Re: this is probably a little touchy to ask...

2010-09-11 Thread Polytropon
Preface: Sorry for messing up the quotes and all, this message got a bit untidy so that even *I* am unsure who I am currently replying to. :-) On Fri, 10 Sep 2010 15:24:31 +, four.harris...@googlemail.com wrote: On 10. sep. 2010, at 16:29, mer...@stonehenge.com (Randal L.

Re: this is probably a little touchy to ask...

2010-09-11 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 10 Sep 2010 17:49:56 -0600, Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: These days, it seems like the only places people *really* think they still need Java are smartphones and enterprise systems running on overpriced servers -- neither of which makes a difference for Firefox on the

Re: ipfw fwd and ipfw allow

2010-09-11 Thread perryh
Victor Sudakov suda...@sibptus.tomsk.ru wrote: ... the 'fwd ... keep-state' statement does create a useful dynamic rule. It contradicts the ipfw(8) man page but works ... Hopefully someone who understands all this will submit a patch for the man page :)

Re: this is probably a little touchy to ask...

2010-09-11 Thread Joshua Isom
On 9/11/2010 1:10 AM, Polytropon wrote: Let me add another field: There are applicances like all-in-one DSL modem telephone splitter router DHCP server NAT firewall boxes that are very common in german households. Those usually use Java to present their control elements to the user; Applet

Re: this is probably a little touchy to ask...

2010-09-11 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 11 Sep 2010 03:17:49 -0500, Joshua Isom jri...@gmail.com wrote: So to configure your router, you need a java enabled browser, and odds are you get the jar file from the router, so it has an http server, and probably another server just to process configuration requests? Now your

Compiling software with different compiler than cc or clang results in unusable output

2010-09-11 Thread O. Hartmann
Dear Sirs, you see me a kind of desperate. I wrote my own a small piece of software in C, calculating the orbit and position of astronomical objects, astroids, in a heliocentric coordinate system from Keplerian orbital elements. So far. The software calculates the set of points of an

Re: Compiling software with different compiler than cc or clang results in unusable output

2010-09-11 Thread Andrew Brampton
On 11 September 2010 10:28, O. Hartmann ohart...@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de wrote: Dear Sirs, you see me a kind of desperate. I wrote my own a small piece of  software in C, calculating the orbit and position of astronomical objects, astroids, in a heliocentric coordinate system from Keplerian

Re: Compiling software with different compiler than cc or clang results in unusable output

2010-09-11 Thread Mehmet Erol Sanliturk
On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 5:43 AM, Andrew Brampton brampton+free...@gmail.combrampton%2bfree...@gmail.com wrote: On 11 September 2010 10:28, O. Hartmann ohart...@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de wrote: Dear Sirs, you see me a kind of desperate. I wrote my own a small piece of software in C,

Re: this is probably a little touchy to ask...

2010-09-11 Thread Dave
On 10 Sep 2010 at 18:20, Jason C. Wells wrote: Subject:Re: this is probably a little touchy to ask... On 09/10/10 07:29, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: I repeat... Java had its day. Time to move on. Java is not just for browsers. Regards, Jason C. Wells I can't

Re: this is probably a little touchy to ask...

2010-09-11 Thread Dave
On 10 Sep 2010 at 18:20, Jason C. Wells wrote: Subject:Re: this is probably a little touchy to ask... On 09/10/10 07:29, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: I repeat... Java had its day. Time to move on. Java is not just for browsers. Regards, Jason C. Wells I can't

Re: Compiling software with different compiler than cc or clang results in unusable output

2010-09-11 Thread O. Hartmann
On 09/11/10 11:43, Andrew Brampton wrote: On 11 September 2010 10:28, O. Hartmann ohart...@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de wrote: Dear Sirs, you see me a kind of desperate. I wrote my own a small piece of  software in C, calculating the orbit and position of astronomical objects, astroids, in a

gjournal+geli

2010-09-11 Thread RW
I'm planning to use gjournal+geli on a 2TB drive in a USB enclosure. What I've read about this suggest that the order should be: geli-gjournal-ufs. I was wondering if it's possible to do it in the order gjournal-geli-ufs, which should be much more efficient. I've read that ufs should go directly

Re: How to Best Prevent Unwanted named installation

2010-09-11 Thread RW
On Fri, 10 Sep 2010 15:58:42 -0500 Martin McCormick mar...@dc.cis.okstate.edu wrote: After successfully installing bind97 from a package on to a new server, I do a cvs-sup of the system to get the latest patches in to the kernel. After discovering that bind97 had been replaced with

Re: Compiling software with different compiler than cc or clang results in unusable output

2010-09-11 Thread O. Hartmann
On 09/11/10 14:26, Mehmet Erol Sanliturk wrote: On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 5:43 AM, Andrew Brampton brampton+free...@gmail.com mailto:brampton%2bfree...@gmail.com wrote: On 11 September 2010 10:28, O. Hartmann ohart...@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de mailto:ohart...@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de

Re: gjournal+geli

2010-09-11 Thread Adam Vande More
On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 9:25 AM, RW rwmailli...@googlemail.com wrote: I'm planning to use gjournal+geli on a 2TB drive in a USB enclosure. What I've read about this suggest that the order should be: geli-gjournal-ufs. I was wondering if it's possible to do it in the order gjournal-geli-ufs,

Re: How to Best Prevent Unwanted named installation

2010-09-11 Thread Arthur Chance
On 09/10/10 21:58, Martin McCormick wrote: After successfully installing bind97 from a package on to a new server, I do a cvs-sup of the system to get the latest patches in to the kernel. After discovering that bind97 had been replaced with bind9.6.1, I looked in /usr/src and there is a

apropos returning same item twice

2010-09-11 Thread Steven Friedrich
Why does apropos list mysql(1) twice? It doesn't return duplicates with apropos kde... ad...@laptop2(/dev/pts/1)/usr/home/admin 106% apropos mysql mysql(1) - the MySQL command-line tool

Re: Compiling software with different compiler than cc or clang results in unusable output

2010-09-11 Thread Mehmet Erol Sanliturk
On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 10:05 AM, O. Hartmann ohart...@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de wrote: Hello. Well, the only other architectures I have access to are Linux boxes. clang ist a very nice compiler since its syntax checking is formidable. But its code is slow and there seems no OpenMP support at

gs-8-8.71 under 8.1-Release missing x11 devices

2010-09-11 Thread Jin Guojun[VFF]
gs 8-8.71 under FreeBSD 8.1-R seems missing x11 device. When use ghostview, it complains /unknown device x11 /By tracing around, I found it was caused by gs 8-8.71. As typing gs --help, it shows much less devices supported than gs 8-8.62 under FreeSBD 6.4-R. By searching on the Internet, one

xvidtune and nouveau video driver

2010-09-11 Thread Arthur Barlow
Ever since Debian went to the nouveau video driver for Nvidia, I have not been able to adjust my horizontal screen position with xvidtune. The application runs, but when I try to reset the HSyncStart value I get an error dialog box that says, Sorry: You have requested a mode-line that is not

Upgrading packages - portupgrade confusion

2010-09-11 Thread Kaya Saman
Hi, I have 2 servers one production and another test. The test machine's packages however, seem to be older then the production machines one's even though I built the production system a few months ago. I used the: portupgrade command in order to try to upgrade the ports nad re-install the

portupgrade -a stops at building gnome-menus

2010-09-11 Thread Michael D. Norwick
FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE #uname -a FreeBSD *...@.net 8.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 8.1 RELEASE FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE #0: Thu Aug 12 08:43:46 CDT 2010 *...@.net:/usr/obj/src/sys/GENERIC i386 Running on VirtualBox Version 3.2.8 r64453 running on current Debian 'lenny', Pentium 4 2.4 GHz. 4G ram.

Re: Upgrading packages - portupgrade confusion

2010-09-11 Thread Michael Powell
Kaya Saman wrote: Hi, I have 2 servers one production and another test. The test machine's packages however, seem to be older then the production machines one's even though I built the production system a few months ago. I used the: portupgrade command in order to try to upgrade the

Re: gs-8-8.71 under 8.1-Release missing x11 devices

2010-09-11 Thread Michael Powell
Jin Guojun[VFF] wrote: gs 8-8.71 under FreeBSD 8.1-R seems missing x11 device. When use ghostview, it complains /unknown device x11 /By tracing around, I found it was caused by gs 8-8.71. As typing gs --help, it shows much less devices supported than gs 8-8.62 under FreeSBD 6.4-R. By

sysinstall vs gmirror

2010-09-11 Thread perryh
How do I get sysinstall to recognize a gmirror? I've created the mirror -- which currently has only one provider -- using Fixit#, followed by Fixit# ln -s /dist/boot/kernel /boot Fixit# gmirror load after which /dev/mirror/gm0{,a,b} exist. However, even after rescanning the disks,