Re: What laptop do you recommend?

2006-03-13 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams
I've a related question, but my primary constraints are physical. I'm looking for a lightweight and low-profile package, like the fabulous (and wicked prone to hard failure) Sony 505 series of products. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: FreeBSD's Visual Identity: Outdated?

2005-07-02 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine
I am writing this e-mail hoping that someone will share my thoughts on how the world's best operating system should represent its attributes and users to the rest of the world. representations are secondary to function. there are markets for which this relationship is inverted. cost of entry

Re: Odd (alarming) http log exerpt

2005-01-14 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine
Hi Colin, I started seeing these in September. For a _very_ obscure and low hit url. chars dns date/time 27680 d142-59-129-32.abhsia.telus.net 11/Sep/2004:17:13:53 32713 stjhts18c101.nbnet.nb.ca09/Nov/2004:14:37:26 27670

Re: Firefox for FBSD?

2004-12-17 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine
use the instructions on the mozilla developer page to get the source then the instructions on the mozilla developer page to build from source [EMAIL PROTECTED]:136]% mozilla -v Mozilla 1.8a6, Copyright (c) 2003-2004 mozilla.org developer build [EMAIL PROTECTED]:137]% which mozilla

Re: Firefox for FBSD?

2004-12-16 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine
well, you could follow the instructions on the mozilla developer's pages for getting the source, configuring the source, and building the source. its what i do for a 4.10 laptop (1.8a6, dec 3rd build). i'm sort of lazy about having a browser on my 5.2.1 machine (1.7.2). one minor data point,

Re: Mozilla core dump on FreeBSD 4.10

2004-09-11 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine
well, you could try this: % uname -a FreeBSD clam.nic-naa.net 4.10-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 4.10-PRERELEASE #0: Mon May 17 07:25:30 EDT 2004 root@:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 % mozilla -v Mozilla 1.8a4, Copyright (c) 2003-2004 mozilla.org developer build

Re: setup firewall/router/proxy

2004-09-01 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine
Oki all, If it isn't too much of a bother, someone asked me the same question, but for a platform I'm unfamiliar with -- a 2.4.18-6mdk (Mandrake) linux distro. As the target is not freebsd, I'll be happy with any technical response, and off-list is probably better than on. TiA, Eric What are

Re: cvsup

2004-08-24 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams
I think he said he wants to cross the 4.x|5.x boundary as well. I haven't done that for several months, before and after the gcc version cut-over. He may need current guidance on that. FWIW, I'm going to be upgrading a mono-processor to the beta, but I'll be going the jrandom-5.x CD install, then

Re: Bind 9 answer limit question

2004-07-20 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine
I'm running Bind on FreeBSD, so it qualifies. ;) version information might be useful. 4, 8 or 9? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bind 9 answer limit question

2004-07-20 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine
Donald, I missed the 9 in the body of the post. And rrset_order isn't something I've ever used, so please provide an answer. Eric ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

Re: Bind 9 answer limit question

2004-07-20 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine
Flaming aside, I did look for this answer in the bind docs before posting. Either I missed it, or its not there. I did see other things that reference round-robins, but not this. Right. rrset-order defines the order in which multiple records of the same type are returned, which wasn't quite

Re: How Critical Is It To Use an ISP Running FreeBSD or BSD/OS?

2004-07-10 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams
Bob, There is a freebsd isp list, for those of us who operate isps and use freebsd for some functional element, up to and including user shell accounts. Why would it (choice of boxen) matter to you? You may not even be aware if your isp is virtual or facilities-based, let alone the os directly

Re: How can I remove this file ?

2004-04-10 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams
i normally keep a -stable and a -current. when removing -stable rm -rf ./\-stable path here is relative, abspath works as well. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

postscript on 5.x, -dSAFER and /

2004-04-03 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine
Howdy folks, My googling monkies have turned up several instances of the problem, on several platforms, freebsd included. The log output is below. Error: /invalidfileaccess in --.outputpage-- Operand stack: 1 true Execution stack: %interp_exit .runexec2 --nostringval--

Re: Anybody Use 2 or More CPU at Production Env. ( SMP )

2003-12-18 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine
I have 5 (iXsystems) dual processors, all running 5.0-RELEASE or safely behind -CURRENT, with one box unsafely at -CURRENT, so I can't comment on the -STABLE question. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list