Re: OpenBSD as a laptop OS

2010-06-27 Thread Casey Allen Shobe
ink of the last time I had a browser crash that didn't involve Flash... -- Casey Allen Shobe ca...@shobe.info

Re: Mailing list headers

2010-06-22 Thread Casey Allen Shobe
from this list". It seems to work well enough for my needs though, sorry for not seeing that before. Cheers, -- Casey Allen Shobe ca...@shobe.info

Re: Mailing list headers

2010-06-22 Thread Casey Allen Shobe
ede to my inbox. Filtering by To or CC breaks this, hence why proper mailing list filtering is never done using To, CC, or Subject. Cheers, -- Casey Allen Shobe ca...@shobe.info

Mailing list headers

2010-06-22 Thread Casey Allen Shobe
that to be the case. But in the interest of those of us who use it, could they please be added? Cheers, -- Casey Allen Shobe ca...@shobe.info

Re: Why I left OpenBSD

2010-06-10 Thread Casey Allen Shobe
GPL-licensed! Cheers, -- Casey Allen Shobe ca...@shobe.info

Re: Why I left OpenBSD

2010-06-10 Thread Casey Allen Shobe
y that you find something you feel rewarding to work on. There is absolutely no reason to try to drag others along with you. For someone critical of Theo running other developers off, you sure seem to be trying to do the same thing with your post and by sharing it here. Think before you r

Re: pkg_add problems after 4.7 upgrade (source of problem found)

2010-05-30 Thread Casey Allen Shobe
On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 4:26 AM, Casey Allen Shobe wrote: > I also upgraded my home machine (on a public IP) from 4.6 to 4.7 and did > not run into the same problems. I can also try a fresh install of 4.7 on > the work network - it won't take long. I'll also do a fresh i

Re: pkg_add problems after 4.7 upgrade (source of problem found)

2010-05-30 Thread Casey Allen Shobe
surprise that's not very fun to dig around at. Also, it's not really a bug per se, but if FTP times out after 60 seconds for any reason in general, shouldn't pkg_add say something nicer about it than "No packages in PKG_PATH"? Cheers, -- Casey Allen Shobe ca...@shobe.info

Re: pkg_add problems after 4.7 upgrade

2010-05-29 Thread Casey Allen Shobe
anymore, since active FTP does not work from the network and this is reminiscent of what would happen if I tried using active FTP from behind a firewall in the past... I've worked around the immediate problem with HTTP for now...but is there any more useful information that I can provi

Re: pkg_add problems after 4.7 upgrade

2010-05-29 Thread Casey Allen Shobe
On 29 May, 2010, at 9:19 PM, Jacob Meuser wrote: On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 08:57:28PM -0400, Casey Allen Shobe wrote: I've tried a few mirrors with the same results - this was the last one I tried: export PKG_PATH=ftp://obsd.cec.mtu.edu/pub/OpenBSD/4.7/packages/i386/ ...or as I was trying

Re: pkg_add problems after 4.7 upgrade

2010-05-29 Thread Casey Allen Shobe
54 PM, Jacob Meuser wrote: On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 01:45:13PM -0400, Casey Allen Shobe wrote: I upgraded six machines from 4.6 to 4.7 recently, using the CD to do so. I then updated PKG_PATH and tried to upgrade packages. It fails consistently on all six machines, indicating that it can&#

pkg_add problems after 4.7 upgrade

2010-05-29 Thread Casey Allen Shobe
penBSD/4.7/packages/i386/ratpoison-1.4.4p0.tgz No packages available in the PKG_PATH How can I resolve this or figure out more about what's going wrong? The -vvv options, per the man page, don't seem to do anything useful in this case. Cheers, -- Casey Allen Shobe ca...@shobe.info

Re: GDM times out waiting for X11 startup on slow machines (and an OpenBSD GDM theme!)

2010-04-13 Thread Casey Allen Shobe
DM now that there is a working/ configured login manager in place. Cheers, -- Casey Allen Shobe ca...@shobe.info

GDM times out waiting for X11 startup on slow machines (and an OpenBSD GDM theme!)

2010-04-13 Thread Casey Allen Shobe
ed it using 1024x768 screen resolution - so testing on other monitor sizes would be appreciated! http://casey.shobe.info/software/gdm-theme-openbsd-0.1.tar.gz Cheers, -- Casey Allen Shobe ca...@shobe.info