Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC writes:
> I can't think of any time that MS is the best choice, except in perhaps
> some vertical market cases. It is often the most convenient choice.
Convenience is reason enough by itself to choose a particular OS. The
only people who deliberately choose inconveni
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On Feb 13, 2005, at 12:54 AM, Anthony Atkielski wrote:
Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC writes:
Or if you are a BSD/UNIX/Linux admin. It is a lot easier to ssh and
do
all the other things you want with your unix-like servers from Mac OS
X
than from Windows.
Why? I use SecureCRT and SecureFX for FTP,
On Feb 13, 2005, at 12:57 AM, Anthony Atkielski wrote:
Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC writes:
Maybe companies who support MS or other proprietary software
can't as they don't have the source. But support companies that
support open source can very easily fix problems -- they have the
source and the l
On Feb 13, 2005, at 1:00 AM, Anthony Atkielski wrote:
Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC writes:
I can't think of any time that MS is the best choice, except in
perhaps
some vertical market cases. It is often the most convenient choice.
Convenience is reason enough by itself to choose a particular OS.
Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC writes:
> I have not used that, but I doubt it beats using a real openssh client
> inside a unix based terminal emulator in terms of terminal emulation
> and shell compatibility.
SecureCRT emulates a terminal, and does so in a way that is particularly
compatible with
On Feb 13, 2005, at 1:30 AM, Anthony Atkielski wrote:
They exist. A friend of mine had one running on w2000 several years
ago logging into hi BSD and Linux boxes using xterm. It worked
reasonably well.
How much did he pay for it?
I don't know which one he used. Sorry.
Many of the ones I saw cos
Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC writes:
> ? What the heck does this mean?
It means that large organizations want to have a single official release
of the OS running on all servers, and they expect that release to come
formally from a specific official source. Hacking changes into the code
and t
Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC writes:
> In that case, Windows is the least desirable, as it is not convenient.
There are a hundred million users out there who disagree.
> The amount of crap you have to put up with (viruses, malware, etc)
> makes them totally inconvenient.
See above.
> Sure it d
Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC writes:
> You can install the X libraries and client apps on your server -- this
> works fine at secure level 3 and does not require kernel configurations
> changes or special daemons or anything. What it allows you to do is
> then link software against the X librarie
This has to be the most compilcated subject to me. I just purchased a
new domain from godaddy. I have a few questions I am not totally
clear about yet.
1. I have adelphia cable internet. I would like to get a dyndns or
no-ip.com account to have a static IP for my new godaddy domain.
Simple enoug
On Sat, 12 Feb 2005, Daniela wrote:
> Yes, this happens when I connect from my machine (which functions as a router
> with NAT to allow the other LAN machines connect to the internet) to another
> LAN machine. When the router establishes a connection to another point in the
> intranet, the sour
On Sun, 13 Feb 2005, Jan Grant wrote:
> On Sat, 12 Feb 2005, Daniela wrote:
>
> > Yes, this happens when I connect from my machine (which functions as a
> > router
> > with NAT to allow the other LAN machines connect to the internet) to
> > another
> > LAN machine. When the router establishes
***you are a man of high ideas Ted, but you are overlooking a fundamental
aspect, that
ALL LIFE IS TEMPORAL - AND MOVES ON WITH CONTINUAL CHANGE AND IMPROVEMENT
which means to say :
DONT CLING TO THE PAST WHEN OPPORTUNITIES TO PROGRESS OCCUR
***for example almost every week i sort
Hi all,
I have been lambasted a number of times here and there for installing
software from source as oppoesed to from ports.
My question of the day is, if I need some special ./configure or make
arguments added to the build command, how can I install a port with those
extra args.
exapmple,
if
I need a way of routing all udp & http traffic on ports 6881-6999 that hit
machine A to be passed through to machine B on the same ports .. how do i go
about doing this with as much simplicity as possible.
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On Sunday 13 February 2005 02:48 am, jellf nainggolan wrote:
> anyone can help me how to using cvsup
> and please step by step
The handbook not only gives you step-by-step directions for using
cvsup, but it also tells you what you're doing while you're at
it. The specific link you're looking fo
With a FBSD 5.3 box I use to compile my favourite programs from scratch with:
cd /usr/ports/prog_I_want
make
make install clean
But sometimes I have to interrupt the compilation because the PC is shared
with other people.
How can I resume the compilation session from where I stopped it?
Ciao
Vi
Grant Peel wrote:
if I am putting together a new server, and need some x-tra args added to
the mysql, php and apache sequence (i.e. addming the frontpage patch to
the apache build) .. how would one do this in the port(s)?
The options are unfortunately not always too well documented.
Some ports op
Vittorio wrote:
With a FBSD 5.3 box I use to compile my favourite programs from scratch with:
cd /usr/ports/prog_I_want
make
make install clean
But sometimes I have to interrupt the compilation because the PC is shared
with other people.
How can I resume the compilation session from where I stopp
W> I need a way of routing all udp & http traffic on ports 6881-6999 that hit
W> machine A to be passed through to machine B on the same ports .. how do i go
W> about doing this with as much simplicity as possible.
-
Install pf,ipfw or ipf (I prefer p
On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 11:30:45 +0100, Anthony Atkielski
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Michael C. Shultz writes:
>
> > I Agree! My FreeBSD desktop is very stable and user friendly. What
> > ever time I spend fixing/managing desktops is on my friends windows
> > machines, never my own because it alway
Anthony Atkielski wrote:
Ramiro Aceves writes:
There are not a myth, they are a fact. I have seen bluescreens
frecuently in win95 and winMillenium.
Neither of these is based on NT, and both are dead products.
How can I trust on a company that creates such a bad OSes? My girlfriend
has got WinXP
Loren M. Lang wrote:
On Sat, Feb 12, 2005 at 02:15:16PM +0100, Ramiro Aceves wrote:
Hello Anthony
Thanks for your reply.
Anthony Atkielski wrote:
Ramiro Aceves writes:
I use my computer for my engineering calculations, surfing the net and
e-mailing, and for fun and hobbies such as astronomy and
Loren M. Lang wrote:
I although have observed that in this list, some of you hate Linux.
I have never seen insults to FreeBSD in the Debian e-mail lists. They
some times talk about some experiences about FreeBSD, but never say
things like " such crap FreeBSD .." as I have heard here many time
Anthony Atkielski wrote:
darren kirby writes:
I think your interpretation here is a tad glib.
I think it's right on the money. The entire Linux movement is fueled by
hatred for Microsoft. And the ultimate goal of the Linux movement is to
build an OS that walks, talks, and quacks like Microsoft
Anthony Atkielski wrote:
darren kirby writes:
That is just not right. Perhaps for Redhat, SuSe et al this may be the case,
but what do you expect? MS is their primary (only?) competition.
Whatever happened to UNIX _servers_?
There are a million different reasons to run Linux, and a million
diffe
Simon Burke writes:
> Use on my SGI workstaion (IRIX), GIMP
I said Photoshop, not GIMP.
I don't want equivalents, I want the same applications.
I can get Photoshop on the Mac, so moving to a Mac would not present a
problem for Photoshop (although it would for most of my other
applications).
>
On 2/12/2005 at 8:30 AM Napper wrote:
|Enough already.
|
|Please take *all* the off-topic postings to freebsd-chat.
|
|Thanks,
=
Good suggestion. For a moment this morning I thought I had stumbled into
the -advocacy or -chat group in error
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Ramiro Aceves writes:
> How can I trust on a company that creates such a bad OSes?
Most companies that write operating systems don't do a very good job of
it on the first few tries. The older Mac OS (the one that preceded Mac
OS X) was of the same generation as 16-bit Windows 3.x, and had the sa
Ramiro Aceves writes:
> I do not think that the ultimate goal of the Linux movement is to
> build an OS that walks, talks, and quacks, the goal of Linux is to make
> a OS that can do whatever you want. It can talk, walk if you need it, it
> can be a server if you need it. It is a matter of configu
Ramiro Aceves writes:
> If windows is the best for you, use it and pay for it, for most of my
> friends it is windows too (but they are bad boys and do not pay
> anything), but for me is Linux/FreeBSD. I believe in free software and I
> will be promoting it among my friends.
It's going to be har
I want my local ntp server up and running, so I put in /etc/rc.conf:
xntpd_enable="YES" but waht are the right rules for ipfilter? Someting
like:
# Allow out ntp traffic
pass out quick on rl0 proto tcp from any to any port = 123 flags S keep
state
pass out quick on rl0 proto udp from any to any po
I know this isn't FreeBSD but perhaps someone knows the way to get this
accomplsihed (relatively) painlessly.
I have just discovered that php4.3.10 *seems* not to be compiled with
session support. php4-extensions *is* installed however, and I note in the
Makefile the option WITH_SESSION is set
MikeM wrote:
On 2/12/2005 at 8:30 AM Napper wrote:
|Enough already.
|
|Please take *all* the off-topic postings to freebsd-chat.
|
|Thanks,
=
Good suggestion. For a moment this morning I thought I had stumbled into
the -advocacy or -chat group in error
As I have posted a few times
It's difficult to program all outgoing filter rules in ipf. Every now
and then I bumb into a blocked connection that I did want to work in the
first place. Only because an outgoing port was/is blocked.
What is the most secure way to do things? Block all outgoing and open up
what I wnat or can I us
Hi
I emailed a while back.
My machine reboots itself during a portupgrade -a.
I was advised to test the CPU and memory, which I have done with
cpburn and memtest respectively. They both seem fine.
I've re-run fsck, but I don't really understand the results, and I
can't find an explanation anywhere
On Feb 13 at 12:07, Erik Norgaard remarked sagely:
Grant Peel wrote:
if I am putting together a new server, and need some x-tra args added to
the mysql, php and apache sequence (i.e. addming the frontpage patch to the
apache build) .. how would one do this in the port(s)?
The options are unfortun
On Sat, Feb 12, 2005 at 09:00:41PM -0700, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote:
>
> On Feb 12, 2005, at 7:02 PM, Thomas Foster wrote:
>
> >
> >>My solution is to remove emotion from the equation and simply install
> >>the best software for the job. On the desktop, that's Windows.
> >>--
> >>Anthon
dick hoogendijk wrote:
I want my local ntp server up and running, so I put in /etc/rc.conf:
xntpd_enable="YES" but waht are the right rules for ipfilter? Someting
like:
# Allow out ntp traffic
pass out quick on rl0 proto tcp from any to any port = 123 flags S keep
state
pass out quick on rl0 proto
On Feb 13 at 10:11, Dave Horsfall broke the silence and said:
On Sat, 12 Feb 2005, Colin J. Raven wrote:
Note: The paypal payment still stands, please provide us with proof
you have forwarded the email to 250 people and include your paypal
email address where we can send the money!!!
What you're su
dick hoogendijk wrote:
It's difficult to program all outgoing filter rules in ipf. Every now
and then I bumb into a blocked connection that I did want to work in the
first place. Only because an outgoing port was/is blocked.
What is the most secure way to do things? Block all outgoing and open up
w
what's with this badly written error message?
# telnet localhost:61
localhost:21: hostname nor servname provided, or not known
have somebody compromised my telnet maybe?
thanks,
fafa
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Fafa Diliha Romanova writes:
> what's with this badly written error message?
>
> # telnet localhost:61
> localhost:21: hostname nor servname provided, or not known
Replace the colon with a space in the command line.
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Anthony Atkielski wrote:
Fafa Diliha Romanova writes:
what's with this badly written error message?
# telnet localhost:61
localhost:21: hostname nor servname provided, or not known
Replace the colon with a space in the command line.
Agreed - however, rethink using Telnet in favor of ssh.
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On Feb 13 at 09:53, Fafa Diliha Romanova ASKED:
what's with this badly written error message?
# telnet localhost:61
localhost:21: hostname nor servname provided, or not known
have somebody compromised my telnet maybe?
No, the syntax is incorrect
telnet [space] port_number
so in this case:
telnet l
Ian Moore writes:
> On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 17:50, Matt Rechkemmer wrote:
> > Final question :-), is there anyway to determine if a base package is out
> > of date? Or is just wise to leave the base alone and upgrade when a new
> > release comes along.
>
> You should at least update your system when
Chris writes:
> Agreed - however, rethink using Telnet in favor of ssh.
I don't see how SSH would help when using telnet to connect to arbitrary
ports.
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Colin J. Raven writes:
> 1. Unless you *must* use telnet for some reason, it's a good idea to
> turn it off.
Telnet is port 23; this is port 61 (NI-MAIL, whatever that is). Whoever
answers will be whatever program is listening on port 61, but it won't
be a standard telnet daemon.
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Anthony
Anthony Atkielski wrote:
Chris writes:
Agreed - however, rethink using Telnet in favor of ssh.
I don't see how SSH would help when using telnet to connect to arbitrary
ports.
Leaving the ports issue out of it (or not) we need to tell him why
Telnet is not a good thing... And that would be, Telne
"Reid Linnemann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I'm bridging the devices so that the wired and wireless nets will appear
> to be on the same physical network to eachother.
Well, yes, that's what bridging means. Why do you want that? [Is it
a Microsoft thing?]
> I think I was really tired when I
Chris writes:
> Leaving the ports issue out of it (or not) we need to tell him why
> Telnet is not a good thing... And that would be, Telnet passes clear
> text whereas ssh does not.
How can he test something on port 61 without telnet? ssh requires its
own port, and since it is a complex protoc
Hi
I use a Mac G4 and have a spare hard drive.
I would like to put a Unix OS on it but do not know what I can use.
There is a Unix foundation with OSX but I would like to start from scratch
and not have any concerns about messing anything up hence the spare hard
drive. Most of the OS's are x86 base
On Sunday 13 February 2005 09:53 am, Fafa Diliha Romanova wrote:
> what's with this badly written error message?
>
> # telnet localhost:61
> localhost:21: hostname nor servname provided, or not known
It means it tried to look up localhost:61 and couldn't make sense out of it.
I believe "servname
Anthony Atkielski wrote:
Chris writes:
Leaving the ports issue out of it (or not) we need to tell him why
Telnet is not a good thing... And that would be, Telnet passes clear
text whereas ssh does not.
How can he test something on port 61 without telnet? ssh requires its
own port, and since it
Chris writes:
> I think we're both assuming what the user is doing and the reasons as to
> why. Let's just agree that:
>
> 1. Telnet can use any ports providing the user redirects.
> 2. Telnet passes clear text no matter what.
> 3. ssh ought to be used to replace Telnet whenever possible.
> 4. ssh
On Sun, Feb 13, 2005 at 09:22:45AM -0600, Chris wrote:
> 2. Telnet passes clear text no matter what.
Not in a Kerberos environment it doesn't, nor in an transport-mode IPsec
environment.
Related to that is connections where transport-level encryption
typically doesn't matter: connecting over a c
Anthony Atkielski wrote:
*snip*
Since the original poster is trying to connect to port 61, I assume he
is using telnet to test the service on that port, and so SSH is
irrelevant.
Regardless of what you assume - the user didn't indicate the reasons for
using telnet nor did he relay the reason(s) fo
On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 15:38:53 +0100
Erik Norgaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> ntp is udp-only, see rfc1305.
Then how come I read in /etc/services 123/tcp 123/udp "network time
protocol" ?
I believe you, but am just curious.
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On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 15:46:09 +0100
Erik Norgaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Beware, that cvsup connects to port 5999, and passive ftp-data
> connects to some port > 1024 depending on server config (however I
> think default is/should be > 49151).
I have configures pure-ftpd to use a restrict
On 12 Feb 2005, at 07:12, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
With BSD, the copyrights on it are held by the University of Berkeley
and by the FreeBSD Project.
Really? Grepped for Copyright in /usr/src recently?
Ceri
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Ceri Davies writes:
> Really? Grepped for Copyright in /usr/src recently?
Wow! What a mess! How much would it cost to have a team of lawyers
verify that all those copyrights are cleared? Why are people asserting
their own copyrights in the code?
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Sun, Feb 13, 2005 at 16:38:18, atkielski.anthony wrote about "Re: WEIRD:
telnet":
>> 1. Telnet can use any ports providing the user redirects.
>> 2. Telnet passes clear text no matter what.
>> 3. ssh ought to be used to replace Telnet whenever possible.
>> 4. ssh also can be made to work with a
On 2/13/05 15:18, "Tony King" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi
> I use a Mac G4 and have a spare hard drive.
> I would like to put a Unix OS on it but do not know what I can use.
Freebsd wont run on a g4.
Try netbsd - http://www.netbsd.org
The page for your g4 would be http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/
dick hoogendijk wrote:
On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 15:38:53 +0100
Erik Norgaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
ntp is udp-only, see rfc1305.
Then how come I read in /etc/services 123/tcp 123/udp "network time
protocol" ?
I believe you, but am just curious.
IANA has decided always to assign both tcp and udp,
Hello again,
I'm just returning a final note as you have supplied me with the solution,
many thanks.
I ditched my 4.6.2R, and found another version in my old stack of CDs' the
4.7 version, and installed
like a charm, as you suggested, I did a minimal install and fetched all
relevant distribution
dick hoogendijk wrote:
I have configures pure-ftpd to use a restrict set op known ports to the
outside.
I also openen up 5999 already.
Most problems I encounter are for streaming media. This is blocked most
of the time. Are these random ports or always the same?
Dunno, I think they are, but it is b
Valentin Nechayev writes:
> If I show screenshot with ssh'ing to port 443, will it be convincing?
Yes. I'd like to see how it's done, if it can be done, although I'm
still now sure how it would be useful. But I'd rather see it used to
connect to ports like 25 or 80.
> Not current telnet, becau
On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 13:46:43 -0500, aklist_061666
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi: I upgraded from freebsd 5.1 to 5.3, and the upgrade went pretty
> smoothly.
>
> I had BIND 9.2.3 running on 5.1, and when I upgraded to 5.3, BIND 9.3.0 was
> installed.
>
> my old named.conf file is still in /etc,
On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 13:59:29 +0100, Anthony Atkielski
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Simon Burke writes:
>
> > Use on my SGI workstaion (IRIX), GIMP
>
> I said Photoshop, not GIMP.
I use photshop on IRIX i mean, and you can use gimp too, is what i meant.
>
> I don't want equivalents, I want the sa
It would appear that my locale settings are defaulting back to C, at
least for gnome apps. I log in using GDM and set my locale to en _US but
my gnome/gtk apps (specifically mailers like sylpheed and evolution)
default to C when sorting my mail folders (case sensitive) or presenting
date formats fo
Daniela wrote:
On Saturday 12 February 2005 16:06, Volker Kindermann wrote:
Hi Daniela,
Yes, this happens when I connect from my machine (which functions as a
router with NAT to allow the other LAN machines connect to the internet)
to another LAN machine. When the router establishes a connection t
Anthony Atkielski wrote:
Ramiro Aceves writes:
How can I trust on a company that creates such a bad OSes?
Most companies that write operating systems don't do a very good job of
it on the first few tries. The older Mac OS (the one that preceded Mac
OS X) was of the same generation as 16-bit Wind
- Original Message -
From: "Erik Norgaard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Grant Peel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc:
Sent: Sunday, February 13, 2005 5:07 AM
Subject: Re: Ports
Till then, you'll have to look in the Makefile, there are typically a lot
of WITH_ or WITHOUT_ options. When posible, I recom
On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 10:56:44 +0100
Anthony Atkielski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Could you please either explain, why Freebsd is superior to Linux,
> > (I am asking this as I would like to understand, in more depth,
> > why it is better) or direct me to a source that might give me
> > some fur
I am looking for a desktop environment to run
with freebsd. I will be the sole user.
Must-have:
graphical ftp client
spreadsheet package capable of handling .xls files
word processor capable of handling .doc files
ability to handle email
web browser.
Given the above, the winner will be the one wh
Gerald:
I have the same problem that you have or still are fighting with printing
within kde3. Your error messages are the same. Have you had any success
solving the printing problem?
Randy Powell
Open Source Advocate
2/13/05
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Len Zettel wrote:
I am looking for a desktop environment to run
with freebsd. I will be the sole user.
Must-have:
graphical ftp client
spreadsheet package capable of handling .xls files
word processor capable of handling .doc files
ability to handle email
web browser.
Given the above, the winner wi
Hi,
I've seen somewhere an easy way to check whether a program with a
specified pid is running or not. I've made a crontab script to check my
programs based on this. The script is the following:
#!/bin/sh
PID_FILE="/usr/local/bopm/var/bopm.pid"
PID=`cat $PID_FILE`
EXECUTABLE="/usr/local/bopm/bin
On Sun, 13 Feb 2005, Colin J. Raven wrote:
> > This is what's known as a "joe job". Now, who has an interest in
> > discrediting php-fusion?
>
> eh?
> Could you perhaps...ermmm...expand on that just a tad?
> for the benefit of us uninitiated folks...
> inquiring minds etc.
A "joe job" is a forg
On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 11:10:58 -0600, David Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Look closely at the Linux community and you'll find its mostly
> ex-Windows users focused on what Microsoft is doing. The desire is to
> one-up Microsoft at Microsoft's own game. Their definition of
> "computer" and "human
- Original Message -
From: "Kövesdán Gábor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Sent: Sunday, February 13, 2005 1:13 PM
Subject: Crontab script
Hi,
I've seen somewhere an easy way to check whether a program with a
specified pid is running or not. I've made a crontab script to check my
programs ba
Hello,
thanks a lot, it is a more advanced idea, I'll consider using it, but
since then I've realized what caused my problem. I mistyped a line, and
I should have written 2>&1 instead of 2>$1. I haven't been very advanced
in shell scripting yet. :)
Cheers,
Gábor
Paul Schmehl wrote:
- Origin
On Feb 14 at 06:36, Dave Horsfall explained:
On Sun, 13 Feb 2005, Colin J. Raven wrote:
This is what's known as a "joe job". Now, who has an interest in
discrediting php-fusion?
eh?
Could you perhaps...ermmm...expand on that just a tad?
for the benefit of us uninitiated folks...
inquiring minds et
it was said:
>Hello guys!
>
>I have a few machines behind my FreeBSD box. The box connects
>to ISP via ppp (PPPoE protocol). It's all working very nicely,
>but the ISP is a pain - it disconnects every 24 hours. I can
>reconnect in just a moment - so the diconnect is usually less
>than a second lon
Simon Burke writes:
> I use photshop on IRIX i mean, and you can use gimp too, is what i meant.
According to Adobe, Photoshop exists only for the Mac and Windows. Of
course, Mac OS X is based on UNIX, but since it has a proprietary GUI, I
don't think that would help much (?).
GIMP is not an opt
Ramiro Aceves writes:
> Yes, they do what Windows teached them, pointing and clicking "accept"
> without reading what the computer says.
Windows does not teach anyone to do that. Windows creates the same
habits in users that any GUI does.
> You dont skip the GUI for your windows the same as I d
Vulpes Velox writes:
> I think the problem there is ppl make largely pointless differences
> between the two... the only difference between a server and desktop,
> is a desktop needs support sound cards and a the kernel level stuff
> for GL.
There are dramatic differences between servers and desk
Ewald Jenisch wrote:
I've got a strange problem wrt. ACPI on one of my boxes under FreeBSD
5.3: The box comes up with ACPI *disabled* by default.
Only by manually selecting the menu option that says "Boot with ACPI
enabled" can I make the box run ACPI which is kinda annoying when
e.g. I remotely
Paul Schmehl wrote:
Till then, you'll have to look in the Makefile, there are typically a
lot of WITH_ or WITHOUT_ options. When posible, I recommend installing
with default options and configure those options manually, otherwise,
remember to save your custom options somewhere. It makes upgrade
it was said:
>However, my other card, a PCI Belkin Wireless F5D7000 is not being
>recognized. This is a problem because the integrated NIC has no
>connection, I'm on a wireless network. Any clue on how to make FreeBSD
>pickup this interface correctly? Right now it's showing it as "unknown
>netwo
Anthony Atkielski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Why are people asserting their own copyrights in the code?
Because they wrote the software in question, perhaps?
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http://www.blug.linux.no/rfc1149/ http://www.datadok.no/ htt
On Sun, Feb 13, 2005 at 05:02:19PM +0100, Anthony Atkielski wrote:
> Ceri Davies writes:
>
> > Really? Grepped for Copyright in /usr/src recently?
>
> Wow! What a mess! How much would it cost to have a team of lawyers
> verify that all those copyrights are cleared? Why are people asserting
>
I'm running version 5.3 of freebsd.
I'm not sure what I did - I was experimenting in sshd_config. sshd began
to permit logins without benefit of password.
When logging in (I'm using putty from a local windows machine) I enter
the user name. I'm presented with the challenge and the password promp
On February 13, 2005 03:53 am, Anthony Atkielski wrote:
> Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC writes:
> > You can install the X libraries and client apps on your server -- this
> > works fine at secure level 3 and does not require kernel configurations
> > changes or special daemons or anything. What it a
Peter N. M. Hansteen writes:
> Because they wrote the software in question, perhaps?
So? If it's truly open source, the copyrights should be assigned. All
it takes is one copyright holder who withdraws a license and an entire
package can become unusable.
--
Anthony
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From: "Erik Norgaard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Paul Schmehl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "Grant Peel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>;
Sent: Sunday, February 13, 2005 2:43 PM
Subject: Re: Ports
Taking an arbitrary post, it appears that make.conf is not always the
best place since th
On February 13, 2005 08:18 am, Len Zettel wrote:
> I am looking for a desktop environment to run
> with freebsd. I will be the sole user.
>
> Must-have:
> graphical ftp client
> spreadsheet package capable of handling .xls files
> word processor capable of handling .doc files
> ability to handle em
I maintain a small hobby website on a volunteer basis. (I do all the
technical stuff - server maintenance, etc.) I ran portupgrade today, and
there was an update to perl. (I'm using the ports perl.) It broke the
webserver. I had to deinstall and reinstall www/p5-libwww, www/mod_perl and
ww
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