Re: PolicyKit confusion

2011-12-22 Thread Polytropon
can't provide any further information. I just assume it's a means to turn a safe multi-user system into an insecure single-user system, which is what users expect. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: Port, Packages, and Patching, Upgrading

2011-12-20 Thread Polytropon
to using ports and building everything from source. FreeBSD puts you in choice here, and I'm glad it does, because I prefer _this_ or _that_ method depending on the use of different systems. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: .config

2011-12-19 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 19 Dec 2011 10:48:23 -0500, ill...@gmail.com wrote: On 30 November 2011 14:03, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Wed, 30 Nov 2011 13:40:19 -0500, ill...@gmail.com wrote: A dirty workaround might be to link /.config to something innocuous.  One could obvio- usly also have

Re: OT: C|Net's Download.com adware, spyware, malware hijinkx.

2011-12-09 Thread Polytropon
. This could do damage to F/O products, at least in Windows land. Luckily, those who build from source or use precompiled packages from a trustworthy vendor don't have to care for that stuff. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: Which Lenovo Laptop?

2011-12-09 Thread Polytropon
combinations, usually Fn + Cursor or Fn + PF key) to adjust brightness and contrast, or has this lowest-level functionality finally moved into the world of software, i. e. drivers? -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: OT: C|Net's Download.com adware, spyware, malware hijinkx.

2011-12-09 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 9 Dec 2011 13:05:05 -0600, Ryan Coleman wrote: On Dec 9, 2011, at 12:03 PM, Polytropon wrote: On Fri, 9 Dec 2011 09:38:59 -0600, Ryan Coleman wrote: It's still not malware, it's bloatware. Why would you not go to the development website to get the program anyway

Re: Playing .ASX files via/within Firefox ?

2011-12-06 Thread Polytropon
! It can even run in fullscreen (or you can do all the tricks mplayer and mencoder is capable of). I'm not sure how to integrate that with Firefox (as I am an Opera person), sorry. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: umass to /dev/da* mapping

2011-12-05 Thread Polytropon
they appear to 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 To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: sudo log messages

2011-12-04 Thread Polytropon
own sudo.conf file from. Also see the notes in man sudo, section SECURITY NOTES. Maybe you'll find something useful in the provided documentation at /usr/local/share/doc/sudo/. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: sudo log messages

2011-12-04 Thread Polytropon
/doc/sudo/sample.sudoers contains an example. -- 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: I am FreeBSD user.

2011-12-04 Thread Polytropon
it there. Also note that there are manuals for OpenBSD, SunOS, ULTRIX or HP-UX which are definitely not related to the Linux emulation (which is an alternative binary interface - ABI - on FreeBSD). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: upcoming 9.0 release

2011-12-03 Thread Polytropon
the compatibility layers of FreeBSD n for n-1. This refers to the compat-* ports and the COMPAT_* kernel configuration items. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: make buildworld powers down system

2011-12-02 Thread Polytropon
it in your /etc/X11/xorg.conf by setting Option DPMS false in the section Monitor where you define the values for your monitor. I had a similar experience with an 21 CRT Eizo F980 going to sleep unintendedly. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi

Re: make buildworld powers down system

2011-12-02 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 2 Dec 2011 03:28:09 -0500, Mehmet Erol Sanliturk wrote: On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 3:05 AM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Fri, 2 Dec 2011 02:06:26 -0500 (EST), d...@safeport.com wrote: The screen does go into standby and I am not sure what is controling that, nothing in KDE

Re: upcoming 9.0 release

2011-12-02 Thread Polytropon
in any dependencies they need. This makes sure you don't carry cruft and bloat from your prior installation that you _maybe_ don't have any actual use for. Needless to say, you should bring your ports tree up to date before starting either procedure. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy

Re: problem formating disk with gpart

2011-12-01 Thread Polytropon
as they are intended to support manual hotswapping to be done with SATA. See man atacontrol for details. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Xfce and session lock (xlock)

2011-12-01 Thread Polytropon
key (which is the double-width key on the top left on a Sun keyboard, quite handy). I'm not sure if xlock has an option for setting a timeout value... -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd

Re: Installing an older version of a port

2011-12-01 Thread Polytropon
libfoobar-1.4@ - libfoobar-1.5 so the program can pick it by version number. Of course, this might sound strange if one takes the initial ideas of shared libraries and their versioning into mind. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: .config

2011-11-30 Thread Polytropon
. JUST PLAIN WRONG! -- 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: Failed make buildworld on 8.2-RELEASE

2011-11-30 Thread Polytropon
or dtrace). -- 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: Re[2]: Problem with jail network

2011-11-30 Thread Polytropon
ifconfig_bce0_alias0=inet 1.2.3.4/32 in this case I write full netmask: inet 1.2.3.4 netmask 255.255.255.255 It works fine Ok, I'll try that with netmask 255.255.255.255 instead of /32 The hex notation should also be valid: ifconfig_bce0_alias0=inet 1.2.3.4 netmask 0xff00 -- Polytropon

Re: HDD formatted in FreeBSD/386 on Win XP

2011-11-26 Thread Polytropon
Sorry for not being more specific, as I'm not a Windows person. :-) -- 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: .config

2011-11-23 Thread Polytropon
/ menus/ Okay, seems that other toolkits also use it. :-) -- 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: The results of your email commands

2011-11-20 Thread Polytropon
in the FreeBSD Handbook discussing the topic of how to access MS-DOS formatted media per USB. -- 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: Build options built by dialog(1)

2011-11-15 Thread Polytropon
as the configuration files of port management tools may contain options. Once again, this old 650-704-7070-PDP4-KA/KI/KL/KS-CTSS- Convex-IBMPC-3B1 warrior needs help :-} Impressive path! =^_^= -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: apps to display cpu temp

2011-11-14 Thread Polytropon
. -- 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: What are the technical differences between Linux and BSD?

2011-11-12 Thread Polytropon
Unix, and a few others mentioned already. For more details about SysV and explaination of historical contexts I may append: The magic garden explained. The internals of UNIX System 5 release 4. by Benny Goodheart James Cox. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra

Re: apps to display cpu temp

2011-11-12 Thread Polytropon
2.0 -vmax 3.0 -cmvc V -clvc red Depending on the sensor installation of your particular system, check if the different values do match the hardware. Maybe check from within your CMOS setup for reference values. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe

Re: Unprintable 8-bit characters

2011-11-09 Thread Polytropon
settings or fonts you're using). The (limited) US-ASCII set of characters is the only easy way to avoid that. It may not _always_ look pretty, but in worst cases, it works - and you can RELY on that. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: operapluginwraper

2011-11-09 Thread Polytropon
and wrappers: opera-11.50 opera-linuxplugins-11.50 nspluginwrapper-1.4.4 linux-f10-flashplugin-10.3r183.5 This was mainly because of following the handbook. So I think the dependency to the Linux /proc comes from the Flash plugin (Linux). -- Polytropon Magdeburg

Re: X server and xinit works excellent....almost.

2011-11-09 Thread Polytropon
of swedish caps on, would the system notice that change? :-) -- 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: X server and xinit works excellent....almost.

2011-11-09 Thread Polytropon
(doesn't respond) Do you have ``Option DontVTSwitch false'' in xorg.conf? Any clue why? Is my command X :0 vt4 wrong or not supposed to work? What is the correct notation for the terminal device to start it on? Maybe ttyv4 (as in /etc/ttys)? -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD

Re: X server and xinit works excellent....almost.

2011-11-09 Thread Polytropon
to use devd for the same purpose. I'm referring to what Polytropon said about all the new stuff required by X. As I understood him he was talking about the XML-files to give directions to HAL, and he used quotes so I think he meant supposedly new, or just newer than the classic configuration

Re: X server and xinit works excellent....almost.

2011-11-09 Thread Polytropon
with this assumption, I'll be happy. :-) -- 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

Re: X server and xinit works excellent....almost.

2011-11-08 Thread Polytropon
works better than nouveau and nv (the one that comes with X.org); I haven't tested VESA as in most cases, it's _not_ what one wants. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions

Re: X server and xinit works excellent....almost.

2011-11-08 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 8 Nov 2011 13:33:55 -0700 (MST), Warren Block wrote: On Tue, 8 Nov 2011, Warren Block wrote: On Tue, 8 Nov 2011, Polytropon wrote: And according to the handbook, this does _not_ remove the need for a X configuration file (usually /etc/X11/xorg.conf) including ``Option DontZap

Re: operapluginwraper

2011-11-08 Thread Polytropon
options LINSYSFS in your kernel config, or load the corresponding kernel modules. The line linux_enable=YES in /etc/rc.conf should do that. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: Unprintable 8-bit characters

2011-11-08 Thread Polytropon
if you want them to work everywhere. :-) -- 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: Unprintable 8-bit characters

2011-11-08 Thread Polytropon
... -- 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: Burning CD

2011-11-07 Thread Polytropon
suggestions for burning a CD in Windows XP if this is the issue? Sorry, I'm not a Windows person and I don't use 10 years old software, so I can't give you any suggestion here. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: recursive copy with spaces in descendants

2011-11-06 Thread Polytropon
. The articles should help you to deal with the problem, as they present properly working solutions. Good luck! -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Urgent!. Problem with / etc / rc.conf

2011-11-06 Thread Polytropon
I'd also like to mention that there are no things called folder on FreeBSD in particular, and on operating systems in general. Those things are properly called directories. ;-) PS. Please wrap your lines 72. Some MUAs don't do that automatically. Thanks! -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany

Re: Problem with X

2011-11-06 Thread Polytropon
/SynapticsTouchpad The (missing) presence of the X authority file has nothing to do with keyboard or mouse problems. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Get list of ethernet devices

2011-11-06 Thread Polytropon
it - it contains autodetect magic also for graphics and sound. -- 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: Burning CDs or DVDs with SATA drive?

2011-11-04 Thread Polytropon
, it does not run on v9. Sounds like it's work trying. -- 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: Problem with mergemaster-p

2011-11-04 Thread Polytropon
this depends on the partitioning scheme you're using.) -- 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: Problem with mergemaster-p

2011-11-04 Thread Polytropon
anymore) Make sure you also do step 1 when calling mergemaster and make: # cd /usr/src # mergemaster -p # make installworld # make delete-old # mergemaster Then reboot into the new OS version. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0

Re: Burning CDs or DVDs with SATA drive?

2011-11-03 Thread Polytropon
and cdrdao address th SCSI device by n:n:n, growisofs uses /dev/cdN. -- 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: How to get /dev/smb* ?

2011-11-02 Thread Polytropon
device smbus device iicbus device iicsmb device iicbb device iic So I can read temperature values using xmbmon. With the mbmon program, it should work similarly. OS is 8.2-STABLE on x86 here. -- Polytropon Magdeburg

Re: Why some flash sites don't work?

2011-11-02 Thread Polytropon
), but it works totally fine in Opera, as expected. -- 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: Problem with dbus in boot

2011-11-02 Thread Polytropon
you are missing those required settings, so /etc/rc cannot start dbus - to be expected. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: Anything like mkmf for foo linux?

2011-11-02 Thread Polytropon
makefiles for the make(1) command Maint: po...@freebsd.org Moved: Date: 2011-08-01 Reason: Has expired: Looks like an abandonware, no more public distfile Planned obsolescence in action? :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: The ports are really funcional?

2011-11-01 Thread Polytropon
, exchanging a non-compiling port (for whatever reason) with a binary package from the RELEASE set of archives is a possible way to solve the problem. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd

Re: The ports are really funcional?

2011-10-31 Thread Polytropon
media. If you encounter problems, please post informative text to this list, i. e. the command you've executed and the relevant error messages, and maybe specific things you've changed, e. g. global CFLAGS and other things one should not do. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user

Re: What are the technical differences between Linux and BSD?

2011-10-31 Thread Polytropon
. packages. An example is mplayer, when compiled for older systems: Here flags depending on the CPU actually in use can help. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: Install gnome 3

2011-10-31 Thread Polytropon
want a smartphone GUI on your desktop... :-) -- 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: Fast personal printing _without_ CUPS

2011-10-30 Thread Polytropon
. :-) -- 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: The ports are really funcional?

2011-10-30 Thread Polytropon
: It's VERY functional and works nearly flawlessly (until, of course, a port is broken, but this happens only a very few times). Maybe you should search things like working Internet connection and proper usage on your side. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi

Re: The ports are really funcional?

2011-10-30 Thread Polytropon
ways. -- 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: update packages by pkg_add

2011-10-29 Thread Polytropon
will properly store dependency informations. -- 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: Fast personal printing _without_ CUPS

2011-10-28 Thread Polytropon
is attached. It's easy to combine this with the system's tools lpr / lpd / lpq / lprm, in combination with the /etc/printcap file and a shell script. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd

Re: Fast personal printing _without_ CUPS

2011-10-28 Thread Polytropon
to the society, and shouldn't that be regarded a high goal in general? Two pictures: http://ulen.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/american-socialism.jpg http://blog.jonolan.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/socialism-illustrated.jpg Just for fun. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since

Re: Fast personal printing _without_ CUPS

2011-10-28 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 28 Oct 2011 16:04:19 -0400, Jerry wrote: On Fri, 28 Oct 2011 21:12:54 +0200 Polytropon articulated: So let me make this more clear: IF the hardware manufacturer wants to allow developers to write drivers for their hardware for free, THEN everything they'd have to do is to publish

Re: Fast personal printing _without_ CUPS

2011-10-28 Thread Polytropon
purchased -- for $$$ or for 0. That has NOTHING do do with socialism. Please try to consolidate your terminology. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Fast personal printing _without_ CUPS

2011-10-28 Thread Polytropon
. BTW, I'd _love_ to see Microsoft held legally respnsible for _their_ product shortcomings. They'd be out of business in a week at the outside. Would benefiting a healthy and free market, which means real capitalism (not the stage show we're experiencing today). :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg

Re: nice man pages?

2011-10-27 Thread Polytropon
, there is no color when using it). Why not a nice manual? The Midnight Commander comes with a file viewer that can display manpages in color: % mcview /usr/share/man/man3/signal.3.gz A very nice manual. Additionally, there's xman. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since

Re: Fast personal printing _without_ CUPS

2011-10-27 Thread Polytropon
and daisywheel, inkpee, and finally inkpee with scanner and fax and music box. And maybe finally a make your own filter module. I'm not sure if it already exists. I just fear someone will tell me that CUPS is supposed to be exactly that. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since

Re: Fast personal printing _without_ CUPS

2011-10-27 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 27 Oct 2011 18:17:55 +0200, C. P. Ghost wrote: On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 5:29 PM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: BUT: CUPS seems to be hardcoded into many applications today. They stopped working with the non-CUPS default system tools. An example is Opera. Another one is Gimp

Re: Fast personal printing _without_ CUPS

2011-10-27 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 27 Oct 2011 17:41:38 +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 27/10/2011 16:29, Polytropon wrote: In my opinion, CUPS is the Windows way of doing things, not the UNIX way. Hate me for having that opinion, but I feel to say it. Actually you can't blame Bill for this one. CUPS is an Apple

Re: Fast personal printing _without_ CUPS

2011-10-27 Thread Polytropon
drivers which negates the effectiveness of an N protocol based wireless printer. Yes, this problem exists. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Fast personal printing _without_ CUPS

2011-10-27 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 27 Oct 2011 17:46:21 -0400, Jerry wrote: On Thu, 27 Oct 2011 21:11:32 +0200 Polytropon articulated: On Thu, 27 Oct 2011 13:39:05 -0400, Jerry wrote: Printing under MS Windows is a breeze. The *nix community has never gotten printing up to that lever. It _had_, past

Re: Fast personal printing _without_ CUPS

2011-10-27 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 27 Oct 2011 19:39:17 -0400, Jerry wrote: On Fri, 28 Oct 2011 00:52:49 +0200 Polytropon articulated: There isn't much you can invent on a hammer. :-) Absolutely true. However, as Abraham Maslow said in 1966, It is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat

Re: Three button mouse emulation

2011-10-26 Thread Polytropon
to make X work better on such limited hardware configuration would be nice. -- 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: BSD_10_2011.pdf - typical problem

2011-10-26 Thread Polytropon
too. As I do not want to use heavyweight bloatware like that Acrobat reader, I use the xpdf program for the PDF files that don't work with gv. Maybe you try this program? And I also use xpdf -fullscreen for presentaqtions. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra

Re: Can't access a music CD (or any other media now)

2011-10-24 Thread Polytropon
rely on the presence of track device files /dev/acdXtYY which is a mechanism _not_ provided by the /dev/cdX SCSI device. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: Need to Backup Using Dump

2011-10-23 Thread Polytropon
where you can explicitely address a subtree to be copied instead of the whole file system. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Upgrading libxul, dependency on Firefox 3

2011-10-22 Thread Polytropon
in the end. -- 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: Help needed: sound/audio only semi-working

2011-10-22 Thread Polytropon
Analog (play/rec) pcm2: HDA Realtek ALC883 PCM #2 Digital (play/rec) -- 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: Breakin attempt

2011-10-22 Thread Polytropon
this decision? -- 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: Breakin attempt

2011-10-22 Thread Polytropon
. Providing anonymous access via SSH sort of defeats the purpose for using SSH in the first place. :-) The words anonymous access and secure shell do contradict. My EUR 0.02. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: SV: Breakin attempt

2011-10-22 Thread Polytropon
them (e. g. for further exploration, SSH attacks, spamming, illegal data storage and so on). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Help needed: sound/audio only semi-working

2011-10-22 Thread Polytropon
). Basically, I do appreciate merging acd and cd (so one device file per device becomes true), but if the price is that CD audio doesn't work anymore... we'll see. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: www.clubrunner.ca

2011-10-19 Thread Polytropon
/, it works and you get index.html, of course in a wrong encoding and with superfluous MS-DOS linebreaks. If you examine index.html's source a bit, you can see a typical desaster of Cloud Computing. :-) Seems to be a real configuration mess there... -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD

Re: Help! Can't delete files ...

2011-10-19 Thread Polytropon
and special characters). I'm following this rule for my entire IT career now and I'm very pleased by the results. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: need to check for hex in C: how/

2011-10-16 Thread Polytropon
) or (char) to a numerical or character value. int i; char c; if(i == 32 || i == ' ') ... if(c == 32 || c == ' ') ... Functions or macros that deal with characters usually do return (int), even though one would expect (char). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi

Re: need to check for hex in C: how/

2011-10-16 Thread Polytropon
of (char). For example getc() and getchar(), but also getch() from NCurses do so. It's common to simply compare those (int) value to character constants without casting them to (char) before comparison. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: Can't access a music CD

2011-10-13 Thread Polytropon
thin in the signal chain that could be wrong. -- 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: Can't access a music CD

2011-10-13 Thread Polytropon
[01,02,03,...] - aren't those supposed to represent the individual audio tracks that could then be interpreted as what they basically are, raw pcm (of cd-audio specification)? -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: Can't access a music CD

2011-10-13 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 13 Oct 2011 22:03:29 +, Alexander Best wrote: On Thu Oct 13 11, Polytropon wrote: On Thu, 13 Oct 2011 16:25:24 +, Alexander Best wrote: ano ther thought might be to implement an audio cd filesystem, so one could do 'mount -o audiocdfs /dev/cd0 /media/cd' and then all

Re: Can't access a music CD

2011-10-13 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 13 Oct 2011 22:38:45 +, Alexander Best wrote: On Fri Oct 14 11, Polytropon wrote: % ls /dev/acd0* /dev/acd0 /dev/acd0t04 /dev/acd0t08 /dev/acd0t12 /dev/acd0t16 /dev/acd0t01 /dev/acd0t05 /dev/acd0t09 /dev/acd0t13 /dev/acd0t17 /dev/acd0t02 /dev/acd0t06 /dev/acd0t10

Re: Can't access a music CD

2011-10-13 Thread Polytropon
set. Still I'm curious how things will develop on application side with the new subsystem once it's established. At least I see abandoning the differentiation acd0 vs. cd0 as a good thing. One drive - one device file to access it. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0

Re: Can't access a music CD

2011-10-12 Thread Polytropon
Recording source: monitor no sound and no drive activity. Hmmm... I'm missing the CD in that listing. Which mixer is your default mixer? Try -f /dev/mixer0 to make sure the correct one is selected. On HDA codecs, there may be several mixers. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user

Re: Can't access a music CD

2011-10-12 Thread Polytropon
the machine. This feature is obsolete, but still works. It's typically not part of laptop designs. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

User tasks in ~/.logout

2011-10-11 Thread Polytropon
the open session, maybe from within the program or shell he currently runs), will this cause ~/.logout to be processed, or will it be a stale connection? -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Turning system accounting data into money

2011-10-11 Thread Polytropon
(remote desktops). Maybe someone already uses something similar he wants to share? Suggestions and inspirations are welcome. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: User tasks in ~/.logout

2011-10-11 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 11 Oct 2011 10:27:13 -0400 (EDT), Daniel Feenberg wrote: On Tue, 11 Oct 2011, Polytropon wrote: I have some users who I want to schedule a specific job for which gets executed on their user account. For some of them, it will be twice a day, for others just once a month

Re: Turning system accounting data into money

2011-10-11 Thread Polytropon
. And as it's my only wish to please the good customer... well, he's the king, and I... I'm just, erm... Help! Help! I'm being oppressed!!! :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions

Re: OT: how to tell when i've hit a Fn key?

2011-10-08 Thread Polytropon
are a _professional_ feature, while GUI editors do not seem to cater the kind of users who _want_ those features, they are not the primary target group. The result: Some GUI editors even have limited keyboard support, expecting a continuous click wait flow. Summary: Depends. -- Polytropon

Re: OT: how to tell when i've hit a Fn key?

2011-10-07 Thread Polytropon
file /usr/local/include/ncurses/ncurses.h around line 1400. -- 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: OT: how to tell when i've hit a Fn key?

2011-10-07 Thread Polytropon
! */ get_out_of_prison(); From memory: Space is 32, Return is 13, Backspace is 8, Tab is 9. I think most of them are defined as macros in NCurses. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

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