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Hallo, nachdem ich gelesen hatte, das es in einigen Bundesländern möglich ist, auch per Post den OptOut zu beantragen, hatte ich auch eine kurze eMail an mein Bürgeramt (Frankfurt am Main) gesendet und nachgefragt. Nachfolgend mal die entsprechenden eMails:


An: Buergeramt Zentrale
Betreff: Widerspruch gegen Datenübermittlungen gem. §§ 27, 28a und 29 MeldeG

Mit freundlichen Grüßen


Die darauf folgende Antwort:


Buergeramt Team2 [buergeramt.team2@stadt-frankfurt.de]
Sehr geehrter Herr May,

Telefon: (069) 212 31600
Telefax: (069) 212 43368
E-Mail: manuel.cupok@stadt-frankfurt.de
Internet: www.frankfurt.de


Offensichtlich habe ich mit den Paragrafen (die hatte ich von jemandem aus Bremen oder so kopiert) bei uns in Hessen nicht dieselben sind. Eine kurze Rechere ergab die hier aufgeführten Paragrafen.

Also dann, immer ran an die Tasten und ordentlich OptOuten

To make my system more secure (well, it is a client only and is probably insecure anyway, but…) I wanted to disable the root login via ssh on my machine. To do this, just change the line

#PermitRootLogin yes

to

PermitRootLogin no


Done

For Arch, I needed an xorg.conf, which basically runs on my W500. The W500 has some specialties, in that it has two discinct graphic cards, one Intel and one AMD. I have found an XOrg on Stargazers Blog. Please find the Xorg.conf directly here. Thanks Stargazer.

To make a nice boot-process, I have had to install fbsplash. The install is pretty seemless and easy. To make the whole process really nice, my menu.lst is configured as follows:


title Arch Linux (boot logo)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz26 root=/dev/disk/by-uuid/577947c2-06ad-4bce-825f-a882228f724d ro quiet console=tty1 vga=795 splash=silent,theme:arch-black,fadein,fadeout
initrd /kernel26.img


Note, that I did not write a logo.nologo into the kernel-line, like suggested in the Arch Wiki.

For this, I installed beforehand the themes from the package fbsplash-theme-arch-black. To make the whole process more streamlined, I also edited the /etc/conf.d/fbsplash file:


SPLASH_STAY_SILENT="yes"


I am currently in the process of Arch-iefing my Gnome Desktop. Therefor I wanted to exchange the standard Gnome Foot Icon on the Main Menu through the Arch logo. This is not really easy, and could just be done using the following process:

Run all of the following commands as root

cd /usr/share/icons/gnome/24x24/places


Make a backup of the original logo

mv start-here.png start-here-old.png


And finally copy an image (for example this one) to the above mentioned location:

mv NEW_ICON start-here.png

At last, kill the panel process, so that the Gnome panels are refreshing:

pkill gnome-panel


All of the above is taken from the Arch Forum, furthermore there is a detailed explanation on the Gnome Tips as well.

Another problem is the background image of the Lock Screen. This can be, like written on the ARCH Wiki (DE), changed only by replacing another image. I did the same like written in this Wiki entry, now my Desktop is Archified.

Hope this helps others as well. If so, do not hesitate, to contact me on Twitter as well (Twitter Triplem74).

I wanted to make my laptop truely archified. Therefor I installed first of all the murrine engine for GTK and, to have some themes available the corresponding theme collection:


pacman -S gtk-engine-murrine
pacman -S murrine-themes-collection


After this, I downloaded the splashscreen from gnome-look.org (I later recognized, that this is not really needed anymore, since the splash ist just shown a very very short time). On the same page the GDM Greeter is already referred, and I downloaded it as well.

To install the splashscreen, I furthermore downloaded the package gnome-splashscreen-manager from the AUR via yogurt. I just downloaded it, and recognized that some errors seem to be in the PKGBUILD-file, therefor I then removed the last “}” from PKGBUILD and then did a makepkg -s in the same directory to make the package. Finally I installed it via pacman -U gnome-splashscreen-manager and could then install the previously downloaded splashscreen.

The GDM Greeter is easily installed via “System -> Administration -> Login Window”, where the whole package can be referenced.

For the wallpaper, I have right now installed the package archlinux-wallpaper and choose one of those. I have to admit, that I think these backgrounds are a little bit too dark for myself.

Now my system is “archified” and I can show, that I own an Arch Linux system.

Since I am a long time Gnome user (well, I have used Ubuntu for almost 5 years), I thought, if I am going to install a new distro (Arch Linux in this case) I switch my Desktop Environment as well. Therefor I installed KDE.

Let me tell you, that I was not really happy with this decision, and that’s why I have chosen to de-install KDE (version 4.3) and install GNOME 2.6. I followed the instructions for de-installing on the ArchLinux Wiki (DE) and everything went smooth. Afterwards, I installed Gnome using once again the ArchLinux Wiki (DE) as a guide.

After re-starting my system, the GDM came up, but after logging in, I got an error message, telling me that the “System has no xclients file. starting up in xterm……”. Also I did not receive a nice Gnome Desktop, but only a small shell in the upper left corner. I found this page in the Arch Linux Forum, where somebody claimed that another user could login. Therefor I looked into my own homedirectory and found several X-related subdirectories (starting with a “.”, meaning to see them you have to do a ls -al). I deleted all KDE and X related stuff and all directories, where I was pretty unsure for what reason they were created. After this, Gnome was running smoothly.

One more thing to add, do not start GDM via rc.conf (DEAMONS=) and via inittab. I put GDM inside both configuration files and GDM started, but showed an error, that another X-Server tried to start as well. After removing GDM from rc.conf, everything was fine.

I am writing this post now under Gnome using Firefox

The next step is now to install a nice Theme (ARCH specific) and probably even a bootsplash.

I have now successfully installed Arch Linux on my Thinkpad W500. Sound was a problem. I do have the following Soundcard in the Laptop:


[root@athene modprobe.d]# cat /proc/asound/card0/codec#* | grep Codec
Codec: Conexant CX20561 (Hermosa)
Codec: Conexant ID 2c06


To get this up and running I edited the file /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-sound.conf (keep in mind, that there is probably already a file 50-alsa.conf or something like that, which is can be configured in the described way as well, I just renamed this file) with the following entries:


options snd_slots=snd-hda-intel
options snd-hda-intel model=laptop
alias snd-card-0 snd-hda-intel
alias sound-slot-0 snd-hda-intel


and added my user to the group audio using the following command:

gpasswd -a USERNAME audio


You can then test your audio device with the following command:


aplay /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav


The following link (in german) was really useful for me: http://wiki.archlinux.de/title/Alsa

Be aware, that you will find the Soundcard in the following list with the model name Conexant 5051

http://free-electrons.com/kerneldoc/latest/sound/alsa/HD-Audio-Models.txt

Hello, I do have quite some experiences with Linux Distos (in the last couple of years mainly Ubuntu). Now I have shifted to ARCH. I am going to write more about this choice in the future. Right now I would like to explain, how to get packages (in my case networkmanager-plasmoid-svn) from the AUR to my machine:

1) download a AUR-Helper, I am using yogurt (download the code on the bottom of the page.
2) Yogurt needs a pacman -S sudo upfront, because otherwise it is not working correctly
3) as root call visudo and add your user with the following line to the sudoers-file username ALL=(ALL) ALL
4) change the line sudo makepkg -s -i || error "Makepkg was unable to create or install the package." to makepkg -s -i || error "Makepkg was unable to create or install the package."

After this “installation” you can now install a new package using yogurt.sh (e.g. ./yogurt.sh networkmanager-plasmoid-svn). If the script asks you for a password, provide you own password.

Servus an alle Leser.

Dies ist mein erster Eintrag, den ich von meinem iPhone schreibe. Weiterhin ist es auch einer der wenigen, die auf deutsch sind und wahrscheinlich auch der einzige der von anderen gelesen wird. Warum? Dieser Eintrag ist Teil einer Aktion von Tim Pritlove (vom CCC). Wir versuchen Ihn mit einer Blog-Kette zu bestechen, neue Beiträge seines CRE früher als normal zu veröffentlichen. Drückt die Daumen, das es klappt und macht mit.

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