Re: [arch-general] Arch is ummnn different: my 1st installation: tried to install xfce...OOPS!

2010-03-16 Thread Thayer Williams
On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 1:22 AM, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote: > It does look like getting Arch Linux configured the way I need it is going > to take a bit more work than I'm used to. But if the "rolling release" part > of what I've read about it means I won't have to recreate my personal user > e

Re: [arch-general] Arch Linux security is still poor....

2010-03-15 Thread Thayer Williams
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 2:56 PM, Thayer Williams wrote: > On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 2:43 PM, Ananda Samaddar > wrote: >> Would there be any enthusiasm for a dedicated security team?  I feel >> strongly enough about it that if something can't be done then I'm &g

Re: [arch-general] Arch Linux security is still poor....

2010-03-15 Thread Thayer Williams
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 2:43 PM, Ananda Samaddar wrote: > Would there be any enthusiasm for a dedicated security team?  I feel > strongly enough about it that if something can't be done then I'm > switching to another distro. Despite the fact that I really like Arch, > it's one deficiency is a pre

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Fwd: FS#17503: [unzip] zsh completion missing for unzip patches

2010-02-26 Thread Thayer Williams
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 12:34 PM, Xavier Chantry wrote: > On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 8:20 PM, Thayer Williams wrote: >> >> Bumping this for feedback.  7z correctly unzips localized win32 zip >> files, but bsdtar/unzip cannot.  Is that good enough to remove the >> con

Re: [arch-general] Xscreensaver corrupts ext4 / partition

2010-01-25 Thread Thayer Williams
On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 7:14 PM, Javier Vasquez wrote: >  Bad thing that xscreensaver corrupted / so that it couldn't be > unlocked, and under console there was no way to loging, some misplaced > inodes or something... > > Hard reboot was required, and then at first /tmp was so corrupted that > it

Re: [arch-general] Startup scripts

2010-01-15 Thread Thayer Williams
On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 1:53 PM, Baho Utot wrote: > Tom wrote: >> and went and made myself a nice hot cup of tee, > I use jfs so a fsck takes very little time.  You may want to try it too. ...and ext4 takes about 7 seconds to fsck my 120GB root partition. Hardly an issue IMO.

Re: [arch-general] Quoting of E-mails

2010-01-14 Thread Thayer Williams
On Jan 11, 2010 at 09:27 PM, Loui Chang wrote: > I also find mutt's 'T' helps. It hides the quoted text. OMG how did I NOT know that! You sir, deserve a cookie. That just made mutt so much more enjoyable on my netbook.

Re: [arch-general] Latest testing/vim lacks symlink

2009-07-20 Thread Thayer Williams
On Jul 20, 2009 at 01:46 AM, b4283 wrote: > there should be a > /usr/share/vim/vimcurrent => vim72 > which is missing from the pack ? Thanks for that =)

Re: [arch-general] Weird acpid issue

2009-02-18 Thread Thayer Williams
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 11:02 AM, Leonid Grinberg wrote: > After many hours of searching, I still cannot figure it out. The > problem is definitely not in the xset dpms force off command -- it's > in the fact that ACPI simply stops realising that the lid is closed. > Is there anything that can be

Re: [arch-general] Weird acpid issue

2009-02-09 Thread Thayer Williams
On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 11:03 AM, Leonid Grinberg wrote: >> xset needs to connect to the X server, so it needs both for the >> DISPLAY to be specified and also to have access to the XAuthority >> cookie for the X server. Otherwise it will not work - can't connect to >> the X server. >> >> Since acp

Re: [arch-general] Weird acpid issue

2009-02-08 Thread Thayer Williams
On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 1:08 PM, Leonid Grinberg wrote: >> Don't laptops do this in hardware? turning off the screen when the lid >> is closed? (Mine does so). >> Whyd would you need acpid to control this? > > I don't think my laptop does this. If someone has a Dell Inspiron e1505/6400 > and knows

Re: [arch-general] Welcome Geoffroy Carrier!

2008-12-05 Thread Thayer Williams
On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 9:05 AM, Angel Velásquez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 6:00 PM, Aaron Griffin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I want to wish a warm welcome to our new developer and bluetooth >> maintainer, Geoffroy Carrier (gcarrier) Welcome aboard, Geoffroy! Is it pron

Re: [arch-general] problems with ivman? hal? pmount?

2008-12-03 Thread Thayer Williams
On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 8:56 PM, Ryan Sims <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > PS. I've also been exploring automounting with udev, but I run into > the same permissions problem with pmount: users can't access the file. > I would also welcome advice in this direction, if anyone's > interested. Have you

Re: [arch-general] remove HWD from extra and wiki!

2008-12-03 Thread Thayer Williams
On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 12:00 PM, Amanai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 03 Dec 2008 11:45:56 -0800, Thayer Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> What's the rush? >> > > Please change then the Archlinux Wiki "Xorg" > > If someone f

Re: [arch-general] remove HWD from extra and wiki!

2008-12-03 Thread Thayer Williams
On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 11:39 AM, Daenyth Blank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 14:35, timetrap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> KISS dictates that we abandon abstraction tools as much as possible. >> Especially those tools that duplicate functionality. > IMO, the most KISS thing to

Re: [arch-general] remove HWD from extra and wiki!

2008-12-02 Thread Thayer Williams
On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 3:43 PM, Grigorios Bouzakis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 1:32 AM, Amanai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I think HWD is full of bugs and several times I was running in some problems >> with HWD. If you guys can't fix it, don't provide it. Anyway HWD is no

Re: [arch-general] xorg-server 1.5 upgrade screen problem.

2008-11-30 Thread Thayer Williams
On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 9:08 PM, Amanai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 30 Nov 2008 14:12:58 -0800, Javier Vasquez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> However I have trouble with the screen. I'm using the mach64 driver >> with 1280x1024 mode and 24 bits depth, and whenever I try to switch to >> c

Re: [arch-general] test

2008-11-22 Thread Thayer Williams
On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 3:32 PM, Aaron Griffin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > test > Roger that. I just received a dump of emails posted over the last 12 hours.

Re: [arch-general] Tool to stop and start services? (Don't Panic)

2008-05-22 Thread Thayer Williams
On 5/22/08, Travis Willard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 11:07 AM, Nigel Henry > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On my Fedora installs there is a GUI for stopping and starting services, > and > > also the option of using chkconfig on the CLI. On my Debian installs, I > >

Re: [arch-general] troubles with Brother HL-2040

2008-05-15 Thread Thayer Williams
On 5/15/08, Ryan Sims <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just installed Arch on my print server at home; it had been running > another distro and chugging along happily. It's got a Brother HL2040 > attached to it via USB, and I use cups to share it around the network. > > Well, I got the server is

Re: [arch-general] netcfg2: background running

2008-05-10 Thread Thayer Williams
On 10/05/2008, gan lu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 10:35 PM, Philippe Miron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > Yep. Actually the deamon name is net-profiles, so it should be > @net-profiles . > I tried and failed (not be recognized) unless you mean I should add > net-pro