Re: [arch-general] ftp.gigabit.nu / ftp.archlinux.se shutting down

2010-07-04 Thread Jonathan Brown
* We recommend all of you to switch to a distribution caring about user security and atleast signs their packages. Most RPM and APT based distros does this (Ubuntu, Debian, RedHat, CentOS, SuSE, OpenSuSE, etc etc etc). -- LOL does he think any of us are actually going to switch to one of

Re: [arch-general] synergy-plus

2010-06-02 Thread Jonathan Brown
Synergy-plus works great! Use it at work with Win7 as the server and Arch as the client.. one keyboard and mouse yahoo - Original Message From: Allan McRae To: arch-general@archlinux.org Cc: Discussion about the Arch User Repository (AUR) Sent: Wed, June 2, 2010 3:18:12 AM Subject: Re

Re: [arch-general] Err... Why is gvim now conflicting with vim?

2010-05-08 Thread Jonathan Brown
- Original Message From: Kaiting Chen To: General Discussion about Arch Linux Sent: Sat, May 8, 2010 9:50:24 AM Subject: Re: [arch-general] Err... Why is gvim now conflicting with vim? Hey just want to jump in here and say that I don't think it's a problem in communication. We like Lin

Re: [arch-general] Dedicated Arch servers

2010-03-20 Thread Jonathan Brown
Actually, it appears I emailed the wrong person directly. Sam was not the originator of the "Dedicated Arch servers" thread. My apologies Sam. - Original Message ---- From: Jonathan Brown To: dick_tur...@archlinux.us; General Discussion about Arch Linux Sent: Sat, March 20,

Re: [arch-general] Dedicated Arch servers

2010-03-20 Thread Jonathan Brown
dude.. Regards, Jon - Original Message From: Peter Cannon To: arch-general@archlinux.org Sent: Sat, March 20, 2010 6:50:43 AM Subject: Re: [arch-general] Dedicated Arch servers On 20/03/10 09:13, Jonathan Brown wrote: > Dude relax - I was offering you the services of the company I work

Re: [arch-general] Dedicated Arch servers

2010-03-20 Thread Jonathan Brown
user is all- I don't sit here reading thru the Arch list skimming for opportuniites, I just felt like it would be more appropriate to respond to you directly. If that is against the mailing list rules I shaint do it again. - Original Message From: Sam Harada To: Jonathan B

Re: [arch-general] First install of gnome on Arch, pretty cool... (new artwork this time :-)

2009-11-17 Thread Jonathan Brown
Cool artwork David.. Nicely done. - Original Message From: David C. Rankin To: Arch Linux Sent: Tue, November 17, 2009 2:25:25 AM Subject: [arch-general] First install of gnome on Arch, pretty cool... (new artwork this time :-) Guys, Looking at the new desktop, I just had to take a

Re: [arch-general] google wave

2009-10-31 Thread Jonathan Brown
- Original Message From: Mike Perry To: General Discusson about Arch Linux Sent: Sat, October 31, 2009 12:07:00 PM Subject: Re: [arch-general] google wave In the lecture video on the Google wave site, they seemed quite keen on the idea of releasing the server code open source, so you

Re: [arch-general] google wave

2009-10-31 Thread Jonathan Brown
> On Sat, 31 Oct 2009 20:08:53 +0300 > Artyom Smirnov wrote: > >> On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 8:01 PM, wrote: >> > On Sat, 31 Oct 2009 19:33:56 +0300 >> > Artyom Smirnov wrote: >> > Thanks for viral marketing. >> As I know, invited peoples can't invite others, so this is not "viral >> marketing" :

Re: [arch-general] google wave

2009-10-31 Thread Jonathan Brown
wave On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 11:06 PM, Jonathan Brown wrote: > Hi all, > > I know this is off-topic, but does anyone have a google wave invite that they > just don't know who to give to? :) > > If so, I'm a bit desparate to try it out! > > Would be much appreciat

[arch-general] google wave

2009-10-30 Thread Jonathan Brown
Hi all, I know this is off-topic, but does anyone have a google wave invite that they just don't know who to give to? :) If so, I'm a bit desparate to try it out! Would be much appreciated and I would return the favor to others! jbs...@gmail.com --Jon

Re: [arch-general] Netbook recommendations

2009-09-28 Thread Jonathan Brown
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-_-Product http://www.amazon.com/Samsung-NC10-14GB-10-2-Inch-Blue-Netbook/dp

Re: [arch-general] Conflict with Mesa

2009-09-05 Thread Jonathan Brown
yes that is better thank you - Original Message From: marc[i1] To: General Discusson about Arch Linux Sent: Saturday, September 5, 2009 10:59:36 AM Subject: Re: [arch-general] Conflict with Mesa Le samedi 5 septembre 2009, Jonathan Brown a écrit : > I just added mesa to my ign

Re: [arch-general] Conflict with Mesa

2009-09-05 Thread Jonathan Brown
I just added mesa to my ignore line in pacman.conf for now, so that I can get the rest of the updates... :) I'm sure most people have already thought of doing that, but for those that have not, maybe that will help.. From: Dario To: arch-general@archlinux.org S

Re: [arch-general] how to migrate installs between hard drives?

2009-07-29 Thread Jonathan Brown
Yes I would dd (or ddrescue or dd_rescue - the rescues give you progress output) the whole drive, not the individual partitions. Then just use Parted Magic Live CD or GParted Live CD and expand the partitions. I've done this many many times without issue.. and usually you don't even have to r

Re: [arch-general] dmraid disk failure - howto rebuild new disk - gparted hates Me :-(

2009-06-15 Thread Jonathan Brown
:-( Jonathan Brown wrote: > Nice write-up.. I've never used hardware raid.. always just software raid1, > but was never actually aware of all the inherent advantages software (md) > raid has over the (dm) hardware raid that you spoke of. Very good > information as always sir.

Re: [arch-general] dmraid disk failure - howto rebuild new disk - gparted hates Me :-(

2009-06-14 Thread Jonathan Brown
Nice write-up.. I've never used hardware raid.. always just software raid1, but was never actually aware of all the inherent advantages software (md) raid has over the (dm) hardware raid that you spoke of. Very good information as always sir. - Original Message From: David C. Ranki

Re: [arch-general] dmraid disk failure - howto rebuild new disk - gparted hates Me :-(

2009-06-13 Thread Jonathan Brown
For the situation you are in (failing drives), dd or ddrescue or dd_rescue (I prefer dd_rescue myself) is definitely the best method for cloning failing drives- I usually just boot up into RIPLinux or System Rescue CD (nothing gets mounted)... and away you go..!! with ddrescue, if you have s

Re: [arch-general] Issue with system time

2009-04-29 Thread Jonathan Brown
you could also try setting the hardware clock to the system time with # hwclock --systohc - Original Message From: Dan Vratil To: General Discusson about Arch Linux Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2009 5:34:17 PM Subject: [arch-general] Issue with system time Hi, in last few weeks I noti

Re: [arch-general] General Linux Server Information Available

2009-04-22 Thread Jonathan Brown
Very nice- btw are you related to Kyle Rankin of Linux Journal? - Original Message From: David C. Rankin To: Archlinux Sent: Wednesday, April 22, 2009 4:51:51 AM Subject: [arch-general] General Linux Server Information Available Listmates, Just a general point of interest. Ov

Re: [arch-general] Corruption with new intel driver

2009-04-14 Thread Jonathan Brown
what if the problem may not be the intel or nvidia drivers, but the way all of those drivers might be interplaying with the latest new xorg? Because I am seeing significant slowdowns in my X environment overall with the new xorg (I use xfce), and my use the nvidia driver. - Original Mess

Re: [arch-general] latest xorg- significant slowdown

2009-04-13 Thread Jonathan Brown
Sergey I'm using 1.6.0-3 - Original Message From: Sergey Manucharian To: arch-general@archlinux.org Sent: Monday, April 13, 2009 6:48:51 PM Subject: Re: [arch-general] latest xorg- significant slowdown On Mon, 13 Apr 2009 14:24:58 -0700 (PDT) Jonathan Brown wrote: >

[arch-general] latest xorg- significant slowdown

2009-04-13 Thread Jonathan Brown
Hi all Upon updating to the latest xorg/nvidia (Xfce), and rebooting, X seems to take about 4 times as long to start, and programs seem to take about 2-3 times as long to start up. Anyone else having similar issues? Not really sure how to run any metrics on this, but X is now significantly s