higher education scholarships for open source or BSD?

2015-03-20 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
Anyone heard of any university/college scholarships for studies or community involvement related to open source or BSD? I only found one: http://opensourcescholars.org/ but date seems to be a couple years old. It is about: This is a scholarship to motivate young adults to become involved in

looking for NetBSD 0.8 and FreeBSD 1.0

2013-05-07 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
I know that these versions, and even some history, were removed. But does anyone still have a personal copy (such as tar of binaries or source or cvs history) of NetBSD 0.8 or FreeBSD 1.0 that they can provide to me? Thank you. (Part of my continued book research of BSD history.)

Re: including generated documentation with source

2013-02-22 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
On Tue, 12 Feb 2013, Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav wrote: Jeremy C. Reed r...@reedmedia.net writes: I help maintain documentation (man pages, guides in html, pdf, and plain text, and api/developer docs in html). The original source of the docs is in docbook or doxygen. I'd prefer not to include

including generated documentation with source

2013-02-11 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
I help maintain documentation (man pages, guides in html, pdf, and plain text, and api/developer docs in html). The original source of the docs is in docbook or doxygen. I'd prefer not to include the generated docs in the source tree (git repo) because slight differences in the documentation

Re: Unified BSD?

2012-11-13 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
On Tue, 13 Nov 2012, Julian H. Stacey wrote: Johnny Billquist wrote: And what about 2BSD, BSD 3 and BSD 4 with all their releases? (And I assume that there was probably something that in retrospect would have been called 1BSD as well...) No they were sequential from same team, not

app store for open source Unix?

2010-04-09 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
(I am not an iphone user. I did have a sidekick 2 which had a small store to browse and install software applications with. And I have a Nokia phone. But I installed third-party software manually by searching for software via google.) My nine-year-old asks me if I have some software to install

Re: app store for open source Unix?

2010-04-09 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
ports? snip Which fires up a gadget for me to supply additional info to the package being built, and things continue... Now ... that is just way too much time for me. If I want an application, I want to find it and install it within a minute. Jeremy C. Reed echo 'EhZ[h ^jjf0%%h[[Zc[Z_W$d[j

documenting code

2009-10-12 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
What do you use (tools or techniques) for documenting code for design decisions, code examples, history of API/ABI changes, graphical supplements (like design diagrams), etc? I'd like to generate both webpages that have full details plus manpages that have the synopsis, descriptions, return

Re: Bourne shell short-circuit operators improperly documented

2009-07-17 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
The only problem to me is that it says AND-OR since they are not C-style logical operators. It should just say conditional execution. ___ freebsd-chat@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-chat To unsubscribe, send

PGP chain of trust tools

2009-02-20 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
) if the sender's signature is within 2 or 3 hops from recipient. Or scoring the mail up based on the lowest hops. Anyone know of anything like this? Any research? How far can this scale? (I now see a spamassassin plugin but doesn't score based on hops away.) Jeremy C. Reed

licensing issues with print compilation containing various licenses

2008-09-15 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
I am looking for URLs discussing including GPL and other licenses in print compilations. Or share your advice here... Over 95 of the compilation is BSD licensed but some content is covered under GPL, IBM, and other licenses. All content is clearly separated. For example, the GPL indicates

recommend a open protocol open source voice phone call client?

2008-08-13 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
Looking for an open protocol, open source voice phone client that works without using Linux emulation -- and can work with more than two clients in a conference call situation. And having Windows and MacOS X clients is fine too. But client is not needed as long as the protocol is standard for

bsd.slashdot.org? favorite BSD news site?

2008-06-27 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
Can anyone here help with posting to bsd.slashdot.org? It seems like it rarely published what is submitted. My own experience and others have told me that they have submitted BSD news that is never published there. Also what is your favorite reliable BSD news site? I know of a BSD book review

Re: daemon news and other sites

2008-04-08 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
So call me a little slow... what happened to BSD news? I used to go there to find out what was going on with FreeBSD. If any volunteers want to work on bsdnewsletter.com as an alternative, please let me know. ___ freebsd-chat@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Firefox in Multiple Windowing Systems

2008-02-02 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
On Fri, 1 Feb 2008, Crist J. Clark wrote: Anyway, anyone know of a trick to get Firefox to work in multiple windowing environments at once? Specifically, I have a machine that runs a local Xorg desktop as well as one or more Xvnc instances. I don't know how to have a single instance of

simulate 166 MHz to 266 MHz CPU?

2008-01-19 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
or techniques to do this? Thanks, Jeremy C. Reed ___ freebsd-chat@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-chat To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: start sawfish

2007-12-21 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
On Sat, 22 Dec 2007, Dragon wrote: How to start sawfish? I have edit ~./xinitrc If using startx, you probably want ~/.xinitrc (note the period is front of file name) exec sawfish Jeremy C. Reed ___ freebsd-chat@freebsd.org mailing list http

loader and Could not find Primary Volume Descriptor

2007-11-16 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
? Any suggestions on that? Jeremy C. Reed p.s. I may just try to boot it over the network... but I got to setup my boot server for that. ___ freebsd-chat@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-chat To unsubscribe

Re: viral license free fork of freebsd

2007-10-05 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
OpenBSD sdiff NetBSD, OpenBSD send-pr OpenBSD (sendbug) sortNetBSD, OpenBSD texinfo Get rid of its usage and move to ports only Jeremy C. Reed ___ freebsd-chat@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-chat

comment about LISP book?

2007-09-19 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
. This will be paid. Please email me off-list. Thanks. Jeremy C. Reed ___ freebsd-chat@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-chat To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Penske or Budget?

2007-04-18 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
and friends versus being on a quick timeline driving a rental truck (which may not even perform like you want). We also looked at storage containers like PODS and another similar company but they cost a lot more than ABF and they are a lot smaller. Jeremy C. Reed

beastie logo seen on TV

2007-01-20 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
a graphic of the BSD daemon aka beastie on the display of that software. It was one of a few graphics on the display. My wife and I are pretty sure it had tennis shoes on. Anyone heard of that software? Jeremy C. Reed ___ freebsd-chat@freebsd.org mailing

Re: Security Patches for Port Applications in Releases

2007-01-17 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
Just to let you know, the http://www.pkgsrc.org/ collection mostly works fine on FreeBSD. It provides a quarterly stable branch that only has updates for security fixes and other essential updates. This has been maintained for a few years now. The quarterly stable branch is not scheduled on

Re: Venting my frustration with FreeBSD

2006-12-04 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
... pc98, ppc, sparc64, sun4v, and xbox. I know this is a volunteer project, I know you really can't keep people from tinkering with what they want to tinker with, but xbox? It seems to me to be a waste of resources to concentrate on anything besides i386/AMD64.there's plent of

Re: Fwd: bsdnews.com aka daemonnews.org status?

2006-09-27 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
Coral? http://www.coralcdn.org/ It will work for static news webpages, but coral won't work for logging in or handling forums -- which is one of the main features of bsdnews.com. ___ freebsd-chat@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: linux commands for a hardcore freebsd user

2006-06-21 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
command reference (but BSD only) http://www.bsdcertification.org/downloads/20051027_BSDA_command_reference_en-en.pdf I also have a couple charts I use for my BSD classes (that included Linux comparisons) that I will provide to you off list. Jeremy C. Reed echo ':6DB6=88?;@69876tA=AC8BB5tA6487

spool-less and server-less printing

2006-06-15 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
that foomatic-rip can be used as a stand-alone lpr alternative. It uses PPD files, a render like ghostscript, and is said to work with all known spoolers. Can lprng or cups be used without having a daemon running? (Like for printing directly to an attached parallel port printer.) Jeremy C. Reed

Re: What ever happened to Terasolutions?

2006-04-20 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
On Thu, 20 Apr 2006, Francisco Reyes wrote: I am using FreeBSD/amd64 on CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 2.80GHz (2793.02-MHz K8-class CPU) On a single CPU board or SMP? 4 CPUs Jeremy C. Reed echo ':6DB6=88?;@69876tA=AC8BB5tA6487' | tr '4-F' 'wu rofIn.lkigemca

any BSD user group in Dallas or Fort Worth, Texas?

2005-12-01 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
Does anyone know of any BSD user group in Dallas or Fort Worth, Texas? (I found DFWUUG, but I was told that the public mailing list is for paying members only. And I found a local Linux users group there, but they use a Yahoo mailing list and Yahoo's server sends invalid emails.) Jeremy C

Re: torrents for FreeBSD ISOs?

2005-09-24 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
, but I assume that that is doable.) Jeremy C. Reed http://www.reedmedia.net/ [1] http://sources.zabbadoz.net/freebsd/lor.html ___ freebsd-chat@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-chat To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: torrents for FreeBSD ISOs?

2005-09-24 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
companies/students have tested on their hardware ahead of time. Jeremy C. Reed technical support remote administration http://www.pugetsoundtechnology.com/ ___ freebsd-chat@freebsd.org mailing list http

torrents for FreeBSD ISOs?

2005-09-23 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
Are there any active torrents for FreeBSD ISOs? I used torrent file as found via FreeBSD 5.4 announcement. But for over 30 minutes ctorrent timed out attempting to retrieve it. I had used it with great success and speed in May. Jeremy C. Reed

new project, old license

2005-09-06 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
AS IS AND ANY EXPRESS ... Or should it just include two copies of the copyright and license which are identical other than the project names? Or should it just keep the old project name in the AS IS disclaimer? Jeremy C. Reed Low cost press releases

Re: StarBSD OS and Star OS -- Was: BSDLinux OS

2005-08-20 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
to overwrite a package instead of deleting first for upgrading. http://linux.pugetsoundtechnology.com/faq/ Jeremy C. Reed p.s. The download site is changed. I need to commit some fixes for glibc package. ___ freebsd-chat@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Want a logo competition? Do it properly.

2005-05-06 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
that public complaints are heard more often even though privately the complaints are less (in comparison). (Sort of like the skewed polls in the USA presidential elections.) Jeremy C. Reed open source, Unix, *BSD, Linux training http