Re: Reason #465132 to Love FBSD....

2006-05-23 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Mark Ovens [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Talking about fortune(6), why has it stopped working? The binary (or is it a perl script?) seems to have disappeared on my system - 6-STABLE, although I'm sure it disappeared sometime whilst running 5-STABLE. The fortune data files are there (though

Re: Reason #465132 to Love FBSD....

2006-05-23 Thread Mark Ovens
Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: Mark Ovens [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Talking about fortune(6), why has it stopped working? The binary (or is it a perl script?) seems to have disappeared on my system - 6-STABLE, although I'm sure it disappeared sometime whilst running 5-STABLE. The fortune data

Re: Reason #465132 to Love FBSD....

2006-05-23 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Mark Ovens wrote: Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: Mark Ovens [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Talking about fortune(6), why has it stopped working? The binary (or is it a perl script?) seems to have disappeared on my system - 6-STABLE, although I'm sure it disappeared sometime whilst running 5-STABLE.

Re: Reason #465132 to Love FBSD....

2006-05-23 Thread Xian
On Tuesday 23 May 2006 17:32, Mark Ovens wrote: Talking about fortune(6), why has it stopped working? The binary (or is it a perl script?) seems to have disappeared on my system - 6-STABLE, although I'm sure it disappeared sometime whilst running 5-STABLE. The fortune data files are there

Re: Reason #465132 to Love FBSD....

2006-05-23 Thread Mark Ovens
Kevin Kinsey wrote: Mark Ovens wrote: Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: Mark Ovens [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Talking about fortune(6), why has it stopped working? The binary (or is it a perl script?) seems to have disappeared on my system - 6-STABLE, although I'm sure it disappeared sometime whilst

Re: Reason #465132 to Love FBSD....

2006-05-20 Thread Hunter Fuller
On 18 May 2006, at 12:13 AM, Vulpes Velox wrote: On Wed, 17 May 2006 06:38:55 + Hunter Fuller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First you disable their utility from starting at boot. Then you scan for wireless networks, and when it complains about not being able to touch it, click the yellow

Re: Reason #465132 to Love FBSD....

2006-05-17 Thread Hunter Fuller
On 17 May 2006, at 2:08 AM, Vulpes Velox wrote: On Tue, 16 May 2006 15:34:04 - Martin Tournoy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Use windows 2000, works better and faster than XP anyway, has all the features XP has, except the teletubby UI, but that's not a feature but the work of the

Re: Reason #465132 to Love FBSD....

2006-05-17 Thread Vulpes Velox
On Wed, 17 May 2006 06:38:55 + Hunter Fuller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 17 May 2006, at 2:08 AM, Vulpes Velox wrote: On Tue, 16 May 2006 15:34:04 - Martin Tournoy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Use windows 2000, works better and faster than XP anyway, has all the features XP

Re: Reason #465132 to Love FBSD....

2006-05-16 Thread Martin Tournoy
Use windows 2000, works better and faster than XP anyway, has all the features XP has, except the teletubby UI, but that's not a feature but the work of the anti-christ... No troubles with updating, or nagscreens On Fri, 12 May 2006 14:26:06 -, Kevin Kinsey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I

Re: Reason #465132 to Love FBSD....

2006-05-16 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Martin Tournoy wrote: Use windows 2000, works better and faster than XP anyway, has all the features XP has, except the teletubby UI, but that's not a feature but the work of the anti-christ... No troubles with updating, or nagscreens Heh, I've a Thinkpad T23 with Win2K on it, though it

Re: Reason #465132 to Love FBSD....

2006-05-16 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Martin Tournoy wrote: Kernel from 1999 or 2001, what's the diffrence? Both old... Thats the thing with any version of windows, it's already outdated even before it's released... Heh. Why no FreeBSD? I set up a freebsd box for my brother, using fluxbox and xfce4-panel, and a few easy

Re: Reason #465132 to Love FBSD....

2006-05-16 Thread Vulpes Velox
On Tue, 16 May 2006 15:34:04 - Martin Tournoy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Use windows 2000, works better and faster than XP anyway, has all the features XP has, except the teletubby UI, but that's not a feature but the work of the anti-christ... No troubles with updating, or nagscreens

Re: Reason #465132 to Love FBSD....

2006-05-13 Thread Andrew Boothman
Brett Glass wrote: At 01:35 PM 5/12/2006, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: Patch Tuesday again, I guess. Yes. We call them Black Tuesdays, because the Windows machines go out and mount a very effective denial of service attack on our supply of bandwidth. We've had to work out all kinds of ways to

Reason #465132 to Love FBSD....

2006-05-12 Thread Kevin Kinsey
I woke up this morning, and nothing on any of my FreeBSD machines nagged me about whether or not my software was Genuine. I feel that's greatly to FreeBSD's advantage. :-D Kevin Kinsey ___ freebsd-chat@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Reason #465132 to Love FBSD....

2006-05-12 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Sam Sutch [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Andrew Pantyukhin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: That's one big reason my coworkers envied me this week. I run FreeBSD on all my desktops and servers. With many of their desktops running warez WinXP they had major disruptions. Why, what happened this week?

Re: Reason #465132 to Love FBSD....

2006-05-12 Thread Brett Glass
At 01:35 PM 5/12/2006, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: Patch Tuesday again, I guess. Yes. We call them Black Tuesdays, because the Windows machines go out and mount a very effective denial of service attack on our supply of bandwidth. We've had to work out all kinds of ways to limit the impact.