Re: [arch-general] Boost

2010-06-17 Thread Daniel Bumke
On 18/06/10 13:30, Allan McRae wrote: From memory 1.42 broke encfs. The encfs developers blame boost, the boost developers blame encfs, so nothing was done in recent updates from either side. So we either update boost or break encfs... Thanks for the tip! Presumably you mean either we *don't

Re: [arch-general] New Google Group for discussion and notices on Arch security.

2010-06-17 Thread Andres P
On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 1:18 AM, Jeffrey 'jf' Lim wrote: > > ah yes, SSL! sorry :) > On 2006-05-01 22:34:12, Ulf Möller, openssl developer [1], responded [2] to openssl packager Kurt Roeckx [3] saying that he was for applying the patch just to keep valgrind quiet. But openssl doesn't like to tal

Re: [arch-general] Boost

2010-06-17 Thread Allan McRae
On 18/06/10 16:24, Daniel Bumke wrote: Hi, Does anyone know what's going on with boost? It seems it was downgraded from 1.42.0 to 1.41.0 a while back, and hasn't been updated to the latest 1.43.0. I was going to build the latest on my machine, but if there's something wrong with it I might hold

[arch-general] Boost

2010-06-17 Thread Daniel Bumke
Hi, Does anyone know what's going on with boost? It seems it was downgraded from 1.42.0 to 1.41.0 a while back, and hasn't been updated to the latest 1.43.0. I was going to build the latest on my machine, but if there's something wrong with it I might hold off or go with the older version. I

Re: [arch-general] mplayer 31428-1 broken without libvpx.so.0

2010-06-17 Thread Ray Rashif
On 17 June 2010 17:48, julroy67 wrote: > You're right, it was AUR version that I maintained, the first release of > libvpx provided only the static lib, and unfortunately, it seems that the > libvpx package in extra don't replace the AUR package that is now deleted. Remember, official packages ne

Re: [arch-general] Xorg-server 1.8 - when?

2010-06-17 Thread Raghavendra D Prabhu
* On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 12:21:52PM +0200, Lukáš Jirkovský wrote: On 16 June 2010 12:17, Gaurish Sharma wrote: Hi, I think Nvidia still does not work with 1.8 Regards, Gaurish Sharma At least nvidia-beta works fine. I am using xorg-server from about one month. No issues so far. Also I

Re: [arch-general] New Google Group for discussion and notices on Arch security.

2010-06-17 Thread Jeffrey 'jf' Lim
On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 1:25 PM, Andres P wrote: > On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 10:18 PM, Jeffrey 'jf' Lim > wrote: >> On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 8:33 AM, C Anthony Risinger wrote: >>> >>> security is the responsibility of those deploying, not those >>> packaging.  it requires end-to-end oversight and

Re: [arch-general] New Google Group for discussion and notices on Arch security.

2010-06-17 Thread Andres P
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 10:18 PM, Jeffrey 'jf' Lim wrote: > On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 8:33 AM, C Anthony Risinger wrote: >> >> security is the responsibility of those deploying, not those >> packaging.  it requires end-to-end oversight and complete >> configuration toward a specific and particular

Re: [arch-general] What should the Arch Security Team be called?

2010-06-17 Thread Nilesh Govindarajan
On 06/18/2010 03:48 AM, J. McBlane wrote: Arch Security Enhancement Team? Securing Arch For Everyone? Arch Guard? On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 08:46:59PM +0100, Ananda Samaddar wrote: On to the first order of business. As the subject says, what should security team be called. Hopefully we can get a

Re: [arch-general] File Associations for firefox & thunderbird :)^

2010-06-17 Thread Joe(theWordy)Philbrook
It would appear that on Jun 16, Patrick Brisbin did say: > On 06/14/10 at 11:33pm, Michishige Kaito wrote: > > I found thunderbird asking me for a program to execute for links. > > Pointed it to the right program and told it to remember. Never asked > > again. I wouldn't know where to change it i

Re: [arch-general] New Google Group for discussion and notices on Arch security.

2010-06-17 Thread Jeffrey 'jf' Lim
On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 8:33 AM, C Anthony Risinger wrote: > > security is the responsibility of those deploying, not those > packaging.  it requires end-to-end oversight and complete > configuration toward a specific and particular purpose; something that > is not possible for those creating a di

Re: [arch-general] b43: wireless issues

2010-06-17 Thread Sergey Manucharian
Hi Magnus, Excerpts from Magnus Therning's message of Fri, 18 Jun 2010 00:22 +0100: > It's a broadcom card, using the b43 driver. It connects fine on > login, but once I actually use the network I'm disconnected and all > attempts to re-connect fail. > > > One person mentioned that things

Re: [arch-general] New Google Group for discussion and notices on Arch security.

2010-06-17 Thread C Anthony Risinger
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 6:12 PM, Burlynn Corlew Jr wrote: > I am going to vote that you please do not CC all of this to arch-general. > Many of us are not concerned with this, and already this afternoon I've seen > enough mail regarding it that I can see it as a problem. The arch-security > list h

[arch-general] b43: wireless issues

2010-06-17 Thread Magnus Therning
I'm having problems getting my wireless connection to work properly. It's a broadcom card, using the b43 driver. It connects fine on login, but once I actually use the network I'm disconnected and all attempts to re-connect fail. I've found some reports of similar behaviour online, but none seem

Re: [arch-general] New Google Group for discussion and notices on Arch security.

2010-06-17 Thread Burlynn Corlew Jr
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 1:32 PM, Ananda Samaddar wrote: > I've created a Google Group here for discussion around creating an Arch > Security Team: > > http://groups.google.com/group/arch-security > > Please join it if you're interested. The reason for this group is in > response to my rejected su

Re: [arch-general] New Google Group for discussion and notices on Arch security.

2010-06-17 Thread Marek Otahal
On Friday 18 of June 2010 00:35:19 Miah Johnson wrote: > I think there is much more that can be done besides the short list from > Ananda. The thing you have to remember is that "security" does not mean > "I'm running the newest code.". > > Things to remember: > 1. There is no such thing as "secur

Re: [arch-general] New Google Group for discussion and notices on Arch security.

2010-06-17 Thread Jeroen Op 't Eynde
On Fri, 18 Jun 2010 01:00:57 +0200, Ng Oon-Ee wrote: My OPINION is that Arch is not a distro for those who do not want to do regular total updates. Of course, some have individual packages in NoUpgrade, but the number of problems which crop up which come down to "you didn't run pacman -Syu!" is

Re: [arch-general] New Google Group for discussion and notices on Arch security.

2010-06-17 Thread Ng Oon-Ee
Comments interspersed on a few points. On Thu, 2010-06-17 at 15:35 -0700, Miah Johnson wrote: > I think there is much more that can be done besides the short list from > Ananda. The thing you have to remember is that "security" does not mean "I'm > running the newest code.". > > Things to remembe

Re: [arch-general] New Google Group for discussion and notices on Arch security.

2010-06-17 Thread Jeroen Op 't Eynde
On Fri, 18 Jun 2010 00:35:19 +0200, Miah Johnson wrote: Things to remember: 1. There is no such thing as "secure". 2. Proper security consists of multiple layers of defense. Additional examples of things the AST could do: 1. Propose changes to default configuration files to be "more secure",

Re: [arch-general] What should the Arch Security Team be called?

2010-06-17 Thread Miah Johnson
I think the name should be simple (I've already commented on AST). But I wanted to point out, the name isn't everything. Its what the team does or proposes to do that should be thought about. Spending too much time on a name, while not actually doing anything is fail. -Miah On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 a

Re: [arch-general] New Google Group for discussion and notices on Arch security.

2010-06-17 Thread Miah Johnson
I think there is much more that can be done besides the short list from Ananda. The thing you have to remember is that "security" does not mean "I'm running the newest code.". Things to remember: 1. There is no such thing as "secure". 2. Proper security consists of multiple layers of defense. Add

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] dropping flashplugin x86_64

2010-06-17 Thread Jeroen Op 't Eynde
On Thu, 17 Jun 2010 23:50:10 +0200, Caleb Cushing wrote: so according to that you should see HTML5 WebM. Do you? I see HTML5 but no WebM which means it's using h.264. even if you append the &webm=1 which I suspect means youtube is smart and knows to fall back. I checked and I was wrong, Ch

Re: [arch-general] What should the Arch Security Team be called?

2010-06-17 Thread J. McBlane
Arch Security Enhancement Team? Securing Arch For Everyone? Arch Guard? On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 08:46:59PM +0100, Ananda Samaddar wrote: > On to the first order of business. As the subject says, what should > security team be called. Hopefully we can get a few suggestions and > then reach a conse

Re: [arch-general] What should the Arch Security Team be called?

2010-06-17 Thread Peter Lewis
On Thursday 17 Jun 2010 at 21:53 Angel Velásquez wrote: > > Let's Make Arch Overprotected (LMAO) > > Tape Arch's Cracks - Organiztaion (TACO) > > I vote for TACO ! or: Tape Arch's Cracks Over Toughened Arch Community Operation Tough Arch Crack Ops Lots of TACO options :-) But yes, something

Re: [arch-general] New Google Group for discussion and notices on Arch security.

2010-06-17 Thread Jeroen Op 't Eynde
On Thu, 17 Jun 2010 20:57:56 +0200, Ananda Samaddar wrote: 1. Check for vulnerabilities 2. Know how to use PKGBUILDS and abs 3. Can spare some time to send announcements, create interim PKGBUILDs and file security issues on the bug tracker. 1. [testing] users do that 2. [testing] users, Dev

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] dropping flashplugin x86_64

2010-06-17 Thread Caleb Cushing
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 5:40 PM, Heiko Baums wrote: > You probably misunderstand something. HTML5 is the new HTML version, > the language in which websites (Youtube e.g.) are written, the language > which provides the tag. WebM is the codec of the videos like > MPEG, Ogg/Theora, etc. > no I unde

Re: [arch-general] Package fwbuilder flagged out-of-date

2010-06-17 Thread Guillaume ALAUX
On 17 June 2010 22:24, Andrea Scarpino wrote: > On Thursday 17 June 2010 22:07:31 Guillaume ALAUX wrote: > > Sweet ! > > > > Well done Andreas. Could we see the sources plz? I'm curious ! > Of curse. > http://repos.archlinux.org/wsvn/packages/libfwbuilder/trunk/ > http://repos.archlinux.org/wsvn/

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] dropping flashplugin x86_64

2010-06-17 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Thu, 17 Jun 2010 14:49:50 -0400 schrieb Caleb Cushing : > not in our stable build. And why does it (Youtube) work with the current chromium from [extra]? > http://www.permadi.com/blog/2010/05/sample-webm-video-2/ < that's > supposed to be webm and the video that's on youtube should have an >

Re: [arch-general] Licensing of Arch Wiki content

2010-06-17 Thread Ananda Samaddar
On Thu, 17 Jun 2010 17:17:38 -0400 Loui Chang wrote: > On Thu 17 Jun 2010 21:42 +0100, Ananda Samaddar wrote: > > I notice it's all under GFDL 1.2. I'm wanting to use a Gentoo doc > > for the Arch Security stuff but it's under a CC-SA attribution > > license which is incompatible with GFDL. Woul

Re: [arch-general] Licensing of Arch Wiki content

2010-06-17 Thread Linas
Ananda Samaddar wrote: > I notice it's all under GFDL 1.2. I'm wanting to use a Gentoo doc > for the Arch Security stuff but it's under a CC-SA attribution license > which is incompatible with GFDL. Would it be possible to allow Wiki > content under a CC licenses? I can't see it being too controve

Re: [arch-general] Licensing of Arch Wiki content

2010-06-17 Thread Loui Chang
On Thu 17 Jun 2010 21:42 +0100, Ananda Samaddar wrote: > I notice it's all under GFDL 1.2. I'm wanting to use a Gentoo doc > for the Arch Security stuff but it's under a CC-SA attribution license > which is incompatible with GFDL. Would it be possible to allow Wiki > content under a CC licenses? I

Re: [arch-general] What should the Arch Security Team be called?

2010-06-17 Thread Ananda Samaddar
On Thu, 17 Jun 2010 23:02:30 +0200 Marek Otahal wrote: > > Arch Security Mailing List ASML ? That's more for the mailing list I reckon. I'll leave it half a day or so, so that users from other time zones can get their opinions heard. The consensus, trolling aside, seems to be on Arch Security T

Re: [arch-general] What should the Arch Security Team be called?

2010-06-17 Thread Marek Otahal
On Thursday 17 of June 2010 21:46:59 Ananda Samaddar wrote: > On to the first order of business. As the subject says, what should > security team be called. Hopefully we can get a few suggestions and > then reach a consensus. Arch Linux Security Task Force just sounds like > too much of a mouthful

Re: [arch-general] What should the Arch Security Team be called?

2010-06-17 Thread Angel Velásquez
2010/6/17 János Illés : > On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 22:19, Dave Morgan > wrote: >> On 17/06/10 at 08:46pm, Ananda Samaddar wrote: >>> On to the first order of business. As the subject says, what should >>> >>> Ideas? >>> >>> Ananda >> >> Arch Response Security Engineers? >> >> -- >> Dave. >> > > hm

Re: [arch-general] What should the Arch Security Team be called?

2010-06-17 Thread János Illés
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 22:19, Dave Morgan wrote: > On 17/06/10 at 08:46pm, Ananda Samaddar wrote: >> On to the first order of business. As the subject says, what should >> >> Ideas? >> >> Ananda > > Arch Response Security Engineers? > > -- > Dave. > hmmm. Let's Make Arch Overprotected (LMAO) Ta

[arch-general] Licensing of Arch Wiki content

2010-06-17 Thread Ananda Samaddar
I notice it's all under GFDL 1.2. I'm wanting to use a Gentoo doc for the Arch Security stuff but it's under a CC-SA attribution license which is incompatible with GFDL. Would it be possible to allow Wiki content under a CC licenses? I can't see it being too controversial a choice, as in CC licens

Re: [arch-general] What should the Arch Security Team be called?

2010-06-17 Thread Miah Johnson
I second "Arch Security Team" (AST). Its simple. -Miah On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 1:29 PM, Ananda Samaddar wrote: > On Thu, 17 Jun 2010 21:19:38 +0100 > Dave Morgan wrote: > > > On 17/06/10 at 08:46pm, Ananda Samaddar wrote: > > > On to the first order of business. As the subject says, what should

Re: [arch-general] [arch-security] Re: What should the Arch Security Team be called?

2010-06-17 Thread Ananda Samaddar
On Thu, 17 Jun 2010 13:27:59 -0700 (PDT) nepherte wrote: > Why not just "Arch Security Team" (AST) not to be confused with > abstract syntax trees :) No need to make things complicated. This looks like the way to go, if there's no more dissenters or better suggestions. Ananda signature.asc D

Re: [arch-general] What should the Arch Security Team be called?

2010-06-17 Thread Loui Chang
On Thu 17 Jun 2010 21:19 +0100, Dave Morgan wrote: > On 17/06/10 at 08:46pm, Ananda Samaddar wrote: > > On to the first order of business. As the subject says, what should > > security team be called. Hopefully we can get a few suggestions and > > then reach a consensus. Arch Linux Security Task F

Re: [arch-general] What should the Arch Security Team be called?

2010-06-17 Thread Ananda Samaddar
On Thu, 17 Jun 2010 21:19:38 +0100 Dave Morgan wrote: > On 17/06/10 at 08:46pm, Ananda Samaddar wrote: > > On to the first order of business. As the subject says, what should > > security team be called. Hopefully we can get a few suggestions and > > then reach a consensus. Arch Linux Security T

Re: [arch-general] Package fwbuilder flagged out-of-date

2010-06-17 Thread Andrea Scarpino
On Thursday 17 June 2010 22:07:31 Guillaume ALAUX wrote: > Sweet ! > > Well done Andreas. Could we see the sources plz? I'm curious ! Of curse. http://repos.archlinux.org/wsvn/packages/libfwbuilder/trunk/ http://repos.archlinux.org/wsvn/packages/fwbuilder/trunk/ Building i686 now. -- Andrea Sca

Re: [arch-general] What should the Arch Security Team be called?

2010-06-17 Thread Dave Morgan
On 17/06/10 at 08:46pm, Ananda Samaddar wrote: > On to the first order of business. As the subject says, what should > security team be called. Hopefully we can get a few suggestions and > then reach a consensus. Arch Linux Security Task Force just sounds like > too much of a mouthful to me. > >

Re: [arch-general] Package fwbuilder flagged out-of-date

2010-06-17 Thread Guillaume ALAUX
Sweet ! Well done Andreas. Could we see the sources plz? I'm curious ! On 17 June 2010 22:04, Gaurish Sharma wrote: > On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 1:29 AM, Andrea Scarpino > wrote: > > Hi, > > please try these packages and report any issue. > > If you say that them are working I will upload them in

Re: [arch-general] Package fwbuilder flagged out-of-date

2010-06-17 Thread Gaurish Sharma
On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 1:29 AM, Andrea Scarpino wrote: > Hi, > please try these packages and report any issue. > If you say that them are working I will upload them in [extra]. > > libfwbuilder - http://andreascarpino.it/uploads/libfwbuilder-4.0.2-1- > x86_64.pkg.tar.xz > fwbuilder - > http://an

Re: [arch-general] Package fwbuilder flagged out-of-date

2010-06-17 Thread Andrea Scarpino
On Thursday 17 June 2010 21:50:27 Gaurish Sharma wrote: > I guess, downgrading to version 3 and waiting for official packages > seems the only solution. Hope the maintainer finds some time and > updates it. Hi, please try these packages and report any issue. If you say that them are working I will

Re: [arch-general] Package fwbuilder flagged out-of-date

2010-06-17 Thread Guillaume ALAUX
Which architecture your are building on? On 17 June 2010 21:50, Gaurish Sharma wrote: > On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 11:34 PM, Ionuț Bîru wrote: > > > > first compile and install libfwbuilder and then compile fwbuilder against > > the new libfwbuilder. the order is important > > > > -- > > Ionuț > >

Re: [arch-general] Package fwbuilder flagged out-of-date

2010-06-17 Thread Gaurish Sharma
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 11:34 PM, Ionuț Bîru wrote: > > first compile and install libfwbuilder and then compile fwbuilder against > the new libfwbuilder. the order is important > > -- > Ionuț > Hi, I compiled libfwbuilder and installed it. then I complied fwbuilder package and installed it. Al

[arch-general] What should the Arch Security Team be called?

2010-06-17 Thread Ananda Samaddar
On to the first order of business. As the subject says, what should security team be called. Hopefully we can get a few suggestions and then reach a consensus. Arch Linux Security Task Force just sounds like too much of a mouthful to me. I was brooding over this and I thought some sort of acronym

Re: [arch-general] New Google Group for discussion and notices on Arch security.

2010-06-17 Thread Ananda Samaddar
On Thu, 17 Jun 2010 13:45:17 -0500 Dan McGee wrote: > > Sounds like a blast from the past: > http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Security_Task_Force > http://code.google.com/p/arch-sheriff/ > > Best of luck this time around. > > -Dan As I've mentioned before, I don't think getting the process

Re: [arch-general] New Google Group for discussion and notices on Arch security.

2010-06-17 Thread Miah Johnson
Cool. I just joined. -Miah On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 11:45 AM, Dan McGee wrote: > On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 1:32 PM, Ananda Samaddar > wrote: > > I've created a Google Group here for discussion around creating an Arch > > Security Team: > > > > http://groups.google.com/group/arch-security > > > >

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] dropping flashplugin x86_64

2010-06-17 Thread Caleb Cushing
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 2:38 PM, Heiko Baums wrote: > WebM is already implemented in Chromium 5. not in our stable build. http://www.permadi.com/blog/2010/05/sample-webm-video-2/ < that's supposed to be webm and the video that's on youtube should have an webm and html5 badge... I just get the htm

Re: [arch-general] New Google Group for discussion and notices on Arch security.

2010-06-17 Thread Dan McGee
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 1:32 PM, Ananda Samaddar wrote: > I've created a Google Group here for discussion around creating an Arch > Security Team: > > http://groups.google.com/group/arch-security > > Please join it if you're interested.  The reason for this group is in > response to my rejected su

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] dropping flashplugin x86_64

2010-06-17 Thread Caleb Cushing
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 2:35 PM, Heiko Baums wrote: > And why are there free Linux versions of every anti-virus software, if > Windows is their only serious market? because they're primarily used for scanning email for virii in web gateways. you'll probably find more 64-bit av's in enterprise edi

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] dropping flashplugin x86_64

2010-06-17 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Thu, 17 Jun 2010 14:16:14 -0400 schrieb Caleb Cushing : > I thought WebM wasn't queued up until Chrome 6? pretty sure it's only > H264 in 5... but I could be wrong... I think even youtube says > something like that. WebM is already implemented in Chromium 5. Youtube's HTML5 version is working

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] dropping flashplugin x86_64

2010-06-17 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Thu, 17 Jun 2010 11:26:57 -0400 schrieb Caleb Cushing : > kde1,2,3 aren't maintained anymore this saying windows nt, 98, xp is > just about the same. kde4 is very similar in how vista has gone into > 7. don't confused unsupported with we released a new version and > aren't supporting the previo

[arch-general] New Google Group for discussion and notices on Arch security.

2010-06-17 Thread Ananda Samaddar
I've created a Google Group here for discussion around creating an Arch Security Team: http://groups.google.com/group/arch-security Please join it if you're interested. The reason for this group is in response to my rejected suggestion for an arch-security mailing list. I'll CC any policy or pro

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] dropping flashplugin x86_64

2010-06-17 Thread Caleb Cushing
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 12:29 PM, Jeroen Op 't Eynde wrote: > Chrome 5 I thought WebM wasn't queued up until Chrome 6? pretty sure it's only H264 in 5... but I could be wrong... I think even youtube says something like that. -- Caleb Cushing http://xenoterracide.blogspot.com

Re: [arch-general] Package fwbuilder flagged out-of-date

2010-06-17 Thread Ionuț Bîru
On 06/17/2010 08:52 PM, Gaurish Sharma wrote: I tried install new packages but getting this error when launching from command line "fwbuilder fwbuilder: error while loading shared libraries: libfwbuilder.so.8: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory" first compile and install

Re: [arch-general] Package signing for the umpteenth time (was Re: unrealircd 3.2.8.1-2 contains backdoor)

2010-06-17 Thread Ananda Samaddar
On Sun, 13 Jun 2010 12:46:09 +0200 Xavier Chantry wrote: > > It's all there : > http://projects.archlinux.org/users/allan/pacman.git/log/?h=gpg and > there : > http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Package_Signing_Proposal_for_Pacman > > Come back to us when everything is implemented and working :

Re: [arch-general] Package fwbuilder flagged out-of-date

2010-06-17 Thread Gaurish Sharma
> Hi, > > Here are new versions for fwbuilder and libfwbuilder. > > They build and launch in my i686. Not tested in x64. > > I haven't used them so can't say if they do what they are supposed to ("ie" > need further testing). > > Added maintainer in this thread. > > -- Guillaume > Hi I tried instal

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] dropping flashplugin x86_64

2010-06-17 Thread Jeroen Op 't Eynde
On Thu, 17 Jun 2010 11:46:11 +0200, Jan de Groot wrote: I don't care much about performance, but what is irritating is that whenever some website loads anything flash-related, my CPU gets speedstepped to max frequency and my laptop fan prepares my laptop for a takeoff. When you're on battery,

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] dropping flashplugin x86_64

2010-06-17 Thread Caleb Cushing
also has everyone forgotten this http://techcrunch.com/2010/03/30/flash-player-to-come-bundled-with-google-chrome-new-browser-plugin-api-coming/ ? if google wants flash dead so bad why bundle it? I suspect that's why adobe has cancelled support for now. I bet they have to rewrite parts of 64-bit fl

Re: [arch-general] Knotify4 segmentation fault

2010-06-17 Thread Madhurya Kakati
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 3:43 PM, Jan Steffens wrote: > See if it works after you remove (and backup) .asoundrc > > On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 11:34 AM, Madhurya Kakati > wrote: >> On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 2:53 PM, Jan Steffens wrote: >>> What are the contents of /etc/asound.conf and ~/.asoundrc? >>

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] dropping flashplugin x86_64

2010-06-17 Thread Caleb Cushing
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 8:33 AM, Heiko Baums wrote: > > Let me think. I'm using open source (Linux) since many years now. > Everything I needed was supported and maintained during all the years. > If a tool isn't maintained anymore then there's a fork or a usually > better alternative which is mai

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] dropping flashplugin x86_64

2010-06-17 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Thu, 17 Jun 2010 07:06:23 -0400 schrieb Caleb Cushing : > right... as if open source never stops getting supported for long > periods of time... synergy anyone? or that we're never used as a > testbed *cough*kde 4.0*cough*. Let me think. I'm using open source (Linux) since many years now. Ever

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] dropping flashplugin x86_64

2010-06-17 Thread Caleb Cushing
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 5:57 AM, Philipp Überbacher wrote: > I have no idea, it was simply the latest ubuntu live CD, i386 I believe. > I never claimed that it was scientific, just recent experience. I used a > live CD for this because I didn't want to install flash, but now I > couldn't install i

Re: [arch-general] Knotify4 segmentation fault

2010-06-17 Thread Jan Steffens
See if it works after you remove (and backup) .asoundrc On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 11:34 AM, Madhurya Kakati wrote: > On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 2:53 PM, Jan Steffens wrote: >> What are the contents of /etc/asound.conf and ~/.asoundrc? >> >> On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 11:20 AM, Madhurya Kakati >> wrote

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] dropping flashplugin x86_64

2010-06-17 Thread Philipp Überbacher
Excerpts from Caleb Cushing's message of 2010-06-17 11:28:48 +0200: > On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 3:59 AM, Philipp Überbacher > wrote: > > Flash or some players seem to still be buggy. I recently booted a live > > CD to watch a long video, and at some point, out of the blue, it was > > simply impossib

Re: [arch-general] mplayer 31428-1 broken without libvpx.so.0

2010-06-17 Thread julroy67
You're right, it was AUR version that I maintained, the first release of libvpx provided only the static lib, and unfortunately, it seems that the libvpx package in extra don't replace the AUR package that is now deleted. 2010/6/17 PT M. > ok i got it, i somehow have libvpx 0.9.0-4 installed (ca

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] dropping flashplugin x86_64

2010-06-17 Thread Caleb Cushing
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 5:41 AM, Patrick Burroughs wrote: > I will admit, it's pretty low. My previous system was a 2GHz Athlon > XP, and while Flash wasn't instant on there, and occasionally lagged, > it worked. That died, and I haven't the means to replace it, so I've > been using an old Dell La

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] dropping flashplugin x86_64

2010-06-17 Thread Jan de Groot
On Thu, 2010-06-17 at 00:53 -0700, Patrick Burroughs wrote: > Personally, if it wasn't for HTML5 I wouldn't be able to use YouTube. > My laptop is ancient and decrepit, and cannot handle Flash on Linux, > but the element works just fine, and loads as fast as I'm used > to Flash video loading. Mayb

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] dropping flashplugin x86_64

2010-06-17 Thread Patrick Burroughs
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 02:17, Caleb Cushing wrote: > On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 5:15 AM, Caleb Cushing > wrote: >> yeah having a quad core with 6G of ram takes care of just about any >> system performance issues > > however I was using flash 10 on a much less beefy system not so long > ago... and

Re: [arch-general] Knotify4 segmentation fault

2010-06-17 Thread Madhurya Kakati
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 2:53 PM, Jan Steffens wrote: > What are the contents of /etc/asound.conf and ~/.asoundrc? > > On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 11:20 AM, Madhurya Kakati > wrote: >> Hi all, >> I am using kde 4.4.4. whenever i get any notifications knotify4 throws >> up error stating seg fault. thi

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] dropping flashplugin x86_64

2010-06-17 Thread Caleb Cushing
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 3:59 AM, Philipp Überbacher wrote: > Flash or some players seem to still be buggy. I recently booted a live > CD to watch a long video, and at some point, out of the blue, it was > simply impossible to seek forward or backward. The Volume controls did > nothing at all. Hurr

Re: [arch-general] Knotify4 segmentation fault

2010-06-17 Thread Jan Steffens
What are the contents of /etc/asound.conf and ~/.asoundrc? On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 11:20 AM, Madhurya Kakati wrote: > Hi all, > I am using kde 4.4.4. whenever i get any notifications knotify4 throws > up error stating seg fault. this is very annoying cause sometime while > chatting if chat window

[arch-general] Knotify4 segmentation fault

2010-06-17 Thread Madhurya Kakati
Hi all, I am using kde 4.4.4. whenever i get any notifications knotify4 throws up error stating seg fault. this is very annoying cause sometime while chatting if chat window is unfocused, if someone replies, i get notification and immediately knotify throws error. Application: KNotify (knotify4),

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] dropping flashplugin x86_64

2010-06-17 Thread Caleb Cushing
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 5:15 AM, Caleb Cushing wrote: > yeah having a quad core with 6G of ram takes care of just about any > system performance issues however I was using flash 10 on a much less beefy system not so long ago... and didn't notice issues... so I'd be curious to know how low of a sy

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] dropping flashplugin x86_64

2010-06-17 Thread Caleb Cushing
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 3:53 AM, Patrick Burroughs wrote: > Maybe there's a bit of a slowdown versus Flash > if you have a cutting-edge system, but not everyone is in that > situation. yeah having a quad core with 6G of ram takes care of just about any system performance issues (except nepomuk an

Re: [arch-general] Package fwbuilder flagged out-of-date

2010-06-17 Thread Guillaume ALAUX
On 16 June 2010 22:49, Ionuț Bîru wrote: > On 06/16/2010 11:47 PM, Gaurish Sharma wrote: > >> Hi, >> The fwbuilder package which is very usefull for writing firewall rules is >> flagged out of date since weeks. there is a major 4 which has lots of >> new features[1] >> >> Any reason its not being

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] dropping flashplugin x86_64

2010-06-17 Thread Philipp Überbacher
Excerpts from Caleb Cushing's message of 2010-06-17 04:16:04 +0200: > On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 7:18 PM, Ray Rashif wrote: > > I simply couldn't get the same elements with the same ease in time, > > and thus failed to offer a presentation. They decided to stick with > > Flash, but I kept the multime

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] dropping flashplugin x86_64

2010-06-17 Thread Patrick Burroughs
On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 19:16, Caleb Cushing wrote: > as of right now I don't think is ready. however I'm all for > many of the other improvements coming in html5 and I wish people would > focus on rolling those out. > > [...] > > I tried html5 again on youtube, my video took several minutes to l

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Out-of-date packages in [extra]/[community]

2010-06-17 Thread Guillaume ALAUX
2010/6/17 Angel Velásquez > >> - biopython > >> - pylint > >> - python-cheetah > >> - python-formencode > >> - python-sqlobject (needed by pacbuild, but does pacbuild still work?!) > >> - python-gdata (needed by pytube in [community]) > >> - python-vpython > > Let me have the python ones (mainly

Re: [arch-general] Package signing for the umpteenth time (was Re: unrealircd 3.2.8.1-2 contains backdoor)

2010-06-17 Thread Guillaume ALAUX
On 17 June 2010 01:34, Allan McRae wrote: > On 17/06/10 00:48, Guillaume ALAUX wrote: > >> Are the python scripts in the pacbuild package (apple, strawberry, >> queuepackage, waka and uploadpackage) used any more as described in this >> page ? Becaus