Re: Mozilla retires Firefox 4 from security support

2011-06-23 Thread Jayton Garnett
FF4 only came out a few months ago and they're retiring it from security support? That's Lame. Really Lame. Oh well, it's a good thing it doesn't effect me because I only use Chrome. Versioning doesn't matter because 99% of the users are up to date within a few days of a new update / version being

Re: The old times ...

2011-04-07 Thread Jayton Garnett
... where's the 'Like' button ? ... On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 3:43 PM, Lars Engels lars.eng...@0x20.net wrote: On Thu, Apr 07, 2011 at 02:08:41PM +0200, Oliver Fromme wrote: Just though that some of you old guys (like me) might enjoy this one, too: http://abstrusegoose.com/347 Hey, AOL

Re: LinuxBSDos.com article

2010-02-18 Thread Jayton Garnett
That's a fair enough comment really. To the average PC user, yes it is going to be the only one to compete with Ubuntu - unsuccessfully. To the higher life forms - e.g. uber g33ks like us, no. Although when I tried it out, I did quite enjoy the experience of PCBSD. The keywords there is 'desktop

Re: I Love FreeBSD!

2010-02-03 Thread Jayton Garnett
I believe Jayton is referring to heliostats, not solar cells. DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - d...@des.no That is correct. The reflectors are *basically mirrors* directing the sun's energy to the tower where it super heats the steam, it's a very good, cheap and low maintenance way to

Re: I Love FreeBSD!

2010-02-02 Thread Jayton Garnett
Luckily, environmentalists are starting to realize what hypocrits they are... DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - d...@des.no Like in Armageddon when environMENTALists are on that boat shouting abuse at the oil rig, when their own boat is spewing out black clouds of smoke? Ah yes, the It's OK,

Re: I Love FreeBSD!

2010-01-27 Thread Jayton Garnett
Ah yes, the discovery phase. It's so blissful, warm and cuddly... I remember that time. It was many many moons ago (4.7 had just come out) Good luck with that! Jay ___ freebsd-chat@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: I Love FreeBSD!

2010-01-27 Thread Jayton Garnett
Define most regions. There is a whole world outside the US. surely not ? The US is the all encompassing awesomeness. ___ freebsd-chat@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-chat To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Re: FreeBSD vs. Linux vs. Win2k

2010-01-22 Thread Jayton Garnett
It would be interesting to get these stats performed by someone who is OS-Neutral. Suffice to say Windows 7 is on par with XP's performance on the same hardware, even with all the bells and whistles turned on. Jay ___ freebsd-chat@freebsd.org mailing

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

2009-12-13 Thread Jayton Garnett
THAT's no way to sell computers! Come on man, how's that *Nix Store going to survive with a sale line like that??? Fortunately I'm no salesman so I need not worry about that, I leave that to my boss :p I can't even *sell* FreeBSD to my wife as our main OS, let alone strangers :( Cheers,

Re: The Interrupted FAQ

2009-10-16 Thread Jayton Garnett
Q. I'm confused... A. Keep taking those pills. ___ freebsd-chat@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-chat To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-chat-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: FreeBSD text based games - Dungeoncrawl - My test box

2009-10-07 Thread Jayton Garnett
Games? games? What are they? I do not understand this term - Games. I do know what you mean about using an older machine though, I have a P2 350Mhz (maybe 450mhz) with only 128mb ram in a small Slimline Compaq :) It ran FAMP, FTP, SSH and X pretty well and kept up with the (small amount) of

Re: shell script port

2009-06-02 Thread Jayton Garnett
Hi Stefan, Do you mean that you would like to submit a script you've wrote to the ports? -- Jay ___ freebsd-chat@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-chat To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Re: [Ukfreebsd] London or Brighton Meetup?

2009-04-27 Thread Jayton Garnett
Anywhere near Oxford would be great :-) I don't think my leash will stretch as far a Laandhan :( -- Jay ___ freebsd-chat@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-chat To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Re: Oracle buys Sun

2009-04-20 Thread Jayton Garnett
Doesn't the US law have something to stop one company buying up another where they are direct competitors? I hope Sun have/will agree to release the MySQL rights to the whom ever has been working on it at Sun H/Q, although I very much doubt this. -- Jay

Re: Why?? (prog question)

2009-04-02 Thread Jayton Garnett
What about exdent or unident? Surely we should discuss these terms for describing an un-dented indent? http://ask.metafilter.com/7214/The-opposite-of-indent Taken from Wikipedia: Debates over where to indent, whether to use spaces or tabs, and how many spaces to use are often hotly debated among

Re: freebsd-chat Digest, Vol 288, Issue 2

2009-01-10 Thread Jayton Garnett
/ports/mail/php5-imap/ http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/mail/php5-imap/ :-) On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 4:49 AM, Sisantha Godawela-Ohle ekerbe...@web.dewrote: Hello, is anyone (freebsd users)who knows how/where to get php-imap-5.2.8.tar.gz file ? as there is only rpm packages to

Re: Would Linux exist without the Internet?

2008-10-30 Thread Jayton Garnett
Would the Internet exist without BSD? No. Would Linux exist without the Internet? :) No. ___ freebsd-chat@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-chat To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Microsoft buys Yahoo

2008-02-01 Thread Jayton Garnett
Hi, Search for Microsoft Yahoo on Google ;-) and you will see MS offered $44.6B :-o late yesterday after the big boss of Yahoo resigned. Jayton On Feb 1, 2008 12:18 PM, Erich Dollansky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I just heard rumours like this on German websites. What impact could this

Samsung G600 won't connect!

2007-11-30 Thread Jayton Garnett
they will know. It connects straight away under XP. -- Kind Regards, Jayton Garnett Http://www.uberhacker.co.uk ___ freebsd-chat@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-chat To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: freebsd-update

2007-11-28 Thread Jayton Garnett
Brian wrote: It is interesting that if you run freebsd-update on a 6.2 system, you get an end of life approaching please upgrade message. This is surprising since either of the upgrade targets are not yet released. Additionally, the phrase End of Life has pretty strong conntations. Thats odd,

UK Meeting?

2007-05-01 Thread Jayton Garnett
? and unfortunately I could not make it on the day :( I would like too see how everyone else gets along with FreeBSD and their sort of setups, etc... Kind regards, Jayton Garnett ___ freebsd-chat@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd