notes on kde4.4 and pcbsd...

2010-05-14 Thread Gary Kline
my 17 pennies' worth {allowing for inflation}, i just thought i would tell anybody who is thinking of trying pcbsd to be careful of jumping. it is a bare min of two days for me to install a new OS and get it even slightly close to customized. awhile earlier i tried to get the kde4 version of

If you died tomorrow, what would you like your loved ones to know?

2010-05-14 Thread MentoMori-Global
MentoMori If you died tomorrow, what would you like your loved ones to know? We know this is a difficult topic, but we also know that most of us want to leave something behind. A story, a farewell, maybe some instructions. In case of the unexpected, but also as something planned, something to

Re: [kde-freebsd] Stop in /usr/ports/devel/qt4-assistant

2010-05-14 Thread Max Brazhnikov
On Thu, 13 May 2010 03:54:46 -0700 (PDT), Dino Vliet wrote: Hi people, I get this error when trying to install kde4 on my amd64 system. I had everything removed first (I didn't like the way I have installed it in the past) with pkg_delete -fxvir kde and qt. The error I get is:

Re: BSDStats: Project Status on May 13th, 2010

2010-05-14 Thread Jorge Medina
On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 5:05 PM, Marc G. Fournier scra...@hub.org wrote: Status:  Over the past two weeks, there has been alot of work performed on the backend, including fixing a few bugs that were recently reported.  As a result of using HAProxy to load balance and help ensure uptime for

RE: user friendliest gui

2010-05-14 Thread Jean-Paul Natola
You only need one of the last two things. You have to decide: a) Want X? Use Tcl/Tk. Install both tcl and tk ports. Examples in /usr/local/lib/tkversion/demos. b) Work in text mode? Use dialog. Comes with base system. Examples in /usr/share/examples/dialog. c) Work in text

RE: user friendliest gui

2010-05-14 Thread Gary Gatten
snip No experience at all implementing shell wrappers, I tried installing tcltutor and that's bombing out allover the place. this is getting too complex, I think I'll load just a desktop gui , and put a clamav icon on the desktop and just have them right click and scan drive Then perhaps

Re: FWIW, a datapoint.

2010-05-14 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 13 May 2010 22:00:47 -0700, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: well, still same on my laptop after days of trying to fix the thinkpad keyboard that made the box all but unusable. xev thinks the caps lock is a left control key. i have given up for now. {yes,

Re: user friendliest gui

2010-05-14 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 14 May 2010 13:13:35 +, Jean-Paul Natola jnat...@familycareintl.org wrote: No experience at all implementing shell wrappers, It's like writing a batch script under DOS. I tried installing tcltutor and that's bombing out allover the place. So implementing a Tcl/Tk based GUI for

1 Gbit ipsec performance

2010-05-14 Thread Omer Faruk Sen
Hi, Is anyone here in this list able to find a card that have gained 1 Gbit encryption (or at least 800 mbits/s) that works for FreeBSD 8.0 or FreeBSD 8.0-Stable? It seems that Hifn support is not good at all (new chipsets are not supported). Or maybe I am wrong so it is best to ask to this list.

cpuset at boot time or separating processes by CPU

2010-05-14 Thread Sylvio Cesar Teixeira
Hi list, I'm with a need to run the cpuset for certain processes, for example: run VirtualBox on CPU 1; run firefox on CPU 0; and the other processes are balanced between the CPU 0 and 1. I can do this separation, but only with the root, but I need to do as a regular user. is it possible?

Re: If you died tomorrow, what would you like your loved ones to know?

2010-05-14 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Friday, May 14, 2010 10:02:11 +0200 MentoMori-Global i...@mentomoriglobal.com wrote: MentoMori If you died tomorrow, what would you like your loved ones to know? I would want them to know that they are on their own now. I'm pretty sure they will have already figured that out. --

UFS Journaling

2010-05-14 Thread Mike Barnard
Hi, I'm trying out gjournal before I implement if on one server. I require more than 8 partitions, but since I cannot do this, have 9 partitions on one slice, I have created two slices on the disk, da0s1 (100GB) and da0s2 (40GB). On the first slice, I have my usual partitions. On the second

Re: Small computer to run a GUI?

2010-05-14 Thread Liontaur
Thanks for your tips and suggestions all. I ended up going with a mini itx atom solution with a SSD drive to keep the heat down some more. I'll let you know how it goes since i'll be putting FreeBSD on it. It's going to be a web browser mostly so we'll see how it goes. Thanks again. Mark

Re: Small computer to run a GUI?

2010-05-14 Thread Mehmet Erol Sanliturk
On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 2:02 PM, Liontaur liont...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for your tips and suggestions all. I ended up going with a mini itx atom solution with a SSD drive to keep the heat down some more. I'll let you know how it goes since i'll be putting FreeBSD on it. It's going to be a

kuickshow-kde4

2010-05-14 Thread ajtiM
FreeBSD 8.0, KDE 4.4.3 and Kuickshow-KDE4 0.9.1.4.4.0 which doesn't show pictures. It opend but everything is gray. It start after updtae Xorg 7.5. I use ati video drivers. Thanks. Mitja http://starikarp.redbubble.com ___

Re: If you died tomorrow, what would you like your loved ones to know?

2010-05-14 Thread Jerry
On Fri, 14 May 2010 09:47:02 -0500 Paul Schmehl pschmehl_li...@tx.rr.com articulated: --On Friday, May 14, 2010 10:02:11 +0200 MentoMori-Global i...@mentomoriglobal.com wrote: MentoMori If you died tomorrow, what would you like your loved ones to know? I would want them to know

Re: USB1.1 WIFI adapted recommendation

2010-05-14 Thread Chris Whitehouse
mikel king wrote: I am refurbishing a laptop that only has USB1.1 and now built-in WIFI. Anyone with experience in these devices able to make a recommendation for a reliable device? I have an old Belkin F5D7050 USB wifi adapter - you can still buy them. May 14 20:45:17 muji2 kernel: ugen4.4:

xfce display

2010-05-14 Thread Jean-Paul Natola
Hi all, I installed Xorg and xfce when I start it (/usr/local/bin/startxfce) my screen just shows vertical lines of many different colors on the screen, The monitor (fairly old gateway 15 lcd) works fine in regular text mode, on windows os's as well. I do see this in the log (II) Module

ipfw natd rules not loading on startup

2010-05-14 Thread umage
I performed a kernel+world update of my freebsd router, RELENG_8 branch, apparently from the version 6 months ago to current. I use ipfw and a shell script that gets loaded at startup. I noticed after rebooting that ipfw did not load two rules, both of type divert natd. However, if I run the

Re: ipfw natd rules not loading on startup

2010-05-14 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 02:33:10AM +0200, umage wrote: I performed a kernel+world update of my freebsd router, RELENG_8 branch, apparently from the version 6 months ago to current. I use ipfw and a shell script that gets loaded at startup. I noticed after rebooting that ipfw did not load two

Re: Very simple file sharing between FreeBSD server and

2010-05-14 Thread Bill Tillman
I've watched this thread for several days now and to put in my 2 cents:   1. Samba is not that complicated. I've been using it for years and can have it up and configured in a matter of minutes.   2. Samba quickly allows you to see your FreeBSD servers from your windows clients just like it was

devel/autoconf262 (autoconf-2.62)

2010-05-14 Thread n dhert
When doing porutgprades, every time the report contains an ignore for autoconf262 --- Listing the results (+:done / -:ignored / *:skipped / !:failed) - devel/autoconf262 (autoconf-2.62) (other portupgrades are upgraded normally) pkg_info | grep autoconf shows I have: autoconf-2.62