Re: Lennart Poettering: BSD Isn't Relevant Anymore

2011-07-18 Thread Polytropon
that _I_ consider isnt relevant, as well as Poettering and his creations. Please don't see this as a persomal offence, it's _my_ individual statement as PulseAudio, Avahi and systemd are fully irrelevant to me. He made _his_ personal statement, I made _mine_. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany

Re: Tools to find unlegal files ( videos , music etc )

2011-07-18 Thread Polytropon
the variations of the extensions with uppercase letters. Also consider *.rar and maybe *.zip for compressed content. If file extensions have been manipulated (rare case), the file command can still identify the correct file type. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra

Re: Tools to find unlegal files ( videos , music etc )

2011-07-18 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 18 Jul 2011 10:38:22 +0200, Frank Bonnet wrote: On 07/18/2011 10:10 AM, Polytropon wrote: On Mon, 18 Jul 2011 09:55:09 +0200, Frank Bonnet wrote: Hello Anyone knows an utility that I could pipe to the find command in order to detect video, music, games ... etc files ? I

Re: can't build teTeX port in FreeBSD 8.2 amd64

2011-07-18 Thread Polytropon
), and ports depending on some LaTeX should honor this preference. Even with our endless hard disks, some users do not see it as good practice to install two functionally nearly identical software packages. :-) I'm writing this as a long-term teTeX user. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy

Re: What is xz ?

2011-07-18 Thread Polytropon
(quite old) 7-STABLE installation. /usr/src/contrib/xz on my (new) 8.2-STABLE installation. So obviously it's a port that got incorporated into the base system which must have happened somewhere between 7 and 8. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: groff UTF-8

2011-07-18 Thread Polytropon
mostly, so LaTeX would be considered too heavy at this point. I'm not sure if you can program PostScript directly... maybe it does understand UTF-8 as input text so you can write a simple output filter that outputs PS, given some data input. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user

Re: Lennart Poettering: BSD Isn't Relevant Anymore

2011-07-18 Thread Polytropon
-only OS which can invest all its energy in getting commodity hardware working, while leaving quality aside on other fields. Poorly implemented features, broken code, messing around with quirks and short-time solutions do not seem to be very welcome among FreeBSD users. -- Polytropon Magdeburg

Re: Lennart Poettering: BSD Isn't Relevant Anymore

2011-07-18 Thread Polytropon
feel the same. There is ___no___ ingratitude in this statement, even if it contains with mentioning that something isn't (yet) working. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions

Re: Lennart Poettering: BSD Isn't Relevant Anymore

2011-07-18 Thread Polytropon
). If this benefits the whole community (as a nice side effect), where would be the problem? -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Am I Missing A Compat Library?

2011-07-18 Thread Polytropon
. The devel/icu port should be the one to bring this library. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: FBSD 8.2 and USB Floppies

2011-07-18 Thread Polytropon
floppies, it's a good check to see if writing and reading of the media works as intended. For the mount_msdos command mentioned above, check if you need additional masking flags as this file system doesn't understand UNIX permissions (and therefore files are often +x). -- Polytropon Magdeburg

Re: Lennart Poettering: BSD Isn't Relevant Anymore

2011-07-18 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 18 Jul 2011 15:48:46 -0400, Jerry wrote: On Mon, 18 Jul 2011 16:58:08 +0200 Polytropon articulated: Here the circle closes: Without STANDARDS, you wouldn't be able to view the digital pictures you took with a camera 10 years ago because the manufacturer decided to use

Re: Lennart Poettering: BSD Isn't Relevant Anymore

2011-07-18 Thread Polytropon
further until OS/2 Warp. This was the last half-way important release. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: Lennart Poettering: BSD Isn't Relevant Anymore

2011-07-18 Thread Polytropon
entering the market. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: Lennart Poettering: BSD Isn't Relevant Anymore

2011-07-18 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 18 Jul 2011 20:01:20 -0400, Jerry wrote: On Mon, 18 Jul 2011 22:31:41 +0200 Polytropon articulated: Your TV example is very good. I've recently read a text that predicts the future of CDs - a text from the late 80's. When we consider what we are _currently_ using, the text

Re: Tools to find unlegal files ( videos , music etc )

2011-07-19 Thread Polytropon
which traditionally includes a certain surveillance of user activity and file contents. If it does not, then you get the DCMA notice and handle it accordingly from the copyright holder. Applies to the U.S. only, correct? -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra

Re: Lennart Poettering: BSD Isn't Relevant Anymore

2011-07-19 Thread Polytropon
. You could create a port that brings all this functionality in one rush. Remember that the ports collection is more than just about installing software - it can be used to even bring such features to the system and configure them. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0

Re: 2020: Will BSD and Linux be relevant anymore?

2011-07-19 Thread Polytropon
lost all their data in the Cloud years ago? :-) While I agree that Linux and BSD _may_ be irrelevant to the masses, it will be relevant to non-conformers (the real professionals) in 2020. Two years later, we'll be processed into Soylent Green anyway. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy

Re: Lennart Poettering: BSD Isn't Relevant Anymore

2011-07-19 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 19 Jul 2011 11:20:29 +0200, Jerome Herman wrote: On 19/07/2011 08:11, Polytropon wrote: Arguing... what is easier at manually locating software using a web browser, manually downloading it and interactively holding the installer's hand while installing software? :-) Well, of course

Re: compat directory

2011-07-19 Thread Polytropon
be the reason why it is missing. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: Tools to find unlegal files ( videos , music etc )

2011-07-19 Thread Polytropon
, Internet) - anywhere EXCEPT on your server, as they've learned that files tend to disappear. :-) It really depends on the kind of server, and who will be allowed to use it... -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: Tools to find unlegal files ( videos , music etc )

2011-07-19 Thread Polytropon
. There are too many parts in the chain: Employer, admins, ISP, company that runs the datacenter, phone operator... and in the end, 1984 is TODAY. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions

Re: Sendmail not accepting connections on port 25

2011-07-19 Thread Polytropon
you have /etc/hosts set up properly? What does % telnet your public IP 25 in contradiction to % telnet your public IP 587 show? Are you sure your ISP isn't filtering anything for your comfortability? :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra

Re: printer - broadband router

2011-07-20 Thread Polytropon
can generate PCL and direct it to a printer name that refers to the IP of the printer.) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: Sendmail not accepting connections on port 25

2011-07-22 Thread Polytropon
of the masses. Business as usual. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

Re: 2020: Will BSD and Linux be relevant anymore?

2011-07-22 Thread Polytropon
as I pointed out here, but I simply love the pure imagination... :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: Lennart Poettering: BSD Isn't Relevant Anymore

2011-07-22 Thread Polytropon
it on your own, interfacing with the standard system means. Jerry, see this as an I agree in relation to your statement, given the comment that wireless isn't relevant to _me_ at the moment. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: build ports from not a root user?

2011-07-22 Thread Polytropon
the current directory as it does a full login. See man su, especially the -m option which will leave the environment intact. Also see what su without parameters (or su root) will do in comparison. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: How to sync a file on FreeBSD?

2011-07-22 Thread Polytropon
); or sync(); in your program? Check man 8 sync: force completion of pending disk writes (flush cache) as well as man 2 sync: The sync() system call forces a write of dirty (modified) buffers in the block buffer cache out to disk. Is this immediately enough for your needs? -- Polytropon Magdeburg

Re: 2020: Will BSD and Linux be relevant anymore?

2011-07-22 Thread Polytropon
, desperately wrong with the way people use software. Of course. For creating post-it notes, you have to use Powerpoint, and if it should have columns or boxes, use Excel, moron! :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: Lennart Poettering: BSD Isn't Relevant Anymore

2011-07-22 Thread Polytropon
released under restrictive licensing that makes it less likely to be harvested for ideas by OS projects like FreeBSD. You already have good examples in the ports collection (see my examples above). Luckily, for doing that on OS level, it takes much more. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy

Re: How to sync a file on FreeBSD? [SOLVED]

2011-07-22 Thread Polytropon
immediately flushed / written? In order to implement a stable queue, it would be best to use a different filesystem. What type of filesystem would match those requirements? -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: Hi installing on windows dual boot

2011-07-27 Thread Polytropon
. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr

Re: Printr?

2011-07-28 Thread Polytropon
are indications that it must be a real crappy consumer-targeted printer (quotes intended!). You should not waste money or time on such nonsense. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd

Re: Printr?

2011-07-28 Thread Polytropon
be a problem. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd

Re: printing to a HP Deskjet 812C printer

2011-07-28 Thread Polytropon
/csh.cshrc for systemwide use (all users), or whatever your default shell is. You can also use login.conf to set this environmental variable. I suggest to do so because if _not_ done, you'd have to add -P Deskjet in too many places. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since

Re: Printr?

2011-07-28 Thread Polytropon
than one machine. USB simply isn't that smart. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: printing to a HP Deskjet 812C printer

2011-07-28 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 28 Jul 2011 09:57:08 -0500, Antonio Olivares wrote: Polytropon, Thank you for the suggestion. I am using bash as my shell. I have a file ~/.bashrc with command in there and I get: bash: setenv: command not found Of course

Re: printing to a HP Deskjet 812C printer

2011-07-28 Thread Polytropon
..., then Properties, where you'll find Print Coommand: lpr ${MOZ_PRINTER_NAME:+'-P'}${MOZ_PRINTER_NAME} So you _could_ do some customization here - but it sounds no good to do that. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: printing to a HP Deskjet 812C printer

2011-07-28 Thread Polytropon
. For example, _all_ printing does to the default printer. If a temporary change is needed, just set $PRINTER to a different value as long as you need it. If it's a one time only use, -P is definitely better. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: printing to a HP Deskjet 812C printer

2011-07-28 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 28 Jul 2011 11:06:47 -0500, Antonio Olivares wrote: On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 10:57 AM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Thu, 28 Jul 2011 10:44:52 -0500, Antonio Olivares wrote: Made the changes with global /etc/csh.cshrc and it did not work :( Requires re-login, but reboot

Re: Printr?

2011-07-28 Thread Polytropon
/. No, /carpetum throwibus et garbagiae/. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe

Re: Upgrading

2011-07-29 Thread Polytropon
changes to the system and service configuration. Check everything (don't just copy settings), as some changes might have taken place. (I've used the last way described personally.) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: 8.2-RELEASE-amd64.iso weirdness (help!)

2011-08-02 Thread Polytropon
the whole disk. Then start sysinstall as usual (and as explained in the Handbook). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: Fw: 8.2-RELEASE-amd64.iso weirdness (help!)

2011-08-03 Thread Polytropon
the sysctl and then dd. Wipe the MBR first, and to be sure, add some MB of /dev/zero's. In worst case, consult your mainboard's documentation to make sure the numbers are _not_ BIOS status messages. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: printing to Kyocera FS-1030D

2011-08-03 Thread Polytropon
like paper tray preference, duplexer and so on through PCL commands). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: semi-OT: Looking for a hosting provider w/ FreeBSD root-servers

2011-08-04 Thread Polytropon
? They support FreeBSD and also offer root servers. http://www.hetzner.de/en/hosting/produkte_rootserver/ Check out the Dedicated Server offers on the left of the page. Something you're searching for? -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: Alternative windowmanagers

2011-08-11 Thread Polytropon
managers didn't open up to me yet, I can't comment on them, but I'm sure many professional users do actively use them, as after a bit of learning and practicing, those are said to be more comfortable than the common windowing solutions that urgently need to entertain you. :-) -- Polytropon

Re: extracting text from docx files

2011-08-11 Thread Polytropon
files is generally a bad idea. It can be easily concluded that it also applies to DOCX files. The document also discusses alternatives. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions

Re: files/dd7c394c9c9ddf4b97f1b14c676f370adc259b2c7a4b8346eba0788a431db398.gz not found -- snapshot corrupt.

2011-08-12 Thread Polytropon
/ as it seems, but that doesn't exist (at least not on my local ports tree). A cdash port doesn't exist in the whole ports tree. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: library with click built-in?

2011-08-12 Thread Polytropon
); gsub( dah, P32L8E, $0); printf(%sP16\n, $0); } }' | dd bs=256 of=/dev/speaker /dev/null 21 NB: The timing is slightly out of proper relation. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: Don't understand df/du output

2011-08-12 Thread Polytropon
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Re: library with click built-in?

2011-08-12 Thread Polytropon
, but that's too much work for just a beep). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe

Re: library with click built-in?

2011-08-13 Thread Polytropon
simple sounds with the ability to use whatever one wants to connect to the sound card (builtin speakers, headphones, speakers or amplifier). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions

System lockups in X with nVidia GeForce 7600 GS (G73) and Gtk+

2011-08-13 Thread Polytropon
and instructions, as well as diagnosis-guessing is very welcome. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: System lockups in X with nVidia GeForce 7600 GS (G73) and Gtk+

2011-08-13 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 14 Aug 2011 03:55:20 +0100, Frank Shute wrote: On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 03:22:06AM +0200, Polytropon wrote: Has anyone got the nouveau driver working, and if, how precisely has he done so? Yes. I got it working once by following the package instructions but on a subsequent system

Re: System lockups in X with nVidia GeForce 7600 GS (G73) and Gtk+

2011-08-13 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 13 Aug 2011 21:38:59 -0600 (MDT), Warren Block wrote: On Sun, 14 Aug 2011, Polytropon wrote: PS. Looking at your xorg.conf, maybe the reason why I can't do Ctrl+Alt+Backspace anymore is that DontZap belongs to ServerLayout, not to ServerFlags - I'll quickly check

Re: System lockups in X with nVidia GeForce 7600 GS (G73) and Gtk+

2011-08-13 Thread Polytropon
applications this might be worth considering. PS. Ctrl+Alt+Backspace now works. I'm always impressed how much work it takes to _transform_ functionality that one takes for granted with all the old software into their modern continuations... -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy

Re: System lockups in X with nVidia GeForce 7600 GS (G73) and Gtk+

2011-08-13 Thread Polytropon
used. Now can I say that the GPU must be faulty? And just in case I have to replace it (PCIe required), what brand of GPU should I buy instead? Again nVidia, or better ATI, or Intel? It's a hard decision because I don't want to get from one trouble into the next one... -- Polytropon Magdeburg

Installing and using wine on amd64

2011-08-14 Thread Polytropon
(Intel Core2 4300 1.80GHz / 1799.81-MHz K8-class CPU here, and 2 GB RAM, that's why the AMD64 choice) and use i386 instead? And maybe fix Gtk+ triggered GPU trouble that way? :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: Installing and using wine on amd64

2011-08-14 Thread Polytropon
), uid 0, was killed: out of swap space Killed There are many of the swap_pager_getswapspace(16): failed messages before the whole process stops. Any idea what could be wrong here, or is this expected? My system has 2 GB RAM and a 2 GB swap partition. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy

Re: Installing and using wine on amd64

2011-08-14 Thread Polytropon
though my new system feels much faster, fine-tuning and repeated repeatative repeatition problem, i. e. re-installing from scratch is a always something I try to avoid. But maybe it's worth doing so - I'll keep it in mind. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi

Re: Installing and using wine on amd64

2011-08-15 Thread Polytropon
. :-) All in all, your system, your rules ;) My system, my mistakes. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: Installing and using wine on amd64

2011-08-15 Thread Polytropon
is that the programs I intend to run (older than 5 years, maybe even 10) have problems with DirectX stuff which I am supposed to manually install... -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions

Re: single user login

2011-08-17 Thread Polytropon
] [space][space][space][space] Ok boot -s - this starts into single user mode In case there console is not marked as insecure, there won't be any further password requests and you'll successfully reach a root prompt: # _ -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since

Re: new to os

2011-08-18 Thread Polytropon
to me. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd

Re: A quality operating system

2011-08-20 Thread Polytropon
. If these criticisms were taken seriously, I believe the situation could change, and I hope it does. It would be nice if you could be more specific, pointing out actual problems (instead of just naming a wide direction where they may - or may not - be found. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy

Re: A quality operating system

2011-08-20 Thread Polytropon
anyway, as in general and in every regards). :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: A quality operating system

2011-08-23 Thread Polytropon
me to express that this is my very individual opinion that doesn't neccessarily apply to others. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: A quality operating system

2011-08-23 Thread Polytropon
in real facts, real cases where the claims could be backed up with some evidence. I do _not_ want to say that it's all wrong, because there's a little truth in some of the statements, but without a specific case, it's very hard to discuss that. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user

PCI TV card with bktr kernel device

2011-08-24 Thread Polytropon
some change that has to be made on current 8.x systems? -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Printing from Opera

2011-08-24 Thread Polytropon
, printing worked from everywhere - at least yesterday it did. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: Printing from Opera

2011-08-24 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 24 Aug 2011 06:55:34 -0400, Rod Person wrote: On Wed, 24 Aug 2011 09:58:41 +0200 Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: My question to the list now: Did anybody get Opera working with CUPS or (better) without it? Maybe did I miss something important at installation time

Re: A quality operating system

2011-08-24 Thread Polytropon
of the documentation. :-) On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 2:08 PM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: Well, in _this_ area, I would also agree that work should be done to concentrate documentation, e. g. make an essence from knowledge and examples in mailing lists, web forums and so on. But there are too

Re: A quality operating system

2011-08-24 Thread Polytropon
install, and some software manufacturers refuse to support FreeBSD (which is their right, but doesn't make it any better). The same applies to restricted support for incompatible hardware. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: A quality operating system

2011-08-24 Thread Polytropon
to the handbook is to the hardware compatibility list whenever I'm thinking of buying something new for the server/desktop, but BEFORE I actually buy it. Shoudln't it be mandatory to _think_ BEFORE acting in any regards? Oh sorry, I forgot: PC on, brain off. :-) I think Polytropon put it very well

Re: Printing from Opera

2011-08-25 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 25 Aug 2011 08:01:50 +0200, Kruppa, Peter Ulrich wrote: Sorry, I forgot to include the list - Am 24.08.2011 17:19, schrieb Polytropon: On Wed, 24 Aug 2011 13:38:45 +0200, Kruppa, Peter Ulrich wrote: Opera really does work with Cups - you will see your printer's network name

Re: Printing from Opera

2011-08-25 Thread Polytropon
into the printer somehow. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: Printing from Opera

2011-08-25 Thread Polytropon
this from other programs (e. g. Gimp, the Sylpheed MUA, or OpenOffice), the entry is listed, and the printer starts to work. In the web administration, all jobs are listed as completed, except that the Opera printing jobs didn't result in printing, while the other ones did. -- Polytropon

Re: System lockups in X with nVidia GeForce 7600 GS (G73) and Gtk+

2011-08-25 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 16 Aug 2011 14:15:03 -0500, Conrad J. Sabatier wrote: On Sun, 14 Aug 2011 05:49:42 +0200 Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: Meanwhile, I got the nvidia driver compiled, installed and running. Tests like % xlock -nolock -mode lament or % xlock -nolock -mode

Re: Printing from Opera

2011-08-25 Thread Polytropon
, but due to the reboot the message was lost.) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: A quality operating system

2011-08-27 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 27 Aug 2011 13:56:16 -0500, Evan Busch wrote: I can see this will be important here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_dilemma On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 9:32 PM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: But allow me to say that _if_ you are interested in contributing in _that_ way

Identifying disk activity

2011-08-27 Thread Polytropon
-a /dev/ad4 which doesn't show any malicious behaviour of the disk itself (sometimes also the reason for strange sounds). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: Identifying disk activity

2011-08-28 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 27 Aug 2011 23:54:32 -0600 (MDT), Warren Block wrote: On Sun, 28 Aug 2011, Polytropon wrote: Since I have installed my new system (FreeBSD/i386 8.2-STABLE), I have found some kind of disk activity I've never had before on my home system. As this PC is a very cheap product

Re: Scritping sysinstall and custom iso

2011-08-28 Thread Polytropon
), while setting values for all other user dialogs and screens. I don't think it is neccessary (as assumed by the incomplete install.cfg mentioned above), but consult the documentation to be sure. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: Hi

2011-08-29 Thread Polytropon
of average productivity applications preinstalled and preconfigured, check PC-BSD: http://www.pcbsd.org/ See if this fits your needs. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd

Re: Partitioning for multiple systems

2009-04-27 Thread Polytropon
. -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr

Re: Modern FreeBSD Installer?

2009-04-27 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 27 Apr 2009 20:24:53 +0200, beni b...@brinckman.info wrote: On Sunday 26 April 2009 19:32:07 Polytropon wrote: On Sun, 26 Apr 2009 17:06:58 +0200, beni b...@brinckman.info wrote: Why should a graphical installer have less functionality ? hasn't been claimed. GUI installer just

Re: Modern FreeBSD Installer?

2009-04-27 Thread Polytropon
the same OS on a 150 MHz P1 as you run on a 5 million GHz Uber-server. THAT is modern. :-) -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Modern FreeBSD Installer?

2009-04-27 Thread Polytropon
. -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr

Re: a couple things....

2009-04-28 Thread Polytropon
the disk (this is stuff in /usr/local/). -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: filesystem compatibility between FreeBSD and OpenBSD

2009-04-29 Thread Polytropon
cvf /dev/device yourstuff on the source OS. On the target OS, simply run this command: % tar xvf /dev/device I could employ this method successfully to transfer data between different UNIXens and Linusi. :-) -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi

Re: filesystem compatibility between FreeBSD and OpenBSD

2009-04-30 Thread Polytropon
24 2008 /sbin/fsck_ufs* At least on FreeBSD, they're all the same program. -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: When a System Dies; Getting back in operation again.

2009-05-01 Thread Polytropon
FreeBSD's sysinstall to make the new disk bootable, i. e. create slices, create partitions, format them. If you've done this correctly, you can easily use restore to read in the dump files and put their contents back on the respective partitions (from where they have been created). -- Polytropon

Re: lost+found

2009-05-02 Thread Polytropon
(in the prompt) and the commands correctly? -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: clear old output in login screen?

2009-05-03 Thread Polytropon
or ~/.bashrc - I don't know, I'm using csh. :-) -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: lost+found

2009-05-04 Thread Polytropon
Commander to cd into and rm #something files and directories. :-) -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: Questions about groups.

2009-05-04 Thread Polytropon
file basis. These files are those that are present from system startup on. The devd file controls how the system should react if it detects new devices while it's already running. See the manpages for these files. Yes, they do exist. :-) -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user

Re: FOR MARK

2009-05-04 Thread Polytropon
to be created, it cannot create a video DVD ISO file from a video DVD ISO file. What am i missing//not doing correctly ? Missing: Reading the handbook. Not doing correctly: Command line options. :-) -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: How can I extract differences between 2 folders ?

2009-05-05 Thread Polytropon
. To avoid misunderstandings, please name them correctly in the future. which contains some expressions in everyline as following; File A: See? You call them files correctly. Why don't you refer to them as sheets of paper as an analogy to folders? :-) -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany

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