Re: Just wanted to say Thanks to Polytropon

2013-09-26 Thread Mike Jeays
On Thu, 26 Sep 2013 19:42:15 + (UTC) Walter Hurry walterhu...@gmail.com wrote: A few weeks ago I asked about mouse trails. Polytropon suggested xeyes. I have found it excellent, and have had no trouble whatsoever with it. It has made my life so much easier. Thanks, Polytropon!

Re: dangerously dedicated physical disks.

2013-09-22 Thread Mike Jeays
On Sun, 22 Sep 2013 16:16:17 - atar atar.yo...@gmail.com wrote: Hi there!! During the reading of the FreeBSD handbook, I've encountered at the term 'dangerously dedicated' regarding physical disks and the author of this chapter in the FreeBSD handbook didn't think this term need

Re: learn

2013-08-01 Thread Mike Jeays
On Thu, 1 Aug 2013 14:21:34 +0100 (BST) Anton Shterenlikht me...@bris.ac.uk wrote: Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2013 14:29:25 +0200 From: herbert langhans w...@langhans.com.pl To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: learn The handbook is a monster, even technically interested people get lost

Re: UEFI Secure Boot

2013-07-08 Thread Mike Jeays
On Tue, 9 Jul 2013 02:31:40 +0200 Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Mon, 8 Jul 2013 16:21:28 + (UTC), jb wrote: I hope FreeBSD (and other OSs) luminaries, devs and users will find a way not to harm themselves. A massive problem I (personally) have is that with Restricted Boot

Re: Hello

2013-06-25 Thread Mike Jeays
On Wed, 26 Jun 2013 08:56:59 +1000 julius juliuscmontes...@gmail.com wrote: Which BSD for a user desktop ??!. I all ready have Linux mint but I like to try again, in the past I have use it but no luck in dual booting system with windows and I have try to follow youtube BSD users that gave

Re: logging during loader

2013-06-24 Thread Mike Jeays
On Mon, 24 Jun 2013 09:23:10 -0400 Robert Huff roberth...@rcn.com wrote: During the processing of loader.conf, something gets printed that suggests all is not right. However, this is a sufficiently modern machine it goes by too fast to read exactly what. It is my understanding

Re: [Bulk] Re: day light saving time happened today

2013-03-10 Thread Mike Jeays
On Sun, 10 Mar 2013 21:42:52 -0400 Fbsd8 fb...@a1poweruser.com wrote: Lowell Gilbert wrote: The next test is to check the clock in GMT. I expect it to be off, which means that the timezone rules are not the problem. If this is not the case, the diagnosis gets more interesting.

Re: [Bulk] Re: sh script ?

2013-01-24 Thread Mike Jeays
On Thu, 24 Jan 2013 16:16:54 -0500 Fbsd8 fb...@a1poweruser.com wrote: Robert Bonomi wrote: From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Thu Jan 24 12:11:42 2013 Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2013 13:07:40 -0500 From: Fbsd8 fb...@a1poweruser.com To: FreeBSD questions questi...@freebsd.org Subject: sh

Re: [Bulk] FreeBSD 8.2 with pre-built KDE 3.5 package from FreeBSD 7.1 DVD

2013-01-17 Thread Mike Jeays
On Fri, 18 Jan 2013 01:25:03 + (GMT) Georg Reilinger georgreilin...@yahoo.de wrote: Hi everybody, My issue is the following: As far as I know, FreeBSD has completely dropped support for KDE 3.5. Whether it's the ports, or the pkg_add precompiled binaries. Am I right in

Re: static ip address and ifconfig

2012-12-29 Thread Mike Jeays
On Sat, 29 Dec 2012 12:13:32 -0500 Fbsd8 fb...@a1poweruser.com wrote: I don't have static ip address so I can not find out for myself. Lets say I am a company that my ISP has assigned us 25 static ip address. When I issue the ifconfig command what will it show me? Just the single primary

Re: Gnome

2012-12-02 Thread Mike Jeays
On Sun, 2 Dec 2012 18:36:23 + ren_...@yahoo.com wrote: Hello, I was wondering if you can use Gnome to run your FreeBSD server, instead of using let's say Direct Admin ? If so, is there any literature on it ? Thank you, Sam Fasciano Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry

Re: cksum entire dir??

2012-10-04 Thread Mike Jeays
On Fri, 05 Oct 2012 05:36:19 +0400 Австин Ким avs...@mail.ru wrote: Hi, all, Paul Kraus paul at kraus-haus.org writes: On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 9:18 PM, kpneal at pobox.com wrote: It's a real shame Unix doesn't have a really good tool for comparing two directory trees. You can

PC-BSD 9.0 in VirtualBox

2012-09-27 Thread Mike Jeays
I have been running PC-BSD 9.0 with the KDE interface in a VirtualBox VM, and notice that it uses CPU resources when idle, driving up my CPU temperature about 15 degrees on an otherwise idle machine. (It is an Intel i5 quad four). Is this to be expected?

Re: cksum entire dir??

2012-09-12 Thread Mike Jeays
On Wed, 12 Sep 2012 10:55:57 -0700 Waitman Gobble gobble...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 10:46 AM, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 07:31:45AM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 12/09/2012 00:14, Polytropon wrote: % cksum directory and

Re: Nasty reference loop in login.conf

2012-07-17 Thread Mike Jeays
On Tue, 17 Jul 2012 12:48:38 -0700 (PDT) Jakub Lach jakub_l...@mailplus.pl wrote: Initially dropped to single user mode, but when I saw ED(1) I reconsidered and dusted off trusty LiveCD :) Thanks. -- View this message in context:

Re: Omega Zip Drives on FreeBSD 8.*

2012-06-24 Thread Mike Jeays
On Sun, 24 Jun 2012 19:13:00 -0500 Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 6:59 PM, Al Plant n...@hdk5.net wrote: I need to get an old parallel Omega Zip drive to work on a freeBSD 8.* to transfer some archives to new media. I have a problem with getting

Re: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of?

2012-06-05 Thread Mike Jeays
On Tue, 5 Jun 2012 19:57:30 -0400 (EDT) Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org wrote: On Tue, 5 Jun 2012, G?k?in Akdeniz wrote: For the time being only ARM platform is restricted. True, but I would be astonished if this restriction were not expanded by MS in the future. Just my opinion, but I

Re: editor that understands CTRL/B, CTRL/I, CTRL/U

2012-04-24 Thread Mike Jeays
On Tue, 24 Apr 2012 18:50:26 +0100 Anton Shterenlikht me...@bristol.ac.uk wrote: My daughter is doing a touch typing course that presumes MS Word. So far she was fine with pico, but now they want the kids to practice CTRL/B (bold), CTRL/I (italic), CTRL/U (underline). She really needs to use

Re: Vivaldi Tablet

2012-03-28 Thread Mike Jeays
On Wed, 28 Mar 2012 18:24:40 -0600 Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 04:24:51PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 09:19:54AM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: I think learning a chording keyboard is going to be much more of an obstacle than using a

Re: Why is this Symbol in the front of your website. A humble request.

2012-02-23 Thread Mike Jeays
On Thu, 23 Feb 2012 14:44:16 -0500 Lowell Gilbert freebsd-questions-lo...@be-well.ilk.org wrote: Jerry je...@seibercom.net writes: On Thu, 23 Feb 2012 21:27:08 +0400 Andrey Chernov articulated: {snip} 1) Was there anyone NOT CC'd in that last post? Me. Should I feel left out?

Re: File manager for Xfce

2012-02-15 Thread Mike Jeays
On Wed, 15 Feb 2012 20:58:30 +0100 Bernt Hansson b...@bananmonarki.se wrote: On 2012-02-15 18:57, Per olof Ljungmark wrote: A long time KDE3 user but now thinking of Xfce instead as KDE4 is not really my way of doing it. One of the things I've found productive in KDE is the Konqerour

Re: very small workgroup network

2011-12-29 Thread Mike Jeays
On Thu, 29 Dec 2011 15:06:17 -0600 Jeffrey McFadden junkrigsai...@gmail.com wrote: I feel really inferior to the community here, but I have to ask because I simply don't know: What do I need to do to create a small (3 PC-BSD) home network? I could do this in no time in Windows, but I don't

Re: anybody know howto do eazy abbrevs?

2011-11-11 Thread Mike Jeays
On Fri, 11 Nov 2011 16:40:23 -0800 Chuck Swiger cswi...@mac.com wrote: On Nov 11, 2011, at 3:10 PM, Gary Kline wrote: hw r u gys dng? into: how are you guys doing? Assuming you've got emacs installed: info emacs -s abbrev Regards, -- -Chuck

Re: Check Memory Usage, program like 'free' in Linux

2011-11-03 Thread Mike Jeays
On Thu, 3 Nov 2011 10:06:19 -0400 Jon Schipp jonsch...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 9:25 AM, Rares Aioanei bsdlis...@gmail.com wrote: On 11/03/2011 03:18 PM, Jon Schipp wrote: Is there a program to check physical memory usage in FreeBSD(using 8.2 RELEASE)? In vain of

www.clubrunner.ca

2011-10-19 Thread Mike Jeays
I find weird behaviour with this site. It works fine on Windows systems, but Firefox on FreeBSD (and also Firefox, Opera and Chrome on Ubuntu) fails to connect. It immediately tries to retrieve www.clubrunner.ca/Home, but then the connection hangs. Does anyone have any clues, please?

Re: Dennis Ritchie has died. A suggestion

2011-10-14 Thread Mike Jeays
On Fri, 14 Oct 2011 18:17:15 +0200 Kruppa, Peter Ulrich ulr...@pukruppa.de wrote: On 13.10.2011 23:43, mikel king wrote: On Oct 13, 2011, at 4:38 PM, Roland Smith wrote: With the recent death of Dennis Ritchie, we've lost one of the giants on whose shoulders we are standing. But

Re: Has anyone been able to configure a Linksys E3000 using freebsd or pcbsd?

2011-08-11 Thread Mike Jeays
On Thu, 11 Aug 2011 17:27:39 -0700 Chuck Swiger cswi...@mac.com wrote: Hi-- On Aug 11, 2011, at 5:03 PM, eculp wrote: In a trade with a friend, I ended up with a Linksys E3000. The only windows machine that I have is my wife's 10 laptop that doesn't have a dvd. I use FreeBSD or

Re: Filename containing French characters ?

2011-05-22 Thread Mike Jeays
On Sun, 22 May 2011 17:00:48 +0200 Frank Bonnet f.bon...@esiee.fr wrote: Hello I'm going mad trying to Open a file which the filename contains one or more French characters ( file not found ) Is there some magical receipe to do so ? Or do I have to forget trying ??? Thanks Envoyé de

Re: graphical representation of `du`

2011-04-02 Thread Mike Jeays
On Sat, 2 Apr 2011 17:15:04 +0100 Chris Rees utis...@gmail.com wrote: du -h . | awk '{a[i++]=$0} END {for (j=i-1; j=0;) print a[j--] }' | awk '{print($2 [$1]);}' | sed -e 's,[^-][^/]*/,--,g' -e 's,^,|,' I confess to being impressed... ___

Re: BSD Magazine PDFs

2011-02-19 Thread Mike Jeays
On Sat, 19 Feb 2011 16:37:14 -0500 Alfredo Perez alfredo...@gmail.com wrote: I am missing them all, can you upload them somewhere? Thanks in advance On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 1:48 PM, Xn Nooby xno...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for the replies, good to know I'm not missing any issues.

Re: script help

2011-02-16 Thread Mike Jeays
On Wed, 16 Feb 2011 16:47:57 +0100 Bernt Hansson be...@bah.homeip.net wrote: 2011-02-14 23:34, Jack L. Stone skrev: Hello folks: Hello! No doubt this will be easy for those with scritping abilities. # find all of the same filenames (copyright.htm) and then replace the year 2010

Re: documentation OF FreeBSD

2011-01-18 Thread Mike Jeays
On Tue, 18 Jan 2011 20:43:01 +0100 Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Tue, 18 Jan 2011 17:07:12 +0200, Ross Cameron ross.came...@linuxpro.co.za wrote: Considering the wording of the original posting I HIGHLY doubt the OP would be willing to use PINE/MUTT/MAIL. So they hardly

Re: New to FreeBsd

2011-01-03 Thread Mike Jeays
On Mon, 3 Jan 2011 16:16:13 +0200 George George strangegeor...@gmail.com wrote: I am new to the Free BSD and i have a question on how to install a packet.What i have to type to download a python editor?I cant find the right packet name.Thank you very much.

Re: Creating clone of a HDD including boot partition

2010-12-14 Thread Mike Jeays
Put it in a USB enclosure, and run dd in=/dev/sourcedisk out=/dev/targetdisk bs=1M Drink coffee until done. On Tue, 14 Dec 2010 15:42:42 +0100 nagios nag...@todoo.biz wrote: Hello, I have setup a tailored made configuration (1 UFS partition + 1 swap + boot sectors) for some hardware

Re: Greybeards (Re: Netbooks BSD)

2010-10-20 Thread Mike Jeays
On October 20, 2010 03:47:38 am per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: Matthias Apitz g...@unixarea.de wrote: El d?a Tuesday, October 19, 2010 a las 07:29:46PM -0700, Gary Kline escribi?: PS: I really _was_ current on hardware stuff. Back in the VAX 780 days :-) I booted my first UNIX

Re: Greybeards (Re: Netbooks BSD)

2010-10-20 Thread Mike Jeays
On October 20, 2010 03:46:06 pm Bob Hall wrote: On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 12:07:55PM -0500, Tim Daneliuk wrote: On 10/20/2010 11:55 AM, Gary Kline wrote: On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 12:47:38AM -0700, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: Matthias Apitz g...@unixarea.de wrote: El d?a Tuesday, October

Re: Netbooks BSD

2010-10-19 Thread Mike Jeays
On October 19, 2010 10:29:46 pm Gary Kline wrote: On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 02:53:30PM -0600, Warren Block wrote: On Tue, 19 Oct 2010, Matthias Apitz wrote: El d?a Sunday, October 17, 2010 a las 12:17:16PM -0600, Warren Block escribi?: On Sun, 17 Oct 2010, Matthias Apitz wrote: Any

Re: error - ad2: FAILURE

2010-09-01 Thread Mike Jeays
On September 1, 2010 10:29:42 pm Xihong Yin wrote: Hi, I received the following error when I try to access files in some of the directories in /usr and when the computer boots. ad2s1f is mounted on /usr. ad2: FAILURE - READ_DMA status=51READY,DSC,ERROR error=40UNCORRECTABLE LBA=37370159

Re: BSD equivalent of Linux's free(1)?

2010-08-18 Thread Mike Jeays
On August 18, 2010 02:06:08 pm Aleksandr Miroslav wrote: on wed, aug 18, 2010 at 1:04 pm, chris maness ch...@chrismaness.com wrote: Would not the info displayed in the command top suffice? Yes, top -n 1 does (sort of) display the info I need. The swap portion gives me the same info as

Re: office apps

2010-06-06 Thread Mike Jeays
On June 6, 2010 04:34:16 pm Chip Camden wrote: This might not be the right list for this question -- if so, please slap me over to the right one. Does anyone have a recommendation for a lighter-weight office suite? OOo is such a pig. It takes a good minute to start it up and open a

Re: Installation queries

2010-04-24 Thread Mike Jeays
On April 24, 2010 07:53:27 am Glen Barber wrote: Hi, Warren Liddell wrote: I have a Hard Drive presently running Win 7 which ironically i wish to remain souly a Win drive .. my question is, i have another drive im looking to put in while i take the windows 1 out and install FreeBSD onto

Re: OT: dead box

2010-03-21 Thread Mike Jeays
On March 21, 2010 08:24:15 am Frank Shute wrote: On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 11:23:34AM +, Chris Whitehouse wrote: Frank Shute wrote: Sorry if this is a bit off-topic. I came in the other day to find my workstation powered off. Hitting the power on button had no effect as did using

Re: PASSWORD LOST!!

2010-02-09 Thread Mike Jeays
On February 8, 2010 01:53:22 pm Eric Petersen wrote: Hey guys, I have a web/ftp server loaded with FreeBSD. This was done a couple of years back. Since then the person or persons that did the original install have gone out of business and cannot be found. Currently I have an issue logging

Re: wps to odt?

2010-02-02 Thread Mike Jeays
On February 2, 2010 07:35:42 pm Gary Kline wrote: On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 09:20:50AM +1100, andrew clarke wrote: On Tue 2010-02-02 12:44:41 UTC-0800, Gary Kline (kl...@thought.org) wrote: is there such a converter that sends m$ Works [.wps] to odt? AbiWord. And a quick-and-dirty

Re: i've questions sure this e-mail for questions

2010-01-09 Thread Mike Jeays
On January 9, 2010 07:28:24 pm libyan linux wrote: hello sir i am wanyce ashoura from Libya i notice in Libya and Africa there is no community for BSD and i start manged some small group of bsd group so if that not bothering you cause my language english not so good ok and i am new in bsd

Hardware virtualization

2009-12-30 Thread Mike Jeays
I am about to buy a new desktop, and I want to make sure that hardware virtualization is included. In one or two local computer stores, I get a blank look when I ask about this. Intel seems provide it on only certain chip models and they don't seem be very forthcoming, Perhaps it is better to

Re: Have not received emails for a few days now....

2009-12-16 Thread Mike Jeays
On December 16, 2009 01:03:21 pm Diego Montalvo wrote: Is there something wrong with the freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list? perhaps I got booted accidentally. Cheers! Diego ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: KDE3 -- KDE4

2009-08-26 Thread Mike Jeays
hardware. Greetings, The need for semi-transparent windows is a big question in my mind too. I suspect it has been implemented because it is possible, and initially looks 'cool'. But it seems to be a distraction from actually doing useful work. Much better to turn it off, IMHO. -- Mike Jeays

Re: Cronjob

2009-06-08 Thread Mike Jeays
-- Mike Jeays http://www.jeays.ca http://www.rotarycpmm.ca On June 8, 2009 02:56:31 pm Jos Chrispijn wrote: Found another solution (for running @ 23:58): 58 23 * * * [ `date -d tomorrow +%d` -eq '01' ] /myscript thanks for all other suggestions, Jos Chrispijn

Re: What is this forum for?

2009-05-28 Thread Mike Jeays
. Try moving it to alt.dev.null, and let the rest of us ask and answer questions about FreeBSD, please. -- Mike Jeays http://www.jeays.ca http://www.rotarycpmm.ca ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: Disappointed with version 6.0

2009-05-18 Thread Mike Jeays
-- Mike Jeays http://www.jeays.ca http://www.rotarycpmm.ca On May 18, 2009 12:56:07 pm David Roberts wrote: Hi, I was reading this thread as the problem I'm having seems quite similar, and with version 7.2, although I had the same behavior with 6.3 as well. The only variation

Re: Licensing

2009-05-08 Thread Mike Jeays
On May 8, 2009 01:09:51 am Steve Bertrand wrote: I've got a question that is likely not suited for this list, but I know that there are people here who can guide me off-list. Being a network engineer, I'm far from a developer. With that said, I've written numerous network automation programs

Re: Compiling everything myself?

2009-03-16 Thread Mike Jeays
automates source download, compilation and installation. The package system fetches and installs pre-compiled binaries. Take your pick. Mike Jeays http://www.jeays.ca http://www.rotarycpmm.ca ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: OT: sed + exit status

2009-02-15 Thread Mike Jeays
On February 15, 2009 01:26:27 am Dimitar Vasilev wrote: . Is sed successful is there are no instances of FOO? Or only if there is at least one instance of FOO and it is successfully replaced by bar? Respectfully, Robert Huff

Re: short-changed on SD card?

2009-02-02 Thread Mike Jeays
...@freebsd.org I think I would try dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da1 bs=1M without the count option, and see how many blocks it writes. You at least start with a clean slate, and can run fdisk and newfs, if you want a BSD-only device. Make sure you write on the right device! -- Mike Jeays http

Re: why printf() don't work?

2009-01-05 Thread Mike Jeays
. --- I think you need #include stdio.h -- Mike Jeays http://www.jeays.ca ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: Why FreeBSD not popular on hardware vendors

2008-12-12 Thread Mike Jeays
-topic threads get discouraged after a few iterations. I would NOT be in favour of moderation - I like it the way it is. -- Mike Jeays http://www.jeays.ca ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Firewire problem

2008-11-06 Thread Mike Jeays
of success on a Linux machine, with the same card. Should I buy a new card, or is there anything else worth trying first? -- Mike Jeays http://www.jeays.ca ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: gzipping multiple files w/o tarring

2008-10-10 Thread Mike Jeays
that already have the .gz extension. gunzip * will put them back the way they were. -- Mike Jeays http://www.jeays.ca ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: Filesystem of choice for a Linux/FreeBSD shared backup disk?

2008-09-23 Thread Mike Jeays
] -- Mike Jeays http://www.jeays.ca ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: defrag

2008-08-27 Thread Mike Jeays
have never understood is why Microsoft didn't fix the problem when they designed NTFS. UFS and EXT2 both existed at that time, and neither needs periodic defragmentation. -- Mike Jeays http://www.jeays.ca ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: What price at the license of FreeBSD 7?

2008-07-19 Thread Mike Jeays
Zimbabwe dollars, I wonder? This seems to give the finest measurement for approximations to zero... -- Mike Jeays http://www.jeays.ca ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: Even more documentation?

2008-04-25 Thread Mike Jeays
to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more details on the internal design, find a copy of The Design and Implementation of the 4.4 BSD Operating System http://www.amazon.com/Design-Implementation-Operating-Addison-Wesley-Systems/dp/0201549794 -- Mike Jeays http://www.jeays.ca

Re: Laptop advice

2008-03-27 Thread Mike Jeays
-in pad is quite usable. I had no trouble with the tiny keyboard, except for needing the light on to read the keys. They are a really great innovation, IMHO. I am really pleased with mine. The wireless card may be the problem with FreeBSD. -- Mike Jeays http://www.jeays.ca

Re: home dir executable (!/bin/sh, chmod+x) shell scripts won't run without sh script

2008-01-07 Thread Mike Jeays
see anything especially bad about putting . as the last item in the PATH on a personal desktop machine. It is convenient, IMHO worth the risk. If my desktop gets hacked, I have worse problems to worry about than this. -- Mike Jeays http://www.jeays.ca

Re: Apparently, csh programming is considered harmful.

2007-12-13 Thread Mike Jeays
is likely to need for interactive use as well, and one could make a good case for it being the 'standard' shell now./flamebait -- Mike Jeays http://www.jeays.ca ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: using dd to duplicate disks/partitions of slightly different sizes - works?

2007-12-01 Thread Mike Jeays
performance. Anyway, read 'man dd'. You can specify very large blocksizes. I suspect it might take very many hours with a blocksize of 512. -- Mike Jeays http://www.jeays.ca ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: Major filesystem problems after crash on 7.0-BETA3

2007-11-27 Thread Mike Jeays
drive (40GB) that refuses to allow FreeBSD to install, but has worked flawlessly with Linux. (It would work very slowly in PIO mode, but not DMA, which is not a whole lot of use). I would be interested to hear if your replacement disk works. -- Mike Jeays http://www.jeays.ca

Automatic FSCK for an ext2 disk

2007-11-26 Thread Mike Jeays
. Is there a way to make sure an ext2 filesystem gets automatically fscked as well as the UFS partitions on the primary disk? -- Mike Jeays http://www.jeays.ca ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: Partition to be shared over OSes

2007-11-24 Thread Mike Jeays
To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yes, you can read and write FAT filesystems from Linux and BSD systems. Reading from an NTFS system is generally supported, but writing is still experimental, and I wouldn't recommend it for a production system. -- Mike Jeays http://www.jeays.ca

Re: pdf edit again.

2007-11-03 Thread Mike Jeays
. You might get lucky. Otherwise - try od :-) -- Mike Jeays http://www.jeays.ca ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Help with Cron pleazzzzzzzzzzzz

2007-10-31 Thread Mike Jeays
and it will check every minute. But a better fix would be to find the bug in status.pl that makes it crash! -- Mike Jeays http://www.jeays.ca ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: defend from - :() { ::; } ;:

2007-10-22 Thread Mike Jeays
___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yes, it brought down my Ubuntu 7.10 system pretty well immediately. I had to reboot. -- Mike Jeays http://www.jeays.ca

Re: Is it difficult to move from Linux?

2007-10-22 Thread Mike Jeays
document. For a system running KDE or GNOME, it is hard to tell the difference. The software installation system (source-based ports or binary packages) are about as easy to use as apt-get or its equivalents. -- Mike Jeays http://www.jeays.ca

Re: defend from - :() { ::; } ;:

2007-10-22 Thread Mike Jeays
does it do? It is easier to understand when you replace the : by a more conventional subroutine name. myproc () { myproc myproc } myproc It recursively generates useless processes that clog up the machine. Mine ground to a halt and froze after a few seconds. -- Mike Jeays http

Re: Sadly, my tinker-time has run out....

2007-09-02 Thread Mike Jeays
disaster hits one day, I suppose). All the development tools are a few mouse-clicks away. I may switch back one day, as I like FreeBSD very much for its sound design and underlying philosophy. I feel 'guilty' about having changed! -- Mike Jeays http://www.jeays.ca

Re: How to mount USB key

2007-06-06 Thread Mike Jeays
to say mount -t mdsos /dev/da0 /mnt or maybe mount -t msdos /dev/da0s1 /mnt -- Mike Jeays http://www.jeays.ca ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: machine will no longer boot

2007-05-28 Thread Mike Jeays
the command line to change the offending lines to comments, or delete them. -- Mike Jeays http://www.jeays.ca ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

Re: best programming language for console/sql application?

2007-04-22 Thread Mike Jeays
- it even seems a bit naive to begin with, but it is actually very powerful. OT as you said, and the stuff of flamewars! -- Mike Jeays http://www.jeays.ca ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: network card setup?

2007-03-06 Thread Mike Jeays
On Tue, 2007-03-06 at 18:49 +0530, elaya raj wrote: Hi, i new to freebsd i want to configure my network card. But i dont know how to configure it. after configure the nic card i want to configur ftp also.. so plz guid me how to configure the nic card and ftp...

[Fwd: Re: Search Replace Issue]

2006-12-24 Thread Mike Jeays
---BeginMessage--- On Sun, 2006-12-24 at 12:13 -0800, Garrett Cooper wrote: Jack Stone wrote: From: Parv [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Josh Paetzel [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: Jack Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED], freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Search Replace Issue Date: Sun, 24 Dec 2006

Re: Install problems

2006-11-25 Thread Mike Jeays
On Sat, 2006-11-25 at 19:04 -0500, Jose wrote: Hi, Let me start by saying I am new to FreeBSD. I downloaded the iso, burned it to disk and installed the software. However when I restart the pc after the install I get an error message that it cannot find the kernel. I have gone through

Re: question

2006-11-12 Thread Mike Jeays
On Sat, 2006-11-11 at 19:40 +0100, Sebastian Herrmann wrote: Hallo, could you tell me how to download FreeBSD from your site? Gruß Sebastian Ein Herz für Kinder - Ihre Spende hilft! Aktion: www.deutschlandsegelt.de Unser Dankeschön: Ihr Name auf dem Segel der 1.

Re: TV capture card

2006-11-10 Thread Mike Jeays
On Fri, 2006-11-10 at 22:28 +0600, Bachilo Dmitry wrote: В сообщении от Пятница 10 ноября 2006 22:18 Tsu-Fan Cheng написал(a): Hi thank you guys. I just ordered a TV card from Avermedia, it should be using brooktree chip. i chose AverMedia over Happahauge simply because it's less

Re: Booting FreeBSD from floppy or CD

2006-09-19 Thread Mike Jeays
On Tue, 2006-09-19 at 10:49 -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote: On Tue, Sep 19, 2006 at 01:52:07AM -0700, Stanley Wright wrote: Hi All, Is it possible to boot FreeBSD from a floppy disk or a CD. I dont want the other users to know the OS is on the computer. Wow, stealth FreeBSD.

Re: KBTV setup problem

2006-09-06 Thread Mike jeays
06 September 2006 05:09, Mike jeays wrote: Has anyone else encountered this problem with KBTV? Note that the line showing the mixer channel seems to lack an entry. chaucer 501 /usr/home/mike # btsetup btsetup show BKTR - BrookTree/Conexant BT8x8 based cards

KBTV setup problem

2006-09-05 Thread Mike jeays
self.toolbarwidget = KbtvToolbarWidget(self, tb) File /usr/local/share/apps/kbtv/kbtv_toolbar.py, line 48, in __init__ self.mixerchan = bthardware.MIXER_CHANNEL_NAMES.index(mchan) ValueError: list.index(x): x not in list -- Mike Jeays [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jeays.ca

Re: Force UDMA100 drive to UDMA33 or PIO4?

2006-09-02 Thread Mike Jeays
On Sat, 2006-09-02 at 21:12 -0500, Nikolas Britton wrote: How do you force a UDMA100 drive to UDMA33 or PIO4 mode in FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE? atacontrol mode ad0 pio4 for example. man atacontrol, obviously, for more details. ___

Re: Searching a drive and copying files

2006-07-22 Thread Mike Jeays
On Sat, 2006-07-22 at 10:47 -0400, Joshua Lewis wrote: Hello List, I have a two part question for anyone who may be able to help. I need to search my drive for all pictures on my system and copy them to a networked system using sftp or ssh or what not. There will be duplicate names on

Re: Corrupt MBOX

2006-07-22 Thread Mike Jeays
On Sat, 2006-07-22 at 13:18 -0400, Gerard Seibert wrote: Derek Ragona wrote: It may be corrupted by spam. This happens when SPAM has bad headers. This effects all POP clients/servers. -Derek OK, is there any easy repair process that I can use to remedy the situation?

RE: TIME loss

2006-07-13 Thread Mike Jeays
On Thu, 2006-07-13 at 17:35 -0400, Chris Hill wrote: On Thu, 13 Jul 2006, Jean-Paul Natola wrote: But as I mentioned earlier ntpd is running , when I do top ...? Anyway, make sure your drift file exists and is writeable. Mine looks like this: $ ls -l /var/db/ntpd.drift

Re: file creation date in freebsd

2006-06-17 Thread Mike Jeays
On Sun, 2006-06-18 at 02:44 +0500, Imran Imtiaz wrote: However we can find the modification date of a file but is it possible that we can also get creation date of the file? regards, Imran Imtiaz ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: release 6.1

2006-05-31 Thread Mike Jeays
On Wed, 2006-05-31 at 10:43 -0700, jdow wrote: From: Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 03:49:42PM +0300, mehmet gogebakan wrote: i would like to install 6.1-RELEASE to my computer , configuration is: 128 MB SDRAM LG cdrom 52x 8 MB Grafic card 40 gb hd p3

Re: 21

2006-05-28 Thread Mike Jeays
, and a hard-to-remember incantation, IMHO. -- Mike Jeays http://ca.geocities.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: MESS

2006-05-22 Thread Mike Jeays
. But there must be a better way doing it though. Cheers, Mikhail. The 'ed' editor is in /bin, and so is available at single-user boot. It is a real antique, but if you have a copy of the manual it is not too hard to correct /etc/fstab. 'ee' is in /usr/bin -- Mike Jeays http

Re: cleaning off unix/linux????

2006-05-21 Thread Mike Jeays
On Sun, 2006-05-21 at 13:41 -0700, Gary Kline wrote: On Sat, May 20, 2006 at 07:21:23PM -0500, Charles Howse wrote: On May 20, 2006, at 6:46 PM, Gary Kline wrote: Gang, A 40G drive that I thought was bad (when trying to install W2K on the drive) may be entirely good. I

Re: newly installed apps not in path?

2006-05-15 Thread Mike Jeays
to see this problem with bash, however. -- Mike Jeays http://ca.geocities.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: xhost does not work as expected

2006-04-27 Thread Mike Jeays
/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To enable remote X displays, use either startx -listen_tcp or, in /usr/local/share/config/kdm/kdmrc comment out ServerArgsLocal=-nolisten tcp -- Mike Jeays http://ca.geocities.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: best way to use cp?

2006-03-25 Thread Mike Jeays
-Rp /mnt/usb1/path/oldfolder/ /home/mydir/ Note the trailing slash on the source directory. For more information, see man cp. -R says to copy recursively down through directories, and -p says to preserve permissions, dates and times etc. -- Mike Jeays http://ca.geocities.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Availability of a journaling file system

2006-03-23 Thread Mike Jeays
atacontrol mode ad0 pio4 I have a Maxtor 40GB which won't work in DMA mode with FreeBSD, although it seems fine with other OSes. There is a hefty perfomance hit, of course! -- Mike Jeays http://ca.geocities.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions

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