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? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

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

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) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

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? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

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

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

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

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

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

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

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)

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

re: skype

2011-07-23 Thread Aryeh Friedman
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

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

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

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 release question

2011-07-21 Thread Aryeh Friedman
Where does make release place the disk images (iso's) by default ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

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

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

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

Re: Lennart Poettering: BSD Isn't Relevant Anymore

2011-07-18 Thread Aryeh Friedman
, 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

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

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? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

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

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

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

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) ___

Re: problems mounting android htc

2011-01-20 Thread Aryeh Friedman
: 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

Re: problems mounting android htc

2011-01-20 Thread Aryeh Friedman
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

Re: problems mounting android htc

2011-01-17 Thread Aryeh Friedman
, 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

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

Re: problems mounting android htc

2011-01-16 Thread Aryeh Friedman
, 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

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:

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

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:

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

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

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

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,

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

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

Re: how to recursively symlink every file in a dir

2010-09-09 Thread Aryeh Friedman
/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

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

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

/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:

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

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

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) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

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.

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

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?

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.)

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

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

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

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))?

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

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

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

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

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

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) ___

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

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 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

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

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

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? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

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

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

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)? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

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

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

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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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

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

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 ___

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

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? ___

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? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

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

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? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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

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

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

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

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

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) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

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

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

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?

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)

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 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

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