On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 03:18:55AM +0100, Polytropon wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Jan 2009 18:15:09 +, RW wrote:
> > IMO these basic window managers are ok if you *only* use them via a
> > keyboard, but if you ever use a mouse they're very poor ergonomically.
>
> Well, I found this a problem, too, but
Greg Larkin writes:
> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
> It doesn't use tar, but I've had great luck with rsnapshot
> (http://www.freshports.org/sysutils/rsnapshot/ -
> http://www.rsnapshot.org/) for backing up multiple RedHat Linux and
> FreeBSD servers to a central server over SSH.
Tha
Martin McCormick wrote:
> Several months ago, I started using dar to backup a
> number of FreeBSD and Linux systems to one FreeBSD box. It
> worked fine once one got the syntax of the remote commands
> working, but then it all died when I moved it to a new
> FreeBSD6.3 system.
I feel for yo
On Tue, 27 Jan 2009 23:58:11 +0100 (CET), Wojciech Puchar
wrote:
> do you have opera 7 package somewhere? i would like to downgrade.
> yes it got very bad.
I think I have a working Opera 7 installation on my old-fashioned
laptop (FreeBSD 5), and if I've got the /usr/ports tree still there,
maybe
On Wed, 28 Jan 2009 00:04:33 +0100 (CET), Wojciech Puchar
wrote:
> They don't just dumps out potential readers that don't use "the only
> right" OS and browser.
>
> They too - dumps out all disabled people, most importantly blind.
>
> It's not a problem for a blind to read plain text on comput
On Wed, 2009-01-28 at 03:57 +0100, Polytropon wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Jan 2009 23:36:22 +0100 (CET), Wojciech Puchar
> wrote:
> > "programming environment"? what do you mean?
>
> Some "heler application" for integration and managing source
> files, such as KDevelop, Eclipse or the like.
Whether or
On Wed, 28 Jan 2009 03:04:08 + (UTC), Dave Feustel
wrote:
> I have gotten very interested in window managers. Earlier tonight
> I added links to about 6 non-mainstream window managers, including
> WindowMaker.
> But I still don't understand how the menus of each of these WMs are customized
>
guys,
well, i'm ashamed to admit that i've put at least a dozen hours in
trying, then re-re-retrying to OCR a imaged pdf file with as many
open source ocr packages as i can find. before i quit for supper
tonight, i finally threw in the towel. realized than i would have
been THROUGH with all 181
Wojciech Puchar said:
> youtube-dl from ports is your friend
Very true. But unfortunately, there are many sites that overbearingly
(and often times hinderingly) use flash for nonsense. Such as banks
that play flash videos that hide the login box, etc...
--
Glen Barber
_
On Wed, 28 Jan 2009 13:35:05 +1000, Da Rock
wrote:
> Whether or not it helps others, I'm using netbeans because its very
> helpful (code completion, auto help dialogs- can be annoying but
> manageable) in that it reminds me of what else is in a large system of
> code, and it handles many differen
On Tue, 27 Jan 2009 23:08:12 -0500, Glen Barber wrote:
> Very true. But unfortunately, there are many sites that overbearingly
> (and often times hinderingly) use flash for nonsense. Such as banks
> that play flash videos that hide the login box, etc...
Today, "Flash" is being used for the purpo
Chuck Swiger wrote:
On Jan 27, 2009, at 4:49 PM, Shawn Badger wrote:
Have you tried reducing HZ to 100 (put kern.hz="100" in
/boot/loader.conf and reboot)?
Are you running powerd? Look into "sysctl hw.acpi" and "sysctl
debug.cpufreq"
Thanks for the ideas Chuck. I lowered kern.hz to 100
Polytropon said:
> Today, "Flash" is being used for the purposes that animated GIFs
> have been serving in the past. But with "Flash", you can annoy the
> user not only with jumping, popping and dancing graphics, but with
> beeping, boinging and crunching sounds, and furthermore, with lots
> of an
Hi,
I've noticed that /sbin/restore no longer prints an asterisk next to
files/directories marked for extraction. The man page still says the
asterisk will be printed, but 7.1-RELEASE and a recent build of
7-STABLE both lack it:
# dump L0f - / | restore if -
DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Tu
Good day list;
Port worked find on 6.2. Having problems with this port since doing a
clean install from CDs to 7.0, further binary upgrade to 7.1 didn't
solve the problem. Have removed all exceptions from ports supfiles
and fetched and installed clean tree using portsnap without luck vis-a
From: Sebastian Setzer
Subject: RE: OpenOffice 3.0, which java must I use?
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 19:51:14 +0100
> Thanks,
> with diablo 1.6 it works.
>
> To the openoffice porting team:
> Could you please mention this on http://porting.openoffice.org/freebsd/?
> This page says "We suppo
On Tue, 27 Jan 2009 16:19:31 -0700
Shawn Badger wrote:
> Hi, I recently installed FreeBSD 7.1 on my laptop, replacing Arch
> Linux and I noticed a significant drop in my battery life (from ~3
> hours to ~1.5 hours). I realize that Linux has their "tickless"
> kernel, which I am sure explains the
On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 1:30 AM, Martin McCormick wrote:
>Several months ago, I started using dar to backup a
> number of FreeBSD and Linux systems to one FreeBSD box. It
> worked fine once one got the syntax of the remote commands
> working, but then it all died when I moved it to a new
Bruce Cran wrote:
On Tue, 27 Jan 2009 16:19:31 -0700
Shawn Badger [1] wrote:
Hi, I recently installed FreeBSD 7.1 on my laptop, replacing Arch
Linux and I noticed a significant drop in my battery life (from ~3
hours to ~1.5 hours). I realize that Linux has their "tickless"
kernel, which I
I have cups set up on a FreeBSD server to receive raw queues from
windows clients on my home network. It is being used indepently of
Samba. Access is invoked directly with http -
http://xx.yy.zz.ww:631/printers/lex312raw . The printer is an elderly
Lexmark 312L.
The printer prints fine f
> Hi Warren
>
> I also had this problem, I resolved it by;
> portupgrade -Rf firefox
>
> My understanding is that this goes and forcibly builds all of the ports
> that firefox depends on, then firefox itself.
>
> If you run the commands with truss it will give you some debug information
> on what i
On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 03:18:55AM +0100, Polytropon wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Jan 2009 18:15:09 +, RW wrote:
> > IMO these basic window managers are ok if you *only* use them via a
> > keyboard, but if you ever use a mouse they're very poor ergonomically.
>
> Well, I found this a problem, too, but
On Tue, 27 Jan 2009, Sebastian Mellmann wrote:
> Ian Smith wrote:
[..]
> > 00060: 192.000 Kbit/s0 ms 30 KB 1 queues (1 buckets) droptail
> > 0 tcp 192.168.0.64/1032207.46.106.36/1863 1847947 563209421 0
> > 0 141
> > 00070: 3.072 Mbit/s0 ms 40 KB 1 queues (1 buckets)
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