Re: wireless on a hp pavillion dv5000

2009-01-05 Thread Aryeh Friedman
Same card but no carrier... what did you do to see the carrier? On 1/5/09, michael michael.copel...@gmail.com wrote: Glen Barber wrote: Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: I have installed the ndis stuff and it sees the mac address but when i push the power button on the wireless (build into the

Re: dummies version of dummies to setup printers in freebsd

2009-01-25 Thread Aryeh Friedman
This may or may not be suitable for your situation but this is how I generally set printers up: 1. Install print/cups (yes the full wrapper port) 2. Edit your /etc/make.conf by adding a line that says no LPR 3. Add CUPS_ENABLE=YES to your /etc/rc.conf 4. Manually start cups (run cupsd as root) 5.

Re: example c program that does beep

2009-12-25 Thread Aryeh Friedman
printf(\007); /* assumes that your using a console/terminal that will beep on ctl-g */ On Fri, Dec 25, 2009 at 1:58 PM, Anton Shterenlikht me...@bristol.ac.uk wrote: How can I get a beep from c? I looked at curses and syscons.c, but still not clear. Could somebody send me an example. I'd be

/var/yp/securenets

2010-01-21 Thread Aryeh Friedman
Does the netmask in /var/yp/securenets have to match the one listed in ifconfig if both machines are on the same subnet specifically we get 5 static IP's from our ISP who also puts other customers in the same subnet (the mask if 255.0.0.0) and if possible I want to make an entry like this:

Re: Unit conversion program?

2010-04-29 Thread Aryeh Friedman
units(1) On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 1:57 AM, Modulok modu...@gmail.com wrote: List, Is there a command-line program which does unit conversions between SI and other unit forms? Perhaps something similar to Google's feature? For example:    ...@bar baz 41.5c to f    106.7    ...@bar baz

boting straight into firefox

2011-07-14 Thread Aryeh Friedman
I am setting a read only kiosk (it displays various web pages progmatically and has *NO OTHER* function) and security is not a concern because the hardware is locked away and need to find the most hands free way method of going from power on to full screen www/firefox is it sufficent to have a

Re: boting straight into firefox

2011-07-14 Thread Aryeh Friedman
I wonder, though . . . why Firefox?  Would a more minimal (but still GUI) browser -- such as Surf, perhaps -- serve your needs better? Maybe it's worth considering that in case the menu bar, navigation bar and all the other (mostly nonsense) bars of web browsers are not needed for the

Re: boting straight into firefox

2011-07-14 Thread Aryeh Friedman
On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 1:38 AM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Fri, 15 Jul 2011 01:30:32 -0400, Aryeh Friedman wrote: I wonder, though . . . why Firefox?  Would a more minimal (but still GUI) browser -- such as Surf, perhaps -- serve your needs better? Maybe it's worth considering

how to force a hard reboot remotely

2011-07-16 Thread Aryeh Friedman
Is there any way to force a complete power down and then reset of a i386 without physically being present? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Re: Lennart Poettering: BSD Isn't Relevant Anymore

2011-07-17 Thread Aryeh Friedman
I am working on making a general purpose image for XEN (specifically for rack space but since it is a common framework attempting to make it vendor neutral) On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 12:16 AM, Outback Dingo outbackdi...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 11:03 PM, Adam Vande More

Fwd: Lennart Poettering: BSD Isn't Relevant Anymore

2011-07-18 Thread Aryeh Friedman
-- Forwarded message -- From: Aryeh Friedman aryeh.fried...@gmail.com Date: Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 3:16 AM Subject: Re: Lennart Poettering: BSD Isn't Relevant Anymore To: per...@pluto.rain.com That is the approach I am taking... RS's recommendation was we make a disk image

Re: Lennart Poettering: BSD Isn't Relevant Anymore

2011-07-18 Thread Aryeh Friedman
On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 7:30 AM, Jerry je...@seibercom.net wrote: On Mon, 18 Jul 2011 15:47:24 +0700 C. Bergström articulated: I wish people would spend as much time solving problems in *BSD as they do trying to defend an irrelevant OS ;) Personally, I wish they would spend more time in

Re: Lennart Poettering: BSD Isn't Relevant Anymore

2011-07-18 Thread Aryeh Friedman
, 2011 at 7:50 AM, Aryeh Friedman aryeh.fried...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 7:30 AM, Jerry je...@seibercom.net wrote: On Mon, 18 Jul 2011 15:47:24 +0700 C. Bergström articulated: I wish people would spend as much time solving problems in *BSD as they do trying to defend

best way to force a single packet to be sent via a specific interface

2011-07-21 Thread Aryeh Friedman
I have both ethernet (the default route and such) and ppp done via ppp -ddial the man page for ppp(8) says tun0 will not have an IP assigned until a single packet is sent on it... what is the best way to have one packet sent on it (ping only always ifaces on multicast, traceroute seems to have no

Fwd: best way to force a single packet to be sent via a specific interface

2011-07-21 Thread Aryeh Friedman
-- Forwarded message -- From: Aryeh Friedman aryeh.fried...@gmail.com Date: Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 4:00 AM Subject: best way to force a single packet to be sent via a specific interface To: FreeBSD Mailing List freebsd-questions@freebsd.org I have both ethernet (the default route

best way to replicate system

2011-07-21 Thread Aryeh Friedman
I have set up a machine that is 100% configred and now needs to be duplicated to an arbitrary number of other machines (23 currently)... none of the machines have optical drives (or floppies) so it has to be a USB install... what is the best way to do this all I can think of is make release or

make release question

2011-07-21 Thread Aryeh Friedman
Where does make release place the disk images (iso's) by default ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Fwd: make release question

2011-07-21 Thread Aryeh Friedman
-- Forwarded message -- From: Aryeh Friedman aryeh.fried...@gmail.com Date: Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 12:35 PM Subject: Re: make release question To: Nathan Whitehorn nwhiteh...@freebsd.org On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 12:33 PM, Aryeh Friedman aryeh.fried...@gmail.com wrote: found them

skype

2011-07-23 Thread Aryeh Friedman
I have a number of clients that prefer Skype over IM last time I tried to build it from ports I was unable to get to anywhere past the account login page (no matter what I tried it said it could not log me in and when I registered for an account it never registered)

Fwd: skype

2011-07-23 Thread Aryeh Friedman
-- Forwarded message -- From: Aryeh Friedman aryeh.fried...@gmail.com Date: Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 7:43 AM Subject: Re: skype To: claudiu vasadi claudiu.vas...@gmail.com not quiet webcamd sees my webcam but not skype On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 7:42 AM, claudiu vasadi claudiu.vas

re: skype

2011-07-23 Thread Aryeh Friedman
Sound System } } -- Forwarded message -- From: Frank Shute fr...@shute.org.uk Date: Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 7:52 AM Subject: Re: skype To: Aryeh Friedman aryeh.fried...@gmail.com Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List freebsd-questions@freebsd.org On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 06:16:28AM

baffled on how to get packages onto the disc image of a custom release

2011-07-25 Thread Aryeh Friedman
I have been banging my head for almost a day now about how to get make release (or make iso.1 or package-split) to populate releaase/R/cdrom/* (actually I only care about dvd1 for now) and am totally lost on how to go from having a valid package list (and split) in /usr/ports/package to having it

How to turn off screen blanking

2011-08-10 Thread Aryeh Friedman
I have a kiosk system I am almost done building and the last snag is attempting to make it so idle time (no keyboard or mouse attached) does not blank the screen. I have already tried the following: vidcontrol -S off disabling acpi and apmd from the kernel config enabling dpms via the kernel

Re: Hi

2011-08-28 Thread Aryeh Friedman
On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 5:09 PM, Spencer Thompson spencer.s.thomp...@gmail.com wrote: Dear FreeBSD.org, I would like to order a CD with FreeBSD for an IBM Thinkpad. What is the best package to get? Will it work perfectly? I want a package with the manual, man-pages and how to use FreeBSD

right CPUTYPE

2009-06-18 Thread Aryeh Friedman
What CPUTYPE should I put in /etc/make.conf for: CPU: AMD Phenom(tm) II X4 955 Processor (3210.85-MHz 686-class CPU) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

a portmaster/ports question

2011-09-18 Thread Aryeh Friedman
Is there any way to get portmaster to reinstall every port in the *EXACT* same order they where installed in, preferably with out any knowledge of what ports where installed after the current one was the reason for asking is many times it seems that subtle incompatibilities solely due to

Re: video acceleration on vbox

2011-10-24 Thread Aryeh Friedman
What port do I find them in? On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 8:02 PM, Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.comwrote: On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 6:44 PM, Aryeh Friedman aryeh.fried...@gmail.comwrote: I have installed win 7 as a guest on emulator/virtualbox-ose on my 9.0-RC1 (i386) machine and no matter

Re: FreeBSD on Rackspace Could

2010-11-13 Thread Aryeh Friedman
Also you can make an official vote for freebsd at http://feedback.rackspacecloud.com/forums/71021-product-feedback and then search for freebsd On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 9:20 AM, Aryeh Friedman aryeh.fried...@gmail.com wrote: Thats good news because currently we have a gentoo machine with them

Re: FreeBSD on Rackspace Could

2010-11-13 Thread Aryeh Friedman
Thats good news because currently we have a gentoo machine with them (the closest linux distro to FreeBSD in philosophy and implementation) and since i have been a big FB user for years I have already told them we would like to switch if they offered the option On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 11:43 AM,

Fwd: FreeBSD on Rackspace Could

2010-11-15 Thread Aryeh Friedman
For us it is mostly cost but the other advantage (with RS at least) is you can size the hardware to fit your needs and not get any more then you need... for example when we first started our consulting firm back in July we bought 256MB of RAM (RS sizes the Disk, CPU, Bandwidth, etc. as a multiple

Re: FreeBSD on Rackspace Could

2010-11-15 Thread Aryeh Friedman
oops should of said the main disadvantage is it is not FreeBSD On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 9:49 AM, Aryeh Friedman aryeh.fried...@gmail.com wrote: For us it is mostly cost but the other advantage (with RS at least) is you can size the hardware to fit your needs and not get any more then you need

problems mounting android htc

2011-01-15 Thread Aryeh Friedman
I am attempting to make it so I can communicate with the linux on my Android HTC 0100 and when I insert it I get the following on the console: ugen5.2: HTC at usbus5 umass0: HTC Android Phone, class 0/0, rev 1.02/1.00, addr 2 on usbus5 umass0: SCSI over Bulk-Only; quirks = 0x umass0:0:0:-1:

Re: problems mounting android htc

2011-01-15 Thread Aryeh Friedman
Forgot to include the list On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 6:27 PM, Aryeh Friedman aryeh.fried...@gmail.com wrote: Already tried based on several email threads found on the net but here is one last try: flosoft-stable# dd if=/dev/null of=/dev/da0 count=0 dd: /dev/da0: Device not configured flosoft

Re: problems mounting android htc

2011-01-15 Thread Aryeh Friedman
No idea how but when I plug the USB in it says USB Debugging Connected On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 6:48 PM, George Liaskos geo.lias...@gmail.com wrote: Already tried based on several email threads found on the net but here is one last try: flosoft-stable# dd if=/dev/null of=/dev/da0 count=0 dd:

Re: problems mounting android htc

2011-01-16 Thread Aryeh Friedman
, Patrick Lamaiziere patf...@davenulle.org wrote: Le Sat, 15 Jan 2011 18:57:33 -0500, Aryeh Friedman aryeh.fried...@gmail.com a écrit : No idea how but when I plug the USB in it says USB Debugging Connected On my HTC dream when I connect it to USB, there is a notification on the phone

Re: problems mounting android htc

2011-01-17 Thread Aryeh Friedman
, Vrachnis Ilias Dimitrios vrac...@gmail.com wrote: On Jan 16, 2011, at 5:56 PM, Patrick Lamaiziere wrote: Le Sun, 16 Jan 2011 09:41:06 -0500, Aryeh Friedman aryeh.fried...@gmail.com a écrit : My situtation is a little different I am a developer hired to do some work on the android but have

Re: problems mounting android htc

2011-01-17 Thread Aryeh Friedman
On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 8:22 AM, Vrachnis Ilias Dimitrios vrac...@gmail.com wrote: On Jan 17, 2011, at 1:52 PM, Aryeh Friedman wrote: I do all my coding from the command line and not an IDE and got BSDoid and the Android SDK both downloaded but I can not get BSDoid installed I did a quick

Re: problems mounting android htc

2011-01-20 Thread Aryeh Friedman
: On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 10:39 PM, Aryeh Friedman aryeh.fried...@gmail.com wrote: % ant debug ... /shared/home/aryeh/HelloAndroid/build.xml:78: For 'AOSP' SDK Preview, attribute minSdkVersion in AndroidManifest.xml must be 'AOSP' Hmmm. Interesting. I am looking at the applications I developed

Re: problems mounting android htc

2011-01-20 Thread Aryeh Friedman
Friedman aryeh.fried...@gmail.com On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 11:18 PM, Aryeh Friedman aryeh.fried...@gmail.com wrote: A few things: 1. Yes it is required the reason I put it in the first place is ant refused to build without it. (note 1) 2. How do I check the version on the phone? 3. What

OT: How to set a timeout for a process

2011-01-27 Thread Aryeh Friedman
I have a script that may or not hang (the reasons why it hangs are unimportant here) and need to call it from an other script and need to say if it hangs to give up after X seconds and just continue the script (no harm done if it fails) ___

beta nvidia driver xorg 7.3 is out

2007-09-26 Thread Aryeh Friedman
ftp://download.nvidia.com/freebsd/71.86.01/NVIDIA-FreeBSD-x86-71.86.01.tar.gz It still officially lists itself as being 5-STABLE compatible but commenting out the #ifdefs in the effected files will get around this... I tried it *DID NOT* resolve any of my issues but I at least no longer get a

Re: Dual Opterons don't see all memory

2007-09-26 Thread Aryeh Friedman
I have the same problem on a intel duo x6850 what options/flags do I need to set in /usr/src/Makefile and/or /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/GENERIC to make it compile 64 bit not 32? --Aryeh PS I think some of the nvidia issues I have posted might be due to this On 9/27/07, Erich Dollansky [EMAIL

what cpu type to use for a intel duo e6850 (i386 or amd64)

2007-09-26 Thread Aryeh Friedman
Currently I have done a build/installworld build/install/kernel using a i386 CPUTYPE (w/ SMP and APIC set in the kernel (I am using the default sys/i386/conf/GENERIC) do I need to change this to amd64 for a intel duo e6850? (I have had several seemingly unrelated problems that no one seems to be

experiences with the beta nvidia driver

2007-09-27 Thread Aryeh Friedman
Last night I mentioned it is now avaible... has any one tried it with anything near this combo: P-35 Chipset GeForce 5200 GT (PCI) 7-CURRENT The reason for asking is when I installed it the kernel reconizes my card but Xorg (7.3) doesn't recognize it (same as before the beta) BTW it does

Re: Portupgrading cups-base gives compiler error

2007-09-28 Thread Aryeh Friedman
I have the same issue on 7-current On 9/28/07, beni [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I'm running 6.2-STABLE and my ports are up to date. When trying to portupgrade print/cups-base from 1.2.12 to 1.3.0 I am getting a compiler error. Any cure for this ? Thanks ! ... echo Compiling

Re: xorg nvidia

2007-09-28 Thread Aryeh Friedman
This is a known issue with all nvidia cards and xorg 7.3... nvidia should release an updated driver very soon... until then to get some possible hints do a search of this list for nvidia issues. --Aryeh On 9/28/07, Marcel Cuculici [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello everyone, To install nvidia

Re: Install problems with CD

2007-09-28 Thread Aryeh Friedman
If I remember right this is a known issue with some older distro CD's (the boot code doesn't need any kind of software driver for the CD but the install code does)... I suggest either using a newer version like 6.2 or using the install from network option for install medium. --Aryeh On 9/28/07,

Re: Install problems with CD

2007-09-28 Thread Aryeh Friedman
: On 9/29/07, Aryeh Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I remember right this is a known issue with some older distro CD's (the boot code doesn't need any kind of software driver for the CD but the install code does)... I suggest either using a newer version like 6.2 or using the install from

Re: Portupgrading cups-base gives compiler error

2007-09-28 Thread Aryeh Friedman
When will this be in cvsup? --Aryeh On 9/29/07, Frank Jahnke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The cups-base upgrade error can be fixed with a simple patch. See http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=116721 (I was bitten by this as well.) ___

url encoding a string with base system tools

2007-09-28 Thread Aryeh Friedman
I am creating a new port and part of the install procedure is the install script needs to send some data to a web server in the form of http://.?X where XXX is the url encoded plain text (can include any ascii printable character) that needs to be sent. Since this for a port I want to do

Re: what cpu type to use for a intel duo e6850 (i386 or amd64)

2007-09-29 Thread Aryeh Friedman
not give a clue on this. --Aryeh On 9/29/07, Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Aryeh Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Currently I have done a build/installworld build/install/kernel using a i386 CPUTYPE (w/ SMP and APIC set in the kernel (I am using the default sys/i386/conf

Re: what cpu type to use for a intel duo e6850 (i386 or amd64)

2007-09-29 Thread Aryeh Friedman
Please don't top-post. Anyway, if you're not seeing all 4G, then you are most likely running an i386 kernel/release and not amd64. In order to use 4G on a 32-bit (i386) install, you need to include: options PAE I already tried that and it barfed on a cast in adavsys.c (forget what subdir)

Re: what cpu type to use for a intel duo e6850 (i386 or amd64)

2007-09-29 Thread Aryeh Friedman
Would the following procedure work to do an inplace upgrade: 1. Download the amd64 iso 2. Install it on a spare disk/partition 3. Do a cvsup on it's /usr/src 4. Make buildworld/buildkernel 5. Mount the x86 disk/partition 6. Copy /usr/obj (and /usr/src for good measure) from the amd partition to

Re: 7.0-CURRENT Ports Collection?

2007-09-29 Thread Aryeh Friedman
Are you attempting to download ports on 6.2 before you move to 7 or on 7? If the and your on a SMP (dual core don't know about physically seperate) there are some known issues in the protocol stack On 9/29/07, Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: James Jeffery wrote: Does 7.0 come with a

Re: what cpu type to use for a intel duo e6850 (i386 or amd64)

2007-09-29 Thread Aryeh Friedman
2. Install it on a spare disk/partition How do I force sysinstall to only slice and install on the spare partition (don't have a spare disk) --Aryeh ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: 7.0-CURRENT Ports Collection?

2007-09-29 Thread Aryeh Friedman
On 9/29/07, Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Aryeh Friedman wrote: Are you attempting to download ports on 6.2 before you move to 7 or on 7? If the and your on a SMP (dual core don't know about physically seperate) there are some known issues in the protocol stack Er, what issues

Re: what cpu type to use for a intel duo e6850 (i386 or amd64)

2007-09-30 Thread Aryeh Friedman
On 9/29/07, RW [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 29 Sep 2007 16:03:05 + Aryeh Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have more then 4gb and was wondering why it didn't all show up is there anyway to do a in place upgrade (I have a lot of user data)... also someone should think about

oops (was Re: what cpu type to use for a intel duo e6850 (i386 or amd64))

2007-09-30 Thread Aryeh Friedman
well the procedure *ALMOST* worked turns out that sysinstall clobbers any unmodified bsdlabels (bug?) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

(amd64) kernel reconizes sound card but no dev nodes are made

2007-09-30 Thread Aryeh Friedman
My kernel reconizes my sound card: monster# kldload snd_hda monster# kldstat Id Refs AddressSize Name 1 12 0x8010 b2b1d0 kernel 21 0x80c2c000 9dc0 linprocfs.ko 32 0x80c36000 3a060linux.ko 41 0xb11ac000 e3de

the continuing adventures of nvidia vs. xord 7.3

2007-09-30 Thread Aryeh Friedman
Normally I wouldn't mention this this may point to a deeper set of bugs in xorg/nv/nvidia/freebsd 7-current. Where things stood: 1. I had xorg 7.3 on freebsd 7-current (i386) 2. It did not reconize any nvidia card in anyway shape or form (nv, nvidia (even he latest beta's posted on 9/26), etc.)

hpiod (hplip version) dies immediatly on freebsd

2007-09-30 Thread Aryeh Friedman
uname -a FreeBSD monsert 7.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT #2: Sun Sep 30 20:57:46 UTC 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 monsert# hpiod can't open or create : m io/hpiod/hpiod.cpp 195 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: X on ThinkPad crashes after sleeping (zzz'ing)

2007-09-30 Thread Aryeh Friedman
If this has always been true then it is a known issue (happens on both desktops [p4 w/ 6.2 and dual-core w/ 7-current amd64] I have also) On 10/1/07, C Thala [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hardware: IBM ThinkPad T41 OS: FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE-p7 My laptop recently started exhibiting very weird

Re: linux-flashplugin9 (usable?)

2007-10-03 Thread Aryeh Friedman
I'm running 6.2-RELEASE-p7. I haven't tried the Linux Flash player but I do know the GNU Flash project [gnash] is worth looking at. Sure it's not perfect, but they're certainly having a good try at it. It works fairly well in Firefox at least. crashs X on 7-current amd64

Re: linux-flashplugin9 (usable?)

2007-10-03 Thread Aryeh Friedman
youtube -dl and clive work flawlessly. You can also use clive to convert .flv to friendlier formats. I have never had a luck with those adds on for Firefox. Even their ftp client sucks. That is way I use Opera and Lynx. Do not get me wrong. I am recommending Opera's ftp or bittorrent

Re: linux-flashplugin9 (usable?)

2007-10-03 Thread Aryeh Friedman
http://monkey.org/freebsd/archive/freebsd-questions/200707/msg01926.html Used to work flawlessly while you could download v7 but the distfile disappeared. Actually the latest cvsup replaced it with a working dist file ___

Re: linux-flashplugin9 (usable?)

2007-10-03 Thread Aryeh Friedman
On 10/3/07, Predrag Punosevac [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Aryeh Friedman wrote: youtube -dl and clive work flawlessly. You can also use clive to convert .flv to friendlier formats. I have never had a luck with those adds on for Firefox. Even their ftp client sucks. That is way I use Opera

good replacement for open office

2007-10-04 Thread Aryeh Friedman
Open office does not compile on 7-current amd64 what would be a good replacement(s) for most of it's functionality (word processing and spreadsheets are what matter to me) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: good replacement for open office

2007-10-04 Thread Aryeh Friedman
since when... tried it last week and nothing On 10/4/07, Boris Samorodov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 4 Oct 2007 20:39:39 + Aryeh Friedman wrote: Open office does not compile on 7-current amd64 what would be a good editors/openoffice.org-2 does compile at 7-current amd64

Re: good replacement for open office

2007-10-04 Thread Aryeh Friedman
On 10/4/07, Boris Samorodov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please, don't top-post. On Thu, 4 Oct 2007 21:00:03 + Aryeh Friedman wrote: On 10/4/07, Boris Samorodov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 4 Oct 2007 20:39:39 + Aryeh Friedman wrote: Open office does not compile on 7-current

Re: good replacement for open office

2007-10-04 Thread Aryeh Friedman
On 10/5/07, RW [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 4 Oct 2007 20:00:10 -0400 Philip M. Gollucci [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: NetOpsCenter wrote: I have a working Open office on a FreeBSD 4.11 box here that I use when all else fails. Is there a way to copy that and have it work on 7 CURRENT?

Re: good replacement for open office

2007-10-04 Thread Aryeh Friedman
On 10/5/07, Frank Jahnke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: what would be a good replacement(s) for most of it's functionality (word processing and spreadsheets are what matter to me) You really have to decide what you want to suite to do. Otherwise, your problem is underspecified. 1)

Re: how to play online TV program

2007-10-04 Thread Aryeh Friedman
- multimedia data file bears the (asf/asx) file extensions ; - streaming formats using in CityTV: Video : Microsoft Mpeg- 4 codec V2 [320 x 240, 25fps] Audio : Mpeg Layer-3 (16KB/s, 11kHz, mono) VLC can handle this ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: Abit Motherboard

2007-10-05 Thread Aryeh Friedman
On 10/5/07, Doug Hardie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am planning for replacing one of my servers. I want to upgrade to at least a dual-core machine. I found the Abit IP 35 Pro motherboard at Frys which looks like it has most everything I need. However, I don't find any discussions about that

Re: C++ Compiler On FreeBSD

2007-10-06 Thread Aryeh Friedman
PHP isn't really a programming language. It's more a fancy templating system that happens to be able to use extensions that can provide C style linkage. That said, I laude you for your desire to learn a real programming language, and agree with the recommendation that you start with something

Re: Which java binary to use?

2007-10-07 Thread Aryeh Friedman
On 10/7/07, Stephen Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I installed the Diablo java packages (http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/downloads/java.shtml), but which java shows /usr/local/bin/java which is a link to javavm in the same directory. I wondered about changing the link to point to one of

wyswyg editors for tex (was re: replacement for open office)

2007-10-07 Thread Aryeh Friedman
I finally got around to compiling abiword and I get the following when I try to run it: abiword Segmentation fault (core dumped) uname -a FreeBSD monsert 7.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT #1: Sun Oct 7 20:47:51 UTC 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/MONSTER amd64 I don't want to

Re: wyswyg editors for tex (was re: replacement for open office)

2007-10-07 Thread Aryeh Friedman
Yes there is wyswyg editor for TeX. Look among ports. I do not use one like most long time TeX users as it is useless. Every time you compile lyx and I like it so far. You sound like using TeX is a bad thing and so difficult. It is not my 11 year old nice uses for her homeworks. From what

setting up a cvsup mirror

2007-10-09 Thread Aryeh Friedman
I want to setup a local cvsup mirror on my local machine (someone told me if you do it right you don't need to hand apply uncommitted patches) what do I need to do this? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: wyswyg editors for tex (was re: replacement for openoffice)

2007-10-09 Thread Aryeh Friedman
If you know neither and want to learn one well, choose TeX. That is what is used more commonly. There's nothing wrong with troff, and the support is still quite good, but all the major journals, for example, accept TeX code but not troff. It is still a good idea to know enough troff to do

getting better then 1024x768 on xorg 7.3 w/ nv

2007-10-09 Thread Aryeh Friedman
Is there anyway using the NV (not kernel mod) to get better then 1024x768? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

NVidia 100.14.19 for FreeBSD i386 released

2007-10-10 Thread Aryeh Friedman
Not on amd64 but no nvidia kernel module ever has On 10/10/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, see: http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=100077 is it working for anybody? regards, usleep ___

rebranding a i386 binary to be a amd64 binary

2007-10-10 Thread Aryeh Friedman
Even though I know this is asking for it I want to test the new nVidia driver on amd64 and the only issue with a hand compile (from nVidia's tar not the ports one) is src/nv-kernel.o is branded elf-i386-32 and amd64 wants it branded elf-amd64-64. This file comes from them as a precompiled object

Re: best way to update ports

2007-10-10 Thread Aryeh Friedman
On 10/11/07, Bill Stwalley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I need your advice on how to update security patches for ports on a dozen servers with minimal efforts. If the servers are homogenious why not have a single /usr/local and nfs mount it? ___

Re: best way to update ports

2007-10-11 Thread Aryeh Friedman
yeah, in that situation nfs mount will be easy. My servers are in different cities, and the ports are installed with different options on different servers, for example, some postfix use unix login accounts, some postfix use courier authentication with mysql database. So unfortunately I

Re: rebranding a i386 binary to be a amd64 binary

2007-10-11 Thread Aryeh Friedman
On 10/11/07, Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Aryeh Friedman wrote: Even though I know this is asking for it I want to test the new nVidia driver on amd64 and the only issue with a hand compile (from nVidia's tar not the ports one) is src/nv-kernel.o is branded elf-i386-32 and amd64

Re: rebranding a i386 binary to be a amd64 binary

2007-10-11 Thread Aryeh Friedman
There are several kernel features that need to be implemented before an amd64 nVidia driver will work - see http://wiki.freebsd.org/NvidiaFeatureRequests for more info. nVidia do want to create an amd64 driver, but they need the kernel work to be done first. I just sent nVidia an offer to

Re: How to create a user account with the same permission as root ?

2007-10-11 Thread Aryeh Friedman
On 10/11/07, williamkow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Finally, I manage to setup X.org and then KDE 3.5.4 running on FreeBSD 6.2-Release. I created a user account named william and do not assign any group as I do not know what are the list of group name for me to select. To start KDE, i use

Re: can not load KDE in FreeBSD 6.2

2007-10-11 Thread Aryeh Friedman
On 10/11/07, williamkow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After configuring to run X.org, and I manage to have KDE by running command kdm. Then I do some changes related to display, example : a) 1024x768 to 800x600 b) fonts size for menu, wallpaper ...etc but then after the computer have shutdown

Re: How to create a user account with the same permission as root ?

2007-10-11 Thread Aryeh Friedman
After seeing some of his other questions he should get a book on basic sysadmin also. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to create a user account with the same permission as root ?

2007-10-11 Thread Aryeh Friedman
In my case, william is better than root. I can never login to my GNOME desktop through GDM by root. A root account is absolutely useless to me. I use gnome and there is not a single thing I can not do with a root account that I can't with one. If you mean opening GUI apps try adding the

Re: How to create a user account with the same permission as root ?

2007-10-11 Thread Aryeh Friedman
On 10/11/07, Aryeh Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In my case, william is better than root. I can never login to my GNOME desktop through GDM by root. A root account is absolutely useless to me. I use gnome and there is not a single thing I can not do with a root account that I can't

Re: memory pool, rfc

2007-10-31 Thread Aryeh Friedman
On 11/1/07, Eduardo Morras [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 00:38 01/11/2007, you wrote: Ouch! ...you are not trying to sell anything are you? It may be in your best interest if you proceed to the hackers list, to initiate conversation in a way that explains how your code will benefit a cause, not

strangeness with enigmail and thunuderbird

2007-10-31 Thread Aryeh Friedman
Installing the port for enigmail-thunderbird and manually installing the plugin into my personal thunderbird profile (as per instructions in the port's pkg-message) and manually configuring it to use /usr/local/gpg (couldn't find it automatically) it spins forever (i.e. the task never completes)

csup broken on -currnet amd64?

2007-10-31 Thread Aryeh Friedman
monster# uname -a FreeBSD monster 8.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT #0: Tue Oct 30 18:07:21 UTC 2007 root@:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 monster# csup -h cvsup8.us.freebsd.org /usr/share/examples/cvsup/ports-supfile Connected to 216.165.129.134 Updating collection ports-all/cvs Checkout

Re: csup broken on -currnet amd64?

2007-10-31 Thread Aryeh Friedman
On 11/1/07, Steve Kargl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 03:06:54AM +, Aryeh Friedman wrote: monster# uname -a FreeBSD monster 8.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT #0: Tue Oct 30 18:07:21 UTC 2007 root@:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 monster# csup -h cvsup8

Re: About Freebsd 7.0 versus 6.3

2007-11-08 Thread Aryeh Friedman
On Nov 8, 2007 11:55 AM, Expresso Digital ISP [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, my name is Cesar. I'd like to know what is the diference between 7.0 and 6.3 and why create a newest version and after old version. 6.X is the last of versions meant primarilly for single processing machines (with some

Re: need an explanation of make serarch output

2007-11-11 Thread Aryeh Friedman
Sorry beinf rude but I wonder if either of the responders took there own advice and RTFM'ed (where M=mail) What I mean is I was *NOT* asking how to get the deps list... I was asking that for example make search key=jdk16 display=bdeps will display multiple bdeps lines which one contains the

Re: OT: Beastie 3D-rendered

2007-11-11 Thread Aryeh Friedman
On Nov 11, 2007 3:55 PM, Tino Engel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Look what happened to Beastie: http://www.tilolit.de/images/tb/wallpapers/teufel.jpg Nice Can you produce an icon size one (or a powered by size one)? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: +bfe0: watchdog timeout -- resetting

2007-11-23 Thread Aryeh Friedman
On 11/23/07, Michael Hawkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been receiving the same error message from my NAS box as of late. Until last week, I was been running Freebsd6.2, and I occassionally received the message re0: watchdog timeout. It would happen about once a week. Last week, I

getting rid of xconsole on xdm

2007-11-24 Thread Aryeh Friedman
I am in the middle of setting up a new machine and want to get rid of the ^*(*%*@ xconsole on xdm (it doesn't go away on login either)... how? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

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