Re: Similar Experience/Forget Hardy

2008-06-11 Thread Brian Astill
On Wed, 11 Jun 2008 02:05:47 pm Mike Bird wrote: All we need is stable unadulterated versions of most packages, a real binary package manager (sorry Gentoo and Slackware), and a recent kernel and graphics support.  Compared to Ubuntu that would be a lot more value for a lot less effort.  If

Re: Convince me, please!

2007-08-09 Thread Brian Astill
On Thu, 9 Aug 2007 10:02:55 pm Bob Middaugh wrote: I'm interested in changing over to FreeBSD from Windows, but I'll have to say, you guys don't really present a forceful argument to Windows users of how easy the switch may be. Simple, Use a live CD. RoFreesbie, Knoppix, Ubuntu, and

Re: Protecting Windows

2006-02-09 Thread Brian Astill
On Thu, 9 Feb 2006 08:10 pm, David Newall wrote: Brian Astill wrote: program runs on Windows 2000/XP only. Why would anyone in their right mind NOT port a program as sensible as this to a SECURE OS? I should say that Windows XP is not intrinsically insecure. You can secure it, and I

Re: Protecting Windows

2006-02-09 Thread Brian Astill
On Fri, 10 Feb 2006 06:19 am, Romana Branden wrote: Brian Astill wrote: Interesting. The spiel on the Nuance website gave me that impression, too. However the Royal Society for the Blind in Adelaide tried v 7 (current is 8) and were VERY unimpressed. anything they recommend that we

Protecting Windows

2006-02-08 Thread Brian Astill
Greetings, all. Can anyone help with this issue? Person with deteriorating vision has discovered Dragon Naturally Speaking which not only allows the construction of text from speech but can also speak from received text. ie letter writing and email conversing etc become possible for the

Re: FreeBSD's Visual Identity: Outdated?

2005-07-02 Thread Brian Astill
On Thu, 23 Dec 2004 11:46 pm, Nikolas Britton wrote: FreeBSD is badly in need of a PR/Design/Marketing department. ___ It also needs people who realise that multiple cross-posting is deprecated. Could this conversation please be moved to -advocacy

Re: Explore FreeBSD filesystem under Windows?

2005-01-05 Thread Brian Astill
On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 06:02 am, Matthew Seaman wrote: So ... if your flavour of Windoze can read FAT32, a FAT32 partition is a very good idea because all the commonly-available unices can read it as well. If it can't ...  the options aren't so good.  I'd think ext2 would be the only

Re: ad0: TIMEOUT the saga continues.

2005-01-04 Thread Brian Astill
On Tue, 4 Jan 2005 03:33 am, borg wrote: Greetings all, Today is the second time I get this message on my console: ad0: Timeout - write_DMA retrying (2 retries left) LBA=18576259 I had this same problem when trying to install extra packages from Disk 4 of the 5.3 Release. It also killed

Re: FreeBSD's Visual Identity: Outdated?

2004-12-23 Thread Brian Astill
On Thu, 23 Dec 2004 11:46 pm, Nikolas Britton wrote: FreeBSD is badly in need of a PR/Design/Marketing department. ___ It also needs people who realise that multiple cross-posting is deprecated. Could this conversation please be moved to -advocacy

Re: Explore FreeBSD filesystem under Windows?

2004-12-22 Thread Brian Astill
On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 11:39 am, Joshua Lokken wrote: On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 18:20:40 +0200, P. B. S. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How can I do that? explore2fs is for ext2/3 only. I want to copy files from my FreeBSD filesystem (UFS2, I think?) using Windows. http://us1.samba.org/samba/ # cd

Re: Explore FreeBSD filesystem under Windows?

2004-12-22 Thread Brian Astill
On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 01:47 pm, Bart Silverstrim wrote: Another option...an external hard disk formatted FAT so both could see it? Fat limit is 2G. VFAT would be better - unless you run WinNT, in which case you are stuck with either multiple 2G FAT partitions on that external disk or NTFS

Re: Explore FreeBSD filesystem under Windows?

2004-12-22 Thread Brian Astill
On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 03:35 pm, Peter E. Antonov wrote: http://ffsdrv.sourceforge.net/ - FFS File System Driver for Windows It enables you to read BSD(FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD) FFS partitions on Windows 2000/XP/2003. Anyone know whether FFS works on other Windoze flavours? (I'm going to try it

Installing FBSD 5.3 and 5.4

2004-12-06 Thread Brian Astill
I guess there is some small incompatibility between my system and FBSD. Whatever .. the effect was that as I kept CVSupdating from FBSD 4.7 through 4.10 I gradually lost usability as first one program then another, failed. I decided to wait for 5.3 before using FBSD again. In the meantime I

Re: Installing FBSD 5.3 and 5.4

2004-12-06 Thread Brian Astill
On Mon, 6 Dec 2004 08:12 pm, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Mon, Dec 06, 2004 at 06:40:27PM -0600, Chris wrote: Brian Astill wrote: I guess there is some small incompatibility between my system and FBSD. Whatever .. the effect was that as I kept CVSupdating from FBSD 4.7 through 4.10 I

Re: ATA Slave Devices

2004-10-27 Thread Brian Astill
On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 04:37 pm, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Jim Chapman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have 2 devices that will not work as slaves. They are a CD-RW drive and an IDE tape drive. They both work fine as masters. They give a message ATA identify retries exceeded during the boot.

Re: What mouse? (was: Samsung Cordless Mouse)

2004-08-17 Thread Brian Astill
On Tue, 17 Aug 2004 07:28 pm, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: Can anybody recommend a good mouse? My criteria are: - Middle button easy to use. The current crop of mice has the middle button integrated with the roller, and that makes the middle button either heavy or easy to confuse with

Re: NVidia Riva TNT2 64 ?

2004-06-22 Thread Brian Astill
FWIW, I have that card and it seems to work just fine using the nv driver. When you are given choices in the helper programs for XFree86 setup, just choose the nearest descrptor you can find which uses that nv driver. You could also write that nv manually into your XF86Config file, if you

Re: [A bit OT]Re: New user questions :)

2004-06-18 Thread Brian Astill
On Thu, 17 Jun 2004 10:27 am, Jorn Argelo wrote: That advice may be OK for some things, but it doesn't make sense to make yourself compile such behemoths as Openoffice and etc unless you are in to pain and suffering for your entertainment.   Heh, that's true. Though let's be honest, you

pkgdb -F issues

2004-04-05 Thread Brian Astill
Before a fairly major system upgrade I have done portsdb -Uu and pkgdb -F. Next step, upgrade portupgrade, which entails doing smart things to also painlessly upgrade to ruby 1.8. BUT .. I must have misunderstood what pkgdb requires when it asks about stale dependencies because at the

Re: portsdb -Uu and new mirror

2004-04-02 Thread Brian Astill
On Fri, 2 Apr 2004 07:36 am, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 10:50:01PM +0930, Brian Astill wrote: My ISP now stores all the FBSD ports and sources #portsdb -Uu Updating the ports index ...make: don't know how to make //ftp.filearena.net/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles

Re: portsdb -Uu and new mirror

2004-04-02 Thread Brian Astill
On Fri, 2 Apr 2004 02:14 pm, Kris Kennaway wrote: There are two errors there. Probably what you intended was for MASTER_SITE_BACKUP to be set to ftp://ftp.filearena.net/..., but comments are not ignored when doing line continuations, so the variable is set to the literal next line, and the

Re: Anyway to recover wiped data? And why did kernel fail to load?

2004-04-01 Thread Brian Astill
On Fri, 2 Apr 2004 01:12 am, Eric Yellin wrote: I recently installed FreeBSD 5.2. Something happened that cause all data on all partitions to be wiped. I'd like help on the following: Try googling for Autopsy Forensic Browser -- Regards, Brian ___

portsdb -Uu and new mirror

2004-04-01 Thread Brian Astill
My ISP now stores all the FBSD ports and sources #portsdb -Uu Updating the ports index ...make: don't know how to make //ftp.filearena.net/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles//(continuing): malformed entry: make: don't know how to make //ftp.filearena.net/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles//(continuing)

Re: File system full?

2004-01-01 Thread Brian Astill
On Fri, 2 Jan 2004 10:30 am, Eric F Crist wrote: How big is necessary for a /usr partition? Mine keeps filling up and I've deleted /usr/obj and /usr/ports/distfiles regularly. Here's my df -h readout: $ df -h FilesystemSize Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad0s3a 1008M92M

Re: Automatic bounce problems

2003-07-15 Thread Brian Astill
On Wed, 16 Jul 2003 09:58 am, vizion communication wrote: For the second time I have had mails to me stopped due to automati claissification of mails which have temproarily not been accepted by a mail server to mailserver malfunction at an ISP. This is the only freebsd list for which this has

Re: Printing from KDE

2003-07-10 Thread Brian Astill
On Thu, 10 Jul 2003 03:29 pm, Brett Glass wrote: The owners of the machine installed FreeBSD 4.8, with KDE as supplied as a FreeBSD package on the install disk. This package installs the KDE utlities package as a dependency. However, the utilities package does not include the KJettool

Re: Printing from KDE

2003-07-09 Thread Brian Astill
On Thu, 10 Jul 2003 02:16 pm, Brett Glass wrote: At 11:50 PM 7/6/2003, Brian Astill wrote: That shouldn't be an issue. Utilities-KJettool is designed for HP Laserjets. Have you tried that? Can't. It won't run on anything but Linux. Brett - that simply isn't so. I run FBSD 4.8/KDE3.0

Re: Mounting extended dos partition

2003-07-07 Thread Brian Astill
On Mon, 7 Jul 2003 04:08 pm, Kent Stewart wrote: On Sunday 06 July 2003 10:45 pm, Brian Astill wrote: On Mon, 7 Jul 2003 05:21 am, Kent Stewart wrote: Any ideas on how I mount this logical drive in this extended partition ? The extended partitions all start at 5 because you can

Re: Mounting extended dos partition

2003-07-07 Thread Brian Astill
On Mon, 7 Jul 2003 11:51 pm, Malcolm Kay wrote: On Mon, 7 Jul 2003 22:18, Brian Astill wrote: On Mon, 7 Jul 2003 04:08 pm, Kent Stewart wrote: On Sunday 06 July 2003 10:45 pm, Brian Astill wrote: On Mon, 7 Jul 2003 05:21 am, Kent Stewart wrote: Any ideas on how I mount this logical

Re: Mounting extended dos partition

2003-07-06 Thread Brian Astill
On Mon, 7 Jul 2003 05:21 am, Kent Stewart wrote: Any ideas on how I mount this logical drive in this extended partition ? The extended partitions all start at 5 because you can have 4 primary partitions. Typo! should read can't , or cannot have more than three primary partitions Note

Re: Printing from KDE

2003-07-06 Thread Brian Astill
On Mon, 7 Jul 2003 09:13 am, Brett Glass wrote: KDE's docs claim that it has an Add printer wizard, but this utility seems to be absent from the FreeBSD port.. Don't be too excited. I installed my HP Deskjet 6122 using this system - seemed to be flawless - but the printer still won't print!

Should we accept this?

2003-07-02 Thread Brian Astill
I needed to replace my printer recently, so took the advice of linuxprinting.org to choose the HP 6122 Deskjet (within my budget, interfaces perfectly, etc.) Both my systems are dual boot, so I took the HP-supplied CD to set up the printer and print a test page on my two WinNT4 systems. Took

Re: Can't mount ad0s2 - sourced

2003-06-16 Thread Brian Astill
On Mon, 16 Jun 2003 08:42 pm, Malcolm Kay wrote: Sure there is [a solution]. Show us what fdisk and disklabel say. referring to my being unable to access ad0s2 from FBSD. The drive is partitioned DOS-DOS-FBSD. If I set up the partitions Primary1-Primary2-Primary3, WinNT hides

Re: Can't mount ad0s2 - sourced

2003-06-14 Thread Brian Astill
On Mon, 19 May 2003 02:52 pm, Andy Farkas wrote: Sure there is. Show us what fdisk and disklabel say. referring to my being unable to access ad0s2 from FBSD. herewith: As you can see, fdisk can see the extended partition, but not the logical partition inside it. (tho' windoze is happy)

Re: Duplex printing with HP DeskJet 6122

2003-06-02 Thread Brian Astill
On Sun, 1 Jun 2003 07:36 pm, Sheldon Hearn wrote: Hi folks, We just got an HP DeskJet 6122 for printing Unix docs. It comes with a duplexing unit, which works when driven by the supplied Windows driver. However, I'd really rather have this thing connected to my FreeBSD workstation. I've

Re: Backup Solution

2003-03-11 Thread Brian Astill
On Tue, 11 Mar 2003 07:45 pm, Wayne Swart wrote: Hi everyone I am looking for a centralized backup solution for FreeBSD. It must be able to backup to harddrive, rather than to a tape drive, and must have support for FreeBSD/Linux and Windows 2000 clients. bu (in ports) looks good --

Larger Hard Drive

2003-01-17 Thread Brian Astill
I want to move my FBSD partitions to one larger HD. Shouldn't be hard. ;-) The system recognises my new HD at ad2 ad0: 8063MB WDC WD84AA [16383/16/63] at ata0-master UDMA66 ad1: 8056MB ST38421A [16368/16/63] at ata0-slave UDMA66 ad2: 19470MB QUANTUM FIREBALLlct20 20 [39560/16/63] at ata1-master

Larger Hard Drive (2)

2003-01-17 Thread Brian Astill
My sincere apologies, fellow followers of the Beastie! I managed to slice ad2 using /stand/sysinstall. However disklabel -r shows: 8 partitions: # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] a: 819200 0 4.2BSD 2048 16384 93 # (Cyl. 0 - 812*) b: 2017089 37859328 swap # (Cyl. 37558*- 39559*) c:

Re: Problems w NIC

2003-01-16 Thread Brian Astill
Stacey Roberts wrote: Here you go.., You have given the same IP Addr / netmasks information to both rl0 rl1 - this is not right. In your earlier message, you mentioned that rl0 is connected to a cable modem and rl1 is connected to a lan. rl0 should have a different IP address.., indeed a

Re: Problems w NIC

2003-01-16 Thread Brian Astill
Stacey Roberts wrote: Just one more question. How do I list the second card in /etc/hosts? atm I have 127.0.0.1 localhost.gihon.org.au localhost 192.168.1.100 BAPhD.gihon.org.au BAPhD

Re: Problems w NIC

2003-01-15 Thread Brian Astill
I was very sad to see this thread die, just as (for me) it was getting interesting. My setup and experience is almost identical to Nicola's. bra@BAPhD ~ ifconfig -au rl0: flags=8843UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST mtu 1500 inet 192.168.1.100 netmask 0xff00 broadcast

Re: Problems w NIC

2003-01-15 Thread Brian Astill
Stacey Roberts wrote: It appears that rl1 is not configured here. Two things of note: 1] Have you actually configured rl1? 2] If so, what IP addr configurations is supposed to have? The reasoning behind my questions is the fact that you mentioned that *both* rl0 rl1 are connected to the same

Re: kppp

2003-01-10 Thread Brian Astill
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I determine that the modem is on /dev/cuaa4 by trying all ports up to that one. I did this: ppp ON localhost set device /dev/cuaa0 ppp ON localhost set speed 115200 ppp ON localhost term ppp now freezes ppp ON localhsot set device /dev/cuaa1 ppp ON locahlost set speed

Re: FreeBSD and AMD power management

2003-01-09 Thread Brian Astill
Mark wrote: - Original Message - From: Matthew Seaman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2003 9:54 AM Subject: Re: FreeBSD and AMD power management Try the ports/sysutils/fvcool port --- http://www.nt.phys.kyushu-u.ac.jp/shimizu/ Using it has cut

Re: Sendmail waiting?

2003-01-02 Thread Brian Astill
Derrick Ryalls wrote: My silly system ... Using 4.6 RELEASE, 1.1G Athlon ABit KT7A VIA chipset - running FVCool permanently in idle mode to maintain CPU cool temperature. The really silly bit is ... I don't switch off every day, but I have noticed that, on restart, loading sometimes waits

Re: Sendmail waiting?

2003-01-02 Thread Brian Astill
Thanks for the help - there is a fix in there somewhere :-) Saw this in cvs-commit: Modified files:(Branch: RELENG_5_0) sys/fs/fifofsfifo_vnops.c Log: MFC: Put a one-second timeout (And a XXX: comment) on a tsleep which under certain not understood circumstances hangs

Re: XFree86 troubles in 5.0 RC2

2002-12-26 Thread Brian Astill
Stephan Assmus wrote: So, I'm stuck. I actually installed FreeBSD to check out the Gnome and KDE desktop and use Gimp. I don't know in which direction to investigate further. Thanks for any and all help. Have you tried the text config in /stand/sysinstall? It does work - very well. That

Re: Upgrading the Portupgrade port

2002-12-26 Thread Brian Astill
Kent Stewart wrote: On Thursday 26 December 2002 03:35 am, Philip J. Koenig wrote: So I got into the habit of completely removing Portupgrade and everything associated with it including all the Ruby stuff, and reinstalling them all, in order to upgrade. (it was the only way that worked for

Re: once last try

2002-12-23 Thread Brian Astill
bryan cassidy wrote: OK. I have tried unsuscribing to this mailing list and re-subscribing to it and then sending e-mails to it to test but my e-mails never make it. I know this e-mail will make it to the list but this account is not the one im having problems with. I'm having problems with my

Re: is there an alternate driver to pips-sc880 ?

2002-11-15 Thread Brian Astill
On Sat, 16 Nov 2002 09:48 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (msg sent twice as I did not get feeback) hi, I have an Epson Stylus Color 880 which I want to run through apsfilter (or any other server) for lp but: # /usr/ports/print/pips-sc880 : make === pips-sc880-2.1 is forbidden: Momentally.

Load averages exceed 1 - but all seems well!

2002-11-10 Thread Brian Astill
Running fvcool -e -i works just fine for me in keeping my Athlon CPU cool, BUT the output from TOP, shows: last pid: 2890; load averages: 1.10, 1.07, 1.00 up 1+02:45:27 23:20:20 66 processes: 2 running, 64 sleeping CPU states: 1.2% user, 98.4% nice, 0.4%

Re: CPU Temperature

2002-10-18 Thread Brian Astill
On Fri, 18 Oct 2002 04:51 am, Matthew Seaman wrote: The author also has FVCool, a CPU cooling utility. It reduces my CPU temp by 14 or 15 degrees C (from 46 to 32 or 31). Again, it's native and easy to install. (BTW, yes I do have CPU_SUSP_HLT in my kernel options. This utility is

Re: microuptime() went backwards, FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE

2002-10-16 Thread Brian Astill
On Wednesday 16 October 2002 04:20, Hartmann, O. wrote: On Tue, 15 Oct 2002, Andy Knapp wrote: No, on our servers I disabled APM by default because it triggered trouble in the past on several SMP machines. And why APM on every-time-up servers? No, definitely no APM facilities in kernel or

Mail client preferred?

2002-10-10 Thread Brian Astill
Pine, Mutt, Elm, Emacs ... probably others. Anyone care to make a recommendation for a console-based mail client? I'm currently using Kmail. It would be nice if there was a way to transfer Kmail message files to the console client. -- Regards, Brian To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL

Re: How to best way to upgrade to KDE3 from ports ?

2002-10-08 Thread Brian Astill
On Tuesday 01 October 2002 10:12, Michael Collette wrote: pkg_delete -rf qt-* Then install KDE3, of course :-) Thought I might help someone with a follow-up. I have an Athlon 1.1G / ABIT KT7a /320M RAM system running FBSD 4.6. After installing KDE3 I ran into tables full and too many open

Re: I screwed up my home KDE files

2002-10-06 Thread Brian Astill
On Monday 07 October 2002 00:24, Tim Kellers wrote: Make sure that your (not root's) .kde directory (in your home directory) is owned by you. Also check /tmp and make sure the ownership of all the kde/X related files in there is correct. (kde-username, mcop-username, etc) and, finally, make

I screwed up my home KDE files

2002-10-05 Thread Brian Astill
I did a silly thing - doh! I was working froom the console as su-root, then wanted to do some gui things so withour thinking I entered startx and KDE has never forgiven me sob I rescued one or two essential files where ownership had been changed from myself-wheel to root-wheel, but this

Re: CDRW using ATAPI cdrw

2002-09-18 Thread Brian Astill
On Wed, 18 Sep 2002 06:11, Pam Wampler wrote: Is there a utility that allows the use of cdrw on an atapi cdrw drive other than mkisofs burncd? -- When I use burncd, I am not able to later append to the cdrw. Man burncd: -mclose disk in multisession mode (otherwise disk is closed

Microuptime/CD weirdness

2002-07-25 Thread Brian Astill
Made my first (and successful -Yeah!) attempt to copy a couple of CDs today. Working from the console (ie no X or KDE to interfere), using dd if=/dev/acd0c of=file.iso bs=2048 the dreaded microuptime going backwards began in earnest. As the source CD had only a small dta footprint, I let it run.

Re: using burncd

2002-07-24 Thread Brian Astill
On Wed, 24 Jul 2002 13:14, Scott Robbins wrote: The handbook section is at http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/creating-cds.html Thanks. I have had a slight look and downloaded. Seems it will answer my question. Post I was about to make, follows.

Re: apsfilter: driver script 'epsonc' - MORE Progress

2002-07-17 Thread Brian Astill
Ben wrote: Well it shows that your printcap isnt setup to use apsfilter. Brian. What happens when you run the setup for apsfilter? Does it let you select the epsonc driver? /usr/local/share/apsfilter/SETUP This script should setup printcap correctly. Does it? I think the method has

apsfilter: driver script 'epsonc' - Progress

2002-07-16 Thread Brian Astill
Looked at printcap, which says: EpsonSQ850:\ :sh:\ :ml=0:\ :mx=0:\ :sd=/var/spool/lpd/EpsonSQ850:\ :lp=/dev/lp0:\ :lpd_bounce=true:\ :if=/usr/share/printconf/mf_wrapper: Note the absence of epsonc. usr/share/printconf/mf_wrapper does NOT