Re: I Love FreeBSD!

2010-01-27 Thread james michael
Jayton Garnett wrote: 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 james michael
KAYVEN RIESE wrote: On Wed, 27 Jan 2010, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: Charlie Kester corky1...@comcast.net writes: Not the cheapest way to heat a room, but it's probably the most fun! Elementary thermodynamics: a computer and an electric heater produce the exact same amount of heat per unit

Re: FreeBSD vs. Linux vs. Win2k

2010-01-21 Thread james michael
Programmer In Training wrote: The FreeBSD os comparison[0] mentioned in the subject line is woefully out of date. Where would I go to bug someone about a newer one? I'm telling a (relatively) minted geek friend of mine who wants benchmarks and stats on FreeBSD vs. Windows XP (and when 7 is

Re: The Interrupted FAQ

2009-10-16 Thread james michael
top posting is fine... Q. Who sets the standard for email lists? A. NO ONE Martin Tournoij wrote: On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 03:08:49AM -0700, james michael wrote: Q. Whereis doesn't... A. portsnap fetch extract Q. Flash doesn't... A. exactly, it doesn't and it won't. Warren Block wrote

Re: System Scripts

2009-05-22 Thread james michael
Ricardo Jesus wrote: Dan Langille wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 james wrote: are scripts that you make to make your life easier forbidden to share? I've been sharing mine at http://fishy.ath.cx/scripts.html which are just simple scripts to solve problems... I wonder

Re: FreeBSD and Astronomy

2009-03-24 Thread james michael
I've always wanted to get more into astronomy but never had the time or the equipment. If anyone knows of more ways to get into the subject I would appreciate it. Matt Olander wrote: Hi! Is anybody into astronomy on FreeBSD? I'd love to hook up a telescope to my FreeBSD laptop and use some

Re: FreeBSD and Astronomy

2009-03-24 Thread james michael
Are there any public use astronomy servers? you know sign up and use a telescope via the server? Kenneth P. Stox wrote: On Tue, 2009-03-24 at 16:44 -0700, james michael wrote: I've always wanted to get more into astronomy but never had the time or the equipment. If anyone knows of more

Idea.

2009-03-12 Thread james michael
I noticed a lot of the free media programs actually failed but I thought I might run idea through some people, a free media program directed not at any distro/flavor but just directed to help people learn. Just an idea from your kind friends at the PLC (pulpie learning community) pulpie.ath.cx

Re: FreeBSD Bounties

2009-03-05 Thread james michael
I find this completely useless as a site. No one is going to get flash 9 on freebsd with opera for 200 dollars. I know people will want to add bounties to it and it will be like 250 then like 300 and as time passes it will be a million dollars or such but I don't think the problem is that