Re: Any BASIC Gurus around?

2013-06-18 Thread Julian H. Stacey
As you need max syntax checking from OCR, throw it at as many different basic interpreters/ compilers as you can, inspect where each bleats, some error messages may be more less usefull for different errors. A friend of mine wrote a basic decades back, its in /usr/ports/lang/pbasic/ PS

Re: Any BASIC Gurus around?

2013-06-18 Thread Paul Wootton
On 06/17/13 20:40, Greg Larkin wrote: Hi Chris, I prepared a new patch that incorporates my fixes, yours and Michael's. I found the coredump - multiple missing right parens on line 1170. Then I ran into another problem on line 430 and made an educated guess with the fix. The new patch is

Re: Any BASIC Gurus around?

2013-06-18 Thread Chris Maness
On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 4:31 AM, Paul Wootton paul-free...@fletchermoorland.co.uk wrote: On 06/17/13 20:40, Greg Larkin wrote: Hi Chris, I prepared a new patch that incorporates my fixes, yours and Michael's. I found the coredump - multiple missing right parens on line 1170. Then I ran

Re: Any BASIC Gurus around?

2013-06-18 Thread Paul Wootton
the various diffs and I think I have them all covered. I full file is at http://www.caspersworld.co.uk/FreeBSD/basic-moon.bas Paul ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

Any BASIC Gurus around?

2013-06-17 Thread Chris Maness
I am having trouble getting this old USNO basic program running in bwBASIC. The error output is not clear to me where the problem is. Here is the code, if someone wouldn't mind running it and suggesting edits: 10 DEF FNARCOS(ARG)=1.570796-ATN(ARG/SQR(1.-ARG*ARG)) 20 DEF FNARCSIN(ARG)=ATN(ARG

Re: Any BASIC Gurus around?

2013-06-17 Thread Greg Larkin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 6/17/13 1:16 PM, Chris Maness wrote: I am having trouble getting this old USNO basic program running in bwBASIC. The error output is not clear to me where the problem is. Here is the code, if someone wouldn't mind running it and suggesting

Re: Any BASIC Gurus around?

2013-06-17 Thread Michael Ross
I'm no BASIC Guru, but this one line caught my eye while scrolling through your mail: 2010 IF ABS(H1. THEN GOTO 2040 Missing parenthesis? Regards, Michael ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: Any BASIC Gurus around?

2013-06-17 Thread Chris Maness
at 10:52 AM, Greg Larkin glar...@freebsd.org wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 6/17/13 1:16 PM, Chris Maness wrote: I am having trouble getting this old USNO basic program running in bwBASIC. The error output is not clear to me where the problem is. Here is the code

Re: Any BASIC Gurus around?

2013-06-17 Thread Chris Maness
Oops, here is another patch that includes a correction for the missing parenthesis that Michael Ross pointed out: --- sun.bas.orig 2013-06-17 11:51:00.0 -0700 +++ sun.bas 2013-06-17 11:57:55.0 -0700 @@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ 1020 ON N GOTO 1030, 1090 1030 IS=133775.*M/SK 1040 PRINT

Re: Any BASIC Gurus around?

2013-06-17 Thread Greg Larkin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 6/17/13 3:03 PM, Chris Maness wrote: Oops, here is another patch that includes a correction for the missing parenthesis that Michael Ross pointed out: --- sun.bas.orig2013-06-17 11:51:00.0 -0700 +++ sun.bas2013-06-17

Re: Any BASIC Gurus around?

2013-06-17 Thread Chris Maness
On closer inspection it looks like the moons in the right spot, but the Sun is in the wrong spot. I will take a look and see if there is no error in the lines that deal with the Sun's Az/El. I have the original code that was scanned from a USNO document. The OCR was rather sloppy. I will post

Re: Any BASIC Gurus around?

2013-06-17 Thread Chris Maness
Here is a link to the USNO article that the BASIC program originated from: USNO171s.pdf http://www.chrismaness.com/backend/USNO171s.pdf Thanks, Chris Maness ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: Any BASIC Gurus around?

2013-06-17 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi, Reference: From: Chris Maness ch...@chrismaness.com Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:52:47 -0700 Chris Maness wrote: Here is a link to the USNO article that the BASIC program originated from: USNO171s.pdf http://www.chrismaness.com/backend/USNO171s.pdf Thanks, Chris Maness

Re: which is the basic differences between the shells?

2010-06-07 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Sun, 6 Jun 2010 07:57:51 -0400, Jerry freebsd.u...@seibercom.net wrote: On Sun, 06 Jun 2010 14:19:08 +0300 Giorgos Keramidas keram...@ceid.upatras.gr articulated: You can always install bash with pkg_add. The default package is not built as a static binary, but you can compile a static

Re: which is the basic differences between the shells?

2010-06-07 Thread Chip Camden
On Jun 06 2010 22:00, Chad Perrin wrote: On Sun, Jun 06, 2010 at 11:32:58AM -0700, Chip Camden wrote: I was a tcsh user before switching to zsh. But I was raised on the Bourne Shell, and used Korn shell a lot in the 90s. The C-shell versions of control flow commands always tripped me

Re: which is the basic differences between the shells?

2010-06-07 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 6 Jun 2010 22:06:07 -0600, Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: On Sun, Jun 06, 2010 at 10:06:28AM -1000, p...@pair.com wrote: I cannot say about the tcsh features. That's kind of a shame, since tcsh is what I prefer these days, having long since given up on bash (pretty much

Re: which is the basic differences between the shells?

2010-06-07 Thread Chad Perrin
On Mon, Jun 07, 2010 at 08:26:04PM +0200, Polytropon wrote: On Sun, 6 Jun 2010 22:06:07 -0600, Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: I've never really tried using vi-mode editing in any shell, despite the fact I'm a constant vi user (even a vi gangsta, one might say). Maybe I should

Re: which is the basic differences between the shells?

2010-06-07 Thread Chad Perrin
On Mon, Jun 07, 2010 at 09:31:05AM -0700, Chip Camden wrote: I'd also like to publicly thank you on this list for encouraging me to try FreeBSD. I absolutely love it. I consider it a service to mankind to encourage more people using better, and better-licensed, software. You're welcome, and

Re: which is the basic differences between the shells?

2010-06-06 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Sat, 5 Jun 2010 22:35:09 +, Giorgos Tsiapaliokas terie...@gmail.com wrote: hello, i am coming from the linux world where i was using the bash shell but i found out that there are also much more. can u tell me the basic differences between them?(pros and cons) It isn't humanly

Re: which is the basic differences between the shells?

2010-06-06 Thread Jerry
On Sun, 06 Jun 2010 14:19:08 +0300 Giorgos Keramidas keram...@ceid.upatras.gr articulated: You can always install bash with pkg_add. The default package is not built as a static binary, but you can compile a static bash binary from its port: # cd /usr/ports/shells/bash # make

Re: which is the basic differences between the shells?

2010-06-06 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sat, Jun 05, 2010 at 04:17:15PM -0700, Chip Camden wrote: I like zsh, because it's sh-compatible, brings in a lot of the good ideas from csh/tcsh, and the license appears to be copyfree rather than copyleft. Do you use that as your interactive shell, for scripting, or both? man zsh to

Re: which is the basic differences between the shells?

2010-06-06 Thread Chip Camden
On Jun 06 2010 10:31, Chad Perrin wrote: On Sat, Jun 05, 2010 at 04:17:15PM -0700, Chip Camden wrote: I like zsh, because it's sh-compatible, brings in a lot of the good ideas from csh/tcsh, and the license appears to be copyfree rather than copyleft. Do you use that as your interactive

Re: which is the basic differences between the shells?

2010-06-06 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sun, Jun 06, 2010 at 10:50:43AM -0700, Chip Camden wrote: On Jun 06 2010 10:31, Chad Perrin wrote: On Sat, Jun 05, 2010 at 04:17:15PM -0700, Chip Camden wrote: I like zsh, because it's sh-compatible, brings in a lot of the good ideas from csh/tcsh, and the license appears to be

Re: which is the basic differences between the shells?

2010-06-06 Thread Chip Camden
On Jun 06 2010 12:21, Chad Perrin wrote: On Sun, Jun 06, 2010 at 10:50:43AM -0700, Chip Camden wrote: On Jun 06 2010 10:31, Chad Perrin wrote: On Sat, Jun 05, 2010 at 04:17:15PM -0700, Chip Camden wrote: I like zsh, because it's sh-compatible, brings in a lot of the good ideas

Re: which is the basic differences between the shells?

2010-06-06 Thread parv
in message 20100606182148.gb28...@guilt.hydra, wrote Chad Perrin thusly... ... On Sat, Jun 05, 2010 at 04:17:15PM -0700, Chip Camden wrote: I like zsh, because it's sh-compatible, brings in a lot of the good ideas from csh/tcsh, and the license appears to be copyfree rather than

Re: which is the basic differences between the shells?

2010-06-06 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sun, Jun 06, 2010 at 11:32:58AM -0700, Chip Camden wrote: I was a tcsh user before switching to zsh. But I was raised on the Bourne Shell, and used Korn shell a lot in the 90s. The C-shell versions of control flow commands always tripped me up, even though they're arguably more sane --

Re: which is the basic differences between the shells?

2010-06-06 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sun, Jun 06, 2010 at 10:06:28AM -1000, p...@pair.com wrote: I cannot say about the tcsh features. That's kind of a shame, since tcsh is what I prefer these days, having long since given up on bash (pretty much immediately after I started using FreeBSD as my primary OS instead of bash, and

which is the basic differences between the shells?

2010-06-05 Thread Giorgos Tsiapaliokas
hello, i am coming from the linux world where i was using the bash shell but i found out that there are also much more. can u tell me the basic differences between them?(pros and cons) thanks in advance ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: which is the basic differences between the shells?

2010-06-05 Thread Chip Camden
On Jun 05 2010 22:35, Giorgos Tsiapaliokas wrote: hello, i am coming from the linux world where i was using the bash shell but i found out that there are also much more. can u tell me the basic differences between them?(pros and cons) thanks in advance

Re: which is the basic differences between the shells?

2010-06-05 Thread Alejandro Imass
On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 6:35 PM, Giorgos Tsiapaliokas terie...@gmail.com wrote: hello, i am coming from the linux world where i was using the bash shell but i found out that there are also much more. can u tell me the basic differences between them?(pros and cons) Too broad a topic I suspect

Re: which is the basic differences between the shells?

2010-06-05 Thread Charlie Kester
On Sat 05 Jun 2010 at 16:24:36 PDT Alejandro Imass wrote: On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 6:35 PM, Giorgos Tsiapaliokas terie...@gmail.com wrote: hello, i am coming from the linux world where i was using the bash shell but i found out that there are also much more. can u tell me the basic differences

Re: Help understanding basic FreeBSD concepts (ports, updates, jails)

2009-11-08 Thread andrew clarke
On Sat 2009-11-07 19:19:52 UTC-0800, Randi Harper (ra...@freebsd.org) wrote: Don't bother with any of that. Just use portsnap. It's also part of base, and was written by the same person that wrote freebsd-update. It's lovely and much faster, although some people may argue with me on that.

Re: Help understanding basic FreeBSD concepts (ports, updates, jails)

2009-11-08 Thread Robert Huff
andrew clarke writes: Don't bother with any of that. Just use portsnap. It's also part of base, and was written by the same person that wrote freebsd-update. It's lovely and much faster, although some people may argue with me on that. For your system, use freebsd-update.

Re: Help understanding basic FreeBSD concepts (ports, updates, jails)

2009-11-08 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 7 Nov 2009 10:57:54 -0600, Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.com wrote: There are three basic branches, CURRENT STABLE RELEASE You want release. You shouldn't run anything else unless you're willing and able to help with testing, debugging, and development. That's a quite generic

Re: Help understanding basic FreeBSD concepts (ports, updates, jails)

2009-11-07 Thread Roger
Hello all, I have another concept that I'm confused about, the source distribution. Some ports, like lsof require the existence of /usr/src. What I don't understand is which version to use to keep synchronized with the production release. When the installed was performed the release was 7.2 but

Re: Help understanding basic FreeBSD concepts (ports, updates, jails)

2009-11-07 Thread Adam Vande More
that need the sources present so now would be a good time to find out which one I should use. Thank you for your time and patience, There are three basic branches, CURRENT STABLE RELEASE You want release. You shouldn't run anything else unless you're willing and able to help with testing

Re: Help understanding basic FreeBSD concepts (ports, updates, jails)

2009-11-07 Thread Michael Powell
Roger wrote: Hello all, I have another concept that I'm confused about, the source distribution. Some ports, like lsof require the existence of /usr/src. What I don't understand is which version to use to keep synchronized with the production release. When the installed was performed the

Re: Help understanding basic FreeBSD concepts (ports, updates, jails)

2009-11-07 Thread Frank Shute
On Sat, Nov 07, 2009 at 11:39:41AM -0500, Roger wrote: Hello all, I have another concept that I'm confused about, the source distribution. Some ports, like lsof require the existence of /usr/src. What I don't understand is which version to use to keep synchronized with the production

Re: Help understanding basic FreeBSD concepts (ports, updates, jails)

2009-11-07 Thread Roger
On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 3:20 PM, Frank Shute fr...@shute.org.uk wrote: You mentioned lsof but there is a utility in base which you probably don't know about called fstat(1), which does a lot of what lsof does. Thank you for the tip. I will definitely look into it. IIRC, the sources for 7.2

Re: Help understanding basic FreeBSD concepts (ports, updates, jails)

2009-11-07 Thread Randi Harper
On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 9:31 AM, Roger rno...@gmail.com wrote: My second concerned is the ports. In the file ports-supfile there is one option, *default release=cvs tag=.. I believe this specifies which cvs tag to use when pulling files from the ports. At one point I had *default release=cvs

Re: basic

2009-05-07 Thread Mel Flynn
On Wednesday 06 May 2009 21:09:07 Jerry McAllister wrote: On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 06:00:32PM +0200, Polytropon wrote: 10 GOTO 10 On Wed, 6 May 2009 14:32:47 +0200, giorgio novello gio@vodafone.it wrote: Do you want obtain new market share? Develop e visual-basic like language

Re: basic

2009-05-07 Thread Jerry McAllister
want obtain new market share? Develop e visual-basic like language, or asp vb and your OS will be a best seller FreeBSD isn't for beginners, it's for professionals. Everyone is a beginner sometime. So, FreeBSD is for beginners. Otherwise there would be no FreeBSD --- or you

Re: basic

2009-05-07 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 7 May 2009 09:53:19 -0400, Jerry McAllister jerr...@msu.edu wrote: I know what he thinks he means. But, what he says is that improvements are against the ethic of FreeBSD and that simply is not true. Never said such thing. In fact, there are many improvements I'd like to see in

Re: basic

2009-05-07 Thread andrew clarke
On Wed 2009-05-06 14:32:47 UTC+0200, giorgio novello (gio@vodafone.it) wrote: Develop e visual-basic like language, or asp vb and your OS will be a best seller The OP is likely trolling, but reminded me of the Lazarus project. It's loosely based on Borland Delphi and is apparently quite

basic

2009-05-06 Thread giorgio novello
Do you want obtain new market share? Develop e visual-basic like language, or asp vb and your OS will be a best seller Regards Giorgio Novello Vb developer Italy ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: basic

2009-05-06 Thread Chris Rees
2009/5/6 giorgio novello gio@vodafone.it: Do you want obtain new market share? Develop e visual-basic like language, or asp vb and  your OS will be a best seller Regards Giorgio Novello Vb developer Italy But VB only works on one platform! Chris -- A: Because it messes

Re: basic

2009-05-06 Thread Outback Dingo
comne on now, its not even april first. On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 7:32 PM, giorgio novello gio@vodafone.it wrote: Do you want obtain new market share? Develop e visual-basic like language, or asp vb and your OS will be a best seller Regards Giorgio Novello Vb developer Italy

Re: basic

2009-05-06 Thread Polytropon
10 GOTO 10 On Wed, 6 May 2009 14:32:47 +0200, giorgio novello gio@vodafone.it wrote: Do you want obtain new market share? Develop e visual-basic like language, or asp vb and your OS will be a best seller FreeBSD isn't for beginners, it's for professionals. There wouldn't be Visual

Re: basic

2009-05-06 Thread cpghost
On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 06:00:32PM +0200, Polytropon wrote: On Wed, 6 May 2009 14:32:47 +0200, giorgio novello gio@vodafone.it wrote: Do you want obtain new market share? Develop e visual-basic like language, or asp vb and your OS will be a best seller FreeBSD isn't

Re: basic

2009-05-06 Thread J Sisson
, giorgio novello gio@vodafone.it wrote: Do you want obtain new market share? Develop e visual-basic like language, or asp vb and your OS will be a best seller Regards Giorgio Novello Vb developer Italy ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: basic

2009-05-06 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 06:00:32PM +0200, Polytropon wrote: 10 GOTO 10 On Wed, 6 May 2009 14:32:47 +0200, giorgio novello gio@vodafone.it wrote: Do you want obtain new market share? Develop e visual-basic like language, or asp vb and your OS will be a best seller FreeBSD

Re: basic

2009-05-06 Thread Fred C
at it, let's re-write the shell in .NET...you know...for performance reasons. On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 7:32 AM, giorgio novello gio@vodafone.it wrote: Do you want obtain new market share? Develop e visual-basic like language, or asp vb and your OS will be a best seller Regards Giorgio

RE: basic

2009-05-06 Thread Gary Gatten
: Re: basic That project already exist it is called linux... -fred- On May 6, 2009, at 9:08 AM, J Sisson wrote: That's a great idea...let's take a wonderful open source project and flood it with Windows programmers who couldn't find the shell even if they booted without a GUI. And while

Re: basic

2009-05-06 Thread Fred C
sometime like I am working on Windows. -fred- -Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org ] On Behalf Of Fred C Sent: Wednesday, May 06, 2009 1:52 PM To: J Sisson Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: basic

Re: basic

2009-05-06 Thread Charlie Kester
that many people have no problem with those terms. As for the suggestion that what FreeBSD needs is VB, there have already been various ports of Basic over the years. None of them seem to have had much success. BSD users seem to be content with traditional shell scripting, perl, or newer scripting

Re: basic

2009-05-06 Thread Jerry McAllister
of doing things and not vice versa. The current userbase is large enough to suggest that many people have no problem with those terms. As for the suggestion that what FreeBSD needs is VB, there have already been various ports of Basic over the years. None of them seem to have had much success

RE: basic

2009-05-06 Thread Gary Gatten
! -Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Jerry McAllister Sent: Wednesday, May 06, 2009 5:23 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: basic On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 01:59:41PM -0700, Charlie Kester wrote

basic sata card recommendations?

2009-03-17 Thread Dan Mahoney
Hey all, I was wondering if anyone could make mention of a decent basic sata card (not raid). Disk is cheap but my old dell p4 (600sc) doesn't have an onboard controller. I see a list of supported chipsets here http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.4R/hardware-i386.html#DISK but I'm more

Basic Tulip questions

2008-12-03 Thread Kelly Jones
I just installed Tulip on my FreeBSD server. The server has X11 installed, but isn't running it. I asked the questions below to the Tulip list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) earlier, but got no reply, so I was hoping someone here was familiar w/ it and could help me. Does Tulip have a command-line mode?

Re: Card for basic 3D acceleration in FreeBSD

2006-03-03 Thread Peter
--- Igor Robul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Mar 03, 2006 at 12:51:54AM -0500, Peter wrote: Nvidia GeForce FX 5500 is working well for me. This card is a couple of years old now. I see many on But pay attention, that nVidia drivers dont support amd64 version of FreeBSD. Well I

Re: Card for basic 3D acceleration in FreeBSD

2006-03-03 Thread Micah
Hans Nieser wrote: Micah wrote: I'm looking for a card to handle some simple OpenGL stuff for a class I'm taking. I have an ATI X300 card, but 3D acceleration is not supported on it in the current Xorg. The only slots on my Mobo are PCI and PCI-EX. I use the i386 release of FreeBSD

RE: Making APC 500 Back UPS (basic) work with FreeBSD

2006-03-03 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
500 Back UPS (basic) work with FreeBSD Hi Don, Thanks for the reply. But yes, APC is selling in India the models it can't sell anywhere else. My 500 VA Back UPS (purchased new last month) does not have any cuaa/usb interface. It's not just APC alone, there's a whole lot of companies that throw

Re: Card for basic 3D acceleration in FreeBSD

2006-03-03 Thread Hans Nieser
the answer to the last question in the thread pointed to above? Exactly which nvidia cards are/are not 'native' PCI-Express? Well, the performance isn't too horrible I think, especially if you're just going to run some basic OpenGL apps. I think it was roughly 1/4 to 1/3 of what I would get

Card for basic 3D acceleration in FreeBSD

2006-03-02 Thread Micah
I'm looking for a card to handle some simple OpenGL stuff for a class I'm taking. I have an ATI X300 card, but 3D acceleration is not supported on it in the current Xorg. The only slots on my Mobo are PCI and PCI-EX. I use the i386 release of FreeBSD currently, but would like to have the

Re: Card for basic 3D acceleration in FreeBSD

2006-03-02 Thread Vayu
On Thursday 02 March 2006 15:57, Micah wrote: I'm looking for a card to handle some simple OpenGL stuff for a class I'm taking. I have an ATI X300 card, but 3D acceleration is not supported on it in the current Xorg. The only slots on my Mobo are PCI and PCI-EX. I use the i386 release of

Re: Card for basic 3D acceleration in FreeBSD

2006-03-02 Thread Joseph Vella
On Thursday 02 March 2006 21:37, Vayu wrote: On Thursday 02 March 2006 15:57, Micah wrote: I'm looking for a card to handle some simple OpenGL stuff for a class I'm taking. I have an ATI X300 card, but 3D acceleration is not supported on it in the current Xorg. The only slots on my Mobo

Re: Card for basic 3D acceleration in FreeBSD

2006-03-02 Thread Peter
--- Vayu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 02 March 2006 15:57, Micah wrote: I'm looking for a card to handle some simple OpenGL stuff for a class I'm taking. I have an ATI X300 card, but 3D acceleration is not supported on it in the current Xorg. The only slots on my Mobo are PCI

Re: Card for basic 3D acceleration in FreeBSD

2006-03-02 Thread Igor Robul
On Fri, Mar 03, 2006 at 12:51:54AM -0500, Peter wrote: Nvidia GeForce FX 5500 is working well for me. This card is a couple of years old now. I see many on But pay attention, that nVidia drivers dont support amd64 version of FreeBSD. ___

Re: Card for basic 3D acceleration in FreeBSD

2006-03-02 Thread Hans Nieser
Micah wrote: I'm looking for a card to handle some simple OpenGL stuff for a class I'm taking. I have an ATI X300 card, but 3D acceleration is not supported on it in the current Xorg. The only slots on my Mobo are PCI and PCI-EX. I use the i386 release of FreeBSD currently, but would like

Re: Making APC 500 Back UPS (basic) work with FreeBSD

2006-03-01 Thread manish jain
in this country. Thankfully FreeBSD is not one of them. Regards Manish Jain Donald J. O'Neill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 21 February 2006 08:26, Chuck Swiger wrote: manish jain wrote: I just purchased an APC 500 Back UPS (the basic model, not the pro/smart one). It does not have any

Re: Making APC 500 Back UPS (basic) work with FreeBSD

2006-03-01 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
. Regards Manish Jain Donald J. O'Neill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 21 February 2006 08:26, Chuck Swiger wrote: manish jain wrote: I just purchased an APC 500 Back UPS (the basic model, not the pro/smart one). It does not have any serial/usb interface. Can I get apcupsd

RE: Making APC 500 Back UPS (basic) work with FreeBSD

2006-02-22 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Making APC 500 Back UPS (basic) work with FreeBSD Hi, I just purchased an APC 500 Back UPS (the basic model, not the pro/smart one). It does not have any serial/usb interface. Can I get apcupsd or any other daemon to work with it so that the system automatically

RE: Making APC 500 Back UPS (basic) work with FreeBSD

2006-02-22 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Donald J. O'Neill Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2006 8:47 AM To: Chuck Swiger Cc: manish jain; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Making APC 500 Back UPS (basic) work with FreeBSD Then, thats got

Re: Making APC 500 Back UPS (basic) work with FreeBSD

2006-02-22 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
APC 500 Back UPS (basic) work with FreeBSD Then, thats got to be a really old, old one. I've been working (playing with actually) with computers since the color computer. I won't admit to anything further back than that. I've never seen one that didn't have some means of communication

Re: Making APC 500 Back UPS (basic) work with FreeBSD

2006-02-22 Thread David Kelly
On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 03:07:21AM -0800, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: Fortunately, the used market is awash in UPSes that have burned out batteries. Just find the local supplier of lead-acid gell cells and make friends with him and your in like flyn. Any large city has at least 1 of them.

Making APC 500 Back UPS (basic) work with FreeBSD

2006-02-21 Thread manish jain
Hi, I just purchased an APC 500 Back UPS (the basic model, not the pro/smart one). It does not have any serial/usb interface. Can I get apcupsd or any other daemon to work with it so that the system automatically shuts down before backup supply runs out ? If someone can attach

Re: Making APC 500 Back UPS (basic) work with FreeBSD

2006-02-21 Thread Ian Lord
At 09:09 2006-02-21, manish jain wrote: Hi, I just purchased an APC 500 Back UPS (the basic model, not the pro/smart one). It does not have any serial/usb interface. Can I get apcupsd or any other daemon to work with it so that the system automatically shuts down before backup supply runs

Re: Making APC 500 Back UPS (basic) work with FreeBSD

2006-02-21 Thread Chuck Swiger
manish jain wrote: I just purchased an APC 500 Back UPS (the basic model, not the pro/smart one). It does not have any serial/usb interface. Can I get apcupsd or any other daemon to work with it so that the system automatically shuts down before backup supply runs out ? No. If your UPS

Re: Making APC 500 Back UPS (basic) work with FreeBSD

2006-02-21 Thread Peter
--- Ian Lord [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 09:09 2006-02-21, manish jain wrote: Hi, I just purchased an APC 500 Back UPS (the basic model, not the pro/smart one). It does not have any serial/usb interface. Can I get apcupsd or any other daemon to work with it so that the system

Re: Making APC 500 Back UPS (basic) work with FreeBSD

2006-02-21 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Tuesday 21 February 2006 08:26, Chuck Swiger wrote: manish jain wrote: I just purchased an APC 500 Back UPS (the basic model, not the pro/smart one). It does not have any serial/usb interface. Can I get apcupsd or any other daemon to work with it so that the system automatically shuts

Re: Making APC 500 Back UPS (basic) work with FreeBSD

2006-02-21 Thread Ian Lord
At 10:32 2006-02-21, Peter wrote: --- Ian Lord [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 09:09 2006-02-21, manish jain wrote: Hi, I just purchased an APC 500 Back UPS (the basic model, not the pro/smart one). It does not have any serial/usb interface. Can I get apcupsd or any other daemon

Re: Making APC 500 Back UPS (basic) work with FreeBSD

2006-02-21 Thread Chuck Swiger
Donald J. O'Neill wrote: On Tuesday 21 February 2006 08:26, Chuck Swiger wrote: [ ... ] No. If your UPS isn't smart and does not have an external USB or serial port, apcupsd has nothing to work with. As best I can tell from the OP's description, and the APC website, they all have a UPS

Re: Making APC 500 Back UPS (basic) work with FreeBSD

2006-02-21 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Tuesday 21 February 2006 09:53, Ian Lord wrote: At 10:32 2006-02-21, Peter wrote: --- Ian Lord [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 09:09 2006-02-21, manish jain wrote: Hi, I just purchased an APC 500 Back UPS (the basic model, not the pro/smart one). It does not have any

Re: Making APC 500 Back UPS (basic) work with FreeBSD

2006-02-21 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Tuesday 21 February 2006 10:08, Chuck Swiger wrote: Donald J. O'Neill wrote: On Tuesday 21 February 2006 08:26, Chuck Swiger wrote: [ ... ] No. If your UPS isn't smart and does not have an external USB or serial port, apcupsd has nothing to work with. As best I can tell from the

Re: Making APC 500 Back UPS (basic) work with FreeBSD

2006-02-21 Thread Ian Lord
At 11:47 2006-02-21, Donald J. O'Neill wrote: On Tuesday 21 February 2006 10:08, Chuck Swiger wrote: Donald J. O'Neill wrote: On Tuesday 21 February 2006 08:26, Chuck Swiger wrote: [ ... ] No. If your UPS isn't smart and does not have an external USB or serial port, apcupsd has

Re: Making APC 500 Back UPS (basic) work with FreeBSD

2006-02-21 Thread Graham Bentley
Back-UPS CS 350 is the lowest model I got to work on *nix. However, you have to ring / mail APC and ask them to send you out a serial lead. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Re: Making APC 500 Back UPS (basic) work with FreeBSD

2006-02-21 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Tuesday 21 February 2006 11:46, Ian Lord wrote: Lol in my own opinion, if the user that asked the question can't figure out there is a usb/serial port on the unit (I took the assumption as true :) I can hardly see how he would manage to compile and configure apcupsd :) What can I say.

Re: Making APC 500 Back UPS (basic) work with FreeBSD

2006-02-21 Thread David Kelly
On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 10:35:40AM -0600, Donald J. O'Neill wrote: I think in this case, he was referring to extra sensory perception. But, since this is evidently a model that just sits there and supplies backup power until the battery is too depleted to AC power to the computer at an

Re: Making APC 500 Back UPS (basic) work with FreeBSD

2006-02-21 Thread Paul Mather
Chuck Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Donald J. O'Neill wrote: On Tuesday 21 February 2006 08:26, Chuck Swiger wrote: [ ... ] No. If your UPS isn't smart and does not have an external USB or serial port, apcupsd has nothing to work with. As best I can tell from the OP's description,

Re: troubles with apcupsd (basic setup)

2005-11-26 Thread Greg Maruszeczka
Dan O'Connor wrote: My config file: UPSNAME APC_BACKUPS_650 UPSCABLE 940-0020B UPSTYPE dumb DEVICE /dev/cuaa0 LOCKFILE /var/spool/lock ONBATTERYDELAY 10 BATTERYLEVEL 20 MINUTES 5 TIMEOUT 600 Nope. Same thing. Well, first off, try setting UPSTYPE to apcsmart

Re: troubles with apcupsd (basic setup)

2005-11-25 Thread Dan O'Connor
My config file: UPSNAME APC_BACKUPS_650 UPSCABLE 940-0020B UPSTYPE dumb DEVICE /dev/cuaa0 LOCKFILE /var/spool/lock ONBATTERYDELAY 10 BATTERYLEVEL 20 MINUTES 5 TIMEOUT 600 Nope. Same thing. Well, first off, try setting UPSTYPE to apcsmart then just set UPSCABLE to

troubles with apcupsd (basic setup)

2005-11-23 Thread Peter
Hello. I have an APC BackUPS 650 and I want to have my FreeBSD 5.4 system shutdown on power failure. I received a cable with the unit but there are no identifying markings. When I run apcupsd it thinks there is a power failure and proceeds to shut me down. Can anyone help? My config file:

Re: troubles with apcupsd (basic setup)

2005-11-23 Thread Greg Maruszeczka
Peter wrote: Hello. I have an APC BackUPS 650 and I want to have my FreeBSD 5.4 system shutdown on power failure. I received a cable with the unit but there are no identifying markings. When I run apcupsd it thinks there is a power failure and proceeds to shut me down. Can anyone help?

Re: troubles with apcupsd (basic setup)

2005-11-23 Thread Peter
--- Greg Maruszeczka [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Peter wrote: Hello. I have an APC BackUPS 650 and I want to have my FreeBSD 5.4 system shutdown on power failure. I received a cable with the unit but there are no identifying markings. When I run apcupsd it thinks there is a power

Basic Port Management.Is there any?

2005-10-31 Thread George Katsanos
Hello ! , As a fresh Freebsd user[and fan] I am trying to set up my WM / X environment and choose the apps I will use for basic stuff. Text Editors , Image viewers , Mail apps , FileManagers. So after I see some screenshots [it would be very nice and handy if some screenshots could be added

Re: Basic Port Management.Is there any?

2005-10-31 Thread Andrew P.
On 10/31/05, George Katsanos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello ! , As a fresh Freebsd user[and fan] I am trying to set up my WM / X environment and choose the apps I will use for basic stuff. Text Editors , Image viewers , Mail apps , FileManagers. So after I see some screenshots [it would

Re: Basic Port Management.Is there any?

2005-10-31 Thread Philip Lykke Carlsen
Monday 31 October 2005 10:00 skrev George Katsanos: Hello ! , As a fresh Freebsd user[and fan] I am trying to set up my WM / X environment and choose the apps I will use for basic stuff. Text Editors , Image viewers , Mail apps , FileManagers. So after I see some screenshots [it would

Re: Basic Port Management.Is there any?

2005-10-31 Thread Lowell Gilbert
George Katsanos [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: As a fresh Freebsd user[and fan] I am trying to set up my WM / X environment and choose the apps I will use for basic stuff. Text Editors , Image viewers , Mail apps , FileManagers. So after I see some screenshots [it would be very nice and handy

Basic FreeBSD firewall and patching questions.

2005-10-20 Thread Daniel Pittman
G'day. I am quite new with supporting FreeBSD, although well experienced with Unix and Linux in general, so I hope these questions are not too silly. My first question is about firewalls: I have read the FreeBSD handbook and browsed the ports database, etc, to find out about firewalling. It

Re: Basic FreeBSD firewall and patching questions.

2005-10-20 Thread Erik Norgaard
On Thu, 20 Oct 2005, Daniel Pittman wrote: It looks to me like either ipf or ipfilter are equally good, and have about the same capabilities, as well as being provided as part of the base system. Is there any good, technical reason why I should prefer one to the other? ipfilter is simpler

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