Re: How is this List Connected with the usenet?

2006-04-27 Thread JD Arnold
Eric Schultz wrote: Chris Maness wrote: Does this list crossover into Usenet? Good afternoon... check out http://dir.gmane.org/index.php?prefix=gmane.os.freebsd they have various web interfaces, as well as nntp and rss feeds. read-only though. to post you have to subscribe and send mail

Re: make targets, was: Running qmail

2006-01-05 Thread JD Arnold
Michael P. Soulier wrote: On 12/18/05, Shantanoo Mahajan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Daemontools can be found out by: cd /usr/ports make search name=daemontools Where are these make options in ports documented? I'd like to know all of the options available in ports. I usually just cd

Re: Reading roots mail when connected remotely

2006-01-05 Thread JD Arnold
Daniel A. wrote: Stupid question, I know :( How do I read the mail sent to root, if I can only access my server via SSH? When I su, and type mail, it shows only mail to the user I connected with. Yeah, I had the same problem. I've been doing 'su -l', which simulates a full login, so then I

Prompt for root password

2006-01-06 Thread JD Arnold
I'm writing a program that needs to write a file and I'd like to have it ask for the root password and run as root, like many of the system config applications do. Do I have to write something special, or is there some way to tell KDE (or GNOME) to prompt for the root password? Is this what a

Re: Programming Book(s)

2006-01-07 Thread JD Arnold
Danial Thom wrote: --- Nicolas Blais [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On January 2, 2006 04:52 pm, Sean wrote: Sean wrote: Looking for recommendations on any Unix programming books. I have been out of things for a while so I would put my skill level back to the beginning. Thanks

Re: Programming Book(s)

2006-01-08 Thread JD Arnold
Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2006-01-07 15:25, JD Arnold [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Danial Thom wrote: --- Nicolas Blais [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On January 2, 2006 04:52 pm, Sean wrote: Sean wrote: Looking for recommendations on any Unix programming books. I have been out of things

Re: Programming Book(s)

2006-01-08 Thread JD Arnold
Danial Thom wrote: --- Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 07/01/06 Jorge Biquez said: Hello all. Very interesting comments and suggestions. I hope my question does not seems too off topic. Do you think the path to follow for developing applications for the new PDA,

Re: how do you install wx-config in FreeBSD?

2006-01-08 Thread JD Arnold
bob self wrote: I'm running FreeBSD 6.0 and have installed wxgtk2-2.6.2_1 and wxgtk2-common-2.6.2. VLC runs fine so I know that wxwidges is installed correctly. But I want to install the wxsamples and compile them. I copied wxsamples manually and try to compile using a script from an older

Re: how do you install wx-config in FreeBSD?

2006-01-09 Thread JD Arnold
bob self wrote: JD Arnold wrote: bob self wrote: I'm running FreeBSD 6.0 and have installed wxgtk2-2.6.2_1 and wxgtk2-common-2.6.2. VLC runs fine so I know that wxwidges is installed correctly. But I want to install the wxsamples and compile them. I copied wxsamples manually and try

Re: Which is the best open source C/C++ IDE out there?

2006-01-09 Thread JD Arnold
Danial Thom wrote: --- Vladimir Tsvetkov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is obviously a trick question, because real programmers don't use IDEs. Case Closed. I'm not a real programmer, but UNIX is a great developer environment. It's a tool based environment. Small tools, strong cohesion in

Re: Which is the best open source C/C++ IDE out there?

2006-01-14 Thread JD Arnold
Chuck Robey wrote: JD Arnold wrote: Danial Thom wrote: --- Vladimir Tsvetkov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is obviously a trick question, because real programmers don't use IDEs. Case Closed. I'm not a real programmer, but UNIX is a great developer environment. It's a tool based

New FreeBSD 6.0 system advice sought

2006-01-16 Thread JD Arnold
So, I'm building a replacement 6.0 system from the bare metal, moving over my 4.11 server data after I'm done. I've started from a minimal installation, and I'm looking for some input. 1] Apache - do I stay with 1.3 or move on up to the 2.x branch? 2] MySQL - do I stay with the 3.x (!), or

Playing streaming music

2006-02-01 Thread JD Arnold
Now that I have my sound card working, I was wondering if there is a port to play streaming music from my favorite college radio station? The live streams from http://www.wzbc.com send me PLS files, which I understand to be WinAmp playlist files. Is there a FreeBSD app that can play this

Re: Playing streaming music

2006-02-02 Thread JD Arnold
Mark Kane wrote: Andreas Rudisch wrote: On Wed, 01 Feb 2006 22:12:41 +0100, JD Arnold [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now that I have my sound card working, I was wondering if there is a port to play streaming music from my favorite college radio station? The live streams from http://www.wzbc.org

Re: RAM check

2006-02-02 Thread JD Arnold
Philip Juels wrote: I'm running into random seg faults during KDE and Gnome compilation, and I and others on the list suspect faulty RAM. Are there any utils out there that can test/diagnose RAM (aside from the laughable BIOS POST). Kinda late now, I know, but I highly recommend the Ultimate