Re: Tips for installing windows and freeBSD both.. anyone??

2010-11-13 Thread Robert Bonomi
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 18:19:34 -0700 From: Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com Subject: Re: Tips for installing windows and freeBSD both.. anyone?? On Tue, Nov 09, 2010 at 06:10:54PM -0800, Rob Farmer wrote: On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 16:09, Robert Bonomi bon...@mail.r-bonomi.com wr= ote

Re: Tips for installing windows and freeBSD both.. anyone??

2010-11-13 Thread Robert Bonomi
From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Thu Nov 11 23:20:20 2010 Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 21:21:51 -0800 From: Rob Farmer rfar...@predatorlabs.net To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Tips for installing windows and freeBSD both.. anyone?? On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 17:19, Chad

Re: Tips for installing windows and freeBSD both.. anyone??

2010-11-13 Thread Bruce Cran
On Sat, 13 Nov 2010 12:48:40 -0600 (CST) Robert Bonomi bon...@mail.r-bonomi.com wrote: Au Contraire, WINDOWS *itself* forbids more than one application from having the same file open forworking on. Wrong. Windows *itself* doesn't care - lots of applications just don't specify

Re: Tips for installing windows and freeBSD both.. anyone??

2010-11-13 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 10:47:05AM -0600, Robert Bonomi wrote: Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 18:19:34 -0700 From: Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com Subject: Re: Tips for installing windows and freeBSD both.. anyone?? =2E . . and it is shortly after that point that things get very specific

Re: Tips for installing windows and freeBSD both.. anyone??

2010-11-13 Thread Jerry
On Sat, 13 Nov 2010 19:02:31 + Bruce Cran br...@cran.org.uk articulated: On Sat, 13 Nov 2010 12:48:40 -0600 (CST) Robert Bonomi bon...@mail.r-bonomi.com wrote: Au Contraire, WINDOWS *itself* forbids more than one application from having the same file open forworking on. Wrong.

Re: Tips for installing windows and freeBSD both.. anyone??

2010-11-13 Thread Rob Farmer
windows and freeBSD both.. anyone?? On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 17:19, Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: This isn't really a GUI problem, because the issue is the file format changing such that your .bat no longer worked. If you retained the original format or fixed the script, it would

Re: Tips for installing windows and freeBSD both.. anyone??

2010-11-13 Thread Robert Bonomi
From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Sat Nov 13 13:01:04 2010 Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2010 19:02:31 + From: Bruce Cran br...@cran.org.uk To: Robert Bonomi bon...@mail.r-bonomi.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Tips for installing windows and freeBSD both.. anyone

Re: Tips for installing windows and freeBSD both.. anyone??

2010-11-13 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 12:37:18PM -0800, Rob Farmer wrote: On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 10:48, Robert Bonomi bon...@mail.r-bonomi.com wrote: Said employee _demanded_ a GUI-based application.  The 'obselete' tool in effective production use did not exist in a windows version. Since said

Re: Tips for installing windows and freeBSD both.. anyone??

2010-11-13 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 03:12:16PM -0600, Robert Bonomi wrote: This kind of file-locking _does_ make good sense -- 'sort of', that is. A default mode where additional apps could access the file 'read only' with a warning, would be arguably better. Yeah -- I'm a fan of how nvi and Vim handle

Re: Tips for installing windows and freeBSD both.. anyone??

2010-11-13 Thread Rob Farmer
On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 13:53, Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: Right, and this isn't a GUI problem - its a problem with combining the documents. What software allows multiple people to open and write to the same file simultaneously without trashing the file or losing data? Git and

Re: Tips for installing windows and freeBSD both.. anyone??

2010-11-13 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 06:12:52PM -0800, Rob Farmer wrote: On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 13:53, Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: Right, and this isn't a GUI problem - its a problem with combining the documents. What software allows multiple people to open and write to the same file

Re: Tips for installing windows and freeBSD both.. anyone??

2010-11-12 Thread Chip Camden
Quoth Chad Perrin on Thursday, 11 November 2010: On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 06:09:15PM +, Bruce Cran wrote: On Wed, 10 Nov 2010 09:57:17 -0800 Chip Camden sterl...@camdensoftware.com wrote: However, for automating repeated tasks (as distinguished from running automated tests of the

Re: Tips for installing windows and freeBSD both.. anyone??

2010-11-12 Thread Rob Farmer
On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 23:16, Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: It sounds like in some respects we're violently agreeing with each other. On one hand, I think that CLI programs can be great for frequent tasks, especially if you have something like the Unix pipeline at your disposal to

Re: Tips for installing windows and freeBSD both.. anyone??

2010-11-12 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 11 Nov 2010 17:49:26 -0700, Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: On Tue, Nov 09, 2010 at 01:21:01AM -0800, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: The STRENGTH OF GUI (yes, I'm really saying that) is to aid using language elements, CLI. Arranging

Re: Tips for installing windows and freeBSD both.. anyone??

2010-11-12 Thread Chad Perrin
On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 09:54:57AM -0800, Rob Farmer wrote: On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 23:16, Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: It sounds like in some respects we're violently agreeing with each other. On one hand, I think that CLI programs can be great for frequent tasks, especially if

Re: Tips for installing windows and freeBSD both.. anyone??

2010-11-12 Thread Chad Perrin
On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 07:14:38PM +0100, Polytropon wrote: On Thu, 11 Nov 2010 17:49:26 -0700, Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: I agree. That is one type of GUI I would really love to see getting more popular. You can already find this concept in use: The Midnight Commander,

Re: Tips for installing windows and freeBSD both.. anyone??

2010-11-12 Thread Michael Grünewald
Hello Rob, Rob Farmer wrote: Most general computer users will never give up the GUI, because it involves investing in computer skills and they don't see that as terribly worthwhile - they just want to get started on their work. I think some UNIX fans are reluctant to accept this, and in doing

Re: Tips for installing windows and freeBSD both.. anyone??

2010-11-12 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 11 Nov 2010 18:19:34 -0700, Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: In fact, a set of CLI filters linked together by the Unix pipeline (or even a DOS pipeline, at least in theory) is essentially infinitely extensible to provide surprising levels of automation customizability that might

Re: Tips for installing windows and freeBSD both.. anyone??

2010-11-12 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 11 Nov 2010 18:25:51 -0700, Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: It's too bad such APIs require so much more knowledge, and present so much more of a barrier to entry for automating tasks, than a simpler CLI filter's interface provides via something like the Unix pipeline. Any GUI is

Re: Tips for installing windows and freeBSD both.. anyone??

2010-11-12 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 11 Nov 2010 21:21:51 -0800, Rob Farmer rfar...@predatorlabs.net wrote: I'm not saying the CLI is universally bad - if you gain competence with a set of programs that you use frequently, it can be very efficient. It does make it hard to enter a new area, though - you've got to learn

Re: Tips for installing windows and freeBSD both.. anyone??

2010-11-12 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 12 Nov 2010 11:23:22 -0700, Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: The type of program I specifically meant was the sort of thing that actually tells the user the command that would perform the same task as the button-click, so that users of the GUI (or captive interface TUI) would get

Re: Tips for installing windows and freeBSD both.. anyone??

2010-11-12 Thread Chad Perrin
On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 07:35:51PM +0100, Michael Grünewald wrote: But in my opinion, a complete GUI software should also provide some command line facilities. I mean, for instance, a word processing software could be shipped with command line tools that could be used to * inspect

Re: Tips for installing windows and freeBSD both.. anyone??

2010-11-12 Thread Rob Farmer
On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 11:06, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Thu, 11 Nov 2010 21:21:51 -0800, Rob Farmer rfar...@predatorlabs.net wrote: I'm not saying the CLI is universally bad - if you gain competence with a set of programs that you use frequently, it can be very efficient. It

Re: Tips for installing windows and freeBSD both.. anyone??

2010-11-12 Thread Chad Perrin
On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 07:49:51PM +0100, Polytropon wrote: The primary REFUSE to use the keyboard because the mouse EXISTS prevents lazy users even from READING that 3x5 card. They are often not WILLING to follow instructions, no matter how simple (or even idiotic, sorry) they may be. In

Re: Tips for installing windows and freeBSD both.. anyone??

2010-11-12 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 12 Nov 2010 11:33:38 -0800, Rob Farmer rfar...@predatorlabs.net wrote: On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 11:06, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Thu, 11 Nov 2010 21:21:51 -0800, Rob Farmer rfar...@predatorlabs.net wrote: I'm not saying the CLI is universally bad - if you gain competence

Re: Tips for installing windows and freeBSD both.. anyone??

2010-11-12 Thread Chad Perrin
On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 11:33:38AM -0800, Rob Farmer wrote: To use a US example, you see the same thing with the SI/metric system. Scientists and other technical people use it almost universally without issue (except for some oddities, PSI is somewhat popular) - it is better for real/serious

Re: Tips for installing windows and freeBSD both.. anyone??

2010-11-12 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 12 Nov 2010 12:47:32 -0700, Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: This sounds a bit like a common problem with people thinking that Unix-like OSes are not user friendly because they're hard to install, a frequent protestations of people who like MS Windows because it comes already

Re: Tips for installing windows and freeBSD both.. anyone??

2010-11-12 Thread Peter A. Giessel
On 2010/11/12 at 10:33, rfar...@predatorlabs.net (Rob Farmer) wrote: Scientists and other technical people use it almost universally without issue (except for some oddities, PSI is somewhat popular) Would you consider engineers technical people? One example would be the American Association

Re: Tips for installing windows and freeBSD both.. anyone??

2010-11-12 Thread Chip Camden
Quoth Chad Perrin on Friday, 12 November 2010: On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 11:33:38AM -0800, Rob Farmer wrote: To use a US example, you see the same thing with the SI/metric system. Scientists and other technical people use it almost universally without issue (except for some oddities, PSI

Re: Tips for installing windows and freeBSD both.. anyone??

2010-11-12 Thread Jerry
On Fri, 12 Nov 2010 11:24:09 -0900 Peter A. Giessel pgies...@mac.com articulated: It depends on what you mean by real serious work. Try ordering a cubic meter of concrete or a #25 rebar in the U.S. and see how far you get. Seriously, does everyone in this tread suffer from ADHD

Re: Tips for installing windows and freeBSD both.. anyone??

2010-11-12 Thread Charlie Kester
Since this discussion refuses to die, I hope the participants will heed my suggestion and collect the results on a webpage somewhere so we don't have to go over it all many times again in the future. So far, I haven't seen anything said that wasn't already said five, ten, fifteen or even twenty

Re: Tips for installing windows and freeBSD both.. anyone??

2010-11-12 Thread David Brodbeck
On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 12:24 PM, Peter A. Giessel pgies...@mac.com wrote: On 2010/11/12 at 10:33, rfar...@predatorlabs.net (Rob Farmer) wrote: it is better for real/serious work, but the general public doesn't see it as new or valuable - its just a stupid change in the way everything has

Re: Tips for installing windows and freeBSD both.. anyone??

2010-11-11 Thread Chad Perrin
On Tue, Nov 09, 2010 at 01:21:01AM -0800, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: The STRENGTH OF GUI (yes, I'm really saying that) is to aid using language elements, CLI. Arranging windows, presenting information, displaying structures, managing things. GUI

Re: Tips for installing windows and freeBSD both.. anyone??

2010-11-11 Thread Chad Perrin
On Tue, Nov 09, 2010 at 06:10:54PM -0800, Rob Farmer wrote: On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 16:09, Robert Bonomi bon...@mail.r-bonomi.com wrote: A GUI provids a  _fixed_ set of predefined operations that it is possible to perform. IF your needs are met =entirely= by the provided operations, great.

Re: Tips for installing windows and freeBSD both.. anyone??

2010-11-11 Thread Chad Perrin
On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 06:09:15PM +, Bruce Cran wrote: On Wed, 10 Nov 2010 09:57:17 -0800 Chip Camden sterl...@camdensoftware.com wrote: However, for automating repeated tasks (as distinguished from running automated tests of the GUI itself), scripting a GUI is the wrong way to do

Re: Tips for installing windows and freeBSD both.. anyone??

2010-11-11 Thread Rob Farmer
On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 17:19, Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: This isn't really a GUI problem, because the issue is the file format changing such that your .bat no longer worked. If you retained the original format or fixed the script, it would still work fine. Actually, my

Re: Tips for installing windows and freeBSD both.. anyone??

2010-11-11 Thread Chad Perrin
On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 09:21:51PM -0800, Rob Farmer wrote: Well, our info about this situation is limited, so it is hard to say exactly what happened. This is true, but I think you assumed some things that were not implied by the description of the situation, and that you missed or ignored

Re: Tips for installing windows and freeBSD both.. anyone??

2010-11-10 Thread Bruce Cran
On Wed, 10 Nov 2010 04:02:34 +0100 Michael Ross michael.r...@gmx.net wrote: For Windows OSes there is actually a rather nice tool out there, http://www.autoitscript.com/autoit3/ which allows you to script the GUI cross-app. Microsoft also have the UI Automation API to script GUI

Re: Tips for installing windows and freeBSD both.. anyone??

2010-11-10 Thread Mario Lobo
On Wednesday 10 November 2010 06:21:18 Bruce Cran wrote: On Wed, 10 Nov 2010 04:02:34 +0100 Michael Ross michael.r...@gmx.net wrote: For Windows OSes there is actually a rather nice tool out there, http://www.autoitscript.com/autoit3/ which allows you to script the GUI

Re: Tips for installing windows and freeBSD both.. anyone??

2010-11-10 Thread Chip Camden
Quoth Rob Farmer on Tuesday, 09 November 2010: On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 16:09, Robert Bonomi bon...@mail.r-bonomi.com wrote: A GUI provids a  _fixed_ set of predefined operations that it is possible to perform. IF your needs are met =entirely= by the provided operations, great.  If not,

Re: Tips for installing windows and freeBSD both.. anyone??

2010-11-10 Thread Chip Camden
Quoth Michael Ross on Wednesday, 10 November 2010: Am 10.11.2010, 01:09 Uhr, schrieb Robert Bonomi bon...@mail.r-bonomi.com: With a GUI there is no way to describe the series of mouse 'motions'/'clicks'/ 'double-clicks'/'drags' and keypresses required to perform an operation. 'screen

Re: Tips for installing windows and freeBSD both.. anyone??

2010-11-10 Thread Bruce Cran
On Wed, 10 Nov 2010 09:57:17 -0800 Chip Camden sterl...@camdensoftware.com wrote: However, for automating repeated tasks (as distinguished from running automated tests of the GUI itself), scripting a GUI is the wrong way to do it. It's layering on an entirely unnecessary layer of abstraction

Re: Tips for installing windows and freeBSD both.. anyone??

2010-11-09 Thread Robert Bonomi
Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2010 09:43:01 + Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Tips for installing windows and freeBSD both.. anyone?? On Sun, 7 Nov 2010 23:17:23 -0700 Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: I did give a nod to discoverability for GUIs, as you might note if you go

Re: Tips for installing windows and freeBSD both.. anyone??

2010-11-09 Thread Rob Farmer
On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 16:09, Robert Bonomi bon...@mail.r-bonomi.com wrote: A GUI provids a  _fixed_ set of predefined operations that it is possible to perform. IF your needs are met =entirely= by the provided operations, great.  If not, you're dead in the water, without any way to

Re: Tips for installing windows and freeBSD both.. anyone??

2010-11-09 Thread Michael Ross
Am 10.11.2010, 01:09 Uhr, schrieb Robert Bonomi bon...@mail.r-bonomi.com: With a GUI there is no way to describe the series of mouse 'motions'/'clicks'/ 'double-clicks'/'drags' and keypresses required to perform an operation. 'screen coordinates' are meaningless when a window, or icon, or

Re: Tips for installing windows and freeBSD both.. anyone??

2010-11-09 Thread perryh
Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: The STRENGTH OF GUI (yes, I'm really saying that) is to aid using language elements, CLI. Arranging windows, presenting information, displaying structures, managing things. GUI alone, with no functional substance behind it, is useless. Sadly, you'll find

Re: Tips for installing windows and freeBSD both.. anyone??

2010-11-08 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 7 Nov 2010 22:07:29 +, Bruce Cran br...@cran.org.uk wrote: With the command-line you also choose the inefficiency of having to read the man page every time you want to do something you're not familiar with. Not fully. The strength of the command line is (1st) that things you

Re: Tips for installing windows and freeBSD both.. anyone??

2010-11-08 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 7 Nov 2010 14:41:09 -0800, Chip Camden sterl...@camdensoftware.com wrote: Up to a point, yes. But as options become more complex, either the GUI must also become more complex or you reach the tipping point where the complexity warrants the use of language instead of gestures. This is

Re: Tips for installing windows and freeBSD both.. anyone??

2010-11-08 Thread Bruce Cran
On Sun, 7 Nov 2010 23:17:23 -0700 Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: I did give a nod to discoverability for GUIs, as you might note if you go back and read what you quoted back at me. That's exactly what you're talking about. I don't see why you have to pretend I didn't mention it, and

Re: Tips for installing windows and freeBSD both.. anyone??

2010-11-08 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 7 Nov 2010 23:17:23 -0700, Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: So, let's see here -- either I lose efficiency on things that aren't very familiar to me, because I have to type `foo --help` or `man foo` or something like that, or I lose efficiency on things I do all the time, because

Re: Tips for installing windows and freeBSD both.. anyone??

2010-11-08 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 8 Nov 2010 09:43:01 +, Bruce Cran br...@cran.org.uk wrote: [...] I do think a well-designed GUI can increase productivity by bringing things together that would otherwise be separate. Yes. Plain YES. I'm just waiting for the GUI that actually DOES that. :-) -- Polytropon

Re: Tips for installing windows and freeBSD both.. anyone??

2010-11-08 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Monday, November 08, 2010 a las 10:56:00AM +0100, Polytropon escribió: On Sun, 7 Nov 2010 23:17:23 -0700, Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: So, let's see here -- either I lose efficiency on things that aren't very familiar to me, because I have to type `foo --help` or `man foo`

Re: Tips for installing windows and freeBSD both.. anyone??

2010-11-08 Thread Bruce Cran
On Mon, 8 Nov 2010 11:00:59 +0100 Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Mon, 8 Nov 2010 09:43:01 +, Bruce Cran br...@cran.org.uk wrote: [...] I do think a well-designed GUI can increase productivity by bringing things together that would otherwise be separate. Yes. Plain YES. I'm

Re: Tips for installing windows and freeBSD both.. anyone??

2010-11-08 Thread Chad Perrin
On Mon, Nov 08, 2010 at 09:43:01AM +, Bruce Cran wrote: On Sun, 7 Nov 2010 23:17:23 -0700 Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: I did give a nod to discoverability for GUIs, as you might note if you go back and read what you quoted back at me. That's exactly what you're talking

Re: Tips for installing windows and freeBSD both.. anyone??

2010-11-08 Thread Bruce Cran
On Mon, 8 Nov 2010 09:32:20 -0700 Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: You probably found it inefficient because you did not bother to gain sufficient familiarity with it to enjoy the efficiencies it provided. Seriously. In my experience, development on MS Windows with clicky GUI tools

Re: Tips for installing windows and freeBSD both.. anyone??

2010-11-08 Thread Charlie Kester
On Mon 08 Nov 2010 at 02:06:24 PST Matthias Apitz wrote: I think this philosofic discussion has little or nothing todo with FreeBSD. Could you move this elsewhere, or off-list? Thanks It's also a very very OLD argument. Surely the debating points have already been collected on a webpage

Re: Tips for installing windows and freeBSD both.. anyone??

2010-11-07 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 6 Nov 2010 15:54:46 -0700, Chip Camden sterl...@camdensoftware.com wrote: What does KDE or GNOME buy you anyway? Besides overhead. Bloat. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___

Re: Tips for installing windows and freeBSD both.. anyone??

2010-11-07 Thread Bruce Cran
On Sat, 6 Nov 2010 15:54:46 -0700 Chip Camden sterl...@camdensoftware.com wrote: What does KDE or GNOME buy you anyway? Besides overhead. I don't expect to be able to convince you, but a lot of people find desktop environments easier to use than a whole load of terminals. For example I

Re: Tips for installing windows and freeBSD both.. anyone??

2010-11-07 Thread Jerry
On Sun, 7 Nov 2010 09:43:12 +0100 Polytropon free...@edvax.de articulated: On Sat, 6 Nov 2010 15:54:46 -0700, Chip Camden sterl...@camdensoftware.com wrote: What does KDE or GNOME buy you anyway? Besides overhead. Bloat. :-) Bloat can easily be defined as something one user does not

Re: Tips for installing windows and freeBSD both.. anyone??

2010-11-07 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 7 Nov 2010 05:51:42 -0500, Jerry freebsd.u...@seibercom.net wrote: On Sun, 7 Nov 2010 09:43:12 +0100 Polytropon free...@edvax.de articulated: On Sat, 6 Nov 2010 15:54:46 -0700, Chip Camden sterl...@camdensoftware.com wrote: What does KDE or GNOME buy you anyway? Besides

Re: Tips for installing windows and freeBSD both.. anyone??

2010-11-07 Thread Leslie Jensen
On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 11:01 AM, Tushartushar...@gmail.com wrote: I want to use windows and freeBSD, both of them at the same time... please help... I use Win7 and FreeBSD in a dualboot configuration because of the need for USB connectivity for some of the Windows apps. I have

Re: Tips for installing windows and freeBSD both.. anyone??

2010-11-07 Thread Mubeesh ali
I guess the virtualbox supplied under puel license has full USB support. may be good to check out if you are not averse to a more restrictive licensing. On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 3:39 AM, Leslie Jensen les...@eskk.nu wrote: On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 11:01 AM, Tushartushar...@gmail.com  wrote: I

Re: Tips for installing windows and freeBSD both.. anyone??

2010-11-07 Thread Leslie Jensen
On 2010-11-07 12:44, Mubeesh ali wrote: I guess the virtualbox supplied under puel license has full USB support. may be good to check out if you are not averse to a more restrictive licensing. With the OSE version in the ports tree I've not considered the PUEL version. Can you provide

Re: Tips for installing windows and freeBSD both.. anyone??

2010-11-07 Thread Chip Camden
Quoth Bruce Cran on Sunday, 07 November 2010: On Sat, 6 Nov 2010 15:54:46 -0700 Chip Camden sterl...@camdensoftware.com wrote: What does KDE or GNOME buy you anyway? Besides overhead. I don't expect to be able to convince you, but a lot of people find desktop environments easier to use

Re: Tips for installing windows and freeBSD both.. anyone??

2010-11-07 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 7 Nov 2010 09:41:06 -0800, Chip Camden sterl...@camdensoftware.com wrote: I'm not here to bash desktop environments, I seriously want to know you use them to improve productivity. Yes, would be interesting to know. Not that I deny it - I just have no evidence from my experience and

Re: Tips for installing windows and freeBSD both.. anyone??

2010-11-07 Thread Jerry
On Sun, 7 Nov 2010 12:23:36 +0100 Polytropon free...@edvax.de articulated: To answer the question, What does KDE or GNOME buy you anyway?, the answer is nothing. They have never even brought me a cup of coffee. You need to install Kaffeine. :-) Touché -- Jerry ✌

Re: Tips for installing windows and freeBSD both.. anyone??

2010-11-07 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sun, Nov 07, 2010 at 06:58:45PM +0100, Polytropon wrote: On Sun, 7 Nov 2010 09:41:06 -0800, Chip Camden sterl...@camdensoftware.com wrote: I'm not here to bash desktop environments, I seriously want to know you use them to improve productivity. Yes, would be interesting to know.

Re: Tips for installing windows and freeBSD both.. anyone??

2010-11-07 Thread Bruce Cran
On Sun, 7 Nov 2010 13:51:22 -0700 Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: I choose a little up-front learning curve for massive efficiency and productivity enhancements down the road. The increased efficiency of a minimal, composable toolset driven by the keyboard can be a huge win in

Re: Tips for installing windows and freeBSD both.. anyone??

2010-11-07 Thread Chip Camden
Quoth Bruce Cran on Sunday, 07 November 2010: On Sun, 7 Nov 2010 13:51:22 -0700 Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: I choose a little up-front learning curve for massive efficiency and productivity enhancements down the road. The increased efficiency of a minimal, composable toolset

Re: Tips for installing windows and freeBSD both.. anyone??

2010-11-07 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sun, Nov 07, 2010 at 10:07:29PM +, Bruce Cran wrote: On Sun, 7 Nov 2010 13:51:22 -0700 Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: I choose a little up-front learning curve for massive efficiency and productivity enhancements down the road. The increased efficiency of a minimal,

Tips for installing windows and freeBSD both.. anyone??

2010-11-06 Thread Tushar
I want to use windows and freeBSD, both of them at the same time... please help... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Re: Tips for installing windows and freeBSD both.. anyone??

2010-11-06 Thread Bruce Cran
On Sat, 6 Nov 2010 02:01:22 -0700 (PDT) Tushar tushar...@gmail.com wrote: I want to use windows and freeBSD, both of them at the same time... please help... You can run Windows from FreeBSD, or FreeBSD from within Windows. Either way, use VirtualBox (http://www.virtualbox.org,

Re: Tips for installing windows and freeBSD both.. anyone??

2010-11-06 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 6 Nov 2010 02:01:22 -0700 (PDT), Tushar tushar...@gmail.com wrote: I want to use windows and freeBSD, both of them at the same time... please help... Consider using a virtualization solution to run both operating systems in parallel. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD

Re: Tips for installing windows and freeBSD both.. anyone??

2010-11-06 Thread Ross Cameron
Personally I would install FreeBSD as the primary operating system and install Windows in a VirtualBox VM. That way you can get the best of both worlds and no need to reboot to access a particular application. Opportunity is most often missed by people because it is dressed in overalls and

Re: Tips for installing windows and freeBSD both.. anyone??

2010-11-06 Thread Tushar
Yes, I'm going to try virtualbox. Thankyou On Nov 6, 4:22 pm, Bruce Cran br...@cran.org.uk wrote: On Sat, 6 Nov 2010 02:01:22 -0700 (PDT) Tushar tushar...@gmail.com wrote: I want to use windows and freeBSD, both of them at the same time... please help... You can run Windows from

Re: Tips for installing windows and freeBSD both.. anyone??

2010-11-06 Thread Tushar
Yes, I'm going to try virtualbox. Thankyou On Nov 6, 4:33 pm, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Sat, 6 Nov 2010 02:01:22 -0700 (PDT), Tushar tushar...@gmail.com wrote: I want to use windows and freeBSD, both of them at the same time... please help... Consider using a virtualization

Re: Tips for installing windows and freeBSD both.. anyone??

2010-11-06 Thread Tushar
Yes, I'm going to try virtualbox. Thankyou On Nov 6, 4:20 pm, Ross Cameron ross.came...@linuxpro.co.za wrote: Personally I would install FreeBSD as the primary operating system and install Windows in a VirtualBox VM. That way you can get the best of both worlds and no need to reboot to

Re: Tips for installing windows and freeBSD both.. anyone??

2010-11-06 Thread Chip Camden
Yes, I would recommend that configuration also, because FreeBSD is much more lightweight of the two, so you don't impose the overhead of running Windows when all you need is FreeBSD. Quoth Ross Cameron on Saturday, 06 November 2010: Personally I would install FreeBSD as the primary operating

Re: Tips for installing windows and freeBSD both.. anyone??

2010-11-06 Thread Bruce Cran
On Sat, 6 Nov 2010 12:09:34 -0700 Chip Camden sterl...@camdensoftware.com wrote: Yes, I would recommend that configuration also, because FreeBSD is much more lightweight of the two, so you don't impose the overhead of running Windows when all you need is FreeBSD. I'm not sure that's true,

Re: Tips for installing windows and freeBSD both.. anyone??

2010-11-06 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sat, Nov 06, 2010 at 08:02:39PM +, Bruce Cran wrote: On Sat, 6 Nov 2010 12:09:34 -0700 Chip Camden sterl...@camdensoftware.com wrote: Yes, I would recommend that configuration also, because FreeBSD is much more lightweight of the two, so you don't impose the overhead of running

Re: Tips for installing windows and freeBSD both.. anyone??

2010-11-06 Thread Chip Camden
Quoth Chad Perrin on Saturday, 06 November 2010: On Sat, Nov 06, 2010 at 08:02:39PM +, Bruce Cran wrote: On Sat, 6 Nov 2010 12:09:34 -0700 Chip Camden sterl...@camdensoftware.com wrote: Yes, I would recommend that configuration also, because FreeBSD is much more lightweight of

Re: Tips for installing windows and freeBSD both.. anyone??

2010-11-06 Thread Chris Brennan
On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 6:54 PM, Chip Camden sterl...@camdensoftware.comwrote: Quoth Chad Perrin on Saturday, 06 November 2010: On Sat, Nov 06, 2010 at 08:02:39PM +, Bruce Cran wrote: On Sat, 6 Nov 2010 12:09:34 -0700 Chip Camden sterl...@camdensoftware.com wrote: Yes, I would