Re: corporate backers of freebsd

2008-01-03 Thread FreeBSD WickerBill
Check out the BSDMall - iXSystems: http://www.freebsdmall.com/cgi-bin/fm/community.html?id=QcQ8NEb5mv_arg=mv_argmv_pc=3 They provide all you are looking for in both products and support of the community. On Jan 2, 2008 10:50 AM, Gary Smithe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 2, 2008 4:56 AM, Ted

Re: Convince me, please!

2007-08-15 Thread FreeBSD WickerBill
On 8/10/07, Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Start with DesktopBSD 1.6 since it's closer to FreeBSD than PC-BSD if you need to learn FreeBSD more. both of them should win a similar message at www.freebsd.org We are not supporting both DesktopBSD and PC-BSD. that's not out

Fwd: Thunderbird 2.0

2007-04-24 Thread FreeBSD WickerBill
from April 20 I portupgraded thunderbird today (6.1 p11, KDE 3.5.6_2) and while it's semi-functional, it does seg fault as it checks the pop server. Also has 3 lines/rows of Tag icons making the Toolbar height quite large. Each row grows progressively fainter (I'm pretty sure it's a group of

libxklavier fails portupgrade

2007-03-25 Thread FreeBSD WickerBill
Because libxklavier fails, subsequently so does libgnomekbd and gnome-control-center. I'm using 6.1 p11 and just suffered through a couple of days recompiling with portupgrade -rf gettext. The error it gives is: portupgrade -r libxklavier --- Upgrading 'libxklavier-3.2,1' to

Re: libxklavier fails portupgrade

2007-03-25 Thread FreeBSD WickerBill
never mind, they've released a fix in the last few hours On 3/25/07, FreeBSD WickerBill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Because libxklavier fails, subsequently so does libgnomekbd and gnome-control-center. I'm using 6.1 p11 and just suffered through a couple of days recompiling with portupgrade -rf

Re: Flash with Firefox 2

2007-03-18 Thread FreeBSD WickerBill
On 3/18/07, NetOpsCenter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pietro Cerutti wrote: On 3/16/07, Jay Chandler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can't be the first person to ask this, but a Google and a cursory search of the archives don't lend me much in the way of hints. Anyone have a link or an

Re: GMail [and other free email] and these lists?

2007-02-12 Thread FreeBSD WickerBill
On 2/12/07, Gerard Seibert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday February 12, 2007 at 04:45:44 (PM) Jeff Rollin wrote: In what way does Gmail suck? 1) No White Listing 2) No configurable SPAM Filtering 3) Bcc doesn't work 4) 500 message a day limit. 5) No PGP or S/MIME support 6) No able to

Re: how to enable linux flash player in firefox

2007-01-28 Thread FreeBSD WickerBill
On 1/28/07, Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1/28/07, Andreas Davour [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 28 Jan 2007, Tijl Coosemans wrote: I followed those instructions and with firefox-2.0.0.1_1,1 it gives this result: /libexec/ld-elf.so.1:

Re: Remote Desktop Connection

2007-01-26 Thread FreeBSD WickerBill
On 1/24/07, Garrett Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 FreeBSD WickerBill wrote: On 1/24/07, Grzegorz Pluta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for all the replies guys! It was really helpful Cheers, Greg Kevin Kinsey wrote: Grzegorz Pluta

Re: BBC debate Battle of the operating systems

2007-01-25 Thread FreeBSD WickerBill
On 1/25/07, Marco Muskus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2007/1/25, Robin Becker [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Bill Moran wrote: In response to Robin Becker [EMAIL PROTECTED]: The BBC is to host a debate on multiple OSes. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6288119.stm They want one individual

Re: Remote Desktop Connection

2007-01-24 Thread FreeBSD WickerBill
On 1/24/07, Grzegorz Pluta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for all the replies guys! It was really helpful Cheers, Greg Kevin Kinsey wrote: Grzegorz Pluta wrote: Hi. Id like to asj you guys if you used any remote desktops with freebsd? Which client/server would you recommend, and why?

Flash 9

2007-01-17 Thread FreeBSD WickerBill
Maybe this would be better asked on the ports list but I'm throwing it out here first. Adobe released the linux version today (found herehttp://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/current/install_flash_player_9_linux.tar.gz) and was wondering if anyone has tried it yet. I'm at work, not at

Re: Firefox mess in Freebsd 6.1

2007-01-16 Thread FreeBSD WickerBill
On 1/16/07, Warren Block [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 16 Jan 2007, Dak Ghatikachalam wrote: My Firefox is crashing all the time since I setup the flash plugins, I first plugged in the mplayer and after which it was working well. Because several other news websites were expecting flash

Re: is THIS why the 6.2 release seems stalled ?

2007-01-10 Thread FreeBSD WickerBill
On 1/10/07, Scott Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 02:32:41PM -0800, Garrett Cooper wrote: Scott and Nikolas, I'll try to get the linuxplugin-wrapper port to work with Flash9 for Linux and then I'll submit the change upstream to the maintainer. I too am tired

Sauerbraten gui edition choppy music

2006-12-30 Thread FreeBSD WickerBill
Has anyone installed the latest sauerbraten yet? I'm getting choppy music in it but not graphics. Didn't do this on the water edition. Doesn't do it in Cube. One caveat...a portupgrade requires that you delete your old ~/.sauerbraten directory as there are new bindings and symlinks.

Re: Help

2006-12-28 Thread FreeBSD WickerBill
On 12/28/06, Beech Rintoul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 28 December 2006 13:11, rythms1 wrote: SNIP Can you please give some hints in how to make it work as a desktop at home and surf the net and burn cd's that all I want to do and word as well but for now I only want the desktop

Re: NEC 7170A-0B

2006-12-27 Thread FreeBSD WickerBill
On 12/18/06, FreeBSD WickerBill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was wondering if anyone has used one of the later NEC *7170Ahttp://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16827152076 *DVD burners sucessfully with 6.0 or later? Thanks for your responses. Yes, I have and it works fine

NEC 7170A-0B

2006-12-18 Thread FreeBSD WickerBill
I was wondering if anyone has used one of the later NEC *7170Ahttp://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16827152076 *DVD burners sucessfully with 6.0 or later? Thanks for your responses. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

make problems with amarok 1.4.3_3

2006-11-05 Thread FreeBSD WickerBill
I did a make rmconfig and a make clean in the /usr/ports/audio/amarok before I started again as I've had this same error 3 times now. Anyone have a clue as to what I need to do? here are the last few lines and, Thanks, gmake[4]: Leaving directory `/usr/ports/audio/amarok/work/amarok-1.4.3

Re: Newbie Experience #2

2006-09-12 Thread FreeBSD WickerBill
Must have missed your rant Bob. You may want to check out PC-BSDhttp://www.pcbsd.org, a graphical installer that loads the KDE desktop on completion and rides on FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE-p2. If your hardware is supported in FreeBSD then it's pretty painless. I dropped Windows at my home over 4 months