Re: Can One Query an Oracle 10 Data Base under FreeBSD?
On Tuesday 02 June 2009 17:07:57 Gary Gatten wrote: Surely there's a native Oracle SQL or ODBC client in the ports collection. Have you checked there? I believe OP is looking for assurances that the oracle 7 and 8 clients listed in ports/databases would work. If he just needs a connection and to run ANSI SQL, it would work just as fine or maybe a little better than ODBC. The problem is that some things are not supported in the 7/8 clients that he may want. In that case, he should be looking at running the linux-based clients for more direct supportability from Oracle. IMO, it is a case of using the wrong tool if optimal performance is a requirement. There are plenty of up-to-the-minute databases and clients for FreeBSD that are not Oracle. Otherwise, the older versions are just fine, and I haven't had any truly serious performance problems. ymmv. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Honey pot email address
On Friday 01 May 2009 23:57:46 Andrew wrote: Hi All, I've created a honey pot email address for SPAM. Does anyone have any ideas on how to get on as many spammers mailing lists as possible? Subscribe to anything that promises FREE games or graphical amusements of the salacious and binary nature. That, or you could tell your upper management that this is a safe email address to give out when filling out forms. (Not that they *would* mind you -- they prefer to use their company email for that, with predictable results.) But I digress. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: who took my cd drive?
On Monday 02 March 2009 12:52:58 prad wrote: i'm trying to install fbsd71 on a ibm thinkpad i1200 via cdrom. it boots fine from the cd, but then when i choose cd for media it says No CD/DVD devices found! huh?? how so? what can be done? (i can install through nfs so it is not a lost cause by any means, but what's going on here?) I did. I am in ur howse steelin ur 1's. perlcat. srsly, what does dmesg and /dev say? CD's can be mounted through the USB bus or a different bus. My guess is that your CD isn't connected internally via PCI, and you're just missing a driver. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: USB Flash Drives
On Friday 12 December 2008 05:11:26 Manolis Kiagias wrote: fixer wrote: I just discovered flash drives. They are very easy to use on Windows. I don't know if FreeBSD supports these drives. But if FreeBSD does, I need instructions on how-to-use. Thanks in advance for anyone who can help. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/usb-disks.html Generally speaking, using an ms-dos (fat/fat32) formatted flash drive is as simple as this: - plug - get device name (probably da0) with dmesg |tail - mount as root in /mnt: mount -t msdofs /dev/da0s1 /mnt the one thing that ought to be added to the mount statement: use your username -- that way, if you're using something like konqueror, you don't have rights issues. I know some use perms and open it up for group or world write -- but username helps you keep up good habits, and good habits will keep you out of trouble. It's in the man page -- but here's a reminder: mount_msdosfs -u username /dev/da1s1 /mnt/usb ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Why FreeBSD not popular on hardware vendors
On Thursday 11 December 2008 13:55:04 Chad Perrin wrote: On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 08:32:20PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: Please stop trolling. having different opinion than yours isn't trolling. and i WILL NOT stop writing my opinions just because your is different. It's not just that you have a different opinion than me -- it's that every time someone brings up anything related to migration from some other OS to FreeBSD, you basically tell them to go away. This is unproductive, leads to endless argument on the mailing list, and generally makes everyone unhappy. That sounds suspiciously like trolling to me. In Wojciech's defense, he is technically skilled, has found use for FreeBSD, and spends his time on the mailing list answering questions. I enjoy his opinions, and if FreeBSD ever needed a BOFH, he'd be my first choice. Not to say that he knows everything about everything -- that's my Ex's job. The answers he gives are somewhat abrupt and definitely coloured by his experiences and ego -- if you want your hand held, he is not your guy. However, he has valid points, and isn't trolling. It's just who he is. It's a cultural thing, and his input is valuable enough that I don't filter him out or stir him up. If you recall, on the mailing list, there are cautions not to waste people's time with FAQ questions due to the response they may get, and from what I've seen over time, the people on the list have been kind and gone well beyond the 'RTFM' answer I'd have given most inquiries if it was up to me. I guess what I'm saying is that Wojciech acts well within the expected guidelines on the list, and if you don't like his answers, you certainly are not obligated to respond. I don't respond to 99% of his responses, but I am seeing a dogpile coming on, and I'm not so sure that's a good idea. If we want FreeBSD to grow to where vendors pick up obscure and not-so-obscure devices and support it more than it is now, we need publicity. If we need publicity, we need marketing types. If we need marketing types, we need to pay them, and we need to put up with them, and even be nice to them. I'm not so sure I want to pay that price. As it stands right now, it's a meritocracy -- those with the skills share their work with others with the skills. It is bound together by the respect we have for each other, and there's not much name-calling going on. The product is technically sound, has better hardware support than other *ixes (I run OpenBSD on servers -- but not on the laptop beause of the lack of laptop support), and gets the job done well. The documentation is simply phenomenal. I'm good with that. I'm also more than pleased that there are barriers to entry based upon a basic unix knowledge level -- I've had one too many encounters with the unwashed to want to go that direction. Linux developers spend more time catering to that crowd, and IMO, it suffers for it as much as it benefits from it. If someone wants to commercialize FreeBSD, they are welcome to do so within the terms of the license -- the more the merrier. But asking the list to hand-hold is a bit much -- we're adults here with real jobs that we should be doing. Getting an opinion from a person with skills isn't such a bad thing, and I think the list benefits from his knowledge. To be completely honest, I'd rather get the right information from a person who cannot relate than no answer at all from people who are more friendly. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Why FreeBSD not popular on hardware vendors
On Thursday 11 December 2008 19:58:14 Chad Perrin wrote: On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 05:00:11PM -0800, prad wrote: On Thu, 11 Dec 2008 17:28:13 -0700 i don't think that's really what is happening, chad. i think there is just some disagreement as to what is considered an improvement. So . . . are you saying that increased support for 3D accelerated graphics is not an improvement, and should therefore not be considered a worthy goal? Not so much considered 'unworthy' as it is a balancing of limited resources. If I was a hardware programmer, had unlimited time, beer, and cheese dip, I'd add everything just because I could. It would be cool if there was a way to ensure that all foo items would be supported. However, even then, high performance video would lag. It is often proprietary, and many vendors simply won't publish their specs and need a reverse engineer to get any support at all. You can't force them to do it, and in the case of an open source OS, they may not want the world+dog to see their code for any number of reasons. nVidia is a rare exception, and even they are not going to put FreeBSD support at the top of their list. Unless you have a job at some video chipset maker, and are of a truly generous spirit, willing to risk your job in order to publish drivers, it really doesn't matter what priority the powers that be give to video acceleration -- we can't ask anyone to risk their job just so foo works. If the graphics devices themselves are sub-optimal, getting related systems up to a razor-sharp performance level is like putting nitro and a supercharger in your Lada. You'd have to put it in the back seat, because there's no room in the engine compartment for it. That is also why the high performance fax cards I work with only run on windows machines. (that's gotta be about the greatest number of oxymorons in one sentence -- my brain had two core dumps just parsing it...) Long story short, there's room for all types. Enjoy the diversity. Fix what you can. Avoid the problems you can. Use the appropriate tools for their best purposes. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: G4U inquiry
On Thursday 04 December 2008 14:44:40 Jean-Paul Natola wrote: I have a bsd box with a 12 gig drive- I'm going to get a new drive (larger) to replace it as it is quite old and slow - My question is when I clone it with g4u where will the extra space go it's in the faq. http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/#disks 5.4 A word on disk sizes The question how g4u deals with different disk sizes arises a lot too. The general answer is, g4u works best with identical disk sizes geometry. Putting an image from a small disk on a big disk works, putting an image from a big disk to a small disk is likely to cause problems. If you cannot avoid preparing an image on a big disk that'll get deployed to a small disk later, make sure the extra space is not occupied by a active partition or filesystem, else data loss is very likely to occur! If you intend to deploy a small image to a big disk, the extra space that's not covered by g4u can be used for creating a partition and a filesystem. You will have to do that on your own, e.g. using your operating systems' post installation steps. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD and hardware??
Once you fix basic problems like these, then we can talk about how to redefine ease of use. Bob McConnell ease of use is always relative to the person using. Ease of use is also relative to the training investment. In X, a moderate investment some 20-odd years ago still pays, even through the evolvement of interfaces like KDE, which follows the same general structure. With certain other commercial products, you get to learn it again, and again, and again. What I've had to re-learn to support Windows 1.1, 2.0. 3.0. 3.11, 95, NT, ME, 2000, XP, and Vista has changed dramtically over the years, and they're not done making it usable for the lowest common denominator yet, especially when you throw in de-enhancements like (un)FriendlyTree, a.k.a. Where the @[EMAIL PROTECTED] are my files?!?!?!. This is why I can easily justify teaching my elders FreeBSD -- they unquestionably have more to learn, but they only learn it once, so the investment pays off. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
rdesktop disappears into the background, related to upgrade
I have two machines running FreeBSD -- a desktop running 6.2-RELEASE synced and built January 2007 and a laptop running 7.0-STABLE. On the desktop, I can run rdesktop over the vpn attached to 127.0.1.10:33890. Works great. On the laptop, I can start rdesktop, but it disappears into the background immediately after starting -- I can find the process ID and kill it, but I can never get to the remote machine. I've tried manually running it as rdesktop -f -a8 -rsound:off -rclipboard:PRIMARYCLIPBOARD -b -0 -4 127.0.1.10:33890 for some conservative settings, but no luck. Could this be an Xauthority issue, or does anybody have any ideas? I've gone so far as reinstalling 6.2-RELEASE on a test machine with no luck, so whatever changed (it wasn't rdesktop -- get the same failure if I run the desktop rdesktop binary from the laptop, and I am highly unwilling to csup and upgrade my one working system.) I need to stop obsessing over this and get to work... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Help! Tape drive resets the server!
On Wednesday 27 August 2008 10:22:52 Kirk Strauser wrote: I have a Seagate DDS-4 tape drive: sa0 at sym0 bus 0 target 3 lun 0 sa0: SEAGATE DAT9SP40-000 912L Removable Sequential Access SCSI-3 device sa0: 40.000MB/s transfers (20.000MHz, offset 16, 16bit) It's attached to a Tekram DC390F SCSI card: Is it possible that the drive itself is triggering the reset? I'd find that a little unlikely, but am certainly not an expert on the matter. Alternatively, has anyone had that sort of problem with drives attached to that card? 1) try a different scsi cable. 2) Are you using adapters? Get the right cable. One new, known good cable, no adapters. 3) Yes, it's possible that your drive is doing this, but more likely you have a bent pin/short somewhere causing the scsi bus to reset, and your kernel isn't handling this nicely. Check your pins. They bend easy, but a mechanical pencil with no lead in it can help you with that. 4) Is your termination auto or physical? 5) Is the tape drive manually jumped for a specific ID? I assume that it is set for 3. Try 4. 6) Try a slower transfer rate. Can you dump the SCSI sense codes that are being seen on the SCSI bus? That will most likely tell you whats going on right there. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OT:KVM Switch
Watch out for KVMs that use the scroll-lock key to switch computers, though. That makes using scrollback history on the console a pain. That would be the 8-port Belkins that I use... Bummer. $40 in ebay, usually. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
