On Sat, Mar 06, 2010 at 04:49:16AM +0100, Polytropon wrote:
[SNAFU]
That's the situation with Flash. And as I have experienced
it, I can honestly say that I'm fine without Flash. I may
review my opinion, if given some reason to do so.
But as it has already been mentioned, that's a very
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On Fri, 5 Mar 2010 16:58:20 -0600 Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com wrote:
In the last episode (Mar 05), Peter Steele said:
What's the proper way to calculate kernel/user/idle time? I know the raw
values come from sysctl
On Sat, 6 Mar 2010 09:03:58 +0100, Sabine Baer bae...@t-online.de wrote:
Well, it is, indeed. Me I am very glad beeing able to do eg
linux-opera -display :0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhmf4l4OxNw
since I live in a Windows free zone at home.
Well, there's always youtube-dl -a for that. Just
On Sat, 6 Mar 2010 08:46:16 -, Graham Bentley ad...@cpcnw.co.uk wrote:
Points very well made. In fact shouldn't we be campaigning against
such closed source perversion of our Open Standards Internet, not
complaining that one company doesn't make a media content viewer
for us?
In fact, if
Pongthep Kulkrisada ptkris...@gmail.com wrote:
* Warren Block (wbl...@wonkity.com) wrote:
When you upgrade from 7.x to 8.x, it's necessary to rebuild
*all* ports.
...
Some people only use console, they should rebuild all ports
relating to their work.
They do not have to rebuild KDE or
On Fri, 5 Mar 2010 23:02:36 -, Graham Bentley ad...@cpcnw.co.uk
wrote:
It looks very bad for browsing web without flash viewer.
I think it looks great - no ads !!! Hurray !!!
I may politely add that exactly this is the reason I removed
a working Flash support from my system. I
Leslie Jensen wrote:
If it's a wireless you need to set wlan0 as described in the handbook.
This is new from version 8.
The handbook hasn't been updated yet, but the man page for ath has all the
details:
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ath
These commands work for me:
ifconfig
Piotr Lukawski plukaw...@googlemail.com wrote:
... I really cannot understand why nobody can change
just one parameter and put the file in a proper place in
ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/8.0-RELEASE/floppies/
I seem to remember something about the floppy images being dropped
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On 06/03/2010 09:26:22, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote:
I seem to remember something about the floppy images being dropped
because few current (or even recent) systems have a floppy drive at
all, much less a bootable one.
Yeah, but the floppy disk
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 11:53 PM, Jerry ges...@yahoo.com wrote:
Adobe, a commercial entity, obviously feels that the cost of
supporting the FreeBSD community is not a financially prudent business
venture.
Well, that's their decision, of course. However, Linux and FreeBSD
aren't so far apart
On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 9:25 AM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote:
On Sat, 6 Mar 2010 09:03:58 +0100, Sabine Baer bae...@t-online.de wrote:
Well, it is, indeed. Me I am very glad beeing able to do eg
linux-opera -display :0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhmf4l4OxNw
since I live in a Windows
On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 10:01 AM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote:
If they don't want to make one, there's no way to convince
them. Since the majority of free and standardized operating
systems isn't oriented at market share, there is no reason
for Adobe to follow a crying Please! :-)
There
On Sat, 6 Mar 2010 12:07:25 +0100, C. P. Ghost cpgh...@cordula.ws wrote:
That's true. I love youtube-dl too, as it helps me keep a local
.flv copy, even for videos that have been removed for one reason
or another.
A very useful feature, especially for offline operations.
However, there are
In many situations, especially for and old or non standard equipment
floppies are the best or even the only solution.
Actually if I haven't found the solution to use floppy to install FreeBSD, I
would be forced to use another system eg. OpenBSD instead, even if I prefer
FreeBSD.
The decision to
On Sat, 6 Mar 2010 12:15:37 +0100, C. P. Ghost cpgh...@cordula.ws wrote:
On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 10:01 AM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote:
If they don't want to make one, there's no way to convince
them. Since the majority of free and standardized operating
systems isn't oriented at
I'm curious if it's possible to get a
pinnacle nanostick 73e
to work with Freebsd.
When inserted /var/log/messages repports the following
root: Unknown USB device: vendor 0x2304 product 0x0237 bus uhub7
kernel: ugen7.2: Pinnacle at usbus7
/Leslie
On Sat, 6 Mar 2010 12:24:30 +0100, Piotr Lukawski plukaw...@googlemail.com
wrote:
In many situations, especially for and old or non standard equipment
floppies are the best or even the only solution.
[...]
The decision to make floppies obsolete is very bad, because it is still
needed by many
On Fri, Mar 05, 2010 at 12:14:15PM +0700, Pongthep Kulkrisada wrote:
Hi all,
I have been using FBSD since 5.4 until now 8.0.
Mostly, I use it as a server and coding C (as my hobby).
All the time I stay in console without fancy of any GUI.
For GUI applications, I mostly use Windows.
Now I
Fbsd1 writes:
just dd the image to what ever drive you want
That is the goal. The challenge is to launch a script
that detects when the boot device has been unmounted as dd will
not work on an active file system.
Memory disk images apparently survive until reboot so
there is a
What system board revision does you're Thinkpad have?
You can use CPU-Z (http://www.cpuid.com/cpuz.php) to check on this.
The revision 3 and above system boards can run 64bit OS's.
Also if you're CPU is one of the following a a BIOS upgrade/setting
may enable the full set of processor
Polytropon writes:
A small addition: In order to be able to use X with an
initialisation file even when not using XDM (i. e. starting X by
startx) AND not having to maintain two startup files (.xsession
and .xinitrc) AND furthermore incorporating shell settings for
the shell of choice
On Mar 5, 2010, at 11:35 PM, Pongthep Kulkrisada wrote:
* Warren Block (wbl...@wonkity.com) wrote:
When you upgrade from 7.x to 8.x, it's necessary to rebuild *all*
ports.
Thanks for your suggestion, but it does not seem likely.
All operating systems can always distinguish the system and
Polytropon writes:
And remember, youtube-dl is a hack. It can break anytime
YT changes its embedding.
That's what make update is used for. :-)
More importantly, it's about the author (and maintainer, if
they're different) fixing things promptly after a change, My
experience
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On Mar 6, 2010, at 1:57 AM, Pongthep Kulkrisada wrote:
So your system is approx. 4 months old, despite you cvsup-ping?
I don't know what do you mean.
Normally, FBSD issues new STABLE RELEASE once a year (approx).
Whenever new release or new branch is available,
I shall do either wget iso
Chuck Swiger writes:
For all practical purposes, if you upgrade to a new major
version, then you must rebuild all installed ports.
And if you have the time and knowledge to not have to do this
... you're probably not involved in the discussion to begin with.
:-)
On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 2:54 PM, Robert Huff roberth...@rcn.com wrote:
And remember, youtube-dl is a hack. It can break anytime
YT changes its embedding.
That's what make update is used for. :-)
More importantly, it's about the author (and maintainer, if
they're different) fixing
On Mar 6, 2010, at 4:36 AM, Matthew Seaman wrote:
Having an IPv6-only high-mx seems to terminally confuse most
spambots...
I understand why IPv6 would confuse them, but don't follow why higher
numbered MXs would be more attractive to them in the first place?
Are they assuming a 'secondary'
On Sat, 6 Mar 2010, Matthew Seaman wrote:
On 06/03/2010 06:33:53, Ian Smith wrote:
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 300, Issue 10, Message: 6
On Fri, 05 Mar 2010 16:07:29 + Matthew Seaman
m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk wrote:
On 05/03/2010 15:51:52, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
On Friday 05 of March 2010 17:09:56 Pietro Cerutti wrote:
On 2010-Mar-05, 16:47, Jan Henrik Sylvester wrote:
There has been one more commit on that port:
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/x11-toolkits/fltk/files/patch
-src_filename_list.cxx.diff?r1=1.4;r2=1.5;f=h
That one
Hello all,
I am currently tracking RELENG_8_0. I did a csup last night and noticed that
debug is still enabled in the GENERIC kernel. I thought debugging was
supposed to be left out once the 8 branch went RELEASE? Can anyone shed
light on this subject?
Matthew == Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk writes:
Matthew On the whole, I don't see the value in having a high-numbered MX to
Matthew dumbly accept, queue and forward messages like this.
High-numbered MX came from a time where an internal machine could
only be delivered from
On Sat, Mar 06, 2010 at 03:19:31PM +0200, Ross Cameron wrote:
What system board revision does you're Thinkpad have?
You can use CPU-Z (http://www.cpuid.com/cpuz.php) to check on this.
That looks like a handy tool. Is there a version that will run on
FreeBSD?
--
Chad Perrin [ original
On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 5:42 PM, Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote:
On Sat, Mar 06, 2010 at 03:19:31PM +0200, Ross Cameron wrote:
What system board revision does you're Thinkpad have?
You can use CPU-Z (http://www.cpuid.com/cpuz.php) to check on this.
That looks like a handy tool. Is
Date: Sat, 06 Mar 2010 09:54:38 +
From: Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk
Subject: Re: freebsd install from floppy
To: per...@pluto.rain.com
Cc: questi...@freebsd.org,
plukaw...@gmail.com
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On 3/6/10, C. P. Ghost cpgh...@cordula.ws wrote:
On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 9:25 AM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote:
On Sat, 6 Mar 2010 09:03:58 +0100, Sabine Baer bae...@t-online.de wrote:
Well, it is, indeed. Me I am very glad beeing able to do eg
linux-opera -display :0
On Mar 6, 2010, at 12:44 PM, James Phillips wrote:
Correction: Apple stopped selling computers with floppy drives about
10 years ago. The floppy drive is not obsolete because there is
still no viable replacement that has the same (or better)
functionality.
While I think floppy drives are
On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 1:07 PM, C. P. Ghost cpgh...@cordula.ws wrote:
And remember, youtube-dl is a hack. It can break anytime
YT changes its embedding. I wished YouTube would switch
to HTML5, or at least added this as an option.
Actually this option exists
http://www.youtube.com/html5
The
On 3/6/10, Jason Garrett kinged...@gmail.com wrote:
Hello all,
I am currently tracking RELENG_8_0. I did a csup last night and noticed that
debug is still enabled in the GENERIC kernel. I thought debugging was
supposed to be left out once the 8 branch went RELEASE? Can anyone shed
light on
On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 13:51, Tim Judd taj...@gmail.com wrote:
On 3/6/10, Jason Garrett kinged...@gmail.com wrote:
Hello all,
I am currently tracking RELENG_8_0. I did a csup last night and noticed
that
debug is still enabled in the GENERIC kernel. I thought debugging was
supposed to
On 3/6/10, Jason Garrett kinged...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 13:51, Tim Judd taj...@gmail.com wrote:
On 3/6/10, Jason Garrett kinged...@gmail.com wrote:
Hello all,
I am currently tracking RELENG_8_0. I did a csup last night and noticed
that
debug is still enabled in the
On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 18:06, Aaron Lewis aaron.lewis1...@gmail.com wrote:
Bas v.d. Wiel wrote:
Aaron Lewis wrote:
Umm... that's incorrect. Maybe you mean ATI doesn't supply closed
drivers for FreeBSD (although they do have Linux drivers, I think).
Well , the opensource ati driver
According to /usr/ports/UPDATING the Java plugin does not work in FF3.6.
Is this a Java issue, a FireFox issue or a FreeBSD issue? I just noticed
this today as I was going through looking through it because of the
thread about upgrading from perl5.8 to perl5.10 (the instructions in
UPDATING don't
On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 14:18, Jason Garrett kinged...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 14:12, Tim Judd taj...@gmail.com wrote:
On 3/6/10, Jason Garrett kinged...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 13:51, Tim Judd taj...@gmail.com wrote:
On 3/6/10, Jason Garrett
Tim Judd wrote:
makeoptions DEBUG=-g# Build kernel with gdb(1) debug
symbols
options PREEMPTION # Enable kernel thread preemption
why are these still in GENERIC after release?
I can confirm debug symbols is still in the kernel, but that is most
On Sat, 06 Mar 2010 14:30:28 -0600
Programmer In Training p...@joseph-a-nagy-jr.us articulated:
According to /usr/ports/UPDATING the Java plugin does not work in
FF3.6. Is this a Java issue, a FireFox issue or a FreeBSD issue? I
just noticed this today as I was going through looking through it
On 03/06/10 16:57, Jerry wrote:
snip
Please check out this URL:
http://www.java.com/en/download/faq/firefox_newplugin.xml
I believer that the FreeBSD version of Java is several versions behind
that. Therefore, it would appear to be a FreeBSD problem.
I'll just wait for FreeBSD to update
On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 17:06, Mikhail Goriachev mikha...@navalradio.clwrote:
Jason Garrett wrote:
On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 14:18, Jason Garrett kinged...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 14:12, Tim Judd taj...@gmail.com wrote:
On 3/6/10, Jason Garrett kinged...@gmail.com
Hi,
Fot the first time in years I had a kernel panic in FreeBSD (8.0-ST).
While playing a flash movie in Firefox (3.6), everything just locked up
and only resetting helped. After the reboot it wrote a corefile in
/var/crash/ which is unfortunately too big to read by any text editor. The
trap
hi there,
what are the steps i need to perform to get a copy of the entire mailingslist
archive of lets say freebsd-current@ in mbox format?
cheers.
alex
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Marco Beishuizen mb...@xs4all.nl wrote:
Fot the first time in years I had a kernel panic in FreeBSD
(8.0-ST). While playing a flash movie in Firefox (3.6),
everything just locked up and only resetting helped. After the
reboot it wrote a corefile in /var/crash/ which is unfortunately
too big
* Chuck Swiger (cswi...@mac.com) wrote:
Yes, it's not enough.
When you upgrade the base OS to a new major version (ie, going from
7.x to 8.x), the system libraries get bumped to a new version, but any
libraries coming from ports are still linked against the older version
of the
In the last episode (Mar 07), Alexander Best said:
hi there,
what are the steps i need to perform to get a copy of the entire mailingslist
archive of lets say freebsd-current@ in mbox format?
Go to ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/doc/mailing-lists/archive/ where you
can download weekly
On Sun, 7 Mar 2010 11:30:04 +0700, Pongthep Kulkrisada ptkris...@gmail.com
wrote:
But it takes very long time to rebuild all ports.
Main problem is KDE, big big ports.
Okay, I shall do it, when I have time.
You can consider using pkgadd -r to install binary packages.
Those are quite synchon
On Sat, Mar 06, 2010 at 09:25:41AM +0100, Polytropon wrote:
On Sat, 6 Mar 2010 09:03:58 +0100, Sabine Baer bae...@t-online.de wrote:
Well, it is, indeed. Me I am very glad beeing able to do eg
linux-opera -display :0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhmf4l4OxNw
since I live in a Windows free
On Sun, 7 Mar 2010 07:29:48 +0100, Sabine Baer bae...@t-online.de wrote:
OK, I really didn't know youtube_dl (and clive someone mentioned in
the thread). So, thanks a lot. I youtube-dl-ed my puff pastry examle.
It took me 5 minutes and 11.69M space on diks but then I was able to
look at it
Hi Polytropon,
Firstly, thanks for your suggestion.
* Polytropon (free...@edvax.de) wrote:
You can consider using pkgadd -r to install binary packages.
Those are quite synchon with the ports tree (as they are
centrally built from the ports tree).
I checked /var/db/pkg; I have 464 ports
On Sun, 7 Mar 2010 14:29:57 +0700, Pongthep Kulkrisada ptkris...@gmail.com
wrote:
I checked /var/db/pkg; I have 464 ports installed on my system (including X).
I would probably not do so.
The pkg_add utility is especially useful when building a new
installation from scratch, because it
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