Re: Suggestion

2012-03-12 Thread Allen
On 3/11/2012 7:33 PM, Da Rock wrote: On 03/11/12 21:03, ajtiM wrote: On Saturday 10 March 2012 17:36:53 Da Rock wrote: No system is actually truly capable of this, with the exception of the newest kid on the block Plan9. Winblows, in its current form, is the bastard love child of DOS and

Re: Suggestion

2012-03-12 Thread Rod Person
On Mon, 12 Mar 2012 12:14:39 -0400 Allen unix.hac...@comcast.net wrote: Plan 9 is a record label started by Glenn Danzig. I never thought I'd see this on FreeBSD list! I guess I have now lived long enough as they say. Of course, if I won the Lotto or something, I'd re-design my House, and

Re: Suggestion

2012-03-12 Thread Chad Perrin
On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 12:14:39PM -0400, Allen wrote: I'd like BeOS to come back, but I'm quite happy with BSD and Linux. Give the Haiku project a look. It's meant to be some kind of inheritor of the BeOS legacy. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ]

Re: Suggestion

2012-03-12 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 10:20:03AM -0500, Chris wrote: ... One word that is rampant... Alligations Is that where someone makes a claim that someone else is an alligator? -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] ___

Re: Suggestion

2012-03-12 Thread Alejandro Imass
On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 2:29 PM, Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 12:14:39PM -0400, Allen wrote: I'd like BeOS to come back, but I'm quite happy with BSD and Linux. Give the Haiku project a look.  It's meant to be some kind of inheritor of the BeOS legacy. May

Re: Suggestion

2012-03-12 Thread Paul Macdonald
On 12/03/2012 18:40, Chad Perrin wrote: On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 10:20:03AM -0500, Chris wrote: ... One word that is rampant... Alligations Is that where someone makes a claim that someone else is an alligator? sometimes i wish the lists had a like button :P -- -

Re: Suggestion

2012-03-12 Thread Chris
On 3/12/2012 2:00 PM, Paul Macdonald wrote: On 12/03/2012 18:40, Chad Perrin wrote: On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 10:20:03AM -0500, Chris wrote: ... One word that is rampant... Alligations Is that where someone makes a claim that someone else is an alligator? sometimes i wish the lists had a like

Re: Suggestion

2012-03-12 Thread Da Rock
On 03/13/12 02:14, Allen wrote: On 3/11/2012 7:33 PM, Da Rock wrote: On 03/11/12 21:03, ajtiM wrote: On Saturday 10 March 2012 17:36:53 Da Rock wrote: No system is actually truly capable of this, with the exception of the newest kid on the block Plan9. Winblows, in its current form, is the

Re: Suggestion

2012-03-11 Thread ajtiM
On Saturday 10 March 2012 17:36:53 Da Rock wrote: No system is actually truly capable of this, with the exception of the newest kid on the block Plan9. Winblows, in its current form, is the bastard love child of DOS and some black sheep cousin of Unix (twice-removed), so its not happening

Re: Suggestion

2012-03-11 Thread Jerry
On Sun, 11 Mar 2012 11:23:54 +0700 Erich Dollansky articulated: FAT rules! Uh . . . what? It is on every phone, every camera, every toaster ... And for a very good reason; it is virtually universally usable by any operating system. However, the exFAT system is becoming more

Re: Suggestion

2012-03-11 Thread Alejandro Imass
On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 7:12 AM, Jerry je...@seibercom.net wrote: On Sun, 11 Mar 2012 11:23:54 +0700 Erich Dollansky articulated: FAT rules! Uh . . . what? It is on every phone, every camera, every toaster ... And for a very good reason; it is virtually universally usable by any

Re: Suggestion

2012-03-11 Thread Chris
... Ah yes, trying to feed the world where hunger is rampant is an evil thing when done by corporate insert name here. Yes, I believe I see the relationship /Sarcasm Sent from my HTC. - Reply message - From: Alejandro Imass a...@p2ee.org Date: Sun, Mar 11, 2012 9:46 am Subject:

Re: Suggestion

2012-03-11 Thread Alejandro Imass
On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 10:55 AM, Chris rac...@makeworld.com wrote: ... Ah yes, trying to feed the world where hunger is rampant is an evil thing when done by  corporate insert name here. Ah yes, the ignorance http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nestl%C3%A9_boycott

Re: Suggestion

2012-03-11 Thread Alejandro Imass
On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 11:04 AM, Alejandro Imass a...@p2ee.org wrote: On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 10:55 AM, Chris rac...@makeworld.com wrote: ... Ah yes, trying to feed the world where hunger is rampant is an evil thing when done by  corporate insert name here. Ah yes, the ignorance

Re: Suggestion

2012-03-11 Thread Chris
... One word that is rampant... Alligations Sent from my HTC. - Reply message - From: Alejandro Imass a...@p2ee.org Date: Sun, Mar 11, 2012 10:04 am Subject: Suggestion To: Chris rac...@makeworld.com Cc: FreeBSD freebsd-questions@freebsd.org On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 10:55 AM, Chris

Re: Suggestion

2012-03-11 Thread Jerry
On Sun, 11 Mar 2012 11:13:09 -0400 Alejandro Imass articulated: On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 11:04 AM, Alejandro Imass a...@p2ee.org wrote: On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 10:55 AM, Chris rac...@makeworld.com wrote: ... Ah yes, trying to feed the world where hunger is rampant is an evil thing when

Re: Suggestion

2012-03-11 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 11 Mar 2012 11:23:54 +0700, Erich Dollansky wrote: On Sunday 11 March 2012 10:53:26 Chad Perrin wrote: On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 11:31:33PM +0700, Erich Dollansky wrote: FAT rules! Uh . . . what? It is on every phone, every camera, every toaster ... Sorry, you must be wrong. I

Re: Suggestion

2012-03-11 Thread Robert Huff
Alejandro Imass writes: FAT rules! Uh . . . what? It is on every phone, every camera, every toaster ... The only reason it's so popular is not precisely for good design. I can think of two: Its properties are well understood. There are a multitude

Re: Suggestion

2012-03-11 Thread Da Rock
On 03/11/12 21:03, ajtiM wrote: On Saturday 10 March 2012 17:36:53 Da Rock wrote: No system is actually truly capable of this, with the exception of the newest kid on the block Plan9. Winblows, in its current form, is the bastard love child of DOS and some black sheep cousin of Unix

Re: Suggestion

2012-03-11 Thread Bernt Hansson
2012-03-11 18:42, Polytropon skrev: On Sun, 11 Mar 2012 11:23:54 +0700, Erich Dollansky wrote: On Sunday 11 March 2012 10:53:26 Chad Perrin wrote: On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 11:31:33PM +0700, Erich Dollansky wrote: FAT rules! Uh . . . what? It is on every phone, every camera, every toaster

Re: Suggestion

2012-03-10 Thread Alejandro Imass
On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 2:36 AM, Erich Dollansky erichfreebsdl...@ovitrap.com wrote: Hi, On Saturday 10 March 2012 14:28:05 Joshua Isom wrote: [...] wine was able to fix the problem. Do not forget that most of the problems Windows has are not linked to design. I am guessing this is a

Re: Suggestion

2012-03-10 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Saturday 10 March 2012 22:08:37 Alejandro Imass wrote: On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 2:36 AM, Erich Dollansky erichfreebsdl...@ovitrap.com wrote: On Saturday 10 March 2012 14:28:05 Joshua Isom wrote: [...] it seems that you delete the 'masterpiece'. wine was able to fix the

Re: Suggestion

2012-03-10 Thread Da Rock
On 03/11/12 02:31, Erich Dollansky wrote: Hi, On Saturday 10 March 2012 22:08:37 Alejandro Imass wrote: On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 2:36 AM, Erich Dollansky erichfreebsdl...@ovitrap.com wrote: On Saturday 10 March 2012 14:28:05 Joshua Isom wrote: [...] it seems that you delete the

Re: Suggestion

2012-03-09 Thread Da Rock
On 03/09/12 14:56, Bruno Comerci wrote: Hi guys. Instead of wasting your time and man power, why wont you join to the ReactOS project? It would be more beneficial to the internet community and to the users around the world who wants a free OS with similar looking and functions than Windows,

Re: Suggestion

2012-03-09 Thread Da Rock
On 03/09/12 16:56, Hexing B wrote: Isn't it illegal to emulate windows OS? Wine would be illegal then. This is Wine on steroids, and then some. Poke a needle in for testing and it will pop ;) Frankly, its not as good as winblow$ and cant do pretty much anything else with it, so its hopeless.

Re: Suggestion

2012-03-09 Thread Allen
On 3/8/2012 11:56 PM, Bruno Comerci wrote: Hi guys. Instead of wasting your time and man power, why wont you join to the ReactOS project? It would be more beneficial to the internet community and to the users around the world who wants a free OS with similar looking and functions than

Re: Suggestion

2012-03-09 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 9 Mar 2012 01:56:25 -0300, Bruno Comerci wrote: Instead of wasting your time and man power, why wont you join to the ReactOS project? Because I like to _act_, instead to just RE-act. REact to some old-fashioned and spoiled concepts and incompatible infrastructures without any future...

Re: Suggestion

2012-03-09 Thread Eugene M. Zheganin
Hi. On 09.03.2012 10:56, Bruno Comerci wrote: Instead of wasting your time and man power, why wont you join to the ReactOS project? It would be more beneficial to the internet community and to the users around the world who wants a free OS with similar looking and functions than Windows, if

Re: Suggestion

2012-03-09 Thread Andrew Gould
Troll alert. (just let it die) On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 10:56 PM, Bruno Comerci bruno_come...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi guys. Instead of wasting your time and man power, why wont you join to the ReactOS project? It would be more beneficial to the internet community and to the users around

Re: Suggestion

2012-03-09 Thread Outback Dingo
On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 11:56 PM, Bruno Comerci bruno_come...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi guys. Instead of wasting your time and man power, why wont you join to the ReactOS project? It would be more beneficial to the internet community and to the users around the world who wants a free OS with

Re: Suggestion

2012-03-09 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Friday 09 March 2012 11:56:25 Bruno Comerci wrote: Hi guys. Instead of wasting your time and man power, why wont you join to the ReactOS project? hey, who clean my desk now? I was just eating when I read this crap. Best trolling ever! It would be more beneficial to the

Re: Suggestion

2012-03-09 Thread Nomen Nescio
Who in their right mind would EVER want to run this crap? You answered your own question. My guess? People who are too cheap to buy Windows and too stupid to figure out how to find a free copy of XP or Win 7 on the net and do the activation or find a password. That's a pretty small user space.

Re: Suggestion

2012-03-09 Thread mikel king
On Mar 8, 2012, at 11:56 PM, Bruno Comerci wrote: Hi guys. Instead of wasting your time and man power, why wont you join to the ReactOS project? It would be more beneficial to the internet community and to the users around the world who wants a free OS with similar looking and

Re: Suggestion

2012-03-09 Thread Mario Lobo
On Friday 09 March 2012 01:56:25 Bruno Comerci wrote: Hi guys. Instead of wasting your time and man power, why wont you join to the ReactOS project? It would be more beneficial to the internet community and to the users around the world who wants a free OS with similar looking and

RE: Suggestion

2012-03-09 Thread Graeme Dargie
-Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Bruno Comerci Sent: 09 March 2012 04:56 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Suggestion Hi guys. Instead of wasting your time and man power, why wont you join

Re: Suggestion

2012-03-09 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Saturday 10 March 2012 07:57:59 Graeme Dargie wrote: I try not to reply to these things, but I have to say this bloke is having a proper tin bath (laugh) in development since 1996 their website proudly claims, and here we are in 2012 and it is still an alpha! you can see on this

Re: Suggestion

2012-03-09 Thread Da Rock
On 03/10/12 11:07, Erich Dollansky wrote: Hi, On Saturday 10 March 2012 07:57:59 Graeme Dargie wrote: I try not to reply to these things, but I have to say this bloke is having a proper tin bath (laugh) in development since 1996 their website proudly claims, and here we are in 2012 and it

Re: Suggestion

2012-03-09 Thread Chad Perrin
On Fri, Mar 09, 2012 at 01:56:25AM -0300, Bruno Comerci wrote: Hi guys. Instead of wasting your time and man power, why wont you join to the ReactOS project? It would be more beneficial to the internet community and to the users around the world who wants a free OS with similar looking

Re: Suggestion

2012-03-09 Thread Joshua Isom
On 3/9/2012 7:07 PM, Erich Dollansky wrote: you can see on this how difficult it is to be 100% compatible with Windows. Especially the Virus layer of Windows is hard to redo. It is a masterpiece on its own. Erich Wine got some of the security issues to match, and they were found in wine

Re: Suggestion

2012-03-09 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Saturday 10 March 2012 14:28:05 Joshua Isom wrote: On 3/9/2012 7:07 PM, Erich Dollansky wrote: you can see on this how difficult it is to be 100% compatible with Windows. Especially the Virus layer of Windows is hard to redo. It is a masterpiece on its own. Wine got some of

Re: Suggestion

2012-03-08 Thread ill...@gmail.com
On 8 March 2012 23:56, Bruno Comerci bruno_come...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi guys. Instead of wasting your time and man power, why wont you join to the ReactOS project? It would be more beneficial to the internet community and to the users around the world who wants a free OS with similar

Re: Suggestion

2012-03-08 Thread Hexing B
Isn't it illegal to emulate windows OS? I trust FreeBSD by now, though ReactOS is worth researching. On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 1:12 PM, ill...@gmail.com ill...@gmail.com wrote: On 8 March 2012 23:56, Bruno Comerci bruno_come...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi guys. Instead of wasting your time and

Re: Suggestion

2012-03-08 Thread Nomen Nescio
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Re: Suggestion for the fdisk(8) manual page...

2009-12-21 Thread Modulok
As far as I know, the class not found just a warning, not an error. Perhaps, but I've had situations in which fdisk would not alter a PC partition (slice) table. Particularly a table on a disk which the operating itself is running off of. I attempted to delete some unused slices (not the one

Re: Suggestion for the fdisk(8) manual page...

2009-12-21 Thread Modulok
Just to clarify, when I say 'unused slices', I mean those of other operating systems I was no longer interested in having around, not as in 'marked as free space'. Thanks! -Modulok- On 12/21/09, Modulok modu...@gmail.com wrote: As far as I know, the class not found just a warning, not an error.

Re: Suggestion for the fdisk(8) manual page...

2009-12-20 Thread Ondřej Majerech
On Sun, 20 Dec 2009 20:40:48 +0100, Modulok modu...@gmail.com wrote: List, Just a suggestion: In the 'Bugs' section of the 'fdisk(8)' man page, could we get a note that informs users that fdisk is kind of... broken and obsolete? Something like: fdisk is slowly being replaced by gpart(8).

Re: Suggestion for the fdisk(8) manual page...

2009-12-20 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 12:40:48PM -0700, Modulok wrote: Just a suggestion: In the 'Bugs' section of the 'fdisk(8)' man page, could we get a note that informs users that fdisk is kind of... broken and obsolete? Something like: fdisk is slowly being replaced by gpart(8). fdisk may not work

Re: Suggestion

2009-01-05 Thread Ross Cameron
Why not just install GRUB and use any boot splash you see fit? Hell you could even spin you're own fBSD release with this as a default if u wanted. On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 8:26 AM, Ryan da Silva rdasi...@greenfield.com wrote: Hello, If someone could pass this suggestion on i'd appreciate it.

Re: Suggestion

2009-01-04 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 4 Jan 2009 01:07:57 -0600 (CST), Lars Eighner luvbeas...@larseighner.com wrote: Enable beastie and you won't have to look at the ugly letters. Or disable the lines include /boot/beastie.4th and beastie-start prefixing them with a backslash in /boot/loader.rc, and put

Re: Suggestion

2009-01-04 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Someone needs to change the FreeBSD boot menu. The way the word/logo FreeBSD is displayed in large font with, ASCII characters, reminds me of the 1990`s with BBS`s. Don`t get me wrong, I loved the days of the BBS. But it`s 2009 and FreeBSD is a solid, professional, enterprise-grade operating

Re: Suggestion

2009-01-04 Thread Glen Barber
On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 1:26 AM, Ryan da Silva rdasi...@greenfield.com wrote: Hello, If someone could pass this suggestion on i'd appreciate it. It's going to sound a little picky, and probably crazy but I'm an honest and forward person so I'll just say it. Someone needs to change the

Re: Suggestion

2009-01-04 Thread Frank Shute
On Sun, Jan 04, 2009 at 04:02:53PM +0100, cpghost wrote: On Sun, Jan 04, 2009 at 01:26:03AM -0500, Ryan da Silva wrote: Someone needs to change the FreeBSD boot menu. The way the word/logo FreeBSD is displayed in large font with, ASCII characters, reminds me of the 1990`s with BBS`s. Don`t

Re: Suggestion

2009-01-04 Thread Modulok
FreeBSD is displayed in large font with, ASCII characters, reminds me of the 1990`s with BBS`s. Don`t get me wrong, I loved the days of the BBS. But it`s 2009 and FreeBSD is a solid, professional, enterprise-grade operating system and the silly ASCII logo is the only thing that says

Re: Suggestion

2009-01-04 Thread Ryan da Silva
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Re: Suggestion

2009-01-03 Thread Lars Eighner
On Sun, 4 Jan 2009, Ryan da Silva wrote: Someone needs to change the FreeBSD boot menu. The way the word/logo FreeBSD is displayed in large font with, ASCII characters, reminds me of the 1990`s with BBS`s. Enable beastie and you won't have to look at the ugly letters. -- Lars Eighner

Re: suggestion on a backup utility

2008-05-07 Thread Frank Shute
On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 12:06:03PM -0400, David Banning wrote: I wonder if anyone can recommend a good backup utility for FreeBSD. If it's in the ports, great. I would like to just specify which directories I would like to backup, how often and have it tar or zip the files into a directory

Re: suggestion on a backup utility

2008-05-07 Thread David Banning
For backing up purposes, I use a number of tools. Thanks Frank for your input. I have chosen for now use Chuck's suggestion, that being cvsup. The only thing I would like to do is omit certain files that I don't want backed up - large unimportant files - some cache and log files. I'll look at

Re: suggestion on a backup utility

2008-05-07 Thread Mike Fahey
You can do all of this with amanda and simply run your backup from cron. amanda.org David Banning wrote: For backing up purposes, I use a number of tools. Thanks Frank for your input. I have chosen for now use Chuck's suggestion, that being cvsup. The only thing I would like to do is omit

Re: suggestion on a backup utility

2008-05-07 Thread Frank Shute
On Wed, May 07, 2008 at 10:25:12AM -0400, David Banning wrote: For backing up purposes, I use a number of tools. Thanks Frank for your input. I have chosen for now use Chuck's suggestion, that being cvsup. The only thing I would like to do is omit certain files that I don't want backed up

Re: suggestion on a backup utility

2008-05-06 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David Banning wrote: I wonder if anyone can recommend a good backup utility for FreeBSD. If it's in the ports, great. I would like to just specify which directories I would like to backup, how often and have it tar or zip the files into a

Re: suggestion on a backup utility

2008-05-06 Thread Eric Zimmerman
David Banning wrote: I wonder if anyone can recommend a good backup utility for FreeBSD. If it's in the ports, great. I would like to just specify which directories I would like to backup, how often and have it tar or zip the files into a directory - if it has off-site ftp, fine, but I can do

Re: suggestion on a backup utility

2008-05-06 Thread Outback Dingo
bacula is good server and client On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 11:52 PM, Eric Zimmerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David Banning wrote: I wonder if anyone can recommend a good backup utility for FreeBSD. If it's in the ports, great. I would like to just specify which directories I would like to

Re: suggestion on a backup utility

2008-05-06 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 12:06:03PM -0400, David Banning wrote: I wonder if anyone can recommend a good backup utility for FreeBSD. If it's in the ports, great. I would like to just specify which directories I would like to backup, how often and have it tar or zip the files into a directory

Re: suggestion on a backup utility

2008-05-06 Thread Robert Huff
Jerry McAllister writes: How about using dump(8)/restore(8). It will handle all file situations correctly. Its main knock is that it can only dump by file systems and not sub-directories, though you can restore by subdirectory or individual file. While it will only dump

Re: suggestion about freebsd as console server or kvm switch

2007-02-06 Thread Gable Barber
On 2/6/07, Gable Barber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2/6/07, ann kok [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all I need the console server function to access the less than 4 servers in the data center. Do you think it is easy to buy cheap kvm or use freebsd to do it? lt is easy to setup using

Re: Suggestion to display date/time of port addition or modification

2003-11-21 Thread Jacek Pelka
On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 04:36:09PM -0800, Peter Leftwich wrote: [2] I do not understand the usefulness nor see the beauty of the current method of installing ports. Why must a user download elementary instructions for programs A, B, C, D, through Z when all he or she may want are programs P

Re: Suggestion re packages

2002-10-04 Thread Roman Neuhauser
# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2002-10-03 12:02:34 -0700: On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 01:06:17PM +0930, Ian Moore wrote: Hi, As I was browsing thru the questions mailing list just now, I thought of something that might improve the ease of use of our ports/packages system. It seems to me it would be

Re: Suggestion re packages

2002-10-03 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 01:06:17PM +0930, Ian Moore wrote: Hi, As I was browsing thru the questions mailing list just now, I thought of something that might improve the ease of use of our ports/packages system. It seems to me it would be helpful if packages included a quick summary of any