using netpgp with mutt

2013-09-04 Thread Chad Perrin
e web. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-question

Re: day light saving time happened today

2013-03-11 Thread Chad Perrin
ot;, which is what should be showing during DST in the Eastern (US) time zone. When it's not DST, what should be showing in the Eastern time zone is "EST" instead. From what you said, though, it seems you had set it to "EDT" when it was not yet daylight saving time.

Re: fetchmail/sendmail: Domain of sender address does not exist

2013-03-07 Thread Chad Perrin
o I set fetchmail and sendmail to fetch > such emails? You might want to try out the mail/fdm port instead of fetchmail. I have found fetchmail to be obtuse and cantankerous; I stopped using it a long time ago. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] _

Re: Fun Scripting Problem

2013-02-14 Thread Chad Perrin
=c {print > $4;}{a=$1;b=$2;c=$3}' \ I'm never comfortable calling something like that a "one-liner". If it runs over 80 columns of width, that (to me) doesn't really qualify as a one-liner. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Help! Firefox + acroread costs me $$$$

2012-12-12 Thread Chad Perrin
finally get this > sorted out. > > So, on FreeBSD, how does one get firefox and/or opera to use, for example, > evince or some other PDF displayer instead of using this goddamn lousey > buggy *&^%$#@ acroread ? The first thing to do should simply be to uninstall acro

Re: FreeBSD Release Date Challenge, plus other stuff the project needs

2012-12-12 Thread Chad Perrin
to find out what's going on with the wait. That doesn't mean I want anyone prioritizing speed over quality, though. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: List all hard drives on system (with capacities)... How?

2012-12-06 Thread Chad Perrin
pair is really a helpful form of verbosity. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: a metric for number of users

2012-10-18 Thread Chad Perrin
On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 10:57:49PM +0200, C. P. Ghost wrote: > On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 7:34 PM, Chad Perrin wrote: > > Is there some way I could get the number of unique IPs hitting FreeBSD > > servers for software updates? I'm curious about the direct comparison of > &g

Re: 0

2012-10-16 Thread Chad Perrin
On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 07:45:12PM +0200, Jerome Herman wrote: > Must resist the urge to post... > > 10 > > (I am weak)... There are 10 types of people in the world. . . . (You're the 10nd type.) -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.o

a metric for number of users

2012-10-15 Thread Chad Perrin
Is there some way I could get the number of unique IPs hitting FreeBSD servers for software updates? I'm curious about the direct comparison of numbers between FreeBSD, Ubuntu, Fedora, and SUSE for this metric. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheo

Re: suggest pdf viewer for pdf version 1.6 with annotations

2012-10-03 Thread Chad Perrin
t a pdf viewer from ports that might help. > > evince? Did you try it? I do not have it installed at the moment, so I > am not able to tell you. Zathura might be worth a try, too. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Warning - FreeBSD (*BSD) entanglement in Linux ecosystem

2012-08-21 Thread Chad Perrin
quot;. The more we can avoid code written by Poettering and anything remotely like it, the better off we will be, I'm sure. Luckily, he wants to help us; he has stated that he believes writing quality, portable code somehow hinders "innovation", and

Re: Patent hit - MS goes after Linux - FreeBSD ?

2012-08-06 Thread Chad Perrin
reward someone receives; in all too many cases that is just > not so. The socialists still feel they are entitled to something for > nothing. . . . which need not have *anything* at all to do with a discussion of whether a system of patents

Re: Patent hit - MS goes after Linux - FreeBSD ?

2012-08-06 Thread Chad Perrin
really fair one. If the word "fair" can be used for lawyers at all. > > Most often they just want court cases to have "work". I'm not sure you understood what I said, because what *you* said here seems irrelevant to what I said. -- Chad Perr

Re: Patent hit - MS goes after Linux - FreeBSD ?

2012-08-06 Thread Chad Perrin
he opposite of a free market. In fact, the socialistic "labor theory of value" is a much more effective basis for justifying a patent system than any concepts of economic schools of thought more oriented toward free market capitalism, because patents are designed to "protect" a l

Re: compare zfs xfs and jfs o

2012-08-05 Thread Chad Perrin
peed will > gonna be the differentiator. The idea that ZFS is faster than XFS is certainly a new one for me. Do you have some benchmarks for that? -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] ___ freebsd-questions@fr

Re: Patent hit - MS goes after Linux - FreeBSD ?

2012-08-03 Thread Chad Perrin
On Fri, Aug 03, 2012 at 08:14:33AM +0700, Erich Dollansky wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, 2 Aug 2012 12:57:59 -0600 > Chad Perrin wrote: > > > On Wed, Aug 01, 2012 at 01:39:21PM +, Traiano Welcome wrote: > > > > > > Unfortunately, patent law and copyright

Re: Patent hit - MS goes after Linux - FreeBSD ?

2012-08-03 Thread Chad Perrin
c. > > The european patent office system pressures examiners towards granting > if they can't quickly find prove the application is already known. The same applies in the US. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] _

Re: Patent hit - MS goes after Linux - FreeBSD ?

2012-08-03 Thread Chad Perrin
light produced by a hand-held laser apparatus onto the floor ... > in the vicinity of the cat, then moving the laser ... in an irregular way > fascinating to cats,..." -- US patent 5443036, "Method of exercising a cat" That's hilarious, and awfully depressing. -- Chad Perri

Re: Patent hit - MS goes after Linux - FreeBSD ?

2012-08-03 Thread Chad Perrin
ovement/change to it to not qualify under that, then they would > be well within patent law to apply for a patent. . . . in theory. In practice, if you don't have the resources to mount a serious defense against a deep-pockets patent holder, prior art isn't going to get you far. --

Re: Patent hit - MS goes after Linux - FreeBSD ?

2012-08-03 Thread Chad Perrin
On Fri, Aug 03, 2012 at 01:20:08AM +0200, C. P. Ghost wrote: > On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 8:57 PM, Chad Perrin wrote: > > It is possible that Microsoft is going the way of SCO -- into its grave, > > having hung all its hopes on litigation. Along the way, though, it will > >

Re: Patent hit - MS goes after Linux - FreeBSD ?

2012-08-02 Thread Chad Perrin
s far as the FreeBSD project or any FreeBSD users before things come crashing down. (disclaimer: I am not a lawyer. This is not legal advice. Et cetera.) -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebs

Re: how to speed up port make??

2012-07-26 Thread Chad Perrin
On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 11:04:27PM -0700, Ryan Noll wrote: > Hello, > > On Jul 25, 2012 7:34 PM, "Chad Perrin" wrote: > > You kids have got it easy. I used to have to compile by hand with a pair > > of tweezers, bar copper wire, a magnifying glass, and a pota

Re: how to speed up port make??

2012-07-25 Thread Chad Perrin
On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 08:33:36PM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: > > You kids have got it easy. I used to have to compile by hand with a pair > of tweezers, bar copper wire, a magnifying glass, and a potato with two > pieces of metal stuck in it as a power source. s/bar/bare/ Now

Re: how to speed up port make??

2012-07-25 Thread Chad Perrin
d if you've ever seen 'ps' report that it had > itself been swapped out. Yep, again. > > Ah, good times. > > I think I still have some memory _chips_ (zip scrams, not dips) around > here somewhere You kids have got it easy. I used to have to compile by hand wit

Re: help about free bsp version netcat to work it on ubuntu

2012-07-25 Thread Chad Perrin
On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 07:18:13PM +0800, lei yang wrote: > > Aha,I just want to learn want to know how to build the netcat for > freebsd version on a no-freebsd platform I'm really curious, now: Why? -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://ow

Re: backup tools

2012-06-23 Thread Chad Perrin
ry emailing Dillon for clarification, too. In any case, I'll take a closer look at cpdup. Thanks for bringing it to my attention. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing l

Re: backup tools

2012-06-23 Thread Chad Perrin
not that it provides features that can't be managed > directly by rsync. Actually, a Wake-On-LAN feature is not at all necessary for me in this case. It's a simple enough task to just trigger a backup manually at the command line via a script that automates the process

Re: backup tools

2012-06-22 Thread Chad Perrin
On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 08:14:34PM -0500, Adam Vande More wrote: > On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 11:09 AM, Chad Perrin wrote: > > > I'm setting up a "new" backup server using FreeBSD. It will be used for > > backing up laptops, which will not be connected to the ne

Re: backup tools

2012-06-22 Thread Chad Perrin
On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 08:47:40PM +0200, Roland Smith wrote: > On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 10:09:03AM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: > > I'm setting up a "new" backup server using FreeBSD. It will be used for > > backing up laptops, which will not be connected to the netwo

Re: Why Clang

2012-06-22 Thread Chad Perrin
On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 09:24:57AM -0500, Reid Linnemann wrote: > On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 11:27 PM, Chad Perrin wrote: > > I disagree with the assessment by others that FreeBSD is in some way > > effectively a subsidiary of its corporate users, but it does have > > corporate

Re: Why Clang

2012-06-22 Thread Chad Perrin
On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 01:16:09PM +0200, Julian H. Stacey wrote: > Chad Perrin wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 01:06:12PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote: > > > i already proposed (but not publically) to turn FreeBSD into > > > commercial system. > > > >

Re: Why Clang

2012-06-22 Thread Chad Perrin
are all you see. It is ludicrous to watch you close your eyes, stick your fingers in your ears, and shout "lalalalalalalala" so consistently to prevent any other factors involved in compiler choice from entering your mind -- such as good output from a compiler that will be stable and

backup tools

2012-06-22 Thread Chad Perrin
e for any help I can get in figuring this out. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] ___ 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"

Re: Why Clang

2012-06-21 Thread Chad Perrin
e it and have not bothered to actually read and understand it) is just "politics", go ahead, as long as it doesn't perpetuate this wholly unnecessary griping on the mailing list. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ]

Re: Why Clang

2012-06-21 Thread Chad Perrin
everyone else at fault for the fact you cannot see past your nose to note that the whole world does not revolve around some dubious benchmarks. I doubt you're convincing anyone of anything you seem to think we should all accept as gospel. -- Chad Perrin [ original content license

Re: Why Clang

2012-06-21 Thread Chad Perrin
ve you a mistaken impression that there was not much discussion of the matter. . . . and thanks for calling the concerns of everyone who wants to be able to use FreeBSD as the basis of other projects without having to deal with problematic licensing restrictions as "stupid" and &qu

Re: Why Clang

2012-06-21 Thread Chad Perrin
red to > Clang. > > That would help explain why FreeBSD is switching to Clang. Related (perhaps somewhat indirectly): Advancement Through License Simplicity http://univacc.net/?page=license_simplicity -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ]

Re: CLANG vs GCC tests of fortran/f2c program

2012-06-21 Thread Chad Perrin
ld. In fact, one of the biggest problems in the Linux world is the fact that GNU projects have a tendency to degrade in quality over time and pretty thoroughly undermine the Unix philosophy in egregious ways, which means that the sooner we can divest ourselves of GNU tools (including GCC) the

Re: Why Clang

2012-06-21 Thread Chad Perrin
al Vimperator project used a copyleft license (the GPL), and the new Pentadactyl project used a copyfree license (I don't recall which, probably either the Simplified BSD License or the MIT/X11 License). -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ]

Re: CLANG vs GCC tests of fortran/f2c program

2012-06-20 Thread Chad Perrin
s that apply, and doesn't even *want* to know, picks one thing he thinks he understands and argues about it in an attempt to make the entire project change course. Well, dammit, I *like* blue, and he can take his bucket of red paint home with him to paint his *own* bikeshed. -- Chad Perr

Re: CLANG vs GCC tests of fortran/f2c program

2012-06-20 Thread Chad Perrin
ible performance difference is . . . negligible I'm pretty sure he's not running compute clusters on FreeBSD, after all. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list ht

Re: Why Clang

2012-06-20 Thread Chad Perrin
h circumstances are the people who make up the open source development community. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/free

Re: Attaching a monitor via vga

2012-06-20 Thread Chad Perrin
ged in, and the laptop display when the external monitor is *not* plugged in. From the sound of the request, that is the use case the orignial querent in this thread had in mind as well. Your tip could well be useful for some use cases, though. -- Chad Perrin [ origin

Re: CLANG vs GCC tests of fortran/f2c program

2012-06-20 Thread Chad Perrin
ed and using pcc > >now. And they are fine with that one. > > their problem. No -- it's their solution. It would be a problem only if the previous statement said "and they are *not* fine with that one." -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.a

Re: CLANG vs GCC tests of fortran/f2c program

2012-06-20 Thread Chad Perrin
Clang as the sole compiler in the base system (last I heard). This is what happens when you use a more standards-compliant compiler: you get more stable and predictable behavior. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ]

Re: CLANG vs GCC tests of fortran/f2c program

2012-06-20 Thread Chad Perrin
nipulationg reactions of many people on > that list shows that above sentence is true. When you refuse to assume good faith at first encounter in discussion, you just make everyone into your enemy. This pretty well ensures that the majority of people will ignore your concerns, no matter how val

Re: CLANG vs GCC tests of fortran/f2c program

2012-06-20 Thread Chad Perrin
w drivers until something that replace FreeBSD will be available. > Assuming there will at all. > > Wish i am wrong. Twice i wasn't When you set your own standards for "success", regardless of anyone else's thoughts on the matter, you'll probably always be right,

Re: CLANG vs GCC tests of fortran/f2c program

2012-06-20 Thread Chad Perrin
think of at least one big reason: the FreeBSD base system should favor the 2-clause Simplified BSD License (aka New BSD License aka FreeBSD License) and compatible licenses. GPLvN, where N is *any* version number currently extant, is *not* a compatible license: it is a one-way valve. -- Chad Perri

Re: Why Clang

2012-06-20 Thread Chad Perrin
On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 04:44:50PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote: > >licensed gcc or b) A maintained and current GPLv3 gcc with GPLv3 > >licensed libc. > FreeBSD doesn't use GNU libc. am i missing something? Yes. Users are not identical to the FreeBSD base system. -- Ch

Re: Why Clang

2012-06-20 Thread Chad Perrin
FreeBSD is if it can be used. IMHO > nothing from GPLv3 prevents it, and it is no licence based reasons > to use clang. 1. This has nothing to do with what I said. 2. I prefer Clang. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] ___

Re: Attaching a monitor via vga

2012-06-19 Thread Chad Perrin
aptop display won't act "funny" because it "thinks" there's a larger external monitor still attached. I hope that helps. Let me know if you want any more information about how this works. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ]

Re: Why Clang

2012-06-19 Thread Chad Perrin
e > of those licenses is about freedom. Hint: freedom is not defined as forcing > people to do what you want. This would probably be a better-received statement if the rest of your commentary in the same email was not mostly about (probably entirely inaccurate) insults flung at someone for fa

Re: Why Clang

2012-06-19 Thread Chad Perrin
y errors. I guess you're either some kind of rare genius or suffering from Stockholm syndrome. Everyone I've encountered with something to say about warning and error reporting with regard to Clang vs. GCC has remarked about how much nicer it is with Clang. -- Chad Perrin [ original conte

Re: Why Clang

2012-06-18 Thread Chad Perrin
parts of the code. That sort of thing is required probably 70% of the time, in my experience. With Clang, by contrast, I find that's required only about 20% to 30% of the time. Otherwise, the warning and error messages tend to get me a lot closer to the actual point of failure than GCC. *T

Re: Uptime [OT]

2012-06-15 Thread Chad Perrin
On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 11:47:55PM +, David Brodbeck wrote: > On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 4:00 PM, Chad Perrin wrote: > > No power conditioning (implied by no UPS) is nothing to brag about. > > If your utility power is very -- common now in places with buried > utilities -

Re: Uptime [OT]

2012-06-15 Thread Chad Perrin
nothing to brag about -- no UPS, combined with 'unreliable' public > utility power, does have an impact. No power conditioning (implied by no UPS) is nothing to brag about. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ]

Re: Uptime [OT]

2012-06-15 Thread Chad Perrin
er of these is set up for public access. They're just neglected single-purpose machines. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of?

2012-06-11 Thread Chad Perrin
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 04:53:11PM -0400, Jerry wrote: > > . . . You obviously aren't serious. I can't believe I let you string me along with this fantasy for so long. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://

Re: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of?

2012-06-11 Thread Chad Perrin
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 02:46:49PM -0400, Jerry wrote: > On Mon, 11 Jun 2012 11:44:11 -0600 Chad Perrin articulated: > >On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 12:59:46PM -0400, Jerry wrote: > >> > >> Your paranoia is kicking in again isn't it Chad. Anyway, to address > >&

Re: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of?

2012-06-11 Thread Chad Perrin
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 12:59:46PM -0400, Jerry wrote: > On Mon, 11 Jun 2012 10:11:11 -0600 Chad Perrin articulated: > > >On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 07:23:20AM -0400, Jerry wrote: > >> > >> It is fairly easy to understand both sides in this discussion. When > >

Re: OT - enjoy it

2012-06-11 Thread Chad Perrin
On Fri, Jun 08, 2012 at 06:26:16AM +, jb wrote: > Chinese advertising of soccer championship Euro 2012 > > http://avaxnews.com/wow/Chinese_Advertising_UEFA_Euro_2012.html That . . . was nuts. What just happened? -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apo

Re: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of?

2012-06-11 Thread Chad Perrin
d its users in venues like this mailing list, where it's trollish, does not contribute anything positive, and directly offends large numbers of people subscribed to the list. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] ___ fre

Re: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of?

2012-06-11 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 03:27:25AM +0200, Damien Fleuriot wrote: > > > On 9 Jun 2012, at 18:48, Chad Perrin wrote: > > > On Wed, Jun 06, 2012 at 11:42:37PM +0200, Damien Fleuriot wrote: > >> > >> On 6 Jun 2012, at 21:52, Dave U. Random > &

Re: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of?

2012-06-09 Thread Chad Perrin
houghtful refutation of some specific point(s)? I hope you have more of value to contribute than your obvious disdain for people who disagree with you about something (without even specifying on what points you disagree). -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ]

Re: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of?]

2012-06-06 Thread Chad Perrin
ch are even more likely to get FreeBSD installed, and none of this has anything to do with corporate accounts or bulk purchases. Yes, my evidence is anecdotal, but I think your notions of the frequency of FreeBSD use other than in a corporate setting are also based on anecdotal observations, s

Re: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of?

2012-06-06 Thread Chad Perrin
;authority" charging money to allow people to control their own system security in what amounts to a vacant lot scam. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://li

Re: UFS Crash and directories now missing

2012-05-11 Thread Chad Perrin
t. I think may make a great difference. Okay, thanks. You've provided a pretty good representative selection, I think. I guess there are two problems: the third edition index is woefully incomplete, and the fourth edition text has for some reason basically traded FreeBSD for AIX -- which m

Re: UFS Crash and directories now missing

2012-05-11 Thread Chad Perrin
rlooked something. Is there something else I should try to find in the index or table of contents that would be in the third edition but not the fourth? Can you give me some examples of the sorts of things you'd expect to find in the table of contents

Re: UFS Crash and directories now missing

2012-05-01 Thread Chad Perrin
t sure -- I've never taken advantage of that discount, because I only started collecting ebook copies of O'Reilly books after getting an e-ink reader, which I find every bit as good for many (though not all) reading purposes as a physical dead tree format book. Your mileage may vary, I suppo

Re: editor that understands CTRL/B, CTRL/I, CTRL/U

2012-04-30 Thread Chad Perrin
On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 12:23:47PM +0200, Polytropon wrote: > On Sun, 29 Apr 2012 17:01:56 -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: > > On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 08:01:13AM +0200, Polytropon wrote: > > > On Fri, 27 Apr 2012 18:36:13 -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: > > > > On Fri, Apr 27, 2

Re: editor that understands CTRL/B, CTRL/I, CTRL/U

2012-04-29 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 08:01:13AM +0200, Polytropon wrote: > On Fri, 27 Apr 2012 18:36:13 -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 06:00:51PM -0400, Jerry wrote: > > > On Fri, 27 Apr 2012 14:33:29 -0700 David Brodbeck articulated: > > > > > >

Re: editor that understands CTRL/B, CTRL/I, CTRL/U

2012-04-27 Thread Chad Perrin
On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 02:33:29PM -0700, David Brodbeck wrote: > On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 2:52 PM, Chad Perrin wrote: > > Indeed -- and the employer who bucks this trend does him/her self a huge > > service, because large numbers of very skilled and/or talented people are > &

Re: editor that understands CTRL/B, CTRL/I, CTRL/U

2012-04-27 Thread Chad Perrin
x27;re correctly identifying the skills they actually need from their employees. A big part of this entire discussion has been about the fact that many "responsible" parties in the hiring process are utterly without capacity for correctly i

Re: editor that understands CTRL/B, CTRL/I, CTRL/U

2012-04-27 Thread Chad Perrin
ou can pull it off. No legitimate employer is going to change > his criteria to accommodate your skills. Good job completely bypassing my actual statements to make a point about something else entirely. Congratulations on your irrelevance. -- Chad Perrin [ origin

Re: editor that understands CTRL/B, CTRL/I, CTRL/U

2012-04-27 Thread Chad Perrin
On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 01:57:10PM -0400, Jerry wrote: > On Fri, 27 Apr 2012 10:32:24 -0600 Chad Perrin articulated: > >On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 06:43:06PM -0400, Jerry wrote: > >> On Thu, 26 Apr 2012 15:52:56 -0600 Chad Perrin articulated: > >> >On Thu, Apr 26, 2

Re: editor that understands CTRL/B, CTRL/I, CTRL/U

2012-04-27 Thread Chad Perrin
On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 10:32:24AM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: > On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 06:43:06PM -0400, Jerry wrote: > > On Thu, 26 Apr 2012 15:52:56 -0600 Chad Perrin articulated: > > >On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 02:45:53PM -0700, David Brodbeck wrote: > > >> > >

Re: editor that understands CTRL/B, CTRL/I, CTRL/U

2012-04-27 Thread Chad Perrin
On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 06:43:06PM -0400, Jerry wrote: > On Thu, 26 Apr 2012 15:52:56 -0600 > Chad Perrin articulated: > > >On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 02:45:53PM -0700, David Brodbeck wrote: > >> > >> Generic skills aren't recognized because they're ha

Re: editor that understands CTRL/B, CTRL/I, CTRL/U

2012-04-26 Thread Chad Perrin
ates who would be great at the job waiting for someone else to give them a chance. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/free

Re: FreeBSD's backwards webdesign / corporate identity

2012-04-08 Thread Chad Perrin
is nothing like what Tony suggests would be a good approach to the design of the FreeBSD site, which is actually a good recommendation for the design he suggests for the FreeBSD site. Gawd, it's comically bad for something called the "Design Council", unless you take the name as a

Re: Links the command line browser

2012-04-05 Thread Chad Perrin
es, if "links" does not behave as you prefer. Have you tried w3m or one of its enhanced brethren? /usr/ports/www/w3m /usr/ports/www/w3m-img /usr/ports/www/w3m-m17n /usr/ports/www/w3m-m17n-img -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ]

Re: Vivaldi Tablet

2012-03-28 Thread Chad Perrin
On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 04:24:51PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 09:19:54AM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: > > > > I think learning a chording keyboard is going to be much more of an > > obstacle than using a QWERTY keyboard, considering you can hunt-and

Re: Vivaldi Tablet

2012-03-28 Thread Chad Perrin
hink learning a chording keyboard is going to be much more of an obstacle than using a QWERTY keyboard, considering you can hunt-and-peck on a QWERTY keyboard, but you have to know the chords to do anything on a chording keyboard. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL:

Re: Vivaldi Tablet

2012-03-27 Thread Chad Perrin
On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 03:54:03AM +0200, Polytropon wrote: > On Tue, 27 Mar 2012 19:48:34 -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: > > > > I was thinking of mentioning the Happy Hacking keyboard, but I see you > > beat me to it. I have not used one for more than a few minutes once, >

Re: Vivaldi Tablet

2012-03-27 Thread Chad Perrin
ed one for more than a few minutes once, though. Does the Fn+ work with Ctrl+Alt+F combination to move around between TTY consoles? -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing lis

Re: Vivaldi Tablet

2012-03-26 Thread Chad Perrin
On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 09:07:25AM +1000, Da Rock wrote: > On 03/27/12 01:42, Chad Perrin wrote: > > > >I think the point of the initial email to start this thread was to see if > >there were people in the community with an interest in working on this > >project, and

Re: Vivaldi Tablet

2012-03-26 Thread Chad Perrin
e, "Skippy", you, -YOURSELF-. will need to find a 'guru' with the > appropriate knowledge/skills *and* "enough interest' in the project to > tackle it. I think the point of the initial email to start this thread was to see if there were people in the community wi

Re: Which compiler compiled system?

2012-03-12 Thread Chad Perrin
way." (No offense to the Java maintainers at the FreeBSD project, of course. They do a great job of making it possible to get working at all.) -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] ___ freebsd-question

Re: Suggestion

2012-03-12 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 10:20:03AM -0500, Chris wrote: > ... One word that is rampant... Alligations Is that where someone makes a claim that someone else is an alligator? -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.

Re: Suggestion

2012-03-12 Thread Chad Perrin
On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 12:14:39PM -0400, Allen wrote: > > I'd like BeOS to come back, but I'm quite happy with BSD and Linux. Give the Haiku project a look. It's meant to be some kind of inheritor of the BeOS legacy. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: ht

Re: Suggestion

2012-03-10 Thread Chad Perrin
> > - no filesystem-based security > > FAT rules! Uh . . . what? > > > - default network protocols are insecure > > Windows has meanwhile default network protocols? I think, I have to do > some catching up. I suspect this was

Re: Suggestion

2012-03-09 Thread Chad Perrin
fortunate misconceptions, might have been a really good idea -- not as a great OS in its own right, but rather as a gateway drug for Unix-like OSes. Alas, that was not to be. Instead, it looks like it will just be a never-was (and occasional grist for some very weak trolling). -- Chad Per

Re: Raspberry Pi

2012-03-09 Thread Chad Perrin
On Fri, Mar 09, 2012 at 03:48:17PM +, Arthur Chance wrote: > On 03/09/12 15:08, Bernt Hansson wrote: > >2012-03-08 19:46, Chad Perrin skrev: > >> > >>That helps me get sort of a timeline in mind, I think. > > > >The production is halted. > > > &

Re: Raspberry Pi

2012-03-08 Thread Chad Perrin
On Thu, Mar 08, 2012 at 11:11:53AM -0500, Jeremy Faulkner wrote: > The freebsd-arm@ list is where it is being discussed and progressing, > don't think anybody has the hardware yet. That's another place for me to look for discussion of it. Thanks. -- Chad Perrin [ original cont

Re: Raspberry Pi

2012-03-08 Thread Chad Perrin
On Thu, Mar 08, 2012 at 08:51:03AM +, Arthur Chance wrote: > On 03/07/12 21:40, Chad Perrin wrote: > > > >If anyone has more information about planned BSD Unix ports to Raspberry > >Pi, or comes up with more in the next few weeks, I'd appreciate it if > >someone

Re: Raspberry Pi

2012-03-07 Thread Chad Perrin
ojects working on this). -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "free

Raspberry Pi

2012-03-07 Thread Chad Perrin
Has there been any movement toward getting BSD Unix systems running on the Raspberry Pi platform? I've been searching for information along those lines, but so far have seen nothing. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheo

Re: which FF ad blocker?

2012-02-29 Thread Chad Perrin
is called Adblock Plus, not Add Block Plus. It has been a little bit since I've dealt with these extensions, though, because I started using another browser that offers things like plugin and JavaScript whitelisting as a core feature. Take my memory of it for what it's worth. -- Chad Pe

Re: Why is this Symbol in the front of your website. A humble request.

2012-02-26 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 11:09:13AM +0700, Erich Dollansky wrote: > > always these complicated things. This is why life here is so much more > exiting. > > We do not need sysctl. I guess that depends on your definition of sysctl, and I rather like it. -- Chad Perrin [ original c

Re: Software Development using Freebsd.

2012-02-06 Thread Chad Perrin
sent my evidence of how Guido doesn't get it in a longer > post, if prompted. I'm definitely curious. If you don't think this is the place for it, I'd love to see your explanation in private email or by other means. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.a

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