On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 09:15:30PM -0430, Andres Perera wrote:
it doesn't matter if it wasn't you
if you're all retarded then you are all effectively the same person
I see. Suggesting that slinging insults makes him retarded.
You are naught but a troll. Killfiled.
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You're welcome, Andres! Now go sleep it off.
That's awfully accommodating of you.
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On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 07:12:23PM -0700, Chad Perrin wrote:
On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 09:15:30PM -0430, Andres Perera wrote:
it doesn't matter if it wasn't you
if you're all retarded then you are all effectively the same person
I see. Suggesting that slinging insults makes him
the system's behavior (or,
y'know, actually troubleshoot it at all).
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On Fri, Mar 04, 2011 at 03:28:10PM +0100, Christopher J. Ruwe wrote:
Later, I tried OpenSolaris and FreeBSD and am now using FreeBSD due to
the same reasons as Chad Perrin stated: Being a power-user, wanting to
control things and (now diverting from Chad's reasons) wanting to use
technology
breaking patches made from earlier versions) without substantively
changing the way things work or the readability of the code.
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to make this
stuff run.
Linux binaries . . . ?
That's unlikely to work on FreeBSD without the Linux compatibility layer.
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) such that these comparisons end up sounding more dramatic
and exciting.
(We now return you to your regularly scheduled anecdotal benchmarking
discussion.)
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know you can configure YouTube to use HTML5 instead of Flash now?
Adobe is in danger of becoming irrelevant.
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On Mon, Mar 07, 2011 at 09:17:23AM -0800, Charlie Kester wrote:
On Mon 07 Mar 2011 at 09:00:14 PST Chad Perrin wrote:
Did you know you can configure YouTube to use HTML5 instead of Flash
now? Adobe is in danger of becoming irrelevant.
Meh. I never watch videos on the website anyway
-mentioned essay *Code Reuse and Technological
Advancement*, I make a point of focusing my efforts on copyfree licensed
software such as the (majority of) the FreeBSD project.
Your mileage may vary.
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know of any such terminal
emulators, aside from XTerm, that do something like this?
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to generate the characters
to use for cutting + pasting to no avial.
I wrote this about setting up a Compose key a while back:
entering special characters in Xorg
http://sob.apotheon.org/?p=814
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, except in rare cases.
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, especially when there is
no singly market-dominating corporation leading the charge for adoption.
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of irrationality.
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On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 11:12:09AM -0700, David Brodbeck wrote:
On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 5:43 PM, Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote:
The largest possible paying audience is generally everybody capable of
using an open standard.
Since we're talking about video, though, it's worth noting
that something needs to be fixed. This is, in short, bad
software design.
I blame Microsoft, GNU, and Canonical for this trend, mostly.
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dominant.
2. Kill an up-and-coming competitor.
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On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 05:35:57PM -0400, Jerry wrote:
On Thu, 17 Mar 2011 13:48:52 -0600
Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com articulated:
I blame Microsoft, GNU, and Canonical for this trend, mostly.
Chad, I believe I stand on firm ground when I state that you would
blame Microsoft
On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 07:48:58PM -0400, Jerry wrote:
On Thu, 17 Mar 2011 16:36:37 -0600
Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com articulated:
No, not really. It's more the fault of the hardware manufacturer.
Chad, up until this point I had taken your response seriously. In fact,
I thought
-64 (Itanium), IBM POWER, and SPARC 64 bit processors use the same
Long Mode functionality?
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supported (which they probably have on at least
Windows, if not Linux as well) is just blaming him for not being able to
read your mind about hardware you have in hand.
Thanks.
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On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 07:54:13PM -0500, Adam Vande More wrote:
On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 7:30 PM, Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote:
. . . or maybe it is a 64 bit CPU that is not x86_64/amd64 compatible.
Do IA-64 (Itanium), IBM POWER, and SPARC 64 bit processors use the same
Long Mode
a reference to LM,
but the second system (whose output you quoted) *does*.
. . . which to me suggests that the processor is 64 bit, but the
original system for some reason does not recognize that fact.
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who are making yourself look
like a fool by trying to assign motivations and rationalizations to
others that are patently (pun intended) ridiculous.
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application to *force* them to specify *all four*
configuration settings, even when three of them are default? Are you
further saying you're doing this because you think it's a good idea from
a UI standpoint, and not just out of laziness?
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it would be more accurate to say
the car would crash.
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. It's a trade-off, like
anything else in life, I suppose.
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On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 08:45:23AM -0700, Chip Camden wrote:
Quoth Chad Perrin on Wednesday, 30 March 2011:
We were speaking in analogies here, where the car *is* the operating
system -- so I think if it said 1/0 it would be more accurate to
say the car would crash.
It's uncertain
On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 12:57:45AM +0200, Polytropon wrote:
On Wed, 30 Mar 2011 13:41:54 -0600, Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com
wrote:
On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 08:45:23AM -0700, Chip Camden wrote:
It's uncertain whether the car would crash, or run infinitely.
Mathematically
but, in the words of the
manpage, it allows you to run a command immune to hangups, with output
to a non-tty.
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with Synaptic doesn't require
you to track all the (recursive) dependencies yourself, but uninstalling
Evolution can break the whole system because of the insanely inclusive
dependency policies for packages.
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- face. In my opinion, this is way better than the
POP/no-SMTP thing I'm currently doing.
Why Roundcube? From what I've seen, it doesn't handle quote indentation
and marking properly.
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On Mon, Apr 04, 2011 at 01:37:50AM +0200, Polytropon wrote:
On Sun, 3 Apr 2011 09:46:26 -0600, Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote:
On Sun, Apr 03, 2011 at 03:43:59AM +0200, Polytropon wrote:
For example, you could install an IMAP interface for mail stored on
the server, so you can
On Mon, Apr 04, 2011 at 02:33:53AM +0200, Polytropon wrote:
On Sun, 3 Apr 2011 18:15:48 -0600, Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com
wrote:
I've seen Roundcube do this crap. It does *not* make me happy when
trying to skim through emails quickly -- and it can be bad when
reading more closely
I'm not very well versed in the nuances of Webmail software.
I just know that receiving emails formatted by code that was apparently
written by prairie dogs (judging by how it screws up the formatting) is
suboptimal.
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*not*
need a bunch of duplicates cluttering up my inbox. I have yet to see
anyone complain of not receiving a CC in addition to the mail from the
list.
I consider not cluttering up the inboxes of people subscribed to the
list a good reason to do otherwise.
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On Fri, Apr 08, 2011 at 08:30:25PM +0100, Chris Rees wrote:
On 8 Apr 2011 20:25, Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote:
I, for one, am glad this does not happen more often. I really do
*not* need a bunch of duplicates cluttering up my inbox. I have yet
to see anyone complain
On Fri, Apr 08, 2011 at 12:34:24PM -0700, Chip Camden wrote:
+1 (I replied, cluttering up inboxes all over freebsdland)
You didn't CC me directly, though, for which I'm grateful.
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On Fri, Apr 08, 2011 at 11:15:11PM +0200, Erik Trulsson wrote:
On Fri, Apr 08, 2011 at 01:11:52PM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote:
On Fri, Apr 08, 2011 at 06:42:16PM +0100, Arthur Chance wrote:
section 8.6 starts:
start quote
Unless there is a good reason to do otherwise
Unix book as well -- because it, too, is just that good.
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of a glue code development tool for .NET developers than a
proper command shell.
You can abuse it as a command shell if you want to, but in my experience
the REPL for the R6RS (Scheme) implementation called Ypsilon serves as a
better command shell than PowerShell.
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the definition of one-liner if I'm
using semicolons and escaping newlines. If you really want to cram it
all into one line of code, you could do something like replace the
semicolons (and newline escapes) with the and keyword in each case.
http://pastebin.com/nPR42760
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/usr/ports/x11/slock
DESC::
Simple screen locker utility for X
WWW: http://tools.suckless.org/slock
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Your Screen While Away From The Computer
http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/security/?p=4504
I hope that helps.
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it's intended to do. It blanks out the screen, and you
have to enter your password to unlock the screen. It's a very simple
screen locking program for X -- no more, and no less.
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for writing code, but
I also use it for writing in English -- professional work on articles,
development of traditional (non-computer) RPG systems, fiction,
configuration files, notes to myself, and composing emails (including
this one).
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. --The Unix's Bride
http://www.nancybuttons.com/catalog.cgi?o_custom=o_selected=1469:1action=browseaction_mod=showcat=cro
That joke is hilarious. Pedantically speaking, though, it has a small
problem: vi is pronounced like vee eye, not like the word vie.
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; where the GIMP
often takes an interminably long time to do simple things (like open an
image), Cinepaint is pretty snappy by comparison. The interface is
occasionally a bit glitchy, though.
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would consider
an ideal task for a spreadsheet, I tend to just start practicing my
complex data structure skills in Ruby. I guess I'm weird, but I loathe
spreadsheets in general.
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?! It is solid-state. Yes, the box is
within my feet/foot reach. I have accidently kicked it i suppose,
but still.
I think I've just had ports die one by one on a switch until it no longer
worked. I don't think I've ever had the whole thing go poof for no
evident reason.
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On Wed, Jun 08, 2011 at 10:21:13PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote:
On Thu, Jun 09, 2011 at 12:18:52AM -0400, Jon Radel wrote:
On 6/8/11 11:53 PM, Chad Perrin wrote:
I think I've just had ports die one by one on a switch until it no longer
worked. I don't think I've ever had the whole thing go
On Thu, Jun 09, 2011 at 11:33:04AM -0700, Gary Kline wrote:
On Wed, Jun 08, 2011 at 11:34:30PM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote:
. . . but Cisco switches are overpriced crap. We were disconnecting the
Netgear to replace it with a Cisco that offered a lot more functionality,
and administration
On Thu, Jun 09, 2011 at 10:05:19AM -0700, Chip Camden wrote:
Quoth Chad Perrin on Wednesday, 08 June 2011:
I think I've just had ports die one by one on a switch until it no longer
worked. I don't think I've ever had the whole thing go poof for no
evident reason.
I have, twice. Both
firewalls and routers is a relatively trivial
exercise. Switches are another matter entirely. . . .
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is available in FreeBSD
articles outside of the Handbook is not a skill I have developed, yet; I
did not know this article existed. I'll give it a look.
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the turn of the
century that still works great), after all.
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the Open Group's
certification standards and (more importantly) have some certification
fee paid, as I understand it.
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-- regardless of what we said about it.
The difference is that trademarks are used to identify some entity and
its creations, while copyrights are used to censor the redistribution of
creations themselves.
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minor roads on them that don't exist. It makes them copyrightable.)
This tactic has been used by dictionary publishers as well.
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depend on other laws not prohibiting them.
Organizations such as Microsoft, however, certainly do work hard to get
the courts to accord the same enforceability as contracts to EULAs, but
that does not mean they *are* contracts.
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it in, you are creating a crop of victims for spam
email list spiders to reap.
On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 05:38:42AM +0200, Polytropon wrote:
On Thu, 16 Jun 2011 21:03:16 -0600, Chad Perrin wrote:
On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 02:50:40AM +0200, Polytropon wrote:
Copyright and ownership of creation just
On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 06:14:03AM +0200, Polytropon wrote:
On Thu, 16 Jun 2011 21:35:54 -0600, Chad Perrin wrote:
I've noticed that your mail user agent is including quoted parties'
email addresses in the quote notification. In the text immediately
following this brief paragraph
to database protection according to the Swedish
# Copyright Act.
Holy crap. That's awful.
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is the reason for things like
the CC0 waiver, however.
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On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 10:57:20AM -0700, Chuck Swiger wrote:
On Jun 17, 2011, at 9:28 AM, Chad Perrin wrote:
Where i live no need to register, you get copyright if the stuff
fulfills certain criteria, originality is one.
Registration aids enforcement. Of course, there's always the poor
On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 11:48:25AM -0700, Chuck Swiger wrote:
On Jun 17, 2011, at 10:59 AM, Chad Perrin wrote:
The poor man's copyright approach is, I believe, less certain and
effective than registration, but if there is a dispute over proper
claim of copyright, anything you can do
On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 05:02:09PM -0500, Robert Bonomi wrote:
OK, time for somebody who really knows about this stuff to wade in.
[snip]
Thanks for much more clearly stating, in much greater detail, exactly
what I was trying to say -- and for adding a bunch of additional detail.
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rarely matters when it comes time for the politicians and bureaucrats to
make a decision.
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On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 02:25:52AM +0200, Bernt Hansson wrote:
2011-06-17 18:28, Chad Perrin skrev:
The fact this is not applicable everywhere is the reason for things
like the CC0 waiver, however.
What is CC0?
http://creativecommons.org/choose/zero/
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On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 01:36:17PM +0200, Polytropon wrote:
On Sun, 19 Jun 2011 11:30:46 -0600, Chad Perrin wrote:
It's not prejudice. That assumes I prejudge. My judgment is based
on years of fighting with the BS features of office suites of all
descriptions for years, and loathing
This email actually mentions Skype and SIP phones toward the end.
On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 06:29:03PM +0200, Polytropon wrote:
On Mon, 20 Jun 2011 09:46:24 -0600, Chad Perrin wrote:
I still managed to do everything I needed to do in under twenty
minutes, but if the data had been left
On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 07:44:04PM +0200, Polytropon wrote:
On Mon, 20 Jun 2011 11:04:28 -0600, Chad Perrin wrote:
This means that even LaTeX is usually the wrong choice.
LaTeX is for typesetting text (articles, books, technical documents,
maybe even letters) - nothing more, nothing less
On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 10:08:59PM -0500, David Scheidt wrote:
On Jun 20, 2011, at 10:46 AM, Chad Perrin wrote:
. . . and, somehow, social convention tells me it would be rude to
let this person know (for next time) that everything will be much
easier for everyone if the data is just
the BSD sites, don't see any
vendor specific drivers.
I find what you say you're doing interesting, even if I'm not entirely
clear on what it is in all its particulars. Would you please clarify the
aim of your efforts?
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one workspace and the browser
executed in your .xinitrc file would do the trick. I seem to recall
there is a way to turn off access to TTY consoles, too.
I wonder, though . . . why Firefox? Would a more minimal (but still GUI)
browser -- such as Surf, perhaps -- serve your needs better?
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file,
so getting rid of navigational bars should be possible too.
Firefox has preferences that can be set to eliminate any unwanted
toolbars, though I do not know off the top of my head of a means of
making it impossible for a user to change the preferences back.
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that
Linux-based systems are abandoning like rats fleeing a sinking ship.
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that makes the computer behave in a(n unproductively) non-deterministic
manner should stay in the Ubuntu and MS Windows ghettos where it belongs.
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On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 08:55:29AM -0400, Jerry wrote:
On Mon, 18 Jul 2011 21:21:31 -0600
Chad Perrin articulated:
This is where we find a dividing line between users who want different
things. Yes, you turn on your Win7 laptop (or wake it up) in a coffee
shop, and it connects
.
I just wanted to point out a little-recognized detail of the benefit of
BSD Unix systems over GPLed systems, once you (sorta inadvertently)
brought up one of the effects of that difference.
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. As I said, I'm not a kernel hacker.
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it was 8.2, but I didn't keep careful notes that I can
check now.
It failed to work. I think I got a doesn't support long mode error,
but again I am not 100% certain due to the passage of time and the fact I
have not really thought about it in the interim.
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, and internal power will
make up for the simple fact it's just a damned toy.
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, essentially)
would be a good start. I'd take NetBSD or OpenBSD, too.
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On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 02:06:04PM -0400, Daniel Staal wrote:
On Thu, July 21, 2011 1:11 pm, Chad Perrin wrote:
If all they want is a toy with a Web browser and an email client, I guess
that works for them. I don't know if they really count for purposes of
discussing the possible
On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 07:18:21PM +0100, Bruce Cran wrote:
On 21/07/2011 18:00, Chad Perrin wrote:
I suspect those drivers are the drivers that have *survived*. I saw
hardware suddenly stop working because of driver issues just between
SP1 and SP2 of XP -- including, in one case, the hard
some asinine automated network selection line of crap like
NetworkManager makes its way into the FreeBSD base system is probably the
day I stop using it.
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of Stockholm Syndrome.
When someone fires up MS Office or OpenOffice.org just to write the
equivalent of a post-it note, there is something horribly, desperately
wrong with the way people use software.
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On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 11:05:40AM -0400, Jerry wrote:
On Fri, 22 Jul 2011 06:58:26 -0600 Chad Perrin articulated:
In fact, the NetworkManager set of network management tools has in
some ways outdone the stupidities of MS Windows network management.
Hey, this is stupid, but it's
On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 11:25:10PM +0100, Bruce Cran wrote:
On 23/07/2011 22:58, Chad Perrin wrote:
Do you realize that MS Windows has nothing equivalent to rc.conf or
/etc/network/interfaces?
It does: it's in the registry.
HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\Tcpip\Parameters\Interfaces
On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 09:48:46AM +0200, Matthias Apitz wrote:
El día Sunday, July 24, 2011 a las 06:41:57AM -0700, per...@pluto.rain.com
escribió:
Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote:
If Android actually exposed more of the Linux underpinnings
it might be somewhat useful to me
On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 06:41:57AM -0700, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote:
Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote:
If Android actually exposed more of the Linux underpinnings
it might be somewhat useful to me ...
There _is_ a development kit. I have no idea what-all is involved
in setting
and servers these days. Some of them are both.
None of them are desktops, in that they do not sit at or on a desk with
external monitor, keyboard, and pointing device attached, ready to be
used as workstations.
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basic tools to which even non-root users are accustomed to having
access. Consider cat, for instance.
So the problem is not a missing app, it is more of the usual vendor
lock stuff.
There's that -- but there's also a lot of missing applications.
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On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 07:30:08PM +0200, Dick Hoogendijk wrote:
Op 25-7-2011 18:59 schreef Chad Perrin:
So the problem is not a missing app, it is more of the usual vendor
lock stuff.
There's that -- but there's also a lot of missing applications.
HTC is removing the root lock protection
language such as Perl or Ruby instead of an interactive
shell syntax. More sophisticated shells are fine for interactive use,
but should not be relied upon for shell scripting in the vast majority of
cases for reasons of portability and consistency.
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-directories
What about tree?
/usr/ports/sysutils/tree
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