Re: How to rollback xorg to working tty switch

On Thu, 24 May 2012 20:11:32 +0200, Polytropon wrote: On Thu, 24 May 2012 06:45:06 -0500 (CDT), Lars Eighner wrote: I need to rollback x.org to a point that tty switching worked. I'm dead in the water when stuck in x.org. Maybe putting OptionDontVTSwitch false

Re: automating menu options in ports (and other ports build questions)

in the offing? I would welcome a kind of text file that lists all the strange names with a short description of what they are and what you need them for, being more informative than the short one liners in the options dialog. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe

Re: Evolution 2.32.3 printing

can do). Good luck. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: Working and Supported SCSI Controller

using Ataptec's 2940 type of controllers (either W or U, and UW). The ahc driver worked well with them. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Mouse stopped working in X

exec wmaker It should happen when X is running, and it should be back to normal when the WM or DE is launched (and all background programs have fully started). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: I have a question.

/articles/contributing/index.html You'll find more information on the FreeBSD web page, e. g. the Porters Handbook and other development resources. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd

Re: ls-F tcsh built-in command

'ls -laFG -D %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S' This is nice because I haven't found a feature of gls yet that I needed, but which system's ls couldn't provide. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd

Re: eliminate character with sed

of sed: I'm not sure if it's possible to do something like % sed -i '.bak' 's/\r//g' config.php because I assume (not tested!) that it's not possible to put in escape sequences like that. But try for yourself and surprise me. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since

Re: eliminate character with sed

be required to do using a surrounding script. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe

Re: NanoBSD Build Failure

not understand cpu I486_CPU. Compare to /sys/i386/conf/GENERIC and /sys/i386/conf/NOTES to the respective /sys/amd64/conf/GENERIC and /sys/amd64/conf/NOTES for details, especially that amd64 uses cpu HAMMER instead of cpu I{4/5/6}86_CPU. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0

Re: ATI Radeon HD5500 driver question

section should work. Additionally, I see that I have Option XkbOptions terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp in the InputDevice section of Keyboard0. It just works. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: stay up to date with ports and packages, problem

you cross a major OS release boundary, you need to force a rebuild of all installed package, or reinstall from package files. It's often easy to do this using a port management tool. See man portmaster containing an example of exactly this procedure (EXAMPLES section). -- Polytropon Magdeburg

Re: stay up to date with ports and packages, problem

packages (if desired) is possible. See man portmaster and its EXAMPLES section for inspiration. Sorry i cant paste logs, bsd is running on another machine. You can use SSH to log into the BSD machine and cut text from the session. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0

Re: ls-F tcsh built-in command

arguments to ls(1) if it is given any switches, so `alias ls ls-F' generally does the right thing. So if you use ls-F -l, the C shell will _not_ use ls-F, but call /bin/ls instead. So what you've been observing seems to be the intended behaviour. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany

Re: ls-F tcsh built-in command

$LSCOLORS as ExGxdxdxCxDxDxBxBxegeg. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: Ethernet driver HP ProLiant BL460c G7

always use man driver to find out more about drivers on an installed system, or you can use the hyperlinks in that lists to access the online documentation of the drivers. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: disable console messages

://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?p=58256#post58256 You'll find a suggestion there on how to avoid fiddling with the /etc/rc boot script (which should stay untouched due to many reasons). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: Building FreeBSD to install or update in two DESTDIRs

. It should not _require_ you to deal with a custom kernel if you want to avoid that. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: Building FreeBSD to install or update in two DESTDIRs

of building big ports on a USB stick, especially on the older computer with 256 MB RAM and USB 1.1 on motherboard. Also note that USB sticks are not real R/W media, they suffer more from using than hard disks do, and they're slower of course. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy

Re: Building FreeBSD to install or update in two DESTDIRs

the possibility of an update going awry on the main installation. That's right. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: This does look strange

device file, just forget everything I mentioned and use the correct one. However, I'm not fully sure if FreeBSD's fsck can be used to _really_ perform file system checks on FAT or NTFS partitions, erm postcards. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: Article Inquiry

for RDIST March 17, 1994 4.3 Berkeley Distribution Source: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=44bsd-rdistsektion=1apropos=0manpath=FreeBSD+9.0-RELEASE+and+Ports Does this help? -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: CSH prompt

On Sun, 13 May 2012 08:16:51 -0600, Reed Loefgren wrote: On 05/13/12 07:25, Polytropon wrote: On Sun, 13 May 2012 14:56:31 +0200, Jos Chrispijn wrote: In cshell I use this prompt: set prompt = %B[%@]%b %m[%/] The problem I face now is that if I use this prompt with symbolic links

Re: CSH prompt

precmd 'set prompt = %B[%@]%b %m[`pwd`] ' Much better. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: file permission template

bash or a different shell, consult the respective documentation.) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: file permission template

and the chmod step. However, is there any problem _for your particular case_ that setting secret/ to rwx/-/- only, and leaving the files inside with the default umask rw/r/r? Maybe there really is a more elegant way. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe

Re: djvu viewers from ports or add capability to view to xpdf, gv or other

it shouldn't pull too many dependencies into the system. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: User can't login but /etc/(master.)passwd OK

when the user in question attempts an login? -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: UFS Crash and directories now missing

) Even THIS can be mounted. In case I'm misunderstanding your question, could you alter the expression? -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: djvu viewers from ports or add capability to view to xpdf, gv or other

with support for djvu format. To view a file, simply call display file. Not tested. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: maybe not truly freebsd related

version. :-) Remember that it's a MUA. It's not a calendar, not a web browser, not a multimedia player and not a PDF viewer. (But you can interface it to open content based on file type by using external programs, such as xmms, xpdf, xzgv etc.). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user

Re: error: libm.so.4 needed by libspeex may conflict w libm.so.5

a newer version of speex or mplayer that will happily work with the system's libm v5? -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: kernel configuration file

of GENERIC. As I said, there may be parts that one can safely drop (e. g. WLAN, floppy, ISDN or sound for a server). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: kernel configuration file

of RAM! :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd

Re: Off topic: NetBSD or OpenBSD for Alpha server ?

) you'll need. Update the system if needed, or if you're okay with a not so current system, just leave the software as-is, if it fits your needs. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd

Re: Best mail setup for home server?

with the suggestions given on the list. There are some things to consider, but what you're basically planning is possible without much trouble, as long as you pay attention to the protocol. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: freebsd-update not updating reported patchlevel

' an update, to revert to a prior system state, if needed. In fact, it would be 'easy' to have automation perform that task. How about performing version skips, e. g. from -p1 to -p4 directly (using freebsd-update), or wider steps, e. g. from 8.3 to 8.4 (using sources per CVS)? -- Polytropon

Re: freebsd-update not updating reported patchlevel

First of all, thanks for explaining your point of view. Allow me to add a few thoughts: On Fri, 4 May 2012 11:44:49 -0500 (CDT), Robert Bonomi wrote: Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Fri, 4 May 2012 04:14:05 -0500 (CDT), Robert Bonomi wrote: What is required is a differentation

Re: freebsd-update not updating reported patchlevel

On Fri, 4 May 2012 16:45:51 -0500 (CDT), Robert Bonomi wrote: Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: First of all, thanks for explaining your point of view. Allow me to add a few thoughts: On Fri, 4 May 2012 11:44:49 -0500 (CDT), Robert Bonomi wrote: Polytropon free...@edvax.de

Re: Off topic: NetBSD or OpenBSD for Alpha server ?

. This _ALL_ depends on what the system should be used for. Only the OP can decide about what applies, and what doesn't. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: laptop very hot and noisy

On Wed, 2 May 2012 06:19:50 +0700, Erich Dollansky wrote: Hi, On Tuesday 01 May 2012 20:52:11 Polytropon wrote: On Tue, 1 May 2012 13:41:11 +0100, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: On Tue, May 01, 2012 at 08:25:11AM -0400, Alejandro Imass wrote: Not a big issue. Make sure you can remember

Re: UFS Crash and directories now missing

it was, hoping it would not happen again. I've experienced such kinds of trouble myself. (That's why I'm on this list.) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: UFS Crash and directories now missing

the _responsible administrator_ to give permission. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe

Re: editor that understands CTRL/B, CTRL/I, CTRL/U

questions, or unable to understand your answers. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: editor that understands CTRL/B, CTRL/I, CTRL/U

On Sat, 28 Apr 2012 07:36:03 -0400, Jerry wrote: On Sat, 28 Apr 2012 07:41:18 +0200 Polytropon articulated: On Fri, 27 Apr 2012 16:46:52 -0400, Jerry wrote: On Fri, 27 Apr 2012 13:58:40 -0600 Chad Perrin articulated: On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 01:57:10PM -0400, Jerry wrote: On Fri

Re: UFS Crash and directories now missing

). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions

Re: editor that understands CTRL/B, CTRL/I, CTRL/U

teach them to yourself. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: need help on installing bsd in virtual box

and pay attention to 32/64 bit when doing so. The bootonly image is typically used to install the system via network, there are no installation datasets on that media. The CD1 and DVD1 media images will be the ones used in typical installations. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD

Re: Python module wnck?

to be a Python module, but maybe it interfaces with Python somehow? You can also use make search key=wnck to bring up a list of keyword search results. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions

Re: editor that understands CTRL/B, CTRL/I, CTRL/U

On Thu, 26 Apr 2012 14:45:53 -0700, David Brodbeck wrote: On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 11:55 PM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: Thanks for that article, it's really sad. One of the main problems is (in my opinion) that GENERIC SKILLS aren't recognozed with the big importane they have

Re: Was..... Lots of lagging after upgrade of xorg. Now keyboard layout is lost

file which can be used to make keyboard language settings work _independently_ from both xorg.conf and XML files scattered across the local/ subtree. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: Lots of lagging after upgrade of xorg.

before the upgrade of xorg. Did you done any changes to the possible HAL settings (with or without - needs to be set at compile time, and maybe xorg.conf with some options)? -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: converting UTF-8 to HTML

to display the semi-graphic mouse pointer, so the full set cannot be used all the time.) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: Dual monitors ok, but no mouse and keyboard action on the slave screen

). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr

Re: find sources to build Handbook and FAQ for FreeBSD?

for the supported languages. SGML source files are in /usr/src/release/doc (part of the system sources). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: converting UTF-8 to HTML

, as working with normal (ASCII) letters, cyrillic ones, chinese and japanese symbols, arabic writing is no big deal as long as all the tools do properly support it the _same_ way. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: Changing psm (mouse) resolution?

be good for testing. To make the settings permanent, you can code them into /etc/rc.conf, using moused_enable=YES moused_port= moused_type= moused_flags= with the required values. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: FreeBSD's backwards webdesign / corporate identity

! ;-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr

Re: link_elf: symbol ata_controlcmd undefined

and SCSI functionality for disks and optical devices. Try removing it from loader.conf and try again. (Note possible device name changing ad - ada unless you're using labels.) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: FreeBSD's backwards webdesign / corporate identity

On Sat, 14 Apr 2012 07:49:40 +0700, Erich Dollansky wrote: Hi, On Friday 13 April 2012 23:37:16 Polytropon wrote: On Fri, 13 Apr 2012 22:59:41 +0700, Erich Dollansky wrote: On Friday 13 April 2012 20:56:35 Sean Cavanaugh wrote: -Original Message- From: owner-freebsd

Re: Sendmail recommended permissions for apache/php server

On Thu, 12 Apr 2012 08:17:33 +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 12/04/2012 02:49, Polytropon wrote: On Wed, 11 Apr 2012 23:57:51 +, Ian Lord wrote: I then got a different error in /var/log/messages Apr 11 19:38:40 dev sendmail[41170]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(www): can not write to queue

Re: install IDS from port , but can not find the Ports security/acid

admin can decide what and how much information each user can see. It also has a simple to use, web-based setup program for people not comfortable with editing files directly. Maybe you can check this one in relation to your requirements? -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since

Re: How to successfully enable HP LaserJet Professional m1212nf MFP,

and doesn't support a lot of standards, depending on what I found on this page: http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/us/en/sm/WF06a/18972-18972-3328064-12004-3328083-3965847.html?dnr=1 Good luck anyway! :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: Sendmail recommended permissions for apache/php server

. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr

Re: FreeBSD's backwards webdesign / corporate identity

on something? Like awk on a anchor, C on a chimney or Java on Jambalaya? :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: FreeBSD losing market share?

. Are _currently_ doing, but they will sooner or later be out of fuel. Fuel is becoming more expensive as the available amount is limited. If you consider such things on the long run, you will surely have to admit that a short-time strategy (being cheap right now) does not pay. -- Polytropon Magdeburg

Re: FreeBSD's backwards webdesign / corporate identity

so it doesn't break anytime soon (such as modern web pages do when a new version of some arbitrary extension is out or when the underlying implementation language breaks things due to updates). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: FreeBSD's backwards webdesign / corporate identity

there's nothing left to take away. Very good. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: define a default username for logging in

and nothing more, and use telnet instead of ssh in the ~/.login command. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: Fast question abount EDITOR

a script as you initially did assume. :-( -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: modem

already accomplish (with which results)? -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe

Re: modem

for diagnosis purposes. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: Printer recommendation please

by an attacker who lives inside the printer. After all, I think social engineering based attacks will become much more popular than addressing printers. I do _not_ say to keep ignorant and carry on, but there are higher threats than the PDF-capable laser printer in room 101. :-) -- Polytropon

Re: Printer recommendation please

allow such mis-interpretation. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

Re: current pids per tty

this list of pids and ps to do the rest ... Or use pstree from ports. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: Printer recommendation please

standard is very welcome, as long as it takes the chance to be a secure thing. Furthermore, there are means of encrypting print data. I leave the mastery of that matter up to the student. That's interesting, I'll investigate on that further. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD

Re: Printer recommendation please

, so % lpr foo.c or % lpr bar.png can be issued directly, no need to create a PS stream by another application. You can easily add that filter to /etc/printcap's if= setting, add rm= with the IP or hostname of the printer, prepare the spool and it should work. -- Polytropon

Re: Printer recommendation please

(and follow-up drivers won't be provided). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: shutdown -p doesn't power-off USB

is an ASUS P5Q3 Deluxe. Also check its documentation, maybe USB power is mentioned? Any help appreciated in telling me how to turn off USB power with shutdown. I don't think this is any option in the OS. You should check this per hardware. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user

Re: Printer recommendation please

, but the typical solution is to replace them for few dollars. Note that this isn't something you'll notice in 2 - 5 years of use. You often need 10 or more years to find fail and trouble in a good printer. Good printer == office printer, as I said befire. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD

Re: Printer recommendation please

, and some splix gibberish using foo2qpdl to the (sadly USB connected) color printer. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: Printer recommendation please

stupidity. His educational result? He got a degree in computer science. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: Vivaldi Tablet

your fingers aren't located at places where you are supposed to read something), and STILL keeping the regular touch interface (no real separation) available, intact and unbroken. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: Vivaldi Tablet

(USB2) keyboard. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd

Re: Off-Topic: Computing for the Blind

the tools step into the background and let him just do his stuff. After all, it's unix which means one can expect certain behaviors regarding standard devices. As long as the devices play nice... :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: Vivaldi Tablet

On Tue, 27 Mar 2012 19:48:34 -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 02:37:49AM +0200, Polytropon wrote: On Tue, 27 Mar 2012 17:21:45 -0700, Gary Kline wrote: how about the eee-701s? they are no mo' but used to have a 70% of full size keyboard. my eee-900A had All the std

Re: Off-Topic: Computing for the Blind

, or reading from a Braille output. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

Re: Off-Topic: Computing for the Blind

abusing tools (e. g. Flash as a replacement for few lines of HTML). The tendency is that it's just getting worse and worse, sadly... I hope I could give you some inspiration on where to start further investigations. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi

Re: about change file mode

/fstab's options field to make it a default. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe

Re: Convert mp3 to audio CD

# rm *.cdr audiocd.toc echo == exit 0 -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: dbus, epiphany, rekonq

in your /etc/rc.conf. See: http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/halfaq.html -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: Convert mp3 to audio CD

bit) and maybe require byte order reversal as well as stripping the WAV headers to record them as a music CD. It seems that some recording programs already contain this step. Refer to audio CD specifications for why pure WAV files don't make an audio CD. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy

Re: Convert mp3 to audio CD

On Wed, 21 Mar 2012 07:25:11 -0400, Rod Person wrote: On Wed, 21 Mar 2012 12:16:24 +0100 Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Wed, 21 Mar 2012 07:07:40 -0400, Rod Person wrote: On Tue, 20 Mar 2012 23:10:16 -0400 Steve Bertrand steve.bertr...@gmail.com wrote: I know

Re: Dualboot with Windows 7

incorrect partitioning. 2.6.5 Creating Partitions Using Disklabel http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-steps.html Refer to table 2-2: Partition Layout for First Disk. Boot manager and MBR handling are also covered in this chapter. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany

Re: Can't install WindowMaker

work. So, nun haben wir hier schönes Sprech-Mischmasch, mashed language so to say... :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Dualboot with Windows 7

On Mon, 19 Mar 2012 08:29:22 +0100, David Demelier wrote: On 19/03/2012 07:28, Polytropon wrote: On Sun, 18 Mar 2012 23:05:58 +0100, David Demelier wrote: Hello, I try to create a dualboot with Windows 7, I set up partitions like that : ada0s1 - NTFS (windows recovery) ada0s2

Re: dbus, epiphany, rekonq

be. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions

Re: Moved drives ...

not have to change your /etc/fstab at all. I'd have no problem with that ... except it's not given as an option during install as far as I can see. Is is _indirectly_ given: Start a shell, mount the drive and edit the file manually. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since

Re: Can't install WindowMaker

On Thu, 15 Mar 2012 21:24:41 +0100, Sabine Baer wrote: On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 10:57:47PM +0100, Polytropon wrote: [...] Did you have the chance to try to compile it using only ports infrastructure? E. g. making sure the ports tree is up to date, and then # cd /usr/ports/x11

Re: Making Music / Video folders on FreeBSD visible on HD TV

On Wed, 14 Mar 2012 07:32:44 -0400, Carmel wrote: On Wed, 14 Mar 2012 11:45:36 +0100 Polytropon articulated: //* OFFLIST As you carried this on-list again, allow me to reply in public. I do not appreciate your lack of humour (see explaination at the end). On Wed, 14 Mar 2012 06:39:08

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