Re: VIMAGE (slightly off topic)

2013-05-30 Thread Mark Moellering
On 5/30/2013 8:29 AM, Joe wrote: Pietro Paolini wrote: Hello all, I am a new bye on the FreeBSD and I am looking at the VIMAGE features experiencing some problems. I added the options : VIMAGE if_bridge and I removed STCP then I recompiled my kernel and install it. After that, following

off-topic....

2013-02-07 Thread Gary Kline
guys, ihad better make this fast; this desktop [dell duo] has been crashing at random for the past couple month. no clue. but ive ordered a refurb with a three-year warranty. I hope, I hope. my question is: how to set up an account for code on

Re: help with SVN needed {slightly off-topic}

2013-01-21 Thread Greg Larkin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 1/20/13 6:55 PM, Gary Kline wrote: [...] the part I need help with is Subversion. I used CVS about 15 years ago, and svn looks slightly familiar. the project on google.code are looking for me to use svn to install my base files. I

help with SVN needed {slightly off-topic}

2013-01-20 Thread Gary Kline
(hm, well, other than to say that im installing 9.1 on my uni-CPU laptop, this is =really= OT.) okay, here's what I need help with and some of the whys and wherefors, etc: much to my surprise, my little speech application for the impaired is gaining

OFF TOPIC -- Latex Question

2012-11-19 Thread Carmel
I know this doesn't belong here; however I was hoping someone could give me a quick answer. I have a document I am writing, actually a new set of By Laws for an organization. The format should be as shown here: Article I Name Bla-bla section 1 section 2

Re: OFF TOPIC -- Latex Question

2012-11-19 Thread Boris Samorodov
20.11.2012 00:02, Carmel пишет: I know this doesn't belong here; however I was hoping someone could give me a quick answer. I have a document I am writing, actually a new set of By Laws for an organization. The format should be as shown here: Article I Name

Re: OFF TOPIC -- Latex Question

2012-11-19 Thread Open Slate
Latex can do what you describe but you would need to create or locate a different document class. The standard classes that ship with (most) versions of Latex are for academic journals, books, and letters. You are more likely to get your question answered on a Latex specific forum or mailing list.

Re: OFF TOPIC -- Latex Question

2012-11-19 Thread Carmel
On Tue, 20 Nov 2012 01:08:47 +0400 Boris Samorodov articulated: 20.11.2012 00:02, Carmel пишет: I know this doesn't belong here; however I was hoping someone could give me a quick answer. I have a document I am writing, actually a new set of By Laws for an organization. The format

Re: OFF TOPIC -- Latex Question

2012-11-19 Thread Aldis Berjoza
19.11.2012, 23:27, Carmel carmel...@hotmail.com: On Tue, 20 Nov 2012 01:08:47 +0400 Boris Samorodov articulated:  20.11.2012 00:02, Carmel пишет:  I know this doesn't belong here; however I was hoping someone could  give me a quick answer.  I have a document I am writing, actually a new

Re: OFF TOPIC -- Latex Question

2012-11-19 Thread Open Slate
This sort of worked for me, but still had problems. 1) my Latex starts chapters on a new page, which may or may not fit the bill. 2) In Lyx the chapter command wants a title; I could not get just Article I. I'm sure both of these are fixable, Latex can do virtually anything. On Mon, Nov 19, 2012

Re: OFF TOPIC -- Latex Question

2012-11-19 Thread Boris Samorodov
20.11.2012 01:25, Carmel пишет: I couldn't find any documentation on it either, although I was certain that it could be done. If you are going to use LaTeX, you definitely should learn it. There are many good free downlodable books out there. I am surprised that there is not a fixed style

Re: OFF TOPIC -- Latex Question

2012-11-19 Thread Boris Samorodov
20.11.2012 01:48, Open Slate пишет: This sort of worked for me, but still had problems. 1) my Latex starts chapters on a new page, which may or may not fit the bill. 1. Don't use the book style to write an article. 2. Read the documentation. It's open, free and plenty. 2) In Lyx the chapter

Re: OFF TOPIC -- Latex Question

2012-11-19 Thread Carmel
On Mon, 19 Nov 2012 11:48:01 -1000 Open Slate articulated: On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 11:08 AM, Boris Samorodov b...@passap.ru wrote: 20.11.2012 00:02, Carmel пишет: I know this doesn't belong here; however I was hoping someone could give me a quick answer. I have a document I

Re: OFF TOPIC -- Latex Question

2012-11-19 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 19 Nov 2012 15:02:51 -0500, Carmel wrote: I know this doesn't belong here; however I was hoping someone could give me a quick answer. I have a document I am writing, actually a new set of By Laws for an organization. The format should be as shown here: Article I

Re: way way off topic

2012-10-24 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 24 Oct 2012 08:39:55 +0700, Erich Dollansky wrote: Hi, On Tue, 23 Oct 2012 18:13:05 -0700 Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 05:52:02PM -0700, Gezeala M. Bacuño II wrote: if/when I ever find that v short exercise, THIS time, il'l remember to

Re: way way off topic

2012-10-24 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Wed, 24 Oct 2012 10:23:17 +0200 Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Wed, 24 Oct 2012 08:39:55 +0700, Erich Dollansky wrote: Hi, On Tue, 23 Oct 2012 18:13:05 -0700 Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 05:52:02PM -0700, Gezeala M. Bacuño II wrote:

Re: way way off topic

2012-10-24 Thread Walter Hurry
On Tue, 23 Oct 2012 15:51:54 -0700, Gary Kline wrote: lets say that x == 15 and y == 16. Q: how much less is x than y? it is not just 1; there was some other way of finding the answer. 6.25% ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: way way off topic

2012-10-23 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 23 Oct 2012 11:31:18 +0700, Olivier Nicole wrote: Gary, On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 11:20 AM, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: apologies up front for this math type quandary. I had it in a std C program, but 3+ hours of grepping havent found it. I would have bet my last cent

Re: way way off topic

2012-10-23 Thread perryh
Olivier Nicole olivier.nic...@cs.ait.ac.th wrote: On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 11:20 AM, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: apologies up front for this math type quandary. I had it in a std C program, but 3+ hours of grepping havent found it. I would have bet my last cent that I had a summary

Re: way way off topic

2012-10-23 Thread Gary Kline
On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 11:31:18AM +0700, Olivier Nicole wrote: Gary, On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 11:20 AM, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: apologies up front for this math type quandary. I had it in a std C program, but 3+ hours of grepping havent found it. I would have bet my last

Re: way way off topic

2012-10-23 Thread Gary Kline
On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 11:34:36AM +0700, Erich Dollansky wrote: Hi, On Mon, 22 Oct 2012 21:20:07 -0700 Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: apologies up front for this math type quandary. I had it in a std C program, but 3+ hours of grepping havent found it. I would have bet my

Re: way way off topic

2012-10-23 Thread Gary Kline
On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 08:52:49AM +0200, Polytropon wrote: On Tue, 23 Oct 2012 11:31:18 +0700, Olivier Nicole wrote: Gary, On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 11:20 AM, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: apologies up front for this math type quandary. I had it in a std C program, but 3+

Re: way way off topic

2012-10-23 Thread Gary Kline
On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 08:52:49AM +0200, Polytropon wrote: On Tue, 23 Oct 2012 11:31:18 +0700, Olivier Nicole wrote: Gary, On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 11:20 AM, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: apologies up front for this math type quandary. I had it in a std C program, but 3+

Re: way way off topic

2012-10-23 Thread Gezeala M . Bacuño II
% change = ( (present - past) / past ) * 100 On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 5:07 PM, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 08:52:49AM +0200, Polytropon wrote: On Tue, 23 Oct 2012 11:31:18 +0700, Olivier Nicole wrote: Gary, On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 11:20 AM, Gary Kline

Re: way way off topic

2012-10-23 Thread Gary Kline
On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 05:52:02PM -0700, Gezeala M. Bacuño II wrote: % change = ( (present - past) / past ) * 100 yeah, this is exactly it for my how much more is 16 than 15 problem. or the ages example. It's 6.6[bar-over .6]% this is probably close to or

Re: way way off topic

2012-10-23 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Tue, 23 Oct 2012 18:13:05 -0700 Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 05:52:02PM -0700, Gezeala M. Bacuño II wrote: if/when I ever find that v short exercise, THIS time, il'l remember to 'splain stuff in /* * comments */ your

way way off topic

2012-10-22 Thread Gary Kline
apologies up front for this math type quandary. I had it in a std C program, but 3+ hours of grepping havent found it. I would have bet my last cent that I had a summary Somewhere, but cant find that either. here is the problem as best I can remember it. let's say that john is 8 and

Re: way way off topic

2012-10-22 Thread Olivier Nicole
Gary, On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 11:20 AM, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: apologies up front for this math type quandary. I had it in a std C program, but 3+ hours of grepping havent found it. I would have bet my last cent that I had a summary Somewhere, but cant find that either. here

Re: way way off topic

2012-10-22 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Mon, 22 Oct 2012 21:20:07 -0700 Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: apologies up front for this math type quandary. I had it in a std C program, but 3+ hours of grepping havent found it. I would have bet my last cent that I had a summary Somewhere, but cant find that either.

Repeaters [off topic]

2012-08-21 Thread Bob Hall
I'm using a repeater to grab a wireless signal and pass it to my local (wired) lan. For various reasons I won't go into a repeater is, in theory, the best way to do this. However, I'm having trouble finding a repeater that isn't garbage. I've been through 2 Linksys units, both of which required

Re: Repeaters [off topic]

2012-08-21 Thread Chris
How about overlaying the lynksys OS with something like ddwrt Sent from my HTC. - Reply message - From: Bob Hall musikte...@gmail.com Date: Tue, Aug 21, 2012 12:30 pm Subject: Repeaters [off topic] To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org I'm using a repeater to grab a wireless signal and pass

Re: Repeaters [off topic]

2012-08-21 Thread rjhjr0
On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 11:10:19AM -1000, Al Plant wrote: Bob Hall wrote: I'm using a repeater to grab a wireless signal and pass it to my local (wired) lan. For various reasons I won't go into a repeater is, in theory, the best way to do this. However, I'm having trouble finding a

Re: Off Topic. DNS, Android.

2012-06-23 Thread Wojciech Puchar
a) Normally any Domain name registered has to have 2 Nameservers. Some don't have to. but should. registry like the one responsible for .ORG requires 2 at least to propagate the domain. In teh case of .COM that is not a requirement, one nameserver could work. If for some reason I have 2 of

Off Topic. DNS, Android.

2012-06-22 Thread Jorge Biquez
Hello. I am sorry if the following 2 questions could sound too stupid. a) Normally any Domain name registered has to have 2 Nameservers. Some registry like the one responsible for .ORG requires 2 at least to propagate the domain. In teh case of .COM that is not a requirement, one nameserver

Re: Off Topic. DNS, Android.

2012-06-22 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jun 22, 2012, at 8:28 PM, Jorge Biquez wrote: Hello. Hola! I am sorry if the following 2 questions could sound too stupid. a) Normally any Domain name registered has to have 2 Nameservers. Some registry like the one responsible for .ORG requires 2 at least to propagate the domain. In

Re: Off Topic. DNS, Android.

2012-06-22 Thread Stas Verberkt
b) I am looking for good list like this one for people developing, learning about Android Development. Any suggestion ? I am trying to setup a Freebsd machine for developing for Android, if possible. Hmm. http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html suggests that maybe the Linux

Re: Off topic: NetBSD or OpenBSD for Alpha server ?

2012-05-13 Thread Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado
On 05/04/2012 07:51 PM, Kenneth Hatteland wrote: Since the alpha forum for FreeBSD is closed, and there has not been Alpha support since 6.4 I wondered about which OS to install on a alpha server I am getting quite soon. I guess FreeBSD 6.4 is perhaps not the best since it is not maintained and

Re: Off topic: NetBSD or OpenBSD for Alpha server ?

2012-05-05 Thread Kenneth Hatteland
The idea of installing FreeBSD 6.4 and experiment with upgrading to7.x and above appeals to quite a lot. If anyone have tried this I`d like to know if it is doable. I guess I`ll pick up the server one of the coming days. The tip on using OpenVMS is okay, I googled it. But this seems to be a

Re: Off topic: NetBSD or OpenBSD for Alpha server ?

2012-05-05 Thread Rod Person
On Sat, 05 May 2012 19:20:10 +0200 Kenneth Hatteland kenneth.hattel...@kleppnett.no wrote: The idea of installing FreeBSD 6.4 and experiment with upgrading to7.x and above appeals to quite a lot. If anyone have tried this I`d like to know if it is doable. I guess I`ll pick up the server one of

Re: Off topic: NetBSD or OpenBSD for Alpha server ?

2012-05-05 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 05 May 2012 19:20:10 +0200, Kenneth Hatteland wrote: The idea of installing FreeBSD 6.4 and experiment with upgrading to7.x and above appeals to quite a lot. If anyone have tried this I`d like to know if it is doable. I guess I`ll pick up the server one of the coming days. It

Re: Off topic: NetBSD or OpenBSD for Alpha server ?

2012-05-05 Thread Outback Dingo
On Sat, May 5, 2012 at 2:19 PM, Rod Person rodper...@rodperson.com wrote: On Sat, 05 May 2012 19:20:10 +0200 Kenneth Hatteland kenneth.hattel...@kleppnett.no wrote: The idea of installing FreeBSD 6.4 and experiment with upgrading to7.x and above appeals to quite a lot. If anyone have tried

Re: Off topic: NetBSD or OpenBSD for Alpha server ?

2012-05-05 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
I still have FreeBSD Alpha, and OpenVMS Alpha/Itanium systems chugging along. Now, ia64 is another story. I run fbsd 10-current on ia64. Have you tried fbsd on ia64? Are you at all interested in this? -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University

Re: Off topic: NetBSD or OpenBSD for Alpha server ?

2012-05-04 Thread Outback Dingo
On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 3:56 PM, Erik Nørgaard norga...@locolomo.org wrote: On 04/05/2012 19:51, Kenneth Hatteland wrote: So I checked the 2 other main contenders and just wanted to ask if anyone here had an opinion what 2 install of the BSDs ? Or perhaps FreeBSD 6.4 is a good choice ( I have

Re: Off topic: NetBSD or OpenBSD for Alpha server ?

2012-05-04 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Fri, May 04, 2012 at 04:45:17PM -0400, Outback Dingo wrote: On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 3:56 PM, Erik N?rgaard norga...@locolomo.org wrote: On 04/05/2012 19:51, Kenneth Hatteland wrote: So I checked the 2 other main contenders and just wanted to ask if anyone here had an opinion what 2

Re: Off topic: NetBSD or OpenBSD for Alpha server ?

2012-05-04 Thread Robert Bonomi
Anton Shterenlikht me...@bristol.ac.uk wrote: On Fri, May 04, 2012 at 04:45:17PM -0400, Outback Dingo wrote: On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 3:56 PM, Erik N?rgaard norga...@locolomo.org wrote: On 04/05/2012 19:51, Kenneth Hatteland wrote: So I checked the 2 other main contenders and just

Re: Off topic: NetBSD or OpenBSD for Alpha server ?

2012-05-04 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 4 May 2012 17:11:00 -0500 (CDT), Robert Bonomi wrote: For obselete hardware one frequetly has no alternative but to run an obselete operating system. Depending on the actual intention of use, it _may_ be no problem to use obsolete operating systems and software. (For example, I still

Re: Kind OFF Topic. FreeBSD for Blocking URLS? Nanny?

2012-04-11 Thread Eduardo Morras
At 05:27 10/04/2012, you wrote: Hello all. Thanks in advance for your time and comments. Perhaps this app may help you: http://sourceforge.net/projects/teachercp/ There are commercial apps too that do the same and more. HTH Jorge Biquez ___

RE: Kind OFF Topic. FreeBSD for Blocking URLS? Nanny?

2012-04-11 Thread Terrence Koeman
On Tue, 10 Apr 2012 at 05:27:24, Jorge Biquez wrote: Hello all. I am sorry if this is kind OFF Topic. I am looking for help from more experienced people in these areas. Please let me know if this question should be moved to FREEBSD-CHAT list. As I have mentioned before I am helping

Re: Kind OFF Topic. FreeBSD for Blocking URLS? Nanny?

2012-04-11 Thread Fbsd8
Jorge Biquez wrote: Hello all. snip In the classrooms we have very old PCs running XP. In some of my classes I am using Freebsd and Ubuntu running on a USB. So each student have one USB and they work that way booting from their 4GB USB stick. (it is slow but it has worked until now). One

Re: Kind OFF Topic. FreeBSD for Blocking URLS? Nanny?

2012-04-11 Thread Jerome Herman
On 10/04/2012 05:27, Jorge Biquez wrote: Hello all. I am sorry if this is kind OFF Topic. I am looking for help from more experienced people in these areas. Please let me know if this question should be moved to FREEBSD-CHAT list. As I have mentioned before I am helping a school , non

Re: Kind OFF Topic. FreeBSD for Blocking URLS? Nanny?

2012-04-10 Thread Joshua Isom
On 4/9/2012 10:27 PM, Jorge Biquez wrote: As always there are some experts that controls everything and do not let you change anything because is their kingdom. What do they control? The network infrastructure? One of the managers asked me for help to block some web sites were some

Re: Kind OFF Topic. FreeBSD for Blocking URLS? Nanny?

2012-04-10 Thread Robert Bonomi
Jorge Biquez jbiq...@intranet.com.mx wrote: Hello all. One of the managers asked me for help to block some web sites were some students in the other lab and people that helps there waste bandwithd seeing videos, movies (youtube, cuevana, serieid, etc) and spend lot of time on facebook

Re: Kind OFF Topic. FreeBSD for Blocking URLS? Nanny?

2012-04-10 Thread Mark Felder
On Mon, 09 Apr 2012 23:21:58 -0500, Da Rock freebsd-questi...@herveybayaustralia.com.au wrote For the interim (and as a POC), setup squid and dans guardian and point the browsers to proxy using that machine. Prove your point and then explain that this can be done transparently if you had

Re: Kind OFF Topic. FreeBSD for Blocking URLS? Nanny?

2012-04-10 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Tuesday 10 April 2012 10:27:24 Jorge Biquez wrote: As I have mentioned before I am helping a school , non profit with non profit -- no cost? One of the managers asked me for help to block some web sites were Have you checked hosts? A rough but easy way. Erich

Kind OFF Topic. FreeBSD for Blocking URLS? Nanny?

2012-04-09 Thread Jorge Biquez
Hello all. I am sorry if this is kind OFF Topic. I am looking for help from more experienced people in these areas. Please let me know if this question should be moved to FREEBSD-CHAT list. As I have mentioned before I am helping a school , non profit with their IT issues. As always

Re: Kind OFF Topic. FreeBSD for Blocking URLS? Nanny?

2012-04-09 Thread Mark Felder
I've been in this position before. Transparent proxy running Squid and Dansguardian will solve most of your problems. And having a local cache will help fix your low bandwidth issue. Your skill level and networking knowledge will determine how achievable this is, but it's a great solution

Kind OFF Topic. FreeBSD for Blocking URLS? Nanny?

2012-04-09 Thread Robert Huff
Jorge Biquez writes: Any comments you have that could help me to solve this challenge? Yes. You do not have a technical problem. You have a management problem. Fix that, and the technical issues will be (comparatively) trivial.

Re: Kind OFF Topic. FreeBSD for Blocking URLS? Nanny?

2012-04-09 Thread Jorge Biquez
Hello. Yes I know and we ill do our best to solve it... but if that does not work, then I still will try to solve it technically in some way if possible. Jorge Biquez At 10:42 p.m. 09/04/2012, Robert Huff wrote: Jorge Biquez writes: Any comments you have that could help me to solve this

Re: Kind OFF Topic. FreeBSD for Blocking URLS? Nanny?

2012-04-09 Thread Da Rock
On 04/10/12 13:46, Jorge Biquez wrote: Hello. Yes I know and we ill do our best to solve it... but if that does not work, then I still will try to solve it technically in some way if possible. For the interim (and as a POC), setup squid and dans guardian and point the browsers to proxy

Off-Topic: Computing for the Blind

2012-03-29 Thread Barbara La Scala
Many thanks to everyone who contacted me, either directly or through the list. I now have plenty of places and ideas to check out to help get my stepfather online. At the moment, I'm leaning towards getting him a Mac (since it has a real operating system under the hood) and a suite of

Re: Off-Topic: Computing for the Blind

2012-03-27 Thread Jerry
On Mon, 26 Mar 2012 18:50:06 -0400 Robert Huff articulated: Polytropon writes: Speech recognition requires training. Both the user and the system have to learn from each other. But you have a learning curve everywhere, be it typing, talking, or reading from a Braille output.

Re: Off-Topic: Computing for the Blind

2012-03-27 Thread Da Rock
On 03/27/12 20:41, Jerry wrote: On Mon, 26 Mar 2012 18:50:06 -0400 Robert Huff articulated: Polytropon writes: Speech recognition requires training. Both the user and the system have to learn from each other. But you have a learning curve everywhere, be it typing, talking, or reading

Re: Off-Topic: Computing for the Blind

2012-03-27 Thread Robert Huff
Jerry writes: There are a couple of ports that claim to do speech recognition. Does anyone have experience with them? I sincerely hope you can find a truly useful application to suit your needs. In my case, it's want, not need. (But that's the want of gee,

Re: Off-Topic: Computing for the Blind

2012-03-27 Thread Martin McCormick
Polytropon writes: That's correct. However, unlike a Braille readout which gives tactile information (through the reader's hands), synthetic voice cannot easily accomodate to the reader's habits and reading speed. Scanning text is not possible as the generated voiced text is played in linear

Re: Off-Topic: Computing for the Blind

2012-03-27 Thread perryh
Jerry je...@seibercom.net wrote: When it comes to speech recognition, the only two applications that seem to work reliably at all levels are Siri on iPhone 4S and Dragon NaturallySpeaking, neither of which are obviously available on FreeBSD. I don't believe that there is even a *nix/BSD

Re: Off-Topic: Computing for the Blind

2012-03-27 Thread Da Rock
On 03/28/12 15:28, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: Jerryje...@seibercom.net wrote: When it comes to speech recognition, the only two applications that seem to work reliably at all levels are Siri on iPhone 4S and Dragon NaturallySpeaking, neither of which are obviously available on FreeBSD. I

Re: Off-Topic: Computing for the Blind

2012-03-27 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 27 Mar 2012 08:21:04 -0500, Martin McCormick wrote: By the way, math done by any method other than Braille is darn next to useless. Equations in Braille can be formatted very much like they are in print and there is a whole Braille system for reading and writing math.

Re: Off-Topic: Computing for the Blind

2012-03-26 Thread Arthur Chance
On 03/25/12 23:33, Barbara La Scala wrote: Apologies for the off topic posting but my stepfather is blind and he wants my advice about how to get online. I have no idea where to start looking for information on hardware and/or software for him. However, I vaguely remember someone on this list

Re: Off-Topic: Computing for the Blind

2012-03-26 Thread Beni Brinckman
Op 26 maart 2012 09:42 heeft Arthur Chance free...@qeng-ho.org het volgende geschreven: On 03/25/12 23:33, Barbara La Scala wrote: Apologies for the off topic posting but my stepfather is blind and he wants my advice about how to get online. I have no idea where to start looking

Re: Off-Topic: Computing for the Blind

2012-03-26 Thread Keith McKenzie
On 25/03/12 23:33, Barbara La Scala wrote: Apologies for the off topic posting but my stepfather is blind and he wants my advice about how to get online. I have no idea where to start looking for information on hardware and/or software for him. However, I vaguely remember someone

Re: Off-Topic: Computing for the Blind

2012-03-26 Thread Da Rock
On 03/26/12 19:32, Keith McKenzie wrote: On 25/03/12 23:33, Barbara La Scala wrote: Apologies for the off topic posting but my stepfather is blind and he wants my advice about how to get online. I have no idea where to start looking for information on hardware and/or software for him

Re: Off-Topic: Computing for the Blind

2012-03-26 Thread Keith McKenzie
On 26/03/12 11:12, Da Rock wrote: O I'm going to have to dredge up my copy and check that out - it sounds very interesting primarily because the techniques could be easily adapted here :P On version 6; not sure if it came earlier. Keith -- Sent from Free Open Source Software (FOSS).

Re: Off-Topic: Computing for the Blind

2012-03-26 Thread Martin McCormick
you need to train them on your speech and the feedback is graphical so a good old keyboard is still the best input device. So as not to get totally off topic, I haven't heard of any of the Linux screen readers being ported to FreeBSD. That could be a problem for some people and not an issue

Re: Off-Topic: Computing for the Blind

2012-03-26 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Martin McCormick wrote: There may be several people on this list who are blind, meaning no usable vision to see a screen. I definitely fit that description so I will gladly try to answer questions which ... Hi Martin, cc questions@ Might you be prepared to write a page for the FreeBSD

Re: Off-Topic: Computing for the Blind

2012-03-26 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 26 Mar 2012 14:21:08 -0500, Martin McCormick wrote: The easiest and most economical interface for computer users who are blind is spoken speach. That's correct. However, unlike a Braille readout which gives tactile information (through the reader's hands), synthetic voice cannot

Re: Off-Topic: Computing for the Blind

2012-03-26 Thread Robert Huff
Polytropon writes: Speech recognition requires training. Both the user and the system have to learn from each other. But you have a learning curve everywhere, be it typing, talking, or reading from a Braille output. In the case of speech recognition, that's a curve many might be

Off-Topic: Computing for the Blind

2012-03-25 Thread Barbara La Scala
Apologies for the off topic posting but my stepfather is blind and he wants my advice about how to get online. I have no idea where to start looking for information on hardware and/or software for him. However, I vaguely remember someone on this list saying they were visually impaired. If I'm

Re: Off-Topic: Computing for the Blind

2012-03-25 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 26 Mar 2012 09:33:05 +1100, Barbara La Scala wrote: Apologies for the off topic posting but my stepfather is blind and he wants my advice about how to get online. I have no idea where to start looking for information on hardware and/or software for him. However, I vaguely remember

OFF Topic. FreeBSD SAP Oracle Financials.

2012-01-26 Thread Jorge Biquez
Hello all. I am sorry if this is OFF Topic. I am looking for help from more experienced people in these areas. I am looking for a job and one company is looking for people to create a test team (part of the quality assurance team). Their projects is based on SAP and Oracle Financials

OFF Topic. FreeBSD and Android Development

2012-01-13 Thread Jorge Biquez
and advice on what to use to start are welcome. I am not sure if this kind of off topic could be of interested to the list so please feel free to answer me directly . Thanks in advance. Jorge Biquez ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: OFF Topic. FreeBSD and Android Development

2012-01-13 Thread Chad Perrin
if this kind of off topic could be of interested to the list so please feel free to answer me directly . I think this is, in fact, on-topic for this list. It is a question particular to FreeBSD, which is the point of the freebsd-questions mailing list, as I understand it. -- Chad Perrin [ original

Re: OFF Topic. FreeBSD and Android Development

2012-01-13 Thread Mehmet Erol Sanliturk
your query might draw forth here, though, so I'll be watching this thread. I am not sure if this kind of off topic could be of interested to the list so please feel free to answer me directly . I think this is, in fact, on-topic for this list. It is a question particular to FreeBSD

somewhat Off topic, Sendmail Issue

2011-10-12 Thread Dean E. Weimer
I know this is a Sendmail issue, but I haven't been able to track down any information online, or found any Sendmail user email lists yet. And since I am running it on a FreeBSD server, I thought I would try here and see if anyone knows the answer to my problem. I have enabled SSL on SMTP to

Re: somewhat Off topic, Sendmail Issue

2011-10-12 Thread Daniel Feenberg
On Wed, 12 Oct 2011, Dean E. Weimer wrote: I know this is a Sendmail issue, but I haven't been able to track down any information online, or found any Sendmail user email lists yet. And since I am running it on a FreeBSD server, I thought I would try here and see if anyone knows the answer

Re: somewhat Off topic, Sendmail Issue

2011-10-12 Thread Chuck Swiger
Hi-- On Oct 12, 2011, at 8:29 AM, Dean E. Weimer wrote: I know that setting this option in Apache does the trick for HTTPS, I just need to figure out how to tell Sendmail to do the same. SSLCipherSuite ALL:!aNULL:!eNULL:!LOW:!EXP:!ADH:RC4+RSA:+HIGH:+MEDIUM:!SSLv2 If anyone has any idea how

Re: somewhat Off topic, Sendmail Issue

2011-10-12 Thread Dean E. Weimer
On 12.10.2011 11:30, Daniel Feenberg wrote: There is an active Usenet group at comp.mail.sendmail. Does the ENCR parameter documented at http://www.sendmail.org/m4/starttls.html do you any good? It doesn't restrict the method, only the number of bits in the key. Daniel Feenberg Well

Re: somewhat Off topic, Sendmail Issue

2011-10-12 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 12/10/2011 20:36, Dean E. Weimer wrote: Well after searching the comp.mail.sendmail list through Google groups, I have come up wiht the following changes. I changed the orignal /etc/make.conf: from this: SENDMAIL_CFLAGS+= -D_FFR_SMTP_SSL to: SENDMAIL_CFLAGS+= -D_FFR_SMTP_SSL

Re: somewhat Off topic, Sendmail Issue

2011-10-12 Thread Dean E. Weimer
On 12.10.2011 15:16, Matthew Seaman wrote: _FFR_TLS_1 is actually already defined in the default sendmail on FreeBSD. See /usr/src/usr.sbin/sendmail/Makefile around line 63. It's also enabled in the ports version of sendmail, so long as you select the WITH_TLS option. I just added this setting

Kind of OFF Topic. Advise pls.

2011-03-18 Thread Jorge Biquez
Hello All. These could sound off topic, I am sorry in advance. I am upgrading an old machine from 7.3 to the latest 8.x release branch. I want to use that machine for 1) catalago/shopping cart solution only, nothing complicated not many users , something simple, personal project to learn

Re: Kind of OFF Topic. Advise pls.

2011-03-18 Thread Zbigniew Szalbot
Content Management                Joomla 1.5 Joomla 1.6 and/or Wordpress depending on your needs E-Commerce PrestaShop Not sure about CRM as I do not use it but I am sure others will have a clue. Warm regards, Zbigniew Szalbot ___

Re: Kind of OFF Topic. Advise pls.

2011-03-18 Thread Gour
On Fri, 18 Mar 2011 11:03:01 -0600 Jorge Biquez jbiq...@intranet.com.mx wrote: 1) catalago/shopping cart solution only, nothing complicated not many users , something simple, personal project to learn and try to sell products. Nothing big. 2) I also want to have a couple of sites running a

Re: Kind of OFF Topic. Advise pls.

2011-03-18 Thread Roland Smith
On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 11:03:01AM -0600, Jorge Biquez wrote: Hello All. These could sound off topic, I am sorry in advance. I am upgrading an old machine from 7.3 to the latest 8.x release branch. Have you looked at what is available in the /usr/ports tree? I want to use that machine

Re: Invitation (waaaaay off-topic)

2011-02-16 Thread Simon Tibble
On 15/02/11 19:09, Chad Perrin wrote: Your attempt to convince people that the way you see the path is the One True Path is distracting people from walking it, which if anything should be regarded as pushing people off the path to argue with them about whether the color of the dust on the path

Re: Invitation (waaaaay off-topic)

2011-02-15 Thread Chad Perrin
be happy to help you grasp the meaning of the terms used there (off-list; this is already getting off-topic enough). You don't have to agree with what's on the page (I only offered the URI as context), but it would be nice if your disagreement actually had something to do with reality. [1] http

Re: Invitation (waaaaay off-topic)

2011-02-14 Thread Simon Tibble
On 14/02/11 23:42, Chad Perrin wrote: On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 09:47:11PM +, Simon Tibble wrote: On 14/02/11 21:12, David Kelly wrote: On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 08:54:59PM +, Simon Tibble wrote: Now, see, I can't help thinking that if we all just abandoned money then the motivation for

Re: Kind of off topic.

2010-12-14 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Mon, 13 Dec 2010 17:21:06 -0600, Jorge Biquez jbiq...@intranet.com.mx wrote: Hello all. A friend is asking me to help him to solve some problem he has in his servers. To some I would be able to connect using ssh, with other just it i snot possible. I remember that on the windows world

Re: Kind of off topic.

2010-12-14 Thread Jorge Biquez
At 03:08 a.m. 14/12/2010, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On Mon, 13 Dec 2010 17:21:06 -0600, Jorge Biquez jbiq...@intranet.com.mx wrote: Hello all. A friend is asking me to help him to solve some problem he has in his servers. To some I would be able to connect using ssh, with other just it i

RE: Kind of off topic.

2010-12-14 Thread Gary Gatten
To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Kind of off topic. At 03:08 a.m. 14/12/2010, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On Mon, 13 Dec 2010 17:21:06 -0600, Jorge Biquez jbiq...@intranet.com.mx wrote: Hello all. A friend is asking me to help him to solve some problem he has in his servers

RE: Kind of off topic.

2010-12-14 Thread Jorge Biquez
- From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Jorge Biquez Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 2010 11:58 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Kind of off topic. At 03:08 a.m. 14/12/2010, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On Mon, 13 Dec 2010

RE: Kind of off topic.

2010-12-14 Thread Michael J. Kearney
-Original Message- From: Michael J. Kearney Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 2010 5:24 PM To: Jorge Biquez Subject: RE: Kind of off topic. ssh to the x-server with xwin32 ... FreeBSD runs with the command: xterm -fn 6x13 -sb -ls -display 192.168.0.2:0 /usr/local/bin/startxfce4

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