Re: Bittorrent not in ports?

2004-06-18 Thread Danny Pansters
On Saturday 19 June 2004 03:38, Julian M. Mason wrote: ...is bittorrent really not in ports? my usual # cd /usr/ports ; make search name=bittorrent and # whereis bittorrent turned up nothing; nor did a wandering around /usr/ports/net. Do I have to actually go and get something myself?

Re: linux-realplay and esd

2004-06-21 Thread Danny Pansters
On Sunday 20 June 2004 12:04, grint wrote: Hello, I want use linux-realplay with esound, but when i try it i have some error. I search about it in google, and find that i must have libesd.so.0, but i have only libesd.so.2. I create symlink to libesd.so.0 from libesd.so.2. And now when i try

Re: Questions about Hauppauge WinTV 350

2004-06-23 Thread Danny Pansters
On Wednesday 23 June 2004 05:26, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: A number of software products use the Hauppauge WinTV 350 Personal Video Recorder (what a stupid name!). I've been planning to get one for some time, but here in Australia the prices are ridiculous (more than double what they are

Re: 2. Try Kernel compiling..makefile stops because of some warnings

2004-06-25 Thread Danny Pansters
On Saturday 26 June 2004 02:19, Bill Moran wrote: Karim Forsthofer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello I tried to compile a new kernel from my 5.1 bsd cd. 5.1 is an obsolete, experimental version. If you're new to FreeBSD, you should be using 4.10. If you want to experiment with the 5.x

Re: Newbie Upgrading 4.8 - 5.2, filesystem full

2004-02-10 Thread Danny Pansters
On Tuesday 10 February 2004 10:10, Richard Beyer wrote: Thanks Jez, Here's my df -h FilesystemSize Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad0s1a 126M 106M 9.4M92%/ /dev/ad0s1f 252M 9.6M 222M 4%/tmp /dev/ad0s1g72G 2.7G64G 4%/usr /dev/ad0s1e

Re: startup daemon as unpriviliged user

2004-02-14 Thread Danny Pansters
On Saturday 14 February 2004 01:47, Louis LeBlanc wrote: Hey everyone. Here's a general question for you. I have a FreeBSD 4.8 system that runs fetchmail for me as an unprivileged everyday userid. The problem is that the machine isn't on the most reliable powergrid one could hope for. So

Re: domain and email problems

2004-02-14 Thread Danny Pansters
On Saturday 14 February 2004 23:39, RYAN vAN GINNEIKEN wrote: Just wondering why when i send email to yahoo or lycos and probably hotmail too it always ends up in there bulk mail folder. This is a great inconvenience do i need to be on or off some sort of list or something. Any help would be

Re: TV card

2004-02-16 Thread Danny Pansters
On Monday 16 February 2004 16:15, Edd Barrett wrote: Can anyone suggest a decent tv card that will work under freebsd in the uk? Anything with a Brooktree card should work, see bktr(4), e.g. WinTV, Miro, and some others. I think also USB devices with a bktr chip work but I don't have one

Re: cvsupfile question

2004-02-25 Thread Danny Pansters
On Wednesday 25 February 2004 20:17, Shaun T. Erickson wrote: I installed 5.2 from ISOs, then wanted to keep it up to date with the latest security fixes and to keep my ports doc trees up to date as well. I tried the following cvsupfile, and got two thirds of what I wanted, so I must not

Re: Fetch unable to resolve.

2004-02-25 Thread Danny Pansters
On Thursday 26 February 2004 01:11, X-Istence wrote: Hello, I am having problems with fetch and ftp, being unable to resolve any DNS related matters. Like hostnames and stuff. However, nslookup, dig, and those tools still work just fine, i am wondering what the problem could be. See output

Re: Fetch unable to resolve.

2004-02-25 Thread Danny Pansters
On Thursday 26 February 2004 01:25, X-Istence wrote: Danny Pansters wrote: On Thursday 26 February 2004 01:11, X-Istence wrote: Hello, I am having problems with fetch and ftp, being unable to resolve any DNS related matters. Like hostnames and stuff. Reverse DNS not OK? Always tricky

Re: kernel compile error

2004-02-28 Thread Danny Pansters
On Sunday 29 February 2004 01:52, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Im kinda new at this and I was compiling my kernel on my Dell Inspiron600m running FreeBSD 5.2 RELEASE when I just remembered[after taking a nap] that I did #make buildkernel KERNCONF=GENERIC If you build your own kernel, you should

Re: kernel compile error

2004-02-28 Thread Danny Pansters
On Sunday 29 February 2004 01:39, Remko Lodder wrote: Hi dude, It's not harmfull to replay the whole process, The way i do it is go to the dir cd /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/ edit the GENERIC file, cd ../compile/GENERIC make clean make depend make make install the makes sure the next

Re: kernel compile error

2004-02-29 Thread Danny Pansters
[CC'd to -questions so that it gets archived] On Sunday 29 February 2004 04:56, you wrote: Never run make world literally. Run make buildworld, make kernel, make installworld, mergemaster. Or is it possible that my GENERIC file is wrong? Yes, you edited too much out. This is a FAQ:

Re: flashplugin-mozilla is marked as broken...?

2004-03-02 Thread Danny Pansters
On Tuesday 02 March 2004 09:46, Rob wrote: So can I thus combine: FreeBSD-mozilla + linux-flash-plugin ? No. Linux-mozilla plus linux-flashplugin OR (preferred if you ask me): FreeBSD-mozilla plus linux-flashplugin6 plus linuxpluginwrapper. They're all in /usr/ports/www. Do read the blurb

Re: How do I test for NO tcp flags being set, in ipfilter? (repost)

2004-03-02 Thread Danny Pansters
On Tuesday 02 March 2004 18:27, Shaun T. Erickson wrote: How do I test for NO tcp flags being set, in ipfilter? You can filter on TCP flags but seems to me what you really mean is how to check for no TCP options (nop) rather than no flags: 'with opt nop' is a syntax that should work. WRT

Re: 1 processor vs. 2

2004-03-03 Thread Danny Pansters
On Wednesday 03 March 2004 14:05, Stefan Cars wrote: Dual Xeon, 2.4 GHZ with 2GB of RAM or Xeon 3.0 GHZ with 2GB of RAM and RAID-1 on three disks or RAID-5 on three disks. RAID5 on 3 disks? That's useless. HTH, Dan ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing

Re: UPDATING 5.1-REL

2004-03-03 Thread Danny Pansters
On Wednesday 03 March 2004 11:13, Odhiambo Washington wrote: real memory  = 268410880 (255 MB) avail memory = 254259200 (242 MB) Random buildworld failures are almost always due to bad RAM. You said 512, well dmesg only shows half. Try first taking the sticks out and putting them back in,

Re: 1 processor vs. 2

2004-03-03 Thread Danny Pansters
(enough CCing, back to list only) On Wednesday 03 March 2004 22:36, Matthew Seaman wrote: On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 10:26:43PM +0100, Stefan Cars wrote: Okey, but if you would compare RAID-1 on two disks compared to RAID-5 on three disks then ? What would be the faster ? RAID1 is going to be

RAID1 vs RAID5 [ was Re: 1 processor vs. 2]

2004-03-03 Thread Danny Pansters
On Wednesday 03 March 2004 23:20, Reko Turja wrote: RAID-1 will be about 50% faster than RAID-5 doing reads regardless of size, and will also be *much* faster doing small writes-- by a factor of 4, perhaps. The abovementioned figures seem more like comparing RAID-0 (striping) to RAID-5

Re: ipfw rules

2004-03-03 Thread Danny Pansters
On Thursday 04 March 2004 01:42, RYAN vAN GINNEKEN wrote: I know this has probably been posted 1000's of times but i would like to set up a ipfw firewall i run many services on this machine. It acts as a gateway for my network APACHE web server 80/TCP and perhaps 443/TCP IMAP mail server

Re: burncd args

2004-03-11 Thread Danny Pansters
On Friday 12 March 2004 00:04, lee slaughter wrote: hi. i make a tar.gz backup file. isburncd -f /dev/acd1 data filename fixate the right syntax? is data the correct type? i cannot tell from burncd manpage. What you called filename should be the ISO (top of my head, I think the

Re: Failure At Build (?) Stage When Making Ports?

2004-03-11 Thread Danny Pansters
On Thursday 11 March 2004 20:52, Drew Tomlinson wrote: I'm trying to do things the smart way. I have two machines running 4.9. Instead of keeping a ports collection on both, I have and update the collection on one named blacklamb. Blacklamb runs Samba 2.2.8a_1. I created a samba share

Re: Kernel Questions

2004-03-11 Thread Danny Pansters
On Friday 12 March 2004 01:36, Uwe Doering wrote: Well, as far as the result is concerned, both methods are identical. However, if you use the step-by-step procedure the object files remain intact after a kernel build, or at least until you delete them deliberately. So if you then have to

Re: burncd args

2004-03-11 Thread Danny Pansters
On Friday 12 March 2004 02:52, you wrote: lee slaughter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Danny Pansters wrote: On Friday 12 March 2004 00:04, lee slaughter wrote: hi. i make a tar.gz backup file. isburncd -f /dev/acd1 data filename fixate the right syntax? is data the correct

Re: After xwindow is up.

2004-03-16 Thread Danny Pansters
[ should I have CC'd this to ports@ instead?] On Monday 15 March 2004 22:41, you wrote: hello everyone, Thanks for answers, Danny Wrote: For Flash you'll probably want to install www/linux-flashplugin6 and the www/linuxpluginwrapper ports. flashplugin6 has been installed fine,, but when

Re: cups Administration with Webinterfaces: - Device: Parallel Port missing

2004-03-26 Thread Danny Pansters
On Friday 26 March 2004 15:16, Christian Tanghe wrote: Hi, in brief: My system: FBSD 5.2 Current, Cups, Gimp-print and ghostscript from this days I want to add a locally connected Printer using the webinterface. In the dropdown menue Device apear different printer devices, e.g. LPD/LPR Host

Please don't bite again -- it gets worse and worse lately --- Re: Again: There must be a better way

2002-09-27 Thread Danny Pansters
Please, As a reader and sometimes off-list responder on our FreeBSD lists, all I can say is that they're useful, and that it is of course polluted by spam and pranksters subscribing the list to other lists and last but not least by trolls, but they are is still _very_ useful. Keep it that way

ATA disk ticking?

2002-09-29 Thread Danny Pansters
Please note: da=scsi, ad=ATA, Ok, I have replaced my power supply, and now my assumingly faulty SCSI drive seems to work again. I have 4 drives in my box, two identical barracuda's da0 and da1 and two IDE WD disks ad0 and ad1. It boots off ad0 now. Currently I have da0 and da1 mounted and

Quite OT, problems with AOpen DX34 Plus motherboard and disks being trashed

2002-10-02 Thread Danny Pansters
I thought, since I run FreeBSD on this particular server box, I might try posting here also. Sorry about length of post but it still doesn't have all info I could deliver as it is. As posted on motherboard.org forum: -- Hi. I could really use some advice here. The mobo has two PIII-800s,

Re: missing /dev/bktr etc on FreeBSD-5.3-STABLE

2005-01-24 Thread Danny Pansters
On Tuesday 25 January 2005 02:34, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm trying to make my TV-card work on my box, using FBSD-5.3-STABLE. For this I put the following lines in my Kernel config. file: devicebktr deviceiicbus deviceiicbb

Re: fdisk/bsdlabel: cannot write to disk

2005-01-25 Thread Danny Pansters
On Tuesday 25 January 2005 08:51, Norbert Koch wrote: Hello. I am rather new to FBSD5.3. I did a custom install leaving some room on my (ata) hard disks. Later I decided to create a separate /usr/obj partition. I started /stand/sysinstall and tried to create a new slice and a new

Re: ssh default security risc

2005-02-03 Thread Danny Pansters
On Friday 4 February 2005 02:59, Gert Cuykens wrote: the engine to start. Enabeling the ssh root is like having the remote car key that opens every door at once so you can get in to kick his butt :) You're overseeing one crucial thing. The attacker isn't really interested in any user account

Re: mplayer vs xine

2005-02-06 Thread Danny Pansters
On Saturday 5 February 2005 02:50, Rob wrote: Jacob S wrote: I like mplayer for cli stuff and xine for gui. Mainly because the cli stuff I do is downloading and converting streams from wma/rm to wav/ogg/mp3, etc. and I use the gui for watching videos and such. How do you convert

Re: mplayer vs xine

2005-02-06 Thread Danny Pansters
On Monday 7 February 2005 04:39, Gert Cuykens wrote: I installed them both and mplayer definitely rules it works excellent with the oss driver and i can setup my surround exactly as i want directing channels and it doesnt crashes playing a mp3 file :) And with Real Media codecs? Dan

How to package up (all) installed ports

2005-02-17 Thread Danny Pansters
What would be a good way to create binary packages of all/most of my currently installed ports (without rebuilding as make package does)? I want to move my entire setup to another disk (array) and like to get rid of any acumulated junk in the process so best would be to get packages from my

Re: Recomendations for Video Capture Cards

2005-02-17 Thread Danny Pansters
Since no one else seems to have replied... On Wednesday 16 February 2005 22:36, Jasvinder S. Bahra wrote: Hi all, I've recently had a PC become available, and I would like to set it up as a kind of video recorder. I would like to purchase a card of some sort that would allow me to connect

Re: Recomendations for Video Capture Cards

2005-02-17 Thread Danny Pansters
Forgot one thing... I would like to purchase a card of some sort that would allow me to connect the PC to my TV, and record television programmes on the hard-drive. The Most normal VGA cards now have a TV outlet, you could use that while playing the video full screen in X or SVGA. Never done

Re: How to package up (all) installed ports

2005-02-17 Thread Danny Pansters
On Friday 18 February 2005 02:17, you wrote: #!/bin/sh # Shell script to create packages of all the ports installed in the system. # Usage: 'sh package-ports.sh' # Will create the packages in the current directory. PORTS=`pkg_info | awk '{print $1}'` # Filter the description.

Re: STB2 BT878 - sound works under Windows XP and btwincap, doesn't with bktr

2005-03-06 Thread Danny Pansters
On Monday 7 March 2005 02:35, tweek wrote: I have an STB2 bt878 card, purchased for $12 on eBay. It works great under XP with btwincap, with or without an analog audio cable that runs from the card to my soundcard. In FreeBSD with a kernel compiled with bktr support, I can see video clearly

Re: wow ! 5.3 - 5.4 -

2005-03-20 Thread Danny Pansters
On Sunday 20 March 2005 23:19, Alex D'Elia wrote: Hello dear people @ freebsd something wonderfull ( at least in my case ) happened since the last update of the base system on a sony vaio laptop ( CPU: Intel Pentium III (694.84-MHz 686-class CPU) ) before, when the machine was compiling, it

Re: sFTP nologin

2005-03-25 Thread Danny Pansters
I experimented with this quite a while ago (~ 2001) and don't remember all the details, but I used scponly and had to prevent the Welcome to FreeBSD... text from being shown. That was the message too long problem IIRC. It worked with at least WinSCP and gFTP as clients. You could also consider

Re: Recommendations for All-in-One device?

2005-03-26 Thread Danny Pansters
On Saturday 19 March 2005 13:29, Brian J. McGovern wrote: I'm currently in the market for an All-in-One device for the home network, mostly for the fax functionality (it'll be replacing an Canon scanner and Okidata 810e laser printer). Before anyone suggests their favorite FreeBSD Fax

Re: Recommendations for All-in-One device?

2005-03-26 Thread Danny Pansters
s/gphoto/sane/ Duh :) On Sunday 27 March 2005 00:53, Danny Pansters wrote: On Saturday 19 March 2005 13:29, Brian J. McGovern wrote: I'm currently in the market for an All-in-One device for the home network, mostly for the fax functionality (it'll be replacing an Canon scanner and Okidata

How to get send-pr/porttools working when on a cable (dsl) provider link

2005-03-27 Thread Danny Pansters
Hi all, Just migrated all my stuff to a new machine and having troubles sending any mail to the freebsd lists and inparticular with send-pr. I have a cable modem connected to my gateway which connects to a gbit switch through which the other pcs connect. The cable provider uses dhcp. I get my

Fwd: How to get send-pr/porttools working when on a cable (dsl) provider link

2005-03-27 Thread Danny Pansters
:00:22 +0200 Received: from cp464173-a.dbsch1.nb.home.nl ([84.27.215.228]:57289 helo=desktop.homenet) by smtp4.home.nl with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1DFkUH-0006my-4v; Mon, 28 Mar 2005 05:00:21 +0200 Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Danny Pansters [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL

Re: How to get send-pr/porttools working when on a cable (dsl)provider link -- Thanks

2005-03-28 Thread Danny Pansters
On Monday 28 March 2005 17:25, you wrote: On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 10:49:47 +0200 Florent Thoumie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Danny Pansters a écrit : I already set my isp's smtp as smart relay in freensd.mc and did make, but now my FQDN hostname is not considered cosher (helo)... its

Re: How to get send-pr/porttools working when on a cable (dsl)provider link -- Thanks

2005-03-28 Thread Danny Pansters
One more remark (for the archives): if using mailwrapper, change /etc/mail/mailer.conf to have /usr/local/sbin/ssmtp as the sendmail (and other) program. Then restart /etc/rc.d/sendmail Dan On Tuesday 29 March 2005 00:56, Danny Pansters wrote: On Monday 28 March 2005 17:25, you wrote

Re: Max files in unix folder from PIL process

2005-03-28 Thread Danny Pansters
On Tuesday 29 March 2005 03:25, David Pratt wrote: Hi. I am creating a python application that uses PIL to generate thumbnails and sized images. It is beginning to look the volume of images will be large. This has got me to thinking. Is there a number that Unix can handle in a single

Meaning of repo-copy

2005-03-29 Thread Danny Pansters
Quick question: Repo copy means that a current port or piece of src is being renamed, probably with other changes or a split-out of parts that become new ports or contribs. Should be seen in the context of CVS. Do I grasp this correctly? Thanks, Dan

Re: FW: dmesg -a lines' explanation? NEWBIE

2005-03-29 Thread Danny Pansters
/etc/devfs.conf:permxpt00666#permissions are set properly at boot ... which is still largely un-intelligible to me, at the moment. and which co-incides, oddly enough, with the moment at which i have to leave for work! dang! so i'll have to take another google around, later

Windows question :) SFU, nfsclient

2005-03-29 Thread Danny Pansters
My partner uses a winxp box on my local net (behind a FreeBSD box who acts as gateway/firewall in front of out gbit switch). Now, we were wanting to upgrade the gateway box with two gigabit NICs and we did but the hard disk died (oh well it was 6 years old as is the box and mobo). I made a new

Re: Meaning of repo-copy

2005-03-29 Thread Danny Pansters
On Wednesday 30 March 2005 04:11, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Danny Pansters [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Quick question: Repo copy means that a current port or piece of src is being renamed, probably with other changes or a split-out of parts that become new ports or contribs. Should be seen

Re: x server

2005-03-29 Thread Danny Pansters
On Wednesday 30 March 2005 04:42, Gert Cuykens wrote: Why does x server always use a avarage of 1% cpu time while i am doing nothing ? Everything els is 0% except x and enlightenment ? Probably the load of showing content or waiting for input, and the like. X is big. It also uses a lot (if

Re: How to find needed modules for rebuilding kernel

2005-03-31 Thread Danny Pansters
On Thursday 31 March 2005 19:43, Pat Maddox wrote: In rebuilding a kernel, how do you know exactly what modules you need? The Handbook is a good start, and a lot of them are obvious (i.e. if I have no SCSI disks, disable all SCSI modules). Others aren't so easy, particularly serial devices,

Re: How to find needed modules for rebuilding kernel

2005-03-31 Thread Danny Pansters
On Friday 01 April 2005 00:45, Pat Maddox wrote: Thanks for the info. My terminology is off...apparently what I really meant is I'm wondering what drivers I need to compile into the kernel. I've done what you've suggested - removed SCSI support, all of the NIC drivers besides the one I need,

Re: ipmon logging

2005-04-01 Thread Danny Pansters
On Friday 01 April 2005 20:50, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: According to every website I've read so far ipmon uses local0 as the facility name. However, on my FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE-p5 box, it logs to the security facility. The man page (in both 5.2.1 and 5.3) for ipmon, with -s for logging to

Re: FW: dmesg -a lines' explanation? NEWBIE

2005-04-01 Thread Danny Pansters
On Friday 01 April 2005 05:39, David Armour wrote: hello Danny, thanks for your help, and sorry for the delay getting back to you. /etc/devfs.conf:permxpt00666#permissions are set properly at boot ... i'll have to take another google around, later perm means

Re: can i delete /stand ?

2005-04-02 Thread Danny Pansters
snip I am not tampering with it i am modifying it :) You learn allot, just close your eyes sroll trough the / directory and when you say stop open your eyes again and try to move or delete the file. The difference between a good and a bad os is the good one let you get away with it

Re: can i delete /stand ?

2005-04-02 Thread Danny Pansters
On Saturday 02 April 2005 22:24, Chris wrote: Are we to assume you are joking? Yes. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: can i delete /stand ?

2005-04-02 Thread Danny Pansters
On Saturday 02 April 2005 23:19, dick hoogendijk wrote: On Sat, 02 Apr 2005 23:13:11 +0200 Erik Nørgaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Some people like sysinstall as a postconfiguration tool, and documen- tation refers to this. But you can run it from /usr/sbin/sysinstall I can't. Nor have I

Re: ipflog entries?

2005-04-04 Thread Danny Pansters
On Tuesday 05 April 2005 00:05, Robert Marella wrote: Greetings My daily mail on my firewall (5.3-rel-p4) has always shown many ( 1) blocks by my blocking rule block in quick on em0 from 10.0.0.0/8 to any. Obviously I'm using ipf/ipnat. So, for education, today I enabled log for a

Re: freebsd disc 1

2005-04-04 Thread Danny Pansters
On Tuesday 05 April 2005 00:46, Gert Cuykens wrote: On Apr 4, 2005 9:54 PM, Andrew P. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gert Cuykens wrote: On Apr 4, 2005 12:04 PM, Andrew P. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gert Cuykens wrote: Who do i ask if he / she would like to put this to the distribution list

Temperature and fan speed on INTEL D925CV2

2005-04-04 Thread Danny Pansters
I have an INTEL D925CV2 baord in my new box. Does anyone know if/how I can get temperature - fan speed - other measurements from it? (No, lmmon does not work) Thanks, Dan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: /etc and /usr/local/etc directories

2004-08-12 Thread Danny Pansters
Chipping in here, because although the answers are (of course!) correct it may clarify a bit... On Friday 13 August 2004 02:40, Bill Moran wrote: Joshua Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have decided to take the plunge and try out 5.2.1. I figure it will be 5.3 soon and I like the idea of

Re: Sound driver

2005-10-23 Thread Danny Pansters
On Sunday 23 October 2005 16:26, Teilhard Knight wrote: As far as I can see, the only thing present in my system to make audio adjustments is Kmix. Very simple compared to Alsamixer in Mandriva. It does not have any sort of balance or individual controls for left and right channels, but for

Re: New Logo

2005-11-01 Thread Danny Pansters
On Tuesday 1 November 2005 19:39, stan wrote: YUK! OK I will honestly tell you my first reaction: I laughed until I fell off my chair. Then I put my hand in front of my mouth and whispered OMG. Now the question is who's going to be the first to have the guts to shelve it again, cause

Re: New Logo

2005-11-01 Thread Danny Pansters
On Tuesday 1 November 2005 22:22, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: On Nov 1, 2005, at 3:15 PM, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: Of course not. You got what you deserved though so shut the hell up. Ted, you need to shut the hell up. FreeBSD is not your project and It's not yours either. That's no

Re: New Logo

2005-11-01 Thread Danny Pansters
On Tuesday 1 November 2005 23:20, virgil huston wrote: On 11/1/05, Danny Pansters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 1 November 2005 19:39, stan wrote: YUK! OK I will honestly tell you my first reaction: I laughed until I fell off my chair. Then I put my hand in front of my

Re: New Logo

2005-11-01 Thread Danny Pansters
summary below On Tuesday 1 November 2005 23:47, you wrote: Ted, you need to shut the hell up. FreeBSD is not your project and It's not yours either. And I am not trying to argue and make claims about how inexcusable it is either. I merely pointed out to Ted that he is not in the

Re: New Logo

2005-11-01 Thread Danny Pansters
On Wednesday 2 November 2005 00:40, you wrote: On Nov 1, 2005, at 5:53 PM, Danny Pansters wrote: I personally find the new logo stupid, I think beastie is a great mascot, and we need a new logo for FreeBSD. But bitching and complaining and telling people to shut the hell up is not the way

Re: New Logo

2005-11-01 Thread Danny Pansters
On Wednesday 2 November 2005 01:27, Steve Bertrand wrote: -- snip -- That's correct, but we should recall that this is a mailing list to ask technical questions, not discuss logos or flame people. Discuss logos on the advocacy@ list; don't flame people on any list. I don't post here

Re: New Logo

2005-11-01 Thread Danny Pansters
On Wednesday 2 November 2005 01:34, Steve Bertrand wrote: I understand the frustration and anger here, but let's please think of I don't have any frustration or anger. I just state my opinion. I'm glad you value it highly. the newbies (people who are just joining in, lurkers if you will) who

Re: Please stop off-topic postings (was: New Logo)

2005-11-01 Thread Danny Pansters
On Wednesday 2 November 2005 02:05, you wrote: This mailing list is for technical questions, not discussions. Yes, I'll stop discussing, but once a discussion has started it's not fair to kill it by merely stating that this is not a discussion mailing list on -questions (while it fact it very

Re: New Logo

2005-11-01 Thread Danny Pansters
Crist On Nov 1, 2005, at 5:47 PM, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: On Nov 1, 2005, at 5:16 PM, Danny Pansters wrote: On Tuesday 1 November 2005 22:22, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: On Nov 1, 2005, at 3:15 PM, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: Of course not. You got what you deserved though so

Re: portssystem stale dependencies

2005-11-19 Thread Danny Pansters
On Saturday 19 November 2005 10:37, Philip Lykke Carlsen wrote: .. does anyone know why the problem of stale dependencies in the package system occurs?.. it's just.. the system won't let you install any given port/package without having met all the dependencies.. just how does it _forget_ that

Re: Problem with printing-scanning..combo..

2005-12-03 Thread Danny Pansters
You probably want these (both are from HP ported from Linux): /usr/ports/print/hpijs /usr/ports/graphics/hpoj The first has the foomatic drivers for optimal printing, the second includes scanning support. It's very well documented, our HP photosmart 2610 prints and scans fine from kde using

Re: print question: cups and lpr

2006-03-07 Thread Danny Pansters
On Tuesday 7 March 2006 08:21, Gary Kline wrote: On my test system I'm defaulting to cups; printing on any flavor of *nix has always been painful ... which is why I stick with plain ol' lpr::: it Just-Works{tm}. So on my printserver and everywhere else I have

Re: print question: cups and lpr

2006-03-07 Thread Danny Pansters
On Tuesday 7 March 2006 17:44, Gary Kline wrote: On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 11:33:02AM +, Danny Pansters wrote: On Tuesday 7 March 2006 08:21, Gary Kline wrote: On my test system I'm defaulting to cups; printing on any flavor of *nix has always been painful ... which

Re: BSD License Innocence Clause Proposal

2006-03-19 Thread Danny Pansters
On Sunday 19 March 2006 23:16, Andrew Pantyukhin wrote: I'm not sure if I should start advocating the idea here. Some people must've had this thought before I ever did, I hope they will support me. We need a special clause in the license we release our work under. I'm not a lawyer, but I

Re: BSD License Innocence Clause Proposal

2006-03-22 Thread Danny Pansters
On Wednesday 22 March 2006 17:57, you wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Danny Pansters Sent: Sunday, March 19, 2006 2:57 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BSD License Innocence Clause Proposal On Sunday 19 March

Re: BSD License Innocence Clause Proposal

2006-03-22 Thread Danny Pansters
Sorry, forgot this part.. On Wednesday 22 March 2006 17:57, you wrote: Nope. The real BSD license gives copyrights to the University of California, Berkeley. Mainly for historical reasons because BSD originated from there, but there is a legal reason also. You see, if I Ted Mittelstaedt

Re: HP OfficeJet 4215 Scanner question

2006-03-30 Thread Danny Pansters
On Friday 31 March 2006 02:45, M. Warner Losh wrote: [[ please CC me on any reply, I'm not on this list ]] Greetings, I was wondering if anybody had any luck getting an HP OfficeJet 4125 working on FreeBSD. I plugged it into my 6.1-beta4 system, and it was recognized as a printer.

Re: reconfiguring a package

2006-04-02 Thread Danny Pansters
On Sunday 02 April 2006 22:23, Luiz Eduardo Guida Valmont wrote: I'm sorry if this is one of those rtfm cases, but I've exhausted my options so far (except asking for help here ^^). When you make install a package, for some the first thing you get is a screen where you choose some

Re: TV Tuner viewing software suggestions

2006-04-16 Thread Danny Pansters
On Sunday 16 April 2006 14:39, Jim Stapleton wrote: I'm trying to use my TV Tuner (A Leadtek Brooktree chipset tuner), and I have gotten FXTV to work great with one exception: It appears to only work in something that looks to be about 320x240, when I go fullscreen or anything larger than what

Re: Firefox::::: ugh.

2006-04-24 Thread Danny Pansters
On Tuesday 25 April 2006 02:35, Gary Kline wrote: If firefox is supposedly superior to every other browser, why, when it sees a realplayer smil file, does it pop up a rectangle with radio-button options and a BROWSE button? I press BROWSE and another frame opens. I

Re: scripting languages...

2006-04-27 Thread Danny Pansters
To get back to the original question, I think there's one crucial part: libraries. Or modules, or function sets or whatever they're called in [ pick language ] sphere. It's the extra stuff that you can easily add or import which makes a language worth while, whether it's interpreted or not.

Re: GUI mail client recommendations ...

2006-05-07 Thread Danny Pansters
On Sunday 07 May 2006 03:29, Marc G. Fournier wrote: On Sun, 7 May 2006, Ian Moore wrote: On Sunday 07 May 2006 09:10, Marc G. Fournier wrote: I've been using pine *forever* now and am finding it really hard to find a good GUI to replace it :( Tried kmail, didn't like it ... Off the

Re: mencoder/mplayer slower on freebsd 6.0-amd64

2006-01-18 Thread Danny Pansters
On Thursday 19 January 2006 00:28, Tsu-Fan Cheng wrote: Hi, I don't know if this is related, but I noticed that, when I run mkxvcd under amd64, it takes longer time to finish a movie conversion. I didn't do a side-by-side comparison between amd64 and i386 system, but usually a job will

Re: atapicam load question

2006-01-21 Thread Danny Pansters
On Saturday 21 January 2006 14:26, Fabian Keil wrote: dick hoogendijk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I kldload atapicam the permissions in /etc/devfs.conf for cd0 are _not_ honored. (I want cd0 to have 0666) When I put atapicam_load=YES in /boot/loader.conf the permissions are set the way

Re: Setting up a microphone

2006-01-24 Thread Danny Pansters
mixer recsrc must be mic, do you have that? Dan On Tuesday 24 January 2006 17:35, Keith Beattie wrote: On 01/24/06 07:11, uidzero wrote: It's worked flawlessly for me after I add recompiled the kernel with sound support. (I use Skype as well.) Thanks and glad to hear that Skype is

Re: Building an older version/port of SWIG

2006-02-26 Thread Danny Pansters
On Monday 27 February 2006 01:20, David Pratt wrote: Hi. I am trying to build an older version of SWIG that the current version in ports. Current version on ports is 1.3.27 but I am needing to install 1.3.24 due to a problem with 1.3.27 with other software I will be compliling. It is possible

Re: sysctl meanings.

2004-09-16 Thread Danny Pansters
On Friday 17 September 2004 00:51, Lewis Thompson wrote: Hi, I wonder if there is a comprehensive list of what many of the sysctl values are, both in terms of what the node (by this I mean, say, hw.acpi.verbose) means, and what the values would mean/do? I don't think there is. At the very

[FYI] QT4 licensing looks very bad for *BSD

2005-06-29 Thread Danny Pansters
Folks, I don't want to scare anyone but today QT4 was released and their web page (http://www.trolltech.com/download/opensource.html) specifically states several times that if using the free version one is required to release their own code under GPL. That's effectively a requirement to

Re: [FYI] QT4 licensing looks very bad for *BSD

2005-06-29 Thread Danny Pansters
Hey Chuck, thanks for answering. On Wednesday 29 June 2005 16:47, Chuck Swiger wrote: Danny Pansters wrote: I don't want to scare anyone but today QT4 was released and their web page (http://www.trolltech.com/download/opensource.html) specifically states several times that if using

Re: [FYI] QT4 licensing looks very bad for *BSD

2005-06-30 Thread Danny Pansters
don't think I got abusive or impolite at any point. If anything I'm directly pointing out where problems may/will arise (after re-reading I thought there's nothing wrong copying it to the list): - LIcensing of new QT4 From: Danny Pansters [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL

Re: [FYI] QT4 licensing looks very bad for *BSD

2005-06-30 Thread Danny Pansters
Sorry for top posting... The crucial words are: under the terms of this License. The confusion is due to contradictions in the License. Which are theirs. And it's very disputed as in might be void. What GPL quotes can be used (remember it's a license not a law, BTW) for the case when I use

Re: [FYI] QT4 licensing looks very bad for *BSD

2005-07-01 Thread Danny Pansters
On Friday 1 July 2005 07:32, Josh Ockert wrote: On 6/30/05, Danny Pansters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry for top posting... The crucial words are: under the terms of this License. The confusion is due to contradictions in the License. Which are theirs. And it's very disputed

Re: Linux move to FreeBSD

2005-07-03 Thread Danny Pansters
On Sunday 3 July 2005 23:02, Dmitry Mityugov wrote: On 7/3/05, Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... It truly boggles the mind at how frequently people protest the on-going decision to use beastie on the public face of FreeBSD. It's almost like a guest who comes into your home and then

Re: Linux move to FreeBSD

2005-07-03 Thread Danny Pansters
On Sunday 3 July 2005 23:02, Dmitry Mityugov wrote: On 7/3/05, Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... It truly boggles the mind at how frequently people protest the on-going decision to use beastie on the public face of FreeBSD. It's almost like a guest who comes into your home and then

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