[arch-general] Free Arch Linux Shell Account

2010-04-30 Thread Kaiting Chen
Hi, I posted this in the forums a couple weeks ago, just thought that I would copy it here in case anyone was still interested. Hi, I've a couple of Linode's with spare resources so I thought that I would offer some free shell accounts. There are three servers in total each running Arch Linux host

Re: [arch-general] Time for an arch-security mailing list?

2010-04-30 Thread Ionut Biru
On 05/01/2010 01:08 AM, Brendan Long wrote: On 04/30/2010 01:06 AM, Magnus Therning wrote: On 30/04/10 00:08, Ananda Samaddar wrote: Does anyone agree with this? If so how do I go about requesting the creation of such a list? The list would be for discussion around security in Arch, implemen

Re: [arch-general] Time for an arch-security mailing list?

2010-04-30 Thread Brendan Long
On 04/30/2010 01:06 AM, Magnus Therning wrote: > On 30/04/10 00:08, Ananda Samaddar wrote: > >> Does anyone agree with this? If so how do I go about requesting the >> creation of such a list? The list would be for discussion >> around security in Arch, implementations and user/dev input etc.

Re: [arch-general] Crisp Rendering Fonts

2010-04-30 Thread Michishige Kaito
2010/4/29 Xavier Chantry > On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 7:37 PM, Michishige Kaito > wrote: > >> > >> Anti-aliasing is turned off for > >> small point sizes and turned on for larger sizes. > >> > >> Denis. > >> > > > > I'd be very interested in finding out how this is controlled. Could you > > point m

Re: [arch-general] perl prereleases request to make official decision to deviate from general guidleines

2010-04-30 Thread Caleb Cushing
for right now I'm on drugs... or cpan is... probably both. either way I should be ignored on this topic. -- Caleb Cushing http://xenoterracide.blogspot.com

Re: [arch-general] perl prereleases request to make official decision to deviate from general guidleines

2010-04-30 Thread Caleb Cushing
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 9:07 AM, Allan McRae wrote: > Why?  0.90_pre1 is also greater than 0.90.1...  do you want to try that > again? sorry should that be 0.90pre1 ? or does one just have to leave the 1 off? in previous different thread you said rc1 would work I'm assuming that pre works the

Re: [arch-general] perl prereleases request to make official decision to deviate from general guidleines

2010-04-30 Thread Allan McRae
On 30/04/10 22:55, Caleb Cushing wrote: I'm working on a PKGBUILD for perl 5.12 and I notice that it's providing 20 some odd prerelease modules. I'm annoyed but I can't do anything about it. The general PKGBUILD guidelines say use the same as upstream unless there is a hyphen. so for a perl prer

[arch-general] perl prereleases request to make official decision to deviate from general guidleines

2010-04-30 Thread Caleb Cushing
I'm working on a PKGBUILD for perl 5.12 and I notice that it's providing 20 some odd prerelease modules. I'm annoyed but I can't do anything about it. The general PKGBUILD guidelines say use the same as upstream unless there is a hyphen. so for a perl prerelease of 0.90_1 that guideline follows to

Re: [arch-general] 4k sector drives

2010-04-30 Thread Mauro Santos
On 04/30/2010 10:13 AM, Thomas Bächler wrote: > Am 30.04.2010 01:37, schrieb bardo: >> Parted automatically warned me about an unoptimal sector alignment >> when I tried to put the first partition at 0 (the first partition >> should start at 2MB), but if you want to be extra-sure just check the >>

Re: [arch-general] 4k sector drives

2010-04-30 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 30.04.2010 01:37, schrieb bardo: > Parted automatically warned me about an unoptimal sector alignment > when I tried to put the first partition at 0 (the first partition > should start at 2MB), but if you want to be extra-sure just check the > the '-a optimal' parameter. About the disk reliabili

Re: [arch-general] 4k sector drives

2010-04-30 Thread bardo
2010/4/30 Robert Howard : > How did you get two drives into RAID5 and if so, why? Just run 'mdadm --create /dev/md0 --level=5 --raid-devices=2 /dev/sda1 /dev/sdb1', it's as simple as that. Why? Because I still have four free bays on that machine, and someday I'll surely want to expand the disks wi

[arch-general] [signoff] linux-atm 2.5.1-1

2010-04-30 Thread Tobias Powalowski
Hi guys, bump to latest version please signoff both arches greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tp...@archlinux.org signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [arch-general] Time for an arch-security mailing list?

2010-04-30 Thread Magnus Therning
On 30/04/10 00:08, Ananda Samaddar wrote: > Does anyone agree with this? If so how do I go about requesting the > creation of such a list? The list would be for discussion > around security in Arch, implementations and user/dev input etc. It > seems like package signing has moved up the agenda n

Re: [arch-general] [xmonad] Screenshot of all workspaces?

2010-04-30 Thread Magnus Therning
On 29/04/10 21:31, Nick Stepa wrote: > Hello all! I use xmonad and want to make screenshot of all workspaces at > once. How can I do it? > > Plz don`t say: "For each workspace - switch to it and use scrot" (= I suspect you'll have to write a program/script that does it, e.g. by using libwnck. /