Re: My tribute to Dennis Ritchie

2011-10-20 Thread Michael M
On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 5:07 PM, Paul Schmehl pschmehl_li...@tx.rr.comwrote: # grep -ir Ritchie /usr/src/* /usr/src/bin/cat/cat.1:.An Dennis Ritchie /usr/src/contrib/ntp/util/**ansi2knr.1:ansi2knr \- convert ANSI C to Kernighan Ritchie C /usr/src/contrib/tcpdump/**print-rx.c: * Sigh.

Re: Dennis Ritchie has died. A suggestion

2011-10-17 Thread Michael M
On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 9:27 AM, Mihamina Rakotomandimby miham...@rktmb.org wrote: On 10/17/2011 10:08 AM, Alessandro Spinella wrote: On 10/14/11 18:22, Odhiambo Washington wrote: +1 FreeBSD-9 Codename Ritchie. agree_counter++; agreed. -- RMA.

Mount a ufs partition writable by group wheel?

2011-09-02 Thread Michael M
Is it possible to mount a ufs partition writable by group wheel? How would the fstab entry look? Thanks, Michael M ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: Mount a ufs partition writable by group wheel?

2011-09-02 Thread Michael M
Excuse my generic question, I should have asked: Can the group rw options for given partition destination be defined in fstab upon mount? Thanks, Michael M On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 2:02 PM, Robert Bonomi bon...@mail.r-bonomi.comwrote: From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Fri Sep 2 06:30

Re: Mount a ufs partition writable by group wheel?

2011-09-02 Thread Michael M
On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 4:31 PM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Fri, 2 Sep 2011 16:08:08 +0200, Michael M wrote: Excuse my generic question, I should have asked: Can the group rw options for given partition destination be defined in fstab upon mount? No. The access rights depend

Re: Flash Player

2007-02-02 Thread Michael M. Press
I am running firefox from the ports and have the following ports installed to try and make this work but it will not. flashplugin-mozilla-0.4.13 A GPL standalone Flash (TM) plugin for Mozilla web browser libflash-0.4.13_1 GPL Flash (TM) Library linux-flashplugin-7.0r69 Adobe Flash Player

Re: Firefox mess in Freebsd 6.1

2007-01-17 Thread Michael M. Press
The flash plugin works great with linux-firefox; but how do you get the java plugin to work with it? I don't know if there is a way to get a FreeBSD version of the Java plugin to work. If you have a Linux version of it sitting around: cd /usr/local/lib/linux-firefox/plugins ln -s

Re: Firefox mess in Freebsd 6.1

2007-01-17 Thread Michael M. Press
I need to try the Warren's method to see if that is going to help me, first of all I need to read man portupgrade to perform the upgrade from 6.1to 6.2 , as i am new into this freebsd world. The really easy way out is to install the linux-firefox port. If you do this, flash should just work.

Re: USB drive is a CDROM drive and is not writable

2007-01-08 Thread Michael M. Press
This sounds like a Smart drive - can you confirm? I plugged it into a Windows system and it also recognized a CD drive. In addition, it vomited out a few popup windows and started something in the system tray. This is so ingenious that I think it must be a 'smart' drive. An article from the

Re: Linux Kernel Drivers in Under FreeBSD

2007-01-08 Thread Michael M. Press
Is it possible to get Linux kernel drivers working under FreeBSD? If so, how? (Specifically Garmin_USB) I have never heard of anything that would allow a Linux binary driver to be loaded by FreeBSD, and I doubt it exists. Linux binary applications certainly can be run on FreeBSD, but not

USB drive is a CDROM drive and is not writable

2007-01-07 Thread Michael M. Press
I have a 2 gigabyte USB memory stick from made by PNY. When I plug it in, I get the following: umass0: vendor 0x0930 USB Flash Memory, rev 2.00/2.00, addr 2 da0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 da0: USB Flash Memory 6.50 Removable Direct Access SCSI-0 device da0: 40.000MB/s transfers da0:

Re: Linux distro with ports/package type system?

2006-05-16 Thread Michael M.
. -- Michael M. ++ Portland, OR ++ USA No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. --S. Jackson ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Dead tree documentation

2006-05-12 Thread Michael M.
it's really a substitute for trying to learn the basics of using and administering FreeBSD, but then that's probably not what it's trying to be. I hope it progresses and gets lots of support. -- Michael M. ++ Portland, OR ++ USA No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under

Re: Dead tree documentation

2006-05-12 Thread Michael M.
Kevin Kinsey wrote: Michael M. wrote: I've been using various Linux distros and OS X for a while now, and Windows before those, and am interested in trying out FreeBSD. Call me old fashioned, but as an engaged-but-non-technical user, I find it really useful to have at least some accompanying

Re: Dead tree documentation

2006-05-12 Thread Michael M.
anyway. -- Michael M. ++ Portland, OR ++ USA No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. --S. Jackson ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: Dead tree documentation

2006-05-12 Thread Michael M.
Chris Hill wrote: On Fri, 12 May 2006, Michael M. wrote: [snip] Any thoughts, advice, pointers? Anything I missed, especially any general UNIX books that might go well with one of the above? As for general un*x books that are not FreeBSD-specific, the single best one I've used

Re: mouse scroll up problem

2006-04-18 Thread Michael M.
marked as read because your mouse inadvertently lands on the header. -- Michael M. ++ Portland, OR ++ USA No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. --S. Jackson

Re: Installong screenshots

2006-03-25 Thread Michael M.
: http://www.freesbie.org/ -- Michael M. -- Portland, OR -- USA No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. -S. Jackson ___ freebsd-questions