re. Hi i want to ask a question

2012-07-06 Thread herbert langhans
> Hi i want to ask a question about the new release of FreeBSD (9) is it > posible to run this release /whit GUI/ in IBM Thinkpad 1161 217 whit this > specs 500 mhz Intel Celeron processor 64mb Ram and 5gb HDD I've been using even slower Thinkpads (300MHz), there are a few things

Re: Hi i want to ask a question

2012-07-06 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 06 Jul 2012 04:05:36 -0400, Thomas Mueller wrote: > On part 1, it might be possible to build things on the old > machine, but only little things. It _will_ work, it just will take some time. If that isn't a major concern -- no problem. If the machine is low on RAM, there should at least be

Re: Hi i want to ask a question

2012-07-06 Thread Thomas Mueller
On Thu, 5 Jul 2012 22:00:11 +0300 (EEST), Ivan Ivanov wrote: > Hi i want to ask a question about the new release of FreeBSD (9) > is it posible to run this release /whit GUI/ in IBM Thinkpad 1161 > 217 whit this specs 500 mhz Intel Celeron processor 64mb Ram and > 5gb HDD Polytropo

Re: Hi i want to ask a question

2012-07-06 Thread Wojciech Puchar
1. You won't be able to build things from source on that machine. Consider using packages for installation, or a second system to build and export (via NFS) the data required. You can but... too slow 3. For using your applications within the GUI, choose a good window manager, e. g. FVWM or XFC

Re: Hi i want to ask a question

2012-07-05 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 5 Jul 2012 22:00:11 +0300 (EEST), Ivan Ivanov wrote: > Hi i want to ask a question about the new release of FreeBSD (9) > is it posible to run this release /whit GUI/ in IBM Thinkpad 1161 > 217 whit this specs 500 mhz Intel Celeron processor 64mb Ram and > 5gb HDD It is very w

Re: Hi i want to ask a question

2012-07-05 Thread Thomas Mueller
from Ivan Ivanov : > Hi i want to ask a question about the new release of FreeBSD (9) is it > posible to run this release /whit GUI/ in IBM Thinkpad 1161 217 whit this > specs 500 mhz Intel Celeron processor 64mb Ram and 5gb HDD I think it would be possible, but there would not be e

Re: Hi i want to ask a question

2012-07-05 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi, Reference: > From: "Thomas Mueller" > Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2012 20:09:17 -0400 > Message-id: <53.21.06836.dac26...@smtp02.insight.synacor.com> "Thomas Mueller" wrote: > from Ivan Ivanov : > > > Hi i want to ask a ques

Re: Hi i want to ask a question

2012-07-05 Thread Thomas Mueller
from Ivan Ivanov : > Hi i want to ask a question about the new release of FreeBSD (9) is it > posible to run this release /whit GUI/ in IBM Thinkpad 1161 217 whit this > specs 500 mhz Intel Celeron processor 64mb Ram and 5gb HDD I think it would be possible, but there would not be e

Hi i want to ask a question

2012-07-05 Thread Ivan Ivanov
Hi i want to ask a question about the new release of FreeBSD (9) is it posible to run this release /whit GUI/ in IBM Thinkpad 1161 217 whit this specs 500 mhz Intel Celeron processor 64mb Ram and 5gb HDD - http://a.abv.bg/www

Re: I have a question.

2012-05-22 Thread Anonymous Remailer (austria)
This doesn't answer your question but let me be the first to congratulate you on your wisdom of not posting this to m...@openbsd.org ;-) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubsc

Re: I have a question.

2012-05-22 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 22 May 2012 13:42:56 +0900, JAEHO LEE wrote: > Dear Sir, > > I would be a FreeBSD open source committer. > But I don't know how to do. > Could you teach me ? Check out the FreeBSD home page, especially the article about contributing to FreeBSD: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/

I have a question.

2012-05-22 Thread JAEHO LEE
Dear Sir, I would be a FreeBSD open source committer. But I don't know how to do. Could you teach me ? Best regards. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: I have a question?

2011-02-13 Thread perryh
"Jack L." wrote: > On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 5:35 PM, Dieter wrote: > > Can you use windows programs in freebsd? > > If you install wine, yes. _and_ if the windows programs you want to run _work_ in wine. Wine intends to become a complete win32 implementation, but: 1. It's not there yet. Many

Re: I have a question?

2011-02-13 Thread Jack L.
On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 9:13 PM, Outback Dingo wrote: > On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 12:09 AM, Jack L. wrote: >> >> If you install wine, yes. If all else fails, you can always install virtualbox and install windows to run windows apps on freebsd. That works great for my needs :) __

Re: I have a question?

2011-02-13 Thread Outback Dingo
On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 12:09 AM, Jack L. wrote: > If you install wine, yes. Uhmm good luck with that, I think maybe we should ask him to define "programs" > On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 5:35 PM, Dieter wrote: > > Can you use windows programs in freebsd? > > _

Re: I have a question?

2011-02-13 Thread Jack L.
If you install wine, yes. On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 5:35 PM, Dieter wrote: > Can you use windows programs in freebsd? > ___ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send a

I have a question?

2011-02-13 Thread Dieter
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Re: [Probably a bit OT] A question about mail systems [SOLVED]

2011-01-17 Thread Rolf Nielsen
2011-01-17 11:04, Maciej Milewski skrev: <...> > > I find using ~/.forward for this a bit of an ugly hack, but as long as > I'm the only one using this computer, I can live with it, though I would > prefer to have it in /etc/mail/aliases instead, but that just gives me > warnings about d

Re: [Probably a bit OT] A question about mail systems [SOLVED]

2011-01-17 Thread Maciej Milewski
On Saturday 15 of January 2011 22:45:23, Rolf Nielsen wrote: > Thanks for the input I received from you guys. I've got things running > in a way I'm quite happy with now. And with your input and a little > further digging on my part, it turned out to be pretty simple. > > I kept sendmail, set up d

Re: [Probably a bit OT] A question about mail systems [SOLVED]

2011-01-15 Thread Rolf Nielsen
2011-01-08 13:26, Rolf Nielsen skrev: Hello, I have several e-mail addresses, and to make it easier to read them all, I use fetchmail to get the messages from the servers and deliver them to one local account. And I have a POP3 server running so I can read that local account's mail from e.g. thu

Re: [Probably a bit OT] A question about mail systems

2011-01-08 Thread RW
On Sat, 08 Jan 2011 16:55:17 +0100 Rolf Nielsen wrote: > Thanks to all who've replied so far. Matthew's ideas strike me as the > most interesting ones, and I will certainly explore them and see if I > can get it working. > I guess I should have explained in my original post that I neither > nee

Re: [Probably a bit OT] A question about mail systems

2011-01-08 Thread Jerry
On Sat, 08 Jan 2011 15:01:49 + Matthew Seaman articulated: > dovecot works very well serving Maildir via IMAP. As mentioned > elsethread, dovecot v2 isn't really stable yet. Also lacks some of > the add-ons like managesieve. For a quiet life, stick to dovecot > v1 for the moment. I am

Re: [Probably a bit OT] A question about mail systems

2011-01-08 Thread Rolf Nielsen
2011-01-08 16:01, Matthew Seaman skrev: On 08/01/2011 12:26, Rolf Nielsen wrote: So here's what I want to do. 1. Have fetchmail get the messages. Should not be a problem. 2. Have an MTA (is that the right name, I always confuse them) deliver them locally to a maildir. While you can use an

Re: [Probably a bit OT] A question about mail systems

2011-01-08 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 01/08/11 13:26, Rolf Nielsen wrote: 1. Have fetchmail get the messages. 2. Have an MTA (is that the right name, I always confuse them) deliver them locally to a maildir. 3. Have either a POP3 or an IMAP server from which I can retrieve the messages to whichever client I choose. I'm using

Re: [Probably a bit OT] A question about mail systems

2011-01-08 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 08/01/2011 12:26, Rolf Nielsen wrote: > So here's what I want to do. > > 1. Have fetchmail get the messages. Should not be a problem. > 2. Have an MTA (is that the right name, I always confuse them) deliver > them locally to a maildir. While you can use an MTA it's not actually necessary in

Re: [Probably a bit OT] A question about mail systems

2011-01-08 Thread Jerry
On Sat, 08 Jan 2011 13:26:22 +0100 Rolf Nielsen articulated: > Moreover, I'd like to use maildir instead of a single file mailbox, > so I'd like to switch from sendmail to e.g. postfix. > > The problem is that my knowledge about e-mail configuration is > somewhat limited. I've found several tuto

Re: [Probably a bit OT] A question about mail systems

2011-01-08 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
My advice would be to set up postfix with Dovecot imap. Both are well documented and, I find, they work well together. Both are fairly straight forward to set-up as from your post I understand that it's mainly to manage your own email which would require a basic configuration with some added s

[Probably a bit OT] A question about mail systems

2011-01-08 Thread Rolf Nielsen
Hello, I have several e-mail addresses, and to make it easier to read them all, I use fetchmail to get the messages from the servers and deliver them to one local account. And I have a POP3 server running so I can read that local account's mail from e.g. thunderbird or even from my cell phone.

Re: a question regarding proper printf(3) formating and alignment

2010-11-17 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Nov 17), Karl Vogel said: > >> In the last episode (Nov 17), Alexander Best said: > > A> i've looked at a lot of utilities in the bsd src tree and most of them > A> seem to be doing something like this: > > A> Device 1M-blocks UsedAvail Capacity > A> /dev/lab

Re: a question regarding proper printf(3) formating and alignment

2010-11-17 Thread Karl Vogel
>> In the last episode (Nov 17), Alexander Best said: A> i've looked at a lot of utilities in the bsd src tree and most of them A> seem to be doing something like this: A> Device 1M-blocks UsedAvail Capacity A> /dev/label/swapfs 10239010239 0% A> /dev/label/sw

Re: a question regarding proper printf(3) formating and alignment

2010-11-17 Thread Alexander Best
On Wed Nov 17 10, Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (Nov 17), Alexander Best said: > > hi there, > > > > i've looked at a lot of utilities in the bsd src tree and most of them > > seem to be doing something like this: > > > > Device 1M-blocks UsedAvail Capacity > > /dev/lab

Re: a question regarding proper printf(3) formating and alignment

2010-11-17 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Nov 17), Alexander Best said: > hi there, > > i've looked at a lot of utilities in the bsd src tree and most of them > seem to be doing something like this: > > Device 1M-blocks UsedAvail Capacity > /dev/label/swapfs 10239010239 0% > /dev/

a question regarding proper printf(3) formating and alignment

2010-11-17 Thread Alexander Best
hi there, i've looked at a lot of utilities in the bsd src tree and most of them seem to be doing something like this: Device 1M-blocks UsedAvail Capacity /dev/label/swapfs 10239010239 0% /dev/label/swap 81910 8191 0% Total 1

Re: A question on syntax in /etc/login.conf

2010-02-01 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
<#secure method=pgpmime mode=sign> On Mon, 01 Feb 2010 12:00:59 +0100, Leslie Jensen wrote: > On the page > > http://www.se.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/using-localization.html > > Syntax is shown as: > > language_name:accounts_title:\ > :charset=MIME_charset:\ > :lang=lo

Re: A question on syntax in /etc/login.conf

2010-02-01 Thread b. f.
... >Is it the colon or pipe sign that is correct? > >/Leslie The answer is clearly set forth in login.conf(5): "Records in a class capabilities database consist of a number of colon- separated fields. The first entry for each record gives one or more names that a record is to be kno

Re: A question on syntax in /etc/login.conf

2010-02-01 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/02/2010 11:00, Leslie Jensen wrote: > On the page > > http://www.se.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/using-localization.html > > > Syntax is shown as: > > language_name:accounts_title:\ > :charset=MIME_charset:\ > :lang=

A question on syntax in /etc/login.conf

2010-02-01 Thread Leslie Jensen
On the page http://www.se.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/using-localization.html Syntax is shown as: language_name:accounts_title:\ :charset=MIME_charset:\ :lang=locale_name:\ :tc=default: If I look in the file on a newly installed 8.0-RELEASE it shows: russian|Ru

Re: A question about ptrace

2010-01-16 Thread Ali Polatel
Ali Polatel yazmış: > I'm trying to port a program using ptrace from Linux to FreeBSD. Answering myself after some more reading and trying... > assert(0 == ptrace(PT_TO_SCE, pid, 0, 0)); The third argument of this call should be 1 not 0. -- Regards, Ali Polatel pgpVCOf0yCg27.pgp De

A question about ptrace

2010-01-16 Thread Ali Polatel
I'm trying to port a program using ptrace from Linux to FreeBSD. For this reason I'm trying to understand how ptrace on FreeBSD works. Below is a sample program I've written which fork()'s and executes "true" after calling PT_TRACE_ME. Having read the manual page of ptrace I assume the printf() in

Re: a question on ZFS boot/root in 8.0-RELEASE

2010-01-11 Thread krad
2010/1/11 Dan Naumov > Hello list. > > My concern is this: I really really like freebsd-update and want to > continue using it. Freebsd-update however, assumes that no part of > your base system has been compiled by hand, it's intended to be used > to update from official binaries to other offici

a question on ZFS boot/root in 8.0-RELEASE

2010-01-11 Thread Dan Naumov
Hello list. My concern is this: I really really like freebsd-update and want to continue using it. Freebsd-update however, assumes that no part of your base system has been compiled by hand, it's intended to be used to update from official binaries to other official binaries. I am also gathering (

portmaster -a question

2010-01-05 Thread kalpin
Hello all, Is it possible to run portmaster -a with other options to recompile all dependency without interactive? Of course accept default options for all modules. Thank you Kalpin E. Silaen ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists

Re: A question about yell on a laptop

2009-12-13 Thread Leslie Jensen
Polytropon skrev: On Sat, 12 Dec 2009 15:54:43 +0100, Leslie Jensen wrote: That's what troubles me, I'm used to use Yell so I'm certain that my config is ok. One thing I've been made aware of is that a laptop computer maybe do not have a "speaker". Only a sound card will produce sound in th

Re: A question about yell on a laptop

2009-12-12 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 12 Dec 2009 15:54:43 +0100, Leslie Jensen wrote: > That's what troubles me, I'm used to use Yell so I'm certain that my > config is ok. One thing I've been made aware of is that a laptop > computer maybe do not have a "speaker". Only a sound card will produce > sound in the speakers. An

Re: A question about yell on a laptop

2009-12-12 Thread Leslie Jensen
Polytropon skrev: On Fri, 11 Dec 2009 15:20:42 +0100, Leslie Jensen wrote: I have sound working but PC-speaker doesn't seem to be present. Do you have "device SPEAKER" in your kernel config, or have you loaded the appropriate kernel module? You can alway check it with something like

Re: A question about yell on a laptop

2009-12-11 Thread herbert langhans
Leslie, /boot/loader.conf has to contain: speaker_load="YES" and even the little beep is a port to install: /usr/ports/audio/beep Cheers herb langhans On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 03:20:42PM +0100, Leslie Jensen wrote: > > I'm using audio/Yell a lot when I compile and run other scripted tasks. > >

Re: A question about yell on a laptop

2009-12-11 Thread Pieter de Goeje
On Friday 11 December 2009 18:13:04 Polytropon wrote: > On Fri, 11 Dec 2009 15:20:42 +0100, Leslie Jensen wrote: > > I have sound working but PC-speaker doesn't seem to be present. > > Do you have "device SPEAKER" in your kernel config, > or have you loaded the appropriate kernel module? > > You c

Re: A question about yell on a laptop

2009-12-11 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 11 Dec 2009 15:20:42 +0100, Leslie Jensen wrote: > I have sound working but PC-speaker doesn't seem to be present. Do you have "device SPEAKER" in your kernel config, or have you loaded the appropriate kernel module? You can alway check it with something like # echo "cdefg" > /d

A question about yell on a laptop

2009-12-11 Thread Leslie Jensen
I'm using audio/Yell a lot when I compile and run other scripted tasks. On my laptop with FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE-p1 I can't get yell to make any sounds at all. I'm wondering if you can give me any hints on how to make yell work on my laptop, Dell Latitude E65000. I have sound working but PC-spe

Re: Hi! a question about log in dmesg

2009-11-07 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Sat, Nov 07, 2009 at 12:27:26PM -0600, Jesús Abidan wrote: > Hi, there, i am a pretty good user in linux and i don't know i am getting > some strange info in my dmesg file: > > at_matroute: v=(16)10ff007f00 > at_matroute: head=0xc42c1700 > at_matroute: returnr rn=0xc45b126c

Re: Hi! a question about log in dmesg

2009-11-07 Thread Tim Judd
On 11/7/09, Jesús Abidan wrote: > Hi, there, i am a pretty good user in linux and i don't know i am getting > some strange info in my dmesg file: > > at_matroute: v=(16)10ff007f00 > at_matroute: head=0xc42c1700 > at_matroute: returnr rn=0xc45b126c > at_matroute: v=(16)10ff0

Hi! a question about log in dmesg

2009-11-07 Thread Jesús Abidan
Hi, there, i am a pretty good user in linux and i don't know i am getting some strange info in my dmesg file: at_matroute: v=(16)10ff007f00 at_matroute: head=0xc42c1700 at_matroute: returnr rn=0xc45b126c at_matroute: v=(16)10ff007f00 at_matroute: head=0xc42c

Re: A question about the date Function

2009-09-17 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Martin McCormick writes: > Thanks to those who answered my question. I have discovered in > the process one big difference between the date function in > freebsd and Linux. Under freebsd, date -r 1234567890 or whatever > value you need converts that unsigned long in to the normal date > output se

Re: A question about the date Function

2009-09-17 Thread Martin McCormick
Thanks to those who answered my question. I have discovered in the process one big difference between the date function in freebsd and Linux. Under freebsd, date -r 1234567890 or whatever value you need converts that unsigned long in to the normal date output set to that reference value. IN Linux,

Re: A question about the date Function

2009-09-16 Thread Matthew Seaman
Martin McCormick wrote: date -j -f "%a %b %d %T %Z %Y" "`date`" "+%s" >f0 date +%s >f1 What does the long form of this command give us that date +%s fails to do? It's a contrived example: date -j -f "%a %b %d %T %Z %Y" "`date`" "+%s" -j says "don't alter the system date" -- t

Re: A question about the date Function

2009-09-16 Thread RW
On Wed, 16 Sep 2009 15:25:04 -0500 Martin McCormick wrote: > > date -j -f "%a %b %d %T %Z %Y" "`date`" "+%s" >f0 > date +%s >f1 > > I then compared the outputs of f0 and f1 and they are identical. > > What does the long form of this command give us that > date +%s fails to do? > >

A question about the date Function

2009-09-16 Thread Martin McCormick
The man page on date has an example showing how to get an output showing the number of seconds since the Epoch. date -j -f "%a %b %d %T %Z %Y" "`date`" "+%s" There is an envokation of date embedded in this command of date +%s I was curious as to what this command does so I tried

Re: A question for developers

2009-08-20 Thread Mel Flynn
On Monday 17 August 2009 04:14:18 Steve Bertrand wrote: > Manish Jain wrote: > > You are right. Syntax highlighting only works well with X. On the > > console, to the best of knowledge, there is no way to change the colours > > through vim's rc files. > > Syntax colour changing does work via .vimrc

Re: A question for developers

2009-08-17 Thread Steve Bertrand
Manish Jain wrote: > You are right. Syntax highlighting only works well with X. On the > console, to the best of knowledge, there is no way to change the colours > through vim's rc files. Syntax colour changing does work via .vimrc on the console. The constructs are named differently: ctermfg, ct

Re: A question for developers

2009-08-14 Thread Steve Bertrand
Manish Jain wrote: > Hi Steve, > >> Vim also does colours/syntax highlighting I found, but quickly disabled >> the colours, as I didn't like them as much as I thought I would. > > I wouldn't blame you for not liking Vim's default syntax highlighting. > However, you can try the my set instead whic

Re: A question for developers

2009-08-14 Thread Manish Jain
Hi Steve, Vim also does colours/syntax highlighting I found, but quickly disabled the colours, as I didn't like them as much as I thought I would. I wouldn't blame you for not liking Vim's default syntax highlighting. However, you can try the my set instead which took me days to fine-tune t

Re: A question for developers

2009-08-13 Thread Steve Bertrand
Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 15:49:17 -0400, Henry Olyer wrote: >> Look, use Joe. >> >> You won't ever want anything else -- you'll soon forget about >> meta-escape-alt-@ while holding down the esc-tab-plus key, all the >> while wishing you had three hands. > > That's not a very

Re: A question for developers

2009-08-12 Thread Glen Barber
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 9:53 PM, Polytropon wrote: > On Thu, 13 Aug 2009 00:08:52 +0300, Giorgos Keramidas > wrote: >> There *are* good points about joe, eg.: >> >>   - It works very well even with pretty dumb terminals. >> >>   - It has a very small footprint >> >>   - It supports many features

Re: A question for developers

2009-08-12 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 13 Aug 2009 00:08:52 +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > There *are* good points about joe, eg.: > > - It works very well even with pretty dumb terminals. > > - It has a very small footprint > > - It supports many features a `coder' expects (auto indentation, > custom tab sizes

Re: A question for developers

2009-08-12 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 15:49:17 -0400, Henry Olyer wrote: > Look, use Joe. > > You won't ever want anything else -- you'll soon forget about > meta-escape-alt-@ while holding down the esc-tab-plus key, all the > while wishing you had three hands. That's not a very good way of describing editors/joe.

Re: A question for developers

2009-08-12 Thread Henry Olyer
Look, use Joe. You won't ever want anything else -- you'll soon forget about meta-escape-alt-@ while holding down the esc-tab-plus key, all the while wishing you had three hands. On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 10:40 PM, Mel Flynn < mel.flynn+fbsd.questi...@mailing.thruhere.net > wrote: > On Tuesday 11

Re: A question for developers

2009-08-11 Thread Mel Flynn
On Tuesday 11 August 2009 16:46:16 Steve Bertrand wrote: > Steve Bertrand wrote: > > but may be handy until I become more fluent, > > as my first instinct is to hit the BACKSPACE > > ^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H > > ^h key. terminal emulation fault. stty erase should fix it, on the shell that is. -- Mel

Re: A question for developers

2009-08-11 Thread Steve Bertrand
Steve Bertrand wrote: > but may be handy until I become more fluent, > as my first instinct is to hit the BACKSPACE ^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H ^h key. Steve smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: A question for developers

2009-08-11 Thread Steve Bertrand
Steve Bertrand wrote: > I'm looking for a new editor. Well, after a two week hiatus from technology, I'm back at work (actually, considering I build a large new deck, being back at work is more of a holiday than being on holidays :) Although it was recommended that I give both Emacs and Vi(m) a

Re: A question for developers

2009-08-03 Thread Karl Vogel
>> On Fri, 24 Jul 2009 22:49:10 -0400, >> Steve Bertrand said: S> I'm looking for a new editor. [...] In the last few weeks, I've been S> leaning toward vim. If you've read this far, then I very much welcome S> your feedback. If you're a VIM fan, here are a few examples of what you can do

Re: A question for developers

2009-07-25 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Fri, 24 Jul 2009 22:49:10 -0400, Steve Bertrand wrote: > Forgive the verbosity. > > Before anything else, I'd appreciate it if my requirements were actually > read before providing any feedback. I know that there are qualified > persons here to legitimately answer my question, so if a flame war

Re: A question for developers

2009-07-25 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 25 Jul 2009 08:49:05 -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: > On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 05:21:44PM +0800, Erich Dollansky wrote: > > joe has also the advantage that it behaves differently depending > > under which name your start it. > > What do you mean by "which name"? I'm curious. According to "ma

Re: A question for developers

2009-07-25 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 08:46:14AM -0400, Steve Bertrand wrote: > > In years gone by, I've toyed with both Emacs and vi. I'm no stranger to > using CNTL functions frequently (ee), but I've always felt more at home > with vi. I just never put in the initial effort to make it stick. I'm > going to g

Re: A question for developers

2009-07-25 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 05:21:44PM +0800, Erich Dollansky wrote: > > I use joe, gedit, kate and bluefish. > > All have their week points. > > One advantage of using several in parallel is that you can > configure each to a special need of you and then start the one > which seems to fit best yo

Re: A question for developers

2009-07-25 Thread Steve Bertrand
Erich Dollansky wrote: > let me answer very shortly. > [..snip..] > ee is really just useful for very basic editing. But this is the > idea behind ee. I'd like to thank everyone for all of the well thought out, detailed and informative feedback. As far as ee, it's all I've really used for the l

Re: A question for developers

2009-07-25 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, let me answer very shortly. On 25 July 2009 am 10:49:10 Steve Bertrand wrote: > Forgive the verbosity. > I use joe, gedit, kate and bluefish. All have their week points. One advantage of using several in parallel is that you can configure each to a special need of you and then start the on

Re: A question for developers

2009-07-25 Thread Chad Perrin
On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 10:49:10PM -0400, Steve Bertrand wrote: > Forgive the verbosity. > > Before anything else, I'd appreciate it if my requirements were actually > read before providing any feedback. I know that there are qualified > persons here to legitimately answer my question, so if a fla

Re: A question for developers

2009-07-25 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 24 Jul 2009 22:49:10 -0400, Steve Bertrand wrote: > I'm looking for a new editor. I went on a similar journey, and I don't know if I'm already where I want to be, but maybe my path is helpful to you. > My desires/don't mind: > > - easily set tab width mcedit: PF9, Options, General jo

Re: A question for developers

2009-07-24 Thread Mel Flynn
On Friday 24 July 2009 18:49:10 Steve Bertrand wrote: > Forgive the verbosity. Forgiven, yet snipped ;) > My desires/don't mind: > > - easily set tab width See securemodelines.vim below sig. Put in $LOCALBASE/share/vim/vim72/plugin. And the modeline below in C-style comments, within the first or

A question for developers

2009-07-24 Thread Steve Bertrand
Forgive the verbosity. Before anything else, I'd appreciate it if my requirements were actually read before providing any feedback. I know that there are qualified persons here to legitimately answer my question, so if a flame war does ensue, I ask that you refrain from responding. I'm looking fo

Re: UK Currency Symbol in 7.2 Console - A Question actually about FreeBSD

2009-05-29 Thread Graham Bentley
Lars, Thanks for taking the time in your detailed reply and I will look into your suggestions however one thing about this eludes me ; I have never ever had to even think about this until 7.2 [ie in all previous verisons I chose uk.iso and swiss font - I always had £ key?] Thanks in any case (th

Re: UK Currency Symbol in 7.2 Console - A Question actually about FreeBSD

2009-05-29 Thread Lars Eighner
On Fri, 29 May 2009, Graham Bentley wrote: Hello All, Im still struggling with this one and have tried all I could find by Googling lists and forums. @ and " keys are fine as are every other key apart from £ symbol. Can anyone suggest ways to track this down. At 'Login:' I can actually get £ bu

Re: UK Currency Symbol in 7.2 Console - A Question actually about FreeBSD

2009-05-29 Thread bsd
Hi, I use a Macintosh as client host, but this could be any computer as long as you have a working keyboard configured. My shell is bash (latest port version). In my .bashrc I have included the following: # Display quoted characters stty cs8 -istrip -parenb bind 'set convert-meta off' bind

UK Currency Symbol in 7.2 Console - A Question actually about FreeBSD

2009-05-28 Thread Graham Bentley
Hello All, Im still struggling with this one and have tried all I could find by Googling lists and forums. @ and " keys are fine as are every other key apart from £ symbol. Can anyone suggest ways to track this down. At 'Login:' I can actually get £ but after loging I get a beep? I have tried var

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2009-05-07 Thread eBay
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Re: A question about the root shell

2008-10-03 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Fri, Oct 03, 2008 at 05:20:32PM +0200, Andreas Davour wrote: > > I'm not a csh user, in fact I hate it. Though, I use it as it is out of > the box for root so I'm reminded I'm not an unpriv user any longer. > > That being said I'm getting annoyed by the fact that the root shell is > always s

Re: A question about the root shell

2008-10-03 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Fri, Oct 03, 2008 at 05:20:32PM +0200, Andreas Davour wrote: > I'm not a csh user, in fact I hate it. Though, I use it as it is out of > the box for root so I'm reminded I'm not an unpriv user any longer. > > That being said I'm getting annoyed by the fact that the root shell is > always sho

A request and a question

2008-06-27 Thread NASSEH Ali
Dear Sir/Madam I'm using FreeBSD since release 4.5 of the OS and I'm very interested to know if I can open a new email account in freebsd.org domain. Please let me know about the process of qualification, if any. I can cooperate to translate the FreeBSD docs from english to persian. I hold a B

Re: IPMI A Question to all Dell Users.

2007-08-27 Thread Sten Daniel Soersdal
Grant Peel wrote: Hi all, I have been reading a bit about IPMI. I am running 6.2 on all my servers. Does any Dell (PowerEdge) users have the IPMI port installed? Is it safe? Easy to use? Any problems with installation? I am mostly interested in viewing sensor info and extracting SELs. TIA,

IPMI A Question to all Dell Users.

2007-08-26 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, I have been reading a bit about IPMI. I am running 6.2 on all my servers. Does any Dell (PowerEdge) users have the IPMI port installed? Is it safe? Easy to use? Any problems with installation? I am mostly interested in viewing sensor info and extracting SELs. TIA, -Grant

Re: A question about 6.2 release

2007-07-29 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 04:38:29PM +0800, PowerMan wrote: > Dear sir, > > My first language is not English, if I made some bad words or > expression, please forgive me. > > I have learned from your web site http://www.freebsd.org > that 6.2-stable is relased on 15 Jan, 2007. > >

Re: A question about 6.2 release

2007-07-29 Thread Rakhesh Sasidharan
Hopefully this page will clear up things for you -- http://home.nyc.rr.com/computertaijutsu/release.html Regards, Rakhesh On Sun, July 29, 2007 12:38, PowerMan wrote: > Dear sir, > > My first language is not English, if I made some bad words or > expression, please forgive me. > > I h

A question about 6.2 release

2007-07-29 Thread PowerMan
Dear sir, My first language is not English, if I made some bad words or expression, please forgive me. I have learned from your web site http://www.freebsd.org that 6.2-stable is relased on 15 Jan, 2007. But why there is also 6.2-stable snapshots released in May 2007 and June 20

Re: A question

2007-07-21 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Anthony Long wrote: > Can I download your software from the web? I can't find a link. > _ > PC Magazine’s 2007 editors’ choice for best web mail—award-winning Windows > Live Hotmail. > http://imagine-windowslive.com/hotmail/?locale=en

A question

2007-07-21 Thread Anthony Long
Can I download your software from the web? I can't find a link. _ PC Magazine’s 2007 editors’ choice for best web mail—award-winning Windows Live Hotmail. http://imagine-windowslive.com/hotmail/?locale=en-us&ocid=TXT_TAGHM_migration_

Re: I've got a question for you guys (unsubscibing)

2007-07-13 Thread Olivier Nicole
> I have gone to http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > days ago. It does not work. Did you receive the mail asking you to confirm the removal? Something like that: Mailing list removal confirmation notice for mailing list freebsd-questions We have recei

Re: I've got a question for you guys (unsubscibing)

2007-07-13 Thread Marc Lechevalier
I have gone to http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions days ago. It does not work. - Original Message - From: "Duane Hill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2007 8:24 AM Subject: Re: I've got a question for you guys (u

Re: I've got a question for you guys (unsubscibing)

2007-07-12 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Jul 12, 2007, at 1:02 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why, despite sending multiple e-mails to the unsubscribe address, am I continued to be subscribed to this list?? Any help would be grand. My guess is that you are subscribed using a different address than the one that you think you are.

Re: I've got a question for you guys (unsubscibing)

2007-07-12 Thread Duane Hill
:02 AM Subject: I've got a question for you guys (unsubscibing) Why, despite sending multiple e-mails to the unsubscribe address, am I continued to be subscribed to this list?? Any help would be grand. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailin

Re: I've got a question for you guys (unsubscibing)

2007-07-12 Thread Marc Lechevalier
I have the same question. I tried unsubscribing with no luck. - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2007 2:02 AM Subject: I've got a question for you guys (unsubscibing) Why, despite sending multiple e-mails to the unsubscribe ad

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