Re: Any package for surveys?

2011-01-27 Thread Chad Perrin
, it will ask further questions along the way to get to an artificial point of knowing the answer. Aah, the old Turing test chestnut. Artificial intelligence *will* happen, but not in the way we have previously thought it. This is completely irrelevant to the point about Eliza. -- Chad

Re: Any package for surveys?

2011-01-27 Thread Chad Perrin
be misguided. I do not have enough information to diagnose him. He may even be a she, but I need to pick a pronoun, so there it is (and for some reason people object when I use it for people whose genders are unknown to me). -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org

Re: Any package for surveys?

2011-01-27 Thread Chad Perrin
salesman just trying to get the foot in the door to sell someone a set of overpriced kitchen knives he doesn't need. I suggest you take a different approach that does not alienate the people you think you want to convince to join you. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http

Re: Date of a FreeBSD installation

2011-01-27 Thread Chad Perrin
as immaterial. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpm7c8n9oyYt.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Date of a FreeBSD installation

2011-01-27 Thread Chad Perrin
On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 09:09:52PM +, Devin Teske wrote: On Thu, 2011-01-27 at 13:39 -0700, Chad Perrin wrote: On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 01:57:38PM -0800, Devin Teske wrote: You're going to have to resort to things that aren't touched during a system upgrade if you want to find

Re: Date of a FreeBSD installation

2011-01-27 Thread Chad Perrin
I tried responding to an off-list message. Delivery failed for some reason. I just don't want the sender of the message to which I tried to reply to think I'm ignoring him, so I elected to send this to the list. Thanks for your patience. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http

Re: more CPU being used than I have (?)

2011-01-26 Thread Chad Perrin
On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 02:32:32PM +, Craig Butler wrote: ASK GOOGLE !!! I DID !!! I must have used a less effective search string than you. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpdNhUwIyzx4.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: more CPU being used than I have (?)

2011-01-25 Thread Chad Perrin
On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 06:20:02AM -0700, Dmitri Brengauz wrote: On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 8:07 PM, Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: Do you have a reference to a relatively simple explanation of how that weighting works (and why)? man 1 ps: %cpu The CPU utilization

more CPU being used than I have (?)

2011-01-24 Thread Chad Perrin
more than CPUs * 100%. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpnsbwUvQJjb.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: more CPU being used than I have (?)

2011-01-24 Thread Chad Perrin
On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 01:02:46AM +, Craig Butler wrote: On Mon, 2011-01-24 at 16:57 -0700, Chad Perrin wrote: I'm running a two-core laptop that, once in a great while, shows approximately 250% CPU usage by a single process in top. How exactly does that work? Note: It's

Re: follow up...

2011-01-23 Thread Chad Perrin
duplicates as a side-effect of that -- again, *by request*. Just spamming people with duplicates all the time for no good reason is a mite annoying, though. If I was aware of a vote, I would have voted list reply. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org

missing uwacom.ko

2011-01-23 Thread Chad Perrin
on their systems? If so, how? Are you using 8.1-RELEASE or something else? Is there a work-around for this problem? Google, thus far, has proven useless to me on this subject. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpqU6Gcfhtbf.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: missing uwacom.ko

2011-01-23 Thread Chad Perrin
://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2009-January/189857.html I'm not sure this makes any difference when there's no wacom kernel module at all. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpveuufQt2xF.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: missing uwacom.ko

2011-01-23 Thread Chad Perrin
On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 12:58:07AM +0300, Peter Vereshagin wrote: Como esta, FreeBSD? 2011/01/23 14:07:47 -0700 Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com = To FreeBSD Questions : CP read-only mounted volume. CP The /boot directory is on the / partition, with 755 permissions at It can have any mode

Re: follow up...

2011-01-22 Thread Chad Perrin
. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgp1NfFpsv0xl.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: chromium producing constant hdd access

2011-01-16 Thread Chad Perrin
makes it impossible for him to update the port to fix vulnerabilities that are less than a year old. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgp64pzsybUk9.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: a perl question

2011-01-05 Thread Chad Perrin
of two files. `cat /boot/boot1 /boot/boot2` concatenates the contents of two files, so that the resulting single text stream can be treated as a file to be compared by diff to `/boot/boot`. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpTrSURKXqIn.pgp Description

Re: a perl question

2011-01-05 Thread Chad Perrin
was: cat file | foo arg . . . where it could have been: foo arg file That's just kind of absurd. I mean, that sort of usage (foo arg file) is exactly the purpose for which grep was designed. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpuPZgJNS4Mz.pgp Description

the GIMP and Samba

2011-01-05 Thread Chad Perrin
Can someone enlighten me as to why the GIMP package would require libsmbclient? This strikes me as the very height of software bloat absurdity. Maybe I'm missing something. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpXAcYF9nPLh.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: a perl question

2011-01-04 Thread Chad Perrin
is that not using cat would actually be a little clearer and involve fewer keystrokes -- as in this case. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpaBZTKvL8ix.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: USB management utility

2010-12-08 Thread Chad Perrin
On Wed, Dec 08, 2010 at 12:07:35AM +, Bruce Cran wrote: On Tue, 7 Dec 2010 16:21:43 -0700 Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: Is there a simple command line utility that takes the disorganized annoyance out of simple USB device management? usbconfig(8)? Thanks. The manpage

USB management utility

2010-12-07 Thread Chad Perrin
like listing connected devices, mounting and unmounting, et cetera, would be fantastic. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpWAElrUqcW7.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Does MAC version of iTunes work on FreeBSD?

2010-11-17 Thread Chad Perrin
it, though, so I have no idea what level of compatibility it offers, and it appears to be mostly focused on MS Windows platforms right now. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpVDxcjzv1YT.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: History of C (Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?)

2010-11-14 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 01:00:35AM -0800, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: ... D is already another programming language ... It wasn't back then :) It is now, though, so it's a little late. So sorry. I don't know what this P has to do

Re: History of C (Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?)

2010-11-14 Thread Chad Perrin
edition. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpBjOf4A6ihn.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: History of C (Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?)

2010-11-14 Thread Chad Perrin
this. Still . . . if this is real, it would certainly explain a lot. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgp1ZRsKuA2As.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: History of C (Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?)

2010-11-14 Thread Chad Perrin
-ified, IIRC. That's correct -- 2nd Ed is the ANSI C version of basically the same text. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpr3nBarPs1j.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: History of C (Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?)

2010-11-14 Thread Chad Perrin
JavaScript . . . ? You know, that AJAXy thing. BTW, it's now the '10s. ;-) Yeah, but there obviously hasn't been a Next Big Thing programming language for the '10s yet. Give it time. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgp7rDO0QKypC.pgp Description: PGP

Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?

2010-11-13 Thread Chad Perrin
- though you could update if from W 2000 to a more current one. I vote Vista. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpslo7rst0aq.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?

2010-11-13 Thread Chad Perrin
mention of vi vs. emacs in this list. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpujc1w0onXv.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?

2010-11-13 Thread Chad Perrin
/lacks/ That's not actually true, you know. Emacs has a passable editor called Viper Mode. It's not ideal, but I suppose beggars can't be choosers. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgp6XwazAVVbD.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Tips for installing windows and freeBSD both.. anyone??

2010-11-13 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 10:47:05AM -0600, Robert Bonomi wrote: Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 18:19:34 -0700 From: Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com Subject: Re: Tips for installing windows and freeBSD both.. anyone?? =2E . . and it is shortly after that point that things get very specific

Re: Tips for installing windows and freeBSD both.. anyone??

2010-11-13 Thread Chad Perrin
be made available from the GUI, because of the incredibly complexity that would be added to the interface if the GUI could directly access all of that stuff. I don't think the point was that MS Windows has lots of executables. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org

Re: Tips for installing windows and freeBSD both.. anyone??

2010-11-13 Thread Chad Perrin
it. Each does things a little differently from the other, but both handle it well. Unfortunately, they only seem to handle it for other instances of the same program. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpeoG4pDBiEN.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?

2010-11-13 Thread Chad Perrin
we can't really use that for C++. I don't know what this P has to do with it. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpvJdaeIanXa.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: uzbl

2010-11-13 Thread Chad Perrin
with it. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpQJh2vD8fbO.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Tips for installing windows and freeBSD both.. anyone??

2010-11-13 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 06:12:52PM -0800, Rob Farmer wrote: On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 13:53, Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: Right, and this isn't a GUI problem - its a problem with combining the documents. What software allows multiple people to open and write to the same file

Re: Tips for installing windows and freeBSD both.. anyone??

2010-11-12 Thread Chad Perrin
On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 09:54:57AM -0800, Rob Farmer wrote: On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 23:16, Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: It sounds like in some respects we're violently agreeing with each other. On one hand, I think that CLI programs can be great for frequent tasks, especially

Re: uzbl

2010-11-12 Thread Chad Perrin
to have (like a single command or click approach to opening a link in a new tab). -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgptmDnxZOA6B.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Tips for installing windows and freeBSD both.. anyone??

2010-11-12 Thread Chad Perrin
On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 07:14:38PM +0100, Polytropon wrote: On Thu, 11 Nov 2010 17:49:26 -0700, Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: I agree. That is one type of GUI I would really love to see getting more popular. You can already find this concept in use: The Midnight Commander

Re: Tips for installing windows and freeBSD both.. anyone??

2010-11-12 Thread Chad Perrin
of DE libraries for applications I actually use, at least the basic premise of composing GUI tools from CLI tools is well used in this case. At least two of those three CLI tools are also actually composed of several smaller CLI tools, themselves. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http

Re: Tips for installing windows and freeBSD both.. anyone??

2010-11-12 Thread Chad Perrin
. Empowering clients is much more rewarding as a career path than training them to be unhealthily dependent upon me. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpmJKnfoE7jd.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Tips for installing windows and freeBSD both.. anyone??

2010-11-12 Thread Chad Perrin
in kilometers (aka klicks). The fact that the general public in the US has thus far largely resisted the use of metric measures is in no way evidence that their use should not be encouraged, however. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpohbVzNY6jn.pgp Description

Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?

2010-11-12 Thread Chad Perrin
. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpVenEKVf4qY.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?

2010-11-12 Thread Chad Perrin
this already dead horse? What would you have me do -- beat a live horse? I'm not inclined to subject a living creature to such cruelty. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpRzz1nZhshM.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?

2010-11-12 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 01:06:55AM -0500, Chris Brennan wrote: On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 8:50 PM, Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: What would you have me do -- beat a live horse? I'm not inclined to subject a living creature to such cruelty. Is beating a dead horse no more cruel

Re: Tips for installing windows and freeBSD both.. anyone??

2010-11-11 Thread Chad Perrin
the TUI commands that it is performing. I agree. That is one type of GUI I would really love to see getting more popular. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpqDjX9iOn4p.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Tips for installing windows and freeBSD both.. anyone??

2010-11-11 Thread Chad Perrin
are a minority, however, where non-casual use is concerned. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpQ72zIgs6EN.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Tips for installing windows and freeBSD both.. anyone??

2010-11-11 Thread Chad Perrin
require so much more knowledge, and present so much more of a barrier to entry for automating tasks, than a simpler CLI filter's interface provides via something like the Unix pipeline. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgp6dzyueAeqZ.pgp Description: PGP

Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?

2010-11-11 Thread Chad Perrin
to consider doing something intelligent like search the Web, Wikipedia, or the mailing list archives for an answer to this question. It's not like it doesn't come up every damned six months. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpMleMMKEuDs.pgp Description: PGP

Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?

2010-11-11 Thread Chad Perrin
On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 08:40:03PM -0600, Ryan Coleman wrote: He was forwarding and José top-posted on a private response. And I will top-post til the day I die. Hurry up. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpf10IDigm1c.pgp Description: PGP

Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?

2010-11-11 Thread Chad Perrin
somewhere that is the norm. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpooLeDPbyld.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Tips for installing windows and freeBSD both.. anyone??

2010-11-11 Thread Chad Perrin
that we could agree without it feeling like you're trying to convince people they shouldn't ever bother learning how to use CLI tools unless they absolutely have to. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpI6ieYVORUU.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Tips for installing windows and freeBSD both.. anyone??

2010-11-08 Thread Chad Perrin
On Mon, Nov 08, 2010 at 09:43:01AM +, Bruce Cran wrote: On Sun, 7 Nov 2010 23:17:23 -0700 Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: I did give a nod to discoverability for GUIs, as you might note if you go back and read what you quoted back at me. That's exactly what you're talking

Re: Anybody know apt-get ?

2010-11-07 Thread Chad Perrin
, called apt-src. You should be able to install it on your system and sift through its manpage at your leisure: apt-get install apt-src -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpgmezFusYU2.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Tips for installing windows and freeBSD both.. anyone??

2010-11-07 Thread Chad Perrin
to question or relearn things they take for granted. That's a pretty good summary, minus some of the implications, of what I said at the beginning of this email. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgppCqFJOKC7f.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: ZFS License and Future

2010-11-07 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sun, Nov 07, 2010 at 05:17:19PM +, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 06/11/2010 16:10, Chad Perrin wrote: Will Oracle lawyers find some patent related to the creation of that software the company owns and use that to sue you if you fork the project to ensure the survival of your own

py-gtk install hangs

2010-11-07 Thread Chad Perrin
kill it with Ctrl-C, I get this output: sed: confdefs.h: No such file or directory === Script configure failed unexpectedly. It also suggests I use gnomelogalyzer.sh to diagnose the problem, but before I bother I'd like to know if this is a known issue with an easy fix. Anyone? -- Chad

Re: py-gtk install hangs

2010-11-07 Thread Chad Perrin
not really important for my current needs, though. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpdviy5SHvpq.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Tips for installing windows and freeBSD both.. anyone??

2010-11-07 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sun, Nov 07, 2010 at 10:07:29PM +, Bruce Cran wrote: On Sun, 7 Nov 2010 13:51:22 -0700 Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: I choose a little up-front learning curve for massive efficiency and productivity enhancements down the road. The increased efficiency of a minimal

Re: ssmtp - possible anomaly with SSL

2010-11-06 Thread Chad Perrin
more information; in addition to answering my question, it might be useful to give us the information Chris requested -- but make sure you obscure any username/password information. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpU2tev6gfP9.pgp Description: PGP

Re: ZFS License and Future

2010-11-06 Thread Chad Perrin
think MySQL and OpenOffice.org are crappy software in many respects, I'm glad they've both been forked following Oracle's acquisition, if only because they can serve as tests of Oracle's readiness to sue people for forking the company's intellectual property. -- Chad Perrin [ original content

Re: ZFS License and Future

2010-11-06 Thread Chad Perrin
because of this and everyone had to switch to the Sun one. I think Steven was saying that people are still using Java the language, not that they're still using Microsoft's Java implementation. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpstWNYXBsOL.pgp Description

Re: ZFS License and Future

2010-11-06 Thread Chad Perrin
On Fri, Nov 05, 2010 at 11:25:13PM -0500, Steven Susbauer wrote: On 11/5/10 4:34 PM, Chad Perrin wrote: Will Oracle start using patent suits to try to stop people who aren't paying for ZFS or who are using it on platforms other than Solaris from using it? Whether you think concerns like

Re: ssmtp - possible anomaly with SSL

2010-11-06 Thread Chad Perrin
, of course). -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgp4vEGMWEDJJ.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: ZFS License and Future

2010-11-06 Thread Chad Perrin
need the extra features of zfs. Personally I cant see how anyone with any important data can do without checksuming. I guess that depends on what you're doing with the data and what kind of external tools you have in place to protect/duplicate it in case of a problem. -- Chad Perrin [ original

Re: Tips for installing windows and freeBSD both.. anyone??

2010-11-06 Thread Chad Perrin
heavier than other options. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgp6D3xoJmzGp.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: ZFS License and Future

2010-11-06 Thread Chad Perrin
that escape my memory at this exact moment, too. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpiuw1ewKEDC.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: ZFS License and Future

2010-11-06 Thread Chad Perrin
is correct. I find it odd that someone else's signature is labeled as such and mine is not for you; for me, I see mine labeled as PGP signatures as well. I'm currently using GnuPG with Mutt; I don't know if that makes a difference. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http

Re: ZFS License and Future

2010-11-06 Thread Chad Perrin
? Some of the technology may have made it into the .NET framework, and C# may in some respects be quite similar to Java, but .NET is most certainly not Java. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpmYp8be6Xgk.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: ZFS License and Future

2010-11-06 Thread Chad Perrin
, there are already forks underway -- such as LibreOffice (OO.o fork), MariaDB (MySQL fork), and so on. We'll see whether they end up subject to expensive lawsuits as a result. I haven't read your links yet, but I'll probably get to it tomorrow. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http

Re: Vimium on Chromium on FreeBSD

2010-11-05 Thread Chad Perrin
On Thu, Nov 04, 2010 at 08:32:11PM -0400, Chris Brennan wrote: On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 8:21 PM, Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: So are there plans to get 7x into ports? I would love to go back to Chrome as a browser ... I find Firefox so clunky now! :D Well . . . I have no idea what

Re: Vimium on Chromium on FreeBSD

2010-11-05 Thread Chad Perrin
On Fri, Nov 05, 2010 at 12:55:41AM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: On Thu, Nov 04, 2010 at 08:32:11PM -0400, Chris Brennan wrote: On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 8:21 PM, Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: So are there plans to get 7x into ports? I would love to go back to Chrome as a browser ... I

Re: ZFS License and Future

2010-11-05 Thread Chad Perrin
to start using it if I do not have an immediate, specific use-case that calls for the capabilities of ZFS in particular. . . . on top of which, I don't feel a need to do Oracle any favors. Your mileage may vary, of course. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org

Re: ZFS License and Future

2010-11-05 Thread Chad Perrin
somehow. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpFUsckKJ3NZ.pgp Description: PGP signature

Vimium on Chromium on FreeBSD

2010-11-04 Thread Chad Perrin
not install on FreeBSD's Chromium browser port. If you want details about how I got Vimium to install, and on Vimium plus FreeBSD in general, I chronicled the experience in my personal devlog: http://blogstrapping.com/?page=2010.308.12.13.14 -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http

Re: Vimium on Chromium on FreeBSD

2010-11-04 Thread Chad Perrin
On Thu, Nov 04, 2010 at 02:25:23PM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: Vimium is one of several Chromium extensions that provide some vi-like keybindings, and arguably the one with the best vi-like experience. Unfortunately, it is not quite up to the standards of Vimperator on Firefox

Re: [OT] writing filters in sh

2010-10-28 Thread Chad Perrin
not exactly fit my preferences for simplicity, but I might include it in an article I'm writing anyway. It's simple and readable enough that it should not clutter up the article much. I tested it for some simple use cases, and it works well. Thanks for saving me a little trouble. -- Chad Perrin

[OT] writing filters in sh

2010-10-27 Thread Chad Perrin
shell scripts I tend to just use a more robust language like Perl. Please let me know if there's some way to use a simple idiom like the Perl example to get the same results in sh. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpIHWHNamLxY.pgp Description: PGP

Re: okay, time to ask the wizards.

2010-10-27 Thread Chad Perrin
/$/^M/ Note that you don't type in that ^M by using the ^ and M keys on the keyboard. Instead, you first type ctrl-v then press the Enter key. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpaTw6st1UGV.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: okay, time to ask the wizards.

2010-10-27 Thread Chad Perrin
require one newline character in the substitution part as a result: perl -pie 's/$/\n/' filename.txt Plus . . . I like pie. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpGpP9Q2VWV4.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Greybeards (Re: Netbooks BSD)

2010-10-21 Thread Chad Perrin
on useless crap that only gets in my way. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpW90OzWAa2s.pgp Description: PGP signature

rugy-pg and rubygem-pg in ports

2010-10-20 Thread Chad Perrin
, if any, exist between these two ports aside from the names. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgp5ndp9cDtjv.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: chromium crashes

2010-10-18 Thread Chad Perrin
The problem I'm having is that I can't get a vi-like keybindings extension to work. I guess it's likely that most extensions haven't been tested for compatibility on FreeBSD, though. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpWKTWQ98yQ3.pgp Description: PGP

Re: chromium crashes

2010-10-18 Thread Chad Perrin
On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 11:30:28AM -0700, Chip Camden wrote: Quoth Chad Perrin on Monday, 18 October 2010: The problem I'm having is that I can't get a vi-like keybindings extension to work. I guess it's likely that most extensions haven't been tested for compatibility on FreeBSD, though

Re: Too many binary packages are missing

2010-10-13 Thread Chad Perrin
it as a binary package... Just my $0.02... . . . without Java, given Java's licensing restrictions. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpH8EHUJYUr9.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Like it or not, Theo has a point... freebsd is shipping export-restricted software in the core

2010-10-07 Thread Chad Perrin
removing any legal notices though -- aside from the tags on my matresses and pillows (for instance). -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgphjDhhH1dHJ.pgp Description: PGP signature

third-party ports/packages sources

2010-10-06 Thread Chad Perrin
normal operation. If there's a tutorial out there that would explain how to do something like this, I have not yet found it. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpEitpNPtUt0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Which OS for notebook

2010-10-06 Thread Chad Perrin
and installed when appropriate. It is, in fact, for this reason of compatibility that FreeBSD has had ZFS support where Linux-based systems have not. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpEnjZDz6QYq.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Which OS for notebook

2010-10-06 Thread Chad Perrin
On Wed, Oct 06, 2010 at 11:11:23AM +0700, Phan Quoc Hien wrote: Hello everyone, Which laptop vendor is best support for FreeBSD ? I've had good luck with ThinkPads. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgppdjrOCJnkm.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Which OS for notebook

2010-10-06 Thread Chad Perrin
. There are benefits to a rolling release process, too: http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/security/?p=4150 -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgp4WYGFexWRM.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: third-party ports/packages sources

2010-10-06 Thread Chad Perrin
On Wed, Oct 06, 2010 at 10:18:54PM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: [stuff] Thanks! That gives me a lot to look into. I appreciate the information. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpnxxRo3nzZg.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Which OS for notebook

2010-10-05 Thread Chad Perrin
of the various OSes with which I am comfortable to some degree, I pretty much get to choose whatever OS I want. Given my requirements for software capabilities, FreeBSD is the obvious choice. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpJlLlJ0RLyU.pgp Description: PGP

Re: Which OS for notebook

2010-10-05 Thread Chad Perrin
for the ease of maintaining the software on the machine? I'm curious about what you mean. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpxTcjb7PqVu.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Which OS for notebook

2010-10-05 Thread Chad Perrin
for it when it comes to creating ports. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpVkyr6iqXcJ.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Erlang and Java

2010-09-25 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 09:50:02AM -0700, Chip Camden wrote: Quoth Chad Perrin on Friday, 24 September 2010: Does anyone know of a reason that installing lang/erlang would fail if a java/diablo-jdk port failed to install? Correct me if I'm wrong, but the Erlang VM really should

Erlang and Java

2010-09-24 Thread Chad Perrin
Does anyone know of a reason that installing lang/erlang would fail if a java/diablo-jdk port failed to install? Correct me if I'm wrong, but the Erlang VM really should *not* depend on Java. Right? -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgp6tfLZs6IEJ.pgp

Re: GUI Suggested?

2010-09-23 Thread Chad Perrin
a window manager, I'd probably go with Enlightenment. Since I don't have to, though, I stick with something *truly* lightweight like AHWM. Your mileage may vary, of course. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgp1WjJ6Jjn6v.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: GUI Suggested?

2010-09-23 Thread Chad Perrin
developer(s)? Earlier today, I read this on the site: On the other hand xmonad has great defaults, key bindings and xinerama support but is crippled by not being written in C. What's up with that? How does Haskell cripple xmonad? -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http

Re: GUI Suggested?

2010-09-23 Thread Chad Perrin
On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 09:07:28PM -0500, Neal Hogan wrote: On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 8:01 PM, Glen Barber glen.j.bar...@gmail.com wrote: On 9/23/10 8:31 PM, Chad Perrin wrote: On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 12:24:58PM -0500, Neal Hogan wrote: If you like xmonad, check out scrotwm. It's inspired

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