for perl wizards.

2009-10-09 Thread Gary Kline
to trans the hex code to an apostrophe? perl -pi.bak -e 's/\xe2\x80\x99/'/g' If there any another other tools, I'm interested! tia, guys, gary -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org

Re: way to check an email without sending it??

2009-10-06 Thread Gary Kline
On Tue, Oct 06, 2009 at 07:13:30AM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: Gary Kline wrote: write and say HI, Howzit hanging... or whatever. Anyway, the sendmail -bv ploy indicates that this person is still at the address i have. no big deal; i was just wondering

way to check an email without sending it??

2009-10-05 Thread Gary Kline
Hey Guys, Is there a way I can tell that an email address, say j...@foo.com is still valid without joe knowing that I am curious? --And, yes, this isn't a FBSD-specific question... . thanks for any insights, gary -- Gary Kline

Re: NO ONE knows??

2009-10-05 Thread Gary Kline
On Sun, Oct 04, 2009 at 12:37:54AM +0200, Bernt Hansson wrote: Gary Kline skrev: What I'm looking for is how to use the ``better than the default voices''; there are several english languages that are fairly natural sounding. Nothing I've googled explain using

Re: way to check an email without sending it??

2009-10-05 Thread Gary Kline
On Mon, Oct 05, 2009 at 01:59:24PM -0400, Bill Moran wrote: In response to Gary Kline kl...@thought.org: Hey Guys, Is there a way I can tell that an email address, say j...@foo.com is still valid without joe knowing that I am curious? --And, yes

Re: Voting for a native i386/amd64 flash player

2009-10-04 Thread Gary Kline
To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org The 5.67a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php

Re: NO ONE knows??

2009-10-03 Thread Gary Kline
On Fri, Oct 02, 2009 at 08:35:46PM -0700, Chris wrote: On Oct 2, 2009, at 8:48 AM, Gary Kline wrote: On Fri, Oct 02, 2009 at 12:07:58PM +0200, DA Forsyth wrote: On 2 Oct 2009 , freebsd-questions-requ...@freebsd.org entreated about freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 278, Issue 10: Message: 28

Re: NO ONE knows??

2009-10-02 Thread Gary Kline
On Fri, Oct 02, 2009 at 12:07:58PM +0200, DA Forsyth wrote: On 2 Oct 2009 , freebsd-questions-requ...@freebsd.org entreated about freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 278, Issue 10: Message: 28 Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2009 12:22:45 -0700 From: Gary Kline kl...@thought.org Subject: NO ONE knows

NO ONE knows??

2009-10-01 Thread Gary Kline
so ==nobody== know how to get espeak working with the high-quality voices? hard to believe on this list... gary -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org The 5.67a release

eSpeak??

2009-09-29 Thread Gary Kline
PEople, Can anybody clue me in on using eSpeak with OOo? Be greak to have a plugin for OO? Also, how do I choose different Voices than the default? thanks much, gary -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org

firefox and evolution (c) get hung up...

2009-09-26 Thread Gary Kline
. Meanwhile, I'm looking for what to build or portupgrade to fix the above. any clues? tia, gary -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org The 5.67a release

Anybody hear of the ASuS ebook reader??

2009-09-20 Thread Gary Kline
-- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org The 5.67a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: warning, 100pc Ot... almost

2009-09-17 Thread Gary Kline
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 07:39:20PM +0100, Chris Whitehouse wrote: Gary Kline wrote: this is only to the few hundred of you guys who read the slice of my novel. before i invest another twenty minutes in it, i'd be much obliged how many of you would actually buy th ebook. WEll, either ebook

warning, 100pc Ot... almost

2009-09-16 Thread Gary Kline
:wq -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org The 5.67a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php ___ freebsd-questions

podcast on google? Or other?

2009-09-14 Thread Gary Kline
or otherwise play old/archived streams? tia, -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org The 5.67a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php

Re: podcast on google? Or other?

2009-09-14 Thread Gary Kline
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 11:26:27PM +0200, Polytropon wrote: On Mon, 14 Sep 2009 14:02:18 -0700, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: hey guys, i'll deny i ever wrote this because i *should* know already... but don't. i've clicked on several podcast sites and they show links to yahoo

Re: are there any notebooks with mouse-sticks?

2009-09-10 Thread Gary Kline
On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 05:27:12PM -1000, Al Plant wrote: Gary Kline wrote: Aloha, I dont use the keypad at all. Keys and Mouse only. The HP Mini touchpad is centered below the keyboard, but the keyboard had regular sized keys which is good. I think if you have a wireless mouse on any

Re: are there any notebooks with mouse-sticks?

2009-09-10 Thread Gary Kline
On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 10:29:25AM +0200, Polytropon wrote: On Wed, 9 Sep 2009 14:08:36 -0700, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: I'm looking for a small computer, 7-10 screen that has a ThinkPad-like stick to act as the mouse. This stick is called a TrackPoint, as far as I

Re: are there any notebooks with mouse-sticks?

2009-09-10 Thread Gary Kline
On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 10:51:29AM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 10:29:25AM +0200, Polytropon wrote: On Wed, 9 Sep 2009 14:08:36 -0700, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: I'm looking for a small computer, 7-10 screen that has a ThinkPad-like stick to act

are there any notebooks with mouse-sticks?

2009-09-09 Thread Gary Kline
a separate mouse [and other add-ons] for the EEE; that might be a work around.) Any clues? gary ps: just thought i'd ask here first... . -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org The 5.67a

Re: are there any notebooks with mouse-sticks?

2009-09-09 Thread Gary Kline
On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 02:50:01PM -1000, Al Plant wrote: Chad Perrin wrote: On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 02:08:36PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: I'm looking for a small computer, 7-10 screen that has a ThinkPad-like stick to act as the mouse. Pref'ly, no touch-pad. The ASUS and just about every

Re: how to get rid of a character, 0x80?

2009-09-08 Thread Gary Kline
[less] and vi. Nutshell, the file was fubar'd. gary -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org The 5.67a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php

Re: is there a way of usinf greo to find 3 or 4 blank lines?

2009-09-07 Thread Gary Kline
On Mon, Sep 07, 2009 at 08:06:51AM +0100, Mark Willson wrote: Gary Kline wrote: Yes, this works just fine. I findthat there are about 130 places that I need to track... --yeah, i did over-do it in the time-breaks in my story. Is there a way of printing the string/line

Re: is there a way of usinf greo to find 3 or 4 blank lines?

2009-09-07 Thread Gary Kline
of this, but it doesn't seem to work in vi or vim. i think i've got vim set to vi-mode. anyway, the awk script that mark willson posted works. next time i'll put in something like XBREAKX for my v-breaks. gary On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 2:36 AM, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote

Re: difficult-to-phrase question...

2009-09-07 Thread Gary Kline
On Tue, Sep 08, 2009 at 01:56:12AM +0100, RW wrote: On Wed, 2 Sep 2009 16:43:30 -0700 Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: i can use grep to find S and grep gives me the file[s] that have the string. now, is there any easy way of reading that file, or deleting or otherwise

how to get rid of a character, 0x80?

2009-09-07 Thread Gary Kline
bits? tia, guys, gary -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org The 5.67a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php

Re: is there a way of usinf greo to find 3 or 4 blank lines?

2009-09-06 Thread Gary Kline
On Sun, Sep 06, 2009 at 08:11:48PM +0100, Mark Willson wrote: Gary Kline wrote: in my manuscript, i have many places where i'ved used several newlines to indicate a jump in time, or topic, or mood, or whatever. i have lost these vertical spacing in all but my original draft. can i use grep

Re: is there a way of usinf greo to find 3 or 4 blank lines?

2009-09-06 Thread Gary Kline
On Sun, Sep 06, 2009 at 03:44:13PM -0500, Mak Kolybabi wrote: On 2009-09-05 17:36, Gary Kline wrote: in my manuscript, i have many places where i'ved used several newlines to indicate a jump in time, or topic, or mood, or whatever. i have lost these vertical spacing in all but my

Re: is there a way of usinf greo to find 3 or 4 blank lines?

2009-09-06 Thread Gary Kline
On Sun, Sep 06, 2009 at 04:23:01PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: On Sun, Sep 06, 2009 at 08:11:48PM +0100, Mark Willson wrote: Gary Kline wrote: in my manuscript, i have many places where i'ved used several newlines to indicate a jump in time, or topic, or mood, or whatever. i have lost

is there a way of usinf greo to find 3 or 4 blank lines?

2009-09-05 Thread Gary Kline
? if not grep, then sed, ed, or what?! tia, gary -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org The 5.67a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php

Re: difficult-to-phrase question...

2009-09-03 Thread Gary Kline
On Wed, Sep 02, 2009 at 08:02:18PM -0400, Jon Radel wrote: Gary Kline wrote: guys, (of either gender) here's one that is a bit difficult to figure out how to ask, but here's my first shot: i'm looking for a file what contains string S. the filename

Re: difficult-to-phrase question...

2009-09-03 Thread Gary Kline
On Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 02:05:57AM +0200, Polytropon wrote: On Wed, 2 Sep 2009 16:43:30 -0700, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: i'm looking for a file what contains string S. the filename in this case has a zillion letters, but that beside the point. i can use grep

difficult-to-phrase question...

2009-09-02 Thread Gary Kline
-online ~/.kde/share/config/session ./konqueror_101be1a31b9d100012436384840011730067_1243656675_647947:12:ViewT0_URL[$e]=http://www.h-online.com/open/Google-Wave-The-instant-wiki-communicator--/news/113410 -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service

mutt screen output...

2009-08-31 Thread Gary Kline
In recents months many if not all of my text messages displayed thru mutt include things like \240 and other octal chars. anybody know why and how to fix this? gary ps: be great in kmail or evo had a reply option that used vi/vim! -- Gary Kline kl

Re: mutt screen output...

2009-08-31 Thread Gary Kline
On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 08:09:49PM +0200, Roland Smith wrote: On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 10:21:43AM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: In recents months many if not all of my text messages displayed thru mutt include things like \240 and other octal chars. anybody know why and how

Re: mutt screen output...

2009-08-31 Thread Gary Kline
On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 11:48:20PM +0200, Roland Smith wrote: On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 12:52:00PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 08:09:49PM +0200, Roland Smith wrote: On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 10:21:43AM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: In recents months many

Re: howto alias a stty erase?

2009-08-30 Thread Gary Kline
On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 08:59:27AM +0530, Saifi Khan wrote: On Tue, 25 Aug 2009, Gary Kline wrote: is there a way of setty'ing stty erase to [backspace key? pretty sure that is the delete key. i'm tired of having to hand set it every time when i use the Konsole term

howto alias a stty erase?

2009-08-25 Thread Gary Kline
is there a way of setty'ing stty erase to [backspace key? pretty sure that is the delete key. i'm tired of having to hand set it every time when i use the Konsole term. thanks, gary -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public

duplex printing with OOo.

2009-08-19 Thread Gary Kline
and why to change this in the OO config. thanks guys, gary -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org The 5.67a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php

Re: duplex printing with OOo.

2009-08-19 Thread Gary Kline
to do through lpd, though. With a real printer, it works by default. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org

Re: duplex printing with OOo.

2009-08-19 Thread Gary Kline
to Simplex and everything will be fine. The King will be in his heaven; God will be in his Counting_House, c. gary -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org The 5.67a

Re: duplex printing with OOo.

2009-08-19 Thread Gary Kline
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 08:28:34PM +0200, Polytropon wrote: On Wed, 19 Aug 2009 11:05:19 -0700, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: Well, after umch mucking around, the Brother 5250DN works with OO and prints in Duplex only if I turn the dialog to OFF where is say

Re: script to send out a dozen letters?

2009-08-17 Thread Gary Kline
On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 03:44:04PM -0700, Chris Cowart wrote: Gary Kline wrote: [[ ... ]] Here's a script I whipped up a year or two ago that sends out e-mails. You could definitely tweak it to find/replace a LaTeX template and send it directly to the printer (circa the `| sendmail

Re: script to send out a dozen letters?

2009-08-16 Thread Gary Kline
On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 02:43:03AM -0400, Tim Kellers wrote: Gary Kline wrote: On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 10:07:15PM -0500, Adam Vande More wrote: On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 6:49 PM, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: if there are tools to do this, please point me at them, but i

script to send out a dozen letters?

2009-08-15 Thread Gary Kline
pretty sure these people are most accustomed to GUI/html mail, so is there a way of invoking evo with html capability? if there are web pointers on this, puleeze clue me in! thanks much, gary -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public

Re: script to send out a dozen letters?

2009-08-15 Thread Gary Kline
On Sun, 2009-08-16 at 02:39 +0200, Michelle Konzack wrote: Am 2009-08-15 16:49:24, schrieb Gary Kline: i forget if the inside address is before the recipient address--I *think* so. is there a way of having date output the format 15 August, 2009 rather than my usual, 15aug09

Re: script to send out a dozen letters?

2009-08-15 Thread Gary Kline
On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 10:07:15PM -0500, Adam Vande More wrote: On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 6:49 PM, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: if there are tools to do this, please point me at them, but i want to send out a snail and/or email|HTML|whatever to a handful

Re: not dead [yet].

2009-08-07 Thread Gary Kline
and Gnome. Hate to have all them electrons weighing things down with, say, koffice, when i don't use it. gary -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org The 5.67a release of Jottings: http

Re: KDE3 -- KDE4

2009-08-07 Thread Gary Kline
On Fri, Aug 07, 2009 at 02:23:20PM +0100, RW wrote: On Thu, 6 Aug 2009 17:33:38 -0700 Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: i'd be interested in Paul's question. it may be that kde3 is sopping up wy to much disc space. only have 6.5g left KDE4 makes KDE3 look

Re: foot-shot?

2009-08-06 Thread Gary Kline
On Fri, Aug 07, 2009 at 12:14:15AM +0200, Polytropon wrote: On Wed, 5 Aug 2009 19:51:00 -0700, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: Been thinking over what someone said recently about restricting or dropping further ports. BSD is the best opensource system around. But keeping

Re: KDE3 -- KDE4

2009-08-06 Thread Gary Kline
medication to the dead. Thomas Jefferson ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org

Re: FreeBSD for the common man(or woman) (was: upgrade 7.2

2009-08-06 Thread Gary Kline
, there are UPS devs, but it's 3/2 bear getting *that* right gary -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org The 5.67a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php

Re: KDE3 -- KDE4

2009-08-06 Thread Gary Kline
-- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org The 5.67a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

foot-shot?

2009-08-05 Thread Gary Kline
Hm. Last night mutt began to fail to sent mail; it exited with a 127. When I tried to rebuolt mutt, turns out that I'm missing GNU m4... . I'll paste the build snafus after my sig here on my server. Ideas how things ggot hosed? anybody? -- Gary Kline kl

Re: foot-shot?

2009-08-05 Thread Gary Kline
On Wed, Aug 05, 2009 at 10:40:38AM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: Hm. Last night mutt began to fail to sent mail; it exited with a 127. When I tried to rebuilt mutt, turns out that I'm missing GNU m4... . I'll paste the build snafus after my sig here on my server

not dead [yet].

2009-08-04 Thread Gary Kline
? Most show a list of dependencies that's about 70 lines long, and I don't want to break things. --To give a ferinstance, last spring I installed every OCR port we've got. Not came close; all can go. thanks for some lights! gary -- Gary Kline kl

Re: The question of moving vi to /bin

2009-06-28 Thread Gary Kline
On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 08:01:02AM +0200, Polytropon wrote: On Thu, 25 Jun 2009 22:23:17 -0700, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: what about j, k [down, up]. and h,l [left, right]? why reach over for the arrow keys! oh, and o, and O [open line below/Above

Re: The question of moving vi to /binHi,

2009-06-28 Thread Gary Kline
, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public

apache22: Can't access startfile

2009-06-27 Thread Gary Kline
. thanks for some clues here, gary PS: yes, i edited the apache22/Includes/httpd-local.conf and restarted the etc/rv.d/apache script... . -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http

Re: apache22: Can't access startfile

2009-06-27 Thread Gary Kline
... . Is this apache13, 20, or 22 by the way? 22 gary -- Glen Barber -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org ___ freebsd

Re: apache22: Can't access startfile

2009-06-27 Thread Gary Kline
. Meanwhile, this newest apache is getting to be a religion in its own right. like emacs vs vim/vi, etc, etc.. (*whew*) gary -- Glen Barber -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org

Re: apache22: Can't access startfile

2009-06-27 Thread Gary Kline
adding a clue to my ~/.HowTo file. if httpd stuff w/ virt dirs fail: REBOOT. (*mumble*) -- Glen Barber -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org For FBSD list

Re: apache22: Can't access startfile

2009-06-27 Thread Gary Kline
ufsid labels. [?] i don't want to break anything, nor have hardware problems since this is an Old, 1998 box. -- Glen Barber -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org

Re: Editor in minimal system (was Re: The question of moving vi to /bin)

2009-06-26 Thread Gary Kline
and vi to edit /etc/fsck ... And major, irksome desl using cat and ed to look at that file. And a few others in /etc. gary -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org

Re: The question of moving vi to /bin

2009-06-25 Thread Gary Kline
http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org

Re: The question of moving vi to /bin

2009-06-25 Thread Gary Kline
there are fewer women students into programming... dunno why.) Ken Arnold hacked the first curses and termcap. Anyway, this is the BErkeley side of Unix. ed was my first editor on the ADM. It was the next thing to magic. vi blew it out of the water. -- Gary Kline kl

Re: The question of moving vi to /bin

2009-06-25 Thread Gary Kline
On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 12:31:37PM +0800, Erich Dollansky wrote: Hi, On 26 June 2009 pm 12:19:32 Gary Kline wrote: On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 09:50:31AM +0800, Erich Dollansky wrote: On 26 June 2009 am 09:06:49 Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On Fri, 26 Jun 2009 08:20:19 +0800, Erich

Re: you're not going to believe this.

2009-06-24 Thread Gary Kline
solid-state devs that can replace the spinning disk. And even then, cross-backups and even having a tape backup of critical data is a must. That said, I still want to buy one of these sub-mini notebooks this summer. -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http

Re: you're not going to believe this.

2009-06-23 Thread Gary Kline
so is there any best guess regarding what timeframe a filesystem for freebsd might exist? on the you-tube demo they were using [i think] XP. i'll see if i can find the site. gary -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service

Re: you're not going to believe this.

2009-06-23 Thread Gary Kline
outtages. gary Kurt -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org For FBSD list: http://transfinite.thought.org/slicejourney.php The 4.98a release of Jottings: http

Re: you're not going to believe this.

2009-06-23 Thread Gary Kline
. the youtube video demo'd the narrator using windoze XP and editing a video, then task-switching and browsing the net. it showed some girl talking; her voice was audible. i'll post the site if i ever find it, but i gather it was from dec, '08. gary -- Gary Kline kl

Re: you're not going to believe this.

2009-06-23 Thread Gary Kline
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 03:59:44PM -0500, David Kelly wrote: On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 01:10:41PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: battery-backed ram sound great for the time being! if not now [this minute], then relatively soon, i'm guessing within a few years somebody will have

Re: self-serving redeux/revisited, and more questions?

2009-06-22 Thread Gary Kline
On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 07:01:21AM +0200, Polytropon wrote: On Sun, 21 Jun 2009 21:25:23 -0700, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: one q, polyt. am i mis-reading the timestamp on your mail? it reads 05:24 which is getting pretty late. i admit to not sacking out until 04:09

Re: questions on the ASUS Eee Pc 1000 40G

2009-06-22 Thread Gary Kline
On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 07:26:59AM +0200, Matthias Apitz wrote: El día Sunday, June 21, 2009 a las 05:35:14PM -0700, Gary Kline escribió: i found two at newegg.com. both are the Eee PC; both come with linux. this one is the subject line seems to come with 40G of flash/solid

Re: questions on the ASUS Eee Pc 1000 40G

2009-06-22 Thread Gary Kline
On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 06:23:37PM +0200, Matthias Apitz wrote: El día Monday, June 22, 2009 a las 08:45:47AM -0700, Gary Kline escribió: On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 07:26:59AM +0200, Matthias Apitz wrote: El día Sunday, June 21, 2009 a las 05:35:14PM -0700, Gary Kline escribió

you're not going to believe this.

2009-06-22 Thread Gary Kline
speech dev my butt. with berkeley unix and open source tools, you can have it for a few hundred bux. gary -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org For FBSD list: http

Re: you're not going to believe this.

2009-06-22 Thread Gary Kline
in some notebook this year. probably this summer. :_) gary -Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Gary Kline Sent: Monday, June 22, 2009 6:08 PM To: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: you're

Re: self-serving redeux/revisited, and more questions?

2009-06-21 Thread Gary Kline
On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 08:12:12AM +0200, Polytropon wrote: On Sat, 20 Jun 2009 22:52:39 -0700, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: i'll explain later, but if i can use a lightweight computer that has audio with the kde apps, i can create a reasonably priced tts or speech synthesizer

Re: self-serving redeux/revisited, and more questions?

2009-06-21 Thread Gary Kline
On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 09:18:55AM -1000, Al Plant wrote: Gary Kline wrote: for the dedicated nerds on-list now on the weekend, i just edited [[ this is my LAST edit ]] of ``slicejourney.php''. it goes away in ten days. i have another issue that has more to do with freebsd on the new

Small notebook platforms. [was: Re: self-serving redeux/revisited, and more questions?]

2009-06-21 Thread Gary Kline
On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 12:42:00PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 09:18:55AM -1000, Al Plant wrote: i have another issue that has more to do with freebsd on the new and lost cost notebook computers i had heard of. how many and which ones work best with our flavor of BSD

Re: self-serving redeux/revisited, and more questions?

2009-06-21 Thread Gary Kline
On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 10:15:31AM -1000, Al Plant wrote: Gary Kline wrote: On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 09:18:55AM -1000, Al Plant wrote: [[ save the electrons ]] There was a big discussion on this list about a month back about laptops. You can search for answers

Re: Small notebook platforms. [was: Re: self-serving redeux/revisited, and more questions?]

2009-06-21 Thread Gary Kline
On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 04:53:37PM -0400, ill...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/6/21 Gary Kline kl...@thought.org:        anyway, i see only wireless, and i'm cat5 only.  i've got a        13-yr-old people here who would love for me to go wireless so        said people could take her apple macbook

Re: Small notebook platforms. [was: Re: self-serving redeux/revisited, and more questions?]

2009-06-21 Thread Gary Kline
On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 10:16:40PM +0100, Chris Whitehouse wrote: Gary Kline wrote: On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 12:42:00PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 09:18:55AM -1000, Al Plant wrote: There's a wiki devoted to FreeBSD on Asus eee http://wiki.freebsd.org/AsusEee last

questions on the ASUS Eee Pc 1000 40G

2009-06-21 Thread Gary Kline
it has an rj-45 lan jack, i will be able to download the text-to-speech software i'll need. any feedback? suggestions for fbsd-capable subnotebooks, etc?? gary -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http

Re: self-serving redeux/revisited, and more questions?

2009-06-21 Thread Gary Kline
On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 05:24:18AM +0200, Polytropon wrote: On Sun, 21 Jun 2009 12:42:00 -0700, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 09:18:55AM -1000, Al Plant wrote: HP Tech Support gave me advice to replace it with FreeBSD 7.2. Try it from a flash drive first

Re: questions on the ASUS Eee Pc 1000 40G

2009-06-21 Thread Gary Kline
On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 05:35:14PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: i found two at newegg.com. both are the Eee PC; both come with linux. this one is the subject line seems to come with 40G of flash/solid state memory. Is this even possible for $400 given current technology

self-serving redeux/revisited, and more questions?

2009-06-20 Thread Gary Kline
to a great many people. instead of the $8-9 kilobuck windose devs. anybody know? -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org For FBSD list: http://transfinite.thought.org

radio-buttons and PHP; may be a bit OT.

2009-06-18 Thread Gary Kline
to store the results, tho. So, for story baz.php, say, should I save the count of times rated, then average [%f] the ratings? Or is there a more swift algorithm? gary -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http

Re: radio-buttons and PHP; may be a bit OT.

2009-06-18 Thread Gary Kline
On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 04:56:34PM -0400, Bill Moran wrote: In response to Gary Kline kl...@thought.org: After a lot of trial and error I have a PHP version of radio buttons working in a test.php. It asks the user to rate the article/story in standard Lykert (5-way

Re: feedback, comments on this php-delimiter scrubbing program?

2009-06-16 Thread Gary Kline
On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 06:57:45PM -0800, Mel Flynn wrote: On Monday 15 June 2009 17:21:16 Gary Kline wrote: Encl: dephp.c, test case '?': ch = getchar(); while (1) { if (ch == '?' (ch = getchar

Re: feedback, comments on this php-delimiter scrubbing program?

2009-06-16 Thread Gary Kline
On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 08:30:40AM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 06:57:45PM -0800, Mel Flynn wrote: On Monday 15 June 2009 17:21:16 Gary Kline wrote: Encl: dephp.c, test case '?': ch = getchar(); while (1

Re: feedback, comments on this php-delimiter scrubbing program?

2009-06-16 Thread Gary Kline
On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 06:32:43PM -0500, Jeffrey Goldberg wrote: On Jun 16, 2009, at 12:02 PM, Gary Kline wrote: this works, but still gives a warning. it's sloppy coding, but as a second version... You've got some superfluous tests for EOF in some places, and you may also

Re: vim question...

2009-06-15 Thread Gary Kline
On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 10:51:06PM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 09:18:42PM -0700, Michael K. Smith wrote: On 6/14/09 7:46 PM, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: the main reason i don't use vim is because of its [u]ndo command. as most of you can understand

Re: vim question...

2009-06-15 Thread Gary Kline
On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 09:24:57AM +0200, Paul B. Mahol wrote: On 6/15/09, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: the main reason i don't use vim is because of its [u]ndo command. as most of you can understand, there are a whole slew of times when i need to undo something

Re: vim question...

2009-06-15 Thread Gary Kline
On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 07:12:01PM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On Sun, 14 Jun 2009 19:46:45 -0700, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: the main reason i don't use vim is because of its [u]ndo command. as most of you can understand, there are a whole slew of times when i need to undo

Re: vim question...

2009-06-15 Thread Gary Kline
On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 01:14:44PM -0800, Mel Flynn wrote: On Monday 15 June 2009 12:45:54 Gary Kline wrote: On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 07:12:01PM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: In vim, with set compatible enabled, typing 'u' repeatedly toggles between the last two states of the buffer

100% Ot and self-serving...

2009-06-15 Thread Gary Kline
) ! -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org For FBSD list: http://transfinite.thought.org/slicejourney.php The 4.98a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php

Re: vim question...

2009-06-15 Thread Gary Kline
On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 12:01:17AM +0200, Polytropon wrote: On Mon, 15 Jun 2009 14:22:48 -0700, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: PS: if gvim ever evolves into a word-processor, life will be *perfect* ;-) If you load a LaTeX file in gvim, it will get ahead of a word

Re: vim question...

2009-06-15 Thread Gary Kline
On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 05:44:04PM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 01:00:30PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: I feel like the original vi is insufficient for my needs, but that Vim's development doesn't exactly match my preferences. FreeBSD's nvi seems to have moved in exactly

feedback, comments on this php-delimiter scrubbing program?

2009-06-15 Thread Gary Kline
. i'll go more into my rationale later on. i'm pretty sure i can tighten up on this; getting it to work was my main goal. can any of you break this? gary Encl: dephp.c, test -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix $Id: dephp.c,v 1.6 2009/06/16 01:05:47

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