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Manic Miner

Am trying out mining on an old Lenovo M73 Think Centre. Plan is to get it running off grid. I have a 100w solar panel, battery and small inverter which would allow me to run without any energy costs. I have not got the money or the capacity on my inverter to run a hungry Manic Miner

Quick fix if pacman fails to upgrade

If you have a large pacman update that includes archlinux-keyring package, you may find it fails to install. Remain calm it is a simple fix. In a terminal run sudo pacman -S archlinux-keyring This will update keyring first once finished then update as normal: sudo pacman -Syyu You should be good to go. This only Quick fix if pacman fails to upgrade

Be Brave and give some BAT….

Quick update, I have added a small guide to source files over on GitLab. If you interested in building own iso or even creating your own live iso it may give you a head start. Can offer limited support if you wish to build your own live iso, head to Contact page for more details. Be Brave and give some BAT….

Small changes and some news…

Am building a new iso image with some very small changes. Installed Sublime-Text editor and was trying it out by checking code in abinstall. Have been using Vim for quite a few months and had really started to get used to it for basic editing of files. Think with abinstall I have the mind set Small changes and some news…

Install or build iso?

Was looking at other Arch installers that are currently available. Really thought ChrisTitusTech Arch installer would be a good base but I am not that keen on using a network based installer. Archfi is another and that also is a network based installer. Abinstall for now seems to work ok, not sure how long it Install or build iso?

Mini How To UEFI aka Systemd Boot

Was trying to install ArchBang on an old thin client and was not having any luck getting it to boot. Tried to mount ESP partition to /boot, /boot/efi with no luck. To make matters worse I had a kernel update install and that meant system was not booting into correct kernel despite having updated (mkinitcpio Mini How To UEFI aka Systemd Boot

Can anyone spare any coin?

I do not know really that much about cryptocurrency, have often been asked if I can accept it. Do have an account at Coinbase so can create a wallet for a given coin provided they support it. If anyone wants to support ArchBang in this manner then the following is my wallet address for Dogecoin Can anyone spare any coin?

Automounting in ArchBang

Latest iso image includes gvfs package, it allows storage media to be automounted. For example if you plug in a usb drive you can view contents in pcmanfm file manager. Also allows mounting of local drives too. Just be careful that you do not make any changes to host system files (unless you know what Automounting in ArchBang