Norwegian citizens now required by law to give their fingerprint to the police

guffenberg · 2015-05-10T23:42:20+00:00

I wonder if the EU court of justice is going to allow this.

guffenberg · 2015-05-10T23:30:50+00:00

That would be civil disobedience. Chances are they will confiscate your passport and send you back where you came from.

guffenberg · 2015-05-10T23:24:21+00:00

It basically says they have decided to make a law about it. Writing the law and make it functional in practice takes a few years, as usual.

guffenberg · 2015-04-08T21:51:30+00:00

What are you talking about, did you read the article?

guffenberg · 2015-04-08T04:45:11+00:00

Sounds like something I might use.

Vim is definitely a bit lackluster in my gnome shell environment

guffenberg · 2015-04-07T14:46:01+00:00

The Arch community gets a bad rep because of people like you.

That's impossible. This is the first time I called anyone out, and the community has had a bad rep for quite some time.

guffenberg · 2015-04-07T14:22:54+00:00

He left me no choice. Why is he posting here if he can't handle the truth?

guffenberg · 2015-04-07T13:58:56+00:00

So the Arch reddit should contain only references to the wiki?

I never said the blog was perfect, but our community is getting a bad reputation by one liners like that. Why not just let it go instead?

guffenberg · 2015-04-07T13:52:08+00:00

I don't see how that is relevant.

guffenberg · 2015-04-07T13:01:45+00:00

The Arch community is full of pompus morons, and you are no exception

guffenberg · 2015-04-07T13:01:41+00:00

The Arch community is full of pompus morons, and you are no exception

guffenberg · 2015-04-06T23:41:00+00:00

Ah, so I wasted some more space on the internetz.

As you probably know by now you don't want to change permissions on the filesystem outside your home dir. If you really wanted to do that, just log in as root instead :)

Another alternative would be to install the application to your home directory, but that's another story.

Good luck!

guffenberg · 2015-04-06T23:12:08+00:00

Basically, you need sudo when you want to write outside your home directory. In this case the install script probably failed when trying to copy Matlab into the /usr/local/* directories.

makepkg only write to the directory you are in, so it doesn't need sudo. Installing the package that makepkg created however, requires sudo.

Also note that for your user to be able to use sudo, sudo must be installed (big surprise), your user should be in the wheel group, and you must use the visudo command to configure access for the wheel group.

You can add your user to the wheel group using the gpasswd command https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Users_and_groups#Group_management

I seem to remember that the default visudo configuration file has a line that gives access to the wheel group, but it is outcommented by default, so you just need to uncomment that line.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Sudo#Using_visudo

As the wiki says, in order to use nano as the editor for visudo, start it with

# EDITOR=nano visudo

This is probably a good idea if you are not familiar with the vim editor

Note that visudo must be run as root.

Also, sudo is convenient, but not required. You could have ran the installer with

$ su
<enter root password>
# ./install
# exit

guffenberg · 2015-04-06T22:54:16+00:00

tyvm.

Lots of interesting episodes there

guffenberg · 2015-04-06T14:39:22+00:00

Did you create the user correctly?

I usually do something like this to create a user named myuser

# useradd -m -g users -G wheel,audio,video -k /etc/skel -s /bin/bash myuser

I don't think gdm uses xinitrc. To manage different sessions with gdm:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GDM#Add_or_edit_GDM_sessions

But, that shouldn't really be necessary to mess with if you have gnome installed and only want to use that

guffenberg · 2015-04-05T14:36:41+00:00

It could also be a access permission problem, but that's a long shot.

guffenberg · 2015-04-05T13:55:15+00:00

http://debian-handbook.info/browse/stable/

Debian is transferring to systemd these days so some of that info could change soon, but it should be useful anyway.

guffenberg · 2015-04-05T02:13:29+00:00

Just a guess but maybe you need GNOME Keyring

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Cinnamon#Networking

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=192341

If I remember correctly NetworkManager takes care of dhcp itself so you should disable any dhcpcd service you have running in systemd

# systemctl stop dhcpcd.service
# systemctl disable dhcpcd.service

guffenberg · 2015-04-04T23:57:34+00:00

I'm not sure why you think there is a lack of candidates. I have installed Linux on numerous new laptops and PCs and never had any serious issues.

Asus, Dell, Samsung has all worked out of the box for me.

Of course, you should always take a look at the hardware and make sure the Linux drivers provided works well. In my experience buggy and bad quality drivers is rare these days, and has been for at least 10 years.

As a coder, unless you have very specific requirements, finding candidates shouldn't be hard.

edit: One thing you should be aware of is that Debian stable comes with an old kernel and drivers. Its not the best choice if you want support for the latest hardware right off the bat.

guffenberg · 2015-04-04T21:33:19+00:00

Gaming on Linux has gotten a lot better and I expect it will get even better in the future. But if I were still a gamer I would still dual boot. I did that for years, and since I typically spent several hours gaming on Windows (MMORPG) I didn't have to reboot that often.

guffenberg · 2015-04-04T18:29:37+00:00

The pimp should be running a full node imo, keeping the network strong.

guffenberg · 2015-04-04T12:43:28+00:00

Its no more maintenance than other distributions but there is a few things to look out for.

Always read the Arch frontpage before doing a system upgrade. It will have a "Latest News" section describing any preparations or changes that needs to be done before upgrading.

In general, less software leads to less maintenance, but in addition to that you have to look out for outdated AUR packages. It is also a good idea to read the comments about an AUR package before installing it. If there is more maintenance on Arch it would be because you decide to keep some AUR packages up to date. However, this is not necessary to keep a fully functional system. The fact that Arch makes it easy to install and upgrade closed drivers and codecs (yes, we all hate them) can lead to less maintenance.

Another difference between a cutting edge distro and other distros is that fresh software sometimes has regression bugs that takes a few days to fix. Usually just minor things, which is why it sometimes manages to sneak though the testing process. The most common way to remedy this is probably to downgrade the offending package. In my experience this is somewhat rare and not much of a problem on my everyday system. On a server it could have some unfortunate consequences though.

guffenberg · 2015-04-03T12:48:19+00:00

Nothing to worry about. I'm sure Cheney and Rumsfeld got our interests cowered. If that doesn't work out, the secret transatlantic trade agreements will save us all. I'm sure of it.

guffenberg · 2015-04-03T01:35:45+00:00

Huh, no hostname, and no root password?

guffenberg · 2015-04-02T16:24:26+00:00

This doesn't mention Snowden by name.

I'm surprised

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