On 2008-01-20 23:24, Dominic Fandrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
>> Fair point. I think that 120 'article-like' additions to our
>> existing article collection stand a pretty good chance of including a
>> *lot* of useful material.
>>
>> It would be a bit silly to reject an
Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> On 2008-01-18 17:27, Lars Engels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> On Sat, Jan 12, 2008 at 03:34:33PM +0100, Dominic Fandrey wrote:
>>> If you mean by disconnected the people who appear once and ask
>>> something that can be answered by telling them to read a certain
>>> chap
On 2008-01-18 17:27, Lars Engels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Sat, Jan 12, 2008 at 03:34:33PM +0100, Dominic Fandrey wrote:
>> If you mean by disconnected the people who appear once and ask
>> something that can be answered by telling them to read a certain
>> chapter in the handbook or one of th
On Sat, Jan 12, 2008 at 03:34:33PM +0100, Dominic Fandrey wrote:
> If you mean by disconnected the people who appear once and ask something that
> can be answered by telling them to read a certain chapter in the handbook or
> one of the 120 HowTos we have written and collected (I have offered to th
On 13/01/2008, at 11:37 AM, Daniel O'Connor wrote:
On Sun, 13 Jan 2008, Robert Watson wrote:
Sorry, but (especially in this case) that is nonsense as it's
primarily an excuse and disparages the work done there.
There's another element in play here -- FreeBSD.org is a mailing
list-centric com
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- --On Sunday, January 13, 2008 13:32:20 -0800 Matthew Dillon
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> USENET is basically dead (and has been for years), but the NNTP
> protocol itself is still quite nice. I never found the time to write
> a web-
Matthew Dillon wrote:
We use MHONARC to make our mailing list archives available via the web.
It works very well but it is read-only. FreeBSD might want to look into
it, the UI is pretty friendly. We just use google to search it.
There is also something called gmane which alread
A web forum is a nice thing to have. I haven't found one that I am
comfortable with security wise. A lot of people use our archives and
a small but non trivial number post via our newsgroups. Most browsers
no longer ship with a built-in nntp/news protocol, though (not sure
ab
Bernd Walter wrote:
> Oliver Fromme wrote:
> > Certainly, but as I wrote, it's not a big deal. I have
> > several other patches that I maintain on my own for
> > various reasons. For example I have a local patch set
> > that enables "-c none" in ssh, so I can scp large files
> > much faster
Sunday, January 13, 2008, 6:29:03 AM, you wrote:
> On Sun, 13 Jan 2008, johan beisser wrote:
>> > Hmm I wonder how hard it would be to write a forum scraper
>>
>> Not too difficult. Quite a few forums provide RSS feeds.
> That doesn't let you go both ways though, although just being able to
On Jan 12, 2008, at 9:29 PM, Daniel O'Connor wrote:
On Sun, 13 Jan 2008, johan beisser wrote:
Pitty the few I have seen are basically unmaintained :(
(eg Papercut)
Hmm I wonder how hard it would be to write a forum scraper
Not too difficult. Quite a few forums provide RSS feeds.
That
On Sun, 13 Jan 2008, johan beisser wrote:
> > Pitty the few I have seen are basically unmaintained :(
> > (eg Papercut)
> >
> > Hmm I wonder how hard it would be to write a forum scraper
>
> Not too difficult. Quite a few forums provide RSS feeds.
That doesn't let you go both ways though, alth
On Jan 12, 2008, at 4:37 PM, Daniel O'Connor wrote:
A usenet<->forum bridge would be nice since news looks enough like
email
for oldies to use :)
Pitty the few I have seen are basically unmaintained :(
(eg Papercut)
Hmm I wonder how hard it would be to write a forum scraper
Not too dif
On Sun, 13 Jan 2008, Robert Watson wrote:
> > Sorry, but (especially in this case) that is nonsense as it's
> > primarily an excuse and disparages the work done there.
>
> There's another element in play here -- FreeBSD.org is a mailing
> list-centric community driven by people who are very much pa
Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> Oliver Fromme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
(I don't even think bsdforen.de is the largest German BSD
community, but that's a different story).
>>> Even in case it's the second biggest forum, it shouldn't be ignored;
>> I agree completely, it shouldn't be ignore
Robert Watson schrieb:
I don't
know if there are technical solutions to this problem, but if we want to
"meet" many of these newer users of BSD, and hence build up the rapport
needed to have a productive relationship, we're either going to have to
lure them onto the mailing lists, find our way
On Sat, 12 Jan 2008, Timo Schoeler wrote:
(I don't even think bsdforen.de is the largest German BSD community, but
that's a different story).
Even in case it's the second biggest forum, it shouldn't be ignored;
I agree completely, it shouldn't be ignored. (Whether it's the first,
second or th
On Sat, Jan 12, 2008 at 02:44:06PM +0100, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> Oliver Fromme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > > > (I don't even think bsdforen.de is the largest German BSD
> > > > community, but that's a different story).
> > > Even in case it's the second biggest forum, it shouldn't be i
Thus Dag-Erling Smørgrav <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake on Sat, 12 Jan 2008
14:44:06 +0100:
> Oliver Fromme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Certainly, but as I wrote, it's not a big deal. I have
> > several other patches that I maintain on my own for
> > various reasons. For example I have a local pa
Oliver Fromme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Certainly, but as I wrote, it's not a big deal. I have
> several other patches that I maintain on my own for
> various reasons. For example I have a local patch set
> that enables "-c none" in ssh, so I can scp large files
> much faster between slow mac
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Chuck Robey wrote:
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> 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 th
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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,
Bernd Walter wrote:
On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 08:17:25PM +0100, Oliver Fromme wrote:
Certainly, but as I wrote, it's not a big deal. I have
several other patches that I maintain on my own for
various reasons. For example I have a local patch set
that enables "-c none" in ssh, so I can scp large
On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 08:17:25PM +0100, Oliver Fromme wrote:
> Certainly, but as I wrote, it's not a big deal. I have
> several other patches that I maintain on my own for
> various reasons. For example I have a local patch set
> that enables "-c none" in ssh, so I can scp large files
> much fa
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Timo Schoeler wrote:
> Oliver Fromme wrote:
> > I think the real answer is: You cannot prevent anyone
> > from writing a piece of software, no matter how useless
> > or ridiculous it might be for the majority of users.
>
> I don't want to do this, e
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Andrey Chernov wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 08:02:02AM -0500, Aryeh M. Friedman wrote:
>>> Is Aryeh funded by Microsoft?>> hat off> :)
>> There are more direct ways to ruin FOSS then what I am
>> purposing...
>
> Interesting remark, are you confess
On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 08:02:02AM -0500, Aryeh M. Friedman wrote:
> > Is Aryeh funded by Microsoft? :)
>
> There are more direct ways to ruin FOSS then what I am purposing...
Interesting remark, are you confessing to? :)
As fall of the USSR proves, indirect ways are much more powerfull, than
di
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Thus Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake on Fri, 11 Jan 2008
15:00:24 +0100:
> Timo Schoeler wrote:
> > Thus Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake on Fri, 11 Jan 2008
> > 14:12:25 +0100:
> >
> >> Timo Schoeler wrote:
> >>
> It will even
Timo Schoeler wrote:
Thus Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake on Fri, 11 Jan 2008
14:12:25 +0100:
Timo Schoeler wrote:
It will even go into the CVS tree (though probably not
into GENERIC) if the source is clean, style(9)-compliant
and well maintained.
It should do with *one* exception: E
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> Is Aryeh funded by Microsoft? :)
There are more direct ways to ruin FOSS then what I am purposing...
for example make it so only8 certified OS's are allowed on any machine
and other things...
- --
Aryeh M. Friedman
FloSoft Systems, Java Develop
On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 11:59:13AM +0100, Dag-Erling Sm??rgrav wrote:
> [moved to -chat from -current]
>
> "Aryeh M. Friedman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > If one never tries to change something then it will never get changed
> > and dismissing something as impossible from the get go is the hig
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"Aryeh M. Friedman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 2. Should we rely largely on donations (both small and large)?
Oh, goodie! I get to whip out my favorite rant!
Actually, I'm too lazy to retype it, so here's a link to the last time I
used it:
http://lists.freebsd
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Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> [moved to -chat from -current]
>
> "Aryeh M. Friedman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> If one never tries to change something then it will never get
>> changed and dismissing something as impossible from the get go is
>> the
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"Aryeh M. Friedman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> If one never tries to change something then it will never get changed
> and dismissing something as impossible from the get go is the hight of
> close mindiness (which everyone is accusing me of when the fact is I
> w
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Chuck Robey wrote:
> redirected to -chat.
I just do reply all's so it goes where it goes...
For a more complete set of answers to the below issues see:
http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=1424092+0+current/freebsd-current
>
> Aryeh M. Friedm
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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 histori
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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 p
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