Re: In the spirit of Godwin's law - I propose Beastie's law

2007-11-27 Thread icantthinkofone
Andy Greenwood wrote: Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: -Original Message- From: Aryeh M. Friedman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 26, 2007 10:20 PM To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; FreeBSD chat Subject: Re: In the spirit of Godwin's law - I propose

Re: who wrote this

2007-11-26 Thread icantthinkofone
Oh, who the heck cares. The guy is dead and he's not going to hurt you so get a life people. If you ban Hitler then ban Stalin and Mussolini and let's go back another thousand years and dig up those graves, too. Move on! ___

Re: Website

2007-11-18 Thread icantthinkofone
Chris wrote: On Sun, 18 Nov 2007 16:34:56 + Frank Shute [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Nov 18, 2007 at 09:41:51AM -0600, Chris wrote: ... seems to be going bonkers?! -- Best regards, Chris Your post is a little short of information.

Re: FreeBSD cache memory allocation

2007-11-14 Thread icantthinkofone
Ivan Voras wrote: icantthinkofone wrote: Someone I can't stand said this about FreeBSD. Though I know C, I don't know anything about it and would love to respond. [QUOTE]The kernel is really lacking some features. They need a method to set precise type of memory cache but BSD doesn't

Re: FreeBSD cache memory allocation

2007-11-14 Thread icantthinkofone
Heiko Wundram (Beenic) wrote: Am Mittwoch, 14. November 2007 17:04:37 schrieb icantthinkofone: Ivan Voras wrote: icantthinkofone wrote: Someone I can't stand said this about FreeBSD. Though I know C, I don't know anything about it and would love to respond. [QUOTE]The kernel

FreeBSD cache memory allocation

2007-11-13 Thread icantthinkofone
Someone I can't stand said this about FreeBSD. Though I know C, I don't know anything about it and would love to respond. [QUOTE]The kernel is really lacking some features. They need a method to set precise type of memory cache but BSD doesn't provide way to specify memory cache. For that

Re: flash: linux firefox vs linuxpluginwrapper

2007-11-11 Thread icantthinkofone
Tino Engel wrote: icantthinkofone wrote: Philip M. Gollucci wrote: Philip M. Gollucci wrote: John wrote: I've been struggling to get a handle on the FreeBSD system. Making good progress, but then I ran into the fact that Firefox on FreeBSD can't do flash. Definite showstopper

Re: flash: linux firefox vs linuxpluginwrapper

2007-11-09 Thread icantthinkofone
Philip M. Gollucci wrote: Philip M. Gollucci wrote: John wrote: I've been struggling to get a handle on the FreeBSD system. Making good progress, but then I ran into the fact that Firefox on FreeBSD can't do flash. Definite showstopper, for me. Ok, then I tried to use the

Re: flash: linux firefox vs linuxpluginwrapper

2007-11-09 Thread icantthinkofone
Philip M. Gollucci wrote: Philip M. Gollucci wrote: John wrote: I've been struggling to get a handle on the FreeBSD system. Making good progress, but then I ran into the fact that Firefox on FreeBSD can't do flash. Definite showstopper, for me. Ok, then I tried to use the

Re: installing programs

2007-11-07 Thread icantthinkofone
Marc Fromm wrote: I am new to the linux-type OS environment. For about a week now I have tried to do a task which I first thought would be simple-install a program like firefox. I did sudo pkg_add -r firefox as explained in chapter 4 of the handbook and received the message: pkg_add:

Re: ok... what did i miss?

2007-11-04 Thread icantthinkofone
Jonathan Horne wrote: all my 6.2 computers say the correct time, but my 7.0 BETA-2 says an hour ahead (as in, it didnt make the DST change last night on its own). same timezone is selected on all computers. did i miss some setting to obey DST changes or something? thanks, I have the

Re: Writing Flash Driver

2007-10-24 Thread icantthinkofone
Svein Halvor Halvorsen wrote: icantthinkofone wrote: My naive question is, what is involved with creating an open source driver for flash for freebsd? Is it a legal issue? Or does it take more time than anyone has to give? Or is it just too difficult to do without help from Adobe

Re: Writing Flash Driver

2007-10-24 Thread icantthinkofone
Heiko Wundram (Beenic) wrote: Am Mittwoch, 24. Oktober 2007 14:47:56 schrieb icantthinkofone: Does that in any way answer the question? Yes, because gnash is an open-source (re)implementation of Flash Player, compatible with a large part of the Flash7 specification, so that you don't

Re: Writing Flash Driver

2007-10-24 Thread icantthinkofone
Benjamin M. A'Lee wrote: On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 07:47:56AM -0500, icantthinkofone wrote: Svein Halvor Halvorsen wrote: icantthinkofone wrote: My naive question is, what is involved with creating an open source driver for flash for freebsd? Is it a legal issue? Or does

Writing Flash Driver

2007-10-23 Thread icantthinkofone
My naive question is, what is involved with creating an open source driver for flash for freebsd? Is it a legal issue? Or does it take more time than anyone has to give? Or is it just too difficult to do without help from Adobe? ___

Re: Calling syscalls through int 0x80 documentation?

2007-10-18 Thread icantthinkofone
Yuri wrote: I guess I'd ask why you want to use syscall at all to just open a file? I thought you wanted to access some hardware and had no other way to do that. Derek, Opening a file is just an example. I want to be able to make any system call this way since my program for whatever

Re: USB Wi-Fi adapter question

2007-10-18 Thread icantthinkofone
Predrag Punosevac wrote: I was wondering if somebody can give me some information on Prism-family of USB Wi-Fi adapters. I have an old one US Robotics USR1120 which I am so far unable to get recognized by FreeBSD box. I have added if_wi_load=YES into my /boot/loader.conf rebooted but dmesg

Re: Mouse diagnostics tools?

2007-10-14 Thread icantthinkofone
Jim Stapleton wrote: I just got a microsoft wireless optical desktop 3000 (Microsoft Wireless Optical Mouse 2.0), and am running in FreeBSD 6.2/Xorg 7.2 I have tried the mouse on a Windows machine and it works fine. The keyboard works well on Windows and FreeBSD. The mouse, however, doesn't

Re: wyswyg editors for tex (was re: replacement for openoffice)

2007-10-09 Thread icantthinkofone
Frank Jahnke wrote: From what little experience I have with PS and *roff the idea of hacking inline embedded languages just for typesetting sounds stupid beyond belief You have to learn one of the troff macro packages. -ms is the easiest, but I agree that a wysiwyg document

Re: wyswyg editors for tex (was re: replacement for openoffice)

2007-10-09 Thread icantthinkofone
icantthinkofone wrote: Frank Jahnke wrote: From what little experience I have with PS and *roff the idea of hacking inline embedded languages just for typesetting sounds stupid beyond belief You have to learn one of the troff macro packages. -ms is the easiest, but I agree

Re: wyswyg editors for tex (was re: replacement for openoffice)

2007-10-09 Thread icantthinkofone
Frank Jahnke wrote: On Wed, 2007-10-10 at 01:33 +, Aryeh Friedman wrote: If you know neither and want to learn one well, choose TeX. I think the only place *roff is still is used is for man pages. Well, that's an overstatement. I still use it, and there is quite an

Re: good replacement for open office

2007-10-06 Thread icantthinkofone
Erich Dollansky wrote: Hi, do you really want the world to know what you are writing? icantthinkofone wrote: Frank Jahnke wrote: Why not use Google Docs? And ask NSA in case you need a backup? Erich ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: good replacement for open office

2007-10-06 Thread icantthinkofone
Chad Perrin wrote: On Sat, Oct 06, 2007 at 05:07:45PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote: nobody intelligent (or completely not caring about it) use any of big public mail/news/etc services. There are two separate concerns here. 1. General Privacy: If you're concerned with your documents

Re: good replacement for open office

2007-10-05 Thread icantthinkofone
Frank Jahnke wrote: what would be a good replacement(s) for most of it's functionality (word processing and spreadsheets are what matter to me) You really have to decide what you want to suite to do. Otherwise, your problem is underspecified. 1) Collaboration (complex). If you

Re: Problems with www.freebsd.org

2007-10-01 Thread icantthinkofone
Fernando ApesteguĂ­a wrote: Hi all, I'm having some problems with the FreeBSD site. Basically, when I type www.freebsd.org in the address bar in Firefox I can't access the web. I get always a timeout. The funny thing is that I can do ping and if I use the IP address I can access the main page,

Can't connecto to www.freebsd.org

2007-09-27 Thread icantthinkofone
I just found I am having this problem, too. I can access every other site I visit, both large and small. 'make fetchindex' no longer works, eg, it times out. As does 'fetch www.freebsd.org/docs' as suggested. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org