Re: Copying system/ports configuration?

2008-12-17 Thread Andrew Gould
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 2:00 AM, Mel fbsd.questi...@rachie.is-a-geek.netwrote: On Tuesday 16 December 2008 16:16:27 Andrew Gould wrote: On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 9:03 AM, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum bg271...@yahoo.comwrote: I have a FreeBSD 7.0 system that im using in production. I want

Re: Copying system/ports configuration?

2008-12-16 Thread Andrew Gould
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 9:03 AM, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum bg271...@yahoo.comwrote: I have a FreeBSD 7.0 system that im using in production. I want to create a FreeBSD virtual machine, to use as a testbed for this production box. The last time i did this it took a lot of time to get the VM set

presentation application (other than OpenOffice)?

2008-11-26 Thread Andrew Gould
I'm browsing around for smaller office apps. Abiword and Gnumeric are great. Does anyone have any recommendations for a presentation software? I'd rather not compile OpenOffice; and I'm just not getting KDE4. Thanks, Andrew ___

Re: firewall rules for bitlord, yahoo, limewire

2008-11-26 Thread Andrew Gould
On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 8:13 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmmm. Isn't life interesting. I would like to know how to block them and others without causing strange secondary problems. Actually a default pf configuration will let them pass unless I'm forgetting something important. ed I

Re: firewall rules for bitlord, yahoo, limewire

2008-11-26 Thread Andrew Gould
On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 10:42 AM, Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: sorry for asking but what are this limewire programs are? My unofficial take on it is that limewire is a peer-to-peer sharing application used by Windows, Mac OS X and Linux users to share files, usually music, often

Re: firewall rules for bitlord, yahoo, limewire

2008-11-26 Thread Andrew Gould
On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 6:40 PM, Fbsd1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: dick hoogendijk wrote: My unofficial take on it is that limewire is a peer-to-peer sharing application used by Windows, Mac OS X and Linux users to share files, usually music, often copyrighted, over the internet. It is one

port/package versions related to 7.1 RELEASE

2008-11-25 Thread Andrew Gould
I noted that port packages are already on FreeBSD's ftp sites for 7.1 RELEASE. Does this mean that the ports and packages included in 7.1 BETA2 installation CD's will be the same ones distributed with 7.1 RELEASE? Or will the ports remain a moving target until RELEASE? Thanks, Andrew

Re: FreeBSD on a Mac Mini Intel?

2008-11-24 Thread Andrew Gould
On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 9:08 AM, John Almberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Nov 21, 2008, at 11:42 PM, Ian Jefferson wrote: Is anyone running FreeBSD on a Mac Mini Intel? I don't know the answer to your question, but don't think it's a crazy one. One of the most interesting things I've

Re: FreeBSD and hardware??

2008-11-18 Thread Andrew Gould
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 8:49 AM, Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is nonsense. The Windows interface itself is quite limited and not very powerful. as KDE and Gnome and others. GUI's (and operating systems) should be evaluated by user type. For many, the command line is

[OT] printing question

2008-11-18 Thread Andrew Gould
Time to buy a new printer. I don't print much from FreeBSD; but the need occasionally arises. Most of my printing is done while using Mac OS X. The Epson Artisan 800 is looking awfully nice; but it's not in the Linux printing database yet (http://openprinting.org/printer_list.cgi). Question:

Re: FreeBSD and hardware??

2008-11-18 Thread Andrew Gould
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 10:49 AM, Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 10:54:48AM -0500, Dan wrote: Wojciech Puchar([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2008.11.18 16:51:16 +0100: Have you used, erm... Linux? Both Linux and FreeBSD run pretty much at hardware level. You

Re: [OT] printing question

2008-11-18 Thread Andrew Gould
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 1:53 PM, Chad Perrin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Your best bet for printer compatibility is to ensure that it's available as a network device rather than having to connect to it directly, and that it's a Postscript printer. If you want to get a printer and connect it

Re: [OT] printing question

2008-11-18 Thread Andrew Gould
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 7:15 PM, Warren Block [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 18 Nov 2008, Andrew Gould wrote: So the bottom line is: Get a postscript printer. They're rather expensive. Not always: http://wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/usedlasers.pdfhttp://wonkity.com/%7Ewblock/docs

Re: calendar software wanted

2008-10-22 Thread Andrew Gould
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 8:51 AM, Daniel Molina Wegener [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Marco escribió: hello list, anybody has experience with calendar software which runs on freebsd. i maybe would integrate it also in thunderbird/mutt,but thats not necessary, or use a stand alone software.

Re: How to get my Dad's Win2k system to access internet through my FreeBSD 6.2 system

2008-10-14 Thread Andrew Gould
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 10:01 AM, Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 09:52:54AM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote: internet. My freebsd 6.2 box is connected to the internet and has 2 network cards, rl0 and rl1. rl0 connects to the ISP and rl1 is directly

Re: has anyone actually received a bsdmag ?

2008-10-08 Thread Andrew Gould
On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 12:42 PM, Chad Perrin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Oct 07, 2008 at 08:43:29AM -0500, Andrew Gould wrote: The BSDMag website mentioned that it would be available at Barnes Noble. I couldn't find it there; but I found it at Borders bookstores. I've seen a copy

Re: has anyone actually received a bsdmag ?

2008-10-07 Thread Andrew Gould
On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 8:14 AM, kenneth hatteland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The first 2 issues have covered topics from FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD and actually a short one on MAC. In addition PCBSD is quite heavily featured. As far as I know this leaves only Dragonfly and DesktopBSD out for now

Re: ipf filter by user/group

2008-09-19 Thread Andrew Gould
On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 8:04 AM, Yury Michurin [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Sorry for the mistake, i meant pf, the openbsd's packet filter. On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 2:39 PM, Yury Michurin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I'm quite new to ipf, Is there an option of filtering packets by

Re: How to compare 2 images from command line

2008-09-02 Thread Andrew Gould
On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 10:23 AM, FreeBSD [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tom Marchand a écrit : Hash the images and compare the hashes. -- Original message -- From: FreeBSD [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi everyone, I'm trying to determine if 2 jpeg images are identical.

Re: How to compare 2 images from command line

2008-09-02 Thread Andrew Gould
On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 10:31 AM, FreeBSD [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andrew Gould a écrit : On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 10:23 AM, FreeBSD [EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tom Marchand a écrit : Hash the images and compare the hashes. -- Original

Re: OT: most universal file system for 1TB external USB2 hard drive

2008-08-29 Thread Andrew Gould
://www.ntfs-3g.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Great suggestion! I have NTFS support compiled into the kernel. Do you know if this conflicts with the usage of ntfs-3g? Thanks, Andrew Gould ___ freebsd

Re: kern.ipc.sem* and postgresql

2008-08-27 Thread Andrew Gould
On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 2:10 PM, Albert Shih [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all Classic question but I don't find the answers by google. If I've server with X procs, N Go ram and if the only purpose of this server is to run a postgresql daemon how can I known/calculate what I must give to

Re: photo management

2008-08-25 Thread Andrew Gould
On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 11:10 AM, Girish Kulkarni [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have accumulated around 3000 pictures on my disk over a decade and have been looking for a good tool for managing them on FreeBSD. Picasa apparently does a fairly good job on Windows and I have happily used

OT: most universal file system for 1TB external USB2 hard drive

2008-08-22 Thread Andrew Gould
I couldn't help myself. During lunch, I found a 3.5 1TB SATA internal HD **and** a USB2 HD enclosure for SATA drives on sale at large % discounts. It was more than I could resist. The operating systems in my home include FreeBSD, NetBSD, Mac OS X and Windows XP Pro. If I want all of these

Re: Synaptics touchpad driver

2008-08-21 Thread Andrew Gould
On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 1:34 PM, michael [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: after following this from pkg-message: the touchpad is not detected, and is still listed as just a mouse in the Xorg log. anyone getting something similar to this? machine is a HP DV2000, exact model is dv2225nr. default

Python script for configuring wifi hot spots on FreeBSD

2008-08-20 Thread Andrew Gould
I just finished a Python script that: 1. prompts the user to select a wifi device from a list compiled from the results of ifconfig and dmesg; 2. prompts the user to select an Access Point (SSID) from a list derived from 'ifconfig [device] scan'; and 3. configures the wifi device using the chosen

Re: Format USB stick in FreeBSD

2008-08-20 Thread Andrew Gould
On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 10:49 AM, Andrei Iarus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, How can I format a USB stick in FreeBSD? Thank you, Andrei You should be able to use the partition and disklabel modules in sysinstall. (Make sure you know the device name so you don't partition the wrong

Re: Python script for configuring wifi hot spots on FreeBSD

2008-08-20 Thread Andrew Gould
On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 12:22 PM, Chuck Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Andrew-- On Aug 20, 2008, at 8:44 AM, Andrew Gould wrote: 2. I store data in Python dictionaries. When I display the dictionaries, the numbered options are not in order and I can't figure out how to sort them

Re: desktop wireless card

2008-08-16 Thread Andrew Gould
cheaply on eBay. Another option is getting a wireless adapter that plugs into your ethernet port, so operating system compatibility should not be an issue. One such product can be found here: http://www.dlink.com/products/?sec=0pid=333 Good luck, Andrew Gould

Re: FreeBSD, Ubuntu and Win XP on one system

2008-08-11 Thread Andrew Gould
FreeBSD has been installed, boot up Ubuntu and modify the GRUB menu configuration file (/boot/grub/menu.lst). I found a sample of a FreeBSD entry here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=455951 Best of luck, Andrew Gould ___ freebsd-questions

OT: encrypted email using web based application

2008-07-30 Thread Andrew Gould
If I start with Subject line with the word secure using my work's email system, the email is sent to a secure, web based application where the recipients can view the message securely. The recipients receive a message that a secure email message is waiting for them there. They have to create an

Re: what do I do when a new piece of hardware doesn't even show up in dmesg?

2008-07-24 Thread Andrew Gould
On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 12:05 PM, Steve Franks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The only stumbling block to ditching windows on my laptop is a network card. I have a vanilla ath card that works fine under win32 and fedora, as well as a lucent-branded wi card. Neither even appears in dmesg when I

ports dependency question

2008-07-22 Thread Andrew Gould
a question of needing to compile the java code. Does diablo not meet the java requirement? Should I need to install a java sdk? At what point would it be appropriate to contact the maintainer of freemind for help? Thanks, Andrew Gould ___ freebsd

Re: Java

2008-07-22 Thread Andrew Gould
On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 1:49 PM, Greg Larkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dave wrote: | On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 12:43:47PM -0400, John Nielsen wrote: | On Tuesday 22 July 2008 12:20:48 pm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | I read in _Absolute FreeBSD_ that

Re: Java

2008-07-22 Thread Andrew Gould
On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 2:16 PM, Greg Larkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andrew Gould wrote: | On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 1:49 PM, Greg Larkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | | -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- | Hash: SHA1 | | Dave wrote

Re: Java

2008-07-22 Thread Andrew Gould
On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 2:31 PM, Greg Larkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andrew Gould wrote: | On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 1:49 PM, Greg Larkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | | -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- | Hash: SHA1 | | Dave wrote

OT: 802.11g via USB1 vs 802.11b via pcmcia

2008-07-17 Thread Andrew Gould
I have an old computer that has USB1 ports and no internal wifi card. I have a 802.11b card I can use via pcmcia card and a 802.11g adapter I can use via USB1. Which wifi setup should I use for better performance? (I've never been clear about the speed of pcmcia.) Thanks, Andrew

OT - printing question

2008-07-03 Thread Andrew Gould
I have a postscript printer. I can send the output of text files to the printer; but the printer won't eject the page until I send enough text to fill the page. Is there a standard page-break or eject page command? Thanks, Andrew Gould ___ freebsd

difficulties with CUPS

2008-06-27 Thread Andrew Gould
When I try to add a printer that connected to the parallel port, CUPS does not give me an option for a local printer connection. make config in /usr/ports/print/cups-base does not appear to offer any solutions. Any advice? Thanks, Andrew Gould

Re: FreeBSD-7.0 Release and Camera?

2008-06-27 Thread Andrew Gould
I'm not sure about getting FreeBSD to recognize the camera; but if it has a removable memory card, you should be able to access it through a memory card reader. Best regards, Andrew On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 3:40 PM, chip [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone know how to get FBSD 7-R to recognize my

/usr/local question

2008-01-12 Thread Andrew Gould
I just executed 'pkg_delete -a' to delete all packages and do a clean reinstall. (World and kernel were updated this morning.) Pkg_delete was unable to completely remove certain files and directories under /usr/local. Since I have backed-up all user data under /usr/local (web pages and

Re: Equations (WAS: good replacement for open office)

2007-10-05 Thread Andrew Gould
On 10/5/07, Frank Jahnke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since you seem to use the equation feature quite intensively, maybe you have any clue on making the equation editor perform better. Sorry I can't really be of much help with OO.o equations. What I do personally is a kludge, but it works

Re: Equations (WAS: good replacement for open office)

2007-10-05 Thread Andrew Gould
On 10/4/07, Chad Perrin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 12:34:00PM -0500, Andrew Gould wrote: On 10/5/07, Frank Jahnke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've given up on trying to find a BSD or Linux program that is good enough for this purpose -- none really are. So I just

Re: Sadly, my tinker-time has run out....

2007-09-06 Thread Andrew Gould
On 9/6/07, Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of David U Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2007 9:10 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Sadly, my tinker-time has run out

Re: Double Layer dvd burning in FreeBSD

2007-09-04 Thread Andrew Gould
On 9/4/07, Rohit Viswanadha [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have read the manuals and have successfully burnt several DVDs before. I did nothing different when trying to burn dl DVD and it just has not been successful. Below is the error message I recieve from growisofs: Executing

Re: Sadly, my tinker-time has run out....

2007-09-02 Thread Andrew Gould
On 9/2/07, Mike Jeays [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 02 September 2007 02:22, Michael Hauber wrote: Hey, all... I've been a user of FreeBSD and OpenBSD for quite a while now. Unfortunatly, I haven't had much time to tinker lately, and that's unlikely to change in the near future.

Re: Sadly, my tinker-time has run out....

2007-09-02 Thread Andrew Gould
On 9/2/07, Michael Hauber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm in the process of backup, and will be installing ubuntu shortly. Like one of the repliers stated, I too feel somewhat guilty... But I'll be back one of these days. Thanks, all. Mike Don't feel guilty. Keep a FreeBSD server

Re: Sadly, my tinker-time has run out....

2007-09-02 Thread Andrew Gould
On 9/2/07, Pollywog [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 02 September 2007 23:37:49 Andrew Gould wrote: Don't feel guilty. Keep a FreeBSD server running at home while you travel! You can backup your data securely and use it remotely via tightvnc. Andrew There must be some trick

Re: spammers harvesting emaill address from this list

2007-08-25 Thread Andrew Gould
On 8/25/07, Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Probably the list admins figure that anyone who posts here is an advanced user type who understands how to setup spam filters that work. Ted ___ Or doesn't; but wants to. I tell people

Re: /var or /usr for data?

2007-08-22 Thread Andrew Gould
On 8/22/07, Brad Waite [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It would appear that the proper allocation of filesystems on FreeBSD is to put all data in /usr. I'm used to this and have been doing it for years. However, there's a few issues that keep coming up. A lot of the ports use /var for data dirs.

Re: updating multiple freebsd desktops

2007-07-31 Thread Andrew Gould
- Original Message From: Bram Van Steenlandt [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Liste FreeBSD freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2007 6:59:22 AM Subject: updating multiple freebsd desktops Hi list, The company I work for is linux based, we work with our own app written

Re: duplicating a dvd video

2007-07-20 Thread Andrew Gould
In Chapter 18.6.6 of the FreeBSD Handbook, you'll find instructions for creating an iso image from a data CD using the program dd. dd works for DVD's as well. You can then burn the iso image to a DVD using growisofs (see: man growisofs). You can find Chapter 18.6.6 at:

Re: creating ftp users!

2007-07-18 Thread Andrew Gould
- Original Message From: Gollapati, Kishore (GE Indust, ES Europe, consultant) [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2007 7:22:43 AM Subject: creating ftp users! Hi I am using windows 2003 server. I want to limiting ftp users to their

tightvnc trouble

2007-07-17 Thread Andrew Gould
Approximately 2 weeks ago, I performed a fresh installation of FreeBSD 6.2, updated to STABLE world and kernel, deleted all packages and installed up-to-date versions of packages. The upgrade to xorg 7.2 was uneventful. (whew) After using tightvnc, the user that started vncserver is unable

Re: Cursor key behavior with Firefox

2007-07-17 Thread Andrew Gould
- Original Message From: Rob Lytle [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2007 10:39:03 AM Subject: Cursor key behavior with Firefox I know this isn't a Firefox list, but perhaps someone can save me some time. When I use the down arrow, rather than scrolling, it

If cvsup's a no-go, will copying work?

2007-07-04 Thread Andrew Gould
I received permission to install a *nix at work. I installed FreeBSD 6.2; but I am unable to cvsup successfully. I've tried the various modes. I've even tried nesting it in a Python script that tries to get authorization through a proxy -- it didn't help, but was worth a try. I really,

Re: If cvsup's a no-go, will copying work?

2007-07-04 Thread Andrew Gould
- Original Message From: cpghost [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Andrew Gould [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: FreeBSD Questions Mailing List freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Wednesday, July 4, 2007 6:56:34 PM Subject: Re: If cvsup's a no-go, will copying work? Andrew Gould wrote: I received permission

Re: FreeBSD 6.2 install CD causes immediate reboot

2007-01-30 Thread Andrew Gould
28, 2007 at 09:34:44AM -0800, Andrew Gould wrote: I was given a Dell Dimension m200a yesterday by someone who recently upgraded. I think it was created around 1997. CPU: Pentium RAM: 48MB odd: This PC runs Win95; but has 2 usb ports. Didn't Win98 predate usb ports? No, USB

Re: how to enable linux flash player in firefox

2007-01-28 Thread Andrew Gould
From: Robert Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Sunday, January 28, 2007 7:44:41 AM Subject: Re: how to enable linux flash player in firefox Andreas Davour writes: Anyway. Can we hope that patch is finding it's way into the main branch with haste?

FreeBSD 6.2 install CD causes immediate reboot

2007-01-28 Thread Andrew Gould
I was given a Dell Dimension m200a yesterday by someone who recently upgraded. I think it was created around 1997. CPU: Pentium RAM: 48MB odd: This PC runs Win95; but has 2 usb ports. Didn't Win98 predate usb ports? When I try to boot up with the FreeBSD 6.2 installation CD, the system

Re: trouble mounting Olympus WS-310M voice recorder

2007-01-23 Thread Andrew Gould
wrote: Andrew Gould wrote: [snip] this is from a previous message in the thread: attempt: mount -tmsdos -orw /dev/da0s1 /mnt/ws310 try as root or su to root # mount_msdosfs /dev/da0s1 /mnt/ws310 Interestingly enough I tried out these steps as root to see if I could

Re: trouble mounting Olympus WS-310M voice recorder

2007-01-23 Thread Andrew Gould
cd /dev; ls -l xpt* pass* da0 says? You do need pass and da compiled into the kernel with the right permissions in order to make stuff work with cameras AFAIK. -Garrett Here's the output: # ls -l xpt* pass* da0 crw-r- 1 root operator0, 139 Jan 23 22:05 da0 crw--- 1 root

trouble mounting Olympus WS-310M voice recorder

2007-01-21 Thread Andrew Gould
: /dev/da0s1: Invalid argument Attempts with '-oro' instead of '-orw' had similar results. What am I doing wrong? Thanks, Andrew Gould ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: trouble mounting Olympus WS-310M voice recorder

2007-01-21 Thread Andrew Gould
- Original Message From: Garrett Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Sunday, January 21, 2007 3:26:03 PM Subject: Re: trouble mounting Olympus WS-310M voice recorder -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andrew Gould wrote: The MacMini mounts

Re: trouble mounting Olympus WS-310M voice recorder

2007-01-21 Thread Andrew Gould
- Original Message From: Garrett Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Sunday, January 21, 2007 3:26:03 PM Subject: Re: trouble mounting Olympus WS-310M voice recorder -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andrew Gould wrote: The MacMini mounts

Re: Firefox refuses to start in FBSD 6.2-RELEASE

2007-01-17 Thread Andrew Gould
Original Message From: Firas Kraiem [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2007 1:37:16 PM Subject: Firefox refuses to start in FBSD 6.2-RELEASE Hi to all of you ! The title pretty much says it all, when I install Firefox, the install seems to

Re: Firefox mess in Freebsd 6.1

2007-01-17 Thread Andrew Gould
- Original Message From: Michael M. Press [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Dak Ghatikachalam [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; FreeBSD WickerBill [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2007 11:21:02 AM Subject: Re: Firefox mess in Freebsd 6.1 I need to try the Warren's

[OT] advice on wikis and bulletin boards

2007-01-12 Thread Andrew Gould
Strategic planning will be starting soon at my new place of employment, and I'd like to setup a place on our intranet to facilitate discussions and planning prior to meetings to reduce meeting times and make meetings more productive. This would be a new activity for this organization, so we'll

Re: Newbie Lynx and Mozilla Firefox Questions

2007-01-04 Thread Andrew Gould
- Original Message From: linux quest [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.org Sent: Thursday, January 4, 2007 10:22:25 AM Subject: Newbie Lynx and Mozilla Firefox Questions I have been searching for tutorials for browsing the Internet using Lynx, but can't seem to find one

Re: Printing Problem

2006-10-06 Thread Andrew Gould
--- Karl Agee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: uname -a FreeBSD enterprise.myhome.westell.com 6.2-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-PRERELEASE #4: Mon Oct 2 08:40:06 PDT 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC.20060916 i386 I cannot print from some applications, namely xpdf and evince.

Re: printer recommendation

2006-09-29 Thread Andrew Gould
--- Christopher M. Hobbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could anyone recommend a good desktop laser jet printer that is known to work under FreeBSD. I don't mind if it's an older model. I'd like to go cheap with it. I will be printing black and white planning sheets, and portions of books.

extracting base names from package listing

2006-09-20 Thread Andrew Gould
pkg_info provides a nice listing of package names that include version numbers. I'd like to have a list of the names without the version numbers so that I can write a script to install the newer versions after a clean installation. Looking at the package names, I'm having a hard time coming up

FreeNX and NX tutorials?

2006-09-20 Thread Andrew Gould
Does anyone know of any tutorials for running FreeNX and NX on FreeBSD? Thanks, Andrew L. Gould ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

Re: extracting base names from package listing

2006-09-20 Thread Andrew Gould
Thanks. --- RW [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 20 September 2006 19:45, Andrew Gould wrote: pkg_info provides a nice listing of package names that include version numbers. I'd like to have a list of the names without the version numbers so that I can write a script to install

Re: FreeNX and NX tutorials?

2006-09-20 Thread Andrew Gould
--- Norberto Meijome [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 20 Sep 2006 11:48:55 -0700 (PDT) Andrew Gould [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know of any tutorials for running FreeNX and NX on FreeBSD? have you tried something called Google? :) _ {Beto|Norberto

Re: FreeNX and NX tutorials?

2006-09-20 Thread Andrew Gould
--- Jeff Cross [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Norberto Meijome wrote: On Wed, 20 Sep 2006 11:48:55 -0700 (PDT) Andrew Gould [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know of any tutorials for running FreeNX and NX on FreeBSD? have you tried something called Google

FYI: USB wireless on FreeBSD 6.1 Release via ural driver

2006-08-07 Thread Andrew Gould
Given the occasional question regarding wireless adapters on this list, and that I didn't see this in the hardware notes, I thought I'd post a message: The D-Link DWL-G122 version B1 is compatible with FreeBSD 6.1 Release on the i386 architecture. This is a USB, 802.11g adapter. Please note

Re: Midnight Commander in base distribution set

2006-08-04 Thread Andrew Gould
--- Scott Oertel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bryan Bonifacio wrote: The ports and packages are also available from the CD-ROMs (either the first or the second). -- Bryan Renat S. Nurgaliyev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello! Please, please, please, include Midnight Commander into

Re: .bash_logout and shutdown -- need ideas

2006-08-04 Thread Andrew Gould
--- DW [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Have a bit of an issue here: Just started using a .bash_logout script to handle doing my unison commands whenever I logout at end of day so I don't forget to sync my local homedir to my server before I head home. Works fine as long as I just

Re: .bash_logout and shutdown -- need ideas

2006-08-04 Thread Andrew Gould
--- DW [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andrew Gould wrote: --- DW [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Have a bit of an issue here: Just started using a .bash_logout script to handle doing my unison commands whenever I logout at end of day so I don't forget to sync my local

Re: Midnight Commander in base distribution set

2006-08-04 Thread Andrew Gould
--- Xiao-Yong Jin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In the last episode (Aug 04), Andrew Gould said: --- Scott Oertel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use midnight commander on a daily basis, can anyone recommend a better, more lightweight tool then mc? I

Re: Replacing windows XP at home.

2006-08-01 Thread Andrew Gould
--- Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Joshua Lewis wrote: Would I be better off just going with Gnome or KDE? I realize once I start installing apps that I will probably wind up installing something that uses Gnome or KDE libraries so I am going to wind up

siemens wireless pci adapter as dhcp client - success and questions

2002-10-07 Thread Andrew Gould
' ;; stop) kill `cat /var/run/dhclient.pid` ifconfig wi0 remove echo ' wi0 removed' ;; status) ifconfig wi0 ;; *) echo 'usage: /usr/local/etc/wi0-dhcp.sh [start|stop|status]' ;; esac # End of file Thanks, Andrew Gould

Re: Shortcuts in KDE/Gnome

2002-10-07 Thread Andrew Gould
I'm assuming you're talking about icons on the desktop rather than a menu item in the start menu. In KDE: 1. Right click on the desktop 2. Select Create New/Link To Application 3. Fill out the fields in the various tabs (Mostly self-explanatory) Best of Luck, Andrew Gould --- Lord Raiden

can't find 112887-02.tar.Z for staroffice6.0

2002-10-01 Thread Andrew Gould
; but couldn't find it. Does anyone know the files status? Is it no longer available? Thanks, Andrew Gould __ Do you Yahoo!? New DSL Internet Access from SBC Yahoo! http://sbc.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED

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