Re: Instead of freebsd.com, why not...

2005-02-13 Thread Simon Burke
On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 11:30:45 +0100, Anthony Atkielski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Michael C. Shultz writes: > > > I Agree! My FreeBSD desktop is very stable and user friendly. What > > ever time I spend fixing/managing desktops is on my friends windows > > machines, never my own because it alway

Re: Instead of freebsd.com, why not...

2005-02-13 Thread Simon Burke
On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 13:59:29 +0100, Anthony Atkielski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Simon Burke writes: > > > Use on my SGI workstaion (IRIX), GIMP > > I said Photoshop, not GIMP. I use photshop on IRIX i mean, and you can use gimp too, is what i meant. > > I don&

Re: open source video card hardware!

2004-12-05 Thread Simon Burke
On Sun, 05 Dec 2004 01:05:35 -0500, jason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Has anyone else heard of these great idea? If you are intrested sign > the petition so the company backing it, Tech Source, will fund it. > Please check this link with plenty of info about. > > http://lists.duskglow.com/mailma

5.3: cant install openoffice 1.1 from ports

2004-12-06 Thread Simon Burke
I've recently done a fresh install of 5.3, i updated ports using cvsup to install gnome2.8, which im using know, great. Problem is that it wont allow me to compile openoffice properly, i cant give an error message as its about 7hrs in i get the message and i've since made clean. Does anyone kno

Re: 5.3: cant install openoffice 1.1 from ports

2004-12-07 Thread Simon Burke
On Mon, 06 Dec 2004 18:37:14 -0800, Tabor Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Simon Burke wrote: > > > > I've recently done a fresh install of 5.3, i updated ports using cvsup > > to install gnome2.8, which im using know, great. > > > > Problem is

Swap partition not used?

2004-12-11 Thread Simon Burke
Hiya, After a while of using 5.3RELEASE, i have noticed a small problem, my swap partition isnt getting used. Well its not a small problem considering that i have only 256mb ram on this machine. boredom# swapctl -l Device: 1024-blocks Used: /dev/ad0s1b 48211256 this i supp

Re: Swap partition not used?

2004-12-11 Thread Simon Burke
On Sat, 11 Dec 2004 09:22:23 -0600, Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Simon Burke wrote: > > > > >Hiya, > > > >After a while of using 5.3RELEASE, i have noticed a small problem, my > >swap partition isnt getting used. Well its

Re: 5.3: cant install openoffice 1.1 from ports

2004-12-12 Thread Simon Burke
On Sat, 11 Dec 2004 19:16:39 -0600, Jay Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Monday 06 December 2004 04:23 pm, Simon Burke wrote: > > > > I've recently done a fresh install of 5.3, i updated ports using cvsup > > to install gnome2.8, which im using know, great.

Re: OpenOffice 1.1.3 won't build under FreeBSD 5.3R

2004-12-13 Thread Simon Burke
On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 14:04:08 +0200, lordbad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm trying to install it from the ports.Here is most the error output: > ERROR: Error 65280 occurred while making > /usr/ports/editors/openoffice-1.1/work/ > OOo_1.1.3_src/jurt/source/pipe > dmake: Error code 1, while ma

Boot splash screens in 5.3

2004-12-15 Thread Simon Burke
HIya, Im trying to find out how to add a bootsplash to 5.3. I've looked at the handbook and only saw details for 3.x. Is it the same process?? I have a 320x200 bmp file already for this, i assume that is the corrct size etc, as i read of a how-to for 3.x. -- Theres no place like ::1 Thanks, Si

Re: FreeBSD's Visual Identity: Outdated?

2004-12-23 Thread Simon Burke
> > 1. Not only is the logo misleading (associating evil) but it also looks >like something 10-year-olds could produce in Paint Shop Pro ten years >ago. OpenBSD has an artistic touch to theirs, however I was very >disappointed when I heard that the new NetBSD logo was in effect. I wou

Re: Dumb OpenOffice install error

2005-01-05 Thread Simon Burke
On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 13:58:24 -0600, Joshua Lokken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > There's a thread on this list from yesterday that states plainly that > OpenOffice does not build on FreeBSD 5.3: > > However, it does build on 4.11-STABLE. > I have OpenOffice 1.1.3 running on 5.3. All that i nede

Re: Dumb OpenOffice install error

2005-01-05 Thread Simon Burke
On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 14:56:28 -0600, Joshua Lokken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 20:52:16 +0000, Simon Burke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 13:58:24 -0600, Joshua Lokken > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >

Re: Dumb OpenOffice install error

2005-01-06 Thread Simon Burke
On Thu, 6 Jan 2005 12:28:52 +0200, Vadim Maksimenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > - Original Message - > From: "Simon Burke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2005 10:52 PM > Subject: Re: Dumb OpenOffice i

Re: FreeBSD's Visual Identity: Outdated?

2005-07-02 Thread Simon Burke
> > 1. Not only is the logo misleading (associating evil) but it also looks >like something 10-year-olds could produce in Paint Shop Pro ten years >ago. OpenBSD has an artistic touch to theirs, however I was very >disappointed when I heard that the new NetBSD logo was in effect. I wou

Re: topposting (was: colourization in ls command)

2004-10-13 Thread Simon Burke
On Wed, 13 Oct 2004 08:20:19 -0400, Bart Silverstrim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Oct 12, 2004, at 6:44 PM, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > > > On Tuesday, 12 October 2004 at 8:42:39 -0400, Bart Silverstrim wrote: > >> It gets to a point where I solve it by doing this or just no reply at > >>

duel booting with 2x *nix

2004-10-28 Thread Simon Burke
I know duel booting is really easy to setup these days, but just a thought, I've never duel booted with two *nix OS's so i do not know this. Is it possible to use a single swap partition for multiple distro's on one machine? If so would it impair stability or stuff? And would it be possible to do

Re: [OT]Help me, Get a Free flat screen

2004-11-05 Thread Simon Burke
> > Please help me, I'm trying to get a Free TV, check out this site, if > > you refer 8 people you get a free TV or Flat screen monitor... > very sad...and some people still wonder how it is there can be so much > spam when so many profess to hate it. I completly agree, though the company im

Re: Help me, Get a Free flat screen

2004-11-05 Thread Simon Burke
On Fri, 5 Nov 2004 10:24:46 -0500 (EST), Jerry McAllister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Please help me, I'm trying to get a Free TV, check out this site, if > > you refer 8 people you get a free TV or Flat screen monitor... > > > > Copy and paste this link...and add one W to the front and you

Re: GMail Users Blocked by Spamcop

2005-04-22 Thread Simon Burke
On 4/22/05, Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In addition to what Shantanoo said, on a personal note - if Gmail gets > blocked - that has to tell you something about the client el they have. > Not all, but a large percentage. > > Unfortunate as it seems, when ever email is offered free of charge

Analysing VMcore files.

2008-11-24 Thread Simon Burke
I am currently running FreeBSD 7.0 as my desktop OS, and I have a need to analyse VWCores from a RedHat ES system. Knowing very little about analysing dumps, is it possible to do this? or would I have to set up a more comparable environment? -- Theres no place like ::1 Thanks, SimonB ___

Re: Analysing VMcore files.

2008-11-24 Thread Simon Burke
2008/11/24 Ivan Voras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Simon Burke wrote: > > I am currently running FreeBSD 7.0 as my desktop OS, and I have a need to > > analyse VWCores from a RedHat ES system. > > Knowing very little about analysing dumps, is it possible to do this? or > &