Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?

2010-11-12 Thread Liontaur
On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 4:05 PM, Gary Gatten ggat...@waddell.com wrote: Let's start a thread listing dead horses to beat: M$ vs Novell Unix vs Linux Mainframe vs PC DAS vs SAN Top-posting vs Bottom posting Blah blah blah vs Yada yada yada I was just thinking about how much better vi is

Re: Per core frequency control

2010-11-09 Thread Liontaur
On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 9:54 AM, David Brodbeck g...@gull.us wrote: On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 5:17 AM, Svein Skogen (Listmail account) svein-listm...@stillbilde.net wrote: You did read the symmetric part of symmetric multi processor didn't you? It's a limitation of the technology. One clock.

Re: start kde in 8.1

2010-10-28 Thread Liontaur
On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 8:16 PM, Tim Dunphy bluethu...@gmail.com wrote: hey guys, I have kdebase4 installed successfully under freebsd 8.1 I found the following advice on the net with so far isn't working to start it: echo startkde ~/.xinitrc I have attempted startx but the system

Re: Resetting the sound system

2010-10-28 Thread Liontaur
2010/10/28 Michaël Grünewald michaelgrunew...@yahoo.fr Dear list, the audio software I use sometimes seems to handle unappropriately its input and leave the sound system in a strange state. When this happens, the lowest frequencies of the played sound are very attenuated and what is still

Re: okay, time to ask the wizards.

2010-10-27 Thread Liontaur
On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 6:04 PM, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: I've got a very large file with paragraphs separated only by \n. How do I put a blank line _after_ each newline? Perhaps using sed? i'm definitely no sed expert but the substitute command would work, just substitute one \n

Re: Is there any way of transfering my excellent PDF file into plain HTML

2010-10-26 Thread Liontaur
On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 11:30 AM, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: One thing that Linux misses--or seems to--is all the conversion programs that go from one format to another. I _was_ able to use abiread to get a PDF text into an obscure HTML, but hundreds of paragraphs get broken up.

Re: Netbooks BSD

2010-10-24 Thread Liontaur
On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 11:19 PM, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 08:06:02PM -0700, Liontaur wrote: On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 4:33 PM, Mikle Krutov nekoexmach...@gmail.com wrote: It's not on your list but I just got an HP 210-1010CA Mini Netbook (for work

Re: Netbooks BSD

2010-10-22 Thread Liontaur
On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 4:33 PM, Mikle Krutov nekoexmach...@gmail.comwrote: Hello, list! I'm going to buy a netbook soon, so a question is which one. The choice is between 1) Samsung N127 2) ASUS Eee PC 900AX 3) MSI U120-094 Which one is the best for running FreeBSD? The best mainly is for

Re: Is it a good idea to use DHCP for point to point connections ?

2010-10-16 Thread Liontaur
On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 10:56 AM, Jerome Herman jher...@dichotomia.frwrote It is indeed a lot easier. Unfortunatly it cannot be used in this case. Basically it is an hotel that is already wired in CAT.6. We ant the clients to be able to connect through wire without resorting to routers or DSL

Re: Can I tunnel TCP over SNMP?

2010-05-15 Thread Liontaur
On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 1:26 PM, Yuri y...@rawbw.com wrote: In my hotel WiFi is supposed to work, but something is broken, and only SNMP can pass through. I have my host outside, that replies to SNMP (pings). Yuri If it's a semi-reputable hotel then they should fix it. I know some hotel's

Re: Small computer to run a GUI?

2010-05-14 Thread Liontaur
Thanks for your tips and suggestions all. I ended up going with a mini itx atom solution with a SSD drive to keep the heat down some more. I'll let you know how it goes since i'll be putting FreeBSD on it. It's going to be a web browser mostly so we'll see how it goes. Thanks again. Mark

Small computer to run a GUI?

2010-05-07 Thread Liontaur
Hi folks, I'm looking for a small (and relatively inexpensive) computer to run a GUI, I don't much care if it's KDE or Gnome or one of the others. Just so that I can browse the Internet using Firefox (unfortunately I may need to look at some flash). So they need to be able to run FreeBSD

Re: Small computer to run a GUI?

2010-05-07 Thread Liontaur
On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 6:47 PM, Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.comwrote: Sounds like you want a netbook. -- Adam Vande More I was more thinking of something without a monitor, keyboard or mouse. I want to put it in a cupboard and not worry about it. With a netbook i'd probably have to

Re: [OT] ssh security

2010-03-09 Thread Liontaur
On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 12:48 AM, Olivier Nicole olivier.nic...@cs.ait.ac.th wrote: What happened to Diffie-Hellman? Last I heard, its whole point was to enable secure communication, protected from both eavesdropping and MIM attacks, between systems having no prior trust relationship

Re: PASSWORD LOST!!

2010-02-11 Thread Liontaur
On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 11:44 AM, Chris Rees utis...@googlemail.com wrote: On 9 February 2010 15:59, Mike Jeays mike.je...@rogers.com wrote: If you have physical access to the server, just reboot it in single user mode, and change the password. You might need to forcibly power it off. It

Re: g4u option

2009-11-10 Thread Liontaur
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 9:00 AM, Jean-Paul Natola jnat...@familycareintl.org wrote: Hi all, I'm trying to figure out ,if possible, how to get g4u to only clone data, i.e. I have an 80 gig drive but my OS and applications only come to about 6gigs that’s what I want to clone to the new

Re: dhcpd related issue - not giving up

2009-11-01 Thread Liontaur
2009/11/1 Dánielisz László laszlo_daniel...@yahoo.com I also though that maybe the rl NIC can be wrong, I will try another branded NIC as soon as it will be possible, until than I looked for arp an socksat right after dhcp request, these are my results: mac# $ dhcping -h 00:23:32:dc:72:19 -s

Re: Daily run reports

2009-10-07 Thread Liontaur
How's about just putting a .forward file in root's home dir? That works well for me and doesn't require rebuilding this or that. Mark On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 10:01 AM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Wed, 7 Oct 2009 16:42:41 +, Glen Barber glen.j.bar...@gmail.com wrote: No, you do

Re: mail server/webmail

2009-04-24 Thread Liontaur
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 1:44 AM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 13:53:28 -0700, Liontaur liont...@gmail.com wrote: fetchmail, gotcha. I'll look into that. I'm using it myself and I'm still happy with it. The advantage is that you can use it for more than just one POP

mail server/webmail

2009-04-23 Thread Liontaur
Hi folks, I was searching around but i'm not quite sure what i'm looking for. I want to have a program that gets the mail from my ISP mail server (pop), stores the mail permanently, allows me webmail access, and also lets me grab the mail with a mail client (Outlook Express). I'd like to be able

Re: mail server/webmail

2009-04-23 Thread Liontaur
On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 11:26 AM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 10:39:26 -0700, Liontaur liont...@gmail.com wrote: I want to have a program that gets the mail from my ISP mail server (pop), stores the mail permanently, This would be a task for fetchmail. It stores

help with running qmake

2004-03-01 Thread liontaur
FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE-p1 i386 qmake-3.2.1 I have this application (BOINC) that needs to be qmaked instead of a plain old make. So I installed qmake from the ports collection, ran configure on said application and then tried running qmake on application and got this QMAKESPEC has not been set, so