Re: starting firefox3 with defined geometry

2012-01-10 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 10 Jan 2012 09:56:21 +0100, Matthias Apitz wrote: El día Tuesday, January 10, 2012 a las 09:25:54AM +0100, Polytropon escribió: Answer: Yes, but it's not as easy as it could have been. Unlike nearly every other X11 program, notably the old and outdated ones, Firefox does _not_

Re: BSD equivalent of GNU/Linux cp -rpu ?

2012-01-11 Thread Polytropon
something like rsync or pax ? Yes, rsync also sounds promising. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: upgrade from 8.2 to 9.0

2012-01-13 Thread Polytropon
reinstallation of all your ports with a complete procedure. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: access(FULLPATH, xxx);

2012-01-13 Thread Polytropon
directory. If faccessat() is passed the special value AT_FDCWD in the fd parameter, the current working directory is used and the behavior is identical to a call to access(). Also see SECURITY CONSIDERATIONS later on. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user

Re: disk problem(s)

2012-01-14 Thread Polytropon
EXT2_LINK_MAX 32000 is defined. Can you check if 32000 is the amount of directories created? -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: access(FULLPATH, xxx);

2012-01-14 Thread Polytropon
for me in this specific case), a simple test would reveal the truth of what will actually happen. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: disk problem(s)

2012-01-14 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 14 Jan 2012 09:22:36 +0100, Polytropon wrote: The mkdir() function can be found (for UFS2) in the file /usr/src/sys/gnu/fs/ext2fs/ext2_vnops.c at line (sources of 8.2-STABLE i386 here). If you examine what mkdir() does, you'll see that the too many links is true when LINK_MAX

Re: disk problem(s)

2012-01-14 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 14 Jan 2012 10:12:48 +0100, Bernt Hansson wrote: 2012-01-14 09:22, Polytropon skrev: How many subdirectories are there? ls | wc -l 32765 Seems that you have reached LINK_MAX of 32767 (according to /usr/src/sys/sys/syslimits.h). The difference of 2, I assume, is one

Re: access(FULLPATH, xxx);

2012-01-14 Thread Polytropon
: what if I use brackets instead? void *foo(int blah, void *meow[])(int ouch); Hmmm... :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: dot snap folder

2012-01-15 Thread Polytropon
be ``0770''. *** So unless you're currently running a dump -L session, you can delete that directory. Maybe you need to be member of operator or be root in order to do it due to access permissions described above. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe

Re: access(FULLPATH, xxx);

2012-01-15 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 16 Jan 2012 12:03:52 +1000, Da Rock wrote: On 01/14/12 22:06, Polytropon wrote: On Sat, 14 Jan 2012 20:37:14 +1000, Da Rock wrote: On 01/14/12 19:54, Robert Bonomi wrote: From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Sat Jan 14 02:32:15 2012 Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2012 09:28:21 +0100

Re: dot snap folder

2012-01-16 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 16 Jan 2012 05:32:11 -0600, ajtiM wrote: On Sunday 15 January 2012 23:54:52 Chip Camden wrote: Quoth Polytropon on Monday, 16 January 2012: On Sun, 15 Jan 2012 15:40:20 -0800, Jim Pazarena wrote: Is it permissible to delete the dot snap folder which is created in a filesystem

Re: dot snap folder

2012-01-16 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 16 Jan 2012 12:21:27 +, RW wrote: On Mon, 16 Jan 2012 12:59:59 +0100 Polytropon wrote: On Mon, 16 Jan 2012 05:32:11 -0600, ajtiM wrote: On Sunday 15 January 2012 23:54:52 Chip Camden wrote: Quoth Polytropon on Monday, 16 January 2012: On Sun, 15 Jan 2012 15:40:20

Re: Extract photo from digital camera that is not USB mass storage device

2012-01-19 Thread Polytropon
(and maybe delete) pictures from the camera. You can also automate this process (using devd) or use a GUI solution for it. I've been using Gtkam in the past for the task of selectively dealing with pictures. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: libjawt.so and libz.so.5

2012-01-20 Thread Polytropon
installed applications after system upgrade (unless you have installed the compat8x-i386-x.y.* port and _not_ installed any further applications). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd

Re: freebsd-update and src.txz

2012-01-20 Thread Polytropon
beginning in / should do the correct thing. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe

Re: kernel generic options

2012-01-22 Thread Polytropon
_port_ delivers the compatibility for libraries (versions and their calls) that have changed from v8 to v9. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: How to Research Availability of Print Drivers

2012-01-25 Thread Polytropon
provides PPD device descriptions that can be incorporated in CUPS which has become the de-facto standard for printing? -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: Unable to upgrade packages on FreeBSD

2012-01-30 Thread Polytropon
. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr

Re: Unable to upgrade packages on FreeBSD

2012-01-30 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 30 Jan 2012 18:40:50 -0500, David Jackson wrote: On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 5:49 PM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Mon, 30 Jan 2012 17:04:56 -0500, David Jackson wrote: I wish to use binary packages and I specifically do not want to compile anything, it tends to take far

Re: MFC 7840W under CUPS

2012-02-11 Thread Polytropon
. _which_ of them, and if not, with which unexpected results). If it does work, my suggestion would be to dump CUPS and use the system's default mechanism with a man made printer filter. It's very easy. Easier than dealing with the CUPS blackbox in my opinion... -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany

Re: MFC 7840W under CUPS

2012-02-17 Thread Polytropon
local port or IP address. All the parts needed for that task are already present (and have been for many years). Would be interesting to see how this develops. Thanks for sharing that info, sounds really good. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: how can i offload a 600m file without graphic tools?

2012-02-17 Thread Polytropon
. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr

Re: MFC 7840W under CUPS

2012-02-17 Thread Polytropon
it up (e. g. by FTP, NFS, CIFS/SMB), things would be easy as those mechanisms can be kept internally in the printer without requiring arbitrary drivers to make things work. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: Maildir Format

2012-02-17 Thread Polytropon
/mail). By the way, the suggestion of redirecting the system's mail output to a specific user account or external mail account removes the choice for a program for local use. So the user's default MUA (even if it's a web based solution) could be used. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD

Re: One or Four?

2012-02-17 Thread Polytropon
(including home) partitions plus one swap partition. [ ] user-defined Make your own partitioning selection manually. Of course, the default SIZES for second choice should be reasonable. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi

Re: One or Four?

2012-02-17 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 17 Feb 2012 15:11:52 -0800, Devin Teske wrote: -Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd- questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Jerry McAllister Sent: Friday, February 17, 2012 2:53 PM To: Polytropon Cc: david.robi

Re: /usr/home vs /home

2012-02-18 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 18 Feb 2012 13:16:39 +1000, Da Rock wrote: On 02/18/12 12:16, Daniel Staal wrote: --As of February 17, 2012 11:46:23 PM +0100, Polytropon is alleged to have said: Well, to be honest, I never liked the old style default with /home being part of /usr. As I mentioned before, _my_

Re: /usr/home vs /home (was: Re: One or Four?)

2012-02-18 Thread Polytropon
to drop the partition into several linices with a high level of functionally - depending on application versioning being close to in sync.) And I assume you still have /home pointing to the correct location on that new path? -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra

Re: /usr/home vs /home

2012-02-18 Thread Polytropon
. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions

Re: Hardware compatibility

2012-02-20 Thread Polytropon
be a problem. You could also _ask_ for how the FreeBSD support is, but don't expect any useful answers from an average salesperson. :-) Does it run FreeBSD? - Yes, you can click on the Internet with it, it's very shiny and comes with a wireless cable. =^_^= -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD

Re: CUPS 1.5.2 not working, like to test 1.4.x, how?

2012-02-20 Thread Polytropon
. You can use it to obtain older versions of a port. (I've been using it successfully to downgrade xzgv to a working version.) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions

Re: /usr/home vs /home

2012-02-21 Thread Polytropon
/wechselplatten.htm#cm5400 (Historical note: K1600 series minicomputers are basically PDPs.) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Hardware compatibility

2012-02-21 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 21 Feb 2012 10:45:05 +1000, Da Rock wrote: To the OP, check the pages Polytropon has linked here, but the chances of getting exactly that are nil to impossible. I've run about 6 or more laptops now without too much trouble. The biggest problems were wireless, but that was the bad

Re: Installation troubles

2012-02-22 Thread Polytropon
that doesn't run it). :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

Installing Samsung CLX-2160 color laser printer on USB using CUPS

2012-02-25 Thread Polytropon
then integrate that with /etc/printcap (as I do with my PCL HP Laserjet 4000d). I think it should be possible to code that similar to a parallel printer (with ulpt instead of lpt device specification for the lp= parameter... What am I doing wrong? :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user

Re: Installing Samsung CLX-2160 color laser printer on USB using CUPS

2012-02-25 Thread Polytropon
). :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions

Re: Installing Samsung CLX-2160 color laser printer on USB using CUPS

2012-02-25 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 25 Feb 2012 16:55:36 -0500, Jerry wrote: On Sat, 25 Feb 2012 22:14:33 +0100 Polytropon articulated: I have a problem installing a Samsung CLX-2160 color laser printer using CUPS. In the http://localhost:631 web-based configuration, none of the methods that are supposed

Re: Installing Samsung CLX-2160 color laser printer on USB using CUPS

2012-02-25 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 25 Feb 2012 23:07:36 +0100, C. P. Ghost wrote: On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 10:14 PM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: I have a problem installing a Samsung CLX-2160 color laser printer using CUPS. In the http://localhost:631 web-based configuration, none of the methods

Re: Installing Samsung CLX-2160 color laser printer on USB using CUPS

2012-02-26 Thread Polytropon
tools that seem to be easily capable of what the web-driven autodetected elastic-legged program magic of CUPS can't. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: Installing Samsung CLX-2160 color laser printer on USB using CUPS

2012-02-26 Thread Polytropon
output PS (which should be standard), but instead PCL or whatnot. JIC you haven't considered this yet... HIH :) Considered - yes, but I thought I would be able to avoid it and use the modern CUPS toolkit for something simple like printing. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user

Re: Installing Samsung CLX-2160 color laser printer on USB using CUPS

2012-02-27 Thread Polytropon
needed (as I'm happily wired here), but real networking is much better than this local fiddling with USB (so I can print to the color printer from all of my systems when it's _real_ networked, just as the HP Laserjet 4000d which even runs its own lpd server). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy

Re: FreeBsd Beginner

2012-02-28 Thread Polytropon
at VirtualBSD. http://www.virtualbsd.info/ It can easily be used without installation in a VirtualBox environment which should even be possible in Windows. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: Simple question about pkg_add ...

2012-02-28 Thread Polytropon
. It's a port. Extract the file and use it with the port infrastructure (i. e. make install). Seems that the instruction in man 4 upgt is just missing the proper terminology... -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: fixating USB Storage

2012-02-28 Thread Polytropon
to solve this issue? Label the drives and use labels instead of device names. Get some inspiration from Warren's excellent article here: http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/disksetup.html -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: Simple question about pkg_add ...

2012-02-28 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 29 Feb 2012 12:41:46 +1030, David Walker wrote: Hi Polytropon. I did have a look inside and I did pkg_add -v which gives enough information combined with my meagre knowledge to guess that it had something to do with source. A port (as you can find it inside the archive) is a recipe

Re: fixating USB Storage

2012-02-29 Thread Polytropon
explained in The FreeBSD Handbook at 20.7.1: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/geom-glabel.html (bottom of the page) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: THe number of cdrom in /dev

2012-03-01 Thread Polytropon
I don't lose them permenetly? Which OS version are you currently using? anyway if you've got an advisory or a fix for this and your not to annoyed please send it. Just provide a bit more information so your problem can be diagnosed. At the moment, I'm just guessing. :-) -- Polytropon

Re: port to package amd64 to i386

2012-03-05 Thread Polytropon
/etc/make.conf is used. Can the ports system be (ab)used in that way? I don't think it is that easy. :-( -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Still having trouble with package upgrades

2012-03-07 Thread Polytropon
their functionality. New kernel interfaces, changes in ABI or API, new libraries, as well as obsoleted things may be a valid (!) reason. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions

Re: Still having trouble with package upgrades

2012-03-07 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 7 Mar 2012 12:42:52 -0500, David Jackson wrote: On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 11:58 AM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: David, allow me to add a few thoughts: On Wed, 7 Mar 2012 11:28:47 -0500, David Jackson wrote: As for compile options, the solution is simple, compile in all

Re: Still having trouble with package upgrades

2012-03-07 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 7 Mar 2012 22:04:35 -0500, David Jackson wrote: On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 6:51 PM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Wed, 7 Mar 2012 12:05:37 -0500, David Jackson wrote: Many of your issues are non-issues, as your suggestions were implemented in some form long ago

Re: Suggestion

2012-03-09 Thread Polytropon
believe that imitating MICROS~1 technology is generally better? Or what is the reason? I'd be interested in learning more. For further trust, an OpenBSD psychotherapy is highly advised. ... I also run OpenBSD, so don't bash me for this comment. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user

Re: Suggestion

2012-03-11 Thread Polytropon
tried to FORMAT.EXE my toaster but it didn't work. It turned into a bread slicer instead. Maybe the toaster is too old and requires paper tape... :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: Mounting a samba share on boot?

2012-03-11 Thread Polytropon
. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr

Re: oops, now: bsd question: how to record a tv stream?

2012-03-11 Thread Polytropon
? Yes, it is. It's also illegal to listen to MP3 in the US. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: Can't install WindowMaker

2012-03-12 Thread Polytropon
is your top priority. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: Editor With NO Shell Access?

2012-03-12 Thread Polytropon
-loop-Bob:/home/bob:/usr/local/bin/joe could work (haven't tested that). A list of the files can be obtained when opening a file ^KE and pressing the Tab key. It would be worth testing if shell escapes like !command will work in this constellation... -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy

Re: Editor With NO Shell Access?

2012-03-12 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 12 Mar 2012 15:19:51 -0700, Edward M. wrote: On 03/12/2012 03:10 PM, Polytropon wrote: /etc/shells to work, but a passwd entry like bob:*:1234:1234:Two-loop-Bob:/home/bob:/usr/local/bin/joe I think this would not let the user to login,etc I'm not sure... I assume

Re: Editor With NO Shell Access?

2012-03-12 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 12 Mar 2012 16:34:18 -0700, Edward M. wrote: On 03/12/2012 03:47 PM, Edward M. wrote: On 03/12/2012 03:23 PM, Polytropon wrote: On Mon, 12 Mar 2012 15:19:51 -0700, Edward M. wrote: On 03/12/2012 03:10 PM, Polytropon wrote: /etc/shells to work, but a passwd entry like bob

Re: /usr/lib32 question

2012-03-13 Thread Polytropon
in that directory. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd

Re: lost+found dir placement

2012-03-13 Thread Polytropon
of lost data of the / partition correctly. Any comments before I file a PR request ? If this directory has been created by the installation process, I think you should. Maybe you verify the issue on the freebsd-fs@ list? -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra

Re: oops, now: bsd question: how to record a tv stream?

2012-03-13 Thread Polytropon
are something you'll hardly find on the modern web. But that doesn't mean you cannot turn streams into files. After all, the data _is_ trans- ferred to your computer. It's just a question to use the proper program. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe

Re: oops, now: bsd question: how to record a tv stream?

2012-03-13 Thread Polytropon
contains an example to record to file, which will implement the software video tape recoder functionality. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Making Music / Video folders on FreeBSD visible on HD TV

2012-03-14 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 14 Mar 2012 07:32:44 -0400, Carmel wrote: On Wed, 14 Mar 2012 11:45:36 +0100 Polytropon articulated: //* OFFLIST As you carried this on-list again, allow me to reply in public. I do not appreciate your lack of humour (see explaination at the end). On Wed, 14 Mar 2012 06:39:08

Re: satisfying package dependencies from installation DVD when building a port -- HOW?

2012-03-14 Thread Polytropon
hope you got some inspiration. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

Re: oops, now: bsd question: how to record a tv stream?

2012-03-14 Thread Polytropon
-questions@freebsd.org On 03/14/12 13:09, Polytropon wrote: On Tue, 13 Mar 2012 19:19:46 -0700, Gary Kline wrote: i have heard about the 848 or whatever cards for years. should i have my sister's technician add one? i understood everything but your last paragraph. please do send me

Re: Moved drives ...

2012-03-15 Thread Polytropon
not have to change your /etc/fstab at all. I'd have no problem with that ... except it's not given as an option during install as far as I can see. Is is _indirectly_ given: Start a shell, mount the drive and edit the file manually. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since

Re: Can't install WindowMaker

2012-03-15 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 15 Mar 2012 21:24:41 +0100, Sabine Baer wrote: On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 10:57:47PM +0100, Polytropon wrote: [...] Did you have the chance to try to compile it using only ports infrastructure? E. g. making sure the ports tree is up to date, and then # cd /usr/ports/x11

Re: Dualboot with Windows 7

2012-03-19 Thread Polytropon
incorrect partitioning. 2.6.5 Creating Partitions Using Disklabel http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-steps.html Refer to table 2-2: Partition Layout for First Disk. Boot manager and MBR handling are also covered in this chapter. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany

Re: Can't install WindowMaker

2012-03-19 Thread Polytropon
work. So, nun haben wir hier schönes Sprech-Mischmasch, mashed language so to say... :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Dualboot with Windows 7

2012-03-19 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 19 Mar 2012 08:29:22 +0100, David Demelier wrote: On 19/03/2012 07:28, Polytropon wrote: On Sun, 18 Mar 2012 23:05:58 +0100, David Demelier wrote: Hello, I try to create a dualboot with Windows 7, I set up partitions like that : ada0s1 - NTFS (windows recovery) ada0s2

Re: dbus, epiphany, rekonq

2012-03-19 Thread Polytropon
be. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions

Re: Convert mp3 to audio CD

2012-03-21 Thread Polytropon
# rm *.cdr audiocd.toc echo == exit 0 -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: dbus, epiphany, rekonq

2012-03-21 Thread Polytropon
in your /etc/rc.conf. See: http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/halfaq.html -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: Convert mp3 to audio CD

2012-03-21 Thread Polytropon
bit) and maybe require byte order reversal as well as stripping the WAV headers to record them as a music CD. It seems that some recording programs already contain this step. Refer to audio CD specifications for why pure WAV files don't make an audio CD. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy

Re: Convert mp3 to audio CD

2012-03-21 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 21 Mar 2012 07:25:11 -0400, Rod Person wrote: On Wed, 21 Mar 2012 12:16:24 +0100 Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Wed, 21 Mar 2012 07:07:40 -0400, Rod Person wrote: On Tue, 20 Mar 2012 23:10:16 -0400 Steve Bertrand steve.bertr...@gmail.com wrote: I know

Re: about change file mode

2012-03-22 Thread Polytropon
/fstab's options field to make it a default. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe

Re: Off-Topic: Computing for the Blind

2012-03-25 Thread Polytropon
abusing tools (e. g. Flash as a replacement for few lines of HTML). The tendency is that it's just getting worse and worse, sadly... I hope I could give you some inspiration on where to start further investigations. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi

Re: Off-Topic: Computing for the Blind

2012-03-26 Thread Polytropon
, or reading from a Braille output. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

Re: Vivaldi Tablet

2012-03-27 Thread Polytropon
(USB2) keyboard. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd

Re: Off-Topic: Computing for the Blind

2012-03-27 Thread Polytropon
the tools step into the background and let him just do his stuff. After all, it's unix which means one can expect certain behaviors regarding standard devices. As long as the devices play nice... :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: Vivaldi Tablet

2012-03-27 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 27 Mar 2012 19:48:34 -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 02:37:49AM +0200, Polytropon wrote: On Tue, 27 Mar 2012 17:21:45 -0700, Gary Kline wrote: how about the eee-701s? they are no mo' but used to have a 70% of full size keyboard. my eee-900A had All the std

Re: Vivaldi Tablet

2012-03-29 Thread Polytropon
your fingers aren't located at places where you are supposed to read something), and STILL keeping the regular touch interface (no real separation) available, intact and unbroken. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: Printer recommendation please

2012-03-30 Thread Polytropon
, and some splix gibberish using foo2qpdl to the (sadly USB connected) color printer. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: Printer recommendation please

2012-03-30 Thread Polytropon
stupidity. His educational result? He got a degree in computer science. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: Printer recommendation please

2012-03-31 Thread Polytropon
, but the typical solution is to replace them for few dollars. Note that this isn't something you'll notice in 2 - 5 years of use. You often need 10 or more years to find fail and trouble in a good printer. Good printer == office printer, as I said befire. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD

Re: Printer recommendation please

2012-04-01 Thread Polytropon
, so % lpr foo.c or % lpr bar.png can be issued directly, no need to create a PS stream by another application. You can easily add that filter to /etc/printcap's if= setting, add rm= with the IP or hostname of the printer, prepare the spool and it should work. -- Polytropon

Re: Printer recommendation please

2012-04-01 Thread Polytropon
(and follow-up drivers won't be provided). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: shutdown -p doesn't power-off USB

2012-04-01 Thread Polytropon
is an ASUS P5Q3 Deluxe. Also check its documentation, maybe USB power is mentioned? Any help appreciated in telling me how to turn off USB power with shutdown. I don't think this is any option in the OS. You should check this per hardware. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user

Re: Printer recommendation please

2012-04-02 Thread Polytropon
standard is very welcome, as long as it takes the chance to be a secure thing. Furthermore, there are means of encrypting print data. I leave the mastery of that matter up to the student. That's interesting, I'll investigate on that further. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD

Re: modem

2012-04-03 Thread Polytropon
for diagnosis purposes. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: Printer recommendation please

2012-04-03 Thread Polytropon
by an attacker who lives inside the printer. After all, I think social engineering based attacks will become much more popular than addressing printers. I do _not_ say to keep ignorant and carry on, but there are higher threats than the PDF-capable laser printer in room 101. :-) -- Polytropon

Re: Printer recommendation please

2012-04-03 Thread Polytropon
allow such mis-interpretation. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

Re: current pids per tty

2012-04-03 Thread Polytropon
this list of pids and ps to do the rest ... Or use pstree from ports. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: modem

2012-04-04 Thread Polytropon
already accomplish (with which results)? -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe

Re: Fast question abount EDITOR

2012-04-05 Thread Polytropon
a script as you initially did assume. :-( -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: define a default username for logging in

2012-04-07 Thread Polytropon
and nothing more, and use telnet instead of ssh in the ~/.login command. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: FreeBSD's backwards webdesign / corporate identity

2012-04-08 Thread Polytropon
there's nothing left to take away. Very good. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: FreeBSD losing market share?

2012-04-09 Thread Polytropon
. Are _currently_ doing, but they will sooner or later be out of fuel. Fuel is becoming more expensive as the available amount is limited. If you consider such things on the long run, you will surely have to admit that a short-time strategy (being cheap right now) does not pay. -- Polytropon Magdeburg

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