Re: [arch-general] Inclusion of wvdial in the ISO

2010-06-25 Thread jwbirdsong
On 06/25/2010 11:54 PM, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: Hi, Recently I've been going to my friends' house and installing arch on their boxes. Some of them had high speed wireless dialup internet (3.1 megabytes/s is the max) which required wvdial, so I had to carry wvdial's package in another pen

[arch-general] Inclusion of wvdial in the ISO

2010-06-25 Thread Nilesh Govindarajan
Hi, Recently I've been going to my friends' house and installing arch on their boxes. Some of them had high speed wireless dialup internet (3.1 megabytes/s is the max) which required wvdial, so I had to carry wvdial's package in another pen drive. It would be nice if wvdial was included in t

Re: [arch-general] makepkg creates symlink to the package file

2010-06-25 Thread Ray Rashif
On 26 June 2010 00:59, Attila wrote: > At Freitag, 25. Juni 2010 08:29 Ray Rashif wrote: > >> In what kind of situation would someone have something against that symlink? > > If you don't ordered it? -) Okay without joking: I think everyone will have > something against a thing what he never needs

[arch-general] devtmpfs

2010-06-25 Thread Damjan Georgievski
Now that DEVTMPFS is enabled by default in the Arch configuration, what are its benefits? Can I make an initramfs without udev now? And if I do will I be able to use root=/dev/disk/by-uuid/xx-yy-zz-etc or any of the similar kernel command line options? -- damjan

[arch-general] Archiso with custom kernel

2010-06-25 Thread Andre "Osku" Schmidt
Hello, i was wondering if anyone has tips on how i could combine these two: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Archiso http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Kernel_Customization_with_kernel26_Package to create a custom kernel for an archiso image ? (replacing/removing the arch stock kernel) i ha

Re: [arch-general] Arch Linux

2010-06-25 Thread Denis Kobozev
I also successfully use Arch on Thinkpad X61. Sound, wifi and track point work with minimal setup. Extra keys require some tweaking. The display has a bluish tint by default, so installing a color profile might be a good idea [1]. There's a whole wiki dedicated to running Linux on Thinkpads [2].

Re: [arch-general] makepkg creates symlink to the package file

2010-06-25 Thread Attila
At Freitag, 25. Juni 2010 08:29 Ray Rashif wrote: > In what kind of situation would someone have something against that symlink? If you don't ordered it? -) Okay without joking: I think everyone will have something against a thing what he never needs and i'm surprised that no one recognize this

Re: [arch-general] Arch Linux

2010-06-25 Thread Lukas Grässlin
On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 10:12:30PM +0300, Josef Tupag wrote: > Has anyone tried Arch Linux on their thinkpad? I just want to know how fast > it is. I don't like the long boot that is found in Ubuntu and many other > distro. > > Josef Tupag best humidifiers I'm usin

Re: [arch-general] Open Letter (Plea for Medical/Help Assistance) to World Leaders

2010-06-25 Thread C Anthony Risinger
On Jun 25, 2010, at 9:19 AM, Shridhar Daithankar wrote: > On Friday 25 June 2010 19:24:14 Ionuț Bîru wrote: >> did you got the blue or the red pill? > > obligatory > > http://xkcd.com/566/ Hahaha, man that site has some funny ones. Good stuff, esp. the bits about us being world leaders and domi

Re: [arch-general] Open Letter (Plea for Medical/Help Assistance) to World Leaders

2010-06-25 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Friday 25 June 2010 19:24:14 Ionuț Bîru wrote: > did you got the blue or the red pill? obligatory http://xkcd.com/566/ -- Regards Shridhar

Re: [arch-general] Open Letter (Plea for Medical/Help Assistance) to World Leaders

2010-06-25 Thread Ionuț Bîru
On 06/25/2010 03:35 PM, Mauro Santos wrote: On 06/25/2010 12:21 PM, Aaron Griffin wrote: On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 3:34 AM, Allan McRae wrote: On 25/06/10 18:28, Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) wrote: On 06/15/2010 09:35 PM, Gaurish Sharma wrote: Spam? No, this is NOT a spam. It is a genuin

Re: [arch-general] Open Letter (Plea for Medical/Help Assistance) to World Leaders

2010-06-25 Thread Mauro Santos
On 06/25/2010 12:21 PM, Aaron Griffin wrote: > On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 3:34 AM, Allan McRae wrote: >> On 25/06/10 18:28, Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) wrote: >>> >>> On 06/15/2010 09:35 PM, Gaurish Sharma wrote: Spam? >>> No, this is NOT a spam. It is a genuine open letter plea for

Re: [arch-general] Open Letter (Plea for Medical/Help Assistance) to World Leaders

2010-06-25 Thread Caleb Cushing
On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 7:21 AM, Aaron Griffin wrote: >> I know world domination has been discussed on this list before, but I did >> not realize we were far enough along to be considered world leaders. > > And the email comes not from a person, but from the space.time.universe! They said world l

Re: [arch-general] Open Letter (Plea for Medical/Help Assistance) to World Leaders

2010-06-25 Thread Aaron Griffin
On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 3:34 AM, Allan McRae wrote: > On 25/06/10 18:28, Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) wrote: >> >> On 06/15/2010 09:35 PM, Gaurish Sharma wrote: >>> >>> Spam? >>> >> No, this is NOT a spam. It is a genuine open letter plea for medical >> help/assistance to world leaders. > > I kn

Re: [arch-general] Open Letter (Plea for Medical/Help Assistance) to World Leaders

2010-06-25 Thread Allan McRae
On 25/06/10 18:28, Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) wrote: On 06/15/2010 09:35 PM, Gaurish Sharma wrote: Spam? No, this is NOT a spam. It is a genuine open letter plea for medical help/assistance to world leaders. I know world domination has been discussed on this list before, but I did not r

Re: [arch-general] Open Letter (Plea for Medical/Help Assistance) to World Leaders

2010-06-25 Thread Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming)
On 06/15/2010 09:35 PM, Gaurish Sharma wrote: Spam? No, this is NOT a spam. It is a genuine open letter plea for medical help/assistance to world leaders. Yours sincerely, Mr. Teo En Ming Hanyu Pinyin Name: Zhang Enming Citizenship: Singapore Citizen Facebook: Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming)