Re: Setup HP Laserjet 1120m over network with LPD

2013-08-18 Thread Chris Hill
:\ --- ^ That backslash needs to go, for one thing. The backslash indicates continuation on the next line, but I don't know what would happen if there is no next line. In other words, the last line should NOT end with a backslash. HTH. -- Chris Hill ch...@monochrom

Re: learn

2013-08-07 Thread Chris Hill
hesitate to order one for reasonable price of 20-30 USD https://www.freebsdmall.com/cgi-bin/fm/scan/fi=prod_bsd/tf=list_order/sf=category/se=shirts?id=bipk46TB&mv_pc=267 FreeBSD Mall, then "shirts and jackets". They cost a little more than that, though. -- Chris Hill

Re: Can sasl/sendmail Report IP Of Failed Access?

2013-06-04 Thread Chris Hill
. That sounds incredibly useful. Can you post it somewhere? -- Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: Test

2013-06-01 Thread Chris Hill
* + < email: n...@hdk5.net > "All that's really worth doing is what we do for others."- Lewis Carrol -- Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.

Re: day light saving time happened today

2013-03-10 Thread Chris Hill
On Sun, 10 Mar 2013, Fbsd8 wrote: date command shows Sun Mar 10 16:50:33 EDT 2013 Very odd that your clock would be off by *two* hours. The real question is does New York State have day light saving time? Yes, it does. I lived there for many years. -- Chris Hill ch

Re: How to achieve E-Mail Notification on root login?

2013-02-12 Thread Chris Hill
On Tue, 12 Feb 2013, Zyumbilev, Peter wrote: Allow "sudo bash" only. The OP didn't want to use sudo because it's not in the base system. I would guess he also doesn't want to use bash, since it too is not in the base system. [ snip ] -- Chris Hill

Re: mount: /dev/da0p1: Invalid argument

2013-02-08 Thread Chris Hill
seems like it's most likely to be usable by the largest number of different platforms. -- Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/m

Re: who am i logged in as

2013-01-27 Thread Chris Hill
@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" -- Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org ** [ Busy

Re: sh script code to get file size.

2013-01-18 Thread Chris Hill
spaces: one being the space that's being escaped to make it the delimiter, the other to separate the options. The number after the '-f' determines which "field" of the output is displayed, which may vary. HTH. -- Chris Hill

Re: static ip address and ifconfig

2012-12-29 Thread Chris Hill
erfaces). Instead of ifconfig_xl0="DHCP" in rc.conf, you might have ifconfig_xl0="123.456.789.16 255.255.255.128" or some such. HTH. -- Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging ] ___ fr

Re: FreeBSD as an Access Point

2012-12-21 Thread Chris Hill
amount of wi-fi at clients' sites. The access points we like are Pakedge brand. These are solid, high-powered industrial-grade equipment, and in your price range. For what it's worth. -- Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org ** [ Busy

Re: Problem with connecting FreeBSD 8.3 to wireless network

2012-10-28 Thread Chris Hill
s Communications Inc.' class = network The 'none..' tells you that no driver was attached to the device. I suspect that Alexander Kapshuk's reply is relevant here: that your Atheros card is not supported by the driver. I know it's not much help, but

Re: Why can't I set my cpu type in kernel config ?

2012-08-06 Thread Chris Hill
he amd64 (64-bit) GENERIC Jason: It looks like you may have installed the 64-bit distribution on your 32-bit machine. Try fetching the distribution again (and re-burning the CD, or whatever your media was). This time get the "i386" version. That's what you want for a Pentium.

Re: how to speed up port make??

2012-07-26 Thread Chris Hill
On Wed, 25 Jul 2012, Ryan Noll wrote: Does anyone else remember "The Complete FreeBSD"? I'm looking right at it on the shelf here. "Second Edition - over 1750 pages!". It is *bristling* with post-it notes used as bookmarks. -- Chris Hill

Re: usb identity issue

2012-07-23 Thread Chris Hill
u see from `ls /dev`) in your mount command. Try a few permutations. HTH, and maika'i pomaika'i. -- Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org ma

Re: fsck on FAT32 filesystem?

2012-07-16 Thread Chris Hill
SpinRite. I'd be interested to know if they are all deluded, because I've been thinking of buying it. -- Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: No surround sound with Creative SB Live! card

2012-06-14 Thread Chris Hill
like a 2.1 Adding -channels 6 to the mplayer args does not help. Does the DVD source material actually have 5.1 sound? Silly question, I know, but it has to be asked. You may also want to pose this question to multimedia@ -- Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org **

Re: find date of last boot

2012-06-07 Thread Chris Hill
On Thu, 7 Jun 2012, Chris wrote: On 6/7/2012 8:14 PM, Chris Hill wrote: On Thu, 7 Jun 2012, Fbsd8 wrote: dmesg command does not show date of last boot. Are there some other commands to find date of last boot? That was fun. Google helped me with this; the crappy skillz are all mine

Re: find date of last boot

2012-06-07 Thread Chris Hill
"%Y-%m-%d",duh)}'` echo "Last boot on ${BOOT_DATE}" --- cut here --- Example from this machine: $ ./boot_date.sh Last boot on 2010-12-26 $ Enjoy. -- Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging ] _

Re: find date of last boot

2012-06-07 Thread Chris Hill
On Thu, 7 Jun 2012, Fbsd8 wrote: dmesg command does not show date of last boot. Are there some other commands to find date of last boot? Perhaps somehow subtract `uptime` from today's date? -- Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expu

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

2012-06-05 Thread Chris Hill
estriction encompasses most or all desktop and server hardware. This would be over a period of years. -- Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: djvu viewers from ports or add capability to view to xpdf, gv or other

2012-05-10 Thread Chris Hill
? You can install the port "ImageMagick" with support for djvu format. To view a file, simply call "display ". Not tested. Be aware that ImageMagick is the opposite of small. -- Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org **

Re: help debug bwn(4) wireless

2012-05-05 Thread Chris Hill
" about O'Reilly. Everything of theirs that I have seen has been excellent. [snip] -- Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.fre

Re: Printer recommendation please

2012-03-30 Thread Chris Hill
S, no drivers, no ghostscript, no filters. -- Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubs

Re: Vivaldi Tablet

2012-03-28 Thread Chris Hill
On Wed, 28 Mar 2012, Mike Jeays wrote: I saw a demo of a device about 30 years ago that you held in one hand. It had about five buttons positioned under your fingers, and various combinations would produce all the regular characters. Sounds like learning to play the saxophone. -- Chris Hill

Re: mount options display (detailed)

2012-02-24 Thread Chris Hill
the -v option. 'mount -p' shows me something that looks a lot like my own /etc/fstab. It appears to be showing me what's mounted right now, but it does not display any mount options. This is on 8.0-STABLE; maybe things have changed in the Brave New World of Nine. -- Chris

Re: Email issues, relay failure

2012-02-24 Thread Chris Hill
.mydomain.com Escape character is '^]'. 220 remote_machine.mydomain.com ESMTP Sendmail 8.14.3/8.14.3; Fri, 24 Feb 2012 19:44:05 -0500 (EST) Note the 'Sendmail'. I don't have a postfix server handy, but presumably it would not emit the S word. --

Re: One or Four?

2012-02-17 Thread Chris Hill
. This, or something very similar, seems to me like the best way to go. I am not a professional sysadmin, but have been using FreeBSD since 2.2.6. FWIW, I prefer the multi-partition approach for all the reasons already mentioned. -- Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org

Re: Revision control advice

2011-12-24 Thread Chris Hill
On Wed, 21 Dec 2011, Chris Hill wrote: I'm looking to set up some sort of revision control system at work. Thank you to everyone who replied. Based on what I've found out, I think I will be setting up git on a test server so I can get familiar with it. Thanks again, and a happy $

Revision control advice

2011-12-21 Thread Chris Hill
hich looks like the heavy hitter of RCSs, but it's not at all clear to me how to handle the multiple-project scenario. Still working on it. - git looks promising, but I have not installed it yet. If anyone can point me to a tool that might be suitable, I would be most grateful. -- Chris

Re: Playing .ASX files via/within Firefox ?

2011-12-07 Thread Chris Hill
at I see is mplayer-plugin starting, then buffering, then a blue rectangle. The "live camera" link is what goes to the .asx, which is what the OP was asking about. -- Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging ] _

Re: operapluginwraper

2011-11-08 Thread Chris Hill
st a moment ago. HTH. -- Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any m

Re: "dvd1" in CD image names? (was Re: FreeBSD 9.0-BETA3 available here)

2011-09-30 Thread Chris Hill
of the full CD images? These *are* CD, not DVD images, aren't they? They are ISOs. You can burn them to either a CD or a DVD, since they are small enough to fit on a CD. -- Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org **

Re: How to check current port options before updating

2011-08-31 Thread Chris Hill
x27;d appreciate if you can point me to a reference or a command that does it. Will "make config" show it? make showconfig -- Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.o

Re: wlan setup

2011-08-30 Thread Chris Hill
does not get an IP. Not to belabor the obvious, but do you have a working DHCP server available to the WAP? -- Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

RE: First World (Was: What dialup modem WILL work with 8.x and uart?)

2011-08-22 Thread Chris Hill
the sender by return email and delete this email from your system." ___ 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" -- Chris

Re: extracting text from docx files

2011-08-09 Thread Chris Hill
like a monster of a package, so I'm not sure. Maybe an online service? If you don't have too many to convert at one time, and there's nothing secret in them, you could try http://www.doc2pdf.net/ - I've never used it, so caveat clicktor. -- Chris Hill

Re: FreeBSD on IBM 3630

2011-06-14 Thread Chris Hill
sd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" -- Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: RAM needed for DHCP + router?

2011-05-27 Thread Chris Hill
On Fri, 27 May 2011, Jaime Kikpole wrote: On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 7:46 PM, Chris Hill wrote: I'm looking to build a NAT / DHCP box for a lab network for my company. My question is, how do I estimate the amount of RAM the machine will need? FWIW, I can tell you some experiences that I&#

Re: RAM needed for DHCP + router?

2011-05-26 Thread Chris Hill
Message - From: Chris Hill [mailto:ch...@monochrome.org] Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2011 06:46 PM To: FreeBSD Questions List Subject: RAM needed for DHCP + router? Hello list, I'm looking to build a NAT / DHCP box for a lab network for my company. My question is, how do I estimate the amou

RAM needed for DHCP + router?

2011-05-26 Thread Chris Hill
depending on how much memory it looks like I'll need. I may also install webmin for the benefit of my computer-literate-but-not-unix-savvy coworkers. Thanks! -- Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org ** [

Re: fix an audio conversion script to work through multiple directories and convert mp3s to ogg vorbis

2011-05-08 Thread Chris Hill
On Sun, 8 May 2011, Antonio Olivares wrote: On Sat, May 7, 2011 at 4:03 PM, Chris Hill wrote: On Sat, 7 May 2011, Antonio Olivares wrote: My question is the following: How can I run the script to recursively find all mp3's and convert them to ogg vorbis(with ogg extension already in

Re: fix an audio conversion script to work through multiple directories and convert mp3s to ogg vorbis

2011-05-07 Thread Chris Hill
ur needs. HTH. -- Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to &qu

Unix basics (was Re: For My Edification)

2011-05-02 Thread Chris Hill
'm typing this on an old Dell that I bought on ebay. 2. Is it possible to link my Windows laptop to a web server with Unix or FreeBSD and exercise Unix/Linux commands. If so, how is that done? The server's admin would have to give you a shell account. Most commercial ISPs

RE: Suddenly lots processes exits signal 11 (core dumped)

2011-04-27 Thread Chris Hill
Devin, Thanks for the reply. Info inline. On Tue, 26 Apr 2011, Devin Teske wrote: -Original Message- From: Chris Hill [mailto:ch...@monochrome.org] Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2011 4:51 PM To: Devin Teske Cc: david.robi...@fisglobal.com; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Teske, Devin

RE: Suddenly lots processes exits signal 11 (core dumped)

2011-04-26 Thread Chris Hill
, assuming `da5' is your thumb drive tripel# echo "p 2 0x0c * *" | fdisk -f - /dev/da0 *** Working on device /dev/da0 *** fdisk: Class not found tripel# Any notion why? `man fdisk` isn't much help. Thanks. -- Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org **

Re: grep: write error: Broken pipe

2011-03-06 Thread Chris Hill
, maybe you can answer *my* question next time :^) -- Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To un

Re: android

2011-02-14 Thread Chris Hill
? Your phone might be similar to my HTC Evo. In the phone, I had to go to Settings -> Connect to PC and set 'Default connection type' to 'Disk drive'. Once I did that, I could mount the phone in the same manner as a thumb drive. HTH. -- Chris Hill

Re: Is there a 'Y' (i.e. branch) version of a command pipe?

2011-01-08 Thread Chris Hill
so send it to another command for processing. tee(1)? [snip] -- Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging <|> ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/f

Re: Installer program for FreeBSD-9.0?

2010-12-07 Thread Chris Hill
x27;s downright impenetrable to someone who has never seen it before. With ee, a newb has a fighting chance. -- Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging <|> ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailin

Re: Digital camera (Canon)

2010-11-27 Thread Chris Hill
group usb add path 'da*s*' mode 0660 group usb # # 20091231: added the following for 8.0, since usb is handled # differently now. Hoping this will make gtkam work. add path 'usb/*' mode 0660 group usb HTH... -- Chris Hill ch...@monochrom

Re: hostname

2010-10-30 Thread Chris Hill
mmediately by typing hostname putyourhostnamehere as root, substituting your desired host name for putyourhostnamehere. Also see `man hostname`. Note, this is *in addition to* editing rc.conf. The hostname command sets the hostname right now, and rc.conf makes it happen on each boot. -- Chris H

Re: how now [green] KDE?

2010-10-10 Thread Chris Hill
that gets created by the xorg install process. Don't know what you would need for KDE, but I would hope the package/port would create a default version of whatever you need. Hope it goes well! -- Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org ** [

Re: X11 question

2010-08-12 Thread Chris Hill
iling list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" -- Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging <|> ] ___

RE:resize freebsd slice

2010-06-11 Thread Chris Hill
: Cannot open output "/mnt/hd/FBSD/". DUMP: Do you want to retry the open?: ("yes" or "no") i tried to reopen the output but it had no effect. Is there a filesystem at /mnt/hd/FBSD/? Please show us the output of the df command. -- Chris Hill ch...@mono

Re: office apps

2010-06-07 Thread Chris Hill
it's in word format! And Word really can open the file, so... -- Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging <|> ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailma

Re: unexpected operator .sh error

2010-05-31 Thread Chris Hill
thing like if [ x=y ] ... The open-square-bracket, [, is another name for test. IIRC the equal sign is not valid in that context. Can you post the 'before' and 'after' versions of that part of your script? It would help us in determining what the problem is. -- Ch

Re: Very simple file sharing between FreeBSD server and windows client ?

2010-05-10 Thread Chris Hill
ients, NASbackup for the Windows ones. -- Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging <|> ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubs

Re: .Xmodmap problems after upgrading to Xorg 7.5

2010-05-07 Thread Chris Hill
ove Control = Control_L keysym Control_L = Caps_Lock keysym Caps_Lock = Control_L add Lock = Caps_Lock add Control = Control_L [snip] HTH. -- Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging <|> ] ___ freebsd-que

Re: Addition to BSDstats

2010-05-05 Thread Chris Hill
It also seems odd that I, personally, as a home user, should be responsible for about 3% of the bsdstats-reporting FreeBSD machines in the US. (3 hosts out of 101) Just wondering. -- Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging <|> ]

Re: booting??

2010-05-05 Thread Chris Hill
were rewritable DVDs you're working with. Not saying you're that dumb, but *I* am that dumb so it's the sort of thing I might have overlooked. Also, make sure that (assuming they are rewritable) they are the right kind for your drive: the "plus" and "minus"

Re: Network laser printcap

2010-04-24 Thread Chris Hill
rJet 4550N:\ :sh:\ :sd=/var/spool/output/lpd:\ :mx#0:\ :lp=:rm=snowball:rp="auto": ...snowball is the printer's hostname. -- Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging <|> ] __

Re: how to use cdrecord

2010-03-13 Thread Chris Hill
after dev= depend on where your burner is; find it using cdrecord -scanbus HTH. -- Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging <|> ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/

Re: RS232 / TCP converter and BSD.

2010-03-04 Thread Chris Hill
et goes through the RS232 port. There is an embedded web server for configuration. I don't know what the pricing is on these things, but I'm sure they are not cheap (being Extron and all). But they are easy to use, work right and don't break. Just my opinion; hope this helps

Re: Virtualbox on Freebsd

2010-03-03 Thread Chris Hill
...last summer. I have not tried it, just saying it's there. -- Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging <|> ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listi

Re: zfs on 8.0-RELEASE

2009-11-28 Thread Chris Hill
On Sat, 28 Nov 2009, Victor Lyapunov wrote: I wanted to ask a simple question, is ZFS now ready to be used on production systems? From Thursday's announcement: - ZFS no longer in experimental status ...so I would guess the answer is 'yes'. -- Chris Hill

Re: Wifi Router and FreeeBSD - need some hints..

2009-10-25 Thread Chris Hill
ssword), all I've ever done is set up the wireless channel, SSID and encryption (type and key). HTH. -- Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging <|> ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: NTP Client synchronization with a Windows 2003/2008

2009-10-14 Thread Chris Hill
may pipe up... Can you not set the clock manually, then let ntpd take it from there? Seems like your clock would become synced a lot faster if it started out "close". Sorry if I'm being naive, but this seemed like the obvious thing to do. -- Chris Hill ch...

Re: Updating the ports collection

2009-10-06 Thread Chris Hill
rt applies to me, but it might not for you; see the man page. -- Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging <|> ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/fr

Re: DVD-R not recording .iso

2009-09-09 Thread Chris Hill
o idea what somebody on the BSD forum said :^) HTH. Hang loose. -- Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging <|> ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/lis

Re: Looking for fast graphical web browser

2009-08-10 Thread Chris Hill
On Fri, 7 Aug 2009, Chad Perrin wrote: On Mon, Aug 03, 2009 at 08:27:34AM -0400, Chris Hill wrote: Firefox has not had Ctrl-Q for some time. Try Alt-F followed by Q. I guess that's 2.5 keystrokes, but at least it's keystrokes. What version number would you call "some time&quo

Re: Looking for fast graphical web browser

2009-08-03 Thread Chris Hill
Negative for firefox-2.0.0.12,1 (on my desktop system) - no Ctrl+Q. :-) Firefox has not had Ctrl-Q for some time. Try Alt-F followed by Q. I guess that's 2.5 keystrokes, but at least it's keystrokes. -- Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org **

Re: need network printer printcap example

2009-06-11 Thread Chris Hill
output/lpd:\ :mx#0:\ :lp=:rm=snowball:rp="auto": The printer's hostname is snowball, resolved via /etc/hosts at first and now via internal DNS. This printer understands Postscript and plain text, and has always Just Worked with no CUPS, filters or any of that stuf

Re: RTL8111-GR driver for FreeBSD6.4

2009-05-27 Thread Chris Hill
ernet card from the parts bin. For reference, you can find man pages for many BSDs (and others) at http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi - for FreeBSD, this covers 7.2-RELEASE back to 1.0-RELEASE. HTH. -- Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expu

Re: Java without CUPS

2009-05-21 Thread Chris Hill
On Thu, 7 May 2009, Polytropon wrote: On Wed, 6 May 2009 22:34:52 -0400 (EDT), Chris Hill wrote: I know that, since my printer speaks Postscript, I don't need CUPS. But some of the ports I'm installing want to install CUPS as a dependency. The first one I happened across was

Java without CUPS

2009-05-06 Thread Chris Hill
eal, but I'd like to stay CUPS-free if possible. Thanks very much for any insight. $ uname -mv FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE #0: Fri May 1 08:49:13 UTC 2009 r...@walker.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 -- Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org

Re: Portsnap vs CSup

2009-03-19 Thread Chris Hill
-STABLE? That is exactly what it's saying. (You would not believe how long the make world process takes on a Pentium 200!!) I believe it; been there! I seem to recall it went something like 'start the buildworld and go to bed'. -- Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org

Re: is there a laptop ?

2009-03-12 Thread Chris Hill
'cause this is OT anyway ] -- Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging <|> ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe,

Re: USENET?

2009-03-08 Thread Chris Hill
don't seem to routinely offer it as part of the deal anymore like they used to. HTH. -- Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging <|> ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.fre

Re: Recommendations on reliable home fileserver hardware?

2009-01-18 Thread Chris Hill
l.com/support/edocs/systems/opgx150/sm_en/smdsktp.htm ..and the user guide at http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/opgx150/en/ug/index.htm Anyway, I've had good luck so far with Dell desktop hardware; it seems to be well-made, easy to work with and QUIET. Check it out if you can get a m

Re: Nice web interface or music?

2009-01-01 Thread Chris Hill
Please keep the list cc'd since others may know more than I do. On Thu, 1 Jan 2009, stan wrote: On Thu, Jan 01, 2009 at 04:29:18PM -0500, Chris Hill wrote: Sorry for the brevity earlier. The squeezecenter software is intended for use in supporting the Squeezebox family of hardware

Re: Nice web interface or music?

2009-01-01 Thread Chris Hill
On Thu, 1 Jan 2009, stan wrote: On Thu, Jan 01, 2009 at 03:29:05PM -0500, Chris Hill wrote: On Thu, 1 Jan 2009, stan wrote: I's like to set up my MP3's so that I can access them from the web server on my Free-BSD 7.1 machine. Is there a port, that provides a nice interface to this

Re: Nice web interface or music?

2009-01-01 Thread Chris Hill
I like audio/squeezecenter. -- Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging <|> ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

Re: Image Programs

2008-12-04 Thread Chris Hill
xv works just fine for me (/usr/ports/graphics/xv or http://www.trilon.com/xv/) BTW these are not part of FreeBSD, but developed and maintained by third parties. HTH. -- Chris Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] **

Re: repair v.7 installation

2008-11-28 Thread Chris Hill
y tools before abandoning the system. Check their website and see if they don't have a bootable ISO with some sort of disk tools. HTH, and good luck. -- Chris Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** [ Busy Expunging <|> ] __

Replace XP with FreeBSD (was Re: (no subject))

2008-11-06 Thread Chris Hill
no business sense, and can't comment on the model. But I can say that you'd be hard-pressed to find a better server platform than FreeBSD. HTH, and good luck with the plan. -- Chris Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** [ Busy Expunging <|> ] _

Re: audio streaming without kmplayer, etc???

2008-10-26 Thread Chris Hill
tanding the question, but mplayer-plugin has worked under Firefox for a long time now. If you have a URL, I can try it from here. -- Chris Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** [ Busy Expunging <|> ] ___ freebsd-questions@fre

Re: automagically share knoqueror with ff3-- bookmarks?

2008-09-12 Thread Chris Hill
illa way was to store bookmarks as an HTML file, e.g. ~/.mozilla/default/xc43whpq.slt/bookmarks.html Assuming both browsers work this way, maybe you could symlink one to the other? -- Chris Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** [

Re: kldxref: file isn't dynamically-linked^M -- TECRA

2008-09-09 Thread Chris Hill
if I do remember correctly. Almost correctly. ASCII CR (Ctrl-M) is 0x0d, which is decimal 13; ASCII LF (Ctrl-J or newline) is 0x0a, which is decimal 10. Sorry for the off-topic pedantry. -- Chris Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** [ Busy Expu

Re: C++ compiler

2008-07-30 Thread Chris Hill
On Wed, 30 Jul 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is the URL where I can get gcc42 and is it easy to get or do I have to do devious things to eventually find it? # cd /usr/ports/lang/gcc42 # make install clean -- Chris Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** [ Busy

Re: question about new monitor...

2008-07-29 Thread Chris Hill
you're on the right track. IFF xorg know what kind of beast this is:-) Well, yeah, that's the elephant in the room, isn't it? -- Chris Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** [ Busy Expunging <|> ]

Re: whatkind of 19" LCD display??

2008-07-28 Thread Chris Hill
On Mon, 28 Jul 2008, Chris Hill wrote: On Mon, 28 Jul 2008, Gary Kline wrote: [snip] whatever display i get has to have dual capability. both digital and analog-- eventually I'll need a new KVM box. so what are the top few makes of LCDs out there? I've been using a ViewSonic VP

Re: whatkind of 19" LCD display??

2008-07-28 Thread Chris Hill
y with it. It has two VGA inputs, no DVI. Probably not made anymore so I guess that's moot. HTH. -- Chris Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** [ Busy Expunging <|> ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list htt

Re: cd drive won't open

2008-06-27 Thread Chris Hill
(not flashing, just steady on) and everything is running very slow now. It's definately related to the cd drive, but what do I look for? Maybe the drive is bad? Are you able to try a different drive? -- Chris Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Ports] How to find where a port is located?

2008-06-13 Thread Chris Hill
s: $ more /home/chris/bin/findport #!/bin/sh # # Find a port whose name contains the string supplied as argument # prev_dir=`pwd` cd /usr/ports # make search key=$1 | grep Path | grep -v deps | grep -i $1 # cd $prev_dir HTH. -- Chris Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** [ Busy

RE: Whine when EHCI controller enabled in BIOS

2008-06-09 Thread Chris Hill
quot;. I can still hear it, but then I'm still [just] on the candy-coated side of 50. I guess this is getting a little OT here... but by way of a half-assed response to the OP's question, I think Bob is on the right track - seems like an electromechanical resonance of s

Re: Hi

2008-06-06 Thread Chris Hill
r when your subject line reads "Hi". You may want to repost with a subject line that more accurately describes your question. HTH. -- Chris Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** [ Busy Expunging <|> ] ___ freebs

Re: RE-upgraded and have a few problems.

2008-05-13 Thread Chris Hill
those who like somehow windows looking, but only somehow and only looking, it works very fast and very well :) I suggested twm because it "comes with" X, and it's a quick and easy test of the xserver - trying to separate X issues from KDE issues. -- Chris Hill

Re: RE-upgraded and have a few problems.

2008-05-12 Thread Chris Hill
u can be (a lot) more specific about the problem, someone here may well be able to help. That is, tell us what you were trying to do, what command you issued, what result you expected, and what result you got. HTH. -- Chris Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** [

Re: Ports Question

2008-04-26 Thread Chris Hill
tax would be: make -DWITH_SPF -DWITH_MYSQL or even make -DWITH_SPF -DWITH_MYSQL install clean ..although I know nothing of exim. HTH. -- Chris Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** [ Busy Expunging <|> ] ___ freebsd-questions@fre

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