Re: a perl question

2011-01-05 Thread Chad Perrin
of two files. `cat /boot/boot1 /boot/boot2` concatenates the contents of two files, so that the resulting single text stream can be treated as a file to be compared by diff to `/boot/boot`. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpTrSURKXqIn.pgp Description

Re: a perl question

2011-01-05 Thread Chad Perrin
was: cat file | foo arg . . . where it could have been: foo arg file That's just kind of absurd. I mean, that sort of usage (foo arg file) is exactly the purpose for which grep was designed. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpuPZgJNS4Mz.pgp Description

the GIMP and Samba

2011-01-05 Thread Chad Perrin
Can someone enlighten me as to why the GIMP package would require libsmbclient? This strikes me as the very height of software bloat absurdity. Maybe I'm missing something. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpXAcYF9nPLh.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: chromium producing constant hdd access

2011-01-16 Thread Chad Perrin
makes it impossible for him to update the port to fix vulnerabilities that are less than a year old. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgp64pzsybUk9.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: follow up...

2011-01-22 Thread Chad Perrin
. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgp1NfFpsv0xl.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: follow up...

2011-01-23 Thread Chad Perrin
duplicates as a side-effect of that -- again, *by request*. Just spamming people with duplicates all the time for no good reason is a mite annoying, though. If I was aware of a vote, I would have voted list reply. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org

missing uwacom.ko

2011-01-23 Thread Chad Perrin
on their systems? If so, how? Are you using 8.1-RELEASE or something else? Is there a work-around for this problem? Google, thus far, has proven useless to me on this subject. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpqU6Gcfhtbf.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: missing uwacom.ko

2011-01-23 Thread Chad Perrin
://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2009-January/189857.html I'm not sure this makes any difference when there's no wacom kernel module at all. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpveuufQt2xF.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: missing uwacom.ko

2011-01-23 Thread Chad Perrin
On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 12:58:07AM +0300, Peter Vereshagin wrote: Como esta, FreeBSD? 2011/01/23 14:07:47 -0700 Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com = To FreeBSD Questions : CP read-only mounted volume. CP The /boot directory is on the / partition, with 755 permissions at It can have any mode

more CPU being used than I have (?)

2011-01-24 Thread Chad Perrin
more than CPUs * 100%. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpnsbwUvQJjb.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: more CPU being used than I have (?)

2011-01-24 Thread Chad Perrin
On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 01:02:46AM +, Craig Butler wrote: On Mon, 2011-01-24 at 16:57 -0700, Chad Perrin wrote: I'm running a two-core laptop that, once in a great while, shows approximately 250% CPU usage by a single process in top. How exactly does that work? Note: It's

Re: more CPU being used than I have (?)

2011-01-25 Thread Chad Perrin
On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 06:20:02AM -0700, Dmitri Brengauz wrote: On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 8:07 PM, Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: Do you have a reference to a relatively simple explanation of how that weighting works (and why)? man 1 ps: %cpu The CPU utilization

Re: more CPU being used than I have (?)

2011-01-26 Thread Chad Perrin
On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 02:32:32PM +, Craig Butler wrote: ASK GOOGLE !!! I DID !!! I must have used a less effective search string than you. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpdNhUwIyzx4.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Any package for surveys?

2011-01-27 Thread Chad Perrin
, it will ask further questions along the way to get to an artificial point of knowing the answer. Aah, the old Turing test chestnut. Artificial intelligence *will* happen, but not in the way we have previously thought it. This is completely irrelevant to the point about Eliza. -- Chad

Re: Any package for surveys?

2011-01-27 Thread Chad Perrin
be misguided. I do not have enough information to diagnose him. He may even be a she, but I need to pick a pronoun, so there it is (and for some reason people object when I use it for people whose genders are unknown to me). -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org

Re: Any package for surveys?

2011-01-27 Thread Chad Perrin
salesman just trying to get the foot in the door to sell someone a set of overpriced kitchen knives he doesn't need. I suggest you take a different approach that does not alienate the people you think you want to convince to join you. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http

Re: Date of a FreeBSD installation

2011-01-27 Thread Chad Perrin
as immaterial. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpm7c8n9oyYt.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Date of a FreeBSD installation

2011-01-27 Thread Chad Perrin
On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 09:09:52PM +, Devin Teske wrote: On Thu, 2011-01-27 at 13:39 -0700, Chad Perrin wrote: On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 01:57:38PM -0800, Devin Teske wrote: You're going to have to resort to things that aren't touched during a system upgrade if you want to find

Re: Date of a FreeBSD installation

2011-01-27 Thread Chad Perrin
I tried responding to an off-list message. Delivery failed for some reason. I just don't want the sender of the message to which I tried to reply to think I'm ignoring him, so I elected to send this to the list. Thanks for your patience. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http

Re: qmail or postfix?

2011-02-01 Thread Chad Perrin
story altogether. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpAnaag8vMVS.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: OpenSSH could be faster...then why don't they path it??

2011-02-06 Thread Chad Perrin
discussing OpenSSH rather than OpenSSL. Am I mistaken? They are not the same project. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpYQp3xqsNOx.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: FreeBSD and SSD drives

2011-02-11 Thread Chad Perrin
be talked into using MySQL -- cases where you just treat it pretty much like a read-only data store, and do not have to (safely) add or change data stored there most of the time. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpG1etBtYC3W.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: FreeBSD and SSD drives

2011-02-12 Thread Chad Perrin
, keep good backups (as you always should anyway), and be happy. You'd surely be happier with a better OS on it, though -- right? -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgprvo07hiHkt.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Debian GNU/kFreeBSD

2011-02-12 Thread Chad Perrin
(or any other open source OS) that way, though. Keep in mind that Debian's package archives have more software in them than any other OS software management system archives -- though I think FreeBSD is a not-too-distant second place. Also . . . do you think that top-posting helped? -- Chad Perrin

Re: FreeBSD and SSD drives

2011-02-13 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 11:53:18AM +0300, Odhiambo Washington wrote: On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 10:38 AM, Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: You'd surely be happier with a better OS on it, though -- right? Chad, on the Desktop, I'd rather run the ratware from Redmond than try FreeBSD

Re: FreeBSD and SSD drives

2011-02-13 Thread Chad Perrin
running MS Windows. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpoVixuEJGkQ.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: FreeBSD and SSD drives

2011-02-13 Thread Chad Perrin
important in Web design circles. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgppRQt7YQpaN.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: FreeBSD and SSD drives

2011-02-13 Thread Chad Perrin
bashing got a little out of hand. I apologize for sinking to nearly the same level of off-topic OS deprecation. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpwXFS5HoHrp.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: FreeBSD and SSD drives

2011-02-13 Thread Chad Perrin
to the obviousness of the modern media player device's interface. The electric toothbrush is pretty obvious, though, if one is accustomed to toothbrushes in general. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpYbuP5dX9bp.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: FreeBSD and SSD drives

2011-02-13 Thread Chad Perrin
, persisted in Wordpad at least as late as XP. I haven't checked whether that same memory leak still exists in Vista or Win7; maybe I should. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpwaxx7be93Y.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Invitation

2011-02-14 Thread Chad Perrin
] http://www.opensource.org [2] https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Imagine_(song) -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpY44ZAM4IBI.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: FreeBSD and SSD drives

2011-02-14 Thread Chad Perrin
. The fact the state of the art is better now than it was does not mean you are using state of the art hardware. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpZEg3483gtE.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Invitation (waaaaay off-topic)

2011-02-15 Thread Chad Perrin
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 01:48:18AM +, Simon Tibble wrote: On 14/02/11 23:42, Chad Perrin wrote: Broken. Won't work. It's too bureaucratic for too little (immediate) return to catch on, and its bureaucracy would guarantee long-term corruption. This sort of idea will take years

Re: google browser?

2011-02-16 Thread Chad Perrin
with the chromium porting effort, and am not particularly privy to the internal goings-on of its ports maintenance. My information may be out of date or misinformed. Some of what I said is pure speculation. Your mileage may vary. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http

Re: Getting vim to work correctly.

2007-09-28 Thread Chad Perrin
apply just as much to Vim. Specifically, except when actually entering entirely new text, I stay in command mode. Editing and moving around in a document is much, much faster for me when I can do it all from the home row of the keyboard. -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org

Re: Adding CR/LF

2007-09-30 Thread Chad Perrin
\r\n as I've done it. I may just be having a stupid day, though, and be getting them backwards myself. -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] Ben Franklin: As we enjoy great Advantages from the Inventions of others we should be glad of an Opportunity to serve others by any

Re: Research about FreeBSD - Suppor from experts required

2007-10-01 Thread Chad Perrin
, laptop, and even embedded device uses are rare, however. I personally use FreeBSD for basically everything these days, and am typing this on a Thinkpad with FreeBSD installed. -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] MacUser, Nov. 1990: There comes a time in the history of any project

Re: X on ThinkPad crashes after sleeping (zzz'ing)

2007-10-02 Thread Chad Perrin
properly. -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] Isaac Asimov: Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is completely programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Managing very large files

2007-10-04 Thread Chad Perrin
be reading the whole file into a variable (or even multiple variables) at once. -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] Isaac Asimov: Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is completely programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest

Re: Managing very large files

2007-10-04 Thread Chad Perrin
;) The reason for the massive file size was my haste in running out of the office on Friday and forgetting to kill the tcpdump process before the weekend began. Sounds like you may want a Perl script to automate managing your tcpdumps. Just a thought. -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http

Re: Managing very large files

2007-10-04 Thread Chad Perrin
like Unix, that way. -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] Brian K. Reid: In computer science, we stand on each other's feet. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

autoconf failure

2007-10-04 Thread Chad Perrin
` autoconf. Am I wrong about that? Is there some other way to fix this? Have I overlooked something obvious? -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] Larry Wall: A script is what you give the actors. A program is what you give the audience

Re: autoconf failure

2007-10-05 Thread Chad Perrin
with no dependencies, and autoconf --version indicates that the currently installed/used version is 2.6.1, which of course would mean that the old version is just wedged on uninstall. . . . so thanks for confirming what I've surmised. I'll feel a lot better about removing it now. -- CCD CopyWrite Chad

Re: Equations (WAS: good replacement for open office)

2007-10-05 Thread Chad Perrin
, it didn't the last time I checked. I imagine the LyX maintainers haven't suddenly jumped on the interoperate with MS Office bandwagon lately. -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] Brian K. Reid: In computer science, we stand on each other's feet

Re: Equations

2007-10-05 Thread Chad Perrin
digital presentation design and semantic formatting systems at producing electronic (aka online) documents. Somehow, though, they've ended up being the single most commonly used form of document generation software today. -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] Marvin Minsky

Re: good replacement for open office

2007-10-06 Thread Chad Perrin
if they also pay significant attention to securing their other communication and collaboration tools might be considered dishonest, or at least irresponsible. -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] Eat your crow early, while it's young and tender. Don't wait until it's old

Re: good replacement for open office

2007-10-06 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sat, Oct 06, 2007 at 03:51:49PM -0500, icantthinkofone wrote: Chad Perrin wrote

Re: C++ Compiler On FreeBSD

2007-10-07 Thread Chad Perrin
available (Intel) or in progress (OpenWatcom). Also in progress is the TenDRA compiler, though FreeBSD support is part of what's in progress. http://www.tendra.org/about/ -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] Dr. Ron Paul: Liberty has meaning only if we still believe

Re: C++ Compiler On FreeBSD

2007-10-07 Thread Chad Perrin
object oriented programming techniques than Perl. -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] Brian K. Reid: In computer science, we stand on each other's feet. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: C++ Compiler On FreeBSD

2007-10-07 Thread Chad Perrin
is viewed. That's not a very practical answer for someone dealing with a shared hosting provider. Most of them don't allow shell access and make execution. On the other hand, for many common uses of PHP, SSI is at least as appropriate and simpler to use. -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http

Re: Flashplayer?

2007-10-07 Thread Chad Perrin
the browser. I haven't checked yet on whether that works for viewing YouTube videos. Last I checked, the linuxpluginwrapper didn't work worth a damn for Flash support in Firefox. -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] John W. Russell: People point. Sometimes that's just easier

Is the bison port moving in reverse?

2007-10-17 Thread Chad Perrin
I get this: # portversion -v | grep -v = bison-1.75_2,1succeeds port (port has 2.3_3) Any idea why? Judging by the numbers, I'd think that should be instead. Nothing in /usr/ports/UPDATING seems to apply here. -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org

postgresql and initdb

2007-10-17 Thread Chad Perrin
/ports/databases/postgresql74-server/files/patch-src-bin-initdb-Makefile /usr/ports/www/rt2/files/patch-tools-initdb Any hints? -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] Phillip J. Haack: Productivity is not about speed. It's about velocity. You can be fast, but if you're going

Re: Ref : Permission to use parts of FreeBSD documentation on My Website

2007-10-17 Thread Chad Perrin
CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] Rudy Giuliani: You have free speech so I can be heard. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

Re: postgresql and initdb

2007-10-17 Thread Chad Perrin
On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 12:11:24PM -0700, Chuck Swiger wrote: On Oct 17, 2007, at 12:02 PM, Chad Perrin wrote: I've installed PostgreSQL here on FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE, and I'm a little confused by the presence of the initdb(1) manpage and absence of an initdb command. # locate initdb

Re: Strange perl script

2007-10-18 Thread Chad Perrin
integrity auditing tool, but you can also use mtree and even rsync for integrity auditing. -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] They always say that when life gives you lemons you should make lemonade. I always wonder -- isn't the lemonade going to suck if life doesn't give

Re: Why 7.0 is so late ?

2007-10-18 Thread Chad Perrin
kind of sales quota needs to be met. -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] Kent Beck: I always knew that one day Smalltalk would replace Java. I just didn't know it would be called Ruby. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Is it difficult to move from Linux?

2007-10-22 Thread Chad Perrin
you'll find much of the differences between most Linux distributions and FreeBSD quite minor, but a touch strange at first, and in the long run very positive. At least, that's my experience. -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] They always say that when life gives you lemons you

Re: Is it difficult to move from Linux?

2007-10-23 Thread Chad Perrin
system as Gentoo GNU/Linux. In my experience, it's both more stable and more up to date than Debian. Before FreeBSD, my primary OS choice was Debian, but ultimately everything I liked about Debian was even better with FreeBSD. -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] MacUser, Nov

resizing partitions

2007-10-23 Thread Chad Perrin
them -- but I'm not sure how I want to handle this at this time. I worry a bit about using some Linux LiveCD's partition management tools on a FreeBSD system. Any advice would be appreciated. -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] John W. Russell: People point. Sometimes that's

Re: Portupgrade used to be fun!!!

2007-10-27 Thread Chad Perrin
. -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] Kent Beck: I always knew that one day Smalltalk would replace Java. I just didn't know it would be called Ruby. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: New FreeBSD art?

2007-11-01 Thread Chad Perrin
://www.freebsd.org/logo.html -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] McCloctnick the Lucid: The first rule of magic is simple. Don't waste your time waving your hands and hopping when a rock or a club will do. ___ freebsd-questions

Re: what changed recently with browser plugins?

2007-11-13 Thread Chad Perrin
object is supposed to appear. Oh, and I get absurdly slow page load times where I didn't before, too. -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] They always say that when life gives you lemons you should make lemonade. I always wonder -- isn't the lemonade going to suck if life

Re: One Laptop Per Child

2007-11-14 Thread Chad Perrin
, if a little abrasive. -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] John Kenneth Galbraith: If all else fails, immortality can always be assured through spectacular error. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: Ports with GUI configs

2007-11-14 Thread Chad Perrin
of things that start with 'k' or 'g', preparing for that future date when this is possible. -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] John Kenneth Galbraith: If all else fails, immortality can always be assured through spectacular error

Re: Ports with GUI configs

2007-11-15 Thread Chad Perrin
On Thu, Nov 15, 2007 at 03:34:26PM -0500, Chuck Robey wrote: Chad Perrin wrote: On Mon, Nov 12, 2007 at 08:23:23PM -0500, Chuck Robey wrote: This makes a little file of descriptor words, but it's not set so a regular editor can manipulate it; the special ports program is needed to set

Re: Ports with GUI configs

2007-11-15 Thread Chad Perrin
referring to new installs, not upgrades. Why would anyone want to configure ports they don't want to install? I've been following this discussion without participating, but I have a question: How does that question follow from the preceding, quoted statement? -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin

Re: Ports with GUI configs

2007-11-15 Thread Chad Perrin
On Thu, Nov 15, 2007 at 11:15:56PM +, RW wrote: On Thu, 15 Nov 2007 15:04:07 -0700 Chad Perrin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Nov 15, 2007 at 09:43:16PM +, RW wrote: On Thu, 15 Nov 2007 16:00:55 -0500 Chuck Robey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've already deleted

Re: Ports with GUI configs

2007-11-16 Thread Chad Perrin
On Thu, Nov 15, 2007 at 10:56:12PM -0500, Chuck Robey wrote: Chad Perrin wrote: On Thu, Nov 15, 2007 at 03:34:26PM -0500, Chuck Robey wrote: Chad Perrin wrote: On Mon, Nov 12, 2007 at 08:23:23PM -0500, Chuck Robey wrote: This makes a little file of descriptor words, but it's not set so

Re: Ports with GUI configs

2007-11-16 Thread Chad Perrin
. -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] Ben Franklin: As we enjoy great Advantages from the Inventions of others we should be glad of an Opportunity to serve others by any Invention of ours, and this we should do freely and generously

Re: top posting (off-topic)

2007-11-25 Thread Chad Perrin
On Fri, Nov 23, 2007 at 02:52:06PM +0100, Matthias Apitz wrote: It should be easy in mailing-lists to block mails of top-posters. It would also probably be prone to false positive errors. -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] McCloctnick the Lucid: The first rule of magic

Re: top posting (off-topic)

2007-11-25 Thread Chad Perrin
time to do something with the information I get from my reading, and when the need is great enough it's usually the people who don't communicate worth a damn that get cut first. -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] Kent Beck: I always knew that one day Smalltalk would replace

Re: top posting (off-topic)

2007-11-25 Thread Chad Perrin
of top posting -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] Baltasar Gracian: A wise man gets more from his enemies than a fool from his friends. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: top posting (off-topic)

2007-11-25 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sun, Nov 25, 2007 at 06:56:15PM -0700, Chad Perrin wrote: I think it's kind of a chicken-and-egg problem: we don't really know for sure whether TOFU[1] posting spurred much of the rise of illiteracy or the increase of relative illiteracy on the Internet led to an increase in TOFU posting

Re: who wrote this

2007-11-26 Thread Chad Perrin
. -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] Kent Beck: I always knew that one day Smalltalk would replace Java. I just didn't know it would be called Ruby. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: who wrote this

2007-11-26 Thread Chad Perrin
suspect that entirely failing to mention Hitler quotes specifically will result in greater incidence of people complaining that Hitler quotes should be removed. -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] Anonymous: Eat your crow early, while it's young and tender. Don't wait until it's

Re: [OT] who wrote this

2007-11-26 Thread Chad Perrin
Hitler? -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] They always say that when life gives you lemons you should make lemonade. I always wonder -- isn't the lemonade going to suck if life doesn't give you any sugar? ___ freebsd-questions

Re: who wrote this

2007-11-26 Thread Chad Perrin
wrong in allowing his crimes to be committed), not all statements by people who want to censor Hitler's words (or even those that happen to be nationally associated with such people) should be censored either. -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] Thomas McCauley: The measure

Re: who wrote this

2007-11-26 Thread Chad Perrin
to say but you don't put her name on the front page of the Fortune program because it's not appropriate. Same thing here. Just not an appropriate forum. What Hitler said wasn't placed on the FreeBSD fortune page, either. Your analogy is broken. -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http

Re: who wrote this

2007-11-28 Thread Chad Perrin
on! That's a much better way to put it than mine. -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] Anonymous: Eat your crow early, while it's young and tender. Don't wait until it's old and tough. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: who wrote this

2007-11-28 Thread Chad Perrin
said it), I would think What the hell is this doing here? Fundamentally, you have to be educated to understand it. FreeBSD is first and formost, for the educated computer user. That makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside. -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] Ben

Re: In the spirit of Godwin's law - I propose Beastie's law

2007-11-29 Thread Chad Perrin
to end up on episodes of Cops because of it). -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] Brian K. Reid: In computer science, we stand on each other's feet. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: laptop

2007-12-03 Thread Chad Perrin
On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 05:57:25PM -0700, Chad Perrin wrote: My Thinkpad R52 works like a charm. T series Thinkpads are basically the big brother of R series Thinkpads, and also work exceedingly well (my favorite laptop of all time was a T24p). That was a typo. I meant to type T42p

Re: laptop

2007-12-03 Thread Chad Perrin
desktop. I've seen evidence that World of Warcraft can be made to run well on FreeBSD, and I intend to try that out myself at some point. In general, however, you're right -- FreeBSD is not the most game-oriented OS. -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] Baltasar Gracian: A wise

Re: laptop

2007-12-03 Thread Chad Perrin
Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] MacUser, Nov. 1990: There comes a time in the history of any project when it becomes necessary to shoot the engineers and begin production. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

PVR/DVR software on FreeBSD

2007-12-03 Thread Chad Perrin
and configuring the system)? -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] John W. Russell: People point. Sometimes that's just easier. They also use words. Sometimes that's just easier. For the same reasons that pointing has not made words obsolete, there will always be command lines

GBDE and GELI security

2007-12-04 Thread Chad Perrin
the case? Are there any other security concerns related to GBDE's implementation that you might mention? How well does GELI stack up against GBDE? I was surprised to read that OpenBSD's svnd is vulnerable to *offline* dictionary attacks. Any comments on that? -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http

Re: Wine compatibility and performance on FreeBSD 7

2007-12-09 Thread Chad Perrin
. I nail down the specific issues with this one and get it working, or C. it becomes eas[y|ier] to get 3D acceleration working with a Radeon. Assuming one of those things happens, I hope I remember to report back in this thread. Thanks for the links. -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http

Re: Wine compatibility and performance on FreeBSD 7

2007-12-10 Thread Chad Perrin
that. Was there any discussion of a fork? -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] Dr. Ron Paul: Liberty has meaning only if we still believe in it when terrible things happen and a false government security blanket beckons. ___ freebsd

Re: Wine compatibility and performance on FreeBSD 7

2007-12-10 Thread Chad Perrin
On Mon, Dec 10, 2007 at 11:44:55PM -0500, Tom Wickline wrote: Wins is under a free licence, its LGPL and I'm almost 100% sure you have no idea why the licence was changed! So . . . why was it changed? -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] Leon Festinger: A man

Re: Wine compatibility and performance on FreeBSD 7

2007-12-11 Thread Chad Perrin
, in this case, looks something like this: http://www.copyfree.org/ -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] W. Somerset Maugham: The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Apparently, csh programming is considered harmful.

2007-12-13 Thread Chad Perrin
I ran across this today: http://www.faqs.org/faqs/unix-faq/shell/csh-whynot/ Title: Csh Programming Considered Harmful I wonder what responses I might get here, and how much of this applies to tcsh as well (I'm still not exactly a tcsh expert). -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http

Re: Apparently, csh programming is considered harmful.

2007-12-13 Thread Chad Perrin
On Fri, Dec 14, 2007 at 04:25:30AM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2007-12-13 18:05, Chad Perrin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I ran across this today: http://www.faqs.org/faqs/unix-faq/shell/csh-whynot/ Title: Csh Programming Considered Harmful I wonder what responses I

Re: Apparently, csh programming is considered harmful.

2007-12-13 Thread Chad Perrin
On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 07:42:35PM -0700, Warren Block wrote: On Thu, 13 Dec 2007, Chad Perrin wrote: I ran across this today: http://www.faqs.org/faqs/unix-faq/shell/csh-whynot/ Title: Csh Programming Considered Harmful I wonder what responses I might get here, and how much

Re: Absolute FreeBSD

2007-12-13 Thread Chad Perrin
a duplicate. The switch from Learning Perl Objects, References, and Modules to Intermediate Perl was another example of that sort of annoyance. -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] Sen. Dick Durbin, D-IL, to an RIAA executive: Are you headed to junior high schools to round up

Re: Absolute FreeBSD

2007-12-14 Thread Chad Perrin
On Fri, Dec 14, 2007 at 01:46:17AM -0600, Joshua Isom wrote: On Dec 14, 2007, at 1:12 AM, Chad Perrin wrote: For the record . . . title changes for new editions like that annoy me. It can make it pretty difficult at times trying to determine whether or not I'm about to buy a duplicate

Re: Absolute FreeBSD

2007-12-14 Thread Chad Perrin
CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] John Kenneth Galbraith: If all else fails, immortality can always be assured through spectacular error. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: Apparently, csh programming is considered harmful.

2007-12-14 Thread Chad Perrin
On Fri, Dec 14, 2007 at 02:26:28PM +, RW wrote: On Fri, 14 Dec 2007 00:09:41 -0700 Chad Perrin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmm -- fair answer. I was kind of thinking that on FreeBSD I should maybe do such work in csh as the standard shell, but it occurs to me that I'd probably

Re: csh programing book

2007-12-16 Thread Chad Perrin
, as far as I can tell. -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] Phillip J. Haack: Productivity is not about speed. It's about velocity. You can be fast, but if you're going in the wrong direction, you're not helping anyone. ___ freebsd

common filesystem for Linux and FreeBSD

2007-12-16 Thread Chad Perrin
Linux distro I settle on -- probably Debian), so concerns about things like bootability and binary compatibility aren't really at issue. A Wine directory will almost certainly need to be shared between the two, however. -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] Paul Graham: Real

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