Re: My tribute to Dennis Ritchie

2011-10-20 Thread Michael M
On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 5:07 PM, Paul Schmehl wrote: > # grep -ir Ritchie /usr/src/* > /usr/src/bin/cat/cat.1:.An Dennis Ritchie > /usr/src/contrib/ntp/util/**ansi2knr.1:ansi2knr \- convert ANSI C to > Kernighan & Ritchie C > /usr/src/contrib/tcpdump/**print-rx.c: * Sigh. This is gross. > Ri

Re: Dennis Ritchie has died. A suggestion

2011-10-17 Thread Michael M
On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 9:27 AM, Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote: > On 10/17/2011 10:08 AM, Alessandro Spinella wrote: > >> On 10/14/11 18:22, Odhiambo Washington wrote: >> >> +1 >>> >>> FreeBSD-9 Codename Ritchie. >>> >>> >> agree_counter++; >> > > agreed. > > > -- > RMA. > >

Re: Mount a ufs partition writable by group wheel?

2011-09-02 Thread Michael M
On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 4:31 PM, Polytropon wrote: > On Fri, 2 Sep 2011 16:08:08 +0200, Michael M wrote: > > Excuse my generic question, I should have asked: > > > > Can the group rw options for given partition destination be defined in > fstab > > upon mount? >

Re: Mount a ufs partition writable by group wheel?

2011-09-02 Thread Michael M
Excuse my generic question, I should have asked: Can the group rw options for given partition destination be defined in fstab upon mount? Thanks, Michael M On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 2:02 PM, Robert Bonomi wrote: > > From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Fri Sep 2 06:30:22 2011 > &g

Mount a ufs partition writable by group wheel?

2011-09-02 Thread Michael M
Is it possible to mount a ufs partition writable by group wheel? How would the fstab entry look? Thanks, Michael M ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: Flash Player

2007-02-02 Thread Michael M. Press
I am running firefox from the ports and have the following ports installed to try and make this work but it will not. flashplugin-mozilla-0.4.13 A GPL standalone Flash (TM) plugin for Mozilla web browser libflash-0.4.13_1 GPL Flash (TM) Library linux-flashplugin-7.0r69 Adobe Flash Player NPAPI

Re: Firefox mess in Freebsd 6.1

2007-01-17 Thread Michael M. Press
The flash plugin works great with linux-firefox; but how do you get the java plugin to work with it? I don't know if there is a way to get a FreeBSD version of the Java plugin to work. If you have a Linux version of it sitting around: cd /usr/local/lib/linux-firefox/plugins ln -s /usr/local/

Re: Firefox mess in Freebsd 6.1

2007-01-17 Thread Michael M. Press
I need to try the Warren's method to see if that is going to help me, first of all I need to read man portupgrade to perform the upgrade from 6.1to 6.2 , as i am new into this freebsd world. The really easy way out is to install the linux-firefox port. If you do this, flash should "just work".

Re: Linux Kernel Drivers in Under FreeBSD

2007-01-08 Thread Michael M. Press
Is it possible to get Linux kernel drivers working under FreeBSD? If so, how? (Specifically Garmin_USB) I have never heard of anything that would allow a Linux binary driver to be loaded by FreeBSD, and I doubt it exists. Linux binary applications certainly can be run on FreeBSD, but not drive

Re: USB drive is a CDROM drive and is not writable

2007-01-08 Thread Michael M. Press
This sounds like a "Smart" drive - can you confirm? I plugged it into a Windows system and it also recognized a CD drive. In addition, it vomited out a few popup windows and started something in the system tray. This is so ingenious that I think it must be a 'smart' drive. An article from the fo

USB drive is a CDROM drive and is not writable

2007-01-07 Thread Michael M. Press
I have a 2 gigabyte USB memory stick from made by PNY. When I plug it in, I get the following: umass0: vendor 0x0930 USB Flash Memory, rev 2.00/2.00, addr 2 da0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 da0: < USB Flash Memory 6.50> Removable Direct Access SCSI-0 device da0: 40.000MB/s transfers da0: 19

Re: Linux distro with ports/package type system?

2006-05-16 Thread Michael M.
and other received opinions that kept me from trying any BSD for longer than it should have. The notion that "Debian is too outdated" is, in my view, a similar received opinion that keeps some people from looking at it twice, which is a shame. -- Michael M. ++ Portland, OR ++ USA

Re: Dead tree documentation

2006-05-12 Thread Michael M.
Chris Hill wrote: On Fri, 12 May 2006, Michael M. wrote: [snip] Any thoughts, advice, pointers? Anything I missed, especially any general UNIX books that might go well with one of the above? As for general un*x books that are not FreeBSD-specific, the single best one I've us

Re: Dead tree documentation

2006-05-12 Thread Michael M.
m if you're not careful. Still, it can't hurt to check it out, especially as I'm gonna be waiting a bit for the book anyway. -- Michael M. ++ Portland, OR ++ USA "No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks an

Re: Dead tree documentation

2006-05-12 Thread Michael M.
Kevin Kinsey wrote: Michael M. wrote: I've been using various Linux distros and OS X for a while now, and Windows before those, and am interested in trying out FreeBSD. Call me old fashioned, but as an engaged-but-non-technical user, I find it really useful to have at least some accompa

Dead tree documentation

2006-05-12 Thread Michael M.
ckly and easily. As a matter of personal preference, I'm not a big KDE fan, so that tempers my enthusiasm somewhat. I don't think it's really a substitute for trying to learn the basics of using and administering FreeBSD, but then that's probably not what it's trying to b

Re: mouse scroll up problem

2006-04-18 Thread Michael M.
e the setting in Thunderbird preferences. In v1.5: Edit --> Preferences --> Advanced [Check box] Wait XX seconds before marking a message as read (2nd item down) Make it 5 or 10 seconds and at least you won't have to worry about a message being marked as read because your mouse i

Re: Installong screenshots

2006-03-25 Thread Michael M.
it might help you with whatever problems you're having: http://www.freesbie.org/ -- Michael M. -- Portland, OR -- USA "No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream." -S. Ja