Re: Question about support for HP D1560 printer under FreeBSD

2009-04-10 Thread GESBBB
 From: Manish Jain invalid.poin...@gmail.com Hi, I am about to buy a new printer (my first one actually) and my retailer strongly recommends HP's D1560 printer (USB). I am running ghostscript8-8.62_5 under FreeBSD 7.1 and I can't see this model listed anywhere in apsfilter. So I

Re: Top Posting Mania [was Re: FreeBSD 7.O compiled code is very slow]

2009-02-19 Thread GESBBB
From: Ian Smith smi...@nimnet.asn.au [snip]   Woj, I'm really surprised that you, of all people, seem lately to have been converted to the Micro$oft Outlock-trained style of top-posting, including tail-quoting all sorts irrelevant and repeated trailers etc, after years of your (almost

Re: off topic: reporting attempts to access computers

2009-02-19 Thread GESBBB
From: Andrew Gould andrewlylego...@gmail.com What information should I send to an ab...@* address when reporting a break-in attempt? My logs show a dictionary attack of invalid user names against port 22.  I obtained an ab...@* email address using 'whois' and reported the beginning and

Problem with BASH and [ ! -t 0 ] test.

2009-02-18 Thread GESBBB
I am using this snippet of code in a bash script that is run via CRON.     snippet # See if we are running via CRON     if [ ! -t 0 ]   then # Use the BASH RANDOM function to generate a random number between 0 32767     RESTING=$((RANDOM/60))     sleep ${RESTING}     fi /snippet    

Re: Problem with BASH and [ ! -t 0 ] test.

2009-02-18 Thread GESBBB
From: Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk GESBBB wrote: | I am using this snippet of code in a bash script that is run via CRON. | | | | # See if we are running via CRON |    if [ ! -t 0 ] |      then | # Use the BASH RANDOM function to generate a random number between 0

Re: DragonFlyBSD mail agent

2009-01-09 Thread GESBBB
From: Gonzalo Nemmi gne...@gmail.com On Thursday 08 January 2009 12:08:55 pm Michel Talon wrote: Hello, would it not be interesting to have the DragonFlyBSD mail agent in FreeBSD? It is a very simple mail agent, like ssmtp, but with some more features: it can either deliver mail

Re: Update a package

2008-11-26 Thread GESBBB
From: Gary Hartl [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi all; Ok uber noob question here. I have gettext-0.14.5 installed from the package tree, I want to update to gettext-0.17_1 Is there a ways to do that with the pkg_add or some other command? I google'ed it and only found ways to update local

Re: changing from vista

2008-11-17 Thread GESBBB
From: Bruce Cran [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 17, 2008 8:35:02 AM Could you point out some of those strange-but-trendy features?  I tried Ubuntu for a while on my laptop and it more or less Just Works.  It boots up quickly, detects all my devices, has accelerated 3D etc. Now I

Re: root /etc/csh

2008-11-14 Thread GESBBB
From: Chad Perrin [EMAIL PROTECTED]   On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 02:14:07PM -0500, Jerry wrote: I usually just use: #!/usr/bin/env bash It seems to work on both Linux and FBSD. That does work -- as long as you have bash installed.  How portable do you want your script to be? The

Re: FreeBSD 7.1 - Status

2008-11-02 Thread GESBBB
From: David Naylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi, According to the Release Schedule for FreeBSD 7.1 it is a few months behind.  I know that FreeBSD 7.1 will not be released until it is working properly, and bug free however I am wondering what the hold ups are.  If someone could take the

Re: getting off mailing list

2008-09-22 Thread GESBBB
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii - Original Message From: chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Sent: Sunday, September 21, 2008 11:16:51 PM Subject: getting off mailing list Hi, HP! under my mailing address [EMAIL PROTECTED] I am