looking for MzScheme (for Arc)

2008-01-30 Thread Chad Perrin
able to find? I'd rather use MzScheme from ports, if it exists there, than install it outside the ports system -- though I'll install it separately if need be. -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] They always say that when life gives you lemons you should make lemonade. I always

www/flock port fails to install

2008-01-28 Thread Chad Perrin
Of The World As We Know It? Have I done something dumb to my system so that it won't update the Flock port to a version I can install? I'm on FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE for i386 on this machine. Thanks in advance for your time. -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] Patrick J. LoPresti

Re: www/flock port fails to install

2008-01-28 Thread Chad Perrin
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: On Mon, 2008-01-28 at 02:48 -0700, Chad Perrin wrote: I'm on FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE for i386 on this machine. Thanks in advance for your time

full-screen multimedia jukebox software

2008-01-26 Thread Chad Perrin
proprietary/closed-source software is not out of the question, as long as licensing costs are reasonable (aka cheap). -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] Kent Beck: I always knew that one day Smalltalk would replace Java. I just didn't know it would be called Ruby

Re: What version of Freebsd to run

2008-01-25 Thread Chad Perrin
for me (actually 6.2+freebsd-update=6.2p10) I don't recall Darryl saying what he was using. -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] 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

Re: Low Level Language Suggestions: OT

2008-01-25 Thread Chad Perrin
talk about the most. Not exactly the same thing. Also . . . what the industry uses depends on what industry. Google is mostly nonspecific in that regard when doing single-term searches like that. -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] Thomas McCauley: The measure of a man's

Re: are we CRIMINALS?

2008-01-22 Thread Chad Perrin
knives. Such an argument is dependent upon the assumption that the guy listening to you thinks it's absurd to outlaw knives. Before making that assumption, however, you should have a look at laws regarding knives in Scotland. There's no end to the absurdity of law. -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin

Re: FBSD or PCBSD?

2008-01-21 Thread Chad Perrin
, that could be a quick way to get from zero to a usable workstation for you. -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] Marvin Minsky: It's just incredible that a trillion-synapse computer could actually spend Saturday afternoon watching a football game

Re: Gutman Method on Empty Space

2008-01-18 Thread Chad Perrin
on FreeBSD)? http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/security/?p=388 -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] Kent Beck: I always knew that one day Smalltalk would replace Java. I just didn't know it would be called Ruby. ___ freebsd-questions

Re: ssmtp configuration for server authorization [solved]

2008-01-16 Thread Chad Perrin
, and changing my configuration to suit, everything works like a charm. Sorry about the unnecessary list noise. -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] MacUser, Nov. 1990: There comes a time in the history of any project when it becomes necessary to shoot the engineers and begin

Re: Asus eee (was Re: G4 Quicksilver as Web Server?)

2008-01-03 Thread Chad Perrin
(4) driver) with mine and that works well. Do you happen to know how well it's supported with the other major BSD Unix systems (Open- and Net-)? -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] John W. Russell: People point. Sometimes that's just easier. They also use words. Sometimes

Re: SSH through port forwarding

2007-12-28 Thread Chad Perrin
against brute-force attempts, but changing the port number does help cut down on the amount of bandwidth consumption on the LAN side of your router by allowing the router to ignore/deny all incoming traffic on port 22. -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] Marvin Minsky: It's just

Re: SSH through port forwarding

2007-12-28 Thread Chad Perrin
. -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] MacUser, Nov. 1990: There comes a time in the history of any project when it becomes necessary to shoot the engineers and begin production. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: SSH through port forwarding

2007-12-28 Thread Chad Perrin
On Fri, Dec 28, 2007 at 12:19:44PM -0800, Brian wrote: Chad Perrin wrote: On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 05:44:11AM -0500, Gerard Seibert wrote: On December 18, 2007 at 12:47AM sham khalil wrote: once you open port 22 to public ip, you'll get people try to bruteforce your machine. if you

Re: NIS Linux - Ubuntu

2007-12-27 Thread Chad Perrin
On Wed, Dec 26, 2007 at 09:10:00PM -0500, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Chad Perrin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The behavior with an asterisk instead of an X is pretty worrisome, however, and is not strictly Ubuntu's fault. Security of a server should not rely on the good will and competence

Re: NIS Linux - Ubuntu

2007-12-20 Thread Chad Perrin
, however, and is not strictly Ubuntu's fault. Security of a server should not rely on the good will and competence of the client developers. -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] Baltasar Gracian: A wise man gets more from his enemies than a fool from his friends

Re: common filesystem for Linux and FreeBSD

2007-12-18 Thread Chad Perrin
paragraph of mine, it looks like I'm probably not going to need the Linux system after all. Sorry if my answer was irrelevant but this is the best I could do. It would be pretty harsh of me to say your best wasn't good enough. Thanks for the effort to help. -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http

Re: common filesystem for Linux and FreeBSD

2007-12-18 Thread Chad Perrin
On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 11:06:30AM +0100, Ivan Voras wrote: Chad Perrin wrote: On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 10:39:31AM +0100, Ivan Voras wrote: Chad Perrin wrote: That being the case, there is some data I would like to keep available to both FreeBSD and Linux systems, in stable read/write

Re: Fw: Can I install Free BSD latest version on my laptop with dual boot?

2007-12-18 Thread Chad Perrin
become more familiar with the quality and extensiveness of FreeBSD documentation, you will surely find that some simple research is faster for most tasks than any user community mailing list or telephone support line could ever be. Hope that helps. -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http

Re: common filesystem for Linux and FreeBSD

2007-12-17 Thread Chad Perrin
On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 10:39:31AM +0100, Ivan Voras wrote: Chad Perrin wrote: That being the case, there is some data I would like to keep available to both FreeBSD and Linux systems, in stable read/write access with reasonably high access performance for both (fast enough to achieve

Re: common filesystem for Linux and FreeBSD

2007-12-17 Thread Chad Perrin
to make it available to both OSes on this machine? I'm looking to have a filesystem on *this* machine that is available to both OSes, running one at a time. -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] Paul Graham: Real ugliness is not harsh-looking syntax, but having to build programs

Re: csh programing book

2007-12-16 Thread Chad Perrin
, as far as I can tell. -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] Phillip J. Haack: Productivity is not about speed. It's about velocity. You can be fast, but if you're going in the wrong direction, you're not helping anyone. ___ freebsd

common filesystem for Linux and FreeBSD

2007-12-16 Thread Chad Perrin
Linux distro I settle on -- probably Debian), so concerns about things like bootability and binary compatibility aren't really at issue. A Wine directory will almost certainly need to be shared between the two, however. -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] Paul Graham: Real

Re: Absolute FreeBSD

2007-12-14 Thread Chad Perrin
On Fri, Dec 14, 2007 at 01:46:17AM -0600, Joshua Isom wrote: On Dec 14, 2007, at 1:12 AM, Chad Perrin wrote: For the record . . . title changes for new editions like that annoy me. It can make it pretty difficult at times trying to determine whether or not I'm about to buy a duplicate

Re: Absolute FreeBSD

2007-12-14 Thread Chad Perrin
CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] John Kenneth Galbraith: If all else fails, immortality can always be assured through spectacular error. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: Apparently, csh programming is considered harmful.

2007-12-14 Thread Chad Perrin
On Fri, Dec 14, 2007 at 02:26:28PM +, RW wrote: On Fri, 14 Dec 2007 00:09:41 -0700 Chad Perrin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmm -- fair answer. I was kind of thinking that on FreeBSD I should maybe do such work in csh as the standard shell, but it occurs to me that I'd probably

Apparently, csh programming is considered harmful.

2007-12-13 Thread Chad Perrin
I ran across this today: http://www.faqs.org/faqs/unix-faq/shell/csh-whynot/ Title: Csh Programming Considered Harmful I wonder what responses I might get here, and how much of this applies to tcsh as well (I'm still not exactly a tcsh expert). -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http

Re: Apparently, csh programming is considered harmful.

2007-12-13 Thread Chad Perrin
On Fri, Dec 14, 2007 at 04:25:30AM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2007-12-13 18:05, Chad Perrin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I ran across this today: http://www.faqs.org/faqs/unix-faq/shell/csh-whynot/ Title: Csh Programming Considered Harmful I wonder what responses I

Re: Apparently, csh programming is considered harmful.

2007-12-13 Thread Chad Perrin
On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 07:42:35PM -0700, Warren Block wrote: On Thu, 13 Dec 2007, Chad Perrin wrote: I ran across this today: http://www.faqs.org/faqs/unix-faq/shell/csh-whynot/ Title: Csh Programming Considered Harmful I wonder what responses I might get here, and how much

Re: Absolute FreeBSD

2007-12-13 Thread Chad Perrin
a duplicate. The switch from Learning Perl Objects, References, and Modules to Intermediate Perl was another example of that sort of annoyance. -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] Sen. Dick Durbin, D-IL, to an RIAA executive: Are you headed to junior high schools to round up

Re: Wine compatibility and performance on FreeBSD 7

2007-12-11 Thread Chad Perrin
, in this case, looks something like this: http://www.copyfree.org/ -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] W. Somerset Maugham: The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Wine compatibility and performance on FreeBSD 7

2007-12-10 Thread Chad Perrin
that. Was there any discussion of a fork? -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] Dr. Ron Paul: Liberty has meaning only if we still believe in it when terrible things happen and a false government security blanket beckons. ___ freebsd

Re: Wine compatibility and performance on FreeBSD 7

2007-12-10 Thread Chad Perrin
On Mon, Dec 10, 2007 at 11:44:55PM -0500, Tom Wickline wrote: Wins is under a free licence, its LGPL and I'm almost 100% sure you have no idea why the licence was changed! So . . . why was it changed? -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] Leon Festinger: A man

Re: Wine compatibility and performance on FreeBSD 7

2007-12-09 Thread Chad Perrin
. I nail down the specific issues with this one and get it working, or C. it becomes eas[y|ier] to get 3D acceleration working with a Radeon. Assuming one of those things happens, I hope I remember to report back in this thread. Thanks for the links. -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http

GBDE and GELI security

2007-12-04 Thread Chad Perrin
the case? Are there any other security concerns related to GBDE's implementation that you might mention? How well does GELI stack up against GBDE? I was surprised to read that OpenBSD's svnd is vulnerable to *offline* dictionary attacks. Any comments on that? -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http

Re: laptop

2007-12-03 Thread Chad Perrin
On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 05:57:25PM -0700, Chad Perrin wrote: My Thinkpad R52 works like a charm. T series Thinkpads are basically the big brother of R series Thinkpads, and also work exceedingly well (my favorite laptop of all time was a T24p). That was a typo. I meant to type T42p

Re: laptop

2007-12-03 Thread Chad Perrin
desktop. I've seen evidence that World of Warcraft can be made to run well on FreeBSD, and I intend to try that out myself at some point. In general, however, you're right -- FreeBSD is not the most game-oriented OS. -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] Baltasar Gracian: A wise

Re: laptop

2007-12-03 Thread Chad Perrin
Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] MacUser, Nov. 1990: There comes a time in the history of any project when it becomes necessary to shoot the engineers and begin production. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

PVR/DVR software on FreeBSD

2007-12-03 Thread Chad Perrin
and configuring the system)? -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] John W. Russell: People point. Sometimes that's just easier. They also use words. Sometimes that's just easier. For the same reasons that pointing has not made words obsolete, there will always be command lines

Re: In the spirit of Godwin's law - I propose Beastie's law

2007-11-29 Thread Chad Perrin
to end up on episodes of Cops because of it). -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] Brian K. Reid: In computer science, we stand on each other's feet. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: who wrote this

2007-11-28 Thread Chad Perrin
on! That's a much better way to put it than mine. -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] Anonymous: Eat your crow early, while it's young and tender. Don't wait until it's old and tough. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: who wrote this

2007-11-28 Thread Chad Perrin
said it), I would think What the hell is this doing here? Fundamentally, you have to be educated to understand it. FreeBSD is first and formost, for the educated computer user. That makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside. -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] Ben

Re: who wrote this

2007-11-26 Thread Chad Perrin
. -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] Kent Beck: I always knew that one day Smalltalk would replace Java. I just didn't know it would be called Ruby. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: who wrote this

2007-11-26 Thread Chad Perrin
suspect that entirely failing to mention Hitler quotes specifically will result in greater incidence of people complaining that Hitler quotes should be removed. -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] Anonymous: Eat your crow early, while it's young and tender. Don't wait until it's

Re: [OT] who wrote this

2007-11-26 Thread Chad Perrin
Hitler? -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] 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 give you any sugar? ___ freebsd-questions

Re: who wrote this

2007-11-26 Thread Chad Perrin
wrong in allowing his crimes to be committed), not all statements by people who want to censor Hitler's words (or even those that happen to be nationally associated with such people) should be censored either. -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] Thomas McCauley: The measure

Re: who wrote this

2007-11-26 Thread Chad Perrin
to say but you don't put her name on the front page of the Fortune program because it's not appropriate. Same thing here. Just not an appropriate forum. What Hitler said wasn't placed on the FreeBSD fortune page, either. Your analogy is broken. -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http

Re: top posting (off-topic)

2007-11-25 Thread Chad Perrin
On Fri, Nov 23, 2007 at 02:52:06PM +0100, Matthias Apitz wrote: It should be easy in mailing-lists to block mails of top-posters. It would also probably be prone to false positive errors. -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] McCloctnick the Lucid: The first rule of magic

Re: top posting (off-topic)

2007-11-25 Thread Chad Perrin
time to do something with the information I get from my reading, and when the need is great enough it's usually the people who don't communicate worth a damn that get cut first. -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] Kent Beck: I always knew that one day Smalltalk would replace

Re: top posting (off-topic)

2007-11-25 Thread Chad Perrin
of top posting -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] Baltasar Gracian: A wise man gets more from his enemies than a fool from his friends. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: top posting (off-topic)

2007-11-25 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sun, Nov 25, 2007 at 06:56:15PM -0700, Chad Perrin wrote: I think it's kind of a chicken-and-egg problem: we don't really know for sure whether TOFU[1] posting spurred much of the rise of illiteracy or the increase of relative illiteracy on the Internet led to an increase in TOFU posting

Re: Ports with GUI configs

2007-11-16 Thread Chad Perrin
On Thu, Nov 15, 2007 at 10:56:12PM -0500, Chuck Robey wrote: Chad Perrin wrote: On Thu, Nov 15, 2007 at 03:34:26PM -0500, Chuck Robey wrote: Chad Perrin wrote: On Mon, Nov 12, 2007 at 08:23:23PM -0500, Chuck Robey wrote: This makes a little file of descriptor words, but it's not set so

Re: Ports with GUI configs

2007-11-16 Thread Chad Perrin
. -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] 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 and generously

Re: Ports with GUI configs

2007-11-15 Thread Chad Perrin
On Thu, Nov 15, 2007 at 03:34:26PM -0500, Chuck Robey wrote: Chad Perrin wrote: On Mon, Nov 12, 2007 at 08:23:23PM -0500, Chuck Robey wrote: This makes a little file of descriptor words, but it's not set so a regular editor can manipulate it; the special ports program is needed to set

Re: Ports with GUI configs

2007-11-15 Thread Chad Perrin
referring to new installs, not upgrades. Why would anyone want to configure ports they don't want to install? I've been following this discussion without participating, but I have a question: How does that question follow from the preceding, quoted statement? -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin

Re: Ports with GUI configs

2007-11-15 Thread Chad Perrin
On Thu, Nov 15, 2007 at 11:15:56PM +, RW wrote: On Thu, 15 Nov 2007 15:04:07 -0700 Chad Perrin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Nov 15, 2007 at 09:43:16PM +, RW wrote: On Thu, 15 Nov 2007 16:00:55 -0500 Chuck Robey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've already deleted

Re: One Laptop Per Child

2007-11-14 Thread Chad Perrin
, if a little abrasive. -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] John Kenneth Galbraith: If all else fails, immortality can always be assured through spectacular error. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: Ports with GUI configs

2007-11-14 Thread Chad Perrin
of things that start with 'k' or 'g', preparing for that future date when this is possible. -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] John Kenneth Galbraith: If all else fails, immortality can always be assured through spectacular error

Re: what changed recently with browser plugins?

2007-11-13 Thread Chad Perrin
object is supposed to appear. Oh, and I get absurdly slow page load times where I didn't before, too. -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] 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

Re: New FreeBSD art?

2007-11-01 Thread Chad Perrin
://www.freebsd.org/logo.html -- CCD CopyWrite 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. ___ freebsd-questions

Re: Portupgrade used to be fun!!!

2007-10-27 Thread Chad Perrin
. -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] Kent Beck: I always knew that one day Smalltalk would replace Java. I just didn't know it would be called Ruby. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: Is it difficult to move from Linux?

2007-10-23 Thread Chad Perrin
system as Gentoo GNU/Linux. In my experience, it's both more stable and more up to date than Debian. Before FreeBSD, my primary OS choice was Debian, but ultimately everything I liked about Debian was even better with FreeBSD. -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] MacUser, Nov

resizing partitions

2007-10-23 Thread Chad Perrin
them -- but I'm not sure how I want to handle this at this time. I worry a bit about using some Linux LiveCD's partition management tools on a FreeBSD system. Any advice would be appreciated. -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] John W. Russell: People point. Sometimes that's

Re: Is it difficult to move from Linux?

2007-10-22 Thread Chad Perrin
you'll find much of the differences between most Linux distributions and FreeBSD quite minor, but a touch strange at first, and in the long run very positive. At least, that's my experience. -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] They always say that when life gives you lemons you

Re: Strange perl script

2007-10-18 Thread Chad Perrin
integrity auditing tool, but you can also use mtree and even rsync for integrity auditing. -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] 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 give

Re: Why 7.0 is so late ?

2007-10-18 Thread Chad Perrin
kind of sales quota needs to be met. -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] Kent Beck: I always knew that one day Smalltalk would replace Java. I just didn't know it would be called Ruby. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Is the bison port moving in reverse?

2007-10-17 Thread Chad Perrin
I get this: # portversion -v | grep -v = bison-1.75_2,1succeeds port (port has 2.3_3) Any idea why? Judging by the numbers, I'd think that should be instead. Nothing in /usr/ports/UPDATING seems to apply here. -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org

postgresql and initdb

2007-10-17 Thread Chad Perrin
/ports/databases/postgresql74-server/files/patch-src-bin-initdb-Makefile /usr/ports/www/rt2/files/patch-tools-initdb Any hints? -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] Phillip J. Haack: Productivity is not about speed. It's about velocity. You can be fast, but if you're going

Re: Ref : Permission to use parts of FreeBSD documentation on My Website

2007-10-17 Thread Chad Perrin
CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] Rudy Giuliani: You have free speech so I can be heard. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

Re: postgresql and initdb

2007-10-17 Thread Chad Perrin
On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 12:11:24PM -0700, Chuck Swiger wrote: On Oct 17, 2007, at 12:02 PM, Chad Perrin wrote: I've installed PostgreSQL here on FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE, and I'm a little confused by the presence of the initdb(1) manpage and absence of an initdb command. # locate initdb

Re: C++ Compiler On FreeBSD

2007-10-07 Thread Chad Perrin
available (Intel) or in progress (OpenWatcom). Also in progress is the TenDRA compiler, though FreeBSD support is part of what's in progress. http://www.tendra.org/about/ -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] Dr. Ron Paul: Liberty has meaning only if we still believe

Re: C++ Compiler On FreeBSD

2007-10-07 Thread Chad Perrin
object oriented programming techniques than Perl. -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] Brian K. Reid: In computer science, we stand on each other's feet. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: C++ Compiler On FreeBSD

2007-10-07 Thread Chad Perrin
is viewed. That's not a very practical answer for someone dealing with a shared hosting provider. Most of them don't allow shell access and make execution. On the other hand, for many common uses of PHP, SSI is at least as appropriate and simpler to use. -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http

Re: Flashplayer?

2007-10-07 Thread Chad Perrin
the browser. I haven't checked yet on whether that works for viewing YouTube videos. Last I checked, the linuxpluginwrapper didn't work worth a damn for Flash support in Firefox. -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] John W. Russell: People point. Sometimes that's just easier

Re: good replacement for open office

2007-10-06 Thread Chad Perrin
if they also pay significant attention to securing their other communication and collaboration tools might be considered dishonest, or at least irresponsible. -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] Eat your crow early, while it's young and tender. Don't wait until it's old

Re: good replacement for open office

2007-10-06 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sat, Oct 06, 2007 at 03:51:49PM -0500, icantthinkofone wrote: Chad Perrin wrote

Re: autoconf failure

2007-10-05 Thread Chad Perrin
with no dependencies, and autoconf --version indicates that the currently installed/used version is 2.6.1, which of course would mean that the old version is just wedged on uninstall. . . . so thanks for confirming what I've surmised. I'll feel a lot better about removing it now. -- CCD CopyWrite Chad

Re: Equations (WAS: good replacement for open office)

2007-10-05 Thread Chad Perrin
, it didn't the last time I checked. I imagine the LyX maintainers haven't suddenly jumped on the interoperate with MS Office bandwagon lately. -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] Brian K. Reid: In computer science, we stand on each other's feet

Re: Equations

2007-10-05 Thread Chad Perrin
digital presentation design and semantic formatting systems at producing electronic (aka online) documents. Somehow, though, they've ended up being the single most commonly used form of document generation software today. -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] Marvin Minsky

Re: Managing very large files

2007-10-04 Thread Chad Perrin
be reading the whole file into a variable (or even multiple variables) at once. -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] Isaac Asimov: Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is completely programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest

Re: Managing very large files

2007-10-04 Thread Chad Perrin
;) The reason for the massive file size was my haste in running out of the office on Friday and forgetting to kill the tcpdump process before the weekend began. Sounds like you may want a Perl script to automate managing your tcpdumps. Just a thought. -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http

Re: Managing very large files

2007-10-04 Thread Chad Perrin
like Unix, that way. -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] Brian K. Reid: In computer science, we stand on each other's feet. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

autoconf failure

2007-10-04 Thread Chad Perrin
` autoconf. Am I wrong about that? Is there some other way to fix this? Have I overlooked something obvious? -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] Larry Wall: A script is what you give the actors. A program is what you give the audience

Re: X on ThinkPad crashes after sleeping (zzz'ing)

2007-10-02 Thread Chad Perrin
properly. -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] Isaac Asimov: Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is completely programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Research about FreeBSD - Suppor from experts required

2007-10-01 Thread Chad Perrin
, laptop, and even embedded device uses are rare, however. I personally use FreeBSD for basically everything these days, and am typing this on a Thinkpad with FreeBSD installed. -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] MacUser, Nov. 1990: There comes a time in the history of any project

Re: Adding CR/LF

2007-09-30 Thread Chad Perrin
\r\n as I've done it. I may just be having a stupid day, though, and be getting them backwards myself. -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] Ben Franklin: As we enjoy great Advantages from the Inventions of others we should be glad of an Opportunity to serve others by any

Re: Getting vim to work correctly.

2007-09-28 Thread Chad Perrin
apply just as much to Vim. Specifically, except when actually entering entirely new text, I stay in command mode. Editing and moving around in a document is much, much faster for me when I can do it all from the home row of the keyboard. -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org

Re: anyone have a favorite laptop?

2007-09-24 Thread Chad Perrin
betting on the idea that the r300 drivers will make it into FreeBSD's X.Org soon. -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] Kent Beck: I always knew that one day Smalltalk would replace Java. I just didn't know it would be called Ruby

Re: anyone have a favorite laptop?

2007-09-24 Thread Chad Perrin
On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 10:17:07PM +0400, Dmitry Gorbik wrote: As for me, I have never had problems with running FreeBSD on Sony VAIO laptops. . . . except for exploding batteries, of course. /me ducks. -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] Patrick J. LoPresti: Emacs

Re: GAIM??

2007-09-20 Thread Chad Perrin
-- making it Gaim. Apparently, that wasn't good enough, either. Now it's Pidgin instead. I guess the only downside to the new name is that I can't make I've got Gaim(game)! jokes about it now. Well, I could, but they wouldn't make much sense. -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org

Re: remote [ssh] Backspace] key gives me ^?

2007-09-16 Thread Chad Perrin
backspacing might overwrite the backspaced text without having to leave insert mode, too. I'm going on memory, here, and may be mistaken -- I didn't use nvi for very long before going back to Vim. -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] W. Somerset Maugham: The ability to quote

Re: remote [ssh] Backspace] key gives me ^?

2007-09-15 Thread Chad Perrin
ASCII spew on my screen when reading email that contains unicode characters). Best o' luck. Let us know if you think this pseudo-solution doesn't apply to you so we can help you brainstorm other diagnoses of your problem. -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] Thomas McCauley

Re: remote [ssh] Backspace] key gives me ^?

2007-09-15 Thread Chad Perrin
possible that stty alone won't do it, but stty in combination with something else *will*. -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] Brian K. Reid: In computer science, we stand on each other's feet. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: http://www.freebsd.org site unreachable

2007-09-14 Thread Chad Perrin
there has been another de-peering snafu somewhere). -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] Larry Wall: A script is what you give the actors. A program is what you give the audience. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: http://www.freebsd.org site unreachable

2007-09-14 Thread Chad Perrin
On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 03:26:08PM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: Unreachable here, as well -- northern Colorado, via Comcast. I think we can pretty much assume freebsd.org is down for the moment (unless there has been another de-peering snafu somewhere). Also . . . portaudit fails because

Re: mail server setup questions

2007-09-06 Thread Chad Perrin
) configuration, and as long as they can configure it via some kind of point-and-click web interface. That's my experience, anyway. If Qmail is more common among Linux admins, I tend to guess Webmin probably is as well. -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] McCloctnick the Lucid

Re: mail server setup questions

2007-09-06 Thread Chad Perrin
. -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] W. Somerset Maugham: The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: mail server setup questions

2007-09-05 Thread Chad Perrin
filter. So who high should we set it. Only Serbs from Serbia can not send emails or even we Serbs who live in U. S? Are you coding now MailScanner-antiSerb version or MailScanner-antiIraqi version? This discussion has gotten thoroughly bizarre rather quickly. -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin

Re: mail server setup questions

2007-09-05 Thread Chad Perrin
. -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org

Re: questions@ vs. freebsd-questions@

2007-08-16 Thread Chad Perrin
On Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 09:20:15PM -0500, Donald J. O'Neill wrote: On Wednesday 15 August 2007 08:15:46 pm Chad Perrin wrote: On Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 07:14:43AM -0400, Gerard wrote: Is there a reason that you cannot just use the address specified in the email headers of messages

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