how to blacklist an unwanted module

Mostly in connection to a wireless card it is necessary to block some modules in the kernel to overcome kernel panic:

Note: Some people experienced random kernel panic with the new 2.6.37 because they forgot to blacklist some modules that normally had to be disabled for their Broadcom wireless card. See the wiki.
The thing is many wireless drivers are included with this new kernel so your wireless card will most likely work right away but you still have to be careful (at least for Broadcom users). If you get a kernel panic and your wireless card gets disabled, your system
might freeze with a black screen everytime until you enable your wireless card again through windoze or something else). If you used to install broadcom-wl for your wifi card, you should still install it (to be sure your wifi card works perfectly and to have a blue LED rather than a RED one)
It occured to me so I know

Blacklist the unwanted module on the MODULES= line by prefixing it with a bang (!) in /etc/rc.conf.
example:
MODULES=(!ath5k !rt2860sta forcedeth snd_intel8x0 ... ...)

install Archbang on USB drive from windows

You of course can do using a live CD
If you want to install from usb, don't use unetbootin but run the following command "sudo dd if=ArchBang_Symbiosis-2011.01.24-i686.iso of=/dev/YourUsbDevice bs=8M". Type fdisk -l to see your list of devices (your usb stick is probably /dev/sdb)

If you use unetbootin this is a workaround according to a forum member of AB>
When you get the "Wait 30sec for device 'ARCH-20XXXX'" Error or so, try to name the device exactly this way under Windows.
Then unetbootin and every other method should work fine.

The universal USB Installer from Pendrive seems to work out of the box:
http://www.pendrivelinux.com/universal-usb-installer-easy-as-1-2-3/

Arch set the keyboard to german or french

Press ALT+F2 and type: setxkbmap de
or setxkbmap fr


To enable locale
To enable or disable them, the file /etc/locale.gen is used. It contains every locale you can enable, and you have just to uncomment lines you want to do so.

So #pt_BR.UTF-8 UTF-8
becomes pt_BR.UTF-8 UTF-8
Remove the # before the locale.

Obapps openbox window settings per app

OBApps is a graphical tool for configuring the per-application settings (window matching) in the Openbox window manager.

More info: http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/obapps/index.php?title=Main_Page

Aur: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=37166

fun type weblinks

type shooter: http://www.phoboslab.org/ztype/ thanks to awebb on the crunchbang forum

Hunspell solves spell checker problems in LibreOffice

Had problems with spell-checking in LibreOffice.
Installing hunspell and hunspell-en and hunspell-nl (Dutch language pack solved this for me.
sudo pacman -S hunspell hunspell-en hunspell-nl

Ratpoison some essential info

Ratpoison kills your mouse; that aspect of it I really like.
But it is difficult to get used to it and even to get it working:
This review explains it very clearly:
http://www.techradar.com/news/computing/pc/how-to-save-your-linux-screen-space-923730?artc_pg=2

More info

Found this review about the basics of Ratpoison: http://www.linuxgoodies.com/review_rat.html
Wiki: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ratpoison
Site: http://www.nongnu.org/ratpoison/

What is interesting is to me that is is a mouseless window manager.
What I don't like about it is, that it is a tiling wm.
I like to see one application at a time.