Re: [arch-general] pypy errors

2012-04-14 Thread Mike Sampson
Hello list, just an update on this: On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 7:25 PM, Mike Sampson wrote: [snip] > $ pypy > 'import site' failed > Python 2.7.2 (2346207d99463f299f09f3e151c9d5fa9158f71b, Feb 10 2012, 15:07:02) > [PyPy 1.8.0 with GCC 4.6.2] on linux2 > Type "he

[arch-general] pypy errors

2012-04-14 Thread Mike Sampson
Hello list, Anyone having trouble with pypy? I can't find anything on the mailing list or bug tracker. Running pypy for me gives: $ pypy 'import site' failed Python 2.7.2 (2346207d99463f299f09f3e151c9d5fa9158f71b, Feb 10 2012, 15:07:02) [PyPy 1.8.0 with GCC 4.6.2] on linux2 Type "help", "copyrigh

Re: [arch-general] Emacs is Broken!

2012-04-11 Thread Mike Sampson
On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 8:53 PM, Steve Holmes wrote: > No Jude, it's worse than that.I have no keyboard control at all after emacs > starts. > Actually, it works OK while in gnome so I can use it that way for now.  It > relates to when -nw is used although I don't explicitly > specify it when I

Re: [arch-general] Anybody else have problems with the new Nvidia drivers (275.09.07-1)

2011-06-18 Thread Mike Sampson
On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 4:43 PM, Mike Sampson wrote: > On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 7:10 AM, Richard Schütz wrote: >> The new driver really seems to have a major problem. I figured out that you >> just need an image with 2047px width to screw up the driver. >> >> >>

Re: [arch-general] Anybody else have problems with the new Nvidia drivers (275.09.07-1)

2011-06-17 Thread Mike Sampson
On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 7:10 AM, Richard Schütz wrote: > The new driver really seems to have a major problem. I figured out that you > just need an image with 2047px width to screw up the driver. > > > ATTENTION: This can crash your X server and corrupt memory! > > Example: [1], an otherwise harml

Re: [arch-general] "The Canterbury Distribution"

2011-03-31 Thread Mike Sampson
On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 1:06 PM, Oon-Ee Ng wrote: > On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 9:44 AM, Leandro Costa wrote: >> it's just www.gentoo.org left !! > > They're still compiling > Too funny! Well done all who had a hand in this.

Re: [arch-general] Display "Flicker" with 2.6.37.5-1 & nvidia 270.30-3 (dual head)

2011-03-28 Thread Mike Sampson
On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 2:30 PM, David C. Rankin wrote: > On 03/28/2011 05:07 PM, Jason Melton wrote: >> >> It may be a card-specific or similar issue? >> > > Possibly?  This is a standard old 8600GT with 512M of GDDR3. It has been > rock solid with all driver up to the last two months or so. I'm

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] abs-2.4.0-1

2010-10-03 Thread Mike Sampson
On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 1:12 PM, Allan McRae wrote: > On 02/10/10 21:19, Mike Sampson wrote: >> >> On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 8:55 PM, Allan McRae  wrote: >>> >>> On 02/10/10 19:29, Mike Sampson wrote: >>>> >> [snip] >>>> >>>

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] abs-2.4.0-1

2010-10-02 Thread Mike Sampson
On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 8:55 PM, Allan McRae wrote: > On 02/10/10 19:29, Mike Sampson wrote: >> [snip] >> >> Slightly off topic. I always wondered why there wasn't a Python proto >> PKGBUILD included in abs. There is one in the wiki[1] which I use when >> I ne

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] abs-2.4.0-1

2010-10-02 Thread Mike Sampson
On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 7:12 PM, Allan McRae wrote: > On 02/10/10 18:52, Guillaume Brunerie wrote: >> >> 2010/10/2 Allan McRae >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I just pushed a new abs release to [testing].  The "major" changes are: >>>  - use the tarball method for initial sync >>>  - fix tarball method to work

Re: [arch-general] Old "news"

2010-09-21 Thread Mike Sampson
On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 4:28 PM, jesse jaara wrote: > Did anyone else revice some old maiöing list messages i got few about > xorg1.8 miving to extra and announment if 2010.5 install meedia and some > others > Yeah, me too. Mike

Re: [arch-general] [OffTopic] Wireless keyboard Security

2010-09-06 Thread Mike Sampson
> On 09/06/2010 07:48 AM, Partha Chowdhury wrote: > > Google searches do return some interesting results [2]. Although a > keyboard/receiver pair can claim to use encryption it may be poorly > implemented [1]. Logitech seems to use a proper encryption scheme [2] > but who knows if it has some flaw

Re: [arch-general] A suggestion for the devs regarding rebuilds

2010-02-08 Thread Mike Sampson
On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 1:49 PM, Eric Bélanger wrote: > On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 8:52 PM, hollunder wrote: [snip] > > As far as mirror are concernced, we (the devs) are aware of the > problem and knew that the move of the rebuild out of testing would > create havoc on the mirrors. However, we are wo

Re: [arch-general] Problem loading a site in midori

2009-12-02 Thread Mike Sampson
On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 8:34 PM, Ty John wrote: > > I found the problem (this always happens as soon as you ask for > help ;) ) > > I disabled my proxy (squid) and it loads fine. I decided to disable it > after I noticed another website with a different problem. > > Getting this error: > >>SRVE0255

Re: [arch-general] preferred laptops.

2009-11-04 Thread Mike Sampson
On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 6:17 AM, Tobias Kieslich wrote: > Notebooks so far: > > > Netbook HP 2140: All works great and out of the box. While the > commercial Broadcom drivers are annoying, they actually work. Oh and I > can't get the lid to trigger events, so suspend and resumer are just > wired to

Re: [arch-general] Preferred Laptops

2009-11-04 Thread Mike Sampson
On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 12:08 AM, Sherry Howell wrote: > >> Hello fello archers.. >> >> I've recently been going through a bit of a rough patch with my laptop >> usage.. I had a 15" macbook pro (dual booted with arch linux), which I >> recently sold because I thought it was ugly, the mouse didn't w

Re: [arch-general] Netbook recommendations

2009-09-28 Thread Mike Sampson
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 3:16 AM, Aaron Griffin wrote: > So in the next few weeks, I would like to buy a netbook. The market is > saturated, so I'd like to ask for some advice here. > > What do you guys think of the current offerings? What's considered > "the best" now-a-days? What kinds of netbook

[arch-general] Updated PKGBUILD for python-gdata.

2009-09-08 Thread Mike Sampson
Updated PKGBUILD for python-gdata. I administer 25 Google Apps domains and wanted the latest version of this library. EDIT: Forgot the PKGBUILD. Attached. PKGBUILD Description: Binary data

[arch-general] PKGBUILD python-gdata 2.0.2

2009-09-08 Thread Mike Sampson
Updated PKGBUILD for python-gdata. I administer 25 Google Apps domains and wanted the latest version of this library.

Re: [arch-general] http://archlinux.unixheads.org/$repo/os/testing/ - almost usuable "google-analytics"

2009-08-25 Thread Mike Sampson
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 9:49 AM, David C. Rankin wrote: > Listmates, > >        I have had my updates hand horribly over the past several days. So > bad, I > thought there was a bug in pacman. I have even canceled some with ctrl+c out > of frustration. > >        I think I just found out why. I wa

Re: [arch-general] Sigurd rDNS broken

2009-08-09 Thread Mike Sampson
On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 8:43 PM, Pierre Schmitz wrote: > Am Sonntag 09 August 2009 12:29:03 schrieb Pierre Schmitz: >> Am Sonntag 09 August 2009 12:24:35 schrieb Florian Pritz: >> > I just noticed sigurd.archlinux.org has a broken rDNS so my mailserver >> > rejects all mails coming from the AUR. >>

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

2009-07-28 Thread Mike Sampson
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 6:25 AM, Will Siddall wrote: > Roman, > I did try the tar method with the same results.  The only method I > could see working would be the dd, but even looking at the mounted iso > afterwards, permissions were not set.  I should be seeing at least > ownership by my username

Re: [arch-general] No updates in past week or so - my update problem or just no updates?

2009-07-22 Thread Mike Sampson
Hi David, > >        I have several boxes running arch. In the past week or so, I haven't > had any updates. Is it my system not updating or have there been relatively > few updates? > I noticed the same thing. Quite a few of the mirrors were out of date for some reason. I changed to a mirror t

Re: [arch-general] Solved : Re: Light-weight SMTP "server"

2009-06-06 Thread Mike Sampson
> > Just curious, by the way: msmtp isn't exactly an SMTP "server", correct? > It's really just a sendmail replacement, right? (i.e., not a full-fledged > SMTP daemon, listening on port 25, etc.) > > DR > > Correct. It is just a command line tool that talks to an smtp server. That was all I neede

Re: [arch-general] Light-weight SMTP "server"

2009-06-04 Thread Mike Sampson
I have used msmtp. From memory it just consists of a command line utility and a config file containing the mail server you want to use, credentials if used, etc. Worked well for me. There are quite a few tutorials on the web about using it with mutt. On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 7:06 AM, David Rosenstra

Re: [arch-general] 3rd Arch install -- on my laptop -- a bit more of a challenge - ATI is the problem

2009-05-02 Thread Mike Sampson
David, I recently switched to the open source ati driver on my laptop (running Arch x86_64 with ATI Mobility X1600) and have been happy so far. I don't do much 3D stuff on it admittedly and I do miss the fan speed control from the catalyst drivers. Apart from that it's a nice feeling having an unta

Re: [arch-general] libconfig error

2009-04-04 Thread Mike Sampson
On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 9:30 AM, Jan de Groot wrote: > On Sun, 2009-04-05 at 09:14 +1000, Mike Sampson wrote: > > Hi, > > just did a pacman -Syu and one of the packages gives an error on install > > but still seems to install. Is this error harmless and ok to ignore? &

[arch-general] libconfig error

2009-04-04 Thread Mike Sampson
Hi, just did a pacman -Syu and one of the packages gives an error on install but still seems to install. Is this error harmless and ok to ignore? System is x86_64. [mercury|/home/mike] # pacman -S libconfig > warning: libconfig-1.3.2-2 is up to date -- reinstalling > resolving dependencies... > l

Re: [arch-general] On rolling release system and its benefits.

2009-03-17 Thread Mike Sampson
I have found Arch very stable even with a rolling release system though I don't run KDE or Gnome. One cause of issues seen often in the forums is problems caused by *not* running pacman -Syu on a regular basis. I run it daily. I like Arch the way it is. It's nice to read about some issue affecting