Re: Out of Office AutoReply: [SPAM:##] Greater tool is easy to get AGJ81

2008-12-25 Thread Jerry
On Wed, 24 Dec 2008 13:22:27 -0800
Jason Irwin jir...@ohns.stanford.edu wrote:

In accordance with the University Winter Closure schedule, I will be
out of the office Friday, December 19th - Monday January 5th.  I will
check voice mail and email upon my return in January.

Wonderful; another misconfigured OoO program. When will they ever learn?

-- 
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please resend your mesg to jules.sto...@gmail.com

2008-12-25 Thread julesg
Unfortunately the available space at jul...@stockpredictions.com is 
insufficient;  I keep running out.

So, please use:

jules.sto...@gmail.com




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Re: Out of Office AutoReply: Greater tool is easy to get CD

2008-12-25 Thread Jerry
On Wed, 24 Dec 2008 16:31:10 -0500
Kevin Raleigh kevin.rale...@ledyardbank.com wrote:

Kevin Raleigh is out of the office until Monday,January 4, 2009

Wow, still another incorrectly configured OoO application. This one
comes complete with a legally unenforceable disclaimer. Are you a
friend of Jason Irwin jir...@ohns.stanford.edu by any chance?

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Free 1GB laptop RAM

2008-12-25 Thread Garrett Cooper

Hi guys,
Not sure if anyone would want them, but I have 2 x 512MB DDR667  
working Dimms laying around unused that I'm more than happy to part  
with. Please note that it is standard laptop ram (this is compatible  
with some of the ultra small form factor machines though). So if  
interested give me an email and we'll negotiate shipping or pickup  
(south bay area / Santa cruz).

Thanks!
-Garrett
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OT [was: Out of Office AutoReply: Greater tool ..]

2008-12-25 Thread Ian Smith
On Thu, 25 Dec 2008 06:19:18 -0500 Jerry ges...@yahoo.com wrote:

  On Wed, 24 Dec 2008 16:31:10 -0500
  Kevin Raleigh kevin.rale...@ledyardbank.com wrote:
  
  Kevin Raleigh is out of the office until Monday,January 4, 2009
  
  Wow, still another incorrectly configured OoO application. This one
  comes complete with a legally unenforceable disclaimer. Are you a
  friend of Jason Irwin jir...@ohns.stanford.edu by any chance?

Jerry,

please don't respond to spam, backscatter, misconfigured autoresponders 
and such.  It just adds to the problem.  Clearly someone/s are spamming 
this list and others with mail forged to be from questi...@freebsd.org;
they don't call it the silly season for nothing ..

If you have any helpful suggestions about dealing with spam or anything 
to do with the lists, please send mail to postmas...@freebsd.org offlist 
.. bearing in mind that he's very likely run off his feet right now.

cheers, Ian
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Diwata Hunziker est absent(e).

2008-12-25 Thread Diwata . Hunziker

Je serai absent(e) du  19.12.2008 au 12.01.2009.


Je serai de retour le 12 janvier 2009 et ne manquerai pas de vous répondre.

Dans l'intervalle, je vous souhaite de très belles fêtes de Noël et de fin
d'année.

**

I will back on Monday, 12th January 2009.

Merry Christmas and best wishes for 2009!

Diwata Hunziker
Service des relations extérieures
Ville de Genève


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Maria-Giuseppina Scirocco est absent(e).

2008-12-25 Thread Maria-Giuseppina . Scirocco

Je serai absent(e) du  22.12.2008 au 05.01.2009.

En cas de besoin, veuillez vous adresser à Mme Anne-Marie Page tél. 022 418
42 24, le matin, ou envoyer un courriel à : v...@ville-ge.ch

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Persistent Kernel Variables

2008-12-25 Thread Jason C. Wells

I have a new kernel variable in /boot/device.hints.

kern.timecounter.hardware=i8254

but it's not set during boot.   I have other hints that are set during 
boot.  Why is kern.timecounter.hardware not being set?  How can I fix it.


Later,
Jason
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Re: Really strange resolution problems on xorg with a laptop

2008-12-25 Thread Jeff Laine
On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 04:22:40PM -0500, Aryeh M. Friedman wrote:
 Polytropon wrote:
  On Wed, 24 Dec 2008 11:16:49 -0500, Aryeh M. Friedman 
  aryeh.fried...@gmail.com wrote:

  I have a HP Pavilion dv5000 and any standard xorg app like xterm or
  anything else that comes with xorg seems to work fine but every other X
  application has either HUGE (one character fills the whole screen) fonts
  and/or other weirdness (it could be fonts but who knows) I just did
  a complete reinstall from sources (portmaster) the FB version is
  8-CURRENT (current as of last night) and the ports tree from the same time
  
 
  Check the DPI settings from your monitor and if they match the
  settings in xorg.conf. Some programs calculate font sizes
  according to these values.
 
 
 

 How do I check that... btw your name seems familar ever use a public
 access freebsd machine called m-net?

Maybe this would be useful?

 xdpyinfo | grep -E res|dim 

Helped me in a similar case.


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Re: Persistent Kernel Variables

2008-12-25 Thread Bruce Cran
On Thu, 25 Dec 2008 07:39:18 -0800
Jason C. Wells j...@highperformance.net wrote:

 I have a new kernel variable in /boot/device.hints.
 
 kern.timecounter.hardware=i8254
 
 but it's not set during boot.   I have other hints that are set
 during boot.  Why is kern.timecounter.hardware not being set?  How
 can I fix it.

I think it's something that has to be set later during boot,
via /etc/sysctl.conf.  I tried setting it through /boot/loader.conf and
it didn't work but there's no problem setting it once the system has
booted.

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SMP and ACPI problem ??

2008-12-25 Thread Alain G. Fabry
Hi,

To make a long story shorteverything worked fine on my system (7.0-RELEASE 
FreeBSD). Last night I was updating stuff on my windoswXP guess (under qemu) 
and performed a clean shutdown. 
This morning, after bringing back up my system it has been unbearably slow. 
Without doing anyting to FreeBSD, it suddenly started working in SMP mode - 
recognizing my 2 processors. Before, it never did this...and looking at the 
speed it is going now, I'm happy it didn't.

After googling a bit, I tried to disable ACPI in order to fall back to single 
processor mode, but my system keeps acting up like it never did before. Very 
slow booting and KDM/KDE loading. Once up it's ok until I run a portupgrade or 
such.

1. What are some suggestions as to make it run 'normal' again?

2. Is it possible to make it actually run better in SMP mode?

3. Can my updates on the Qemu WindowsXP host make my FreeBSD system suddenly 
recognize the 2nd CPU? - this doesn't make sense to me but that's the only 
thing I worked on last night.

I hope I can get some pointers as to what could have caused this and what I can 
do to get it back to the way it was.

Thanks in advance,

Alain
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Re: can not start SVNserve

2008-12-25 Thread Mel
On Tuesday 23 December 2008 13:50:59 KES wrote:
 Здравствуйте, KES.

 Вы писали 21 декабря 2008 г., 13:49:04:

 K Здравствуйте, Mel.

 K Вы писали 21 декабря 2008 г., 13:10:47:

 M On Thursday 18 December 2008 09:03:54 KES wrote:
  Здравствуйте, Mel.
 
  Вы писали 18 декабря 2008 г., 9:05:35:
 
  M On Wednesday 17 December 2008 21:02:07 KES wrote:
   Здравствуйте, Mel.
  
   Вы писали 17 декабря 2008 г., 9:11:19:
  
   M On Sunday 14 December 2008 16:11:17 KES wrote:
Здравствуйте, Polytropon.
   
Вы писали 14 декабря 2008 г., 15:11:35:
   
P On Sun, 14 Dec 2008 12:58:55 +0100 (CET), Wojciech Puchar
   
P woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote:
  su: Sorry
 
 
  kes# pw user mod svn -s /bin/bash
  kes# pw user show svn
  svn:*:1005:1005::0:0:SVN user:/nonexistent:/bin/bash
  kes# /usr/local/etc/rc.d/svnserve start
  Starting svnserve.
  su: Sorry

 try to change directory to existent
   
P (1) What's /bin/bash? Check existing shell.
   
P (2) As you said: Check existing directory.
   
P (3) Regarding su, check for wheel group inclusion.
   
home# uname -a
FreeBSD home.kes.net.ua 7.0-STABLE FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE #0: Tue Aug
12 02:11:24 EEST 2008
k...@kes.net.ua:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/KES_KERN_v7 i386 home# pw
user show svn
svn:*:1003:1002::0:0:SVN user:/nonexistent:/usr/sbin/nologin
   
As you can see on 'home' machine svn user has no valid shell also
it has not valid home directory and it is not included into wheel
group
   
But svnserve is started and works fine. With same settings
svnserve does not work on
kes# uname -a
FreeBSD kes.net.ua 7.1-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 7.1-PRERELEASE #: Sun
Nov 23 17:19:12 EET 2008
k...@home.kes.net.ua:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/KES_KERN_v7 i386
  
   M echo 'rc_debug=YES'/etc/rc.conf
   M /usr/local/etc/rc.d/svnserve start
  
   M Show output from /var/log/messages.
  
   kes# kes# /usr/local/etc/rc.d/svnserve start
   /usr/local/etc/rc.d/svnserve: DEBUG: checkyesno: svnserve_enable is
   set to YES. Starting svnserve.
   /usr/local/etc/rc.d/svnserve: DEBUG: run_rc_command: doit: su -m svn
   -c 'sh -c /usr/local/bin/svnserve -d --listen-port=3690
   --foreground -r /var/db/trunk' su: Sorry
 
  M Does this command work from the command line?
  M If not, does it work if called as su -fm rather then su -m?
  M If that does not work, does the primary group svn is supposed to be
  in exist?
 
 
  kes# su -m svn -c 'sh -c /usr/local/bin/svnserve -d --listen-port=3690
  --foreground -r /var/db/trunk' su: Sorry
  kes# su -fm svn -c 'sh -c /usr/local/bin/svnserve -d
  --listen-port=3690 --foreground -r /var/db/trunk' su: Sorry
  kes# pw group show svn
  svn:*:1005:
  kes# cat /etc/group | grep svn
  svn:*:1005:
  kes# pw user show svn
  svn:*:1005:1005::0:0:SVN user:/nonexistent:/bin/bash
 
  As you see it does not work also with -fm option
 
 
  Also I notice next differences between FreeBDS 7.0 and 7.1 (detail
  below) Notice that on both system account is locked, has no valid shell
  and home directory
  on FreeBSD 7.0 when I try to login with svn user it says: This account
  is currently not available. on FreeBSD 7.1 when I try to login with svn
  user it says: su: Sorry Maybe there is a problem with su on FreeBSD
  7.1?
 
 
 
  home# pw user show svn
  svn:*:1003:1002::0:0:SVN user:/nonexistent:/usr/sbin/nologin
  home# su svn
  This account is currently not available.
 
 
  kes# pw user show svn
  svn:*:1005:1005::0:0:SVN user:/nonexistent:/bin/bash
  kes# su svn
  su: Sorry
  kes# pw user mod svn -s /usr/bin/nologin
  kes# pw user show svn
  svn:*:1005:1005::0:0:SVN user:/nonexistent:/usr/bin/nologin
  kes# su svn
  su: Sorry

 M The problem is elsewhere. Probably in pam(3) on the faulty machine. The
 only M change to su.c from 7.0 to 7.1 is fixing a compiler warning. There
 are 3 M instances where su exits with Sorry. All occasions are logged
 to syslog. M Can you dig those log entries up?

 K Dec 21 13:47:54 kes su: kes to root on /dev/ttyp5
 K Dec 21 13:47:58 kes kes: /r/svnserve: DEBUG: checkyesno: svnserve_enable
 is set to YES. K Dec 21 13:47:58 kes kes: /r/svnserve: DEBUG:
 run_rc_command: doit: K su -m svn -c 'sh -c /usr/local/bin/svnserve -d
 K --listen-port=3690 --foreground -r /var/db/trunk'
 K Dec 21 13:47:58 kes su: pam_acct_mgmt: authentication error

 K Yeah, there is problem with pam. Why pam restrict root to run command
 K under other user?

 Strange, but mysql works... ((

 kes# /r/mysql-server start
 /r/mysql-server: DEBUG: checkyesno: mysql_enable is set to YES.
 /r/mysql-server: DEBUG: pid file (/var/db/mysql/kes.net.ua.pid): not
 readable. /r/mysql-server: DEBUG: run_rc_command: start_precmd:
 mysql_prestart /r/mysql-server: DEBUG: checkyesno: mysql_limits is set to
 NO.
 Starting mysql.
 /r/mysql-server: DEBUG: run_rc_command: doit: su -m mysql -c 'sh -c
 /usr/local/bin/mysqld_safe  --defaults-extra-file=/var/db/mysql/my.cnf
 --user=mysql 

Re: Persistent Kernel Variables

2008-12-25 Thread Wojciech Puchar

put it in loader.conf


On Thu, 25 Dec 2008, Jason C. Wells wrote:


I have a new kernel variable in /boot/device.hints.

kern.timecounter.hardware=i8254

but it's not set during boot.   I have other hints that are set during boot. 
Why is kern.timecounter.hardware not being set?  How can I fix it.


Later,
Jason
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Security Exploits...to report, or not to report?

2008-12-25 Thread Modulok
List,

This isn't really FreeBSD related, but I have no one else to consult:

I was given an FTP account on a server for company X. Being a UNIX
guy, I did some poking around and discovered a security flaw in how
they set their web server up, which would permit anyone at the company
with an FTP account, to intercept ANY data that passed through the
company website.

Question:
Do I tell them about it? On the one hand I want to do the 'right
thing' and tell them about it and how to fix it. On the other, I don't
want to be criminally prosecuted for finding the flaw. I'm not
implying that they would do such a thing, but in order to find said
flaw, I had to be poking around.

Suggestions?
-Modulok-
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Re: Security Exploits...to report, or not to report?

2008-12-25 Thread APseudoUtopia
On Thu, Dec 25, 2008 at 4:39 PM, Modulok modu...@gmail.com wrote:
 List,

 This isn't really FreeBSD related, but I have no one else to consult:

 I was given an FTP account on a server for company X. Being a UNIX
 guy, I did some poking around and discovered a security flaw in how
 they set their web server up, which would permit anyone at the company
 with an FTP account, to intercept ANY data that passed through the
 company website.

 Question:
 Do I tell them about it? On the one hand I want to do the 'right
 thing' and tell them about it and how to fix it. On the other, I don't
 want to be criminally prosecuted for finding the flaw. I'm not
 implying that they would do such a thing, but in order to find said
 flaw, I had to be poking around.

 Suggestions?
 -Modulok-

Personally, I'd tell them.
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Re: FreeBSD and OpenCL

2008-12-25 Thread Mel
On Tuesday 23 December 2008 00:46:29 Eduardo Morras wrote:
 Hello:

 Is there any plan to implement/use the new OpenCL standard in
 FreeBSD? What's needed to use/implement it? Better
 nvidia/ati/intel/other gpu drivers? I don't want to switch my data
 crunching apps from FreeBSD to linux/windows due to this technology
 is already working there.


 http://www.khronos.org/opencl/

What is working where?
http://www.khronos.org/developers/resources/opencl/

There are no implementations that I can see, only some header files defining 
an API, a spec that describes the API, but nothing to link your program with. 
This also shouldn't be implemented in FreeBSD, but in Xorg as far as I can 
tell, as it is primarily graphics related. Maybe some parts need to be 
implemented in the FreeBSD kernel, but the API is merely an interface to 
underlying hardware and without that, not much you can do with it as creating 
software emulation defeats it's purpose.

-- 
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Problem with today's modular software: they start with the modules
and never get to the software part.
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Re: Security Exploits...to report, or not to report?

2008-12-25 Thread Wojciech Puchar

I was given an FTP account on a server for company X. Being a UNIX
guy, I did some poking around and discovered a security flaw in how
they set their web server up, which would permit anyone at the company
with an FTP account, to intercept ANY data that passed through the
company website.

Question:
Do I tell them about it?


it looks like lack of basic skills of their admin.
if you'll tell him, you won't even hear thanks or in worst case you will 
end in court.



just make use of it
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Re: Security Exploits...to report, or not to report?

2008-12-25 Thread Sahil Tandon
Modulok wrote:

 I was given an FTP account on a server for company X. Being a UNIX
 guy, I did some poking around and discovered a security flaw in how
 they set their web server up, which would permit anyone at the company
 with an FTP account, to intercept ANY data that passed through the
 company website.
 
 Question:
 Do I tell them about it? On the one hand I want to do the 'right
 thing' and tell them about it and how to fix it. On the other, I don't
 want to be criminally prosecuted for finding the flaw. I'm not
 implying that they would do such a thing, but in order to find said
 flaw, I had to be poking around.

Report it.  If you are afraid of prosecution, and do not wish to be
contacted by anyone, create a gmail (yahoo, or whatever) account to send
the message and do so from a location that can not be traced to you.

-- 
Sahil Tandon sa...@tandon.net
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Can't find the `7.0-RELEASE-p7' distibution

2008-12-25 Thread Roy Stuivenberg
Hello,

I have FreeBSD 7-RELEASE, and upgraded to point 7.
When I try to install packages/ports with sysinstall (FTP) it won't work and
give me this message.

Warning: Can't find the `7.0-RELEASE-p7' distribution on this
FTP server. You may need to visit a different server for
the release you are trying to fetch or go to the Options
menu and to set the release name to explicitly match what's
available on ftp.freebsd.org (or set to any).
Would you like to select another FTP server?

I have already tried multiple ftp locations, but always get the same
result.
Search the web for answers, and did not find any.

That's my Question.
Regards,
Roy.
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Re: Perl 5.10?

2008-12-25 Thread Tim Judd

Jerry wrote:

On Tue, 23 Dec 2008 04:06:46 -0800 (PST)
Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum bg271...@yahoo.com wrote:

  

Its now just over a year since Perl 5.10.0 was relased, but its still
not in FreeBSD. (/usr/ports/lang only has 5.8). 


Can someone tell me why? Is there any way to get it working stably? Is
there any schedule for when it will be added? This is a major release
of a major language, not an obscure maintenence update.



I asked that same question on the FreeBSD-Ports forum a few months
ago; however, I never did receive a satisfactory answer. I believe it
is readily apparent that it will not be included with the next release
of FreeBSD; i.e., '7.1'.

Since it does seem to work quite well under Linux, I was wondering
if there was some fundamental flaw in FBSD that prevented it from
working correctly here. Even so, failing to get  a major project like
Perl running properly in over a year on FBSD does not bode well for the
OS.

  
on the contrary, when 5.8 was released, it took a long time to move to 
that.  And when I asked that question on IRC (why 5.10 isn't currently 
used), it was described to me that the 5.6 to 5.8 move broke 
everything and caused lots of headache.  World and Kernel used to (at 
least) use perl as a glue to make stuff works.  I bet there's at least 
some 5.8 glue for world or kernel.


You can always download the source and compile it yourself.  Perl's 
popular enough that I bet it'll compile fine.


I hear it completely as:
   1) World glue may break, and until you can be sure it'll work okay, 
wait.
   2) Kernel glue may break, and until you can be sure it'll work okay, 
wait.
   3) Ports glue/dependencies may break, and until you can be sure 
it'll work okay, wait.


Given it's taken a year (I didn't realize it was that long) for this 
wait/check to happen, there must be something holding it up.  You might 
be able to coexist 5.10 and 5.8 -- except the symlink 'perl' will point 
to ONE of them.  I suggest you point it at 5.8


Good luck.
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Re: Perl 5.10?

2008-12-25 Thread Bruce Cran
On Thu, 25 Dec 2008 18:47:21 -0700
Tim Judd taj...@gmail.com wrote:

 Jerry wrote:
  On Tue, 23 Dec 2008 04:06:46 -0800 (PST)
  Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum bg271...@yahoo.com wrote:
 

  Its now just over a year since Perl 5.10.0 was relased, but its
  still not in FreeBSD. (/usr/ports/lang only has 5.8). 
[...]
 on the contrary, when 5.8 was released, it took a long time to move
 to that.  And when I asked that question on IRC (why 5.10 isn't
 currently used), it was described to me that the 5.6 to 5.8 move
 broke everything and caused lots of headache.  World and Kernel used
 to (at least) use perl as a glue to make stuff works.  I bet there's
 at least some 5.8 glue for world or kernel.

perl was removed from the base system back in 2002
(http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-announce/2002-May/000823.html)
so there can't be anything in the world or kernel build that depends on
it. It's one of the first things installed during an initial ports
installation though.

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how to use kde konqueror with my .ISO file?

2008-12-25 Thread Gary Kline

guys,

i burned the iso file from my ubuntu platform, and it is valid.  i
can use a gnome tool to bring up the gnome broswer and read all
the files here on my main, FBSD box.

but i'd rather use konqueror and its tts function to read aloud
the texts.  whenever i point konqueror at the ISO file in /usr/tmp,
it spamds the K3B burner.  it doesn't reconzide the DVD for
unknown reasons.  anybody know what's up?

thanks,

gary


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Dell 2850 use 32 or 64 bit?

2008-12-25 Thread Tim Kellers
I just bought a Dell 2850 (2 2.8GHZ dual core processors).  The server 
will be used as a webserver, e-mail server. and a db server (both 
PostgresQL and My SQL  Beyond the breaking of the 4 Gig RAM barrier, is 
there any compelling reason to use a 32 bit i386 or a 64 bit AMD OS?  
The machine currently has just a gig of RAM but I'm going to add more, 
soon.  The machine runs headless and has no xorg, installed.


A pointer to an article that discusses the 32 bit v 64 bit question 
would be appreciated as well.


dell# uname -a
FreeBSD dell.smsd.tv 7.1-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 7.1-PRERELEASE #0: Thu Dec 
25 04:12:57 EST 2008 r...@dell.smsd.tv:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/DELL  i386



TIA

Tim Kellers
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Re: Dell 2850 use 32 or 64 bit?

2008-12-25 Thread Tim Judd

Tim Kellers wrote:
I just bought a Dell 2850 (2 2.8GHZ dual core processors).  The server 
will be used as a webserver, e-mail server. and a db server (both 
PostgresQL and My SQL  Beyond the breaking of the 4 Gig RAM barrier, 
is there any compelling reason to use a 32 bit i386 or a 64 bit AMD 
OS?  The machine currently has just a gig of RAM but I'm going to add 
more, soon.  The machine runs headless and has no xorg, installed.


A pointer to an article that discusses the 32 bit v 64 bit question 
would be appreciated as well.


dell# uname -a
FreeBSD dell.smsd.tv 7.1-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 7.1-PRERELEASE #0: Thu Dec 
25 04:12:57 EST 2008 r...@dell.smsd.tv:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/DELL  
i386



TIA

Tim Kellers
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it's more important to know the CPU inside the machine, by model number 
instead of the model of the outer case.


If windows is still on it, run the cpu identification utility from 
intel, IF it's an intel cpu.  The id utility will tell you if it's 
64-bit capable.


Using Dell's service tag and looking at warranty/original system config 
might be a good resource too.


Good luck.
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