Re: Fast personal printing _without_ CUPS

On Thu, 27 Oct 2011 19:39:17 -0400, Jerry wrote: On Fri, 28 Oct 2011 00:52:49 +0200 Polytropon articulated: There isn't much you can invent on a hammer. :-) Absolutely true. However, as Abraham Maslow said in 1966, It is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat

Re: Fast personal printing _without_ CUPS

is attached. It's easy to combine this with the system's tools lpr / lpd / lpq / lprm, in combination with the /etc/printcap file and a shell script. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd

Re: Fast personal printing _without_ CUPS

to the society, and shouldn't that be regarded a high goal in general? Two pictures: http://ulen.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/american-socialism.jpg http://blog.jonolan.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/socialism-illustrated.jpg Just for fun. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since

Re: Fast personal printing _without_ CUPS

On Fri, 28 Oct 2011 16:04:19 -0400, Jerry wrote: On Fri, 28 Oct 2011 21:12:54 +0200 Polytropon articulated: So let me make this more clear: IF the hardware manufacturer wants to allow developers to write drivers for their hardware for free, THEN everything they'd have to do is to publish

Re: Fast personal printing _without_ CUPS

purchased -- for $$$ or for 0. That has NOTHING do do with socialism. Please try to consolidate your terminology. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Fast personal printing _without_ CUPS

. BTW, I'd _love_ to see Microsoft held legally respnsible for _their_ product shortcomings. They'd be out of business in a week at the outside. Would benefiting a healthy and free market, which means real capitalism (not the stage show we're experiencing today). :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg

Re: update packages by pkg_add

will properly store dependency informations. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe

Re: Fast personal printing _without_ CUPS

. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions

Re: The ports are really funcional?

: It's VERY functional and works nearly flawlessly (until, of course, a port is broken, but this happens only a very few times). Maybe you should search things like working Internet connection and proper usage on your side. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi

Re: The ports are really funcional?

ways. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions

Re: The ports are really funcional?

media. If you encounter problems, please post informative text to this list, i. e. the command you've executed and the relevant error messages, and maybe specific things you've changed, e. g. global CFLAGS and other things one should not do. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user

Re: What are the technical differences between Linux and BSD?

. packages. An example is mplayer, when compiled for older systems: Here flags depending on the CPU actually in use can help. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: Install gnome 3

want a smartphone GUI on your desktop... :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: The ports are really funcional?

, exchanging a non-compiling port (for whatever reason) with a binary package from the RELEASE set of archives is a possible way to solve the problem. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd

Re: How to get /dev/smb* ?

device smbus device iicbus device iicsmb device iicbb device iic So I can read temperature values using xmbmon. With the mbmon program, it should work similarly. OS is 8.2-STABLE on x86 here. -- Polytropon Magdeburg

Re: Why some flash sites don't work?

), but it works totally fine in Opera, as expected. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: Problem with dbus in boot

you are missing those required settings, so /etc/rc cannot start dbus - to be expected. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: Anything like mkmf for foo linux?

makefiles for the make(1) command Maint: po...@freebsd.org Moved: Date: 2011-08-01 Reason: Has expired: Looks like an abandonware, no more public distfile Planned obsolescence in action? :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: Burning CDs or DVDs with SATA drive?

and cdrdao address th SCSI device by n:n:n, growisofs uses /dev/cdN. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: Burning CDs or DVDs with SATA drive?

, it does not run on v9. Sounds like it's work trying. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: Problem with mergemaster-p

this depends on the partitioning scheme you're using.) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: Problem with mergemaster-p

anymore) Make sure you also do step 1 when calling mergemaster and make: # cd /usr/src # mergemaster -p # make installworld # make delete-old # mergemaster Then reboot into the new OS version. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0

Re: recursive copy with spaces in descendants

. The articles should help you to deal with the problem, as they present properly working solutions. Good luck! -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Urgent!. Problem with / etc / rc.conf

I'd also like to mention that there are no things called folder on FreeBSD in particular, and on operating systems in general. Those things are properly called directories. ;-) PS. Please wrap your lines 72. Some MUAs don't do that automatically. Thanks! -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany

Re: Problem with X

/SynapticsTouchpad The (missing) presence of the X authority file has nothing to do with keyboard or mouse problems. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Get list of ethernet devices

it - it contains autodetect magic also for graphics and sound. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: Burning CD

suggestions for burning a CD in Windows XP if this is the issue? Sorry, I'm not a Windows person and I don't use 10 years old software, so I can't give you any suggestion here. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: X server and xinit works excellent....almost.

works better than nouveau and nv (the one that comes with X.org); I haven't tested VESA as in most cases, it's _not_ what one wants. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions

Re: X server and xinit works excellent....almost.

On Tue, 8 Nov 2011 13:33:55 -0700 (MST), Warren Block wrote: On Tue, 8 Nov 2011, Warren Block wrote: On Tue, 8 Nov 2011, Polytropon wrote: And according to the handbook, this does _not_ remove the need for a X configuration file (usually /etc/X11/xorg.conf) including ``Option DontZap

Re: operapluginwraper

options LINSYSFS in your kernel config, or load the corresponding kernel modules. The line linux_enable=YES in /etc/rc.conf should do that. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: Unprintable 8-bit characters

if you want them to work everywhere. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: Unprintable 8-bit characters

... -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr

Re: Unprintable 8-bit characters

settings or fonts you're using). The (limited) US-ASCII set of characters is the only easy way to avoid that. It may not _always_ look pretty, but in worst cases, it works - and you can RELY on that. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: operapluginwraper

and wrappers: opera-11.50 opera-linuxplugins-11.50 nspluginwrapper-1.4.4 linux-f10-flashplugin-10.3r183.5 This was mainly because of following the handbook. So I think the dependency to the Linux /proc comes from the Flash plugin (Linux). -- Polytropon Magdeburg

Re: X server and xinit works excellent....almost.

of swedish caps on, would the system notice that change? :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: X server and xinit works excellent....almost.

(doesn't respond) Do you have ``Option DontVTSwitch false'' in xorg.conf? Any clue why? Is my command X :0 vt4 wrong or not supposed to work? What is the correct notation for the terminal device to start it on? Maybe ttyv4 (as in /etc/ttys)? -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD

Re: X server and xinit works excellent....almost.

to use devd for the same purpose. I'm referring to what Polytropon said about all the new stuff required by X. As I understood him he was talking about the XML-files to give directions to HAL, and he used quotes so I think he meant supposedly new, or just newer than the classic configuration

Re: X server and xinit works excellent....almost.

with this assumption, I'll be happy. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

Re: What are the technical differences between Linux and BSD?

Unix, and a few others mentioned already. For more details about SysV and explaination of historical contexts I may append: The magic garden explained. The internals of UNIX System 5 release 4. by Benny Goodheart James Cox. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra

Re: apps to display cpu temp

2.0 -vmax 3.0 -cmvc V -clvc red Depending on the sensor installation of your particular system, check if the different values do match the hardware. Maybe check from within your CMOS setup for reference values. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe

Re: apps to display cpu temp

. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr

Re: Build options built by dialog(1)

as the configuration files of port management tools may contain options. Once again, this old 650-704-7070-PDP4-KA/KI/KL/KS-CTSS- Convex-IBMPC-3B1 warrior needs help :-} Impressive path! =^_^= -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: The results of your email commands

in the FreeBSD Handbook discussing the topic of how to access MS-DOS formatted media per USB. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: .config

/ menus/ Okay, seems that other toolkits also use it. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: HDD formatted in FreeBSD/386 on Win XP

Sorry for not being more specific, as I'm not a Windows person. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: .config

. JUST PLAIN WRONG! -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: Failed make buildworld on 8.2-RELEASE

or dtrace). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd

Re: Re[2]: Problem with jail network

ifconfig_bce0_alias0=inet 1.2.3.4/32 in this case I write full netmask: inet 1.2.3.4 netmask 255.255.255.255 It works fine Ok, I'll try that with netmask 255.255.255.255 instead of /32 The hex notation should also be valid: ifconfig_bce0_alias0=inet 1.2.3.4 netmask 0xff00 -- Polytropon

Re: problem formating disk with gpart

as they are intended to support manual hotswapping to be done with SATA. See man atacontrol for details. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Xfce and session lock (xlock)

key (which is the double-width key on the top left on a Sun keyboard, quite handy). I'm not sure if xlock has an option for setting a timeout value... -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd

Re: Installing an older version of a port

libfoobar-1.4@ - libfoobar-1.5 so the program can pick it by version number. Of course, this might sound strange if one takes the initial ideas of shared libraries and their versioning into mind. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: make buildworld powers down system

it in your /etc/X11/xorg.conf by setting Option DPMS false in the section Monitor where you define the values for your monitor. I had a similar experience with an 21 CRT Eizo F980 going to sleep unintendedly. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi

Re: make buildworld powers down system

On Fri, 2 Dec 2011 03:28:09 -0500, Mehmet Erol Sanliturk wrote: On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 3:05 AM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Fri, 2 Dec 2011 02:06:26 -0500 (EST), d...@safeport.com wrote: The screen does go into standby and I am not sure what is controling that, nothing in KDE

Re: upcoming 9.0 release

in any dependencies they need. This makes sure you don't carry cruft and bloat from your prior installation that you _maybe_ don't have any actual use for. Needless to say, you should bring your ports tree up to date before starting either procedure. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy

Re: upcoming 9.0 release

the compatibility layers of FreeBSD n for n-1. This refers to the compat-* ports and the COMPAT_* kernel configuration items. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: sudo log messages

own sudo.conf file from. Also see the notes in man sudo, section SECURITY NOTES. Maybe you'll find something useful in the provided documentation at /usr/local/share/doc/sudo/. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: sudo log messages

/doc/sudo/sample.sudoers contains an example. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: I am FreeBSD user.

it there. Also note that there are manuals for OpenBSD, SunOS, ULTRIX or HP-UX which are definitely not related to the Linux emulation (which is an alternative binary interface - ABI - on FreeBSD). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: umass to /dev/da* mapping

they appear to the system. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: Playing .ASX files via/within Firefox ?

! It can even run in fullscreen (or you can do all the tricks mplayer and mencoder is capable of). I'm not sure how to integrate that with Firefox (as I am an Opera person), sorry. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: OT: C|Net's Download.com adware, spyware, malware hijinkx.

. This could do damage to F/O products, at least in Windows land. Luckily, those who build from source or use precompiled packages from a trustworthy vendor don't have to care for that stuff. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: Which Lenovo Laptop?

combinations, usually Fn + Cursor or Fn + PF key) to adjust brightness and contrast, or has this lowest-level functionality finally moved into the world of software, i. e. drivers? -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: OT: C|Net's Download.com adware, spyware, malware hijinkx.

On Fri, 9 Dec 2011 13:05:05 -0600, Ryan Coleman wrote: On Dec 9, 2011, at 12:03 PM, Polytropon wrote: On Fri, 9 Dec 2011 09:38:59 -0600, Ryan Coleman wrote: It's still not malware, it's bloatware. Why would you not go to the development website to get the program anyway

Re: .config

On Mon, 19 Dec 2011 10:48:23 -0500, ill...@gmail.com wrote: On 30 November 2011 14:03, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Wed, 30 Nov 2011 13:40:19 -0500, ill...@gmail.com wrote: A dirty workaround might be to link /.config to something innocuous.  One could obvio- usly also have

Re: Port, Packages, and Patching, Upgrading

to using ports and building everything from source. FreeBSD puts you in choice here, and I'm glad it does, because I prefer _this_ or _that_ method depending on the use of different systems. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: LOCALE issue: Pysycache errors on run

On Thu, 22 Dec 2011 23:13:53 +1000, Da Rock wrote: %env LANG=en_EN.ISO8859-1 pysycache.py ^^ Isn't that supposed to be en_US or en_GB? I'm not sure if there's also en_AU... :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: 7.4 - 8.2

for this situation. It should be similarly easy to achieve with portupgrade. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: LOCALE issue: Pysycache errors on run

On Thu, 22 Dec 2011 23:57:28 +1000, Da Rock wrote: On 12/22/11 23:20, Polytropon wrote: On Thu, 22 Dec 2011 23:13:53 +1000, Da Rock wrote: %env LANG=en_EN.ISO8859-1 pysycache.py ^^ Isn't that supposed to be en_US or en_GB? I'm not sure if there's also en_AU

Re: PolicyKit confusion

can't provide any further information. I just assume it's a means to turn a safe multi-user system into an insecure single-user system, which is what users expect. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: Archived FreeBSD versions

ISO-IMAGES/ in there. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: Clearing Login Screen on Console

, local to the respective user ~/.login and ~/.logout)? You can also test those two commands interactively. I think they are connected to the ^L key, just to make sure if something's wrong with the /etc/gettytab file. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe

Re: Problems with pkg_upgrade

, That's basically what man portmaster says, even though the options are different and allow more flexibility. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: OT: Root access policy

actually needs. Role based models such as they can be done without root passwords (tools: sudo, super) can help here. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: OT: Root access policy

On Thu, 29 Dec 2011 11:23:31 +0100, Damien Fleuriot wrote: On 12/29/11 10:58 AM, Polytropon wrote: On Thu, 29 Dec 2011 04:01:42 -0500, Irk Ed wrote: Obviously, I must comply. At the same time, I cannot continue be accountable for those servers. Fully correct. Check the contract you

Re: OT: Root access policy

On Thu, 29 Dec 2011 09:15:45 -0800, Carl Johnson wrote: Damien Fleuriot m...@my.gd writes: On 12/29/11 10:58 AM, Polytropon wrote: On Thu, 29 Dec 2011 04:01:42 -0500, Irk Ed wrote: For the first time, a customer is asking me for root access to said customer's servers. snip

Re: Same version on binary packages and updated ports

running 8.2-STABLE and ports from an updated tree. For a server, this approach might not fit - maybe you want to keep all things binary there, or from source only. It will be enough for me if someone just point me to documentation. The FreeBSD Handbook. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany

Re: FreeBSD Kernel Internals Documentation

_good_, or point at some FreeBSD documentation that you think needs heavy improvement, it would help to back your argumentation. Otherwise, it can be seen as already done. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: FreeBSD Kernel Internals Documentation

On Fri, 30 Dec 2011 07:15:00 -0500, Jerry wrote: On Fri, 30 Dec 2011 07:39:58 +0100 Polytropon articulated: However, there are differences in how you judge documentation to be _good_. Talk to a mainframer, and he will tell you a different story. Then talk to a Windows person and explain

Re: FreeBSD Kernel Internals Documentation

Polytropon has been rather helpful many times on this list regardless of how many faux pas maybe made; I'm sure you're not without fault either. The fact is that Poly has taken negativity bias to a new level. I fully realize that part of this is due to his socialist/fascist upbringing

Re: Same version on binary packages and updated ports

On Fri, 30 Dec 2011 13:14:35 +, RW wrote: On Thu, 29 Dec 2011 19:53:25 +0100 Walter Alejandro Iglesias wrote: I really appreciate that you all, Jerry, Polytropon and Chuck, took your time to answer me. But I think some of you understood paragraphs like individual-separated

Re: FreeBSD Kernel Internals Documentation

On Fri, 30 Dec 2011 09:59:14 -0500, Jerry wrote: On Fri, 30 Dec 2011 14:22:30 +0100 Polytropon articulated: From man iwn: Intel Wireless WiFi Link 4965/1000/5000/5150/5300/6000/6050 IEEE 802.11n driver So they actually got support for one such device. I refer you to http

Re: FreeBSD Kernel Internals Documentation

writers separated, but working together. This approach isn't free of problems, but also seems to work. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: FreeBSD Kernel Internals Documentation

the required privileges off the X server. Moving _that_ kind of functionality into the kernel could enable non-X use of graphics capabilities, I also assume. Details: see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mode-setting -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: Installing FreeBSD ver. 8.2

that, Gnome should be up and running. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

Re: Single user mode exits unexpectedly

should I look? Review your installation steps and _maybe_ redo the installation as indicated in the manual. Maybe there's really just something out of sync. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: reduce partition size. HELP

! :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr

Re: FreeBSD Kernel Internals Documentation

consider such devices niche devices, think again: You'll find them near any Internet-connected computer and among the bowels of the whole Internet. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd

Exact timestamp for sorting and renaming files according to creation order

precise than seconds. Does anyone have a suggestion how to precisely determine the order files have been created? -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Exact timestamp for sorting and renaming files according to creation order

to be a human-readable date representation. by the way, I'm running FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE/x86 of late August 2011 here, file system used is UFS2. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions

Re: Browser

browsing habits and reporting them to the authorities, maybe you re-consider using Opera. Keep in mind that even if it's free, it's not really open, if I remember correctly. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: Exact timestamp for sorting and renaming files according to creation order

On Wed, 04 Jan 2012 15:01:32 +0100, Julian H. Stacey wrote: Hi, Devin Teske wrote: -Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd- questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Polytropon Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2012 1:00 PM To: Dan Nelson

Re: Browser

=0 session? Hmmm... On the other hand, installing google's Chromium browser went through without that kind of annoying trouble. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions

Re: FreeBSD on kvm

and escape to the loader prompt, set to NO to disable autobooting That means =0 would mean to boot immediately _with_ the option to get to the boot prompt - you just need to be fast at the keyboard. :-) Oh, and see man loader.conf for details. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD

Re: FreeBSD on kvm

On Fri, 06 Jan 2012 18:49:41 +0100, Alessandro Baggi wrote: On 01/06/2012 06:24 PM, Polytropon wrote: On Fri, 06 Jan 2012 17:50:41 +0100, Alessandro Baggi wrote: Leaving delay boot to 10 sec, always block. Set delay boot to 1, it give me some crash. There is a possibility to run directly

Re: creating a bootable iso for raid BIOS flash

the size of ~17MB, but the created iso by me is ~10MB. So it seems I'm missing some files. You can mount the ISO you've generated and look inside to find out which files may be missing, or if there are differences in file sizes. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0

Re: Installing FreeBSD ver. 8.2

/bashprompt/prompts/ for customizing your bash prompt. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: creating a bootable iso for raid BIOS flash

On Sun, 8 Jan 2012 01:11:30 +0100 (CET), Marco Beishuizen wrote: On Sun, 8 Jan 2012, the wise Polytropon wrote: If this is depending on the name [BOOT], there are two ways to deal with special characters in file names, if you need to specify them on the command line: a) use escape

Re: OpenBSD disk on FreeBSD.

guessing. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: OpenBSD disk on FreeBSD.

the mailing list archives, you will find hints to procedures and software to do a deeper analysis of the structures that need to be accessed, such as disk labels, file system data and other stuff. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: starting firefox3 with defined geometry

1055 (IBM /370) PDP-11 or K1600? Oh, and EC1056 here (OS/ES SVM OP1). :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

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