Re: printing to Kyocera FS-1030D

2011-08-03 Thread Gour-Gadadhara Dasa
On Wed, 03 Aug 2011 17:41:44 +0100 Chris Whitehouse wrote: > Hi, > > before I use up too many trees experimenting, could some kind soul > tell me how I can get OpenOffice to print to this printer. This is > the first time I have tried to get anything printed from FreeBSD. I've Kyocera FS-920 an

Re: Lennart Poettering: BSD Isn't Relevant Anymore

2011-07-18 Thread Gour-Gadadhara Dasa
On Mon, 18 Jul 2011 10:05:41 +0200 Polytropon wrote: > And furthermore, I've found some Linux users migrating > AWAY from Linux, using FreeBSD instead. How can this be > combined with Poettering's claim? I'm the one...using Linux since '99 (SuSE, Gentoo,Arch) and moved to PCBSD-9.0 some months a

Re: What is xz ?

2011-07-01 Thread Gour-Gadadhara Dasa
On Sat, 02 Jul 2011 11:53:17 +0530 Manish Jain wrote: > >Hi all, I just downloaded FreeBSD-8.2-RELEASE-i386-dvd1.iso.xz and the md5 >checksum is correct. Can someone please tell me what does that xz at the >end stand for ? It looks like it stands for some kind of compression >(gz

Re: Ekiga && FreeBSD (for a future without Skype)

2011-05-23 Thread Gour-Gadadhara Dasa
On Mon, 23 May 2011 06:39:42 +0100 Frank Shute wrote: > Gour, the Skype port(s) were updated[*] not so long ago. Maybe worth > giving it a try again. You're right...I tried to build it, but update of OS was required. In the meantime, I rebuilt my world, but forgot about Skype. :-) Sincerely, G

Re: Ekiga && FreeBSD (for a future without Skype)

2011-05-22 Thread Gour-Gadadhara Dasa
On Sun, 22 May 2011 19:36:46 -0400 Robert Simmons wrote: > Also, unless my friends all change from Skype or Skype becomes > intolerable with SIP, I'm stuck with Skype. You use Skype <--> SIP gateway? I use SIP even with my 'landline' phone, but still have the need to talk to Skype users (which

Re: Running gpg-agent and caching the passphrase

2011-05-21 Thread Gour-Gadadhara Dasa
On Sat, 21 May 2011 08:34:21 +0200 Jens Jahnke wrote: > But no matter what option I set the passphrase is not cached and there > is no error message in the logs. > I don't know if this is the right place to ask but the same setup was > running on my linux box without problems so I guess this migh

Re: ZFS-Only FreeBSD and crashdump

2011-04-29 Thread Gour-Gadadhara Dasa
On Thu, 28 Apr 2011 19:40:00 +0300 Andriy Gapon wrote: > At the moment FreeBSD doesn't support dumping to ZFS zvols, if that's > what you are asking. At the moment I have root on UFS and freebsd-swap considering to move both under ZFS. Is inability to dump to ZFS something I should be concerned