Re: perl qstn...

2010-04-06 Thread Chad Perrin
;) Steve I'm willing to let the emacs users have their emacs, and to enjoy my vi. I guess the longer name (emacs) suits people who like pressing more buttons to accomplish the same amount of work anyway. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpwq7ywxcB58.pgp

Re: perl qstn...

2010-04-06 Thread Chad Perrin
On Tue, Apr 06, 2010 at 01:20:49PM +0100, RW wrote: On Mon, 5 Apr 2010 19:55:44 -0600 Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: On Mon, Apr 05, 2010 at 05:36:32PM +0100, RW wrote: IMO this is a bad mistake that other languages were quite right not to copy - a test shouldn't come after

Re: perl qstn...

2010-04-05 Thread Chad Perrin
the interpreter plenty of time to notice there's an unless immediately following it Obviously, the real answer in the case of Ruby and Perl falls somewhere around 1.5, but 3 is still a believable-sounding excuse, and perfectly acceptable to me. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http

Re: perl qstn...

2010-04-04 Thread Chad Perrin
so far off-topic for this list, I'll return you to your regularly scheduled programming. But if you look at http://learn.perl.org/ you'll see a number of other resources, including free tutorials online. print Just another Perl hacker,; # the original -- Chad Perrin [ original content

Re: perl qstn...

2010-04-04 Thread Chad Perrin
if to be clearer than unless when there's an else, so instead of making that if into an unless, I'd just swap the conditional actions. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpDO8HYcLtW7.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Caution:: Off-topic Re: perl qstn...

2010-04-04 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sun, Apr 04, 2010 at 02:33:02PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: anybody know if we need a new C [[maybe D]] that would be allowed to grow? There's already a D. I don't really know much about it, though. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org

Re: perl qstn...

2010-04-03 Thread Chad Perrin
in the CPAN. My favorite is Getopt::Long. For simple scripts I tend to use Getopt::Std instead, but Getopt::Long is great too. These two are pretty much the standard for command line option handling and help message generation in Perl. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http

Re: amd64 won't install on Core Duo

2010-03-06 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sat, Mar 06, 2010 at 03:19:31PM +0200, Ross Cameron wrote: What system board revision does you're Thinkpad have? You can use CPU-Z (http://www.cpuid.com/cpuz.php) to check on this. That looks like a handy tool. Is there a version that will run on FreeBSD? -- Chad Perrin [ original

amd64 won't install on Core Duo

2010-03-05 Thread Chad Perrin
The amd64 arch installer for 8.0-RELEASE fails to start on a ThinkPad T60 with an Intel Centrino Core Duo. What am I doing wrong? error message: CPU doesn't support long mode -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgppIKPpWPaUa.pgp Description: PGP

Re: amd64 won't install on Core Duo

2010-03-05 Thread Chad Perrin
On Fri, Mar 05, 2010 at 06:30:48PM -0600, Tim Daneliuk wrote: On 3/5/2010 6:28 PM, Chad Perrin wrote: The amd64 arch installer for 8.0-RELEASE fails to start on a ThinkPad T60 with an Intel Centrino Core Duo. What am I doing wrong? error message: CPU doesn't support long mode

Re: selling freebsd cd for profit

2010-02-28 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 11:10:33AM +, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 28/02/2010 01:56:27, Chad Perrin wrote: Actually, once your project becomes a commercial enterprise, the GPL stops allowing reference to upstream sources to suit the requirements of code redistribution. If you sell GPLed

Re: selling freebsd cd for profit

2010-02-28 Thread Chad Perrin
distribution projects have been threatened with lawsuits for referring to upstream sources, even while the sources were still there, because those projects were identified by the people making such threats as commercial enterprises. Probably the highest profile instance was MEPIS. -- Chad Perrin

Re: selling freebsd cd for profit

2010-02-27 Thread Chad Perrin
, or a package deal with something else, or perhaps free support above and beyond what's available from the FreeBSD project itself, and so on). -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpEQ7IE1Q20m.pgp Description: PGP signature

using secure memory from a script

2010-02-25 Thread Chad Perrin
What's the simplest/easiest way to use secure memory (i.e., memory that won't be written to a swap partition) from within a program (written in Ruby in this case) on FreeBSD? -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgphqNJQhPZ33.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: using secure memory from a script

2010-02-25 Thread Chad Perrin
options carefully. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgp0YEhAU9BhN.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: FreeBSD's UFS vs Ext4

2010-02-08 Thread Chad Perrin
accept the GPL2) They don't like the license, that's not stubbornness. Wow thats a good reason to use ancient compilers and assemblers. Sometimes, license choice *is* a good reason to make some sacrifices in short-term convenience. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http

Re: FreeBSD's UFS vs Ext4

2010-02-08 Thread Chad Perrin
On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 03:00:00PM +, Frank Shute wrote: AFAIK, the system compiler is going to be clang in the future and for ports you'll install a compiler from ports. Can you provide a URL for some discussion of this? I hadn't heard that FreeBSD was moving to Clang. -- Chad Perrin

Re: using leds on laptop

2010-02-01 Thread Chad Perrin
On Mon, Feb 01, 2010 at 10:24:41PM +0200, Eitan Adler wrote: It happens to be a Lenovo laptop. If I could get a copy of the specification it would make a nice project for me - writing a driver - *wonders* Which Lenovo laptop model is it? -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL

Re: Pain finding packages

2010-01-30 Thread Chad Perrin
in that regard. Something I said may turn out to be mistaken. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpDnQDYwu3mc.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: OT: finding every file not in a list

2010-01-28 Thread Chad Perrin
to make it *safely* delete directories. You will have to delete any empty directories yourself if you use this script as written. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgp5TPqUHsHHX.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: OT: finding every file not in a list

2010-01-28 Thread Chad Perrin
On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 03:13:51AM -0700, Chad Perrin wrote: losers= Dir[#{Dir.getwd}/**/*] keepers = IO.readlines ARGV.shift startpath = ARGV.shift if startpath Dir.chdir startpath end Oops. Speaking of using at your own risk . . . That line that reads

clarification on polkit upgrade

2010-01-28 Thread Chad Perrin
` good? I've already used `portupgrade polkit` here, and I haven't seen any problems yet, but then I haven't restarted anything that relies on polkit for a while either. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpQ2knS5uOSl.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Problem with GnuPG

2010-01-25 Thread Chad Perrin
of those certs you saw in GPA, then reinstalled, and didn't realize the plugin for your MUA went away with the uninstall? I'm just guessing. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpzHtvqJLUjk.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Problem with GnuPG

2010-01-24 Thread Chad Perrin
itself, without your knowledge? What *is* your MUA, anyway? Good luck. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpLFxPjHBt2w.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: pidgin 2.6.5 login QQ failed

2010-01-22 Thread Chad Perrin
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 10:49:16AM +, Matthew Seaman wrote: Chad Perrin wrote: On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 04:26:07PM +0800, wsk wrote: hi, upgrade all software after upgrade to 8.0. and now found that pidgin login qq failed. any ideas? If you're talking about AIM or ICQ, it seems

Re: pidgin 2.6.5 login QQ failed

2010-01-21 Thread Chad Perrin
are still being explored, and the Pidgin people are apparently trying to get AOL to clarify its best practices recommendation for how to handle logins, but in the meantime this work-around might help solve the problem you're having with logins. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http

Re: Dislike the way port conflicts are handled now

2010-01-16 Thread Chad Perrin
compiling something and checking/installing dependencies and so on Middling: check for conflicts late Worst: don't check for conflicts at all Yeah, sounds about right. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpIylI974DaW.pgp Description: PGP

Re: vi editing

2010-01-15 Thread Chad Perrin
On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 12:11:32PM -0600, J.D. Bronson wrote: preface each line: :%s/^/new word /g The trailing g isn't needed because you only need one substitution on each line. Thus: :%s/^/new word / -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org

Re: Server set up

2010-01-15 Thread Chad Perrin
anyone to make some kind of grave error involving the assumption that WinME used NTFS. . . . -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpDYoBXwJP9c.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Server set up

2010-01-15 Thread Chad Perrin
understand is FreeBSD is Not Linux How sure are we that davidoweir3 wasn't just asking about how to use SSH to connect to a Linux machine from a FreeBSD machine? -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpAl4RDmNZyU.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Regular Expression Editor

2010-01-14 Thread Chad Perrin
have overlooked the part where Carmel mentioned writing regexen for use with sieve+Dovecot and possibly with Postfix. I get the impression from that and later comments in the thread that Carmel is particularly focused on sieve's regex syntax, which may use libc's regex implementation. -- Chad

Re: Failed to Load Kernel

2010-01-05 Thread Chad Perrin
or FreeBSD. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpZlLBm6RMuI.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: xclip

2010-01-01 Thread Chad Perrin
an SSH client on the host OS to talk to the guest OS, and copy from the SSH client to wherever else you need the data in your host OS. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpsw8o2cJ10T.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Where did the handbook go?

2010-01-01 Thread Chad Perrin
? On FreeBSD 7.2, I see it at: /usr/share/doc/de_DE.ISO8859-1/books/handbook If you are on a different FreeBSD release version, I suppose your mileage may vary. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpPJTJuwdOtA.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: FreeBSD is too filesystem errors sensitive

2009-12-18 Thread Chad Perrin
. If it's an option for you, you may want to look into disabling soft updates as well so that you don't have to just hope that everything gets synced before the end of the world. Depending on your usage, however, this might result in unacceptably poor performance. -- Chad Perrin [ original content

broken tmux

2009-12-18 Thread Chad Perrin
. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpJHN3a539w4.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: broken tmux [solved]

2009-12-18 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 02:02:51AM +0100, Pieter de Goeje wrote: On Friday 18 December 2009 19:34:18 Chad Perrin wrote: When I tried asking this before, it was evidently during a period that the mailing list was down, so I'll try again: After updating software on a FreeBSD 6.1 system

Re: Simple Monitoring Of TCP/IP Question

2009-12-17 Thread Chad Perrin
direction. Does tcpdump do what you need? It's pretty slim (makes Wireshark look huge by comparison) and easily scripted (since it's a command line tool). -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpyKqCgRj0IE.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: need a newline between paragraphs....

2009-11-25 Thread Chad Perrin
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 01:19:42PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 01:07:41PM -0700, Chad Perrin wrote: precisely. in this case, every paragraph that is not on a newline wraps. so anything that has an EOL is a new paragraph. If I understand you correctly

Re: MUA questions

2009-11-25 Thread Chad Perrin
to use fetchmail or getmail, and not still trying to use Sendmail instead? -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpKR90FtlREu.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: need a newline between paragraphs....

2009-11-24 Thread Chad Perrin
that might cause conflicts with paragraph formatting while doing a substitution. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgph68SyEyeB2.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: GUI for file permissions management

2009-11-19 Thread Chad Perrin
On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 08:22:17AM +, Thomas Adam wrote: 2009/11/19 Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com: Someone asked me recently whether a GUI for file permissions management Anything like: mc, worker, rox, etc? Those are all filesystem browsers/managers -- right? I've already told

Re: GUI for file permissions management

2009-11-19 Thread Chad Perrin
On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 07:23:33PM +, Thomas Adam wrote: 2009/11/19 Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com: Those are all filesystem browsers/managers -- right?  I've already told the person who asked that many such applications have that kind of functionality.  In my initial question

GUI for file permissions management

2009-11-18 Thread Chad Perrin
that kind of tool? -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgp3XAigpEkuy.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: WPA: specify alternate config file in rc.conf

2009-11-04 Thread Chad Perrin
for work to run a release candidate OS. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgp8W9MNYNint.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: WPA: specify alternate config file in rc.conf

2009-11-03 Thread Chad Perrin
for pointing me in the right direction. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpIhqD7VezGI.pgp Description: PGP signature

WPA: specify alternate config file in rc.conf

2009-11-02 Thread Chad Perrin
with the default /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf file? -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpk8er4HpGLG.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Why is sendmail is part of the system and not a package?

2009-10-28 Thread Chad Perrin
it part of base instead of Sendmail, but of course it's entirely possible that I've overlooked some potential problems. The licensing is right, too (unlike, perhaps, that of Postfix). -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgplmnOSIxhXl.pgp Description: PGP

Re: undo make deinstall

2009-10-22 Thread Chad Perrin
less space. Thanks -- that could help (depending on the backup system, as you say). -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpny8kmABVr4.pgp Description: PGP signature

undo make deinstall

2009-10-21 Thread Chad Perrin
How does one undo a `make deinstall` when `make reinstall` fails? -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpgM3SVob9Ae.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: undo make deinstall

2009-10-21 Thread Chad Perrin
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 12:38:48PM -0700, Chuck Swiger wrote: On Oct 21, 2009, at 12:28 PM, Chad Perrin wrote: How does one undo a `make deinstall` when `make reinstall` fails? Do you have a package of this port handy?-- try doing a pkg_add of that... It is, for the moment, a hypothetical

Re: undo make deinstall

2009-10-21 Thread Chad Perrin
system from backup. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgprgG8ORXnlX.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: / almost out of space just after installation

2009-10-10 Thread Chad Perrin
of physical storage. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpqwLNGkePpj.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: / almost out of space just after installation

2009-10-10 Thread Chad Perrin
the majority of the stuff you want to keep between installs will reside. Basically everything else within /usr (with the possible exception of /usr/local/etc) is just what happens when you install and configure your system in the first place. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http

Re: ion windows manager on FreeBSD

2009-10-08 Thread Chad Perrin
On Thu, Oct 08, 2009 at 11:19:00AM -0300, Carlos A. M. dos Santos wrote: On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 3:43 PM, Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: On Wed, Oct 07, 2009 at 01:25:35PM -0300, Carlos A. M. dos Santos wrote: You can fork the code, rename it, whatever, but you can NOT change

Re: / almost out of space just after installation

2009-10-07 Thread Chad Perrin
of /home it's /usr/home, and creates a symlink from /home to /usr/home for the sake of convenience. Are you sure that isn't what happened? -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpTvTGd7yu0o.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: ion windows manager on FreeBSD

2009-10-07 Thread Chad Perrin
considered copyright infringement! There. I fixed it for you. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpZ8WykjV5jQ.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Voting for a native i386/amd64 flash player

2009-10-03 Thread Chad Perrin
is a blight. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpBNxEshjIUY.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Voting for a native i386/amd64 flash player

2009-10-03 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sat, Oct 03, 2009 at 07:56:53AM +0200, Rolf G Nielsen wrote: Where do I vote to have them continue forever not creating a FreeBSD version of that crap? If you s/Free/Open/ I think the question answers itself. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org

Re: Voting for a native i386/amd64 flash player

2009-10-03 Thread Chad Perrin
in particular, or to any product in that specific niche? I don't know about the other guy, but I find the Adobe Flash Player plugin pretty odious. Unfortunately, I also find Swfdec and Gnash pretty substandard as well. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org

Re: Voting for a native i386/amd64 flash player

2009-10-03 Thread Chad Perrin
.) That's just another reason to go with a copyfree license instead of the GPL. 5. I seem to be pre-occupied with the video compression, ignoring sound. PS: was this too off-topic? Maybe? I don't know. It's an interesting topic. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http

Re: Voting for a native i386/amd64 flash player

2009-10-02 Thread Chad Perrin
. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgp4pS3L5mEZz.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: why no Oracle on FreeBSD ?

2009-09-25 Thread Chad Perrin
On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 10:28:20AM -0400, telmn...@757.org wrote: I'd be willing to bet there is little to no commercial demand for Oracle on FreeBSD. I wonder how much difference Oracle availability on FreeBSD would make, here. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http

Re: internet access from FreeBSD

2009-09-22 Thread Chad Perrin
clarify your needs so we can help you satisfy them. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpXyD1YX4zS9.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: network freebsd computers

2009-09-22 Thread Chad Perrin
to solving the problem. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpoi1uW3xZGH.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: network freebsd computers

2009-09-22 Thread Chad Perrin
necessary, enable it for one specific connection using the -X option for SSH. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpD3pmBpJtpC.pgp Description: PGP signature

sSMTP, this mailing list, and helo errors

2009-09-16 Thread Chad Perrin
/local/sbin/ssmtp -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] Quoth Alan Kay: I invented the term 'Object-Oriented', and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind. pgpQ76TYXzSKC.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: sSMTP, this mailing list, and helo errors

2009-09-16 Thread Chad Perrin
/usr/local/sbin/ssmtp hoststat/usr/local/sbin/ssmtp purgestat /usr/local/sbin/ssmtp If this email gets through to the list, consider my problem solved and myself suitably chagrined at having overlooked something that should have been so obvious to me. -- Chad Perrin [ original

Re: linux-pango won't install

2009-09-12 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 02:19:22PM +0400, Boris Samorodov wrote: On Fri, 11 Sep 2009 23:01:23 -0600 Chad Perrin wrote: How long has this been broken for 7.2? Considering all the stuff that depends on linux-pango, I'm surprised it hasn't been fixed. It will be broken until someone

Re: FreeBSD 7.x with Lenovo Thinkpad SL500 or T400

2009-09-11 Thread Chad Perrin
just my educated guess, and not confirmation, though. Hopefully someone else can give a more definitive response. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] Quoth Antoine de Saint-Exupery: A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left

Re: linux-pango won't install

2009-09-11 Thread Chad Perrin
at least let you see what's going wrong! I should have thought of that myself. Thanks for having patience and giving me an informative response. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] Quoth C. S. Lewis: We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road

Re: linux-pango won't install

2009-09-11 Thread Chad Perrin
, in any case. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] Quoth Bjarne Stroustrup: An ugly operation should have an ugly syntactic form. pgpWCcuQsXOpn.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: are there any notebooks with mouse-sticks?

2009-09-10 Thread Chad Perrin
to be well-supported by open source operating systems, and come with trackpoints. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] Quoth Philip Machanick: caution: if you write code like this, immediately after you are fired the person assigned to maintaining your code after you

Re: are there any notebooks with mouse-sticks?

2009-09-10 Thread Chad Perrin
On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 04:07:04PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 10:51:29AM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: I just turn off the touchpad in my ThinkPad's BIOS/CMOS settings. That's pretty much the *first* thing I do with a new ThinkPad, before I even install a halfway

linux-pango won't install

2009-09-10 Thread Chad Perrin
packages (-:ignored / *:skipped / !:failed) ! x11-toolkits/linux-pango (unknown build error) How can I fix this? My Google and FreeBSD documentation searches have proven fruitless. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] Quoth Paul Graham: SUVs

Re: are there any notebooks with mouse-sticks?

2009-09-09 Thread Chad Perrin
don't know of any netbooks that come with trackpoints. I hope you get an answer on this list so I'll get one as well (with the obvious preference for FreeBSD, or at least *some* BSD Unix, compatibility). -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] Quoth Philip Machanick

Re: bookkeeping software

2009-09-03 Thread Chad Perrin
accounting. It's definitely not the sort of thing you'd want to use for tax return preparation, but it works fine for tracking budgets and accounts. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] Perrin's Principle of Exclusion: The strength of any system is inversely

Re: IBM Stinkpad and Wifi

2009-08-30 Thread Chad Perrin
I missed with the setup? I haven't seen up and scan used together like that before. Is that supported? Have you tried the following? # ifconfig ath0 up # ifconfig ath0 list scan -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] Quoth Christopher Hitchens: What

Re: Equivilant of 'lsmod'

2009-08-24 Thread Chad Perrin
wants to spend any time learning it. Just giving the Linux command for something means you're unnecessarily narrowing down the number of people who can give you an answer. Don't confuse the issue with facts! -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] Quoth

Re: fusefs-sshfs

2009-08-18 Thread Chad Perrin
with the install, the network setup, or the remote machine. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] Quoth Anonymous: It is easier to measure something than to understand what you have measured. pgpVo3HWF3k3z.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Looking for fast graphical web browser

2009-08-11 Thread Chad Perrin
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 10:42:00PM -0400, Chris Hill wrote: On Fri, 7 Aug 2009, Chad Perrin wrote: On Mon, Aug 03, 2009 at 08:27:34AM -0400, Chris Hill wrote: Firefox has not had Ctrl-Q for some time. Try Alt-F followed by Q. I guess that's 2.5 keystrokes, but at least it's keystrokes

Re: Looking for fast graphical web browser

2009-08-11 Thread Chad Perrin
On Fri, Aug 07, 2009 at 08:15:15AM -0400, Robert Huff wrote: Chad Perrin wrote: Firefox has not had Ctrl-Q for some time. Try Alt-F followed by Q. I guess that's 2.5 keystrokes, but at least it's keystrokes. What version number would you call some time ago? I just used Ctrl-Q about six

Re: Looking for fast graphical web browser

2009-08-10 Thread Chad Perrin
problems by upgrading to 3.0 again. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] Quoth markinct @techrepublic.com: Don't take anything you do on-line lightly. Caveat Clicker... pgpvpq90QpGM8.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: FreeBSD for the common man(or woman) (was: upgrade 7.2

2009-08-09 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sat, Aug 08, 2009 at 07:55:18PM +0200, Polytropon wrote: On Sat, 8 Aug 2009 10:46:00 -0600, Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: Yeah, I hate that stuff. The GNU project is kind of like the Microsoft of the open source community, that way. Be happy that there at least is an info

Re: FreeBSD for the common man(or woman) (was: upgrade 7.2

2009-08-09 Thread Chad Perrin
printers, I rather suspect it'd be much the same. Anyway, best of luck with it. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] Quoth Malaclypse the Younger: 'Tis an ill wind that blows no minds. pgpN1jSnDDIwr.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: FreeBSD for the common man(or woman) (was: upgrade 7.2

2009-08-08 Thread Chad Perrin
, frankly -- because the faster they release, the faster they get dropped from support, basically, and I still haven't gotten the knack of figuring out which releases are going to be the extended support releases when it comes time to pick a minor version number to install on a new system. -- Chad

Re: Looking for fast graphical web browser

2009-08-07 Thread Chad Perrin
. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] Quoth Christopher Hitchens: What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof. pgpY71B2GUJvs.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Looking for fast graphical web browser

2009-08-07 Thread Chad Perrin
libraries the app in question might pull in). Your mileage, of course, may vary. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] Quoth Thomas McCauley: The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out. pgp8nmptv2uMt.pgp

Re: Opera in your repos

2009-08-07 Thread Chad Perrin
system, not a distro. DesktopBSD and PC-BSD, on the other hand . . . I've been far too pedantic for one email on such an inconsequential subject. I'll stop now. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] Quoth H. L. Mencken: Democracy is the theory

Re: Looking for fast graphical web browser

2009-07-31 Thread Chad Perrin
and it'll close Firefox immediately. Anyway, in the end everyone should use what he likes best. :) Of course. :-) . . . just as soon as it gets ported to FreeBSD. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] Quoth markinct @techrepublic.com: Don't take anything

Re: Looking for fast graphical web browser

2009-07-31 Thread Chad Perrin
On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 10:10:49AM -0400, Daniel Underwood wrote: Perfect, yes! Midori is precisely what I need! Many thanks. I use Midori as a backup browser sometimes, but be aware that it's pretty buggy, and interface design could use a little help. -- Chad Perrin [ original content

Re: Looking for fast graphical web browser

2009-07-31 Thread Chad Perrin
On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 11:10:07PM +0200, Polytropon wrote: On Fri, 31 Jul 2009 14:56:36 -0600, Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: That's easy. Just press Ctrl+Q and it'll close Firefox immediately. Negative for firefox-2.0.0.12,1 (on my desktop system) - no Ctrl+Q. :-) I don't

Re: A question for developers

2009-07-25 Thread Chad Perrin
it, if that makes any sense. Without further ado, here it is: http://sob.apotheon.org/?p=981 I hope that helps. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] Quoth Larry Wall: It's more important to be a good driver than to have seven feet of sponge rubber all around

Re: A question for developers

2009-07-25 Thread Chad Perrin
without having to use email clients I don't like. joe has also the advantage that it behaves differently depending under which name your start it. What do you mean by which name? I'm curious. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] O'Rourke's Circumcision

Re: A question for developers

2009-07-25 Thread Chad Perrin
vim a go. It's what I've been contemplating for quite some time anyway, and the recent post brought it to the surface. Good luck! -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] Quoth Sean Reifschneider: If java had real garbage-collection, it would delete most programs

Re: upgrade from Firefox 3.0 to Firefox 3.5 -- now that it's installed, it won't run

2009-07-18 Thread Chad Perrin
(errno = 2) Does anyone have any thoughts on what I should do with this? -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] A: It reverses the normal flow of conversation. Q: What's wrong with top-posting? pgp78l3t6E1qF.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: upgrade from Firefox 3.0 to Firefox 3.5 -- now that it's installed, it won't run

2009-07-18 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 07:02:01PM +0200, Frank Steinborn wrote: Chad Perrin wrote: Unfortunately, I haven't gotten far enough to see if anything was lost, because now Firefox 3.5.x won't start: Fatal error 'Recurse on a private mutex.' at line 986 in file /usr/src/lib

Re: upgrade from Firefox 3.0 to Firefox 3.5 -- now that it's installed, it won't run

2009-07-18 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 07:17:53PM +0200, Frank Steinborn wrote: Chad Perrin wrote: Okay -- where do I get the sem kernel module? It is included in FreeBSD, just type 'kldload sem' to load it. If you want to have loaded it automatically on boot, add the following to your /boot

Re: upgrade from Firefox 3.0 to Firefox 3.5 -- now that it's installed, it won't run

2009-07-18 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 07:28:41PM +0200, Frank Steinborn wrote: Chad Perrin wrote: # kldload sem kldload: can't load sem: No such file or directory # locate sem.ko /boot/kernel/sysvsem.ko /boot/kernel.GENERIC/sysvsem.ko /boot/kernel.OPT_KOKOPELLI_APM

Re: upgrade from Firefox 3.0 to Firefox 3.5 -- now that it's installed, it won't run

2009-07-18 Thread Chad Perrin
Firefox 3.5. Isn't there some way to get it using CVS or Subversion? I can't imagine how a standard module would just be *missing*. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] Quoth Marvin Minsky: . . . anyone could learn Lisp in 1 day, except that if they already

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