Re: Intel 64bit / AMD 64 bit advantage

2006-08-28 Thread Martin Miedema
ke han wrote: On Aug 28, 2006, at 4:03 AM, Wojciech Puchar wrote: 32 vs 64 bits does not give you any raw performance boost for most apps. The yes it will. FreeBSD/amd64 works at least 10% faster than FreeBSD/i386 on athlon64 machine, when i386 version were recompiled for P4. With

Intel 64bit / AMD 64 bit advantage

2006-08-25 Thread Martin Miedema
I hope that I'm not starting some sort of holy war with this question, but here I'll go. I'm planning to set-up some e-mail / file servers running FreeBSD 6.1 in the near future and I'm wondering if it will be worth the cost to use 64 but CPU's for this. Also I would like to know which

Re: security certificates ssh

2006-08-23 Thread Martin Miedema
Graham North wrote: I just tried to ssh into freebsd server using Putty (pocketputty actually). I got a connection (sort of) but my Putty device put up the question ...unknown certificate.do you want to trust it... or words to that effect. Due to finger problems on the touchscreen I

Re: Accessing FreeBSD partition from Windows with dual boot

2006-08-11 Thread Martin Miedema
Martin Miedema wrote: I'm looking for a way to access (read only is fine) a FreeBSD partition on my Windows installation on a dual boot notebook (so Samba won't do the trick) I read a couple of things after some googling about CrossFS which basically should be a UFS driver for windows

Accessing FreeBSD partition from Windows with dual boot

2006-08-10 Thread Martin Miedema
I'm looking for a way to access (read only is fine) a FreeBSD partition on my Windows installation on a dual boot notebook (so Samba won't do the trick) I read a couple of things after some googling about CrossFS which basically should be a UFS driver for windows. Unfortunately all these

Blank screen after existing X windows

2006-07-17 Thread Martin Miedema
or startx (which starts X again normally. The only way for me to shutdown X without facing the blank screen appears to be by using CTRL-F1 and pressing CTRL+C Please let me know if you need any configuration files or logs etc. Thanks in advance, Martin Miedema

Re: Blank screen after existing X windows

2006-07-17 Thread Martin Miedema
Jim Stapleton wrote: On 7/17/06, Martin Miedema [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just installed FreeBSD 6.1 on my Thinkpad T23 (one of my first times using FreeBSD) and after wrestling my self through configuring X I'm having the following problem: X starts correctly and opens KDE but when I log