Re: logitech cordless mouse w/ freebsd 5.3 stable

2005-03-13 Thread Chuck Robey
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Re: HP LJ 1100 setup

2005-03-13 Thread Chuck Robey
, it's THAT good! Chuck Robey | Interests include C Java programming, FreeBSD, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | electronics, communications, and SF/Fantasy. New Year's Resolution: I will not sphroxify gullible people

Re: logitech cordless mouse w/ freebsd 5.3 stable

2005-03-14 Thread Chuck Robey
On Mon, 14 Mar 2005, Eric wrote: I removed above this to save some bandwidth, as bandwidth is not free every where in the world :) Chuck Robey wrote: I then edit the pointer section of /etc/X11/xorg.conf to: Identifier Mouse1 Driver mouse Option ProtocolAuto

Re: cannot build openoffice

2005-03-17 Thread Chuck Robey
Doug Poland wrote: On Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 08:45:25PM +, RW wrote: On Wednesday 16 March 2005 15:54, Brian John wrote: Hello, When I try to build openoffice I get the following error: ./unxfbsd.pro/misc/FREEBSDGCCIruntime/libprldap50.so \ echo /dev/null cp:

Re: cannot build openoffice

2005-03-17 Thread Chuck Robey
Chuck Robey wrote: Doug Poland wrote: On Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 08:45:25PM +, RW wrote: On Wednesday 16 March 2005 15:54, Brian John wrote: Hello, When I try to build openoffice I get the following error: ./unxfbsd.pro/misc/FREEBSDGCCIruntime/libprldap50.so \ echo /dev/null cp: ./unxfbsd.pro

Re: How to include header files in makefiles

2005-03-18 Thread Chuck Robey
Jonathon McKitrick wrote: Hi all, I'm setting up a build system for a small project and I want to use included makefiles. I have a base.mk that looks like this: I will answer here, but be aware that you're getting all of my prejudices too, so take things with a grain of salt. First item deals

Re: FreeBSD 4.x Opteron Question

2005-03-18 Thread Chuck Robey
Boris Spirialitious wrote: --- Boris Spirialitious [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Matthew Seaman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 08:50:22AM -0800, Boris Spirialitious wrote: When opteron support start for Freebsd? I have 4.9. is supported? Or 4.11 better? I can't use 5.x. Well,

Re: FreeBSD 4.x Opteron Question

2005-03-18 Thread Chuck Robey
Kenneth Culver wrote: Quoting Chuck Robey [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Boris Spirialitious wrote: --- Boris Spirialitious [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Matthew Seaman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 08:50:22AM -0800, Boris Spirialitious wrote: When opteron support start for Freebsd? I have

Re: Clean install of FreeBSD, many ports wont compile

2005-03-26 Thread Chuck Robey
Matt Juszczak wrote: Still can't figure out how to get my FreeBSD machine to work properly. I've tried everything. Download the ISO on Wednesday, Mar 23rd, from ftp.freebsd.org. standard install, cvsup'd the ports, and tried to install /usr/ports/editors/pico, /usr/ports/shells/bash2, and a

Re: which shell irc client do you like ?

2005-03-27 Thread Chuck Robey
Christopher Nehren wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2005-03-27, Gert Cuykens scribbled these curious markings: Thx ps how do you do /set | more in irc language ? Have you tried using the backscroll, accessible (in irssi at least) with Page Up / Page Down? Just curious if

Re: which shell irc client do you like ?

2005-03-27 Thread Chuck Robey
Christopher Nehren wrote: On 2005-03-27, Chuck Robey scribbled these curious markings: Just curious if you folks have tried the mozilla application, available only from mozilla (not firefox) called chatzilla? I have tried nearly all of the other IRC clients, it's not a minimal one, but it's

my ethernet to my laptop/getting the tcp/X11 socket up

2005-03-31 Thread Chuck Robey
, 100baseTX-FDX, auto Mar 30 21:44:23 september kernel: rl0: Ethernet address: 00:0d:88:27:c4:38 OK, so I'm looking for advice on the ethernet problem, and maybe -- Chuck Robey | Interests include C Java programming

Re: my ethernet to my laptop/getting the tcp/X11 socket up

2005-03-31 Thread Chuck Robey
wizlayer wrote: On Thursday 31 March 2005 12:41 pm, Chuck Robey wrote: [snip] I installed it, it worked with the rl0 driver. Sometimes. Why sometimes? Smart guy, that's question 1. The indication I get is, I get an error (tcp error) soemthing like this one below (they're not all alike): Mar 30

Re: graceful way of stopping X remotely

2006-05-04 Thread Chuck Robey
Noah wrote: Hi there, Its been a while since I've had to admin X. What is a graceful way to stop X when I am remote to the machine? Cntl-alt-backspace on many systems, but certainly not all. epends on what's been programmed into the keyboard macros ... seee the xkb facilities in X11

Re: Programming Book(s)

2006-01-05 Thread Chuck Robey
lars wrote: Martin Cracauer wrote: Sean wrote on Mon, Jan 02, 2006 at 04:09:27PM -0500: Looking for recommendations on any Unix programming books. I have been out of things for a while so I would put my skill level back to the beginning. W. Richard Steven's Advanced Programming in the

Re: Which is the best open source C/C++ IDE out there?

2006-01-09 Thread Chuck Robey
JD Arnold wrote: Danial Thom wrote: --- Vladimir Tsvetkov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is obviously a trick question, because real programmers don't use IDEs. Case Closed. I'm not a real programmer, but UNIX is a great developer environment. It's a tool based environment. Small

mouse problem

2004-11-08 Thread Chuck Robey
... it wasn't, at least not to me. That's not a complaint,t he install managted to go off very cleanly anyhow. Chuck Robey | Interests include C Java programming, FreeBSD, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | electronics

Re: Sed Help.....

2004-11-10 Thread Chuck Robey
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rebuild problems

2004-11-14 Thread Chuck Robey
, I need to get it done right afterrwards for (believe this!) my Opteron and my Sun Ultra60. Quiet day i got planned (see the smoke clouds?) Chuck Robey | Interests include C Java programming, FreeBSD, [EMAIL

Re: HID support

2004-11-14 Thread Chuck Robey
the installation, add the following line to /boot/loader.conf: hint.atkbd.0.flags=0x1 I'm having the same problem... Hope this helps ;-) Chuck Robey | Interests include C Java programming, FreeBSD, [EMAIL

RE: rebuild problems

2004-11-14 Thread Chuck Robey
On Mon, 15 Nov 2004, Subhro wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chuck Robey Sent: Monday, November 15, 2004 1:18 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: rebuild problems snip I finished the cvsup, Which version of the tree did u

Re: Still trying to get my site up!

2005-06-26 Thread Chuck Robey
Sarath ER wrote: Gerard Seibert wrote: Thanks to several individuals, I have almost gotten my Apache2 server working. Almost, but not quite. My ISP blocks port 80; therefore I am using a redirect from DynDNS.org to redirect to an alias using port 9545. The 'beerstud.us' redirects to

Re: Freebsd 5.4 cannot fetch xfree86?

2005-06-27 Thread Chuck Robey
perikillo wrote: Hi to all. I install freebsd 5.4 Release, with xorg i have problems with my kbd, and i decide to install the old friend XFree86-4, i read the handbook about, the example say: test# pkg_add -r XFree86 But my system dosent found nothing, the answer is something about

Re: Linux move to FreeBSD

2005-07-04 Thread Chuck Robey
TvZ wrote: Hi I am a user of SUSE Linux, and I was thinking of trying out BSD. After reading as much information as I could about the three variants of BSD vs. Linux. On technical merit, I was very impressed. FreeBSD looks like a good stating place for me, but one think about FreeBSD makes me

Re: lspci on freebsd

2005-07-14 Thread Chuck Robey
Galdes, Andrew (ERHS) wrote: Hello all, I'm new to BSD. In linux i could run #lspci to see a list of the attached hardware. How can i do the same in FreeBSD 5? scanpci is part of Xorg and XFree86 both, I think. It'll give you the info you're after. Thanks, -Andrew

Re: Where is bsdnews.com?

2005-07-21 Thread Chuck Robey
Andras Kende wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Odhiambo Washington Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2005 6:23 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Where is bsdnews.com? Hi, I am trying to access bsdnews.com for this document:

Re[2]: HID support

2004-11-14 Thread Chuck Robey
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install: which cdrom?

2004-11-20 Thread Chuck Robey
? Chuck Robey | Interests include C Java programming, FreeBSD, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | electronics, communications, and SF/Fantasy. New Year's Resolution: I will not sphroxify gullible people into looking up fictitious words

Re: book recommendation...?

2004-11-21 Thread Chuck Robey
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RE: Is this a sign of memory going bad?

2004-11-25 Thread Chuck Robey
] Chuck Robey | Interests include C Java programming, FreeBSD, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | electronics, communications, and SF/Fantasy. New Year's Resolution: I will not sphroxify gullible people into looking up fictitious words in the dictionary (on the wall at my old fraternity

Re: Is this a sign of memory going bad?

2004-11-25 Thread Chuck Robey
On Fri, 26 Nov 2004, Rob wrote: Chuck Robey wrote: On Thu, 25 Nov 2004, Haulmark, Chris wrote: Someone broke the silence: On Thu, Nov 25, 2004 at 04:05:53PM -0500, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Jonathon McKitrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This is what I get from make buildworld

Re: Is this a sign of memory going bad?

2004-11-25 Thread Chuck Robey
On Fri, 26 Nov 2004, Matt Emmerton wrote: Chuck Robey wrote: On Thu, 25 Nov 2004, Haulmark, Chris wrote: Someone broke the silence: On Thu, Nov 25, 2004 at 04:05:53PM -0500, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Jonathon McKitrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This is what I get

Re: py24-qt 3.13 compile issue

2004-12-04 Thread Chuck Robey
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Re: py24-qt 3.13 compile issue

2004-12-04 Thread Chuck Robey
is fine, and in my own opinion, the python binary is fine also. Kris Chuck Robey | Interests include C Java programming, FreeBSD, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | electronics, communications, and SF/Fantasy. New Year's

How NOT to use multibytes

2009-01-17 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 This might seem an odd problem ... I spend my computertime developing, and don't really have much care for my own personal use of multibyte character sets, at least when I playing with the shell or in an editor. I just finished fixing a problem in a

Re: Advice for dump/restore over SSH

2009-01-19 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Roland Smith wrote: On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 12:34:26PM -0500, FreeBSD wrote: My question is how do you clone PC over SSH (it would be too much a PITA to open each case to plug the HD directly in the source PC). Would it have to be ssh? Why not

Re: technical drawing program

2009-01-23 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Boris Samorodov wrote: On Fri, 23 Jan 2009 11:28:19 +0100 Frank Staals wrote: It's a shame the FreeBSD port's version is so old (6.0-pre23 while the current version is allready 6.0-pre31 (or even 6.0-pre32 I'm not sure) though. Do you know

Re: jdk16

2009-01-23 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Peter Boosten wrote: Peter Boosten wrote: Brian McQueen wrote: I can't seem to find the files listed in the jdk16 port. What are folks doing to get java going? The urls listed in the port are not right, so the manual download step does not

Re: can i split a pdf file?

2009-01-25 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Charlie Kester wrote: On Sun 25 Jan 2009 at 16:18:26 PST Gary Kline wrote: Is there a way to split a large pdf file into smaller [ say 1MB ] chunks? Or are there open source tools out there that i can build? pdfsam (

Re: Why are the Zionist leaders in Israel so happy about the newPresident?

2009-01-26 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chad Perrin wrote: On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 04:04:15PM +, Anthony M. Rasat wrote: Lawrence Auster wrote: Bla bla bla Ku Klux Klan crap. Why don't you bring your hatred outta here. This is a family-oriented channel. Next time, even when you

Re: hex editors, disk info

2009-01-26 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alex Karpovic wrote: That in mind, what's wrong with bpatch? I've used it for binary patching, it works just fine that that (if my first assumption is totally off-base). You download from the device, change any required data, and (if the device

Re: X11 forwarding through SSH: Can't open display

2009-01-26 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 sk89q wrote: On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 6:32 AM, Bill Moran wmo...@potentialtech.com wrote: In response to sk89q the.sk...@gmail.com: I meant sshd_config. Do you have the xauth package installed on the remote server? You don't need a full X

Re: Solaris Compat?

2009-01-26 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Wojciech Puchar wrote: I don't want to raise an argument here (on multiple levels, no less...), but what would the compatibility be between FreeBSD (release) and Solaris? Why I ask is Adobe have released a version of flash for Solaris, and I'm

Re: bash suddenly doesn't like $() syntax

2009-03-21 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Lowell Gilbert wrote: Daniel Bye danie...@slightlystrange.org writes: On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 08:49:01AM -0400, Michael P. Soulier wrote: Hello, I'm running the shells/bash port on 6.3, and I recently ran a portupgrade. All of a sudden when

Re: bash suddenly doesn't like $() syntax

2009-03-21 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Lowell Gilbert wrote: Oh, crap, I flubbed it about the bash error. It's SO often something claimed by folks, I knee-jerked that it had to be a previous line in error. Sorry. Daniel Bye danie...@slightlystrange.org writes: On Sat, Mar 21, 2009

going from cvs to svn

2009-03-31 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I've finally decided that it's way past time that I switched from using cvs for my home archive (currently /home/ncvs) to using subversion. I'm trying to hunt down a web page that might give a set of rules to help moving things. I've spent about the

Re: going from cvs to svnq

2009-03-31 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andrew Wright wrote: On Tue, 31 Mar 2009, Chuck Robey wrote: I've finally decided that it's way past time that I switched from using cvs for my home archive (currently /home/ncvs) to using subversion. I'm trying to hunt down a web page

Re: going from cvs to svnq

2009-04-01 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andrew Hamilton-Wright wrote: Sorry to follow-up my own note, but . . . On Wed, 1 Apr 2009, Andrew Wright wrote: [ further snippage of previous note ] Strong Caveats: o ***Early Adopter Warning***: There has not been (as far as I know)

Re: going from cvs to svnq

2009-04-03 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On Tue, 31 Mar 2009 22:18:33 -0400, Chuck Robey chu...@telenix.org wrote: What I don't know is, I use cvsup all the time, but when I switch to svn, what does the cvsup job of tracking an archive (not tracking the sources

Re: going from cvs to svnq

2009-04-03 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: Chuck Robey chu...@telenix.org wrote: But I do need to figure out how to get the subversion archive (not a particular branch of the archive, the whole kit and kaboodle). devel/svk? (From a mention last December; I

Re: the 'make' command in the ports tree

2009-04-14 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Polytropon wrote: On Sun, 12 Apr 2009 20:08:21 +0200, dede sserre...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I'm a long time user of BSDs, and I don't find man pages or documentation on the way I can master the port collection (specialy the fonction of make).

filesystem compatibility

2009-04-23 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Are there any filesystems which FreeBSD has which offer compatibility to OpenBSD? I want to add a OpenBSD partition to my long-existing FreeBSD disk, make it OpenBSD, but I want to be able to transfer data between FreeBSD OpenBSD. Any filesystem

Re: CVS history access?

2009-04-24 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John Nielsen wrote: I'm working on a machine learning project and I'd like to use the FreeBSD src CVS commit history as a datasource. Is there a resource-friendly way for me to download some or all of it? Format isn't too big an issue. I tried

Re: New user - small file server questions and quick GUI question

2009-12-28 Thread Chuck Robey
Adam Vande More wrote: On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 3:49 PM, Kaya Saman kayasa...@optiplex-networks.com wrote: Hi guys, I attempted an install of 7.2 stable on my laptop and subsequently installed X11also. Now I didn't have any Xorg.conf file but each time I tried to start X from the CLI using

X11/freebsd problem

2010-02-04 Thread Chuck Robey
I have this problem with my built-under-freebsd-current Xorg, it gives me this following sort of error everytime it starts up: (pts/2):{14}% Xlib: extension Generic Event Extension missing on display :0.0. Xlib: extension Generic Event Extension missing on display :0.0. Usually, that 2nd line

Re: this may be impossible: iis there a way to play streams on our firefox?

2010-02-04 Thread Chuck Robey
Mike Clarke wrote: On Thursday 04 February 2010, Adam Vande More wrote: On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 7:29 PM, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: Is there a way of streaming stuff like old tv shows, the bbc-player, and pbs steams on the freebsd version of firefox35? thought

Re: which java on 8-release

2010-02-05 Thread Chuck Robey
Rob Farmer wrote: On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 4:25 PM, Steve Franks bahamasfra...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Tried to get any permutation of XYZ-jre or XYZ-jdk installed on 8-rc1 and gave up. I see still no diablo for 8. What is the best way forward (and how am I so dense that no one else has even

filesystem compatibility between FreeBSD and OpenBSD

2009-04-29 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I just put a OpenBSD partition on a EIDE disk I had laying around. I'd had some advice (apparently bad) that the OpenBSD UFS filesystem could provide a filesystem that I could access from FreeBSD ... least, just now when I tried to mount either of

Re: filesystem compatibility between FreeBSD and OpenBSD

2009-04-29 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Daniel C. Dowse wrote: On Wed, 29 Apr 2009 14:36:31 -0400 Chuck Robey chu...@telenix.org wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I just put a OpenBSD partition on a EIDE disk I had laying around. I'd had some advice

Re: Disabling ssh timeouts?

2009-05-12 Thread Chuck Robey
Steve Kargl wrote: Is there anyway to disable sshd from timing out a connection? I've tried setting ClientAliveCountMax and ClientAliveInterval and TCPKeepAlive in sshd.conf, but no combination that I've tried has worked. I'm trying to running the GCC testsuite, which is not an

Re: compiling FreeBSD date on Linux

2009-05-19 Thread Chuck Robey
Polytropon wrote: On Tue, 19 May 2009 18:19:21 -0300, francis keyes fke...@gmail.com wrote: I would like to compile the FreeBSD date command for use on Linux because the FreeBSD version has some features that are not present in Linux. I downloaded all the files from

Re: What is this forum for?

2009-05-29 Thread Chuck Robey
Wojciech Puchar wrote: I've been subscribed to this list for quite some time. I've tried to help where I know, Hey folks, all of you, could I please sugggest that this entire thread (under a variety of subject names) is an abuse of the lists? These topics should definitely occur, something

Re: Greylisting and new posters

2009-05-30 Thread Chuck Robey
Mel Flynn wrote: All (including David with his kick-ass postmaster hat), while off-topic, flames and other non sense covered by Freedom of Speech are an annoyance to many, I'm more bothered by some newcomers to the list that are being greylisted on first post and instantly hit the resend

Re: General and specific make questions

2009-06-08 Thread Chuck Robey
Lars Eighner wrote: What I need most is to find (a) make tutorial(s) that do not suppose make is being used for compling c/c++ programs. Yes, I know, that is mostly why make exists, but many tutorials plunge right into C examples with implicit C rules, while -- it seems to me -- make

vinum setup

2005-04-12 Thread Chuck Robey
didn't find any such module, so I wanted to see about building one, but I can't get device vinum to pass config's purview. Does vinum work on amd64's? Chuck Robey | Interests include C Java programming, FreeBSD

Re: Lowest common denominator for buildworld/kernel

2005-04-12 Thread Chuck Robey
. -- Chuck Robey | Interests include C Java programming, FreeBSD, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | electronics, communications, and SF/Fantasy. New Year's Resolution: I will not sphroxify gullible people into looking up

installation messup

2005-04-13 Thread Chuck Robey
I have a problem to fix in an installation I just did, and I need to know if it's possible to misuse/abuse sysinstall in the manner I need to. I was putting a copy of FreeBSD into a system of a friend. hhis system is based on scsi, and I couldn't seem to get it to boot from ide, so instead

Re: vinum setup

2005-04-13 Thread Chuck Robey
Lowell Gilbert wrote: Chuck Robey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sorry, I'm having a miserable time trying to get vinum working on my amd64 system. Vinum tells me that it can't load the kernel (vinum: Kernel module not available: No such file or directory). Gvinum simply refuses to take any commands

Re: Supported six-channel sound cards

2005-04-13 Thread Chuck Robey
José de Paula Rodrigues wrote: Greetings all, As a desktop FreeBSD user, I'd like to know if there is a list of supported 5.1 sound cards somewhere. The Holy Handbook mentions some supported cards, yes, but it doesn't say whether they are supported in 5.1 mode or only plain stereo. My current

Re: FreeBSD vs Linux

2005-04-20 Thread Chuck Robey
koen de wijs wrote: Hello folks, I'm new to unix. This year I tried FreeBSD. Some friend of mine adviced FreeBSD. I think it works great. Only one thing that I don't like is that you will need to know a lot to setup a lot of basic stuff. I want to try out Linux. I heard it is more user friendly

Re: Qt programming

2005-04-26 Thread Chuck Robey
Steven Friedrich wrote: I want to learn Qt programming. Can I do that without buying anything from TrollTech (until I'm ready to develop a commercial program) ? Does FreeBSD have the tools, libraries, etc.? There are several books on teh subject available also. I would suggest you need tow

Re: Which is the best PDF utility ?

2005-04-26 Thread Chuck Robey
edward wrote: Hi all, Just wanted to know which is, according to you, the best utility to read PDF files. I notice the Acrobat7 port is mentioned as broken in the notes. Which program (not necessarily Adobe) would be the best alternative for everyday PDF reading ? Oh, almost forgot, I use KDE.

Re: Which is the best PDF utility ?

2005-04-26 Thread Chuck Robey
Frank Staals wrote: edward wrote: Hi all, Just wanted to know which is, according to you, the best utility to read PDF files. I notice the Acrobat7 port is mentioned as broken in the notes. Which program (not necessarily Adobe) would be the best alternative for everyday PDF reading ? Oh, almost

Re: Qt programming

2005-04-26 Thread Chuck Robey
Danny Pansters wrote: [some eliding] I find this a tad biased. Let me try to counter a bit and provide some more info. Oh, I admit I am a bit prejudiced. I might be a bit more than a little, even. I heartily dislike C++ (I find it FAR too complicated for it's feature set). I Like Python,

Re: Qpopper SSL TLS problem

2005-04-29 Thread Chuck Robey
Clifton Royston wrote: On Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 11:25:51AM +0200, Dominik Epple wrote: BSD [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Do you know any other POP server that supports SSL / TLS ? University of Washington IMAP Daemon comes with a pop daemon that supports SSL. There are certainly others, but this one I

Re: 5.1 Support

2005-05-01 Thread Chuck Robey
Subhro wrote: Hello Folks, Is there any way to generate 5.1 output with Creative Sound Blaster Live! 5.1 sound card when a 5.1 souce file like AC3 is played? The driver which is included with the 5.4 is just stereo :-( I don't think that's true at all. First requirement, though, is digital

Re: /etc/issue problem

2005-05-02 Thread Chuck Robey
Lowell Gilbert wrote: Simon Striker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have a FreeBSD 5.3 installed and I want to show a pre-login text when user wants to login to the server through a console or telnet. I made an /etc/issue file and copied some text inside, but when I telnet to the server, the text

Re: unary operator expected

2005-05-03 Thread Chuck Robey
Clifton Royston wrote: On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 05:13:47PM -0600, Chris Burchell wrote: I'm working with a script written for Linux that has the following lines: # Check that networking is up. [ ${NETWORKING} = no ] exit 0 I don't think it's a Linux/BSD issue. This line won't work in sh if

Re: The FreeBSD Handbook, in Wiki form.

2005-05-04 Thread Chuck Robey
Trevor Sullivan wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 know it's off-topic, but I thought it might surprise some folks, and it's possible it could prove important to some, I guess. Notice the words above, about him using the sha-1 hash. You realize it's been broken? The crypto

Re: Building kernel without some modules

2005-05-04 Thread Chuck Robey
Kris Kennaway wrote: On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 09:03:49AM +0500, Vitaly Bogdanov wrote: Hi. Is it possible to build kernel without compiling unnecessary modules? My system - freebsd5.3. See make.conf(5) That wasn't very nice. It's not that it's wrong, but the fella sounded to me like he was

Re: mixing IDE and SATA hard drives on a FreeBSD system

2005-05-04 Thread Chuck Robey
Andrew L. Gould wrote: My AMD K6-2 computer is in the shop getting upgraded to AMD64. If FreeBSD 5.4 is released next week, the timing couldn't be better. I was thinking about putting FreeBSD and swap on the ATA100 IDE hard drive and installing a SATA hard drive for home and database data. Is

Re: mixing IDE and SATA hard drives on a FreeBSD system

2005-05-04 Thread Chuck Robey
David Kelly wrote: On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 03:22:25PM -0500, Andrew L. Gould wrote: I was thinking about putting FreeBSD and swap on the ATA100 IDE hard drive and installing a SATA hard drive for home and database data. Is there any reason I shouldn't mix hard drive types? (I've never messed

Re: developer list in FreeBSD source tree

2005-05-05 Thread Chuck Robey
Omer Faruk Sen wrote: Hi, There was a file in FreeBSD source tree that shows who is responsible for related driver or program. I couldn't remeber it so I decided to mail it to here. Can someone point me to the right document in /usr/src? Best Regards.. There might have been such a thing in the

Re: Ping and DUP!s

2005-05-17 Thread Chuck Robey
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a simple home lan made of three networked FreeBSD PCs and a dsl router, all connected to a hub. The PCs (all pointing at the router as a gateway) have fixed IP address 192.168.10.1, 192.168.10.2, and 192.168.10.3 and the router 192.168.10.100. Now it happens that

Re: Creative Sound Blaster Audigy LS

2005-05-17 Thread Chuck Robey
Matt Crossley wrote: Fafa Hafiz Krantz wrote: That didn't really work :( Any other suggestions? Thanks. -- I'm using mine just fine... I didn't include mine in the kernel yet, I just tested with a kldload, in 5.4: kldload snd_emu10k1 from /var/log/messages: May 16 18:31:34 bsdmoose kernel: pcm0:

Re: Creative Sound Blaster Audigy LS

2005-05-17 Thread Chuck Robey
Ariff Abdullah wrote: Works like a charm. It used to be that I needed to compile the emu10kx drivers. Maybe if you included some more information, it would prove to be more useful. What is your dmesg saying when you boot up now? What did it say before? What happens with a kldload snd_emu10k1,

Re: POE networking, what's the range?

2006-10-07 Thread Chuck Robey
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... does anyone know the range of Power Over Ethernet? I want something to go from my house to my garage apartment then hook a wireless access point in to the POE box. The garage and the house are on their own power circuit but where the lines split is in between the

Re: Determine FreeBSD version of binary

2007-11-08 Thread Chuck Robey
John Smith wrote: I was wondering if it was possible to determine for what version of FreeBSD a binary was compiled, purely by examining the binary? As a suggestion, use the 'ldd' command to see what version of the libc is linked in with the binary. You didn['t mention if the binary was

Re: Ports problem

2007-11-09 Thread Chuck Robey
Adam J Richardson wrote: RW wrote: On Fri, 09 Nov 2007 13:39:28 + Adam J Richardson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Desmond Chapman wrote: /usr/X11R6 exists, but it is not a symlink. Installation cannot proceed. This looks like an incompletely removed old version of X. In the current version,

Re: Dangers of using a non-base shell

2007-11-09 Thread Chuck Robey
Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2007-11-09 18:55, Andrew Pantyukhin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 01:39:12PM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: I've been using the following for some time: keramida su - Password: root# exec env SHELL=/usr/local/bin/bash bash

ps options

2007-11-10 Thread Chuck Robey
I have spent all the time I can stand, going over the ps man page, but I can't see any option to get a hierarchical listing. I mean, where the listings are sorted to where parents come before children, and the children get indentation, so you can see at a glance what's running more easily.

Re: flash: linux firefox vs linuxpluginwrapper

2007-11-10 Thread Chuck Robey
Boris Samorodov wrote: On Fri, 9 Nov 2007 17:08:12 -0500 Philip M. Gollucci wrote: Philip M. Gollucci wrote: John wrote: I've been struggling to get a handle on the FreeBSD system. Making good progress, but then I ran into the fact that Firefox on FreeBSD can't do flash. Definite

Re: cups-base problem

2007-11-10 Thread Chuck Robey
Reko Turja wrote: Dear all, Today I saw a security notice: ..snip... cat distinfo MD5 (cups-1.3.3-source.tar.bz2) = d4911e68b6979d16bc7a55f68d16cc53 SHA256 (cups-1.3.3-source.tar.bz2) = 5e9e5670777055293e309cb0cbb2758df9c1275bf648df70478b7389c2d804de SIZE (cups-1.3.3-source.tar.bz2) =

Re: ' Openssl.cnf ' and ' .rand ' file

2007-11-10 Thread Chuck Robey
Girish Venkatachalam wrote: On 11:22:10 Nov 10, White Hat wrote: openssl 0.9.7e-p1 25 Oct 2004 I have not been able to find an answer to this question on Google, so I figured I had better ask it here. In the '/etc/ssl/openssl.cnf' file, there is an entry for: RANDFILE=

Re: ps options

2007-11-11 Thread Chuck Robey
Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Nov 10), Chuck Robey said: I have spent all the time I can stand, going over the ps man page, but I can't see any option to get a hierarchical listing. I mean, where the listings are sorted to where parents come before children, and the children get

Re: make configure vs first make

2007-11-11 Thread Chuck Robey
[LoN]Kamikaze wrote: Le Cocq Michel wrote: Matthew Seaman a écrit : That's because you need to do: make config which has a very different effect to 'make configure.' Matthew can you explain the != ? thanks Michel make configure runs the configure build stage if the port has

Re: One Laptop Per Child

2007-11-12 Thread Chuck Robey
Olivier Nicole wrote: I am usually not the one to bring up these things but I feel very strongly about this. Starting Monday, November 12 this website is offering a give one get one deal. I believe the money will be well invested. YMMV http://xogiving.org/ That is a difficult issue, while

Re: Ports with GUI configs

2007-11-12 Thread Chuck Robey
RW wrote: On Mon, 12 Nov 2007 08:14:02 -0800 Mark D. Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Vince wrote: Ashley Moran wrote: Hi I was just wondering, what is the motivation behind the GUI configuration for some ports? Simply put, they drive me up the wall. I've lost count of the number of

Re: [OFFTOPIC] Re: One Laptop Per Child

2007-11-12 Thread Chuck Robey
Pollywog wrote: On Monday 12 November 2007 19:06:28 Chuck Robey wrote: I wish it wasn't this way. Maybe it's just in the schools I visited? If so, anyone have a better experience? Until I hear of some, I won't contribute to any computers for kids deal, because it only benefits big computer

Re: Ports with GUI configs

2007-11-12 Thread Chuck Robey
Garrett Cooper wrote: If you want to see what it is, go look at recent postings on ports list. It'll probably get changed, as I get something for folks to look at and discuss. USE flags are a pain in the ass (former Gentoo user of 3 years). Introducing that type of complexity into a

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