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 free...@edvax.de wrote: On Thu, 28 Oct 2010 22:22:26 -0400, Henry Olyer henry.ol...@gmail.com wrote: I

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

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 kl...@thought.org wrote: Sorry: don't bother with this [below]; there

Re: slightly OT... .

2010-10-28 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 28 Oct 2010 22:22:26 -0400, Henry Olyer henry.ol...@gmail.com 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

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,

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 - 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 messages from an AIS receiver) and I'd like to

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 messages from an AIS receiver) and I'd like to

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.

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)

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 BSD

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 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 I have

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. The command

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 though. Why do

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

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

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 of servers

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 those

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

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

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

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

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

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 may

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 secondary that

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 just updated

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 an

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 2003-02-03T16:34:13Z, 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 good

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 combination

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 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 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, when I

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

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 stop

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

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]

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? Default

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 80

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:

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 (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 Windows.

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: Slightly OT: How to remove an odd file... I've got an

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 box I'm going

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

2002-10-13 Thread Rus Foster
On Sun, 13 Oct 2002, Brian McCann 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 box I'm going to convert to FreeBSD real soon)...does anyone know how

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

2002-10-13 Thread Brian McCann
] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Rus Foster Sent: Sunday, October 13, 2002 10:17 AM To: Brian McCann Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Slightly OT: How to remove an odd file... On Sun, 13 Oct 2002, Brian McCann wrote: I've got an interesting question for you all. I've got a file who's

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

2002-10-13 Thread paul
Brian McCann wrote: No go...here's the listing for the file...here's what happens... -rwsr-sr-x1 root root64924 Sep 2 15:24 rm rm: remove write-protected file ` '? y rm: cannot unlink ` ': Operation not permitted Any other ideas? I assume you did this as

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

2002-10-13 Thread Ceri Davies
On Sun, Oct 13, 2002 at 09:00:19AM -0700, paul wrote: Brian McCann wrote: No go...here's the listing for the file...here's what happens... -rwsr-sr-x1 root root64924 Sep 2 15:24 rm rm: remove write-protected file ` '? y rm: cannot unlink ` ': Operation not

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

2002-10-13 Thread joe
On October 13, 2002 09:00 am, paul wrote: Brian McCann wrote: No go...here's the listing for the file...here's what happens... -rwsr-sr-x1 root root64924 Sep 2 15:24 rm rm: remove write-protected file ` '? y rm: cannot unlink ` ': Operation not permitted

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

2002-10-13 Thread Brian McCann
: [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 happens... -rwsr-sr-x1 root root

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 when I