Re: KDE

2010-10-08 Thread Aftab Jahan Subedar
Dear Polytropon, U were too polite to introduced this pcbsd. it looks very lucrative. I am gonna start download today and experiment. Have u used this ? Is Yahoo Messenger or Skype supported? - Jahan since FreeBSD 2.2 On 10/6/10, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Wed, 6 Oct 2010 01:50:47

Re: Swap on ZFS

2010-10-08 Thread krad
On 7 October 2010 21:20, Anselm Strauss amsiba...@gmail.com wrote: On 10/02/10 17:52, Adam Vande More wrote: On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 4:30 AM, Anselm Strauss amsiba...@gmail.com wrote: Hi I have a virtual server with only 512 MB of memory but still want to run ZFS on it. snip Has

Re: [solved - I hope] Re: if_bwn woes

2010-10-08 Thread Paul B Mahol
On 10/8/10, Eitan Adler li...@eitanadler.com wrote: Finally, thank to Freenode's ##freebsd I tried wpa_supplicant which worked. I can now connect to the internet. I'd still like to know why I must use the program and I can't use the raw commands though. So OPEN authmode is broken somehow?

Re: Captcha image does not load

2010-10-08 Thread Jack L. Stone
At 02:17 PM 10.7.2010 -0400, Michael Powell wrote: Jack L. Stone wrote: Folks: Please bear with me on this one. Am using FBSD-7.0p9 and PHP52. Have been using a Captcha protection against robots for a download section of the server. It worked just fine since installed for a couple of

Re: [solved - I hope] Re: if_bwn woes

2010-10-08 Thread Eitan Adler
On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 12:15 PM, Paul B Mahol one...@gmail.com wrote: On 10/8/10, Eitan Adler li...@eitanadler.com wrote: Finally, thank to Freenode's ##freebsd I tried wpa_supplicant which worked. I can now connect to the internet. I'd still like to know why I must use the program and I

Like it or not, Theo is having a good laugh ..

2010-10-08 Thread Ian Smith
I'm finding this absurd thread about the old Intel boilerplate left in http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/contrib/dev/acpica/hardware/hwsleep.c not only wilfully ignorant and spectacularly misinformed, but too close to being offensive - or at least undeservedly disrespectful - by

Re: KDE

2010-10-08 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 8 Oct 2010 15:30:51 +0600, Aftab Jahan Subedar ja...@bol-online.com wrote: Dear Polytropon, U were too polite to introduced this pcbsd. it looks very lucrative. I am gonna start download today and experiment. I had good experiences in the past with providing PC-BSD to users with

Re: KDE

2010-10-08 Thread Adam Vande More
On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 6:36 AM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: I hope it doesn't sound impolite when I mention this, but why not give PC-BSD to novice users? Especially if an out of the box experience is needed, PC-BSD is fine, as it brings all possible stuff preinstalled and

Re: KDE

2010-10-08 Thread Aftab Jahan Subedar
On 10/6/10, Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 1:29 AM, Aftab Jahan Subedar ja...@bol-online.comwrote: Dear colleagues, Actually I was trying to promote KDE/FreeBSD to my ISP (novice) users instead of Windows XP or so, for a virus free journey. Is there

Re: KDE

2010-10-08 Thread Aftab Jahan Subedar
On 10/9/10, Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 6:36 AM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: I hope it doesn't sound impolite when I mention this, but why not give PC-BSD to novice users? Especially if an out of the box experience is needed, PC-BSD is fine, as

FreeBSD warning about unclean filesystems which won't be mounted

2010-10-08 Thread Bruce Cran
I was in the process of reinstalling a machine today and had installed 9- CURRENT to a 512MB flash card. After reconnecting an HDD which had dirty filesystems on it and booting I was surprised to see a message: Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/ad2s1a WARNING: /home was not properly dismounted

Is there a way I can rotate Logitech 960-000111 Quickcam Orbit AF USB Webcam in FreeBSD?

2010-10-08 Thread Yuri
This webcam otherwise works. But it is capable to rotate in two dimensions. I found two projects dov4l and setpwc related to this, but they seem to be outdated. Any way I can rotate this cam? Yuri ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: FreeBSD warning about unclean filesystems which won't be mounted

2010-10-08 Thread Bruce Cran
[re-added freebsd-questions] On Friday 08 October 2010 23:48:38 Robert Bonomi wrote: Is that the /etc/fstab on the flash card, or the on on ad2s1a ?? I supsect the entire boot process is not going the way you 'think' it is. That's fstab from the flash card - the HDD only ever contained

Boot loader/kernel error

2010-10-08 Thread Hac Phan
Hi, I'm having trouble with a machine that was recently rebooted and will no longer boot correctly. The boot process hangs with the following screen: Loading /boot/defaults/loader.conf - The cursor does not move and no other text is displayed. After about 10 minutes, the boot finishes (without

Re: Like it or not, Theo is having a good laugh ..

2010-10-08 Thread Rob Farmer
On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 10:31, Ian Smith smi...@nimnet.asn.au wrote: We've had a clear explanation of why it's still there - an historical oversight at worst, pre present levels of paranoia and litigiousness - by Jung-uk Kim, who's been importing Intel ACPICA code into FreeBSD for five or so

Clean up / filesystem

2010-10-08 Thread Caleb Stein
I'm constantly getting the message, :/ write failed, filesystem is full, so I did df, and it said that my / filesystem was at 108%. What files can I delete to free some space? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Like it or not, Theo is having a good laugh ..

2010-10-08 Thread Jarrod Slick
On 10/8/10 9:33 PM, Rob Farmer wrote: On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 10:31, Ian Smithsmi...@nimnet.asn.au wrote: We've had a clear explanation of why it's still there - an historical oversight at worst, pre present levels of paranoia and litigiousness - by Jung-uk Kim, who's been importing Intel

Re: Like it or not, Theo is having a good laugh ..

2010-10-08 Thread Rob Farmer
On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 21:47, Jarrod Slick jarrod...@gmail.com wrote: @rob, Kinda wish you would make a video wherein you read your above statement from a teleprompter with a green-screened American flag billowing in the background.  You might want to add in a statement about your deep

Clean up / filesystem

2010-10-08 Thread Robert Huff
Caleb Stein writes: I'm constantly getting the message, :/ write failed, filesystem is full, so I did df, and it said that my / filesystem was at 108%. What files can I delete to free some space? Start by checking the contents of /tmp. Any *.core in /root you don't