Re: Top posting

2004-03-19 Thread Charles McManis
Perhaps it isn't "logical", if you've read all the email then the quoted thread is just reference anyway. This is the "new stuff". I love being able to read mail in the preview-pane vs "next message" , jump to the bottom, "next message" jump to the bottom. It comes down to opinion I think --Chu

Re: New Users Learning FreeBSD

2004-03-05 Thread Charles McManis
My less than complimentary thought is that they all suck, but that's only because 99% of the developers who are writing code for *Linux/*BSD don't really care about the "new user experience." They care about whatever it is they are developing. Thus the difference between say "standard install"

Re: Followup on KDE 3.2 and 4-STABLE

2004-03-04 Thread Charles McManis
not write, but simply tried to recompile. (lots of that sort of chatter when you're building KDE in ports for example) It offends my sense of style but as most people cheerfully point out, "its harmless." --Chuck On Thursday 04 March 2004 17:08, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Th

Followup on KDE 3.2 and 4-STABLE

2004-03-04 Thread Charles McManis
Well I finally have KDE3.2 on my system, however to get it there required an install of 4.9. The backstory: I was running 4.8 + KDE3.1, wanted to upgrade to KDE3.2. No amount of portupgrading/rebuilding/package fetching seemed to get me past KDE 3.1. By the time I was done I had to do a pkg_del

Re: Can one compile khello.cc ?

2004-03-02 Thread Charles McManis
Thanks Scott for some patient steps toward getting things going. It took many additional steps, but I think I've finally got it going ... to wit: On Tuesday 02 March 2004 16:19, Scott W wrote: > If you have a pointer to the KDE tutorial/code you're using, may be of > more help, but here's a quick

Can one compile khello.cc ?

2004-03-02 Thread Charles McManis
Ok, so this is now officially weird. I decided to try to compile khello.cc from the KDE tutorial on my 4.8 system that has never had me attempt to upgrade KDE on it. When I compile khello.cc, it compiles fine, when I link it I get this: -snip-

Re: FreeBSD filesystem performance in Enterprise

2004-03-01 Thread Charles McManis
FFS is fine, until you crash. Generally a FreeBSD machine with FFS and Softdeps can keep up, the challenge comes when you have to fsck everything to get back from a crash. That is why things like LFS et alia are useful. For things like mail directories the problem can be partitioned into dozen

Re: qmail error

2004-03-01 Thread Charles McManis
The protections are wrong on the mail directory. Qmail is very picky about those. I believe they have to be 600 or 644. See the install docs for details. Alternatively the Maildir might not exist, what is in the .qmail file of that user? --Chuck On Monday 01 March 2004 11:58, Brian Henning wr