Re: Alternative windowmanagers

2011-08-05 Thread Alex Stangl
On Fri, Aug 05, 2011 at 12:46:27PM -0700, Chip Camden wrote: xmonad. Minimal, tiled, keyboard-driven but also mouseable, fully customizable via configuration files written in Haskell. Another vote for xmonad. You may be startled at first to come up instantly to an empty screen, but you likely

Re: free sco unix

2011-06-17 Thread Alex Stangl
On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 10:28:51AM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: Registration aids enforcement. Of course, there's always the poor man's copyright registration approach, where the moment you have something you would like to protect by copyright, you can seal it up in an envelope and mail it to

Re: how to generate pi in c

2010-11-05 Thread Alex Stangl
On Fri, Nov 05, 2010 at 05:40:39PM +0100, Arthur Bela wrote: Does anyone has a generate-pi.c source code? Search for pi spigot algorithm. Here is a tiny C program from Jeremy Gibbon's Unbounded Spigot paper (due to Dik Winter and Achim Flammenkamp):

Re: Greybeards (Re: Netbooks BSD)

2010-10-21 Thread Alex Stangl
On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 01:38:44PM +0100, RW wrote: On Wed, 20 Oct 2010 21:10:28 +0100 Arthur Chance free...@qeng-ho.org wrote: 50s) had the experience of programming microcode on a machine by inserting brass slugs for 0s and ferrite slugs for 1s on a pin board. I wonder why it was

Re: Objective-C 2.0 on FreeBSD; garbage collection, anyone?

2010-03-10 Thread Alex Stangl
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 01:00:59AM -0800, Nerius Landys wrote: #import GarbageObj.h int main(int argc, const char *argv[]) { while (YES) { GarbageObj *obj = [[GarbageObj alloc] init]; [obj foo]; // foo is does literally nothing. } return 0; } I am compiling this program

Re: binary upgrade 6.1 - 7.2/8.0

2009-12-05 Thread Alex Stangl
On Sat, Dec 05, 2009 at 03:04:35AM +0100, Alex de Kruijff wrote: On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 02:01:04PM +, Robin Becker wrote: Is it feasible to upgrade a system from 6.1 to 7.2 or 8.0-RC1 and if yes what sequence of upgrades should I actually carry out ie is it feasible to do 6.1-6.2 and

Re: upgrading installed ports: time to do it ?

2009-06-21 Thread Alex Stangl
On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 09:07:51PM +0100, Chris Rees wrote: 2009/6/21 danny mesli...@yahoo.fr: I frequently update the contents of the ports tree but I have never upgraded any port. I am studying the way to do it, by following the handbook and an article on The FreeBSD Diary about the use

Re: freebsd toaster

2009-06-17 Thread Alex Stangl
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 11:17:32AM +0100, Chris Rees wrote: Just curiosity, what's wrong with source upgrading? Isn't it miles easier than reinstalling? Probably nothing. I haven't done it before, so there's the usual apprehension dealing with the unknown. I originally thought that since I just

Re: freebsd toaster

2009-06-16 Thread Alex Stangl
On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 07:04:47PM -0700, SA wrote: This article by Colin Percival http://www.daemonology.net/freebsd-update/binup.html discusses using freebsd-update as a toaster for updating an entire FreeBSD based distribution, instead of just the base system like freebsd-update normally

Problem w/ 6.0 - 7.2 update

2009-06-06 Thread Alex Stangl
, including the script output, if you like. It seems more efficient to ask you rather than to continue digging deeper deeper in the shell script and all its accompanying patch files, etc. Thanks, Alex Stangl ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http