Re: Portmaster and update progress, suggestion.

2012-06-06 Thread Leslie Jensen
2012-06-04 16:10, Leslie Jensen skrev: 2012-06-04 15:54, Warren Block skrev: % printf \033];Funny Title\007 Works! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

Re: Portmaster and update progress, suggestion.

2012-06-06 Thread Doug Barton
On 06/06/2012 09:11, Leslie Jensen wrote: My initial wish for some information about the build progress is still very much on the table. Try the attached patch. It essentially adds the progress info that is being put in the TERM title to the in-line printout of the dependency trail that was

Re: Portmaster and update progress, suggestion.

2012-06-06 Thread Doug Barton
On 06/06/2012 15:06, Doug Barton wrote: On 06/06/2012 09:11, Leslie Jensen wrote: My initial wish for some information about the build progress is still very much on the table. Try the attached patch. Actually try this one instead. :) -- This .signature sanitized for your

Re: Portmaster and update progress, suggestion.

2012-06-04 Thread Leslie Jensen
2012-06-03 18:18, Warren Block skrev: On Sun, 3 Jun 2012, Warren Block wrote: On Sun, 3 Jun 2012, Leslie Jensen wrote: 2012-06-02 19:18, Doug Barton skrev: On 6/2/2012 8:09 AM, Leslie Jensen wrote: I'm thinking about some kind of information on the build progress Portmaster already

Re: Portmaster and update progress, suggestion.

2012-06-04 Thread Doug Barton
On 06/04/2012 00:35, Leslie Jensen wrote: I found that setting and changed it. That should do it then. Thanks to Warren for suggesting it. I forgot to tell you that I'm working through an SSH connection and maybe it's because of that I cannot see any title? Nope. Should work just fine for

Re: Portmaster and update progress, suggestion.

2012-06-04 Thread Leslie Jensen
2012-06-04 09:41, Doug Barton skrev: On 06/04/2012 00:35, Leslie Jensen wrote: I found that setting and changed it. That should do it then. Thanks to Warren for suggesting it. I forgot to tell you that I'm working through an SSH connection and maybe it's because of that I cannot see any

Re: Portmaster and update progress, suggestion.

2012-06-04 Thread Leslie Jensen
2012-06-04 10:14, Leslie Jensen skrev: 2012-06-04 09:41, Doug Barton skrev: On 06/04/2012 00:35, Leslie Jensen wrote: I found that setting and changed it. That should do it then. Thanks to Warren for suggesting it. I forgot to tell you that I'm working through an SSH connection and

Re: Portmaster and update progress, suggestion.

2012-06-04 Thread Warren Block
On Mon, 4 Jun 2012, Leslie Jensen wrote: 2012-06-04 09:41, Doug Barton skrev: On 06/04/2012 00:35, Leslie Jensen wrote: I found that setting and changed it. That should do it then. Thanks to Warren for suggesting it. I forgot to tell you that I'm working through an SSH connection and

Re: Portmaster and update progress, suggestion.

2012-06-04 Thread Leslie Jensen
2012-06-04 15:54, Warren Block skrev: % printf \033];Funny Title\007 Works! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Re: Portmaster and update progress, suggestion.

2012-06-03 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 3 Jun 2012, Leslie Jensen wrote: 2012-06-02 19:18, Doug Barton skrev: On 6/2/2012 8:09 AM, Leslie Jensen wrote: I'm thinking about some kind of information on the build progress Portmaster already has that if you're building in a terminal window, look in the titlebar. I can take a

Re: Portmaster and update progress, suggestion.

2012-06-03 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 3 Jun 2012, Warren Block wrote: On Sun, 3 Jun 2012, Leslie Jensen wrote: 2012-06-02 19:18, Doug Barton skrev: On 6/2/2012 8:09 AM, Leslie Jensen wrote: I'm thinking about some kind of information on the build progress Portmaster already has that if you're building in a terminal

Portmaster and update progress, suggestion.

2012-06-02 Thread Leslie Jensen
I'm thinking about some kind of information on the build progress when one does larger updates like the newly recommendation in /usr/ports/UPDATING portmaster -r png- I myself have three machines with different capacity when it comes to building ports. How about a knobb one could choose

Re: Portmaster and update progress, suggestion.

2012-06-02 Thread Doug Barton
On 6/2/2012 8:09 AM, Leslie Jensen wrote: I'm thinking about some kind of information on the build progress Portmaster already has that if you're building in a terminal window, look in the titlebar. I can take a look at printing that in line if you're not in a terminal window though. hope this

Re: Portmaster and update progress, suggestion.

2012-06-02 Thread Leslie Jensen
2012-06-02 19:18, Doug Barton skrev: On 6/2/2012 8:09 AM, Leslie Jensen wrote: I'm thinking about some kind of information on the build progress Portmaster already has that if you're building in a terminal window, look in the titlebar. I can take a look at printing that in line if you're

Re: Suggestion

2012-03-12 Thread Allen
On 3/11/2012 7:33 PM, Da Rock wrote: On 03/11/12 21:03, ajtiM wrote: On Saturday 10 March 2012 17:36:53 Da Rock wrote: No system is actually truly capable of this, with the exception of the newest kid on the block Plan9. Winblows, in its current form, is the bastard love child of DOS and

Re: Suggestion

2012-03-12 Thread Rod Person
On Mon, 12 Mar 2012 12:14:39 -0400 Allen unix.hac...@comcast.net wrote: Plan 9 is a record label started by Glenn Danzig. I never thought I'd see this on FreeBSD list! I guess I have now lived long enough as they say. Of course, if I won the Lotto or something, I'd re-design my House, and

Re: Suggestion

2012-03-12 Thread Chad Perrin
On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 12:14:39PM -0400, Allen wrote: I'd like BeOS to come back, but I'm quite happy with BSD and Linux. Give the Haiku project a look. It's meant to be some kind of inheritor of the BeOS legacy. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ]

Re: Suggestion

2012-03-12 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 10:20:03AM -0500, Chris wrote: ... One word that is rampant... Alligations Is that where someone makes a claim that someone else is an alligator? -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] ___

Re: Suggestion

2012-03-12 Thread Alejandro Imass
On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 2:29 PM, Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 12:14:39PM -0400, Allen wrote: I'd like BeOS to come back, but I'm quite happy with BSD and Linux. Give the Haiku project a look.  It's meant to be some kind of inheritor of the BeOS legacy. May

Re: Suggestion

2012-03-12 Thread Paul Macdonald
On 12/03/2012 18:40, Chad Perrin wrote: On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 10:20:03AM -0500, Chris wrote: ... One word that is rampant... Alligations Is that where someone makes a claim that someone else is an alligator? sometimes i wish the lists had a like button :P -- -

Re: Suggestion

2012-03-12 Thread Chris
On 3/12/2012 2:00 PM, Paul Macdonald wrote: On 12/03/2012 18:40, Chad Perrin wrote: On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 10:20:03AM -0500, Chris wrote: ... One word that is rampant... Alligations Is that where someone makes a claim that someone else is an alligator? sometimes i wish the lists had a like

Re: Suggestion

2012-03-12 Thread Da Rock
On 03/13/12 02:14, Allen wrote: On 3/11/2012 7:33 PM, Da Rock wrote: On 03/11/12 21:03, ajtiM wrote: On Saturday 10 March 2012 17:36:53 Da Rock wrote: No system is actually truly capable of this, with the exception of the newest kid on the block Plan9. Winblows, in its current form, is the

Re: Suggestion

2012-03-11 Thread ajtiM
On Saturday 10 March 2012 17:36:53 Da Rock wrote: No system is actually truly capable of this, with the exception of the newest kid on the block Plan9. Winblows, in its current form, is the bastard love child of DOS and some black sheep cousin of Unix (twice-removed), so its not happening

Re: Suggestion

2012-03-11 Thread Jerry
On Sun, 11 Mar 2012 11:23:54 +0700 Erich Dollansky articulated: FAT rules! Uh . . . what? It is on every phone, every camera, every toaster ... And for a very good reason; it is virtually universally usable by any operating system. However, the exFAT system is becoming more

Re: Suggestion

2012-03-11 Thread Alejandro Imass
On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 7:12 AM, Jerry je...@seibercom.net wrote: On Sun, 11 Mar 2012 11:23:54 +0700 Erich Dollansky articulated: FAT rules! Uh . . . what? It is on every phone, every camera, every toaster ... And for a very good reason; it is virtually universally usable by any

Re: Suggestion

2012-03-11 Thread Chris
: Suggestion To: FreeBSD freebsd-questions@freebsd.org On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 7:12 AM, Jerry je...@seibercom.net wrote: On Sun, 11 Mar 2012 11:23:54 +0700 Erich Dollansky articulated: FAT rules! Uh . . . what? It is on every phone, every camera, every toaster ... And for a very good reason

Re: Suggestion

2012-03-11 Thread Alejandro Imass
On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 10:55 AM, Chris rac...@makeworld.com wrote: ... Ah yes, trying to feed the world where hunger is rampant is an evil thing when done by  corporate insert name here. Ah yes, the ignorance http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nestl%C3%A9_boycott

Re: Suggestion

2012-03-11 Thread Alejandro Imass
On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 11:04 AM, Alejandro Imass a...@p2ee.org wrote: On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 10:55 AM, Chris rac...@makeworld.com wrote: ... Ah yes, trying to feed the world where hunger is rampant is an evil thing when done by  corporate insert name here. Ah yes, the ignorance

Re: Suggestion

2012-03-11 Thread Chris
... One word that is rampant... Alligations Sent from my HTC. - Reply message - From: Alejandro Imass a...@p2ee.org Date: Sun, Mar 11, 2012 10:04 am Subject: Suggestion To: Chris rac...@makeworld.com Cc: FreeBSD freebsd-questions@freebsd.org On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 10:55 AM, Chris rac

Re: Suggestion

2012-03-11 Thread Jerry
On Sun, 11 Mar 2012 11:13:09 -0400 Alejandro Imass articulated: On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 11:04 AM, Alejandro Imass a...@p2ee.org wrote: On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 10:55 AM, Chris rac...@makeworld.com wrote: ... Ah yes, trying to feed the world where hunger is rampant is an evil thing when

Re: Suggestion

2012-03-11 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 11 Mar 2012 11:23:54 +0700, Erich Dollansky wrote: On Sunday 11 March 2012 10:53:26 Chad Perrin wrote: On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 11:31:33PM +0700, Erich Dollansky wrote: FAT rules! Uh . . . what? It is on every phone, every camera, every toaster ... Sorry, you must be wrong. I

Re: Suggestion

2012-03-11 Thread Robert Huff
Alejandro Imass writes: FAT rules! Uh . . . what? It is on every phone, every camera, every toaster ... The only reason it's so popular is not precisely for good design. I can think of two: Its properties are well understood. There are a multitude

Re: Suggestion

2012-03-11 Thread Da Rock
On 03/11/12 21:03, ajtiM wrote: On Saturday 10 March 2012 17:36:53 Da Rock wrote: No system is actually truly capable of this, with the exception of the newest kid on the block Plan9. Winblows, in its current form, is the bastard love child of DOS and some black sheep cousin of Unix

Re: Suggestion

2012-03-11 Thread Bernt Hansson
2012-03-11 18:42, Polytropon skrev: On Sun, 11 Mar 2012 11:23:54 +0700, Erich Dollansky wrote: On Sunday 11 March 2012 10:53:26 Chad Perrin wrote: On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 11:31:33PM +0700, Erich Dollansky wrote: FAT rules! Uh . . . what? It is on every phone, every camera, every toaster

Re: Suggestion

2012-03-10 Thread Alejandro Imass
On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 2:36 AM, Erich Dollansky erichfreebsdl...@ovitrap.com wrote: Hi, On Saturday 10 March 2012 14:28:05 Joshua Isom wrote: [...] wine was able to fix the problem. Do not forget that most of the problems Windows has are not linked to design. I am guessing this is a

Re: Suggestion

2012-03-10 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Saturday 10 March 2012 22:08:37 Alejandro Imass wrote: On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 2:36 AM, Erich Dollansky erichfreebsdl...@ovitrap.com wrote: On Saturday 10 March 2012 14:28:05 Joshua Isom wrote: [...] it seems that you delete the 'masterpiece'. wine was able to fix the

Re: Suggestion

2012-03-10 Thread Da Rock
On 03/11/12 02:31, Erich Dollansky wrote: Hi, On Saturday 10 March 2012 22:08:37 Alejandro Imass wrote: On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 2:36 AM, Erich Dollansky erichfreebsdl...@ovitrap.com wrote: On Saturday 10 March 2012 14:28:05 Joshua Isom wrote: [...] it seems that you delete the

Re: Suggestion

2012-03-09 Thread Da Rock
On 03/09/12 14:56, Bruno Comerci wrote: Hi guys. Instead of wasting your time and man power, why wont you join to the ReactOS project? It would be more beneficial to the internet community and to the users around the world who wants a free OS with similar looking and functions than Windows,

Re: Suggestion

2012-03-09 Thread Da Rock
On 03/09/12 16:56, Hexing B wrote: Isn't it illegal to emulate windows OS? Wine would be illegal then. This is Wine on steroids, and then some. Poke a needle in for testing and it will pop ;) Frankly, its not as good as winblow$ and cant do pretty much anything else with it, so its hopeless.

Re: Suggestion

2012-03-09 Thread Allen
On 3/8/2012 11:56 PM, Bruno Comerci wrote: Hi guys. Instead of wasting your time and man power, why wont you join to the ReactOS project? It would be more beneficial to the internet community and to the users around the world who wants a free OS with similar looking and functions than

Re: Suggestion

2012-03-09 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 9 Mar 2012 01:56:25 -0300, Bruno Comerci wrote: Instead of wasting your time and man power, why wont you join to the ReactOS project? Because I like to _act_, instead to just RE-act. REact to some old-fashioned and spoiled concepts and incompatible infrastructures without any future...

Re: Suggestion

2012-03-09 Thread Eugene M. Zheganin
Hi. On 09.03.2012 10:56, Bruno Comerci wrote: Instead of wasting your time and man power, why wont you join to the ReactOS project? It would be more beneficial to the internet community and to the users around the world who wants a free OS with similar looking and functions than Windows, if

Re: Suggestion

2012-03-09 Thread Andrew Gould
Troll alert. (just let it die) On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 10:56 PM, Bruno Comerci bruno_come...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi guys. Instead of wasting your time and man power, why wont you join to the ReactOS project? It would be more beneficial to the internet community and to the users around

Re: Suggestion

2012-03-09 Thread Outback Dingo
On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 11:56 PM, Bruno Comerci bruno_come...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi guys. Instead of wasting your time and man power, why wont you join to the ReactOS project? It would be more beneficial to the internet community and to the users around the world who wants a free OS with

Re: Suggestion

2012-03-09 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Friday 09 March 2012 11:56:25 Bruno Comerci wrote: Hi guys. Instead of wasting your time and man power, why wont you join to the ReactOS project? hey, who clean my desk now? I was just eating when I read this crap. Best trolling ever! It would be more beneficial to the

Re: Suggestion

2012-03-09 Thread Nomen Nescio
Who in their right mind would EVER want to run this crap? You answered your own question. My guess? People who are too cheap to buy Windows and too stupid to figure out how to find a free copy of XP or Win 7 on the net and do the activation or find a password. That's a pretty small user space.

Re: Suggestion

2012-03-09 Thread mikel king
On Mar 8, 2012, at 11:56 PM, Bruno Comerci wrote: Hi guys. Instead of wasting your time and man power, why wont you join to the ReactOS project? It would be more beneficial to the internet community and to the users around the world who wants a free OS with similar looking and

Re: Suggestion

2012-03-09 Thread Mario Lobo
On Friday 09 March 2012 01:56:25 Bruno Comerci wrote: Hi guys. Instead of wasting your time and man power, why wont you join to the ReactOS project? It would be more beneficial to the internet community and to the users around the world who wants a free OS with similar looking and

RE: Suggestion

2012-03-09 Thread Graeme Dargie
-Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Bruno Comerci Sent: 09 March 2012 04:56 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Suggestion Hi guys. Instead of wasting your time and man power, why wont you join

Re: Suggestion

2012-03-09 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Saturday 10 March 2012 07:57:59 Graeme Dargie wrote: I try not to reply to these things, but I have to say this bloke is having a proper tin bath (laugh) in development since 1996 their website proudly claims, and here we are in 2012 and it is still an alpha! you can see on this

Re: Suggestion

2012-03-09 Thread Da Rock
On 03/10/12 11:07, Erich Dollansky wrote: Hi, On Saturday 10 March 2012 07:57:59 Graeme Dargie wrote: I try not to reply to these things, but I have to say this bloke is having a proper tin bath (laugh) in development since 1996 their website proudly claims, and here we are in 2012 and it

Re: Suggestion

2012-03-09 Thread Chad Perrin
On Fri, Mar 09, 2012 at 01:56:25AM -0300, Bruno Comerci wrote: Hi guys. Instead of wasting your time and man power, why wont you join to the ReactOS project? It would be more beneficial to the internet community and to the users around the world who wants a free OS with similar looking

Re: Suggestion

2012-03-09 Thread Joshua Isom
On 3/9/2012 7:07 PM, Erich Dollansky wrote: you can see on this how difficult it is to be 100% compatible with Windows. Especially the Virus layer of Windows is hard to redo. It is a masterpiece on its own. Erich Wine got some of the security issues to match, and they were found in wine

Re: Suggestion

2012-03-09 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Saturday 10 March 2012 14:28:05 Joshua Isom wrote: On 3/9/2012 7:07 PM, Erich Dollansky wrote: you can see on this how difficult it is to be 100% compatible with Windows. Especially the Virus layer of Windows is hard to redo. It is a masterpiece on its own. Wine got some of

Suggestion

2012-03-08 Thread Bruno Comerci
Hi guys. Instead of wasting your time and man power, why wont you join to the ReactOS project? It would be more beneficial to the internet community and to the users around the world who wants a free OS with similar looking and functions than Windows, if you just throw away your FreeBSD and

Re: Suggestion

2012-03-08 Thread ill...@gmail.com
On 8 March 2012 23:56, Bruno Comerci bruno_come...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi guys. Instead of wasting your time and man power, why wont you join to the ReactOS project? It would be more beneficial to the internet community and to the users around the world who wants a free OS with similar

Re: Suggestion

2012-03-08 Thread Hexing B
Isn't it illegal to emulate windows OS? I trust FreeBSD by now, though ReactOS is worth researching. On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 1:12 PM, ill...@gmail.com ill...@gmail.com wrote: On 8 March 2012 23:56, Bruno Comerci bruno_come...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi guys. Instead of wasting your time and

Re: Suggestion

2012-03-08 Thread Nomen Nescio
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Re: Dennis Ritchie has died. A suggestion

2011-10-24 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 5:19 AM, Jonathan Vomacka juvi...@gmail.com wrote: On 10/17/2011 12:04 PM, Michael M wrote: *SNIP* / *PRUNE* For whatever it may be worth; I fully stand by dedicating the next release to dmr, as it wouldn't exist without him and Ken. +1 Another reason for a dmr

Re: Dennis Ritchie has died. A suggestion

2011-10-18 Thread Allen
On 10/17/2011 12:04 PM, Michael M wrote: *SNIP* / *PRUNE* For whatever it may be worth; I fully stand by dedicating the next release to dmr, as it wouldn't exist without him and Ken. -Allen ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Dennis Ritchie has died. A suggestion

2011-10-17 Thread Alessandro Spinella
On 10/14/11 18:22, Odhiambo Washington wrote: +1 FreeBSD-9 Codename Ritchie. agree_counter++; Alessandro ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Re: Dennis Ritchie has died. A suggestion

2011-10-17 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
On 10/17/2011 10:08 AM, Alessandro Spinella wrote: On 10/14/11 18:22, Odhiambo Washington wrote: +1 FreeBSD-9 Codename Ritchie. agree_counter++; agreed. -- RMA. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Dennis Ritchie has died. A suggestion

2011-10-17 Thread Michael M
On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 9:27 AM, Mihamina Rakotomandimby miham...@rktmb.org wrote: On 10/17/2011 10:08 AM, Alessandro Spinella wrote: On 10/14/11 18:22, Odhiambo Washington wrote: +1 FreeBSD-9 Codename Ritchie. agree_counter++; agreed. -- RMA.

Re: Dennis Ritchie has died. A suggestion

2011-10-15 Thread Thomas Mueller
FreeBSD needs to acknowledge its history, and C has been and still is a critical part. Dennis Ritchie's role deserves to be acknowledged. Tom ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: Dennis Ritchie has died. A suggestion

2011-10-15 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 11:43 PM, mikel king mikel.k...@olivent.com wrote: On Oct 13, 2011, at 4:38 PM, Roland Smith wrote: With the recent death of Dennis Ritchie, we've lost one of the giants on whose shoulders we are standing. But rather that mourn his passing, I think it would be

Re: Dennis Ritchie has died. A suggestion

2011-10-14 Thread Odhiambo Washington
On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 19:17, Kruppa, Peter Ulrich ulr...@pukruppa.dewrote: On 13.10.2011 23:43, mikel king wrote: On Oct 13, 2011, at 4:38 PM, Roland Smith wrote: With the recent death of Dennis Ritchie, we've lost one of the giants on whose shoulders we are standing. But rather that

Re: Dennis Ritchie has died. A suggestion

2011-10-14 Thread Pegasus Mc Cleaft
On Friday 14 October 2011 00:46:43 Chip Camden wrote: Alternatively, an tribute on the FreeBSD website would be fitting, wouldn't it? Roland I think this would be a fitting tribute... Hear, hear! A good friend of mine posted to me, I think, one of the best tributes:

Re: Dennis Ritchie has died. A suggestion

2011-10-14 Thread Mike Jeays
On Fri, 14 Oct 2011 18:17:15 +0200 Kruppa, Peter Ulrich ulr...@pukruppa.de wrote: On 13.10.2011 23:43, mikel king wrote: On Oct 13, 2011, at 4:38 PM, Roland Smith wrote: With the recent death of Dennis Ritchie, we've lost one of the giants on whose shoulders we are standing. But

Re: Dennis Ritchie has died. A suggestion

2011-10-14 Thread Gary Kline
On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 05:43:25PM -0400, mikel king wrote: Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2011 17:43:25 -0400 From: mikel king mikel.k...@olivent.com Subject: Re: Dennis Ritchie has died. A suggestion To: Roland Smith rsm...@xs4all.nl Cc: FreeBSD questions freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailer: Apple

Re: Dennis Ritchie has died. A suggestion

2011-10-14 Thread Mariano Vecchioli
: Dennis Ritchie has died. A suggestion To: Roland Smith rsm...@xs4all.nl Cc: FreeBSD questions freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1084) On Oct 13, 2011, at 4:38 PM, Roland Smith wrote: With the recent death of Dennis Ritchie, we've lost one of the giants on whose

Re: Dennis Ritchie has died. A suggestion

2011-10-13 Thread Chip Camden
Quoth mikel king on Thursday, 13 October 2011: On Oct 13, 2011, at 4:38 PM, Roland Smith wrote: With the recent death of Dennis Ritchie, we've lost one of the giants on whose shoulders we are standing. But rather that mourn his passing, I think it would be proper to remember and

Re: Dennis Ritchie has died. A suggestion

2011-10-13 Thread Ryan Coleman
I think this is a grand idea. -- Ryan Coleman m. 612.910.3709 On Oct 13, 2011, at 18:46, Chip Camden sterl...@camdensoftware.com wrote: Quoth mikel king on Thursday, 13 October 2011: On Oct 13, 2011, at 4:38 PM, Roland Smith wrote: With the recent death of Dennis Ritchie, we've lost one

Re: disk problem: suggestion on how to handle...

2011-04-26 Thread Bruce Cran
On Tue, 26 Apr 2011 07:08:21 +0200 Denis Fortin for...@acm.org wrote: So, is there a way to mark the inode bad and then launch an fsck ? How can I turn offset=-574217714356717568 into a usable piece of information? It looks like something is causing geom to try and read way past the end of

Re: disk problem: suggestion on how to handle...

2011-04-26 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 26 Apr 2011 07:08:21 +0200, Denis Fortin for...@acm.org wrote: Good morning, I have a small server with an SSD drive in it that is having some problems. Notably, dmesg has been repeatedly reporting the following error message:

disk problem: suggestion on how to handle...

2011-04-25 Thread Denis Fortin
is to replace the disk and restore from a backup, but this isn't really an option immediately. So, is there a way to mark the inode bad and then launch an fsck ? How can I turn offset=-574217714356717568 into a usable piece of information? Any suggestion welcome. Denis, fortin

suggestion for http://krinc.rnd.runnet.ru/FreeBSD/gallery/npgallery.html

2010-05-10 Thread linda
about feminism, http://www.datehookup.com/content-feminism-resources.htm , which would make a nice replacement or additional resource for your page. I hope my suggestion helps! Regards, Linda Peterson ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Suggestion for the fdisk(8) manual page...

2009-12-21 Thread Modulok
a suggestion: In the 'Bugs' section of the 'fdisk(8)' man page, could we get a note that informs users that fdisk is kind of... broken and obsolete? Something like: fdisk is slowly being replaced by gpart(8). fdisk may not work correctly. If you see errors such as fdisk: Class not found, use

Re: Suggestion for the fdisk(8) manual page...

2009-12-21 Thread Modulok
tried the same with gpart and everything worked fine. I wish I would have know about gpart earlier though. -Modulok- On 12/20/09, Roland Smith rsm...@xs4all.nl wrote: On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 12:40:48PM -0700, Modulok wrote: Just a suggestion: In the 'Bugs' section of the 'fdisk(8)' man page

Suggestion for the fdisk(8) manual page...

2009-12-20 Thread Modulok
List, Just a suggestion: In the 'Bugs' section of the 'fdisk(8)' man page, could we get a note that informs users that fdisk is kind of... broken and obsolete? Something like: fdisk is slowly being replaced by gpart(8). fdisk may not work correctly. If you see errors such as fdisk: Class

Re: Suggestion for the fdisk(8) manual page...

2009-12-20 Thread Ondřej Majerech
On Sun, 20 Dec 2009 20:40:48 +0100, Modulok modu...@gmail.com wrote: List, Just a suggestion: In the 'Bugs' section of the 'fdisk(8)' man page, could we get a note that informs users that fdisk is kind of... broken and obsolete? Something like: fdisk is slowly being replaced by gpart(8

Re: Suggestion for the fdisk(8) manual page...

2009-12-20 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 12:40:48PM -0700, Modulok wrote: Just a suggestion: In the 'Bugs' section of the 'fdisk(8)' man page, could we get a note that informs users that fdisk is kind of... broken and obsolete? Something like: fdisk is slowly being replaced by gpart(8). fdisk may not work

Document iso compression suggestion

2009-07-31 Thread Nathen
Hi, I'm not sure if this is the correct email address to use for this suggestion but anyway, I thought you would like to know I managed to compress the iso '7.2-RELEASE-amd64-docs.iso' at 294MB down to just 21.2MB by using 7-zip's ultra compression method - this could help you to conserve

Re: scripting suggestion: how to make this command shorter

2009-06-28 Thread gs_stol...@juno.com
On 6/27/09, Zhang Weiwu zhangwe...@realss.com wrote: Hello. I wrote this one-line command to fetch a page from a long uri, parse it twice: first time get subject second time get content, and send it as email to me. $ w3m -dump

scripting suggestion: how to make this command shorter

2009-06-27 Thread Zhang Weiwu
Hello. I wrote this one-line command to fetch a page from a long uri, parse it twice: first time get subject second time get content, and send it as email to me. $ w3m -dump

Re: scripting suggestion: how to make this command shorter

2009-06-27 Thread Modulok
Zhang, Perhaps you could put it into a text file and have cron simply execute the text file. By doing so, you are free to break it up into a more digestible format and start using programming constructs to make your life easier. (Such as storing values in variables, or processing standard input

Re: scripting suggestion: how to make this command shorter

2009-06-27 Thread Zhang Weiwu
Modulok wrote: Zhang, Perhaps you could put it into a text file and have cron simply execute the text file. By doing so, you are free to break it up into a more digestible format and start using programming constructs to make your life easier. (Such as storing values in variables, or

Re: Suggestion

2009-01-05 Thread Ross Cameron
Why not just install GRUB and use any boot splash you see fit? Hell you could even spin you're own fBSD release with this as a default if u wanted. On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 8:26 AM, Ryan da Silva rdasi...@greenfield.com wrote: Hello, If someone could pass this suggestion on i'd appreciate

Re: Suggestion

2009-01-04 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 4 Jan 2009 01:07:57 -0600 (CST), Lars Eighner luvbeas...@larseighner.com wrote: Enable beastie and you won't have to look at the ugly letters. Or disable the lines include /boot/beastie.4th and beastie-start prefixing them with a backslash in /boot/loader.rc, and put

Re: Suggestion

2009-01-04 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Someone needs to change the FreeBSD boot menu. The way the word/logo FreeBSD is displayed in large font with, ASCII characters, reminds me of the 1990`s with BBS`s. Don`t get me wrong, I loved the days of the BBS. But it`s 2009 and FreeBSD is a solid, professional, enterprise-grade operating

Re: Suggestion

2009-01-04 Thread Glen Barber
On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 1:26 AM, Ryan da Silva rdasi...@greenfield.com wrote: Hello, If someone could pass this suggestion on i'd appreciate it. It's going to sound a little picky, and probably crazy but I'm an honest and forward person so I'll just say it. Someone needs to change

Re: Suggestion

2009-01-04 Thread Frank Shute
On Sun, Jan 04, 2009 at 04:02:53PM +0100, cpghost wrote: On Sun, Jan 04, 2009 at 01:26:03AM -0500, Ryan da Silva wrote: Someone needs to change the FreeBSD boot menu. The way the word/logo FreeBSD is displayed in large font with, ASCII characters, reminds me of the 1990`s with BBS`s. Don`t

Re: Suggestion

2009-01-04 Thread Modulok
FreeBSD is displayed in large font with, ASCII characters, reminds me of the 1990`s with BBS`s. Don`t get me wrong, I loved the days of the BBS. But it`s 2009 and FreeBSD is a solid, professional, enterprise-grade operating system and the silly ASCII logo is the only thing that says

Re: Suggestion

2009-01-04 Thread Ryan da Silva
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Suggestion

2009-01-03 Thread Ryan da Silva
Hello, If someone could pass this suggestion on i'd appreciate it. It's going to sound a little picky, and probably crazy but I'm an honest and forward person so I'll just say it. Someone needs to change the FreeBSD boot menu. The way the word/logo FreeBSD is displayed in large font

Re: Suggestion

2009-01-03 Thread Lars Eighner
On Sun, 4 Jan 2009, Ryan da Silva wrote: Someone needs to change the FreeBSD boot menu. The way the word/logo FreeBSD is displayed in large font with, ASCII characters, reminds me of the 1990`s with BBS`s. Enable beastie and you won't have to look at the ugly letters. -- Lars Eighner

Re: handbook suggestion

2008-12-20 Thread oklahoma
First, let me say that I find FreeBSD to be the best of all the free Unices -- and it is due to the excellent and practical documentation. That said, there is an easy way to make FreeBSD easier for the home user. There are a number of suggestions/methods of doing things in the handbook that

Re: CMS suggestion on FreeBSD (except Mambo)

2008-12-16 Thread munkhbayar batkhuu
Thank you for all replies. I learned new CMS's. I decided to switch Mambo to other FreeBSD 7.0 server for temporarily. And planning to upgrade older FreeBSD 5.4 to 7.0. Short time frame not allows me to switch contents to new CMS. Anyway, it's sad that current ports tree still have old Mambo

Re: CMS suggestion on FreeBSD (except Mambo)

2008-12-14 Thread dick hoogendijk
On Sun, 14 Dec 2008 09:31:16 +0800 Nguyen Tam Chinh uni...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 9:26 PM, munkhbayar batkhuu bmr...@gmail.com wrote: My question is, Can you suggest me on more secure open source CMS?, which CMS are you using on FreeBSD?. How about WordPress? Its code

Re: CMS suggestion on FreeBSD (except Mambo)

2008-12-13 Thread Julien Cigar
I would suggest Plone On Sat, 2008-12-13 at 22:26 +0900, munkhbayar batkhuu wrote: Dear all FreeBSD list members. One of my old FreeBSD-5.4 server is installed with Mambo (4.6.2 Bug Stomp Pre-Release 2, not installed from ports) and I'm going to upgrade this Content Management System (CMS)

Re: CMS suggestion on FreeBSD (except Mambo)

2008-12-13 Thread Bill Campbell
On Sat, Dec 13, 2008, Julien Cigar wrote: I would suggest Plone I'll second that. Bill -- INTERNET: b...@celestial.com Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way Voice: (206) 236-1676 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820 Fax:

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