Re: When Unix Stops Being Fun

2004-10-03 Thread Michal Pasternak
Ted Mittelstaedt [Sat, Oct 02, 2004 at 10:46:05PM -0700]: As an analogy - there's lots of people that know how to pull into a service station and add air to their car tires. But out of all those people that have learned how to do this only a tenth of them know that tire pressure rises when

Re: Open Office?

2004-08-11 Thread Michal Pasternak
h.kriege [Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 10:11:41AM +0200]: Hi there, Will Open Offoice run on Free BSD? Hello, Yes - both native and linux Open Offoice work. -- m signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Is there a /dev/video in freebsd?

2004-07-26 Thread Michal Pasternak
David [Mon, Jul 26, 2004 at 03:49:01AM -0400]: I am using freebsd 5.2. Xawtv has a command called streamer to capture video/audio from /dev/video. I cannot find /dev/video in freebsd. Which kind of TV card do you have? -- m signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Is there a /dev/video in freebsd?

2004-07-26 Thread Michal Pasternak
David [Mon, Jul 26, 2004 at 10:29:52AM -0400]: Hi, I figure out how to disable attachment viewing. That was my PGP signature. I am using a Hauppauge wintv card which uses the bt878 chipset. I also used that once. All information about it on FreeBSD (oh, almost all, use links) can be found

Re: Compilation

2004-07-21 Thread Michal Pasternak
Carlos Torchia [Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 06:02:43AM +0100]: Hi. I can't compile a program using the G2 graphics library. When I tried compiling the program the first time, cc said it didn't know that g2.h was in /usr/local/include, which I think is pretty stupid. Anyway, I put

Re: doc

2004-07-19 Thread Michal Pasternak
muhammad javed [Mon, Jul 19, 2004 at 10:08:41AM +]: sir my name is javed. i want to learn learn unix opreating stystam .it is possible to send me free book or basics documents. i am great full to you. Hello Javed, You can download FreeBSD handbook here:

Re: memory test

2004-07-06 Thread Michal Pasternak
adrian kok [Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 02:29:57AM +0800]: Hi all Suse linux startup has linux testing feature Well, you can also get a Linux kernel with httpd built-in :) To test your memory, use http://memtest86.com Sincerely, -- m signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: AMD64 vs i386 for FreeBSD

2004-06-26 Thread Michal Pasternak
David O'Brien [Sat, Jun 26, 2004 at 04:00:26PM -0700]: You do know you can run FreeBSD/i386 on the Athlon64 3200+ laptop, right? :-) A 3200+ running 32-bit FreeBSD will out-perform the P4 2.8GHz running the same OS. ... but will it outperform it also by heat dissipation? -- m

Re: setting xterm font from the command line

2004-06-24 Thread Michal Pasternak
Robert Huff [Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 09:05:49AM -0400]: Michael A. Smith writes: xfontsel works great and works fine for the sample string above (Bitstream Charter), but xterm barfs on font strings that have spaces, for example: -bitstream-bitstream vera sans

Re: voice talk between 2 FBSD boxs

2004-06-06 Thread Michal Pasternak
JJB [Sun, Jun 06, 2004 at 01:13:31PM -0400]: Is there an 2 way voice talk command or port application between 2 unix type systems with an ms/windows version? Try: http://shtoom.sf.net/ It's in very early stage of development, but as every Python project, it is highly portable

Re: Sending a message to another computer on the network

2004-06-05 Thread Michal Pasternak
Hasse [Sat, Jun 05, 2004 at 02:25:49PM +0200]: I'm on a FreeBSD 4.10-STABLE machine on 217.209.211.x , and would like to send a message to Win-box ( on the same network, but not my machine ) that's filling up my httpd-access.log with junk. The only thing I know is his IP-adress. What?

Re: sending messages

2004-06-05 Thread Michal Pasternak
arden [Sat, Jun 05, 2004 at 02:45:31PM +0100]: reading the windows messaging thread with interest was wondering how you would message a *nix box on the same network ? man talk Pity it's disabled by default in many today's unices, it was a great time using it to talk with various people on the

Re: Large window causes monitor to degauss/reset!!

2004-06-05 Thread Michal Pasternak
Jacob Rhoden [Sun, Jun 06, 2004 at 01:24:47AM +]: I have been using freebsd for quite some time now, I have come across a machine with a 19 viewmaster, whereby if you open a window bigger than about 500x500 pixels, the monitor resets and degausses every 8 seconds until you close the

Re: PHP IDE instead of Bluefish

2004-06-05 Thread Michal Pasternak
Bruce Hunter [Sat, Jun 05, 2004 at 09:46:09PM -0400]: I have recently gotten rid of window and now only run FBSD. I am a programmer of many kinds. I program in PHP and was wondering what is a good PHP IDE? Maybe something in the ports collection. editors/xemacs works just great! :^) -- m

Re: How to make a screenshot?

2004-06-04 Thread Michal Pasternak
Andrew L. Gould [Fri, Jun 04, 2004 at 12:17:10PM -0500]: I flubbed my first attempt with xwd -- I need to spend more time with it's man page. Try: xwd | xwdtopnm | pnmtojpeg foo.jpg ... and xli (xloadimage) for lightweight image viewing program. Gimp, ImageMagick, ksnapshot are

Re: How to make a screenshot?

2004-06-04 Thread Michal Pasternak
JJB [Fri, Jun 04, 2004 at 01:22:27PM -0400]: DO any of the suggestions made so for work from the command line or do they all just run under x? screen has a hardcopy function (C-a h) and a log function (C-a H), if you want to play with textmode. pgpjHMgA7fFFm.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: ifconfig documentation

2004-06-01 Thread Michal Pasternak
Aldinson C. Esto [Tue, Jun 01, 2004 at 09:39:11PM +0800]: Does the handbook or man page you are referring to have the documentation for each function of the ifconfig.c's source code? I really need this for our DHCP server development. ISC-DHCPD already comes with some framework for writing

Profiling debugging on FreeBSD: loadable modules, profiler output, threads

2004-05-30 Thread Michal Pasternak
this working by yesterday. Thanks, -- Michal Pasternak :: http://pasternak.w.lub.pl :: http://winsrc.sf.net Frankly, any company would look bad if their corporate e-mail was available for anyone to read, -- Jim Dose of Ritual Entertainment. pgpOScSnwIlfy.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: your mail

2004-05-24 Thread Michal Pasternak
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [Mon, May 24, 2004 at 03:58:05PM +0200]: I have an older computer wich cant`t boot CD-ROM discs and I hawe two ways: -to boot from the hard disc; -or to boot from the floppy and instal it from CD-ROM. But i have no idea how to do this. Start with FreeBSD Handbook:

Re: UsersFiles and Quota

2004-05-24 Thread Michal Pasternak
Chris Collins [Mon, May 24, 2004 at 11:58:30PM -0500]: Is there a way to list files on my system that belong to a certain user. I have quotas enabled and cannot find out where all the space is being used. Common procedure is to read the docs before asking! :) man find, EXAMPLES section, 2nd

Re: Install Identd for FreeBSD 4.5

2004-05-22 Thread Michal Pasternak
Hadi Surya Wijaya [Sat, May 22, 2004 at 07:26:14PM +0700]: Questions : How to Install Identd on FreeBSD 4.5 step by step ..? It is already there - uncomment proper lines in /etc/inetd.conf and restart inetd (or, make sure you're running it, it is not enabled by default) Also, if your

Re: Errors building PHP 4.3.6

2004-05-22 Thread Michal Pasternak
Robert Fitzpatrick [Sat, May 22, 2004 at 11:46:50AM -0400]: esmtp# ldd /usr/local/bin/psql /usr/local/bin/psql: libpq.so.3 = /usr/local/lib/libpq.so.3 (0x28096000) libkrb5.so.20 = /usr/local/lib/libkrb5.so.20 (0x280b2000) Hmm, ok, so you need to include -l parameter to the

Re: Errors building PHP 4.3.6

2004-05-22 Thread Michal Pasternak
Robert Fitzpatrick [Sat, May 22, 2004 at 12:10:11PM -0400]: On Sat, 2004-05-22 at 11:56, Michal Pasternak wrote: Robert Fitzpatrick [Sat, May 22, 2004 at 11:46:50AM -0400]: esmtp# ldd /usr/local/bin/psql /usr/local/bin/psql: libpq.so.3 = /usr/local/lib/libpq.so.3 (0x28096000

Re: 2 questions

2004-05-22 Thread Michal Pasternak
Osmany Guirola Cruz [Sat, May 22, 2004 at 02:16:48PM -0400]: how can i know the amount of free RAM and SWAP top vmstat how can i configure my anonymmos ftp Use /stand/sysinstall for a user-friendly way to do that - Configure/Networking/Anon FTP , things like bandwith

Re: keyboard country mapping

2004-05-22 Thread Michal Pasternak
arden [Sat, May 22, 2004 at 09:55:38PM +0100]: I'm in the UK but my install has set up my keyboard as American how can i alter it ? 2 ways: * run /stand/sysinstall and choose Keymap * man kbdcontrol, keymaps are in /usr/share/syscons/keymaps HTH, -- m

Re: XFree86 help...

2004-05-22 Thread Michal Pasternak
hitokiri [Sat, May 22, 2004 at 04:51:55PM -0500]: Alright, so I recently migrated to FreeBSD and had some trouble configuring the network. I got that problem fixed for the most part now as the internet works, except when I go into X. About a minute after I get into X, my internet stops

Debugging a process

2004-05-21 Thread Michal Pasternak
help / any ideas? -- Michal Pasternak :: http://pasternak.w.lub.pl :: http://winsrc.sf.net Frankly, any company would look bad if their corporate e-mail was available for anyone to read, -- Jim Dose of Ritual Entertainment. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Debugging a process

2004-05-21 Thread Michal Pasternak
Michal Pasternak [Fri, May 21, 2004 at 08:38:41PM +0200]: Hello, I've got an Epson printer I've set up with CUPS. Unfortunatley it came out, that the program CUPS uses internally (rastertoprinter) gets some kind of lockup right after ending the page - it starts to eat up 100% CPU; CUPS gets

Printing with CUPS and gimp-print-cups: anyone with same errors?

2004-05-21 Thread Michal Pasternak
and it is set up in a wrong way) * not related with CUPS (FreeBSD fault? Don't think so, but that's still possible) My system is 5.2.1-RC, printer is connected via LPT port. I -- Michal Pasternak :: http://pasternak.w.lub.pl :: http://winsrc.sf.net Frankly, any company would look bad

System for generating C/C++ references?

2003-06-11 Thread Michal Pasternak
Hello, I am looking for some sort of software which would allow me to generate C/C++ (and preferably other languages, like Python or PHP) references for a given project. Suppose I am browsing FreeBSD kernel, notice, that a function uses ,,struct somestruct'' as it's parameter. I want to see, what