On Tue 29 Mar 2011 at 13:59:44 PDT Jerry McAllister wrote:
On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 02:45:27PM -0500, Jason Hsu wrote:
I want to learn BSD. I find that the best way to familiarize myself with a distro is to adopt it as my main distro (for web browsing, email, word processing, etc.).
But the
On Sun 27 Mar 2011 at 11:57:46 PDT Chris Brennan wrote:
On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 2:07 PM, Chip Camden
wrote:
Quoth Charlie Kester on Sunday, 27 March 2011:
>
> Personally, I prefer vim. ;)
>
+1
Someone will object that the OP asked for an IDE. IMO, vim Integrates
quite well with
On Sun 27 Mar 2011 at 07:02:33 PDT Alokat wrote:
On 03/27/11 15:49, Bruce Cran wrote:
On Sun, 27 Mar 2011 15:41:28 +0200
Alokat wrote:
I'm searching for a good IDE for my development stuff - c, c++,
python, rails, php
Can someone advise one?
And I don't wanna use eclipse. :-)
KDevelop (
On Thu 10 Mar 2011 at 10:48:05 PST Jerry wrote:
On Thu, 10 Mar 2011 08:39:04 -0800
Charlie Kester articulated:
On Thu 10 Mar 2011 at 05:51:06 PST Tom Worster wrote:
>and as far as investing in corporate stock is concerned, oss virtue
>(like environmental virtue or sweat shop virtue) i
On Wed 09 Mar 2011 at 14:00:37 PST Nerius Landys wrote:
This is not a technical question.
Basically I have some cash sitting around. I'm thinking of investing
part of it with a company that I believe in. Apple came to mind. You
could say that I'd like to judge Apple's moral character before
i
On Thu 10 Mar 2011 at 05:51:06 PST Tom Worster wrote:
and as far as investing in corporate stock is concerned, oss virtue
(like environmental virtue or sweat shop virtue) is just so much
marketing blather. a corporation's responsibility is to make money for
its investors. business ethics is and a
On Mon 07 Mar 2011 at 09:00:14 PST Chad Perrin wrote:
Did you know you can configure YouTube to use HTML5 instead of Flash
now? Adobe is in danger of becoming irrelevant.
Meh. I never watch videos on the website anyway.
I download them with cclive, as mp4's.
Not sure what any of this ha
On Sun 06 Mar 2011 at 10:58:57 PST Warren Block wrote:
On Sun, 6 Mar 2011, Lars Eighner wrote:
If my bug report is marked [regression] what does that mean?
Am I a troglodyte or a Luddite or something?
"Regression" is something that used to work but doesn't any more.
Like me. I'm retired n
On Fri 04 Mar 2011 at 13:24:32 PST Doug Hardie wrote:
I have a client who has purchased some software. I don't know anything
much about it yet other than it claims to run on Debian and CentOS. I
suspect its binaries. I will have access to things like the developer,
name etc. on Monday. However, t
On Wed 02 Mar 2011 at 08:56:25 PST Bernt Hansson wrote:
Hello list
Trying to build nasm-2.09.04,1
Bails out at
cc -c -O2 -pipe -fno-strict-aliasing -W -Wall -std=c99 -pedantic
-DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -o regdis.o regdis.c
cc -o ndisasm ndisasm.o disasm.o sync.o nasmlib.o ver.o insnsd.o
insns
On Sat 19 Feb 2011 at 13:50:22 PST Mike Jeays wrote:
On Sat, 19 Feb 2011 16:37:14 -0500
Alfredo Perez wrote:
I am missing them all, can you upload them somewhere?
They are all online at bsdmag.org
I think they'd like you to subscribe to their newsletter before
downloading the electronic ve
On Fri 18 Feb 2011 at 08:13:19 PST MFV wrote:
Hello,
I've been downloading BSD Mag since it first came out and your list is
identical to mine.
Same here.
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On Thu 17 Feb 2011 at 10:43:24 PST Jorge Biquez wrote:
Hello all.
I am evaluating to buy a new laptop for using it only with Freebsd. I
know in the website mention some options. Thing is that here the most
powerful ones (I3, I5 I7) are sold ONLY with Windows installed and
that increase the va
On Tue 25 Jan 2011 at 22:49:40 PST Gary Kline wrote:
Guys,
Before the 11th of January I was streaming both audio and video
streams with little to zero wait time. In other words, I could
stream about 50 minutes of audio with only a second or two of pause
time delay [[AKA congestion]]. After tha
On Sun 23 Jan 2011 at 11:13:23 PST Terrence Koeman wrote:
-Original Message-
From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-
questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of kellyremo
Sent: Sunday, January 23, 2011 14:47
To: FreeBSD
Subject: putting "/tmp" to memory
Importance: High
On Sat 22 Jan 2011 at 18:00:52 PST Michael D. Norwick wrote:
Good Day,
I have seen this for some time when building ports and was wondering how
it was done. GCC when compiling and linking certain programs, ebook for
example, emits messages in various colors. How is that done? Where
does on
On Wed 19 Jan 2011 at 21:36:19 PST David Kelly wrote:
On Jan 19, 2011, at 10:51 PM, David J. Weller-Fahy wrote:
[...]
That did the job, but made `man -k`, which my fingers find familiar,
unusable. I remembered you were running a CURRENT snapshot, so figured
I'd check the difference between m
On Thu 30 Dec 2010 at 17:17:31 PST Xn Nooby wrote:
If I write a document about how to do something with FreeBSD, is there
a good place to post it, or a link to it?
Something like "how to edit a video in FreeBSD", not official documentation.
I usually have to google things to find them, and ofte
On Wed 29 Dec 2010 at 17:31:37 PST Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
"Giorgos" == Giorgos Keramidas writes:
Giorgos> Edit it's 'Makefile'. Look for an assignment of the form:
Minor nit... that's "its" not "it's". If you can't say "it is" or "it
has" in place, then it's "its", not "it's". :)
Engli
On Mon 27 Dec 2010 at 15:10:35 PST Charlie Kester wrote:
On Mon 27 Dec 2010 at 12:13:32 PST Alexander Konotop wrote:
Same problem. It's seems like it's not hanging, but awaiting of
something.
We've been discussing this on the forums.
The problem seems to be that textproc/man
On Mon 27 Dec 2010 at 12:13:32 PST Alexander Konotop wrote:
Same problem. It's seems like it's not hanging, but awaiting of
something.
We've been discussing this on the forums.
The problem seems to be that textproc/man2html is broken. Warren Block
pointed out that if you deinstall man2html, t
On Mon 20 Dec 2010 at 19:53:32 PST Reed Loefgren wrote:
On 12/20/10 18:05, Polytropon wrote:
On Mon, 20 Dec 2010 12:25:03 -0800, David Brodbeck wrote:
On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 1:42 AM, Charlie Kester wrote:
As a last gasp effort, I gave my LJ4+ a thorough cleaning and replaced
the rollers for
On Sat 11 Dec 2010 at 09:57:08 PST Charlie Kester wrote:
On Sat 11 Dec 2010 at 06:34:20 PST S Mathias wrote:
It's ok, that i can use this, when i want an incrementing sequence, in a given
way:
# {START..END..INCREMENT}
$ for i in {0..10..2}; do echo "Welcome $i times"; done
On Sat 11 Dec 2010 at 06:34:20 PST S Mathias wrote:
It's ok, that i can use this, when i want an incrementing sequence, in a given
way:
# {START..END..INCREMENT}
$ for i in {0..10..2}; do echo "Welcome $i times"; done
Welcome 0 times
Welcome 2 times
Welcome 4 times
Welcome 6 times
Welcome 8 tim
On Tue 07 Dec 2010 at 23:39:26 PST Polytropon wrote:
On Fri, 3 Dec 2010 21:57:49 -0800, Charlie Kester wrote:
My LJ4+ was connected via parallel and I never noticed any problems with
error messages or the speed.
Error messages: This started with FreeBSD 7. The system
log gets full of
On Fri 03 Dec 2010 at 19:29:52 PST Polytropon wrote:
On Fri, 3 Dec 2010 19:26:43 -0700 (MST), Warren Block
wrote:
The last time I used parallel on FreeBSD, it was slow...well, slower
than expected. Haven't really tested USB printers for speed.
Ethernet is superior in many ways.
The speed is
My old HP Laserjet 4+ is broken and I'm thinking about buying a new
printer. I'd appreciate hearing recommendations from the list.
My requirements:
- Compatible with FreeBSD (obviously)
- Laserjet preferred. Black & White only. I don't need to print photos
or business brochures.
- Very li
On Fri 26 Nov 2010 at 14:31:23 PST Chip Camden wrote:
Quoth Polytropon on Friday, 26 November 2010:
FIVE! Using a tiling window manager like xmonad, just open another
xterm. Either share a workspace between them, or put one of them in a
different workspace, depending on whether you like to be
On Tue 23 Nov 2010 at 17:43:32 PST Beech Rintoul wrote:
On Tuesday 23 November 2010 13:55:51 Dave wrote:
Have a small web server, again I've read that Apache can do a good job,
but I don't want (nor need) all it's facilities, in particular I need to
lock it down so no "Put's" can happen for a
On Mon 15 Nov 2010 at 00:32:37 PST Wojciech Puchar wrote:
the only way to make ANY discussion forum usable is to have
moderation and clear rules of posting.
Otherwise it will be destroyed. Buy random people or actually by
someone spreading nonsense willingfully. Or both
I notice that you
On Sun 14 Nov 2010 at 16:29:10 PST Chad Perrin wrote:
On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 02:39:32PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote:
About 2000, 2001 was when I shucked my "muuz" game/mind-machine
effort. It was over 10K line of C-ish code that I rehacked into
C++. Figured since C++ was
On Fri 12 Nov 2010 at 16:47:40 PST Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
"Charlie" == Charlie Kester writes:
Charlie> OK, I'll play:
Charlie> Gnome vs KDE
Charlie> Ports vs Packages (vs PBI's)
Charlie> GPL vs BSDL
Charlie> C vs any other programming language
Pe
On Fri 12 Nov 2010 at 16:05:33 PST Gary Gatten wrote:
Let's start a thread listing dead horses to beat:
M$ vs Novell
"Unix" vs "Linux"
Mainframe vs "PC"
DAS vs SAN
Top-posting vs Bottom posting
Blah blah blah vs Yada yada yada
OK, I'll play:
Gnome vs KDE
Ports vs Packages (vs PBI's)
GPL vs BS
On Fri 12 Nov 2010 at 15:44:01 PST Chris Brennan wrote:
Must we continue to beat this already dead horse?
Apparently the answer is yes, when we're not beating the equally
dead horse of the CLI vs GUI debate.
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Since this discussion refuses to die, I hope the participants will heed
my suggestion and collect the results on a webpage somewhere so we don't
have to go over it all many times again in the future.
So far, I haven't seen anything said that wasn't already said five, ten,
fifteen or even twenty y
On Mon 08 Nov 2010 at 02:06:24 PST Matthias Apitz wrote:
I think this philosofic discussion has little or nothing todo with
FreeBSD. Could you move this elsewhere, or off-list? Thanks
It's also a very very OLD argument. Surely the debating points have
already been collected on a webpage somew
On Thu 28 Oct 2010 at 13:52:27 PDT Chip Camden wrote:
Smacks forehead as if starring in a V-8
commercial
A friend of mine used to call that a Neanderthal Moment.
(Smack your forehead, shrug your shoulders, and imagine it is reshaping
your body.)
_
On Wed 06 Oct 2010 at 07:31:58 PDT Mark Blackman wrote:
Charlie Kester wrote:
On Tue 05 Oct 2010 at 06:25:05 PDT Mark Blackman wrote:
There's also the whole train of thought that says FreeBSD isn't really
aimed at the desktop/laptop/notebook use model and any benefit in that
arena i
On Tue 05 Oct 2010 at 06:25:05 PDT Mark Blackman wrote:
Jon Radel wrote:
I'm somewhat unclear on how that follows. Might it not be that many
manufacturers, busily dealing with Microsoft, and easing into Linux now
that it has significant "mindshare," have simply decided that there's no
economic
On Mon 06 Sep 2010 at 16:09:41 PDT Charlie Kester wrote:
On Mon 06 Sep 2010 at 12:02:07 PDT Warren Block wrote:
On Mon, 6 Sep 2010, Chad Perrin wrote:
I've started looking at the Xpdf tools as well as pdftohtml. Other
suggestions from within ports would be appreciated. Additional op
On Mon 06 Sep 2010 at 12:02:07 PDT Warren Block wrote:
On Mon, 6 Sep 2010, Chad Perrin wrote:
I've started looking at the Xpdf tools as well as pdftohtml. Other
suggestions from within ports would be appreciated. Additional options
other than what can be found in ports might also be useful, un
On Wed 18 Aug 2010 at 20:16:51 PDT Depo Catcher wrote:
On 8/18/2010 8:10 PM, Gary Kline wrote:
've hesitated. on my 3.0gh thinkpad, streams fly
flawlessly. So if i buy one of the notebooks with a
Stream what kind of movies? Some video players (like VLC) have
hardware acceleration that wi
On Tue 17 Aug 2010 at 15:05:27 PDT Danny Carroll wrote:
I wonder what happens when you upgrade a port, don't restart, then the
following week upgrade it again hmmm.
I don't think it would be any different than not restarting it after the
first upgrade (assuming the port doesn't try to ope
On Wed 04 Aug 2010 at 11:51:17 PDT Gary Kline wrote:
There actually are a some boiler-plate files of [[CANNED]] wills
out there. ---i found and filled one such out several years ago,
but eventually deleted the file. i figure that it really =is=
worth paying $75
On Sun 25 Jul 2010 at 18:17:09 PDT zaxis wrote:
I want to upgrade my freebsd 8.0 to 8.1. I have read all the steps about
upgrading freebsd. I feel mergemaster is difficult to use e.g. which
parameters should i use ? (you may wish to use -U or -ai or -Fi)
I usually use -p when invoking mer
On Sun 25 Jul 2010 at 14:42:14 PDT Matthew Seaman wrote:
Besides, I suspect that the OP was not in fact genuinely offended but
merely trying to stir up trouble
Which makes it all the more disappointing that so many of you took the
bait.
I stand by my previous comments. Please end this thread
On Sun 25 Jul 2010 at 00:57:14 PDT per...@pluto.rain.com wrote:
This discussion has drifted badly OT
Yes, and it really should be killed, now. Please.
My thanks to those few who did NOT take it as an occasion for
Christian-bashing. I'm not a Christian either, but I do get tired of it
being
On Thu 17 Jun 2010 at 19:57:03 PDT Polytropon wrote:
Maybe my answer will sound "low level", but it works - REALLY works -
and works with mostly every kind of data.
It's good to see someone recommending a true Unix-style solution. :)
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On Tue 15 Jun 2010 at 15:11:47 PDT Programmer in Training wrote:
"Don't install it." isn't a valid option.
Sure it is. The fact that it's an option you don't want to accept
doesn't make it invalid.
I also take issue with the "well use a supported OS" schtick. I will
tell Adobe to provide
On Sat 12 Jun 2010 at 18:17:22 PDT Michelle Konzack wrote:
Hello Charlie Kester,
Am 2010-06-12 15:51:32, hacktest Du folgendes herunter:
I worked at Microsoft Developer Support in a previous life, beginning at
the time that Visual C++ and MFC were first introduced.
Hahaha, you where Killed
On Sat 12 Jun 2010 at 13:12:55 PDT Chip Camden wrote:
Call me fatalistic, but I think there is a direct relationship between
FreeBSD's high quality and it's lack of popularity. If it catered to
the common herd, its compromises would be many.
I think we're straying from the original topic, bu
On Sun 06 Jun 2010 at 21:44:45 PDT Alejandro Imass wrote:
On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 12:38 AM, Charlie Kester wrote:
On Sun 06 Jun 2010 at 20:56:50 PDT Chad Perrin wrote:
[...]
I'm not sure what to do with PPT's. Can PowerPoint save to PDF, which
is what almost everyone else s
On Sun 06 Jun 2010 at 20:56:50 PDT Chad Perrin wrote:
On Sun, Jun 06, 2010 at 01:34:16PM -0700, Chip Camden wrote:
Does anyone have a recommendation for a lighter-weight office suite?
OOo is such a pig. It takes a good minute to start it up and open a
spreadsheet.
Short of the full suite, how
On Sat 05 Jun 2010 at 16:24:36 PDT Alejandro Imass wrote:
On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 6:35 PM, Giorgos Tsiapaliokas wrote:
hello,
i am coming from the linux world where i was using the bash shell but i
found out that there are also much more.
can u tell me the basic differences between them?(pros an
On Mon 31 May 2010 at 19:58:41 PDT Aiza wrote:
Chris Hill wrote:
On Tue, 1 Jun 2010, Aiza wrote:
Added some code to a .sh script.
When I run the script works but issues this message
[: =: unexpected operator
No line number telling where to look.
I am not ever sure its talking about.
IS [: wh
On Tue 25 May 2010 at 11:17:36 PDT Arthur Barlow wrote:
I did this and sure enough "vm_memattr_t" is defined as a parameter
in a typedef as follows: typedef int d_mmap2_t (struc cdev *dev,
vm_offset_t offset, vm_paddr_t *paddr, int nprot, vm_memattr_t
*memattr);
So the question is, why didn
On Mon 24 May 2010 at 21:55:01 PDT Charlie Kester wrote:
The Configure script grep's for vm_memattr_t in
${LSOF_INCLUDE}/sys/conf.h and sets HAS_VM_MEMATTR_T if the grep
succeeds. The build failure tells us that your /usr/src/sys/conf.h uses
vm_memattr_t, so it seems the Configure is te
On Mon 24 May 2010 at 20:24:49 PDT Arthur Barlow wrote:
[r...@uranus /usr/ports/sysutils/lsof]# HASPSEUDOFS -DHASNULLFS
-DHASIPv6 -DHAS_STRFTIME -DLSOF_VSTR=\"8.0-STABLE\"")
cc -pipe -march=athlon -fno-strict-aliasing -march=athlon
-DHASEFFNLINK=i_effnlink -DHASF_VNODE -DHASSBSTATE -DHAS_KVM_VN
On Mon 24 May 2010 at 18:54:11 PDT Lowell Gilbert wrote:
Arthur Barlow writes:
Sorry about the false start. Fat fingers. I'm trying to compile the lsof
program in FreeBSD 8.0 on an i686 machine. There is a error referencing
"dlsof.h" and it looks like there is an ugly "hack" in the header fi
On Sun 16 May 2010 at 08:42:44 PDT Dan Naumov wrote:
Just a thought/question that has recently come to my mind: How long do
you usually wait until upgrading to a newer release of FreeBSD?
My machines are all for personal use only, and it wouldn't be a
disaster if any of them went down for an e
On Sun 25 Apr 2010 at 17:57:27 PDT Jonathan Chen wrote:
On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 07:34:19PM -0400, herbey zepeda wrote:
[...]
I am concerned because according to the literature diablo is supposed to
be the maintained jdk for FreeBSD. And I realize that I am having to
download version 7.1 when we
On Mon 12 Apr 2010 at 17:50:58 PDT Neil Short wrote:
Am I missing something?
dvb_tune.c:33:19: error: error.h: No such file or directory
It's a known problem.
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/145437
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On Sun 11 Apr 2010 at 15:39:16 PDT Gary Kline wrote:
On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 12:45:15PM -0700, Charlie Kester wrote:
i used more strict search terms and found around 30 sites.
none seemed that promising.
what i am thinking of is functions that work in any of
On Sat 10 Apr 2010 at 16:14:36 PDT David Newman wrote:
On 4/10/10 3:08 PM, Chris Whitehouse wrote:
Roland Smith wrote:
On Fri, Apr 09, 2010 at 09:34:59PM -0800, jt wrote:
I've been doing searches for online schools that teach FreeBSD. I've
been
trying to learn on an off for years but when it
On Sat 10 Apr 2010 at 08:19:38 PDT Gary Kline wrote:
Sites of parts of websites that have example C functions?
[continuing from the ^Subject.
I have googled around and found practically nothing; yet, wen
I was looking for a math function I found at least two
On Sat 10 Apr 2010 at 09:26:33 PDT Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
"parv" == parv writes:
parv> So, you are the guilty one. By that logic, every software should
parv> assume some location, so that people can have fun with link farm
parv> maintainance.
Keep in mind, the scene has changed in 20 yea
On Wed 07 Apr 2010 at 10:13:10 PDT Charlie Kester wrote:
Think about scenarios where /usr fails to mount for some reason. Then
look at what's in /bin compared to what's in /usr/bin, and perhaps
you'll understand the logic of it.
I should add that comparing the contents of /usr
On Wed 07 Apr 2010 at 00:24:51 PDT Fbsd1 wrote:
Why are there RELEASE base files in /usr/bin. I thought /usr was to
only contain binaries installed from ports or packages.
In many configurations, /bin and /usr/bin are not in the same slice. In
some cases, they're not even on the same drive.
On Fri 26 Mar 2010 at 10:01:21 PDT Jerry wrote:
On Fri, 26 Mar 2010 09:28:15 -0700, Charlie Kester
articulated:
For extra credit, and to test your understanding, see if you can
explain how the following work:
$ mkdir -p FOO/{foo-,bar-}{1,2,3}
$ cp foo{,.bak}
Maybe I am doing this wrong
On Fri 26 Mar 2010 at 08:49:08 PDT Charlie Kester wrote:
Understand how this works, however, so you won't need to look it up
again, but can apply it yourself in whatever variation is needed. It's
called brace expansion.
For extra credit, and to test your understanding, see if you c
On Fri 26 Mar 2010 at 04:44:56 PDT Jerry wrote:
On Fri, 26 Mar 2010 11:32:58 +, Daniel Bye
articulated:
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 07:12:48AM -0400, Jerry wrote:
> I could have sworn that I saw a method of creating several
> directories, actually a parent direct and several sub-directories
>
On Mon 22 Mar 2010 at 15:08:43 PDT Charlie Kester wrote:
On Mon 22 Mar 2010 at 14:50:03 PDT Alejandro Imass wrote:
Hi,
I have finally tested and verified a patch for /usr/ports/graphics/sane-backends
To whon or where should I submit it?
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books
On Mon 22 Mar 2010 at 14:50:03 PDT Alejandro Imass wrote:
Hi,
I have finally tested and verified a patch for /usr/ports/graphics/sane-backends
To whon or where should I submit it?
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/porting-submitting.html
_
On Sun 21 Mar 2010 at 11:26:55 PDT Frank Shute wrote:
On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 09:08:44AM -0400, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
Murphy never said anything about *when* things go wrong...
But the swine said they *would* go wrong...;)
Hey, don't shoot the messenger!
On second thought, perhaps that wou
On Fri 19 Mar 2010 at 16:02:45 PDT Greg Larkin wrote:
The makepatch target recurses through the work/foobar directory and
creates diffs for all file.ext/file.ext.orig pairs. It writes them to
the files/ directory with the patch- prefix on each so the patch target
processes them.
Now it's my t
On Fri 19 Mar 2010 at 15:20:49 PDT Adam PAPAI wrote:
Hi,
As of today I'll try to help and create bugfix patches for usr/src
and usr/ports.
I've already done 2 patches and posted it to the -current list but
don't really know what is the best way to post the patches. Who will
"check" them? wh
On Fri 19 Mar 2010 at 15:07:44 PDT Paul Schmehl wrote:
--On Friday, March 19, 2010 15:01:27 -0700 Charlie Kester
wrote:
Again, no need for the separate 'make extract' step.
In fact, I'd go straight to 'make build' or 'make install' here, and
skip the s
On Fri 19 Mar 2010 at 14:34:23 PDT Paul Schmehl wrote:
--On Friday, March 19, 2010 17:04:17 -0400 Alejandro Imass
wrote:
To the O.P.:
How about submiting the patch to the community so it can be added by the
port maintainer? If it actually fixes a bug in the software you can't be
the only on
On Fri 19 Mar 2010 at 13:06:41 PDT Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
"Charlie" == Charlie Kester writes:
Charlie> Whenever I modify a port like this, I usually make a copy of it under
Charlie> root's home directory and install it from there. That way, I can keep
Charlie> my
On Fri 19 Mar 2010 at 10:01:59 PDT Roland Smith wrote:
On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 12:35:30PM -0400, Alejandro Imass wrote:
Hi,
I need to modify a file from a port before building. Specifically, the
sane-backends pnm.c driver has a bug and the folks at the original
project has not fixed for a while
On Thu 18 Mar 2010 at 18:30:00 PDT J. Johnston wrote:
On 03/18/10 10:28, Jayadev Kumar wrote:
Hi,
I need to find the memory usage of a process, from inside the process.
Is there any system call
do this ? I was trying to find it from 'top' utility source code. I couldn't
find the port which
On Thu 18 Mar 2010 at 00:15:30 PDT Yuri wrote:
I know there is ddd, but it has so many bugs that it makes it barely usable.
There is emacs, but I am not used to it and don't like it. It's love
it or hate it usually for most people.
There is some GUI called Insight, for some reason it's not in po
On Wed 24 Feb 2010 at 12:05:10 PST Yuri wrote:
Every time I run configure script it fails to find libraries in
/usr/local/lib because it has some hard-coded paths not including
/usr/local/lib and /usr/local/lib.
Every time I need to edit configure to fix it up.
Is there any generic tool or way
On Fri 29 Jan 2010 at 12:15:03 PST Programmer In Training wrote:
First time I installed FreeBSD (yes, there was a first time, I managed
to hose the root account and had to start over again) I was asked
something about whether or not my vid card was PCI or AGP. I answered
AGP (as that is all I hav
On Fri 29 Jan 2010 at 01:36:15 PST Dan Naumov wrote:
Reports of successes with both adm64 andi386 versions of 8.0-RELEASE
and Intel D510MO board have been showing up on a few different
discussion forums now.
I have to correct myself in regard to the Supermicro X7SPA-H board.
The board seems to
On Mon 25 Jan 2010 at 02:00:47 PST Charlie Kester wrote:
http://www.mini-box.com/D510MO-mini-ITX-Intel
I'm thinking of ordering one of these motherboards, which have the
newest dual-core Atom processor and NM10 chipset. I'm intrigued by its
low-power, fanless operation. I already ha
On Mon 25 Jan 2010 at 03:14:42 PST Dan Naumov wrote:
Not to steal your discussion thread, but I thought I'd ask (and you'd
perhaps too be interested) what's the status of FreeBSD on these 2:
Supermicro X7SPA-H:
http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/ATOM/ICH9/X7SPA.cfm?typ=H
Supermicro X
http://www.mini-box.com/D510MO-mini-ITX-Intel
I'm thinking of ordering one of these motherboards, which have the
newest dual-core Atom processor and NM10 chipset. I'm intrigued by its
low-power, fanless operation. I already have FreeBSD running on one of
the older Atom mobo's, so I know not to
On Wed 06 Jan 2010 at 14:16:55 PST Charlie Kester wrote:
On Wed 06 Jan 2010 at 13:52:53 PST Charlie Kester wrote:
On Wed 06 Jan 2010 at 13:16:51 PST Warren Block wrote:
With the recent mentions of Abiword, I've reinstalled it. Yet it
has the same problem it had the last time I tri
On Wed 06 Jan 2010 at 14:16:55 PST Charlie Kester wrote:
I just remembered that I had implemented a tip I got somewhere for
forcing use of the condensed versions of the DejaVu fonts.
For the curious, here's where I got that tip:
http://keramida.wordpress.com/2009/11/07/dejavu-condens
On Wed 06 Jan 2010 at 13:52:53 PST Charlie Kester wrote:
On Wed 06 Jan 2010 at 13:16:51 PST Warren Block wrote:
With the recent mentions of Abiword, I've reinstalled it. Yet it
has the same problem it had the last time I tried it: random pixels
under the current row of text, the old c
On Wed 06 Jan 2010 at 13:16:51 PST Warren Block wrote:
With the recent mentions of Abiword, I've reinstalled it. Yet it has
the same problem it had the last time I tried it: random pixels under
the current row of text, the old cursor isn't erased when you move to
a different line. Am I the on
On Wed 06 Jan 2010 at 11:02:49 PST Kaya Saman wrote:
[...]
I don't think we want to hijack this thread or this forum and turn it
into a debate over which window managers and apps are best. As I
pointed out in my followup to my original reply, there's already a
voluminous discussion on those to
On Wed 06 Jan 2010 at 09:52:32 PST Warren Block wrote:
On Wed, 6 Jan 2010, Charlie Kester wrote:
Assuming you have to use X, you'll want to avoid heavyweight desktop
environments like KDE or Gnome. I like tiled window managers like musca
or dwm myself, but your skeptics will probably w
On Wed 06 Jan 2010 at 09:21:06 PST Charlie Kester wrote:
For some ideas on which apps to try, look at the apps bundled in some of
the Linux distros that target small machines.
http://bengross.com/smallunix.html has a good list of these distros.
Hmm, I probably should have checked that
On Wed 06 Jan 2010 at 04:25:31 PST Bill Moran wrote:
In response to Da Rock :
Its been a while- work's has been keeping me very busy for months now.
I have revived an old laptop which has very little RAM, and it is
absolutely hammering the swap.
I'm trying to set it up as a demo for some skep
On Wed 23 Dec 2009 at 22:33:20 PST Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
On Wed, 23 Dec 2009 15:40:13 -0800, Rem P Roberti wrote:
On 2009.12.24 00:21:47 +, Pieter de Goeje wrote:
On Thursday 24 December 2009 00:01:11 Rem P Roberti wrote:
Today I booted my laptop and discovered that /home was gone.
Wel
On Fri 11 Dec 2009 at 20:59:57 PST Robert Huff wrote:
Ulf Zimmermann writes:
Just go to Fry's Electronic. Most of their systems are still
MS-Dos with Novell for network, running text based
inventory/quote/sales app.
Ca _lot_ of small businesses have something similar.
And why no
On Fri 04 Dec 2009 at 22:38:22 PST Sagara Wijetunga wrote:
Michael Powell wrote:
Sagara Wijetunga wrote:
[snip]
We use /usr/bin/less from ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/less, the
less-382.tar.gz, unpatched.
Why?
Does the less need to be patched in FreeBSD? If so, is there such a
patch exist?
Uhmm
On Thu 03 Dec 2009 at 07:32:33 PST Warren Block wrote:
As far as "batch" or even -a, I update the ports tree often and prefer
to manually upgrade ports as needed, usually with portupgrade -r. A
lot of people seem to like -R; maybe I have the dependencies backwards.
Since this is a newbie threa
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