Re: [arch-general] Suggestions for email for a paranoid Archer

2012-10-11 Thread Taylor Hedberg
Menachem Moystoviz, Thu 2012-10-11 @ 13:23:32+0200: Which do you suggest? Do you have an alternative? I use Postfix + Dovecot on an Arch Linux Linode VPS and I'm pretty happy with it. 2) Hard to maintain, can crash at any moment, will drive me to early grave It is a bit of a pain to

Re: [arch-general] Suggestions for email for a paranoid Archer

2012-10-11 Thread Taylor Hedberg
Menachem Moystoviz, Thu 2012-10-11 @ 17:50:20+0200: Aye, but I have the following concerns regarding hosting the server myself: - Only have one server - no redundancy or reliability You can set up more than one if you're that worried about reliability, but it's almost certainly overkill for a

Re: [arch-general] [Offtopic] back up /var/log before shutdown

2012-06-20 Thread Taylor Hedberg
Manolo Martínez, Wed 2012-06-20 @ 16:14:46-0400: On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 14:38:27 +0530, gt wrote: For the mutt users, just press # to decouple the message from the parent thread. :-) Not in my .muttrc. What option is this? I might have unbound the key for some reason :) The mutt

Re: [arch-general] view command

2012-05-08 Thread Taylor Hedberg
G. Schlisio, Tue 2012-05-08 @ 17:31:49+0200: i stumbled over view being a link to ex, and not to vim, as i am used to with several other distros (opensuse, debian). is there any particular reason for that behaviour? FYI, you can use `vim -R` to explicity invoke Vim in read-only mode. Or even

Re: [arch-general] wget

2012-05-02 Thread Taylor Hedberg
Jeremiah Dodds, Wed 2012-05-02 @ 15:18:03-0400: A poking, or an RTFM, sure. All I'm saying is that what you posted doesn't help the noob. RTFM helps the noob. Pointing out that this place has nothing to do with Mint, even mockingly (even at Drepper levels of intensity), helps the noob.

Re: [arch-general] htaccess password

2012-03-29 Thread Taylor Hedberg
pete, Thu 2012-03-29 @ 22:11:31+0100: I need to generate a htaccess file that has 150 username password pairs does anyone know of a utility that can do this short of lots of typing .. For generating passwords, there is the utility `pwgen`. pgpFG4oIiQ8MZ.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [arch-general] plugins for zathura

2012-03-13 Thread Taylor Hedberg
Manolo Martínez, Tue 2012-03-13 @ 16:15:33-0400: Not only that. the AUR plugins force the installation of the AUR version of zathura -- or so it has seemed to me after resurfacing from dependency hell. If you just edit the dependency in the plugin's PKGBUILD from zathura-girara-git to just

Re: [arch-general] DST in New York

2012-03-11 Thread Taylor Hedberg
Martin Zecher, Sun 2012-03-11 @ 12:35:58-0400: Do you use systemd? No, just initscripts. pgpa594fmcf0a.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [arch-general] DST in New York

2012-03-11 Thread Taylor Hedberg
Manolo Martínez, Sun 2012-03-11 @ 14:00:32-0400: I see, thank you. I've just moved from hwclock to ntpd and it is sinchronising correctly. Are you using hwclock? I'm using ntpd. If your time skew occurred when using the hwclock daemon without NTP, then my guess would be that your motherboard

Re: [arch-general] Gringotts, alternatives?

2012-03-02 Thread Taylor Hedberg
If all you need to store securely are text files, and you are a Vim user, you can use Vim's built-in Blowfish encryption support. :set cryptmethod=blowfish Then use the :X command to set a key and encrypt the current buffer. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [arch-general] Source control on /etc

2012-02-23 Thread Taylor Hedberg
Alfredo Palhares, Thu 2012-02-23 @ 17:24:01+0100: Excerpts from Matthew Monaco's message of Thu Feb 23 17:08:46 +0100 2012: What about permissions and ownership? These are pretty important for /etc. What about those ? Git doesn't care about permissions, the only permissions that git stores

Re: [arch-general] GHC 7.4.1 or HP 2011.4.0.0??

2012-02-03 Thread Taylor Hedberg
My personal opinion as a user is that it would be nice to abandon the Haskell Platform in favor of keeping more Haskell packages up-to-date with the upstream. That seems more in line with the general Arch philosophy of staying as current as possible. Also, GHC 7.4 has some cool features that I

Re: [arch-general] Gtk update messed up thunderbird thread marker triangles??

2012-01-30 Thread Taylor Hedberg
You're not alone; I've seen the same thing in other GTK apps. I don't use Thunderbird but I assume I'd see it there as well if I did. Haven't bothered looking into it at all though. pgpbJk7tERkH1.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [arch-general] Gtk update messed up thunderbird thread marker triangles??

2012-01-30 Thread Taylor Hedberg
Karol Babioch, Tue 2012-01-31 @ 00:37:15+0100: Do you have the testing repos enabled? No, I don't. pgp8QEIz6EnD1.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [arch-general] Another Major glitch now

2012-01-29 Thread Taylor Hedberg
Rodrigo Amorim Bahiense, Sun 2012-01-29 @ 13:04:39-0200: Moving /usr to a separate partition is not recommended: It is supported as of recently, if you use the right hooks in your mkinitcpio config. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Mkinitcpio#.2Fusr_as_a_separate_partition

Re: [arch-general] PKGBUILD help

2012-01-27 Thread Taylor Hedberg
Either use `makepkg -i` to install automatically after building, or `pacman -U foo.pkg.tar.xz` to manually install the built package. pgpOGh6Oqpbiw.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [arch-general] Brightness keys no longer working

2012-01-25 Thread Taylor Hedberg
Try installing udev-git from the AUR. I had a similar problem with the Fn key in combination with the F1-F12 keys on my laptop; X wasn't registering any keypress events for those keystrokes. A thread on the forums about a related issue [1] suggested trying udev-git and it solved the problem for

Re: [arch-general] pacman new generation

2011-11-22 Thread Taylor Hedberg
Nicolas Sebrecht, Tue 2011-11-22 @ 16:24:02+0100: I don't think, so. IMHO, the pool of contributors is bigger with a high-level language than for C, simply because the learning curve of a good high-level language is much shorter. You can't seriously be suggesting that switching to Haskell

Re: [arch-general] pacman new generation

2011-11-22 Thread Taylor Hedberg
Rodrigo Amorim Bahiense, Tue 2011-11-22 @ 13:43:58-0200: Code language should not be chosen based on popularity. C is used in most unix-like software because of its quality and not as a consequence of the available developer pool for it. Maybe not, but the person I was replying to was making

Re: [arch-general] Vim with X

2011-11-15 Thread Taylor Hedberg
John K Pate, Tue 2011-11-15 @ 22:09:57+: ctrl-ins, shift-ins, middle-click should all still work. At least they do for me, and I don't have gvim installed. Or do I have something else installed that makes them work? He was probably referring to Vim's ability to yank text into its * and +

Re: [arch-general] Display issues with Linux 3.1

2011-11-13 Thread Taylor Hedberg
hollun...@lavabit.com, Sat 2011-11-12 @ 22:42:57-0500: I'm rather sure this is a new intel driver bug, I have the exact same issue. My laptops chipset is slightly newer: 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (primary) (rev 03)

Re: [arch-general] Display issues with Linux 3.1

2011-11-13 Thread Taylor Hedberg
hollun...@lavabit.com, Sun 2011-11-13 @ 11:18:05-0500: Another workaround is to disable kms by booting with the nomodeset option. Another new issue is that my mousepointer frequently flickers/disappears and that xv video out in smplayer doesn't work anymore, but both of those are with the

Re: [arch-general] Display issues with Linux 3.1

2011-11-13 Thread Taylor Hedberg
hollun...@lavabit.com, Sun 2011-11-13 @ 13:06:49-0500: Now we know loads of workarounds but it's still a bug. I'd file it but it seems https://bugzilla.kernel.org/ is down. Down for you too? Pretty sure kernel.org is still getting services back online after their security breach earlier this

Re: [arch-general] Display issues with Linux 3.1

2011-11-11 Thread Taylor Hedberg
Sebastian Schwarz, Fri 2011-11-11 @ 16:26:24+0100: After running `xbacklight -set 100` my backlight is at the previous brightness level, which is 57% and not at the 100% xbacklight should set it to. I see. I usually run my backlight at 100%, so I could be seeing the same thing and not

Re: [arch-general] Display issues with Linux 3.1

2011-11-11 Thread Taylor Hedberg
Uli Armbruster, Fri 2011-11-11 @ 17:14:16+0100: Ok here on my laptop it's definitely hardware-based, the backlight doesn't work in the first moment, when the laptop is cold. I just booted my cold laptop into 3.0.7 linux-rt and it happened there as well. It seems that we have symptomatically

Re: [arch-general] Display issues with Linux 3.1

2011-11-11 Thread Taylor Hedberg
Taylor Hedberg, Fri 2011-11-11 @ 10:36:02-0500: Thanks for these links. I'll test the patch on my system tonight when I get some free time. Compiling Linux on my laptop takes forever. The patch you linked fixed the dim backlight issue on my system. I'm still experiencing the blank screen issue

Re: [arch-general] Display issues with Linux 3.1

2011-11-10 Thread Taylor Hedberg
Uli Armbruster, Thu 2011-11-10 @ 07:45:11+0100: I can confirm this behavior, however I'm not sure if it's software related. I have the impression that this happens here only if the laptop is cold (e.g. because I carried it around outside in the cold german autumn). But Taylor's describtion

Re: [arch-general] Display issues with Linux 3.1

2011-11-10 Thread Taylor Hedberg
Sebastian Schwarz, Thu 2011-11-10 @ 16:36:54+0100: My display comes back with the minimal brightness setting. Also the XF86MonBrightnessUp (Fn+Up) and XF86MonBrightnessDown (Fn+Down) buttons stopped working. I can restore the previous brightness level and the buttons by running: cat

[arch-general] Display issues with Linux 3.1

2011-11-09 Thread Taylor Hedberg
Since updating to Linux 3.1 yesterday, I've been having strange problems with the display on my laptop. The first reboot after updating the kernel went normally, but every subsequent boot since then has had problems. This is a Dell Latitude D620 laptop with the following graphics-related lines in

[arch-general] Wiki forum down?

2011-10-24 Thread Taylor Hedberg
Apologies if I've missed something obvious, but both the wiki and forum seem to have been down for at least a few hours now (I think they are located on the same host). Does anyone know what the situation is?

Re: [arch-general] Wiki forum down?

2011-10-24 Thread Taylor Hedberg
Paul Gideon Dann, Mon 2011-10-24 @ 15:35:58+0100: They both look fine to me. Maybe an issue with your local DNS? Strange, I've tried it from multiple hosts, including remote hosts in other cities/on other ISPs, all with the same result, no response from the server. I haven't seen a problem with

Re: [arch-general] Wiki forum down?

2011-10-24 Thread Taylor Hedberg
Jelle van der Waa, Mon 2011-10-24 @ 16:41:53+0200: For now: Use google Cache, way back machine? Else pacman -Ss arch wiki (it's from 15 october so it should be fine) Thanks, I didn't know the wiki was available as a downloadable package. That will suffice for now.

Re: [arch-general] Setting Computer Hostname via DHCP Server

2011-09-29 Thread Taylor Hedberg
dhcpcd should do this automatically. From dhcpcd(8): If the hostname is currently blank, (null) or localhost, or force_hostname is YES or TRUE or 1 then dhcpcd sets the hostname to the one supplied by the DHCP server. It seems to work for me. If you're setting the hostname manually

Re: [arch-general] Can't build libwebkit

2011-09-08 Thread Taylor Hedberg
The line in the PKGBUILD that actually applies that patch is commented out, so you can probably just remove that filename from the source array to eliminate the error.

Re: [arch-general] tunneling help needed (ssh?)

2011-08-02 Thread Taylor Hedberg
C Anthony Risinger, Tue 2011-08-02 @ 14:18:34-0500: ssh -CNfc arcfour -L 80:A:22 USER@localhost You need an extra ':' in front of the 80 (:80:A:22), otherwise it will reject connections to the tunnel port that originate anywhere other than the local host.

Re: [arch-general] On module blacklisting

2011-06-17 Thread Taylor Hedberg
Philipp Überbacher, Fri 2011-06-17 @ 21:30:45+0200: Afaik the /24 is correct for the local network, although I don't know what it means. Seems like this is called prefix length in the switch. The netmask according to the switch settings is 255.255.255.0. It definitely worked in rc.conf with

Re: [arch-general] Dmenu vs. KMS

2011-04-27 Thread Taylor Hedberg
I'm not getting any lag with the same versions of dmenu and kernel26. I'm using xf86-video-intel though, so maybe that makes a difference.