Re: junk in remote mutt

2008-03-25 Thread Chad Perrin
On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 11:32:24PM -0700, Bill Campbell wrote: On Tue, Mar 25, 2008, Chad Perrin wrote: On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 07:23:43AM +0300, Yuri Pankov wrote: On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 04:03:54PM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: I'm not sure that's a very good title for this email, but it's

Re: www/flock port fails to install

2008-03-27 Thread Chad Perrin
On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 04:48:49AM -0700, Chad Perrin wrote: On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 06:41:46AM -0500, Gerard wrote: On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 11:57:07 +0100 Pieter Baele [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When there are (security) vulnerabilities, ports won't install. You can override this, but I

Re: freebsd

2008-03-30 Thread Chad Perrin
and the ports collection. I haven't looked into that myself, so whatever's involved in doing so is something you should investigate. I imagine it must be a little less involved than it would be for Debian GNU/Linux, however -- and I *have* looked into that in the past. -- CCD CopyWrite Chad

Re: I'd like some help

2008-04-05 Thread Chad Perrin
On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 12:18:11PM +1000, Da Rock wrote: On Sun, 2008-03-23 at 19:51 -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 09:10:04AM +1000, Da Rock wrote: On Sat, 2008-03-22 at 14:58 -0700, Matthew Woodson wrote: I've been learning about a bunch of the BSD OSes, and i

finding BSD Unix users

2008-04-06 Thread Chad Perrin
in this area to build a users group. Any suggestions for how to go about finding fellow BSD Unix users in my area would be appreciated, I'm sure. -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] Brian K. Reid: In computer science, we stand on each other's feet. pgpj8s55fzDlJ.pgp

Re: finding BSD Unix users

2008-04-08 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 01:11:01PM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: My area (northern Colorado) has an excellent Linux Users Group (NCLUG). There's a great bunch of guys there. Unfortunately, they're very Linux-centric. I'm kinda the resident BSD Unix heretic -- which is fine most of the time

Re: finding BSD Unix users

2008-04-08 Thread Chad Perrin
@freebsd.org Subject: Re: finding BSD Unix users On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 01:11:01PM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: My area (northern Colorado) has an excellent Linux Users Group (NCLUG). There's a great bunch of guys there. Unfortunately, they're very Linux-centric. I'm kinda the resident BSD

Re: finding BSD Unix users

2008-04-09 Thread Chad Perrin
! Thanks for finding that. I sent an email to the contact address for that site, and will see what kind of response I'll get. -- 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

Re: Can't login through ssh from 6.3 machine to 7.0 machine

2008-04-10 Thread Chad Perrin
, are checking 1 and providing 2 and 3. In fact, 2 and 3 should be pretty standard operating procedure when asking for help. Also . . . 1. Are the firewall settings different between the two systems? 2. Are the sshd_conf files the same? -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org

Re: Way way way OT: Some interesting facts about politics, campaigns, and servers

2008-04-10 Thread Chad Perrin
/ Looking at this now, I'm beginning to think that if Obama isn't assassinated before November 5th, it'll be FreeBSD that wins the election, rather than Linux as Doug Karr predicts on that page. -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] Ben Franklin: As we enjoy great Advantages

listing attached devices

2008-04-10 Thread Chad Perrin
are connected -- preferably with some control over which devices are listed so I can narrow it down to storage devices that aren't mounted (even if only via grep). -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] Phillip J. Haack: Productivity is not about speed. It's about velocity. You can be fast

determining what's in the base system

2008-04-15 Thread Chad Perrin
on it at this point, because I haven't really checked into it. -- 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 the usual suspects? pgpK2zswd8cOg.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: determining what's in the base system

2008-04-15 Thread Chad Perrin
On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 04:35:52PM -0700, Luke Dean wrote: On Tue, 15 Apr 2008, Chad Perrin wrote: I have two questions. First: Assume you have a FreeBSD system installed that has been running for at least a year, with a bunch of graphical desktop and productivity software installed

Re: determining what's in the base system

2008-04-15 Thread Chad Perrin
On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 01:31:23AM +0200, Mel wrote: On Wednesday 16 April 2008 01:14:50 Chad Perrin wrote: Assume you have a FreeBSD system installed that has been running for at least a year, with a bunch of graphical desktop and productivity software installed, and have both installed

Re: determining what's in the base system

2008-04-20 Thread Chad Perrin
On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 05:02:54PM -0700, Chuck Swiger wrote: On Apr 15, 2008, at 4:14 PM, Chad Perrin wrote: I have two questions. First: Assume you have a FreeBSD system installed that has been running for at least a year, with a bunch of graphical desktop and productivity software

neon port won't upgrade

2008-05-08 Thread Chad Perrin
error) Does anyone have any troubleshooting tips for how I should deal with this? This is the first time I've had a port fail to upgrade because it suddenly seems to have ceased existing. -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] Leon Festinger: A man with a conviction is a hard man

Re: neon port won't upgrade

2008-05-08 Thread Chad Perrin
On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 10:52:15PM +0200, Lars Kristiansen wrote: Chad Perrin skrev: Let me know if I should take this to the ports mailing list instead of the questions mailing list. This is my problem: # portupgrade neon-0.26.4 ** Port directory not found: www/neon2 ** Listing

Re: neon port won't upgrade

2008-05-08 Thread Chad Perrin
On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 11:00:12PM +0100, RW wrote: On Thu, 8 May 2008 15:02:47 -0600 Chad Perrin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 10:52:15PM +0200, Lars Kristiansen wrote: portupgrade -f -o www/neon26 neon seemed to work for me Isn't this the sort

Re: neon port won't upgrade

2008-05-08 Thread Chad Perrin
On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 05:07:47PM -0500, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (May 08), Chad Perrin said: On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 10:52:15PM +0200, Lars Kristiansen wrote: Chad Perrin skrev: Let me know if I should take this to the ports mailing list instead of the questions mailing

Re: root login stops working

2008-05-11 Thread Chad Perrin
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. pgpDnaanFCYYq.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: root login stops working

2008-05-11 Thread Chad Perrin
disabled by default, once I started using FreeBSD for all my servers. -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] John Kenneth Galbraith: If all else fails, immortality can always be assured through spectacular error. pgpOaBkQNdnaB.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: root login stops working

2008-05-11 Thread Chad Perrin
. To grant an account on FreeBSD su access to root, add it to the wheel group. -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] print substr(Just another Perl hacker, 0, -2); pgpbjhD21KGII.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Converting AVI and MPEG Into Still Images

2008-05-13 Thread Chad Perrin
, and most AVIs use MPEG (in my experience) for video codec. -- 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

Re: Converting AVI and MPEG Into Still Images

2008-05-13 Thread Chad Perrin
. I don't know what the GMPlayer interface offers for the same functionality -- never use the thing. Best o' luck. -- 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

interrobang and other fun characters

2008-05-13 Thread Chad Perrin
down Alt while typing 8253 might be an improvement. -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] Rudy Giuliani: You have free speech so I can be heard. pgp1CdZ4Six43.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: interrobang and other fun characters

2008-05-14 Thread Chad Perrin
the program xev to show what key gives what code Thanks. I'll look into that. -- 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

Re: interrobang and other fun characters

2008-05-16 Thread Chad Perrin
On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 12:51:24AM +0100, Frank Shute wrote: On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 10:25:37PM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: I'm looking for an easier way to insert interrobangs and other non-ASCII characters (em-dashes, et cetera) into text on my FreeBSD laptop than by way of copy/paste

Re: VPN setup question

2008-05-18 Thread Chad Perrin
solved? -- Chad Perrin [ content licensed PDL: http://pdl.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. pgpiC7CaLFTSZ.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: VPN setup question

2008-05-18 Thread Chad Perrin
look into it and see if that does the job for me. Thanks. Glad to be of service. Sometimes, the answer we really need is easier than the one we think we need. -- Chad Perrin [ content licensed PDL: http://pdl.apotheon.org ] John Kenneth Galbraith: If all else fails, immortality can always

Re: Lenovo ThinkPad -- good as IBM?

2008-05-19 Thread Chad Perrin
, and what it's using for wireless. There will always (until hardware vendors wise up) be cases where specific hardware components aren't fully supported *yet*. In general, though, any Thinkpad configuration more than about eight months old should be very well supported. -- Chad Perrin [ content

like sSMTP, but with alternate config

2008-05-27 Thread Chad Perrin
? -- Chad Perrin [ content licensed PDL: http://pdl.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. pgpaGqJeTiSkh.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Looking for gurus willing to help write Freebsd tutorials

2008-06-02 Thread Chad Perrin
) that it looks like some odd kind of sex toy -- and a lot of people have since then referred to it as the sex toy as a result. That's all. -- Chad Perrin [ content licensed PDL: http://pdl.apotheon.org ] Albert Camus: An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. pgpVzJi4rJfCq.pgp Description

Re: wireless help

2008-06-08 Thread Chad Perrin
line -- or are those three different IP addresses that you've Xed out? Is the period after search what's actually in the file, or did you elide some of the contents of that line? Sorry if I'm not as useful as I should be -- I still haven't fully woken up, and may miss something obvious. -- Chad

wireless drops connection

2008-06-10 Thread Chad Perrin
to show is this: iwi0: link state changed to DOWN iwi0: scan stuck Any ideas on where to go from here would be appreciated. Is this a driver bug, or am I doing something wrong? Another (effectively identical) laptop running Debian does not have this problem. -- Chad Perrin [ content licensed

firewall high-load performance

2008-06-10 Thread Chad Perrin
for this project, but I don't want to discover after we're well underway that large numbers of connections would cause problems. Should I consider ipfw or ipfilter instead, or are my concerns with relation to pf's ability to handle extremely high loads of legitimate traffic unfounded? -- Chad Perrin [ content

viewing vCalendar files

2008-06-10 Thread Chad Perrin
extension that can handle it, or anything along those lines, in Ports? What are my options, besides just deleting all the vCalendar markup cruft by hand (or writing a script to do it for me)? -- Chad Perrin [ content licensed PDL: http://pdl.apotheon.org ] Anne McClintock, University of Wisconsin

Re: wireless drops connection

2008-06-10 Thread Chad Perrin
On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 09:16:43AM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: I've gone from using CAT5 to 802.11g for my laptop's network connectivity while I'm at home. Unfortunately, since I've done so, my connection drops from time to time, and I usually don't notice for a while. The period between drops

Re: Problems opening mail on this list

2008-06-10 Thread Chad Perrin
, including S/MIME. My PGP signatures seem to come through just fine, however. -- Chad Perrin [ content licensed PDL: http://pdl.apotheon.org ] Anonymous: Eat your crow early, while it's young and tender. Don't wait until it's old and tough. pgpoDPJSlGYmv.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: viewing vCalendar files

2008-06-10 Thread Chad Perrin
On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 04:27:46PM -0400, Andrew Berry wrote: On 10-Jun-08, at 1:47 PM, Chad Perrin wrote: I've been sent a vCalendar file via email. I use mutt as my mail user agent, and am not terribly interested in switching to mail/claws-mail just so I can read this vCalendar file

re: firewall high-load performance

2008-06-10 Thread Chad Perrin
doesn't seem to want me to alter headers to make it thread properly, and keeps throwing away my edits. -- Chad Perrin [ content licensed PDL: http://pdl.apotheon.org ] Dr. Ron Paul: Liberty has meaning only if we still believe in it when terrible things happen and a false government security

Re: Question about torrents via console

2008-06-11 Thread Chad Perrin
exactly what I want from a CLI/console BitTorrent client so far. -- Chad Perrin [ content licensed PDL: http://pdl.apotheon.org ] Marvin Minsky: It's just incredible that a trillion-synapse computer could actually spend Saturday afternoon watching a football game. pgpTdYAbjN3Dd.pgp Description

Re: Is FreeBSD suitable for my thinkpad T61 ?

2008-06-13 Thread Chad Perrin
experience, though, MS Windows is about the last place I'd send 'em. Well, okay, maybe I'd send someone there before OpenVMS, but that's kind of getting far afield. -- Chad Perrin [ content licensed PDL: http://pdl.apotheon.org ] Marvin Minsky: It's just incredible that a trillion-synapse computer

Re: Is FreeBSD suitable for my thinkpad T61 ?

2008-06-13 Thread Chad Perrin
dancing rodents sense) without having to actually express any personal preferences during setup. -- Chad Perrin [ content licensed PDL: http://pdl.apotheon.org ] I was essentially an anarcho-capitalist in high school, rather than wasting the folly of my youth on something lame like revolutionary

Two xorg-server packages?

2008-06-14 Thread Chad Perrin
it? Is it actually just an older version of the same package, or is it a different/separate package entirely? Any help figuring this out would be appreciated. -- Chad Perrin [ content licensed PDL: http://pdl.apotheon.org ] print substr(Just another Perl hacker, 0, -2); pgphyfjeXYdyX.pgp

Re: Is FreeBSD suitable for my thinkpad T61 ?

2008-06-14 Thread Chad Perrin
personal preferences during setup. so even better - let FreeBSD be like it is. There's a reason I use FreeBSD rather than PC-BSD, or any of the others I mentioned. -- Chad Perrin [ content licensed PDL: http://pdl.apotheon.org ] Common Reformulation of Greenspun's Tenth Rule: Any sufficiently

Re: Two xorg-server packages?

2008-06-14 Thread Chad Perrin
out what's going on with that particular Xorg package before sending a message to the list about it. -- Chad Perrin [ content licensed PDL: http://pdl.apotheon.org ] Bjarne Stroustrup: An ugly operation should have an ugly syntactic form. pgp5eYKEEMlFT.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Two xorg-server packages?

2008-06-14 Thread Chad Perrin
, which it should be now as it is a out of date snap shot of xorg-server from some time back. Should that be x11-servers/xorg-server, instead of xorg-server/xorg-server? . . . or are you referring to something else? -- Chad Perrin [ content licensed PDL: http://pdl.apotheon.org ] McCloctnick

Re: Flashplugin

2008-06-15 Thread Chad Perrin
, not a number of systems running a platform Adobe already supports that *isn't* FreeBSD-based, no matter how much you'd like to change those systems to PC-BSD. -- Chad Perrin [ content licensed PDL: http://pdl.apotheon.org ] awj @reddit: The terms never and always are never always true

Re: Firefox 3

2008-06-27 Thread Chad Perrin
On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 03:35:46PM +0200, herbert langhans wrote: I took firefox-devel. Some days ago it was version 3.0a2. Works quite well if you really dont want to wait.. Does it coexist happily with Firefox 2.x? -- Chad Perrin [ content licensed PDL: http://pdl.apotheon.org ] I

Re: Firefox 3

2008-06-29 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 08:34:01AM +0200, herbs wrote: Yes, you invoke #firefox (the V2.x) or #firefox-devel (for the new one). Dont remember with the bookmarks and plugins though, you maybe have to import/reinstall these. Thanks for confirmation. -- Chad Perrin [ content licensed PDL: http

Re: Looking for fast graphical web browser

2009-08-07 Thread Chad Perrin
. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] Quoth Christopher Hitchens: What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof. pgpY71B2GUJvs.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Looking for fast graphical web browser

2009-08-07 Thread Chad Perrin
libraries the app in question might pull in). Your mileage, of course, may vary. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] Quoth Thomas McCauley: The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out. pgp8nmptv2uMt.pgp

Re: Opera in your repos

2009-08-07 Thread Chad Perrin
system, not a distro. DesktopBSD and PC-BSD, on the other hand . . . I've been far too pedantic for one email on such an inconsequential subject. I'll stop now. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] Quoth H. L. Mencken: Democracy is the theory

Re: FreeBSD for the common man(or woman) (was: upgrade 7.2

2009-08-08 Thread Chad Perrin
, frankly -- because the faster they release, the faster they get dropped from support, basically, and I still haven't gotten the knack of figuring out which releases are going to be the extended support releases when it comes time to pick a minor version number to install on a new system. -- Chad

Re: FreeBSD for the common man(or woman) (was: upgrade 7.2

2009-08-09 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sat, Aug 08, 2009 at 07:55:18PM +0200, Polytropon wrote: On Sat, 8 Aug 2009 10:46:00 -0600, Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: Yeah, I hate that stuff. The GNU project is kind of like the Microsoft of the open source community, that way. Be happy that there at least is an info

Re: FreeBSD for the common man(or woman) (was: upgrade 7.2

2009-08-09 Thread Chad Perrin
printers, I rather suspect it'd be much the same. Anyway, best of luck with it. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] Quoth Malaclypse the Younger: 'Tis an ill wind that blows no minds. pgpN1jSnDDIwr.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Looking for fast graphical web browser

2009-08-10 Thread Chad Perrin
problems by upgrading to 3.0 again. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] Quoth markinct @techrepublic.com: Don't take anything you do on-line lightly. Caveat Clicker... pgpvpq90QpGM8.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Looking for fast graphical web browser

2009-08-11 Thread Chad Perrin
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 10:42:00PM -0400, Chris Hill wrote: On Fri, 7 Aug 2009, Chad Perrin wrote: On Mon, Aug 03, 2009 at 08:27:34AM -0400, Chris Hill wrote: Firefox has not had Ctrl-Q for some time. Try Alt-F followed by Q. I guess that's 2.5 keystrokes, but at least it's keystrokes

Re: Looking for fast graphical web browser

2009-08-11 Thread Chad Perrin
On Fri, Aug 07, 2009 at 08:15:15AM -0400, Robert Huff wrote: Chad Perrin wrote: Firefox has not had Ctrl-Q for some time. Try Alt-F followed by Q. I guess that's 2.5 keystrokes, but at least it's keystrokes. What version number would you call some time ago? I just used Ctrl-Q about six

Re: fusefs-sshfs

2009-08-18 Thread Chad Perrin
with the install, the network setup, or the remote machine. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] Quoth Anonymous: It is easier to measure something than to understand what you have measured. pgpVo3HWF3k3z.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Equivilant of 'lsmod'

2009-08-24 Thread Chad Perrin
wants to spend any time learning it. Just giving the Linux command for something means you're unnecessarily narrowing down the number of people who can give you an answer. Don't confuse the issue with facts! -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] Quoth

Re: IBM Stinkpad and Wifi

2009-08-30 Thread Chad Perrin
I missed with the setup? I haven't seen up and scan used together like that before. Is that supported? Have you tried the following? # ifconfig ath0 up # ifconfig ath0 list scan -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] Quoth Christopher Hitchens: What

Re: bookkeeping software

2009-09-03 Thread Chad Perrin
accounting. It's definitely not the sort of thing you'd want to use for tax return preparation, but it works fine for tracking budgets and accounts. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] Perrin's Principle of Exclusion: The strength of any system is inversely

Re: are there any notebooks with mouse-sticks?

2009-09-09 Thread Chad Perrin
don't know of any netbooks that come with trackpoints. I hope you get an answer on this list so I'll get one as well (with the obvious preference for FreeBSD, or at least *some* BSD Unix, compatibility). -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] Quoth Philip Machanick

Re: are there any notebooks with mouse-sticks?

2009-09-10 Thread Chad Perrin
to be well-supported by open source operating systems, and come with trackpoints. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] Quoth Philip Machanick: caution: if you write code like this, immediately after you are fired the person assigned to maintaining your code after you

Re: are there any notebooks with mouse-sticks?

2009-09-10 Thread Chad Perrin
On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 04:07:04PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 10:51:29AM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: I just turn off the touchpad in my ThinkPad's BIOS/CMOS settings. That's pretty much the *first* thing I do with a new ThinkPad, before I even install a halfway

linux-pango won't install

2009-09-10 Thread Chad Perrin
packages (-:ignored / *:skipped / !:failed) ! x11-toolkits/linux-pango (unknown build error) How can I fix this? My Google and FreeBSD documentation searches have proven fruitless. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] Quoth Paul Graham: SUVs

Re: FreeBSD 7.x with Lenovo Thinkpad SL500 or T400

2009-09-11 Thread Chad Perrin
just my educated guess, and not confirmation, though. Hopefully someone else can give a more definitive response. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] Quoth Antoine de Saint-Exupery: A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left

Re: linux-pango won't install

2009-09-11 Thread Chad Perrin
at least let you see what's going wrong! I should have thought of that myself. Thanks for having patience and giving me an informative response. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] Quoth C. S. Lewis: We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road

Re: linux-pango won't install

2009-09-11 Thread Chad Perrin
, in any case. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] Quoth Bjarne Stroustrup: An ugly operation should have an ugly syntactic form. pgpWCcuQsXOpn.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: linux-pango won't install

2009-09-12 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 02:19:22PM +0400, Boris Samorodov wrote: On Fri, 11 Sep 2009 23:01:23 -0600 Chad Perrin wrote: How long has this been broken for 7.2? Considering all the stuff that depends on linux-pango, I'm surprised it hasn't been fixed. It will be broken until someone

sSMTP, this mailing list, and helo errors

2009-09-16 Thread Chad Perrin
/local/sbin/ssmtp -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] Quoth Alan Kay: I invented the term 'Object-Oriented', and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind. pgpQ76TYXzSKC.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: sSMTP, this mailing list, and helo errors

2009-09-16 Thread Chad Perrin
/usr/local/sbin/ssmtp hoststat/usr/local/sbin/ssmtp purgestat /usr/local/sbin/ssmtp If this email gets through to the list, consider my problem solved and myself suitably chagrined at having overlooked something that should have been so obvious to me. -- Chad Perrin [ original

Re: internet access from FreeBSD

2009-09-22 Thread Chad Perrin
clarify your needs so we can help you satisfy them. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpXyD1YX4zS9.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: network freebsd computers

2009-09-22 Thread Chad Perrin
to solving the problem. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpoi1uW3xZGH.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: network freebsd computers

2009-09-22 Thread Chad Perrin
necessary, enable it for one specific connection using the -X option for SSH. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpD3pmBpJtpC.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: why no Oracle on FreeBSD ?

2009-09-25 Thread Chad Perrin
On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 10:28:20AM -0400, telmn...@757.org wrote: I'd be willing to bet there is little to no commercial demand for Oracle on FreeBSD. I wonder how much difference Oracle availability on FreeBSD would make, here. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http

Re: Voting for a native i386/amd64 flash player

2009-10-02 Thread Chad Perrin
. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgp4pS3L5mEZz.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Voting for a native i386/amd64 flash player

2009-10-03 Thread Chad Perrin
is a blight. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpBNxEshjIUY.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Voting for a native i386/amd64 flash player

2009-10-03 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sat, Oct 03, 2009 at 07:56:53AM +0200, Rolf G Nielsen wrote: Where do I vote to have them continue forever not creating a FreeBSD version of that crap? If you s/Free/Open/ I think the question answers itself. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org

Re: Voting for a native i386/amd64 flash player

2009-10-03 Thread Chad Perrin
in particular, or to any product in that specific niche? I don't know about the other guy, but I find the Adobe Flash Player plugin pretty odious. Unfortunately, I also find Swfdec and Gnash pretty substandard as well. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org

Re: Voting for a native i386/amd64 flash player

2009-10-03 Thread Chad Perrin
.) That's just another reason to go with a copyfree license instead of the GPL. 5. I seem to be pre-occupied with the video compression, ignoring sound. PS: was this too off-topic? Maybe? I don't know. It's an interesting topic. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http

Re: / almost out of space just after installation

2009-10-07 Thread Chad Perrin
of /home it's /usr/home, and creates a symlink from /home to /usr/home for the sake of convenience. Are you sure that isn't what happened? -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpTvTGd7yu0o.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: ion windows manager on FreeBSD

2009-10-07 Thread Chad Perrin
considered copyright infringement! There. I fixed it for you. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpZ8WykjV5jQ.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: ion windows manager on FreeBSD

2009-10-08 Thread Chad Perrin
On Thu, Oct 08, 2009 at 11:19:00AM -0300, Carlos A. M. dos Santos wrote: On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 3:43 PM, Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: On Wed, Oct 07, 2009 at 01:25:35PM -0300, Carlos A. M. dos Santos wrote: You can fork the code, rename it, whatever, but you can NOT change

Re: / almost out of space just after installation

2009-10-10 Thread Chad Perrin
of physical storage. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpqwLNGkePpj.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: / almost out of space just after installation

2009-10-10 Thread Chad Perrin
the majority of the stuff you want to keep between installs will reside. Basically everything else within /usr (with the possible exception of /usr/local/etc) is just what happens when you install and configure your system in the first place. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http

undo make deinstall

2009-10-21 Thread Chad Perrin
How does one undo a `make deinstall` when `make reinstall` fails? -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpgM3SVob9Ae.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: undo make deinstall

2009-10-21 Thread Chad Perrin
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 12:38:48PM -0700, Chuck Swiger wrote: On Oct 21, 2009, at 12:28 PM, Chad Perrin wrote: How does one undo a `make deinstall` when `make reinstall` fails? Do you have a package of this port handy?-- try doing a pkg_add of that... It is, for the moment, a hypothetical

Re: undo make deinstall

2009-10-21 Thread Chad Perrin
system from backup. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgprgG8ORXnlX.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: undo make deinstall

2009-10-22 Thread Chad Perrin
less space. Thanks -- that could help (depending on the backup system, as you say). -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpny8kmABVr4.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Why is sendmail is part of the system and not a package?

2009-10-28 Thread Chad Perrin
it part of base instead of Sendmail, but of course it's entirely possible that I've overlooked some potential problems. The licensing is right, too (unlike, perhaps, that of Postfix). -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgplmnOSIxhXl.pgp Description: PGP

WPA: specify alternate config file in rc.conf

2009-11-02 Thread Chad Perrin
with the default /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf file? -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpk8er4HpGLG.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: WPA: specify alternate config file in rc.conf

2009-11-03 Thread Chad Perrin
for pointing me in the right direction. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpIhqD7VezGI.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: WPA: specify alternate config file in rc.conf

2009-11-04 Thread Chad Perrin
for work to run a release candidate OS. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgp8W9MNYNint.pgp Description: PGP signature

GUI for file permissions management

2009-11-18 Thread Chad Perrin
that kind of tool? -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgp3XAigpEkuy.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: GUI for file permissions management

2009-11-19 Thread Chad Perrin
On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 08:22:17AM +, Thomas Adam wrote: 2009/11/19 Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com: Someone asked me recently whether a GUI for file permissions management Anything like: mc, worker, rox, etc? Those are all filesystem browsers/managers -- right? I've already told

Re: GUI for file permissions management

2009-11-19 Thread Chad Perrin
On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 07:23:33PM +, Thomas Adam wrote: 2009/11/19 Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com: Those are all filesystem browsers/managers -- right?  I've already told the person who asked that many such applications have that kind of functionality.  In my initial question

Re: need a newline between paragraphs....

2009-11-24 Thread Chad Perrin
that might cause conflicts with paragraph formatting while doing a substitution. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgph68SyEyeB2.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: need a newline between paragraphs....

2009-11-25 Thread Chad Perrin
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 01:19:42PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 01:07:41PM -0700, Chad Perrin wrote: precisely. in this case, every paragraph that is not on a newline wraps. so anything that has an EOL is a new paragraph. If I understand you correctly

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