Re: Light word processor plus the occasional spreadsheet

2012-11-17 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 16 Nov 2012 20:47:04 -0500, ill...@gmail.com wrote: Maybe because 20+ years ago I learnt wordstar, so if you grew up on pointin' clickin' you'll be sorely dis- appointed, but I enjoy the jstar mode of editors/joe (or actually editors/jupp, some dif'rence, mostly). Fully agree for

Re: how to correct corrupted ports tree?

2012-11-17 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 16 Nov 2012 21:56:21 -0700, Gary Aitken wrote: I don't see a way to force refetch of the actual ports files like distinfo when portsnap thinks the port is up to date. You cansolve the problem of few per-file mismatches by using the traditional CVS approach of updating the ports tree.

sha-1 Re: Security Incident on FreeBSD Infrastructure

2012-11-17 Thread Peter Vereshagin
Hello. 2012/11/17 10:04:26 + FreeBSD Security Officer security-offi...@freebsd.org = To FreeBSD Security : FSO -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- FSO Hash: SHA1 What's the state of the art about 'sha-1' digesting with freebsd security? At the least debian seemed to be migratring since 2009:

Re: virtualbox with FreeBSD as host

2012-11-17 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
On Sat, 17 Nov 2012 01:10:23 -0800 per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: XP itself, when running directly on the hardware, provides its own graphics environment. It should be able to do the same running on a VM with a virtualized keyboard, mouse, and display. Yes, but the virtualised display

Re: virtualbox with FreeBSD as host

2012-11-17 Thread Mario Lobo
On Sat, 17 Nov 2012 01:10:23 -0800 per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 3:18 PM, Fbsd8 fb...@a1poweruser.com wrote: I do not run x11 or any desktop on my 9.0 host. This would be your problem. How so? Surely virtualbox

Re: confessions of a FreeBSD purist

2012-11-17 Thread andrew clarke
On Sat 2012-11-17 01:28:02 UTC-0500, Matthew Pope (mp...@teksavvy.com) wrote: Could anyone be kind enough to recommend a free, or share their own FreeBSD VM image that has bind pre-configured in a jail, and / or an Apache web server pre-configured in a jail, for a non-commercial site? I'd

Security advisory FreeBSD - intrusion incident

2012-11-17 Thread jb
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Re: how to correct corrupted ports tree?

2012-11-17 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 11:02 AM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Fri, 16 Nov 2012 21:56:21 -0700, Gary Aitken wrote: I don't see a way to force refetch of the actual ports files like distinfo when portsnap thinks the port is up to date. You cansolve the problem of few per-file

FreeBSD on SSD on ASUS P5KPL-C

2012-11-17 Thread Snow Mountains
Hello, I'm about to upgrade hardware on my desktop and to install FreeBSD 9 on it. I have ASUS P5KPL-C and want to buy a SSD or SATA-III 6Gb/s drive for it. Please advise me: * does it make sense to buy SSD drive for a mb that supports 4x SATA 3Gb/s (of couse, expecting a possible future mb

Re: Light word processor plus the occasional spreadsheet

2012-11-17 Thread Walter Hurry
On Thu, 15 Nov 2012 10:18:41 +0100, Leslie Jensen wrote: Polytropon skrev 2012-11-15 10:12: On Thu, 15 Nov 2012 10:06:56 +0100, Leslie Jensen wrote: Hello I mainly use LibreOffice and it works for me. My problem now is that the build time for LibreOffice on a little older hardware is

packge options

2012-11-17 Thread Mike.
How do I find out what options were used when the pre-built packages were built? For example, say I want to install the Postfix package, how can I find out if TLS support is included in the package? Thanks. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: packge options

2012-11-17 Thread ill...@gmail.com
On 17 November 2012 12:44, Mike. the.li...@mgm51.com wrote: How do I find out what options were used when the pre-built packages were built? For example, say I want to install the Postfix package, how can I find out if TLS support is included in the package? For instance:

Re: FreeBSD on SSD on ASUS P5KPL-C

2012-11-17 Thread ill...@gmail.com
On 17 November 2012 12:26, Snow Mountains snow.mountain...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I'm about to upgrade hardware on my desktop and to install FreeBSD 9 on it. I have ASUS P5KPL-C and want to buy a SSD or SATA-III 6Gb/s drive for it. Please advise me: * does it make sense to buy SSD drive

zio_trim counter

2012-11-17 Thread Johannes Dieterich
Please CC me as I am not subscribed. Hello, I installed CURRENT on a new Thinkpad equipped with a Samsung 830 SSD: ada0 at ahcich0 bus 0 scbus0 target 0 lun 0 ada0: SAMSUNG SSD 830 Series CXM03B1Q ATA-9 SATA 3.x device ada0: 600.000MB/s transfers (SATA 3.x, UDMA6, PIO 8192bytes) ada0: Command

FreeBSD needs Git to ensure repo integrity [was: 2012 incident]

2012-11-17 Thread grarpamp
http://www.freebsd.org/news/2012-compromise.html http://it.slashdot.org/story/12/11/17/143219/freebsd-project-discloses-security-breach-via-stolen-ssh-key This is not about this incident, but about why major opensource projects need to be using a repository that has traceable, verifiable,

Re: 9.0 crash, ssd or filesystem problem?

2012-11-17 Thread Gary Aitken
On 11/16/12 21:38, Warren Block wrote: On Fri, 16 Nov 2012, Gary Aitken wrote: On 11/16/12 12:10, Warren Block wrote: Additional SSD suggestions: when creating partitions, leave out the swap partition. If you have lots of memory, leave out the /tmp partition. Add that extra space to the

Re: FreeBSD on SSD on ASUS P5KPL-C

2012-11-17 Thread Snow Mountains
2012/11/17 ill...@gmail.com ill...@gmail.com: On 17 November 2012 12:26, Snow Mountains snow.mountain...@gmail.com wrote: * How will FreeBSD 9 behave in such situations? Any special tweaking needed? I wouldn't expect any special behaviour, though you need to take care with block alignment.

wine-fbsd64 -- no longer in ports

2012-11-17 Thread Gary Aitken
Looking to update wine-fbsd64: # portmaster -n emulators/wine-fbsd64 === No /usr/ports/emulators/wine-fbsd64 exists, and no information === about emulators/wine-fbsd64 can be found in /usr/ports/MOVED hints? ___

Re: FreeBSD needs Git to ensure repo integrity [was: 2012 incident]

2012-11-17 Thread grarpamp
joerg_wun...@uriah.heep.sax.de You don't even have a name Your domain indicates Germany, please have a chat with CCC.de about the various good uses for nyms. And consult your library for some fine historical use cases. If that's counter to your beliefs, you are free to show us the way and post

Re: how to correct corrupted ports tree?

2012-11-17 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 18 Nov 2012 05:57:40 +0100, Bernt Hansson wrote: 2012-11-18 05:14, Bernt Hansson skrev: There is a readme file too. ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/FreeBSD/ports/ports/README.TXT Which mentions the evil cvsup... :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi

Problem with installing coreutils port

2012-11-17 Thread Manish Jain
Hello All, I recently had to re-install FreeBSD on my system. I installed FreeBSD-8.3-i386 and successfully managed to install all ports except one - the sysutils/coreutils port. Underneath is the error I get : gmake[2]: Entering directory

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Re: FreeBSD needs Git to ensure repo integrity [was: 2012 incident]

2012-11-17 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 18 Nov 2012 00:59:54 -0500, grarpamp wrote: Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-) As well summarized by this (your signature) ... sources you can't verify to the master are, also, sources you can't trust. Unless. of couse, you are able to use the source

Re: FreeBSD needs Git to ensure repo integrity [was: 2012 incident]

2012-11-17 Thread Bruce Cran
On 18/11/2012 05:21, Robert Simmons wrote: Yup: https://github.com/freebsd/ There's also git.freebsd.org. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send