Re: office apps

2010-06-07 Thread perryh
Charlie Kester corky1...@comcast.net wrote: Can PowerPoint save to PDF, which is what almost everyone else seems to be using for presentations? Just about any app, including PPT, can print to PDF if Acrobat is installed. Without Acrobat, print-to-file specifying a PostScript printer (e.g. an

Atheros AR8131 Ethernet hangs shutdown

2010-06-07 Thread CyberLeo Kitsana
Hi! I recently had the chance to play with a Foxconn NetBox-nT330i. It's based off an Atom 330 CPU and an nForce MCP79 chipset. All aspects of this device appear to function quite well with 8.1-BETA1, and it's diminutive stature is quite cute. The only issue I have encountered with it thus far

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: hal-0.5.14_7 to _8 upgrade problem

2010-06-07 Thread n dhert
Hi, OK, the next day the TAB was OK again after the recompile of kdebase (part of the necessary recompiles specified in /usr/ports/UPDATING - 20090309) This was on a system already on 8.0 (upgraded from 7.2) But I have another issue with that libusb on another system, which is stil 7.2. I want to

reinstall all of Xorg

2010-06-07 Thread n dhert
After an upgrade FreeBSD72 - 80, Xorg doesn't work looking in /var/log/Xorg.0.log tells Build Operating System: FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE-p7 Current O S FreeSBD-8.0-RELEASE-p2 I have done a portupgrade -af after upgrading, but somehow if seems not to have done this for Xorg ?? How can I reinstall

Re: office apps

2010-06-07 Thread Eduardo
On Sun, 6 Jun 2010 13:34:16 -0700 Chip Camden sterl...@camdensoftware.com wrote: This might not be the right list for this question -- if so, please slap me over to the right one. Does anyone have a recommendation for a lighter-weight office suite? OOo is such a pig. It takes a good minute

make: don't know how to make /usr/local/ssl/fips-1.0/lib/fipscanister.o. Stop

2010-06-07 Thread Pamela Pomary
Hello fellow freebsd users. I'am installing openssl from ports on freebsd 8.0. In the process it complains and stops. here is the error: make: don't know how to make /usr/local/ssl/fips-1.0/lib/fipscanister.o. Stop Will be grateful for help on this error. cheers! :) -- Pamela Pomary ICT

Re: What happens with x11-toolkits/linux-f10-gtk2 ?

2010-06-07 Thread Boris Samorodov
On Sun, 6 Jun 2010 10:00:23 +0200 Antonio Vieiro wrote: fetch: http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/core/../releases/10/Everything/i386/os/Packages/gtk2-2.14.7-7.fc10.i386.rpm: Not Found I've just updated the port to gtk2-2.14.7-9.fc10. Give it a try, please. Thanks for the report! -- WBR,

Re: Java plugin with Firefox 3.6

2010-06-07 Thread Jerry
On Mon, 7 Jun 2010 07:50:04 +0200 Harry Matthiesen Jensen free...@elgert.dk articulated: On Mon, Jun 07, 2010 at 12:20:08AM +, Márcio C.G. wrote: As this link (http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=10570) says, JAVA PLUGIN WONT WORK WITH FIREFOX 3.6. I tried to use

RE: Small webserver recommendations

2010-06-07 Thread peter harrison
Thanks, I never realised thttpd could run cgi. Looks simple to configure too. Cheers, Peter. -Original Message- From: andrew clarke m...@ozzmosis.com Sent: 07 June 2010 11:08 To: peter harrison four.harris...@googlemail.com Cc: questi...@freebsd.org questi...@freebsd.org Subject: Re:

Re: Small webserver recommendations

2010-06-07 Thread andrew clarke
On Sun 2010-06-06 18:44:10 UTC+0100, peter harrison (four.harris...@googlemail.com) wrote: I'm looking for a small webserver to add to a nanobsd image, so preferably with few dependencies too. Needs to be able to run Perl cgi's as well. Anyone willing to make a recommendation? thttpd?

Re: Java plugin with Firefox 3.6

2010-06-07 Thread Harry Matthiesen Jensen
On Mon, Jun 07, 2010 at 06:08:24AM -0400, Jerry wrote: I just portinstall firefox3, which right now will give you Firefox 3.5.9, and java works ;-) The OP requested help with Firefox-3.6, not with older deprecated I am fully aware of that... The short answer would be not yet possible

Re: Small webserver recommendations

2010-06-07 Thread Artifex Maximus
Hello! On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 7:44 PM, peter harrison four.harris...@googlemail.com wrote: I'm looking for a small webserver to add to a nanobsd image, so preferably with few dependencies too. Needs to be able to run Perl cgi's as well. Anyone willing to make a recommendation? nginx?

Re: reinstall all of Xorg

2010-06-07 Thread Manolis Kiagias
On 07/06/2010 12:42 μ.μ., n dhert wrote: After an upgrade FreeBSD72 - 80, Xorg doesn't work looking in /var/log/Xorg.0.log tells Build Operating System: FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE-p7 Current O S FreeSBD-8.0-RELEASE-p2 I have done a portupgrade -af after upgrading, but somehow if seems not to have

Re: office apps

2010-06-07 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 1:56 AM, Mike Jeays mike.je...@rogers.com wrote: Short of the full suite, how about just a spreadsheet program that supports complex formulas and charting?  If it could also be used without X11 when charting isn't needed, that would make my day. Gnumeric provides a good

Re: Atheros AR8131 Ethernet hangs shutdown

2010-06-07 Thread Warren Block
On Mon, 7 Jun 2010, CyberLeo Kitsana wrote: I recently had the chance to play with a Foxconn NetBox-nT330i. It's based off an Atom 330 CPU and an nForce MCP79 chipset. All aspects of this device appear to function quite well with 8.1-BETA1, and it's diminutive stature is quite cute. The only

mixer relative values don't work without a dev: bug or by design?

2010-06-07 Thread Eitan Adler
% mixer vol +4 Setting the mixer vol from 90:90 to 94:94. % mixer vol -4 Setting the mixer vol from 94:94 to 90:90. % mixer 95 Setting the mixer vol from 90:90 to 95:95. % mixer 90 Setting the mixer vol from 95:95 to 90:90. % mixer +5 Setting the mixer vol from 90:90 to 5:5. % mixer -5 usage:

Re: Java plugin with Firefox 3.6

2010-06-07 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 314, Issue 1, Message: 33 On Mon, 7 Jun 2010 06:08:24 -0400 Jerry freebsd.u...@seibercom.net wrote: On Mon, 7 Jun 2010 07:50:04 +0200 Harry Matthiesen Jensen free...@elgert.dk articulated: On Mon, Jun 07, 2010 at 12:20:08AM +, Márcio C.G. wrote:

Re: is it safe to crossbuild 6.4 i386 on 7.3 amd64 box?

2010-06-07 Thread doug
On Tue, 11 May 2010, pluknet wrote: Hi, That's sort of for the record. I faced with issue where I wasn't able to boot a box w/ kernel built with subj scheme. On build box with 7.3-amd64 installed: 1. prepare world/kernel in an existing chrooted 6.4-S environment = doesn't work (see below) 2.

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: office apps

2010-06-07 Thread Chip Camden
On Jun 06 2010 21:56, Chad Perrin wrote: On Sun, Jun 06, 2010 at 01:34:16PM -0700, Chip Camden wrote: Does anyone have a recommendation for a lighter-weight office suite? OOo is such a pig. It takes a good minute to start it up and open a spreadsheet. Short of the full suite, how

Re: Java plugin with Firefox 3.6

2010-06-07 Thread bdsfbsd
On Mon, 07 Jun 2010 06:46:16 -0400, Harry Matthiesen Jensen free...@elgert.dk wrote: The short answer would be not yet possible or just wait, will come later... which in my world not is an answer anyone can use.. I've been looking for some indication as to how much later later is.. one

Re: office apps

2010-06-07 Thread Chip Camden
On Jun 07 2010 11:21, Anh Ky Huynh wrote: On Sun, 6 Jun 2010 13:34:16 -0700 Chip Camden sterl...@camdensoftware.com wrote: This might not be the right list for this question -- if so, please slap me over to the right one. Does anyone have a recommendation for a lighter-weight office

Re: office apps

2010-06-07 Thread Alejandro Imass
On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 12:40 PM, Chip Camden sterl...@camdensoftware.com wrote: On Jun 07 2010 11:21, Anh Ky Huynh wrote: On Sun, 6 Jun 2010 13:34:16 -0700 Chip Camden sterl...@camdensoftware.com wrote: This might not be the right list for this question -- if so, please slap me over to the

RE: Java plugin with Firefox 3.6

2010-06-07 Thread Márcio C . G .
As this link (http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=10570) says, JAVA PLUGIN WONT WORK WITH FIREFOX 3.6. I tried to use linux-sun-jdk16 port, but the plugin didn t work too. Is there an workaround or anybody that knows how-to use java plugin within firefox 3.6? Thanks in advance,

Re: office apps

2010-06-07 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/06/2010 17:34:56, Chip Camden wrote: For most of what I need to do, it's not an issue. But I do have clients who send me Word docs, and one who requires that I send them specs in Word format. For that, I guess I'm stuck using some behemoth

Re: office apps

2010-06-07 Thread Chip Camden
On Jun 07 2010 12:54, Alejandro Imass wrote: On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 12:40 PM, Chip Camden sterl...@camdensoftware.com wrote: On Jun 07 2010 11:21, Anh Ky Huynh wrote: On Sun, 6 Jun 2010 13:34:16 -0700 Chip Camden sterl...@camdensoftware.com wrote: This might not be the right list for

Re: office apps

2010-06-07 Thread Chip Camden
On Jun 07 2010 18:16, Matthew Seaman wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/06/2010 17:34:56, Chip Camden wrote: For most of what I need to do, it's not an issue. But I do have clients who send me Word docs, and one who requires that I send them specs in Word

Re: office apps

2010-06-07 Thread Warren Block
On Mon, 7 Jun 2010, Chip Camden wrote: For most of what I need to do, it's not an issue. But I do have clients who send me Word docs, and one who requires that I send them specs in Word format. For that, I guess I'm stuck using some behemoth office tool, if only for converting from a

Re: office apps

2010-06-07 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 6 Jun 2010 21:56:50 -0600, Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: There are options for one-way compatibility (e.g., catdoc for turning MS Word files into plain text), but for being able to interoperate to roughly arbitrary degrees with users of MS Office I'm not aware of anything

Re: office apps

2010-06-07 Thread Chip Camden
On Jun 07 2010 12:14, Warren Block wrote: On Mon, 7 Jun 2010, Chip Camden wrote: For most of what I need to do, it's not an issue. But I do have clients who send me Word docs, and one who requires that I send them specs in Word format. For that, I guess I'm stuck using some behemoth office

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: office apps

2010-06-07 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 7 Jun 2010 00:44:45 -0400, Alejandro Imass a...@p2ee.org wrote: Latex Beamer rules! In LaTeX, use foils class. Use the final product with % xpdf -fullscreen filename It just works, and additionally rules. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0

Re: how do i use a memory stick on freebsd?

2010-06-07 Thread Gautham Ganapathy
On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 12:33 AM, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: guys, my wife emptied a bunch of files onto her memory stick;  the pc is not here.  i have never used one of these devices before and want to know how, if it is possible, to read her dos/lose material from my bsd system.  

gstreamer-plugins / dependency on webcamd (FreeBSD 7.3)

2010-06-07 Thread Ewald Jenisch
Hi, A portupgrade done today stopped with an error during the upgrade of gstreamer-plugins-v4l2-0.10.23,3 with the following error: -- Cut here -- === Installing for gstreamer-plugins-v4l2-0.10.23,3 === gstreamer-plugins-v4l2-0.10.23,3

Re: Java plugin with Firefox 3.6

2010-06-07 Thread Jerry
On Tue, 8 Jun 2010 01:13:01 +1000 (EST) Ian Smith smi...@nimnet.asn.au articulated: In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 314, Issue 1, Message: 33 On Mon, 7 Jun 2010 06:08:24 -0400 Jerry freebsd.u...@seibercom.net wrote: On Mon, 7 Jun 2010 07:50:04 +0200 Harry Matthiesen Jensen

Re: office apps

2010-06-07 Thread Robert Bonomi
From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Sun Jun 6 23:47:34 2010 Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2010 00:44:45 -0400 From: Alejandro Imass a...@p2ee.org To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: office apps On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 12:38 AM, Charlie Kester corky1...@comcast.net wro= te: On Sun 06

Re: office apps

2010-06-07 Thread Kurt Buff
On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 13:34, Robert Bonomi bon...@mail.r-bonomi.com wrote: From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org  Sun Jun  6 23:47:34 2010 Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2010 00:44:45 -0400 From: Alejandro Imass a...@p2ee.org To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: office apps On Mon, Jun 7,

Re: office apps

2010-06-07 Thread Chip Camden
On Jun 06 2010 19:56, Mike Jeays wrote: On June 6, 2010 04:34:16 pm Chip Camden wrote: This might not be the right list for this question -- if so, please slap me over to the right one. Does anyone have a recommendation for a lighter-weight office suite? OOo is such a pig. It takes a

Re: office apps

2010-06-07 Thread Alejandro Imass
On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 4:34 PM, Robert Bonomi bon...@mail.r-bonomi.com wrote: From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org  Sun Jun  6 23:47:34 2010 Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2010 00:44:45 -0400 From: Alejandro Imass a...@p2ee.org To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: office apps On Mon, Jun 7,

Re: Java plugin with Firefox 3.6

2010-06-07 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jun 7, 2010, at 1:08 PM, Jerry wrote: [ ... ] I honestly enjoy satire. That said, it does not change the fact that a serviceable version of Java, suitable for Firefox-3.6, does not exist within the FreeBSD framework. That's pretty much accurate, if you don't want to consider running

Re: office apps

2010-06-07 Thread Chad Perrin
On Mon, Jun 07, 2010 at 11:49:37AM +0200, Eduardo wrote: You can use Softmaker products. They are not free but are MS-OO compatible, fast and linux version works fine under FreeBSD. Demo version works for a month. http://www.softmaker.com/english/ Interesting. It looks like SoftMaker

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: office apps

2010-06-07 Thread Antonio Olivares
Just an FYI here folks. If one has gmail, we can Preview these Documents via the web browsers :) But I believe that we are ok with the office apps that we have :) koffice(kword,kspread, kpresenter, ...) goffice(abiword, gnumeric, ..., ) OO(openoffice-writer,... ) There is GO OO which is a

need help with apache22 and libphp5.so

2010-06-07 Thread Gary Kline
i'v been having trouble upgrading stuff for the past n weeks. i just noticed that my web server won't build. or/when it does, it won't start. i just fired off /usr/local/sbin/apachetl -k start and get: httpd: Syntax error on line 104 of /usr/local/etc/apache22/httpd.conf: Cannot load

Re: office apps

2010-06-07 Thread Chris Hill
On Mon, 7 Jun 2010, Chip Camden wrote: [...] I do have clients who send me Word docs, and one who requires that I send them specs in Word format. For that, I guess I'm stuck using some behemoth office tool, if only for converting from a different format. I'm currently doing that work on a

Re: need help with apache22 and libphp5.so

2010-06-07 Thread Gary Kline
On Mon, Jun 07, 2010 at 06:21:11PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: i'v been having trouble upgrading stuff for the past n weeks. i just noticed that my web server won't build. or/when it does, it won't start. i just fired off /usr/local/sbin/apachetl -k start and get: httpd: Syntax error

Re: office apps

2010-06-07 Thread Chad Perrin
On Tue, Jun 08, 2010 at 12:29:08AM +, Antonio Olivares wrote: But I believe that we are ok with the office apps that we have :) koffice(kword,kspread, kpresenter, ...) goffice(abiword, gnumeric, ..., ) OO(openoffice-writer,... ) There is GO OO which is a smaller version of OpenOffice,

Re: office apps

2010-06-07 Thread Chad Perrin
On Mon, Jun 07, 2010 at 10:12:44PM -0400, Chris Hill wrote: On Mon, 7 Jun 2010, Chip Camden wrote: [...] I do have clients who send me Word docs, and one who requires that I send them specs in Word format. For that, I guess I'm stuck using some behemoth office tool, if only for converting

nvi autoindent

2010-06-07 Thread Chad Perrin
Is there perhaps some way to get language-specific autoindent with nvi, perhaps similar to what Vim provides? I've been scouring the manpage to no avail, and at this point suspect that the only automatic indentation support is a simple automatic indentation of the next line by the same mount the

svgalib-1.4.3_5 is only for i386, while you are running amd64

2010-06-07 Thread Giorgos Tsiapaliokas
hello, i am trying to install vlc but i came up against this error.. === vlc-1.0.6_3,3 depends on file: /usr/local/live/liveMedia/libliveMedia.a - found === vlc-1.0.6_3,3 depends on package: v4l_compat=1.0.20100321 - found === vlc-1.0.6_3,3 depends on file: /usr/local/include/X11/xpm.h -

Re: svgalib-1.4.3_5 is only for i386, while you are running amd64

2010-06-07 Thread Manolis Kiagias
On 08/06/2010 8:16 π.μ., Giorgos Tsiapaliokas wrote: hello, i am trying to install vlc but i came up against this error.. === vlc-1.0.6_3,3 depends on file: /usr/local/live/liveMedia/libliveMedia.a - found === vlc-1.0.6_3,3 depends on package: v4l_compat=1.0.20100321 - found ===

Re: need help with apache22 and libphp5.so

2010-06-07 Thread Jeremy Johnston
On 06/07/10 19:58, Gary Kline wrote: On Mon, Jun 07, 2010 at 06:21:11PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: i'v been having trouble upgrading stuff for the past n weeks. i just noticed that my web server won't build. or/when it does, it won't start. i just fired off /usr/local/sbin/apachetl -k