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Suggestions anyone???
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ready for new hardware...
My current desktop is from 2005, and it hasn't shown any signs of failing
{yet}... {{Please God let me find such a tutorial when it does fail...}}
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if I'm going to have to go there again???
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It would appear that on Jan 13, gt did say:
On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 05:14:13PM +0200, Mantas M. wrote:
On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 08:33:36AM -0500, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote:
Pardon me for jumping in here, but if mutt isn't smart enough to
automatically use In-Reply
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holy war or something... grin
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But if I actually knew everything, then I'd know I was an idiot...
KDE{4} or gnome{any} I'll only use what I need to run
a few selected applications.
I'll admit I didn't try it with Fedora, But I gave up on them some time
ago...
Just an FYI...
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It would appear that on Oct 2, Myra Nelson did say:
On Sun, Oct 2, 2011 at 18:40, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook jtw...@ttlc.net wrote:
Since the version of xorg in question is from testing I suspect I've
nothing to worry about and that it wouldn't wind up in the main repo while
its still
is?
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it at the time.
All I cared was that my printer worked again.
But why would one Arch Linux installation need cups in the daemons line
while another needs cupsd???
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It would appear that on Jul 13, C Anthony Risinger did say:
On Jul 12, 2011 8:19 AM, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook jtw...@ttlc.net wrote:
snip
Dude ... just set UTC and forget about it ... forever :-)
The wisdom of others frees time to build more wisdom of self.
Dde ... If my
It would appear that on Jul 12, Tom Gundersen did say:
On Jul 12, 2011, at 15:18, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook jtw...@ttlc.net wrote:
Whereas If I put ntpd -qg
in rc.local there is sometimes enough time to type my username before the
NTP based time adjustment can be seen to occur..
Yes
It would appear that on Jul 11, Tom Gundersen did say:
On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 7:31 PM, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook jtw...@ttlc.net
wrote:
NOT dual-boot, Multi-boot, And I don't think in UTC see above
The more OS'es you have, the better reason to keep RTC in UTC. You
shouldn't need
screen prior to loading an OS and I have no intention
of having to mentally convert to/from UTC to see if it's correct.
It would appear that on Jul 11, Thomas Bächler did say:
Am 11.07.2011 17:20, schrieb Joe(theWordy)Philbrook:
Since I multi-boot AND do keep my hardware clock set to local
I find out how to prevent pacman
from messing with the video driver, or does the 270.41.19-1 mean the
above will have no effect on my nvidia driver?
Thanks
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It would appear that on Jun 12, Heiko Baums did say:
Am Sat, 11 Jun 2011 23:07:00 -0400
schrieb Joe(theWordy)Philbrook jtw...@ttlc.net:
Actually It's been a long time since I had actual boot failures with
Arch... And if memory serves it wasn't the updated kernels fault,
though I
It would appear that on Jun 11, Heiko Baums did say:
Am Sat, 11 Jun 2011 12:40:36 -0400
schrieb Joe(theWordy)Philbrook jtw...@ttlc.net:
OK so lets see if I understand... I already maintain a manually
configured grub legacy partition where each of my installed Linux
have both
... (possibly due to a
hardware incompatibility...) And if I remember right, you said something
about this not working if the new kernel can't boot...
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tried to learn stuff like that but the knowledge
didn't stick.
Is there a step by step how-to or wiki I could bookmark???
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* CRS : Can't Remember Sh^Htuff : In my case
the pacman -U method...
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instead of having to boot one of the others. But I do
have to agree that more than one fully functional old kernel is a bad
idea. Though I don't have much trouble manually deleting the really old ones
from Ubuntu's /boot dir...
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You can find the discussion I started on the LyX user list at:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.editors.lyx.general/70198
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.
As a general rule I always reboot after any pacman -Su operation. If I
wasn't prepared to reboot, I wouldn't upgrade my system.
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It would appear that on Sep 16, Nicky726 did say:
Dne Čt 16. září 2010 06:27:23 Joe(theWordy)Philbrook napsal(a):
---snip---
I'll followup to this thread if one of AUR's themes works for me.
-or-
if e17 respects xrandr resolution settings...
I did followup
workspace...
But more themes to pick over are always welcome. So thanks
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It would appear that on Sep 15, Christoph Rissner did say:
On 09/15/2010 10:19 AM, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote:
community/e-svn 51937-1 (e17-svn) [installed]
I'm also running that version (but on i686), without any problems.
I'm using the default theme (is it Black White?), mostly
anyway...
Thanks again for all the helpful suggestions
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It would appear that on Aug 26, Dave Reisner did say:
On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 01:35:33PM -0400, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote:
As a mere arch user who happens to think that the concept of well
commented configuration files such as Arch's rc.conf are WONDERFUL.
Especially when they include
???) And the command svn
wasn't found...
One odd thing. The last time I used yaourt once prior to this, once the
package was compiled, it wanted my root password to finish the install.
This time yaourt never asked for it???
What am I doing wrong???
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on this???
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by clicking my way to the search box where I need
to point or type the full path. IE: /usr/bin/okular rather than just okular
So I decided to just set it and forget it.
Hope this helps.
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It would appear that on Jul 19, David C. Rankin did say:
On 07/19/2010 12:10 AM, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote:
I can't change it's appearance (except to the extent of accepting a theme's
default changes)
I can't add or remove gadgets to/from the shelf.
I can't change the size
I just noticed that I said pacman Su on that subject line rather
than pacman -Su... Just goes to show that my brain is less than perfect.
Hope this is of some help anyway.
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to use...
At this point I've got Arch sufficiently squared away for me to consider
making my next project installing Xubuntu an another partition...
But not tonight!
Thanks again to everyone who offered advice...
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It would appear that on Jul 5, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook did say:
I'm still hoping that the issues I'm having with mc etc... are related to
nomodeset rather than deeper issues. I ran a few empirical tests BTW and
fount that if I start mc before I access more than 2 or 3 tty[1-6] consoles
ready to put up with a
GUI, I use startx, and not until...
Still Like I told Osku, I'll try that nomodeset kernel option and post
the results in this thread.
Thanks for the help guys.
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It would appear that on Jul 4, f...@kokkinizita.net did say:
I'm using XDM which is relatively painless compared to
GDM, KDM and friends. With a modified 'Arch' setup it
can be made to look nice.
What looks nice to me is the console login prompt...
Also aside from that, there's another
now
Which resulted in a powerdown.
But I still don't have any idea what's killing my monitor output. I can
use my PCLinuxOS installation's root account to examine/edit *ANY* file.
But I don't have a clue what to look for. Suggestions anyone???
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buggering up my ability to get evince on the rare occasions when I
actually want it? Or perhaps I could simply copy all the okular
desktop files from /usr/share/applications/kde4/ to
/usr/share/applications/???
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It would appear that on Jun 5, Ross did say:
On 05/06/10 17:36, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote:
Wvdial only finds the modem when I specify 'Modem = /dev/ttyUSB0' in
my wvdial.conf file...
Are you able to access the modem with minicom?
I'm unable to figure out how to use minicom
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sigh
I'm having a problem getting dialup to work...
Due to financial limitations, I'm going to have to give up my expensive
broadband connection in favor of {sigh} dial-up which will save me about
$50/month.
I still have my external v92 zoom serial modem from before I went
broadband. But now that my
It would appear that on Jun 4, Ross did say:
Perhaps you need pulse instead of tone dialing? If that is the case try
setting Dial Command = ATDP
Thanks for the suggestion Ross. Though I don't see how that could be it...
All of my telephones use tone not pulse (I just double checked the one on
, it doesn't automatically connect. I tried:
# ifconfig eth0 up
but ping still doesn't find my ISP
What am I missing
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LinuxClues folder for future
reference.
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It would appear that on Apr 28, Rogutės Sparnuotos did say:
Joe(theWordy)Philbrook (2010-04-28 02:21):
...
When/if connected via dialup, I'll be paying by the connected hour, so I
don't want anyone I don't trust with the root password to be able to use
it...
Offtopic:
This anyone I
It would appear that on Apr 20, Nathan Wayde did say:
On 20/04/10 03:56, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote:
Am I missing something obvious here???
Yeah, `pacman -Ql eterm | grep bin/`. The binary is Eterm (upper-case e)
dou!
I think I knew that once upon a time..., Why did I forget? Oh
-04-19 21:34] installed eterm (0.9.5-3)
I note roxterm works, eterm doesn't...
I don't see any errors listed in the pacman.log...
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It would appear that on Apr 17, David C. Rankin did say:
On 04/16/2010 04:12 PM, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote:
snip
How can I a regular Joe user, figure out if this is an actual E17 bug
or if it's an Arch specific thing???
Joe,
I'll have to check my E17 install on Arch
???
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pacman. So at
least I'm not squinting at my console screens anymore.
Thanks
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anyone?
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I'm NOT clueless... But I just don't know.
It would appear that on Apr 10, Jeroen Op 't Eynde did say:
On Sat, 10 Apr 2010 18:00:53 +0200, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook jtw...@ttlc.net
wrote:
Sigh...
Problem #1
How can I stop the reduction in the console font size???
Evidently the framebuffer setting isn't doing it...
Problem
It would appear that on Apr 8, Isaac Dupree did say:
On 04/08/10 07:21, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote:
My take on it is that while it's always a good idea to be using a
current install medium, with Arch it only matters that your system is
able to become current via update. The release
really detest
having to recreate my user environment every 6 months...)
Nuff said.
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It would appear that on Mar 31, Guilherme M. Nogueira did say:
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 10:49 AM, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook
jtw...@ttlc.netwrote:
[ ... ]
99% of the time what I want is to just play the whole list in random order
with an easy hot key to skip any I decide, upon hearing
haven't. But to be honest, While I want keyboard control, I don't
really want to deal with remembering a command syntax when I just want to
get my music going so I can work to it...
It would appear that on Mar 30, Xavier Chantry did say:
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 8:46 AM, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook jtw
It would appear that on Mar 29, Thomas Bächler did say:
Am 29.03.2010 15:01, schrieb Joe(theWordy)Philbrook:
I was pleased to note that Arch evidently does think a rc.local is an
appropriate place for local initialization stuff to happen. However it's
come to my attention that about 5 out
It would appear that on Mar 30, Thomas Bächler did say:
Am 29.03.2010 23:58, schrieb Joe(theWordy)Philbrook:
I do hope this is a valid adaption of the above template:
SUBSYSTEM==block, ENV{ID_FS_LABEL}==j10_lap-10, OWNER=jtwdyp,
GROUP=jtwdyp
Looks fine to me.
But I wonder
think people should think this way any-more. But it is how I think none the
less...
BTW I don't suppose you know of a way to get a different background image
on each XFCE workspace???
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It would appear that on Mar 21, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook did say:
Thank you bardo! Trouble is I just tried that and I still get icons for
any files in ~/Desktop.
big snip
Hunh? Now I'm confused. I verified that Icon type setting (which was already in
place when I fired up XFCE today...) And I
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It would appear that on Mar 21, Heiko Baums did say:
Am Sun, 21 Mar 2010 09:15:43 -0400
schrieb Joe(theWordy)Philbrook jtw...@ttlc.net:
BTW I don't suppose you know of a way to get a different background
image on each XFCE workspace???
That's currently not possible on Xfce. There's
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somebody give me a clue how to disable them? Thanks!
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It would appear that on Mar 19, Heiko Baums did say:
Am Fri, 19 Mar 2010 14:50:36 -0400
schrieb Joe(theWordy)Philbrook jtw...@ttlc.net:
could somebody give me a clue how to disable them? Thanks!
Right click onto the desktop. Then desktop settings - Icons or Symbols
(I don't know how
It would appear that on Mar 17, Linas did say:
Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote:
fdisk /dev/sda
Which complained about a dos compatibility flag and that I should
change the display/entry units to sectors. This showed me a small bit of
unused space above my last logical partition (/dev
documents. They
actually seem to be written to instruct the guy who doesn't already know the
answers...
So how will this up and coming demise of hal affect idiots like me who
don't know how to do what we can't find in the wiki???
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workarounds that you feel like it might have been easier
to reinstall
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in the extended partition??? (That's a LOT of
backing up to dvd, and I don't have room anyplace else...)
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Disk /dev/sda: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors
6 months or
so just to keep up to date, then I figure it'll be more than worth the effort.
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Thanks again to all of you!
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