Re: [arch-general] Any Arch Users/Developers @ Linuxtag 2010?
Hi all, On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 3:20 PM, Rafael Correia rafaelnomin...@gmail.com wrote: The purpose of Microsoft at a Open Source event? Steal code, of course. -- Rafael Correia Actually, Microsoft contributes to open source [1]. Including to Linux kernel, with drivers [2]. I guess we should be thankful for they spend they time and money helping the kernel. Personally I don't care what they true intentions are, and surely they only did this aiming on what any capitalist company would do, but the fact is that helps Linux as a software. [ ]'s [1] http://www.microsoft.com/opensource/ [2] http://www.microsoft.com/opensource/project-detail.aspx?pid=18 -- Felipe de Oliveira Tanus E-mail: fota...@gmail.com Blog: http://www.itlife.com.br Site: http://www.inf.ufrgs.br/~fotanus/ - All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us. - Gandalf
Re: [arch-general] f...@h Group Logo Missing
On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 8:39 PM, Allan McRae al...@archlinux.org 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=teampageteamnum=45032 You are best to tell the maintainer of that site. We have no control over that. It would be even better if they did not hotlink and thus us moving files would not affect them. IMHO I think we have some responsibility in this. The logo he is using have this source: http://www.archlinux.org/logos/archblue.png;. I believe it was moved or renamed. Would be nice a link to a logo with same width and height. -- Felipe de Oliveira Tanus E-mail: fota...@gmail.com Blog: http://www.itlife.com.br Site: http://www.inf.ufrgs.br/~fotanus/ - All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us. - Gandalf
Re: [arch-general] DVD's won't read
On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 6:27 PM, Mauro Santos registo.maill...@gmail.comwrote: On 03/19/2010 09:52 PM, Felipe Tanus wrote: Finally, I ask again: Does someone has at least a thought about why a 40-wired cable works in the boot of the computer but not in the OS, and a 80-wired cable could fix the issue? Maybe because the bios sets some conservative settings and the latest kernel then overrides them with more aggressive (faster) settings. Maybe you have a drive that supports ata66 (or claims to support), the kernel then tries to set things to work at that speed but the cable can't handle it. Maybe you can try to force a slower speed in the bios or try to tell the libata module to force a slower speed. Check the output of 'modinfo libata' and go from there. However I guess that if the problem is the cable you should see lots of errors on the output of dmesg when trying to read a cd or dvd. Mauro, Thank you. That was just the kind of answer that I was waiting to hear. It really clarified the problem for me. -- Felipe de Oliveira Tanus E-mail: fota...@gmail.com Blog: http://www.itlife.com.br Site: http://www.inf.ufrgs.br/~fotanus/ - All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us. - Gandalf
Re: [arch-general] DVD's won't read
On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 5:27 PM, Guus Snijders gsnijd...@gmail.com wrote: I used to tell people that it couldn't hurt to use the better quality (80 wire) cables, but i would not be suprised if those are neccesary with current drives. Are the 40-wires types even still available? Getting a new 80-wire (P)ATA cable shouldn't cost more than a few bucks, so maybe that is an option? Also, does dmesg tell you anything when trying to read a DVD? mvg, Guus Hey, I'm not sure if you guys agree with me, but I believe that if it can read DVD with a 40 wires flat cable on the boot, it *must* be able to read with the same cable in the OS. I understand that it *may* solve the issue, but I believe that it is more than a hardware issue, it's a software. I believe the right thing to do was to check a bugtracker, but i'm not sure which one to check . Maybe Linux kernel one? Finally, I ask again: Does someone has at least a thought about why a 40-wired cable works in the boot of the computer but not in the OS, and a 80-wired cable could fix the issue? thanks, -- Felipe de Oliveira Tanus E-mail: fota...@gmail.com Blog: http://www.itlife.com.br Site: http://www.inf.ufrgs.br/~fotanus/ - All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us. - Gandalf
Re: [arch-general] DVD's won't read
On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 1:02 PM, Roberto Malinverni roberto.malinve...@dico.coop.it wrote: Nope. If it is a ide device, just check that your ide cable is of the type with 80 conductors. Take a look at the images here, to see the difference between a 40 and a 80 conductor cable (both have 40 pin). My NEC DVDRW refused to work without such a cable. Roberto -- Il messaggio e' stato analizzato alla ricerca di virus o contenuti pericolosi da MailScanner, ed e' risultato non infetto. Hi, I'm not sure if it's the best solution. Nilesh said that it works on fedora, so it must be some sort of software config for this. In fact this really got my attention, since I have no clue why such workaround works. If you know why, please share with us. -- Felipe de Oliveira Tanus E-mail: fota...@gmail.com Blog: http://www.itlife.com.br Site: http://www.inf.ufrgs.br/~fotanus/ - All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us. - Gandalf
Re: [arch-general] DVD's won't read
I never said it works on fedora !! It used to work. But later it stopped working. -- Nilesh Govindarajan Site Server Adminstrator www.itech7.com Here another world mistery was born and died by miss comunication :) sorry for the noise. -- Felipe de Oliveira Tanus E-mail: fota...@gmail.com Blog: http://www.itlife.com.br Site: http://www.inf.ufrgs.br/~fotanus/ - All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us. - Gandalf
Re: [arch-general] DVD's won't read
Here are some images of the connector I use - http://simplest-image-hosting.net/i0-pict0238-jpg.jpg http://simplest-image-hosting.net/i0-pict0239-jpg.jpg http://simplest-image-hosting.net/i0-pict0240-jpg-0.jpg This contains 40 pins and fits exactly into the socket of the drive. Show me some photos of 80 pin connector :) http://c-online.co.il/var/6894/226692-IDE_cable_40_pin__80_pin.jpg The yellow one is 80 pin. There is no diference in the connector. Do you think converting it to SATA using IDE-SATA converter will work ? I'm not familiar with this connector, but may be worth to try if you already have one. It probabily don't if you have to use your 40pin cable to connect the HD to the connector, but who knows? :) -- Nilesh Govindarajan Site Server Adminstrator www.itech7.com -- Felipe de Oliveira Tanus E-mail: fota...@gmail.com Blog: http://www.itlife.com.br Site: http://www.inf.ufrgs.br/~fotanus/ - All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us. - Gandalf
Re: [arch-general] DVD's won't read
Also in my drive the pin which is blocked in the 80 pin connector is absent. So how the cable change is going to make any difference ? -- Nilesh Govindarajan Site Server Adminstrator www.itech7.com If you look closely in the image you'll see that the yellow has more wires than the gray one. I'm not sure how it is going to make difference, but they said that it's the way to go. I was googling about this right now and find nothing proibitive for DVDs with a 40 ways cable. That's why it got my attention at the first time. If someone knows why that, please share :) -- Felipe de Oliveira Tanus E-mail: fota...@gmail.com Blog: http://www.itlife.com.br Site: http://www.inf.ufrgs.br/~fotanus/ - All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us. - Gandalf
Re: [arch-general] top posting
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 12:50 PM, Aaron Griffin aaronmgrif...@gmail.comwrote: Top posting doesn't solve this, unless you're implying top posting with no previous messages trimmed. If this is what you're implying you need to compare apples-to-apples and assume the bottom-posted emails will have no previous messages trimmed as well. If this is the case, the bottom posting still wins as it has the entire conversation history _in order_ Hi, I don't see any problem with top posting or bottom posting. The only horrible think IMHO is mix then together. So it's always nice to a list have a default e-mail style. I would vote for bottom, but top is ok too :) -- Felipe de Oliveira Tanus E-mail: fota...@gmail.com Blog: http://www.itlife.com.br Site: http://www.inf.ufrgs.br/~fotanus/ - All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us. - Gandalf
Re: [arch-general] [OT] What is wrong with DBus anyway?
2009/12/3 Aaron Griffin aaronmgrif...@gmail.com: On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 11:06 AM, Denis A. Altoé Falqueto denisfalqu...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, fellow archers. I've created a new email with a new subject, so that who wants to ignore this completely, can do it easily. The recent past discussions about DBus got me thinking about an unanswered question: what is technically wrong with DBus? After some time researching about that, I can't find that answer by myself. DBus is just a way to make applications communicate. It can be used in several languages, namely C, C++, Java, Perl, Python, Ruby, and many more. There are tools for it in bash, although there's some limitations with that, but is very easy to do something fast in python or perl or ruby or... It (DBus) has some interesting mechanisms to activate daemons just when needed. I find this feature very interesting, so that you only spend the resources when you really need. One restriction is that it is not network enabled, so it only works locally. But in the home page, there is a invitation to improve that situation (http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/DBusRemote). Anyway, I would like to read what others have to say about DBus, but please give techinical reasons. I don't want to know who likes and who dislikes DBus. And I don't have anything against who dislikes DBus. Everyone is entitled to an opinion. Mechanisms have existed for like 20 years before dbus to communicate with other programs. dbus is just another way to do it that has a smell of architecture astronomy - as if they all scoffed at the actual ways to do IPC on various Unicies and said Oh, I can design better. That's why I dislike it. Hi, Aaron didn't give any tech reason in his answear, and i don't think someone will do, except the one you already said at your first e-mail(no network). People who don't like DBus find it just unecessary. I like DBus because I belive it unify the IPC in a way others methods can't. It's more a question of taste than tech. []'s -- Felipe de Oliveira Tanus E-mail: fota...@gmail.com Blog: http://www.itlife.com.br Site: http://www.inf.ufrgs.br/~fotanus/ - All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us. - Gandalf
Re: [arch-general] We have lost the desktop war. The reason? Windows 7.
I also had a crysis some time ago about how windows can match linux. But it's just use windows for 3 months or so, and suddenly I change my opinion once again :) 2009/10/26 David Rosenstrauch dar...@darose.net: On 10/26/2009 01:30 PM, David C. Rankin wrote: I think the biggest problem that kde4 will have to overcome is the stain on kde's reputation caused when a few major distros pushed kde4 out the door as a New Desktop when it was barely beta (kde 4.04 was released by SuSE as the desktop for 11.0 in June 2008) kde4.04 as a desktop -- gimme a break! ... which was caused by the KDE devs' bad decision to release it as 4.0, which set everyone's expectations that it was production-ready software. Had they labeled the whole 4.0 series (and possibly even the 4.1's) as beta software, that wouldn't have happened. DR -- Felipe de Oliveira Tanus E-mail: fota...@gmail.com Blog: http://www.itlife.com.br Site: http://www.inf.ufrgs.br/~fotanus/ - All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us. - Gandalf
[arch-general] requesting mysql man pages
Hi all, It's me or the mysql package don't come with man pages? I guess that would be good to have manpages for stuff like mysqlcheck, mysqldump, mysqlshow... Is there a reason for it not be avaliable at the mysql package? thanks for your time! []'s -- Felipe de Oliveira Tanus E-mail: fota...@gmail.com Blog: http://fotanus.blogspot.com/ Site: http://www.inf.ufrgs.br/~fotanus/ - Aperture Science: We do what we must because we can For the good of all of us except for the ones who are dead
Re: [arch-general] Access to 3g wireless network
2009/4/19 Maurício briqueabra...@yahoo.com Hi, Here in Brazil (as probably in everywhere else) a few cell phone companies are offering wireless internet access through a USB modem. They say data is exchanged through 3G communication standard. How does that work on Linux? What should I have in archy to be able to work with such hardware and network, or where can I find about it? Thanks, Maurício Hello, you may not be familiar with it, but there is a large comunity of archlinux in brazil (archlinux-br.org), and i didn't search the wiki from the international comunity, but in the brazilian wiki there is this tutorial: http://wiki.archlinux-br.org/Claro_3G []'s -- Felipe de Oliveira Tanus E-mail: fota...@gmail.com Blog: http://fotanus.blogspot.com/ Site: http://www.inf.ufrgs.br/~fotanus/ - Aperture Science: We do what we must because we can For the good of all of us except for the ones who are dead
Re: [arch-general] Surviving without X
Hi, Saving memory may be relative... you can also think that you aren't use 100% of your PC if you have 2GB memory and uses only 300k :) []'s 2009/3/30 ianux ia...@free.fr Le Mon, 30 Mar 2009 10:03:37 -0600, Sergey Manucharian serg...@rmico.com a écrit : On Mon, 30 Mar 2009 13:29:46 +0900 Juan Diego juantas...@gmail.com wrote: mplayer also has a fb output plugin mplayer does good job with -vo aa or -vo caca, personally I prefer aa ;) mplayer -vo vesa/fbdev/svga/sdl may do the trick as well... -- radio ianux - http://ianux.fr/ -- Felipe de Oliveira Tanus E-mail: fota...@gmail.com Blog: http://fotanus.blogspot.com/ Site: http://www.inf.ufrgs.br/~fotanus/ - Aperture Science: We do what we must because we can For the good of all of us except for the ones who are dead
