Re: OpenOffice 3.2.1 in FreeBSD 8.1

2010-07-29 Thread Antonio Vieiro
Ah, I see. I should learn about all those java licenses some day. I thought there was a free java somewhere. Thanks, Antonio On 28/07/2010 18:26, Jack L. wrote: Oh, they aren't on the freebsd package sites due to some of the dependencies having licensing issues preventing it from being

Re: BSD logo (a moderate opinion)

2010-07-29 Thread perryh
Gary Gatten ggat...@waddell.com wrote: Will someone PLEASE kill this thread! Moderator(s)? Er, questions@ is not moderated ... You are, of course, welcome to add a rule to your procmail or whatever to delete these messages before you see them. ___

still no luck with ffmpeg 6_2_1 and FreeBSD 6.3

2010-07-29 Thread John Francis Lee
Hello, I have still been unable to run ffmpeg on my FreeBSD 6.3 server [...@28amen ~/www/robinlea.com]$ ffmpeg -i introduction.wav introduction.mp3 FFmpeg version 0.6, Copyright (c) 2000-2010 the FFmpeg developers built on Jul 28 2010 01:14:30 with gcc 3.4.6 [FreeBSD] 20060305 configuration:

Re: BSD logo (a moderate opinion)

2010-07-29 Thread 文鳥
On Wed, 28 Jul 2010 12:55:04 -0600 Dale Scott dalesc...@shaw.ca wrote: Personally, I enjoy our mascot Beastie, as well as the Beastie-influenced official logo. I also smile when I see Casper, Wendy andHotStuff. However, I also accept there are individuals who understand these symbols

Booting from floppy to install 8.1

2010-07-29 Thread perryh
I'm trying to solve a chicken-egg problem. I need to boot from floppy to install 8.1, and I don't already have a running 8.1 system on which to build a set of 8.1 floppy images. (The machine in question is an oldish Pentium-III that only boots from its hard drive or from floppy -- the BIOS claims

Fwd: still no luck with ffmpeg 6_2_1 and FreeBSD 6.3

2010-07-29 Thread John Francis Lee
I have lame on the machine, installed in the course of the installation of ffmpeg, and I can use that to convert from .wav to .mp3. Would have been nice to have a real ffmpeg available, but I can scratch my immediate itch this way, lame though I may be :) Thanks for your help.

Re: Upgrading to 8.1; Perl; and libgcrypt

2010-07-29 Thread zaxis
uname -a FreeBSD mybsd.zsoft.com 8.0-RELEASE-p2 FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE-p2 #0: Wed Jul 14 15:35:26 CST 2010 r...@mybsd.zsoft.com:/media/G/usr/obj/media/G/usr/src/sys/MYKERNEL i386 sudo env DISABLE_CONFLICTS=1 portupgrade -o lang/perl5.12 -f perl-5.8.\* pkg_info |grep -i perl perl-5.12.1_1

Re: ok, i give up...

2010-07-29 Thread Volodymyr Kostyrko
29.07.2010 05:04, Gary Kline wrote: guys, i've been searching for a calender/reminder prog than i had YEARS ago. cannot find. it had a ~/.datafile that was ascii. things like QUOTE # Bill's birthday: 08 08 echo Send Bill a birthday card. # watch one-time broadcast!! 08 09 2010 echo: Watch

Re: Upgrading to 8.1; Perl; and libgcrypt

2010-07-29 Thread Roland Smith
On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 12:26:48AM +, J. Altman wrote: I would advise you to use portmaster; 1) portmaster -o lang/perl5.12 lang/perl5.10 2) portmaster p5- That worked for me. Hmm...well, I've used portupgrade since 4.3, and have only wondered if switching is a good

Re: still no luck with ffmpeg 6_2_1 and FreeBSD 6.3

2010-07-29 Thread Roland Smith
On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 01:43:27PM +0700, John Francis Lee wrote: Hello, snip I'm trying to make an internet language lab for kids here in Chiangrai. The tool I've found to record their voices over the wire (nanogong) creates .wav files, but flash and the rest of the world want .mp3 files to

Re: Booting from floppy to install 8.1

2010-07-29 Thread Thomas Mueller
Should I be able to do a network install of 8.1 using a 7.3 boot floppy set? (I'm not planning to set up zfs, at least initially.) If not, are the 7.3 and 8.1 boot/loader files similar enough that the boot/loader from a 7.3 boot floppy should work when all else in the floppy set is from

Re: Booting from floppy to install 8.1

2010-07-29 Thread Roland Smith
On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 12:50:12AM -0700, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: I'm trying to solve a chicken-egg problem. snip Is there a reasonable way to build the proper boot/loader file for an 8.1 boot floppy using a 6.x or 7.x system? Install 8.1 in an emulator like qemu or virtualbox to create

Re: still no luck with ffmpeg 6_2_1 and FreeBSD 6.3

2010-07-29 Thread John Francis Lee
Thanks. I thought I had in knocked with lame, but the recorder I'm using, a java applet called nonogong from Hong Kong university, uses an imaADPCM, 4-bit format for its .wav files that lame chokes on. ffmpeg has no problem! But I cannot get ffmpeg to run on my ViaVerio FreeBSD server. The

Re: still no luck with ffmpeg 6_2_1 and FreeBSD 6.3

2010-07-29 Thread Roland Smith
On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 04:39:14PM +0700, John Francis Lee wrote: Thanks. I thought I had in knocked with lame, but the recorder I'm using, a java applet called nonogong from Hong Kong university, uses an imaADPCM, 4-bit format for its .wav files that lame chokes on. ffmpeg has no problem! But

Re: BSD logo (a moderate opinion)

2010-07-29 Thread Ryszard W. Czekaj
Hi! I like this daemon. I'm using this daemon: http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.cfm? fuseaction=viewImagefriendID=308365571albumID=0imageID=4021319 OS and computer are not religion. Or I'm wrong? Amiga vs Atari, daemon vs angel? RYCHoo

How to mass recompile broken packages?

2010-07-29 Thread Unga
Hi all I'm using FreeBSD 8.1 on i386 machine. I have upgraded a package using portmanager, but the upgrade seems not successful. The required package is upgraded but all packages depend on the upgraded package were not recompiled. I have two questions regarding this: 1. How to list all

encrypt whole system using zfs

2010-07-29 Thread Jozsi Vadkan
With dm_cryptlvm, i can install a Debian [in sraid1], that has only the mbr the /boot unencrypted. So if someone steals the server/hdds, it can't do anything to them. That's ok. I'm a newbie to FreeBSD, and I want to use it in the future. I'm looking for these features, that i mentioned

Re: How to mass recompile broken packages?

2010-07-29 Thread Volodymyr Kostyrko
29.07.2010 11:25, Unga wrote: Hi all I'm using FreeBSD 8.1 on i386 machine. I have upgraded a package using portmanager, but the upgrade seems not successful. The required package is upgraded but all packages depend on the upgraded package were not recompiled. I have two questions

Re: BSD logo

2010-07-29 Thread Antonio Vieiro
On 24/07/2010 04:01, Victor Skovorodnikov wrote: [...] I have always been thinking of trying FreeBSD but as a Christian I get deterred by its un-Christian logo. [...] The logo means that all the people not trying out FreeBSD are going to go directly to hell after death. The logo is not

Re: encrypt whole system using zfs

2010-07-29 Thread Lars Kristiansen
Den 29.07.2010 13:26, skrev Jozsi Vadkan: With dm_cryptlvm, i can install a Debian [in sraid1], that has only the mbr the /boot unencrypted. So if someone steals the server/hdds, it can't do anything to them. That's ok. I'm a newbie to FreeBSD, and I want to use it in the future. I'm

Re: encrypt whole system using zfs

2010-07-29 Thread Roland Smith
On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 01:26:19PM +0200, Jozsi Vadkan wrote: With dm_cryptlvm, i can install a Debian [in sraid1], that has only the mbr the /boot unencrypted. So if someone steals the server/hdds, it can't do anything to them. That's ok. They can wipe the harddrive and re-sell the

Problems with first attempts to use ZFS

2010-07-29 Thread Mike Clarke
Thinking that it's about time to learn a bit about ZFS I started with the tutorial at http://flux.org.uk/howto/solaris/zfs_tutorial_01 I'm currently running 8.1-RELEASE i386 with a generic kernel and 3 disk slices, each mirrored across 2 drives with gmirror. I appreciate the current

booting install DVD while hard drive is in RAID mode

2010-07-29 Thread Andrew Gould
I purchased an HP Pavilion p6510f. I cannot boot either FreeBSD 8.1 (amd64) or OpenSUSE 11.3 Gnome Live CD unless I change the hard drive mode from RAID to IDE. Unfortunately, that damages my Windows 7 installation. (The computer is currently being restored to factory state.) Is there an

Re: booting install DVD while hard drive is in RAID mode

2010-07-29 Thread Diego Arias
On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 8:58 AM, Andrew Gould andrewlylego...@gmail.comwrote: I purchased an HP Pavilion p6510f. I cannot boot either FreeBSD 8.1 (amd64) or OpenSUSE 11.3 Gnome Live CD unless I change the hard drive mode from RAID to IDE. Unfortunately, that damages my Windows 7

Re: How to mass recompile broken packages?

2010-07-29 Thread Unga
--- On Thu, 7/29/10, Volodymyr Kostyrko c.kw...@gmail.com wrote: From: Volodymyr Kostyrko c.kw...@gmail.com Subject: Re: How to mass recompile broken packages? To: Unga unga...@yahoo.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Thursday, July 29, 2010, 7:34 PM 29.07.2010 11:25, Unga wrote:

Re: BSD logo (a moderate opinion)

2010-07-29 Thread Bob Hall
On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 09:52:07AM +0200, ?? wrote: On Wed, 28 Jul 2010 12:55:04 -0600 Dale Scott dalesc...@shaw.ca wrote: Personally, I enjoy our mascot Beastie, as well as the Beastie-influenced official logo. I also smile when I see Casper, Wendy andHotStuff. However, I also

Re: BSD logo (a moderate opinion)

2010-07-29 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 04:59:34PM -0500, Gary Gatten wrote: Will someone PLEASE kill this thread! Moderator(s)? This is an unmoderated list. jerry PS: Whomever wrote the comment a few posts back about calling support for Agnostix and they always said not enough information...

Re: How to mass recompile broken packages?

2010-07-29 Thread Volodymyr Kostyrko
29.07.2010 17:31, Unga wrote: I'm using FreeBSD 8.1 on i386 machine. I have upgraded a package using portmanager, but the upgrade seems not successful. The required package is upgraded but all packages depend on the upgraded package were not recompiled. I have two questions regarding

Re: BSD logo (a moderate opinion)

2010-07-29 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 10:15:27AM -0400, Bob Hall wrote: On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 09:52:07AM +0200, ?? wrote: On Wed, 28 Jul 2010 12:55:04 -0600 Dale Scott dalesc...@shaw.ca wrote: Personally, I enjoy our mascot Beastie, as well as the Beastie-influenced official logo. I also

upgrading from 6.3 to 7.3

2010-07-29 Thread junklist
Hello! I have a box running FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE-p15 and I would like to upgrade it to 7.3. As far as I know I cannot use freebsd-update to do this since it is not supported any more. so: 1. The only other way I can upgrade to 7.3 is using update from source, isn't it? 2. What upgrade sequence

Re: booting install DVD while hard drive is in RAID mode

2010-07-29 Thread Andrew Gould
On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 10:08 AM, Diego Arias dak@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 9:56 AM, Andrew Gould andrewlylego...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 9:01 AM, Diego Arias dak@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 8:58 AM, Andrew Gould

ipfw+natd startup order fixing

2010-07-29 Thread umage
Hi there, a few months ago I inquired about an issue where using ipfw+natd worked on 8.0 but produced errors in 8.1. After searching the bugs database, I found multiple reports about it - http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=conf/148137 and

Re: How to mass recompile broken packages?

2010-07-29 Thread Unga
--- On Thu, 7/29/10, Volodymyr Kostyrko c.kw...@gmail.com wrote: From: Volodymyr Kostyrko c.kw...@gmail.com Subject: Re: How to mass recompile broken packages? To: Unga unga...@yahoo.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Thursday, July 29, 2010, 11:00 PM 29.07.2010 17:31, Unga wrote:

Re: ok, i give up...

2010-07-29 Thread Frank Shute
On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 07:04:51PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: guys, i've been searching for a calender/reminder prog than i had YEARS ago. cannot find. it had a ~/.datafile that was ascii. things like QUOTE # Bill's birthday: 08 08 echo Send Bill a birthday card. # watch one-time

Re: Why am I getting mail rejects?

2010-07-29 Thread Greg Larkin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Grant Peel wrote: - Original Message - From: Greg Larkin glar...@freebsd.org To: Grant Peel gp...@thenetnow.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2010 8:40 PM Subject: Re: Why am I getting mail rejects? Grant

Re: BSD logo

2010-07-29 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 29 Jul 2010 14:05:03 +0200, Antonio Vieiro anto...@antonioshome.net wrote: The logo means that all the people not trying out FreeBSD are going to go directly to hell after death. No need to wait such a long time... :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0

Re: BSD logo (a moderate opinion)

2010-07-29 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Thursday, July 29, 2010 11:03:07 -0400 Jerry McAllister jerr...@msu.edu wrote: Actually, the OP said logo and made no mention of mascott. I am the one way back in this thread that introduced the difference of BSDie mascot and round thing logo in this thread. I assumed the OP meant the

Re: How to mass recompile broken packages?

2010-07-29 Thread RW
On Thu, 29 Jul 2010 01:25:38 -0700 (PDT) Unga unga...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi all I'm using FreeBSD 8.1 on i386 machine. I have upgraded a package using portmanager, but the upgrade seems not successful. The required package is upgraded but all packages depend on the upgraded package were

Re: BSD logo

2010-07-29 Thread Chad Perrin
On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 07:30:02PM +0200, Polytropon wrote: On Thu, 29 Jul 2010 14:05:03 +0200, Antonio Vieiro anto...@antonioshome.net wrote: The logo means that all the people not trying out FreeBSD are going to go directly to hell after death. No need to wait such a long time... :-)

Re: BSD logo (a moderate opinion)

2010-07-29 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 12:20:24PM -0500, Paul Schmehl wrote: --On Thursday, July 29, 2010 11:03:07 -0400 Jerry McAllister jerr...@msu.edu wrote: Actually, the OP said logo and made no mention of mascott. I am the one way back in this thread that introduced the difference of BSDie mascot

Re: BSD logo

2010-07-29 Thread Chip Camden
Quoth Chad Perrin on Thursday, 29 July 2010: On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 07:30:02PM +0200, Polytropon wrote: On Thu, 29 Jul 2010 14:05:03 +0200, Antonio Vieiro anto...@antonioshome.net wrote: The logo means that all the people not trying out FreeBSD are going to go directly to hell after

Re: BSD logo

2010-07-29 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 12:22:24PM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 07:30:02PM +0200, Polytropon wrote: On Thu, 29 Jul 2010 14:05:03 +0200, Antonio Vieiro anto...@antonioshome.net wrote: The logo means that all the people not trying out FreeBSD are going to go

Re: BSD logo

2010-07-29 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 29 Jul 2010 14:39:16 -0400, Jerry McAllister jerr...@msu.edu wrote: Our church and most protestant churches do not accept purgatory. I do not accept the moon - it's just the backside of the sun. Also I don't accept gravity as its effects are just actions intended by falling objects to do

Re: BSD logo

2010-07-29 Thread Mario Lobo
On Thursday 29 July 2010 18:54:06 Polytropon wrote: On Thu, 29 Jul 2010 14:39:16 -0400, Jerry McAllister jerr...@msu.edu wrote: Our church and most protestant churches do not accept purgatory. I do not accept the moon - it's just the backside of the sun. Also I don't accept gravity as its

Re: BSD logo

2010-07-29 Thread Antonio Olivares
I am having fun too! And I had seen the quote on the bible of the number of the beast: http://egomania.nu/gates.html How about the Koran/Quran? Does it have something like this? Does the Book of Mormon have something related? I don't want to ask a priest/pastor about Beastie :( But yes we

Re: BSD logo (a moderate opinion)

2010-07-29 Thread Antonio Olivares
On 7/29/10, Jerry McAllister jerr...@msu.edu wrote: On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 12:20:24PM -0500, Paul Schmehl wrote: --On Thursday, July 29, 2010 11:03:07 -0400 Jerry McAllister jerr...@msu.edu wrote: Actually, the OP said logo and made no mention of mascott. I am the one way back in this

Re: ok, i give up...

2010-07-29 Thread Gary Kline
On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 10:15:53PM -0400, Glenn Sieb wrote: On 7/28/10 10:04 PM, Gary Kline wrote: guys, i've been searching for a calender/reminder prog than i had YEARS ago. cannot find. http://www.roaringpenguin.com/products/remind Would it be Remind? Best, --Glenn

Re: BSD logo (a moderate opinion)

2010-07-29 Thread Mario Lobo
On Thursday 29 July 2010 19:45:02 Antonio Olivares wrote: I am sorry but I am now confused, the BSD Logo : http://www.freebsd.org/layout/images/logo-red.png is the sex toy right? Because Beastie just has his pitchfork Well, don't forget that sado-masochists would find tons of usages

Re: ok, i give up...

2010-07-29 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 9:49 PM, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 10:15:53PM -0400, Glenn Sieb wrote: On 7/28/10 10:04 PM, Gary Kline wrote: guys, i've been searching for a calender/reminder prog than i had YEARS ago.  cannot find.

Re: ok, i give up...

2010-07-29 Thread Gary Kline
On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 08:37:27PM -0700, Chip Camden wrote: Quoth Gary Kline on Wednesday, 28 July 2010: guys, i've been searching for a calender/reminder prog than i had YEARS ago. cannot find. it had a ~/.datafile that was ascii. things like QUOTE # Bill's birthday: 08

Re: ok, i give up...

2010-07-29 Thread Gonzalo Nemmi
On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 11:04 PM, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: guys, i've been searching for a calender/reminder prog than i had YEARS ago.  cannot find. it had a ~/.datafile that was ascii.  things like QUOTE # Bill's birthday: 08 08 echo Send Bill a birthday card. # watch

Re: BSD logo (a moderate opinion)

2010-07-29 Thread Chip Camden
Quoth Mario Lobo on Thursday, 29 July 2010: On Thursday 29 July 2010 19:45:02 Antonio Olivares wrote: I am sorry but I am now confused, the BSD Logo : http://www.freebsd.org/layout/images/logo-red.png is the sex toy right? Because Beastie just has his pitchfork Well, don't

Re: BSD logo (a moderate opinion)

2010-07-29 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Thursday, July 29, 2010 14:34:49 -0400 Jerry McAllister jerr...@msu.edu wrote: On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 12:20:24PM -0500, Paul Schmehl wrote: --On Thursday, July 29, 2010 11:03:07 -0400 Jerry McAllister jerr...@msu.edu wrote: Actually, the OP said logo and made no mention of mascott.

Re: BSD logo (a moderate opinion)

2010-07-29 Thread Mario Lobo
On Thursday 29 July 2010 20:22:26 Chip Camden wrote: Quoth Mario Lobo on Thursday, 29 July 2010: On Thursday 29 July 2010 19:45:02 Antonio Olivares wrote: I am sorry but I am now confused, the BSD Logo : http://www.freebsd.org/layout/images/logo-red.png is the sex toy right?

Re: BSD logo (a moderate opinion)

2010-07-29 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 29/07/2010 20:45:02, Antonio Olivares wrote: I am sorry but I am now confused, the BSD Logo : http://www.freebsd.org/layout/images/logo-red.png is the sex toy right? Someone really should *make* some of these -- polybutadiene rubber (you know -- like those super-bouncy balls) in

Upgraded cups - no cups printer in firefox after the upgrade

2010-07-29 Thread Kenneth Hatteland
When updating the cups port my cups networked printer tends to fall out from firefox, epdfview etc. Last time I found a webpage with some cups related ports that had to be rebuilt for it to work. But I forgot to bookmark it. Now I can not find this page and I can`t piece together which ports it

Re: Upgraded cups - no cups printer in firefox after the upgrade

2010-07-29 Thread Antonio Vieiro
This one? http://www.freebsdwiki.net/index.php/CUPS#CUPS_and_Gnome_Warning Cheers, Antonio On 29/07/2010 23:41, Kenneth Hatteland wrote: When updating the cups port my cups networked printer tends to fall out from firefox, epdfview etc. Last time I found a webpage with some cups related ports

Re: Booting from floppy to install 8.1

2010-07-29 Thread krad
On 29 July 2010 10:17, Roland Smith rsm...@xs4all.nl wrote: On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 12:50:12AM -0700, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: I'm trying to solve a chicken-egg problem. snip Is there a reasonable way to build the proper boot/loader file for an 8.1 boot floppy using a 6.x or 7.x

Re: BSD logo (a moderate opinion)

2010-07-29 Thread Bob Hall
On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 11:03:07AM -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote: On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 10:15:27AM -0400, Bob Hall wrote: Beastie is the mascot, and the sex toy is the logo. It is only the mascot that the OP objected to. He didn't mention any objections to the logo. Actually, the OP

Re: Why am I getting mail rejects?

2010-07-29 Thread Grant Peel
- Original Message - From: Greg Larkin glar...@freebsd.org To: Grant Peel gp...@thenetnow.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2010 11:53 AM Subject: Re: Why am I getting mail rejects? -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Grant Peel wrote: -

Re: upgrading from 6.3 to 7.3

2010-07-29 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, 2. What upgrade sequence should I use: 6.3 - 6.4 - 7.0 - 7.3 or 6.3 I successfully upgraded 6.4 to 7.3 (sorry I don't have machine with 6.3 anymore) As I always upgrade from source, I cannot reply about freebsd-update. Best s, olivier ___

Re: ok, i give up...

2010-07-29 Thread perryh
Frank Shute fr...@shute.org.uk wrote: On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 07:04:51PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: guys, i've been searching for a calender/reminder prog than i had YEARS ago. cannot find. it had a ~/.datafile that was ascii. things like QUOTE # Bill's birthday: 08 08 echo

Re: BSD logo

2010-07-29 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Antonio Olivares wrote: But yes we are in difficult times and then the 2012 saga, will the world end? I have it on good AUTHORITY: $dig @daleco.biz daleco.biz | grep AUTHORITY: ;; flags: qr aa rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 1 That we're perfectly OK:

Re: ok, i give up...

2010-07-29 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
Gary == Gary Kline kl...@thought.org writes: Gary guys, i've been searching for a calender/reminder prog than i had YEARS Gary ago. cannot find. Gary it had a ~/.datafile that was ascii. things like Gary QUOTE Gary # Bill's birthday: Gary 08 08 echo Send Bill a birthday card. Gary #

AHCI and Gigabyte GA-G31M-ES2L

2010-07-29 Thread Warren Block
The Gigabyte GA-G31M-ES2L has an ICH7, one PATA port, and four SATA ports. This one now has the latest BIOS, F10. Is it possible to run AHCI on this motherboard and chipset? With FreeBSD 8-stable, the terrible BIOS set to Enhanced mode, one SATA drive connected, and ahci_load=YES in

Re: AHCI and Gigabyte GA-G31M-ES2L

2010-07-29 Thread Adam Vande More
On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 9:29 PM, Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: The Gigabyte GA-G31M-ES2L has an ICH7, one PATA port, and four SATA ports. This one now has the latest BIOS, F10. Is it possible to run AHCI on this motherboard and chipset? With FreeBSD 8-stable, the terrible BIOS set

Why can't I write to freebsd-questions?

2010-07-29 Thread Peter Ulrich Kruppa
If you can read this message, the problem has been solved. Thanks Peter ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Re: BSD logo (a moderate opinion)

2010-07-29 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 321, Issue 11, Message: 20 On Thu, 29 Jul 2010 12:20:24 -0500 Paul Schmehl pschmehl_li...@tx.rr.com wrote: --On Thursday, July 29, 2010 11:03:07 -0400 Jerry McAllister jerr...@msu.edu wrote: Actually, the OP said logo and made no mention of mascott.

Re: Why can't I write to freebsd-questions?

2010-07-29 Thread Antonio Olivares
Peter, I can read it . You have solved a problem. Regards, Antonio On 7/29/10, Peter Ulrich Kruppa ulr...@pukruppa.de wrote: If you can read this message, the problem has been solved. Thanks Peter ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: Why can't I write to freebsd-questions?

2010-07-29 Thread Peter Ulrich Kruppa
Thanks, for some reason I could read all messages from this list, but couldn't reply. I just unsubscribed and resubscribed. Strange, but seems to work. Greetings Peter. Am Donnerstag, den 29.07.2010, 23:07 -0500 schrieb Antonio Olivares: Peter, I can read it . You have solved a problem.

Re: ok, i give up...

2010-07-29 Thread Gary Kline
On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 07:20:41PM -0700, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: Gary == Gary Kline kl...@thought.org writes: Gary guys, i've been searching for a calender/reminder prog than i had YEARS Gary ago. cannot find. Gary it had a ~/.datafile that was ascii. things like Gary QUOTE

Re: BSD logo (a moderate opinion)

2010-07-29 Thread Antonio Olivares
On 7/28/10, Chuck Robey chu...@telenix.org wrote: Dale Scott wrote: Personally, I enjoy our mascot Beastie, as well as the Beastie-influenced official logo. I also smile when I see Casper, Wendy andHotStuff. However, I also accept there are individuals who understand these symbols

Re: Firewire RAM access

2010-07-29 Thread Steven Susbauer
On 07/27/10 07:38, EforeZZ wrote: Hi, I was playing around with fwcontrol and its -m switch. I connected my FreeBSD 7.2 notebook to Win7 PC Via firewire and attempted to access Win7's RAM through the /dev/fwmem interface. I failed. snip The question is.. Should this always work? As far as I