Re: binary upgrade 6.1 - 7.2/8.0

2009-12-05 Thread Alex Stangl
On Sat, Dec 05, 2009 at 03:04:35AM +0100, Alex de Kruijff wrote: > On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 02:01:04PM +, Robin Becker wrote: > > Is it feasible to upgrade a system from 6.1 to 7.2 or 8.0-RC1 and if yes > > what sequence of upgrades should I actually carry out ie is it feasible to > > do 6.1-6

Re: free sco unix

2011-06-17 Thread Alex Stangl
On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 10:28:51AM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: > Registration aids enforcement. Of course, there's always the "poor man's > copyright registration" approach, where the moment you have something you > would like to protect by copyright, you can seal it up in an envelope and > mail it

Re: Alternative windowmanagers

2011-08-05 Thread Alex Stangl
On Fri, Aug 05, 2011 at 12:46:27PM -0700, Chip Camden wrote: > xmonad. Minimal, tiled, keyboard-driven but also mouseable, fully > customizable via configuration files written in Haskell. Another vote for xmonad. You may be startled at first to come up instantly to an empty screen, but you likely

Re: Greybeards (Re: Netbooks & BSD)

2010-10-21 Thread Alex Stangl
On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 01:38:44PM +0100, RW wrote: > On Wed, 20 Oct 2010 21:10:28 +0100 > Arthur Chance wrote: > > 50s) had the experience of programming microcode on a machine by > > inserting brass slugs for 0s and ferrite slugs for 1s on a pin board. > > I wonder why it was brass/ferrite rath

Re: how to generate pi in c

2010-11-05 Thread Alex Stangl
On Fri, Nov 05, 2010 at 05:40:39PM +0100, Arthur Bela wrote: > Does anyone has a "generate-pi.c" source code? Search for pi spigot algorithm. Here is a tiny C program from Jeremy Gibbon's Unbounded Spigot paper (due to Dik Winter and Achim Flammenkamp): a[52514],b,c=52514,d,e,f=1e4,g,h;main(){fo

Re: Objective-C 2.0 on FreeBSD; garbage collection, anyone?

2010-03-10 Thread Alex Stangl
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 01:00:59AM -0800, Nerius Landys wrote: > #import "GarbageObj.h" > > int main(int argc, const char *argv[]) { > while (YES) { > GarbageObj *obj = [[GarbageObj alloc] init]; > [obj foo]; // foo is does literally nothing. > } > return 0; > } > > I am compiling t

Problem w/ 6.0 -> 7.2 update

2009-06-06 Thread Alex Stangl
'll be happy to send any files, including the script output, if you like. It seems more efficient to ask you rather than to continue digging deeper & deeper in the shell script and all its accompanying patch files, etc. Thanks, Alex Stangl ___ freebsd-

Re: freebsd "toaster"

2009-06-16 Thread Alex Stangl
On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 07:04:47PM -0700, SA wrote: > This article by Colin Percival > http://www.daemonology.net/freebsd-update/binup.html discusses using > freebsd-update as a "toaster" for updating an entire FreeBSD based > distribution, instead of just the base system like freebsd-update nor

Re: freebsd "toaster"

2009-06-17 Thread Alex Stangl
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 11:17:32AM +0100, Chris Rees wrote: > Just curiosity, what's wrong with source upgrading? Isn't it miles > easier than reinstalling? Probably nothing. I haven't done it before, so there's the usual apprehension dealing with the unknown. I originally thought that since I jus

Re: upgrading installed ports: time to do it ?

2009-06-21 Thread Alex Stangl
On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 09:07:51PM +0100, Chris Rees wrote: > 2009/6/21 danny : > > I frequently update the contents of the ports tree but I have never upgraded > > any port. I am studying the way to do it, by following the handbook and an > > article on The FreeBSD Diary about the use of portupgra