Re: [OT] but concerns all of us

2011-11-17 Thread Chad Perrin
of terminology, the more they are emboldened; I think it was the RIAA representative at the SOPA hearing yesterday who literally equated copyright infringement with *murder*. Don't be like that jackass. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpdSVKcNj1hd.pgp Description

Re: [OT] but concerns all of us

2011-11-17 Thread Chad Perrin
On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 12:56:06PM -0500, Jerry wrote: On Thu, 17 Nov 2011 10:17:50 -0700 Chad Perrin articulated: Copyright infringement is copyright infringement -- and not theft -- no matter how hyperbolic your choice of phrasing. Castigate people for the unlawful act of copyright

Re: [OT] but concerns all of us

2011-11-17 Thread Chad Perrin
On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 12:41:51PM -0700, Chad Perrin wrote: Oh, of course -- pirated, like the hundreds of CDs and audiocasettes and DVDs I have, though I've stopped consuming new music in any form from corporations that sue their own customers. clarification: Those are hundreds of CDs

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

2011-12-11 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 05:32:00AM -0600, Ryan Coleman wrote: On Dec 10, 2011, at 12:30 AM, Polytropon wrote: On Fri, 9 Dec 2011 13:05:05 -0600, Ryan Coleman wrote: So, wait, Firefox is Malware? Did you notice that with FF4 they changed it so that you didn't get prompted on launch it

Re: Revision control advice

2011-12-22 Thread Chad Perrin
On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 09:23:22AM +1030, William Brown wrote: On 22/12/2011, at 20:06, Matthew Seaman wrote: svn vs git vs mercurial svn has the model of a central repository that everything has to communicate with. This can be attractive in a commercial environment as it implies

Re: very small workgroup network

2011-12-29 Thread Chad Perrin
reading the article, so that it will make more sense as presented on that page. For all I know, the way TR's stylesheets handle code formatting might all change again tomorrow, and make things even worse. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org

Re: FreeBSD Kernel Internals Documentation

2012-01-01 Thread Chad Perrin
source software in general, which makes me wonder why you hang around this mailing list. If I hated something that much, I would avoid it. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: FreeBSD Kernel Internals Documentation

2012-01-02 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sun, Jan 01, 2012 at 11:55:26PM -0700, Chad Perrin wrote: On Sun, Jan 01, 2012 at 09:14:20AM -0500, Jerry wrote: On Sun, 01 Jan 2012 22:56:45 +1000 Da Rock articulated: If you want to verify, then by all means parouse this list and others (even in the linux community) over the past

Re: FreeBSD Kernel Internals Documentation

2012-01-02 Thread Chad Perrin
On Mon, Jan 02, 2012 at 08:31:14AM -0500, Jerry wrote: On Sun, 1 Jan 2012 23:55:26 -0700 Chad Perrin articulated: On Sun, Jan 01, 2012 at 09:14:20AM -0500, Jerry wrote: On Sun, 01 Jan 2012 22:56:45 +1000 Da Rock articulated: If you want to verify, then by all means parouse this list

Re: FreeBSD Kernel Internals Documentation

2012-01-03 Thread Chad Perrin
On Tue, Jan 03, 2012 at 03:06:11AM +0100, Walter Alejandro Iglesias wrote: On Mon, Jan 02, 2012 at 12:33:20PM -0700, Chad Perrin wrote: Ubuntu, actually, has thrown out the baby with the bathwater. In its zeal to make things just work in a particular manner, it seems hell-bent on ignoring

Re: FreeBSD Kernel Internals Documentation

2012-01-03 Thread Chad Perrin
you wish to convey. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions

Re: FreeBSD Kernel Internals Documentation

2012-01-03 Thread Chad Perrin
On Tue, Jan 03, 2012 at 02:07:36PM -0800, Chip Camden wrote: Quoth Chad Perrin on Tuesday, 03 January 2012: So . . . please start with the denotative meanings of words, consider your audience, and use words accordingly. If you wish to use a term differently than how it is understood

Re: FreeBSD Kernel Internals Documentation

2012-01-04 Thread Chad Perrin
On Wed, Jan 04, 2012 at 12:33:28PM +0100, Walter Alejandro Iglesias wrote: On Tue, Jan 03, 2012 at 09:55:04PM -0700, Chad Perrin wrote: On Tue, Jan 03, 2012 at 02:07:36PM -0800, Chip Camden wrote: Quoth Chad Perrin on Tuesday, 03 January 2012: So . . . please start

Re: FreeBSD Kernel Internals Documentation

2012-01-04 Thread Chad Perrin
not imply Robert Bonomi *wrote* it; rather, it would imply that he *agrees* with its moral justification. If I had to guess, of course, I would think he believes it is morally justified, but that's a wild-ass speculation, and not enough to induce me to expect *him* of all people to justify it. -- Chad

Re: Realtek RTL8191SEvB Linux driver?

2012-01-04 Thread Chad Perrin
ThinkPads (after turning them off and removing the battery, of course) is turn them over to remove screws. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: Browser

2012-01-04 Thread Chad Perrin
listing a bunch of browsers - I like all of these less than any of the browsers I mentioned before this paragraph, for a variety of reasons. I hope that helps, in conjunction with the advice others provide. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org

Re: FreeBSD Kernel Internals Documentation

2012-01-04 Thread Chad Perrin
to have any meaningful discussion with you right now. As pointed out by a bystander, this off-topicness has gone on long enough, and my most friendly overtures have been met only with flames in any case. Have a nice day. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org

Re: FreeBSD Kernel Internals Documentation

2012-01-04 Thread Chad Perrin
On Wed, Jan 04, 2012 at 12:34:52PM -0500, Jerry wrote: On Wed, 4 Jan 2012 09:00:12 -0700 Chad Perrin articulated: You just ignored the salient point of what Robert Bonomi said, in favor of trivialities. If you prefer, pretend he said: HE asked that they explain why it *IS* morally

Re: Browser

2012-01-04 Thread Chad Perrin
as good . . . or did you mean it is, as you wrote it here? -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe

Re: FreeBSD Kernel Internals Documentation

2012-01-04 Thread Chad Perrin
On Wed, Jan 04, 2012 at 04:16:15PM -0500, Jerry wrote: On Wed, 4 Jan 2012 13:13:55 -0700 Chad Perrin articulated: Why the heck did you ask for it, then? Fair enough, because in your post dated: On Sun, 1 Jan 2012 23:55:26 -0700, you make this remark: I think the statement was more like

Re: Browser

2012-01-04 Thread Chad Perrin
On Wed, Jan 04, 2012 at 09:54:46PM +, Peter Harrison wrote: On 4 Jan 2012, at 21:26, Chad Perrin wrote: Did you mean to say The keybinding is *not* quite as good . . . or did you mean it is, as you wrote it here? Perils of typing too fast. Yes, I meant the keybinding

Re: Realtek RTL8191SEvB Linux driver?

2012-01-04 Thread Chad Perrin
be used to deactivate the hardware whitelisting somewhere out there on the Internet, as there is for ThinkPads. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Browser

2012-01-12 Thread Chad Perrin
not be maintained) for xxxterm, and contributing patches to that effect, when I find time. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: OFF Topic. FreeBSD and Android Development

2012-01-13 Thread Chad Perrin
if this kind of off topic could be of interested to the list so please feel free to answer me directly . I think this is, in fact, on-topic for this list. It is a question particular to FreeBSD, which is the point of the freebsd-questions mailing list, as I understand it. -- Chad Perrin [ original

Re: dot snap folder

2012-01-15 Thread Chad Perrin
, not a folder. :-) After all, it doesn't fold (for that you need a little Haskell or OCaml). Hmm. That was direct. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: FreeBSD 9

2012-01-19 Thread Chad Perrin
to imply? -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] ___ 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 9

2012-01-19 Thread Chad Perrin
. . . . or provide the ability to select the old installer at boot time, perhaps. Let's not turn this into a false dilemma; I don't see why we can't have our cake and eat it too for a while. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org

Re: FreeBSD 9

2012-01-19 Thread Chad Perrin
the benefit of the doubt, at least at first. Perhaps the rhetoric can be scaled back a little bit in this case. Has there been some response to your complaints that I have not seen that justifies this level of heat? -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org

Re: * Re: Horrible installer

2012-01-20 Thread Chad Perrin
inconvenienced during installation, having to restart the installation process more often when I made a misstep for instance. No biggie, I guess. It's certainly not worth giving up being able to build the whole base system with Clang instead of GCC to have sysinstall instead of bsdinstall. -- Chad

Re: Clang - what is the story?

2012-01-21 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 03:43:13PM +, RW wrote: I was just wondering what would have happened if Apple hadn't backed clang/LLVM as BSD licensed projects. Was there a plan B (other than gcc 4.2.1) or did Apple save the *BSD world? The backup plan was probably PCC. -- Chad Perrin

Re: Clang - what is the story?

2012-01-21 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 05:09:52PM +1000, Da Rock wrote: On 01/22/12 17:02, Chad Perrin wrote: On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 03:43:13PM +, RW wrote: I was just wondering what would have happened if Apple hadn't backed clang/LLVM as BSD licensed projects. Was there a plan B (other than gcc 4.2.1

Re: Clang - what is the story?

2012-01-22 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 07:06:04PM +1000, Da Rock wrote: On 01/22/12 17:45, Chad Perrin wrote: A couple years ago, it looked like a race between PCC and TenDRA, but Clang seemed to just come out of nowhere and steal all the attention. All three of them had a lot to recommend them

Re: Clang - what is the story?

2012-01-22 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 05:37:48AM -0700, Chad Perrin wrote: There has been some talk of it being the GCC replacement for OpenBSD and maybe even NetBSD, though I seem to recall Theo de Raadt doesn't consider replacing GCC a very urgent requirement right now (which might be part of the reason

Re: Clang - what is the story?

2012-01-22 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 10:55:18PM +1000, Da Rock wrote: On 01/22/12 22:37, Chad Perrin wrote: PCC (Portable C Compiler), meanwhile, spent many years essentially unused except in some of the dustier corners of Unix user communities before being actively developed again as more and more

Re: Clang - what is the story?

2012-01-22 Thread Chad Perrin
. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr

Re: Clang - what is the story?

2012-01-22 Thread Chad Perrin
. Four is probably a good number, with a few less-central implementations floating around as well to explore the fringes. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Horrible installer

2012-01-23 Thread Chad Perrin
look like intolerant elitists by association with you in the minds of those who don't understand their needs, just because you seem to agree with them. I miss your silence. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org

Re: Horrible installer (was: Re: FreeBSD 9)

2012-01-23 Thread Chad Perrin
seem unaware of this fact in the general case, for some reason. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: Unable to upgrade packages on FreeBSD

2012-01-30 Thread Chad Perrin
You talk a lot about how easy it is to maintain a binary package system. I would like you to convince me that it is easy, keeping in mind that it should remain compatible with the ports system. I am willing to be convinced. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org

Re: Unable to upgrade packages on FreeBSD

2012-01-31 Thread Chad Perrin
options, compiling for different architectures is often actually a mutually-exclusive option set. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: uname ?

2012-02-02 Thread Chad Perrin
don't have one handy, so I don't have any way to test this right now, but I wonder if an AMD machine might give a different answer to one of those than an Intel machine, given a 32-bit 386 instruction set processor for both. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org

Re: Software Development using Freebsd.

2012-02-06 Thread Chad Perrin
involved. If you're leaning toward the Python end of the spectrum, though, I (personally; your mileage may differ) would probably choose Ruby instead. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] ___ freebsd-questions

Re: Software Development using Freebsd.

2012-02-06 Thread Chad Perrin
this is the place for it, I'd love to see your explanation in private email or by other means. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: Why is this Symbol in the front of your website. A humble request.

2012-02-26 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 11:09:13AM +0700, Erich Dollansky wrote: always these complicated things. This is why life here is so much more exiting. We do not need sysctl. I guess that depends on your definition of sysctl, and I rather like it. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL

Re: which FF ad blocker?

2012-02-29 Thread Chad Perrin
Plus. It has been a little bit since I've dealt with these extensions, though, because I started using another browser that offers things like plugin and JavaScript whitelisting as a core feature. Take my memory of it for what it's worth. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http

Raspberry Pi

2012-03-07 Thread Chad Perrin
Has there been any movement toward getting BSD Unix systems running on the Raspberry Pi platform? I've been searching for information along those lines, but so far have seen nothing. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org

Re: Raspberry Pi

2012-03-07 Thread Chad Perrin
on this). -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr

Re: Raspberry Pi

2012-03-08 Thread Chad Perrin
On Thu, Mar 08, 2012 at 08:51:03AM +, Arthur Chance wrote: On 03/07/12 21:40, Chad Perrin wrote: If anyone has more information about planned BSD Unix ports to Raspberry Pi, or comes up with more in the next few weeks, I'd appreciate it if someone would let me know (perhaps with URIs

Re: Raspberry Pi

2012-03-08 Thread Chad Perrin
On Thu, Mar 08, 2012 at 11:11:53AM -0500, Jeremy Faulkner wrote: The freebsd-arm@ list is where it is being discussed and progressing, don't think anybody has the hardware yet. That's another place for me to look for discussion of it. Thanks. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL

Re: Raspberry Pi

2012-03-09 Thread Chad Perrin
On Fri, Mar 09, 2012 at 03:48:17PM +, Arthur Chance wrote: On 03/09/12 15:08, Bernt Hansson wrote: 2012-03-08 19:46, Chad Perrin skrev: That helps me get sort of a timeline in mind, I think. The production is halted. http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/781 The key sentence

Re: Suggestion

2012-03-09 Thread Chad Perrin
-- not as a great OS in its own right, but rather as a gateway drug for Unix-like OSes. Alas, that was not to be. Instead, it looks like it will just be a never-was (and occasional grist for some very weak trolling). -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org

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: Which compiler compiled system?

2012-03-12 Thread Chad Perrin
to the Java maintainers at the FreeBSD project, of course. They do a great job of making it possible to get working at all.) -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Vivaldi Tablet

2012-03-26 Thread Chad Perrin
of the initial email to start this thread was to see if there were people in the community with an interest in working on this project, and might actually be a fairly logical step toward an effort to find a 'guru' to work on it. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org

Re: Vivaldi Tablet

2012-03-26 Thread Chad Perrin
On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 09:07:25AM +1000, Da Rock wrote: On 03/27/12 01:42, Chad Perrin wrote: I think the point of the initial email to start this thread was to see if there were people in the community with an interest in working on this project, and might actually be a fairly logical step

Re: Vivaldi Tablet

2012-03-27 Thread Chad Perrin
around between TTY consoles? -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd

Re: Vivaldi Tablet

2012-03-27 Thread Chad Perrin
On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 03:54:03AM +0200, Polytropon wrote: On Tue, 27 Mar 2012 19:48:34 -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: I was thinking of mentioning the Happy Hacking keyboard, but I see you beat me to it. I have not used one for more than a few minutes once, though. Does the Fn+number work

Re: Vivaldi Tablet

2012-03-28 Thread Chad Perrin
is going to be much more of an obstacle than using a QWERTY keyboard, considering you can hunt-and-peck on a QWERTY keyboard, but you have to know the chords to do anything on a chording keyboard. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org

Re: Vivaldi Tablet

2012-03-28 Thread Chad Perrin
On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 04:24:51PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 09:19:54AM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: I think learning a chording keyboard is going to be much more of an obstacle than using a QWERTY keyboard, considering you can hunt-and-peck on a QWERTY keyboard

Re: Links the command line browser

2012-04-05 Thread Chad Perrin
or one of its enhanced brethren? /usr/ports/www/w3m /usr/ports/www/w3m-img /usr/ports/www/w3m-m17n /usr/ports/www/w3m-m17n-img -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: FreeBSD's backwards webdesign / corporate identity

2012-04-09 Thread Chad Perrin
is actually a good recommendation for the design he suggests for the FreeBSD site. Gawd, it's comically bad for something called the Design Council, unless you take the name as an ironic reference to the idea that design by committee is a horrible idea. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http

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

2012-04-26 Thread Chad Perrin
else to give them a chance. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd

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

2012-04-27 Thread Chad Perrin
On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 06:43:06PM -0400, Jerry wrote: On Thu, 26 Apr 2012 15:52:56 -0600 Chad Perrin articulated: On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 02:45:53PM -0700, David Brodbeck wrote: Generic skills aren't recognized because they're hard to judge and test for. People want quantifiable

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

2012-04-27 Thread Chad Perrin
On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 10:32:24AM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 06:43:06PM -0400, Jerry wrote: On Thu, 26 Apr 2012 15:52:56 -0600 Chad Perrin articulated: On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 02:45:53PM -0700, David Brodbeck wrote: Generic skills aren't recognized because

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

2012-04-27 Thread Chad Perrin
On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 01:57:10PM -0400, Jerry wrote: On Fri, 27 Apr 2012 10:32:24 -0600 Chad Perrin articulated: On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 06:43:06PM -0400, Jerry wrote: On Thu, 26 Apr 2012 15:52:56 -0600 Chad Perrin articulated: On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 02:45:53PM -0700, David Brodbeck wrote

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

2012-04-27 Thread Chad Perrin
to change his criteria to accommodate your skills. Good job completely bypassing my actual statements to make a point about something else entirely. Congratulations on your irrelevance. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org

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

2012-04-27 Thread Chad Perrin
in the hiring process are utterly without capacity for correctly identifying the skills they actually need to optimally fill the open positions. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

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

2012-04-27 Thread Chad Perrin
On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 02:33:29PM -0700, David Brodbeck wrote: On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 2:52 PM, Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: Indeed -- and the employer who bucks this trend does him/her self a huge service, because large numbers of very skilled and/or talented people are being

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

2012-04-29 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 08:01:13AM +0200, Polytropon wrote: On Fri, 27 Apr 2012 18:36:13 -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 06:00:51PM -0400, Jerry wrote: On Fri, 27 Apr 2012 14:33:29 -0700 David Brodbeck articulated: Again, this is one of the reasons credit scoring

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

2012-04-30 Thread Chad Perrin
On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 12:23:47PM +0200, Polytropon wrote: On Sun, 29 Apr 2012 17:01:56 -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 08:01:13AM +0200, Polytropon wrote: On Fri, 27 Apr 2012 18:36:13 -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 06:00:51PM -0400, Jerry wrote

Re: UFS Crash and directories now missing

2012-05-01 Thread Chad Perrin
as a physical dead tree format book. Your mileage may vary, I suppose. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: UFS Crash and directories now missing

2012-05-11 Thread Chad Perrin
you give me some examples of the sorts of things you'd expect to find in the table of contents that is lacking in the fourth edition but present in the third? -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] ___ freebsd

Re: UFS Crash and directories now missing

2012-05-11 Thread Chad Perrin
edition index is woefully incomplete, and the fourth edition text has for some reason basically traded FreeBSD for AIX -- which makes little sense to me. I appreciate the time you put into this. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org

Re: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of?

2012-06-06 Thread Chad Perrin
their own system security in what amounts to a vacant lot scam. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of?]

2012-06-06 Thread Chad Perrin
installed, and none of this has anything to do with corporate accounts or bulk purchases. Yes, my evidence is anecdotal, but I think your notions of the frequency of FreeBSD use other than in a corporate setting are also based on anecdotal observations, so we're even. -- Chad Perrin [ original

Re: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of?

2012-06-09 Thread Chad Perrin
points you disagree). -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions

Re: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of?

2012-06-11 Thread Chad Perrin
of people subscribed to the list. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: OT - enjoy it

2012-06-11 Thread Chad Perrin
On Fri, Jun 08, 2012 at 06:26:16AM +, jb wrote: Chinese advertising of soccer championship Euro 2012 http://avaxnews.com/wow/Chinese_Advertising_UEFA_Euro_2012.html That . . . was nuts. What just happened? -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org

Re: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of?

2012-06-11 Thread Chad Perrin
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 12:59:46PM -0400, Jerry wrote: On Mon, 11 Jun 2012 10:11:11 -0600 Chad Perrin articulated: On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 07:23:20AM -0400, Jerry wrote: It is fairly easy to understand both sides in this discussion. When Microsoft supporters refer to open-source

Re: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of?

2012-06-11 Thread Chad Perrin
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 02:46:49PM -0400, Jerry wrote: On Mon, 11 Jun 2012 11:44:11 -0600 Chad Perrin articulated: On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 12:59:46PM -0400, Jerry wrote: Your paranoia is kicking in again isn't it Chad. Anyway, to address your sports analogy, if I walk into a NY City bar

Re: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of?

2012-06-11 Thread Chad Perrin
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 04:53:11PM -0400, Jerry wrote: . . . You obviously aren't serious. I can't believe I let you string me along with this fantasy for so long. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org

Re: Uptime [OT]

2012-06-15 Thread Chad Perrin
access. They're just neglected single-purpose machines. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

Re: Uptime [OT]

2012-06-15 Thread Chad Perrin
power, does have an impact. No power conditioning (implied by no UPS) is nothing to brag about. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: Uptime [OT]

2012-06-15 Thread Chad Perrin
On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 11:47:55PM +, David Brodbeck wrote: On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 4:00 PM, Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: No power conditioning (implied by no UPS) is nothing to brag about. If your utility power is very -- common now in places with buried utilities -- a UPS

Re: Why Clang

2012-06-18 Thread Chad Perrin
required only about 20% to 30% of the time. Otherwise, the warning and error messages tend to get me a lot closer to the actual point of failure than GCC. *That* is what all this fuss about 'better error reporting' is about. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org

Re: Why Clang

2012-06-19 Thread Chad Perrin
about warning and error reporting with regard to Clang vs. GCC has remarked about how much nicer it is with Clang. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Why Clang

2012-06-19 Thread Chad Perrin
at someone for failing to use the specific phrasing you prefer when referring to the crazies who believe using software distributed under a copyfree license is an act of pure evil. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org

Re: Attaching a monitor via vga

2012-06-19 Thread Chad Perrin
how this works. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions

Re: CLANG vs GCC tests of fortran/f2c program

2012-06-20 Thread Chad Perrin
). This is what happens when you use a more standards-compliant compiler: you get more stable and predictable behavior. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: CLANG vs GCC tests of fortran/f2c program

2012-06-20 Thread Chad Perrin
with that one. their problem. No -- it's their solution. It would be a problem only if the previous statement said and they are *not* fine with that one. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: Attaching a monitor via vga

2012-06-20 Thread Chad Perrin
is *not* plugged in. From the sound of the request, that is the use case the orignial querent in this thread had in mind as well. Your tip could well be useful for some use cases, though. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org

Re: Why Clang

2012-06-20 Thread Chad Perrin
source development community. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd

Re: CLANG vs GCC tests of fortran/f2c program

2012-06-20 Thread Chad Perrin
difference is . . . negligible I'm pretty sure he's not running compute clusters on FreeBSD, after all. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: CLANG vs GCC tests of fortran/f2c program

2012-06-20 Thread Chad Perrin
* blue, and he can take his bucket of red paint home with him to paint his *own* bikeshed. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: Why Clang

2012-06-21 Thread Chad Perrin
, probably either the Simplified BSD License or the MIT/X11 License). -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: CLANG vs GCC tests of fortran/f2c program

2012-06-21 Thread Chad Perrin
divest ourselves of GNU tools (including GCC) the better off we will probably be (though I would still advocate a measured approach to replacing GNU tools, rather than a headlong rush without any forethought). -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org

Re: Why Clang

2012-06-21 Thread Chad Perrin
. Related (perhaps somewhat indirectly): Advancement Through License Simplicity http://univacc.net/?page=license_simplicity -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Why Clang

2012-06-21 Thread Chad Perrin
with problematic licensing restrictions as stupid and obsessed. That's not very nice (or accurate). -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: Why Clang

2012-06-21 Thread Chad Perrin
, then proclaim everyone else at fault for the fact you cannot see past your nose to note that the whole world does not revolve around some dubious benchmarks. I doubt you're convincing anyone of anything you seem to think we should all accept as gospel. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http

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