Re: BSD For Linux Users (update)

2013-03-01 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 07:50:52PM - I heard the voice of s...@tormail.org, and lo! it spake thus: However, there are some things that have definitely changed in our OS that I think should be added. This article really needs to be modernized to today's standards with a list of updated

Re: Results of BIND RFC

2010-04-04 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
[ Way OT for anything but -chat... ] On Mon, Apr 05, 2010 at 07:15:22AM +1000 I heard the voice of Peter Jeremy, and lo! it spake thus: Well, that's an excellent topic for another bikeshed - Should X be made part of the base system? I know it is on OpenBSD. Well, heck, X.org is already

Re: My whitespace style

2009-04-15 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 10:20:08AM +0300 I heard the voice of Giorgos Keramidas, and lo! it spake thus: switch (value) { case SOME_CONSTANT_NAME:do_stuff_here();break; case ANOTHER_CONSTANT_NAME: do_some_other_stuff(); break;

Re: April Fools from /etc/periodic/monthly/200.accounting?

2009-04-02 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Wed, Apr 01, 2009 at 05:40:57PM +0200 I heard the voice of Oliver Fromme, and lo! it spake thus: Of course, the above numbers are nonsense, even the one for lynette (2903 hours would be about 120 days). That's actually very easy to pull off. Just open 4 terminals on the 1st and walk away.

Re: port management practices

2008-04-22 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 09:17:17PM -0700 I heard the voice of christopher, and lo! it spake thus: I know about csup, portupgrade, etc., and I think they are great, but if you only have one app that you want to upgrade because it was buggy at a previous time, then it doesn't seem like a

Re: Newbie Question - about newbie user support

2008-03-30 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 11:03:11PM -0700 I heard the voice of [EMAIL PROTECTED], and lo! it spake thus: Few small things have changed since the time of that article, but the ideas there still seem to be up-to-date (and hopefully will stay that way). The whole point of focusing on ideas

Re: strace broken in 7.0?

2008-01-11 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 03:49:41PM +0100 I heard the voice of Dag-Erling Smørgrav, and lo! it spake thus: By the way, as far as I know, FreeBSD already runs on machines with a non-power-of-two number of cores: - I've still got a 6-way PPro motherboard in the closet upstairs (and a

Re: I think my spell-checker is depressed

2007-05-24 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 09:55:58AM -0700 I heard the voice of Darren Pilgrim, and lo! it spake thus: It is. I took it for a walk on a bright sunny day, but alas it's outlook was too dim and I could not see its screen. You're running Outlook on it? No wonder it's depressed... -- Matthew

Re: what can i do with a 486?

2007-01-19 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Fri, Jan 19, 2007 at 09:30:23PM +0100 I heard the voice of Oliver Fromme, and lo! it spake thus: Personally I prefer to use a FreeBSD machine as a router, because I dislike black boxes. I second and carry the motion. Show me a consumer-grade black-box router that I can run tcpdump on,

Re: How to filter the emails from this list

2006-02-17 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 02:51:59PM +0100 I heard the voice of Sten Daniel S?rsdal, and lo! it spake thus: So i can safely assume there is something wrong with my installation of Thunderbird. Or that you're reading the copy of the email that's sent directly to you, rather than through the

Re: Software patents and FreeBSD

2005-07-22 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Wed, Jul 20, 2005 at 01:23:23PM -0700 I heard the voice of David Schwartz, and lo! it spake thus: The standard of proof in civil cases is simply a preponderance of the evidence. Oh, quite true. A problem that needs to be resolved independant of the patent issue, though, so it's really

Re: Software patents and FreeBSD

2005-07-19 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Mon, Jul 18, 2005 at 11:25:23PM -0700 I heard the voice of David Schwartz, and lo! it spake thus: On Sunday 10 July 2005 08:16 pm, Matthew D. Fuller wrote: Thank you. I am against patents all together. . . :-D Well, I wasn't the one who said that...but I'm going to agree

Re: Dual P-pro motherboard, cpus, fans and RAM

2005-06-02 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Thu, Jun 02, 2005 at 09:31:05PM -0500 I heard the voice of Josh Paetzel, and lo! it spake thus: I have an intel PR440FX dual socket 8 motherboard here populated with 2x 200mhz 512K cache Pentium Pro CPUs and 320 megs of RAM. It has onboard wide SCSI and I have a pair of 4.3 gig drives for