Re: [arch-general] Tired of being asked for a password for "su"? Arch has the solution

2010-03-01 Thread Ed Jobs
On Monday 01 of March 2010 20:58, David C. Rankin wrote: > Guys, > > Working through the setup of my new server, I rad across a wonderful > hidden time-saver in /etc/pam.d/su. If you have configured sudo in the > normal way by providing sudo access to members of the 'wheel' group, you > can

Re: [arch-general] google wave

2009-10-31 Thread Ed Jobs
On Sunday 01 November 2009 01:27, f...@kokkinizita.net wrote: > BTW, does 'wave' have any privacy policy at all ? > Or maybe a 'terms of use' one ? Didn't see anything > on the main 'wave' site. > yes they do. check http://wave.google.com/help/wave/terms.html -- Real programmers don't document.

Re: [arch-general] Netbook recommendations

2009-09-28 Thread Ed Jobs
On Monday 28 September 2009 20:56, Jonathan Brown wrote: > I am awaiting UPS delivery today of a Samsung NC10-14GB .. top of the line > apparently.. look at the amazon and newegg reviews.. > > http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834131015&cm_re=nc10- > 14gb-_-34-131-015-_-Produc

Re: [arch-general] reconfiguring vi to work like it did before the last update?

2009-07-13 Thread Ed Jobs
On Monday 13 July 2009 11:49, solsTiCe d'Hiver wrote: > to the dev: > why not rename vi package to nvi ? +1 to that -- If we could implement a physical system with the storage capacity that matches the 128-bit address range of ZFS, that we would "literally evaporate all the oceans on earth". [

Re: [arch-general] Eee binary repo?

2009-07-04 Thread Ed Jobs
On Saturday 04 July 2009 23:46, Svein Tonning wrote: > Why would you install a desktop system trough AUR? The only repo I would > recommend is toofishes repo for the custom kernel, you probably already > have that one? > > I don't think there exists a repo mirroring every entry in AUR, on the > o

Re: [arch-general] Archlinux on a virtualbox

2009-06-29 Thread Ed Jobs
On Tuesday 30 June 2009 03:02, richard terry wrote: > I can't seem to find out how to set up a network on a freshly installed > virtualbox with archlinux. > > Any pointers to help appreciated. > > Richard the Am79C973 adapter attached to NAT (default) works for me in Virtualbox. if you compiled

Re: [arch-general] kde-unstable install - Round 2 - There is a BUG here...

2009-06-17 Thread Ed Jobs
On Thursday 18 June 2009 02:49, David C. Rankin wrote: > DR, List > > > I give up ;-( I'm pulling out the Nuclear option. I have uninstalled > everything related to kde and kde-unstable still will not install. This has > to be some type of bug. I'll report back after I get my system instal

Re: [arch-general] KDE4.3 Beta - Rocks, still a bit rough, but very usable as a primary desktop

2009-06-17 Thread Ed Jobs
On Wednesday 17 June 2009 16:00, David C. Rankin wrote: > Well, > > So far kde4 will not even install. After starting the install last night > and going to bed. I woke to thousands of lines of: > > /usr/share/doc/kde/html/en/ksnapshot/window.png exists in both > 'kdegraphics- ksnapshot' and