Analysing VMcore files.

2008-11-24 Thread Simon Burke
I am currently running FreeBSD 7.0 as my desktop OS, and I have a need to analyse VWCores from a RedHat ES system. Knowing very little about analysing dumps, is it possible to do this? or would I have to set up a more comparable environment? -- Theres no place like ::1 Thanks, SimonB

Re: Analysing VMcore files.

2008-11-24 Thread Simon Burke
2008/11/24 Ivan Voras [EMAIL PROTECTED] Simon Burke wrote: I am currently running FreeBSD 7.0 as my desktop OS, and I have a need to analyse VWCores from a RedHat ES system. Knowing very little about analysing dumps, is it possible to do this? or would I have to set up a more comparable

Re: FreeBSD's Visual Identity: Outdated?

2005-07-02 Thread Simon Burke
1. Not only is the logo misleading (associating evil) but it also looks like something 10-year-olds could produce in Paint Shop Pro ten years ago. OpenBSD has an artistic touch to theirs, however I was very disappointed when I heard that the new NetBSD logo was in effect. I would

Re: GMail Users Blocked by Spamcop

2005-04-22 Thread Simon Burke
On 4/22/05, Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In addition to what Shantanoo said, on a personal note - if Gmail gets blocked - that has to tell you something about the client el they have. Not all, but a large percentage. Unfortunate as it seems, when ever email is offered free of charge, it

Re: Instead of freebsd.com, why not...

2005-02-13 Thread Simon Burke
On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 11:30:45 +0100, Anthony Atkielski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michael C. Shultz writes: I Agree! My FreeBSD desktop is very stable and user friendly. What ever time I spend fixing/managing desktops is on my friends windows machines, never my own because it always just

Re: Instead of freebsd.com, why not...

2005-02-13 Thread Simon Burke
On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 13:59:29 +0100, Anthony Atkielski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Simon Burke writes: Use on my SGI workstaion (IRIX), GIMP I said Photoshop, not GIMP. I use photshop on IRIX i mean, and you can use gimp too, is what i meant. I don't want equivalents, I want the same

Re: Dumb OpenOffice install error

2005-01-06 Thread Simon Burke
On Thu, 6 Jan 2005 12:28:52 +0200, Vadim Maksimenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Original Message - From: Simon Burke [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2005 10:52 PM Subject: Re: Dumb OpenOffice install error I have OpenOffice 1.1.3 running on 5.3

Re: Dumb OpenOffice install error

2005-01-05 Thread Simon Burke
On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 13:58:24 -0600, Joshua Lokken [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There's a thread on this list from yesterday that states plainly that OpenOffice does not build on FreeBSD 5.3: However, it does build on 4.11-STABLE. I have OpenOffice 1.1.3 running on 5.3. All that i neded to

Re: Dumb OpenOffice install error

2005-01-05 Thread Simon Burke
On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 14:56:28 -0600, Joshua Lokken [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 20:52:16 +, Simon Burke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 13:58:24 -0600, Joshua Lokken [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There's a thread on this list from yesterday that states plainly

Re: FreeBSD's Visual Identity: Outdated?

2004-12-23 Thread Simon Burke
1. Not only is the logo misleading (associating evil) but it also looks like something 10-year-olds could produce in Paint Shop Pro ten years ago. OpenBSD has an artistic touch to theirs, however I was very disappointed when I heard that the new NetBSD logo was in effect. I would

Boot splash screens in 5.3

2004-12-15 Thread Simon Burke
HIya, Im trying to find out how to add a bootsplash to 5.3. I've looked at the handbook and only saw details for 3.x. Is it the same process?? I have a 320x200 bmp file already for this, i assume that is the corrct size etc, as i read of a how-to for 3.x. -- Theres no place like ::1 Thanks,

Re: OpenOffice 1.1.3 won't build under FreeBSD 5.3R

2004-12-13 Thread Simon Burke
On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 14:04:08 +0200, lordbad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to install it from the ports.Here is most the error output: snip errors ERROR: Error 65280 occurred while making /usr/ports/editors/openoffice-1.1/work/ OOo_1.1.3_src/jurt/source/pipe dmake: Error code 1,

Re: 5.3: cant install openoffice 1.1 from ports

2004-12-12 Thread Simon Burke
On Sat, 11 Dec 2004 19:16:39 -0600, Jay Moore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 06 December 2004 04:23 pm, Simon Burke wrote: I've recently done a fresh install of 5.3, i updated ports using cvsup to install gnome2.8, which im using know, great. Problem is that it wont allow me

Swap partition not used?

2004-12-11 Thread Simon Burke
Hiya, After a while of using 5.3RELEASE, i have noticed a small problem, my swap partition isnt getting used. Well its not a small problem considering that i have only 256mb ram on this machine. boredom# swapctl -l Device: 1024-blocks Used: /dev/ad0s1b 48211256 this i

Re: Swap partition not used?

2004-12-11 Thread Simon Burke
On Sat, 11 Dec 2004 09:22:23 -0600, Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Simon Burke wrote: Hiya, After a while of using 5.3RELEASE, i have noticed a small problem, my swap partition isnt getting used. Well its not a small problem considering that i have only 256mb

Re: 5.3: cant install openoffice 1.1 from ports

2004-12-07 Thread Simon Burke
On Mon, 06 Dec 2004 18:37:14 -0800, Tabor Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Simon Burke wrote: I've recently done a fresh install of 5.3, i updated ports using cvsup to install gnome2.8, which im using know, great. Problem is that it wont allow me to compile openoffice properly, i cant

5.3: cant install openoffice 1.1 from ports

2004-12-06 Thread Simon Burke
I've recently done a fresh install of 5.3, i updated ports using cvsup to install gnome2.8, which im using know, great. Problem is that it wont allow me to compile openoffice properly, i cant give an error message as its about 7hrs in i get the message and i've since made clean. Does anyone

Re: open source video card hardware!

2004-12-05 Thread Simon Burke
On Sun, 05 Dec 2004 01:05:35 -0500, jason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone else heard of these great idea? If you are intrested sign the petition so the company backing it, Tech Source, will fund it. Please check this link with plenty of info about.

Re: [OT]Help me, Get a Free flat screen

2004-11-05 Thread Simon Burke
Please help me, I'm trying to get a Free TV, check out this site, if you refer 8 people you get a free TV or Flat screen monitor... snip very sad...and some people still wonder how it is there can be so much spam when so many profess to hate it. I completly agree, though the company im

Re: Help me, Get a Free flat screen

2004-11-05 Thread Simon Burke
On Fri, 5 Nov 2004 10:24:46 -0500 (EST), Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please help me, I'm trying to get a Free TV, check out this site, if you refer 8 people you get a free TV or Flat screen monitor... Copy and paste this link...and add one W to the front and you get a TV

duel booting with 2x *nix

2004-10-28 Thread Simon Burke
I know duel booting is really easy to setup these days, but just a thought, I've never duel booted with two *nix OS's so i do not know this. Is it possible to use a single swap partition for multiple distro's on one machine? If so would it impair stability or stuff? And would it be possible to

Re: topposting (was: colourization in ls command)

2004-10-13 Thread Simon Burke
On Wed, 13 Oct 2004 08:20:19 -0400, Bart Silverstrim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Oct 12, 2004, at 6:44 PM, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Tuesday, 12 October 2004 at 8:42:39 -0400, Bart Silverstrim wrote: It gets to a point where I solve it by doing this or just no reply at all.