Re: top posting (off-topic)

2007-11-22 Thread RW
On Fri, 23 Nov 2007 10:22:50 +1300 Brent Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry if this is a bit off topic for this list, but it seem to be a comment that comes up very regularly; please don't top post... I for one prefer top posting, as usually I have read a particular thread enough times

top posting (off-topic)

2007-11-22 Thread Brent Jones
Sorry if this is a bit off topic for this list, but it seem to be a comment that comes up very regularly; please don't top post... I for one prefer top posting, as usually I have read a particular thread enough times that I like to cut to the chase and read the new input without having to scroll

Re: [Off Topic] Vista Sucks! (Was: Re: best way to run vista inside freebsd)

2007-10-19 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
Byung-Hee HWANG wrote: Dear Vista, On Thu, 2007-10-18 at 18:02 +, Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: I want to run vista (windows) on my freebsd (amd64) machine without rebooting what is better wine or an vm emulator (if so which one... I know how to use vmware but never done so on a *nix

[Off Topic] Vista Sucks! (Was: Re: best way to run vista inside freebsd)

2007-10-19 Thread Byung-Hee HWANG
Dear Vista, On Thu, 2007-10-18 at 18:02 +, Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: I want to run vista (windows) on my freebsd (amd64) machine without rebooting what is better wine or an vm emulator (if so which one... I know how to use vmware but never done so on a *nix machine) Vista! You have no

[Off Topic] Re: www.freebsd.org won't load in IE 7.x in vista box.

2007-10-17 Thread David Benfell
system without administrator privileges; you just install it in the user account space, and the Windows system will remember it with the rest of the user account settings and not trouble other users of that system with it. But I'll also have to acknowledge we're getting well off topic for this list

Re: [Off Topic] Re: www.freebsd.org won't load in IE 7.x in vista box.

2007-10-17 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
David Benfell wrote: On Wed, 17 Oct 2007 23:23:48 +0100, Benjamin A'Lee wrote: Unfortunately, Firefox isn't always an option, especially on e.g. corporate networks. Actually, I believe it is. I run around with a memory stick (well, actually, two of them, but only because I never

(off-topic) Outlook 2003 msgids causing odd email problems

2007-09-11 Thread Jonathan McKeown
I'm raising this here in case anyone else has either seen this problem and has any thoughts, or alternatively has experienced the fallout and is wondering why. Over the last few weeks I've had complaints that email messages are going astray. This has happened in Cyrus imapd on delivery, and in

Re: (off-topic) Outlook 2003 msgids causing odd email problems

2007-09-11 Thread Jonathan McKeown
Replying to myself, On Tuesday 11 September 2007 12:20, Jonathan McKeown wrote: After much scratching of head and tearing of hair, I have finally found two provable instances - one in Cyrus and one in Mailman - of replies to messages being sent using Microsoft Outlook Service Pack 2, where

RE: (off-topic) Outlook 2003 msgids causing odd email problems

2007-09-11 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
: (off-topic) Outlook 2003 msgids causing odd email problems I'm raising this here in case anyone else has either seen this problem and has any thoughts, or alternatively has experienced the fallout and is wondering why. Over the last few weeks I've had complaints that email messages are going

unusual off topic question

2007-07-10 Thread RJ45
Hello, I would like to ask to some of you gurus... if you know some good virtual server service at a low prize. I know that there are such services around where you can install your own machine virtualized or real, and manage it remotely and you have controlo also on power on and power off

SSH question (some kind off-topic)

2007-05-19 Thread Arvee Klesk
Hi list. When a password is send (via a POP3 session without SSL, or without establishing a secure connection) it can be retrieved by the ISP, or somebody ahead, right. AFAIK, making an SSH session to a server and forwarding, for instance, port 110 (POP3) to the SSH session, or some other port /

Re: SSH question (some kind off-topic)

2007-05-19 Thread Kevin Hunter
At 5:42p -0400 on 19 May 2007, Arvee Klesk wrote: Hi list. When a password is send (via a POP3 session without SSL, or without establishing a secure connection) it can be retrieved by the ISP, or somebody ahead, right. AFAIK, making an SSH session to a server and forwarding, for instance, port

off-topic: video web hosting questions

2006-12-17 Thread Malcolm Fitzgerald
Where can I ask questions about the web hosting? I am being asked to set-up a web site that will deliver video, a youTube wannabe :-) So I'd like visit a forum that discusses such things malcolm ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: off-topic: video web hosting questions

2006-12-17 Thread Jeff Mohler
Firstl..how much Netapp can you afford?:) Id start here: http://www.sitepoint.com/ On 12/17/06, Malcolm Fitzgerald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Where can I ask questions about the web hosting? I am being asked to set-up a web site that will deliver video, a youTube wannabe :-) So I'd like visit

Power adapter question (off topic, sorry)

2006-03-06 Thread Bill Schoolcraft
Hello, I'm hoping I can find a solution. I've lost my Lucent/Orinoco RG-1000 power supply. The Access Point states it needs 9volts-DC @ 1.1amps. All I can find at Radio Shack is 9volts-DC @ 1.0amps. Is there any electricians out there that can advise me on what to do? Thanks -- Bill

Re: Power adapter question (off topic, sorry)

2006-03-06 Thread wc_fbsd
At 11:57 PM 3/6/2006, Bill Schoolcraft wrote: I've lost my Lucent/Orinoco RG-1000 power supply. The Access Point states it needs 9volts-DC @ 1.1amps. All I can find at Radio Shack is 9volts-DC @ 1.0amps. I did some quick googling, and it looks like the same unit is sold under HP and some

Re: Off-Topic

2005-12-14 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Pietro Cerutti wrote: I'm for this one: The best way to accellerate a computer running Windows is at 9.81 m/s^2 by Roland It's wonderful! -- Pietro Cerutti [EMAIL PROTECTED] Well, I like it too, but: [502] Wed 14.Dec.2005 2:03:41 [EMAIL PROTECTED]/usr/src/games/fortune/datfiles]

Re: Off-Topic

2005-12-14 Thread Greg Barniskis
Pietro Cerutti wrote: I'm for this one: The best way to accellerate a computer running Windows is at 9.81 m/s^2 by Roland It's wonderful! I concur. Physics is fun (I know, I'm sick), so I'd add to that: For best results, continue until the PC's speed exceeds 11.2 km/s. 8D

Off-Topic

2005-12-13 Thread Uncle Deejy-Pooh
We've another contender for the 'Signature-of-the-Forum' award. This one spotted from Jayesh Jayan: The box said Requires Windows 95, NT, or better, so I installed Linux. Although I'm SURE it should read . FreeBSD ! But, still in No1 spot: Windows: Where do you want to go today? Linux:

Re: Off-Topic

2005-12-13 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 09:35:18PM +, Uncle Deejy-Pooh wrote: We've another contender for the 'Signature-of-the-Forum' award. This one spotted from Jayesh Jayan: The box said Requires Windows 95, NT, or better, so I installed Linux. Although I'm SURE it should read . FreeBSD !

Re: Off-Topic

2005-12-13 Thread Robert Marella
On Tue, 13 Dec 2005 22:56:47 +0100 Roland Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 09:35:18PM +, Uncle Deejy-Pooh wrote: We've another contender for the 'Signature-of-the-Forum' award. This one spotted from Jayesh Jayan: The box said Requires Windows 95, NT, or better,

Re: Off-Topic

2005-12-13 Thread Parv
in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote Roland Smith thusly... Unix _is_ user-friendly. It's just a little picky about who it's friends are. That is due to Tollef Fog Heen ... http://groups.google.com/group/linux.debian.maint.boot/message/a5ad57a7694c5549?dmode=source - Parv --

Re: Off-Topic

2005-12-13 Thread Pietro Cerutti
I'm for this one: The best way to accellerate a computer running Windows is at 9.81 m/s^2 by Roland It's wonderful! -- Pietro Cerutti [EMAIL PROTECTED] Beansidhe - SwiSS Death / Thrash Metal www.beansidhe.ch Windows: Where do you want to go today? Linux: Where do you want to go tomorrow?

Off-Topic: Vendor Control Software for computer labs

2005-11-23 Thread Sean Murphy
I need help with finding a software to do this Going into your local computer lab paying the clerk for an hour of computer time he accepts your money, types in some information in his computer, and tells you what computer station to sit at. The computer works for that hour, gives you a

Re: New Logo - http://logo-contest.freebsd.org/result/ (OFF-TOPIC)

2005-11-07 Thread martinko
Allen D. Tate wrote: Very disappointing. I prefer the current logo over a ball with two horns!!! and the font used to write FreeBSD is very unprofessional. It is interesting to see differing opinions. I kinda like the new logo and new font and think that it does look professional. I am not

Re: New Logo - http://logo-contest.freebsd.org/result/ (OFF-TOPIC)

2005-11-06 Thread Allen D. Tate
Very disappointing. I prefer the current logo over a ball with two horns!!! and the font used to write FreeBSD is very unprofessional. It is interesting to see differing opinions. I kinda like the new logo and new font and think that it does look professional. I am not saying that your opinion

RE: OFF-TOPIC but ... you will laugh !!

2005-11-03 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
: Wednesday, November 02, 2005 7:31 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: OFF-TOPIC but ... you will laugh !! An Indian discovered that nobody can create a FOLDER anywhere named as con. This is something pretty cool...and unbelievable... At Microsoft the whole Team, including Bill Gates, couldn't

Re: OFF-TOPIC but ... you will laugh !!

2005-11-03 Thread Jason Stewart
On 03/11/05 05:31 +0200, Aggelos wrote: An Indian discovered that nobody can create a FOLDER anywhere named as con. This is something pretty cool...and unbelievable... At Microsoft the whole Team, including Bill Gates, couldn't answer why this happened! Try it out yourself... Not funny.

Re: OFF-TOPIC but ... you will laugh !!

2005-11-03 Thread RW
On Thursday 03 November 2005 04:27, Moffatt, Chris wrote: It is a reserved word from the DOS days (like prn) Now that is funny - prn is where the texting generation will expect to store their porn. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

RE: OFF-TOPIC but ... you will laugh !!

2005-11-03 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Wednesday, November 02, 2005 21:17:27 -0700 Moffatt, Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is a reserved word from the DOS days (like prn) I think it stands for console Actually, you can't create a folder named: CON, PRN, AUX, CLOCK$, NUL, COM1, COM2, COM3, COM4, COM5, COM6, COM7, COM8,

OFF-TOPIC but ... you will laugh !!

2005-11-02 Thread Aggelos
An Indian discovered that nobody can create a FOLDER anywhere named as con. This is something pretty cool...and unbelievable... At Microsoft the whole Team, including Bill Gates, couldn't answer why this happened! Try it out yourself... ___

Re: OFF-TOPIC but ... you will laugh !!

2005-11-02 Thread Antony Mawer
On 3/11/2005 2:31 PM, Aggelos wrote: An Indian discovered that nobody can create a FOLDER anywhere named as con. This is something pretty cool...and unbelievable... At Microsoft the whole Team, including Bill Gates, couldn't answer why this happened! I find it hard no one at Microsoft could

RE: OFF-TOPIC but ... you will laugh !!

2005-11-02 Thread Moffatt, Chris
- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Aggelos Sent: Wednesday, November 02, 2005 8:31 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: OFF-TOPIC but ... you will laugh !! An Indian discovered that nobody can create a FOLDER anywhere named as con. This is something pretty cool

Re: OFF-TOPIC but ... you will laugh !!

2005-11-02 Thread Andrew P.
On 11/3/05, Aggelos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: An Indian discovered that nobody can create a FOLDER anywhere named as con. This is something pretty cool...and unbelievable... At Microsoft the whole Team, including Bill Gates, couldn't answer why this happened! Try it out yourself...

RE: OFF-TOPIC but ... you will laugh !!

2005-11-02 Thread Haulmark, Chris
An Indian discovered that nobody can create a FOLDER anywhere named as con. This is something pretty cool...and unbelievable... At Microsoft the whole Team, including Bill Gates, couldn't answer why this happened! Try it out yourself... It's confirmed that it is correct on Windows XP with

RE: OFF-TOPIC but ... you will laugh !!

2005-11-02 Thread Haulmark, Chris
An Indian discovered that nobody can create a FOLDER anywhere named as con. This is something pretty cool...and unbelievable... At Microsoft the whole Team, including Bill Gates, couldn't answer why this happened! Try it out yourself... It's confirmed that it is correct on

Re: OFF-TOPIC but ... you will laugh !!

2005-11-02 Thread Doug Hardie
, COM3, COM4, COM5, COM6, COM7, COM8, COM9, LPT1, LPT2, LPT3, LPT4, LPT5, LPT6, LPT7, LPT8, and LPT9 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Aggelos Sent: Wednesday, November 02, 2005 8:31 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: OFF-TOPIC

Please stop off-topic postings (was: New Logo)

2005-11-01 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
but not specifically enforced. However, there are also very few cases where such content would fit within the charter of a list and it would therefore probably rate a warning (or ban) on that basis alone. Please don't discuss off-topic topics here. Please stop now, not after Yet Another Opinion

Re: Please stop off-topic postings (was: New Logo)

2005-11-01 Thread Danny Pansters
On Wednesday 2 November 2005 02:05, you wrote: This mailing list is for technical questions, not discussions. Yes, I'll stop discussing, but once a discussion has started it's not fair to kill it by merely stating that this is not a discussion mailing list on -questions (while it fact it very

Re: Maintaining my music collection (off topic)

2005-10-31 Thread Nick Larsen
- From: Will Maier [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Maintaining my music collection (off topic) Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 14:47:39 -0500 On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 06:39:48AM -0400, Parv wrote: Looks like this script is not going to work in FreeBSD /bin/sh

Re: Maintaining my music collection (off topic)

2005-10-28 Thread Fafa Hafiz Krantz
for mp3 in `find * -name \*.mp3 -maxdepth 1`; do echo ${mp3} ${M3U} done done :) - Original Message - From: Will Maier [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Maintaining my music collection (off topic) Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 14:47:39 -0500

Re: Maintaining my music collection (off topic)

2005-10-27 Thread Parv
in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote Will Maier thusly... On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 06:39:48AM -0400, Parv wrote: Looks like this script is not going to work in FreeBSD /bin/sh. Install one of shells/bash* (guessing) ports and run this script under that shell (unless somebody does the

Maintaining my music collection (off topic)

2005-10-26 Thread Fafa Hafiz Krantz
Hello! I have a rather large collection of CDs and vinyls which I have digitized for preservation. For instance: +/usr/home/mp3 |+-instrumentals/ || +-fat_jon_as_maurice_galactica-humanoid_erotica-cd-2001/ || |

Re: Maintaining my music collection (off topic)

2005-10-26 Thread Parv
in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote Fafa Hafiz Krantz thusly... fix() { find ${1+:$@} -name '*.nfo' | while read file ; do cd ${file%/*} ^ ^ ^ ^ Looks like this script is not going to work in FreeBSD /bin/sh. Install one of shells/bash* (guessing)

Re: Maintaining my music collection (off topic)

2005-10-26 Thread Fafa Hafiz Krantz
music collection (off topic) Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 06:39:48 -0400 in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote Fafa Hafiz Krantz thusly... fix() { find ${1+:$@} -name '*.nfo' | while read file ; do cd ${file%/*} ^ ^ ^ ^ Looks like this script

Re: Maintaining my music collection (off topic)

2005-10-26 Thread Will Maier
On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 06:39:48AM -0400, Parv wrote: Looks like this script is not going to work in FreeBSD /bin/sh. Install one of shells/bash* (guessing) ports and run this script under that shell (unless somebody does the conversion for you). FreeBSD sh (1) supports parameter expansion,

Re: OT: Helpdesk/Call tracking software (now VERY off topic)

2005-07-21 Thread Garrett Cooper
Matt Juszczak wrote: While I'm here, anyone know something that can integrate with LDAP to pull customer info? Of course the tickets would be stored in MySQL, etc but a way to search for customers, etc. via ldap would be awesome Philip Hallstrom wrote: Never used it, but RT always

Re: OT: Helpdesk/Call tracking software (now VERY off topic)

2005-07-21 Thread Hornet
On 7/20/05, Matt Juszczak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: While I'm here, anyone know something that can integrate with LDAP to pull customer info? Of course the tickets would be stored in MySQL, etc but a way to search for customers, etc. via ldap would be awesome http://www.otrs.org Philip

Re: OT: Helpdesk/Call tracking software (now VERY off topic)

2005-07-20 Thread Matt Juszczak
While I'm here, anyone know something that can integrate with LDAP to pull customer info? Of course the tickets would be stored in MySQL, etc but a way to search for customers, etc. via ldap would be awesome Philip Hallstrom wrote: Never used it, but RT always seems to get good praise...

Re: Resizing /var (maybe off topic)

2005-06-13 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Wojciech Puchar wrote: i'm using different unices for 7 years and excluding few cases i never made other partitioning scheme than 2 partitions: swap and / i have no problems like there's out of space in partition x while plenty of y. it's far easier to do backups too (single dump). If

Re: Resizing /var (maybe off topic)

2005-06-12 Thread Wojciech Puchar
i'm using different unices for 7 years and excluding few cases i never made other partitioning scheme than 2 partitions: swap and / i have no problems like there's out of space in partition x while plenty of y. it's far easier to do backups too (single dump). i read lots of howtos about

Checking huge filesystems [was: Re: Resizing /var (maybe off topic)]

2005-06-12 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2005-06-12 14:41, Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i'm using different unices for 7 years and excluding few cases i never made other partitioning scheme than 2 partitions: swap and / i have no problems like there's out of space in partition x while plenty of y. it's far easier to

[Off-topic] Re: Hiding SSH version string

2004-07-23 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
that at least within the community we should try to resist completely washing the word for its older meaning. You should use attacker er something similar instead. Sorry for beeing off-topic, just my two cents. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http

Re: Off topic but sendmail help needed

2004-04-11 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Sunday 11 April 2004 07:02, Rob wrote: That's really strange then. The Makefile is right there in the /etc/mail directory and this is what it looks like: # $FreeBSD: src/contrib/sendmail/etc.mail/Makefile,v 1.1 2000/07/07 21:06:52 qzhou Exp $ all: access.db mailertable.db

Re: Off topic but sendmail help needed

2004-04-11 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Sunday 11 April 2004 10:40, Rob wrote: It does nothing at all, just right back to the prompt. I think Warren has found the answer to the problem. I think it probably has done something. But traditional BSD utilities don't flash lights or make a song and dance unless something is wrong. See

Re: Off topic but sendmail help needed

2004-04-11 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sat, Apr 10, 2004 at 09:10:11PM -0400, Rob wrote: Yeah, I believe it's 4.4 and I've been on this server for years. They are supposed to take care of the upgrades but they never do. I would do it myself but if anything goes wrong they charge to fix it and so I've pretty much left it alone up

RE: Off topic but sendmail help needed

2004-04-11 Thread Rob
Actually, when I do a make or make all, it appears as if nothing was done and when I check in the /etc/mail dir, none of the dates or times have changed. It may have done something but I can't see what it is. Rob. See what files in the directory now have a recent time and date. Malcolm

RE: Off topic but sendmail help needed

2004-04-11 Thread Rob
is not there or cfhead.m4 is missing. cfhead is located here: /usr/share/sendmail/cf/m4/cfhead.m4 -Original Message- From: Matthew Seaman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, April 11, 2004 4:09 AM To: Rob Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Off topic but sendmail help needed In order

Re: Off topic but sendmail help needed

2004-04-11 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sun, Apr 11, 2004 at 11:01:51AM -0400, Rob wrote: When I try this, I get the error: m4: ../m4/cfhead.m4: No such file or directory So I looked for m4 and it appears to be in /usr/bin/ so I run: %/usr/bin/m4 -D_CF_DIR=/usr/share/sendmail/cf/ /usr/share/sendmail/cf/m4/cf.m4

*OFF TOPIC Collocation Options Comments pls *

2004-04-11 Thread Jorge Biquez
Hello all. In the last months some clients have been asking us about offering them collocation, web hosting, mail and in general all the services they can have from an ISP BUT outside Mexico. Some of them really do not care about what part of the world will be as well as the server is outside

RE: Off topic but sendmail help needed

2004-04-11 Thread Rob
Ahhh... brilliant.. worked like a charm. Thanks Matthew and everyone else who helped. Much appreciated. I will also get sendmail upgraded as soon as I can. Thanks again. Rob. It appears that the sendmail version you're trying to use is too old for the required functionality using _CF_DIR to

Off topic but sendmail help needed

2004-04-10 Thread Rob
I have a freebsd box that was configured by Interland. They offer no support on sendmail configuration and I would like to add some of the dnsbl lists to stop some of the spam received by the server. I have looked over the sendmail.org site and now I think I'm even dumber that I was before. I

Re: Off topic but sendmail help needed

2004-04-10 Thread jan . muenther
Can someone point me in the right direction so I can get this working. Just use the Makefile in /etc/mail (or switch to postfix, cough). ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

RE: Off topic but sendmail help needed

2004-04-10 Thread Rob
Yeah, I tried that... I just got an 'unable to make error. At this point, postfix is looking very attractive. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, April 10, 2004 4:42 PM To: Rob Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Off topic but sendmail

RE: Off topic but sendmail help needed

2004-04-10 Thread J.D. Bronson
At 04:07 PM 4/10/2004, you wrote: Yeah, I tried that... I just got an 'unable to make error. At this point, postfix is looking very attractive. Postfix is very easy to install and configure. Sendmail is not for the faint of heart. However, once you learn how to use m4 to make sendmail.cf it

Re: Off topic but sendmail help needed

2004-04-10 Thread Warren Block
On Sat, 10 Apr 2004, Rob wrote: I have a freebsd box that was configured by Interland. They offer no support on sendmail configuration and I would like to add some of the dnsbl lists to stop some of the spam received by the server. The FreeBSD /etc/mail/Makefile makes this pretty easy. Edit

RE: Off topic but sendmail help needed

2004-04-10 Thread Rob
Block [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, April 10, 2004 5:17 PM To: Rob Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Off topic but sendmail help needed On Sat, 10 Apr 2004, Rob wrote: I have a freebsd box that was configured by Interland. They offer no support on sendmail configuration and I would

RE: Off topic but sendmail help needed

2004-04-10 Thread Warren Block
On Sat, 10 Apr 2004, Rob wrote: Thanks for the help, I have got my mc file all ready to go with the dnsbl lines I need, but when I try to make I get this error: make: don't know how to make install. Stop I've been going around in circles with this all day and it's making me nuts. :-)

RE: Off topic but sendmail help needed

2004-04-10 Thread Rob
:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, April 10, 2004 5:28 PM To: Rob Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Off topic but sendmail help needed On Sat, 10 Apr 2004, Rob wrote: Thanks for the help, I have got my mc file all ready to go with the dnsbl lines I need, but when I try to make I get this error

RE: Off topic but sendmail help needed

2004-04-10 Thread Viktor Lazlo
On Sat, 10 Apr 2004, Rob wrote: Thanks for the help, I have got my mc file all ready to go with the dnsbl lines I need, but when I try to make I get this error: make: don't know how to make install. Stop I've been going around in circles with this all day and it's making me nuts. Are you

RE: Off topic but sendmail help needed

2004-04-10 Thread Rob
Yes. Is this correct? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Viktor Lazlo Sent: Saturday, April 10, 2004 5:40 PM To: Rob Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Off topic but sendmail help needed On Sat, 10 Apr 2004, Rob wrote: Thanks for the help

RE: Off topic but sendmail help needed

2004-04-10 Thread Warren Block
On Sat, 10 Apr 2004, Rob wrote: That's really strange then. The Makefile is right there in the /etc/mail directory and this is what it looks like: # $FreeBSD: src/contrib/sendmail/etc.mail/Makefile,v 1.1 2000/07/07 21:06:52 qzhou Exp $ That's really old. And it's telling you the truth--it

RE: Off topic but sendmail help needed

2004-04-10 Thread Viktor Lazlo
On Sat, 10 Apr 2004, Rob wrote: Yes. Is this correct? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Viktor Lazlo Sent: Saturday, April 10, 2004 5:40 PM To: Rob Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Off topic but sendmail help needed On Sat, 10 Apr

RE: Off topic but sendmail help needed

2004-04-10 Thread Rob
It does nothing at all, just right back to the prompt. I think Warren has found the answer to the problem. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Viktor Lazlo Sent: Saturday, April 10, 2004 6:36 PM To: Rob Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Off

RE: Off topic but sendmail help needed

2004-04-10 Thread Rob
in a few weeks so I may have a shot at the upgrades next weekend. -Original Message- From: Warren Block [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, April 10, 2004 6:23 PM To: Rob Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Off topic but sendmail help needed On Sat, 10 Apr 2004, Rob wrote: That's

(Off Topic) Question

2004-04-04 Thread Teilhard Knight
Why is it that some people here in the list send their posts as an attachment? Teilhard ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: (Off Topic) Question

2004-04-04 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sun, Apr 04, 2004 at 04:39:56PM -0600, Teilhard Knight wrote: Why is it that some people here in the list send their posts as an attachment? http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc3156.html Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks

Re: Good BSD/Linux Article (somewhat off-topic)

2004-01-16 Thread Andrew Boothman
[Moving to -chat] Scott W wrote: Hey all, just wanted to share a link to an interesting article comparing/contrasting *BSD (primarily FreeBSD) and Linux, at http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/rants/bsd4linux/bsd4linux1.php No affiliation, came across it on one of the bsd news sites...as a

Re: Good BSD/Linux Article (somewhat off-topic)

2004-01-16 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 03:51:23PM + I heard the voice of Andrew Boothman, and lo! it spake thus: Scott W wrote: Hey all, just wanted to share a link to an interesting article comparing/contrasting *BSD (primarily FreeBSD) and Linux, at

Re: Good BSD/Linux Article (somewhat off-topic)

2004-01-16 Thread Jamie Bowden
On Fri, 16 Jan 2004, Matthew D. Fuller wrote: Snip a bunch of stuff about http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/rants/bsd4linux/bsd4linux1.php Y'know, I posted it to -advocacy and my local LUG mailing list on Tuesday, hoping maybe a couple people would read it and have some good comments and

Re: Good BSD/Linux Article (somewhat off-topic)

2004-01-16 Thread Jon Noack
On 1/15/2004 11:15 PM, Scott W wrote: Hey all, just wanted to share a link to an interesting article comparing/contrasting *BSD (primarily FreeBSD) and Linux, at http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/rants/bsd4linux/bsd4linux1.php No affiliation, came across it on one of the bsd news sites...as a

Re: Good BSD/Linux Article (somewhat off-topic)

2004-01-15 Thread Björn Andersson
I must say this were some great reading! Now I can give my dear GNU/Linux friends some better understanding why I love my BSD boxes. On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 12:15:36AM -0500, Scott W wrote: Hey all, just wanted to share a link to an interesting article comparing/contrasting *BSD (primarily

Good BSD/Linux Article (somewhat off-topic)

2004-01-15 Thread Scott W
Hey all, just wanted to share a link to an interesting article comparing/contrasting *BSD (primarily FreeBSD) and Linux, at http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/rants/bsd4linux/bsd4linux1.php No affiliation, came across it on one of the bsd news sites...as a long time Linux

Re: Hard drive geometry headache (slightly off topic)

2003-12-10 Thread Siegbert Baude
Frederick Bowes wrote: I've solved the problem and repreat it here for future generations reference (: It appears that the MBR was infact corrupt, causing fdisk to get confused... the following command made the hd appear blank and let it all work again: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ad0 count=2000

RE: Hard drive geometry headache (slightly off topic)

2003-12-09 Thread Frederick Bowes
Now I had to move it to a new computer in which the bios detects a certian geometry, but then the system wont boot. No matter what I do I had the same problem back in 4.5. I worked around the problem by formating the hard drive with a Win98(Oh Boy) recovery floppy then ...

Hard drive geometry headache (slightly off topic)

2003-12-08 Thread Frederick Bowes
Hello! I have a problem which i cannot seem to fix no matter what I do! I have a 120GB disk, which had windows XP/FreeBSD partions working fine on one computer. Now I had to move it to a new computer in which the bios detects a certian geometry, but then the system wont boot. No matter what I do

Re: Hard drive geometry headache (slightly off topic)

2003-12-08 Thread Mike Maltese
I have a problem which i cannot seem to fix no matter what I do! I have a 120GB disk, which had windows XP/FreeBSD partions working fine on one computer. Now I had to move it to a new computer in which the bios detects a certian geometry, but then the system wont boot. No matter what I do

Re: Hard drive geometry headache (slightly off topic)

2003-12-08 Thread Frederick Bowes
Now I had to move it to a new computer in which the bios detects a certian geometry, but then the system wont boot. No matter what I do now, i cant get the system to boot off the disk, i have even tried eraseing it with fdisk (freebsd and dos versions). Does anyone know how I can save it? I

Re: Hard drive geometry headache (slightly off topic)

2003-12-08 Thread Mike Maltese
I am guessing freebsd works out the correct drive geometry, but the bios is not! Interestingly though, when set to LBA, the head/cyl/sector count is equal to what the freebsd fdisk detects it to be. This is exactly what I was experiencing. Thought I'd throw that out there, best of luck to you.

Off-Topic: Did I receive a virus or worm?

2003-09-09 Thread Andrew L. Gould
HI all! I received an email last night from a CPE (Continuing Professional Education) vendor. The email contents contained an web address to their site where I could review my test results for an on-line course I had completed. Clicking on the address from within Kmail sent me to the

Re: Off-Topic: Did I receive a virus or worm?

2003-09-09 Thread Jerry McAllister
HI all! I received an email last night from a CPE (Continuing Professional Education) vendor. The email contents contained an web address to their site where I could review my test results for an on-line course I had completed. Clicking on the address from within Kmail sent me to the

RE: Off-Topic: Did I receive a virus or worm?

2003-09-09 Thread Timms, Simon
Jerry McAllister wrote: Below the message, however, were two blocks of gibberish. Both blocks begin with a begin line and end with an end line. There is no indication that Kmail included an attachment in-line within the email. Is it possible that the code was needed to access the web

Re: Off-Topic: Did I receive a virus or worm?

2003-09-09 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Tuesday 09 September 2003 09:17 am, Timms, Simon wrote: Jerry McAllister wrote: Below the message, however, were two blocks of gibberish. Both blocks begin with a begin line and end with an end line. There is no indication that Kmail included an attachment in-line within the

Re: Off-Topic: Did I receive a virus or worm?

2003-09-09 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Tuesday 09 September 2003 08:40 am, Jerry McAllister wrote: HI all! I received an email last night from a CPE (Continuing Professional Education) vendor. The email contents contained an web address to their site where I could review my test results for an on-line course I had

Re: Off Topic RegEx Question

2003-08-29 Thread mpd
On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 08:26:43AM +0900, Roger Williams wrote: I know thins is not the place but I know one of you know this one off the top of your head. I have: $list = dog 1 1 1 cat 2 1 snake 111 and I want to end up with: dog 1 cat 2 snake 1 I thought $list =~ s/ \d \d/ \d/g;

Re: Off Topic Regex Question

2003-08-29 Thread Mikko Työläjärvi
On Thu, 28 Aug 2003, Roger Williams wrote: I know thins is not the place but I know one of you know this one off the top of your head. I have: $list = dog 1 1 1 cat 2 1 snake 111 and I want to end up with: dog 1 cat 2 snake 1 I thought $list =~ s/ \d \d/ \d/g; would do the trick, but

Off Topic RegEx Question

2003-08-28 Thread Roger Williams
I know thins is not the place but I know one of you know this one off the top of your head. I have: $list = dog 1 1 1 cat 2 1 snake 111 and I want to end up with: dog 1 cat 2 snake 1 I thought $list =~ s/ \d \d/ \d/g; would do the trick, but that gives me: dog d 1 1 cat d snake d 1 Thanks,

Re: Off Topic RegEx Question

2003-08-28 Thread David Landgren
Roger Williams wrote: I know thins is not the place but I know one of you know this one off the top of your head. I have: $list = dog 1 1 1 cat 2 1 snake 111 and I want to end up with: dog 1 cat 2 snake 1 I thought $list =~ s/ \d \d/ \d/g; would do the trick, but that gives me: dog d 1

Off Topic RegEx Question

2003-08-28 Thread Roger Williams
I know thins is not the place but I know one of you know this one off the top of your head. I have: $list = dog 1 1 1 cat 2 1 snake 111 and I want to end up with: dog 1 cat 2 snake 1 I thought $list =~ s/ \d \d/ \d/g; would do the trick, but that gives me: dog d 1 1 cat d snake d 1 Thanks,

Off Topic Regex Question

2003-08-28 Thread Roger Williams
I know thins is not the place but I know one of you know this one off the top of your head. I have: $list = dog 1 1 1 cat 2 1 snake 111 and I want to end up with: dog 1 cat 2 snake 1 I thought $list =~ s/ \d \d/ \d/g; would do the trick, but that gives me: dog d 1 1 cat d snake d 1 Thanks,

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