Re: Ask a question

2017-02-03 Thread Chris Benesch
I have a bunch of Viagra and Oxy-Contin to pretend to sell, can you get me a list of email addresses who are dumb enough to go to my fake pharmacy page? On Fri, 2017-02-03 at 12:44 -0500, Stephen Joseph wrote: > Hi, > > My name is Stephen Joseph, the Business Development Manager at one of > the >

Re: Concerning our new Code of Conduct...

2015-07-16 Thread Chris Benesch
This is a tough thing to be in the middle of, but lets look at the facts. I moderated a forum for years, and it had no clearly defined goal like this community, so it was nothing but people poking sticks at each other and/or local government. 1 . Randi basically called Johannes a "whiny littl

RE: Leaving the Desktop Market

2014-04-04 Thread Chris Benesch
Hi guys, I've been watching this heated discussion for a few days and here is my $.02 I'm not your average computer user either. I learned BASIC on a Commodore 64 back in 84 and decided my collection of toys was nowhere hear as fun as making ascii art dance across the screen, or flying a carat sy

RE: Leaving the Desktop Market

2014-04-01 Thread Chris H
r dream. For the record; I /don't/ live in my basement. I /do/ take showers. I own my home outright (2nd one, for the record). What's more, my current one was a complete renovation, which I performed myself. Masochistic? Maybe, but somebody has to pay the price, so others can reap the lu

Re: Leaving the Desktop Market

2014-04-01 Thread Chris H
ing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" > > Hi, > > I don't understand the gripe about sound. OSS works well. If you install > the verson in ports,

Re: Leaving the Desktop Market

2014-04-01 Thread Chris H
Market"; +1. OK by me. OTOH The following /will/ give you everything you /claim/ isn't /currently/ possible. x11/xorg-minimal x11-wm/xfce4 audio/aquqlung multimedia/vlc The above list also gives you the ability to switch output(s) on the fly (via mixer). "exotic" video card? e

Re: Reminder: Still seeking interviews!

2013-04-17 Thread Chris Benesch
I would be willing to participate as well. On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 5:51 PM, Kubilay Kocak wrote: > On 17/04/2013 8:18 AM, Kevin Zheng wrote: > > Greetings, > > > > About a week ago, I sent out a request for interviews with members of > > the FreeBSD community. I'd like you all to know that I'm s

Re: Did someone compare the number of ports with packages in Linux distros?

2013-03-18 Thread Chris Benesch
On 3/18/2013 8:55 AM, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: Chris Benesch writes: Lets take gcc for instance. To install gcc on BSD, you need the gcc port and a few support packages, such as readline, gettext, intl, etc... but thats it. On Linux you need gcc, gcc-devel, gcc-headers, kernel-headers

Re: Did someone compare the number of ports with packages in Linux distros?

2013-03-18 Thread Chris Benesch
On 3/18/2013 7:40 AM, Mehmet Erol Sanliturk wrote: On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 6:42 AM, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: Mehmet Erol Sanliturk writes: Install many packages by pkg_add . When a desktop ( KDE . FluxBox , Gnome ) is started : Mouse , key board is NOT working , they are solid rock . To m

Re: why no Oracle on FreeBSD ?

2009-09-27 Thread Chris Rees
at there is some feature used by > Oracle which is expected from a UNIX Sys 5 std and perhaps > FreeBSD does not support/have the syscall. > > Given the response, What is your analysis of the situation ? > > > thanks > Saifi. > This guy replying to your post was

Re: BSDStats Report for December 1st, 2006

2006-12-04 Thread Chris
ranteed > to report once a month ... > > > > > Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) > Email . [EMAIL PROTECTED] MSN . [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Yahoo . yscrappy Skype: hub.orgICQ . 76156

Re: Why FreeBSD sucks

2006-10-25 Thread Chris Conn
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_troll Chris in Austin, who loves FreeBSD ___ freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-advocacy To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: FreeBSD not popular in Asia?

2006-09-08 Thread Chris
ocacy > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > > Not to mention how many are vmwared. Does that count? Could it count? Would it count? -- Best regards, Chris A bird in the hand is dead. ___ freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-advocacy To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: FreeBSD not popular in Asia?

2006-09-08 Thread Chris
Marc G. Fournier wrote: > On Fri, 8 Sep 2006, Chris wrote: > >> Marc G. Fournier wrote: >>> >>> Check out http://www.bsdstats.org ... Republic of Korea is about to push >>> the US out of first place, but there are *zero* FreeBSD boxes reporting >>>

Re: FreeBSD not popular in Asia?

2006-09-08 Thread Chris
boxen in under 10 mins. And between Net, Open and DF, there are only a few... Kinda makes ya go H. -- Best regards, Chris Show me a person who's never made a mistake and I'll show you somebody who's never achieved much. ___ freebsd-advo

Re: BSD Mall : to hell

2006-03-15 Thread Chris Coleman
Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] he will get your order fixed. [EMAIL PROTECTED] is so swamped with spam that real messages get lost in the filter. -Chris On 3/15/06, AK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 09:53:11AM +0100, Gilbert Fernandes wrote: > > > > Does any

Re: Daemon News

2006-03-08 Thread Chris Coleman
enthusiasm. For example: We just published an article http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200603/openbgpd.html Now we need people to post it to slashdot and other news places to get it some exposure. Its an all volunteer team and I'm looking to add people to the team because my time is short. -C

Daemon News

2006-03-07 Thread Chris Coleman
Hi, As you guys may have noticed, we are getting daemonnews.org running again. Let me know if you are interested in helping out. -Chris ___ freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-advocacy To

FreeBSD on IRC

2005-09-09 Thread Chris
it really comes down to the management. And in the end - it's the management that makes the channel. -- Best regards, Chris The light at the end of the tunnel can be a helluva nuisance, especially if your're using the tunnel as a darkroom.

Re: FreeBSD's Visual Identity: Outdated?

2005-07-02 Thread Chris
Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: Responding to Chris: CSS is neither outdated nor a Windows thing. You apparently need to get an extra clue or two before you rejoin this discussion. Not really - Some years back MS made a big

Re: FreeBSD's Visual Identity: Outdated?

2005-07-02 Thread Chris
Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: Giorgos Keramidas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: On 2004-12-23 23:02, Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Nikolas Britton wrote: 2. I cringe when I see Times New Roman, again redo the whole site with a modern web font: Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, Etc. (

Re: FreeBSD's Visual Identity: Outdated?

2005-07-02 Thread Chris
is badly in need of a PR/Design/Marketing department. Maybe you can start, The Queer-Eye for the BSD-Guy. -- Best regards, Chris ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-arch To unsubscribe, send an

RE: Let's update FreeBSD vs Linux vs Windows XP

2005-06-29 Thread Chris Laverdure
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Re: FreeBSD on IRC

2005-06-05 Thread Chris
Darren Pilgrim wrote: > From: Chris > >>While it's true anyone can flame anybody - we in the channel do have >>some easy things to follow before asking. In the topic it refers to >>seeking the Handbook, /usr/ports/updating & /usr/src/updating. >> >>M

Re: FreeBSD on IRC

2005-06-05 Thread Chris
you must except people are not always going to head straight for > the handbook (you mentioned we ask a few simple things). It seems most > problems > in IRC arise from someone asking a simple question, and everyone thinking > they're cool to jump on the bang wagon and riducul

Re: FreeBSD on IRC

2005-06-05 Thread Chris
er vehicle for users to use. The more tools you give to people, they better off they are if they wish to use them. IRC does not have to have the stigma it seems to have. There are many decent users out there - and the efforts should not be dismissed - imho. -- Best regards, Chris A large s

Re: FreeBSD on IRC

2005-06-04 Thread Chris
Astrodog wrote: > Certainly #freebsdhelp on efnet gets a bad rep at times unduly I > wouldn't however, reccomend #freebsd over there. > > I will agree tho - FreeNode is by far the best, imo -- Best regards, Chris All American cars are bas

Re: FreeBSD on IRC

2005-06-04 Thread Chris
Peter Kieser wrote: > Hello, > > #freebsd on DALnet is a HELP channel? Last I checked if you ask a > question in there you get your head flamed off. > > Probably better to advocate one of the friendlier IRC help channels > (#freebsd on irc.freenode.net) > > --Peter &

FreeBSD on IRC

2005-06-04 Thread Chris
there too. I'm hoping to have the FBSD website turn around what it has when it come to FreeBSD on IRC. Feel free to hop on by and sit a spell. If this in no way pertains to Advo - I apologize now for taking up bandwidth. -- Best regards, Chris Democracy is that form of government

Re: Main site makeover

2005-05-29 Thread Chris Zumbrunn
On May 29, 2005, at 4:25 PM, Fabian Keil wrote: Chris Zumbrunn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Yes, that was exactly the idea. There is a version committed in Perforce that took that approach and looks like this: http://czv.com/zones/beastie/freebsd/freebsdweb1h.html http://czv.com/zones/b

Re: Main site makeover

2005-05-28 Thread Chris Zumbrunn
CSS or just created in a graphics editor. Actually, I've seen a front page that Chris did (I think) that's got the nice menu across the top and a really well designed front page. I just wanted to point out; There's *nothing* new about that design. It still follows the old pri

Re: Main site makeover

2005-05-28 Thread Chris Zumbrunn
phics editor. Actually, I've seen a front page that Chris did (I think) that's got the nice menu across the top and a really well designed front page. It evolved into this: http://czv.com/zones/beastie/freebsd/freebsdweb1j.gif A patch for the redesign was committed in Perforce a

Re: New layout concept URL

2005-05-28 Thread Chris
Layout section > for more info :) > > http://www.johnjawed.com/freebsd-redesign/ > > It's in it's early stages, so I appreciate all types of critique to get a > feel of what I'm doing right/wrong. > -- Best r

New to the list -- Hiya

2005-05-09 Thread Chris
Looks like I happened smooth up into a pissing match. About the logo contest: are they really gonna change it? I kinda like the daemon logo myself. Chris Covert ___ freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: Plans for promoting and implementing F/OSS and BSD

2005-05-05 Thread Chris
f the OS's copyright statements. That is by far the best and easiest place to start. The hard pard will be to format it to suit your purposes. Good luck. Best regards, Chris In order for something to become clean, something else must become dirty. ... but you can get everything dirty witho

Re: BSD Certification Group press release

2005-03-16 Thread Chris
ring the types of user we BSD'ers seem to be (from my experiences) sure, we care about money, but I'm willing to bet that those of us that choose to do some sort of BSD certs, will be doing so for our own personal satisfaction. That says much about the type of folks most of us are. At leas

Daemon News E-Zine published

2005-03-08 Thread Chris Coleman
take shape. A few more articles and a little help and we can be caught up. I'm also looking for people to help out with the ezine. http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200411/editorial.html And would appreciate any help you could give in publicizing our effor