Re: FreeBSD and the PowerPC

2003-01-27 Thread John Martinez
On Monday, January 27, 2003, at 08:52 AM, David Kelly wrote: On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 11:44:08AM -0500, george donnelly wrote: [David Kelly commented on 1/26/03 6:41 PM] On Sunday 26 January 2003 05:18 pm, Stacy Olivas wrote: Why should your MacFriend want to use FreeBSD or Linux when

Re: trouble brewing over the UNIX thing again...

2003-01-23 Thread John Martinez
On Thursday, January 23, 2003, at 08:34 PM, mikel king wrote: I suppose one could speculate that FreeBSD could even benefit from such actions. While Linux, MAC OSX, and whomever else these guy point the finger at are battleing it out in court; FreeBSD could quietly move ahead... I would

Re: anyone tried KDE 3.1?

2003-01-08 Thread John Martinez
On Wednesday, January 8, 2003, at 01:03 PM, Andrew Y Ng wrote: I'm highly interested in a few new features in KDE 3.1, like tabbed-browsing support in Konqueror, and the new MS Exchange 2000 plugin for the konganizer. if that stuff works well I don't need Linux at work (now I need it for

Re: nfs performance

2002-12-30 Thread John Martinez
On Monday, December 30, 2002, at 01:12 PM, Scott Ballantyne wrote: I could never get NFS to work reliably on Linux I'd like to chime in on this. There are some serious problems with Linux NFS support. At the company where I work, we use Solaris NFS servers on Sun hardware, with a mix

Re: What are the SMTP rules for sending mail to FreeBSD

2002-12-29 Thread John Martinez
On Sunday, December 29, 2002, at 10:06 AM, Len Conrad wrote: ISTR Postfix replies with 450 to (almost) all errors by default. And there are errors where you need to escalate the 4xx response to 554 to stop the sending MTA from re-trying for days, or just harvest the 4xx ip's to a new

Re: What are the SMTP rules for sending mail to FreeBSD

2002-12-28 Thread John Martinez
On Saturday, December 28, 2002, at 04:22 PM, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: No, this means that your DNS is flaky. As somebody observed, this is a transient error. Your MTA retries about every 30 minutes for about 5 days, and sooner or later the reverse lookup succeeds, and your mail is