Re: [arch-general] What dirs are good to put in a tmpfs?

2013-07-25 Thread Calvin Morrison
people mount their mozilla profiles to tmpfs for speedups in firefox. Otherwise I have a large 'scratch' space I use for my bioinformatics research, typically I have a tmpfs on our servers arount 12gigs. If you are doing a lot of temporary reading and writing, that might be worth looking into. Calvin

Re: [arch-general] NetworkManager from Commandline

2013-05-02 Thread Calvin Morrison
On 2 May 2013 11:53, Alex Sla 4k3...@gmail.com wrote: Hi guys, I'm moving from KDE to Fluxbox, I want to keep using the NetworkManger. I have configured a lots of connection in it(WiFi / Cisco VPN for example). But I can't access my secrets to it. nmcli con up uuid 7f29abd0-c0d5-4e55-8796

Re: [arch-general] harddisk suspending far to often

2012-12-06 Thread Calvin Morrison
On 6 December 2012 17:05, G. Schlisio g.schli...@dukun.de wrote: Am 06.12.2012 21:07, schrieb Jonathan Steel: On Thu, Dec 06, 2012 at 10:59:27AM +0100, G. Schlisio wrote: after updating my laptop today [0] (no testing enabled) i notice that my harddisk keeps spinning down and up every 10

Re: [arch-general] Gnome 3.6, No logout entry? (Gnome-unstable and testing)

2012-10-14 Thread Calvin Morrison
On 14 October 2012 18:03, Adriano Moura adriano.l...@gmail.com wrote: 2012/10/14 甘露(Gan Lu) rhythm@gmail.com: On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 11:53 AM, martin kalcher alternative-status-menu doesn't work, it just adds suspend. And it's also missing hibernate now... How am I supposed to hibernate

Re: [arch-general] [OT] Sending a laptop to the repair shop

2012-09-20 Thread Calvin Morrison
I just had my x220 repaired at a small place. I told them I used linux exclusively and that I didn't want to give out my password. They understood and everything went ok. Typically they just want your password to verify that everything works and maybe to run a quick system cleanup which is very

Re: [arch-general] Some funny bloke - 2

2012-08-17 Thread Calvin Morrison
I received a single link On Aug 17, 2012 8:30 AM, Anthony ''Ishpeck'' Tedjamulia archli...@ishpeck.net wrote: On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 07:06:36AM +, Fons Adriaensen wrote: BTW, I don't want to discourage anyone from reading Lennart's blog. It's very revealing at some points. Just know

Re: [arch-general] Arch-general is becoming a mess !

2012-08-16 Thread Calvin Morrison
The problem here are a small handful of people who start flames and spread FUD. Banning a handful of people from the list is an easier solution IMO. I am generally against such measures, but it seems we will have no choice. Can we please make the difference between flaming and trolling

Re: [arch-general] Arch-general is becoming a mess !

2012-08-16 Thread Calvin Morrison
On 16 August 2012 09:19, Vytautas Stankevičius brothe...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 4:17 PM, Felipe Contreras felipe.contre...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 3:15 PM, Thomas Bächler tho...@archlinux.org wrote: I want to squash the noise that has turned this list from a

Re: [arch-general] Arch-general is becoming a mess !

2012-08-16 Thread Calvin Morrison
On 16 August 2012 11:47, Anthony ''Ishpeck'' Tedjamulia archli...@ishpeck.net wrote: On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 03:15:36PM +0200, Thomas B?chler wrote: That's not more pragmatic, It is. Person X is annoying everyone, so person X can't post any longer. You seem to be conflating pragmatism with

Re: [arch-general] Arch-general is becoming a mess !

2012-08-16 Thread Calvin Morrison
On 16 August 2012 11:59, Anthony ''Ishpeck'' Tedjamulia archli...@ishpeck.net wrote: On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 11:50:20AM -0400, Calvin Morrison wrote: On 16 August 2012 11:47, Anthony ''Ishpeck'' Tedjamulia archli...@ishpeck.net wrote: Those of us who are used to the internet don't get annoyed

Re: [arch-general] Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

2012-08-14 Thread Calvin Morrison
On 14 August 2012 09:52, Denis A. Altoé Falqueto denisfalqu...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 10:12 AM, Baho Utot baho-u...@columbus.rr.com wrote: On 08/09/2012 03:13 PM, Anthony ''Ishpeck'' Tedjamulia wrote: On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 08:58:41AM -0400, Baho Utot wrote: Yes looks like

Re: [arch-general] Lennart Poettering on udev-systemd

2012-08-14 Thread Calvin Morrison
On 14 August 2012 11:07, Fons Adriaensen f...@linuxaudio.org wrote: On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 10:55:02AM -0400, Baho Utot wrote: after switching to it I prefer it because I just find it a lot easier to deal with than sysvinit IMO. For example I find systemd's .service files so much cleaner and

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Migration to systemd

2012-08-14 Thread Calvin Morrison
On 14 August 2012 10:57, Stéphane Gaudreault steph...@archlinux.org wrote: Systemd has a overall better design than SysV, lots of useful administrative features and provide quicker boot up. Considering that it has been around in our repositories for some time and that it could be considered

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Migration to systemd

2012-08-14 Thread Calvin Morrison
On 14 August 2012 11:58, Jelle van der Waa je...@vdwaa.nl wrote: On 08/14/12 17:55, Calvin Morrison wrote: On 14 August 2012 10:57, Stéphane Gaudreault steph...@archlinux.org wrote: Systemd has a overall better design than SysV, lots of useful administrative features and provide quicker boot

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Migration to systemd

2012-08-14 Thread Calvin Morrison
On 14 August 2012 12:20, Brandon Watkins bwa...@gmail.com wrote: I remember seeing the comparisons against SysV but not at all against upstart or OpenRC Comparison of systemd features vs upstart and sysv: note this is from lennart's site... http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/why.html This

Re: [arch-general] Update on Trinity - 2 versions available R14 and 3.5.13-sru

2012-08-14 Thread Calvin Morrison
On 14 August 2012 15:00, Martin Cigorraga m...@archlinux.us wrote: On 14 August 2012 12:52, David C. Rankin drankina...@suddenlinkmail.comwrote: On 08/05/2012 11:03 PM, David C. Rankin wrote: All, There have been a few noteworthy developments with the Trinity project for Arch.

Re: [arch-general] old rc.sysinit?

2012-08-14 Thread Calvin Morrison
On 14 August 2012 18:04, Tom Gundersen t...@jklm.no wrote: On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 11:31 PM, Jorge Almeida jjalme...@gmail.com wrote: Thank you. I'm trying to understand which one-time tasks must be performed on initialization, and how. I have no problem with current defaults, but

Re: [arch-general] Build pacman statically

2012-08-03 Thread Calvin Morrison
On 3 August 2012 14:22, Mantas Mikulėnas graw...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 8:40 PM, Calvin Morrison mutanttur...@gmail.com wrote: there is a whole discussion on why static linking is good on http://sta.li Including such gems as: Of course Ulrich Drepper thinks that dynamic

Re: [arch-general] My end-user $0.02 on /etc/rc.conf splitting.

2012-07-24 Thread Calvin Morrison
Personally, I get exasperated when people don't take the time to educate themselves before making broad and incorrect assertions. There is a huge amount of documentation, discussion and other sources of information about systemd available online. Moreover, there is the source-code, and even

Re: [arch-general] My end-user $0.02 on /etc/rc.conf splitting.

2012-07-24 Thread Calvin Morrison
On 24 July 2012 10:43, Ike Devolder ike.devol...@gmail.com wrote: Op dinsdag 24 juli 2012 10:29:25 schreef Calvin Morrison: Personally, I get exasperated when people don't take the time to educate themselves before making broad and incorrect assertions. There is a huge amount

Re: [arch-general] Trinity - post usrlib move - builds fine!

2012-07-17 Thread Calvin Morrison
Great David! I can't wait to have it running and stable on my arch box Calvin On Jul 17, 2012 12:26 AM, David C. Rankin drankina...@suddenlinkmail.com wrote: Just a note for those interested in the trinity project, After the usrlib move, TDE builds fine, including koffice. -- David C.

Re: [arch-general] ~2 sec delay for Sound events in TDE - need help solving

2012-07-17 Thread Calvin Morrison
On 17 July 2012 19:51, David C. Rankin drankina...@suddenlinkmail.comwrote: Guys, I have TDE building on fully updated Arch, but I'm trying to track down a 1-2 second delay I'm getting with sound events. This doesn't just affect the latest TDE, but also began to effect older installs a

Re: [arch-general] Note on TDE - gcc 4.7.1 resolves kwrite crash

2012-06-20 Thread Calvin Morrison
On 20 June 2012 12:35, David C. Rankin drankina...@suddenlinkmail.com wrote: All,  Just a quick note that update to gcc 4.7.1 resolved an infinite loop introduced when TDE was built on gcc 4.7.0-x resulting in a kwrite/kate crash on line-wrap. Confirmed with fresh TDE archroot build on 6/19.

Re: [arch-general] Arch as a web server

2012-06-19 Thread Calvin Morrison
On Jun 19, 2012 9:29 AM, Alper Kanat tu...@raptiye.org wrote: We bought our VPS' from Hetzner btw. Hetzner is a German ISP which provides cheap (starts from 7€ just look at the price page) but rock solid servers. They don't officially support Arch Linux but the installation is trivial. ---

Re: [arch-general] Arch as a web server

2012-06-19 Thread Calvin Morrison
On Jun 19, 2012 9:42 AM, Szu-Han Chen sjc...@sjchen.com wrote: On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 07:43:06AM -0500, Culley Smith wrote: I have a Linode server running Arch. I did a little tinkering to enable kernel updates, but that's about it. I keep things up to date through Pacman and haven't

Re: [arch-general] UEFI secure boot

2012-06-05 Thread Calvin Morrison
On 5 June 2012 09:54, Lukáš Jirkovský l.jirkov...@gmail.com wrote: On 4 June 2012 22:27, Sudaraka Wijesinghe sudaraka.wijesin...@gmail.com wrote: If this is a poll, I vote Arch should require Secure Boot to be disabled I choose a distro like Arch because it doesn't have a financial motive

Re: [arch-general] Powertop tunables and performance

2012-05-31 Thread Calvin Morrison
On 31 May 2012 11:11, Don deJuan donjuans...@gmail.com wrote: On 05/31/2012 08:10 AM, Jesse Juhani Jaara wrote: to, 2012-05-31 kello 08:07 -0700, Don deJuan kirjoitti: put them in a script such as handler.sh so when you're on AC or BAT then the script takes care of handling all that? Seems

Re: [arch-general] wget

2012-05-02 Thread Calvin Morrison
On 05/02/2012 02:42 PM, Don deJuan wrote: On 05/02/2012 11:35 AM, Jeremiah Dodds wrote: Don deJuandonjuans...@gmail.com writes: Um, was a sarcastic joke LOL Yes, with no indication in reply to a genuine (and fairly reasonable, if you remember being a newbie to linux) question. LOL ok

Re: [arch-general] RFC: OpenRC as init system for Arch

2012-04-25 Thread Calvin Morrison
On 04/25/2012 12:38 PM, Kaiting Chen wrote: On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 11:54 AM, Rashif Ray Rahmansc...@archlinux.orgwrote: On 25 April 2012 23:25, Tom Gundersent...@jklm.no wrote: I strongly believe that should we move away from intscripts it needs to be to an event-driven system (such as

Re: [arch-general] Can you test machine to set --jobs[=N] from w/i PKGBUILD?

2012-04-01 Thread Calvin Morrison
-u...@columbus.rr.com wrote: On 04/01/2012 08:37 AM, Calvin Morrison wrote: Often higher cores benefit high I/O applications. If gcc is bottlenecking at reading and writing, sometimes more threads will help. How does that help? Sounds backwards to me On Apr 1, 2012 7:49 AM, Vitor

Re: [arch-general] moving away from gnome

2012-02-27 Thread Calvin Morrison
On 26 February 2012 11:56, Jesse Juhani Jaara jesse.ja...@gmail.com wrote: sunnuntai, 26. helmikuuta 2012 16:39:31 Andrea Crotti kirjoitti: Is kdm in kde-workspace-base? Yeh it is. kdebase-workspace is the correct name of the pkg tought If yes it also has quite a lot of dependencies which I

Re: [arch-general] inotify and locate

2012-02-26 Thread Calvin Morrison
It is only for Linux. That was my barrier. It has no portability to Mac or BSDs. It is a great tool and really comes in handy. There is an package called inotify-tools that does some basic watching. I've used it in the past. Calvin On Feb 26, 2012 6:50 AM, Andrea Crotti andrea.crott...@gmail.com

Re: [arch-general] How to set grub2 resolution to 1366x768

2012-02-21 Thread Calvin Morrison
On 21 February 2012 10:00, Keshav P R the.ridikulus@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 20:18, Bill Sun cap.sensit...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, According your posts, should I file a bug report directly to lenovo? Not to Lenovo. To grub2 upstream. Regards, Bill This whole

Re: [arch-general] Join my network on LinkedIn

2012-02-13 Thread Calvin Morrison
COULD ALL BE REALLY LINKED IN. All we have to do is start spamming the mailing lists to get linked in. think about it - great idea! Keep up the good work Erwin Jose Lopez Pulgarin! Calvin Morrison

Re: [arch-general] Join my network on LinkedIn

2012-02-13 Thread Calvin Morrison
On 13 February 2012 12:37, Madhurya Kakati mkakati2...@gmail.com wrote: On 02/13/12 at 12:04pm, Calvin Morrison wrote: I never thought abut it like that. WE COULD ALL BE REALLY LINKED IN. All we have to do is start spamming the mailing lists to get linked in. think about it - great idea

Re: [arch-general] boot hangs on hal load after updates today.

2012-02-13 Thread Calvin Morrison
On 13 February 2012 16:52, David C. Rankin drankina...@suddenlinkmail.com wrote: All,  Strange behavior on boot with both standard and LTS kernels. After updates  today. Boot hangs on hal load when encountered in DAEMONS line of rc.conf. hal IS started, but boot hangs with both the normal

Re: [arch-general] couple of log messages from kernel 3.2.2

2012-01-30 Thread Calvin Morrison
On 30 January 2012 15:03, Tim Stella denst...@gmail.com wrote: On 01/30/12 at 01:22pm, Genes MailLists wrote: I noticed a couple of messages booting the new 3.2.2 kernel: (I) watchdog: - [287247.568009] NMI watchdog enabled, takes one hw-pmu counter.

Re: [arch-general] java-7-openjdk has been splitted

2012-01-09 Thread Calvin Morrison
On 9 January 2012 15:40, Jonathan Vasquez jvasquez1...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 3:34 PM, Andreas Radke andy...@archlinux.org wrote: To satisfy server admins not forcing them install lots of typical desktop deps (FS#27621) I've reworked our (openjdk7) JRE pkg and now it's

Re: [arch-general] Hi from a new Arch user

2012-01-08 Thread Calvin Morrison
Basically the plot is as follows: you play a character stuck inside a abandoned research and development building. All people have been removed, nd it is locked off from the world. Experiments are continued by a AI called GladOS an evil mastermind. The entire game she pretends to have a cake for

Re: [arch-general] Hi from a new Arch user

2012-01-08 Thread Calvin Morrison
On 8 January 2012 11:29, Chris Sakalis chrissaka...@gmail.com wrote: I do not know about punchline either, then I took an arrow in the knee. BTW, how can I include the origin message when using emacs rmail reply? On Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 4:47 PM, Calvin Morrison mutanttur...@gmail.com

Re: [arch-general] local repository

2011-12-29 Thread Calvin Morrison
On 29 December 2011 20:55, Baho Utot baho-u...@columbus.rr.com wrote: On Thursday 29 December 2011 08:45:11 pm Karol Blazewicz wrote: On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 2:33 AM, Baho Utot baho-u...@columbus.rr.com wrote: http:///trinity.bildanet.com/i686 Have you tried with 2 '/' (slashes)

Re: [arch-general] [Non-Bulk] Re: Top Posting Revisited

2011-12-16 Thread Calvin Morrison
On 16 December 2011 10:59, Ralf Madorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: On Fri, 2011-12-16 at 15:33 +, Kevin Chadwick wrote: [snip] If you ban someone they soon realise and could use a different email. [snip] +1 If somebody does something bad, friendly [off-list] explain this person

Re: [arch-general] [Non-Bulk] Re: Top Posting Revisited

2011-12-16 Thread Calvin Morrison
On 16 December 2011 11:06, Ralf Madorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: On Fri, 2011-12-16 at 11:01 -0500, Calvin Morrison wrote: On 16 December 2011 10:59, Ralf Madorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: On Fri, 2011-12-16 at 15:33 +, Kevin Chadwick wrote: [snip] If you ban

Re: [arch-general] Top Posting Revisited

2011-12-15 Thread Calvin Morrison
a LONG way. :-) Calvin Morrison

Re: [arch-general] Top Posting Revisited

2011-12-15 Thread Calvin Morrison
On 15 December 2011 22:07, Sander Jansen s.jan...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 8:17 PM, gt codere...@gmail.com wrote: Hello folks, i'll probably get flamed for reviving a very controversial, yet consistently brought up topic. I have seen a similar thread last year, and every

Re: [arch-general] Please stop abusing of the out-of-date option

2011-12-01 Thread Calvin Morrison
as a stable release regardless of their versioning scheme. Heiko Cant tell if joking or serious :| I refrained from saying something until now. Obviously the solution is to put some text in the mark as outdated confirmation page that says some basic rules. Calvin Morrison

Re: [arch-general] pacman/libalpm/libfetch do not honor TMPDIR

2011-11-29 Thread Calvin Morrison
hard drive writes. Calvin Morrison

Re: [arch-general] pacman new generation

2011-11-22 Thread Calvin Morrison
On 22 November 2011 14:42, C Anthony Risinger anth...@xtfx.me wrote: On Nov 22, 2011 1:30 PM, Bernardo Barros bernardobarr...@gmail.com wrote: If I still may: roll-back and reproducible configuration was already proposed in the past? The idea raised by Nix devs was the a purely

Re: [arch-general] Why not create a new repo specified for games ?

2011-11-01 Thread Calvin Morrison
2011/11/1 Ángel Velásquez an...@archlinux.org: 2011/11/1 Meyithi m...@meyithi.com: I don't code, can we please move all coding tools to a separate repo so I don't have to sync it? thanks You're a troll, you have a separate repo for you add it it's called [troll]. Actually I think there is

Re: [arch-general] Quiet Updates Lately

2011-10-24 Thread Calvin Morrison
2011/10/24 Cédric Girard girard.ced...@gmail.com: On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 2:34 PM, Steve Holmes steve.holme...@gmail.comwrote: I've been doing 'pacman -Syu' for several days in a row lately to see no updates.  Is bibleo.org still a good repo in the US? Is aArch all that quiet lately or am I

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] texlive-bin 2011.1-1 and texlive-* 2011.*

2011-07-25 Thread Calvin Morrison
database... Anyone have an idea about this? also, does it matter? Calvin Morrison

Re: [arch-general] Not a good time for ProAudio work? WAS: Panic - no sound devices after upgrade

2011-07-20 Thread Calvin Morrison
use) and I am really excited about ardour3, but right now we are kind of stuck. Hardware wise has been really good to me. But I definitely echo your concerns. Calvin Morrison

Re: [arch-general] testing splitted LibreOffice 3.4.2rc1

2011-07-19 Thread Calvin Morrison
a selection (default=all): -Andy When I do this, to get all the extensions, it says : libreoffice and libreoffice-common are in conflict (go-openoffice). Remove libreoffice-common? [y/N] weird huh? I don't have go-openoffice installed, only libreoffice-common and writer Calvin Morrison

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Fwd: Move kdelibs3 to [community]

2011-07-18 Thread Calvin Morrison
On 18 July 2011 12:57, Calvin Morrison mutanttur...@gmail.com wrote: -- Forwarded message -- From: Calvin Morrison mutanttur...@gmail.com Date: 18 July 2011 12:50 Subject: Re: [arch-dev-public] Fwd: Move kdelibs3 to [community] To: kb9...@pearsoncomputing.net On 18 July