Re: FreeBSD 9

2012-01-19 Thread Chad Perrin
to imply? -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr

Re: FreeBSD 9

2012-01-19 Thread Chad Perrin
. . . . or provide the ability to select the old installer at boot time, perhaps. Let's not turn this into a false dilemma; I don't see why we can't have our cake and eat it too for a while. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org

Re: FreeBSD 9

2012-01-19 Thread Chad Perrin
the benefit of the doubt, at least at first. Perhaps the rhetoric can be scaled back a little bit in this case. Has there been some response to your complaints that I have not seen that justifies this level of heat? -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org

Re: dot snap folder

2012-01-15 Thread Chad Perrin
, not a folder. :-) After all, it doesn't fold (for that you need a little Haskell or OCaml). Hmm. That was direct. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: OFF Topic. FreeBSD and Android Development

2012-01-13 Thread Chad Perrin
if this kind of off topic could be of interested to the list so please feel free to answer me directly . I think this is, in fact, on-topic for this list. It is a question particular to FreeBSD, which is the point of the freebsd-questions mailing list, as I understand it. -- Chad Perrin [ original

Re: Browser

2012-01-12 Thread Chad Perrin
not be maintained) for xxxterm, and contributing patches to that effect, when I find time. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: FreeBSD Kernel Internals Documentation

2012-01-04 Thread Chad Perrin
On Wed, Jan 04, 2012 at 12:33:28PM +0100, Walter Alejandro Iglesias wrote: On Tue, Jan 03, 2012 at 09:55:04PM -0700, Chad Perrin wrote: On Tue, Jan 03, 2012 at 02:07:36PM -0800, Chip Camden wrote: Quoth Chad Perrin on Tuesday, 03 January 2012: So . . . please start

Re: FreeBSD Kernel Internals Documentation

2012-01-04 Thread Chad Perrin
not imply Robert Bonomi *wrote* it; rather, it would imply that he *agrees* with its moral justification. If I had to guess, of course, I would think he believes it is morally justified, but that's a wild-ass speculation, and not enough to induce me to expect *him* of all people to justify it. -- Chad

Re: Realtek RTL8191SEvB Linux driver?

2012-01-04 Thread Chad Perrin
ThinkPads (after turning them off and removing the battery, of course) is turn them over to remove screws. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: Browser

2012-01-04 Thread Chad Perrin
listing a bunch of browsers - I like all of these less than any of the browsers I mentioned before this paragraph, for a variety of reasons. I hope that helps, in conjunction with the advice others provide. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org

Re: FreeBSD Kernel Internals Documentation

2012-01-04 Thread Chad Perrin
to have any meaningful discussion with you right now. As pointed out by a bystander, this off-topicness has gone on long enough, and my most friendly overtures have been met only with flames in any case. Have a nice day. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org

Re: FreeBSD Kernel Internals Documentation

2012-01-04 Thread Chad Perrin
On Wed, Jan 04, 2012 at 12:34:52PM -0500, Jerry wrote: On Wed, 4 Jan 2012 09:00:12 -0700 Chad Perrin articulated: You just ignored the salient point of what Robert Bonomi said, in favor of trivialities. If you prefer, pretend he said: HE asked that they explain why it *IS* morally

Re: Browser

2012-01-04 Thread Chad Perrin
as good . . . or did you mean it is, as you wrote it here? -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe

Re: FreeBSD Kernel Internals Documentation

2012-01-04 Thread Chad Perrin
On Wed, Jan 04, 2012 at 04:16:15PM -0500, Jerry wrote: On Wed, 4 Jan 2012 13:13:55 -0700 Chad Perrin articulated: Why the heck did you ask for it, then? Fair enough, because in your post dated: On Sun, 1 Jan 2012 23:55:26 -0700, you make this remark: I think the statement was more like

Re: Browser

2012-01-04 Thread Chad Perrin
On Wed, Jan 04, 2012 at 09:54:46PM +, Peter Harrison wrote: On 4 Jan 2012, at 21:26, Chad Perrin wrote: Did you mean to say The keybinding is *not* quite as good . . . or did you mean it is, as you wrote it here? Perils of typing too fast. Yes, I meant the keybinding

Re: Realtek RTL8191SEvB Linux driver?

2012-01-04 Thread Chad Perrin
be used to deactivate the hardware whitelisting somewhere out there on the Internet, as there is for ThinkPads. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: FreeBSD Kernel Internals Documentation

2012-01-03 Thread Chad Perrin
On Tue, Jan 03, 2012 at 03:06:11AM +0100, Walter Alejandro Iglesias wrote: On Mon, Jan 02, 2012 at 12:33:20PM -0700, Chad Perrin wrote: Ubuntu, actually, has thrown out the baby with the bathwater. In its zeal to make things just work in a particular manner, it seems hell-bent on ignoring

Re: FreeBSD Kernel Internals Documentation

2012-01-03 Thread Chad Perrin
you wish to convey. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions

Re: FreeBSD Kernel Internals Documentation

2012-01-03 Thread Chad Perrin
On Tue, Jan 03, 2012 at 02:07:36PM -0800, Chip Camden wrote: Quoth Chad Perrin on Tuesday, 03 January 2012: So . . . please start with the denotative meanings of words, consider your audience, and use words accordingly. If you wish to use a term differently than how it is understood

Re: FreeBSD Kernel Internals Documentation

2012-01-02 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sun, Jan 01, 2012 at 11:55:26PM -0700, Chad Perrin wrote: On Sun, Jan 01, 2012 at 09:14:20AM -0500, Jerry wrote: On Sun, 01 Jan 2012 22:56:45 +1000 Da Rock articulated: If you want to verify, then by all means parouse this list and others (even in the linux community) over the past

Re: FreeBSD Kernel Internals Documentation

2012-01-02 Thread Chad Perrin
On Mon, Jan 02, 2012 at 08:31:14AM -0500, Jerry wrote: On Sun, 1 Jan 2012 23:55:26 -0700 Chad Perrin articulated: On Sun, Jan 01, 2012 at 09:14:20AM -0500, Jerry wrote: On Sun, 01 Jan 2012 22:56:45 +1000 Da Rock articulated: If you want to verify, then by all means parouse this list

Re: FreeBSD Kernel Internals Documentation

2012-01-01 Thread Chad Perrin
source software in general, which makes me wonder why you hang around this mailing list. If I hated something that much, I would avoid it. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: very small workgroup network

2011-12-29 Thread Chad Perrin
reading the article, so that it will make more sense as presented on that page. For all I know, the way TR's stylesheets handle code formatting might all change again tomorrow, and make things even worse. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org

Re: Revision control advice

2011-12-22 Thread Chad Perrin
On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 09:23:22AM +1030, William Brown wrote: On 22/12/2011, at 20:06, Matthew Seaman wrote: svn vs git vs mercurial svn has the model of a central repository that everything has to communicate with. This can be attractive in a commercial environment as it implies

Re: OT: C|Net's Download.com adware, spyware, malware hijinkx.

2011-12-11 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 05:32:00AM -0600, Ryan Coleman wrote: On Dec 10, 2011, at 12:30 AM, Polytropon wrote: On Fri, 9 Dec 2011 13:05:05 -0600, Ryan Coleman wrote: So, wait, Firefox is Malware? Did you notice that with FF4 they changed it so that you didn't get prompted on launch it

Re: [OT] but concerns all of us [put down your coffee before reading]

2011-11-17 Thread Chad Perrin
, right? I think it means he found the wordplay humorous. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpKEdVUpxyCN.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [OT] but concerns all of us

2011-11-17 Thread Chad Perrin
of terminology, the more they are emboldened; I think it was the RIAA representative at the SOPA hearing yesterday who literally equated copyright infringement with *murder*. Don't be like that jackass. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpdSVKcNj1hd.pgp Description

Re: [OT] but concerns all of us

2011-11-17 Thread Chad Perrin
On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 12:56:06PM -0500, Jerry wrote: On Thu, 17 Nov 2011 10:17:50 -0700 Chad Perrin articulated: Copyright infringement is copyright infringement -- and not theft -- no matter how hyperbolic your choice of phrasing. Castigate people for the unlawful act of copyright

Re: [OT] but concerns all of us

2011-11-17 Thread Chad Perrin
On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 12:41:51PM -0700, Chad Perrin wrote: Oh, of course -- pirated, like the hundreds of CDs and audiocasettes and DVDs I have, though I've stopped consuming new music in any form from corporations that sue their own customers. clarification: Those are hundreds of CDs

Re: [freebsd-questions] Breakin attempt

2011-10-22 Thread Chad Perrin
shouldn't beat yourself up over it. If you have no specific need to keep SSH on 22, definitely move a public-facing SSH server to a nonstandard port, for reasons unrelated to actual intrusion security. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpwkEgeduOxT.pgp

Re: Breakin attempt

2011-10-22 Thread Chad Perrin
for the reason stated in the prior paragraph. I should have finished reading the thread before sending my own reply on a different branch of the discussion. This is (stated differently) pretty much exactly the message I meant to convey. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http

Re: limit number of ssh connections

2011-09-19 Thread Chad Perrin
of such techniques, rather than security per se. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpZvrddJ0hZg.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Please secure your FTP access

2011-09-16 Thread Chad Perrin
client is a bucket of ass. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpTDbXxn6qIq.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Please secure your FTP access

2011-09-16 Thread Chad Perrin
On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 06:55:05PM -0500, Ryan Coleman wrote: On Sep 16, 2011, at 17:27, Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 02:14:42PM -0400, Daniel Staal wrote: Also many smartphone and tablet mailers automatically top-post, and make it significantly harder

Re: *caution* severely OT!!

2011-09-13 Thread Chad Perrin
. I'm not saying Common Lisp would be a bad choice for translation of a Python program to a language that compiles to a binary executable, but your description of the language does not strike me as accurate. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org

Re: Alternative windowmanagers

2011-09-03 Thread Chad Perrin
be fixed long before they take the drastic step of trying to make up for those problems (rather than fixing them) by throwing away stuff that works. It strikes me as a case of poor decision making similar, in principle, to premature optimization. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http

Re: [OT] pfSense Book Publisher

2011-09-03 Thread Chad Perrin
Guide, which I chose based on the fact it was the first pfSense book on that page. It's not the publisher for any other pfSense books such as the pfSense 2 Cookbook. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpI33JAJmyvI.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: A quality operating system

2011-08-28 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 09:04:28PM -0700, Chip Camden wrote: Quoth Chad Perrin on Saturday, 27 August 2011: I've decided to provide the professional response Evan claims to crave: Dear Evan, We appreciate your feedback on the quality, scope, and focus of our

Re: A quality operating system

2011-08-28 Thread Chad Perrin
assessment of the nature of the survey itself is pretty accurate, though. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpSLOkZJrGZZ.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: A quality operating system

2011-08-27 Thread Chad Perrin
a very folk-wisdom feel to it. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpsxeSZ4OIKD.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: A quality operating system

2011-08-27 Thread Chad Perrin
have any further questions, do not hesitate to use the support form on the Website. Thank you for your business. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpexUTkHQxQ5.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: 9.0-RC1 Release?

2011-08-26 Thread Chad Perrin
more on the quality of what they release. FreeBSD is better about this than many other high-profile projects I could name. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpMlYqkmJJl3.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: to come from Linux to FreeBSD

2011-08-24 Thread Chad Perrin
in there somewhere, perhaps between you'd and want, because there are many people who would not actually like the PC-BSD environment on a laptop (including me). -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpwa0xeRHP4R.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: to come from Linux to FreeBSD

2011-08-24 Thread Chad Perrin
. That will be alright for experimenting FreeBSD and learning. Will I be able to jail a FreeBSD within a PC-BSD host? Yes, you should be able to do so. PC-BSD is basically just FreeBSD with a lot of extra stuff pre-configured. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org

Re: A quality operating system

2011-08-21 Thread Chad Perrin
). -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpn8Fh8rz5P5.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: A quality operating system

2011-08-20 Thread Chad Perrin
of which looks either dead wrong or pretty petty in the face of larger problems with MS Windows and Linux-based systems to which you want to unfavorably compare FreeBSD, is not helpful to anyone. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpwajnCJbB7a.pgp Description

Re: A quality operating system

2011-08-20 Thread Chad Perrin
Windows, Linux-based systems, Solaris, or FreeBSD anyway. You should take the eat your own dogfood approach, and use Mac servers and desktops. I guess you really *are* just trolling. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpxtvfZNj87I.pgp Description: PGP

Re: A quality operating system

2011-08-20 Thread Chad Perrin
many people run production servers on RELEASE, never mind BETA? Mine has been running on STABLE, first 8.1 and then 8.2. Me! Because if it works, don't break it.. Duane Me too. Been running FreeBSD release versions on servers for Duane years. AOLme too/AOL ditto -- Chad Perrin

Re: new to os

2011-08-19 Thread Chad Perrin
On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 10:21:57PM -0500, Lars Eighner wrote: They all have true multiprocessing so you can switch from one command line environment (virtual terminal) to another with a keystroke. Do you mean multitasking here, rather than multiprocessing? -- Chad Perrin [ original content

Re: Alternative windowmanagers

2011-08-11 Thread Chad Perrin
is great. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgp1KeIk2vmXG.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: more information

2011-08-06 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sat, Aug 06, 2011 at 07:25:52AM -0700, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: Do I get a cookie? Only if you visit a web site that uses them, and have them enabled in your browser :) I accept or deny on a site-by-site basis. I wouldn't want to get one

Re: Alternative windowmanagers

2011-08-06 Thread Chad Perrin
On Fri, Aug 05, 2011 at 09:20:08PM -0600, Dmitri Brengauz wrote: On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 7:56 PM, Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: On Fri, Aug 05, 2011 at 07:08:25PM -0400, Rod Person wrote: If you like Fluxbox you might want to try OpenBox. Nah. Stick with Fluxbox. Sorry

Re: Alternative windowmanagers

2011-08-06 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sat, Aug 06, 2011 at 11:49:12PM +0100, Frank Shute wrote: On Sat, Aug 06, 2011 at 08:26:39AM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: Fluxbox supports window tabbing. Last I checked, OpenBox did not. In fact, amongst the 'box window managers, window tabbing is pretty much the killer feature

Re: more information

2011-08-05 Thread Chad Perrin
project. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpQnazHKfuH0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: more information

2011-08-05 Thread Chad Perrin
on others or doing a crappy job for lack of interest in putting in the time and effort to do it right -- is bad laziness, and not the kind of good laziness I just described. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpXqVl83jhBs.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: more information

2011-08-05 Thread Chad Perrin
systems, because a lot of those threats are essentially the result of economic and political circumstances inspiring people to act according to their natures. Voila. By a long and circuitous route, I brought it back to the subject of FreeBSD. Do I get a cookie? -- Chad Perrin [ original

Re: Alternative windowmanagers

2011-08-05 Thread Chad Perrin
, depending on how far down the rabbit hole you want to go. I hope that helps. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpOlrLjuDqy5.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Alternative windowmanagers

2011-08-05 Thread Chad Perrin
. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgp8RH341Z1hC.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Alternative windowmanagers

2011-08-05 Thread Chad Perrin
for me. It's also very fast and easy to configure. Are there any other window manager worth looking? What is your window manager? If you like Fluxbox you might want to try OpenBox. Nah. Stick with Fluxbox. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org

Re: Alternative windowmanagers

2011-08-05 Thread Chad Perrin
On Fri, Aug 05, 2011 at 05:27:05PM -0700, Ivan Frosty wrote: fvwm2 anytime. I suppose that's an option, but it's kinda bloated for my tastes. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgptoyCWFY7xm.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: diagrammatic representation of the directory tree?

2011-07-30 Thread Chad Perrin
-directories What about tree? /usr/ports/sysutils/tree -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpZj8QIEnQLj.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Book recommendations (slightly OT)

2011-07-27 Thread Chad Perrin
language such as Perl or Ruby instead of an interactive shell syntax. More sophisticated shells are fine for interactive use, but should not be relied upon for shell scripting in the vast majority of cases for reasons of portability and consistency. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL

Re: 2020: Will BSD and Linux be relevant anymore?

2011-07-25 Thread Chad Perrin
and servers these days. Some of them are both. None of them are desktops, in that they do not sit at or on a desk with external monitor, keyboard, and pointing device attached, ready to be used as workstations. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org

Re: Android (Re: 2020: Will BSD and Linux be relevant anymore?)

2011-07-25 Thread Chad Perrin
basic tools to which even non-root users are accustomed to having access. Consider cat, for instance. So the problem is not a missing app, it is more of the usual vendor lock stuff. There's that -- but there's also a lot of missing applications. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL

Re: Android (Re: 2020: Will BSD and Linux be relevant anymore?)

2011-07-25 Thread Chad Perrin
On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 07:30:08PM +0200, Dick Hoogendijk wrote: Op 25-7-2011 18:59 schreef Chad Perrin: So the problem is not a missing app, it is more of the usual vendor lock stuff. There's that -- but there's also a lot of missing applications. HTC is removing the root lock protection

Re: Android (Re: 2020: Will BSD and Linux be relevant anymore?)

2011-07-24 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 09:48:46AM +0200, Matthias Apitz wrote: El día Sunday, July 24, 2011 a las 06:41:57AM -0700, per...@pluto.rain.com escribió: Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: If Android actually exposed more of the Linux underpinnings it might be somewhat useful to me

Re: Android (Re: 2020: Will BSD and Linux be relevant anymore?)

2011-07-24 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 06:41:57AM -0700, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: If Android actually exposed more of the Linux underpinnings it might be somewhat useful to me ... There _is_ a development kit. I have no idea what-all is involved in setting

Re: Lennart Poettering: BSD Isn't Relevant Anymore

2011-07-23 Thread Chad Perrin
On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 11:05:40AM -0400, Jerry wrote: On Fri, 22 Jul 2011 06:58:26 -0600 Chad Perrin articulated: In fact, the NetworkManager set of network management tools has in some ways outdone the stupidities of MS Windows network management. Hey, this is stupid, but it's

Re: Lennart Poettering: BSD Isn't Relevant Anymore

2011-07-23 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 11:25:10PM +0100, Bruce Cran wrote: On 23/07/2011 22:58, Chad Perrin wrote: Do you realize that MS Windows has nothing equivalent to rc.conf or /etc/network/interfaces? It does: it's in the registry. HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\Tcpip\Parameters\Interfaces

Re: Lennart Poettering: BSD Isn't Relevant Anymore

2011-07-22 Thread Chad Perrin
some asinine automated network selection line of crap like NetworkManager makes its way into the FreeBSD base system is probably the day I stop using it. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgp01bdbgBl5e.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: 2020: Will BSD and Linux be relevant anymore?

2011-07-22 Thread Chad Perrin
of Stockholm Syndrome. When someone fires up MS Office or OpenOffice.org just to write the equivalent of a post-it note, there is something horribly, desperately wrong with the way people use software. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpQ2wNBy6NVv.pgp

Re: 2020: Will BSD and Linux be relevant anymore?

2011-07-21 Thread Chad Perrin
place.) -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpaDiu003R8G.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: 2020: Will BSD and Linux be relevant anymore?

2011-07-21 Thread Chad Perrin
. As I said, I'm not a kernel hacker. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpMoc83iHAR2.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: virtualbox 4.0

2011-07-21 Thread Chad Perrin
it was 8.2, but I didn't keep careful notes that I can check now. It failed to work. I think I got a doesn't support long mode error, but again I am not 100% certain due to the passage of time and the fact I have not really thought about it in the interim. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL

Re: 2020: Will BSD and Linux be relevant anymore?

2011-07-21 Thread Chad Perrin
, and internal power will make up for the simple fact it's just a damned toy. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpYy2RZart7H.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: 2020: Will BSD and Linux be relevant anymore?

2011-07-21 Thread Chad Perrin
, essentially) would be a good start. I'd take NetBSD or OpenBSD, too. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpvttIGH4ECR.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: 2020: Will BSD and Linux be relevant anymore?

2011-07-21 Thread Chad Perrin
On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 02:06:04PM -0400, Daniel Staal wrote: On Thu, July 21, 2011 1:11 pm, Chad Perrin wrote: If all they want is a toy with a Web browser and an email client, I guess that works for them. I don't know if they really count for purposes of discussing the possible

Re: 2020: Will BSD and Linux be relevant anymore?

2011-07-21 Thread Chad Perrin
On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 07:18:21PM +0100, Bruce Cran wrote: On 21/07/2011 18:00, Chad Perrin wrote: I suspect those drivers are the drivers that have *survived*. I saw hardware suddenly stop working because of driver issues just between SP1 and SP2 of XP -- including, in one case, the hard

Re: Lennart Poettering: BSD Isn't Relevant Anymore

2011-07-20 Thread Chad Perrin
On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 08:55:29AM -0400, Jerry wrote: On Mon, 18 Jul 2011 21:21:31 -0600 Chad Perrin articulated: This is where we find a dividing line between users who want different things. Yes, you turn on your Win7 laptop (or wake it up) in a coffee shop, and it connects

Re: Lennart Poettering: BSD Isn't Relevant Anymore

2011-07-20 Thread Chad Perrin
. I just wanted to point out a little-recognized detail of the benefit of BSD Unix systems over GPLed systems, once you (sorta inadvertently) brought up one of the effects of that difference. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpEN2KjrKINz.pgp Description

Re: Lennart Poettering: BSD Isn't Relevant Anymore

2011-07-18 Thread Chad Perrin
that Linux-based systems are abandoning like rats fleeing a sinking ship. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpeWDDuk3S8s.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Lennart Poettering: BSD Isn't Relevant Anymore

2011-07-18 Thread Chad Perrin
that makes the computer behave in a(n unproductively) non-deterministic manner should stay in the Ubuntu and MS Windows ghettos where it belongs. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgp0xe8KxaChB.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: boting straight into firefox

2011-07-15 Thread Chad Perrin
file, so getting rid of navigational bars should be possible too. Firefox has preferences that can be set to eliminate any unwanted toolbars, though I do not know off the top of my head of a means of making it impossible for a user to change the preferences back. -- Chad Perrin [ original content

Re: boting straight into firefox

2011-07-14 Thread Chad Perrin
one workspace and the browser executed in your .xinitrc file would do the trick. I seem to recall there is a way to turn off access to TTY consoles, too. I wonder, though . . . why Firefox? Would a more minimal (but still GUI) browser -- such as Surf, perhaps -- serve your needs better? -- Chad

Re: Is there a

2011-07-04 Thread Chad Perrin
the BSD sites, don't see any vendor specific drivers. I find what you say you're doing interesting, even if I'm not entirely clear on what it is in all its particulars. Would you please clarify the aim of your efforts? -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org

Re: Any working SIP-phone on FreeBSD?

2011-06-22 Thread Chad Perrin
On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 10:08:59PM -0500, David Scheidt wrote: On Jun 20, 2011, at 10:46 AM, Chad Perrin wrote: . . . and, somehow, social convention tells me it would be rude to let this person know (for next time) that everything will be much easier for everyone if the data is just

Re: Any working SIP-phone on FreeBSD?

2011-06-20 Thread Chad Perrin
On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 01:36:17PM +0200, Polytropon wrote: On Sun, 19 Jun 2011 11:30:46 -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: It's not prejudice. That assumes I prejudge. My judgment is based on years of fighting with the BS features of office suites of all descriptions for years, and loathing

Re: Any working SIP-phone on FreeBSD?

2011-06-20 Thread Chad Perrin
This email actually mentions Skype and SIP phones toward the end. On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 06:29:03PM +0200, Polytropon wrote: On Mon, 20 Jun 2011 09:46:24 -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: I still managed to do everything I needed to do in under twenty minutes, but if the data had been left

Re: Any working SIP-phone on FreeBSD?

2011-06-20 Thread Chad Perrin
On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 07:44:04PM +0200, Polytropon wrote: On Mon, 20 Jun 2011 11:04:28 -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: This means that even LaTeX is usually the wrong choice. LaTeX is for typesetting text (articles, books, technical documents, maybe even letters) - nothing more, nothing less

Re: Any working SIP-phone on FreeBSD?

2011-06-19 Thread Chad Perrin
, technical quality rarely matters when it comes time for the politicians and bureaucrats to make a decision. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpdEs76w3EvC.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: free sco unix

2011-06-19 Thread Chad Perrin
On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 02:25:52AM +0200, Bernt Hansson wrote: 2011-06-17 18:28, Chad Perrin skrev: The fact this is not applicable everywhere is the reason for things like the CC0 waiver, however. What is CC0? http://creativecommons.org/choose/zero/ -- Chad Perrin [ original content

Re: free sco unix

2011-06-17 Thread Chad Perrin
On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 06:14:03AM +0200, Polytropon wrote: On Thu, 16 Jun 2011 21:35:54 -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: I've noticed that your mail user agent is including quoted parties' email addresses in the quote notification. In the text immediately following this brief paragraph

Re: free sco unix

2011-06-17 Thread Chad Perrin
to database protection according to the Swedish # Copyright Act. Holy crap. That's awful. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpRfgEDeXQEd.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: free sco unix

2011-06-17 Thread Chad Perrin
is the reason for things like the CC0 waiver, however. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpFK5VBXJ2eR.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: free sco unix

2011-06-17 Thread Chad Perrin
On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 10:57:20AM -0700, Chuck Swiger wrote: On Jun 17, 2011, at 9:28 AM, Chad Perrin wrote: Where i live no need to register, you get copyright if the stuff fulfills certain criteria, originality is one. Registration aids enforcement. Of course, there's always the poor

Re: free sco unix

2011-06-17 Thread Chad Perrin
On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 11:48:25AM -0700, Chuck Swiger wrote: On Jun 17, 2011, at 10:59 AM, Chad Perrin wrote: The poor man's copyright approach is, I believe, less certain and effective than registration, but if there is a dispute over proper claim of copyright, anything you can do

Re: free sco unix

2011-06-17 Thread Chad Perrin
On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 05:02:09PM -0500, Robert Bonomi wrote: OK, time for somebody who really knows about this stuff to wade in. [snip] Thanks for much more clearly stating, in much greater detail, exactly what I was trying to say -- and for adding a bunch of additional detail. -- Chad

Re: free sco unix

2011-06-16 Thread Chad Perrin
the Open Group's certification standards and (more importantly) have some certification fee paid, as I understand it. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpzHDlCJHbDX.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: free sco unix

2011-06-16 Thread Chad Perrin
-- regardless of what we said about it. The difference is that trademarks are used to identify some entity and its creations, while copyrights are used to censor the redistribution of creations themselves. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpypo8icowY9.pgp

Re: free sco unix

2011-06-16 Thread Chad Perrin
minor roads on them that don't exist. It makes them copyrightable.) This tactic has been used by dictionary publishers as well. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpNBp89puxR8.pgp Description: PGP signature

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