Re: [arch-general] Sharing data between Windows 7 and Archlinux

2011-03-07 Thread Madhurya Kakati
On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 5:57 PM, Karol Babioch wrote: > What kind of Desktop Environment are you using? As far as I know GNOME > offers to ability to share folders, which can be configured through a GUI. > > Otherwise you will have to setup Samba manually, which can be tricky > sometimes and needs

Re: [arch-general] Sharing data between Windows 7 and Archlinux

2011-03-07 Thread Gary Wright
On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 5:08 AM, Madhurya Kakati wrote: > Hi all, > Got hold of a cheap laptop. I want to use it as my download rig. It > will be on most of the time downloading torrents. > The laptop actually came with Windows XP installed. I setup the laptop > ip as 192.168.1.5 and my desktop (ru

Re: [arch-general] Dropping Oracle OpenOffice

2011-03-07 Thread Jude DaShiell
You should know replacing Oracle OpenOffice also does the accessibility crowd that uses orca a huge favor too. The Libri OpenOffice packages work better with Orca in several versions and don't crash because orca is running on the systems.On Tue, 8 Mar 2011, Sven-Hendrik Haase wrote: > On 07.03

Re: [arch-general] Dropping Oracle OpenOffice

2011-03-07 Thread Jan Steffens
On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 6:45 PM, Andreas Radke wrote: > LibreOffice has recently proved to be a solid replacement for Oracle > OpenOffice. I'm about to drop all Oracle OOo packages from our repos. > > First my time is limited. I've asked so many times for help in the > Office packaging area and nob

Re: [arch-general] Dropping Oracle OpenOffice

2011-03-07 Thread C Anthony Risinger
On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 10:00 PM, Thomas Dziedzic wrote: > On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 5:19 PM, Sven-Hendrik Haase wrote: >> On 07.03.2011 18:45, Andreas Radke wrote: >>> LibreOffice has recently proved to be a solid replacement for Oracle >>> OpenOffice. I'm about to drop all Oracle OOo packages fro

Re: [arch-general] Dropping Oracle OpenOffice

2011-03-07 Thread Thomas Dziedzic
On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 5:19 PM, Sven-Hendrik Haase wrote: > On 07.03.2011 18:45, Andreas Radke wrote: >> LibreOffice has recently proved to be a solid replacement for Oracle >> OpenOffice. I'm about to drop all Oracle OOo packages from our repos. >> >> First my time is limited. I've asked so many

Re: [arch-general] rotc-ethernet package in aur

2011-03-07 Thread edacval
On 03/07/2011 09:55 PM, kurrata wrote: > I made a update for package rotc-ethernet in aur and submited it. When i > do makepkg locally it works but when i try to install it thought yaourt > i get this error: > > [martins@sazan rotc-ethernet]$yaourt -S rotc-ether

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] GSoC 2011

2011-03-07 Thread William Holbrook
On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 7:59 PM, Allan McRae wrote: > On 08/03/11 10:31, Ivan Sichmann Freitas wrote: >> >> So, will pacman really enter gsoc? > > I doubt anything Arch related will be part of GSoC this year given the > deadline for applying to become a mentor organisation is Friday and I have > no

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] GSoC 2011

2011-03-07 Thread Allan McRae
On 08/03/11 10:31, Ivan Sichmann Freitas wrote: So, will pacman really enter gsoc? I doubt anything Arch related will be part of GSoC this year given the deadline for applying to become a mentor organisation is Friday and I have not heard of anyone from here actually applying Allan

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] GSoC 2011

2011-03-07 Thread Ivan Sichmann Freitas
So, will pacman really enter gsoc? > Now, I will research the next steps to follow to participate it, if > anybody want to help, feel free to contact me. > > [1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GSoC_2011 I've read the pacman roadmap, I think I can do things like implementint curl, or maybe

Re: [arch-general] Sharing data between Windows 7 and Archlinux

2011-03-07 Thread Baho Utot
On Monday, March 07, 2011 07:08:52 AM Madhurya Kakati wrote: > Hi all, > Got hold of a cheap laptop. I want to use it as my download rig. It > will be on most of the time downloading torrents. > The laptop actually came with Windows XP installed. I setup the laptop > ip as 192.168.1.5 and my deskto

Re: [arch-general] Dropping Oracle OpenOffice

2011-03-07 Thread Sven-Hendrik Haase
On 07.03.2011 18:45, Andreas Radke wrote: > LibreOffice has recently proved to be a solid replacement for Oracle > OpenOffice. I'm about to drop all Oracle OOo packages from our repos. > > First my time is limited. I've asked so many times for help in the > Office packaging area and nobody stepped

Re: [arch-general] Dropping Oracle OpenOffice

2011-03-07 Thread Thomas Dziedzic
On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 12:13 PM, Squall Lionheart wrote: > On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 10:45 AM, Andreas Radke wrote: > >> LibreOffice has recently proved to be a solid replacement for Oracle >> OpenOffice. I'm about to drop all Oracle OOo packages from our repos. >> >> First my time is limited. I've

[arch-general] rotc-ethernet package in aur

2011-03-07 Thread kurrata
I made a update for package rotc-ethernet in aur and submited it. When i do makepkg locally it works but when i try to install it thought yaourt i get this error: [martins@sazan rotc-ethernet]$yaourt -S rotc-ethernet ==> Installing from a package list Passwor

Re: [arch-general] Tool to build from source bundle?

2011-03-07 Thread Magnus Therning
On Tue, Mar 08, 2011 at 02:49:05AM +0800, Ray Rashif wrote: > On 7 March 2011 05:18, Magnus Therning wrote: > > Is there a standard tool that takes a source bundle, as produced by > > `makepkg --source`, and builds from that? > > No. > > The 'makeworld' script is as standard as it gets, comes wi

Re: [arch-general] Sharing data between Windows 7 and Archlinux

2011-03-07 Thread Ray Rashif
On 7 March 2011 20:27, Karol Babioch wrote: > What kind of Desktop Environment are you using? As far as I know GNOME > offers to ability to share folders, which can be configured through a GUI. > > Otherwise you will have to setup Samba manually, which can be tricky > sometimes and needs some read

Re: [arch-general] Tool to build from source bundle?

2011-03-07 Thread Ray Rashif
On 7 March 2011 05:18, Magnus Therning wrote: > Is there a standard tool that takes a source bundle, as produced by > `makepkg --source`, and builds from that? No. The 'makeworld' script is as standard as it gets, comes with 'abs'. It expects an abs-like layout beneath your current directory.

Re: [arch-general] Dropping Oracle OpenOffice

2011-03-07 Thread Squall Lionheart
On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 10:45 AM, Andreas Radke wrote: > LibreOffice has recently proved to be a solid replacement for Oracle > OpenOffice. I'm about to drop all Oracle OOo packages from our repos. > > First my time is limited. I've asked so many times for help in the > Office packaging area and n

[arch-general] Dropping Oracle OpenOffice

2011-03-07 Thread Andreas Radke
LibreOffice has recently proved to be a solid replacement for Oracle OpenOffice. I'm about to drop all Oracle OOo packages from our repos. First my time is limited. I've asked so many times for help in the Office packaging area and nobody stepped in. Then there's the poor distribution support Ora

Re: [arch-general] Sharing data between Windows 7 and Archlinux

2011-03-07 Thread Karol Babioch
What kind of Desktop Environment are you using? As far as I know GNOME offers to ability to share folders, which can be configured through a GUI. Otherwise you will have to setup Samba manually, which can be tricky sometimes and needs some read up. Best regards, Karol Babioch signature.asc Des

Re: [arch-general] Sharing data between Windows 7 and Archlinux

2011-03-07 Thread Keerthan jai.c
Just share your downloads folder using samba. You can then access it directly from windows. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Samba On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 5:38 PM, Madhurya Kakati wrote: > Hi all, > Got hold of a cheap laptop. I want to use it as my download rig. It > will be on most of the ti

[arch-general] Sharing data between Windows 7 and Archlinux

2011-03-07 Thread Madhurya Kakati
Hi all, Got hold of a cheap laptop. I want to use it as my download rig. It will be on most of the time downloading torrents. The laptop actually came with Windows XP installed. I setup the laptop ip as 192.168.1.5 and my desktop (running Windows 7) ip as 192.168.1.4. After doing that I connected b