Re: [arch-general] VirtualBox_bin 3.12 - slow system freeze on i686, OK on x86_64

2010-12-09 Thread Mauro Santos
On 09-12-2010 06:39, David C. Rankin wrote: Guys, just a heads up for those that use virtualbox_bin from AUR: I experienced a system freeze problem on a dell P4 box with VirtualBox-3.2.12 causing the machine to slowly freeze, become unresponsive, then hardlock. WinXP (guest) starts fine,

Re: [arch-general] Patent protection

2010-12-09 Thread Mauro Santos
On 08-12-2010 22:32, Jan de Groot wrote: On Wed, 2010-12-08 at 19:47 -0200, Armando M. Baratti wrote: It works because the patents are granted perpetually to OIN members that have jointed before the closing date, even in the case of a sell (like occurred in this case). If Microsoft

Re: [arch-general] Patent protection

2010-12-09 Thread Peter Lewis
On Thursday 09 December 2010 11:00:43 Mauro Santos wrote: If Microsoft wants to get you, they will do so anyways, OIN member or not. OIN does not have a patent license for ALL patents that are being sold, and even if they had them, Microsoft has several other trivial patents like the ones

Re: [arch-general] State of the Repositories

2010-12-09 Thread Vitor Eiji Justus Sakaguti
On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 12:54 AM, Kazuo Teramoto kaz@gmail.com wrote: Uhh... I see myself in you, somewhat. People that make graphs, and estimation of everything... In my last work I made a Monte Carlo simulation for estimating the probabilities of the winner of soccer championship

Re: [arch-general] Fluxbox broken when launched via qingy

2010-12-09 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 12/09/2010 01:48 AM, David C. Rankin wrote: On 12/08/2010 09:58 AM, David Rosenstrauch wrote: Anyone else seeing this and/or have ideas on how to fix? Sorry DR, I still use kdm to launch flux. Hey, while we are on flux, shoot me a copy of your startup file so I can see how you are doing