where to get the release notes for 9.2

2013-07-27 Thread Aryeh Friedman
There is a specific feature I need to see if it is in 9.2 or just 10
where can I find the draft release notes for 9.2?
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java/icetea-web broken?

2013-07-03 Thread Aryeh Friedman
I install it (on a machine that it used to work on until I had to
reinstall FB) and there is none of the normal command line tools and
when I attempt to open a jnlp file in ff (21.0) java/icetea-web (1.4)
it goes into an infinite loop of opening new blank tabs the site
in question works perfectly on pre-21.0 and/or 1.4 and on all other
OS's
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stupid portmaster question

2013-03-25 Thread Aryeh Friedman
How do I tell portmaster -ad to ignore certain ports because they are
broken such as editors/libreoffice is currently marked as (I am sure this
will change soon)
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an upto date list of new ports

2013-02-28 Thread Aryeh Friedman
is there a site or other location that lists *NEW* (not updated) ports
since a given date?
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i386 vs. amd64

2012-12-17 Thread Aryeh Friedman
Ever since 8.X (my system is now 9.1-RC3 [done via csup]) been using
i386 with the following main ports:

x11-wm/xfce4
www/firefox
www/linux-f10-flashplugin11
editors/libreoffice
www/tomcat-7
www/apace22
devel/aegis (I am the maintainer)
devel/fhist
devel/cook
java/openjdk6
emulation/virtualbox-ose (and additions)
print/cups

I have avoided amd64 in the past due to some or not all them working,
but want to switch if possible because PAE seems to be broken now on
i386.

So I have the following questions:

1. Will all the above ports (and their dependencies) work on amd64?
2. Is there any way to do a in place switch to amd64 or do I need to
rebuild the system from the ground up?
3. In general is amd64 now as capable of handling ports and such as
well as i386 does?
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Re: video acceleration on vbox

2011-10-24 Thread Aryeh Friedman
What port do I find them in?

On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 8:02 PM, Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.comwrote:

 On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 6:44 PM, Aryeh Friedman 
 aryeh.fried...@gmail.comwrote:

 I have installed win 7 as a guest on emulator/virtualbox-ose on my 9.0-RC1
 (i386) machine and no matter what I set the video acceleration to it gives
 me nothing but standard VGA in win 7 (even after downloading the driver
 from nvidia) I am using x11/nvidia-driver under xfce4 on the FB side


 You have to install the guest additions for windows.  It used to be better
 to boot the guest into safe mode to install them.

 --
 Adam Vande More

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a portmaster/ports question

2011-09-18 Thread Aryeh Friedman
Is there any way to get portmaster to reinstall every port in the *EXACT*
same order they where installed in, preferably with out any knowledge of
what ports where installed after the current one was the reason for
asking is many times it seems that subtle incompatibilities solely due to
either the order of upgrades in -ad and/or when a port gets updated
autoconfig picks up stuff non-dependant ports that where installed later...
a good example of the second is gettext compiles with java support if you
reinstall after installing Java but does not do so if installing before you
install it
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Re: Hi

2011-08-28 Thread Aryeh Friedman
On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 5:09 PM, Spencer Thompson 
spencer.s.thomp...@gmail.com wrote:

 Dear FreeBSD.org,

 I would like to order a CD with FreeBSD for an IBM Thinkpad.  What is the
 best package to get?  Will it work perfectly?  I want a package with the
 manual, man-pages and how to use FreeBSD perfectly in books.


Download the 8.2-RELEASE dvd



 What does Free in FreeBSD mean?  Does it mean Free as in Free of charge?
  Or
 is there an alternate meaning?


It means many things including free of charge... it also means the freedom
to modify, etc.



 I'm wanting the best operating system for my laptop.  Is this the one?  Why
 is it free of charge when I want to pay for it?  I don't want something
 stupid.


What OS is best for a particular person depends on the applications you need
to run


 Does it come with all the applications I need for business and marketing?
  That's all I need.


What specific applications do you have in mind?
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How to turn off screen blanking

2011-08-10 Thread Aryeh Friedman
I have a kiosk system I am almost done building and the last snag is
attempting to make it so idle time (no keyboard or mouse attached) does not
blank the screen.   I have already tried the following:

vidcontrol -S off
disabling acpi and apmd from the kernel config
enabling dpms via the kernel config and then running xset -dpms

Any other ideas?
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baffled on how to get packages onto the disc image of a custom release

2011-07-25 Thread Aryeh Friedman
I have been banging my head for almost a day now about how to get
make release (or make iso.1 or package-split) to populate
releaase/R/cdrom/* (actually I only care about dvd1 for now) and am
totally lost on how to go from having a valid package list (and split)
in /usr/ports/package to having it on the dvd... the only thing I know
for sure there is some magic that happens before making
release/R/stage abd release/R/cdrom/* in which a install script and
tar are made (I think) and this means I need to put packages
where?!?!?!? to get any of the make targets to make the script and
tar?
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skype

2011-07-23 Thread Aryeh Friedman
I have a number of clients that prefer Skype over IM last time I
tried to build it from ports I was unable to get to anywhere past the
account login page (no matter what I tried it said it could not log me
in and when I registered for an account it never registered)
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Fwd: skype

2011-07-23 Thread Aryeh Friedman
-- Forwarded message --
From: Aryeh Friedman aryeh.fried...@gmail.com
Date: Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 7:43 AM
Subject: Re: skype
To: claudiu vasadi claudiu.vas...@gmail.com


not quiet webcamd sees my webcam but not skype

On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 7:42 AM, claudiu vasadi
claudiu.vas...@gmail.com wrote:
 Try it now. It works


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re: skype

2011-07-23 Thread Aryeh Friedman
Still no video here is the output of the command that the UPDATE
entery says to run (notice that I have a copy of 8.2 that is less then
a week old):

FreeBSD aryeh 8.2-STABLE FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE #7: Sun Jul 17 19:39:35
EDT 2011 root@aryeh:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386
compat.linux.oss_version: 198144
compat.linux.osrelease: 2.6.16
# pcm-oss plugin configuration

pcm.oss {
type oss
device /dev/dsp
hint {
description Open Sound System
}
}

ctl.oss {
type oss
device /dev/mixer
hint {
description Open Sound System
}
}



-- Forwarded message --
From: Frank Shute fr...@shute.org.uk
Date: Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 7:52 AM
Subject: Re: skype
To: Aryeh Friedman aryeh.fried...@gmail.com
Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List freebsd-questions@freebsd.org


On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 06:16:28AM -0400, Aryeh Friedman wrote:

 I have a number of clients that prefer Skype over IM last time I
 tried to build it from ports I was unable to get to anywhere past the
 account login page (no matter what I tried it said it could not log me
 in and when I registered for an account it never registered)

It works for me. See:

20110516

in /usr/ports/UPDATING


Regards,

--

 Frank

 Contact info: http://www.shute.org.uk/misc/contact.html


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best way to force a single packet to be sent via a specific interface

2011-07-21 Thread Aryeh Friedman
I have both ethernet (the default route and such) and ppp done via
ppp -ddial the man page for ppp(8) says tun0 will not have an IP
assigned until a single packet is sent on it... what is the best way
to have one packet sent on it (ping only always ifaces on multicast,
traceroute seems to have no way to say exit after the first hop and/or
after one packet is sent, tcpdump refuses a -c 0 arg saying it is
illegal)
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Fwd: best way to force a single packet to be sent via a specific interface

2011-07-21 Thread Aryeh Friedman
-- Forwarded message --
From: Aryeh Friedman aryeh.fried...@gmail.com
Date: Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 4:00 AM
Subject: best way to force a single packet to be sent via a specific interface
To: FreeBSD Mailing List freebsd-questions@freebsd.org


I have both ethernet (the default route and such) and ppp done via
ppp -ddial the man page for ppp(8) says tun0 will not have an IP
assigned until a single packet is sent on it... what is the best way
to have one packet sent on it (ping only always ifaces on multicast,
traceroute seems to have no way to say exit after the first hop and/or
after one packet is sent, tcpdump refuses a -c 0 arg saying it is
illegal)
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best way to replicate system

2011-07-21 Thread Aryeh Friedman
I have set up a machine that is 100% configred and now needs to be
duplicated to an arbitrary number of other machines (23 currently)...
none of the machines have optical drives (or floppies) so it has to be
a USB install... what is the best way to do this all I can think of is
make release or make a diskimage and dd it
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make release question

2011-07-21 Thread Aryeh Friedman
Where does make release place the disk images (iso's) by default
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Fwd: make release question

2011-07-21 Thread Aryeh Friedman
-- Forwarded message --
From: Aryeh Friedman aryeh.fried...@gmail.com
Date: Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 12:35 PM
Subject: Re: make release question
To: Nathan Whitehorn nwhiteh...@freebsd.org


On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 12:33 PM, Aryeh Friedman
aryeh.fried...@gmail.com wrote:
 found them in CHROOT/R and found I needed to do mkisofs on them to get the 
 image

oops forgot to ask should I use cdrom/dvd1 or ftp to make a bootable USB drive

 On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 12:31 PM, Nathan Whitehorn
 nwhiteh...@freebsd.org wrote:
 On 07/21/11 10:42, Aryeh Friedman wrote:

 Where does make release place the disk images (iso's) by default
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 On -CURRENT, it places them in /usr/obj/usr/src/release. You can use make
 install DESTDIR=blah to put them somewhere else. On 8.x and earlier it
 places them in CHROOT/R.
 -Nathan


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Fwd: Lennart Poettering: BSD Isn't Relevant Anymore

2011-07-18 Thread Aryeh Friedman
-- Forwarded message --
From: Aryeh Friedman aryeh.fried...@gmail.com
Date: Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 3:16 AM
Subject: Re: Lennart Poettering: BSD Isn't Relevant Anymore
To: per...@pluto.rain.com


That is the approach I am taking... RS's recommendation was we make a
disk image to overwrite the existing linux image with (i.e. install
linux and then overwrite it with the image) and from the console
config GRUB to boot it

On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 10:01 AM,  per...@pluto.rain.com wrote:
 Outback Dingo outbackdi...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 11:03 PM, Adam Vande More 
 amvandem...@gmail.comwrote:
  On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 2:28 PM, Outback Dingo 
  outbackdi...@gmail.comwrote:
  ... Name one cloud provider providing FreeBSD 8x or 9X to run
  as instances. I know of one coming... question is are there
  others
 
  There are plenty already.  Rootbsd for one, among others ...

 Im pretty sure they are only XEN based and not cloud based
 per se, as there appears to be no elasticity on demand, Granted
 RootBSD is nice but on demand expansion of memory, cpu and disk
 under ones control is more what i would describe as FreeBSD in
 the cloud,

 Perhaps a Linux cloud instance can be depenguinated?
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Re: Lennart Poettering: BSD Isn't Relevant Anymore

2011-07-18 Thread Aryeh Friedman
On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 7:30 AM, Jerry je...@seibercom.net wrote:
 On Mon, 18 Jul 2011 15:47:24 +0700
 C. Bergström articulated:

 I wish people would spend as much time solving problems in *BSD as
 they do trying to defend an irrelevant OS ;)

 Personally, I wish they would spend more time in developing fully
 functional wireless drivers as opposed to simply bumping the major
 version number every 18 months +/-. I have two new laptops ion front of
 me that I cannot use FBSD on simply because they don't support the
 wireless (N class obviously) installed in them.

 I simply refuse to purchase a machine to accommodate an OS; nor will I
 attempt to change the wireless network card/chip for the same reason.

 OK, now the usual group of blame the manufacturers, blame Microsoft,
 blame everyone else for the problem are free to chime in. I was
 seriously considering hiring a professional programmer to write drivers
 for devices for me; however, it was then I remembers something I
 learned in business school, class 101. I weighted the cost of
 developing the drivers as opposed to simply purchasing an OS that all
 ready had those drivers readily available. Guess which was many times
 cheaper? Cost analyses proved that developing my own drivers was not
 cost effective.

 I suggested several years ago, and I will re-suggest that FreeBSD start
 a program that would allow programmers to be paid to write code that
 either the regular contributors do not want to write or are not capable
 of writing. Other OS's are currently working on that model. No one
 would be forced to contribute. This would prove beneficial to everyone
 and should satisfy both capitalist who don't mind paying for quality
 products and socialist like Poly who want everything for nothing. It
 would be a win-win situation.

 With the advent of the next version of FBSD soon to be upon us,
 this would be a propitious moment to start such a project. FBSD has
 never been considered a dreadnought in the driver development field and
 this might work to change that. At the very least, it would
 create a brouhaha among others although the pigeon-livered average
 FreeBSD user would probably abstain from support this project either
 from a lack of need or indifference to others or basic socialist/fascist
 concepts.

The issue your talking about is actually caused by a fundamental flaw
in *ALL* pure open source projects namely in return for the freedom to
look at the code and stuff we give up market forces.If there where
real market forces then *SOMEONE* in the larger freebsd community
would find it profitable to write such drivers (and other needed
unglamorous but necessary tasks).A model I proposed (with about 3
others from different FOSS backgrounds) a few years ago is still as
relivent now as it was then despite the lack of reconition that it
allows for all the freedoms of open source but without the neglecting
of user demands (i.e. market forces).   The model is actually really
simple: the source code is freely available to *ANYONE* for
study/research/evaluation/educational *BUT* the minute you compile it
becomes economically valuable to the user (assuming that there is no
value to the above free uses [it is not a bad assumption if you look
at it]) and thus *MUST* be paid for.   Now the one small twist this
has over any other model is that with basic (but careful) planning it
always for anyone who has contributed to get their fair share of any
revenue.Think of it as the idea that everyone must contribute to
the project either with money and/or work to improve it (let their own
enlightened self interest dictate what mix they choose). The only
legal hurdle to this is that the OSD definition of open source does
not allow for licenses to descriminate between classes of users
(people who only read the source code but do not use it and those that
do use it).
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Re: Lennart Poettering: BSD Isn't Relevant Anymore

2011-07-18 Thread Aryeh Friedman
Just a side note I am the managing partner in a software development
firm and they *ONLY* reason we have not released the majority of our
internal lib is because we are essentially giving something of huge
value (to us) up for nothing in return but if there was money involved
to compensate for the time and effort we put into writing the lib we
would gladly contribute it to any deserving project.   But, sadly
since we live and die as consultants by having a unique competitive
advantage (in this case a lib that adds commercial value to our work
by completing projects faster).

On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 7:50 AM, Aryeh Friedman
aryeh.fried...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 7:30 AM, Jerry je...@seibercom.net wrote:
 On Mon, 18 Jul 2011 15:47:24 +0700
 C. Bergström articulated:

 I wish people would spend as much time solving problems in *BSD as
 they do trying to defend an irrelevant OS ;)

 Personally, I wish they would spend more time in developing fully
 functional wireless drivers as opposed to simply bumping the major
 version number every 18 months +/-. I have two new laptops ion front of
 me that I cannot use FBSD on simply because they don't support the
 wireless (N class obviously) installed in them.

 I simply refuse to purchase a machine to accommodate an OS; nor will I
 attempt to change the wireless network card/chip for the same reason.

 OK, now the usual group of blame the manufacturers, blame Microsoft,
 blame everyone else for the problem are free to chime in. I was
 seriously considering hiring a professional programmer to write drivers
 for devices for me; however, it was then I remembers something I
 learned in business school, class 101. I weighted the cost of
 developing the drivers as opposed to simply purchasing an OS that all
 ready had those drivers readily available. Guess which was many times
 cheaper? Cost analyses proved that developing my own drivers was not
 cost effective.

 I suggested several years ago, and I will re-suggest that FreeBSD start
 a program that would allow programmers to be paid to write code that
 either the regular contributors do not want to write or are not capable
 of writing. Other OS's are currently working on that model. No one
 would be forced to contribute. This would prove beneficial to everyone
 and should satisfy both capitalist who don't mind paying for quality
 products and socialist like Poly who want everything for nothing. It
 would be a win-win situation.

 With the advent of the next version of FBSD soon to be upon us,
 this would be a propitious moment to start such a project. FBSD has
 never been considered a dreadnought in the driver development field and
 this might work to change that. At the very least, it would
 create a brouhaha among others although the pigeon-livered average
 FreeBSD user would probably abstain from support this project either
 from a lack of need or indifference to others or basic socialist/fascist
 concepts.

 The issue your talking about is actually caused by a fundamental flaw
 in *ALL* pure open source projects namely in return for the freedom to
 look at the code and stuff we give up market forces.    If there where
 real market forces then *SOMEONE* in the larger freebsd community
 would find it profitable to write such drivers (and other needed
 unglamorous but necessary tasks).    A model I proposed (with about 3
 others from different FOSS backgrounds) a few years ago is still as
 relivent now as it was then despite the lack of reconition that it
 allows for all the freedoms of open source but without the neglecting
 of user demands (i.e. market forces).   The model is actually really
 simple: the source code is freely available to *ANYONE* for
 study/research/evaluation/educational *BUT* the minute you compile it
 becomes economically valuable to the user (assuming that there is no
 value to the above free uses [it is not a bad assumption if you look
 at it]) and thus *MUST* be paid for.   Now the one small twist this
 has over any other model is that with basic (but careful) planning it
 always for anyone who has contributed to get their fair share of any
 revenue.    Think of it as the idea that everyone must contribute to
 the project either with money and/or work to improve it (let their own
 enlightened self interest dictate what mix they choose).     The only
 legal hurdle to this is that the OSD definition of open source does
 not allow for licenses to descriminate between classes of users
 (people who only read the source code but do not use it and those that
 do use it).

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Re: Lennart Poettering: BSD Isn't Relevant Anymore

2011-07-17 Thread Aryeh Friedman
I am working on making a general purpose image for XEN (specifically
for rack space but since it is a common framework attempting to make
it vendor neutral)

On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 12:16 AM, Outback Dingo outbackdi...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 11:03 PM, Adam Vande More 
 amvandem...@gmail.comwrote:

 On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 2:28 PM, Outback Dingo outbackdi...@gmail.comwrote:

 and cloud computing instances anyway, Name one cloud provider providing
 FreeBSD 8x or 9X
 to run as instances. I know of one coming... question is are there
 others


 There are plenty already.  Rootbsd for one, among others.  Also there
 wouldn't be any supporting FBSD 9 since it's not released yet.


 Im pretty sure they are only XEN based and not  cloud based per se, as
 there appears to be no elasticity on demand, Granted RootBSD is nice
 but on demand expansion of memory, cpu and disk under ones control is more
 what i would describe as FreeBSD in  the cloud,


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how to force a hard reboot remotely

2011-07-16 Thread Aryeh Friedman
Is there any way to force a complete power down and then reset of a
i386 without physically being present?
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boting straight into firefox

2011-07-14 Thread Aryeh Friedman
I am setting a read only kiosk (it displays various web pages
progmatically and has *NO OTHER* function) and security is not a
concern because the hardware is locked away and need to find the most
hands free way method of going from power on to full screen
www/firefox is it sufficent to have a su to a non-root user and
then run startx in /etc/rc(.local) [I have a custom /etc/rc so I do
not need rc.local)
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Re: boting straight into firefox

2011-07-14 Thread Aryeh Friedman
 I wonder, though . . . why Firefox?  Would a more minimal (but still GUI)
 browser -- such as Surf, perhaps -- serve your needs better?

 Maybe it's worth considering that in case the menu bar,
 navigation bar and all the other (mostly nonsense) bars
 of web browsers are not needed for the purpose described
 above.

It is a client requirement.The client is replacing a windows based
solution with FreeBSD and for what ever reasons all the sites that
need to be displayed are specific to ff (the use features only found
in it or IE 9).
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Re: boting straight into firefox

2011-07-14 Thread Aryeh Friedman
On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 1:38 AM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote:
 On Fri, 15 Jul 2011 01:30:32 -0400, Aryeh Friedman wrote:
  I wonder, though . . . why Firefox?  Would a more minimal (but still GUI)
  browser -- such as Surf, perhaps -- serve your needs better?
 
  Maybe it's worth considering that in case the menu bar,
  navigation bar and all the other (mostly nonsense) bars
  of web browsers are not needed for the purpose described
  above.

 It is a client requirement.    The client is replacing a windows based
 solution with FreeBSD and for what ever reasons all the sites that
 need to be displayed are specific to ff (the use features only found
 in it or IE 9).

 Okay, understandable. In this case your choice is limited,
 but that shouldn't be a big problem. Just see how firefox
 can be brought into fullscreen mode, either by one of its
 own options, or by using the generic -geometry option as
 shown in the dillo example.

        firefox -width 1024 -height 768

 But firefox -help doesn't show parameters for positioning,
 and also by pressing PF11 for interactively entered fullscreen
 mode, the navigational elements keep being present. But
 maybe there's something you can do by configuration file,
 so getting rid of navigational bars should be possible too.

There are several extensions that do it already and if for some reason
non-work it looks trivial to make one
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OT: How to set a timeout for a process

2011-01-27 Thread Aryeh Friedman
I have a script that may or not hang (the reasons why it hangs are
unimportant here) and need to call it from an other script and need to
say if it hangs to give up after X seconds and just continue the
script (no harm done if it fails)
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Re: problems mounting android htc

2011-01-20 Thread Aryeh Friedman
A few things:

1. Yes it is required the reason I put it in the first place is ant
refused to build without it. (note 1)

2. How do I check the version on the phone?

3. What kind of modifications would be needed to make it work on eclair?

Notes:

1. I eventually (once I get the standard ant style development
working) to customize our existing build system (based around aegis
[http//sf.aegis.net] and cook
[http://miller.emu.id.au/pmiller/software/cook/]) so the fact that ant
complains may not be an issue

On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 4:06 PM, Ilias-Dimitrios Vrachnis
vrac...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 10:39 PM, Aryeh Friedman
 aryeh.fried...@gmail.com wrote:
 % ant debug
 ...
 /shared/home/aryeh/HelloAndroid/build.xml:78: For 'AOSP' SDK Preview,
 attribute minSdkVersion in AndroidManifest.xml must be 'AOSP'

 Hmmm. Interesting.
 I am looking at the applications I developed under FreeBSD, and I did
 not set the minSdkVersion at all in the Manifest.
 Try that. If it doesn't work, i'm afraid there are not much more that
 can be done. The AOSP version is froyo (2.2). That means that if
 omitting the version in the manifest fails, you need the eclair sdk.
 I'm afraid that that is not available for freebsd though.

 You could target for 2.2 devices only, but if your phone does not run 2.2...
 Well, you get the idea...

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Re: problems mounting android htc

2011-01-20 Thread Aryeh Friedman
I decided to build the sdk from sources and wondering why it reported
Donut when I told repo -init to checkout Eclair?


-- Forwarded message --
From: Ilias-Dimitrios Vrachnis vrac...@gmail.com
Date: Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 4:24 PM
Subject: Re: problems mounting android htc
To: Aryeh Friedman aryeh.fried...@gmail.com


On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 11:18 PM, Aryeh Friedman
aryeh.fried...@gmail.com wrote:
 A few things:

 1. Yes it is required the reason I put it in the first place is ant
 refused to build without it. (note 1)

 2. How do I check the version on the phone?

 3. What kind of modifications would be needed to make it work on eclair?

 Notes:

 1. I eventually (once I get the standard ant style development
 working) to customize our existing build system (based around aegis
 [http//sf.aegis.net] and cook
 [http://miller.emu.id.au/pmiller/software/cook/]) so the fact that ant
 complains may not be an issue


one of my manifests is this:

?xml version=1.0 encoding=UTF-8?
manifest xmlns:android=http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android;
    package=org.me.androidapplication1
   application
        activity android:name=.MainActivity android:label=MainActivity
           intent-filter
               action android:name=android.intent.action.MAIN/
               category android:name=android.intent.category.LAUNCHER/
           /intent-filter
       /activity
   /application
/manifest

and it ran without a hitch on my phone.

You can check your android version on a phone by going to
settings-about phone look for the android version
for eclair to work... you'd either have to ask bsdroid's mentainer. or.. :/
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Re: problems mounting android htc

2011-01-17 Thread Aryeh Friedman
I do all my coding from the command line and not an IDE and got BSDoid
and the Android SDK both downloaded but I can not get BSDoid installed
I did a quick hack of coping tools/libx86/swt.jar from bsdoid to the
sdk dir but so far none of the other instructions work

On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 5:56 AM, Vrachnis Ilias Dimitrios
vrac...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Jan 16, 2011, at 5:56 PM, Patrick Lamaiziere wrote:

 Le Sun, 16 Jan 2011 09:41:06 -0500,
 Aryeh Friedman aryeh.fried...@gmail.com a écrit :

 My situtation is a little different I am a developer hired to do some
 work on the android but have never done *ANY* mobile programming so
 starting from square on from essencially yesterday

 I think you have to use the android SDK to access the phone in
 developer mode.

 There is a porting effort for the SDK on FreeBSD:
 http://bsdroid.org/tiki-index.php

 I have not try it.

 Regards.

 I did try the method described in the bsdroid wiki and i can say that it
 works. The adb that is.
 The adt plugin for eclipse requires some java libraries and i cannot find
 them.
 Nonetheless, there is an android plugin for the netbeans ide that i can
 confirm that works under freebsd.

 As for mounting the phone's sd card, it is not required for developing.
 If you still want to mount it, you have to enable it from the phone first:

 You pull down the notification bar on the top, and click on the notification
 that says that USB is connected.
 - If you are not running HTC Sense, there are two notifications related to
 usb. The one you are looking for is not the notification that mentions the
 usb debugging, but the mass storage one.
 - If you are running HTC Sense, there is only one notification. When you
 select it, there is a radio-button based menu where you have to select that
 you want to enable mass storage. Don't forget to press the ok/close button
 on the bottom of the screen for the changes to take effect.

 You can then mount the sd card using mount_msdosfs as Patrick mentioned in
 his response earlier.
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Re: problems mounting android htc

2011-01-17 Thread Aryeh Friedman
On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 8:22 AM, Vrachnis Ilias Dimitrios
vrac...@gmail.com wrote:

 On Jan 17, 2011, at 1:52 PM, Aryeh Friedman wrote:

 I do all my coding from the command line and not an IDE and got BSDoid
 and the Android SDK both downloaded but I can not get BSDoid installed
 I did a quick hack of coping tools/libx86/swt.jar from bsdoid to the
 sdk dir but so far none of the other instructions work



 first things first.
 If you execute:
 adb devices
 What's the output?

 (adb should be in the sdk tarball you downloaded from the bsdroid wiki)

~/android-AOSP-2.2-i386-distro-20100709 aryeh@flosoft-stable% tools/adb devices
* daemon not running. starting it now on port 5037 *
* daemon started successfully *
ADB server didn't ACK
* failed to start daemon *
error: cannot connect to daemon




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Re: problems mounting android htc

2011-01-16 Thread Aryeh Friedman
My situtation is a little different I am a developer hired to do some
work on the android but have never done *ANY* mobile programming so
starting from square on from essencially yesterday

On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 9:36 AM, Chris Brennan xa...@xaerolimit.net wrote:
 On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 8:27 PM, Patrick Lamaiziere patf...@davenulle.org
 wrote:

 Le Sat, 15 Jan 2011 18:57:33 -0500,
 Aryeh Friedman aryeh.fried...@gmail.com a écrit :

  No idea how but when I plug the USB in it says USB Debugging
  Connected

 On my HTC dream when I connect it to USB, there is a notification on the
 phone and I have (on the phone) to unmount the sd card.

 Then I can mount the sd card from FreeBSD with
 mount_msdosfs /dev/da0s1 /mnt

 dmesg:
 ugen2.2: HTC at usbus2
 umass0: HTC Android Phone, class 0/0, rev 1.02/1.00, addr 2 on usbus2
 umass0:  SCSI over Bulk-Only; quirks = 0x
 umass0:3:0:-1: Attached to scbus3
 (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): TEST UNIT READY. CDB: 0 0 0 0 0 0
 (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): CAM status: SCSI Status Error
 (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): SCSI status: Check Condition
 (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): SCSI sense: UNIT ATTENTION asc:29,0 (Power
 on, reset, or bus device reset occurred) (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0):
 TEST UNIT READY. CDB: 0 0 0 0 0 0 (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): CAM
 status: SCSI Status Error (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): SCSI status: Check
 Condition (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): SCSI sense: NOT READY asc:3a,0
 (Medium not present) da0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 scbus3 target 0 lun 0
 da0: HTC Android Phone 0100 Removable Direct Access SCSI-2 device
 da0: 40.000MB/s transfers
 da0: Attempt to query device size failed: NOT READY, Medium not present
 GEOM: da0: partition 1 does not start on a track boundary.
 GEOM: da0: partition 1 does not end on a track boundary.

 I had a similar problem a weeks ago (posted to this list) with my LG Vortex.
 It refused to mount (da0 would get assigned and then immediately removed).
 If I left it plugged in for some undetermined time it worked. I would be
 able to mount it normally on fbsd7.3/fbsd8.1/fbsd8.2/fbsd9.0 without issue.
 I suspect it might be something in the Linux Kernel running on the phone but
 have not rooted it (and honestly don't intend to right now).

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problems mounting android htc

2011-01-15 Thread Aryeh Friedman
I am attempting to make it so I can communicate with the linux on my
Android HTC 0100 and when I insert it I get the following on the
console:

ugen5.2: HTC at usbus5
umass0: HTC Android Phone, class 0/0, rev 1.02/1.00, addr 2 on usbus5
umass0:  SCSI over Bulk-Only; quirks = 0x
umass0:0:0:-1: Attached to scbus0
(probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): TEST UNIT READY. CDB: 0 0 0 0 0 0
(probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): CAM status: SCSI Status Error
(probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): SCSI status: Check Condition
(probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): SCSI sense: UNIT ATTENTION asc:29,0 (Power
on, reset, or bus device reset occurred)
(probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): TEST UNIT READY. CDB: 0 0 0 0 0 0
(probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): CAM status: SCSI Status Error
(probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): SCSI status: Check Condition
(probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): SCSI sense: NOT READY asc:3a,0 (Medium not present)
da0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 scbus0 target 0 lun 0
da0: HTC Android Phone 0100 Removable Direct Access SCSI-2 device
da0: 40.000MB/s transfers
da0: Attempt to query device size failed: NOT READY, Medium not present

When I attempt to mount /dev/da0 I get device not configured:

~ aryeh@flosoft-stable% uname -a
FreeBSD flosoft-stable.no-ip.biz 8.2-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 8.2-PRERELEASE
#1: Sat Jan 15 06:33:34 EST 2011
r...@flosoft-stable.no-ip.biz:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386

I also tried on a -CURRENT partition that is uptodate through about
noon (EST) today.
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Re: problems mounting android htc

2011-01-15 Thread Aryeh Friedman
Forgot to include the list

On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 6:27 PM, Aryeh Friedman
aryeh.fried...@gmail.com wrote:
 Already tried based on several email threads found on the net but here
 is one last try:

 flosoft-stable# dd if=/dev/null of=/dev/da0 count=0
 dd: /dev/da0: Device not configured
 flosoft-stable# mount /dev/da0 /mnt
 mount: /dev/da0 : Device not configured


 On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 6:21 PM, George Liaskos geo.lias...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 11:30 PM, Aryeh Friedman
 aryeh.fried...@gmail.com wrote:
 I am attempting to make it so I can communicate with the linux on my
 Android HTC 0100 and when I insert it I get the following on the
 console:

 ugen5.2: HTC at usbus5
 umass0: HTC Android Phone, class 0/0, rev 1.02/1.00, addr 2 on usbus5
 umass0:  SCSI over Bulk-Only; quirks = 0x
 umass0:0:0:-1: Attached to scbus0
 (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): TEST UNIT READY. CDB: 0 0 0 0 0 0
 (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): CAM status: SCSI Status Error
 (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): SCSI status: Check Condition
 (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): SCSI sense: UNIT ATTENTION asc:29,0 (Power
 on, reset, or bus device reset occurred)
 (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): TEST UNIT READY. CDB: 0 0 0 0 0 0
 (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): CAM status: SCSI Status Error
 (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): SCSI status: Check Condition
 (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): SCSI sense: NOT READY asc:3a,0 (Medium not 
 present)
 da0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 scbus0 target 0 lun 0
 da0: HTC Android Phone 0100 Removable Direct Access SCSI-2 device
 da0: 40.000MB/s transfers
 da0: Attempt to query device size failed: NOT READY, Medium not present

 When I attempt to mount /dev/da0 I get device not configured:

 ~ aryeh@flosoft-stable% uname -a
 FreeBSD flosoft-stable.no-ip.biz 8.2-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 8.2-PRERELEASE
 #1: Sat Jan 15 06:33:34 EST 2011
 r...@flosoft-stable.no-ip.biz:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386

 I also tried on a -CURRENT partition that is uptodate through about
 noon (EST) today.

 Try

 # dd if=/dev/null of=/dev/da0 count=0

 and then mount da0s1


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Re: problems mounting android htc

2011-01-15 Thread Aryeh Friedman
No idea how but when I plug the USB in it says USB Debugging Connected

On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 6:48 PM, George Liaskos geo.lias...@gmail.com wrote:
 Already tried based on several email threads found on the net but here
 is one last try:

 flosoft-stable# dd if=/dev/null of=/dev/da0 count=0
 dd: /dev/da0: Device not configured
 flosoft-stable# mount /dev/da0 /mnt
 mount: /dev/da0 : Device not configured

 Have you switched the connection type from your phone to disk drive?
 I suspect that it's on charge only.

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Fwd: FreeBSD on Rackspace Could

2010-11-15 Thread Aryeh Friedman
For us it is mostly cost but the other advantage (with RS at least) is
you can size the hardware to fit your needs and not get any more
then you need... for example when we first started our consulting firm
back in July we bought 256MB of RAM (RS sizes the Disk, CPU,
Bandwidth, etc. as a multiple of RAM) and then moved to 512MB in Sept.
and except for the 10 mins it took for RS to transfer our server image
from a 1U VM to a 2U VM (1U = 256MB/RAM) the move was completely
painless and no time and effort was needed to update the OS, 3rd party
apps, our custom made code, etc

Like I said early the only downside of using RS as our primary server
provider (even though we use it for internal development only [but
since each of the 3 partners lives in a different part of the US it is
much cheaper and easier then having it in one of our houses because
none of our ISP's allow static IP's for non-business users which is
twice the cost almost])


-- Forwarded message --
From: Tom Worster f...@thefsb.org
Date: Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 9:34 AM
Subject: Re: FreeBSD on Rackspace Could
To: dalesc...@shaw.ca
Cc: FreeBSD freebsd-questions@freebsd.org


On 11/13/10 6:32 PM, dalesc...@shaw.ca dalesc...@shaw.ca wrote:

 but dedicated/vps does not offer what cloud computing does.

What do feel are the advantages of the cloud?

i haven't used one yet but, as far as i can tell, the interesting
differences derive from how the could platform implements network, storage
and compute elements in a distributed hardware system meshed up with a
mesh interconnect (presumably of the high-performance computing type).

the resulting advantages for me: the storage arrays are raid 10 and all
their responsibility not mine; shared file systems are part of the
platform so i don't need to mess around with nfs; load balancing (which i
currently can't afford) is part of the network platform; so is the address
juggling needed for high availability (failover and restoration); and the
price for each vm seems to allow me maybe 2 or 3x as many hosts as i get
with dedicated servers so i can separate the db servers from the rest of
the app and assign no more memory than i need to each vm.

in summary, it seems i can get the high-availability, load-sharing
architecture i want at a price that's beyond my budget with dedicated
hosts.

and it looks like there's a bunch of other nice aspects that aren't
radical but will be time savers: backups, standby images, simpler sysadmin
(there's a lot less to a cloud server slice than a whole computer),
monitoring, persistence.

does this begin to answer your question?


this weekend i tried out gentoo on a wee celeron box i have. (someone here
said gentoo was the linux most like freebsd and rackspace cloud offers
it). it's the first linux experience i've had in which i didn't feel like
a clumsy incompetent. the similarities and differences relative to freebsd
are interesting. maybe i'll write up my initial impressions.


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Re: FreeBSD on Rackspace Could

2010-11-15 Thread Aryeh Friedman
oops should of said the main disadvantage is it is not FreeBSD

On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 9:49 AM, Aryeh Friedman
aryeh.fried...@gmail.com wrote:
 For us it is mostly cost but the other advantage (with RS at least) is
 you can size the hardware to fit your needs and not get any more
 then you need... for example when we first started our consulting firm
 back in July we bought 256MB of RAM (RS sizes the Disk, CPU,
 Bandwidth, etc. as a multiple of RAM) and then moved to 512MB in Sept.
 and except for the 10 mins it took for RS to transfer our server image
 from a 1U VM to a 2U VM (1U = 256MB/RAM) the move was completely
 painless and no time and effort was needed to update the OS, 3rd party
 apps, our custom made code, etc

 Like I said early the only downside of using RS as our primary server
 provider (even though we use it for internal development only [but
 since each of the 3 partners lives in a different part of the US it is
 much cheaper and easier then having it in one of our houses because
 none of our ISP's allow static IP's for non-business users which is
 twice the cost almost])


 -- Forwarded message --
 From: Tom Worster f...@thefsb.org
 Date: Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 9:34 AM
 Subject: Re: FreeBSD on Rackspace Could
 To: dalesc...@shaw.ca
 Cc: FreeBSD freebsd-questions@freebsd.org


 On 11/13/10 6:32 PM, dalesc...@shaw.ca dalesc...@shaw.ca wrote:

 but dedicated/vps does not offer what cloud computing does.

What do feel are the advantages of the cloud?

 i haven't used one yet but, as far as i can tell, the interesting
 differences derive from how the could platform implements network, storage
 and compute elements in a distributed hardware system meshed up with a
 mesh interconnect (presumably of the high-performance computing type).

 the resulting advantages for me: the storage arrays are raid 10 and all
 their responsibility not mine; shared file systems are part of the
 platform so i don't need to mess around with nfs; load balancing (which i
 currently can't afford) is part of the network platform; so is the address
 juggling needed for high availability (failover and restoration); and the
 price for each vm seems to allow me maybe 2 or 3x as many hosts as i get
 with dedicated servers so i can separate the db servers from the rest of
 the app and assign no more memory than i need to each vm.

 in summary, it seems i can get the high-availability, load-sharing
 architecture i want at a price that's beyond my budget with dedicated
 hosts.

 and it looks like there's a bunch of other nice aspects that aren't
 radical but will be time savers: backups, standby images, simpler sysadmin
 (there's a lot less to a cloud server slice than a whole computer),
 monitoring, persistence.

 does this begin to answer your question?


 this weekend i tried out gentoo on a wee celeron box i have. (someone here
 said gentoo was the linux most like freebsd and rackspace cloud offers
 it). it's the first linux experience i've had in which i didn't feel like
 a clumsy incompetent. the similarities and differences relative to freebsd
 are interesting. maybe i'll write up my initial impressions.


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Re: FreeBSD on Rackspace Could

2010-11-13 Thread Aryeh Friedman
Also you can make an official vote for freebsd at
http://feedback.rackspacecloud.com/forums/71021-product-feedback and
then search for freebsd

On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 9:20 AM, Aryeh Friedman
aryeh.fried...@gmail.com wrote:
 Thats good news because currently we have a gentoo machine with them
 (the closest linux distro to FreeBSD in philosophy and implementation)
 and since i have been a big FB user for years I have already told them
 we would like to switch if they offered the option

 On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 11:43 AM, Tom Worster f...@thefsb.org wrote:
 I got a somewhat encouraging response from Rackspace when I asked if they
 were going to offer FreeBSD in addition to the 17 different Linuxes and 5
 different Windowses they offer.

 But ultimately their decision will depend on market interest.

 Here's the contact info if you want to voice your interest:

  http://www.rackspacecloud.com/aboutus/contact


 A Xen expert says you could order a Windows VM and overwrite it with 64
 bit FreeBSD and that will work but it's not the ideal solution.


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Re: FreeBSD on Rackspace Could

2010-11-13 Thread Aryeh Friedman
Thats good news because currently we have a gentoo machine with them
(the closest linux distro to FreeBSD in philosophy and implementation)
and since i have been a big FB user for years I have already told them
we would like to switch if they offered the option

On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 11:43 AM, Tom Worster f...@thefsb.org wrote:
 I got a somewhat encouraging response from Rackspace when I asked if they
 were going to offer FreeBSD in addition to the 17 different Linuxes and 5
 different Windowses they offer.

 But ultimately their decision will depend on market interest.

 Here's the contact info if you want to voice your interest:

  http://www.rackspacecloud.com/aboutus/contact


 A Xen expert says you could order a Windows VM and overwrite it with 64
 bit FreeBSD and that will work but it's not the ideal solution.


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how to recursively symlink every file in a dir

2010-09-09 Thread Aryeh Friedman
I want to make it so every file is a seperate symlink in dir2 if and
only if it is a regular file (not a dir) in dir1... the reason is if
the file is unchanged then use symlink but I can rm the symlink and
replace it with a non-symlink:

To show the problem I am attempting to solve:

foo: (owned by fred)
arf:
   ack

in barney's account:

ln -s ~foo/ foo
rm foo/arf/ack# Permissioin denied ... it should nuke the symlink
and let me then do something like touch foo/arf/ack

Note there are over 500 files upto 5 dirs deep in the dir I want to
symlink from the final application is our version control system
(devel/aegis) keeps seperate repos for different source code projects
(for obvious reasons) and we want to make it so in normal operation we
can symlink tne source tree from one project into an other but if we
want to make a local modificiation to the foreign source tree all we
have do is (sorry for the aegis commands but I think the idea is
clear):

rm src/foreign/foo.c
aenf src/foreign/foo.c
cp ~aegis/foreign/baselins/src/forgein.c
vi src/foreign/foo.c   # to make local modifications

And before someone suggests a ar library we purposely *DO NOT* want
the modified libs to be installed until later
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Re: how to recursively symlink every file in a dir

2010-09-09 Thread Aryeh Friedman
Should of mentioned that I was using C as an example we are in fact
using Java and the archives in question are jar's

On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 1:50 PM, Arthur Chance free...@qeng-ho.org wrote:
 On 09/09/10 18:24, Aryeh Friedman wrote:

 I want to make it so every file is a seperate symlink in dir2 if and
 only if it is a regular file (not a dir) in dir1... the reason is if
 the file is unchanged then use symlink but I can rm the symlink and
 replace it with a non-symlink:

 cpio -pdl


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Re: how to recursively symlink every file in a dir

2010-09-09 Thread Aryeh Friedman
After playing around here is what I came up with (cpio -l never did
the links right):

#!/bin/tcsh
foreach i ( `find ~aegis/fnre/baseline/src/ -type d | grep -v
src/build | cut -f6- -d'/'` )
mkdir $i
end

foreach i ( `find ~aegis/fnre/baseline/src/ -type f -name '*.java' |
grep -v src/build | cut -f6- -d'/'` )
ln -s ~aegis/fnre/baseline/$i $i
end


On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 2:13 PM, Joshua Isom jri...@gmail.com wrote:
 On 9/9/2010 12:24 PM, Aryeh Friedman wrote:

 I want to make it so every file is a seperate symlink in dir2 if and
 only if it is a regular file (not a dir) in dir1... the reason is if
 the file is unchanged then use symlink but I can rm the symlink and
 replace it with a non-symlink:

 To show the problem I am attempting to solve:

 foo: (owned by fred)
     arf:
        ack

 in barney's account:

 ln -s ~foo/ foo
 rm foo/arf/ack    # Permissioin denied ... it should nuke the symlink
 and let me then do something like touch foo/arf/ack

 This should give you at least a good start:

 find foo/ \( -type d -exec mkdir -p copy/'{}' \; \) -o \( -type f -exec ln
 -s '{}' copy/'{}' \; \)

 That'll copy directory foo into copy/foo and the rest is fine.  You'll have
 to tweak the rest as you need but it'll get you started.
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thunderbird replacement

2010-06-20 Thread Aryeh Friedman
I currently am using mail/thunderbird as my mail reader and it is just
doing the job very well (even with heavy use of filters) I use
xfce4 on 8.1-PRERELEASE (updated and portmaster -Rafd'ed about 3 weeks
ago) I am looking for a good replacement suggestions here are
the minimal features I need:

* Gmail support
* Filtering (either internal or via external tool)
* Multiple accounts (2)
* Ability to send via local sendmail (my ISP blocks incoming port 25
thats why I am using gmail)
* Handle over 1000 messages a day
* (optional) Plain text archives (unlike how Thunderbird does it)
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Re: Unit conversion program?

2010-04-29 Thread Aryeh Friedman
units(1)

On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 1:57 AM, Modulok modu...@gmail.com wrote:
 List,

 Is there a command-line program which does unit conversions between SI
 and other unit forms? Perhaps something similar to Google's feature?
 For example:

    ...@bar baz 41.5c to f
    106.7

    ...@bar baz 190lbs to kg
    86.1825503

 As well as for other associated units? I could write one in python
 pretty easily, but just thought I'd check before re-inventing the
 wheel.

 Thanks.
 -Modulok-
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/var/yp/securenets

2010-01-21 Thread Aryeh Friedman
Does the netmask in /var/yp/securenets have to match the one listed in
ifconfig if both machines are on the same subnet specifically we
get 5 static IP's from our ISP who also puts other customers in the
same subnet (the mask if 255.0.0.0) and if possible I want to make an
entry like this:

123.45.67.89255.255.255.254
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Re: example c program that does beep

2009-12-25 Thread Aryeh Friedman
printf(\007); /* assumes that your using a console/terminal that
will beep on ctl-g */

On Fri, Dec 25, 2009 at 1:58 PM, Anton Shterenlikht me...@bristol.ac.uk wrote:
 How can I get a beep from c?
 I looked at curses and syscons.c, but
 still not clear.
 Could somebody send me an example.
 I'd be soo grateful.

 many thanks
 anton

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OT: XML newbie

2009-12-10 Thread Aryeh Friedman
I am a relative XML newbie (i.e. our backend does spit out some XML I
wrote but it just slapped together with no knowledge of the
underlaying structure of XML)... Now I am going back and actually
learning XML... our main application is to insert XML directly into
XHTML documents and use either CSS or XSLT (don't know enough to pick
yet) to style them without resorting to javascript...

Now my question what is a good/reasonable set of command line tools
for working with/debugging/testing all this in such a way I do not
need to rely on the browser... specifically what types (and specific
ones if there is a preference) tools do I need and are there any
recommended procedures for dealing with XML from the command line
in the future we may want to also do Java parsing of XML but that
seems to be well handled already in the JDK (1.6) API thanks in
advance
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right CPUTYPE

2009-06-18 Thread Aryeh Friedman
What CPUTYPE should I put in /etc/make.conf for:

CPU: AMD Phenom(tm) II X4 955 Processor (3210.85-MHz 686-class CPU)
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Re: dummies version of dummies to setup printers in freebsd

2009-01-25 Thread Aryeh Friedman
This may or may not be suitable for your situation but this is how I
generally set printers up:

1. Install print/cups (yes the full wrapper port)
2. Edit your /etc/make.conf by adding a line that says no LPR
3. Add CUPS_ENABLE=YES to your /etc/rc.conf
4. Manually start cups (run cupsd as root)
5. Point your web browser to http://localhost:631
6. Click on adminstration--Add Printer
7. Enter what ever you want on the first screen
8. (This step will vary based on how your printer is connected... in
this case I assume it is networked like mine is)
   if your printer is a standard network printer CUPS should find it
automatically if it doesn't otherwise socket://[IP] where IP is the IP
of the printer (you will have to search the web perhaps for
non-network printers)
9. Enter the type of printer it is off the menu (cannon is not limited
so you will need to search for the right PPD file)
10. Click on add-printer
11. The user name and password is the user name and password for any
account on the machine (I have never tested anything but root or my
personal account)
12. Print a test page if everything has gone well proceed if not try
to figure out what you missed
13. Click on printers and set the new printer to be your default printer
14. Since by default the base system installs lpd when it is installed
you need to deinstall it the easiest way to do this as root do:
  rm /usr/bin/lp* /usr/sbin/lp*

15. If everything has gone well up to now try to print from the
command line with something like lpr /etc/passwd
16. If step 15 worked reboot and try to print again
17. (only if you have a desktop manager or other GUI stuff installed)
Make sure that all your commonly used GUI applications can print
18. Your done (well almost)
19. (optional) if you do a lot of command line printing you may want
to install a pritty print program like print/enscript-letter and alias
it to lpr in your .cshrc or the equiv
20. Now your done

On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 3:54 AM, Warren Liddell shin...@maydias.com wrote:
 i have a cannon pixma ip1000 and i have tried various ways to set it up so i
 can print using methods found through google, but so far nothing has had
 success, so id like to know if there is an idiots guide to the dummies version
 of trying to setup a printer to work cause im in desperate need of step by
 step instructions to get it goin.
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Re: wireless on a hp pavillion dv5000

2009-01-05 Thread Aryeh Friedman
Same card but no carrier... what did you do to see the carrier?

On 1/5/09, michael michael.copel...@gmail.com wrote:


 Glen Barber wrote:
 Aryeh M. Friedman wrote:
 I have installed the ndis stuff and it sees the mac address but when i
 push the power button on the wireless (build into the laptop) it does
 not power on the wireless card any ideas?

 Do you have 'ifconfig_ndis=your settings here' in rc.conf?  Are you
 sure by pressing that button you haven't turned the wireless card off?
 (In my experience with ndis0 and hotkeys, it doesn't work well.)

 You're not giving is much to work with here.
 When i was using the ndis interface on my dv2000 with broadcom4311 the
 wifi light never came on and the switch had no function. you could be
 experiencing the same situation. my wifi did however, work.

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keeping clocks synced on a dual boot machine

2008-08-25 Thread Aryeh Friedman
I have a dual boot machine and if I set the Vista clock to the local
time then no matter what I do on the fbsd side (via tzsetup) forces
fbsd to report local time instead of GMT and vice versa (if fbsd is
local then vista is GMT).   How can I get them to agree?
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Re: using sys/fusefs-ntfs as the home dir

2008-08-20 Thread Aryeh Friedman
 The solution would be very simple, but because you're insisting
 on having the D: partition formatted as NTFS, a problem occurs:
 As far as I know, FreeBSD's NTFS support is okay for reading, but
 not for writing. (I'm not 100% sure because I don't have any
 Windows stuff around to check.)

Actual sysutils/fusefs-ntfs (or ntfsprogs with less stable support)
allows you to read and write I am the unofficial (I am not sure
if Ale has put my name on the maintainer line of the make file with
his or not) fusefs-ntfs the only issue it has on the fb side is in
some cases (happens to me but Ale can't seem to reproduce so we are at
a lost of how to fix it) is any attempt to mount it from anywhere in
/etc/rc or with non-delayed option in fstab will fail (non-fatally and
repeating the attempt after your in full multiuser mode works just
fine)... I was asking about how to structure the dir's and from what
you described I don't think it solves the problem completely because
the Desktop dir/folder has two completely different means under both
OS's and besides many symlinks (most not documented anywhere) are
likelly needed so the purpose of the question was attempting to
automate this and/or minimize the number of symlinks (because to
windows the will not translate to shortcuts if I understand the guts
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Re: using sys/fusefs-ntfs as the home dir

2008-08-19 Thread Aryeh Friedman
On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 10:59 PM, Aryeh Friedman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 For the last couple of months I have stopped using a dual boot machine due to:

 1. Not having an activated copy of vista (fixed)
 2. Wine handling 90% of my common needs up to last week (NBC is
 broadcasting the olympics in a format wine can't handle and most of my
 games don't work [and the ones that do have no audio])

 thus I am going back to a dual boot setup with the following config (I hope):

 500 GB internal drive in 2 partions (min. for vista [c:] and the rest
 for fbsd [8-current])
 250 GB external (usb) that will be ntfs formated [d: for windows and
 /mnt/d on fbsd)

 My question how do I set it up so my windows user's dir is the same as
 my home dir on fbsd? (assume it will be on the ext. drive)?

 Secondary question which I know is answered at WineHQ so no need to
 answer unless there is a BSD specific issue is how do I make it so
 wine will treat the first partion of the 500 GB as ~/.wine/drive_c and
 the same for the external


Forgot one big qualifier to thue question... I want it so my firefox
and thunderbird folders are the same location on both OS's and that if
I dl mail/add a bookmark/etc that both OS's will handle it correctly
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using sys/fusefs-ntfs as the home dir

2008-08-19 Thread Aryeh Friedman
For the last couple of months I have stopped using a dual boot machine due to:

1. Not having an activated copy of vista (fixed)
2. Wine handling 90% of my common needs up to last week (NBC is
broadcasting the olympics in a format wine can't handle and most of my
games don't work [and the ones that do have no audio])

thus I am going back to a dual boot setup with the following config (I hope):

500 GB internal drive in 2 partions (min. for vista [c:] and the rest
for fbsd [8-current])
250 GB external (usb) that will be ntfs formated [d: for windows and
/mnt/d on fbsd)

My question how do I set it up so my windows user's dir is the same as
my home dir on fbsd? (assume it will be on the ext. drive)?

Secondary question which I know is answered at WineHQ so no need to
answer unless there is a BSD specific issue is how do I make it so
wine will treat the first partion of the 500 GB as ~/.wine/drive_c and
the same for the external
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Re: Pls help: regarding gdb internals

2008-01-16 Thread Aryeh Friedman
On Jan 16, 2008 4:24 PM, Arun Paneri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Thanks Aryeh  Chuck.
 Well, I am trying to solve issues related to GDB. Like, gdb prints wrong 
 values of few parameteres eg this pointer, when we give backtrace or 
 x/10x $ebp command in core of our company product.

It should be the first param (i.e. starts on byte 12 of the frame)...
$ebp points the next stack frame (i.e. where the next push will
happen) so to really understand you need to look 12 bytes  below
edp... For example I used the following loop to find what func a call
came from (since I  don't have the orginal code any more this is
psedo):

do
 ptr=(*edb) +4  // gives you the return addr for the current frame
while ptr!=desired frame addr

the edb+12 has be done with inline asm

when the loop is done ptr-4 is the start of the frame your intrested
in thus ptr-4+12 is the this param.

A small caution here doing this kind of in stack ptr math can lead to
some very bizzare bugs... for example the above loop combined with a
param ptr deref (i.e. treat the param of intrest as a ptr) lead to the
strangest bug I have seen in my 20 year career... essencially lets say
I had a loop to go through params to see which one of interest (I was
using this as a way of automating some aspects of a OO RDBMS), which
in my case was the first param of a ptr type whose value was -1 [the
db would then do some db magic and replace it with a ptr to a real
instance read from disk]... now that being said lets say a is the
offset of the current param and b is the offset of current param we
are testing such that:

while(bparam_cnt*4)
  if(a==b*b!=-1)
 do something

 b+=4

When we get to the case where the *NEXT* b would be a==b [i.e. the
value *AFTER* the next b+=4] the value of a would go completely
insane even attempts to avoid equality such as if(a-b) ...
produced the same result... to this day I have not the fuggiest idea
of what caused this and commonly refer to it as the time machine bug.

This plus the complete weirdness of the stabs format is what finally
convienced me to switch to Java as my prefered lang (has reflection
thus no need to dive into the debug symbols and everything inherits
from Object instead of null)


 I think it reads wrong value from symbol table or stack frame. So i am trying 
 to put a break point and see what exactly gdb reads for that perticuler frame 
 when it shows a wrong data. But dont know where exactly it reads data from 
 the symbol table or stack frame.

 If you have a specific idea regarding this pls give some more info.


 Regards.


 - Original Message 
 From: Chuck Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 To: Arun Paneri [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Cc: FreeBSD User [EMAIL PROTECTED]; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
 Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2008 2:56:36 PM
 Subject: Re: Pls help: regarding gdb internals

 On Jan 16, 2008, at 10:58 AM, Arun Paneri wrote:
  Can anyone write few lines about how does gdb internally works. I
  went to Gdb internals guide but couldn't find much information
  specifically which i am looking for.

 I'm not familiar with the document you mentioned, but the canonical
 documentation for GDB is available via info gdb.

  I want information like when we give command $gdb test.exe then
  how internaly it works. Does it start reading symbols and start
  making symbol table with this command?

 Binary objects such as executable programs, shared libraries, etc
 contain symbol tables; GDB does a quick load of this symbol data to
 identify all of the sources of symbols for the program, and then will
 look up the details when needed.

  Does it start creating stack frames as we give command run or
  before even that?

 The program being debugged does not exist as a process until you run
 it, so there isn't an address space or stack until then.  When the
 target program is run, it creates it's own stack frames according to
 the local architecture's machine calling conventions.

  I am basically interested to know about creation of frames and how
  does gdb read them back when we give backtrace command?

 Well, the calling conventions are different for every particular CPU
 architecture; but if you want to see the code that GDB uses, start with:

 /usr/src/contrib/gdb/gdb/frame-base.c
 /usr/src/contrib/gdb/gdb/frame-base.h
 /usr/src/contrib/gdb/gdb/frame-unwind.c
 /usr/src/contrib/gdb/gdb/frame-unwind.h
 /usr/src/contrib/gdb/gdb/frame.c
 /usr/src/contrib/gdb/gdb/frame.h

 ...but I suspect that something like these two articles are closer to
 what you are looking for:

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calling_convention
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86_calling_conventions

 --
 -Chuck


   
 

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Shrinking a partition

2008-01-15 Thread Aryeh Friedman
After installing FreeBSD and Vista (463 GB and 30 GB respectivally) I
found out I don't have enough free space on my 500 GB drive on the
vista partition.   How do I determine how much I can shrink the
FreeBSD partition by safely (by just moving the end sector in
fdisk(1))?
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OT: fixing a broken key

2008-01-04 Thread Aryeh Friedman
After cleaning my keyboard by removing the keys and using a damp paper
towel to clean the keys and the area between contacts (there is a
barrier between the area under the keys and the contact so it is very
unlikely the contacts got wet) my r key now registers as being
constantly pressed any ideas on how to correct this?
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Re: Finally, Flash seems to be working for Me :)

2008-01-03 Thread Aryeh Friedman
On 1/4/08, Xn Nooby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Why not just use gnash to watch youtube videos?  It works fine for me,
 with my user account.

 However, if I use Firefox+gnash as root, it makes my system unstable,
 I lose /dev/null, and the system gets weird.  I guess gnash will kill
 your system if you run it as root.

Every flash or flash-like thing I have tried except linux-flashplugin7
blows up on google ananyltics (my primary use for flash) but if
someone can tell me how to do this and use more modern flash pages
also I would be intrested (btw as far I can tell firefox defaults to
the most recently installed flash plugin)


 On Jan 3, 2008 8:23 PM, Rudy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
  I forgot to mention, my post is for FreeBSD 7... here is my uname:
  FreeBSD 7.0-PRERELEASE #2: Thu Jan  3 15:59:14 PST 2008
 
 
 
  Rudy
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Re: Finally, Flash seems to be working for Me :)

2008-01-03 Thread Aryeh Friedman
On 1/4/08, Robert Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Rudy writes:

   I do do more than watch youtube videos, but people send me links
   and I'm always bummed if I have to reboot into Ubuntu just to see
   a stupid video  :)

   What you need is www/youtube-dl.  Deposits the content in a
 form that can be played by mplayer (and presuably others).


I forget the exact name of it (away from my desktop machine) but there
is an extension for firefox that wraps all video plugins to use an
external player like mplayer
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Re: How to patch the kernel?

2008-01-03 Thread Aryeh Friedman
On 1/4/08, RW [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 On Thu, 3 Jan 2008 19:53:18 -0500
 Lyle Scott III [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

  I don't have much experience patching anything, really.
 
  I was told by the port security/ipsec-tools to patch the kernel if i
  wanted to use nat-transversals.
 
  they provide me with
  http://vanhu.free.fr/FreeBSD/patch-natt-freebsd6-2007-05-31.diff, but
  I am now sure how to patch up the kernel so I can do a buildworld.
 
  Any help would be much appreciated.  I took a quick read over the
  patch manpage, but simply 'patch  file' in /usr/src askes me what
  file to patch...

 Try /usr/src/sys/ instead, that's where the kernel source is.

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Keep in mind the next time you do a cvsup it will nuke the patch so
you will have to reapply it... now if you do this often enough you
might want to consider keeping a local cvs repository that way when
you update your sources it will not overwrite the patch... see
develop(8) for some ideas on how to set this up (even though the
source tree layout they suggest is a little weird you just better off
doing cvs -d /home/ncvs update in /usr/src)
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looking for ideas: creating a data partition for a dual boot system

2007-12-11 Thread Aryeh Friedman
I have both vista and freebsd 8-current installed on the same drive
and also have allocated the rest of the disk to be a fat32 partition.
 I know I should put any data I want to be passed between the two on
the fat32 partition.   Now the question is how to lay it out so that:

1. The home dir for my account of FreeBSD = Vista account's root dir
2. Share the same Desktop folder (I think if #1 is solved this is automatic)
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smart_host on sendmail min config

2007-12-10 Thread Aryeh Friedman
What else do I need to add to this to make it work (i.e. send all mail
via mx1.optonline.net):

OSTYPE(`freebsd6')dnl
define(`SMART_HOST', `mx2.optonline.net')dnl

btw shouldn't there be a frebsd7 or freebsd8 OSTYPE? (I run -current)
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loading modules not in /boot/kernel from loader.conf

2007-12-10 Thread Aryeh Friedman
I have had bad experiences with loading modules anywhere except
/boot/loader.conf and even so there is some hacking in the rc to make
it work fine for example:

(sleep 5;ntfs-3g ) is the last line in the rc



 Remember that this is the loader which will be loading the
 module, so if /usr is a separate partition then this will not work as
 /usr doesn't get mounted until much, much later in the boot process...

 Alternatively, if you're using your own home-brew rc script, why not
 just add a kldload fuse into it?

 --Antony

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Upper limit on make -j ?

2007-11-27 Thread Aryeh Friedman
Before I file a PR I just want to know if it is worth it to file a PR for:

make -j1000 buildworld buildkernel installkernel
seg faulting
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Re: In the spirit of Godwin's law - I propose Beastie's law

2007-11-27 Thread Aryeh Friedman

 A typical TV set service is not really supported by FreeBSD
 neither... or FreeBSD is not supported by TV set service, or
 something!!


Talk about being a little literal I don't own a TV and watch
everything I care about thanks to the networks sites, bit torrent and
miro (hopefully will be officially added after the ports freeze is
over)
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urgent: undoing a cvsup update

2007-11-27 Thread Aryeh Friedman
I just cvsuped the latest sources and they break many programs named
and most X11-apps comes to mind immediately

Well how do I backout of the this keep in miond I use cvs-supfile
to populate a local repo and did a rm -rf /usr/obj /usr/src thinking
that might clear stuff up but it didn't

As far I can tell I can track the main issue to the new malloc stuff

All programs that are borken just hang immediatlely after invocation
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getting rid of xconsole on xdm

2007-11-24 Thread Aryeh Friedman
I am in the middle of setting up a new machine and want to get rid of
the ^*(*%*@ xconsole on xdm (it doesn't go away on login
either)... how?
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Re: +bfe0: watchdog timeout -- resetting

2007-11-23 Thread Aryeh Friedman
On 11/23/07, Michael Hawkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 I have been receiving the same error message from my NAS box as of late.

 Until last week, I was been running Freebsd6.2, and I occassionally
 received the message re0: watchdog timeout.  It would happen about
 once a week.  Last week, I installed freenas (which is based on
 freebsd6.2), and now I receive the same error with more regularity.
 My NIC is a Netgear 3a11.

 I seem to be getting the error message most when attempting to
 transfer a large number of files onto the server.

 Any help would be welcome.  Thanks,


1. 6.2 is not very friendlyt towards re(4) consider 6.2 or 7

2. While still using 6.2 do the following right after a reboot:
ifconfig re0 -txcsum -rxcsum
This tells the OS not the hardware to do the checksum on packets.
Also you should do a search for re(4) problems in -current to get a
better understanding of the issue.
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Re: need an explanation of make serarch output

2007-11-11 Thread Aryeh Friedman
Sorry beinf rude but I wonder if either of the responders took there
own advice and RTFM'ed (where M=mail)

What I mean is I was *NOT* asking how to get the deps list... I was
asking that for example make search key=jdk16 display=bdeps will
display multiple bdeps lines which one contains the correct deps
list (if any) or do I need to combine them to get a complete list?
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Re: OT: Beastie 3D-rendered

2007-11-11 Thread Aryeh Friedman
On Nov 11, 2007 3:55 PM, Tino Engel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Look what happened to Beastie:

 http://www.tilolit.de/images/tb/wallpapers/teufel.jpg

Nice Can you produce an icon size one (or a powered by size one)?
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Re: About Freebsd 7.0 versus 6.3

2007-11-08 Thread Aryeh Friedman
On Nov 8, 2007 11:55 AM, Expresso Digital ISP [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Hi, my name is Cesar.

 I'd like to know what is the diference between 7.0 and 6.3 and why create a
 newest version and after old version.

6.X is the last of versions meant primarilly for single processing
machines (with some after thought payed to multiprocessing).

7.X is the beginning of the versions specifically designed with
multiprocessing/cores in mind

Under the hood many things have been changed improved in 7 the
offical recommendation is 6.3 is for people who can *NOT* upgrade to 7
for whatever reason and everyone else should use 7... note as far most
people can tell there is no easy way to upgrade to 7 if you have 6
installed so you should start with 7
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Re: memory pool, rfc

2007-10-31 Thread Aryeh Friedman
On 11/1/07, Eduardo Morras [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 At 00:38 01/11/2007, you wrote:
 Ouch! ...you are not trying to sell anything are you? It may be in
 your best interest if you proceed to the hackers list, to initiate
 conversation in a way that explains how your code will benefit a
 cause, not slam other people (and their work) that are already
 established!
 
 Steve

 No, i don't want to sell anything to anyone. I'm already on hackers
 list but has very low traffic (9 messages last 5 days) and this is a
 question list no ? ;-) I think that in this list are FreeBSD
 *gurus*/hacks too which could say a try it or a are you crazy?


Even though you might get a little critized for being slightly off
topic (at least until you add your code) try -current
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strangeness with enigmail and thunuderbird

2007-10-31 Thread Aryeh Friedman
Installing the port for enigmail-thunderbird and manually installing
the plugin into my personal thunderbird profile (as per instructions
in the port's pkg-message) and manually configuring it to use
/usr/local/gpg (couldn't find it automatically) it spins forever (i.e.
the task never completes)  in retrieving my keys (which I have
none)... how do I fix this?
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csup broken on -currnet amd64?

2007-10-31 Thread Aryeh Friedman
monster# uname -a
FreeBSD monster 8.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT #0: Tue Oct 30
18:07:21 UTC 2007 root@:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  amd64

monster# csup -h cvsup8.us.freebsd.org /usr/share/examples/cvsup/ports-supfile
Connected to 216.165.129.134
Updating collection ports-all/cvs
 Checkout ports/UPDATING
Receiver: Connection reset by peer
Will retry at 23:04:37

monster# csup -h cvsup9.us.freebsd.org /usr/share/examples/cvsup/ports-supfile
Connected to 128.205.32.21
Updating collection ports-all/cvs
 Edit ports/UPDATING^M
Receiver: Connection reset by peer
Will retry at 23:05:17
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Re: csup broken on -currnet amd64?

2007-10-31 Thread Aryeh Friedman
On 11/1/07, Steve Kargl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 03:06:54AM +, Aryeh Friedman wrote:
  monster# uname -a
  FreeBSD monster 8.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT #0: Tue Oct 30
  18:07:21 UTC 2007 root@:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  amd64
 
  monster# csup -h cvsup8.us.freebsd.org 
  /usr/share/examples/cvsup/ports-supfile
  Connected to 216.165.129.134
  Updating collection ports-all/cvs
   Checkout ports/UPDATING
  Receiver: Connection reset by peer
  Will retry at 23:04:37
 
  monster# csup -h cvsup9.us.freebsd.org 
  /usr/share/examples/cvsup/ports-supfile
  Connected to 128.205.32.21
  Updating collection ports-all/cvs
   Edit ports/UPDATING^M
  Receiver: Connection reset by peer
  Will retry at 23:05:17

 Works for me. csup built from source less than 18 hours old.

My versions are roughly that old
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Re: best way to update ports

2007-10-11 Thread Aryeh Friedman
 yeah, in that situation nfs mount will be easy.

 My servers are in different cities, and the ports are installed with
 different options on different servers, for example, some postfix use unix
 login accounts, some postfix use courier authentication with mysql database.
  So unfortunately I can't share the same ports among them.

In a simelar situation I did this by setting up a centeral cvsup
mirror (allows you to maintain patches between cvsupdates [i.e. if the
file does not differ rcs stamp will not clobber it]).  So you always
have the most upto date to build against.  I am not sure on how to
handle the manual security patches on there first application but once
applied until the effect files are updated you will not have to
reapply the patches.
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Re: rebranding a i386 binary to be a amd64 binary

2007-10-11 Thread Aryeh Friedman
On 10/11/07, Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Aryeh Friedman wrote:
  Even though I know this is asking for it I want to test the new nVidia
  driver on amd64 and the only issue with a hand compile (from nVidia's
  tar not the ports one) is src/nv-kernel.o is branded elf-i386-32 and
  amd64 wants it branded elf-amd64-64.  This file comes from them as a
  precompiled object so rebranding seems to be my only option.
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 Uh it really is an i386 binary, rebranding won't magically change all
 the code.

All I want to do is make it compile so I can test it (like I said I
know it is inherently dangerous)
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Re: rebranding a i386 binary to be a amd64 binary

2007-10-11 Thread Aryeh Friedman

 There are several kernel features that need to be implemented before an
 amd64 nVidia driver will work - see
 http://wiki.freebsd.org/NvidiaFeatureRequests for more info.   nVidia do
 want to create an amd64 driver, but they need the kernel work to be done
 first.

I just sent nVidia an offer to do the kernel work
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Re: How to create a user account with the same permission as root ?

2007-10-11 Thread Aryeh Friedman
On 10/11/07, williamkow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Finally, I manage to setup X.org and then KDE 3.5.4 running on FreeBSD
 6.2-Release.
 I created a user account named william and do not assign any group as
 I do not know what are the list of group name for me to select. To start
 KDE, i use command kdm but I can only logon using the newly created
 user name william, but it do not have same permission/access rights as
 root account.
 Please show on how to enable this user account, with the same permission
 as root ?

run vipw from the command line and edit the entry's uid and gid (the
3rd and 4th fields) editing the password file directly is
inherently so you should read all the related documentation and such
(including the format and meaning of each field)
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Re: can not load KDE in FreeBSD 6.2

2007-10-11 Thread Aryeh Friedman
On 10/11/07, williamkow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 After configuring to run X.org, and I manage to have KDE by running
 command kdm.
 Then I do some changes related to display, example :
 a)  1024x768 to 800x600
 b)  fonts size for menu, wallpaper ...etc
 but then after the computer have shutdown and restart and when I run the
 kdm command, and I unable to load KDE screen anymore, and it show the
 below error message, please advise what should I do to enabling the KDE.

 # kdm
 Updating KDM configuration
 Information: reading current kdmrc /usr/local/share/config/kdm/kdmrc
 (from kde = 2.2.x)
 Information: current kdmrc is from kde =3.1 (config version 2.3)
 # Oct 11 20:15:37 kdm-bin:  :[692]:  IO Error in XOpenDisplay
 Oct 11 20:15:37  kdm-bin[689]: Display  :0 cannot be openned
 Oct 11 20:15:37  kdm-bin[689]: Unable to fire up local display :0;
 disabling.

You have to run it from .xinitrc or use a login manager.
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Re: How to create a user account with the same permission as root ?

2007-10-11 Thread Aryeh Friedman
After seeing some of his other questions he should get a book on basic
sysadmin also.
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Re: How to create a user account with the same permission as root ?

2007-10-11 Thread Aryeh Friedman
 In my case, william is better than root. I can never login to my GNOME
 desktop through GDM by root. A root account is absolutely useless to me.


I use gnome and there is not a single thing I can not do with a root
account that I can't with one.

If you mean opening GUI apps try adding the following (I am assuming
your using tcsh... if your using something else look up how to do
this):

in ~/.cshrc add:

xhost +

in /root/.cshr add:

setenv DISPLAY :0

When you su *ALWAYS* use the following syntax:

su -

*DO NOT* include any cmd arguement.  Once your root you should be able
to start any GUI based app from the command line... if you don't know
what the command line is left click on the menu/icon and go to
properties... if it requires arguements look it up in the man page or
the GNOME help for it.
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Re: How to create a user account with the same permission as root ?

2007-10-11 Thread Aryeh Friedman
On 10/11/07, Aryeh Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  In my case, william is better than root. I can never login to my GNOME
  desktop through GDM by root. A root account is absolutely useless to me.


 I use gnome and there is not a single thing I can not do with a root
 account that I can't with one.

this also works for other accounts for example I am a one person
company and thus have to maintain the software I sell as well as the
web site for it.   for this reason I keep two accounts one for
development and one for the web page and I su to them (yes I do GUI
developement).
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NVidia 100.14.19 for FreeBSD i386 released

2007-10-10 Thread Aryeh Friedman
Not on amd64 but no nvidia kernel module ever has

On 10/10/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Hi,

 see: http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=100077

 is it working for anybody?

 regards,

 usleep
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rebranding a i386 binary to be a amd64 binary

2007-10-10 Thread Aryeh Friedman
Even though I know this is asking for it I want to test the new nVidia
driver on amd64 and the only issue with a hand compile (from nVidia's
tar not the ports one) is src/nv-kernel.o is branded elf-i386-32 and
amd64 wants it branded elf-amd64-64.  This file comes from them as a
precompiled object so rebranding seems to be my only option.
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Re: best way to update ports

2007-10-10 Thread Aryeh Friedman
On 10/11/07, Bill Stwalley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Hi,

 I need your advice on how to update security patches for ports on a dozen
 servers with minimal efforts.

If the servers are homogenious why not have a single /usr/local and
nfs mount it?
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setting up a cvsup mirror

2007-10-09 Thread Aryeh Friedman
I want to setup a local cvsup mirror on my local machine (someone told
me if you do it right you don't need to hand apply uncommitted
patches) what do I need to do this?
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Re: wyswyg editors for tex (was re: replacement for openoffice)

2007-10-09 Thread Aryeh Friedman
 If you know neither and want to learn one well, choose TeX.  That is
 what is used more commonly.  There's nothing wrong with troff, and the
 support is still quite good, but all the major journals, for example,
 accept TeX code but not troff.  It is still a good idea to know enough
 troff to do man pages, though.

I think the only place *roff is still is used is for man pages.
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getting better then 1024x768 on xorg 7.3 w/ nv

2007-10-09 Thread Aryeh Friedman
Is there anyway using the NV (not kernel mod) to get better then 1024x768?
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Re: Which java binary to use?

2007-10-07 Thread Aryeh Friedman
On 10/7/07, Stephen Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 I installed the Diablo java packages
 (http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/downloads/java.shtml), but which
 java shows /usr/local/bin/java which is a link to javavm in the same
 directory.

 I wondered about changing the link to point to one of these:

   /usr/local/diablo-jre1.5.0/bin/java
   /usr/local/diablo-jdk1.5.0/bin/java
   /usr/local/diablo-jdk1.5.0/jre/bin/java

 Should I change the link, and which one of these should it point to...
 the JRE?

No because javavm will automatically detect the most appropriate
one... also all three above are linked to
/usr/local/diablo-jre1.5.0/bin/java I think... now a side issue is
under some configurations diablo doesn't work for any gui app (non-www
based) so you may want to update to jdk-16 or linux-sun-jdk16
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wyswyg editors for tex (was re: replacement for open office)

2007-10-07 Thread Aryeh Friedman
I finally got around to compiling abiword and I get the following when
I try to run it:

 abiword
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

 uname -a
FreeBSD monsert 7.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT #1: Sun Oct  7
20:47:51 UTC 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/MONSTER  amd64

I don't want to bother with attempting to figure out why it broke.
My question is since it looks like I am stuck with Tex is there any
wyswyg editors for it?
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Re: wyswyg editors for tex (was re: replacement for open office)

2007-10-07 Thread Aryeh Friedman
 Yes there is wyswyg editor for TeX. Look among ports. I do not use one
 like most long time TeX users as it is useless. Every time you compile

lyx and I like it so far.

 You sound like using TeX is a bad thing and so difficult. It is not my
 11 year old nice uses for her homeworks.

From what little experience I have with PS and *roff the idea of
hacking inline embedded languages just for typesetting sounds stupid
beyond belief now that being said since I do need to do the
following (I run a small software vendor that also does some basic CS
research):

 * Business communications
 * Technical writing (manuals)
 * Scientific writing

and since all the more traditional (sorry I do not think of any
inline text language as being traditional) word processing crash on
my machine (for programming I am very comfortable with nvi and have
never seen the need for anything else) that leaves stuff like the
embedded text langs, but for most stuff I don't want to have to write
a program (aka source code) for a Dear Customer, Your trial period
is over type letter (talk about over kill)... but if I use VI it
looks like crap so some type setting is needed
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Re: C++ Compiler On FreeBSD

2007-10-06 Thread Aryeh Friedman
 PHP isn't really a programming language. It's more a fancy templating
 system that happens to be able to use extensions that can provide C
 style linkage. That said, I laude you for your desire to learn a real
 programming language, and agree with the recommendation that you start
 with something a bit higher level. Perl, for example, ships with
 absolutely top-notch documentation, and generally speaking, its
 third-party extensions have similar documentation quality.

Ruby is *VERY* easy to learn and there are many online and offline
books for teaching it (or depending on your personal ideals on
bittorrent)... it has one advantage over perl it much less
syntactically ugly
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Re: Abit Motherboard

2007-10-05 Thread Aryeh Friedman
On 10/5/07, Doug Hardie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 I am planning for replacing one of my servers.  I want to upgrade to
 at least a dual-core machine.  I found the Abit IP 35 Pro motherboard
 at Frys which looks like it has most everything I need.  However, I
 don't find any discussions about that particular board in the
 archives or Google.  Has anyone used that board and does it work well
 with FreeBSD 6? Thanks.

P35 in general has caused problems
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good replacement for open office

2007-10-04 Thread Aryeh Friedman
Open office does not compile on 7-current amd64 what would be a good
replacement(s) for most of it's functionality (word processing and
spreadsheets are what matter to me)
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Re: good replacement for open office

2007-10-04 Thread Aryeh Friedman
since when... tried it last week and nothing

On 10/4/07, Boris Samorodov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 On Thu, 4 Oct 2007 20:39:39 + Aryeh Friedman wrote:

  Open office does not compile on 7-current amd64 what would be a good

 editors/openoffice.org-2 does compile at 7-current amd64.

  replacement(s) for most of it's functionality (word processing and
  spreadsheets are what matter to me)


 WBR
 --
 bsam

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Re: good replacement for open office

2007-10-04 Thread Aryeh Friedman
On 10/4/07, Boris Samorodov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Please, don't top-post.

 On Thu, 4 Oct 2007 21:00:03 + Aryeh Friedman wrote:
  On 10/4/07, Boris Samorodov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
   On Thu, 4 Oct 2007 20:39:39 + Aryeh Friedman wrote:
  
Open office does not compile on 7-current amd64 what would be a good
  
   editors/openoffice.org-2 does compile at 7-current amd64.
  
replacement(s) for most of it's functionality (word processing and
spreadsheets are what matter to me)lib:
[javac] Compiling 40 source files to
/usr/ports/editors/openoffice.org-2/work/OOG680_m5/hsqldb/unxfbsdx.pro/misc/build/hsqldb/classes
[javac] 
/usr/ports/editors/openoffice.org-2/work/OOG680_m5/hsqldb/unxfbsdx.pro/misc/build/hsqldb/src/org/hsqldb/jdbc/jdbcConnection.java:403:
org.hsqldb.jdbc.jdbcConnection is not abstract and does not override
abstract method createStruct(java.lang.String,java.lang.Object[]) in
java.sql.Connection
[javac] public class jdbcConnection implements Connection {
[javac]^
[javac] 
/usr/ports/editors/openoffice.org-2/work/OOG680_m5/hsqldb/unxfbsdx.pro/misc/build/hsqldb/src/org/hsqldb/jdbc/jdbcResultSet.java:325:
org.hsqldb.jdbc.jdbcResultSet is not abstract and does not override
abstract method updateNClob(java.lang.String,java.io.Reader) in
java.sql.ResultSet
[javac] public class jdbcResultSet implements ResultSet {
[javac]^
[javac] 
/usr/ports/editors/openoffice.org-2/work/OOG680_m5/hsqldb/unxfbsdx.pro/misc/build/hsqldb/src/org/hsqldb/jdbc/jdbcStatement.java:127:
org.hsqldb.jdbc.jdbcStatement is not abstract and does not override
abstract method isPoolable() in java.sql.Statement
[javac] public class jdbcStatement implements Statement {
[javac]^
[javac] 
/usr/ports/editors/openoffice.org-2/work/OOG680_m5/hsqldb/unxfbsdx.pro/misc/build/hsqldb/src/org/hsqldb/jdbc/jdbcStatement.java:1534:
isClosed() in org.hsqldb.jdbc.jdbcStatement cannot implement
isClosed() in java.sql.Statement; attempting to assign weaker access
privileges; was public
[javac] synchronized boolean isClosed() {
[javac]  ^
[javac] 
/usr/ports/editors/openoffice.org-2/work/OOG680_m5/hsqldb/unxfbsdx.pro/misc/build/hsqldb/src/org/hsqldb/jdbc/jdbcPreparedStatement.java:203:
org.hsqldb.jdbc.jdbcPreparedStatement is not abstract and does not
override abstract method setNClob(int,java.io.Reader) in
java.sql.PreparedStatement
[javac] public class jdbcPreparedStatement extends jdbcStatement
[javac]^
[javac] 
/usr/ports/editors/openoffice.org-2/work/OOG680_m5/hsqldb/unxfbsdx.pro/misc/build/hsqldb/src/org/hsqldb/jdbc/jdbcResultSetMetaData.java:94:
org.hsqldb.jdbc.jdbcResultSetMetaData is not abstract and does not
override abstract method isWrapperFor(java.lang.Class?) in
java.sql.Wrapper
[javac] public class jdbcResultSetMetaData implements ResultSetMetaData {
[javac]^
[javac] 
/usr/ports/editors/openoffice.org-2/work/OOG680_m5/hsqldb/unxfbsdx.pro/misc/build/hsqldb/src/org/hsqldb/jdbc/jdbcCallableStatement.java:295:
org.hsqldb.jdbc.jdbcCallableStatement is not abstract and does not
override abstract method setNClob(java.lang.String,java.io.Reader) in
java.sql.CallableStatement
[javac] public class jdbcCallableStatement extends jdbcPreparedStatement
[javac]^
[javac] 
/usr/ports/editors/openoffice.org-2/work/OOG680_m5/hsqldb/unxfbsdx.pro/misc/build/hsqldb/src/org/hsqldb/jdbc/jdbcDatabaseMetaData.java:279:
org.hsqldb.jdbc.jdbcDatabaseMetaData is not abstract and does not
override abstract method
getFunctionColumns(java.lang.String,java.lang.String,java.lang.String,java.lang.String)
in java.sql.DatabaseMetaData
[javac] public class jdbcDatabaseMetaData implements DatabaseMetaData {
[javac]^
[javac] 
/usr/ports/editors/openoffice.org-2/work/OOG680_m5/hsqldb/unxfbsdx.pro/misc/build/hsqldb/src/org/hsqldb/jdbc/jdbcBlob.java:78:
org.hsqldb.jdbc.jdbcBlob is not abstract and does not override
abstract method getBinaryStream(long,long) in java.sql.Blob
[javac] public class jdbcBlob implements Blob {
[javac]^
[javac] 
/usr/ports/editors/openoffice.org-2/work/OOG680_m5/hsqldb/unxfbsdx.pro/misc/build/hsqldb/src/org/hsqldb/jdbc/jdbcClob.java:81:
org.hsqldb.jdbc.jdbcClob is not abstract and does not override
abstract method getCharacterStream(long,long) in java.sql.Clob
[javac] public final class jdbcClob implements Clob {
[javac]  ^
[javac] 
/usr/ports/editors/openoffice.org-2/work/OOG680_m5/hsqldb/unxfbsdx.pro/misc/build/hsqldb/src/org/hsqldb/jdbc/jdbcParameterMetaData.java:54:
org.hsqldb.jdbc.jdbcParameterMetaData is not abstract and does not
override abstract method isWrapperFor(java.lang.Class?) in
java.sql.Wrapper
[javac] public class jdbcParameterMetaData implements ParameterMetaData {
[javac]^
[javac] Note: Some input files use unchecked or unsafe operations.
[javac] Note: Recompile

Re: good replacement for open office

2007-10-04 Thread Aryeh Friedman
On 10/5/07, RW [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 On Thu, 4 Oct 2007 20:00:10 -0400
 Philip M. Gollucci [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

  NetOpsCenter wrote:
   I have a working Open office on a FreeBSD 4.11 box here that I use
   when all else fails.
   Is there a way to copy that and have it work on 7 CURRENT?
  no -- huge library mismatches


 Why? Isn't that what misc/compat6x is for?

Not all the way from 4.x I think though
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Re: good replacement for open office

2007-10-04 Thread Aryeh Friedman
On 10/5/07, Frank Jahnke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  what would be a good replacement(s) for most of it's functionality
  (word processing and spreadsheets are what matter to me)

 You really have to decide what you want to suite to do.  Otherwise, your
 problem is underspecified.

 1) Collaboration (complex).  If you collaborate with colleagues who use
 Word (for example) then practically you have to use Word if you deal
 with complex documents.  By collaborate I mean exchanging documents
 back and forth, with edits in each pass.  Mine are always heavy in
 equations and chemistry.

Read/write .doc, pdf and rtf mainly

 2) Document creation.  If you only want to create documents, and Office
 compatibility is not that important, then there are many options:
 Abiword/Gnumeric are quite good if you want WYSIWYG (but do install all
 the extensions), the formatters TeX and groff are exceptionally powerful
 if you learn them well.  Abiword does not read Word files well; Gnumeric
 has many short-comings in reading Excel (particularly for graphics) but
 is very good otherwise.  Personally I use the groff family for all my
 complex documents, but I have used it for 25 years and know it inside
 and out.  (Well, it was troff and friends long ago.)

WYSIWYG editing for the above including embedded graphics and equations

I also want to keep the learn curve as small as possible (I know
enough troff to be dangerous)
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Re: how to play online TV program

2007-10-04 Thread Aryeh Friedman
 - multimedia data file bears the (asf/asx) file extensions ;
 - streaming formats using in CityTV:
 Video : Microsoft Mpeg- 4 codec V2 [320 x 240, 25fps]
 Audio : Mpeg Layer-3 (16KB/s, 11kHz, mono)

VLC can handle this
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