Re: [arch-general] Arch should be apolitical

2020-06-01 Thread Kyle via arch-general
7;s a political symbol or a religious one, it's probably not appropriate on the official website. I ask about the website because I'm visually impaired, using the Orca screen reader, so am unable to see for myself what if anything was done to the logo that appears on the Arch website. ~Kyle

Re: [arch-general] Update to 4.15.8 on dual quad-core box locked on ( 3/16) Install DKMS modules, need help resurecting

2018-03-13 Thread Kyle Bassett via arch-general
Hi Carsten, I'm glad you ended up posting this to the list. Very useful info, even if I never end up using it. The rest of this thread has some great content too. Thanks all! On Mar 11, 2018 21:03, "Carsten Mattner via arch-general" < arch-general@archlinux.org> wrote: > On 3/11/18, David C.

Re: [arch-general] libxfont: removing fontsproto breaks dependency 'fontsproto>=2.1.3'

2018-02-14 Thread Kyle
Maarten de Vries ALIANDIKA: # ​pacman -Rs $(pacman -Qqdt​) Unfortunately this will break my system. It's trying to remove git for one thing, which is definitely something I need. Not to mention that I installed git explicitly, so pacman definitely shouldn't be removing it. I can see a whole lo

Re: [arch-general] archlinux ext4 recovery file versioning

2017-04-19 Thread Kyle McNally via arch-general
>On 04/17/2017 11:12 PM, Maykel Franco via arch-general wrote: >> El 17 abr. 2017 10:09 p. m., "Alex Theotokatos via arch-general" < >> arch-general@archlinux.org> escribió: >> >> On 04/17/2017 09:31 PM, Maykel Franco via arch-general wrote: >> >>> Hi, I have a server in archlinux with samba. I ha

Re: [arch-general] OpenJFX package out-of-date

2017-02-06 Thread Kyle Laker
this package working, and I will be sure to test more thoroughly in the future. Thanks again! On Mon, Feb 6, 2017 at 8:23 AM, Guillaume ALAUX wrote: > On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 10:19 PM, Guillaume ALAUX > wrote: >> On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 8:39 PM, Kyle Laker wrote: >>> >>

[arch-general] OpenJFX package out-of-date

2017-01-30 Thread Kyle Laker
-version` would return the newest version (1.8.0_121). The following patch (created using `svn diff`) of the PKGBUILD should bring it up to match the latest version of extra/jdk8-openjdk. No changes should be necessary for the gradle.properties file. Regards, Kyle Patch: Index: PKGBUILD

Re: [arch-general] btrfs raid 10 fileserver with ata errors

2017-01-13 Thread Kyle McNally via arch-general
> -Original Message- > From: arch-general [mailto:arch-general-boun...@archlinux.org] On Behalf > Of niya levi via arch-general > Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2017 9:22 PM > To: arch-general@archlinux.org > Cc: niya levi > Subject: [arch-general] btrfs raid 10 fileserver with ata errors >

Re: [arch-general] espeak ng and keeping packages in the aur up todate.

2016-11-16 Thread Kyle
According to Matthew dyer: # How do I know if I am running espeak ng? Espeak-ng-git is a package in the AUR. It is not a supported Arch package, especially since it depends on pcaudiolib-git, which is also an AUR package. These packages are cloned from master git repositories, so most likely w

Re: [arch-general] Microsoft Signature PC Requirements Now Blocks Linux Installation

2016-09-28 Thread Kyle Bassett via arch-general
This is insane! Apple set the precedent with smart phones, but now we have Trusted Computing Creep in desktops. Used are losing further control of their own devices. Ugh. On 28 Sep 2016 11:27, "D C via arch-general" wrote: Wow, is MS desperate or something? On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 11:24 AM,

Re: [arch-general] Arch GNU/Linux install for beginners and new users

2016-09-22 Thread Kyle Terrien via arch-general
ted" configurations, but the process is almost always a time sink (i.e. low reward to cost ratio). This is why there is a little hostility toward the third party tools. They increase the amount of support work drastically. vodik, keep up the good work! --Kyle -- The computer can't tel

Re: [arch-general] What happened to the Beginner's Guide?

2016-09-22 Thread Kyle Terrien via arch-general
snark as seriousness in your post yesterday. I apologize. --Kyle pgpgOMTmqjkcY.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] What happened to the Beginner's Guide?

2016-09-22 Thread Kyle Terrien via arch-general
find a way to alienate them. However, if your goal is to give people a minimal amount of information and direct them to the man pages where they can read more, then the wiki will be more inviting. The difference is all in the framing. I personally prefer to see the latter because it is more op

Re: [arch-general] What happened to the Beginner's Guide?

2016-09-21 Thread Kyle Terrien via arch-general
ide? > > > > -- > > David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. > > On a related note, there is a stale "Beginner's Guide" link that redirects to the new installation guide. This link is now redundant because there is an "Installation Guide" link right above i

Re: [arch-general] What happened to the Beginner's Guide?

2016-09-21 Thread Kyle Terrien via arch-general
hey can blow your mind with their C and shell knowledge. If/when these advanced users decide to learn more about distro innards and try Arch, we should welcome them, not haze them. --Kyle Terrien -- The computer can't tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact mathematical design, but what's missing is the eyebrows. - Frank Zappa pgpvNZ_ljeiKh.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] Opinions on PowerShell?

2016-08-18 Thread Kyle Terrien via arch-general
On Thu, 18 Aug 2016 21:00:33 -0400 Eli Schwartz via arch-general wrote: > On 08/18/2016 08:35 PM, Kyle Terrien via arch-general wrote: > > I haven't used PowerShell much. But in briefly looking at it, the > > commands are very verbose compared to Unix/Linux. E.g. grep is &g

Re: [arch-general] Opinions on PowerShell?

2016-08-18 Thread Kyle Terrien via arch-general
full X server under Cygwin. --Kyle -- The computer can't tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact mathematical design, but what's missing is the eyebrows. - Frank Zappa pgplcgrdAv84k.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] efivars mounted read-write, but "operation not permitted, "

2016-08-03 Thread Kyle Terrien via arch-general
led in systemd [2]. For some reason beyond me, systemd requires that efivars be mounted read-write. (Probably bad design) * A kernel patch was submitted to try to protect efivars somewhat [3]. I think you are seeing the direct consequence of this patch. --Kyle [0]: https://bbs.ar

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] signoffs are dead

2016-06-29 Thread Kyle Terrien via arch-general
t. It is great to catch problems before they are pushed to production. - --Kyle -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJXdK22AAoJEN5rMzXPJBsQVcIQAI0LrK2wMCGGabqCidDlJ9wC 0M7RD8KQOEe+OtGzZYBr0qRTzsaM5tV/7GVlq/OgX6Wi2l26jsgightfUwj2STHj c2fjJg+VyHZd20YdHCP2Zfvqqq

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] signoffs are dead

2016-06-28 Thread Kyle Terrien via arch-general
out is a concern, then getting the security related fixes signed off should be prioritized. (Maybe by putting in a flag that automatically triggers a mail to arch-dev-public) Respectfully yours, - --Kyle Terrien -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJXczI6AAoJEN5rM

Re: [arch-general] Where did the touch pad tapping go?

2016-06-16 Thread Kyle Terrien via arch-general
ld make more sense. So is this a warning of some sort, or is it a notification to try to encourage people to switch to libinput? Does switching break any older desktop environments? (e.g. MATE, Window Maker) --Kyle signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] gnome-keyring madness

2016-06-14 Thread Kyle Terrien via arch-general
Jérôme M. Berger wrote: > On 06/14/2016 02:21 PM, Kyle Terrien via arch-general wrote: >> Thanks, but I tried that weeks ago. It is not the autostart feature of >> the desktop environment that is starting gnome-keyring. From what I can >> figure out, it is lightdm that is s

Re: [arch-general] gnome-keyring madness

2016-06-14 Thread Kyle Terrien via arch-general
ly for now: 1. Seahorse can run without gnome-keyring running in the background. Why is there a hard dependency? 2. virt-manager runs fine when gpg-agent handles SSH keys. Why do I need to have its dependency x11-ssh-askpass installed? --Kyle signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[arch-general] gnome-keyring madness

2016-06-13 Thread Kyle Terrien via arch-general
? * Should virt-manager have a hard dependency on x11-ssh-askpass? --Kyle signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] GTK2 GUIs became a PITA after upgrade

2016-04-12 Thread Kyle Terrien
Florian Pelz wrote: > On 04/12/2016 09:07 PM, Kyle Terrien wrote: >> Does anyone off the top of his/her head know of any good tools or guides >> for converting gtk2 themes to gtk3 themes? >> >> --Kyle >> > > I don't know very much, but it

Re: [arch-general] GTK2 GUIs became a PITA after upgrade

2016-04-12 Thread Kyle Terrien
am tired of ugly and/or broken gtk3 themes. Does anyone off the top of his/her head know of any good tools or guides for converting gtk2 themes to gtk3 themes? --Kyle signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] GTK2 GUIs became a PITA after upgrade

2016-04-12 Thread Kyle Terrien
do at this point is design a GTK3 theme that sucks less (and maintain it when GNOME makes the arbitrary changes to the GTK3 theming API again). Clearlooks-Phenix is good. Perhaps a Bluecurve-Phenix would be fun too. (Someone really should adjust the attitude of the GNOME devs. I am

Re: [arch-general] GTK2 GUIs became a PITA after upgrade

2016-04-11 Thread Kyle Terrien
s the hip thing to do. (It's just frustrating that GNOME is so eager to break things nowadays.) If Adwaita really is the culprit, file a bug with GNOME. That's their domain. I hope this information may be of help, --Kyle https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/clearlooks-phenix-gtk-theme https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/gtk-bluecurve-engine signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] Mysterious userapp .desktop files

2016-03-19 Thread Kyle Terrien
Patrick Burroughs (Celti) wrote: > On Wed, 16 Mar 2016 22:08:46 -0700 > Kyle Terrien wrote: > >> So, somehow my default web browser got changed from SeaMonkey back to >> Firefox. (Bleh!) >> >> [...] >> >> In ~/.local/share/applications/ (where user

[arch-general] Mysterious userapp .desktop files

2016-03-19 Thread Kyle Terrien
is junk on my system. --Kyle signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] Why does virtualbox-host-dkms have a hard dependency on linux-headers?

2016-03-14 Thread Kyle Terrien
Kyle Terrien wrote: > I upgraded my desktop about 10 minutes ago, and it looks like > virtualbox-host-dkms gained a new dependency: linux-headers. As of virtualbox-host-dkms-5.0.16-3, linux-headers is an optional dependency again: $ pacman -Qi virtualbox-host-dkms Name: virt

Re: [arch-general] Why does virtualbox-host-dkms have a hard dependency on linux-headers?

2016-03-13 Thread Kyle Terrien
s morning as a dependency. --Kyle $ pacman -Q linux{,-lts}{,-headers} error: package 'linux' was not found linux-headers 4.4.5-1 linux-lts 4.1.19-1 linux-lts-headers 4.1.19-1 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[arch-general] Why does virtualbox-host-dkms have a hard dependency on linux-headers?

2016-03-13 Thread Kyle Terrien
looks like dkms gives up when trying to build modules for the linux (4.4) kernel. However, it still builds the modules for linux-lts. Why does virtualbox-host-dkms have a hard dependency on linux-headers? --Kyle [2016-03-13 10:50] [ALPM] running '70-dkms-install.hook'... [2016-03-13 10

Re: [arch-general] thunderbird proxy env. vars for socks

2016-02-15 Thread Kyle Terrien
I don't use any DE, but I have some automation through bash+xinitrc > which depends on how to set the env. vars, so that I only need to set > on TB/FF "use system proxy settings". You could try tsocks, available from the extra repository. --Kyle signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] Link to the original efivars BBS thread

2016-02-03 Thread Kyle Terrien
Eli Schwartz wrote: > On 02/04/2016 12:45 AM, Kyle Terrien wrote: >> Was the thread moved? Does anyone have the new address of the thread? >> >> --Kyle >> >> [0]: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=207549 >> > > It's still there, but

[arch-general] Link to the original efivars BBS thread

2016-02-03 Thread Kyle Terrien
e the new address of the thread? --Kyle [0]: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=207549 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] Instructions to mount efivars as readonly should be linked to in Beginner's Guide

2016-02-01 Thread Kyle Terrien
Sebastiaan Lokhorst wrote: > 2016-02-01 23:29 GMT+01:00 Leonid Isaev : > >> On Mon, Feb 01, 2016 at 01:40:54PM -0800, Kyle Terrien wrote: >>> Tomasz Kramkowski wrote: >>> * Use legacy BIOS. There is nothing wrong with it. >> Exactly, I really don't un

Re: [arch-general] Instructions to mount efivars as readonly should be linked to in Beginner's Guide

2016-02-01 Thread Kyle Terrien
gt; -- Maarten Interesting sidenote: In Android, all the system-level stuff is segregated to /system, which is mounted as ro by default. This is just another layer of security. --Kyle signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] Instructions to mount efivars as readonly should be linked to in Beginner's Guide

2016-02-01 Thread Kyle Terrien
d be able to brick hardware. I suggest someone mail Brian Kernighan, Robert Pike, or Ken Thompson. I would be really curious to hear what they think about this efivars thing. --Kyle [0]: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/2402 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] Firefox without signature checking

2016-01-02 Thread Kyle Terrien
the real question is where do you draw the line when something is un-friendly? And what do you do when the line is crossed? --Kyle Terrien signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] Firefox without signature checking

2016-01-02 Thread Kyle Terrien
On 01/02/2016 02:50 PM, Doug Newgard wrote: > On Sat, 2 Jan 2016 15:35:01 -0700 > Leonid Isaev wrote: > >> On Sat, Jan 02, 2016 at 02:06:05PM -0800, Kyle Terrien wrote: >>> Thank you! I was tempted to reopen it, but it looks like the general >>> consens

Re: [arch-general] Firefox without signature checking

2016-01-02 Thread Kyle Terrien
On 01/02/2016 02:42 PM, ProgAndy wrote: > Am 02.01.2016 um 22:52 schrieb Kyle Terrien: >> It looks like that is only intended for release-status extensions. If I want >> to QA test a developer's beta build, this tells me that the developer would >> have to submit each

Re: [arch-general] Firefox without signature checking

2016-01-02 Thread Kyle Terrien
On 01/02/2016 01:23 PM, Doug Newgard wrote: > On Sat, 2 Jan 2016 12:17:52 -0800 > Kyle Terrien wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> Are there plans to package a version of Firefox 44 that lets you disable >> extension signature checking? > ... >> --Kyle Terrien

Re: [arch-general] Firefox without signature checking

2016-01-02 Thread Kyle Terrien
ension myself and load it? That is absurd. --Kyle Terrien signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[arch-general] Firefox without signature checking

2016-01-02 Thread Kyle Terrien
sable extension signing warranted? I am posting to this mailing list because I have not seen much discussion about Firefox extension signing in the Arch Linux world. Developers, what are your thoughts? Is it worth it packaging an "unofficial" version of Firefox? --Kyle Terrien [0] https:

Re: [arch-general] [OT?] Which is most future-proof desktop environment?

2016-01-01 Thread Kyle Terrien
still actively maintained. There is even an option to ignore window caption hints in GTK applications because of the GNOME "Client Side Decoration" nonsense. Long live no-nonsense 90s GUIs! --Kyle Terrien [0] https://www.palemoon.org/ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[arch-general] virt-manager/spicy: no audio unless I start pulseaudio

2015-12-31 Thread Kyle Terrien
th-audio=gstreamer'? Any insight to the root of the problem would be appreciated. --Kyle Terrien [0] https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/41492 [1] https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/41740 [2] https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=93544 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] KVM troubles

2015-11-28 Thread Kyle Terrien
chers can appreciate that. > > Thanks! I have heard of it, but I don't know all the details. I will definitely look up the fingerd exploit. --Kyle [0] http://www.101hacker.com/2013/03/5-vulnerable-distros-for-practicing.html [1] http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/releases/ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] KVM troubles

2015-11-27 Thread Kyle Terrien
exploit--Shellshock. That's something fun you can cover in your class. kyle@hacking:~ $ env 'x=() { :;}; echo Vulnerable' bash -c 'echo Test' Vulnerable Test kyle@hacking:~ $ And if you set up a web serv

Re: [arch-general] KVM troubles

2015-11-27 Thread Kyle Terrien
sermount: Permission denied). I think the problem you are having is related to the QXL video driver. Thanks for giving me an excuse to dust-off the CD. I really should find more time to read through that book. It's a great book. If you are curious, the XML dump of my VM follows. (

Re: [arch-general] Thunar sftp connection not working - access denied

2015-11-01 Thread Kyle Terrien
On 10/29/2015 06:06 PM, Friedrich Strohmaier wrote: > Hi Kyle, *, > > Am 15.10.2015 um 17:56 schrieb Kyle Terrien: > >> On 10/13/2015 10:55 AM, Friedrich Strohmaier wrote: >>> Am 12.10.2015 um 17:29 schrieb Kyle Terrien: >>>> On 10/09/2015 05:54 P

Re: [arch-general] Thunar sftp connection not working - access denied

2015-10-15 Thread Kyle Terrien
On 10/13/2015 10:55 AM, Friedrich Strohmaier wrote: > Hi Kyle, *, > > Am 12.10.2015 um 17:29 schrieb Kyle Terrien: >> On 10/09/2015 05:54 PM, Friedrich Strohmaier wrote: >>> Am 10.10.2015 um 02:23 schrieb Leonid Isaev: >>>> On Sat, Oct 10, 2015 at 02:05:38

Re: [arch-general] Thunar sftp connection not working - access denied

2015-10-12 Thread Kyle Terrien
announce: >>> https://www.archlinux.org/news/d-bus-now-launches-user-buses/ > >> So, does sftp work from the command line? > > yes works as expected. > > btw. filezilla also does.. As a workaround, you can use sshfs. sshfs will mount a remote filesystem over ssh

Re: [arch-general] Any ETA on the Tex Live 2015 update?

2015-09-06 Thread Kyle Bassett
+1 Remy, thanks too! All of you maintainers do an excellent job! On Sep 6, 2015 9:35 PM, "Grady Martin" wrote: > On 2015年09月03日 00時44分, Mohammad_AlSaleh wrote: > >> Thank you for taking care of those packages. I know how unmotivating >> such tedious tasks can be for a volunteer. >> > > I notice

Re: [arch-general] SOLVED Re: GA-990FX - on boot I get IO_PAGE_FAULT & AMD-Vi: Event logged??

2015-08-28 Thread Kyle Bassett
On Aug 28, 2015 9:40 PM, "David Kaylor" wrote: > > Your problems are not specific to Arch. And not necessarily kernel specific > either. I'm glad you have solved your problem, but this wasn't the > appropriate medium for it. > David K, I suggest you review your post and see if it meets your own r

Re: [arch-general] Cannot tether from Android using USB or bluetooth

2015-08-24 Thread Kyle Terrien
he data pins no longer worked. However, the charge pins *did* work. I ended up taking the phone apart to clean the MicroUSB port. I'm still using that phone to this day. :-) --Kyle signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] Subpixel antialiasing

2015-05-24 Thread Kyle Terrien
ave to modify accordingly). Install fonts.conf to ~/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf https://github.com/KlipperKyle/dotfiles/blob/master/fontconfig/fonts.conf --Kyle signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] Connection through USB to TTL Serial Cable

2015-05-20 Thread Kyle Terrien
directory > > I can't find any advices on Arch Wiki. > > Any advices will be appreciated! I have used a similar adapter on my system. I used picocom (I think) to connect to the serial port. I also had to add myself to the uucp group because /dev/ttyUSB0 was owned by group uucp. --Kyle signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] Libre Office Freezing system?

2015-01-27 Thread Kyle Terrien
ch either, but someone could probably help if you provide some more information about your setup. 1. Which Libreoffice are you using? libreoffice-still or the latest libreoffice? 2. What graphics drivers are you using? What kernel version? 3. (Someone else asked this) What desktop environment ar

Re: [arch-general] p11-kit

2014-12-16 Thread Kyle Terrien
ges are installed. From my understanding, in this case "locally installed" means anything you installed manually. <https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1483835#p1483835> --Kyle signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] no cups web/server with new version?

2014-11-04 Thread Kyle Terrien
inting System - client libraries (32-bit) > local/libcups 2.0.0-2 > The CUPS Printing System - client libraries and headers > > I tried re-installing cups and libcups with no sucees (just in case)... > > I'm still in the dark, sorry, :-( > > Thanks, > Does /var/log/cups/error_log say anything? I suppose you could always revert to a stock configuration (using the .pacnews) if you have to. --Kyle Terrien signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] no cups web/server with new version?

2014-11-04 Thread Kyle Terrien
temd/system/multi-user.target.wants/org.cups.cupsd.path The note about the renamed service files is on the wiki [1]. --Kyle Terrien [1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Cups#CUPS_daemon signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] nm-applet and ethernet

2014-10-21 Thread Kyle Terrien
a few programs with gtk2 instead of gtk3 (including NetworkManager's GUI). --Kyle signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] nm-applet and ethernet

2014-10-18 Thread Kyle Terrien
NOME/GTK3 update. I built network-manager-applet-gtk2 from the AUR because I'm using Xfce, which does not always play nicely with GTK3 (themes, etc.). --Kyle signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] java: cannot execute - too many levels of symbolic links

2014-09-08 Thread Kyle Terrien
}/bin/${0##*/}" "$@" #+END_SRC > > I remember some Java lib was updated recently - anyone else with > this problem? > I only have jre-7-openjdk installed, so I reinstalled jre7-openjdk and jre7-openjdk-headless. The archlinux-java fix trick works for me too. >

Re: [arch-general] 3.15 kernel breaking X ?

2014-07-07 Thread Kyle Terrien
soon as I have the chance to update the PKGBUILD. --Kyle signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] Changing sizes of panes in a vimsplit resets scrolling

2014-06-16 Thread Kyle Terrien
On 06/16/2014 03:34 AM, Timothée Ravier wrote: > On 2014-06-15 23:49, Kyle Terrien wrote: >> I have narrowed this down to gvim/vim-runtime 7.4.307-1 and later. >> Earlier versions of the package do not have this issue. > >> I am asking here because I am unsure if the iss

[arch-general] Changing sizes of panes in a vimsplit resets scrolling

2014-06-15 Thread Kyle Terrien
related or upstream. --Kyle signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] dnsmasq w/ad-blocking hosts file (was NTP: Possible permissions bug)

2014-05-12 Thread Kyle Terrien
Thanks everyone for all of the suggestions on how to block ads at the DNS level. I'm currently trying out Carl Schaefer's favorite hosts file [1], but I look forward to experimenting with dnsmasq when my finals are over. --Kyle [1] http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/zero/ sig

Re: [arch-general] Selective upgrade: pacman -Syu, "yes" but not the kernel

2014-05-12 Thread Kyle
, at which time, you just run 'pacman -Syu' normally. ~Kyle http://kyle.tk/ -- "Kyle? ... She calls her cake, Kyle?" Out of This World, season 2 episode 21 - "The Amazing Evie"

Re: [arch-general] NTP: Possible permissions bug

2014-05-09 Thread Kyle Terrien
On 05/08/2014 06:34 PM, Kyle Terrien wrote: > Hi fellow Archers, > > I seem to be having trouble with ntpd.service since the 4.2.7 upgrade. I > can't get ntpd to run as the ntp user. Well, I feel dumb. After adding a couple more -d flags to ntpd, I got something about unable to

Re: [arch-general] NTP: Possible permissions bug

2014-05-09 Thread Kyle Terrien
On 05/08/2014 11:00 PM, Gaetan Bisson wrote: > [2014-05-08 18:34:54 -0700] Kyle Terrien: >> I took out the "-u ntp:ntp" parameter (so ntp runs as root), and these >> errors disappeared. Also, ntpq -p returns the NTP servers I'm >> synchronized with. So, I&#x

[arch-general] NTP: Possible permissions bug

2014-05-08 Thread Kyle Terrien
oes ntpd.service need to be running for timedatectl to set time via NTP? Is there a way to force timedatectl to query NTP (for testing)? --Kyle [1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ntp#systemd_services signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] Select page style in Firefox 29.0

2014-05-03 Thread Kyle Terrien
und: white !important; color: black !important; } If you want even more control, I suppose you can play around with Greasemonkey scripts. --Kyle [1] http://kb.mozillazine.org/UserContent.css signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] mc - why not alias mc-wrapper.sh as default

2014-05-01 Thread Kyle Bassett
I retract my smug remark, for some reason I recalled mc as a file editor. I must be thinking of QBASIC (blue terminal interface). On Friday, May 2, 2014, Kyle Bassett wrote: > alias mc='vim' works really well for me! > > :-P > > Just make sure you have a solid syn

Re: [arch-general] mc - why not alias mc-wrapper.sh as default

2014-05-01 Thread Kyle Bassett
alias mc='vim' works really well for me! :-P Just make sure you have a solid syntax highlighter installed, custom or otherwise. On Thursday, May 1, 2014, David C. Rankin wrote: > All, > > midnight commander provides a convenient script that allows exit to the > present working directory of

[arch-general] system-config-printer: conflicting files

2014-04-17 Thread Kyle Terrien
fine. Of course, this begs the question: Should a compiled python module be supplied in a package (debug.pyc), or should the local machine interpret/compile/do whatever it wants with a python script (debug.py)? - --Kyle -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using G

Re: [arch-general] Bug NetworkManager when restart NetworkManager service

2014-04-11 Thread Kyle Terrien
kManager (e.g. left running by a previous instance of NetworkManager), NetworkManager does not properly restart dhcpcd. The workaround is to install dhclient. [1] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=723746 --Kyle signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] Error in wireshark-gtk2 in show interfaces for capture

2014-04-11 Thread Kyle Terrien
uot;setcap 'CAP_NET_RAW+eip CAP_NET_ADMIN+eip' /usr/bin/dumpcap" > > 5. Ensure Wireshark works only from root and from a user in the > "wireshark" group > > > Thanks in advanced. > That's strange. This is the same error that appears when running wiresha

Re: [arch-general] Bug NetworkManager when restart NetworkManager service

2014-04-08 Thread Kyle Terrien
do systemctl stop NetworkManager.service sudo killall dhcpcd sudo systemctl start NetworkManager.service Here is a shell session where I (effectively) do the above: kyle@landru ~ $ sudo systemctl stop NetworkManager.service [sudo] password for kyle: kyle@landru ~ $ systemctl status NetworkManager.service ● Ne

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] CAcert dropped from certificate bundle

2014-04-02 Thread Kyle
w me to issue certificates for multiple domains running on the same VPS with a single IP address, which apparently, StartSSL can't do. ~Kyle http://kyle.tk/ -- "Kyle? ... She calls her cake, Kyle?" Out of This World, season 2 episode 21 - "The Amazing Evie"

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] CAcert dropped from certificate bundle

2014-04-02 Thread Kyle
ty. Thanks. ~Kyle http://kyle.tk/ -- "Kyle? ... She calls her cake, Kyle?" Out of This World, season 2 episode 21 - "The Amazing Evie"

Re: [arch-general] SLOB Allocator Vulernability

2014-03-23 Thread Kyle Bassett
Thanks Mark! Great read! I love real-world examples included with any type of lesson. On Sunday, March 23, 2014, Mark Lee wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA256 > > Salutations, > > I recently read an interesting article on a Slob allocator > vulnerability in the Linux kern

Re: [arch-general] Pulseaudio 5.1 Setup echoes Front Speakers to Rear speakers

2014-03-16 Thread Kyle Terrien
On 03/16/2014 10:21 PM, Kyle Terrien wrote: > Are you using PulseAudio? D'oh! I noticed the subject line said "Pulseaudio" right after sending my message. Sorry for the stupid question. --Kyle signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] Pulseaudio 5.1 Setup echoes Front Speakers to Rear speakers

2014-03-16 Thread Kyle Terrien
if I'm wrong, but if I remember correctly, the Gnome sound manager and pavucontrol are different programs. In my experience, I have had the best luck using pavucontrol to configure sound. --Kyle signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] installation using existing filesystem

2014-03-16 Thread Kyle
it mounted and do all the fstab entry stuff for you at that point. ~Kyle http://kyle.tk/ -- "Kyle? ... She calls her cake, Kyle?" Out of This World, season 2 episode 21 - "The Amazing Evie"

Re: [arch-general] installation using existing filesystem

2014-03-16 Thread Kyle
filesystem, remount it in /mnt to keep things as simple as possible, make a home directory inside of the mount point and then mount sda6 in /mnt/home, assuming you initially mounted sda5 in /mnt. Hope this helps. ~Kyle http://kyle.tk/ -- "Kyle? ... She calls her cake, Kyle?" Out of This Wor

Re: [arch-general] NetworkManager 0.9.8.8-2 does not work with systemd 208

2014-02-23 Thread Kyle Terrien
h_Rollback_Machine> NetworkManager: <http://seblu.net/a/arm/packages/n/networkmanager/> --Kyle signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] Building a live USB version of ArchLinux for ARM users

2014-02-22 Thread Kyle Terrien
On 02/22/2014 08:03 PM, Thiago Barroso Perrotta wrote: > Hey Kyle, > > I've always thought of creating something similar too, but I didn't do > anything about it because of its usefulness (would people use it, since > parted magic and other similar projects already ex

Re: [arch-general] Building a live USB version of ArchLinux for ARM users

2014-02-22 Thread Kyle Terrien
g to build a full-featured Live desktop environment for chromebooks? - Kyle signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] Forum registration requires INSANE captcha.

2014-02-11 Thread Kyle
According to Curtis Shimamoto: # I think you've missed what Kyle is saying here. From what I understand # (as a non-blind user), traditional captchas that are super hard to read # and easily deciphered by computers are what tend to not be usable by the # visually impaired. # # The captcha th

Re: [arch-general] Forum registration requires INSANE captcha.

2014-02-10 Thread Kyle
es visually impaired normal human beings any day. [1]: http://webvisum.com/ ~Kyle http://kyle.tk/ -- "Kyle? ... She calls her cake, Kyle?" Out of This World, season 2 episode 21 - "The Amazing Evie"

Re: [arch-general] Packages Verified with MD5

2014-01-12 Thread Kyle Terrien
php/Pacman-key> > That's not so bad, then, since you can't really do any better unless > the upstream source (Mozilla) signs their files, and the package > maintainer has their public key. To be honest, I'm a little surprised that Mozilla doesn't sign their Firefox source code. Kyle signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] Packages Verified with MD5

2014-01-12 Thread Kyle Terrien
fully, that clears things up. If you really want to build a firefox package yourself, you can set up ABS. If you build a package from ABS (using makepkg), you will run the PKGBUILD. <https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Abs> Kyle Terrien PS: Great discussion on exploiting MD5. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] Thank you

2014-01-06 Thread Kyle
depending on which is the lower price, similar to other so-called cloud hosting platforms. As far as I know, it's not the only provider to support Arch, but it is probably one of very few, and they seem to have the best service and specs for the price. Hope this helps. [1]: https://digitalo

Re: [arch-general] Gnome and Arch Issues Under VirtualBox

2013-09-29 Thread Kyle
systemctl stop gdm Maybe this will help. ~Kyle http://kyle.tk/ -- "Kyle? ... She calls her cake, Kyle?" Out of This World, season 2 episode 21 - "The Amazing Evie"

Re: [arch-general] no mp4 playback with VLC

2013-08-18 Thread Kyle
a codec, most likely the aac audio decoder. Try installing faad if you don't already have it. ~Kyle http://kyle.tk/ -- "Kyle? ... She calls her cake, Kyle?" Out of This World, season 2 episode 21 - "The Amazing Evie"

Re: [arch-general] Gnome 3.8 and desktop background

2013-04-22 Thread Kyle
tool to have the desktop icons gives me a blue background rather than grey, and I still have a blue background after I switch the feature off, so this seems like it may be an unrelated problem. ~Kyle http://kyle.tk/ -- "Kyle? ... She calls her cake, Kyle?" Out of This World, season 2 episode 21 - "The Amazing Evie"

Re: [arch-general] Another 'gotta be something idiotic': trying to create bootable USB thumb drive

2013-04-14 Thread Kyle
it could definitely make things somewhat simpler. ~Kyle http://kyle.tk/ -- "Kyle? ... She calls her cake, Kyle?" Out of This World, season 2 episode 21 - "The Amazing Evie"

Re: [arch-general] Another 'gotta be something idiotic': trying to create bootable USB thumb drive

2013-04-13 Thread Kyle
on which the storage will be used most, or a brief name to indicate the files that are on the disk. ~Kyle http://kyle.tk/ -- "Kyle? ... She calls her cake, Kyle?" Out of This World, season 2 episode 21 - "The Amazing Evie"

Re: [arch-general] gnome 3.7

2013-03-30 Thread Kyle
post to the Orca list to let everyone know that there will be a notification when GNOME 3.8 is completely built and ready for testing. ~Kyle http://kyle.tk/ -- "Kyle? ... She calls her cake, Kyle?" Out of This World, season 2 episode 21 - "The Amazing Evie"

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