Re: Word processor for 6.1

On 9/4/06, Erik Norgaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Perry Hutchison wrote: Anyone know where I can find a working word processor for 6.1? AbiWord and OpenOffice both require Gnome, which won't build. There is a commercial program, textmaker (www.softmaker.com), which I have found much better

Re: I'm looking for school of freebsd in montreal

On 12/12/05, psiinformatique [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: #I'm looking for school of freebsd in montreal and i dont find any. Im #not realy good in BSD, i start to use last year. I use as my main os #on my laptop to become a normal user, but more i get into it, There is Marketbridge Technologies

Re: FreeBSD howto collection

On 9/5/05, Yance Kowara [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear all, I am looking for a good article or collection of howtos or something similar to Ted's FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide. A book similar to Carla Schroder's Linux Cookbook

Re: Unable to set up LPD to use a HP Laserjet 5p in freeBSD 5.3

On 5/8/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello I`m trying to install my HP laserjet 5p on freebsd 5.3. The printer doesn`t understand postscript. I`ve read the handbook and installed ghostscript and lpd. I changed rc.conf to start lpd for each system boot. dmesg printer

Learning UNIX internals

Hi: I was thinking of getting one of these two books. I want to learn more about how UNIX and in particular, FreeBSD work. Has anyone read either of these books? UNIX Internals: The New Frontiers by Uresh Vahalia

Re: Learning UNIX internals

On 5/7/05, Chris Hodgins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you are interested in Unix and FreeBSD this is a good choice: http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/tg/stores/detail/-/books/0201702452/reviews/026-9762435-1924466 Thank you Chris: The problem is I don't know what semaphores, mutex locks

Suffix rules in Makefile

5.4-STABLE #0: Sun Apr 24 08:30:32 MDT 2005 Hi: I am having trouble with a .SUFFIXES based Makefile. If I use this Makefile containing .out: INCLUDES= -Wall -I/usr/local/include LINK= -L/usr/local/lib LIBS= -lgsl -lgslcblas -lm .SUFFIXES : .c .o .out .o.out: ${CC} ${LINK} -o $@ $

Getting CUPS to use hpijs

5.4-STABLE FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE #0: Sun Apr 24 Ports I have installed: cups-base-1.1.23.0_3 cups-lpr-1.1.23.0 cups-pstoraster-7.07_3 cups-lpr-1.1.23.0 hpijs-1.7.1 Printer: HP Deskjet 3740 Hi: I can't get my HP3740 Deskjet to print using CUPS. I installed cups from ports. I also installed print

[Fixed] Re: Getting CUPS to use hpijs

On 4/29/05, Lars Eighner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't know what all I did to get my (different) hp printer working, but everything got much better after I installed foomatic. That fixed it Lars: I installed /usr/ports/print/foomatic-filters. Then I went to /usr/local/etc/rc.d and did:

Re: i need a file manager!

On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 22:41:16 +0100, Gert Cuykens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What shell file manager do you like or x file manager ? Xfm (ports/x11-fm/xfm) is good and easy to use http://www.musikwissenschaft.uni-mainz.de/~ag/xfm/ ROX (ports/x11-fm/rox) is quite fast

Re: mounting novell drives

On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 12:32:43 +0200, NetAdmin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, FreeBSD support team, I have a server with Novell Netware 5.1. How I can mount Novell drives in FreeBSD? I have never done it but I see that there is a man page for it: MOUNT_NWFS(8) FreeBSD System

Re: Is Yahoo! moving from FreeBSD?

On Sat, 26 Feb 2005 14:12:38 +0100, Anthony Atkielski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ted Mittelstaedt writes: For one thing you can just stop with the site licensing fees. Licensing fees aren't necessarily the largest or even a significant expense for a business. Ted and others: This guy is

Re: How to handle numeric variables in sh?

Ale: On Sat, 19 Feb 2005 12:55:59 -0300, Alejandro Pulver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Is there a way to handle numeric variables (addition, multiplication, etc.) in 'sh' (or throught an external command)? Here is a good short HowTo on calling bc:

Re: Freebsd vs. linux

On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 11:10:58 -0600, David Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Look closely at the Linux community and you'll find its mostly ex-Windows users focused on what Microsoft is doing. The desire is to one-up Microsoft at Microsoft's own game. Their definition of computer and human

What does sbwait mean in top ?

Hi: What does sbwait mean in top? Is it related to a sysctl setting? I have looked in the man page for top, at William LeFebvres site ( http://www.groupsys.com/top ), in Evi Nemeth's UNIX System Administration Handbook and Googled in general. Does anyone know of a URL that gives an explanation

Re: Xmms FreeBSD and buzzing or skipping sound

On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 20:57:12 -0500, Derek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've got a 5.3-STABLE SMP machine, with a promise RAID controller, RAID1, with snd_emu10k1.ko, and I get the same results... Re-nicing xmms doesn't help either... Derek: You may want to up the buffering. See

Re: freebsd IT mailing list or newsgroup?

On Sat, 15 Jan 2005 12:05:41 -0800, Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have you seen my book and website? http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com It is out of print now but still available on Amazon. Ted; Will you do an updated version of the book some day ? I see it has 4 and 1/2

Re: SIR

Ali: The ltmdm port may work: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/url.cgi?ports/comms/ltmdm/pkg-descr I have a feeling Matthew Seamen is right though. You may have to use an external modem. See this e-mail: Help: Tip on Buying External modem

Re: Cut and paste in Emacs

On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 21:24:49 +0700 (ICT), Olivier Nicole [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I select some text with the mouse in Emacs, i can copy it into another X window application, but I cannot copy it in a Win2K application. When I select some text in any other X Window application, I can

Re: I quit

Hi Bill: Sorry you had such a miserable time with this. You may want to get either of these two books, as helps in installing and configuring FreeBSD. FreeBSD: An Open-Source Operating System for Your Personal Computer, by Annelise Anderson Absolute BSD: The Ultimate Guide to FreeBSD by Michael

Re: copy file to cd-rw

Hi: This section of the handbook gives very good instructions on how to save files to CD: 16.6 Creating and Using Optical Media (CDs) http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/creating-cds.html On Sun, 9 Jan 2005 16:45:01 +0100, mess-mate [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi guys,

Re: Epson Stylus C84 printer setup

It appears that you should use the C82 driver. From: http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=Epson-Stylus_C84 Parallel and USB ports. With Gimp-Print 4.2.2 or newer it will work (except full-bleed) when choosing the Epson Stylus C82 as printer model, with older Gimp-Print versions

Re: File Manager

On Sun, 22 Aug 2004 01:59:23 GMT, Emon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Second, I did create a new user, but I wasn't sure wich group to put it in, so I kept the GROUP field blank. Now I can't su to root cos it say that I am not in the right goup(wheel). So what does it mean how do I solve this prob?

Re: 802.1x

Hello Cubicool: The only thing I can think of is this book on WiFi security: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/80211security/desc.html You might want to look at /usr/ports/net-mgmt/bsd-airtools The home page is here http://www.dachb0den.com/projects/bsd-airtools.html On Tue, 17 Aug 2004

Re: FreeBSD scanners

Hello Anton: I would suggest going to the SANE website: http://www.sane-project.org/ I have an E640U USB scanner working under FreeBSD 4.9 and 5.2 CURRENT. That one works very well. On Sun, 15 Aug 2004 01:46:17 +0300, Anton Alin-Adrian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please, if any of you has

Re: freeBSD How to you set the prompt

Hello Dan: This may be of help: Understanding Shell Prompts http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/09/20/FreeBSD_Basics.html On Thu, 29 Jul 2004 13:29:30 -, Dan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Where and how do you set the prompt to show what user name that your on IE ROOT or user johndoe.

Re: X: bad display name

Hello Maksym: You need to have the proper hostnames in /etc/hosts: ::1 localhost localhost.covad.net notebook.covad.net 127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.covad.net notebook.covad.net where notebook is my hostname. On Sat, 24 Jul 2004 21:24:21 +0200, Maksym Marchenko

Tutorials on the Gimp

Gimp ver 2.0 (prerelease) FreeSBIE 1.0 and FreeBSD 5 CURRENT Hi: I tried to use the GIMP's (ver. 2.0) intelligent scissors to crop around a complicated image and I could not figure out how to get it to work. I and another co-worker googled for some tutorials but none of the ones we came across

Re: FreeBSD Hosting

Hello Joseph: I don't know about the jails part but you might want to inquire with http://www.liquidneon.com/ I use them for hosting and they are very good. They are an all FreeBSD hosting company. On Fri, 16 Jul 2004 11:16:26 -0500, Joseph Koenig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Regardless of which

Re: Is it possible to set-up a USB Printer in Freebsd?

Hi Mark: The Epson Stylus C20UX is fully supported according to LinuxPrinting.org: http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=Epson-Stylus_C20UX Use the gimp print drivre they suggest at that URL. That means that you can use CUPS and Gimp Print in FreeBSD. 1) Install cups and gimp

Re: 802.11b with FreeBSD

Hello Josh: I use a Proxim Harmony 8430 card that works well (wi0). I would suggets looking in the PCMCIA section of The FreeBSD Laptop Compatibility List: http://gerda.univie.ac.at/freebsd-laptops/ There are some Cisco Aironet 350 cards listed here:

Re: Printer problems

Hello Earl: Linux Printing Org does not show your particular printer: All Compaq printers http://www.linuxprinting.org/printer_list.cgi?make=Compaq Linux Printing Org lists the availability of CUPS drivers. You may be able to get it working with CUPS. I have a short tutorial here for NetBSD.

Re: Moving my Outlook PST file to any BSD E-mail client

From the Ximian Evolution support knowledge base: http://support.ximian.com/cgi-bin/ximian.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_sid=yOj4eYfhp_lva=p_faqid=59p_created=995655179p_sp=cF9ncmlkc29ydD0mcF9yb3dfY250PTg1JnBfc2VhcmNoX3RleHQ9JnBfcHJvZF9sdmwxPTImcF9wYWdlPTE*p_li= How do I import my Outlook .pst

Re: GUIDE

Hi: You can follow the instructions here: http://www.silbsd.org/cvsup_instructions2.html However in step B change: # src-all tag=RELENG_4_8 # to: # src-all tag=RELENG_4_9 # I also urge you to read Section 9 of the FreeBSD handbook:

Re: pattern replacement

Hi: Sed is useful for this. Here are some good tutorials on it: Common threads: Sed by example: http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-sed1.html http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-sed2.html http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-sed3.html On

Re: Newbie

Hello Chintan: In addition to Chris' advice I heartily recommend the tutorials at FreeBSD basics: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/ct/15 I also find Greg Lehey's The Complete FreeBSD to be a very good reference book. On Thu, 01 Jul 2004 23:03:14 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: