Award BIOS Upgrade Fees - Slightly Offtopic

2006-04-05 Thread Thompson, Jimi
I just encountered what I consider to be a totally outrageous problem. I've got a system with a BIOS issue. The motherboard maker has decided to use Award's BIOS and they want a minimum of $39.95 to email me the BIOS update that I need to fix the system. I thought I post here, even though

RE: Bye-bye beastie ...

2005-09-27 Thread Thompson, Jimi
Perhaps they'd prefer it if we used this instead http://www.jesusdance.org/ 2 cents, Jimi I've stopped 75 spam and fraud messages. You can too! One month FREE spam and fraud protection at http://www.cloudmark.com/sig/? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: Stupid ASCII loader prompt

2005-03-17 Thread Thompson, Jimi
SNIP What I think is going to end up happening if they do get a decent logo out of this contest, is that ultimately your going to see the new logo used in a few places here and there on the Internet, and your going to see beastie used at most other places. It will simply present more

RE: Regarding password changes (Re: no subject)

2004-09-10 Thread Thompson, Jimi
My suggestion follows Bill's. Contact your hosting provider. If you can't contact your hosting provider and/or get them to help you, it's time for a new hosting provider. I've had good experience with LunarPages.com. Asking the FreeBSD community for support for something like this is like

BIND 9 Package Question

2004-08-05 Thread Thompson, Jimi
Hi, Background - All was well until the boss upgraded the glibc on the RedHat server which made all kinds of things unhappy. Taking the opportunity to convert yet another server here to FreeBSD, I built a new DNS on FreeBSD 4.9. I have noticed a couple of odd things. Typing in

BIND Upgrade 8 to 9 w/odd problem

2004-08-05 Thread Thompson, Jimi
I wanted to post this to the FreeBSD list. We recently upgrade our BIND server from 8.4.5 to 9.2.3. Under the old BIND, we have everything working. Now, the new server isn't accepting updates from the servers that it SHOULD be accepting updates from and it isn't allowing zone transfers to the

RE: Your 3rd and last chance to help me with vmware

2004-07-20 Thread Thompson, Jimi
SNIP bash-2.05b$ uname -a FreeBSD potato.hogsedge.net 5.2-CURRENT FreeBSD 5.2-CURRENT #0: Tue Jun 22 07:07:08 BST 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/POTATO i386 bash-2.05b$ pkg_info | grep vmware vmware3-3.2.1.2242_7,1 A virtual machine emulator - a full PC in a window /SNIP Ben,

RE: Devil Mascot

2004-06-14 Thread Thompson, Jimi
SNIP From a marketing perspective, you are shooting yourselves in the foot. There are many people of various religious backgrounds who will be dissuaded from trying FreeBSD because they have religious objections to a product that is promoted by a devil. Why should The FreeBSD project be

RE: What is PPPPoed?

2004-04-22 Thread Thompson, Jimi
PPPoed is the Point-to-Point Protocol over Ethernet Daemon. The RFC is here - http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2516.html I also suggest that you Google on PPPOE and do some reading. HTH, Jimi -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of JJB Sent:

RE: being DOSed

2004-04-22 Thread Thompson, Jimi
SNIP I have found some IPs are opening 10 HTTP connection. Their IPs are Changing and all IPs are from different ISP network. What should I do next? Thanks Meimi /SNIP I'd suggest putting a firewall on another server, if you are being DDOS'd. Most people don't realize this, but your average old

RE: Installation - More user friendly

2004-03-08 Thread Thompson, Jimi
SNIP Does the folks of FreeBSD has any plans to make installation more user friendly for the newbie or the non-tech minded user for example like Red Hat or Mandrake Linux installation? The point for technology is to make people lives easier right? /SNIP Before the flames start, let me state that