Re: New user -

2020-03-06 Thread Lars Engels
On Thu, Mar 05, 2020 at 09:36:58PM +, Paul Sutton wrote: > Hi > > I have just switched my netbook to FreeBSD, partly as nethack-vulture > works properly on FreeBSD. I am starting to learn more and more about > the system even in the week I have been using it. I am also trying to > blog about

Re: The FreeBSD Project is enabling Google Analytics on www.freebsd.org

2012-12-10 Thread Lars Engels
On Sun, Dec 09, 2012 at 03:36:17PM +0100, deeptec...@gmail.com wrote: > Glen Barber wrote: > > The FreeBSD Project is enabling Google Analytics on www.freebsd.org. > > Congratulations, by choosing probably the easiest-to-use but > most-threatening-to-users tracking system, you have successfully >

Re: /newbie_forums

2012-12-10 Thread Lars Engels
On Sat, Dec 08, 2012 at 10:30:24PM -0700, Warren Block wrote: > On Sat, 8 Dec 2012, Jason C. Wells wrote: > > > Newbie or not, this question is appropriate to freebsd-questions. Feel > > free > > to send it there. The so-called veteran users will be glad to help. There > > are > > all types r

Re: Unified BSD?

2012-11-13 Thread Lars Engels
On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 11:45:11AM +0100, Ignatios Souvatzis wrote: > On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 10:08:08AM +0100, Joost van de Griek wrote: > > On 12 Nov 2012, at 21:37 , Robin Björklin wrote: > > > > > Am I bat crap crazy for thinking it could be good to merge the four > > > largest BSD variants

Re: FreeBSD monitoring

2012-05-29 Thread Lars Engels
On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 02:41:41PM -0500, Eric Anderson wrote: > Hey All, > > We've been happily using FreeBSD for a while at CopperEgg, and we got > excited about the recent stuff going on in the latest status report > (yay growable filesystems!). > > Then I got to thinking (oh no not that!) -

Re: The old times ...

2011-04-07 Thread Lars Engels
On Thu, Apr 07, 2011 at 02:08:41PM +0200, Oliver Fromme wrote: > Just though that some of you "old" guys (like me) might > enjoy this one, too: > > http://abstrusegoose.com/347 Hey, AOL showed me the internet in 1998! /me hides... pgpjm9ngLFfhi.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: FreeBSD Popularity

2010-02-28 Thread Lars Engels
On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 12:49:23PM -0600, Brandon Falk wrote: > Hello there FreeBSD people, > > Why is it that FreeBSD is so far behind Linux in popularity? The fact > that lots of companies are not very supportive of FreeBSD (ex. NVIDIA > and ATI 64-bit drivers) is really starting to bother me.

Re: LinuxBSDos.com article

2010-02-18 Thread Lars Engels
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 11:24:44AM -0700, Brett Glass wrote: > At 03:06 AM 2/18/2010, Charlie Kester wrote: > > >http://linuxbsdos.com/2010/02/18/pc-bsds-graphical-firewall-manager/ > > > >"PC-BSD is ... the only BSD-based distribution that’s in a position to > >compete with the best Linux deskt

Re: Recommendation

2010-02-04 Thread Lars Engels
On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 02:29:14PM -0500, Chuck Robey wrote: > I've had some great suggestions so far. I think I'll go try amarok first, and > maybe rhythmbox next. You folks are REALLY helpful, thanks!! If you don't mind using java, you can also take a look at atunes. pgp4BzdNtDSxS.pgp Descr

Re: System Scripts

2009-05-25 Thread Lars Engels
Quoting james : are scripts that you make to make your life easier forbidden to share? I've been sharing mine at http://fishy.ath.cx/scripts.html which are just simple scripts to solve problems... I wonder how many times people have written the same scripts because they weren't available. Anywa

Re: do we have support for the Beagle Board?

2009-04-08 Thread Lars Engels
Quoting Chuck Robey : -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I am truly impressed with that new handhelp computer, the Pandora. I read somewhere (I'm trying to find where I saw this) that the Pandora is very compatible with the BeagleBoard. I was just wondering if any of the work be

Re: Questions on FreeBSD today

2008-07-09 Thread Lars Engels
Quoting Rahul Siddharthan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I've been away from FreeBSD for a few years -- I briefly gave 7.0-CURRENT a spin last year, on an old laptop, but didn't stick with it. However, I'll likely be getting a new laptop soon and I'm tired of linux (and especially tired of Ubuntu, which

Re: Stop Adobe Flash Petition

2008-06-26 Thread Lars Engels
Quoting Martin Tournoij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Sign it here: http://www.petitiononline.com/0034655a/petition.html The number of Adobe Flash sites are growing, and an increasing amount of sites will simply cease to function when Flash is disabled or unavailable. I would like to call to all web d

Re: FreeBSD's problems as seen by the BSDForen.de community

2008-01-18 Thread Lars Engels
On Sat, Jan 12, 2008 at 03:34:33PM +0100, Dominic Fandrey wrote: > If you mean by disconnected the people who appear once and ask something that > can be answered by telling them to read a certain chapter in the handbook or > one of the 120 HowTos we have written and collected (I have offered to th