VT100 FreeBSD spreadsheet with data manipulation connections

2009-07-03 Thread Kelly Jones
I'm looking for a "command-line" (VT100) FreeBSD spreadsheet that has data manipulation connections. That is: other applications can edit the spreadsheet (via some API), and the spreadsheet can run commands when cells are edited. My goal: create a VT100 spreadsheet-like interface to sqlite3 (and

Re: FreeBSD 7.2 o/s on a flash stick

2009-07-03 Thread Fbsd1
Al Plant wrote: Aloha Gurus. All the gogle-ing I did does not give a current status on or how-to on installing FreeBSD 7.2 on a flash stick on one slice with the default partions. I want to boot from it on a mini lap top ( no CD ) and use it like the hd inside. I see plenty of how-to's on

Re: Fix It CD, bsdlabel, and /dev?

2009-07-03 Thread doug
On Fri, 3 Jul 2009, Drew Tomlinson wrote: Wojciech Puchar wrote: However /dev/ad6s1a and /dev/ad8s1a do not exist. I do have entries such as /dev/ad6a and/dev/ad8a but gmirror doesn't like those. What must I do the get them to show after I've labeled? If you have /dev/ad[68]a, it indicates

FreeBSD 7.2 o/s on a flash stick

2009-07-03 Thread Al Plant
Aloha Gurus. All the gogle-ing I did does not give a current status on or how-to on installing FreeBSD 7.2 on a flash stick on one slice with the default partions. I want to boot from it on a mini lap top ( no CD ) and use it like the hd inside. I see plenty of how-to's on loading Flash sti

can't get atheros ar2413 to connect under freebsd 7.2

2009-07-03 Thread Atheer Elobadi
hello, I've been trying to set my wireless card under Freebsd 7.2-RELEASE, but no success (it worked fine on 7.0).. would appreciate some advice in /boot/loader.conf: if_ath_load="YES" wlan_tkip_load="YES" wlan_scan_ap_load="YES" wlan_scan_sta_load="YES" in: /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf: network=

SUCCESS: Re: gmirror per partition

2009-07-03 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Fri, Jul 03, 2009 at 01:18:28PM +0200, Alban Hertroys wrote: > On Jul 3, 2009, at 12:12 PM, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > > > now to mirror root partition. > > > > My problem is that root is mounted and cannot (?) be unmounted, > > unlike /efi, > > on the live system. > > > > # gpart add -b 819

Re: Hide Terminal window (using xfce4. and 7.2-RELEASE)?

2009-07-03 Thread Daniel Underwood
> Some searching suggests "matlab -desktop" may be what is needed. Yep, that did it! Thanks! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-un

Re: Hide Terminal window (using xfce4. and 7.2-RELEASE)?

2009-07-03 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 3 Jul 2009 18:28:29 -0400, Randy Pratt wrote: > I'm not familar with MATLAB but you may find ports/sysutils/screen > helpful. See http://www.gnu.org/software/screen/ for more > information. I use it for starting some programs in a detached > mode but they can be reattached at any time.

Re: Hide Terminal window (using xfce4. and 7.2-RELEASE)?

2009-07-03 Thread Randy Pratt
On Fri, 3 Jul 2009 17:21:58 -0400 Daniel Underwood wrote: > > Why?  More specifically, can't it be started from the XFCE menu with "Run > > Program" or right-click the desktop and "Create Launcher"? > > I don't know, honestly. Whenever I try to run it from a Launcher or > via Run Program, it wi

Re: Fix It CD, bsdlabel, and /dev?

2009-07-03 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:04:45 -0700, Drew Tomlinson wrote: > Polytropon wrote: > > On Fri, 03 Jul 2009 12:05:13 -0700, Drew Tomlinson > > wrote: > > > >> Next I used bsdlabel > >> and created 500M a: partitions on two of the drives (ad6 & ad8). > >> > > ^ > > There

Re: Hide Terminal window (using xfce4. and 7.2-RELEASE)?

2009-07-03 Thread Warren Block
On Fri, 3 Jul 2009, Daniel Underwood wrote: Why?  More specifically, can't it be started from the XFCE menu with "Run Program" or right-click the desktop and "Create Launcher"? I don't know, honestly. Whenever I try to run it from a Launcher or via Run Program, it will display the splash scre

Re: Fix It CD, bsdlabel, and /dev?

2009-07-03 Thread Drew Tomlinson
Wojciech Puchar wrote: However /dev/ad6s1a and /dev/ad8s1a do not exist. I do have entries such as /dev/ad6a and/dev/ad8a but gmirror doesn't like those. What must I do the get them to show after I've labeled? If you have /dev/ad[68]a, it indicates that you haven't created a slice on those di

Re: Fix It CD, bsdlabel, and /dev?

2009-07-03 Thread Drew Tomlinson
Polytropon wrote: On Fri, 03 Jul 2009 12:05:13 -0700, Drew Tomlinson wrote: Next I used bsdlabel and created 500M a: partitions on two of the drives (ad6 & ad8). ^ There is no colon after the partition letter. The colon is used to refer (or change) to the 1st DOS

Re: Hide Terminal window (using xfce4. and 7.2-RELEASE)?

2009-07-03 Thread Daniel Underwood
> Why?  More specifically, can't it be started from the XFCE menu with "Run > Program" or right-click the desktop and "Create Launcher"? I don't know, honestly. Whenever I try to run it from a Launcher or via Run Program, it will display the splash screen, but then terminate. This also happens o

Re: Hide Terminal window (using xfce4. and 7.2-RELEASE)?

2009-07-03 Thread Warren Block
On Fri, 3 Jul 2009, Daniel Underwood wrote: Whenever I run the particular Linux MATLAB installation I have access to, it must be run from the command-line. Why? More specifically, can't it be started from the XFCE menu with "Run Program" or right-click the desktop and "Create Launcher"? Co

Re: Fix It CD, bsdlabel, and /dev?

2009-07-03 Thread Wojciech Puchar
However /dev/ad6s1a and /dev/ad8s1a do not exist. I do have entries such as /dev/ad6a and/dev/ad8a but gmirror doesn't like those. What must I do the get them to show after I've labeled? If you have /dev/ad[68]a, it indicates that you haven't created a slice on those disks, instead you created o

Re: Hide Terminal window (using xfce4. and 7.2-RELEASE)?

2009-07-03 Thread Paul B. Mahol
On 7/3/09, Daniel Underwood wrote: > Whenever I run the particular Linux MATLAB installation I have access > to, it must be run from the command-line. Consequently, I have the > MATLAB gui and an open terminal window (which only gets in the way). > Is there a way to "hide" this terminal window co

Re: Fix It CD, bsdlabel, and /dev?

2009-07-03 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Fri, Jul 03, 2009 at 10:04:06PM +0200, Polytropon wrote: > On Fri, 03 Jul 2009 12:05:13 -0700, Drew Tomlinson > wrote: > > Next I used bsdlabel > > and created 500M a: partitions on two of the drives (ad6 & ad8). > ^ > There is no colon after the partition letter. The co

Re: POLL: Linux preferences from FreeBSD users

2009-07-03 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 3 Jul 2009 15:59:26 -0400, Daniel Underwood wrote: > Are most of these shortcomings primarily due to the fact that FreeBSD > has a single structured line of development? In opposite to Linux, FreeBSD has the concept of a centrally maintained operating system ("the OS") and additional app

Re: Hide Terminal window (using xfce4. and 7.2-RELEASE)?

2009-07-03 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 3 Jul 2009 15:57:13 -0400, Daniel Underwood wrote: > Whenever I run the particular Linux MATLAB installation I have access > to, it must be run from the command-line. Consequently, I have the > MATLAB gui and an open terminal window (which only gets in the way). > Is there a way to "hide

Re: Fix It CD, bsdlabel, and /dev?

2009-07-03 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 03 Jul 2009 12:05:13 -0700, Drew Tomlinson wrote: > Next I used bsdlabel > and created 500M a: partitions on two of the drives (ad6 & ad8). ^ There is no colon after the partition letter. The colon is used to refer (or change) to the 1st DOS diskette drive. :-) >

Re: POLL: Linux preferences from FreeBSD users

2009-07-03 Thread Daniel Underwood
Are most of these shortcomings primarily due to the fact that FreeBSD has a single structured line of development? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Hide Terminal window (using xfce4. and 7.2-RELEASE)?

2009-07-03 Thread Daniel Underwood
Whenever I run the particular Linux MATLAB installation I have access to, it must be run from the command-line. Consequently, I have the MATLAB gui and an open terminal window (which only gets in the way). Is there a way to "hide" this terminal window completely? If I close it, MATLAB closes. I

Re: POLL: Linux preferences from FreeBSD users

2009-07-03 Thread Fred C
On Jul 3, 2009, at 6:01 AM, Polytropon wrote: On Thu, 2 Jul 2009 08:28:01 -0600, Modulok wrote: That and Linux seems to only ever get the abridged version of manual pages. When you compare manual pages for an equivalent commands between FreeBSD and most Linux flavors, it really shows. I notic

Re: scripting tip needed

2009-07-03 Thread Evuraan
good thing you found the answer. I am glad you did, and oh, I am more glad that you found your solution on ksh itself and not on "advanced scripting language, like Perl or Python.'' > Guys, > > I eventually found it with lots of rtfm on variable substitution and such.. > > [...@dada~]$ z=0 > [

Fix It CD, bsdlabel, and /dev?

2009-07-03 Thread Drew Tomlinson
Sorry for the poor subject. Thanks for reading. I'm using this page as a guide but am at the console so I'm just using the Fix It CD: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/remote-install/installation.html I'm attempting to install FBSD 7.2 64bit on a fresh machine. The machine has 3 500G

Re: Problem with audio apps and mixer

2009-07-03 Thread Paul B. Mahol
On 7/3/09, Alexander Best wrote: > wow. thanks a bunch. this new feature of having each app use it's own volume > setting is pretty cool. however i think i'd like to preserve the volume > setting for each application and rather not have it reset. because i think > this feature takes the pid of the

Re: POLL: Linux preferences from FreeBSD users

2009-07-03 Thread Doug Poland
Daniel Underwood wrote: QUESTION: Of the various modern Linux distributions, which do you prefer? and why? I'm very interested to see the spread of opinion about Linux distributions from FreeBSD fans. I've been using FreeBSD since 2.2.1 and I implement and support FreeBSD whenever I can. That

Re: Problem with audio apps and mixer

2009-07-03 Thread Ariff Abdullah
On Fri, 03 Jul 2009 16:12:07 +0200 (CEST) Alexander Best wrote: [...] > > shouldn't it be: > > hw.snd.vpc_autoreset (default=1, enabled) > 0=disable, 1=enable > Notes: By default, channel volume will be reset to 0db >relative after the channel

Re: portupgrade says nothing to do but portversion disagrees

2009-07-03 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 10:10 AM, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > Actually, I'm not sure cvsup is updating my ports tree properly... > > Connected to cvsup1.ca.FreeBSD.org > Updating collection ports-all/cvs > Finished successfully I just changed to cvsup1.freebsd.org and the difference is huge. How d

Re: POLL: Linux preferences from FreeBSD users

2009-07-03 Thread Richard Mahlerwein
My preferences for Linux: I have used FreeBSD fairly regularly since 2.x and various flavors of Linux since around that time as well. As I was writing the first pass at this, I realized that many or most of the problems I have with Linuxes are endemic to "Linux" (whatever that is) and not

portupgrade says nothing to do but portversion disagrees

2009-07-03 Thread Michael P. Soulier
For weeks now my usual portupgrade test has returned the same thing. msoul...@kanga:~$ sudo portupgrade -na Password: ---> Session started at: Fri, 03 Jul 2009 10:01:30 -0400 ** Stale lock file was found. Removed. ** Stale lock file was found. Removed. ** Package 'p5-Text-ParseWords' has been rem

Re: portupgrade says nothing to do but portversion disagrees

2009-07-03 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 03/07/09 Michael P. Soulier said: > For weeks now my usual portupgrade test has returned the same thing. Actually, I'm not sure cvsup is updating my ports tree properly... Connected to cvsup1.ca.FreeBSD.org Updating collection ports-all/cvs Finished successfully Normally there's a lot more o

Re: Problem with audio apps and mixer

2009-07-03 Thread Alexander Best
wow. thanks a bunch. this new feature of having each app use it's own volume setting is pretty cool. however i think i'd like to preserve the volume setting for each application and rather not have it reset. because i think this feature takes the pid of the app and preserves the volume for the pid.

Re: Problem with audio apps and mixer

2009-07-03 Thread Paul B. Mahol
On 7/3/09, Alexander Best wrote: > hi there, > > i've never had a problem to adjust the volume with audio apps like mplayer > or > mpd. recently however i'm experiencing this strange behaviour. the app's > volume doesn't match the volume that `mixer` reports. here's an example: CURRENT have VPC.

Re: gmirror per partition

2009-07-03 Thread Alban Hertroys
On Jul 3, 2009, at 12:12 PM, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: now to mirror root partition. My problem is that root is mounted and cannot (?) be unmounted, unlike /efi, on the live system. # gpart add -b 819234 -s 1048576 -t freebsd-ufs da1 da1p2 added # # gmirror label -vb round-robin root /dev/

Re: gmirror per partition

2009-07-03 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Thu, Jul 02, 2009 at 03:48:41PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote: > >>> > >>> # gmirror label -vb round-robin root /dev/da0p2 > >>> gmirror: Can't store metadata on /dev/da0p2: Operation not permitted. > >> isn't that partition accessed by other process or mounted? > > > > should it not be mounted?

Re: POLL: Linux preferences from FreeBSD users

2009-07-03 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 02 Jul 2009 18:14:12 +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On Thu, 2 Jul 2009 09:07:08 +0200, Jonathan McKeown > wrote: > > I was wondering if there were any other Slackers out there! > > Of course we are still `out there'. > > I started using a UNIX-like clone on my 386 SX with Slackware

Re: POLL: Linux preferences from FreeBSD users

2009-07-03 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 2 Jul 2009 08:28:01 -0600, Modulok wrote: > That and Linux seems to only ever get the abridged version of manual > pages. When you compare manual pages for an equivalent commands > between FreeBSD and most Linux flavors, it really shows. I noticed > this when I went from Debian to FreeBSD.

Problem with audio apps and mixer

2009-07-03 Thread Alexander Best
hi there, i've never had a problem to adjust the volume with audio apps like mplayer or mpd. recently however i'm experiencing this strange behaviour. the app's volume doesn't match the volume that `mixer` reports. here's an example: `mpc`: J.R.R. Tolkien - [playing] #2/19 1:54/3:06 (61%) volu

Account Locked !!!!

2009-07-03 Thread Halifax Bank plc
http://www.halifax.es/halifaxing/images/halifax_logo.gif Access To Your Account Is Currently Unavailable Dear Valued Halifax member, Access To Your Account Is Currently Unavailable . Please click the link below to restore your account access. [1]https://www.halifax-online.co.

Re: Wireless NICs on 7.2

2009-07-03 Thread Paul B. Mahol
On 7/3/09, Robert Hall wrote: > On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 4:14 PM, Paul B. Mahol wrote: >>> $ ifconfig ral0 list scan >>> SSIDBSSID CHAN RATE S:N INT CAPS >>> livingroom 00:13:10:b9:e7:d66 54M -93:-95 100 E >> >> 93 is too low. > > Paul, I really appreciate