having trouble mounting cd rom

2003-09-14 Thread Charlie
not sure why but when i run the command mount -t cd9660 -o ro /dev/acd0c /cdrom it gives me this error message cd9660: /dev/acd0c: Invalid argument ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscr

trouble with kernel

2003-09-14 Thread Charlie
if i am trying to add my sound card device, and add the line device pcm into kernel do i have to recompile it to make it work and if so how do i recompile? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Re: having trouble mounting cd rom

2003-09-15 Thread Charlie
On Monday 15 September 2003 09:38 am, you wrote: > Charlie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > not sure why but when i run the command mount -t cd9660 -o ro /dev/acd0c > > /cdrom it gives me this error message cd9660: /dev/acd0c: Invalid > > argument > > Version of

xfce4 and 6.2: dbus-daemon is using 100% cpu

2007-09-02 Thread Charlie
nor any errors in ~/.xsession-errors. Thanks for the help, Charlie ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Is it difficult to move from Linux?

2007-10-24 Thread Charlie Farinella
> On 2007-10-22 Donovan R. Palmer wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have been using Linux for over 10 years, but have for a number of > > reasons become very interested in learning to use FreeBSD. Are there > > any ex or current Linux users here and could you tell me how hard it > > is to make the shift fr

problem

2003-12-26 Thread Charlie ROOT
sbp.o(.text+0xf71): undefined reference to `xpt_create_path' sbp.o: In function `sbp_agent_reset_callback': sbp.o(.text+0x1067): undefined reference to `xpt_release_devq' sbp.o: In function `sbp_orb_pointer': sbp.o(.text+0x1375): undefined reference to `xpt_done' sbp.o: In function `sbp_recv1': sbp

Re: re changing from vista

2008-11-16 Thread Charlie Kester
rowing the userbase is good in itself. Sometimes growth is cancerous, and kills the body. We DO need new users insofar as they help us meet the goals of our project. (And sometimes new users suggest new goals for us to pursue.) -- Charlie ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: re changing from vista

2008-11-16 Thread Charlie Kester
it really be a goal that every user become familiar with the shell and commandline tools? Why not let them live happily ever after in a point-and-click world? -- Charlie ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listi

Re: re changing from vista

2008-11-16 Thread Charlie Kester
* Wojciech Puchar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-11-16 22:41:27 +0100]: discussion about gimp and photoshop is OFF TOPIC. Agreed. I introduced it as an EXAMPLE of one way a new user might contribute a valuable perspective and therefore why we might want to recruit him into the FreeBSD community.

Re: Official FreeBSD Forums

2008-11-16 Thread Charlie Kester
system? Anyway, I suspect that this discussion more properly belongs on the advocacy mailing list. The OP's question probably should have been directed there in the first place. Let's drop it here, and get back to answering the kind of howto

Re: do we have any grammar checkers for FBSD?

2008-11-21 Thread Charlie Kester
* Bill Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-11-21 09:25:32 -0800]: Eons ago I used ``style'' and ``diction'' which were from the Bell Labs *roff text processing that were available on Xenix. I found them quite useful, but haven't seen them in years. The FreeBSD port of GNU diction and style is

Re: Update a package

2008-11-26 Thread Charlie Kester
* Lowell Gilbert [2008-11-26 11:17:25 -0500]: Sure. pkg_add(1) has a '-r' option for fetching remotely, and portupgrade(1) has a '-P' option to specify using packages (it will fetch from FreeBSD servers if possible). To expand on Lowell's answer, using portupgrade's -P option can avoid a leng

Re: why no Oracle on FreeBSD ?

2009-09-27 Thread Charlie Kester
On Sun 27 Sep 2009 at 12:25:50 PDT Chris Rees wrote: This guy replying to your post was a troll, basically. Ignore him, and Yep. It shows that some Linux fans are just as prone to creating FUD as their adversaries in the Windows world. I'd like to think the BSD community is better than that.

Re: ion windows manager on FreeBSD

2009-10-02 Thread Charlie Kester
On Fri 02 Oct 2009 at 15:44:07 PDT Russell Jackson wrote: I think most of us ion refugees have moved on to xmonad. While it isn't quite the same as ion, the xmonad developers don't have any philosophical issues supporting xft and xinerama. The only gripe I have is the blasted Haskel config file

Re: Problems with FreeBSD assembly

2009-11-11 Thread Charlie Kester
On Wed 11 Nov 2009 at 11:43:21 PST David Jackson wrote: I am having great difficulty running a very simple assembler program on FreeBSD on x86 in my efforts to learn some assembly programming on FreeBSD. I have tried to compile the following with nasm, however i get nothing in response when I

Re: Problems with FreeBSD assembly

2009-11-11 Thread Charlie Kester
On Wed 11 Nov 2009 at 17:32:41 PST Charlie Kester wrote: One more thing: Notice that the system call number (or any other dword) should also be pushed onto the stack before the int 80h. The reason for this is given at the top of the page: although the kernel is accessed using int 80h, it

Re: 7.2-STABLE to 8-R

2009-11-24 Thread Charlie Kester
On Tue 24 Nov 2009 at 13:09:48 PST Roland Smith wrote: On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 05:40:25PM +, John wrote: Regarding ports, I think I'll take the long route. This box is my main machine, my desktop - and so there are a LOT of ports installed. It will be easier to make portmanager rebuild ever

Re: 7.2-STABLE to 8-R

2009-11-26 Thread Charlie Kester
On Tue 24 Nov 2009 at 13:29:44 PST Rolf G Nielsen wrote: Charlie Kester wrote: Can someone remind me once again, when rebuilding all of my ports, what is the trick for avoiding the options dialogs? I'd like to have this run largely unattended. I seem to recall someone describing a method

Re: Newbie questions (updating, ports, etc.)

2009-12-03 Thread Charlie Kester
ng post, but I could not find clarification on the above in the Handbook and other sources I've read. I can't speak for anyone else, but long posts don't bother me. I hope we've clarified things for you. Welcome to FreeBSD! -- Charlie

Re: Newbie questions (updating, ports, etc.)

2009-12-03 Thread Charlie Kester
o on a rainy weekend.) -- Charlie ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: malformed man pages

2009-12-04 Thread Charlie Kester
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

Re: Root exploit for FreeBSD

2009-12-12 Thread Charlie Kester
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

Re: What happened to /home?

2009-12-23 Thread Charlie Kester
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

Re: Tuning for very little RAM

2010-01-06 Thread Charlie Kester
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

Re: Tuning for very little RAM

2010-01-06 Thread Charlie Kester
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

Re: Tuning for very little RAM

2010-01-06 Thread Charlie Kester
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

Re: Tuning for very little RAM

2010-01-06 Thread Charlie Kester
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

Re: Abiword window corruption

2010-01-06 Thread Charlie Kester
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

Re: Abiword window corruption

2010-01-06 Thread Charlie Kester
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

Re: Abiword window corruption

2010-01-06 Thread Charlie Kester
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

Re: Abiword window corruption

2010-01-06 Thread Charlie Kester
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

Re: Build error nasm

2011-03-02 Thread Charlie Kester
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

Re: Purchased Binaries

2011-03-04 Thread Charlie Kester
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

Re: Bug report marked [regression]

2011-03-06 Thread Charlie Kester
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

Re: HAL must die!

2011-03-07 Thread Charlie Kester
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

Re: Apple & FreeBSD relationship

2011-03-10 Thread Charlie Kester
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

Re: Apple & FreeBSD relationship

2011-03-10 Thread Charlie Kester
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

Re: Apple & FreeBSD relationship

2011-03-10 Thread Charlie Kester
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

Re: searching for a good IDE

2011-03-27 Thread Charlie Kester
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 (

Re: searching for a good IDE

2011-03-27 Thread Charlie Kester
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

Re: Easiest desktop BSD distro

2011-03-29 Thread Charlie Kester
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

IT Question

2011-08-17 Thread Charlie Leonard
maintained resources listing accredited schools offering an IT degree. Thanks for taking a look! Charlie Leonard___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Messed up CUPS configuration

2006-01-24 Thread Charlie Clark
a result the service won't start but I haven't been able to find the offending file. Thanks for any pointers Charlie Clark ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubsc

Packages/Ports

2006-03-04 Thread Charlie Sorsby
Hello, Wouldn't it be nice if, when a product (e.g. leafnode in this case) is ported to freeBSD -- not sure why this particular one needs to be ported but... -- the porter would either adhere to the man pages or would change the man pages to agree with the changes made? I've used leafnode and it'

Re: Maximum uptime 497 days?

2004-06-28 Thread Charlie Schluting
Rob wrote: Hi, By accident I happen to come across this remarkable limit of uptime registration for FreeBSD systems. After 497 days, the timer jumps to zero again. Not here.. 8:00AM up 1074 days, 11:58, 0 users, load averages: 0.57, 0.26, 0.10 That's on 2.1.0-RELEASE, BTW :) -Ch

I'm confused...

2004-12-11 Thread Charlie Sorsby
a boot manager on it. Surely the disklabel editor is smart enough not to be confused by something like that -- after all, the fstab that it will produce will have other disks and partitions to mount that are not what will be running when that fstab is being used anyways. P

Re: Installing FreeBSD 4.5 (was: I'm confused...)

2004-12-13 Thread Charlie Sorsby
First, thank you for taking time out of your weekend to respond to my query. It's much appreciates. I apologize for taking so long to reply. As you can imagine, my system has been up and down and e-mail with it. > On Saturday, 11 December 2004 at 16:26:07 -0700, Charlie Sorsby wrote

Can this be done?

2004-12-27 Thread Charlie Sorsby
ged even further from BSD than 4.x... Thank you kindly for any help you can provide. Charlie ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: TCPDUMP performance

2005-01-04 Thread Charlie Schluting
is: sysctl debug.bpf_bufsize=8388608 sysctl debug.bpf_maxbufsize=8388608 As a general rule, you need a decent Pentium 4 to capture > 20K packets/sec without drops. -Charlie ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/free

Help!

2005-03-27 Thread Charlie Sorsby
255H 63S/T 553C) da0 at ahc0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 da0: Fixed Direct Access SCSI-2 device da0: 10.000MB/s transfers (10.000MHz, offset 15), Tagged Queueing Enabled da0: 2063MB (4226725 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 263C) Thank you for any help you may be able to provide. Kindest regards, Charli

RE: Help!

2005-03-28 Thread Charlie Sorsby
selecting which operating system you want to boot from. Are you saying that simply allowing the installer program to install the boot manager on *all* disks is not enough? Thank you for taking the time to help. Charlie > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: IP Block

2005-01-22 Thread Charlie Schluting
rnet. i.e. you don't want to. -Charlie ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Connection via proxy

2005-01-22 Thread Charlie Schluting
/2004/05/13/FreeBSD_Basics.html and then the handbook. -Charlie ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: let me just throw this out there..

2005-01-25 Thread Charlie Schluting
On 1/25/2005 8:46 PM, SigmaX wrote: Used to happent o me all the time w/ Windows 2000. That's the reason I switched to FreeBSD ;-) (e pluribus unim). Cheerio, SigmaX And windows is normally more tolerant of flaky hardware/power. Heh. :) -Ch

Question

2005-01-31 Thread Charlie Sorsby
to me, however, that that will change the numbering of the drives and, so, make /etc/fstab on the original system incorrect. Is that correct? If so, what is the best way to accomplish what I've described above? What other "gotchas" must I consider? Kindest regards, Charlie -- Ch

Help!

2005-02-03 Thread Charlie Sorsby
What's this mean: (da1:ahc0:0:2:0): WRITE(10). CDB: 2a 0 0 2a 40 df 0 0 10 0 (da1:ahc0:0:2:0): RECOVERED ERROR info:2a40df asc:3,0 (da1:ahc0:0:2:0): Peripheral device write fault field replaceable unit: 10 sks:80,11 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: DNS access on private (RFC 1918) network

2004-01-20 Thread Charlie Schluting
his one is my hero for life ;) I think its a feature. -Charlie ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: DNS access on private (RFC 1918) network

2004-01-20 Thread Charlie Schluting
Gautam Gopalakrishnan wrote: udp:53 is DNS. Maybe your apps are looking a named on your machine... Just my newbie guess. Gautam Actually, its named looking to connect to a port that is no longer listening for it to respond there... ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: calcru negative-time messages 4.X vs 5.X

2004-01-25 Thread Charlie Schluting
;m stuck with 5.0 until then. Of course, if you find a solution, please let me/us know! -Charlie ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

5.2 upgrade failed..

2004-01-30 Thread Charlie Schluting
xcept mountd segfaults, and my soundcard doesn't work :) -Charlie ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Vhost

2004-02-01 Thread Charlie Schluting
et up apache. It wasn't clear from your request. Ok, read the Apache documentation. Don't ask the same question more than once. Please wrap your lines at 72 chars. -Charlie ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/l

FreeBSD and Grub

2004-02-02 Thread Charlie Schluting
Error 17: Cannot mount selected partition. Any ideas? Thanks :) Charlie ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: FreeBSD and Grub

2004-02-02 Thread Charlie Schluting
Charlie Schluting wrote: root(hd0,3,a) kernel /boot/loader Upon boot attempt, I see: Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0xa5 Error 17: Cannot mount selected partition. OOPS! Ignore that question... I see someone was asking the same thing :) Someone replied: "And it will load the MBR

Re: FreeBSD and Grub

2004-02-02 Thread Charlie Schluting
about how to install the fbsd boot manager to the boot sector of this partition, but it seems it is done by default. Removing 'kernel /boot/loader' and adding 'chainloader +1' (instead of keeping both, like some docs suggest) worked perfectly. Thanks Joe! Charlie Schlutin

saslauthd not working?

2003-09-23 Thread Charlie Schluting
tried adding -d to saslauthd_flags in rc.conf. When I started saslauthd, it just hung there, like I expected, only, I didn't get any output when I tried to login to postfix. help would be greatly appreciated. -Charlie ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: saslauthd not working?

2003-09-23 Thread Charlie Schluting
On Wed, 24 Sep 2003, Jez Hancock wrote: > On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 05:32:33PM -0700, Charlie Schluting wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Trying to configure sasl with postfix.. and I keep getting "Login > > Failed" > > > Run test utility: > ./testsaslauth

Re: memory allocation/deallocation (malloc experts needed)

2004-05-20 Thread Charlie Root
On Thu, May 20, 2004 at 01:42:00AM -0500, Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (May 20), Till Plewe said: > > My problem is essentially that freeing large numbers of small chunks > > of memory can be very slow. I have run into this problem twice so > > far. > > Do you have a testcase? The atta

can't install php5-dba port

2005-11-06 Thread Charlie McElfresh
Hello, I'm running php 5.05, apache 2.053, on FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE. When I try to install the port (from the ports collection) php5-dba I get this message: ===> php5-dba-5.0.3_2 is marked as broken: Doesn't work with PHP version : 4 (Doesn't support PHP 4). Help app

Re: INDEX* in /usr/ports

2004-10-05 Thread Charlie Root
On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 04:29:35PM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 06:38:57PM +, Tarc wrote: > > What different in this files?! I see the different package versions, but what > > naything else? > > For FreeBSD 4.x and 5.x different package organization? Why? > > The dep

Re: Which OS for notebook

2010-10-05 Thread Charlie Kester
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

Re: Which OS for notebook

2010-10-06 Thread Charlie Kester
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

Re: [OT] writing filters in sh

2010-10-28 Thread Charlie Kester
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.) _

Re: Tips for installing windows and freeBSD both.. anyone??

2010-11-08 Thread Charlie Kester
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

Re: Tips for installing windows and freeBSD both.. anyone??

2010-11-12 Thread Charlie Kester
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

Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?

2010-11-12 Thread Charlie Kester
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. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?

2010-11-12 Thread Charlie Kester
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

Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?

2010-11-12 Thread Charlie Kester
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

Re: History of C (Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?)

2010-11-14 Thread Charlie Kester
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

Re: JMicron JMB363 PCIe controler doesn't work

2010-11-15 Thread Charlie Kester
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

Re: new user questions. (Before I back myself into a corner!)

2010-11-23 Thread Charlie Kester
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

Re: new user questions. (Before I back myself into a corner!)

2010-11-27 Thread Charlie Kester
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

printer recommendations?

2010-12-02 Thread Charlie Kester
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

Re: printer recommendations?

2010-12-03 Thread Charlie Kester
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

Re: printer recommendations?

2010-12-08 Thread Charlie Kester
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

Re: bash increment in a given way

2010-12-11 Thread Charlie Kester
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

Re: bash increment in a given way

2010-12-11 Thread Charlie Kester
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

Re: printer recommendations?

2010-12-20 Thread Charlie Kester
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

Re: Problem with dbus update

2010-12-27 Thread Charlie Kester
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

ZFS RAIDZ Controller Disk Order

2010-12-29 Thread Charlie Mason
cted up to different ports, so da0 is now da2 and so on. Can anyone think of a way to get them back in the correct order if it does matter, other than trial and error. Can I find out what number each one was in the pool from the disk somehow? Thanks

Re: ZFS RAIDZ Controller Disk Order

2010-12-29 Thread Charlie Mason
On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 12:50 PM, David Rawling wrote: > On 29/12/2010 11:08 PM, Charlie Mason wrote: > > Is it perhaps possible to disconnect the disks again, boot the system, and > remove the ZFS pool cache (which location escapes me for the moment). Then > you should be able to

Re: Problem with dbus update

2010-12-29 Thread Charlie Kester
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

Re: How to build a BROKEN port?

2010-12-29 Thread Charlie Kester
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

Re: Where to post FreeBSD tutorials?

2010-12-30 Thread Charlie Kester
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

Re: How to adjust man page line length [SOLVED]

2011-01-20 Thread Charlie Kester
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

Re: Colorized compiler/linker messages

2011-01-22 Thread Charlie Kester
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

Re: putting "/tmp" to memory

2011-01-23 Thread Charlie Kester
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

Re: Could any port be sucking up bandwidth?

2011-01-25 Thread Charlie Kester
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

Re: Best Laptop to buy for Freebsd Without OS?

2011-02-17 Thread Charlie Kester
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

Re: BSD Magazine PDFs

2011-02-18 Thread Charlie Kester
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. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freeb

Re: BSD Magazine PDFs

2011-02-19 Thread Charlie Kester
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

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