Merry Christmas

Posted December 25th, 2008 in General by Michael

Seasons greetings, happy holidays, etc

As for me:

My brother had gotten Rockband 2 (Wii) Special Edition, with instruments, and is enjoying it very much.

Speed up downloads in Pacman

Posted December 21st, 2008 in Linux by Michael

While idling in #archlinux on freenode, I came across this neat little trick to speed up downloads in pacman.

First install the package axel:

pacman -Sy axel

Then, edit /etc/pacman.conf:

XferCommand = /usr/bin/axel –output=%o %u

The next time you update/download a new package, Pacman will now use axel to download the necessary files.  Axel will try and make multiple connections thereby taking less time overall to download.

KDE 4.2 (4.1.85) on Archlinux

Posted December 20th, 2008 in Linux by Michael

To install simply add the following two lines above [core] in /etc/pacman.conf

[kde-unstable]
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

then

pacman -Sy kde

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