Re: FreeBSD's Visual Identity: Outdated?
> I am writing this e-mail hoping that someone will share my thoughts > on how the world's best operating system should represent its attributes > and users to the rest of the world. representations are secondary to function. there are markets for which this relationship is inverted. cost of entry is in the mid-eight-figure range. > Being an architect as well as graphic designer, I feel it is about time > for a complete revamp of the visual aesthetics of the FreeBSD project. code is art, and feelings are nice. please fix ebcdic first. unicode too. > The current logo and everything pertaining to it has long since lost its > modern touch. I believe that if this image is strenghtened, so is the > way outsiders view the FreeBSD project and the way they would judge it > compared to other open source operating systems. modernity is overrated. > 1. Not only is the logo misleading (associating evil) but it also looks dumb. >like something 10-year-olds could produce in Paint Shop Pro ten years >ago. OpenBSD has an artistic touch to theirs, however I was very >disappointed when I heard that the new NetBSD logo was in effect. who, other than you, cares? > 2. If it wasn't for the interesting content and structure of the FreeBSD >website, it would be among the less beautiful. Yes, it serves its >purpose well by being simple and straight to the point. But a redesign >could offer just the same -- simplicity and accuracy -- without being >ugly. break your own website please. > 3. The installation, even though it's text-only, could also be improved >by simple restructuring to act more cognitive and human-centered than >previously. Everything pertaining to the eye is important to improve. break your own loader please. > 4. There should be some kind of FreeBSD business card and letterhead >available to all that support this project. if i give you one will you agree to do something useful? > How do I know though, that if I manage to pull together a team to work > on this refined vision, that we won't be totally ignored even though we > produce the most magnificent result? most likely. its troll's fate. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-arch To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Odd (alarming) http log exerpt
Hi Colin, I started seeing these in September. For a _very_ obscure and low hit url. chars dns date/time 27680 d142-59-129-32.abhsia.telus.net 11/Sep/2004:17:13:53 32713 stjhts18c101.nbnet.nb.ca09/Nov/2004:14:37:26 27670 ip6599141005.link2usa.com 13/Dec/2004:15:28:13 16630 ip6599141112.link2usa.com 20/Dec/2004:02:48:26 27670 ip6599141058.link2usa.com 20/Dec/2004:18:26:47 27670 ip6599140196.link2usa.com 11/Jan/2005:08:38:17 27679 london-hse-ppp3545927.sympatico.ca 12/Jan/2005:09:16:28 Eric ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: FreeBSD's Visual Identity: Outdated?
> I am writing this e-mail hoping that someone will share my thoughts > on how the world's best operating system should represent its attributes > and users to the rest of the world. representations are secondary to function. there are markets for which this relationship is inverted. cost of entry is in the mid-eight-figure range. > Being an architect as well as graphic designer, I feel it is about time > for a complete revamp of the visual aesthetics of the FreeBSD project. code is art, and feelings are nice. please fix ebcdic first. unicode too. > The current logo and everything pertaining to it has long since lost its > modern touch. I believe that if this image is strenghtened, so is the > way outsiders view the FreeBSD project and the way they would judge it > compared to other open source operating systems. modernity is overrated. > 1. Not only is the logo misleading (associating evil) but it also looks dumb. >like something 10-year-olds could produce in Paint Shop Pro ten years >ago. OpenBSD has an artistic touch to theirs, however I was very >disappointed when I heard that the new NetBSD logo was in effect. who, other than you, cares? > 2. If it wasn't for the interesting content and structure of the FreeBSD >website, it would be among the less beautiful. Yes, it serves its >purpose well by being simple and straight to the point. But a redesign >could offer just the same -- simplicity and accuracy -- without being >ugly. break your own website please. > 3. The installation, even though it's text-only, could also be improved >by simple restructuring to act more cognitive and human-centered than >previously. Everything pertaining to the eye is important to improve. break your own loader please. > 4. There should be some kind of FreeBSD business card and letterhead >available to all that support this project. if i give you one will you agree to do something useful? > How do I know though, that if I manage to pull together a team to work > on this refined vision, that we won't be totally ignored even though we > produce the most magnificent result? most likely. its troll's fate. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Firefox for FBSD?
use the instructions on the mozilla developer page to get the source then the instructions on the mozilla developer page to build from source [EMAIL PROTECTED]:136]% mozilla -v Mozilla 1.8a6, Copyright (c) 2003-2004 mozilla.org [EMAIL PROTECTED]:137]% which mozilla /usr/local/bin/mozilla [EMAIL PROTECTED]:138]% ls -l `!!` ls -l `which mozilla` -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 5215 Dec 16 22:00 /usr/local/bin/mozilla* [EMAIL PROTECTED]:140]% uname -a FreeBSD clam.nic-naa.net 4.10-STABLE FreeBSD 4.10-STABLE #0: Mon Sep 13 08:38:55 EDT 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 enjoy eric ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Firefox for FBSD?
well, you could follow the instructions on the mozilla developer's pages for getting the source, configuring the source, and building the source. its what i do for a 4.10 laptop (1.8a6, dec 3rd build). i'm sort of lazy about having a browser on my 5.2.1 machine (1.7.2). one minor data point, building for less than the whole suite fails, and i don't care enough to find out why, since it is only cycles and disk, and i've plenty of both. my .mozconfig follows. use with care, it may contain iraqi weapons of mass distruction or ohio voting machine recalibration code, or otherwise fry something near and dear to you. or you could use the port, which some nice person maintains. # sh # Build configuration script # # See http://www.mozilla.org/build/unix.html for build instructions. # # Options for client.mk. mk_add_options MOZ_CO_PROJECT=suite mk_add_options [EMAIL PROTECTED]@/[EMAIL PROTECTED]@ # Options for 'configure' (same as command-line options). ac_add_options --enable-application=suite geckoishly yours, eric ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Mozilla core dump on FreeBSD 4.10
well, you could try this: % uname -a FreeBSD clam.nic-naa.net 4.10-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 4.10-PRERELEASE #0: Mon May 17 07:25:30 EDT 2004 root@:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 % mozilla -v Mozilla 1.8a4, Copyright (c) 2003-2004 mozilla.org ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: setup firewall/router/proxy
Oki all, If it isn't too much of a bother, someone asked me the same question, but for a platform I'm unfamiliar with -- a 2.4.18-6mdk (Mandrake) linux distro. As the target is not freebsd, I'll be happy with any technical response, and off-list is probably better than on. TiA, Eric > > What are the best firewall - routing and proxy > > packages for FreeBSD ? > > FW/Routing: IPFW + natd (both have man pages) > Proxy: squid (/usr/ports/www/squid) > > IMHO. > > Steve > > > Have only experience with debian/proxy/masquerading/iptables. > > Thansks in advance for the help. > > mess-mate > ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Bind 9 answer limit question
> Flaming aside, I did look for this answer in the bind docs before posting. > Either I missed it, or its not there. I did see other things that reference > round-robins, but not this. Right. rrset-order defines the order in which multiple records of the same type are returned, which wasn't quite the question asked (number limit). In the 9.3.x release note mentions that this (rrset-order) is implemented, somewhere else there was a note that in the 8.x code this was implemented, and in the 9 (presumably 9.2.x code) this wasn't. I'm modestly interested in the use case, never having used the MS dns implementation (or Dan's either), and I expect I'll survive the sarcasm. Eric ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Bind 9 answer limit question
Donald, I missed the 9 in the body of the post. And rrset_order isn't something I've ever used, so please provide an answer. Eric ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Bind 9 answer limit question
> I'm running Bind on FreeBSD, so it qualifies. ;) version information might be useful. 4, 8 or 9? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
postscript on 5.x, -dSAFER and /
Howdy folks, My googling monkies have turned up several instances of the problem, on several platforms, freebsd included. The log output is below. Error: /invalidfileaccess in --.outputpage-- Operand stack: 1 true Execution stack: %interp_exit .runexec2 --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- 2 %stopped_push --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- false 1 %stopped_push 1 3 %oparray_pop 1 3 %oparray_pop 1 3 %oparray_pop 1 3 %oparray_pop .runexec2 --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- 2 %stopped_push --nostringval-- 0 3 %oparray_pop --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- Dictionary stack: --dict:1059/1123(ro)(G)-- --dict:0/20(G)-- --dict:74/200(L)-- Current allocation mode is local Last OS error: 13 GNU Ghostscript 7.07: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1 If memory serves, gs et al did not take a lot of thought in 4.x. Clue appreciated, Eric ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Anybody Use 2 or More CPU at Production Env. ( SMP )
I have 5 (iXsystems) dual processors, all running 5.0-RELEASE or safely behind -CURRENT, with one box unsafely at -CURRENT, so I can't comment on the -STABLE question. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"