Re: Recommendation

2010-02-04 Thread Chuck Robey
Charlie Kester wrote: On Wed 03 Feb 2010 at 11:29:14 PST Chuck Robey wrote: I asked for all opinions, but I need to answer here before my thread gets hijacked. I DON'T WANT GUI-less operation, I don't want random playback. I really do appreciate your response, but what I'm after

Re: Recommendation

2010-02-04 Thread Chuck Robey
Charlie Kester wrote: On Wed 03 Feb 2010 at 11:29:14 PST Chuck Robey wrote: I asked for all opinions, but I need to answer here before my thread gets hijacked. I DON'T WANT GUI-less operation, I don't want random playback. I really do appreciate your response, but what I'm after

Re: Recommendation

2010-02-04 Thread Chuck Robey
Lars Engels wrote: On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 02:29:14PM -0500, Chuck Robey wrote: I've had some great suggestions so far. I think I'll go try amarok first, and maybe rhythmbox next. You folks are REALLY helpful, thanks!! If you don't mind using java, you can also take a look at atunes

Re: Recommendation

2010-02-03 Thread Chuck Robey
Charlie Kester wrote: On Tue 02 Feb 2010 at 16:04:51 PST Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On Tue, 2 Feb 2010 15:18:41 -0800, Charlie Kester corky1...@comcast.net wrote: On Tue 02 Feb 2010 at 14:34:42 PST Giorgos Keramidas wrote: I've been trying Rhythmbox too lately. It also recognizes IDv3 tags,

Recommendation

2010-02-01 Thread Chuck Robey
I'm having a hard time trying to figure out what/where is the best playlist driven audio player with a graphical UI ... there's too large a selection (both audio and multimedia dirs) for any reasonable manual search, and since I'm after a good graphical UI for it, I couldn't even construct any

Re: which port for this job?

2009-12-16 Thread Chuck Robey
Bakul Shah wrote: On Wed, 16 Dec 2009 13:01:22 EST Chuck Robey chu...@telenix.org wrote: Matthew Seaman wrote: Chuck Robey wrote: I need to block out a mildly complex OO diagram, and I wanted to get a suggestion for what ports selection might be best. inkscape if you want something

Re: which port for this job?

2009-12-16 Thread Chuck Robey
Rui Paulo wrote: On 15 Dec 2009, at 20:48, Chuck Robey wrote: I need to block out a mildly complex OO diagram, and I wanted to get a suggestion for what ports selection might be best. So far, everything I've tried has either been so extremely full of jargon that one can't use it without

which port for this job?

2009-12-15 Thread Chuck Robey
I need to block out a mildly complex OO diagram, and I wanted to get a suggestion for what ports selection might be best. So far, everything I've tried has either been so extremely full of jargon that one can't use it without a semester course in it (or 6 months rereading the UML spec). The last

Re: A theory on why microsoft makes such crappy stuff after all these years

2009-12-13 Thread Chuck Robey
Jayton Garnett wrote: I used to be naive too, thinking Unix was better in all respects. Then got a job working in a predominately Windows environment, and most of the problems I encounter are third party software issues - hardly the fault of Microsoft eh? Yes Unix is far more interesting as

Re: FSF v Cisco on GPL reached settlement

2009-05-20 Thread Chuck Robey
Xin LI wrote: For those who are interested: http://www.fsf.org/news/2009-05-cisco-settlement.html Huh. The results of this aren't going to be what the FSF prays for, I think. I've worked for more than one company who said, basically, that they would contribute tomorrow. They really

Re: BSD

2009-04-22 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Tuesday, 21 April 2009 at 11:05:24 +, Rick N wrote: (Actually) and Histrorically, Sun had a lot to do with the BSD's (and vice-versa), Bill Joy's early work and contibution to the BSD/Unix which later he took to

do we have support for the Beagle Board?

2009-04-08 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I am truly impressed with that new handhelp computer, the Pandora. I read somewhere (I'm trying to find where I saw this) that the Pandora is very compatible with the BeagleBoard. I was just wondering if any of the work being done for the ARM on

Re: Why?? (prog question)

2009-04-03 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Lowell Gilbert wrote: Chuck Robey chu...@telenix.org writes: Lowell Gilbert wrote: Chuck Robey chu...@telenix.org writes: The only real sin is not sticking to one style per project. Or at *least* per file. Umm, no, per project. Folks are too

Re: why was XFree86 dropped for ports?

2009-04-01 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I can't justify keeping this is ports any longer, I think it violates the list's rules, no matter how much I like this thread, so I'm moving it to -chat. If you think I'm wrong, I guess it could be moved again. matt donovan wrote: snip

Re: Why?? (prog question)

2009-04-01 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Lowell Gilbert wrote: Chuck Robey chu...@telenix.org writes: The only real sin is not sticking to one style per project. Or at *least* per file. Umm, no, per project. Folks are too pushed into errors when a project has 29 different styles. I

Re: Why?? (prog question)

2009-03-31 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 michael wrote: Moved to FreeBSD-chat, all opinions really belong there. Wojciech Puchar wrote: Tabbing is the worst form of indentation. It is *much* better to use spaces consistently. The only real sin is not sticking to one style per

Re: Telnet root login

2009-03-26 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 This subject hasn't for anything at all to do with current, fellas, let's move it to chat, ok? it's going to get you into public trouble. Randy Bush wrote: tar cjf - . | ssh u...@hostb (cd /desired/path; tar xjf -) But I can't get full wire speed

Re: FreeBSD Bounties

2009-03-14 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 sor...@cydem.org wrote: [snip] question: if the browser_products of other entities are --so-- problematic, just --how-- difficult would it be to roll our own ? note that this question is --not-- the same as asking how long it would take to

Re: text formatting tools.

2009-01-26 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Murray Stokely wrote: On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 2:05 PM, Chuck Robey chu...@telenix.org wrote: You said that most written things are hierarchical. Sorry, I strongly disagree, I disagree also. Nobody on this thread said that except you. Your

Re: text formatting tools.

2009-01-25 Thread Chuck Robey
On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 2:42 PM, Frank Shute fr...@shute.org.uk wrote: On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 01:53:38PM -0800, Murray Stokely wrote: On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 12:19 PM, Chuck Robey chu...@telenix.org wrote: big snip Another advantage of XML is greater familiarity with the toolset amongst the target

text formatting tools.

2009-01-24 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Just felt like venting my own opinions on what's the current best toolset for writing documents. I think that this opinion isn't a popular one, but that's what this list is for. I'll give you all of my reasons, so at least you'll know what to argue

Re: 50 baud is dead

2008-07-13 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Warren Block wrote: On Sun, 13 Jul 2008, Daniel O'Connor wrote: On Sat, 12 Jul 2008, Christian Weisgerber wrote: Daniel O'Connor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It turns out that uplcom(4) adapters don't support the required speed of 50 baud anymore.

Re: Scrappy BSD-ophiles

2008-07-04 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jason C. Wells wrote: Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: Short version: bullshit. The slightly longer version is that this is unfounded speculation - not even that, it's just a random blogger expressing a wish that Apple would do something which they

if you don't get this

2008-05-22 Thread Chuck Robey
then you haven't got a sense of humor, this is the best I've see lately. Do yourself a favor, I've attached a jpg, if your mailer doesn't inline it, go out of your way and display it, it's worth your time! signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: FreeBSD's problems as seen by the BSDForen.de community

2008-01-11 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 redirected to -chat Astrodog wrote: I'd like to propose the creation of a freebsd-legal mailing list. Beyond moving threads like this one off of -current, I believe it would provide a valuable place to discuss things like DTrace licensing, the

Re: FreeBSD's problems as seen by the BSDForen.de community

2008-01-10 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 redirected to -chat. Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Aryeh M. Friedman writes: We need more licenses like we need a 3rd or 4th leg. What is wrong with the standard BSD license please? I decided

Re: FreeBSD's problems as seen by the BSDForen.de community

2008-01-10 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: Marian Hettwer wrote: On Thu, 10 Jan 2008 06:46:23 -0500, Aryeh M. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I decided to elaborate slightly on the previous reply One thing that FOSS (BSD or GPL) has historical had issues

Re: corporate backers of freebsd

2007-12-31 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 DAve wrote: Front posting here, because I don't want anyone replyihng to this one. My aim is to inform that this has been directed to an incorrect list for what sounds to me like FreeBSD boosterism. The correct list for that sort of subject is

Re: amd64 NVIDIA support in FreeBSD 7

2007-12-18 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Redirected to -chat, because it got too flamish. Daniel O'Connor wrote: On Tue, 18 Dec 2007, Marian Hettwer wrote: On Tue, 18 Dec 2007 11:37:07 +0100, Dag-Erling Smørgrav [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sam Fourman Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I

Re: Suggestions please for what POP or IMAP servers to use

2007-12-15 Thread Chuck Robey
(note, because I went a bit off-topic, I redirected this to -chat) Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: It's a chicken and egg problem. There's nothing wrong with writing an extremely strict standard. The issue is the implementation. If your server implementation is so strict that most clients have

Re: Wine compatibility and performance on FreeBSD 7

2007-12-13 Thread Chuck Robey
Marc Spitzer wrote: On Dec 12, 2007 11:35 PM, Tom Wickline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Dec 12, 2007 10:30 PM, Marc Spitzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One of the interesting things about socialism, in all in many evil forms(including gnu/fsf), is that they simply must lie about their program or

Re: results of ports re-engineering survey

2007-12-12 Thread Chuck Robey
Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 *PLEASE ONLY REPLY TO ME OR [EMAIL PROTECTED] Omigod!! For Gods sake, could you PLEASE not have folks reply to the list! We have been sufficiently bombarded with this already. If you must have the replies public, then

Re: Wine compatibility and performance on FreeBSD 7

2007-12-12 Thread Chuck Robey
Tom Wickline wrote: On Dec 10, 2007 11:41 PM, Brett Glass [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's worth noting that the WINE project, not long ago, abandoned the BSD license for the GPL despite urging from many sources to keep the code open and free for use by developers. We've stopped using it as a

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

2007-11-27 Thread Chuck Robey
Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: Beastie's Law: Any demand of a modification of FreeBSD or it's website using political incorrectness as the justification is automatically wrong. Political Incorrectness is very subjective though. It doesen't matter. What constitutes a Nazi