Re: questions@ vs. freebsd-questions@

2007-08-15 Thread Chad Perrin
://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] That reminds me: Is there any particular reason there isn't a List-Reply for this list? -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] John Kenneth Galbraith: If all else fails, immortality can always be assured

Re: looking for an OS and wanting to know if this is the one.

2007-08-14 Thread Chad Perrin
, Home Basic, Business, and Enterprise, I guess we can have our -STABLE, -RELEASE, and -CURRENT. -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] McCloctnick the Lucid: The first rule of magic is simple. Don't waste your time waving your hands and hopping when a rock or a club will do

Re: looking for an OS and wanting to know if this is the one.

2007-08-14 Thread Chad Perrin
FreeBSD encourages, you may start to like our system a bit. It may even turn out that it was better than Windows for the kind of work you want to do. There's no way to _really_ know, without trying :-) -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] print substr(Just another Perl

Re: Convince me, please!

2007-08-10 Thread Chad Perrin
On Fri, Aug 10, 2007 at 09:37:19AM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote: It's already been mentioned, but I would strongly recommend PCBSD for the windows convert. Having PCBSD allows me to easily setup friends i would rather recomend not moving away from windows. Why? -- CCD CopyWrite Chad

Re: Convince me, please!

2007-08-10 Thread Chad Perrin
the only MS Windows, from what I saw. Apparently, however, that's what you meant. Thanks for clearing that up. -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] McCloctnick the Lucid: The first rule of magic is simple. Don't waste your time waving your hands and hopping when a rock or a club

Re: Convince me, please!

2007-08-10 Thread Chad Perrin
CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] print substr(Just another Perl hacker, 0, -2); ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Convince me, please!

2007-08-09 Thread Chad Perrin
a problem). MacOS X has some definite benefits, but it's not the be-all and end-all of OS design by any stretch. Its biggest benefit is that it's not MS Windows (speaking of user hostility). -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] print substr(Just another Perl hacker, 0, -2

GnuPG, pinentry, and Qt

2007-08-02 Thread Chad Perrin
something very, very odd: pinentry won't install because of a problem with Qt. Why the heck would GnuPG ultimately depend on Qt in any way? -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] McCloctnick the Lucid: The first rule of magic is simple. Don't waste your time waving your hands

Re: GnuPG, pinentry, and Qt

2007-08-02 Thread Chad Perrin
On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 02:35:35AM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: So I tried installing GnuPG on a FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE system. It doesn't work without pinentry installed. Okay, I can handle that. No big deal. Apparently GnuPG 2.x requires a separate utility for password handling now. No big

Re: attaching a terminal to 'join' another?

2007-08-02 Thread Chad Perrin
that. Step 4: Detach from that screen session by typing ^A then pressing D. Step 5: Reattach to that screen session at any time with `screen -r`. Sorry about the go back in time part. I guess you'll know for next time. -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] W. Somerset Maugham

Is distribfold for [EMAIL PROTECTED]

2007-08-01 Thread Chad Perrin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] client, or something else entirely? More details would be appreciated. -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] Rudy Giuliani: You have free speech so I can be heard. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Root access loggin

2007-07-24 Thread Chad Perrin
this. -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] Marvin Minsky: It's just incredible that a trillion-synapse computer could actually spend Saturday afternoon watching a football game. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: RE : Re: Remote Desktop tool for FreeBSD

2007-07-18 Thread Chad Perrin
if I have some help to offer. -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] Baltasar Gracian: A wise man gets more from his enemies than a fool from his friends. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: www/linux-flashplayer7 - now works with SOUND on youtube

2007-07-12 Thread Chad Perrin
libflashsupport tuned to OSS, so that shouldn't be an issue. Indeed, I just tried flash9 again, and I do get sound (the other issues with flash9 are another story) Yeah . . . Flash 9 is quite broken for me. -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] Paul Graham: Real ugliness

Re: severely OT; re PUTTY [ssh]

2007-07-08 Thread Chad Perrin
this problem with my/childrens'/wife's/dog's Windows machine... :) Oh, well that's your problem right there. Here, try FreeBSD, or maybe this MacOS X thing, instead. That should solve the problem. Isn't that the right answer to all such questions? -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http

Re: iteam - Linux project, to freeBSD team.

2007-07-06 Thread Chad Perrin
) http://www.via2b.com/iteam/produtos.asp?highlight=Downloads_and_Linksid=509 Looks good though :) It does look like it could be a fair bit of fun. -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] Brian K. Reid: In computer science, we stand on each other's feet

Re: The worst error message in history belongs to... BIND9!

2007-07-05 Thread Chad Perrin
, not GPL. -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] MacUser, Nov. 1990: There comes a time in the history of any project when it becomes necessary to shoot the engineers and begin production. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: The worst error message in history belongs to... BIND9!

2007-07-05 Thread Chad Perrin
On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 09:19:00AM -0700, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Chad Perrin Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2007 12:39 AM To: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: The worst error message in history belongs

Re: The worst error message in history belongs to... BIND9!

2007-07-04 Thread Chad Perrin
On Wed, Jul 04, 2007 at 12:26:01PM +0100, RW wrote: On Tue, 3 Jul 2007 22:05:50 -0600 Chad Perrin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 11:41:13PM -0400, Robert Huff wrote: Chad Perrin writes: Isn't Perl part of the base system these days? Perl has

Re: late filesystems and switching net configs

2007-07-04 Thread Chad Perrin
On Wed, Jul 04, 2007 at 09:50:18AM +0100, Tom Evans wrote: On Wed, 2007-07-04 at 07:59 +0200, Peter Boosten wrote: Chad Perrin wrote: I have a couple of niggling little, er, quirks that I'd like to get sorted out on my FreeBSD Thinkpad. 2. For some reason, if I use DHCP at all

Re: flash

2007-07-03 Thread Chad Perrin
to make an accessible website). Of course, with the xpi-flashblock port installed, it's almost exactly like not having Flash installed at all, most of the time. I consider that a feature, of course. -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] Rudy Giuliani: You have free speech so I

Re: The worst error message in history belongs to... BIND9!

2007-07-03 Thread Chad Perrin
these days? -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] Amazon.com interview candidate: When C++ is your hammer, everything starts to look like your thumb. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: The worst error message in history belongs to... BIND9!

2007-07-03 Thread Chad Perrin
On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 11:41:13PM -0400, Robert Huff wrote: Chad Perrin writes: Isn't Perl part of the base system these days? Perl has not been part of the base system for several years and was deprecated for some time before that. Is it part of the default install without

Re: The worst error message in history belongs to... BIND9!

2007-07-03 Thread Chad Perrin
syntaxes don't really scale well in terms of maintainability. YMMV, of course. -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] Baltasar Gracian: A wise man gets more from his enemies than a fool from his friends. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

late filesystems and switching net configs

2007-07-03 Thread Chad Perrin
of resolv.conf are correct. Any ideas about how to figure out what's going on in either case would be welcome. -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] Brian K. Reid: In computer science, we stand on each other's feet. ___ freebsd

Re: flash

2007-07-02 Thread Chad Perrin
. . . easily fixed in most cases simply by installing the xpi-flashblock port. -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] print substr(Just another Perl hacker, 0, -2); ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

[SOLVED, sort of] Re: svn+ssh over nonstandard port fails to connect

2007-06-29 Thread Chad Perrin
On Thu, Jun 28, 2007 at 04:22:55PM -0700, Christopher Cowart wrote: On Thu, Jun 28, 2007 at 04:44:10PM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: On Thu, Jun 28, 2007 at 03:10:18PM -0700, Christopher Cowart wrote: On Thu, Jun 28, 2007 at 03:45:50PM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: I'm attempting to connect

Re: [SOLVED, sort of] Re: svn+ssh over nonstandard port fails to connect

2007-06-29 Thread Chad Perrin
with -p 29934 as arguments ??? useful if you want the tunnel program to connect to a non-standard port. Reading the manual is good. Apparently, reading it *recently* -- rather than just skimming to refresh my memory -- seems to be key in this case. -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http

Re: running portupgrade -a

2007-06-29 Thread Chad Perrin
CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] W. Somerset Maugham: The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute

svn+ssh over nonstandard port fails to connect

2007-06-28 Thread Chad Perrin
is as follows: ssh: 123.45.678.90:1234: hostname nor servname provided, or not known svn: Connection closed unexpectedly Am I having a brainless moment here? What am I missing? -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] print substr(Just another Perl hacker, 0, -2

Re: svn+ssh over nonstandard port fails to connect

2007-06-28 Thread Chad Perrin
On Thu, Jun 28, 2007 at 03:10:18PM -0700, Christopher Cowart wrote: On Thu, Jun 28, 2007 at 03:45:50PM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: I'm attempting to connect to a Subversion repository via SSH using a nonstandard port to check out the repository. The names and numbers in the following have

Re: t-shirt with bsd logo

2007-06-22 Thread Chad Perrin
-- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] John W. Russell: People point. Sometimes that's just easier. They also use words. Sometimes that's just easier. For the same reasons that pointing has not made words obsolete, there will always be command lines

Re: How to see the Ram memory in freebsd 6.2

2007-06-18 Thread Chad Perrin
On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 01:21:00AM +0300, Manolis Kiagias wrote: Chad Perrin wrote: What if you just want to see how much is installed, what speed it is, et cetera? It isn't clear to me that Prakash was necessarily looking for RAM usage. True, I made a few assumptions here, based

Re: FreeBSD and Robotics

2007-06-18 Thread Chad Perrin
, not POST -- where POST stands for Power On, Self-Test and refers to that brief period at the beginning of booting before the boot manager is loaded. You know, the part where there's a screen that says IBM or AMI or something like that. -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] John W

Re: FreeBSD and Robotics

2007-06-18 Thread Chad Perrin
areas of computing from there. -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] awj @reddit: The terms never and always are never always true. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: How to see the Ram memory in freebsd 6.2

2007-06-17 Thread Chad Perrin
cetera? It isn't clear to me that Prakash was necessarily looking for RAM usage. -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] Dr. Ron Paul: Liberty has meaning only if we still believe in it when terrible things happen and a false government security blanket beckons

Re: ri doesn't seem to work

2007-06-13 Thread Chad Perrin
On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 03:06:08AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 13/06/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/06/07, Chad Perrin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No matter what I try to look up with ri (the Ruby information utility that is used to look up stuff about classes

mplayer and xmms

2007-06-13 Thread Chad Perrin
XMMS. Have things changed since the last time I ran a box with MPlayer but no XMMS? -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] Leon Festinger: A man with a conviction is a hard man to change. Tell him you disagree and he turns away. Show him facts and figures and he questions your

Re: mplayer and xmms

2007-06-13 Thread Chad Perrin
On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 01:45:37AM +0200, Nikola Lecic wrote: On Wed, 13 Jun 2007 17:32:48 -0600 Chad Perrin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm just generally curious about why XMMS is a dependency for MPlayer in FreeBSD. I accidentally uninstalled MPlayer by uninstalling XMMS, and am right

Re: ri doesn't seem to work

2007-06-13 Thread Chad Perrin
On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 10:56:30PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks much! It's working now. No, thank _you_. I had given up on making ri work myself. I'm glad it worked out for both of us, then. -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] awj @reddit: The terms

ri doesn't seem to work

2007-06-12 Thread Chad Perrin
to relate to the matter of ensuring ri has a database of information to share. What am I missing? How can I get ri working properly on FreeBSD? -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] Dr. Ron Paul: Liberty has meaning only if we still believe in it when terrible things happen

Re: New != Faster

2007-06-04 Thread Chad Perrin
On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 10:37:02PM -0500, Tim Daneliuk wrote: Maybe I'm just getting old ;) I think that goes without saying. We're *all* getting old, at exactly the same rate. Some of us got a head start, though. -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] Thomas McCauley

Re: BSD derivatives

2007-06-03 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sun, Jun 03, 2007 at 09:15:22AM +0300, Manolis Kiagias wrote: Chad Perrin wrote: I'm not saying that's what the OpenBSD project does. I'm just saying that, for instance, the availability of the ath driver contradicts a claim that security is a top priority of the FreeBSD project. Only

Re: BSD derivatives

2007-06-03 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sun, Jun 03, 2007 at 10:42:33AM +0300, Manolis Kiagias wrote: Chad Perrin wrote: On Sun, Jun 03, 2007 at 09:15:22AM +0300, Manolis Kiagias wrote: Chad Perrin wrote: I'm not saying that's what the OpenBSD project does. I'm just saying that, for instance, the availability

repear a FreeBSD install

2007-06-03 Thread Chad Perrin
be appreciated. Thanks in advance. -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] MacUser, Nov. 1990: There comes a time in the history of any project when it becomes necessary to shoot the engineers and begin production. ___ freebsd-questions

Re: repear a FreeBSD install (s/repear/repair/ -- wow, I can't spell)

2007-06-03 Thread Chad Perrin
Sorry about the typo in the title of this thread. I don't know how that happened. -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] Larry Wall: A script is what you give the actors. A program is what you give the audience. ___ freebsd

Re: repair a FreeBSD install

2007-06-03 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sun, Jun 03, 2007 at 12:34:06PM -0700, Garrett Cooper wrote: Chad Perrin wrote: Someone I know tried installing Slackware on a Thinkpad R52 to create a triple-boot system (MS Windows and FreeBSD 6.2 as the other two, already present on the system). The Slackware install didn't get very far

Re: repear a FreeBSD install

2007-06-03 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sun, Jun 03, 2007 at 02:34:28PM -0500, Kevin Kinsey wrote: Chad Perrin wrote: Someone I know tried installing Slackware on a Thinkpad R52 to create a triple-boot system (MS Windows and FreeBSD 6.2 as the other two, already present on the system). The Slackware install didn't get very far

Re: repair a FreeBSD install

2007-06-03 Thread Chad Perrin
searching in the command line. Type something like: root (hd0,2,a) GRUB doesn't recognize the partition type for some reason. There's pretty clearly something wrong with the partition, I think. -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] McCloctnick the Lucid: The first rule of magic

Re: repair a FreeBSD install

2007-06-03 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sun, Jun 03, 2007 at 09:35:36PM -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote: On Sun, Jun 03, 2007 at 01:17:00PM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: Someone I know tried installing Slackware on a Thinkpad R52 to create a triple-boot system (MS Windows and FreeBSD 6.2 as the other two, already present

Re: BSD derivatives

2007-06-02 Thread Chad Perrin
. -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] Paul Graham: Real ugliness is not harsh-looking syntax, but having to build programs out of the wrong concepts. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: BSD derivatives

2007-06-02 Thread Chad Perrin
assuming it's not installed by default. From what I've read so far, it's not -- please correct me if I'm wrong. -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] Amazon.com interview candidate: When C++ is your hammer, everything starts to look like your thumb

Re: BSD derivatives

2007-06-02 Thread Chad Perrin
are not available, your only option is trust, which is a losing proposition by definition when dealing with software. -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] print substr(Just another Perl hacker, 0, -2); ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: Java on the BSD Desktop?

2007-05-29 Thread Chad Perrin
that effectively perpetual runtimes become more efficient. Of course, that has nothing to do with desktop GUI application development, and everything to do with mission critical server use. -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] Rudy Giuliani: You have free speech so I can be heard

difference between c89 and c99

2007-05-29 Thread Chad Perrin
projects? Please don't necessarily limit yourself to these questions if/when you choose to give me an answer. -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] Paul Graham: Real ugliness is not harsh-looking syntax, but having to build programs out of the wrong concepts

Re: just general questions about fbsd

2007-05-21 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 11:48:32PM -0700, Garrett Cooper wrote: Chad Perrin wrote: On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 08:09:19PM -0400, Tamouh H. wrote: On the other hand, Windows has the ability to change the administrator user or completely disable it. Something not available in Unix systems

Re: just general questions about fbsd

2007-05-20 Thread Chad Perrin
ways, be disabled. They can certainly be made inaccessible remotely. -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] W. Somerset Maugham: The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: dual monitors?

2007-05-09 Thread Chad Perrin
trying to get as many examples of xorg.conf files that *do* work with the various pieces of hardware in this laptop as possible to suss out the perfect xorg.conf for it. -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] MacUser, Nov. 1990: There comes a time in the history of any project

Re: WOW! {Or Holy whatever}

2007-05-09 Thread Chad Perrin
information about each of them. Try the following: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VGA http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SVGA http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EVGA -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] Ben Franklin: As we enjoy great Advantages from the Inventions of others we should

Radeon 3D acceleration support

2007-05-04 Thread Chad Perrin
appreciate it if someone would point me in the right direction. -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] Larry Wall: A script is what you give the actors. A program is what you give the audience. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: music-generator for FreeBSD?

2007-04-30 Thread Chad Perrin
very short :-) ---They get more than a bit **annoying** after 20 sec :-|. Tell us about what you found, please. I, for one, am interested in music production on FreeBSD, and something using a Logo-based notation syntax sounds really interesting. -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http

CLI filesystem format tool

2007-04-29 Thread Chad Perrin
: command /dev/ad0s3 fstype -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] print substr(Just another Perl hacker, 0, -2); ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: CLI filesystem format tool

2007-04-29 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 06:16:39PM -0400, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 03:53:19PM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: Is there a simple command line tool in FreeBSD for creating a filesystem on an already extant slice? I'm working on a system with three main slices -- ad0s1, ad0s2

Re: CLI filesystem format tool

2007-04-29 Thread Chad Perrin
if you named it d: Then, just edit /etc/fstab to make it mount at boot time and mount it up. If you already have stuff in /home, then you will need to make one of them a temporary mount somewhere to move stuff over. Thanks for the advice. -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org

controlling the wireless interface

2007-04-27 Thread Chad Perrin
Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] McCloctnick the Lucid: The first rule of magic is simple. Don't waste your time waving your hands and hopping when a rock or a club will do. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: controlling the wireless interface [fixed -- ignore]

2007-04-27 Thread Chad Perrin
On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 05:08:28PM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: I've gotten the wireless interface on a Thinkpad R52 working from the instructions in the FreeBSD Handbook: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-wireless.html Unfortunately, I seem to have run

Re: Wikipedia's perfection (was Re: Discussion of the relative advantages/disadvantages of PAE (was Re: Memory 3.5GB not used?))

2007-04-26 Thread Chad Perrin
trying to get a reaction, I think the technical term is actually trolling. -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] print substr(Just another Perl hacker, 0, -2); ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: Tagging email subject line with something like [fbsd-questions]

2007-04-26 Thread Chad Perrin
On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 08:03:19PM +0100, N.J. Mann wrote: On Wednesday, 25 April, 2007 at 15:44:20 -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: [...] I fully expect that there isn't really an answer aside from using mutt's list subscription functionality, which unfortunately overwrites the name or email

Re: Wikipedia's perfection (was Re: Discussion of the relative advantages/disadvantages of PAE (was Re: Memory 3.5GB not used?))

2007-04-26 Thread Chad Perrin
On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 01:48:46PM -0400, Bill Moran wrote: In response to Chad Perrin [EMAIL PROTECTED]: If you had provided the guy's Wikipedia account, we'd be able to check *your* sources -- wouldn't we? As long as you don't tell us the necessary information for checking up

Re: Tagging email subject line with something like [fbsd-questions]

2007-04-26 Thread Chad Perrin
. :-) Yeah, that makes a big difference. For me, filtering into separate mailboxes would just ensure that I end up ignoring some of my mailing lists for long periods of time. -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] Dr. Ron Paul: Liberty has meaning only if we still believe in it when

fusefs-sshfs fails to compile

2007-04-26 Thread Chad Perrin
is posted online at: http://sob.apotheon.org/files/sshfs.fail.txt Thanks in advance for any help. -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit. - W. Somerset Maugham ___ freebsd

Re: reply

2007-04-26 Thread Chad Perrin
On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 09:30:35AM +0530, cool guy wrote: i want information like diff b/w linux/unix/sco-unix.. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_operating_systems That should get you started. -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org

Re: Wikipedia's perfection (was Re: Discussion of the relative advantages/disadvantages of PAE (was Re: Memory 3.5GB not used?))

2007-04-25 Thread Chad Perrin
. That professor should have his Wikipedia account banned, and the head of his department should be informed of his vandalism. I don't suppose you know the name of his Wikipedia account, or his legal name. . . . -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] The ability to quote

Re: Wikipedia's perfection (was Re: Discussion of the relative advantages/disadvantages of PAE (was Re: Memory 3.5GB not used?))

2007-04-25 Thread Chad Perrin
On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 03:29:04PM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote: On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 01:15:03PM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: No kidding. That professor should have his Wikipedia account banned, and the head of his department should be informed of his vandalism. I don't suppose you know

Re: Tagging email subject line with something like [fbsd-questions]

2007-04-25 Thread Chad Perrin
are already tagged with a List-ID e.g. List-Id: User questions freebsd-questions.freebsd.org Can gmail not filter on that? Do you have any suggestions for how to do something similar with mutt or procmail? -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] A script is what you give

Re: can't add any new users

2007-04-25 Thread Chad Perrin
, then adding it back again -- same problem. Any ideas? That sounds more like a problem with su than with the account. -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] There comes a time in the history of any project when it becomes necessary to shoot the engineers and begin production

Re: Tagging email subject line with something like [fbsd-questions]

2007-04-25 Thread Chad Perrin
to change subject lines on a mailing list, so using procmail to add [fbsdq] (or whatever) to the beginning of every subject line doesn't really strike me as a good solution to the problem. -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] Amazon.com interview candidate: When C++ is your

Re: Tagging email subject line with something like [fbsd-questions]

2007-04-25 Thread Chad Perrin
On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 10:03:05PM +0100, N.J. Mann wrote: On Wednesday, 25 April, 2007 at 14:47:30 -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 09:30:42PM +0100, N.J. Mann wrote: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mail-procmail.html I wasn't referring

Re: Tagging email subject line with something like [fbsd-questions]

2007-04-25 Thread Chad Perrin
On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 03:37:41PM -0600, Warren Block wrote: On Wed, 25 Apr 2007, Chad Perrin wrote: On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 02:53:40PM +0100, Alex Zbyslaw wrote: All messages are already tagged with a List-ID e.g. List-Id: User questions freebsd-questions.freebsd.org Do you have

Re: Tagging email subject line with something like [fbsd-questions]

2007-04-25 Thread Chad Perrin
are using maildir there is a solution, but the action is different. I'm using mbox, so no worries. Again, thank you. I really appreciate it. -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] Real ugliness is not harsh-looking syntax, but having to build programs out of the wrong concepts

Re: Tagging email subject line with something like [fbsd-questions]

2007-04-25 Thread Chad Perrin
On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 03:44:20PM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: I fully expect that there isn't really an answer aside from using mutt's list subscription functionality, which unfortunately overwrites the name or email of the original sender in the diplay. Color me surprised. N. J. Mann

Re: Tagging email subject line with something like [fbsd-questions]

2007-04-25 Thread Chad Perrin
the subject or b) the client response as such: Re: [FBSDQ] Re: [FBSDQ] bla bla bla Since the list is what would attach [FBSDQ] to the subject, it would be the list that wasn't behaving itself if that happened. -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] There comes a time

Re: I like Ubuntu

2007-04-19 Thread Chad Perrin
to the list in CC, and if not, forward them to the list if you don't mind. -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] unix virus: If you're using a unixlike OS, please forward this to 20 others and erase your system partition. ___ freebsd

Re: I like Ubuntu

2007-04-19 Thread Chad Perrin
On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 11:44:02AM -0700, Chuck Swiger wrote: On Apr 19, 2007, at 11:34 AM, Chad Perrin wrote: I just accidentally sent some responses to comments in various parts of this discussion thread that targeted only the individual people who sent the emails to which I responded

Re: I like Ubuntu

2007-04-19 Thread Chad Perrin
On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 03:16:28PM -0500, Jeffrey Goldberg wrote: [mailed (but cc line trimmed) and posted] On Apr 19, 2007, at 1:34 PM, Chad Perrin wrote: Any who get emails from me in this thread today, please check to see if they were addressed to the list in CC, and if not, forward

Re: I like Ubuntu

2007-04-19 Thread Chad Perrin
On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 01:51:34PM -0700, Chuck Swiger wrote: On Apr 19, 2007, at 1:14 PM, Chad Perrin wrote: [ ...diatribe deleted... ] Is that clear enough for you? I'm not an imbecile that doesn't know how to use email, and I'm not using a mail client circa 1884 either. Several

Re: keeping all things up to date

2007-04-17 Thread Chad Perrin
right. -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out. - Thomas McCauley ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: keeping all things up to date

2007-04-17 Thread Chad Perrin
give it back to you for your own use). -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] Real ugliness is not harsh-looking syntax, but having to build programs out of the wrong concepts. - Paul Graham ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: Virally licensed code in FreeBSD kernel

2007-04-16 Thread Chad Perrin
On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 11:50:22AM -0500, Erik Osterholm wrote: On Sun, Apr 15, 2007 at 11:52:04AM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: On Sat

Re: GUI

2007-04-16 Thread Chad Perrin
is that you don't know how to get X started, try logging into the TTY console and entering the startx command. If the problem is that X is broken, you need more help than this. -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] unix virus: If you're using a unixlike OS, please forward

Re: Virally licensed code in FreeBSD kernel

2007-04-15 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sat, Apr 14, 2007 at 03:46:31PM -0500, Erik Osterholm wrote: On Sat, Apr 14, 2007 at 02:36:24PM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote

Re: Virally licensed code in FreeBSD kernel

2007-04-15 Thread Chad Perrin
otherwise. See above, re the fact that even if the rest of the code isn't then covered by the CDDL the binary is still subject to a source distribution obligation according to the license terms. -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] Ben Franklin: As we enjoy great Advantages

Re: Virally licensed code in FreeBSD kernel

2007-04-15 Thread Chad Perrin
to do with the discussion at hand -- namely, what terms the CDDL imposes under various circumstances, particularly circumstances related to ZFS support in FreeBSD. -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] Brian K. Reid: In computer science, we stand on each other's feet

Re: test

2007-04-14 Thread Chad Perrin
used to think I was indecisive, but now I'm reconsidering that position. I plan to stop procrastinating on making a decision about that tomorrow. -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] print substr(Just another Perl hacker, 0, -2

Re: I like Ubuntu

2007-04-14 Thread Chad Perrin
CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] Amazon.com interview candidate: When C++ is your hammer, everything starts to look like your thumb. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe

Re: Virally licensed code in FreeBSD kernel

2007-04-14 Thread Chad Perrin
. -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] A script is what you give the actors. A program is what you give the audience. - Larry Wall ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: I like Ubuntu

2007-04-14 Thread Chad Perrin
experiences with APT and the ports tree that provide a clearer picture of why you have arrived at these conclusions? I'm curious, and would like to know if there are problems ahead of which I should be aware. -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] The measure of a man's real character

Re: I like Ubuntu

2007-04-14 Thread Chad Perrin
infopages, but that's me. It's not just you. I loathe the damned things. That's really the only problem I've ever had with Debian documentation -- for current and complete documentation, once in a while you have to look at the infopage instead of a manpage. -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http

Re: I like Ubuntu

2007-04-14 Thread Chad Perrin
that learning more OSes can make one a far better admin in the OSes one already knew, in a manner similar to the way learning Haskell, Lisp, or Smalltalk can make one a better C, Java, or Perl programmer. -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] Ben Franklin: As we enjoy great Advantages from

Re: Virally licensed code in FreeBSD kernel

2007-04-14 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sat, Apr 14, 2007 at 09:09:46PM +0200, Philipp Wuensche wrote: Chad Perrin wrote: On Sat, Apr 14, 2007 at 06:55:39PM +0200, Philipp Wuensche wrote: Brett Glass wrote: So CDDL does not require to license add-ons under CDDL, GPL does. In this terms, FreeBSD is basically an add

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