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If you want to use the NM (especially the nm-applet) in Gentoo or ArchLinux, you have to grant the user to access the NM. Therefor you create the following file # cat /etc/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local.d/org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.pkla [nm-applet] Identity=unix-group:plugdev Action=org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.* ResultAny=yes ResultInactive=no ResultActive=yes Thats necessary because polkit-auth was removed from the policykit package. Also you must add the user [...]

Sometimes its necessary/pleasanter to use the Acrobat Reader for some PDF files like forms… Enable the multilib repository # cat /etc/pacman.conf [...] [multilib] Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist [...] # pacman -Sy Install necessary packages # pacman -S lib32-libxml2 lib32-gtk2 lib32-gdk-pixbuf2 Maybe there are some more packages still missing on your system! Download and install Acrobat Reader [...]

I’ve found a very nice tool pv… $ dd if=/dev/sda1 | pv | dd of=backup.img 359MB 0:00:05 [75.3MB/s] [ <=> ]

aka Firefox, DNS lookups and IPv6 (under Arch) Since my laptop is running with Arch, sometimes my Firefox makes me crazy when i’m trying to open a new page because it show a message like Looking up heise.de… for minutes ! After googling a few seconds i’ve found someting that is working for me… Go [...]

If you’re trying to boot the Archlinux 2010.05 CD/DVD/Netinstall and getting the message ERROR: boot device didn’t show up after 30 seconds … try this one to fix the problem $ udevadm trigger $ exit