Re: [arch] Mounting flash drive

2006-01-29 Thread Patrick Leslie Polzer
Hello Thomas, On Sun, 29 Jan 2006 15:29:45 +0100 Thomas Bächler > wrote: | No. I was in fact completely correct. If mount is not setuid, you are not able to mount anything as | user at all. | If mount is setuid (as it is by default), you can use either of the following methods for any fstab

Re: [arch] Mounting flash drive

2006-01-29 Thread Patrick Leslie Polzer
On Sun, 29 Jan 2006 12:31:48 +0100 Thomas Bächler > wrote: | The mount line is wrong. When you use mount as a user, you can only specify either the device or the | mount point, the other will be obtained from fstab. Specifying them both at the same time will | always result in the above error

Re: [arch] Unknown keyboard problem

2006-01-23 Thread Patrick Leslie Polzer
Hello Rickard, On Mon, 23 Jan 2006 17:34:13 +0100 Rickard Eriksson > wrote: | (And before you start telling me to change the xkblayout, xkbmodel | and xkbvariant options i've already done that and set them after a | template that has worked before, so unless you're 100% sure don't | bother r

Re: [arch] Strange behaviour in X

2006-01-12 Thread Patrick Leslie Polzer
On Thu, 12 Jan 2006 10:26:35 + Magnus Therning > wrote: | On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 02:14:12PM +0100, Mark Rosenstand wrote: | | >I'm no expert on monitors, but would such artifacts be shown on | >screenshots? | | My gut feeling says no, but then I'm no expert either. A screen shot is ima

Re: [arch] Strange behaviour in X

2006-01-11 Thread Patrick Leslie Polzer
On Wed, 11 Jan 2006 14:14:12 +0100 Mark Rosenstand > wrote: | I'm no expert on monitors, but would such artifacts be shown on | screenshots? I obviously missed this. Thanks. Leslie -- gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 0x52D70289 pgprLstZ4EY59.pgp Description: PGP signature _

Re: [arch] Strange behaviour in X

2006-01-11 Thread Patrick Leslie Polzer
On Wed, 11 Jan 2006 08:33:00 + Magnus Therning > wrote: | It seems the artefacts are always in the same colour as my GNOME panel. | Maybe this isn't an X issue after all? Is this a TFT or a CRT monitor? My laptop's TFT likes to show artefacts when certain colors are combined in one place. L

Re: [arch] Checking for (root)permissions in various Archlinux-scripts

2006-01-06 Thread Patrick Leslie Polzer
On Fri, 6 Jan 2006 21:13:27 +0100 Benjamin Andresen > wrote: | I think this would only complicate stuff. And Arch has this very well | working KISS philosophy. A simple if [ ! $UID -eq 0 ]; then echo "you must be root!" exit fi in front of each script would not complicate matte

Re: [arch] Rebuilding the pacman database

2006-01-05 Thread Patrick Leslie Polzer
On Mon, 26 Dec 2005 18:21:14 +0100 Arnaud Fortier > wrote: | There'is a solution I haven't tested it but the script is here : | http://forums.archlinuxfr.org/viewtopic.php?id=797 ( Thank you Benoitc :) ) | If you don't understand french, feel free to ask ;) My one semester of French at univers

Re: [arch] Printing advice?

2006-01-05 Thread Patrick Leslie Polzer
On Wed, 4 Jan 2006 17:47:59 + Magnus Therning > wrote: | Yes, I could, but I really like using a2ps. I can throw pretty mych | anything at it and it converts stuff to PS and sends it off to the | printer. It'd be big step down if I have to start printing things to a | file, run it through

[arch] Rebuilding the pacman database

2005-12-26 Thread Patrick Leslie Polzer
Hello list, does anyone know how to restore pacman's database? Mine somehow got messed up, the results are like this: error: /var/lib/pacman/local/initscripts-0.7-10/desc: No such file or directory I'd appreciate any kind of help. Leslie -- PGP-KID: 0x52D70289 pgpNdoKu7IlUR.pgp Descripti

Re: [arch] Shells

2005-12-23 Thread Patrick Leslie Polzer
On Fri, 23 Dec 2005 11:46:39 +0100 Fabian Braennstroem > wrote: | I just try out fish, but couldn't find where I can define | some 'aliases'. Do you have an idea? Use "function". HTH, Leslie -- PGP-KID: 0x52D70289 pgpzugIs27ExM.pgp Description: PGP signature ___

Re: [arch] Shells

2005-12-21 Thread Patrick Leslie Polzer
On Wed, 21 Dec 2005 07:37:34 -0500 Martin Lefebvre > wrote: | On 12/21/05, Patrick Leslie Polzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | > | > zsh is a superset of bash and much more powerful. | | Well, since you seem to know zsh very well, I'm by no means an expert, just a user

Re: [arch] Shells

2005-12-21 Thread Patrick Leslie Polzer
On Wed, 21 Dec 2005 09:25:31 + Magnus Therning > wrote: | History! bash seems to be the de-facto shell of Linux. Why is this? bash is part of the GNU project. | distribution uses it as its default shell. This means that a lot of | shell scripts in the wild is written to be executed by it (

[arch] Shells

2005-12-21 Thread Patrick Leslie Polzer
Hello, I'd like to discuss a difficult topic without starting a religious debate. Arch and most, if not all, other distributions (rescue CDs exempt) use bash as the default shell. I wonder especially why Arch does this. zsh is a superset of bash and much more powerful. fish is probably bash-comp

Re: [arch] Console font & rc.sysinit

2005-12-02 Thread Patrick Leslie Polzer
On Sat, 3 Dec 2005 00:11:05 +0530 Rohan Dhruva > wrote: > Yes, I had noticed the same problem happening to me too. Easy > workabout -- in /etc/rc.conf > CONSOLEFONT= .. > IMO, the "t" font looks cool. > This is only a work about, not a fix. Yes, especially because I'd *like* to have a UTF8 font..

[arch] Console font & rc.sysinit

2005-12-02 Thread Patrick Leslie Polzer
I noticed the new rc.sysinit will change the console font to a UTF8 one if it is necessary. I don't know whether other users experience the same, but immediately after the switch the characters on the screen that were printed before the change become garbage. It's not a serious problem, it's just

Re: [arch] New multilingual install cd

2005-05-27 Thread Patrick Leslie Polzer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Matthias-Christian Ott wrote: > I know "slang" is not the right expression but with your edit of the > translation you set down the "language level" from an informative level > to a "usual level". I don't think that fits here, because most text are >

Re: [arch] New multilingual install cd

2005-05-27 Thread Patrick Leslie Polzer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Matthias-Christian Ott wrote: > Please stay english, Benoit has to know about the development of the > german translation, because he has to apply it. Oh, okay. Did you miss one mail from me by any chance? I was asking you to give examples on what yo

Re: [arch] New multilingual install cd

2005-05-26 Thread Patrick Leslie Polzer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Damir Perisa wrote: > "Betriebssystemkern Quellcode" oder "Kernel-Quellcode" (Fachbegriff) Das erste sollte dann aber mit Bindestrich geschrieben werden (oder am besten mit Genitiv formuliert werden). > besser: > > "Installation erfolgreich abgeschl

Re: [arch] New multilingual install cd

2005-05-26 Thread Patrick Leslie Polzer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Matthias-Christian Ott wrote: >> What words do you mean? > > The words being no typos you edited. All of them? Can you be more specific, maybe give some examples? Leslie -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using

Re: [arch] New multilingual install cd

2005-05-26 Thread Patrick Leslie Polzer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Matthias-Christian Ott wrote: > [snip] Please quote only relevant parts. > Yes there are some typos (I said this in my first mail), but why do you > use such slang words? What words do you mean? Leslie -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.

Re: [arch] New multilingual install cd

2005-05-26 Thread Patrick Leslie Polzer
Matthias-Christian Ott wrote: > And it's finished :) (late). Maybe someone who speaks german, can read > it a second time. There were occasional typos, lots of missing hyphens and some really bad anglicisms. Patch is attached. Kind regards, Leslie --- setup.de.old 2005-05-26 17:37:03.0

Re: [arch] sysctl.conf

2005-05-18 Thread Patrick Leslie Polzer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Aaron Griffin wrote: > However, why is an mplayer setting in rc.sysinit? I don't use mplayer, > my server doesn't use mplayer - so why do they have this setting? Same thing: why is stuff about console fonts there? _My_ server does not have a screen! Wh

Re: [arch] sysctl.conf

2005-05-18 Thread Patrick Leslie Polzer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Aaron Griffin wrote: > Well, Arch doesn't set any kernel parameters by default, so > sysctrl.conf isn't needed on install - it's only needed if a user > needs to set kernel parameters, in which case, the old Arch addage of > "do it yourself" comes into

Re: [arch] sysctl.conf

2005-05-18 Thread Patrick Leslie Polzer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Philip Reutersward wrote: > and use this file for all such kernel parameters? I agree. WineX needs a similar entry. Leslie -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.

Re: [arch] xemacs packages

2005-05-11 Thread Patrick Leslie Polzer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jürgen Hötzel wrote: > The package should be in you load-path. Just put > (require 'tex-site) > in your .emacs file and AucTeX should be autoloaded. That's among the things I've tried. With this result: (emacs) Loading tool-bar...done Loading image..

[arch] xemacs packages

2005-05-10 Thread Patrick Leslie Polzer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello list, I installed xemacs-sumo and want to use some packages, notably AucTeX. However, all my attempts to get into AucTeX mode were in vain. What do I have to do in order to load packages from the sumo distribution? Kind regards, Leslie -BE

Re: [arch] Apache branding

2005-04-02 Thread Patrick Leslie Polzer
Matthias-Christian Ott wrote: > Jep I agree. But notice that this is a _big_ security risk because the > cracker knows which distribution you're running and can use > distribution specific security holes (e.g. unpatched security holes or > security holes in old software). Oh, we're not talking ab

Re: [arch] LyX/LaTeX and fonts

2005-03-28 Thread Patrick Leslie Polzer
Eric Belanger wrote: >I don't use lyx but in my .tex file I put: >\usepackage[T1]{fontenc} >\usepackage{times} >The second command is to use the times fonts. Other fonts are availiable: >ls /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/psnfss/*.sty > >There is also: >\usepackage{pslatex} > >They might improve the fo

[arch] LyX/LaTeX and fonts

2005-03-28 Thread Patrick Leslie Polzer
Hi, thorough experimentation has led me to the conclusion that there are some Type1 fonts missing on a typical tetex/lyx install. I always get some blocky Type3 fonts embedded in my PostScript. Is this the case, and if yes, shouldn't anything be done about this? Kind regards, Leslie ___

Re: [arch] Two netcards and adsl problem

2005-02-24 Thread Patrick Leslie Polzer
甘露 wrote: > I got two netcards, one is SIS 900 intergration in my mainboard, the > other is a PCI card with Realtek 8139 chip, Hotplug loads the modules > successfully, I can see both sis900 and 8139too by lsmod, my problem is: > How can I know which is eth0? Use 'dmesg|grep eth'. Also, see namei