RE: freebsd IT mailing list or newsgroup?

2005-01-20 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jim Durham > Sent: Monday, January 17, 2005 11:04 AM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: freebsd IT mailing list or newsgroup? > > > I guess I would have to say th

RE: freebsd IT mailing list or newsgroup?

2005-01-20 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
> -Original Message- > From: Jim Durham [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, January 17, 2005 10:42 AM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Cc: Ted Mittelstaedt > Subject: Re: freebsd IT mailing list or newsgroup? > > > On Saturday 15 January 2005 03:05 pm, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:

RE: Security for webserver behind router?

2005-01-20 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of > Thanos Tsouanas > Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2005 11:46 PM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: Security for webserver behind router? > > > Just how much secure do you want to be? Yo

Re: Security for webserver behind router?

2005-01-20 Thread Thanos Tsouanas
On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 12:27:01AM -0800, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > > Just how much secure do you want to be? You can run apache > > chrooted in its directory. That basically means, that if > > apache is installed at /var/www/ , you can set it so that it > > isn't aware of anything that's not und

Re: FreeBSD I LOVE YOU

2005-01-20 Thread Scott Bennett
On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 15:26:49 -0500 daniel quinn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On January 19, 2005 03:06 pm, Anthony Atkielski wrote: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >> >> Fac> I think the "junky old PC" market is just what the current FreeBSD >> "team" Fac> is targeting. >> >> At least someone is t

Re: FreeBSD I LOVE YOU

2005-01-20 Thread Scott Bennett
On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 01:09:10 +0100 Matthias Buelow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Anthony Atkielski wrote: > >> Indeed, someone in the Third World without the means to buy a new PC and >> an expensive Windows license could find a junk PC and install FreeBSD on > >And where do you think would they

Re: FreeBSD I LOVE YOU

2005-01-20 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2005-01-20 04:30, Anthony Atkielski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Giorgos Keramidas writes: >> I've seen Windows machines "lose" CD-ROM or floppy drives, on >> perfectly working systems. You may find that booting the >> installation CD-ROM of some FreeBSD version locates the floppy >> drive just

pdflib for php

2005-01-20 Thread Cristi Tauber
Hello, i'm trying to install php extensions for pdf and i encounter the following error : => pdflib-2.0.4.tgz doesn't seem to exist in /usr/ports/distfiles/PECL. => Attempting to fetch from http://pecl.php.net/get/. pdflib-2.0.4.tgz 100% of 35 kB 22 kBps =

Re: /usr/local/etc/rc.d vs /etc/rc.conf question

2005-01-20 Thread Erik Norgaard
Toomas Aas wrote: Andy Firman wrote: On my 4.10 box, there is a mysql-server script in /usr/local/etc/rc.d and nothing in /etc/rc.conf, yet mysql-server starts up a boot time. Why? Your mysql-server port was probably installed before 31.10.2004. It was modified to use rc.conf variables at th

Re: pdflib for php

2005-01-20 Thread Thanos Tsouanas
On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 12:11:04PM +0200, Cristi Tauber wrote: > ===> pdflib-6.0.1 is forbidden: > http://vuxml.freebsd.org/fc7e6a42-6012-11d9-a9e7-0001020eed82.html. > > Forbidden ? Why ? anyone ... Yes this one: just follow the link. (pretty obvious ;)) If you insist in installing

Re: Open Sound System

2005-01-20 Thread Karol Kwiatkowski
Gerard Seibert wrote: > I have seen OSS from opensound.org mentioned here a few times. I have > not been able to locate it in the 'ports tree'. Would I be correct in > assuming that it is not available there, but rather only by downloading > it directly from opensound.org directly? Yes, that's cor

Re: Security for webserver behind router?

2005-01-20 Thread Eilko Bos
>From the keyboard of Ted Mittelstaedt, written on Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at >11:25:00PM -0800: > > I am running Apache 1.3.33, as you suggest I should. You say > > "as long as > > Apache is secure"; what should I do to be sure that Apache is secure? > > > > Nothing, you nor nobody can do this. All y

Re: FreeBSD I LOVE YOU

2005-01-20 Thread Matthias Buelow
Scott Bennett wrote: And so your preference would be that the machines should go to a landfill rather than to someone who can't afford a computer at all? Here in the Civilized World, we recycle the materials used in computers (well, most of them), we don't throw them into the sea. You s

Re: freebsd IT mailing list or newsgroup?

2005-01-20 Thread Jon Drews
On Sat, 15 Jan 2005 12:05:41 -0800, Ted Mittelstaedt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Have you seen my book and website? > > http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com > > It is out of print now but still available on Amazon. Ted; Will you do an updated version of the book some day ? I see it has 4 an

fast CGI

2005-01-20 Thread Jim Pazarena
I have a .fcgi perl routine which has at the top of it: #!/usr/bin/perl use FCGI; # imports the library and when I attempt to execute this .fcgi, I get the following error message: Can't locate FCGI.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.5/mach /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_

RE: pdflib for php

2005-01-20 Thread Mark
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Thanos Tsouanas > Sent: donderdag 20 januari 2005 11:31 > To: FreeBSD questions > Subject: Re: pdflib for php > > ===> pecl-pdflib-2.0.4 depends on shared library: pdf.7 - not found > ===>Veri

Re: fast CGI

2005-01-20 Thread martin hudec
Hello, On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 03:45:23AM -0800 or thereabouts, Jim Pazarena wrote: > I have a .fcgi perl routine which has at the top of it: > > #!/usr/bin/perl > > use FCGI; # imports the library > > and when I attempt to execute this .fcgi, I get the following error > message: > > Can't

Re: fast CGI

2005-01-20 Thread Thanos Tsouanas
On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 03:45:23AM -0800, Jim Pazarena wrote: > I have a .fcgi perl routine which has at the top of it: > > I tried compiling the perl port using -DWITH_FCGI > ... that was a stab in the dark Maybe the ports will help you: cd /usr/ports make search key="fcgi" or go to http:

Re: FreeBSD I LOVE YOU

2005-01-20 Thread Erik Norgaard
Matthias Buelow wrote: Apart from the fact that a person who speaks Arabic or Indonesian, or Pashtu probably has little use for a "kewl-themed" blackbox desktop, or something like that. That works for us latin-script Unix geeks with a working knowledge of English but certainly not for an avera

Re: need help

2005-01-20 Thread Stevan Tiefert
angelito munez schrieb: Hi,.. i just know how to fomat and basic configure freebsd 4.9 i want to run as a firewall and router s well. what shud i need some file to fetch. i have a DSL connection and i have 5 users to be run.. and i wnt to know just a basic routing and firewaaling commands.. thnk

Re: Re[6]: Can´t access a box remotely

2005-01-20 Thread Mauricio Brunstein
Hexren: Ok. From the logical point of view this is true. But when I put put router_enable="NO" in rc.conf, the internal LAN and the box cannot be reached anymore from the Internet. From the internal LAN I can do ssh to the box always regardless of this setting. Thanks anyway!! Your help was very

Re: FreeBSD I LOVE YOU

2005-01-20 Thread Colin J. Raven
On Jan 20 at 12:53, Erik Norgaard opined: > (personally I believe that harddisks should always be destroyed). Eh? Surely you don't meant trashed - physically annihilated? Phew! I believe in radical solutions certainly, but..umm..isn't that going just a little bit too far? :-) I'm assuming you me

Torrent Program

2005-01-20 Thread Warren
Im chasing a GUI Torrent program that will allow multiple downloads of torrents without having to re-open the d/l program for each new torrent. If anyone knows of such a program please let me know(not QTorrent) -- Yours Sincerely Shinjii http://www.shinji.nq.nu _

Re: pdflib for php

2005-01-20 Thread Chris Hodgins
Thanos Tsouanas wrote: On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 12:11:04PM +0200, Cristi Tauber wrote: ===> pdflib-6.0.1 is forbidden: http://vuxml.freebsd.org/fc7e6a42-6012-11d9-a9e7-0001020eed82.html. Forbidden ? Why ? anyone ... Yes this one: just follow the link. (pretty obvious ;)) If you insist

I do not understand kernel modules

2005-01-20 Thread Ramiro Aceves
Hello friends. I am a FreeBSD newbie, I am going to ask you a question that I have not been able to solve reading the manual. I am using 5.3 release. I have compiled a custom kernel in my old pentium 75 MHz machine to include the driver for my sound card. I added the following lines to the kernel c

Re: DNS reverse zone problem?

2005-01-20 Thread nikolay . nenchev
I wrote an article http://newweb.zytrax.com/books/dns/ch3/ about the reverse zones. the idea was that in classless network it is the same 0/26 with PTR records = CNAME 1.0.z.y.x.in-addr.arpa. and about the ip address is like that: example network : 111.111.111.0/26 ns1.example.com 111.111.111.1

Re: FreeBSD I LOVE YOU

2005-01-20 Thread Matthias Buelow
Colin J. Raven wrote: Eh? Surely you don't meant trashed - physically annihilated? Phew! I believe in radical solutions certainly, but..umm..isn't that going just a little bit too far? :-) I'm assuming you mean destructively formatted... Surely that depends on what was on them. The disks from Int

dns question

2005-01-20 Thread Jeff MacDonald
Not really a freebsdquestion specifically. My company uses ns.foo.com and ns1.foo.com for primay/secondary dns, about 200 domains rely on these. We want a new physical machine , in a different location, with a different IP to be our secondary dns. lets call it www.jerky.com ip = 244.233.222

Re: FreeBSD I LOVE YOU

2005-01-20 Thread Jorn Argelo
On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 02:55:39 -0600 (CST), Scott Bennett wrote > On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 15:26:49 -0500 daniel quinn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >On January 19, 2005 03:06 pm, Anthony Atkielski wrote: > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > >> > >> Fac> I think the "junky old PC" market is just what the cur

Re: I do not understand kernel modules

2005-01-20 Thread Jorn Argelo
On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 13:38:54 +0100, Ramiro Aceves wrote > Hello friends. > > I am a FreeBSD newbie, I am going to ask you a question that I have not > been able to solve reading the manual. I am using 5.3 release. I have > compiled a custom kernel in my old pentium 75 MHz machine to include > the

Re: Torrent Program

2005-01-20 Thread Jorn Argelo
On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 22:25:50 +1000, Warren wrote > Im chasing a GUI Torrent program that will allow multiple downloads > of torrents without having to re-open the d/l program for each new > torrent. If anyone knows of such a program please let me know(not > QTorrent) ABC has a Linux version, t

Re: dns question

2005-01-20 Thread Dick Davies
* Jeff MacDonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [0157 12:57]: > Not really a freebsdquestion specifically. > > My company uses >ns.foo.com and ns1.foo.com for primay/secondary dns, about 200 > domains rely on these. > > We want a new physical machine , in a different location, with a > different IP to

Hardware RAID Support (was RE: One Last Plea For Vinum Assistance)

2005-01-20 Thread Sandy Rutherford
> On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 22:57:21 -0800, > "Ted Mittelstaedt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > This did teach me a lesson that I kind of knew already but > didn't think too much about. That is, a software array is no substitute > for a hardware array. ... Agreed completely, which leads me

SIR

2005-01-20 Thread Ali Farhan
SORRY SIR, I DONOT MADE THIS TYPE OF MISTAKE AGAIN . I'LL TAKE CARE OF IT NEXT TIME.SORRY AGAIN TO DISTURB YOU. BUT SIR...KINDLY TELL ME HOW CA I INSTALL MODEM IN FREEBSD 5.1 ...MY MODEM IS LUCENT (LT WIN MODEM).PLZ SIR ___ freebsd-questions@f

Re: SIR

2005-01-20 Thread Daniel S. Haischt
Could it be, that you *do* have a serious *CAPS LOCK* obsession? Ali Farhan schrieb: SORRY SIR, I DONOT MADE THIS TYPE OF MISTAKE AGAIN . I'LL TAKE CARE OF IT NEXT TIME.SORRY AGAIN TO DISTURB YOU. BUT SIR...KINDLY TELL ME HOW CA I INSTALL MODEM IN FREEBSD 5.1 ...MY MODEM IS LUCENT (LT WIN M

Re: FreeBSD 5.3 installation

2005-01-20 Thread Albert Shih
Le 19/01/2005 à 10:05:23-0600, javier ivan mendoza a écrit > When the device probing starts the last line is like > this > md0: Preloaded image 4423680 bytes at > 0xc03ddcd4 > Then nothing happens and the machine does not respond, > what do you think is wrong? > > Pentium III processor, MSI moth

Creator of 4.4 BSD

2005-01-20 Thread b zz
Hello, Sorry for my poor english language because I'm french.. I would to know who is the creator of 4.4 BSD. Cordially, Ben Clark. -- ___ Sign-up for Ads Free at Mail.com http://promo.mail.com/adsfreejump.htm __

Re: FreeBSD I LOVE YOU

2005-01-20 Thread Erik Norgaard
Colin J. Raven wrote: Eh? Surely you don't meant trashed - physically annihilated? Phew! I believe in radical solutions certainly, but..umm..isn't that going just a little bit too far? :-) I'm assuming you mean destructively formatted... You always have to classify the data and take appropriate me

Re: Creator of 4.4 BSD

2005-01-20 Thread Phil Schulz
On 01/20/05 14:38, b zz wrote: Hello, Sorry for my poor english language because I'm french.. I would to know who is the creator of 4.4 BSD. Cordially, Ben Clark. It was released by the University of California at Berkeley, although it has its roots at the Bell Labs. Or at AT&T. Or maybe in Berke

Re: Hardware RAID Support (was RE: One Last Plea For Vinum Assistance)

2005-01-20 Thread John
On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 05:22:36AM -0800, Sandy Rutherford wrote: > > On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 22:57:21 -0800, > > "Ted Mittelstaedt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > This did teach me a lesson that I kind of knew already but > > didn't think too much about. That is, a software array is no

Re: FreeBSD I LOVE YOU

2005-01-20 Thread Colin J. Raven
On Jan 20 at 14:55, Erik Norgaard launched this into the bitstream: > Colin J. Raven wrote: > >> Eh? Surely you don't meant trashed - physically annihilated? >> Phew! I believe in radical solutions certainly, but..umm..isn't that going >> just a little bit too far? :-) >> I'm assuming you mean de

Samba not showing public share et al.

2005-01-20 Thread v . demartino2
Server Box (): Pentium 3 FreeBSD 5.3 Samba 3.0.7 connection to a windows 2000 LAN Samba on the freebsd side has the following smb.conf: [global] workgroup = MYCO # server string = VicBSD load printers = no log file = /va

Re: pdflib for php

2005-01-20 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 12:38:01PM +, Chris Hodgins wrote: > Thanos Tsouanas wrote: > >On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 12:11:04PM +0200, Cristi Tauber wrote: > > > >>===> pdflib-6.0.1 is forbidden: > >>http://vuxml.freebsd.org/fc7e6a42-6012-11d9-a9e7-0001020eed82.html. > >> > >>Forbidden ? Wh

Re: pdflib for php

2005-01-20 Thread Chris Hodgins
Matthew Seaman wrote: On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 12:38:01PM +, Chris Hodgins wrote: Thanos Tsouanas wrote: On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 12:11:04PM +0200, Cristi Tauber wrote: ===> pdflib-6.0.1 is forbidden: http://vuxml.freebsd.org/fc7e6a42-6012-11d9-a9e7-0001020eed82.html. Forbidden ? Why ?

Re: FreeBSD I LOVE YOU

2005-01-20 Thread Erik Norgaard
Colin J. Raven wrote: I always thought that formatting/fdisk'ing twice completely erased *permanently* whatever had been on the disc. You make an interesting case that previously I never thought about in any detail. Thanks for real info from the field, it's definitely food for thought! I am not

Re: Re[6]: Connection via proxy

2005-01-20 Thread Mervin McDougall
Unfortunately, I was still not able to ping the proxy server. I tried pinging by using the name of the server as well as the IP address but neither were successful. Are there any preliminary configurations that should be done prior to connecting to a proxy server or is it simply a matter of connect

RE: pdflib for php

2005-01-20 Thread Mark
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Chris Hodgins > Sent: donderdag 20 januari 2005 15:19 > To: Matthew Seaman > Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: pdflib for php > > Thanks. That was very informative. :) I still do no

Re: Creator of 4.4 BSD

2005-01-20 Thread John
On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 08:38:18AM -0500, b zz wrote: > Hello, > Sorry for my poor english language because I'm french.. > I would to know who is the creator of 4.4 BSD. > Cordially, > Ben Clark. Bon jour, Ben! There - that's almost all my French - so your English is far superior to my French.

OpenOffice doesn't seem to want to accept spanish key mapings

2005-01-20 Thread eculp
OpenOffice doesn't seem to want to accept spanish key mappings. I can't get openoffice to accept dead key mappings that are used to create accents. Could someone who is using spanish, french, italian, portuguese give me a hint as to what they do? Every other program that I use does. Thank

what release to install

2005-01-20 Thread Marty Landman
I'm used to running fbsd 4.8 release on a sandbox server on my lan, from the mini-iso only. But now am looking at installing the full os from the two cd set. Is 5.3 release the recommended one to use at this time? My plan is to first install this on my xp box which is a year old and has dozens

Re: FreeBSD I LOVE YOU

2005-01-20 Thread Anthony Atkielski
Scott Bennett writes: SB> The recent discussion in this thread causes me to wonder whether SB> FreeBSD's performance on older, slower equipment could be a SB> contributing factor to why hardware vendors like Dell and ATI are SB> willing to provide only limited support for LINUX and none at all SB>

Re: FreeBSD I LOVE YOU

2005-01-20 Thread Anthony Atkielski
Giorgos Keramidas writes: GK> This is likely too. Floppies have mechanical moving parts that are GK> more prone to failure than other pieces of hardware. The eerie part is that the diskette drive worked find right up until the moment where I tried to boot from it. Now it doesn't seem to work at

Re: Detecting CD devices

2005-01-20 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Trey Sizemore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, 2005-01-19 at 16:06 -0500, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > > What device are those applications looking for? > > > > Perhaps (just a guess) they're looking for /dev/cdrom or /dev/cd0 and > > you only have /dev/acd0? > > I'm not sure. I thought I rem

Re: FreeBSD I LOVE YOU

2005-01-20 Thread Anthony Atkielski
Colin J. Raven writes: CJR> Eh? Surely you don't meant trashed - physically annihilated? Absolutely. That's the only safe way to protect data. Any disk drive with platters that are even remotely intact can still be read. I have yet to throw away any disk drives for this reason (can't find a co

Re: FreeBSD I LOVE YOU

2005-01-20 Thread Anthony Atkielski
Colin J. Raven writes: CJR> I always thought that formatting/fdisk'ing twice completely erased CJR> *permanently* whatever had been on the disc. Information can be recovered from disks even after a dozen or more overwrites. The data is never safe with the platters intact. -- Anthony

Re: Security for webserver behind router?

2005-01-20 Thread Dave McCammon
--- Eilko Bos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >From the keyboard of Ted Mittelstaedt, written on > Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 11:25:00PM -0800: > > > I am running Apache 1.3.33, as you suggest I > should. You say > > > "as long as > > > Apache is secure"; what should I do to be sure > that Apache is secur

Re: FreeBSD I LOVE YOU

2005-01-20 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 02:59:13PM +0100, Colin J. Raven wrote: > I always thought that formatting/fdisk'ing twice completely erased > *permanently* whatever had been on the disc. You make an interesting > case that previously I never thought about in any detail. By no means. You may need spe

Re: FreeBSD I LOVE YOU

2005-01-20 Thread Anthony Atkielski
Matthias Buelow writes: MB> Wake up from your pipe dreams. Shipping decommissioned computers to the MB> 3rd world is not going to solve any development problem. It helps solve an environmental problem, though. And they need not be shipped anywhere. It is sufficient to just continue using them,

Re: FreeBSD I LOVE YOU

2005-01-20 Thread Xian
On Wednesday 19 January 2005 23:11, Tim wrote: > faisal gillani wrote: > >hmmm exactly right .. u know i have a 750MHz Athalon > >with 256MB ram .. & still my processor is 80% idle > >most of the time .. > >i also have some windows server on my network but > >thats a compulsory rather then choice .

Re: FreeBSD I LOVE YOU

2005-01-20 Thread Xian
On Wednesday 19 January 2005 23:11, Tim wrote: > faisal gillani wrote: > >hmmm exactly right .. u know i have a 750MHz Athalon > >with 256MB ram .. & still my processor is 80% idle > >most of the time .. > >i also have some windows server on my network but > >thats a compulsory rather then choice .

Re: FreeBSD I LOVE YOU

2005-01-20 Thread Anthony Atkielski
Matthew Seaman writes: MS> If your drive contains or once contained military secrets, then in the MS> USA and probably anywhere in the West, standard disposal procedure is MS> that the drive be completely overwritten with specific patterns of MS> random data several times, and then taken to a secu

Re: SIR

2005-01-20 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 02:23:27AM +, Ali Farhan wrote: > BUT SIR...KINDLY TELL ME HOW CA I INSTALL MODEM IN FREEBSD 5.1 ...MY > MODEM IS LUCENT (LT WIN MODEM).PLZ SIR Ah... Win modems are not generally supported under FreeBSD. You should try installing the comms/ltmdm port which has

Re: FreeBSD I LOVE YOU

2005-01-20 Thread scottclansman
> >Anthony Atkielski wrote: > >> Indeed, someone in the Third World without the means to buy a new PC and > >> an expensive Windows license could find a junk PC and install FreeBSD on > > > >And where do you think would they "find" this "junk PC"? > >Don't you think that's a bit condescending? > >

Re: SIR

2005-01-20 Thread Jon Drews
Ali: The ltmdm port may work: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/url.cgi?ports/comms/ltmdm/pkg-descr I have a feeling Matthew Seamen is right though. You may have to use an external modem. See this e-mail: Help: Tip on Buying External modem http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2004-May/

Re: FreeBSD I LOVE YOU

2005-01-20 Thread Erik Norgaard
Anthony Atkielski wrote: Assuming one doesn't have the resources to do this, what might one do to secure disk drives before disposal. I've thought of opening them up and scratching the platters or chopping them into pieces (not sure how hard this might be to do), or something. Home incineration i

Re: FreeBSD I LOVE YOU

2005-01-20 Thread David Gerard
Anthony Atkielski ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050121 02:12]: > Matthias Buelow writes: > MB> Wake up from your pipe dreams. Shipping decommissioned computers to the > MB> 3rd world is not going to solve any development problem. > It helps solve an environmental problem, though. And they need not be >

Re: FreeBSD I LOVE YOU

2005-01-20 Thread scottclansman
> And anything that > gets near internationalization on Unix or Linux, namely KDE and Gnome, > requires even more powerful hardware than "Windoze" and probably still > doesn't have the kind of local language integration that a localized > version of Windows has. Um... never had it work quite that

Re: FreeBSD I LOVE YOU

2005-01-20 Thread Jason Henson
The recent discussion in this thread causes me to wonder whether FreeBSD's performance on older, slower equipment could be a contributing factor to why hardware vendors like Dell and ATI are willing to provide only limited support for LINUX and none at all for FreeBSD. After all, if FreeB

Re: FreeBSD I LOVE YOU

2005-01-20 Thread John
On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 03:52:29PM +0100, Anthony Atkielski wrote: > Colin J. Raven writes: > > CJR> I always thought that formatting/fdisk'ing twice completely erased > CJR> *permanently* whatever had been on the disc. > > Information can be recovered from disks even after a dozen or more > over

Re: Mouse in X w/ 5.3

2005-01-20 Thread scottclansman
> Maybe tweaking the configuration of mouse in X would solve the > problem. Does this problem appear if no X is running as well? Well I googled my mouse, and found a bug report and several questions, but no solutions to the problem. I'm sure it's doable, but I don't want to spend the time wit

Re: FreeBSD I LOVE YOU

2005-01-20 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 03:51:01PM +0100, Anthony Atkielski wrote: > Colin J. Raven writes: > > CJR> Eh? Surely you don't meant trashed - physically annihilated? > > Absolutely. That's the only safe way to protect data. Any disk drive > with platters that are even remotely intact can still be r

RE: pdflib for php

2005-01-20 Thread Mark
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Matthew Seaman > Sent: donderdag 20 januari 2005 15:15 > To: Chris Hodgins > Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: pdflib for php > > Yes -- it's just waiting for the maintainer to provid

Re: /usr/local/etc/rc.d vs /etc/rc.conf question

2005-01-20 Thread Gregor Mosheh
> >> On my 4.10 box, there is a mysql-server script in > /usr/local/etc/rc.d > >> and nothing > >> in /etc/rc.conf, yet mysql-server starts up a > boot time. > >> Why? (the following is true for 4.x) Check the /etc/defaults/rc.conf file You'll see in there that the default setting for local

Re: Torrent Program

2005-01-20 Thread Mike Hunter
On Jan 20, "Warren" wrote: > Im chasing a GUI Torrent program that will allow multiple downloads of > torrents without having to re-open the d/l program for each new torrent. If > anyone knows of such a program please let me know(not QTorrent) I haven't tried this Java client on FBSD, but it c

Re: Mouse in X w/ 5.3

2005-01-20 Thread scottclansman
Okay... got the serial mouse working... just took me a while to figure out the config app was "sysinstall" not "sysconfig" :-P Cheerio, SigmaX ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questi

Re[8]: Connection via proxy

2005-01-20 Thread Hexren
MM> Unfortunately, I was still not able to ping the proxy MM> server. I tried pinging by using the name of the MM> server as well as the IP address but neither were MM> successful. Are there any preliminary configurations MM> that should be done prior to connecting to a proxy MM> server or is it si

Re[8]: Connection via proxy

2005-01-20 Thread X3K6A2
> Unfortunately, I was still not able to ping the proxy > server. I tried pinging by using the name of the > server as well as the IP address but neither were > successful. Are there any preliminary configurations > that should be done prior to connecting to a proxy > server or is it simply a matte

Re: Mrs. Butterworth vs Vermont Maid

2005-01-20 Thread Boris Spirialitious
What is this subject? - Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Search presents - Jib Jab's 'Second Term' ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsub

Re: Creator of 4.4 BSD

2005-01-20 Thread Benjamin Walkenhorst
Just in case somebody cares, "The Art Of Unix Programming" by Eric S. Raymond contains a very detailed description of the history of Unix, BSD and Linux. In my opinion, that chapter alone makes the book worth reading. Kind regards, Benjamin ___ freebsd-

Re: OpenOffice doesn't seem to want to accept spanish key mapings

2005-01-20 Thread José de Paula
On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 08:38:11 -0600, eculp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > OpenOffice doesn't seem to want to accept spanish key mappings. I can't get > openoffice to accept dead key mappings that are used to create accents. > > Could someone who is using spanish, french, italian, portuguese give me

named[604]: *** POKED TIMER ***

2005-01-20 Thread Martin Zibert
Greetings.. I am running FreeBSD 5.3 on dual Xeon 3GHz box and today i got a line in my messages, which goes: named[604]: *** POKED TIMER *** I've searched the web but i could not find what this means. Could anyone help me? Is this a bug? Thanks in advance. Martin _

RE: Torrent Program

2005-01-20 Thread Mark Rowlands
Bittornado is in the ports Works fine and doesn't require linux and java and god knows what else to run. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mike Hunter > Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2005 5:35 PM > To: Warren > Cc: freebsd-questions@

RE: need help

2005-01-20 Thread Henry Su
You can google it, there're many articles. Breifly answer your question: 1. Compile kernel to support ipfw (firewall). 2. Edit /etc/sysctl.conf add "net.inet.ip.forwarding=1" for routing. Good luck. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of angelito m

Re: FreeBSD I LOVE YOU

2005-01-20 Thread Mark Rowlands
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Anthony Atkielski > Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2005 3:51 PM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: *** SPAMMY *** Re: FreeBSD I LOVE YOU > > Colin J. Raven writes: > > CJR> Eh? Surely y

Re: Torrent Program

2005-01-20 Thread Jeremy Faulkner
Mike Hunter wrote: On Jan 20, "Warren" wrote: Im chasing a GUI Torrent program that will allow multiple downloads of torrents without having to re-open the d/l program for each new torrent. If anyone knows of such a program please let me know(not QTorrent) I haven't tried this Java client on F

Re: dns question

2005-01-20 Thread Jeff MacDonald
I think it depends upon the registrar. Of the 200 domains, they are probably registered across 2 or 3 registrars. Some ask for just the host name, while others ask for both hostname and IP. Jeff. On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 13:14:01 +, Dick Davies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Jeff MacDonald <[EMA

Thread Scheduling

2005-01-20 Thread Gardner Bell
While reading The Design and Implementation of FreeBSD I came across the section on thread scheduling. At the present time I am only testing FreeBSD on a single processor system, but will be moving to an SMP once I complete building it. Now it says that since FreeBSD 5.0 the /sys/kern/sched_ule.c

snapshots, soft update inconsistency

2005-01-20 Thread Jay
I've got some filesystem problems on my /usr partition. Cause: power failures caused by TWO exploding transformers I restarted in single-user mode and fsck'd all of my partitions. Everything looked fine. I've got a handful of zero-length files that I can't fix. "Bad file descriptor". I've tr

Re: Torrent Program

2005-01-20 Thread John Koepke
Torrentflux.com. I use this wonderful product. Got some great features. On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 22:25:50 +1000, Warren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Im chasing a GUI Torrent program that will allow multiple downloads of > torrents without having to re-open the d/l program for each new torrent. If >

Re: FreeBSD I LOVE YOU

2005-01-20 Thread Erik Norgaard
John wrote: On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 03:52:29PM +0100, Anthony Atkielski wrote: Colin J. Raven writes: CJR> I always thought that formatting/fdisk'ing twice completely erased CJR> *permanently* whatever had been on the disc. Information can be recovered from disks even after a dozen or more overwrit

Re: FreeBSD I LOVE YOU

2005-01-20 Thread Anthony Atkielski
Erik Norgaard writes: EN> Many larger companies have a fixed upgrading schedule, a pc lives 3 EN> years. One must wonder why. After all, they don't rebuild their offices every three years (although some seem to replace company cars fairly quickly--but mostly due to wear and tear, I presume, whic

Re: usbd: Executing umount: Device not configured

2005-01-20 Thread Robert Marella
On Wed, 2005-01-19 at 21:41 -0500, Alexander Anderson wrote: > Greetings all, > > I have a Sony DSC-P32 digital camera with a USB interface. I can't get > usbd to unmount the camera when it's disconnected, powered off, or > detached. > > I have to remember to execute umount(8) manually before the

Re: different behaviour between 4.x and 5.x (ping response/disk io) [was Re: ]

2005-01-20 Thread Jochen Keil
stheg olloydson wrote: Glad to be of help. Raidframe had been ported to FBSD 5.x, but it was removed because kernel changes broke it, and no one volunteered to fix it. I think gvinum replaced vinum in 5.3 for the same reason. I don't use software raid, so I don't really know. It's a pity that raidf

Basic Info on Wireless Router Installation and Performance

2005-01-20 Thread Bob Perry
Just joined an ISP that has agreed to provide residential DSL service. Their service is normally limited to commercial operations but they made the offer based on the fact that my OS was FreeBSD. At this stage we have determined that only one of three phone jacks in my apartment is able to sync

Re: FreeBSD I LOVE YOU

2005-01-20 Thread Robert Marella
On Thu, 2005-01-20 at 16:17 +0100, Anthony Atkielski wrote: > Assuming one doesn't have the resources to do this, what might one do to > secure disk drives before disposal. I live in Kona on the "Big Island of Hawai`i". One mile from shore the water is over 4000 feet. Send your hard drives and

Re: FreeBSD I LOVE YOU

2005-01-20 Thread Erik Norgaard
Robert Marella wrote: On Thu, 2005-01-20 at 16:17 +0100, Anthony Atkielski wrote: Assuming one doesn't have the resources to do this, what might one do to secure disk drives before disposal. I live in Kona on the "Big Island of Hawai`i". One mile from shore the water is over 4000 feet. Send your

[INFO]Nvidia Driver information

2005-01-20 Thread Rod Person
For the people with nvidia graphic cards some information on somethings that I have noticed. I have a Elsa Gloria II which is based on the RIVA/TNT II chip set by Nvidia. The Nvidia driver works fine for me except in the following conditions. 1) I had a PCI usb card that I placed in the machine

Re: FreeBSD I LOVE YOU

2005-01-20 Thread Uwe Laverenz
On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 04:17:50PM +, Jason Henson wrote: > Here is an interview with ati. The sad part is they give a solid no to > bsd support. Oh, that's not a problem, their drivers suck anyway. At least I wouldn't like to have them on one of my machines. cu, Uwe _

Re: Basic Info on Wireless Router Installation and Performance

2005-01-20 Thread Brian McCann
FWIW, stay away from Linksys if you can help it. I used to love them for basic stuff, but once I wanted to do more advanced stuff like bridging and having "Client APs", i hit all kinds of problems...even getting 2 identical APs to talk to each other. I've gotten D-Link every since and been h

Re: Basic Info on Wireless Router Installation and Performance

2005-01-20 Thread Erik Norgaard
Bob Perry wrote: Just joined an ISP that has agreed to provide residential DSL service. Their service is normally limited to commercial operations but they made the offer based on the fact that my OS was FreeBSD. Cool At this stage we have determined that only one of three phone jacks in my apar

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