Re: State of Packages

2013-04-06 Thread Walter Hurry
On Thu, 04 Apr 2013 14:57:57 -0400, doug wrote: My questions: Does/will pkgng work? Are 9.1 packages on the ISO images? I am in the progess of answering that one for myself but had some time on my hands during the download :) Prebuilt packages are on the way apparently, but I have made my own

Re: State of Packages

2013-04-06 Thread Joshua Isom
On 4/5/2013 7:51 AM, Walter Hurry wrote: On Thu, 04 Apr 2013 14:57:57 -0400, doug wrote: My questions: Does/will pkgng work? Are 9.1 packages on the ISO images? I am in the progess of answering that one for myself but had some time on my hands during the download :) Prebuilt packages are on

Re: State of Packages

2013-04-06 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
On Sat, 06 Apr 2013 15:25:42 -0500 Joshua Isom jri...@gmail.com wrote: I've been using FreeBSD since the summer of 2005, I still have the first cd-r I used. The fact that it's so easy makes me wonder why it hasn't been done yet. It's been almost five months. It's easy to build a

Youtube Flash Videos broken?

2013-04-06 Thread Jens Schweikhardt
hello, world\n I have trouble playing Youtube videos in flash format in Firefox. This has worked in the past, but for a few weeks now, the flash videos display as a b/w noise background picture with a message centered To render this video you need the Adobe Flash Player. Install latest Flash

Re: Youtube Flash Videos broken?

2013-04-06 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 2013-04-06 at 23:39 +0200, Jens Schweikhardt wrote: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ywn2Lz5zmYg Firefox 20.0 Arch Linux x86_64 can't play this video too. Neither flash, nor gnash installed. Perhaps it's a video with a commercial, before the video can be watched? Wicked!

Re: Youtube Flash Videos broken?

2013-04-06 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 2013-04-06 at 23:53 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Sat, 2013-04-06 at 23:39 +0200, Jens Schweikhardt wrote: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ywn2Lz5zmYg Firefox 20.0 Arch Linux x86_64 can't play this video too. Neither flash, nor gnash installed. Perhaps it's a video with a commercial,

portsnap

2013-04-06 Thread ajtiM
Hi! Are there problems with portsnap servers, please? I saw on fresports.org Opera update long eight or more hours ago but my portsnap fetch update shows: portsnap fetch update Looking up portsnap.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 6 mirrors found. Fetching snapshot tag from

Re: Youtube Flash Videos broken?

2013-04-06 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 6 Apr 2013 23:39:11 +0200, Jens Schweikhardt wrote: Since I haven't heard the FreeBSD community screaming Gimme back my Youtube!!!1!, I'll bite. What could the problem be? Is anyone else but me able to play flash, like for example The true science of multiple universes in

Re: Youtube Flash Videos broken?

2013-04-06 Thread Quartz
I can work around this by downloading the files with clive and watching with mplayer, but I'd like to make this work again. To be honest, this is really the best solution for all platforms, win/mac/bsd/etc. I don't have flash installed on any of my machines: I use a plugin that downloads

Re: Youtube Flash Videos broken?

2013-04-06 Thread Warren Block
On Sat, 6 Apr 2013, Jens Schweikhardt wrote: I have trouble playing Youtube videos in flash format in Firefox. This has worked in the past, but for a few weeks now, the flash videos display as a b/w noise background picture with a message centered To render this video you need the Adobe Flash

Re: State of Packages

2013-04-06 Thread Walter Hurry
On Sat, 06 Apr 2013 22:02:38 +0100, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote: On Sat, 06 Apr 2013 15:25:42 -0500 Joshua Isom jri...@gmail.com wrote: I've been using FreeBSD since the summer of 2005, I still have the first cd-r I used. The fact that it's so easy makes me wonder why it hasn't been done yet.

Re: Youtube Flash Videos broken?

2013-04-06 Thread Parv
in message 20130407000932.678efc0d.free...@edvax.de, wrote Polytropon thusly... On Sat, 6 Apr 2013 23:39:11 +0200, Jens Schweikhardt wrote: ... Is anyone else but me able to play flash, like for example The true science of multiple universes in http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ywn2Lz5zmYg ?

Re: State of Packages

2013-04-06 Thread Joshua Isom
On 4/6/2013 7:56 PM, Walter Hurry wrote: Agreed; that's why I haven't attempted to do so. Also, I only build packages for the 600 or so packages in which I am interested, and only for the FreeBSD version in use, and only for the specific CPU architecture. Maybe Joshua is overlooking something.

Availability of downloads

2013-04-06 Thread Lynn Steven Killingsworth
Hi FreeBSD - Since PCBSD takes care of all these details this is not actually a complaint. When I was using FreeBSD the only server I could get packages from was in Japan which did so every time although the packages seemed rarely changed. I discovered the FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT

Re: Youtube Flash Videos broken?

2013-04-06 Thread Parv
in message 5160aaf9.2020...@sneakertech.com, wrote Quartz thusly... I can work around this by downloading the files with clive and watching with mplayer, but I'd like to make this work again. To be honest, this is really the best solution for all platforms, win/mac/bsd/etc. I don't have

Re: Youtube Flash Videos broken?

2013-04-06 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 6 Apr 2013 15:23:49 -1000, Parv wrote: I have tried some extensions -- e.g. Flash and Video Download, Download Helper -- that require a bit of video to be played initially before it can be downloaded (outside of YouTube; for YouTube videos, I prefer to use youtube_dl). Yes, Download

Re: portsnap

2013-04-06 Thread Andre Goree
On Sat, 06 Apr 2013 18:01:05 -0400, ajtiM lum...@gmail.com wrote: Hi! Are there problems with portsnap servers, please? I saw on fresports.org Opera update long eight or more hours ago but my portsnap fetch update shows: portsnap fetch update Looking up portsnap.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 6

Re: Availability of downloads

2013-04-06 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Sat, 06 Apr 2013 21:20:41 -0400 Lynn Steven Killingsworth quiet.rainbows@gmail.com wrote: Hi FreeBSD - Since PCBSD takes care of all these details this is not actually a complaint. When I was using FreeBSD the only server I could get packages from was in Japan which

Re: portsnap

2013-04-06 Thread Joshua Isom
On 4/6/2013 5:01 PM, ajtiM wrote: Hi! Are there problems with portsnap servers, please? I saw on fresports.org Opera update long eight or more hours ago but my portsnap fetch update shows: portsnap fetch update Looking up portsnap.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 6 mirrors found. Fetching snapshot tag

Power switch not working

2013-04-06 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette
So, um, I just upgraded my main system. Maybe that is too weak a word. I cannibalized the drives and most of the add-in cards out of my old system and put them into a new system I built which has a new case, new motherboard, new CPU, new memory, and a new video card. So far everything seems to

Re: Power switch not working

2013-04-06 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 06 Apr 2013 20:51:58 -0700, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: I'll be attending to those thing, but for now I'd just like to know why, when I do shutdown -h now and then let the system come down to the point where it says Press any key to reboot pressing the power switch at that point no

Re: Power switch not working

2013-04-06 Thread Robert Huff
Polytropon writes: But running FreeBSD seems to cause it (the case power switch) to be ignored. Check the BIOS settings, the switch should be programmed to something like soft power-off, it's the other thing to whatever caption has been chosen for immediately power off (forced by