Is KDE4 usable on FreeBSD?

2008-11-01 Thread Yuri
I tried using it but Desktop view window that was initially created when I first launched kde4 doesn't appear with the second launch. I believe KDE4 isn't ready yet. Anyone can use it without major annoyances? Yuri ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: why does firefox not display icons?

2008-11-01 Thread Gary Kline
On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 10:19:36PM +0100, Polytropon wrote: On Fri, 31 Oct 2008 13:23:57 -0700, Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey guys, in trying to get firefox to work with flash-9, i must have done Something so that now, ff no longer displays, say, the google icons. there is

Re: Is KDE4 usable on FreeBSD?

2008-11-01 Thread Gary Kline
On Sat, Nov 01, 2008 at 12:12:25AM -0700, Yuri wrote: I tried using it but Desktop view window that was initially created when I first launched kde4 doesn't appear with the second launch. I believe KDE4 isn't ready yet. Anyone can use it without major annoyances? Yuri Well, I

Re: fail with wireless network configuration with SIOCS80211: Invalid argument

2008-11-01 Thread Zhang Weiwu
Paul B. Mahol wrote: send output of: # ifconfig -v wi0 Hi. Thanks for trying to help. I fixed the problem myself (and demonstrated I couldn't do a prudent thinking). The mistake is trying to use shared key in an open-systems wireless network. I managed to get it right by having authomode

Re: Funny slogans to put on tshirts

2008-11-01 Thread en0f
Chad Perrin wrote: On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 08:44:57PM +1030, en0f wrote: Redd Vinylene wrote: Hello guys, It's my friend's birthday tomorrow. I was thinking I'd make him a tshirt with some funny slogan on it or something. Preferably something UNIX related. But I'm all outta ideas. Perhaps

Re: pyhton apache

2008-11-01 Thread tethys ocean
On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 11:28 PM, Michael Powell [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: tethys ocean wrote: Hi all I have a problem, a freebsd box that is apache22 and python25-2.5.2_3, mod_python-3.3.1_2 after upgrading phyton web site has stoped with this error Internal Server Error [snip]

Re: Is KDE4 usable on FreeBSD?

2008-11-01 Thread Lokadamus
Yuri wrote: I tried using it but Desktop view window that was initially created when I first launched kde4 doesn't appear with the second launch. I believe KDE4 isn't ready yet. Anyone can use it without major annoyances? Yuri ___

Re: Is KDE4 usable on FreeBSD?

2008-11-01 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I tried using it but Desktop view window that was initially created when I first launched kde4 doesn't appear with the second launch. I believe KDE4 isn't ready yet. Anyone can use it without major annoyances? the question should be Is KDE usable at all on any OS? the answer is no, it's

Re: Is KDE4 usable on FreeBSD?

2008-11-01 Thread mdh
--- On Sat, 11/1/08, Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Is KDE4 usable on FreeBSD? To: Yuri [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Saturday, November 1, 2008, 11:34 AM I tried using it but Desktop view window that

Re: Is KDE4 usable on FreeBSD?

2008-11-01 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Saturday, November 01, 2008 a las 04:34:38PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar escribió: I tried using it but Desktop view window that was initially created when I first launched kde4 doesn't appear with the second launch. I believe KDE4 isn't ready yet. Anyone can use it without major

Re: port versions query

2008-11-01 Thread APseudoUtopia
On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 7:50 PM, Jim Pazarena [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried the 5.1 mysql port, and found that it was a 5.1.26-rc ... RC so I rolled back to 5.0.67 Is there a way to tell in general what version is 'current' for FreeBSD 7? How could I query any given port in general and

Re: Is KDE4 usable on FreeBSD?

2008-11-01 Thread Wojciech Puchar
it's SLOW and resource hungry - giving nothing else than a good look. that's why i compare it to windoze. and why you need desktop (whatever it means) at all? just window manager is enough, try fvwm2 maybe icewm maybe other etc. all of them does exactly what's needed. windows management and

Re: Is KDE4 usable on FreeBSD?

2008-11-01 Thread Glyn Millington
Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: it's SLOW and resource hungry - giving nothing else than a good look. that's why i compare it to windoze. and why you need desktop (whatever it means) at all? just window manager is enough, try fvwm2 maybe icewm maybe other etc. all of them does

Re: Is KDE4 usable on FreeBSD?

2008-11-01 Thread prad
On Sat, 01 Nov 2008 16:57:17 + Glyn Millington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (Lear to his daughters Goneril and Regan, King Lear, Act 2, Scene 4, lines 263-285) glyn, it is evident from lines 283-285 that lear used windoze. -- In friendship, prad ...

Re: Is KDE4 usable on FreeBSD?

2008-11-01 Thread Yuri
Wojciech Puchar wrote: it's SLOW and resource hungry - giving nothing else than a good look. that's why i compare it to windoze. and why you need desktop (whatever it means) at all? You need desktop for Unix (Linux) to be adopted by simple users. Also GUI makes life much easier even for

Re: Is KDE4 usable on FreeBSD?

2008-11-01 Thread Wojciech Puchar
and why you need desktop (whatever it means) at all? You need desktop for Unix (Linux) to be adopted by simple users. why you want unix be adopted by simple users? they already have windows - perfect for them, and exactly what they deserve Also GUI makes life much easier even for

Re: about vi editor and turkish char

2008-11-01 Thread Yavuz Maslak
Hello, Where do I have to specify LANG ... expression to support any language in VI ? Ok. I have no problem in many editors about that but I wish to learn for vi . El día Friday, October 31, 2008 a las 06:31:02PM +0200, Yavuz Maslak escribió: Hello I use Freebsd7.0. I am not

A netgraph question.

2008-11-01 Thread Joe Pellegrino
I was wondering if this was the correct list to ask a few questions related to netgraph. If not could someone point me to the right one? ---jdp ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Is KDE4 usable on FreeBSD?

2008-11-01 Thread Rolf G Nielsen
Yuri wrote: Wojciech Puchar wrote: it's SLOW and resource hungry - giving nothing else than a good look. that's why i compare it to windoze. and why you need desktop (whatever it means) at all? You need desktop for Unix (Linux) to be adopted by simple users. Also GUI makes life much

Re: Is KDE4 usable on FreeBSD?

2008-11-01 Thread mdh
--- On Sat, 11/1/08, Rolf G Nielsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Rolf G Nielsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Is KDE4 usable on FreeBSD? To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Saturday, November 1, 2008, 3:27 PM Yuri wrote: Wojciech Puchar wrote: it's SLOW

Re: gmirror slice insertion, FAILURE - READ_DMA status=51READY, DSC, ERROR

2008-11-01 Thread CyberLeo Kitsana
Thomas Sparrevohn wrote: The error occured after I had the disk for a couple of days - WHat puzzled me was that the drive did not do it automatically Hard disks will not map uncorrectable bad sectors on read automatically, as it no longer knows what the contents of that sector should be. In

A netgraph question.

2008-11-01 Thread Joe Pellegrino
OK so here it goes. I actually have two seperate questions involving netgraph, I am new to this subject so please bare with me. If there is a better way to achieve these goals too, please suggest them but I think netgraph is the way to go. The first part involves allowing a userland program

FreeBSD on Eeepc 1000h

2008-11-01 Thread Sven Aluoor
Hi folks I tried netinstall of stable and current. Both versions of the installer dont have driver for my NIC. How to get ethernet working? lscpi on Debian Lenny: 03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Attansic Technology Corp. L1 Gigabit Ethernet Adapter (rev b0) kind regards Sven

Re: Funny slogans to put on tshirts

2008-11-01 Thread Eitan Adler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Redd Vinylene wrote: Hello guys, It's my friend's birthday tomorrow. I was thinking I'd make him a tshirt with some funny slogan on it or something. Preferably something UNIX related. But I'm all outta ideas. Perhaps y'all can help? Alright,

Re: A netgraph question.

2008-11-01 Thread Bryant Eadon
Joe Pellegrino wrote: OK so here it goes. I actually have two seperate questions involving netgraph, I am new to this subject so please bare with me. If there is a better way to achieve these goals too, please suggest them but I think netgraph is the way to go. The first part involves

Re: A netgraph question.

2008-11-01 Thread Bryant Eadon
Bryant Eadon wrote: Joe Pellegrino wrote: OK so here it goes. I actually have two seperate questions involving netgraph, I am new to this subject so please bare with me. If there is a better way to achieve these goals too, please suggest them but I think netgraph is the way to go. The

Error trying to fetch kdelibs-4.1.3.tar.bz2

2008-11-01 Thread Warren Liddell
Does anyone have s ite where i can manually d/l kdelibs-4.1.3.tar.bz2 as all the addies in the freebsd ports list for the file arent working for myself. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: FreeBSD on Eeepc 1000h

2008-11-01 Thread mdh
--- On Sat, 11/1/08, Sven Aluoor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Sven Aluoor [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: FreeBSD on Eeepc 1000h To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Saturday, November 1, 2008, 6:43 PM Hi folks I tried netinstall of stable and current. Both versions of the installer dont

Re: Is KDE4 usable on FreeBSD?

2008-11-01 Thread Al Plant
Yuri wrote: Wojciech Puchar wrote: it's SLOW and resource hungry - giving nothing else than a good look. that's why i compare it to windoze. and why you need desktop (whatever it means) at all? You need desktop for Unix (Linux) to be adopted by simple users. Also GUI makes life much

Re: FreeBSD on Eeepc 1000h

2008-11-01 Thread Boris Samorodov
Sven Aluoor [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I tried netinstall of stable and current. Both versions of the installer dont have driver for my NIC. How to get ethernet working? lscpi on Debian Lenny: 03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Attansic Technology Corp. L1 Gigabit Ethernet Adapter (rev b0)

Re: Is KDE4 usable on FreeBSD?

2008-11-01 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 01 Nov 2008 13:36:30 -1000, Al Plant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Aloha, Try XFCE 3 or 4 for an excellent OS window manager. XFCE 3 can be turned into a CDE lookalike if it's desired. It's very lightweight and still features all the nice things you know from a UNIX X environment. Zsers

The FreeBSD Diary: 2008-10-12 - 2008-11-01

2008-11-01 Thread Dan Langille
The FreeBSD Diary contains a large number of practical examples and how-to guides. This message is posted weekly to freebsd-questions@freebsd.org with the aim of letting people know what's available on the website. Before you post a question here it might be a good idea to first search the

Error trying to fetch kdebase-workspace-4.1.3.tar.bz2

2008-11-01 Thread Warren Liddell
Does anyone have s ite where i can manually d/l kdebase-workspace-4.1.3.tar.bz2 as all the addies in the freebsd ports list for the file arent working for myself. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Mounting Sony Ericsson v630i

2008-11-01 Thread Jille Timmermans
Hello list, First of all: Please keep me in To/Cc; I'm not on the list. I am trying to mount my Sony Ericsson v630i telephone; connected with an USB cable. In short: How can I tell FreeBSD to wait for checking the device till I chose for file-transfer-mode ? Or recheck after I had the chance to

OT: Shell Script using Awk

2008-11-01 Thread David Allen
My apologies for asking on this list, but I'm stuck without Perl and need to use awk to generate a report. I'm working with a large data set spread across multiple files, but to keep things simple, say I have A Very Long String that containing records, each delimited by a single space. I need to

Re: OT: Shell Script using Awk

2008-11-01 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Sat, Nov 01, 2008 at 06:21:55PM -0700, David Allen wrote: My apologies for asking on this list, but I'm stuck without Perl and need to use awk to generate a report. I'm working with a large data set spread across multiple files, but to keep things simple, say I have A Very Long String

Error trying to fetch various KDE 4.1.3 files

2008-11-01 Thread Warren Liddell
Im trying to d/l various packages for KDE4.1.3, but so far none of the mirror sites etc listed seem to have the pakackages for me to build the port, is anyone else having this isue ? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Is KDE4 usable on FreeBSD?

2008-11-01 Thread Yuri
Wojciech Puchar wrote: Also GUI makes life much easier even for advanced users. exactly wrong. it make my life harder. these advanced users you say don't like to read manuals and do once simple config taking few minutes. totally wrong. imagine setting up WiFi network. one mouse click opens

Re: Is KDE4 usable on FreeBSD?

2008-11-01 Thread Bruce Cran
On Sat, 01 Nov 2008 19:43:54 -0700 Yuri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wojciech Puchar wrote: Also GUI makes life much easier even for advanced users. exactly wrong. it make my life harder. these advanced users you say don't like to read manuals and do once simple config taking few minutes.

Re: OT: Shell Script using Awk

2008-11-01 Thread David Allen
On 11/1/08, Jeremy Chadwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Nov 01, 2008 at 06:21:55PM -0700, David Allen wrote: My apologies for asking on this list, but I'm stuck without Perl and need to use awk to generate a report. I'm working with a large data set spread across multiple files, but to

Re: OT: Shell Script using Awk

2008-11-01 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Sat, Nov 01, 2008 at 08:17:54PM -0800, David Allen wrote: On 11/1/08, Jeremy Chadwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Nov 01, 2008 at 06:21:55PM -0700, David Allen wrote: My apologies for asking on this list, but I'm stuck without Perl and need to use awk to generate a report. I'm

Re: OT: Shell Script using Awk

2008-11-01 Thread Gary Newcombe
On Sat, 1 Nov 2008 18:21:55 -0700, David Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My apologies for asking on this list, but I'm stuck without Perl and need to use awk to generate a report. I'm working with a large data set spread across multiple files, but to keep things simple, say I have A Very

Re: Is KDE4 usable on FreeBSD?

2008-11-01 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sat, Nov 01, 2008 at 08:49:09AM -0700, mdh wrote: I rather like KDE4. I don't find that it's like Windows at all, given that Windows is an operating system and KDE4 is a development framework, application suite, and window manager. There're hefty differences there, not the least of

Re: OT: Shell Script using Awk

2008-11-01 Thread Gary Newcombe
On Sat, 1 Nov 2008 20:17:54 -0800, David Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/1/08, Jeremy Chadwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Nov 01, 2008 at 06:21:55PM -0700, David Allen wrote: My apologies for asking on this list, but I'm stuck without Perl and need to use awk to generate a

Re: Is KDE4 usable on FreeBSD?

2008-11-01 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sat, Nov 01, 2008 at 05:04:15PM +0100, Matthias Apitz wrote: El día Saturday, November 01, 2008 a las 04:34:38PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar escribió: the question should be Is KDE usable at all on any OS? the answer is no, it's crappy imitation of windoze. If someone needs windoze

Re: OT: Shell Script using Awk

2008-11-01 Thread Sahil Tandon
David Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My apologies for asking on this list, but I'm stuck without Perl and need to use awk to generate a report. I'm working with a large data set spread across multiple files, but to keep things simple, say I have A Very Long String that containing records,

Re: OT: Shell Script using Awk

2008-11-01 Thread David Allen
On 11/1/08, Gary Newcombe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 1 Nov 2008 18:21:55 -0700, David Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My apologies for asking on this list, but I'm stuck without Perl and need to use awk to generate a report. I'm working with a large data set spread across multiple

Re: OT: Shell Script using Awk

2008-11-01 Thread David Allen
On 11/1/08, Sahil Tandon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My apologies for asking on this list, but I'm stuck without Perl and need to use awk to generate a report. I'm working with a large data set spread across multiple files, but to keep things simple, say I

Re: Is KDE4 usable on FreeBSD?

2008-11-01 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sat, Nov 01, 2008 at 10:43:56AM -0700, Yuri wrote: Wojciech Puchar wrote: it's SLOW and resource hungry - giving nothing else than a good look. that's why i compare it to windoze. and why you need desktop (whatever it means) at all? You need desktop for Unix (Linux) to be adopted

/stand/sysinstall freezed on FreeBSD 7.1 install

2008-11-01 Thread Julian Bolivar
Dear Friends, I try to install FreeBSD 7.1 AMD64 beta 2 in an Intel Core 2 Duo and motherboard MSI 975X Platinum V.2m, but when /stand/sysinstall try to start from the installation CD, the system freezed and don't continue the install process. Anyone know how to solved this problem to