Re: free sco unix

2011-06-16 Thread Chad Perrin
depend on other laws not prohibiting them. Organizations such as Microsoft, however, certainly do work hard to get the courts to accord the same enforceability as contracts to EULAs, but that does not mean they *are* contracts. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org

Re: free sco unix

2011-06-16 Thread Chad Perrin
it in, you are creating a crop of victims for spam email list spiders to reap. On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 05:38:42AM +0200, Polytropon wrote: On Thu, 16 Jun 2011 21:03:16 -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 02:50:40AM +0200, Polytropon wrote: Copyright and ownership of creation just

Re: Long Day's Journey into Bleep

2011-06-10 Thread Chad Perrin
the turn of the century that still works great), after all. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpccg5FzmqT6.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Long Day's Journey into Bleep

2011-06-09 Thread Chad Perrin
On Thu, Jun 09, 2011 at 11:33:04AM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: On Wed, Jun 08, 2011 at 11:34:30PM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: . . . but Cisco switches are overpriced crap. We were disconnecting the Netgear to replace it with a Cisco that offered a lot more functionality, and administration

Re: Long Day's Journey into Bleep

2011-06-09 Thread Chad Perrin
On Thu, Jun 09, 2011 at 10:05:19AM -0700, Chip Camden wrote: Quoth Chad Perrin on Wednesday, 08 June 2011: I think I've just had ports die one by one on a switch until it no longer worked. I don't think I've ever had the whole thing go poof for no evident reason. I have, twice. Both

Re: Long Day's Journey into Bleep

2011-06-09 Thread Chad Perrin
firewalls and routers is a relatively trivial exercise. Switches are another matter entirely. . . . -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpWvDO3L1aNE.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Long Day's Journey into Bleep

2011-06-09 Thread Chad Perrin
is available in FreeBSD articles outside of the Handbook is not a skill I have developed, yet; I did not know this article existed. I'll give it a look. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpYCMNgEmtmt.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Long Day's Journey into Bleep

2011-06-08 Thread Chad Perrin
?! It is solid-state. Yes, the box is within my feet/foot reach. I have accidently kicked it i suppose, but still. I think I've just had ports die one by one on a switch until it no longer worked. I don't think I've ever had the whole thing go poof for no evident reason. -- Chad Perrin

Re: Long Day's Journey into Bleep

2011-06-08 Thread Chad Perrin
On Wed, Jun 08, 2011 at 10:21:13PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: On Thu, Jun 09, 2011 at 12:18:52AM -0400, Jon Radel wrote: On 6/8/11 11:53 PM, Chad Perrin wrote: I think I've just had ports die one by one on a switch until it no longer worked. I don't think I've ever had the whole thing go

Re: No keyboard after ports update, 2x moused_enable=YES culprit

2011-05-17 Thread Chad Perrin
would consider an ideal task for a spreadsheet, I tend to just start practicing my complex data structure skills in Ruby. I guess I'm weird, but I loathe spreadsheets in general. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpBTfKXmAdCy.pgp Description: PGP

Re: No keyboard after ports update, 2x moused_enable=YES culprit

2011-05-16 Thread Chad Perrin
; where the GIMP often takes an interminably long time to do simple things (like open an image), Cinepaint is pretty snappy by comparison. The interface is occasionally a bit glitchy, though. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpB61va1wts8.pgp Description: PGP

Re: Newbie Needing Help

2011-05-09 Thread Chad Perrin
for writing code, but I also use it for writing in English -- professional work on articles, development of traditional (non-computer) RPG systems, fiction, configuration files, notes to myself, and composing emails (including this one). -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http

Re: Newbie Needing Help

2011-05-09 Thread Chad Perrin
. --The Unix's Bride http://www.nancybuttons.com/catalog.cgi?o_custom=o_selected=1469:1action=browseaction_mod=showcat=cro That joke is hilarious. Pedantically speaking, though, it has a small problem: vi is pronounced like vee eye, not like the word vie. -- Chad Perrin [ original

Re: Comparing two lists

2011-05-07 Thread Chad Perrin
the definition of one-liner if I'm using semicolons and escaping newlines. If you really want to cram it all into one line of code, you could do something like replace the semicolons (and newline escapes) with the and keyword in each case. http://pastebin.com/nPR42760 -- Chad Perrin [ original

Re: FreeBSD logon screen

2011-05-07 Thread Chad Perrin
/usr/ports/x11/slock DESC:: Simple screen locker utility for X WWW: http://tools.suckless.org/slock -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpkG386Tugkg.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: FreeBSD logon screen

2011-05-07 Thread Chad Perrin
Your Screen While Away From The Computer http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/security/?p=4504 I hope that helps. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpcByVmNU0R9.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: FreeBSD logon screen

2011-05-07 Thread Chad Perrin
it's intended to do. It blanks out the screen, and you have to enter your password to unlock the screen. It's a very simple screen locking program for X -- no more, and no less. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpx2f4kQwWdE.pgp Description: PGP

Re: For My Edification

2011-05-03 Thread Chad Perrin
of a glue code development tool for .NET developers than a proper command shell. You can abuse it as a command shell if you want to, but in my experience the REPL for the R6RS (Scheme) implementation called Ypsilon serves as a better command shell than PowerShell. -- Chad Perrin [ original content

Re: For My Edification

2011-05-02 Thread Chad Perrin
Unix book as well -- because it, too, is just that good. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpKVSdLAnx94.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Mailing list etiquette (Was: Re: Linksys-E4200 Wireless N-router)

2011-04-08 Thread Chad Perrin
*not* need a bunch of duplicates cluttering up my inbox. I have yet to see anyone complain of not receiving a CC in addition to the mail from the list. I consider not cluttering up the inboxes of people subscribed to the list a good reason to do otherwise. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed

Re: Mailing list etiquette (Was: Re: Linksys-E4200 Wireless N-router)

2011-04-08 Thread Chad Perrin
On Fri, Apr 08, 2011 at 08:30:25PM +0100, Chris Rees wrote: On 8 Apr 2011 20:25, Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: I, for one, am glad this does not happen more often. I really do *not* need a bunch of duplicates cluttering up my inbox. I have yet to see anyone complain

Re: Mailing list etiquette (Was: Re: Linksys-E4200 Wireless N-router)

2011-04-08 Thread Chad Perrin
On Fri, Apr 08, 2011 at 12:34:24PM -0700, Chip Camden wrote: +1 (I replied, cluttering up inboxes all over freebsdland) You didn't CC me directly, though, for which I'm grateful. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpnTlZSkroSX.pgp Description: PGP

Re: Mailing list etiquette (Was: Re: Linksys-E4200 Wireless N-router)

2011-04-08 Thread Chad Perrin
On Fri, Apr 08, 2011 at 11:15:11PM +0200, Erik Trulsson wrote: On Fri, Apr 08, 2011 at 01:11:52PM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: On Fri, Apr 08, 2011 at 06:42:16PM +0100, Arthur Chance wrote: section 8.6 starts: start quote Unless there is a good reason to do otherwise

Re: am i back up....???

2011-04-04 Thread Chad Perrin
I'm not very well versed in the nuances of Webmail software. I just know that receiving emails formatted by code that was apparently written by prairie dogs (judging by how it screws up the formatting) is suboptimal. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org

Re: Port dependencies

2011-04-03 Thread Chad Perrin
with Synaptic doesn't require you to track all the (recursive) dependencies yourself, but uninstalling Evolution can break the whole system because of the insanely inclusive dependency policies for packages. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpfSWO25iwLE.pgp

Re: am i back up....???

2011-04-03 Thread Chad Perrin
- face. In my opinion, this is way better than the POP/no-SMTP thing I'm currently doing. Why Roundcube? From what I've seen, it doesn't handle quote indentation and marking properly. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpMvXYQnFj3L.pgp Description: PGP

Re: am i back up....???

2011-04-03 Thread Chad Perrin
On Mon, Apr 04, 2011 at 01:37:50AM +0200, Polytropon wrote: On Sun, 3 Apr 2011 09:46:26 -0600, Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: On Sun, Apr 03, 2011 at 03:43:59AM +0200, Polytropon wrote: For example, you could install an IMAP interface for mail stored on the server, so you can

Re: am i back up....???

2011-04-03 Thread Chad Perrin
On Mon, Apr 04, 2011 at 02:33:53AM +0200, Polytropon wrote: On Sun, 3 Apr 2011 18:15:48 -0600, Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: I've seen Roundcube do this crap. It does *not* make me happy when trying to skim through emails quickly -- and it can be bad when reading more closely

Re: SSH persistent sessions without screen?

2011-03-31 Thread Chad Perrin
but, in the words of the manpage, it allows you to run a command immune to hangups, with output to a non-tty. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpqFYnnxccRE.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Easiest desktop BSD distro

2011-03-30 Thread Chad Perrin
it would be more accurate to say the car would crash. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpGQUXGi6Omc.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Easiest desktop BSD distro

2011-03-30 Thread Chad Perrin
. It's a trade-off, like anything else in life, I suppose. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpsHJRx4G2tv.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Easiest desktop BSD distro

2011-03-30 Thread Chad Perrin
On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 08:45:23AM -0700, Chip Camden wrote: Quoth Chad Perrin on Wednesday, 30 March 2011: We were speaking in analogies here, where the car *is* the operating system -- so I think if it said 1/0 it would be more accurate to say the car would crash. It's uncertain

Re: Easiest desktop BSD distro

2011-03-30 Thread Chad Perrin
On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 12:57:45AM +0200, Polytropon wrote: On Wed, 30 Mar 2011 13:41:54 -0600, Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 08:45:23AM -0700, Chip Camden wrote: It's uncertain whether the car would crash, or run infinitely. Mathematically

Re: [solved] How to tell whether CPU supports x64?

2011-03-18 Thread Chad Perrin
a reference to LM, but the second system (whose output you quoted) *does*. . . . which to me suggests that the processor is 64 bit, but the original system for some reason does not recognize that fact. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgprUW6rcxFHP.pgp

Re: HAL must die!

2011-03-18 Thread Chad Perrin
who are making yourself look like a fool by trying to assign motivations and rationalizations to others that are patently (pun intended) ridiculous. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpBmtiAQh7c8.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: HAL must die!

2011-03-18 Thread Chad Perrin
application to *force* them to specify *all four* configuration settings, even when three of them are default? Are you further saying you're doing this because you think it's a good idea from a UI standpoint, and not just out of laziness? -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http

Re: HAL must die!

2011-03-17 Thread Chad Perrin
that something needs to be fixed. This is, in short, bad software design. I blame Microsoft, GNU, and Canonical for this trend, mostly. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgp6B2gtKwqVV.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: HAL must die!

2011-03-17 Thread Chad Perrin
dominant. 2. Kill an up-and-coming competitor. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpiYDJfcTJ2B.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: HAL must die!

2011-03-17 Thread Chad Perrin
On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 05:35:57PM -0400, Jerry wrote: On Thu, 17 Mar 2011 13:48:52 -0600 Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com articulated: I blame Microsoft, GNU, and Canonical for this trend, mostly. Chad, I believe I stand on firm ground when I state that you would blame Microsoft

Re: HAL must die!

2011-03-17 Thread Chad Perrin
On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 07:48:58PM -0400, Jerry wrote: On Thu, 17 Mar 2011 16:36:37 -0600 Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com articulated: No, not really. It's more the fault of the hardware manufacturer. Chad, up until this point I had taken your response seriously. In fact, I thought

Re: How to tell whether CPU supports x64?

2011-03-17 Thread Chad Perrin
-64 (Itanium), IBM POWER, and SPARC 64 bit processors use the same Long Mode functionality? -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgp7cWm0uOJwT.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: HAL must die!

2011-03-17 Thread Chad Perrin
supported (which they probably have on at least Windows, if not Linux as well) is just blaming him for not being able to read your mind about hardware you have in hand. Thanks. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpjsth1GU282.pgp Description: PGP

Re: How to tell whether CPU supports x64?

2011-03-17 Thread Chad Perrin
On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 07:54:13PM -0500, Adam Vande More wrote: On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 7:30 PM, Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: . . . or maybe it is a 64 bit CPU that is not x86_64/amd64 compatible. Do IA-64 (Itanium), IBM POWER, and SPARC 64 bit processors use the same Long Mode

Re: HAL must die!

2011-03-16 Thread Chad Perrin
, especially when there is no singly market-dominating corporation leading the charge for adoption. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpnjN5NgQ0cT.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: HAL must die!

2011-03-16 Thread Chad Perrin
of irrationality. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpEhiSQGDh8C.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: HAL must die!

2011-03-16 Thread Chad Perrin
On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 11:12:09AM -0700, David Brodbeck wrote: On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 5:43 PM, Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: The largest possible paying audience is generally everybody capable of using an open standard. Since we're talking about video, though, it's worth noting

Re: HAL must die!

2011-03-15 Thread Chad Perrin
, except in rare cases. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpnSHg4JVwGH.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Character shortcuts

2011-03-12 Thread Chad Perrin
to generate the characters to use for cutting + pasting to no avial. I wrote this about setting up a Compose key a while back: entering special characters in Xorg http://sob.apotheon.org/?p=814 -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org

terminal emulators with secure keyboard capability

2011-03-11 Thread Chad Perrin
know of any such terminal emulators, aside from XTerm, that do something like this? -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpgOnCBREKKX.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Apple FreeBSD relationship

2011-03-10 Thread Chad Perrin
-mentioned essay *Code Reuse and Technological Advancement*, I make a point of focusing my efforts on copyfree licensed software such as the (majority of) the FreeBSD project. Your mileage may vary. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpzzi3sLHFKc.pgp

Re: HAL must die!

2011-03-07 Thread Chad Perrin
know you can configure YouTube to use HTML5 instead of Flash now? Adobe is in danger of becoming irrelevant. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpkg2FElnPid.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: HAL must die!

2011-03-07 Thread Chad Perrin
On Mon, Mar 07, 2011 at 09:17:23AM -0800, Charlie Kester wrote: On Mon 07 Mar 2011 at 09:00:14 PST Chad Perrin wrote: Did you know you can configure YouTube to use HTML5 instead of Flash now? Adobe is in danger of becoming irrelevant. Meh. I never watch videos on the website anyway

Re: FreeBSD kernel init slower than linux

2011-03-05 Thread Chad Perrin
) such that these comparisons end up sounding more dramatic and exciting. (We now return you to your regularly scheduled anecdotal benchmarking discussion.) -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgp8B0LEBpp7b.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: xdm-options - non-bsd user needs bsd rc.d advice

2011-03-04 Thread Chad Perrin
On Fri, Mar 04, 2011 at 03:28:10PM +0100, Christopher J. Ruwe wrote: Later, I tried OpenSolaris and FreeBSD and am now using FreeBSD due to the same reasons as Chad Perrin stated: Being a power-user, wanting to control things and (now diverting from Chad's reasons) wanting to use technology

Re: mysql missing from my home-page WordPress....

2011-03-04 Thread Chad Perrin
breaking patches made from earlier versions) without substantively changing the way things work or the readability of the code. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpstENE4ZRWH.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Purchased Binaries

2011-03-04 Thread Chad Perrin
to make this stuff run. Linux binaries . . . ? That's unlikely to work on FreeBSD without the Linux compatibility layer. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgp3SoqmkGlvG.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: xdm-options - non-bsd user needs bsd rc.d advice

2011-03-03 Thread Chad Perrin
the system's behavior (or, y'know, actually troubleshoot it at all). -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgp9MT6EerY3q.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Backtick versus $()

2011-02-24 Thread Chad Perrin
thing? -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpm2xxdfCfHY.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Backtick versus $()

2011-02-24 Thread Chad Perrin
On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 09:59:40PM +, Thorsten Glaser wrote: Chad Perrin perrin at apotheon.com writes: That’s a FreeBSD® specific issue though. Other operating systems did the sensible thing ages ago ☺ What exactly is the sensible thing? http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi

Re: Backtick versus $()

2011-02-24 Thread Chad Perrin
On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 10:34:25PM +, Thorsten Glaser wrote: Chad Perrin perrin at apotheon.com writes: 1. You think some measure of popularity of a decision makes it correct. No. Why do you substitute others' email messages for an actual, direct response to my question, then? 2

Re: Backtick versus $()

2011-02-24 Thread Chad Perrin
On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 02:39:24PM -0800, Chip Camden wrote: Quoth Chad Perrin on Thursday, 24 February 2011: What we have not yet determined is: 1. Is it a good idea to replace (t)csh? Though I dislike the OP's dismissal of backticks, I must admit that I would prefer

Re: Backtick versus $()

2011-02-24 Thread Chad Perrin
. But it's also worth mentioning that there are even better shells which combine the best of both worlds, like zsh, a shell that many professionals seem to prefer over the other ones mentioned. I see from this you are not prone to confuse programming with an interactive user shell. -- Chad

Re: Backtick versus $()

2011-02-24 Thread Chad Perrin
On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 06:42:18PM -0430, Andres Perera wrote: On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 5:40 PM, Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: 1. Is it a good idea to replace (t)csh? mksh is better than tcsh for everything Thank you for your opinion, but it's just an opinion with no explanation

Re: Backtick versus $()

2011-02-24 Thread Chad Perrin
, $hit, it doesn't even need to be installed; it just magically works. There you have it. What is this -- a bad joke? -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpJToXjj3LRY.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Backtick versus $()

2011-02-24 Thread Chad Perrin
concrete (t)csh problem I've identified, mksh has similar problems, but it's better because I like it. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgp1160GmVAcc.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Backtick versus $()

2011-02-24 Thread Chad Perrin
% secure. It doesn't use any memory or other resources, $hit, it doesn't even need to be installed; it just magically works. There you have it. That one doesn't seem to be in ports. In case you aren't just being sarcastic, I think pfmsh is a reference to pure fucking magic shell. -- Chad

Re: Backtick versus $()

2011-02-24 Thread Chad Perrin
On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 07:12:55PM -0430, Andres Perera wrote: On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 6:54 PM, Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: So far, your complaints translate to Well, sure, for every concrete (t)csh problem I've identified, mksh has similar problems, but it's better because I

Re: Backtick versus $()

2011-02-24 Thread Chad Perrin
license. It's a copyfree license; I have no objects to using it on those grounds, personally.) -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgp9IXlxvWqWn.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Backtick versus $()

2011-02-24 Thread Chad Perrin
On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 08:09:21PM -0430, Andres Perera wrote: On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 7:22 PM, Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 07:12:55PM -0430, Andres Perera wrote: the author of vi, who is also the author of csh regards it as poor code Good for him

Re: Backtick versus $()

2011-02-24 Thread Chad Perrin
On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 08:14:55PM -0430, Andres Perera wrote: On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 7:56 PM, Chad Perrin wrote: I'll try to help make it easy for you, since you seem to be having a lot of trouble grasping the concept of actually trying to make a point via logical argument

Re: Backtick versus $()

2011-02-24 Thread Chad Perrin
, either. thanks I wonder if Sterling Camden will offer a you're welcome to your hostile reception. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpGHRgIAMnLC.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Backtick versus $()

2011-02-24 Thread Chad Perrin
On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 09:15:30PM -0430, Andres Perera wrote: it doesn't matter if it wasn't you if you're all retarded then you are all effectively the same person I see. Suggesting that slinging insults makes him retarded. You are naught but a troll. Killfiled. -- Chad Perrin

Re: Backtick versus $()

2011-02-24 Thread Chad Perrin
. You're welcome, Andres! Now go sleep it off. That's awfully accommodating of you. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpeY7YX1aWjc.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Backtick versus $()

2011-02-24 Thread Chad Perrin
On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 07:12:23PM -0700, Chad Perrin wrote: On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 09:15:30PM -0430, Andres Perera wrote: it doesn't matter if it wasn't you if you're all retarded then you are all effectively the same person I see. Suggesting that slinging insults makes him

Re: bash can not find most of my commands

2011-02-22 Thread Chad Perrin
that way; it's bad for you, with lots of fatty calories, preservatives, artificial sweeteners, and other stuff your body should not be ingesting on a regular basis. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpQg5oXnDcAV.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: bash can not find most of my commands

2011-02-22 Thread Chad Perrin
On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 10:07:54AM -0800, David Brodbeck wrote: On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 9:53 AM, Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: It turns out auto-completion with hinting and command history searching are pretty addictive if you're used to having them. :) I have auto-completion, and I

Re: bash can not find most of my commands

2011-02-22 Thread Chad Perrin
often use tcsh as an interactive shell, but I do not use it for shell scripts. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpW4w3idg6aw.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Can FreeBSD be made to be as polished a desktop as Linux Mint?

2011-02-20 Thread Chad Perrin
on compositing (which requires an appropriate graphics card) and install a GTK theme suitable to the kind of look you want. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpShLbzCNNab.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: variable line-display pager?

2011-02-19 Thread Chad Perrin
build? Actually, the more pager should scroll one page at a time, determining a page by the size of the console in which it is displayed, if I remember correctly. Just `more filename` and start hitting the spacebar. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org

Re: Best Laptop to buy for Freebsd Without OS?

2011-02-18 Thread Chad Perrin
Konstantin's work fixes the problem with the Intel drivers. Be careful about the hardware in your laptop, whatever brand you get, so you'll be sure to get the best FreeBSD user experience reasonably possible. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgp1BaqS1uZh4

Re: Best Laptop to buy for Freebsd Without OS?

2011-02-18 Thread Chad Perrin
On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 11:08:09PM -0500, Robert Huff wrote: Chad Perrin writes: In my experience, ThinkPads are among the highest quality laptops on the market. At one point, Thinkpads - particularly the T4x series - were _the_ recommended used laptop. While it's been

Re: Best Laptop to buy for Freebsd Without OS?

2011-02-18 Thread Chad Perrin
to fix it short of replacing the physical speakers. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgprJvif751yY.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Best Laptop to buy for Freebsd Without OS?

2011-02-17 Thread Chad Perrin
infected before they had me automate the virus-cleaning process for them. The short version is simply that I've seen how shady refurbishers work, up close and personal. Let the buyer beware. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpRhYVLfff8W.pgp Description: PGP

Re: google browser?

2011-02-16 Thread Chad Perrin
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 09:28:45AM -0800, Chip Camden wrote: It's called Vimium, and Chad Perrin figured out how to get it working on FreeBSD. But Vimium isn't Vimperator, and chromium disables extensions when viewing the home page or local files. So, for instance, vimium's key bindings

Re: [[FreeBSD-Announce] FreeBSD Foundation Announces New Project]

2011-02-16 Thread Chad Perrin
hardware is supported, it is my experience that FreeBSD makes the best workstation of any OS I've used. More hardware support for workstation-type use, then, is a good thing. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgp7AVdKvJELg.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: google browser?

2011-02-16 Thread Chad Perrin
with the chromium porting effort, and am not particularly privy to the internal goings-on of its ports maintenance. My information may be out of date or misinformed. Some of what I said is pure speculation. Your mileage may vary. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http

Re: Invitation (waaaaay off-topic)

2011-02-15 Thread Chad Perrin
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 01:48:18AM +, Simon Tibble wrote: On 14/02/11 23:42, Chad Perrin wrote: Broken. Won't work. It's too bureaucratic for too little (immediate) return to catch on, and its bureaucracy would guarantee long-term corruption. This sort of idea will take years

Re: Invitation

2011-02-14 Thread Chad Perrin
] http://www.opensource.org [2] https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Imagine_(song) -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpY44ZAM4IBI.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: FreeBSD and SSD drives

2011-02-14 Thread Chad Perrin
. The fact the state of the art is better now than it was does not mean you are using state of the art hardware. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpZEg3483gtE.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: FreeBSD and SSD drives

2011-02-13 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 11:53:18AM +0300, Odhiambo Washington wrote: On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 10:38 AM, Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: You'd surely be happier with a better OS on it, though -- right? Chad, on the Desktop, I'd rather run the ratware from Redmond than try FreeBSD

Re: FreeBSD and SSD drives

2011-02-13 Thread Chad Perrin
running MS Windows. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpoVixuEJGkQ.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: FreeBSD and SSD drives

2011-02-13 Thread Chad Perrin
important in Web design circles. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgppRQt7YQpaN.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: FreeBSD and SSD drives

2011-02-13 Thread Chad Perrin
bashing got a little out of hand. I apologize for sinking to nearly the same level of off-topic OS deprecation. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpwXFS5HoHrp.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: FreeBSD and SSD drives

2011-02-13 Thread Chad Perrin
to the obviousness of the modern media player device's interface. The electric toothbrush is pretty obvious, though, if one is accustomed to toothbrushes in general. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpYbuP5dX9bp.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: FreeBSD and SSD drives

2011-02-13 Thread Chad Perrin
, persisted in Wordpad at least as late as XP. I haven't checked whether that same memory leak still exists in Vista or Win7; maybe I should. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpwaxx7be93Y.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: FreeBSD and SSD drives

2011-02-12 Thread Chad Perrin
, keep good backups (as you always should anyway), and be happy. You'd surely be happier with a better OS on it, though -- right? -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgprvo07hiHkt.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Debian GNU/kFreeBSD

2011-02-12 Thread Chad Perrin
(or any other open source OS) that way, though. Keep in mind that Debian's package archives have more software in them than any other OS software management system archives -- though I think FreeBSD is a not-too-distant second place. Also . . . do you think that top-posting helped? -- Chad Perrin

Re: FreeBSD and SSD drives

2011-02-11 Thread Chad Perrin
be talked into using MySQL -- cases where you just treat it pretty much like a read-only data store, and do not have to (safely) add or change data stored there most of the time. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpG1etBtYC3W.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: OpenSSH could be faster...then why don't they path it??

2011-02-06 Thread Chad Perrin
discussing OpenSSH rather than OpenSSL. Am I mistaken? They are not the same project. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpYQp3xqsNOx.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: qmail or postfix?

2011-02-01 Thread Chad Perrin
story altogether. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpAnaag8vMVS.pgp Description: PGP signature

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