On Wednesday 21 August 2013 07:54:06 Antonio Kless wrote:
> Is there any way to be noticed, when security updates or new releases are
> available?
>
> https://twitter.com/freebsd nearly would be a solution, if it did not
> repostquestions from its
> subscribers and other information that is not re
On Wednesday 07 August 2013 18:43:45 Frank Leonhardt wrote:
> No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money.
> - Samuel Johnson
That sentiment pretty much wipes out FreeBSD and FOSS in general.
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With the final demise of kde3 and the deprecation of kdelibs three, is anyone
aware of something similar to klibido or plans to port klibido to kde4?
I'm guessing the lack of concern means there's a tiny userbase or people have
already found something else and moved on.
As a workaround, I've sa
On Wednesday 12 December 2012, Gary Aitken wrote:
> Can anyone suggest an audio playback application that allows you to vary
> the tempo? I've used audacity on win systems, but I don't see that in
> ports.
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/ports.cgi?query=audacity&stype=all
/usr/ports/audio/audacity
On Sunday 29 April 2012, dgmm wrote:
> When running portupgrade -cfa, is there any way to find out where it's up
> to and/ot what is still in the queue to be re-built?
Oops. It was obvious really.
ls /var/db/pkg -htU
...is good enough for my needs
When running portupgrade -cfa, is there any way to find out where it's up to
and/ot what is still in the queue to be re-built?
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On Monday 02 November 2009, Dima Panov wrote:
> On Monday 02 November 2009 13:45:47 Jimmie James wrote:
> > > Seems as dvdauthor is broken on 8-rc1...anything I might have done?
> > >
> > >
> > > [st...@fyre /usr/ports/multimedia/dvdauthor]$ sudo make install clean
> > > ===> Building for dvdautho
On Saturday 18 October 2008, Johannes-Maria Kaltenbach wrote:
> Hello,
>
> can anyone tell me how to mount an MP3 player (usb)?
> I seem to be too stupid to figure it out by myself.
> I thought it would be as easy as mounting a usb memory stick
> which I can mount with a device file of the form /de
On Sunday 23 September 2007, Maxim Khitrov wrote:
> Not true. Install Cygwin/X on your local machine
> (http://x.cygwin.com/), configure PuTTY to forward X11 packets, login
> to the server and run firefox. Depending on your exact configuration,
> you may need to tinker with the settings a bit. Usua
On Friday 07 September 2007, Lars Eighner wrote:
> 2. Install cvsup from a package or the ports, but do not install any other
> ports.
Isn't csup, a functional and faster equivalent to cvsup part of the base
system now?
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On Saturday 25 August 2007, blix wrote:
> Please help with suggestions on how I can eliminate some console spam.
>
> my console and messages file is filling up with these entries:
>
> Aug 25 08:10:18 bsdpc kernel: (da3:umass-sim0:0:0:3): READ CAPACITY.
> CDB: 25 60
> 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
> Aug 25 08:10:
On Friday 24 August 2007, Paul Schmehl wrote:
> On Thursday, August 23, 2007 22:37:53 +0100 dgmm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> wrote:
> >> Basically, what you (and others as well) are suggesting is that the list
> >> maintainers do double the work so that you do
On Thursday 23 August 2007, Paul Schmehl wrote:
> --On Thursday, August 23, 2007 20:06:47 +0100 dgmm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> wrote:
> > On Thursday 23 August 2007, Erik Trulsson wrote:
> >> For this list (freebsd-questions@) in particular it is intentionally and
>
On Thursday 23 August 2007, Erik Trulsson wrote:
> For this list (freebsd-questions@) in particular it is intentionally and
> explicitly the case that one does not need to be subscribed to post here.
> This is because it is the main support forum for FreeBSD, and much
> documentation exists directi
On Tuesday 21 August 2007, Gary Kline wrote:
> Guys,
>
> Where does the ps2ascii and related converter files live in
> ports? I thought they were part of the distribution, but nope.
> pdftopdf was one.
>
> thanks for any clues!
>
>
> gary
Starting with:
cd /us
On Sunday 19 August 2007, Jordan Gordeev wrote:
> Pollywog wrote:
> > Someone please tell me why my supfile is not working. I think the
> > problem is the tag but I am unsure why:
> >
> > *default host=cvsup2.FreeBSD.org
> > *default base=/var/db
> > *default prefix=/usr
> > *default release=cvs t
On Tuesday 14 August 2007, Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET wrote:
> > A better approach in my opinion would be to look at specific use
> > cases; the FreeBSD web site includes some information of that sort.
> > One example not listed there is that Juniper Networks routers control
> > plane ("JunOS", I think) is
On Tuesday 17 July 2007, Josh Paetzel wrote:
> On Tuesday 17 July 2007, dgmm wrote:
> > Are there any "gotchas" I should look out for when purchasing a
> > dual head video card?
> >
> > I'm currently looking for a cheap NVidia card with both analogue
&g
Are there any "gotchas" I should look out for when purchasing a dual head
video card?
I'm currently looking for a cheap NVidia card with both analogue and digital
output to use my old 21" CRT and the new 19" LCD but, as usual, there's very
little info other than for Windows in the write ups/rev
On Thursday 31 May 2007, Tom Wilson wrote:
> I always liked one of the messages from an old version of the VMS (4 or 5?)
> C compiler(may not be exactly it, but this was included):
>
> Bad Code
Or the Level I BASIC error messages on a TRS-80.
What?
How?
Sorry?
And that's all folks. The entire
On Tuesday 27 February 2007 01:46, Rico Secada wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Feb 2007 13:33:02 +
>
> dgmm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Monday 26 February 2007 05:32, Rico Secada wrote:
> > > Since I upgraded KDE to 3.5.5 Quanta+ always freezes when I try to
> > &
On Monday 26 February 2007 05:32, Rico Secada wrote:
> Since I upgraded KDE to 3.5.5 Quanta+ always freezes when I try to start it
> up. It doesn't do anything. No errors, just a freeze, and a CPU usage of
> 97%.
>
> Has anyone else experienced problems with Quanta+ since KDE 3.5.5?
No, as I've n
On Friday 09 February 2007 00:04, Murray Taylor wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Being much more a system programmer / database person
> than a multi media type I am requesting a 'recipe' from
> a video media expert.
>
> I need to convert an 8 minute .avi file into a basic dvd.
> No menus or anything, just a d
On Friday 02 February 2007 00:52, Chris Shenton wrote:
> I'm a longtime FreeBSD user but my S.O. just barely uses the machines
> -- Pine and Firefox mostly. Doesn't even know she has a homedir or
> that there's a bunch of stuff in it.
>
> She now has a digital recorder with a 1GB CF card that inte
On Tuesday 07 November 2006 14:37, Grant Peel wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Some of my webmail users are using lots of disk space.
>
> I want to make a shell script, like so:
>
> cd /home/webmail/public_html/cgi-bin/etc/users ; du -h -d1 | grep M | sort
> -nr -k1
>
> and run it daily in a cronjob, mailing t
On Sunday 27 August 2006 06:36, Gary Kline wrote:
> files.
> Reply-To:
> X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986.
> X-Of_Interest: Observing twenty years of service to the Unix community
>
>
> Is there a way of using sox (or another translator) to turn HUGE
>
On Sunday 13 August 2006 12:27, Girish Venkatachalam wrote:
> Did you try postscript printing with a2ps and LPD?
>
> If the printer listens at TCP port 515, then I think
> yo u are set. Make sure you have LPRng.
>
> To test that, just try telnet 515 and
> see if it connects.
>
> If that goes thro'
On Thursday 10 August 2006 00:11, Jerry McAllister wrote:
> I guess I don't see where there is an 'about:config'
>
> I have pulled down every menu and don't see where anything looks like that.
> I also rummaged through the stuff in the .mozilla directory tree.
>
> Sorry if I am being dense,
You ty
On Saturday 22 July 2006 16:51, David J Brooks wrote:
> On Saturday 22 July 2006 10:33, Freminlins wrote:
> > The only thing I wish I had learned so much sooner was "set autolist" in
> > my .cshrc. I didn't know it was there, and I have no idea why it is not
> > in the default dot.cshrc file. No do
On Saturday 22 July 2006 12:03, sammy sumer wrote:
> 3. Content Management Website
>
> Your current website looks very ordinary and doesn't make any impression
> for anyone visiting your site for the first time.
>
> There are outstanding open source CMS like Joomla, Mambo, eZ Publish,
> Drupel j
On Friday 16 June 2006 21:27, Mayo, Richard A RDECOM CERDEC STCD SRI wrote:
> I installed FreeBSD on a couple of computers without installing any source
> code. Now (naturally), I want to get a hold of the kernel source so I can
> re-compile and enable support for PIM and Multicast Routing.
>
> Ho
On Monday 12 June 2006 18:24, dgmm wrote:
> On Monday 12 June 2006 15:06, michael johnson wrote:
> > On 6/12/06, Ewald Jenisch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > During a regular portupgrade I ran into a problem during com
On Monday 12 June 2006 15:06, michael johnson wrote:
> On 6/12/06, Ewald Jenisch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > During a regular portupgrade I ran into a problem during compiling
> > liboil: During compilation of composite_sse_2pix.c in
> > /usr/ports/devel/liboil/work/liboil-0.3.9/libo
On Monday 12 June 2006 01:17, Garrett Cooper wrote:
> Also, MS has been playing a cat and mouse game with the Wine people
> for quite some time locking the Wine folks out by restricting
> operating systems versions and software installations (DX9, IE, etc),
> which has-for the most part
On Sunday 11 June 2006 16:34, Nikolas Britton wrote:
> On 6/11/06, dgmm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Sunday 11 June 2006 03:49, Nikolas Britton wrote:
> > > I forgot about Konqueror :-) I just tried spoofing msn chat with
> > > Konqueror and it worked, well
On Sunday 11 June 2006 03:49, Nikolas Britton wrote:
> I forgot about Konqueror :-) I just tried spoofing msn chat with
> Konqueror and it worked, well I got to the front page at least but I
> don't have an msn account so I can't test it any further. In Konqueror
> simply goto Settings > Configure
On Saturday 10 June 2006 22:23, Garrett Cooper wrote:
> It's not possible using Firefox, but you might be able to do it if
> you install Wine and Internet Explorer. I'd google for "Wine Internet
> Explorer"; this will yield helpful information on how to get
> everything setup with IE to work
I know this is a long shot but my GF want's know if it's possible to get into
an MSN groups chat room using FreeBSD and Firefox (or any other browser.
Currently, she's getting a canned "apology" page saying:
-
MSN Chat is not
On Saturday 10 June 2006 01:40, Norberto Meijome wrote:
> On Fri, 9 Jun 2006 20:56:17 +1000 (EST)
>
> Ian Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Re: freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 137, Issue 55
> >
> > Hi Beto,
> >
> > (offlist as it's just a silly answer, not one for X)
>
> Hey Ian,
> thx, not a
On Saturday 15 April 2006 14:08, Mikhail Teterin wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I have a sizable collection of mp3 files (most of my CDs, actually) encoded
> at high ratio for archiving.
>
> I'd like to put some of them on a low-capacity player. Is there a utility
> (preferably -- a ported one), that can reencod
On Saturday 15 April 2006 15:23, Benjamin Lutz wrote:
> On Saturday 15 April 2006 15:23, Kees Plonsz wrote:
> > Is is so important to know that the question or answer came from
> > that person ? I don't think so.
> > Even if it were so, for me it is too much trouble to import every key
> > into my
On Thursday 02 March 2006 23:30, Warren Liddell wrote:
> Im using Freebsd6.1-pre
>
> I have the flash pluginwrapper isntalled and not sure if i need anything
> else, to get flash working in Mozilla .. as presently it isnt and im slowly
> getting sick of accessing all the sites i need to and not bei
On Friday 24 February 2006 01:00, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
> Ten years ago today, on 24 February 1996, I submitted for publication
> the final version of the first ever book on FreeBSD, "Installing and
> Using FreeBSD". It was later renamed to "The Complete FreeBSD".
>
> I have always retained f
On Sunday 19 February 2006 13:58, Michal F. Hanula wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 19, 2006 at 01:25:28AM +0000, dgmm wrote:
> > After some fiddling and hair pulling I eventually got my bluetooth
> > adapter to "see" the mobile phone.
> >
> > I'd like to pull some f
After some fiddling and hair pulling I eventually got my bluetooth adapter to
"see" the mobile phone.
I'd like to pull some files from it but either I'm not seeing the obvious or
it just ain't obvious.
Does anyone know how to change to a directory which has spaces in the name or
"get" a file w
On Friday 17 February 2006 21:05, Mike Jeays wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-02-17 at 14:36 -0500, Sean wrote:
> > I would like to add a DVD burner to my system.
> >
> > Anyone have recommendations on which ones play nice with FreeBSD?
> > With so many formats I am trying to decide which one will be my best
On Thursday 29 December 2005 17:57, Chris Whitehouse wrote:
> I presume you mean GB for size. I just plugged a 250GB drive into a PIII
> 500 Supermicro board. The bios thinks it is 8GB. I get No Rom Basic if I
> try to boot. I also tried it as an external USB drive and fdisk'd and
> bsdlabelled it
On Monday 07 November 2005 18:53, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi
>
> I've just installed 6.0-RELASE and am trying to get SMP to work (I have af
> Pentium 4 with HT). So I've compiled the kernel with 'options SMP' and
> according to dmesg the two CPUs are found:
>
> FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System
On Monday 31 October 2005 21:21, Fafa Hafiz Krantz wrote:
> POST YOUR COOLEST SCRIPTS! <3 (trick or treat)
Unless it's FreeBSD specific scripts you are talking about would
news://comp.unix.shell not be better for this?
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On Saturday 22 October 2005 04:39, David Wilhelm wrote:
> Erik Norgaard wrote:
> > On Fri, 21 Oct 2005, Ronny Machado C. wrote:
> >> * My sound card is a Sound Blaster Live!, I've tried to load it by
> >> means of kldload emu10k1, it worked but I can't get it to work.
> >> Honestly I haven't con
On Sunday 02 October 2005 12:47, Kiffin Gish wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-10-02 at 00:06 +0100, dgmm wrote:
> > Is there a driver for the 720C now? last time I looked it wasn't
> > supported (quite some time ago now) mainly due to being a "winprinter" ie
> > no inbui
On Saturday 01 October 2005 17:02, Kiffin Gish wrote:
> I am trying to get my HP Deskjet 720C working via the parallel port lpt0.
>
> After running through the apsfilter setup program and configuring all
> the required stuff, I choose T) Print a test page, but nothing happens,
> namely:
>
> Ok to p
I think the Intel chipset incorrectly reports the amount of video ram to the
system
IIRC (It's a while ago now and I no longer use that chipset) you need
agp_load="yes" in /boot/loader.conf or compiled into the kernel and add in a
line:
VideoRam65536
to the device section for the video c
On Sunday 18 September 2005 12:34, dick hoogendijk wrote:
> I'm building an old msdos machine for a little kid (very nostalgic).
> But I seem to rememeber that there was an issue about the space of the
> harddrive. Some kind of limit I don't remember. How large can a ms-dos
> partition be?
How old
On Sunday 28 August 2005 19:28, David Banning wrote:
> Is it possible to run more than one server(machine) with one IP
> address? I have so many different server-applications running on my machine
> I would like to divide them up.
>
> Maybe using one machine email only, or use one for certain websi
On Sunday 31 July 2005 17:26, Warren Block wrote:
> A way to tell if there's media in the drive would be nice...
KAudioCreator does this. I don't know how. I've not looked.
Somewhere to start though :-)
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On Sunday 24 July 2005 04:47, nawcom wrote:
> heres a script for converting your classic codec based avi file to a VOB
> file for burning onto a DVD. i didnt test the program out, but i did
> check to make sure it's freebsd compatible. and luckly all of the needed
> programs are in /usr/ports/multi
On Sunday 17 July 2005 12:22, Andrew P. wrote:
> Thanks, I'll look into that. It's a pity it doesn't come separately
> from mplayer (and without xorg dependency).
There's no enforced X dependancy.
In the past I used mplayer/mencoder on a box with no X via svgalib on the
console.
You can even us
On Sunday 05 June 2005 22:43, Vinicius Pavanelli Vianna wrote:
> I'm looking for FreeBSD co-located servers on united states or any other
> country that have good internet connections, for a secondary backup of
> data and web host for the company I work to, sorry for this OT message,
> but could an
On Friday 03 June 2005 00:17, dgmm wrote:
> Thanks for that confirmation. The NIC is the least of the compatibility
> worries. Plenty of decent spares lying around :-)
Just an update.
I bought a Foxconn 661FXME based on SiS 661FX chipset.
Everything "just works" so far.
On Thursday 02 June 2005 23:13, Jorn Argelo wrote:
> dgmm wrote:
> >Has anyone installed FreeBSD using this board?
> >
> > Gigabyte 8S648FX -RZ ATX SiS648FX P4 Motherboard.
> >
> >http://www.digiconcepts.com/gigabyte_motherboards_105.htm
> >
> >S
Has anyone installed FreeBSD using this board?
Gigabyte 8S648FX -RZ ATX SiS648FX P4 Motherboard.
http://www.digiconcepts.com/gigabyte_motherboards_105.htm
SiS 648FX chipset
Processor: Socket 478 for Intel® Pentium® 4 processor
Chipset:
North-bridge: SiS648FX
South-bridge: SiS963L MuTIOL®
On Wednesday 18 May 2005 10:11, Ron de Bruijn wrote:
> I have a Epson Stylus C60 printer that is connected via USB(I don't
> have the option of using the parallel port):
>
> ulpt0: EPSON USB Printer, rev 1.10/1.00, addr 2, iclass 7/1
> ulpt0: using bi-directional mode
>
> If I print a testpage (via
On Monday 16 May 2005 02:35, Mike Jeays wrote:
> I have just bought one of these printers, and am having trouble getting
> it to work with ghostscript. It is connected via a USB port, and it
> responds momentarily when I send anything directly to /dev/ulpt0.
>
> I would appreciate the correct par
On Tuesday 05 April 2005 18:51, Danny Howard wrote:
> Another tip: reading the data is only half the battle. Personally,
> managing pictures is one of the three things I do with my Windows
> computer. (The other two are games and Quicken.) The XP/2k file
> browser in "thumbnail" mode is very nic
On Thursday 31 March 2005 21:03, Alejandro Pulver wrote:
> I have two sound cards:
>
> SiS 7012 (C-Media Electronics CMI9739 AC97 Codec) - 'snd_ich'
> Genius Sound Maker Value 5.1 (CMedia CMI8738) - 'snd_cmi'
>
> The first is integrated in the motherboard, and it is detected first and
> used as
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