Python 2 and Python 3

2010-09-23 Thread J. Altman
Greetings... uname -a: FreeBSD whisperer.chthonixia.net 8.1-RELEASE-p1 FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE-p1 #0: Mon Sep 20 13:09:28 EDT 2010 r...@whisperer.chthonixia.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/WHISPERER amd64 I am interested in installing Python 3 to follow examples in a beginner's programming book. I found

Upgrading to 8.1; Perl; and libgcrypt

2010-07-28 Thread J. Altman
Greetings... I am looking at upgrading to 8.1 from 8.0 on an AMD64. As you know, Perl is now at 5.12 and requires a recursive dependency rebuild; and so does libgcrypt. This seems to be a rather extensive pair of updates. Perl, while (IIRC) it is in the base system, is being reported as

Re: Upgrading to 8.1; Perl; and libgcrypt

2010-07-28 Thread J. Altman
On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 06:00:25PM +0200, Roland Smith wrote: On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 03:20:27PM +, J. Altman wrote: Greetings... I am looking at upgrading to 8.1 from 8.0 on an AMD64. In case you're upgrading from source, do not forget to delete the archivers/xz port before doing

Re: Wireless cards

2010-05-26 Thread J. Altman
On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 09:37:12PM -0400, J. Altman wrote: So: what are people using these days? The WG311T is old. I've had no luck looking for a modern card using an Atheros chip. I don't care who makes it; whether it's Atheros or not; nor if it is PCI or PCI-X. I just want it to work

Wireless cards

2010-05-25 Thread J. Altman
Greetings... uname -a FreeBSD whisperer.chthonixia.net 8.0-RELEASE-p2 FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE-p2 #0: Sat May 15 11:47:55 EDT 2010 r...@whisperer.chthonixia.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/WHISPERER amd64 My Netgear WG311T, with an Atheros chipset, seems to be at its end. The box is about thirty feet from

Re: Seamonkey 2.0.4: crash crash crash post-update

2010-05-21 Thread J. Altman
The Cairo patch has remedied this for me. Thanks to the maintainer who patched; and Barbara, who reported the bug correctly. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

Seamonkey 2.0.4: crash crash crash post-update

2010-05-16 Thread J. Altman
Greetings... uname -a: FreeBSD whisperer.chthonixia.net 8.0-RELEASE-p2 FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE-p2 #0: Sat May 15 11:47:55 EDT 2010 r...@whisperer.chthonixia.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/WHISPERER amd64 This is a fresh build of world and updated ports. I have also deinstalled and reinstalled Seamonkey,

Re: Seamonkey 2.0.4: crash crash crash post-update

2010-05-16 Thread J. Altman
:02:34PM -0400, J. Altman wrote: Greetings... uname -a: FreeBSD whisperer.chthonixia.net 8.0-RELEASE-p2 FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE-p2 #0: Sat May 15 11:47:55 EDT 2010 r...@whisperer.chthonixia.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/WHISPERER amd64 This is a fresh build of world and updated ports. I have also