Re: how to get system information

2003-09-28 Thread paul beard
you're after. CPU: Pentium II/Pentium II Xeon/Celeron (233.29-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = GenuineIntel Id = 0x634 Stepping = 4 Features=0x80f9ffFPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,MMX -- Paul Beard http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype/ whois -h whois.networksolutions.com ha

Re: how to get system information

2003-09-28 Thread paul beard
you're after. CPU: Pentium II/Pentium II Xeon/Celeron (233.29-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = GenuineIntel Id = 0x634 Stepping = 4 Features=0x80f9ffFPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,MMX -- Paul Beard http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype/ whois -h whois.networksolutions.com ha

Re: What's the difference between FreeBSD and OpenBSD?

2003-09-17 Thread paul beard
Lucas Holt wrote: Darwin (Apple's distro) isn't done yet for x86 platforms. Mac OS X runs the darwin system. Actually, it is running on x86 hardware and has for some time. http://developer.apple.com/darwin/projects/darwin/ -- Paul Beard http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype/ whois -h

Re: Office 2000 Pro

2003-09-14 Thread paul beard
as will MSFT support FreeBSD and I think we know the answer. Why not buy a bargain-basement commodity PC for Office and network it through the freebsd system (some protection from the worms is always good)? -- Paul Beard http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype/ whois -h whois.networksolutions.com ha

Re: Soundblaster Live! on FreeBSD 4.8?

2003-09-07 Thread paul beard
didn't always play well with others . . . . -- Paul Beard http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype/ whois -h whois.networksolutions.com ha=pb202 He was so narrow minded he could see through a keyhole with both eyes ... ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http

Re: FreeBSD install corrupts neighboring partitions

2003-09-06 Thread paul beard
kept away from each other, but its hard to know for sure without any information off the system. -- Paul Beard http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype/ whois -h whois.networksolutions.com ha=pb202 A man said to the Universe: Sir, I exist! However, replied the Universe, the fact has not created

anyone have any experience with SWIG?

2003-09-05 Thread Paul Beard
. The stuff I hope to use if this can be made to work can be found here: http://freeengineer.org/xmcd2make.html -- Paul Beard / 8040 27th Ave NE / Seattle WA 98115 / paulbeard [at] mac [ dot] com / 206 529 8400 weblog @ http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype

Re: Help Required

2003-08-29 Thread paul beard
you get an edge over your classmates. But doing an installation and learning how it really works will certainly teach you a lot. When you have specific questions, come back and you'll get all the help you need (hint: this is one of the advantages of FreeBSD over the Leading Brand). -- Paul

Re: Nachi Worm apparently causes Live Lock on 4.7 server

2003-08-29 Thread paul beard
to force autoupdates on those client machines. I got the impression from some reading on Google Groups that there may be a way to tell the xl driver to use polling. I just don't know how. Well, this is the right place to ask. -- Paul Beard http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype/ whois -h

Re: mod_perl configuration questions

2003-08-25 Thread paul beard
Random Websurfer hits the static path I have aliased, and I go to the admin interface. I'll try that. Thanks. -- Paul Beard http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype/ whois -h whois.networksolutions.com ha=pb202 In West Union, Ohio, No married man can go flying without his spouse along at any time

portupgrade problem (was Re: orphaned port?)

2003-08-24 Thread paul beard
...] pkg_info -a [flags] the O option doesn't seem to be in the man page, so I'm not sure what's up. -- Paul Beard http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype/ whois -h whois.networksolutions.com ha=pb202 E Pluribus Unix ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http

Re: orphaned port?

2003-08-24 Thread paul beard
happens if you run make -dl install ? -- Paul Beard http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype/ whois -h whois.networksolutions.com ha=pb202 We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. -- Oscar Wilde ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: orphaned port?

2003-08-24 Thread paul beard
Michelle wrote: On Saturday, August 23, 2003, at 05:03 PM, paul beard wrote: Michelle wrote: That was clear and the start of the jurney. Please update libtool either using portupgrade or do it by hand as you do before. Jens I still cannot upgrade libtool. I can run make, but when I run

Re: orphaned port?

2003-08-24 Thread paul beard
Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: On Sat, 2003-08-23 at 20:56, paul beard wrote: Michelle wrote: On Saturday, August 23, 2003, at 05:03 PM, paul beard wrote: Michelle wrote: That was clear and the start of the jurney. Please update libtool either using portupgrade or do it by hand as you do before

Re: orphaned port?

2003-08-24 Thread paul beard
Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: On Sat, 2003-08-23 at 20:56, paul beard wrote: Michelle wrote: On Saturday, August 23, 2003, at 05:03 PM, paul beard wrote: Michelle wrote: That was clear and the start of the jurney. Please update libtool either using portupgrade or do it by hand as you do before

mod_perl configuration questions

2003-08-24 Thread paul beard
. The super-simple, hey presto instruction I have found so far don't help at all: I can only get faster perl code and no access to any static html. Does anyone have any experience with mod_perl and plain old CGI they can share? -- Paul Beard http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype/ whois -h

Re: mod_perl configuration questions

2003-08-24 Thread paul beard
Chuck Swiger wrote: paul beard wrote: [ ... ] What I am trying to do is install mod_perl into an existing CGI-enabled environment with the MovableType weblog software. By existing you mean, some vendor (MovableType?) has provided you with a precompiled version of Apache and you want to add

Re: mod_perl configuration questions

2003-08-24 Thread paul beard
#PerlHandler Apache::Registry #Options +ExecCGI #PerlSendHeader On #allow from all #/Location -- Paul Beard http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype/ whois -h whois.networksolutions.com ha=pb202 Q: How many heterosexual males does it take to screw in a light bulb in San Francisco? A: Both of them

Re: mod_perl configuration questions

2003-08-24 Thread paul beard
, but by definition, I'm missing. -- Paul Beard http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype/ whois -h whois.networksolutions.com ha=pb202 The primary requisite for any new tax law is for it to exempt enough voters to win the next election. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing

Re: mod_perl configuration questions

2003-08-24 Thread paul beard
is setup to use an index.html file instead of calling the script directly. If i call mt.cgi, I get the admin screen. I think it might be best to rip the whole damn thing out and start over. -- Paul Beard http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype/ whois -h whois.networksolutions.com ha=pb202

Re: strange reboots

2003-08-22 Thread paul beard
of the system at all? -- Paul Beard http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype/ whois -h whois.networksolutions.com ha=pb202 Earth is a great, big funhouse without the fun. -- Jeff Berner ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

mod_perl 1.28 with apache 1.3.28 questions

2003-08-22 Thread paul beard
: no joy there, either. Any help? -- Paul Beard http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype/ whois -h whois.networksolutions.com ha=pb202 Non-sequiturs make me eat lampshades. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: mod_perl 1.28 with apache 1.3.28 questions

2003-08-22 Thread paul beard
for that yet. This is a production system for me, and I'm not tackling the 5.x learning curve just yet. People have been running mod_perl on 4.x systems, so there must be a way. -- Paul Beard http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype/ whois -h whois.networksolutions.com ha=pb202 Keep emotionally

Re: Quick Question

2003-08-14 Thread paul beard
And tell me if, in your opinion, all of these parts would be compatible with FBSD 5.1. (Of course, I'm mainly concerned about the MB - it's an all in one solution, and the NIC) Why go with 5.1? Try 4.8 for now and get used to FreeBSD. 5.2 will be ready when you are. -- Paul Beard http

Re: What is OUT OF THE BOX

2003-08-01 Thread Paul Beard
from the current topic. No, it means Order of the British Empire, as English-speaking patrons are doubtless aware. -- Paul Beard / 8040 27th Ave NE / Seattle WA 98115 / paulbeard [at] mac [ dot] com / 206 529 8400 weblog @ http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype

Re: How to remove ^M character

2003-08-01 Thread Paul Beard
-- Paul Beard / 8040 27th Ave NE / Seattle WA 98115 / paulbeard [at] mac [ dot] com / 206 529 8400 weblog @ http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: Post about BSD's alleged demise on /.

2003-07-10 Thread Paul Beard
. -- Paul Beard / 8040 27th Ave NE / Seattle WA 98115 / paulbeard [at] mac [ dot] com / 206 529 8400 weblog @ http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: CD to MP3

2003-01-12 Thread paul beard
, and naming of CD's Port: ripit-2.0_1 Info: A perl-script frontend for encoding audio CDs to MP3 files Port: streamripper-1.0.5 Info: Splits SHOUTcast stream into tracks Port: sweep-0.1.1 Info: A sound editor for GNOME desktop You can't go wrong with grip. -- Paul Beard http://paulbeard.no

Re: Scanner for FreeBSD

2003-01-10 Thread paul beard
for SANE (Scanner Access Now Easy) -- Paul Beard http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype/ 8040 27th Ave NE Seattle WA 98115 / 206 529 8400 A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students. -- John Ciardi To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: freebsd curiosity

2003-01-10 Thread paul beard
I kicked this thread across to advocacy when it started, so it may be worth following it up over there. -- Paul Beard http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype/ 8040 27th Ave NE Seattle WA 98115 / 206 529 8400 Genetics explains why you look like your father, and if you don't, why you should

Re: Drgenius with gnome2

2003-01-10 Thread paul beard
that didn't work as well. I can drop a bug report to the developer(s) at their site. -- Paul Beard http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype/ 8040 27th Ave NE Seattle WA 98115 / 206 529 8400 The meek shall inherit the earth -- they are too weak to refuse. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Cisco Aironet PCI card - Supported ?

2003-01-09 Thread paul beard
: Aironet PC4500/PC4800 at port 0x240-0x27f irq 5 slot 0 on pccard0 an0: Ethernet address: 00:40:96:35:ff:20 Jan 9 07:08:41 green pccardd[74]: an0: Cisco Systems (340 Series Wireless LAN Adapter) inserted. might be worth asking on the mobile list about the 350. -- Paul Beard: seeking UNIX/internet

Re: Motd Updating

2003-01-09 Thread paul beard
echo /tmp/motd.tmp df -k /tmp/motd.tmp echo /tmp/motd.tmp uptime /tmp/motd.tmp cp /tmp/motd.tmp /etc/motd -- Paul Beard http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype/ 8040 27th Ave NE Seattle WA 98115 / 206 529 8400 Faith, n: That quality which enables us to believe what we know to be untrue

Re: Motd Updating

2003-01-09 Thread paul beard
that checksums what's in MOTD versus what should be. -- Paul Beard http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype/ 8040 27th Ave NE Seattle WA 98115 / 206 529 8400 Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society. -- Mark Twain To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Motd Updating

2003-01-09 Thread paul beard
system-wide announcements. During system startup, a line containing the kernel version string is prepended to this file. so perhaps you need to look into how login(1) works. -- Paul Beard http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype/ 8040 27th Ave NE Seattle WA 98115 / 206 529 8400 UFO's are for real

Re: glibwww port - patch does not apply

2003-01-08 Thread paul beard
, it's beyond my expertise, so if anyone can help, I'd really appreciate it. try a make clean to start with a clean slate. That should remove the work directory and any cruft therein. -- Paul Beard: seeking UNIX/internet engineering work http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/paulbeard.html 8040 27th Ave

Re: copying audio cd's

2003-01-05 Thread paul beard
Roman Neuhauser wrote: Having searched the archives, I'm confused. it looks like you want this section of the handbook: 12.5.5 Duplicating Audio CDs http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/creating-cds.html -- Paul Beard: seeking UNIX/internet engineering work http

Re: dos attack

2003-01-05 Thread paul beard
credible. One of the strengths of open source is that it allows rapid response to threats. By not taking what steps you can, you risk undermining that point. My two cents, of course. -- Paul Beard: seeking UNIX/internet engineering work http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/paulbeard.html 8040 27th Ave NE

Re: audio mixer doesn't work

2003-01-05 Thread paul beard
does not change the soundlevel, nor does using another program such as xmms, opmixer, or kmix. any help would be appreciated. what specific values are you trying to change and what are you trying to do? can you supply the output of mixer? and tell us what you're like to change? -- Paul Beard

Re: audacity is creating (??) unwritable-by-cdrecord wave files

2003-01-03 Thread paul beard
there's a compelling reason to use audacity: you can always edit in audactity later. -- Paul Beard: seeking UNIX/internet engineering work http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/paulbeard.html 8040 27th Ave NE Seattle WA 98115 / 206 529 8400 Why are we importing all these highbrow plays like `Amadeus'? I could

Re: problems with gramofile

2003-01-02 Thread paul beard
structures in the system options SEMMSL=33 # max number of semaphores per id options SEMOPM=101 # max number of operations per semop call options SEMUME=11 # max number of undo entries per process -- Paul Beard: seeking UNIX/internet engineering work http

Re: OT: [was: recording audio with SoundBlaster Live...]

2003-01-02 Thread paul beard
at the man page and now I think I see what needs to happen. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])-(07:01 PM / Thu Jan 02) [/usr/home/paul]:: mixer recsrc =rec line1 Recording source: line1 Many thanks. -- Paul Beard: seeking UNIX/internet engineering work http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/paulbeard.html 8040 27th Ave NE

SBLive docs, it you need 'em

2003-01-02 Thread paul beard
The nice people at Creative have PDF manuals on line if you ever need one. I didn't even know what card I had until I found this stuff. So all the SBLive and newer cards, as well as back to the SB 16: it's all there. http://www.americas.creative.com/support/ -- Paul Beard: seeking UNIX

recording audio with SoundBlaster Live/pcm cards: has anyone triedthis?

2003-01-01 Thread paul beard
source site, audio in and out is supported, but there's supported and proven to work. Anyone have any experience with this or troubleshooting ideas I should be aware of? -- Paul Beard: seeking UNIX/internet engineering work http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/paulbeard.html 8040 27th Ave NE Seattle WA 98115

Re: Virtual interface support?

2002-12-31 Thread paul beard
Jeff Penn wrote: The html documentation supplied with apache2 appears to require the server to be running for browsing (many of the links appear broken). why not bind it to the loopback and browse it there (assuming its the machine you're sitting in front of)? -- Paul Beard: seeking UNIX

Re: Portupgrade vs. multiple versions of packages

2002-12-31 Thread paul beard
://lists.csociety.org/listinfo/kde-freebsd -- Paul Beard: seeking UNIX/internet engineering work http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/paulbeard.html 8040 27th Ave NE Seattle WA 98115 / 206 529 8400 Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it's open to anybody who owns hideous

Re: do we have to wait for PHP 4.3 port?

2002-12-30 Thread paul beard
to be in the cvsup'd ports tree (/usr/ports/www/mod_php4) I wouldn't be surprised to see it in the tree when the code freeze is lifted: that's about 2 weeks off, so you may want to install from source now and do the ports/pkg housekeeping later. -- Paul Beard: seeking UNIX/internet engineering

Re: XFree86 troubles in 5.0 RC2

2002-12-26 Thread paul beard
4.7 is an officially supported release. -- Paul Beard: seeking UNIX/internet engineering work http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/paulbeard.html 8040 27th Ave NE Seattle WA 98115 / 206 529 8400 Some programming languages manage to absorb change but withstand progress. To Unsubscribe: send mail

cdrecord coaster problem solved

2002-12-26 Thread paul beard
). sudo cdrdao write --eject --device 0,1,0 --driver teac-cdr55 toc -- Paul Beard / 8040 27th Ave NE / Seattle WA 98115 / paulbeard [at] mac [ dot] com / 206 529 8400 weblog @ http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions

Re: cdrecord problems: too many coasters

2002-12-24 Thread paul beard
] It *has* worked but for audio CDs, just once. -- Paul Beard: seeking UNIX/internet engineering work http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/paulbeard.html 8040 27th Ave NE Seattle WA 98115 / 206 529 8400 No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. -- Eleanor Roosevelt To Unsubscribe: send mail

Re: cdrecord problems: too many coasters

2002-12-24 Thread paul beard
. Looks like the $20 I paid for it on eBay might gave been too much after all. I couldn't have found this out before I bought it, since the seller didn't know what the internals were, but I know better now. It seems to work OK for data CDs, though. How annoying. -- Paul Beard: seeking UNIX

Re: Argument list too long: limitation in grep? bash? FreeBSD?

2002-12-24 Thread paul beard
| xargs grep __FILE__ yeilds: -bash: /usr/bin/find: Argument list too long try grep __FILE__ *.html. to get a file coun, 'ls | wc' might work. -- Paul Beard: seeking UNIX/internet engineering work http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/paulbeard.html 8040 27th Ave NE Seattle WA 98115 / 206 529 8400 Love

any way to tell what kind of drive this?

2002-12-24 Thread paul beard
acd0: CD-RW IDE-CD ReWritable-2x2x6 at ata1-slave PIO3 Short of taking it out of the case, of course. burncd seems not to have the same inquiry tools as cdrecord. -- Paul Beard: seeking UNIX/internet engineering work http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/paulbeard.html 8040 27th Ave NE Seattle WA 98115

Re: any way to tell what kind of drive this?

2002-12-24 Thread paul beard
Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Dec 24), paul beard said: acd0: CD-RW IDE-CD ReWritable-2x2x6 at ata1-slave PIO3 Short of taking it out of the case, of course. burncd seems not to have the same inquiry tools as cdrecord. Add device atapicam to your kernel config and it will show up

Re: L0phtcrack

2002-12-23 Thread paul beard
evaluating a tool such as L0phtcrack 2.0 for assisting in checking the quality of user passwords. -- Paul Beard: seeking UNIX/internet engineering work http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/paulbeard.html 8040 27th Ave NE Seattle WA 98115 / 206 529 8400 Laughter is the closest distance between two people

cdrecord problems: too many coasters

2002-12-23 Thread paul beard
). I get one track to record, but all subsequent tracks won't play in a CD player or computer. I just noise (sounds like the digital equivalent of a record skipping). here's the command I have used: sudo /usr/local/bin/cdrecord -pad -audio -vv speed=0 -eject dev=0,1,0 *wav -- Paul Beard: seeking

Re: CDRW drive

2002-12-22 Thread paul beard
something to it first, I think. -- Paul Beard: seeking UNIX/internet engineering work http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/paulbeard.html 8040 27th Ave NE Seattle WA 98115 / 206 529 8400 This login session: $13.99, but for you $11.88 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe

Re: Drawing diagrams a-la-Visio

2002-12-21 Thread paul beard
Cliff Sarginson wrote: Ok, thanks for the answers. I shall have a look at the various suggestions... I may also mail whoever makes Visio and say what an excellent X11 application it would make :) That would be Microsoft: I wouldn't expect much . . . -- Paul Beard: seeking UNIX/internet

Re: gramofile, mkisofs howto??

2002-12-17 Thread paul beard
/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/creating-cds.html especially the 'Duplicating Audio CDs' part. yes, of course. Cockpit fog . . . . I think I was fixated in mkisofs because I wanted a volume name to show up if I inserted the disk into one of the other Leading Brands' machines. -- Paul Beard

cdrdao toc-files/gcdmaster [was Re: gramofile, mkisofs howto??]

2002-12-17 Thread paul beard
I'll need to be making the necessary toc-files by hand. Has anyone done this? Any pointers? -- Paul Beard: seeking UNIX/internet engineering work in Seattle area. Details available below: http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/paulbeard.html Truly great madness can not be achieved without significant

confidential to geeky@epals.com [Fwd: Undeliverable mail, returnto sender]

2002-12-17 Thread paul beard
Original Message Subject: Undeliverable mail, return to sender Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 12:38:23 -0800 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: paul beard [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your message could not be delivered to [EMAIL PROTECTED] because their mailbox is full. Try resending your message

Re: Any word on FreeBSD 5.0 release

2002-12-17 Thread paul beard
Ray Seals wrote: I know that RC 1 was released and was wondering which mailing list would have any traffic concerning the issues and what's going on with 5.0. [EMAIL PROTECTED] would be my best guess. You can see the release schedule on the web site as well. -- Paul Beard: seeking UNIX

Re: cdrdao toc-files/gcdmaster [was Re: gramofile, mkisofs howto??]

2002-12-17 Thread paul beard
for this is joyless and it's made more os by the knowledge there is a UI that ships with this but isn't in ports. I was hoping someone who had used cdrdao would chime in. -- Paul Beard: seeking UNIX/internet engineering work in Seattle area. Details available below: http://paulbeard.no-ip.org

Re: Fwd: gkrellm2 port compile problems

2002-12-17 Thread paul beard
/libpangoxft-1.0.so: might be worth making sure it (pango-1.0.5) is up to date (make deinstall make reinstall). [/home/paul/src]:: pkg_info -W /usr/X11R6/lib/libpangoxft-1.0.so /usr/X11R6/lib/libpangoxft-1.0.so was installed by package pango-1.0.5 -- Paul Beard: seeking UNIX/internet engineering work

Re: signal 12 error means?

2002-12-10 Thread paul beard
128 #define SIGSYS 12 /* non-existent system call invoked */ some linux abi misfeature, perhaps? -- Paul Beard: seeking UNIX/internet engineering work in Seattle area. Details available below: http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/paulbeard.html There is a certain impertinence in allowing

Re: grip cd ripper - which one

2002-12-09 Thread paul beard
]:: pkg_info -W /usr/local/bin/cdda2wav /usr/local/bin/cdda2wav was installed by package cdrtools-1.11.a39 -- Paul Beard: seeking UNIX/internet engineering work in Seattle area. Details available below: http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/paulbeard.html The revolution will not be televised. To Unsubscribe: send

Re: Interest in diskless booting?

2002-12-07 Thread paul beard
of The Complete FreeBSD, and I was wondering if there was enough interest in this topic for me to include it in the book. If *you* are interested, please let me know. I'll make a decision depending on the amount of feedback I get. put me down as a yes, please. -- Paul Beard: seeking UNIX/internet

Re: List of big names ...

2002-12-01 Thread paul beard
) was going to build IPv6-aware switching gear based on FreeBSD. -- Paul Beard / 8040 27th Ave NE / Seattle WA 98115 / paulbeard [at] mac [ dot] com / 206 529 8400 weblog @ http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype/ She missed an invaluable opportunity to give him a look that you could have poured

Re: List of big names ...

2002-11-30 Thread paul beard
to take this up on -advocacy. -- Paul Beard / 8040 27th Ave NE / Seattle WA 98115 / paulbeard [at] mac [ dot] com / 206 529 8400 weblog @ http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype/ Have you noticed the way people's intelligence capabilities decline sharply the minute they start waving guns around

Re: A question on AppleLaser Writer 16/1600 PS [off-topic-ish]

2002-11-29 Thread paul beard
blue:netatalk 65280.220:4 -- Paul Beard / 8040 27th Ave NE / Seattle WA 98115 / paulbeard [at] mac [ dot] com / 206 529 8400 weblog @ http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype/ Greener's Law: Never argue with a man who buys ink by the barrel. To Unsubscribe: send mail

Re: A question on AppleLaser Writer 16/1600 PS [off-topic-ish]

2002-11-29 Thread paul beard
Warren Block wrote: On Fri, 29 Nov 2002, paul beard wrote: The PDF manual for this printer is available on the Apple web site, although it requires some hunting around. That manual says that it does lpr/lpd. Unfortunately I couldn't find anything about clearing the TCP/IP password, either

AppleTalk addressing/routing question

2002-11-29 Thread paul beard
bytes from 65522.222: aep_seq=4. time=2. ms 65522.222 AEP Statistics 5 packets sent, 5 packets received, 0% packet loss round-trip (ms) min/avg/max = 1/1/3 Darwin is not as conducive to knob-twiddling as netatalk, so I'm not sure how I would resolve this. -- Paul Beard / 8040 27th Ave NE

Re: HP COLORADO tape Backup

2002-11-29 Thread paul beard
Ismail YENIGUL wrote: hi i use FreeBSD 4.7-STABLE i have a following tape ast0: TAPE at ata0-slave PIO4 (this is dmesg output) how can i backup ? and which device i should use ? dump(8) would be the best thing to start with. The handbook has a very useful chapter on this. -- Paul Beard

[Fwd: Re: pybliographer]

2002-11-27 Thread paul beard
looks like the bug is in recode . . . . shouldn't that be a == not a =? Original Message Subject: Re: pybliographer Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2002 09:54:03 -0300 From: Fernan Aguero [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: paul beard [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] References: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Hardware test software for FreeBSD

2002-11-27 Thread paul beard
in test, I think. It seems to find lots of bad RAM. -- Paul Beard / 8040 27th Ave NE / Seattle WA 98115 / paulbeard [at] mac [ dot] com / 206 529 8400 weblog @ http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype/ No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. -- Eleanor Roosevelt To Unsubscribe

Re: What is the difference between FreeBSD and OpenBSD...

2002-11-27 Thread paul beard
finely granular control and good design practices, but that puts the onus on the administrator to make the right choices for the situation at hand. -- Paul Beard / 8040 27th Ave NE / Seattle WA 98115 / paulbeard [at] mac [ dot] com / 206 529 8400 weblog @ http://paulbeard.no-ip.org

Re: FTP access via email (Was - OFF TOPIC - please help!!! etc...)

2002-11-27 Thread paul beard
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for sending me the sh man page Paul (Beard) - unfortunately it was corrupted, with strange formatting and characters. This looks similar to when I have tried to pipe a manpage to a file, e.g. # man sh ~/sh.txt Maybe one of the list members could shed light

Re: How to enable telnet with root?

2002-11-27 Thread paul beard
or anywhere else ;-) Why can't sudo work for you here? -- Paul Beard / 8040 27th Ave NE / Seattle WA 98115 / paulbeard [at] mac [ dot] com / 206 529 8400 weblog @ http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype/ Sex is not the answer. Sex is the question. Yes is the answer. -- Swami X To Unsubscribe

Re: pybliographer does not install with pkg_add

2002-11-26 Thread paul beard
of missing dependencies (libgda and gconf) that wouldn't build, but pkg_add -rv took care of them. Now it seems gnome-db is needed as well: I'll see how that goes. Can you pass along an error message? -- Paul Beard / 8040 27th Ave NE / Seattle WA 98115 / paulbeard [at] mac [ dot] com / 206 529 8400

Re: pybliographer does not install with pkg_add

2002-11-26 Thread paul beard
. I emailed the required bits to the maintainer. pkg_add -v means verbose: useful at times. -- Paul Beard / 8040 27th Ave NE / Seattle WA 98115 / paulbeard [at] mac [ dot] com / 206 529 8400 weblog @ http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype/ If entropy is increasing, where is it coming from

Re: pybliographer does not install with pkg_add

2002-11-26 Thread paul beard
with recode: I couldn't get it to install properly and it's annoying to have configure insist on a version of 3.5 when you just installed 3.6. and I don't even need this thing: I was just trying to see what was wroing with it. -- Paul Beard / 8040 27th Ave NE / Seattle WA 98115 / paulbeard [at] mac

Re: 4.7 changes to /bin/sh?

2002-11-26 Thread paul beard
it was complaining about running a command in the background and then trying to use the operator to run the following command. check to see how ${PREFIX} is being evaluated: I have found quite a few rc scripts where it never worked: I just hard-coded the necessary values. -- Paul Beard / 8040

Re: making source code changes to a port ?

2002-11-23 Thread paul beard
directory but not actually install anything until I finish with the edits, ect? then after that I would go do the `make install`. Anyone ? this sounds like a job for patch(1). -- Paul Beard / 8040 27th Ave NE / Seattle WA 98115 / paulbeard [at] mac [ dot] com / 206 529 8400 weblog @ http

Re: Problem with the upgrade and now I need to rollback.. =/

2002-11-22 Thread paul beard
much. Mostly mysql documents which I find a little hard to believe that mysql has that much higher ranking pages then the FreeBSD site. that's understandable: rollback is a database operation and is likely to generate lots of pages, for reasons not dissimilar to yours. -- Paul Beard / 8040 27th

Re: Problem with the upgrade and now I need to rollback.. =/

2002-11-22 Thread paul beard
and filename for the kernel backup? I got an email offlist that suggested a 5.0 system would have its kernels in /boot: it might be worth trying that. I'm not running -current, so I can't confirm. -- Paul Beard / 8040 27th Ave NE / Seattle WA 98115 / paulbeard [at] mac [ dot] com / 206 529 8400 weblog

Re: openoffice install

2002-11-22 Thread paul beard
as soon as it opens the blank workspace otherwise. Does anyone know what permissions problems this might indicate? -- Paul Beard / 8040 27th Ave NE / Seattle WA 98115 / paulbeard [at] mac [ dot] com / 206 529 8400 weblog @ http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype/ She liked him; he was a man

How to deinstall openoffice?

2002-11-22 Thread paul beard
in /usr/local/bin. I can't figure out what it is or how to force it to install. Any ideas? -- Paul Beard / 8040 27th Ave NE / Seattle WA 98115 / paulbeard [at] mac [ dot] com / 206 529 8400 weblog @ http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype

Re: How to deinstall openoffice?

2002-11-22 Thread paul beard
happy yet. -- Paul Beard / 8040 27th Ave NE / Seattle WA 98115 / paulbeard [at] mac [ dot] com / 206 529 8400 weblog @ http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype/ Tact is the ability to tell a man he has an open mind when he has a hole in his head. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: How to deinstall openoffice?

2002-11-22 Thread paul beard
: that was it. The only place I didn't look, shame on me . . . -- Paul Beard / 8040 27th Ave NE / Seattle WA 98115 / paulbeard [at] mac [ dot] com / 206 529 8400 weblog @ http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype/ ASHes to ASHes, DOS to DOS. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd

portupgrade question: XFree86-libraries-4.2.1_3

2002-11-21 Thread paul beard
: No such file or directory ./config/imake/imake: Exit code 1. Stop. *** Error code 1 -- Paul Beard / 8040 27th Ave NE / Seattle WA 98115 / paulbeard [at] mac [ dot] com / 206 529 8400 weblog @ http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype/ An exotic journey in downtown Newark is in your future. To Unsubscribe

Re: connecting to SCSI drive

2002-11-20 Thread paul beard
that the drive exists? man camcontrol(8) I think you need camcontrol rescan all | bus[:target:lun]: use dmesg or camcontrol devlist -v to get the target names. -- Paul Beard / 8040 27th Ave NE / Seattle WA 98115 / paulbeard [at] mac [ dot] com / 206 529 8400 weblog @ http://paulbeard.no-ip.org

Re: [oetiker@ee.ethz.ch: Re: MRTG problem]

2002-11-20 Thread paul beard
budsz wrote: it seems 2.9.26 is broken on freebsd ... I don't know why ... sorry ... hoping for a patch from some user of this system tobi I guess the next question is, how to downgrade a port? -- Paul Beard / 8040 27th Ave NE / Seattle WA 98115 / paulbeard [at] mac [ dot] com / 206 529

Re: [oetiker@ee.ethz.ch: Re: MRTG problem]

2002-11-20 Thread paul beard
/mrtg2 cp -rp * /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/ -- Paul Beard / 8040 27th Ave NE / Seattle WA 98115 / paulbeard [at] mac [ dot] com / 206 529 8400 weblog @ http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype/ Does the name Pavlov ring a bell? To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: connecting to SCSI drive

2002-11-20 Thread paul beard
been that powering the device on and running some camcontrol commands which I don't recall off-hand would allow the device to be accessed. -- Paul Beard / 8040 27th Ave NE / Seattle WA 98115 / paulbeard [at] mac [ dot] com / 206 529 8400 weblog @ http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype/ I

Re: wordperfect tarfile needed to port to install: missing?

2002-11-20 Thread paul beard
I'll hunt around from some kind of translator. -- Paul Beard / 8040 27th Ave NE / Seattle WA 98115 / paulbeard [at] mac [ dot] com / 206 529 8400 weblog @ http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype/ UFO's are for real: the Air Force doesn't exist. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: wordperfect tarfile needed to port to install: missing?

2002-11-20 Thread paul beard
David Varieur wrote: Google is your friend. GUILG00.GZ ftp yields this link on the second result. http://www.linuxmafia.com/wpfaq/downloadwp8.html Of course it does: I cannot brain today. Thanks for doing it for me. -- Paul Beard / 8040 27th Ave NE / Seattle WA 98115 / paulbeard [at] mac

Re: Acroread5

2002-11-20 Thread paul beard
displayed when the port is installed? does it use /tmp or /var/tmp? -- Paul Beard / 8040 27th Ave NE / Seattle WA 98115 / paulbeard [at] mac [ dot] com / 206 529 8400 weblog @ http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype/ A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants

Re: playing realaudio files

2002-11-20 Thread paul beard
-- Paul Beard / 8040 27th Ave NE / Seattle WA 98115 / paulbeard [at] mac [ dot] com / 206 529 8400 weblog @ http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype/ I see a good deal of talk from Washington about lowering taxes. I hope they do get 'em lowered enough so people can afford to pay 'em

Re: Syslog Piping

2002-11-19 Thread paul beard
a sample: [/home/paul]:: more test.pl #!/usr/bin/env perl while () { print $_; } Now just pipe something thru it: [/home/paul]:: cat .signature | test.pl Paul Beard / 8040 27th Ave NE / Seattle WA 98115 / paulbeard [at] mac [ dot] com / 206 529 8400 weblog @ http://paulbeard.no

Re: bash .profile issues

2002-11-18 Thread paul beard
could look for some bash dotfiles. the ORA book is a good reference. see also: http://www.google.com/search?hl=enie=UTF-8oe=UTF-8q=bash+tutorialbtnG=Google+Search -- Paul Beard / 8040 27th Ave NE / Seattle WA 98115 / paulbeard [at] mac [ dot] com / 206 529 8400 weblog @ http://paulbeard.no-ip.org

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