On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 03:00:50PM -0400, Greg Larkin wrote:
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Chad Perrin wrote:
| This might be slightly off-topic, I suppose -- but since (t)csh is the
| default shell for FreeBSD, I figured this might be a good place to ask.
|
| I'm aware
On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 11:02:01AM -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote:
On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 08:40:20AM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote:
On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 02:55:22PM +0700, OutBackDingo wrote:
How many Zimbabwe dollars, I wonder? This seems to give the finest
measurement
really been worth anything since 1975 at the latest.
People just haven't figured that out yet.
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They always say that when life gives you lemons you should make lemonade.
I always wonder -- isn't the lemonade going to suck if life doesn't
even that cost is optional.
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Edmund Burke: Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but
his judgement; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices
it to your opinion.
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C. Hoare: Two ways of constructing software: (1) make it so simple that
there are obviously no bugs, (2) make it so complicated that there are
no obvious bugs. Making it simple is far more difficult.
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On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 10:01:54PM +0100, RW wrote:
On Fri, 18 Jul 2008 21:06:57 +0100
RW [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, 18 Jul 2008 09:56:24 -0600
Chad Perrin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
My preliminary searches on the subject suggest that neither GBDE nor
GELI encryption offers
. . . so if those things matter to you, you might consider the switch
(aside from the obvious fact that it solves your little problem with the
configuration dialogs during portupgrades).
I hope that helps.
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Marvin Minsky
.
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Anne McClintock, University of Wisconsin: The decisions that really
matter are made outside the democratic process.
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Is there an up-to-date list of GPLed stuff in the base system?
I seem to recall finding a page for a project for replacing GNU tools
with BSD-licensed tools, but managed to lose it in the meantime. I'd
like to find that again too.
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encyclopedias, for instance, is the fact that it suffers less
institutional bias.
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Bjarne Stroustrup: An ugly operation should have an ugly syntactic
form.
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sought out more rigorously researched sources of information. I
certainly never cited an encyclopedia in any research paper after sixth
grade -- because I wasn't an idiot.
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Larry Wall: You can never entirely stop being what you once
it, not because they need it.
In my house, we had an encyclopedia because I was in school and it was
useful for research papers.
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MacUser, Nov. 1990: There comes a time in the history of any project
when it becomes necessary to shoot
to occupy our local
library as well?
Guys, you seem to be jumping the gun a bit. Theres plenty
of time until 03:14:07 UTC on Tuesday, January 19, 2038.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_problem)
Bah. That's basically a solved problem.
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On Tue, Jul 01, 2008 at 10:36:22PM -0700, Kurt Buff wrote:
We're advising our clients to stock up on canned goods and shotguns -
Brain Gremlin
Seriously? What kind of business are you in that makes that an
appropriate bit of advice?
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to consume mass bandwidth and get your IP
banned from accessing it. Please be aware of others' needs, and
courteous in your treatment of those needs.
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Friedrich Nietzche: Those who know that they are profound strive for
clarity. Those
On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 03:38:48PM -0700, Kurt Buff wrote:
On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 11:39 AM, Chad Perrin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, Jul 01, 2008 at 10:36:22PM -0700, Kurt Buff wrote:
We're advising our clients to stock up on canned goods and shotguns -
Brain Gremlin
Seriously
I guess your definition of quite often must be much more permissive
than mine -- or you just have a real knack for finding bad information.
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Albert Camus: An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
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library as well?
No, you didn't, but that sounds like an excellent idea. How
zombie-defensible is it?
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Blind faith is an ironic gift to return to the Creator of human
intelligence.
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Larry Wall: Perl is, in intent, a cleaned up and summarized version of
that wonderful semi-natural language known as 'Unix'.
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On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 08:34:01AM +0200, herbs wrote:
Yes, you invoke #firefox (the V2.x) or #firefox-devel (for the new one).
Dont remember with the bookmarks and plugins though, you maybe have to
import/reinstall these.
Thanks for confirmation.
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On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 03:35:46PM +0200, herbert langhans wrote:
I took firefox-devel. Some days ago it was version 3.0a2. Works quite well if
you really dont want to wait..
Does it coexist happily with Firefox 2.x?
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I
, not a number of systems running a platform Adobe already
supports that *isn't* FreeBSD-based, no matter how much you'd like to
change those systems to PC-BSD.
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awj @reddit: The terms never and always are never always true
it? Is it actually just an older version of the same package, or
is it a different/separate package entirely?
Any help figuring this out would be appreciated.
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personal preferences during setup.
so even better - let FreeBSD be like it is.
There's a reason I use FreeBSD rather than PC-BSD, or any of the others I
mentioned.
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Common Reformulation of Greenspun's Tenth Rule: Any sufficiently
out
what's going on with that particular Xorg package before sending a
message to the list about it.
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Bjarne Stroustrup: An ugly operation should have an ugly syntactic
form.
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, which it
should be now as it is a out of date snap shot of xorg-server from
some time back.
Should that be x11-servers/xorg-server, instead of
xorg-server/xorg-server?
. . . or are you referring to something else?
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McCloctnick
experience, though, MS Windows is
about the last place I'd send 'em.
Well, okay, maybe I'd send someone there before OpenVMS, but that's kind
of getting far afield.
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Marvin Minsky: It's just incredible that a trillion-synapse computer
dancing rodents sense) without having to
actually express any personal preferences during setup.
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I was essentially an anarcho-capitalist in high school, rather than
wasting the folly of my youth on something lame like revolutionary
exactly what I want from a CLI/console BitTorrent client so far.
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Marvin Minsky: It's just incredible that a trillion-synapse computer
could actually spend Saturday afternoon watching a football game.
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to show is this:
iwi0: link state changed to DOWN
iwi0: scan stuck
Any ideas on where to go from here would be appreciated. Is this a
driver bug, or am I doing something wrong? Another (effectively
identical) laptop running Debian does not have this problem.
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for this project, but I don't want to discover after we're well underway
that large numbers of connections would cause problems. Should I
consider ipfw or ipfilter instead, or are my concerns with relation to
pf's ability to handle extremely high loads of legitimate traffic
unfounded?
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extension that can handle it, or anything along those
lines, in Ports? What are my options, besides just deleting all the
vCalendar markup cruft by hand (or writing a script to do it for me)?
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Anne McClintock, University of Wisconsin
On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 09:16:43AM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote:
I've gone from using CAT5 to 802.11g for my laptop's network connectivity
while I'm at home. Unfortunately, since I've done so, my connection
drops from time to time, and I usually don't notice for a while. The
period between drops
, including S/MIME.
My PGP signatures seem to come through just fine, however.
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Anonymous: Eat your crow early, while it's young and tender. Don't wait
until it's old and tough.
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On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 04:27:46PM -0400, Andrew Berry wrote:
On 10-Jun-08, at 1:47 PM, Chad Perrin wrote:
I've been sent a vCalendar file via email. I use mutt as my mail user
agent, and am not terribly interested in switching to mail/claws-mail
just so I can read this vCalendar file
doesn't seem to want me to alter headers to make it
thread properly, and keeps throwing away my edits.
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Dr. Ron Paul: Liberty has meaning only if we still believe in it when
terrible things happen and a false government security
line -- or are those
three different IP addresses that you've Xed out? Is the period after
search what's actually in the file, or did you elide some of the
contents of that line?
Sorry if I'm not as useful as I should be -- I still haven't fully woken
up, and may miss something obvious.
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) that it
looks like some odd kind of sex toy -- and a lot of people have since
then referred to it as the sex toy as a result. That's all.
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Albert Camus: An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
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Isaac Asimov: Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is
completely programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.
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, and what it's using for wireless. There
will always (until hardware vendors wise up) be cases where specific
hardware components aren't fully supported *yet*. In general, though,
any Thinkpad configuration more than about eight months old should be
very well supported.
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solved?
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MacUser, Nov. 1990: There comes a time in the history of any project when
it becomes necessary to shoot the engineers and begin production.
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look into it and see if that does the job
for me. Thanks.
Glad to be of service. Sometimes, the answer we really need is easier
than the one we think we need.
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John Kenneth Galbraith: If all else fails, immortality can always
On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 12:51:24AM +0100, Frank Shute wrote:
On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 10:25:37PM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote:
I'm looking for an easier way to insert interrobangs and other non-ASCII
characters (em-dashes, et cetera) into text on my FreeBSD laptop than by
way of copy/paste
the program xev to show what key gives what code
Thanks. I'll look into that.
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Ben Franklin: As we enjoy great Advantages from the Inventions of others
we should be glad of an Opportunity to serve others by any Invention of
ours, and this we
, and most AVIs use MPEG (in my experience) for video
codec.
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Ben Franklin: As we enjoy great Advantages from the Inventions of others
we should be glad of an Opportunity to serve others by any Invention of
ours, and this we should do freely
. I don't know what
the GMPlayer interface offers for the same functionality -- never use the
thing.
Best o' luck.
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Dr. Ron Paul: Liberty has meaning only if we still believe in it when
terrible things happen and a false government security
down Alt while typing 8253 might be an improvement.
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Rudy Giuliani: You have free speech so I can be heard.
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Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ]
McCloctnick the Lucid: The first rule of magic is simple. Don't waste your
time waving your hands and hopping when a rock or a club will do.
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disabled by default, once I started using FreeBSD for all my servers.
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John Kenneth Galbraith: If all else fails, immortality can always be
assured through spectacular error.
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To grant an account on FreeBSD su access to root, add it to the wheel
group.
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print substr(Just another Perl hacker, 0, -2);
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error)
Does anyone have any troubleshooting tips for how I should deal with
this? This is the first time I've had a port fail to upgrade because it
suddenly seems to have ceased existing.
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Leon Festinger: A man with a conviction is a hard man
On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 10:52:15PM +0200, Lars Kristiansen wrote:
Chad Perrin skrev:
Let me know if I should take this to the ports mailing list instead of
the questions mailing list.
This is my problem:
# portupgrade neon-0.26.4
** Port directory not found: www/neon2
** Listing
On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 11:00:12PM +0100, RW wrote:
On Thu, 8 May 2008 15:02:47 -0600
Chad Perrin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 10:52:15PM +0200, Lars Kristiansen wrote:
portupgrade -f -o www/neon26 neon
seemed to work for me
Isn't this the sort
On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 05:07:47PM -0500, Dan Nelson wrote:
In the last episode (May 08), Chad Perrin said:
On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 10:52:15PM +0200, Lars Kristiansen wrote:
Chad Perrin skrev:
Let me know if I should take this to the ports mailing list instead of
the questions mailing
On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 05:02:54PM -0700, Chuck Swiger wrote:
On Apr 15, 2008, at 4:14 PM, Chad Perrin wrote:
I have two questions. First:
Assume you have a FreeBSD system installed that has been running for
at
least a year, with a bunch of graphical desktop and productivity
software
on it at this point, because I haven't
really checked into it.
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Sen. Dick Durbin, D-IL, to an RIAA executive: Are you headed to junior
high schools to round up the usual suspects?
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On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 04:35:52PM -0700, Luke Dean wrote:
On Tue, 15 Apr 2008, Chad Perrin wrote:
I have two questions. First:
Assume you have a FreeBSD system installed that has been running for at
least a year, with a bunch of graphical desktop and productivity software
installed
On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 01:31:23AM +0200, Mel wrote:
On Wednesday 16 April 2008 01:14:50 Chad Perrin wrote:
Assume you have a FreeBSD system installed that has been running for at
least a year, with a bunch of graphical desktop and productivity software
installed, and have both installed
, are checking 1 and providing 2 and 3.
In fact, 2 and 3 should be pretty standard operating procedure when
asking for help.
Also . . .
1. Are the firewall settings different between the two systems?
2. Are the sshd_conf files the same?
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/
Looking at this now, I'm beginning to think that if Obama isn't
assassinated before November 5th, it'll be FreeBSD that wins the
election, rather than Linux as Doug Karr predicts on that page.
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Ben Franklin: As we enjoy great Advantages
are connected -- preferably with some control
over which devices are listed so I can narrow it down to storage devices
that aren't mounted (even if only via grep).
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Phillip J. Haack: Productivity is not about speed. It's about velocity.
You can be fast
! Thanks for finding that. I sent an email to the contact
address for that site, and will see what kind of response I'll get.
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John W. Russell: People point. Sometimes that's just easier. They also use
words. Sometimes that's just easier
On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 01:11:01PM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote:
My area (northern Colorado) has an excellent Linux Users Group (NCLUG).
There's a great bunch of guys there. Unfortunately, they're very
Linux-centric. I'm kinda the resident BSD Unix heretic -- which is fine
most of the time
@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: finding BSD Unix users
On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 01:11:01PM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote:
My area (northern Colorado) has an excellent Linux Users Group (NCLUG).
There's a great bunch of guys there. Unfortunately, they're very
Linux-centric. I'm kinda the resident BSD
in this area to build a users group. Any suggestions for
how to go about finding fellow BSD Unix users in my area would be
appreciated, I'm sure.
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Brian K. Reid: In computer science, we stand on each other's feet.
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On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 12:18:11PM +1000, Da Rock wrote:
On Sun, 2008-03-23 at 19:51 -0600, Chad Perrin wrote:
On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 09:10:04AM +1000, Da Rock wrote:
On Sat, 2008-03-22 at 14:58 -0700, Matthew Woodson wrote:
I've been learning about a bunch of the BSD OSes, and i
and the ports collection. I haven't looked into that myself,
so whatever's involved in doing so is something you should investigate.
I imagine it must be a little less involved than it would be for Debian
GNU/Linux, however -- and I *have* looked into that in the past.
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On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 04:48:49AM -0700, Chad Perrin wrote:
On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 06:41:46AM -0500, Gerard wrote:
On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 11:57:07 +0100
Pieter Baele [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
When there are (security) vulnerabilities, ports won't install.
You can override this, but I
On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 07:23:43AM +0300, Yuri Pankov wrote:
On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 04:03:54PM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote:
I'm not sure that's a very good title for this email, but it's what I've
got.
Since configuring my environment to use UTF-8, I've had a problem while
checking email
On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 11:32:24PM -0700, Bill Campbell wrote:
On Tue, Mar 25, 2008, Chad Perrin wrote:
On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 07:23:43AM +0300, Yuri Pankov wrote:
On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 04:03:54PM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote:
I'm not sure that's a very good title for this email, but it's
-- you'd need third-party software. Burning an ISO
without such software would just result in a copy of the ISO on the CD,
rather than a CD that would boot up an installer.
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McCloctnick the Lucid: The first rule of magic is simple. Don't waste
.
Considering the purpose here is to build a server, I doubt Firefox,
OpenOffice.org, and games would really be appropriate at this time.
Have fun.
I second the motion.
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Marvin Minsky: It's just incredible that a trillion-synapse
is true of any other OS that could server as a
streaming internet radio station.
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Isaac Asimov: Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is
completely programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest
On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 01:01:35AM +0800, Gelsema, P (Patrick) wrote:
On Fri, March 21, 2008 00:39, Chad Perrin wrote:
On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 10:50:34AM +0100, Nejc Å koberne wrote:
So you are saying that merely setting up an OpenLDAP server with proper
DNS
configuration and Kerberos
unnecessary top-posting kinda harshes my mellow here.
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Paul Graham: Real ugliness is not harsh-looking syntax, but having to
build programs out of the wrong concepts.
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freebsd-questions
new to FreeBSD without giving answers, and explain my choices.
4. I have to stop typing at some point, so you only get the three
suggestions for server types above.
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Paul Graham: Real ugliness is not harsh-looking syntax, but having
).
Why not? There's hardware on which FreeBSD will run and MS Windows will
not, y'know. It goes both ways.
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Isaac Asimov: Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is
completely programmed and working smoothly
be reading a different discussion than the
one I've been reading.
Still just talking, not fighting.
I'm just offering a perspective and asking a couple of questions.
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print substr(Just another Perl hacker, 0, -2
server functionality in an AD domain.
On the other hand, FreeBSD can not only provide equivalent functionality
in a Unix network (any one of several types), but can do a whole lot
more, as long as you don't specifically require an AD domain.
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of desktop-specific libraries? I
just realized that what I usually use for screenshots (scrot) doesn't
capture the mouse cursor position.
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Paul Graham: Real ugliness is not harsh-looking syntax, but having to
build programs out of the wrong concepts
to force a
screen redraw every time I switch between views, scroll down a page in
mutt, and so on. I also don't want to go back to a character set limited
to plain ol' ASCII (there's a reason I use rxvt-unicode instead of rxvt).
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Patrick J
.
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Isaac Asimov: Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is
completely programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.
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On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 10:44:37AM +1000, Da Rock wrote:
On Tue, 2008-02-19 at 08:49 -0700, Chad Perrin wrote:
The way you phrased it makes it sound like FreeBSD is simply unsuited to
use as a desktop system. Contrary to that impression, I'm sending this
from a Thinkpad laptop
On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 01:27:49PM -0700, Chad Perrin wrote:
On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 09:14:04AM -0700, Chad Perrin wrote:
[ snip a bunch of stuff ]
On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 11:36:34AM -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote:
A good rundown of some of the differences.
Maybe you can put
On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 07:24:01PM -0700, Predrag Punosevac wrote:
Chad Perrin wrote:
If anyone has suggestions for how to fix it up further, let me know.
Hi Chad,
Here is my honest opinion. I hope it will help you improve the post :-)
I do too.
I didn't like very much the tone
how fast
your program comes together.
Might the same not be said for Perl?
Yes . . . and Ruby. I prefer both over Python, for different reasons,
personally.
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Rudy Giuliani: You have free speech so I can be heard
that helps. It's probably more than you wanted to read.
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newer users. :P
The way you phrased it makes it sound like FreeBSD is simply unsuited to
use as a desktop system. Contrary to that impression, I'm sending this
from a Thinkpad laptop with FreeBSD on it, and it's by far the best
desktop OS I've ever had the pleasure to use.
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On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 09:14:04AM -0700, Chad Perrin wrote:
[ snip a bunch of stuff ]
On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 11:36:34AM -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote:
A good rundown of some of the differences.
Maybe you can put this on a web page and get it added to lists
of comparrisons.
Sure. I'll
On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 12:16:52AM +, RW wrote:
On Wed, 13 Feb 2008 16:02:45 -0700
Chad Perrin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 10:32:16PM -0800, Jason C. Wells wrote:
One could mount an md filesystem and then use that as swap. That
way you wouldn't need to use
installed on this laptop (both from FreeBSD
ports) -- neither of which is open source.
Believe me when I say I wish they were both released under a copyfree [1]
license.
[1]: http://www.copyfree.org/
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cleverly kept 50 paper cups in reserve. You then pack up
your glasses in a box and store it in the attic where you won't have to
worry about how slow they are to wash when they've been used.
Now . . . what do you do when you find out you have 120 guests to your
party?
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! Oh wait! I do!
Doh!!!
I don't believe he said that morons were the *only* people attracted to
Linux. Something can be a lightning rod and still serve as a place to
tie off your clothesline (to stretch a metaphor) every now and then.
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Marvin
On Sat, Feb 09, 2008 at 11:38:22AM +0100, Erik Norgaard wrote:
Chad Perrin wrote:
How about this:
ext_ifs = { iwi0 bge0 }
block in quick on ext_ifs all
pass out quick on ext_ifs all keep state
...
As long as you don't need statements like iwi0:network which you
shouldn't
is relative and required, despite your tools of
choice. Even using Linux or BSD, you instill significant trust in a
great many people, most of whom you do not even know.
What's wrong with gmail? It depends on who you ask.
I can agree with that.
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On Fri, Feb 08, 2008 at 02:53:39PM +0100, Erik Norgaard wrote:
Chad Perrin wrote:
I'm setting up PF on a FreeBSD laptop that sometimes uses the wireless
device (iwi0) as its external interface, and sometimes uses the RJ-45
ethernet device (bge0) as its external interface. Unfortunately, I
of which interface I'm using, or
is there some simple way to avoid that sort of redundancy? What am I
overlooking?
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Baltasar Gracian: A wise man gets more from his enemies than a fool from
his friends
though.
With that said, I do not consider any type of email a confidential
communication medium. If someone wants to read your email; I'm sure,
with enough hard work, they will.
That's what encryption is for -- privacy.
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print substr(Just
-- works beautifully.
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Isaac Asimov: Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is
completely programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.
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to be better supported by FreeBSD than other
models, I would imagine.
Aside from that, I think the FreeBSD Laptop Compatibility List brought up
by others should be useful:
http://laptop.bsdgroup.de/freebsd/
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