Re: A quality operating system

2011-08-27 Thread Chad Perrin
al 25% reduced support pricing will only apply for actions until September 15th. Take advantage of the discounts now! If you have any further questions, do not hesitate to use the support form on the Website. Thank you for your business. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpexUTkHQxQ5.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: A quality operating system

2011-08-28 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 09:04:28PM -0700, Chip Camden wrote: > Quoth Chad Perrin on Saturday, 27 August 2011: > > > > I've decided to provide the "professional" response "Evan" claims to > > crave: > > > > Dear Evan, > > >

Re: A quality operating system

2011-08-28 Thread Chad Perrin
straw that broke the camel's back"? Your assessment of the nature of the survey itself is pretty accurate, though. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpSLOkZJrGZZ.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Alternative windowmanagers

2011-09-03 Thread Chad Perrin
opment practices in general. There are other things about GNOME that should be fixed long before they take the drastic step of trying to make up for those problems (rather than fixing them) by throwing away stuff that works. It strikes me as a case of poor decision making similar, in principle

Re: [OT] pfSense Book Publisher

2011-09-03 Thread Chad Perrin
e publisher for "pfSense: The Definitive Guide", which I chose based on the fact it was the first pfSense book on that page. It's not the publisher for any other pfSense books such as the pfSense 2 Cookbook. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpI33JAJmyvI.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: *caution* severely OT!!

2011-09-13 Thread Chad Perrin
be as "cheap and direct" a translation as you describe it, either. I'm not saying Common Lisp would be a bad choice for translation of a Python program to a language that compiles to a binary executable, but your description of the language does not strike me as accurate. --

Re: Please secure your FTP access

2011-09-16 Thread Chad Perrin
smartphone. The mail client is a bucket of ass. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpTDbXxn6qIq.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Please secure your FTP access

2011-09-16 Thread Chad Perrin
On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 06:55:05PM -0500, Ryan Coleman wrote: > On Sep 16, 2011, at 17:27, Chad Perrin wrote: > > > On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 02:14:42PM -0400, Daniel Staal wrote: > >> > >> Also many smartphone and tablet mailers automatically top-post, and make &

Re: limit number of ssh connections

2011-09-19 Thread Chad Perrin
not as real security against a more sophisticated attack. It's nice to have cleaner logging sometimes -- which is the real benefit of such techniques, rather than security per se. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpZvrddJ0hZg.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Dennis Ritchie has died. A suggestion

2011-10-14 Thread Chad Perrin
well. --

Re: [freebsd-questions] Breakin attempt

2011-10-22 Thread Chad Perrin
x27;re doing isn't intended as a security measure, it's "something other than security through obscurity", and you shouldn't beat yourself up over it. If you have no specific need to keep SSH on 22, definitely move a public-facing SSH server to a nonstandard port, for re

Re: Breakin attempt

2011-10-22 Thread Chad Perrin
ie 'doorknob rattlers' -- doing so > *is* perfectly reasonable. > > *I* do it on _my_ machines, expressly for the reason stated in the prior > paragraph. I should have finished reading the thread before sending my own reply on a different branch of the discussion. This is (stated

Re: [OT] but concerns all of us [put down your coffee before reading]

2011-11-17 Thread Chad Perrin
t; should not worry about the issue, right? I think it means he found the wordplay humorous. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpKEdVUpxyCN.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [OT] but concerns all of us

2011-11-17 Thread Chad Perrin
and MPAA). The more you repeat these abuses of terminology, the more they are emboldened; I think it was the RIAA representative at the SOPA hearing yesterday who literally equated copyright infringement with *murder*. Don't be like that jackass. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed O

Re: [OT] but concerns all of us

2011-11-17 Thread Chad Perrin
On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 12:56:06PM -0500, Jerry wrote: > On Thu, 17 Nov 2011 10:17:50 -0700 > Chad Perrin articulated: > > > Copyright infringement is copyright infringement -- and not theft -- > > no matter how hyperbolic your choice of phrasing. Castigate people > &

Re: [OT] but concerns all of us

2011-11-17 Thread Chad Perrin
On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 12:41:51PM -0700, Chad Perrin wrote: > > Oh, of course -- "pirated", like the hundreds of CDs and audiocasettes > and DVDs I have, though I've stopped consuming new music in any form from > corporations that sue their own customers. clarifica

Re: OT: C|Net's Download.com adware, spyware, malware hijinkx.

2011-12-11 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 05:32:00AM -0600, Ryan Coleman wrote: > On Dec 10, 2011, at 12:30 AM, Polytropon wrote: > > On Fri, 9 Dec 2011 13:05:05 -0600, Ryan Coleman wrote: > >> > >> So, wait, Firefox is Malware? Did you notice that with FF4 > >> they changed it so that you didn't get prompted on la

Re: Revision control advice

2011-12-22 Thread Chad Perrin
On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 09:23:22AM +1030, William Brown wrote: > On 22/12/2011, at 20:06, Matthew Seaman wrote: > > > > svn vs git vs mercurial > > > > svn has the model of a central repository that everything has to > > communicate with. This can be attractive in a commercial environment as > >

Re: very small "workgroup" network

2011-12-29 Thread Chad Perrin
also (via CSS) insert newlines before and after code samples within code tags. Please remember to take this into account when reading the article, so that it will make more sense as presented on that page. For all I know, the way TR's stylesheets handle code formatting might all change agai

Re: FreeBSD Kernel Internals Documentation

2012-01-01 Thread Chad Perrin
shing what other OSs had already > done 3 or more years earlier and rather attempted to bring the OS on > par with those competing OSs. What do you define with your "hanging around sniping at people and sabotaging discussions" attitude? In the years I have been on this list

Re: FreeBSD Kernel Internals Documentation

2012-01-02 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sun, Jan 01, 2012 at 11:55:26PM -0700, Chad Perrin wrote: > On Sun, Jan 01, 2012 at 09:14:20AM -0500, Jerry wrote: > > On Sun, 01 Jan 2012 22:56:45 +1000 Da Rock articulated: > > > > > > If you want to verify, then by all means parouse this list and others > &g

Re: FreeBSD Kernel Internals Documentation

2012-01-02 Thread Chad Perrin
On Mon, Jan 02, 2012 at 08:31:14AM -0500, Jerry wrote: > On Sun, 1 Jan 2012 23:55:26 -0700 Chad Perrin articulated: > > On Sun, Jan 01, 2012 at 09:14:20AM -0500, Jerry wrote: > > > On Sun, 01 Jan 2012 22:56:45 +1000 Da Rock articulated: > > > > > > > >

Re: FreeBSD Kernel Internals Documentation

2012-01-03 Thread Chad Perrin
On Tue, Jan 03, 2012 at 03:06:11AM +0100, Walter Alejandro Iglesias wrote: > On Mon, Jan 02, 2012 at 12:33:20PM -0700, Chad Perrin wrote: > > Ubuntu, actually, has thrown out the baby with the bathwater. In its > > zeal to make things "just work" in a particular manner,

Re: FreeBSD Kernel Internals Documentation

2012-01-03 Thread Chad Perrin
you wish to use a term differently than how it is understood, make sure you clarify that fact up front. If others refuse to go along with it, find a different term to use that can better convey the meaning you wish to convey. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org

Re: FreeBSD Kernel Internals Documentation

2012-01-03 Thread Chad Perrin
On Tue, Jan 03, 2012 at 02:07:36PM -0800, Chip Camden wrote: > Quoth Chad Perrin on Tuesday, 03 January 2012: > > > > So . . . please start with the denotative meanings of words, consider > > your audience, and use words accordingly. If you wish to use a term > >

Re: FreeBSD Kernel Internals Documentation

2012-01-03 Thread Chad Perrin
On Tue, Jan 03, 2012 at 05:59:54PM -0600, Jeffrey McFadden wrote: > > > On Mon, 2 Jan 2012 12:33:20 -0700 > > Chad Perrin articulated: > > > > > > Now you have really peaked > > Piqued. Although it is misused here. Google it. Why does it looke like you a

Re: FreeBSD Kernel Internals Documentation

2012-01-04 Thread Chad Perrin
On Wed, Jan 04, 2012 at 12:33:28PM +0100, Walter Alejandro Iglesias wrote: > On Tue, Jan 03, 2012 at 09:55:04PM -0700, Chad Perrin wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 03, 2012 at 02:07:36PM -0800, Chip Camden wrote: > > > Quoth Chad Perrin on Tuesday, 03 January 2012: > > > >

Re: FreeBSD Kernel Internals Documentation

2012-01-04 Thread Chad Perrin
hink he believes it is morally justified, but that's a wild-ass speculation, and not enough to induce me to expect *him* of all people to justify it. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] ___ freebsd-questio

Re: Realtek RTL8191SEvB Linux driver?

2012-01-04 Thread Chad Perrin
ar brand. ThinkPads, for instance, are not prone to this design, and the first thing one does when disassembling (most?) modern ThinkPads (after turning them off and removing the battery, of course) is turn them over to remove screws. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.or

Re: Browser

2012-01-04 Thread Chad Perrin
eek. Beyond that, I don't know what I may or may not dislike about it. the stuff in the paragraph listing a bunch of browsers - I like all of these less than any of the browsers I mentioned before this paragraph, for a variety of reasons. I hope that helps, in conjunction w

Re: FreeBSD Kernel Internals Documentation

2012-01-04 Thread Chad Perrin
will cease trying to have any meaningful discussion with you right now. As pointed out by a bystander, this off-topicness has gone on long enough, and my most friendly overtures have been met only with flames in any case. Have a nice day. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http:/

Re: FreeBSD Kernel Internals Documentation

2012-01-04 Thread Chad Perrin
On Wed, Jan 04, 2012 at 12:34:52PM -0500, Jerry wrote: > On Wed, 4 Jan 2012 09:00:12 -0700 Chad Perrin articulated: > > > > You just ignored the salient point of what Robert Bonomi said, in > > favor of trivialities. If you prefer, pretend he said: > > > > H

Re: Browser

2012-01-04 Thread Chad Perrin
a while back, so I'm probably not qualified to comment on its current state. Did you mean to say "The keybinding is *not* quite as good . . ." or did you mean it is, as you wrote it here? -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] ___

Re: FreeBSD Kernel Internals Documentation

2012-01-04 Thread Chad Perrin
On Wed, Jan 04, 2012 at 04:16:15PM -0500, Jerry wrote: > On Wed, 4 Jan 2012 13:13:55 -0700 Chad Perrin articulated: > > > > Why the heck did you ask for it, then? > > Fair enough, because in your post dated: On Sun, 1 Jan 2012 23:55:26 > -0700, you make this remark: I

Re: Browser

2012-01-04 Thread Chad Perrin
On Wed, Jan 04, 2012 at 09:54:46PM +, Peter Harrison wrote: > On 4 Jan 2012, at 21:26, Chad Perrin wrote: > > > > Did you mean to say "The keybinding is *not* quite as good . . ." or did > > you mean it is, as you wrote it here? > > Perils of ty

Re: Realtek RTL8191SEvB Linux driver?

2012-01-04 Thread Chad Perrin
CD image) that can be used to deactivate the hardware whitelisting somewhere out there on the Internet, as there is for ThinkPads. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org ma

Re: Browser

2012-01-12 Thread Chad Perrin
hile back (three or four years), but do not recall anything about it due to the fact I do not need one. Good luck in your search. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list h

Re: Browser

2012-01-12 Thread Chad Perrin
he URI list used by HTTPS Everywhere so that a separate list need not be maintained) for xxxterm, and contributing patches to that effect, when I find time. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] ___ freebsd-questio

Re: OFF Topic. FreeBSD and Android Development

2012-01-13 Thread Chad Perrin
#x27;ll be watching this thread. > > I am not sure if this kind of off topic could be of interested to > the list so please feel free to answer me directly . I think this is, in fact, on-topic for this list. It is a question particular to FreeBSD, which is the point of the freebsd-que

Re: dot snap folder

2012-01-15 Thread Chad Perrin
> > First of all, it's called a directory, not a "folder". :-) > > > > After all, it doesn't fold (for that you need a little Haskell or OCaml). Hmm. That was direct. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] __

Re: FreeBSD 9

2012-01-19 Thread Chad Perrin
es that became permanent, as your statements seem to imply? -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsu

Re: FreeBSD 9

2012-01-19 Thread Chad Perrin
But then the new installer has to be at least equal in features, > functionality, > and overall quality. . . . or provide the ability to select the old installer at boot time, perhaps. Let's not turn this into a false dilemma; I don't see why we can'

Re: FreeBSD 9

2012-01-19 Thread Chad Perrin
foisting > premature software on the community when in-fact it does NOT replicate even a > fraction of the abilities of sysinstall. I also think it's worthwhile to give people the benefit of the doubt, at least at first. Perhaps the rhetoric can be scaled back a little bit in this case

Re: * Re: Horrible installer

2012-01-20 Thread Chad Perrin
e for me is make me feel just slightly inconvenienced during installation, having to restart the installation process more often when I made a misstep for instance. No biggie, I guess. It's certainly not worth giving up being able to build the whole base system with Clang instead of GCC

Re: Clang - what is the story?

2012-01-21 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 03:43:13PM +, RW wrote: > > I was just wondering what would have happened if Apple hadn't backed > clang/LLVM as BSD licensed projects. Was there a plan B (other than > gcc 4.2.1) or did Apple save the *BSD world? The backup plan was probably PCC.

Re: Clang - what is the story?

2012-01-21 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 05:09:52PM +1000, Da Rock wrote: > On 01/22/12 17:02, Chad Perrin wrote: > >On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 03:43:13PM +, RW wrote: > >>I was just wondering what would have happened if Apple hadn't backed > >>clang/LLVM as BSD licensed projects

Re: Clang - what is the story?

2012-01-22 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 07:06:04PM +1000, Da Rock wrote: > On 01/22/12 17:45, Chad Perrin wrote: > > > >A couple years ago, it looked like a race between PCC and TenDRA, but > >Clang seemed to just come out of nowhere and steal all the attention. > >All three of them

Re: Clang - what is the story?

2012-01-22 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 05:37:48AM -0700, Chad Perrin wrote: > > There has been some talk of it being the GCC replacement for OpenBSD > and maybe even NetBSD, though I seem to recall Theo de Raadt doesn't > consider replacing GCC a very urgent requirement right now (which might

Re: Clang - what is the story?

2012-01-22 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 10:55:18PM +1000, Da Rock wrote: > On 01/22/12 22:37, Chad Perrin wrote: > > > >PCC (Portable C Compiler), meanwhile, spent many years essentially unused > >except in some of the dustier corners of Unix user communities before > >being actively

Re: Clang - what is the story?

2012-01-22 Thread Chad Perrin
em. If I'm not mistaken, everything else on that list is not even open source software. If you just want to know about C compilers, it's fun to read about all this stuff. If you specifically want to know about options that might be suitable for use as GCC-replacement in BSD Unix systems, th

Re: Clang - what is the story?

2012-01-22 Thread Chad Perrin
r members of major open source Unixy OS families. Four is probably a good number, with a few less-central implementations floating around as well to explore the fringes. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] ___ fre

Re: Horrible installer

2012-01-23 Thread Chad Perrin
with a legitimate need for the functionality of sysinstall look like intolerant elitists by association with you in the minds of those who don't understand their needs, just because you seem to agree with them. I miss your silence. -- Chad Perrin [ origi

Re: Horrible installer (was: Re: FreeBSD 9)

2012-01-23 Thread Chad Perrin
oes not eliminate useful options and flexibility. You seem unaware of this fact in the general case, for some reason. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.

Re: Unable to upgrade packages on FreeBSD

2012-01-30 Thread Chad Perrin
You talk a lot about how easy it is to maintain a binary package system. I would like you to convince me that it is easy, keeping in mind that it should remain compatible with the ports system. I am willing to be convinced. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org

Re: Unable to upgrade packages on FreeBSD

2012-01-31 Thread Chad Perrin
them. :-) Don't forget compiling for multiple architectures. That adds more options -- and, unlike some of those other options, compiling for different architectures is often actually a mutually-exclusive option set. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org

Re: uname ?

2012-02-02 Thread Chad Perrin
ion were the values would be different? I don't have one handy, so I don't have any way to test this right now, but I wonder if an AMD machine might give a different answer to one of those than an Intel machine, given a 32-bit 386 instruction set processor for both. -- Chad Perrin

Re: Fun Scripting Problem

2013-02-14 Thread Chad Perrin
=c {print > $4;}{a=$1;b=$2;c=$3}' \ I'm never comfortable calling something like that a "one-liner". If it runs over 80 columns of width, that (to me) doesn't really qualify as a one-liner. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: fetchmail/sendmail: Domain of sender address does not exist

2013-03-07 Thread Chad Perrin
o I set fetchmail and sendmail to fetch > such emails? You might want to try out the mail/fdm port instead of fetchmail. I have found fetchmail to be obtuse and cantankerous; I stopped using it a long time ago. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] _

Re: day light saving time happened today

2013-03-11 Thread Chad Perrin
ot;, which is what should be showing during DST in the Eastern (US) time zone. When it's not DST, what should be showing in the Eastern time zone is "EST" instead. From what you said, though, it seems you had set it to "EDT" when it was not yet daylight saving time.

using netpgp with mutt

2013-09-04 Thread Chad Perrin
e web. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-question

Re: Which OS for notebook

2010-10-05 Thread Chad Perrin
cedent. As such, out of the various OSes with which I am comfortable to some degree, I pretty much get to choose whatever OS I want. Given my requirements for software capabilities, FreeBSD is the obvious choice. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpJlLlJ0R

Re: Which OS for notebook

2010-10-05 Thread Chad Perrin
t years ahead" of FreeBSD for "the ease of maintaining the software on the machine"? I'm curious about what you mean. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpxTcjb7PqVu.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Which OS for notebook

2010-10-05 Thread Chad Perrin
7;ll have to take your word for it when it comes to creating ports. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpVkyr6iqXcJ.pgp Description: PGP signature

third-party ports/packages sources

2010-10-06 Thread Chad Perrin
or ports without breaking normal operation. If there's a tutorial out there that would explain how to do something like this, I have not yet found it. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpEitpNPtUt0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Which OS for notebook

2010-10-06 Thread Chad Perrin
directly with the base system without licensing issues, but it can certainly be distributed and installed when appropriate. It is, in fact, for this reason of compatibility that FreeBSD has had ZFS support where Linux-based systems have not. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpEnjZDz6QYq.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Which OS for notebook

2010-10-06 Thread Chad Perrin
On Wed, Oct 06, 2010 at 11:11:23AM +0700, Phan Quoc Hien wrote: > Hello everyone, > Which laptop vendor is best support for FreeBSD ? I've had good luck with ThinkPads. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgppdjrOCJnkm.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Which OS for notebook

2010-10-06 Thread Chad Perrin
great, even if I don't touch it for a week or so, at least for me. There are benefits to a rolling release process, too: http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/security/?p=4150 -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgp4WYGFexWRM.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: third-party ports/packages sources

2010-10-06 Thread Chad Perrin
On Wed, Oct 06, 2010 at 10:18:54PM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: [stuff] Thanks! That gives me a lot to look into. I appreciate the information. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpnxxRo3nzZg.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Like it or not, Theo has a point... freebsd is shipping export-restricted software in the core

2010-10-07 Thread Chad Perrin
t;Sure, go ahead, we don't care," I'd still be inclined to seek further advice more concerned with my own legal safety before removing any legal notices though -- aside from the tags on my matresses and pillows (for instance). -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgphjDhhH1dHJ.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Too many binary packages are missing

2010-10-13 Thread Chad Perrin
version OO if I could > download it as a binary package... Just my $0.02... . . . without Java, given Java's licensing restrictions. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpH8EHUJYUr9.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: chromium crashes

2010-10-18 Thread Chad Perrin
The problem I'm having is that I can't get a vi-like keybindings extension to work. I guess it's likely that most extensions haven't been tested for compatibility on FreeBSD, though. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpWKTWQ98yQ3.

Re: chromium crashes

2010-10-18 Thread Chad Perrin
On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 11:30:28AM -0700, Chip Camden wrote: > Quoth Chad Perrin on Monday, 18 October 2010: > > The problem I'm having is that I can't get a vi-like keybindings > > extension to work. I guess it's likely that most extensions haven't been >

rugy-pg and rubygem-pg in ports

2010-10-19 Thread Chad Perrin
, if any, exist between these two ports aside from the names. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgp5ndp9cDtjv.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Greybeards (Re: Netbooks & BSD)

2010-10-20 Thread Chad Perrin
tphone is wasted on useless crap that only gets in my way. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpW90OzWAa2s.pgp Description: PGP signature

[OT] writing filters in sh

2010-10-27 Thread Chad Perrin
eresting" while I'm writing shell scripts I tend to just use a more robust language like Perl. Please let me know if there's some way to use a simple idiom like the Perl example to get the same results in sh. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ]

Re: okay, time to ask the wizards.

2010-10-27 Thread Chad Perrin
in vi or Vim and give it this command: :%s/$/^M/ Note that you don't type in that ^M by using the ^ and M keys on the keyboard. Instead, you first type ctrl-v then press the Enter key. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpaTw6st1UGV.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: okay, time to ask the wizards.

2010-10-27 Thread Chad Perrin
regex than \n, and only require one newline character in the substitution part as a result: perl -pie 's/$/\n/' filename.txt Plus . . . I like pie. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpGpP9Q2VWV4.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [OT] writing filters in sh

2010-10-28 Thread Chad Perrin
mple use cases, and it works well. Thanks for saving me a little trouble. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpizZeoyZjA6.pgp Description: PGP signature

Vimium on Chromium on FreeBSD

2010-11-04 Thread Chad Perrin
Vimium does not install on FreeBSD's Chromium browser port. If you want details about how I got Vimium to install, and on Vimium plus FreeBSD in general, I chronicled the experience in my personal devlog: http://blogstrapping.com/?page=2010.308.12.13.14 -- Chad Perrin [ original conten

Re: Vimium on Chromium on FreeBSD

2010-11-04 Thread Chad Perrin
On Thu, Nov 04, 2010 at 02:25:23PM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: > > Vimium is one of several Chromium extensions that provide some vi-like > keybindings, and arguably the one with the best vi-like experience. > Unfortunately, it is not quite up to the standards of Vimperator on > Fir

Re: Vimium on Chromium on FreeBSD

2010-11-05 Thread Chad Perrin
On Thu, Nov 04, 2010 at 08:32:11PM -0400, Chris Brennan wrote: > On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 8:21 PM, Chad Perrin wrote: > > So are there plans to get 7x into ports? I would love to go back to Chrome > as a browser ... I find Firefox so clunky now! :D Well . . . I have no idea what pla

Re: Vimium on Chromium on FreeBSD

2010-11-05 Thread Chad Perrin
On Fri, Nov 05, 2010 at 12:55:41AM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: > On Thu, Nov 04, 2010 at 08:32:11PM -0400, Chris Brennan wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 8:21 PM, Chad Perrin wrote: > > > > So are there plans to get 7x into ports? I would love to go back to Chrome > &

Re: ZFS License and Future

2010-11-05 Thread Chad Perrin
egree and, considering the change in ownership, I'm unlikely to start using it if I do not have an immediate, specific use-case that calls for the capabilities of ZFS in particular. . . . on top of which, I don't feel a need to do Oracle any favors. Your mileage may vary, of course

Re: ZFS License and Future

2010-11-05 Thread Chad Perrin
f the CDDL is "dangerous" somehow. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpFUsckKJ3NZ.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: ssmtp - possible anomaly with SSL

2010-11-06 Thread Chad Perrin
er, or have you switched MUAs when you started using ssmtp? Chris Brennan suggested you send more information; in addition to answering my question, it might be useful to give us the information Chris requested -- but make sure you obscure any username/password information. -- Chad Perrin [ or

Re: ZFS License and Future

2010-11-06 Thread Chad Perrin
7;m glad they've both been forked following Oracle's acquisition, if only because they can serve as tests of Oracle's readiness to sue people for forking the company's "intellectual property". -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgputUKbiYIvq.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: ZFS License and Future

2010-11-06 Thread Chad Perrin
Microsoft Java VM > was abandoned because of this and everyone had to switch to the Sun > one. I think Steven was saying that people are still using Java the language, not that they're still using Microsoft's Java implementation. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL:

Re: ZFS License and Future

2010-11-06 Thread Chad Perrin
On Fri, Nov 05, 2010 at 11:25:13PM -0500, Steven Susbauer wrote: > On 11/5/10 4:34 PM, Chad Perrin wrote: > >Will Oracle start using patent suits to try to stop people > >who aren't paying for ZFS or who are using it on platforms other than > >Solaris from using it

Re: ssmtp - possible anomaly with SSL

2010-11-06 Thread Chad Perrin
out whether maillog has anything to offer for hints, you might want to paste its contents into pastebin and give us a link to it there so we can give it a look (after checking to make sure you are not pasting any sensitive data, of course). -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgp4vEGMWEDJJ.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: ZFS License and Future

2010-11-06 Thread Chad Perrin
btrfs (as compared with ZFS). > > Having said all that it really depends on whether you need the extra > features of zfs. Personally I cant see how anyone with any important data > can do without checksuming. I guess that depends on what you're doing with the data and what kind of ext

Re: Tips for installing windows and freeBSD both.. anyone??

2010-11-06 Thread Chad Perrin
un lighter than the whole MS Windows GUI, even if they're much heavier than other options. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgp6D3xoJmzGp.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: ZFS License and Future

2010-11-06 Thread Chad Perrin
may be others that escape my memory at this exact moment, too. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpiuw1ewKEDC.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: ZFS License and Future

2010-11-06 Thread Chad Perrin
ttachment shows as a PGP Signature ... his > didn't, just 'noname' for the file name That supposition is correct. I find it odd that someone else's signature is labeled as such and mine is not for you; for me, I see mine labeled as PGP signatures as well. I'm curren

Re: ZFS License and Future

2010-11-06 Thread Chad Perrin
it to .Net? Some of the technology may have made it into the .NET framework, and C# may in some respects be quite similar to Java, but .NET is most certainly not Java. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpmYp8be6Xgk.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: ZFS License and Future

2010-11-06 Thread Chad Perrin
kipedia.org/wiki/OpenDocument_Foundation Yes, there are already forks underway -- such as LibreOffice (OO.o fork), MariaDB (MySQL fork), and so on. We'll see whether they end up subject to expensive lawsuits as a result. I haven't read your links yet, but I'll probably get to it tomo

Re: Anybody know apt-get ?

2010-11-07 Thread Chad Perrin
ecall the existence of an apt-get-like tool specifically for dealing with source, called apt-src. You should be able to install it on your system and sift through its manpage at your leisure: apt-get install apt-src -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpgmezFusYU2.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Tips for installing windows and freeBSD both.. anyone??

2010-11-07 Thread Chad Perrin
ou might want to give AHWM a try. It's in FreeBSD ports. > > Coming back to your initial statement: For users EXPECTING something > to act in a specific way, KDE and Gnome really "boost" their > productivity, as it doesn't force them to question or relearn >

Re: ZFS License and Future

2010-11-07 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sun, Nov 07, 2010 at 05:17:19PM +, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On 06/11/2010 16:10, Chad Perrin wrote: > > Will Oracle lawyers > > find some patent related to the creation of that software the company > > "owns" and use that to sue you if you fork the projec

py-gtk install hangs

2010-11-07 Thread Chad Perrin
th an easy fix. Anyone? -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpM5l78d9EJm.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: py-gtk install hangs

2010-11-07 Thread Chad Perrin
even if it's not really important for my current needs, though. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpdviy5SHvpq.pgp Description: PGP signature

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