Re: ad10: WARNING - READ_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=11441599
On 平成 17/08/10, at 7:36, O. Hartmann wrote: [...] When is SCSI back for desktops? I vote for that. In my opinion, ATA is primarily for home media systems, if that. Joel Rees [EMAIL PROTECTED] digitcom, inc. 株式会社デジコム Kobe, Japan +81-78-672-8800 ** http://www.ddcom.co.jp ** ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OPEN SOURCE MASTERPLANS
Fafa Hafiz, Pardon the top post, but master plans are for totalitarian governments and bureaucracies. Their sole purpose is to assist in perpetuating established institutions. (No institution is going to plan it's own demise. Oh, and how well they serve their purpose is a subject of some debate.) Maybe what you should be asking for is examples of business plans, although those are all too often used by the powers that be to keep small businesses from growing and threatening the status quo. Informal operating policies and such might also be of interest. On 2005.5.4, at 01:05 AM, Fafa Hafiz Krantz wrote: Timo, please stop posting this! Get your weak wood out of my wheels! I fight poverty to avoid ending up like you. I work for poor people through UNDP. one more proof that there i) are wrong people in the wrong places and ii) much money is being wasted. There are good people in the UNDP. it's not the lame presentation of even lamer masterplans that makes hundreds of thousands of people in the 3rd world die of hunger and deseases every month, no, it's that fucking capitalism! Masterplans don't kill people! Masterplans help them survive! you are in one of many key positions to change this. do something! and please stop driveling! Stop trolling. -- Joel Rees Getting involved in the neighbor's family squabbles is dangerous. But if the abusive partner has a habit of shooting through his/her roof, the guy who lives upstairs is in a bit of a catch-22. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: RFC: Free Software Hardware Compatibility - Centralised DB
(Apologies in advance --) On 2004.6.11, at 06:31 AM, Zenaan Harkness wrote: PLEASE NOTE: * Please do not reply-all Sorry, when you break the rules, the rules are broken. However, ... ASSUMPTION: ... We assume that it is in the best interests of each Free Software Unix-like operating system distribution, each kernel (eg. Linux, *BSD, HURD) and in the best interests of the end users, to have a centralised/ unified location for hardware information. ... I'm not sure that centralization is a valid assumption in the open source community. Getting hardware is only half the battle. I think that what the members of the open source community would prefer is that individuals and companies who have hardware to donate would be aware of (1) what projects they want or need to support and (2) where the hardware they have to donate can best be used. (It's a free market, we just use a different currency, so to speak.) That said, I suspect that, if a company or individual has hardware to donate and is not sure where it should go, a broadcast troll like this might actually be appropriate. (Which is why I'm even further breaking protocol here.) -- Joel Rees Opinions are like armpits. We all have two, and they all smell, but we really don't want the other guy to get rid of his. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Is FreeBSD up to this job?
I'm thinking the CD changer would just overly complicate things. Oh, but there's something so _satisfying_ about watching the CD changer in motion. (I'm not kidding. That's why jukeboxes have a glass front.) Maybe you could simulate the changer with computer graphics? Right now, I feel 500GB of RAID 5 SATA storage will probably provide enough space plus plenty of room to grow. You can always swap the computing hardware out. Start small. Use CDs (and DVDs) for now to avoid additional copyright problems. but with things like this I tend to just do it and wait for a CD letter to appear. With the creative industries current focus, you're just begging for a CD letter if you do that. They're liable to raise a fuss about the public performance issues even if you have the CDs and DVDs themselves ready to show the thought police. (You thought the high price for jukeboxes was entirely because there isn't enough demand, right?) I'm pretty fired up about this whole thing, but I fear it's going to be a long and winding road, what with my meager income and overwhelming obstacles I have to face. Lots of other people are working on the same thing or similar things. Start small, get one thing working at a time, don't overload your fiscal or time budget. Don't overload your computing equipment, either -- no reason to try to serve separate media streams from the same CPU (or did I mis-read your original post?) unless the actual streaming is going to be done by slave CPUs. (No reason to tie fbsd down to read a keypad, either, but then maybe you want a virtual keypad on the screen instead of a physical keypad?) -- Joel Rees, programmer, Systems Group Altech Corporation (Alpsgiken), Osaka, Japan http://www.alpsgiken.co.jp -- When software is patentable, anything is patentable. (http://swpat.ffii.org) ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Freebsd ufs under WIN
At 2003-08-27T21:17:47Z, Charles Howse [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: BTW, what is the answer to your intrepretation of the question? No. In that case, wasn't the pointer to samba the answer to what the OP really wants? (Just being obnoxious.) -- Joel Rees, programmer, Systems Group Altech Corporation (Alpsgiken), Osaka, Japan http://www.alpsgiken.co.jp ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD with propolice protection
Does anybody recommend using this? How to build FreeBSD with propolice protection http://www.trl.ibm.com/projects/security/ssp/buildfreebsd.html After implementing it, how to make sure it's working correctly? If I were going to try to put propolice on freebsd, I think I'd start by studying what they've done with it on openbsd. Be sure to search their mailing list archives about it first. -- Joel Rees, programmer, Systems Group Altech Corporation (Alpsgiken), Osaka, Japan http://www.alpsgiken.co.jp ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Darwin
Supposedly FreeBSD is the basis for Darwin. Just one of those urban legends. ;-) Lessee, if I wander over to http://www.freebsd.org/ and look in the FAQ at http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/index.html and browse through the introduction at http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/introduction.html I find that there is a topic about the differences between the bsds: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/introduction.html#DIFFERENCES-TO-OTHER-BSDS and in that paragraph I find that there is a reference to a page that talks about the bsd family tree, http://www.daemonnews.org/200104/bsd_family.html and if I read that page I discover that there is a little discussion of Mac OS X and Darwin. Apparently, Darwin is derived from the Mach kernel and from all the bsds in various proportions. Any idea why Good question. Who started that rumor? :-P since FreeBSD does not have a PowerPC port? Sure it does. Just not anywhere near as stable as freeBSD for Sparc or alpha or i386. Back at http://www.freebsd.org/ I see that there are some hardware notes: http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.1R/hardware.html and in there I see there is a link below the list of platforms that have released code, to platforms currently under development: http://www.freebsd.org/platforms/index.html And in the list on that page: http://www.freebsd.org/platforms/ppc.html Hmm. Says it's on the verge on booting to single-user mode. But following the links around some more to the mailing list archives shows this message from Peter Grehan: ... The system has been able to run multi-user on a limited number of NewWorld models for a while, although installation is not pretty. HTH -- Joel Rees, programmer, Systems Group Altech Corporation (Alpsgiken), Osaka, Japan http://www.alpsgiken.co.jp ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: japanese consultants
no, I don't need consulting in japanese. Is there a list of consultants fluent in all the issues of running freebsd in japan, ie internationalizing, character sets, etc. I found one listed on the freebsd.org web site. I was hoping for more.. Not sure what you're asking, but have you checked these: http://www.jp.FreeBSD.org/ http://www.jp.FreeBSD.org/ml.html -- Joel Rees, programmer, Systems Group Altech Corporation (Alpsgiken), Osaka, Japan http://www.alpsgiken.co.jp ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Help! Is this an attack or a virus? Qmail on FBSD is flooding
A quick check showed that one such message was Qd to send a couple of jpgs to dozens of CCd addresses! I could imagine someone doing that by hand. My sister sometimes does that with inspirational stories, but similarly minded people might want to share a jpg. But that's exactly what some of the currently popular virii do. I think you'd be justified in grabbing the .jpg and looking inside to see if it's really a .exe masquerading as a .jpg. Privacy has to have limits. Had a friend who's wife had picked up several of those. He was sure glad enough that I let him know about it. -- Joel Rees, programmer, Kansai Systems Group Altech Corporation (Alpsgiken), Osaka, Japan http://www.alpsgiken.co.jp ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: A couple of definitions
As far as I know, objective C is sort of ancestor to C++ ROFDDCI -- Joel Rees, programmer, Kansai Systems Group Altech Corporation (Alpsgiken), Osaka, Japan http://www.alpsgiken.co.jp ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problems with Samba shared files
Hmm. I would either think it a bug for Samba to be unable to tell MSWindows that it had a file open for read, or a rather advanced technique for Samba to be able to understand from simply mounting the share as read-only that it could let MSWindows forego a lock on a multiply opened file. Mayb I'm just confused. Confused, yes, the man is confused! I guess I should have visited http://www.samba.org and http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/samba/chapter/book/ch05_05.html and a few other places before I started dissing MSWindows. Now I know about oplocks, I can diss MSW with real meaning. What were they thinking? But that doesn't help anyone. Stan, check your smb.conf and your samba logs. That should get you headed in the right direction. (Hopefully, your problem has nothing to do with opportunistic locking.) -- Joel Rees, programmer, Kansai Systems Group Altech Corporation (Alpsgiken), Osaka, Japan http://www.alpsgiken.co.jp ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problems with Samba shared files
The tail -f works fine, but the application on the Windows side that should be appending data to this file (think syslog like functionality) pops up an error message about not being able to write to the file. I've mounted the share as read only, Um, why are you expecting the Windows application to be able to append to a file on a read-only Samba share? The Samba filesystem is ON the windows box. it's whatever FS os on that machine. I'm just mounting it via Samab. So, the read only semantics apply to the FreeBSD side only. Hmm. I would either think it a bug for Samba to be unable to tell MSWindows that it had a file open for read, or a rather advanced technique for Samba to be able to understand from simply mounting the share as read-only that it could let MSWindows forego a lock on a multiply opened file. Mayb I'm just confused. -- Joel Rees, programmer, Kansai Systems Group Altech Corporation (Alpsgiken), Osaka, Japan http://www.alpsgiken.co.jp ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Samba between Mac and BSD
On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 09:11:11PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FreeBSD Question Answerer- First of all thank you for your help and time. I have a question about running a Samba server where the server is a FreeBSD machine and the client is a Macintosh ibook running max os X. ... And [EMAIL PROTECTED] commented, I would think that NFS would be a better choice between two Unix systems than Samba. To which I might add that netatalk would seem to me to be a better option than Samba if the only client is a Mac. But then I've never done netatalk on freeBSD. -- Joel Rees, programmer, Kansai Systems Group Altech Corporation (Alpsgiken), Osaka, Japan http://www.alpsgiken.co.jp ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: (repeated questions)
FreeBSD Question Answerer- First of all thank you for your help and time. I have a question about running a Samba server where the server is a FreeBSD machine and the client is a Macintosh ibook running max os X. If the only client is a Mac, I'd suggest looking into NFS or netatalk. (Why mess with M$ pseudo-standards if there is no M$ on the network?) Mac OS X does samba, so, if you also have MSWindows boxes on the network with which you want to share, Samba would work. As has been pointed out, Samba support in Mac OS X prior to 10.2 was not the best, so you may find you want to upgrade your Mac OS if you go that path. (I was able to get Samba client on Mac OS x 10.0 to work with MSWindows boxes, but I never tried it with *NIX Samba.) The client would have a wireless PC card connection that runs through the same bridge as the server. Not sure what you're saying there. If the FreeBSD machine is on one side of a bridge and the Mac is on the other, there will probably be some minor additional setup, beyond what you do when both machines are on the same side of the bridge. I think. I've never done this, though, only read about it, so you'll need someone else's help if it goes south on you. Can the client and the server share files and devices with this setup? The client can access files on the server, if you set it up right. The server can not access files on the client, unless the client is also serving (and properly set up). I don't think you can share raw devices, but I've never tried, so I may well be wrong. I was also wondering about how Samba was configured, is it through the /etc/exports file or is it done differently? If you can browse http, Google is one of your friends -- http://www.google.com/search?hl=enie=ISO-8859-1q=samba+setupbtnG=Google+Search http://www.google.com/search?hl=enie=ISO-8859-1q=samba+setup+freebsdbtnG=Google+Search http://www.google.com/search?hl=enie=ISO-8859-1q=samba+setup+mac+os+xbtnG=Google+Search Also is Samba in the ports packages tree? Was the last time I looked. (Or was that the openBSD tree or the ... ;-/) Also does Samba allow computers to share devices? Could i have a server with a DVD-ROM, and watch DVDs on a client? Anybody know for sure? I'm pretty sure NFS and appletalk will share CDs mounted with the right permissions. Also how are shared files stored on a Samba network, does the server store them all and they are all accessible to the clients, or does the machine where the file was made store it and it's accessible to all the clients? Under file sharing, a client accesses the file system on the server, or, rather, the part of the file system the server is set up to share, preferably not including root. Files on any machine not serving are not accessible to other machines, unless the operator on the client deliberately copies them to the server. But, then, it's only the copy that is accessible. Also i was going to RAID together three SCSI harddrives in the server and also have one seperate IDE harddrive. The three SCSIs will store FreeBSD and be the storage for the Samba server, and the IDE will run DOS. Will the FreeBSD boot manager recognize DOS even though it is on another harddrive, or will i have to boot to it manually through the BIOS? I think this topic has come up in the very recent past on this list. Hmm. Not so recent, maybe, but check some of the threads here: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=freebsd-questionsw=2r=1s=dual+boot+scsi+raid+freebsdq=b -- Joel Rees, programmer, Kansai Systems Group Altech Corporation (Alpsgiken), Osaka, Japan http://www.alpsgiken.co.jp ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[OT] Re: Which server-side programming should i choose.
Joel Rees wrote: PHP!! All the way...easiest, free, likely to be more secure than Perl if used as Apache module than CGI. More secure, how so? Less arcane syntax to hide holes in, maybe? However, for people who know what they are doing, perl code can be made more secure than php code. Matt Heath [EMAIL PROTECTED] commented I'm not trying to be insulting but I think that you don't know what you're talking about. Oh, you're probably right about my not knowing what I'm talking about. I tend to spout off about things I know nothing about some times. Human habit. Question, though, are you contending with my assertion that perl has some arcane syntax issues that make holes harder to see, or with my assertion that perl can be made more secure than PHP? Both assertions? (If we really want to debate the subject, I suppose cross-posting into the php and perl lists where people who know what they are talking about hang out would be a way to get solid information. Or to get castigated for attempting to start a flame war. ;-|) BS-generator state=on/ Perl had a head start on PHP, was the focus of a lot of essential pioneering work in most of the currently hot technologies. It's in a bit of upheaval right now, because we, as an industry, have hit a technological wall, and the people who develop perl are heavily involved in trying to break through that wall. The PHP group is basically distilling the web programming technologies out of the work that has been done in perl (and other languages), making the technology more accessible to less skilled hands. So far, the PHP community has a good track record. (I personally consider PHP mostly a dialect of perl, but a reasonably good one.) But if you really need to tighten down the bolts, well, no programming language is sufficient by itself, but, near as I have seen, perl gives better access to the tools for the really tough cases. But you do have to know what you're doing to use those tools. Java/jsp gets us part way through the technological wall, but it also requires a certain mind-set and familiarity with the existing Java tools and with the Java-ish ways to use those tools. If you can get the familiarity part down, you get a high pay-back in code re-use. If you move on to frameworks, you can really avoid re-inventing a lot of wheels. But the tools for standard http, last time I checked, are a little behind what's available in perl. But all that is way beyond what the OP asked. He wanted to get started with web proramming, and wondered whether PHP or perl would be better, and the answer, as far as I see it, is yes. BS-generator state=off/ PHP _is_ a pretty good place to start, but don't expect it to solve all your problems. Perl is a natural next step. (JSP/Java would not be a natural next step, but is a good next step for at least some people, and don't even think of jsp without Java, as far as I'm concerned.) -- Joel Rees, programmer, Kansai Systems Group Altech Corporation (Alpsgiken), Osaka, Japan http://www.alpsgiken.co.jp ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: IDE versa Scsi freebsd
Using only freebsd for routing gated, BGP. Is there any reason to use Scsi over an IDE hard drive? I only know what I've read, but I hear that SCSI is better for real RAID, because it handles concurrent multiple requests better than IDE. Other than that, I understand that the internal mechanisms are pretty much the same now, so raw bit rate favors IDE slightly. (Which would make sense, IDE not having to deal with the complexity of multiple concurrent requests.) So, if you're not using RAID, it seems reasonable to buy the cheaper drives. (Does routing need RAID?) -- Joel Rees, programmer, Kansai Systems Group Altech Corporation (Alpsgiken), Osaka, Japan http://www.alpsgiken.co.jp ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Which server-side programming should i choose.
Someone was offended by my tone in the following, so I will apologize to all for any arrogance or rudeness displayed in it. It was not intended to be rude, just to point out that Perl is not limited to CGI, to leave an opening for a discussion of danger spots in mod_perl, and to acknowledge that PHP will have advantages over Perl for the newbie (and I don't see anything wrong with that, by the way). The server-side pages you can use are PHP or JSP (ASP is posible but not the natural choice for apache). What? You got something against mod_perl? Or are you assuming that a newbie doesn't want all that power, and that php is a good enough introduction to perl in the non-cgi context? Just curious ... -- Joel Rees, programmer, Kansai Systems Group Altech Corporation (Alpsgiken), Osaka, Japan http://www.alpsgiken.co.jp ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: BSD Question
Go here... http://www.freebsdmall.com/cgi-bin/fm/bsddoll-s?id=pqS7TiPemv_pc=56 Or perhaps here: http://www.freebsdmall.com/cgi-bin/fm/bsdbeanie?id=ZRVoy2NJmv_pc=66 or here: http://www.freebsdmall.com/cgi-bin/fm/ ... At 06:20 PM 7/2/2003 -0400, you wrote: Hello, My place of employment recently purchased your services. My boss received a little red devil bean bag beanie toy which he gave to me. I brought it home to my son and he just loved it. He brought it with him every where we go. Unfortunately, yesterday he forgot it at day camp and was just hysterical over it. This morning it was gone and both myself and the camp counselor could not find it any where. Would it please be possible for me to get another one of these bean bag beanie red devils from your company. Below is my name and mailing address. If there is a charge, please let me know. Thank you so much. Any assistance you can offer would be greatly appreciated. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Which server-side programming should i choose.
PHP!! All the way...easiest, free, likely to be more secure than Perl if used as Apache module than CGI. More secure, how so? Less arcane syntax to hide holes in, maybe? I'd have no problem with the assertion that newbies writing php are likely to produce less holes per thousand lines of code. However, I think the OP was trying to cover too much territory with too few sentences. (I do that myself a lot, so I'm not one to complain.) Both php and perl can be loaded into apache, which helps to avoid certain performance and security problems inherent in the CGI interface, but there are a few more gotchas with perl (my vs. local, and that sort of thing, I think). However, for people who know what they are doing, perl code can be made more secure than php code. But I don't see any reason to argue. It's not like learning one first is going to prevent you from ever learning or using the other well. Quite the reverse, I think. If you have time to learn a (new or first) language, pick one that looks interesting and go. -- Joel Rees, programmer, Kansai Systems Group Altech Corporation (Alpsgiken), Osaka, Japan http://www.alpsgiken.co.jp ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: what kernel does freebsd use?
You can't swap it out for another kernel (not without lots of work anyway) and if you did it would no longer really be FreeBSD but some new system. Ergo, Darwin ... ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: UNIX programming platform
Dear list, I would like to hear your opinions about your favorite UNIX programming platform. *nix;) The kind of programming I am more interested is system and network programming. Pick one that is accessible to you and dig in. I've found myself liking the BSDs more than the Linuxes, but I am looking for some time to dig into Debian. (Vine and Miracle Linux are presently in use in my office particularly because they provide tools useful in a Japanese environment. Many of those tools are available in freeBSD, but not yet quite as accessible as they are in Japanese-built Linux distributions. We also use Solaris, but that's kind of expensive, and you would likely need no one to suggest it to you if you were in the position to use it.) I am looking for those details that will make my life easier or harder. Then I'd suggest Mac OS X. (This is not your father's Macintosh.) But if you already have an MSWindows box that you want to put to good use, freeBSD is fairly straightforward to get started with, and has a lot of tools/toys to work with. netBSD seems to be good with odd-ball hardware, but you have to know quite a bit about what you're doing to take full advantage of the tools there. (They have some interesting cross-architecture tools, for instance.) If you are already comfortable with installing and configuring, and what you really mean by details is a lean-n-mean system and a tight focus on networking and security, check openBSD out. That's probably the standard take on the more prominent players in the BSD world, but it doesn't do justice to any of it. Start with the one that's handiest for you, but play with the others when you get a chance. (System and _network_ would imply more than one computer, anyway, right?) Just my two cents. -- Joel Rees, programmer, Kansai Systems Group Altech Corporation (Alpsgiken), Osaka, Japan http://www.alpsgiken.co.jp ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Changing font sizes in X
... My problem seemed to be from my desire to have an 800 X 600 display which I can read, even without my glasses, instead of the 1280 X 1024 my monitor is capable of displaying. With the higher resolution display, I was able to launch an X server, and loaded up Gnome with enlightenment. Now I have these itty-bitty little menus and icons which I can only read by tilting my head back and looking through the bottom of my bi-focals. I am an old man, and the neck doesn't flex like it did when I only had to read a 40 column monochrome screen. How can I enlarge my fonts/menus/icons without giving up the high resolution needed for all the pictures of the grand-kids? Maybe this will help: http://www.geocrawler.com/mail/thread.php3?subject=Changing+Font+sizelist=263 http://www.geocrawler.com/mail/msg.php3?msg_id=5046066list=263 http://www.geocrawler.com/mail/msg.php3?msg_id=5060230list=263 Found it after searching for gnome font size on google. Also tried XFree86 font size, but after reading several pages that turned up with that, I remembered that the settings you're most interested in would be for window/desktop managers. You may have to go hunting again in your apps documentation, too. flame-bait level=possible If you'd be willing to change your hardware, Mac OS X is great for end-user, and no slouch for a lot of the tech stuff. /flame-bait But you do miss out a bit on the fun of digging through READMEs and configurations and make; make install, etc., with Apple's stuff. -- Joel Rees [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Unicode typing in freebsd?
Is it possible to write unicode characters in freebsd shell and xwindows? Of course I can display them, but is there also a tool to write for instance vietnamese characters? (Please wrap your lines.) My experience is with Japanese and a some Chinese, but I'll tell you what I can. Any language with more characters than fit on your keyboard requires what is called an input method. With Japanese, you type in the pronunciation. When you've typed in enough to make a few words, you hit the convert key (usually the space bar) and the input method shows you a character that matches. If it isn't the one you want, you hit the convert key again, and you get a list of possible matches. Chinese can also be done phonetically, but the more popular method is to type in parts of the characters. Again, you get a possible match, and, if necessary, a list. The input method collects the keystrokes. The dictionary provides the list of possible matches. With Chinese and Jpanaese you need both the input method and the character dictionary. I think Vietnamese will use a similar approach. HTH -- Joel Rees [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
php, mod_php unifiable? Pear?
First question: Does everyone keep mod_php4 and php4 as separate ports, even when using both. I'm assuming, since the php.standalone (or whatever it was) is there and contains it's own php.ini, that is the case. Does anyone try to keep them together? (I can see, since I want postgresql to talk to php for web apps and I may not want that for the command-line php, that it might be reasonable to keep them separate. But my first inclination is to keep them together.) Second question: Does everyone just keep pear where it gets loaded automatically under /usr/ports/lang/php4/work/php-4.2.3/pear and /usr/ports/www/mod_php4/work/php-4.2.3/pear (or wherever those were)? I'm asking these questions particularly in light of the go_pear script preferring to load pear under /usr/local/share/pear, and expecting php to be in /usr/local/share, as well. -- Joel Rees [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
pear.ini necessary?
Is pear.ini necessary in the freeBSD environment? If so, how is it generated? And where does it go? /usr/local/etc? I was hoping go_pear would build it for me, but it does not seem to have done so. Are we perhaps supposed to be using the freeBSD ports system instead of the go_pear script? If so, how? Trying to make install just gives me a no target error. A simple RTFriendlyM to where I'm not looking would also be appreciated, if there is such. -- Joel Rees [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
