can't find 112887-02.tar.Z for staroffice6.0

2002-10-01 Thread Andrew Gould
; but couldn't find it. Does anyone know the files status? Is it no longer available? Thanks, Andrew Gould __ Do you Yahoo!? New DSL Internet Access from SBC Yahoo! http://sbc.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED

siemens wireless pci adapter as dhcp client - success and questions

2002-10-07 Thread Andrew Gould
' ;; stop) kill `cat /var/run/dhclient.pid` ifconfig wi0 remove echo ' wi0 removed' ;; status) ifconfig wi0 ;; *) echo 'usage: /usr/local/etc/wi0-dhcp.sh [start|stop|status]' ;; esac # End of file Thanks, Andrew Gould

Re: Shortcuts in KDE/Gnome

2002-10-07 Thread Andrew Gould
I'm assuming you're talking about icons on the desktop rather than a menu item in the start menu. In KDE: 1. Right click on the desktop 2. Select Create New/Link To Application 3. Fill out the fields in the various tabs (Mostly self-explanatory) Best of Luck, Andrew Gould --- Lord Raiden

Re: calendar software wanted

2008-10-22 Thread Andrew Gould
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 8:51 AM, Daniel Molina Wegener [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Marco escribió: hello list, anybody has experience with calendar software which runs on freebsd. i maybe would integrate it also in thunderbird/mutt,but thats not necessary, or use a stand alone software.

Re: FreeBSD and hardware??

2008-11-18 Thread Andrew Gould
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 8:49 AM, Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is nonsense. The Windows interface itself is quite limited and not very powerful. as KDE and Gnome and others. GUI's (and operating systems) should be evaluated by user type. For many, the command line is

[OT] printing question

2008-11-18 Thread Andrew Gould
Time to buy a new printer. I don't print much from FreeBSD; but the need occasionally arises. Most of my printing is done while using Mac OS X. The Epson Artisan 800 is looking awfully nice; but it's not in the Linux printing database yet (http://openprinting.org/printer_list.cgi). Question:

Re: FreeBSD and hardware??

2008-11-18 Thread Andrew Gould
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 10:49 AM, Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 10:54:48AM -0500, Dan wrote: Wojciech Puchar([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2008.11.18 16:51:16 +0100: Have you used, erm... Linux? Both Linux and FreeBSD run pretty much at hardware level. You

Re: [OT] printing question

2008-11-18 Thread Andrew Gould
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 1:53 PM, Chad Perrin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Your best bet for printer compatibility is to ensure that it's available as a network device rather than having to connect to it directly, and that it's a Postscript printer. If you want to get a printer and connect it

Re: [OT] printing question

2008-11-18 Thread Andrew Gould
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 7:15 PM, Warren Block [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 18 Nov 2008, Andrew Gould wrote: So the bottom line is: Get a postscript printer. They're rather expensive. Not always: http://wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/usedlasers.pdfhttp://wonkity.com/%7Ewblock/docs

Re: FreeBSD on a Mac Mini Intel?

2008-11-24 Thread Andrew Gould
On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 9:08 AM, John Almberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Nov 21, 2008, at 11:42 PM, Ian Jefferson wrote: Is anyone running FreeBSD on a Mac Mini Intel? I don't know the answer to your question, but don't think it's a crazy one. One of the most interesting things I've

port/package versions related to 7.1 RELEASE

2008-11-25 Thread Andrew Gould
I noted that port packages are already on FreeBSD's ftp sites for 7.1 RELEASE. Does this mean that the ports and packages included in 7.1 BETA2 installation CD's will be the same ones distributed with 7.1 RELEASE? Or will the ports remain a moving target until RELEASE? Thanks, Andrew

presentation application (other than OpenOffice)?

2008-11-26 Thread Andrew Gould
I'm browsing around for smaller office apps. Abiword and Gnumeric are great. Does anyone have any recommendations for a presentation software? I'd rather not compile OpenOffice; and I'm just not getting KDE4. Thanks, Andrew ___

Re: firewall rules for bitlord, yahoo, limewire

2008-11-26 Thread Andrew Gould
On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 8:13 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmmm. Isn't life interesting. I would like to know how to block them and others without causing strange secondary problems. Actually a default pf configuration will let them pass unless I'm forgetting something important. ed I

Re: firewall rules for bitlord, yahoo, limewire

2008-11-26 Thread Andrew Gould
On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 10:42 AM, Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: sorry for asking but what are this limewire programs are? My unofficial take on it is that limewire is a peer-to-peer sharing application used by Windows, Mac OS X and Linux users to share files, usually music, often

Re: firewall rules for bitlord, yahoo, limewire

2008-11-26 Thread Andrew Gould
On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 6:40 PM, Fbsd1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: dick hoogendijk wrote: My unofficial take on it is that limewire is a peer-to-peer sharing application used by Windows, Mac OS X and Linux users to share files, usually music, often copyrighted, over the internet. It is one

Re: Copying system/ports configuration?

2008-12-16 Thread Andrew Gould
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 9:03 AM, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum bg271...@yahoo.comwrote: I have a FreeBSD 7.0 system that im using in production. I want to create a FreeBSD virtual machine, to use as a testbed for this production box. The last time i did this it took a lot of time to get the VM set

Re: Copying system/ports configuration?

2008-12-17 Thread Andrew Gould
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 2:00 AM, Mel fbsd.questi...@rachie.is-a-geek.netwrote: On Tuesday 16 December 2008 16:16:27 Andrew Gould wrote: On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 9:03 AM, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum bg271...@yahoo.comwrote: I have a FreeBSD 7.0 system that im using in production. I want

Re: PostgreSQL setup

2008-12-31 Thread Andrew Gould
On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 9:06 AM, stan st...@panix.com wrote: I have installed PostgreSQL via the ports on a new 7.1 machine. I am trying to set it up. I found: http://www.freebsddiary.org/postgresql.php Whic says to run: su -l pgsql -c initdb But that gives me the following error

Re: Sun sucks

2009-01-08 Thread Andrew Gould
On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 4:10 PM, Ansar Mohammed ans...@gmail.com wrote: So I am trying to build Java on FreeBSD 7.0. I need to REGSITER to download the Timezone Java patch. After registering Sun complains that they don't like my ID and I need to provide more information. I create another

Re: NetBSD networking question

2009-01-20 Thread Andrew Gould
the NetBSD community. You can find more information at http://netbsd.org. Best of luck, Andrew Gould ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions

tool for detecting filesystem?

2009-01-27 Thread Andrew Gould
Background: I received a CD that I couldn't mount on my FreeBSD computer. Later, in a different city, I played it on my MacBook. It was a slideshow with music that had been created using a Roxio product. I did a right-click on the CD's icon and selected Get Info, where I learned that the CD

Re: tool for detecting filesystem?

2009-01-27 Thread Andrew Gould
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 1:03 PM, Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: Later, in a different city, I played it on my MacBook. It was a slideshow with music that had been created using a Roxio product. I did a right-click on the CD's icon and selected Get Info, where I

Re: OCR...

2009-01-28 Thread Andrew Gould
On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 1:22 PM, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 12:08:55PM +0200, Reko Turja wrote: so what is the best commercial/shareware that can read a 10pt-font file? (( also, when i have time to get back into actually hacking, this [[turning imaged pdf

Re: OCR...

2009-01-28 Thread Andrew Gould
On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 5:09 PM, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 01:32:57PM -0600, Andrew Gould wrote: On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 1:22 PM, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 12:08:55PM +0200, Reko Turja wrote: so what is the best

Re: OCR...

2009-01-29 Thread Andrew Gould
On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 8:23 PM, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 07:33:41PM -0600, Andrew Gould wrote: On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 5:09 PM, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 01:32:57PM -0600, Andrew Gould wrote: On Wed, Jan 28, 2009

Re: OCR...

2009-01-29 Thread Andrew Gould
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 7:11 AM, Reko Turja reko.tu...@liukuma.net wrote: -- From: Gary Kline kl...@thought.org Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2009 4:23 AM To: Andrew Gould andrewlylego...@gmail.com Cc: Reko Turja reko.tu...@liukuma.net; FreeBSD

Re: Unix Epoch

2009-02-14 Thread Andrew Gould
On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 2:32 AM, Jos Chrispijn j...@webrz.net wrote: On 13.02.2009 at exactly 23:31:30 (UTC), Unix time was equal to '1234567890'. This was the total time that has been elapsed since 1 januari 1970 0:00 UTC. After having survived from a major headache (...) I wonder whether

off topic: reporting attempts to access computers

2009-02-19 Thread Andrew Gould
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 ending date/times and the originating IP address. Is

Re: off topic: reporting attempts to access computers

2009-02-19 Thread Andrew Gould
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 2:01 PM, GESBBB ges...@yahoo.com wrote: 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

Re: Rsync | Push script

2009-02-26 Thread Andrew Gould
sure you want to run the backups as root? Andrew Gould ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: Ports on Macbook

2009-03-03 Thread Andrew Gould
On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 7:33 AM, michael michael.copel...@gmail.com wrote: Marc Coyles wrote: http://www.apple.com/legal/sla/macosx.html They can write whatever they want. I'm not binded by it. This License allows you to install and use one copy of the Apple Software on a single

Re: Ports on Macbook

2009-03-03 Thread Andrew Gould
On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 9:00 AM, michael michael.copel...@gmail.com wrote: Andrew Gould wrote: On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 7:33 AM, michael michael.copel...@gmail.com wrote: *snip* ...and legalities aside, let's not forget the question of ethics. Andrew ethics is like latin, few care

Re: 7.1-release and KDE4

2009-03-05 Thread Andrew Gould
On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 4:08 PM, joel perry finnd...@gmail.com wrote: Attempting to pkg_add kde4 fails because the lame3.97_1.tgz is not located in the latest ftp location. I and many others would appreciate it if you would add lame to latest folder so that this package will install. It was

Re: Duplicate Installation of FreeBSD

2009-03-26 Thread Andrew Gould
On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 6:24 AM, Odhiambo Washington odhia...@gmail.comwrote: Hello list, I have installed and configured a FreeBSD system based on 7.1-RELEASE (not that it matters so much) and I want a way in which I can duplicate this on several other machines. What is the easiest and the

Re: web based file sharing

2009-03-27 Thread Andrew Gould
On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 9:37 AM, Mikel King mikel.k...@olivent.com wrote: On Mar 27, 2009, at 5:13 AM, Terry wrote: Just looking for a way to give easy access over the internet to some files for multiple users. Web based would be ideal as they all know how to open a browser. Internally

Re: HOWTO Apache + SSL

2009-04-13 Thread Andrew Gould
On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 7:53 AM, Pieter Donche pieter.don...@ua.ac.bewrote: Where can I find a really good FreeBSD7 step by step HOW-TO on setting up digital certifcates (SSL) for the Apache22. My apache22 is running on my freebsd7 system but I never set up any apache httpd server for https

Re: Can you ACTUALLY print from FreeBSD?

2009-04-20 Thread Andrew Gould
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 12:53 PM, Keith Seyffarth w...@weif.net wrote: cups-base-1.3.9_3 Common UNIX Printing System cups-pdf-2.5.0 A virtual printer for CUPS to produce PDF files cups-pstoraster-8.15.4_2 Postscript interpreter for CUPS printing to non-= PS printers

Re: Can you ACTUALLY print from FreeBSD?

2009-04-20 Thread Andrew Gould
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 1:11 PM, Andrew Gould andrewlylego...@gmail.comwrote: On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 12:53 PM, Keith Seyffarth w...@weif.net wrote: cups-base-1.3.9_3 Common UNIX Printing System cups-pdf-2.5.0 A virtual printer for CUPS to produce PDF files cups-pstoraster

Re: maybe OT, but involves OOO its slideshow fmt, ``Impress''

2009-04-22 Thread Andrew Gould
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 10:38 AM, Peter Ulrich Kruppa ulr...@pukruppa.netwrote: Am Mittwoch, den 22.04.2009, 00:23 -0700 schrieb Gary Kline: In any case, there are two questions for this list. The first, obviously, is subjective and is: would having my stuff in

Re: i had a tought

2009-04-22 Thread Andrew Gould
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 11:10 AM, Arjen Simon Scheer a.s.sch...@casema.nlwrote: why there is not a lunix operatingsystem consortium, for the kernel end the commercial userinterface -- Arjen Simon Scheer Konigin Wilhelminalaan 4-017 4205ET Gorinchem

Re: Win4BSD -- any comments or experiences?

2009-04-24 Thread Andrew Gould
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 10:18 AM, Matthias Apitz g...@unixarea.de wrote: Hello, Subscribed in a FreeBSD mailing list in Spanish, I've got a pointer to this software: http://win4bsd.com/wp/win4bsd-free-for-non-commercial-use/ Any comments about or test results in compare with Qemu? Thx

Re: freebsd vs. pc-bsd

2009-04-24 Thread Andrew Gould
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 11:39 AM, Ricardo Jesus ricardo.meb.je...@gmail.com wrote: Michael Jr. wrote: Hi, I was just wondering what are the major differences between freebsd and pc-bsd and is it harder or just as easy to setup freebsd as a desktop compared to pc-bsd? Will freebsd work

Re: Win4BSD -- any comments or experiences?

2009-04-24 Thread Andrew Gould
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 3:50 PM, Juergen Lock n...@jelal.kn-bremen.dewrote: In article d356c5630904240925y25a2ec11m429e57001880c...@mail.gmail.com you write: On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 10:18 AM, Matthias Apitz g...@unixarea.de wrote: Hello, Subscribed in a FreeBSD mailing list in

Re: maybe OT, but involves OOO its slideshow fmt, ``Impress''

2009-04-24 Thread Andrew Gould
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 3:16 PM, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 10:48:52AM +0200, Polytropon wrote: On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 14:36:25 -0700, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: tHat said: how can I experiment with translating my html into slideshow

Re: freebsd vs. pc-bsd

2009-04-25 Thread Andrew Gould
On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 7:18 AM, Charles Oppermann chuc...@gmail.comwrote: If your willing to buy books concerning FreeBSD I'd suggest Absolute FreeBSD 2nd edition (if you have use Unix like systems) or FreeBSD Unleashed 6 (though it was published at the of FreeBSD 6 it is still very

Re: maybe OT, but involves OOO its slideshow fmt, ``Impress''

2009-04-25 Thread Andrew Gould
On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 4:08 AM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Fri, 24 Apr 2009 16:18:43 -0700, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: yes, the voices [from audio/festival] are pretty good; i use them to read boring stuff to me when i'm about brain-dead! but these

release packages and portupgrade

2009-04-29 Thread Andrew Gould
I installed from the FreeBSD 7.2RC2 DVD. I added packages from the DVD, from the ftp site using pkg_add and the release directory, and by executing: portupgrade -NpPrR [package name] I have not updated the system or ports that were installed from the DVD. When I tried to install digikam (I'm

[Off Topic] question for UML users

2009-04-29 Thread Andrew Gould
I need to create flow charts for analytical and reporting processes at work. I had played with the UML editor that came with PC-BSD and noticed you could store notes with the objects (very cool). Can/should UML be used for something like this? Thanks, Andrew

Re: Gnucash 2.2.7_2 after upgrade to Firefox 3.0.9

2009-04-29 Thread Andrew Gould
On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 12:48 PM, Keith Seyffarth w...@weif.net wrote: Is anyone else having issues wit Gnucash 2.2.7 crashing when you try to open an account after portupgrading Firefox in response to security audit reports from about a week ago? (that's the only change I can think of that

Re: PostgreSQL 8.3.7 builds incomplete

2009-04-29 Thread Andrew Gould
On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 1:31 PM, Mark ad...@asarian-host.net wrote: I'm new to PostgreSQL. Just installed the latest version, 8.3.7 (client + server) on my new FreeBSD 7.1 system. Gotta say, there's something seriously broken with this package. First of all, it doesn't install 'include'

Re: PostgreSQL 8.3.7 builds incomplete

2009-04-29 Thread Andrew Gould
On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 1:45 PM, Mark ad...@asarian-host.net wrote: From: Andrew Gould [mailto:andrewlylego...@gmail.com] Sent: woensdag 29 april 2009 20:41 To: Mark Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PostgreSQL 8.3.7 builds incomplete You're message initially references

Re: PostgreSQL 8.3.7 builds incomplete

2009-04-29 Thread Andrew Gould
On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 4:32 PM, Mark ad...@asarian-host.net wrote: From: Andrew Gould [mailto:andrewlylego...@gmail.com] Sent: woensdag 29 april 2009 20:54 To: Mark Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PostgreSQL 8.3.7 builds incomplete On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 1:45 PM, Mark ad

portability of FreeBSD on a USB stick

2009-04-30 Thread Andrew Gould
If I install amd64 FreeBSD on a USB stick, should I be able to boot it up on both PC hardware (Intel core duo) and Intel Mac hardware with rEFIt? Thanks, Andrew ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: xdm freezes - 7.2-RELEASE installed

2009-05-05 Thread Andrew Gould
On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 2:23 PM, Daniel Underwood djuatde...@gmail.comwrote: Just installed 7.2-RELEASE. After changing my /etc/ttys to default to xdm and rebooting, my machine opens xdm, but I cannot type or press enter. My keyboard isn't totally unresponsive, however, because I can

Re: xdm freezes - 7.2-RELEASE installed

2009-05-05 Thread Andrew Gould
On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 3:17 PM, Daniel Underwood djuatde...@gmail.comwrote: Yep, that was it! I should have read the Handbook more thoroughly: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/x-config.html#AEN6615 me too ;-) ___

Re: xdm freezes - 7.2-RELEASE installed

2009-05-05 Thread Andrew Gould
On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 6:32 PM, Daniel Underwood djuatde...@gmail.comwrote: I thought /usr/ports/UPDATING is only created when you appraise your ports with a view toward updating. I.e, after a fresh install of 7.2 (not an upgrade from 7.1), I didn't think the UPDATING file would be very

Re: xdm freezes - 7.2-RELEASE installed

2009-05-05 Thread Andrew Gould
On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 7:21 PM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Tue, 5 May 2009 18:45:02 -0500, Andrew Gould andrewlylego...@gmail.com wrote: It's good, general advice. There are UPDATING files in various places for various updates, I think, including /usr/src/. At least according

Re: Preferred client for DynDNS

2009-05-06 Thread Andrew Gould
On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 9:40 AM, Daniel Underwood djuatde...@gmail.comwrote: There appear to be several clients capable of working with DynDNS.com services here: http://www.freebsd.org/ports/dns.html E.g., dns/inadyn, dns/ipcheck Can anyone make recommendations? My goal in using DynDNS is

Re: Xfce unable to lookup hostname

2009-05-07 Thread Andrew Gould
On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 8:14 AM, Daniel Underwood djuatde...@gmail.comwrote: Every time I log in to xfce, it throws a warning that it cannot lookup bsdbox (which is my hostname as defined in rc.conf). The warning dialog suggests altering /etc/hosts to fix the problem. In fact, it's not a

Re: Xfce unable to lookup hostname

2009-05-07 Thread Andrew Gould
On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 8:37 AM, Daniel Underwood djuatde...@gmail.comwrote: Really? No IP? I mean like ::1 localhost 127.0.0.1 localhost 127.0.0.1 bsdbox.local bsdbox 127.0.0.1 bsdbox.local. Right, I realize I was unclear. I

Re: Xfce unable to lookup hostname

2009-05-07 Thread Andrew Gould
On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 7:26 PM, Daniel Underwood djuatde...@gmail.comwrote: I added the line 127.0.0.1 bsdbox bsdbox.my.domain and now it works perfectly, thanks! Question: what does the line I added tell my computer? I.e., what does that line do? The /etc/hosts file is used to

print test page - false negative

2009-05-08 Thread Andrew Gould
Just an anecdote to any of you who may be having trouble configuring printing: I installed FreeBSD 7.2 Release with CUPS and gutenprint-cups. The printer in question is an Epson Stylus Photo R280, which is supported by gutenprint. After configuring CUPS, including permissions for /dev/ulpt0, I

Re: Processors

2009-05-11 Thread Andrew Gould
On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 5:48 AM, Renato A. Rocabo cserge...@gmail.comwrote: Hi, I'm new with FreeBSD setup. Just want to as if Core 2 Duo processor compatible with FreeBSD. Thanks a lot.. -- Renato A. Rocabo mobile: 09208095152 email: cserge...@gmail.com ym:

Re: Installing Unix

2009-05-12 Thread Andrew Gould
On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 10:52 AM, Ese Oronsaye eorons...@gmail.com wrote: Hi I am a newbie to Unix with no experience in installing unix operating system. Have been through Download Freebsd but not quite sure what I should download. What is ISO and Distribution not quite sure which I should

abiword wierdness

2009-05-14 Thread Andrew Gould
I installed abiword from the 7.2-release binaries online. When I try to type, the cursor doesn't move forward and the characters are appearing on top of the previous characters. Is anyone else having this problem? Any suggestions? Thanks, Andrew ___

Re: abiword wierdness

2009-05-14 Thread Andrew Gould
On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 4:07 PM, Manolis Kiagias son...@otenet.gr wrote: Andrew Gould wrote: I installed abiword from the 7.2-release binaries online. When I try to type, the cursor doesn't move forward and the characters are appearing on top of the previous characters. Is anyone else

Solved: RE: abiword weirdness

2009-05-14 Thread Andrew Gould
On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 4:07 PM, Manolis Kiagias son...@otenet.gr wrote: Andrew Gould wrote: I installed abiword from the 7.2-release binaries online. When I try to type, the cursor doesn't move forward and the characters are appearing on top of the previous characters. Is anyone else

Re: Keyboard not working in gnome?

2009-05-15 Thread Andrew Gould
snip And in /etc/rc.conf: bus_enable=YES Shouldn't the line above be: dbus_enable=YES hald_enable=YES Or does anyone have any hints on why a keyboard (that i'm currently writing on...) don't work in X11/Gnome? Any hints on debugging this? /Chris Andrew

Re: A FreeBSD program that rotates text

2009-05-26 Thread Andrew Gould
On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 2:35 PM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: Dear list, I'm searching for a FreeBSD based means to align text in a circle, adjusted like in a sigulum. I've tried to find an option in OpenOffice, but failed. Can anyone name me a program that can be used to do so? It

Re: Another uptime story

2009-05-27 Thread Andrew Gould
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 8:45 AM, Chris Rees utis...@googlemail.com wrote: 2009/5/27 Glen Barber glen.j.bar...@gmail.com: On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 11:23 PM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: Maybe there's a way of patching the uptime utility that it adds the previous uptime of the system

interrupt storm on irq 10

2009-05-27 Thread Andrew Gould
I purchased a NetGear WPN511 cardbus wireless adapter (atheros chipset) yesterday. The card uses irq 10, as does the firewire port and ethernet port (fxp0) on my Dell Inspiron 8100. The laptop is running FreeBSD 7.2 Release (generic kernel). When I bootup the laptop with the wireless adapter in

using gutenprint drivers - cups vs foomatic

2009-06-10 Thread Andrew Gould
There is a gutenprint driver for my printer (Epson Stylus Photo 280) that doesn't appear in the gutenprint or foomatic ppd directories in /usr/local/share. It only appears after I install gutenprint-cups, and then it appears in a gutenprint subfolder somewhere under /usr/local/share/cups/. Since

Re: Announcing: FreeBSD Custom XFCE ISO (take II)

2009-06-17 Thread Andrew Gould
2009/6/16 Manolis Kiagias sonic200...@gmail.com: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hey all, snip List of main packages == This is a comprehensive list of packages included in the ISO: abiword, archivers (zip, unzip, rar, unrar) bash, bluefish, cdrtools,

Re: Announcing: FreeBSD Custom XFCE ISO (take II)

2009-06-17 Thread Andrew Gould
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 8:44 AM, Roberttravelin...@cox.net wrote: On Wed, 17 Jun 2009 16:37:44 +0300 First I want to say thank you. This is very welcome for my older slow laptop. That said. Have you considered Claws-Mail? Robert Claws-Mail is good. It can also use the address book in

Re: WLAN with Thinkpad T41

2009-06-19 Thread Andrew Gould
On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 9:09 AM, Jochen Neumeisterjoc...@daten-chaos.de wrote: Hi there, I have a Thinkpad T41 with FreeBSD 7.2/i386 With dmesg i see the wlan card: ath0: Atheros 5212 mem 0xc021-0xc021 irq 11 at device 2.0 on pci2 ath0: [ITHREAD] ath0: WARNING: using obsoleted

links for hal and hplip

2009-06-23 Thread Andrew Gould
For those of you, like myself, struggling with hal and printing (separate issues), check out the links below. You will note that the freebsd gnome page is at freebsd.org, but the freebsd kde page is at freebsd.kde.org. The hplip information at the kde site is not specific to kde. The hal faq at

Re: ANNOUNCE: Custom GNOME-based FreeBSD iso released

2009-06-30 Thread Andrew Gould
2009/6/30 Manolis Kiagias son...@otenet.gr: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hey all, Continuing the effort in producing custom FreeBSD builds, I am pleased to announce a GNOME-based one. This includes a complete GNOME 2.26.2 desktop and also the gnome-power-tools and

Re: ANNOUNCE: Custom GNOME-based FreeBSD iso released

2009-06-30 Thread Andrew Gould
On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 11:32 AM, Thomas Abthorpetabtho...@freebsd.org wrote: At this time KDE has not announced an EOL on 3.5. That said, you will likely see it in the tree through the end of 2009. HTH Thomas Yes. Thanks. Andrew ___

Re: Xorg - how can I configure this thing??

2009-07-09 Thread Andrew Gould
On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 3:23 PM, herbsherbert.raim...@gmx.net wrote: Hi Daemons, I am stuck with a fresh installation, FreeBSD 7.2 with the usual X Server environment.. Usually I invoke xorgconfig to set up the hardware I have, like mouse driver, monitor frequency, resolution and so on.

July snapshots

2009-07-13 Thread Andrew Gould
Does anyone know if any snapshots (iso files at ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/) will created in July? Thanks, Andrew ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Re: July snapshots

2009-07-15 Thread Andrew Gould
On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 1:52 AM, Bruce Cranbr...@cran.org.uk wrote: On Mon, 13 Jul 2009 08:31:44 -0500 Andrew Gould andrewlylego...@gmail.com wrote: Does anyone know if any snapshots (iso files at ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/) will created in July? I don't know, but you

gutenprint and lpd

2009-07-22 Thread Andrew Gould
The CUPS administration tool prints a fine test page to an Epson Stylus Photo R280 using a gutenprint ppd; but the printer does not appear in Abiword or Gimp. Attempts to configure the printer under Gimp's gutenprint plugin were a disaster -- my fault, I'm sure. I'm running FreeBSD 7.2

Re: How to find what symlink points to?

2009-07-27 Thread Andrew Gould
On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 8:45 AM, Ungaunga...@yahoo.com wrote: --- On Mon, 7/27/09, Erik Trulsson ertr1...@student.uu.se wrote: From: Erik Trulsson ertr1...@student.uu.se Subject: Re: How to find what symlink points to? To: Unga unga...@yahoo.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date:

Re: mutt with muttprofile and GnuPG-Support

2009-07-30 Thread Andrew Gould
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 6:55 AM, Randall Woodzafir...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, 28 Jul 2009 14:53:47 -0500, Doug Poland d...@polands.org said: On Tue, July 28, 2009 11:49, Christian Grube wrote: Hi, I was wondering, why there is no IMAP/SMTP-Support in mutt or mutt-devel. I have had

Re: 7.2 RELEASE ? Buggy as hell

2009-07-30 Thread Andrew Gould
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 3:06 PM, Adam Vande Moreamvandem...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 2:32 PM, PJ af.gour...@videotron.ca wrote: I have (supposedly, as I am told by my bootup) upgraded to 7.2 Wonderful. But how do i make this thing work. I've managed to do it on an amd64 on an

Re: 7.2 RELEASE ? Buggy as hell

2009-07-30 Thread Andrew Gould
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 4:08 PM, Mel Flynnmel.flynn+fbsd.questi...@mailing.thruhere.net wrote: On Thursday 30 July 2009 12:50:11 Andrew Gould wrote: On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 3:06 PM, Adam Vande Moreamvandem...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 2:32 PM, PJ af.gour...@videotron.ca wrote

Re: Still having trouble with package upgrades

2012-03-07 Thread Andrew Gould
On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 10:28 AM, David Jackson djackson...@gmail.com wrote: I still have yet to find a resolution to the problems I have had with binary packages and upgrades on FreeBSD. Binary upgrading is broken with every tool I have tried. There is no real reason why FreeBSD should not

Re: Still having trouble with package upgrades

2012-03-07 Thread Andrew Gould
On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 11:42 AM, David Jackson djackson...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 11:58 AM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: David, allow me to add a few thoughts: On Wed, 7 Mar 2012 11:28:47 -0500, David Jackson wrote: As for compile options, the solution is simple,

Re: Still having trouble with package upgrades

2012-03-07 Thread Andrew Gould
On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 12:56 PM, David Jackson djackson...@gmail.com wrote: This is irrelevant.  FreeBSD has these options because most of its users are system administrators, developers or other types of geeks. Serving these needs is a major part of what FreeBSD does.  That's why we have

Re: Still having trouble with package upgrades

2012-03-07 Thread Andrew Gould
On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 1:12 PM, Benjamin Tovar b...@robotoloco.com wrote: On Wed, Mar 07, 2012 at 12:57:46PM -0500, David Jackson wrote: So it seems like a happy compromise here. You will get what you need and us newbies and other users who really dont want the extra trouble of compiling will

Re: Suggestion

2012-03-09 Thread Andrew Gould
Troll alert. (just let it die) On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 10:56 PM, Bruno Comerci bruno_come...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi guys. Instead of wasting your time and man power, why wont you join to the ReactOS project? It would be more beneficial to the internet community and to the users around

Re: Replacing windows XP at home.

2006-08-01 Thread Andrew Gould
--- Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Joshua Lewis wrote: Would I be better off just going with Gnome or KDE? I realize once I start installing apps that I will probably wind up installing something that uses Gnome or KDE libraries so I am going to wind up

Re: Midnight Commander in base distribution set

2006-08-04 Thread Andrew Gould
--- Scott Oertel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bryan Bonifacio wrote: The ports and packages are also available from the CD-ROMs (either the first or the second). -- Bryan Renat S. Nurgaliyev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello! Please, please, please, include Midnight Commander into

Re: .bash_logout and shutdown -- need ideas

2006-08-04 Thread Andrew Gould
--- DW [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Have a bit of an issue here: Just started using a .bash_logout script to handle doing my unison commands whenever I logout at end of day so I don't forget to sync my local homedir to my server before I head home. Works fine as long as I just

Re: .bash_logout and shutdown -- need ideas

2006-08-04 Thread Andrew Gould
--- DW [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andrew Gould wrote: --- DW [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Have a bit of an issue here: Just started using a .bash_logout script to handle doing my unison commands whenever I logout at end of day so I don't forget to sync my local

Re: Midnight Commander in base distribution set

2006-08-04 Thread Andrew Gould
--- Xiao-Yong Jin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In the last episode (Aug 04), Andrew Gould said: --- Scott Oertel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use midnight commander on a daily basis, can anyone recommend a better, more lightweight tool then mc? I

FYI: USB wireless on FreeBSD 6.1 Release via ural driver

2006-08-07 Thread Andrew Gould
Given the occasional question regarding wireless adapters on this list, and that I didn't see this in the hardware notes, I thought I'd post a message: The D-Link DWL-G122 version B1 is compatible with FreeBSD 6.1 Release on the i386 architecture. This is a USB, 802.11g adapter. Please note

extracting base names from package listing

2006-09-20 Thread Andrew Gould
pkg_info provides a nice listing of package names that include version numbers. I'd like to have a list of the names without the version numbers so that I can write a script to install the newer versions after a clean installation. Looking at the package names, I'm having a hard time coming up

FreeNX and NX tutorials?

2006-09-20 Thread Andrew Gould
Does anyone know of any tutorials for running FreeNX and NX on FreeBSD? Thanks, Andrew L. Gould ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

Re: extracting base names from package listing

2006-09-20 Thread Andrew Gould
Thanks. --- RW [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 20 September 2006 19:45, Andrew Gould wrote: pkg_info provides a nice listing of package names that include version numbers. I'd like to have a list of the names without the version numbers so that I can write a script to install

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