Re: Star Office for Mac OS10

2004-09-25 Thread stheg olloydson
it was said: A friend of mine recommended I download Star Office for my Mac, to take the place of MSW, which I cannot afford. I don't understand how your website works; ergo, how to access information on this software and instructions as to downloading it. Please help! Hello, You are

Re: Installing Free BSD 5.21

2004-09-26 Thread stheg olloydson
It was said: I have had a crash on my computer I try to install McAfee Internet = Security 6.0 I keep getting this error message. The Wizard was interrupted before 6.o could be completely installed. It say new program = when I check McAfee it says it is empty. Will installing this=20 help this

Re: UNIX

2004-09-26 Thread stheg olloydson
it was said: I was told that I could learn UNIX for free on this site. If so please = let me know how. My email address is [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello, Welcome to FreeBSD! You certainly can learn about unix type OSs here. The best place to start is with the Handbook. the URL is

Re: question

2004-09-26 Thread stheg olloydson
it was said: % man 1 chmo whaT does (%) sign means here? root ,user or something else? Note ! [greypixel.gif] Alternatively please send me mails on [i.p.emphone.gif] [EMAIL PROTECTED] and also please add me in your messenger [greypixel.gif] Hello, The % is the shell prompt. It

Re: Country Restrions

2004-10-14 Thread stheg olloydson
it was said: Is there any restriction to use FreeBSD in Cuba and other countries where US have comercial restrictions? I work for a British company with branches in Cuba and Syria. So I want to know if there is a limitation or if I can think about deploying FreeBSD globally for my company.

Re: Development Resources

2004-10-16 Thread stheg olloydson
it was said: I am a software developer for Windows, and moving to FreeBSD has been very nice, especially since the tools to make software are completly free! My question is: Where can I find information on programming for FreeBSD? Things like how it differs from Windows, what it can and can't

Re: Is there a reverse Network Address Translation???

2004-09-30 Thread stheg olloydson
It was said: I wan't to access my pc at work from home through freebsd's sshd. Is it possible?, knowing that it doesn't have a public ip address? That workstation of mine is only gaining internet access through LAN servers and routers. Will it help if I know the gateway ip where my workstation

Re: Is there a reverse Network Address Translation???

2004-09-30 Thread stheg olloydson
It was said: Obviously, if you can ssh in, so can anyone else. Be sure you use a _very_ good password. Would using a public/private key not be better? Any password would still be guessable. Jim Mozley Hello, Most certainly! I was taking into account the OP's relative newness to the unix

Re: question reguarding Evolution...

2004-09-30 Thread stheg olloydson
It was said (with broken MS formatting): X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2180 Im running 4.10 right now and even since 4.9 and lower i have had this = problem. Im running 1.4.6 right now... the latest as of last night form ports. = (9/29/2004) Basicly what is happening is it

Re: When Unix Stops Being Fun (pushing the thread even more OT)

2004-10-03 Thread stheg olloydson
it was said: As a purely theoretical question - is it possible to be guilty of an offence by being in possession of a digital image of a currency bill? At what resolution does it become an offence? Hello, This exactly answers your questions:

Re: Troubleshoting with nat

2004-10-04 Thread stheg olloydson
it was said (with broken MS formatting): I have two network on two different switch. My pc have two lan cards among which 1st is connected to 1st switch and 2nd is connected to second switch. Both the switch are not cascaded. One pc from 1st network can ping to 1st card and not to 2nd card and

Re: Duplex printing with HP DeskJet 6122

2004-10-17 Thread stheg olloydson
it was said: Having problems with getting my hp deskjet 6122 to print. Got as far as downlaoding the software but when it got to set up nothing happened. Can you help? Hello, Sure! Check your configuration. You have something wrong. See http://www.lemis.com/questions.html for details. HTH

Re: feasible w/ samba?

2004-10-18 Thread stheg olloydson
it was said: What this would essentially be attempting to achieve is to have a way for a geographically spread out network allow people to easily access their home directories and shares no matter where they logged using local servers acting as time-delayed proxies...all the user login

Re: feasible w/ samba?

2004-10-18 Thread stheg olloydson
--- Bart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually, it would be connectivity + bandwidth + geography. Some of the buildings are close together...close enough that you can lean on the wall of one and throw a softball to hit the other. Others are over 20 miles apart, and it's not really 3

Re: OT: Upgrade feasibility, to AMD64/5.x.x or to stay i386/4.9 on AMD64 hardware?

2004-10-18 Thread stheg olloydson
it was said: Here's what we're proposing for the new hardware: AMD Athlon64 - 3200+ (Socket 754 - I know, but it's cheap) MSI K8T-FSR (VIA Chipset) 2048MB DDR400 Non-ECC RAM In my experience trying to put more than 1GB RAM in a socket-754 mainboard is asking for trouble. This type of board

Re: release 5.3 'Configure' missing 'XFree86' option

2004-11-09 Thread stheg olloydson
it was said: hi: i downloaded the new 5.3 release (i386 iso disks 1, 2). i have installed freebsd many times. this release does not have 'XFree86' as a 'Configure' option. is this me or is there a problem? thanks, efs Hello, It's you :). From the Release Notes: FreeBSD now uses Xorg

Re: FW: FreeBSD donation (sponsorship)

2004-11-17 Thread stheg olloydson
it was said: Hi FreeBSD, My name is Crystal Chiang, I sent this e-mail to donation at FreeBSD about a week ago, but no one has got in contact with me, so I am not sure who's in charge of the PR or marketing over there. Could you please forward this e-mail to the appropriate person / people, and

Re: hello.

2004-11-22 Thread stheg olloydson
- Original Message - From: mase progamer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 22, 2004 00:36 Subject: hello. hello, I own a small computer gaming store. i was wondering if you could send me some freebsd posters pamphlets other such materials for

Re: 4 part domain names

2004-11-23 Thread stheg olloydson
it was said: On Wed, Nov 24, 2004 at 12:48:49AM +0100, Hexren wrote: : Now add to that picture that every subdomain could be an alias for another : domain or point to an IP address, which incase of the IP address is : meaning a real machine. So that means that the right-most portion of the

Re: CVSup questions

2004-11-23 Thread stheg olloydson
it was said: I have a system that right now I'm using to learn FreeBSD. I want to go through the update process that I assume I'll have to follow regularly once the computer is up and running as a web and mail server. Right now I'm not concerned about backups; that's my next project. I'm

Re: not all files in a NTFS-directory are visible in FreeBSD

2004-11-23 Thread stheg olloydson
it was said: it seems that the FreeBSD-NTFS-filesystem doesn't show all files that are in a directory. My mp3 Directory is located on a Win XP NTFS-Partition. I hope there is a solution. I saw this exact phenomenon once with graphics files. It turned out that the files were partially

Re: 4 part domain names

2004-11-24 Thread stheg olloydson
it was said: * stheg olloydson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [1157 00:57]: .. Generally, however, the tertiary domain level is the system's function: www, ftp, mail, etc. if the system is public. nitpick the function is often the leftmost component, not the tertiary - plenty of domains have more

Re: fsck inadequacies

2004-11-26 Thread stheg olloydson
it was said: But, unlike the other windows systems that run up there, the FreeBSD system seems incredibly prone to disk corruption. Often the system will not reboot, and hangs while it asks for a file check. I can't do that remotely - it has to be a person. I frequently need to run fsck, and

Re: Designed for FreeBSD stickers

2004-12-08 Thread stheg olloydson
it was said: I'd put those badges on all the servers I configured if they weren't 2 bucks a pop! I'd be willing to pay a quarter, or at most 50 cents, but $2 seems excessive. --Brett Wonder what they do with that execessive profit from their merchandise?

re: Reasonable Hyperterminal alternative?

2004-12-10 Thread stheg olloydson
it was said: I'm seeking a reasonable alternative to WinXP/2000 Hyperterminal as a console application (for serial port access to a no-graphics card box). Hello, I use SecureCRT from www.vandyke.com, but it pricey. Check TUCOWS listing at

re: A7N question

2004-12-10 Thread stheg olloydson
it was said: Has there been any work on the driver for the A7N's nforce MCP built in network chipset? Hello, What you're looking for is the nvnet driver. It's in /usr/ports/net/nvnet. From pkg-descr: This should work on all nForce and nForce2 based motherboards that have the MCP MAC enabled.

re: How to configure gcc in FreeBSD 5.3

2004-12-10 Thread stheg olloydson
it was said (in one very long line): Is there a way to configure gcc post installation of the 5.3 release? I am thinking to leverage the -cputype flag used by the compiler. BTW, is there any noticeable performance gain by using the cputype flag with gcc? My processor is athlon-xp. Hello,

Re: Origin of hard drive parameters

2006-09-09 Thread stheg olloydson
On 9 Sep 2006 14:54:09 - ihilt wrote: On Wednesday 06 September 2006 7:54 pm, jdow wrote: Ok. Maybe the better question is: in either case, C/H/S or LBA mode, where are these parameters stored? They flat out are not stored anywhere. There is a standard algorithm published by the VESA

Re: WinXP administration guide for unix guru

2005-08-21 Thread stheg olloydson
it was said: Can anyone recommend a book which explains this confusing beast? I'm talking about a book which explains where things are put (equiv of /var/mail, /etc/passwd, /etc/rc.conf), where application data is stored, how printers, disks, etc are shared, how to book in fixit disk mode, how to

Re: Remote Console

2005-10-16 Thread stheg olloydson
Hi all, RS-232 Serial Port hubs seem to be a little hard to come by, and the ones I have found are quite expensive. COuld we could achieve the same using USB terminals and a 16 port USB hub? -Grant - Original Message - From: Andrew P. [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Grant Peel [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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