Re: bcw(4) is gone

2007-04-05 Thread Andrés Delfino
On 4/5/07, Daniel Ouellet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And this make it even worst: http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=38746 All good work and good faith to come with better end results is wrongfully drag into mud. I read all the thread and this makes me sick! It only makes me more

Re: bcw(4) is gone

2007-04-05 Thread Andrés Delfino
On 4/5/07, Daniel Ouellet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andris Delfino wrote: What's wrong? They protect their license. Period. Did you read the full tread first before you wrote this? Did you look at the code in CVS, did you even see Marcus reply and why?

Re: bcw(4) is gone

2007-04-05 Thread Andrés Delfino
On 4/5/07, Steven Harms [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This isnt a question of him being wrong, its a question of HOW IT WAS HANDLED. Get it? The simple courtesy of privately emailing someone would have taken 30 seconds and would have saved everyone a bunch of time, energy, and embarrassment. On

Re: bcw(4) is gone

2007-04-05 Thread Andrés Delfino
On 4/5/07, Rogier Krieger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 4/6/07, Andris Delfino [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What's wrong? They protect their license. Period. No one seems to dispute the right of copyright holders to protect their licence. That said, there are more ways than one to protect one's

Re: OpenOffice.org 2.0 works on OpenBSD

2006-06-06 Thread Andrés Delfino
Follow these steps, they worked just fine to me in OpenBSD 3.9: http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanb/documents/openoffice_on_openbsd.html Good luck On 6/6/06, Nikolaus Hiebaum [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, In October of last year, Frank reported that he succeeded in installing OpenOffice 2.0 on

Issue after erroneous package update

2006-06-03 Thread Andrés Delfino
Hi, I updated my packages (pkg_add -u), two of them weren't updated because they had several candidates, so I updated them manually (pkg_add -iu pkg-name). They were curl, and mozilla-firefox. curl updated ok, mozilla-firefox didn't. The error was: Can't install mozilla-firefox-1.5.0.3 because

Re: Issue after erroneous package update

2006-06-03 Thread Andrés Delfino
That worked just fine, after uninstalling that I could install mozilla-firefox-1.5.0.3. Thanks ;) On 6/3/06, steven mestdagh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andris Delfino [2006-06-03, 11:38:13]: Hi, I updated my packages (pkg_add -u), two of them weren't updated because they had several

Re: Recommended window manager for OpenBSD

2006-05-26 Thread Andrés Delfino
I've using ion since a time ago, and I absolutely recommend it to everyone. At least, give it a try, it's pretty handy. Greetings. On 5/26/06, Roger Neth Jr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/26/06, Alexander Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Christopher Nelson wrote: [...] I was wondering what

Suggestion about supported hardware Web pages

2006-05-16 Thread Andrés Delfino
IMHO, it would be useful to identify the hardware which is supported thanks to reverse engineering; so users can always check the pages and buy hardware with open documentation. What do you think? Thanks -- Andris Delfino

Theo opinion of Plan 9

2006-04-02 Thread Andrés Delfino
I would like to know what does Theo think about Plan 9. Just curiosity, :P.

Re: openbsd and the money -solutions

2006-03-24 Thread Andrés Delfino
Please, stop wanting companies to support you. It doesn't work that way. To develop an OS under a licence like the ISC has a big hole: funding. You can't just go: Hey, you use the implementation that I develop and give away for free, you should pay me!. If the pay you, OK, if the don't, well,

Re: openbsd and the money -solutions

2006-03-24 Thread Andrés Delfino
It was the unique Unix-like OS with that licence. Right now, there are tons of other systems. Companies want to invest in Linux-based systems, because of marketing. On 3/24/06, mickey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 08:40:59AM -0300, Andr?s Delfino wrote: Please, stop wanting

Re: openbsd and the money -solutions

2006-03-24 Thread Andrés Delfino
As I have said before, BSD was the unique Unix-like operative system with a ISC-style license. That's why, IMHO, companies invested in it. On 3/24/06, Damien Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 24 Mar 2006, Andris Delfino wrote: Please, stop wanting companies to support you. It doesn't

Re: openbsd and the money -solutions

2006-03-24 Thread Andrés Delfino
Don't do that, that is extortion. If you don't want to make OpenBSD free-as-in-freedom, but not free-as-in-beer; well, there is another thing that might help. Companies will only donate if they gain something, not just code, I'm talking about money. I'm not a legal guy, but: isn't there a way to

Re: flash plugin mozilla-firefox

2006-03-21 Thread Andrés Delfino
As far as I know, that isn't possible. Maybe if you use Mozilla Firefox under Linux emulation (which I have tried, but failed). Since Flash Player is a Linux binary, you must use it with another Linux binary. That's why you should use Opera. Greetings On 3/21/06, Roy Morris [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Is there any p2p in ports which let me search audio files by bit rate?

2006-03-17 Thread Andrés Delfino
I've tried gtk-gnutella, mutella, and mldonkey, but I'd like a client which can search by bit rate. Any suggestion? Thanks

Re: Can't use some characters in xterm/console

2006-03-14 Thread Andrés Delfino
I use the ksh shell. Tried csh in an xterm, no problem there (I can use the characters there). So, is something I can tweak to make them work in ksh? On 3/14/06, David T Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually if you're having the same problems on a tty, you might want to ssh in remotely and

Re: Problems upgrading to 3.8-stable

2006-03-11 Thread Andrés Delfino
I followed the steps in that page using sudo, no problems. On 3/11/06, Mike Loiterman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm following the instructions at http://openbsd.org/stable/html to upgrade to 3.8-stable. Everything works as it is supposed to until I get to the part where I am supposed to copy

Need suggestion for a graphics tablet

2006-03-09 Thread Andrés Delfino
Hi, I want to buy graphics tablet, and would like to know which has better support under OpenBSD. In case I'm using the wrong word, this is what I mean: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphics_tablet Thanks!

Need for a benchmark recommendation

2006-02-04 Thread Andrés Delfino
I need to run a benchmark for testing the temperature of my system, which of these (http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/ports/benchmarks/?only_with_tag=OPENBSD_3_8) do you recommend? Thanks

Re: A small patch to make input style in license.template consistent

2006-01-30 Thread Andrés Delfino
If you talk about obvious things, then a four-digit year is an obvious one... A two-digit one is stupid (maybe Jesus left some hack?)... On 1/30/06, Nick Holland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: AndrC)s Delfino wrote: Maybe it may help someone, :P --- license.template Tue Jun 3 19:37:00

A small patch to make input style in license.template consistent

2006-01-29 Thread Andrés Delfino
Maybe it may help someone, :P --- license.template Tue Jun 3 19:37:00 2003 +++ license.template.1 Sun Jan 29 10:00:22 2006 @@ -5,11 +5,14 @@ should be separated by a comma, e.g. Copyright (c) 2003, 2004 +Note that less than and greater than signs below MUST be removed; +they are

Request for a questions in FAQ

2006-01-29 Thread Andrés Delfino
I think that a What is the preferred way to submit contributions? (and give the exact diff command with prefered arguments, and What is the preferred license when submiting contributions? would answer the two most common questions when someone wants to contribute to the project. Greetings

Re: A small patch to make input style in license.template consistent

2006-01-29 Thread Andrés Delfino
yes, I haven't that typo in the original file, sorry, :P On 1/29/06, Joachim Schipper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Jan 29, 2006 at 10:12:28AM -0300, Andris Delfino wrote: Maybe it may help someone, :P --- license.template Tue Jun 3 19:37:00 2003 +++ license.template.1 Sun Jan

Re: A small patch to make input style in license.template consistent

2006-01-29 Thread Andrés Delfino
Or... somehow I changed that word when sending the message. Anyway, this is the correct diff: --- license.templateTue Jun 3 19:37:00 2003 +++ license.template.1 Sun Jan 29 12:33:55 2006 @@ -5,11 +5,14 @@ should be separated by a comma, e.g. Copyright (c) 2003, 2004 +Note that less

Re: A small patch to make input style in license.template consistent

2006-01-29 Thread Andrés Delfino
Should I do that diff then? On 1/29/06, Jasper Lievisse Adriaanse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 29 Jan 2006 12:35:56 -0300 AndrC)s Delfino [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Or... somehow I changed that word when sending the message. Anyway, this is the correct diff: --- license.template

Safety of a shutdown when no user could log in

2006-01-26 Thread Andrés Delfino
What I'm trying to ask is this: if a user turns on the computer, and can't log in, is it safe to power off the computer without using halt, or shutdown, (ie. pressing the power off button)? Good luck

Re: OpenBSD logo in xlock(1) life mode should be updated

2006-01-13 Thread Andrés Delfino
This is the best I could do, hope you like it. [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type image/x-xpixmap which had a name of life-b.xpm]

Re: Sony DSC T7 camera works with OpenBSD

2006-01-10 Thread Andrés Delfino
same here... again! =). I tried the a snapshot and my camera (Sony DSC-S40) works great. Thanks!!

OpenBSD logo in xlock(1) life mode should be updated

2006-01-10 Thread Andrés Delfino
The logo which one can see is the old daemon, shouldn't it be Puffy now?

Deletion of indirectly -installed packages (dependencies)

2006-01-04 Thread Andrés Delfino
Hi, I want to know if there are any plans to support the deletion of indirectly -installed packages (dependencies). What I want I'm trying to say, is, for example, when one adds package FOO, and that package has tons of dependencies, and one then deletes it, we didn't uninstall all the

IMHO, wsconsctl(8) output when setting variable values should be modified

2005-12-30 Thread Andrés Delfino
I guess wsconsctl(8) output when setting variable values should be slightly modified, since mixerctl and sysctl uses: variable: old_value - new_value, and wsconsctl(8) uses: variable - new_value, as you can see below. $ mixerctl outputs.master=199,199 outputs.master: 199,199 - 199,199 $ sudo

exit and eject should have their second letter in upper-case in cdio(1) help output

2005-12-20 Thread Andrés Delfino
Since E is an ambiguous command, one must use either type EJ or EX to eject a cd or otherwise exit cdio, but both have an E shorcut. That's why these two lines must be changed: { CMD_EJECT, eject, 1, } to: { CMD_EJECT, eject, 2, }, { CMD_QUIT, exit, 1, }, to: { CMD_QUIT, exit, 2, }, at

Can't make sound working well

2005-11-21 Thread Andrés Delfino
Hi, I have a problem with making sound work under OpenBSD. I have already read the FAQ, but not luck with those, :P. Here are all the datails: I'm using OpenBSD 3.8, i386 platform. My motherboard is a SY-P4VGM one. http://www.soyousa.com/products/proddesc.php?id=273 My chip (VT8233) is

KBD(8) mapping question should accept L as an alternative for ?

2005-11-20 Thread Andrés Delfino
I use the es mapping, but when I install OpenBSD ? key /doesn't work/ (cause I don't mapped my keyboard yet), which is ok. I know why this happens, I can configure the keyboard because I already know where ? is, but someone may try to search for it if he/she doesn't, :P. So, I suggest the