[slightly OT] Hi BSD -

2013-04-07 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2013-04-07 at 18:13 -0400, Rod Person wrote: > On 04/07/13 15:34, Lynn Steven Killingsworth wrote: > > Hi BSD - > > > > I know on my websites that more worrisome than someone caught reading > > my poetry as their own is that they have told something is mine that > > is not. > > > > I was th

Re: Book recommendations (slightly OT)

2011-07-27 Thread Brandon Gooch
On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 2:57 PM, Mark Moellering wrote: > I want to automate some tasks, creating directories, file editing, etc.  I > was going to pick up a book on shell scripting but wanted to ask the list > if; > A) I am barking up the wrong tree and should use something else. > B) If I am hea

Re: Book recommendations (slightly OT)

2011-07-27 Thread Chad Perrin
In the following, I cut out anything not needed as context for my response. Where I cut something out, you should assume that I agree with what Matthew Seaman wrote, and have nothing in particular to add to it at this time. The only possible exception is the specific list of resources he suggeste

Re: Book recommendations (slightly OT)

2011-07-27 Thread doug
On Tue, 26 Jul 2011, Mark Moellering wrote: I want to automate some tasks, creating directories, file editing, etc. I was going to pick up a book on shell scripting but wanted to ask the list if; A) I am barking up the wrong tree and should use something else. B) If I am headed in the right

Re: Book recommendations (slightly OT)

2011-07-27 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 9:57 PM, Mark Moellering wrote: > I want to automate some tasks, creating directories, file editing, etc.  I > was going to pick up a book on shell scripting but wanted to ask the list > if; > A) I am barking up the wrong tree and should use something else. > B) If I am hea

Re: Book recommendations (slightly OT)

2011-07-27 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 26/07/2011 20:57, Mark Moellering wrote: > I want to automate some tasks, creating directories, file editing, etc. > I was going to pick up a book on shell scripting but wanted to ask the > list if; > A) I am barking up the wrong tree and should use something else. No -- automating routine tas

Re: Book recommendations (slightly OT)

2011-07-26 Thread Jerome Herman
On 26/07/2011 21:57, Mark Moellering wrote: I want to automate some tasks, creating directories, file editing, etc. I was going to pick up a book on shell scripting but wanted to ask the list if; A) I am barking up the wrong tree and should use something else. B) If I am headed in the right di

Re: Book recommendations (slightly OT)

2011-07-26 Thread matteo filippetto
2011/7/26 Mark Moellering : > I want to automate some tasks, creating directories, file editing, etc.  I > was going to pick up a book on shell scripting but wanted to ask the list > if; > A) I am barking up the wrong tree and should use something else. > B) If I am headed in the right direction, w

Re: Book recommendations (slightly OT)

2011-07-26 Thread Antonio Olivares
On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 7:57 PM, Mark Moellering wrote: > I want to automate some tasks, creating directories, file editing, etc.  I > was going to pick up a book on shell scripting but wanted to ask the list > if; > A) I am barking up the wrong tree and should use something else. > B) If I am hea

Book recommendations (slightly OT)

2011-07-26 Thread Mark Moellering
I want to automate some tasks, creating directories, file editing, etc. I was going to pick up a book on shell scripting but wanted to ask the list if; A) I am barking up the wrong tree and should use something else. B) If I am headed in the right direction, what is the best book / resource to

Slightly OT: Hardware For FreeNAS

2011-05-16 Thread Tim Daneliuk
Slightly OT, but since it's based on FreeBSD, I thought I'd start here... Can anyone recommend a good hardware platform (components) around which to build a FreeNAS server? The important non-functional requirements are: 1) Quiet to the point of silent. 2) Reliable/redun

Re: slightly OT... .

2010-10-29 Thread Henry Olyer
I have some information that the problem is because the Macbook fonts are different from the FreeBSD fonts. Thank you!, thank you very much. On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 10:33 PM, Polytropon wrote: > On Thu, 28 Oct 2010 22:22:26 -0400, Henry Olyer > wrote: > > I wrote some files using a MacBook a

Re: slightly OT... .

2010-10-28 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 28 Oct 2010 22:22:26 -0400, Henry Olyer wrote: > I wrote some files using a MacBook and saved them as .RTF files. > > And discovered that I couldn't move them to FreeBSD and use AbiWord. > > What do I to make them work? You could try to use one of the tools provided in the ports collect

Re: slightly OT... .

2010-10-28 Thread Henry Olyer
I wrote some files using a MacBook and saved them as .RTF files. And discovered that I couldn't move them to FreeBSD and use AbiWord. What do I to make them work? On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 3:06 PM, Gary Kline wrote: > > >Sorry: don't bother with this [below]; there weren't that many >

Re: slightly OT... .

2010-10-28 Thread Gary Kline
Sorry: don't bother with this [below]; there weren't that many embedded quotes. By-hand worked fine. --g On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 10:12:38AM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > > > First, since abiword and OOo both work across many platforms, > this isn't a F

slightly OT... .

2010-10-28 Thread Gary Kline
First, since abiword and OOo both work across many platforms, this isn't a FreeBSD question, but humor me anyway. A [long] while ago I checked on the OOOForums list and got the howto's of changing "this into ``this'' in openoffice. [[And 'this i

Re: slightly OT ; related to computers and language....

2008-07-16 Thread Gary Kline
On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 05:00:34PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > > people, > > I'm going to start listing my "million-dollar-ideas" here or at > least on my virtual transfinite site. tho i'm pretty sure others > have had ideas as i have. all or mine have made it to online,

Re: slightly OT ; related to computers and language....

2008-07-16 Thread YANSWBVCG
On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 05:00:34PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > > people, > > I'm going to start listing my "million-dollar-ideas" here or at > least on my virtual transfinite site. tho i'm pretty sure others > have had ideas as i have. all or mine have made it to online,

slightly OT ; related to computers and language....

2008-07-16 Thread Gary Kline
people, I'm going to start listing my "million-dollar-ideas" here or at least on my virtual transfinite site. tho i'm pretty sure others have had ideas as i have. all or mine have made it to online, altho not all have survived! my latest involve

RE: Slightly OT - steaming data server software?

2008-05-21 Thread Bob McConnell
On Sun, 2008-05-18 at 15:32 -0700, John Pettitt wrote: > > > Slightly OT but since I'm going to run this on FreeBSD 7 I figured I'd > ask here .. > > I have an application where data arrives in what is effectively > continuous stream (actually NMEA message

Re: Slightly OT - steaming data server software?

2008-05-20 Thread Tim Judd
On Sun, 2008-05-18 at 15:32 -0700, John Pettitt wrote: > > > Slightly OT but since I'm going to run this on FreeBSD 7 I figured I'd > ask here .. > > I have an application where data arrives in what is effectively > continuous stream (actually NMEA message

Slightly OT - steaming data server software?

2008-05-18 Thread John Pettitt
Slightly OT but since I'm going to run this on FreeBSD 7 I figured I'd ask here .. I have an application where data arrives in what is effectively continuous stream (actually NMEA messages from an AIS receiver) and I'd like to have a server where an arbitrary number of clie

Re: slightly OT. php5 breaks my hit-count....

2008-01-31 Thread Jeremy Johnston
Hi Gary, I just tested this exact code on php 5.2.5 and I didn't receive any error. For further help with this you are welcome to email me privately as this is more of a php code problem :) Gary Kline wrote: guys, i need some help from any of you who is current with php5.

slightly OT. php5 breaks my hit-count....

2008-01-31 Thread Gary Kline
guys, i need some help from any of you who is current with php5. in '05 i wrote myown hit counter in php4 using the "." operator to write statements like: $dir="countdir/"; $filename= $file; if (! (file_exists( ( $dir.$filename) ))) {

Re: Slightly OT: Invoking a shell command from a Makeile

2008-01-27 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2008-01-28 05:19, Ivan Rambius Ivanov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jan 28, 2008 2:59 AM, Giorgos Keramidas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > FPCVERSION!= make -f ${PORTSDIR}/lang/fpc/Makefile -V PORTVERSION > > Yes, I found this out after some searching in google. > > > I'm curious thoug

Re: Slightly OT: Invoking a shell command from a Makeile

2008-01-27 Thread Ivan "Rambius" Ivanov
Hello Georgious, On Jan 28, 2008 2:59 AM, Giorgos Keramidas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2008-01-28 00:48, Ivan Rambius Ivanov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I am developing a FreeBSD port and I would like to invoke a shell > > command from it and assign its output to a variable.

Re: Slightly OT: Invoking a shell command from a Makeile

2008-01-27 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2008-01-28 00:48, Ivan Rambius Ivanov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I am developing a FreeBSD port and I would like to invoke a shell > command from it and assign its output to a variable. The command in > question is > > # make -f /usr/ports/lang/fpc/Makefile -V PORTVERSION > > and

Re: Slightly OT: Invoking a shell command from a Makeile

2008-01-27 Thread Alphons "Fonz" van Werven
Ivan "Rambius" Ivanov wrote: I do use BSD make and not GNU make, but your examples gave me a hint what I should search on google and I found the exact syntax: Glad I could help, be it in a roundabout way. Alphons -- VISTA - Viruses Intruders Spyware Trojans Adware __

Re: Slightly OT: Invoking a shell command from a Makeile

2008-01-27 Thread Ivan "Rambius" Ivanov
Hello Alphons, On Jan 28, 2008 1:07 AM, Alphons Fonz van Werven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ivan "Rambius" Ivanov wrote: > > > I am developing a FreeBSD port and I would like to invoke a shell > > command from it and assign its output to a variable. > > If you're using GNU make (called gmake on B

Re: Slightly OT: Invoking a shell command from a Makeile

2008-01-27 Thread Alphons "Fonz" van Werven
Ivan "Rambius" Ivanov wrote: I am developing a FreeBSD port and I would like to invoke a shell command from it and assign its output to a variable. If you're using GNU make (called gmake on BSD systems), you can do VAR := $(shell command) or, as a concrete example, CFILES := $(shell ls *.c) N

Slightly OT: Invoking a shell command from a Makeile

2008-01-27 Thread Ivan "Rambius" Ivanov
Hello, I am developing a FreeBSD port and I would like to invoke a shell command from it and assign its output to a variable. The command in question is # make -f /usr/ports/lang/fpc/Makefile -V PORTVERSION and I have verified that it works on the command line. I try to use it in my port's Make

recommendations wanted for best audioo wwebsite. slightly OT.

2007-12-22 Thread Gary Kline
A couple months ago I happened upon what appeared to be a high end website for audiophiles. All nature of sound clips, in various formats. Looks like I did not bookmark the site and now I can't locate it. Does anybody on-list have some preferred audio

Re: Another slightly OT q...

2007-05-09 Thread Gary Kline
On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 07:50:02PM +0200, Eduardo Morras wrote: > At 23:22 08/05/2007, you wrote: > > >he died / killed himself / was murdered before his hoax could be uncovered. > > It's easily covered. Check usenet comp.compression faq. It's the "Counting > Theorem". For a sequence of n-bits t

Re: Another slightly OT q...

2007-05-09 Thread Eduardo Morras
At 19:05 08/05/2007, you wrote: >Hey Guys, > >Does anybody have any websites where I can look up the latest >in compression technology? I've got a very thin ISDL link >so pulling streams over is like looking at postage-stamp images. Depends on what you are trying

Re: Another slightly OT q...

2007-05-09 Thread Eduardo Morras
At 23:22 08/05/2007, you wrote: >>> >>> see: http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Sloot >>> >>> about the " Sloot Digital Coding System". great stuff. >>> >> >>Danke. > >that seems to be German, in Dutch "Bedankt" would be appropiate. i >appreciate the effort though. > >>I found the english wk

Re: Another slightly OT q...

2007-05-09 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 09/05/07, Ted Mittelstaedt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Gary Kline > Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2007 7:19 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: Gary Kline; FreeBSD Mailing List > Su

RE: Another slightly OT q...

2007-05-08 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Gary Kline > Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2007 7:19 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: Gary Kline; FreeBSD Mailing List > Subject: Re: Another slightly OT q... > > > >

Re: Another slightly OT q...

2007-05-08 Thread Gary Kline
On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 11:22:31PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Gary, > > On 5/8/07, Gary Kline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 09:16:11PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> On 5/8/07, Gary Kline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > > >> > Hey Guys, > >> > > >> > Does a

Re: Another slightly OT q...

2007-05-08 Thread usleepless
Gary, On 5/8/07, Gary Kline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 09:16:11PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 5/8/07, Gary Kline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hey Guys, > > > > Does anybody have any websites where I can look up the latest > > in compressio

Re: Another slightly OT q...

2007-05-08 Thread Gary Kline
On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 09:16:11PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 5/8/07, Gary Kline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hey Guys, > > > > Does anybody have any websites where I can look up the latest > > in compression technology? I've got a very thin ISDL link > > so pulling

Re: Another slightly OT q...

2007-05-08 Thread usleepless
On 5/8/07, Gary Kline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hey Guys, Does anybody have any websites where I can look up the latest in compression technology? I've got a very thin ISDL link so pulling streams over is like looking at postage-stamp images. There wer

Another slightly OT q...

2007-05-08 Thread Gary Kline
Hey Guys, Does anybody have any websites where I can look up the latest in compression technology? I've got a very thin ISDL link so pulling streams over is like looking at postage-stamp images. There were whispers about fractal-compression as being the g

slightly OT | Non-Matching MP processors...

2007-04-18 Thread Modulok
This isn't really a FreeBSD specific problem, but this list has a number of people who administrate multi-CPU servers, so I thought it a logical place to ask. Does anyone else experienced this: Somewhat infrequently, the CPUs of a multi-socket system get out of synch and the BIOS complains about

Re: slightly OT - my freebsd email topology

2007-04-06 Thread Mikhail Goriachev
Derek Ragona wrote: > At 12:36 PM 4/5/2007, Jonathan Horne wrote: >> currently, my email server is just a single box, accepting and sending emails >>from and to the internet. spamassassin and sendmail, and so far, it works >> satisfactory. >> >> i would like to change it up, so that i have a pair

Re: slightly OT - my freebsd email topology

2007-04-06 Thread doug
On Thu, 5 Apr 2007, Derek Ragona wrote: At 12:36 PM 4/5/2007, Jonathan Horne wrote: currently, my email server is just a single box, accepting and sending emails from and to the internet. spamassassin and sendmail, and so far, it works satisfactory. i would like to change it up, so that i

Re: slightly OT - my freebsd email topology

2007-04-06 Thread Charles Trevor
Jonathan Horne wrote: currently, my email server is just a single box, accepting and sending emails from and to the internet. spamassassin and sendmail, and so far, it works satisfactory. i would like to change it up, so that i have a pair of servers doing MX from the internet, which then passe

Re: slightly OT - my freebsd email topology

2007-04-05 Thread Nathan Vidican
Jonathan Horne wrote: currently, my email server is just a single box, accepting and sending emails from and to the internet. spamassassin and sendmail, and so far, it works satisfactory. i would like to change it up, so that i have a pair of servers doing MX from the internet, which then passe

Re: slightly OT - my freebsd email topology

2007-04-05 Thread Nathan Vidican
Jonathan Horne wrote: currently, my email server is just a single box, accepting and sending emails from and to the internet. spamassassin and sendmail, and so far, it works satisfactory. i would like to change it up, so that i have a pair of servers doing MX from the internet, which then pa

Re: slightly OT - my freebsd email topology

2007-04-05 Thread Derek Ragona
At 12:36 PM 4/5/2007, Jonathan Horne wrote: currently, my email server is just a single box, accepting and sending emails from and to the internet. spamassassin and sendmail, and so far, it works satisfactory. i would like to change it up, so that i have a pair of servers doing MX from the int

Re: slightly OT - my freebsd email topology

2007-04-05 Thread Graham Dunn
Jonathan Horne wrote: [snip] > i would like to change it up, so that i have a pair of servers doing MX from > the > internet, which then passes to an internal server for delivery. if i do > that, i > could remove spamassassin from the internal server, and run it on just the 2 > external. all th

Re: [freebsd-questions] slightly OT - my freebsd email topology

2007-04-05 Thread Howard Jones
Jonathan Horne wrote: currently, my email server is just a single box, accepting and sending emails from and to the internet. spamassassin and sendmail, and so far, it works satisfactory. i would like to change it up, so that i have a pair of servers doing MX from the internet, which then passe

slightly OT - my freebsd email topology

2007-04-05 Thread Jonathan Horne
currently, my email server is just a single box, accepting and sending emails from and to the internet. spamassassin and sendmail, and so far, it works satisfactory. i would like to change it up, so that i have a pair of servers doing MX from the internet, which then passes to an internal server

Re: Slightly OT, question about nvidia X driver & screensaver

2006-01-12 Thread Robert Slade
On Thu, 2006-01-12 at 21:18, Nathan Vidican wrote: > Have the nvidia driver installed on my laptop, it's running Linux/amd64... > I'm a > FreeBSD guy, and relatively new to linux. To be honest, not thrilled at all - > but it works, hardware support for this thing under FreeBSD's just not there

Slightly OT, question about nvidia X driver & screensaver

2006-01-12 Thread Nathan Vidican
Have the nvidia driver installed on my laptop, it's running Linux/amd64... I'm a FreeBSD guy, and relatively new to linux. To be honest, not thrilled at all - but it works, hardware support for this thing under FreeBSD's just not there yet. So platform use aside, the problem should be fairly sim

Re: 6.0R GENERIC makeoptions DEBUG=-g [Slightly OT]

2005-11-14 Thread Eric Schuele
Robert Watson wrote: On Mon, 14 Nov 2005, Simon Ironside wrote: /sys/i386/conf/GENERIC has this line uncommented - is this on purpose? I commented it out before building a new kernel. makeoptions DEBUG=-g This was by accident, but actually isn't a bad idea. We discovered the problem at

Re: old scsi adapters and the benefits of open source [was: Anthony's issues [Slightly OT]]

2005-03-22 Thread Peter Risdon
On Tue, 2005-03-22 at 18:58 -0600, David Kelly wrote: > On Mar 22, 2005, at 10:11 AM, Peter Risdon wrote: > > > By contrast, I maintain a networked Windows machine that controls > > plasma > > cutting systems for a manufacturing business. It uses a serial port > > connection to send cutting patte

Re: old scsi adapters and the benefits of open source [was: Anthony's issues [Slightly OT]]

2005-03-22 Thread David Kelly
On Mar 22, 2005, at 10:11 AM, Peter Risdon wrote: By contrast, I maintain a networked Windows machine that controls plasma cutting systems for a manufacturing business. It uses a serial port connection to send cutting patterns to the plasma controller. The serial port communications software was

Re: Anthony's issues [Slightly OT]

2005-03-22 Thread Nick Pavlica
Well said! I completely agree. --Nick On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 08:55:01 -0600 (CST), Duo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 22 Mar 2005, Stijn Hoop wrote: > > > Can we please STOP fueling Anthony's drivel? > > > > --Stijn > > > > -- > > Nostalgia ain't what it used to be. > > > > I have two word

old scsi adapters and the benefits of open source [was: Anthony's issues [Slightly OT]]

2005-03-22 Thread Peter Risdon
On Tue, 2005-03-22 at 08:55 -0600, Duo wrote: > > Honestly, the whole disk thing reminds me of an experience with FreeBSD > and an old gateway solo laptop. [...] I acquired an old Initio SCSI card (9100) around the time of FreeBSD 4.5. A driver was available from the manufacturer's website for

Re: Anthony's issues [Slightly OT]

2005-03-22 Thread Stijn Hoop
On Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 08:55:01AM -0600, Duo wrote: > On Tue, 22 Mar 2005, Stijn Hoop wrote: > > Can we please STOP fueling Anthony's drivel? > > I have two words for you: Mail Filtering. > > Use it. It can work wonders on signal to noise ratio. He is not going to > quit, ever. Well, I'm of th

Re: Anthony's issues [Slightly OT]

2005-03-22 Thread Duo
On Tue, 22 Mar 2005, Stijn Hoop wrote: Can we please STOP fueling Anthony's drivel? --Stijn -- Nostalgia ain't what it used to be. I have two words for you: Mail Filtering. Use it. It can work wonders on signal to noise ratio. He is not going to quit, ever. Honestly, the whole disk thing reminds

Re: maybe slightly OT - web content management kits

2005-02-09 Thread Chris Hodgins
Jay wrote: On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 04:56:01PM -0500, Louis LeBlanc wrote: On 02/09/05 04:07 PM, Chris Shenton sat at the `puter and typed: Louis LeBlanc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Hmm. Plone didn't exactly rise to the top at opensourcecms.org, but since you saw fit to plug it, I'll give it a chan

RE: maybe slightly OT - web content management kits

2005-02-09 Thread Thomas Doxtater
On 02/09/05 04:07 PM, Chris Shenton sat at the `puter and typed: > Louis LeBlanc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> I'm trying to find a good website management system. Content > >> management. I'm running Apache 2.0 with (among others) mod_perl2, (perl > >> 5.8.6) and Jakarta Tomcat 5.0. > ...

Re: maybe slightly OT - web content management kits

2005-02-09 Thread Jay
On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 04:56:01PM -0500, Louis LeBlanc wrote: > On 02/09/05 04:07 PM, Chris Shenton sat at the `puter and typed: > > Louis LeBlanc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hmm. Plone didn't exactly rise to the top at opensourcecms.org, but > since you saw fit to plug it, I'll give it a chanc

Re: maybe slightly OT - web content management kits

2005-02-09 Thread Louis LeBlanc
On 02/09/05 04:07 PM, Chris Shenton sat at the `puter and typed: > Louis LeBlanc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> I'm trying to find a good website management system. Content > >> management. I'm running Apache 2.0 with (among others) mod_perl2, (perl > >> 5.8.6) and Jakarta Tomcat 5.0. > > >

Re: maybe slightly OT - web content management kits

2005-02-09 Thread Chris Shenton
Louis LeBlanc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I'm trying to find a good website management system. Content >> management. I'm running Apache 2.0 with (among others) mod_perl2, (perl >> 5.8.6) and Jakarta Tomcat 5.0. > http://www.opensourcecms.com/ > I'm probably going to try a few out, since the

Re: maybe slightly OT - web content management kits

2005-02-09 Thread Louis LeBlanc
On 02/08/05 06:02 PM, Louis LeBlanc sat at the `puter and typed: > I know this might be slightly OT, but I really only want to ask this > question to those that use and maintain websites on FreeBSD anyway. So > please overlook the OT post. > > I'm trying to find a good websi

maybe slightly OT - web content management kits

2005-02-08 Thread Louis LeBlanc
I know this might be slightly OT, but I really only want to ask this question to those that use and maintain websites on FreeBSD anyway. So please overlook the OT post. I'm trying to find a good website management system. Content management. I'm running Apache 2.0 with (among others)

Re: slightly OT - journal or project tracking app query

2004-08-30 Thread Charles Ulrich
Louis LeBlanc said: > Failing the existence of such an application, > I'll have to devise my own organizational method and just go with vim > until I can work something useful out. > > What does the FreeBSD community use? vim's always worked great for me. But these days I use a wiki hosted on int

Re: slightly OT; DNS and mail config...

2004-03-28 Thread Gary Kline
On Sun, Mar 28, 2004 at 03:07:18PM -0600, Jay Moore wrote: > On Sunday 28 March 2004 02:29 pm, Gary Kline wrote: > > > For the past N days, mail sent to private individuals > > seems to be bounced. Mail fom this list, however, > > and spam (of course :-|) gets through. > > > > I j

Re: slightly OT; DNS and mail config...

2004-03-28 Thread Jay Moore
On Sunday 28 March 2004 02:29 pm, Gary Kline wrote: > People, > > For the past N days, mail sent to private individuals > seems to be bounced. Mail fom this list, however, > and spam (of course :-|) gets through. > > I just updated my registrar data and cut a secondar

Re: slightly OT; DNS and mail config...

2004-03-28 Thread Jay Moore
On Sunday 28 March 2004 02:29 pm, Gary Kline wrote: > For the past N days, mail sent to private individuals > seems to be bounced. Mail fom this list, however, > and spam (of course :-|) gets through. > > I just updated my registrar data and cut a secondary that > ma

slightly OT; DNS and mail config...

2004-03-28 Thread Gary Kline
People, For the past N days, mail sent to private individuals seems to be bounced. Mail fom this list, however, and spam (of course :-|) gets through. I just updated my registrar data and cut a secondary that may have been causing problems. The

slightly OT - netscape port question

2003-04-06 Thread Louis LeBlanc
I know this is a little OT, but does anyone have any idea when/if the netscape7 port will be upgraded to install 7.02? TIA Lou -- Louis LeBlanc [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fully Funded Hobbyist, KeySlapper Extrordinaire :) http://www.keyslapper.org ԿԬ Ever been a vampire?

Re: [slightly OT] Re: Losless audio encoder

2003-02-03 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2003-02-03T16:34:13Z, "Joe Sotham" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Yes, not the first time today someone thought I was confued. Hey, I'm useless until the first cup of coffee sinks in. > Thanks. I thought a wav file and flac file occupied a similar place in > the food-compression chain. So a

Re: [slightly OT] Re: Losless audio encoder

2003-02-03 Thread Joe Sotham
Kirk Strauser said: > The main difference is that a flac file can be decompressed into a > bit-for-bit identical copy of the original file, whereas a decompressed > mp3 > bears almost no resemblance to the original. Yes, not the first time today someone thought I was confued. Thanks. I thought a

Re: [slightly OT] Re: Losless audio encoder

2003-02-03 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2003-02-03T16:16:47Z, "Joe Sotham" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am migrating an audio tape collection to mp3. Is flac a better digital > source than wav file from which to undertake the conversion to ogg or mp3. I think you may be mixing up the concepts slightly. A flac file is similar to

[slightly OT] Re: Losless audio encoder

2003-02-03 Thread Joe Sotham
> Yes, flac (part of the OGG/et al group now I guess) lives in the > audio/flac > port. :) I am migrating an audio tape collection to mp3. Is flac a better digital source than wav file from which to undertake the conversion to ogg or mp3. I do not require an archival quality process only one tha

Re: Slightly OT, OSX, terminals & key combinations

2003-02-02 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
On Sun, 2 Feb 2003, Rich Fox wrote: > Apparently the Terminal program in MacOS X intercepts ctrl+o combinations > which are used to postpone messages in Pine. Thus, when I use the key I use: ssh -e none freebsd-machien.domain.com dw. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wi

Re: Slightly OT, OSX, terminals & key combinations

2003-02-02 Thread Kevin Stevens
On Sunday, Feb 2, 2003, at 12:07 US/Pacific, Rich Fox wrote: Hi, Thanks, I think that found the issue, however... an stty -a returns... [snip] cchars: discard = ^O; dsusp = ^Y; eof [snip] Umm, that's what mine reports, as well, both when I'm local to the Mac and when I'm ssh'ed to the Fr

Re: Slightly OT, OSX, terminals & key combinations

2003-02-02 Thread Chuck Swiger
Rich Fox wrote: Thanks, I think that found the issue, however... an stty -a returns... [snip] cchars: discard = ^O; dsusp = ^Y; eof [snip] [ ... ] Am I even barking in the right forest? Yes. If you've also got "lnext" set like so: lnext min quitreprint start status stops

Re: Slightly OT, OSX, terminals & key combinations

2003-02-02 Thread Rich Fox
Hi, Thanks, I think that found the issue, however... an stty -a returns... [snip] cchars: discard = ^O; dsusp = ^Y; eof [snip] man termios says: DISCARD Special character on input and is recognized if the IEXTEN flag is set. Receipt of this character tog

Re: Slightly OT, OSX, terminals & key combinations

2003-02-02 Thread Mike Meyer
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Rich Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed: > Hi > > I use a MacOS X workstation to connect to my FreeBSD box where I use Pine > to compose these emails. > Apparently the Terminal program in MacOS X intercepts ctrl+o combinations > which are used to postpone messages in Pine. Thus

Re: Slightly OT, OSX, terminals & key combinations

2003-02-02 Thread Chuck Swiger
Rich Fox wrote: [ ... ] Apparently the Terminal program in MacOS X intercepts ctrl+o combinations which are used to postpone messages in Pine. Thus, when I use the key combination ctrl+o it never reaches the remote machine (or at least it doesn't appear to, but it doesn't appear to do anything at

Re: Slightly OT, OSX, terminals & key combinations

2003-02-02 Thread Rich Fox
Hi, Thanks for the response. Perhaps it is some other problem, but it is only manifest in Terminal. I have no problem with this using BetterTelnet in emulation. Any advice on how to troubleshoot it? Rich. | Rich Fox | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 86 Nobska Road | Woods Hole, MA 02543 | MA 508 548

Re: Slightly OT, OSX, terminals & key combinations

2003-02-02 Thread Kevin Stevens
On Sun, 2 Feb 2003, Rich Fox wrote: > I use a MacOS X workstation to connect to my FreeBSD box where I use Pine > to compose these emails. > Apparently the Terminal program in MacOS X intercepts ctrl+o combinations > which are used to postpone messages in Pine. Thus, when I use the key > combinat

Slightly OT, OSX, terminals & key combinations

2003-02-02 Thread Rich Fox
Hi I use a MacOS X workstation to connect to my FreeBSD box where I use Pine to compose these emails. Apparently the Terminal program in MacOS X intercepts ctrl+o combinations which are used to postpone messages in Pine. Thus, when I use the key combination ctrl+o it never reaches the remote machi

Re: slightly OT: official CD tree structure

2003-01-27 Thread P. U. Kruppa
On Mon, 27 Jan 2003, Igor B. Bykhalo wrote: > I'm going to burn installation CDs after make release, > but i also want to put distfiles of my ports on it, > just for more convenient local work. > > The question is: where should i place distfiles? > Should it be /distfiles or ports/distfiles? Defau

slightly OT: official CD tree structure

2003-01-27 Thread Igor B. Bykhalo
I'm going to burn installation CDs after make release, but i also want to put distfiles of my ports on it, just for more convenient local work. The question is: where should i place distfiles? Should it be /distfiles or ports/distfiles? TIA, Igor To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] w

Re: slightly OT (maybe) - calling all network detectives . . .

2002-12-07 Thread Louis LeBlanc
On 12/07/02 06:04 PM, Per olof Ljungmark sat at the `puter and typed: > > > > So does anyone have any ideas how to find out *where* port 80 is being > > blocked? Could it be the modem? I had to configure things thru an NT > > box before I set up the FreeBSD box, but I removed all the DSL stuff >

Re: slightly OT (maybe) - calling all network detectives . . .

2002-12-07 Thread Per olof Ljungmark
So does anyone have any ideas how to find out *where* port 80 is being blocked? Could it be the modem? I had to configure things thru an NT box before I set up the FreeBSD box, but I removed all the DSL stuff afterwards. Thanks in advance Lou What is the IP in question? To Unsubscribe: send

Re: slightly OT (maybe) - calling all network detectives . . .

2002-12-07 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Louis LeBlanc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > So does anyone have any ideas how to find out *where* port 80 is being > blocked? Could it be the modem? I had to configure things thru an NT > box before I set up the FreeBSD box, but I removed all the DSL stuff > afterwards. Traceroute on TCP port 8

slightly OT (maybe) - calling all network detectives . . .

2002-12-07 Thread Louis LeBlanc
Hey all. A minor network problem here, sorry if this is the wrong list. I'm running FreeBSD 4.6 RELEASE, with Apache-ModSSL. My network connection is Verizon DSL using PPP. The modem is a Westell WireSpeed. Thanks to some help on this list a while back, everything seems to be working correctly.

Slightly OT: PHP Fatal error:  Unable to start session mm modulein Unknown on line 0

2002-12-05 Thread Duncan Anker
I know this is not strictly to do with FreeBSD, but maybe there is a kernel option or something I'm overlooking :-) I am getting a lot of these messages: PHP Fatal error: Unable to start session mm module in Unknown on line 0 I have scoured Google as much as I can, and have found mostly people

Re: Slightly OT (and more related to the wireless networking)

2002-11-18 Thread Dan Pelleg
Angelin Lazarov Lalev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi everybody, > > Is there any way to get list of all SSIDs, which are present in given area, > with the tools provided by FreeBSD. > > I'm not sure that is possible at all, but a colleague of mine insist that he > was seen such tool for Window

Slightly OT (and more related to the wireless networking)

2002-11-18 Thread Angelin Lazarov Lalev
Hi everybody, Is there any way to get list of all SSIDs, which are present in given area, with the tools provided by FreeBSD. I'm not sure that is possible at all, but a colleague of mine insist that he was seen such tool for Windows. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsu

Re: Slightly OT: How to remove an odd file...

2002-10-14 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2002-10-14 10:02, Unix Tools <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Brian McCann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've got an interesting question for you all. I've got a file who's > > name is " "...3 blank spaces. It shows up when I do an ls -la, and I > > can get it's inode # (it's in RedHat...a b

Re: Slightly OT: How to remove an odd file...

2002-10-14 Thread Unix Tools
cd to the directory where the file exists write a perl script #!/usr/bin/perl unlink " "; exit(0); - Original Message - From: "Brian McCann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, October 13, 2002 07:43 PM Subject: Slight

Re: Slightly OT: How to remove an odd file...

2002-10-13 Thread Daniel Bye
On Sun, Oct 13, 2002 at 12:08:29PM -0400, Brian McCann wrote: > Yea...did it logged on directly as root. I think what happened is > someone hacked the box via anon. FTP and made this program as a back > door of some kind. :-/ I was able to 'chmod +w " " ' it, no errors > there...but it yells w

RE: Slightly OT: How to remove an odd file...

2002-10-13 Thread Brian McCann
al Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of paul Sent: Sunday, October 13, 2002 12:00 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Slightly OT: How to remove an odd file... Brian McCann wrote: > No go...here's the listing for the file...here's what hap

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