Re: [arch-general] Help - Sound Disappeared -- Really! All modules - Gone?? (kernel bug?)

2009-12-04 Thread Raghavendra Prabhu
It depends on what you put for F in RTFM,same thing in DTFG. On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 5:57 PM, ludovic coues cou...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/12/3 Raghavendra Prabhu raghu.prabh...@gmail.com haha... I think we may soon see RTFM replacing DTFG(Do the F* Googling) or something better

Re: [arch-general] [OT] What is wrong with DBus anyway?

2009-12-04 Thread Raghavendra Prabhu
Correct me if I am wrong here, but the objective of dbus/ipc is to vastly simplify programming -- suppose you need to write a program which opens document in gedit as one of the steps He doesn't need to know about the command line flags of gedit.By having a single interface like dbus, it

Re: [arch-general] [OT] What is wrong with DBus anyway?

2009-12-03 Thread Raghavendra Prabhu
I never had dbus crashing anytime.. Regarding communication channels - there are two types in dbus - one is system and other is userland.. So dbus provided something for userland apps which could not use IPC for some reason. Another main reason as pointed above, it is general pub/sub system -

Re: [arch-general] [OT] What is wrong with DBus anyway?

2009-12-03 Thread Raghavendra Prabhu
Yeah, XML configuration sucks..(reason for me not using Openbox). Regarding 'kit' family, it originated from Fedora.. In new Fedora 12, they have added few more of those kits(like PackageKit)... :)... One of the reasons these things got added by default maybe that majority of

Re: [arch-general] [*] Re: conclusion: Another rant on arch way abuse and false promises

2009-12-03 Thread Raghavendra Prabhu
That mplayer with ascii was a joke :)...not a serious comment. On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 11:34 AM, Piyush P Kurur p...@cse.iitk.ac.in wrote: On Thu, Dec 03, 2009 at 01:54:10AM +0530, Raghavendra Prabhu wrote: One thing I don't understand here is - why people crib that package B should

Re: [arch-general] Help - Sound Disappeared -- Really! All modules - Gone?? (kernel bug?)

2009-12-03 Thread Raghavendra Prabhu
Thanks again DR. Next time, just send me back the following link: http://www.justfuckinggoogleit.com/ haha... I think we may soon see RTFM replacing DTFG(Do the F* Googling) or something better

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Qt 4.6.0

2009-12-02 Thread Raghavendra Prabhu
Qt 4.6 works fine for me (the one i got from here https://users.archlinux.de/~pierre/packages/x86_64/https://users.archlinux.de/~pierre/packages/{i686,x86_64}/ ) On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 12:01 PM, Attila vodoo0...@sonnenkinder.org wrote: At Mittwoch, 2. Dezember 2009 05:03 Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi

Re: [arch-general] future of xorg-server and hal

2009-12-02 Thread Raghavendra Prabhu
If xorg directly uses udev there is nothing better than that. On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 12:13 AM, Aaron Griffin aaronmgrif...@gmail.comwrote: On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 12:37 PM, Xavier shinin...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 4:40 PM, hollun...@gmx.at wrote: Anyway hal is dead :

Re: [arch-general] conclusion: Another rant on arch way abuse and false promises

2009-12-02 Thread Raghavendra Prabhu
One thing I don't understand here is - why people crib that package B should not have feature X. If you don't want that, ABS is for that. There are plenty of packages which have additional dependencies like that mplayer(like smbclient) or vlc(hal :) or lua). And secondly, if you have stuff like

Re: [arch-general] usable browser?

2009-11-27 Thread Raghavendra Prabhu
I use Opera-10 and it works fine. I don't get any updates stuff(unless I manually update) and I don't know what popups you are talking about(even after you can block them for sites).Regarding compatibility, Opera now works with 99% of the sites. Yes, with some sites it breaks then you can use

Re: [arch-general] ftp.archlinux.org rate limiting

2009-11-23 Thread Raghavendra Prabhu
Regarding client side rate limiting, I have tried trickle once. Does anyone know any better rate limiters client side ? Something like dummynet in FreeBSD. iptables is there but anything simpler would do. - Raghavendra On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 3:47 PM, RedShift redsh...@pandora.be