibilities are precisely what I like about zsh. ;-) > > You mean the features associated to them, I guess! -- -msx

Re: [arch-general] New install media 2012.08.04 uses ZSH, if I may ask, why?

2012-08-06 Thread Martin Cigorraga
On 6 August 2012 08:26, Kevin Chadwick wrote: OT: Talking with an archer on irc about this thread and differences between bash and zsh yesterday, he told me he uses zsh for a long time now and it has quality improvements over bash like better code organization (he told me zsh is modular), light o

[arch-general] [KDE - Can't make Akonadi server / Nepomuk service run]

2012-08-13 Thread Martin Cigorraga
Ok, I know a lot of you cynics would say: "it's fine, why would do you want Nepomuk running anyways!?" The truth is my laptop HD went dead some days ago so I had to restore my system from a 2-weeks old backup; I usually use fsarchiver to backup root partition and 7z to compress ~/.kde4 so this way

Re: [arch-general] [KDE - Can't make Akonadi server / Nepomuk service run]

2012-08-13 Thread Martin Cigorraga
On 13 August 2012 06:29, Martin Cigorraga wrote: Nevermind, solved after reinstalling full MySQL stack. -- -msx

Re: [arch-general] Update on Trinity - 2 versions available R14 and 3.5.13-sru

2012-08-14 Thread Martin Cigorraga
On 14 August 2012 12:52, David C. Rankin wrote: > On 08/05/2012 11:03 PM, David C. Rankin wrote: > > All, > > > > There have been a few noteworthy developments with the Trinity project > for > > Arch. There will be essentially 2 versions available. The primary focus > of the > > project is curre

Re: [arch-general] old rc.sysinit?

2012-08-14 Thread Martin Cigorraga
On 14 August 2012 17:08, Jorge Almeida wrote: > I would like to know how Arch used to deal with some init stuff, like > configuring virtual consoles, initializing random seed, etc. Is there some > way > to retrieve older versions of /etc/rc.sysinit? > > TIA > > Jorge Almeida > Which versions of

[arch-general] [System update] dhcpcd: /usr/lib/systemd/system/dhcpcd@.service exists in filesystem

2012-08-14 Thread Martin Cigorraga
~# pacman -Syu ... ... (6/6) checking package integrity [---] 100% (6/6) loading package files [---] 100% (6/6) checking for file conflicts [---] 100% error: failed to commit transaction (co

Re: [arch-general] [System update] dhcpcd: /usr/lib/systemd/system/dhcpcd@.service exists in filesystem

2012-08-14 Thread Martin Cigorraga
On 14 August 2012 18:44, Daniel Wallace wrote: > On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 02:32:33PM -0700, pants wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 11:24:55PM +0200, Tom Gundersen wrote: > > > Either you are using [testing] without [community-testing], or this is > > > a packaging bug. Either way, don't use --fo

Re: [arch-general] Personal note

2012-08-15 Thread Martin Cigorraga
Baho: it's sad to see you leave pal but in the future try to not let things bring you down so easily, the world is full of suckers and the sooner you learn to live with that the better. Tom: I will miss your answers, they were often very useful and make help understand a bit more the inner workings