Re: help installing FreeBSD

2006-07-26 Thread David Stanford
I've got a Maxtor of 60GB as primary master. My geometry is wrongly reported by the installation program, it reports a geometry of 119108/16/63 while the BIOS reports one of 1024/240/63. If I'm not mistaken, I believe this is a long-time bug in the installer. I've installed several times

Re: Semi FreeBSD Related Fedora Linux Question

2006-07-26 Thread Andris . Saukums
If you have a working CD-ROM device, then you would be better off with a little bootloader: http://btmgr.sourceforge.net/about.html it fits on a floppy and the usage is straight-forward! Andris :) I have a situation where I need to install Fedora Linux on a computer however the CDROM drive

RE: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ?

2006-07-26 Thread Philippe Lang
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've recently been experiencing lock ups with the three servers that I've upgraded to 6.x ... one of which is 1 year old, the other two are 3 years old ... after getting everything setup with DDB, to the point that I could provide some very detailed traces, and core

Current Cron Log

2006-07-26 Thread Nicky
Hello, I have a script that is started through cron. This script contains several steps, each step writes information to stdout, in case of errors to stderr. The total script runs for about 6 hours and then the the combined output of all steps is mailed to root. However, is there a way to

Re: Current Cron Log

2006-07-26 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jul 26), Nicky said: I have a script that is started through cron. This script contains several steps, each step writes information to stdout, in case of errors to stderr. The total script runs for about 6 hours and then the the combined output of all steps is mailed to

Re: a good www/picture management port?

2006-07-26 Thread dick hoogendijk
On 24 Jul Mike Hunter wrote: I haven't tried gallery on FreeBSD, but I highly recommend it based on my experience with it on Linux. The same goes for me, but for coppermine. A really great program and very well maintained. -- dick -- http://nagual.nl/ -- PGP/GnuPG key: F86289CE ++ Running

mail rejected

2006-07-26 Thread dick hoogendijk
All of a sudden mail to this list is rejected. My IP can't be found. It always was, so this is weird. I checked with a dig @large.world.ns and a few others and they all resolved my name / IP OK. I send this mail through my provider (which works). Anybody else experiencing this change in behaviour

have been trying to compile samba 3 with ads support getting error below

2006-07-26 Thread Moon Michael
: undefined reference to `krb5_free_error_contents' libads/kerberos_keytab.o(.text+0x1fb): In function `smb_krb5_kt_add_entry': : undefined reference to `krb5_kt_compare' /usr/lib/libgssapi.so: undefined reference to `krb5_rd_cred2' /usr/lib/libgssapi.so: undefined reference to

RE: Does FreeBSD 4.11-STABLE support the Intel PWLA8391GT NIC?

2006-07-26 Thread Mark
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: maandag 19 juni 2006 8:11 To: Mark Cc: 'FreeBSD-Questions Questions' Subject: Re: Does FreeBSD 4.11-STABLE support the Intel PWLA8391GT NIC? Mark schrieb: A similar question as before: does FreeBSD 4.11-STABLE support

Re: ssh tunnel - remote access through nat

2006-07-26 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On Tuesday 25 July 2006 20:03, Drew wrote: Hi, I've got a box that's nat'd out to the internet. It is occassionally neccessary for me to access this box remotely. The obvious answer is: ssh -R :localhost:22 remote.box cat run from the nat'd box where remote box is a place I pretty much

Re: How to use kernel modules from CURRENT on STABLE

2006-07-26 Thread Erik Norgaard
Rafael Aquino wrote: When you do a make depend in /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/KERNEL/ you are just compiling the modules... Ok, I tried to make something in various directories, it seems that the way to build modules only is: # cd /usr/src/sys/modules # make Thanks, Erik -- Ph:

Re: Can't print to hplip+CUPS+LJ1160Le

2006-07-26 Thread Anthony Agelastos
On Jul 25, 2006, at 11:22 PM, Anthony Agelastos wrote: If I wait even longer, /var/log/messages adds the following: /var/log/messages snip Jul 25 22:52:33 dell python: hpssd [ERROR] Not found Jul 25 22:52:33 dell python: [ERROR] Unsupported printer model. /var/log/messages I am willing to try

Re: pf firewall for a server

2006-07-26 Thread Peter N. M. Hansteen
Jonathan Horne [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ive been googling for a while now this evening, but have unsuccesfully found any examples on how to firewall a server. i do *not* want to build a router, and unfortunatly, every article i seem to find wants to tell me how to build a router! The same

Experiencing problems with Ted

2006-07-26 Thread Bryan Bonifacio
Hi all, I just installed Ted (2.17) on my FreeBSD 6.1-Release from the ports using make install clean. I experienced no issues on the installation process and have no problems starting the program but whenever I try to change page properties (File--Properties) Ted keeps exiting abruptly. It

Re: pf firewall for a server

2006-07-26 Thread RW
On Wednesday 26 July 2006 02:30, Jonathan Horne wrote: ive been googling for a while now this evening, but have unsuccesfully found any examples on how to firewall a server. i do *not* want to build a router, and unfortunatly, every article i seem to find wants to tell me how to build a

Re: FreeBSD 6 Hard Lock no logs

2006-07-26 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Rob Connon (Info) [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, I have a web/mail server thats running the lastest version of FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE-p9 #4. In the last month or so it's started hard locking.. when the machine locks up i can still ping it and get connects from telneting to 80,22,etc sometimes i

Re: fsck in the background

2006-07-26 Thread RW
On Wednesday 26 July 2006 02:03, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Jul 25), Michael P. Soulier said: A while ago there was a power failure in my house, long enough to wear down the UPS. I had to power-on my server when I got home (crappy bios), and I noticed after I logged-in that fsck

Re: any audio wizards know howto store *.smil files?

2006-07-26 Thread RW
On Wednesday 26 July 2006 01:31, Gary Kline wrote: Rats. Here's what happened whn I added the two switches to mplayer. Anybody know why the streamm bmbed out?? ... Connecting to server real.npr.org[63.236.6.227]:80 ... Cache size set to 8192 KBytes Connected to server:

Re: help installing FreeBSD

2006-07-26 Thread adrian esquivel
If I'm not mistaken, I believe this is a long-time bug in the installer. I've installed several times seeing this error and never had a problem. However, to be safe you could always manually specify the geometry of your disk in the fdisk utility during install. I'm confused. At what point are

Re: help installing FreeBSD

2006-07-26 Thread Rafael Aquino
Hi there, As far as I know, this is a hardware problem. Everytime I experienced that, it was the HD... The same machine with another equal HD didn't show the same problem. []'s -- Rafael Mentz Aquino BSDServer Ltda. 51 - 9847 8825 -- Original Message --- From: adrian esquivel

gmirror dual mirrors?

2006-07-26 Thread Mark Busby
New to gmirror so a newb question. I have my computer setup with 4 sata drives. I am using one for the operating system then one to mirror it. One has data and I want a mirror of that. When creating the first mirror I used gm0. Now creating the 2nd mirror use gm1? Or is there a gotcha hidden

Re: Permission to Distribute OS and Demon Logo

2006-07-26 Thread Don Munyak
The overwhelming majority of argentine PC users run un-licensed Microsoft Sytems and software. The remainder have licenses or use Linux. FreeBSD is unknown to the average PC user. For the desktop pc, check out: http://www.desktopbsd.org/ http://www.pcbsd.org/ Both are using FreeBSD as the

Re: gmirror dual mirrors?

2006-07-26 Thread John Nielsen
On Wednesday 26 July 2006 09:38, Mark Busby wrote: New to gmirror so a newb question. I have my computer setup with 4 sata drives. I am using one for the operating system then one to mirror it. One has data and I want a mirror of that. When creating the first mirror I used gm0. Now creating

Re: Permission to Distribute OS and Demon Logo

2006-07-26 Thread Jerry McAllister
Hello from Buenos Aires, Argentina! Hello from the USA. My name is Carmen Chase and I request your permission to distribute FreeBSD ports, use the BSD Demon, and links to the manuals downloads sites. Our objective is to locally promote and generalize FreeBSD as end users - not

Locate updatedb

2006-07-26 Thread Elijah Savage
Running 6.1 fresh install one of my routines after installing is updating the locate database but I am getting errors and it is not fulling updating. locate: integer out of +-MAXPATHLEN (1024): 1027 locate: integer out of +-MAXPATHLEN (1024): 1027

Replacing windows XP at home.

2006-07-26 Thread Joshua Lewis
I have a hard question to ask and I realize that there are a thousand answers to this question. I am replacing my XP system with a FreeBSD 6.1 system. I finished installing it last night and cvsuped. Now I need to choose a window manager. There are what seems like hundreds

Re: gmirror dual mirrors?

2006-07-26 Thread James Snow
On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 06:38:48AM -0700, Mark Busby wrote: I am using one for the operating system then one to mirror it. One has data and I want a mirror of that. When creating the first mirror I used gm0. Now creating the 2nd mirror use gm1? Or is there a gotcha hidden away? That's how I

RE: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ?

2006-07-26 Thread User Freebsd
On Tue, 25 Jul 2006, Tamouh H. wrote: On Jul 25, 2006, at 8:16 PM, Nikolas Britton wrote: ICP Vortex is an Adaptec company and Adaptec doesn't support FreeBSD. We've already been over this once. Not to disagree with you, but Adaptec put new drivers for 5.3 and 5.4 for their 2420, 2820,

RE: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ?

2006-07-26 Thread User Freebsd
On Wed, 26 Jul 2006, Philippe Lang wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've recently been experiencing lock ups with the three servers that I've upgraded to 6.x ... one of which is 1 year old, the other two are 3 years old ... after getting everything setup with DDB, to the point that I could

Re: Virtual Private Servers???

2006-07-26 Thread Don Munyak
disclaimer...I have no personal experience with VM's...But, one of the list services I belong to has mentioned this before. See if Qemu might be of use. http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/ Don ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Replacing windows XP at home.

2006-07-26 Thread Don Munyak
On 7/26/06, Joshua Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a hard question to ask and I realize that there are a thousand answers to this question. I am replacing my XP system with a FreeBSD 6.1 system. I finished installing it last night and cvsuped. Now I need to choose a window

tool to track processes read/write

2006-07-26 Thread Tamouh H.
Hi, Is there a tool that shows how many times a process has read / written to disk ? Preferred in a TOP style. Thx, Tamouh Hakmi ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

FreeBSD and papalove

2006-07-26 Thread Kostia Rubchinsky
Hi, I wanted to ask if FreeBSD is suitable to the needs of the site our company is building, a large scale video upload and download center. You can see a small version of what we're doing at: http://papalove.tv/ Also, we are funding this out of our own shallow pockets, avoiding venture

Re: tool to track processes read/write

2006-07-26 Thread Charles Swiger
On Jul 26, 2006, at 10:58 AM, Tamouh H. wrote: Is there a tool that shows how many times a process has read / written to disk ? Preferred in a TOP style. Why, yes-- run top -mio. :-) -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Your message to freebsd-emulation awaits moderator approval

2006-07-26 Thread owner-freebsd-emulation
Your mail to 'freebsd-emulation' with the subject Barclays IBank Security Measure. Is being held until the list moderator can review it for approval. The reason it is being held: SpamAssassin identified this message as possible spam Either the message will get posted to the list, or

Re: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ?

2006-07-26 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 7/26/06, User Freebsd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 25 Jul 2006, Tamouh H. wrote: On Jul 25, 2006, at 8:16 PM, Nikolas Britton wrote: ICP Vortex is an Adaptec company and Adaptec doesn't support FreeBSD. We've already been over this once. Not to disagree with you, but Adaptec put

Re: Replacing windows XP at home.

2006-07-26 Thread John Nielsen
On Wednesday 26 July 2006 11:23, Joshua Lewis wrote: I am replacing my XP system with a FreeBSD 6.1 system. I finished installing it last night and cvsuped. Now I need to choose a window manager. There are what seems like hundreds of different WM in the ports collection and

Re: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ?

2006-07-26 Thread Darrin Chandler
On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 11:44:38AM -0500, Nikolas Britton wrote: We need an Internet store that only stocks compatible hardware. It should include all the BSDs as well as Linux, Mac OS X, and any other non Microsoft OS. On the site they can just list whats compatible with what and customers

Re: help installing FreeBSD

2006-07-26 Thread John Murphy
adrian esquivel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! I've been trying to install FBSD on my computer, but I keep getting an error message that I have absolutely no idea what it means. This is what I get when I hit Alt+F2 DEBUG: Scanning disk ad0 for root filesystem DEBUG: Scanning disk ad0 for swap

Re: Replacing windows XP at home.

2006-07-26 Thread RW
On Wednesday 26 July 2006 16:23, Joshua Lewis wrote: KDE seems like it is bloated so I was considering Gnome. I have also been reading about enlightenment and it sounds interesting. I have looked into Fluxbox and it also seems like it would do the trick. Would I be better off

Re: Replacing windows XP at home.

2006-07-26 Thread Darrin Chandler
On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 06:15:48PM +0100, RW wrote: KDE is mostly application modules, which you don't need to install if you dont want them. These days, though, the avoidance of bloat is mostly just a fetish. I've not noticed any speed difference between KDE and the lighter window

Re: Replacing windows XP at home.

2006-07-26 Thread doug
On Wed, 26 Jul 2006, RW wrote: On Wednesday 26 July 2006 16:23, Joshua Lewis wrote: KDE seems like it is bloated so I was considering Gnome. I have also been reading about enlightenment and it sounds interesting. I have looked into Fluxbox and it also seems like it would do the

Re: tar dies on making tape backup

2006-07-26 Thread Derek Ragona
I use the ASCII headers for portability incase I need to restore to another server with a different tar version. -Derek At 06:29 PM 7/25/2006, Jaime wrote: On Jul 25, 2006, at 9:03 AM, Derek Ragona wrote: Using tar with a SDLT I set the blocksize at 1024 and use ASCII headers (-c)

Re: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ?

2006-07-26 Thread User Freebsd
On Wed, 26 Jul 2006, Peter A. Giessel wrote: On 7/26/2006 07:35, User Freebsd seems to have typed: The point is, if we keep acting as individuals, vendors will treat as unimportant ... if we start acting like an organization, and actually *lobby* these vendors for better support, maybe they

Re: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ?

2006-07-26 Thread User Freebsd
On Wed, 26 Jul 2006, Nikolas Britton wrote: * No binary blob drivers. This is one that I don't necessarily agree with ... if Adaptec came out with a *supported* iir driver, but it was binary only, I'd be happy with that ... I just want to know that if I *have* a problem with a piece of

Re: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ?

2006-07-26 Thread Darrin Chandler
On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 03:36:51PM -0300, User Freebsd wrote: On Wed, 26 Jul 2006, Nikolas Britton wrote: * No binary blob drivers. This is one that I don't necessarily agree with ... if Adaptec came out with a *supported* iir driver, but it was binary only, I'd be happy with that ... I

Re: Replacing windows XP at home.

2006-07-26 Thread RW
On Wednesday 26 July 2006 18:34, Darrin Chandler wrote: On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 06:15:48PM +0100, RW wrote: KDE is mostly application modules, which you don't need to install if you dont want them. These days, though, the avoidance of bloat is mostly just a fetish. I've not noticed any

Re: Replacing windows XP at home.

2006-07-26 Thread jan gestre
On 7/26/06, Joshua Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a hard question to ask and I realize that there are a thousand answers to this question. I am replacing my XP system with a FreeBSD 6.1 system. I finished installing it last night and cvsuped. Now I need to choose a window

FreeBSD = Free Software?

2006-07-26 Thread Dylan Rogers
I only use free software. I was considering installing a BSD derivative on one of my machines. Does FreeBSD contain only free software? -- Dylan Knight Rogers www.dylanknightrogers.com www.gnu.org www.debian.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: FreeBSD = Free Software?

2006-07-26 Thread Gábor Kövesdán
Dylan Rogers wrote: I only use free software. I was considering installing a BSD derivative on one of my machines. Does FreeBSD contain only free software? Yes, the base system only contains BSDL-ed and GPL-ed code (afaik only these two). From ports you can use some commercial software as

Re: FreeBSD = Free Software?

2006-07-26 Thread albi
On Wed, 26 Jul 2006 14:32:00 -0500 Dylan Rogers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I only use free software. I was considering installing a BSD derivative on one of my machines. Does FreeBSD contain only free software? read the GPL-license, read the BSD-license, draw your own conclusions on what you

Re: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ?

2006-07-26 Thread User Freebsd
On Wed, 26 Jul 2006, Peter A. Giessel wrote: On 7/26/2006 10:34, User Freebsd seems to have typed: Supporting 3ware is good, but what if/when Adaptec buys them out ... Adaptec doesn't officially support FreeBSD, therefore, anyone they buy out would most likely change their policy accordingly

Re: Replacing windows XP at home.

2006-07-26 Thread Garrett Cooper
jan gestre wrote: On 7/26/06, Joshua Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a hard question to ask and I realize that there are a thousand answers to this question. I am replacing my XP system with a FreeBSD 6.1 system. I finished installing it last night and cvsuped. Now I need

Re: FreeBSD = Free Software?

2006-07-26 Thread Gábor Kövesdán
albi wrote: On Wed, 26 Jul 2006 14:32:00 -0500 Dylan Rogers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I only use free software. I was considering installing a BSD derivative on one of my machines. Does FreeBSD contain only free software? read the GPL-license, read the BSD-license, draw your own

Re: FreeBSD = Free Software?

2006-07-26 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
On Jul 26, 2006, at 1:32 PM, Dylan Rogers wrote: I only use free software. I was considering installing a BSD derivative on one of my machines. Does FreeBSD contain only free software? What do you consider Free software? gnu is considered by many to NOT be Free because of the virus

Re: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ?

2006-07-26 Thread User Freebsd
On Wed, 26 Jul 2006, Darrin Chandler wrote: On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 03:36:51PM -0300, User Freebsd wrote: On Wed, 26 Jul 2006, Nikolas Britton wrote: * No binary blob drivers. This is one that I don't necessarily agree with ... if Adaptec came out with a *supported* iir driver, but it was

Re: FreeBSD = Free Software?

2006-07-26 Thread albi
Gábor Kövesdán wrote: if you really only want to use Free Software, have fun with GNU-Hurd ;-) Hurd is purely GPL-ed, while FreeBSD is mostly BSDL-ed. BSDL has almost no restrictions, so I'd rather say FreeBSD is really free, not Hurd. i didn't mean to start a discussion about this, but

Re: Replacing windows XP at home.

2006-07-26 Thread Peter
--- Joshua Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a hard question to ask and I realize that there are a thousand answers to this question. I am replacing my XP system with a FreeBSD 6.1 system. I finished installing it last night and cvsuped. Now I need to choose a

Re: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ?

2006-07-26 Thread Darrin Chandler
On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 04:48:52PM -0300, User Freebsd wrote: My point isn't that I *liked* binary-only drivers ... my point is that I'd rather a company like Adaptec to *at least* supply a binary driver if they require their specs to be closed, then provide *no means* for me to use

Re: Replacing windows XP at home.

2006-07-26 Thread Garrett Cooper
Peter wrote: --- Joshua Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a hard question to ask and I realize that there are a thousand answers to this question. I am replacing my XP system with a FreeBSD 6.1 system. I finished installing it last night and cvsuped. Now I need to choose

gutenprint - postscript - setup check

2006-07-26 Thread Neil Short
would you guys please check my setup. I have made it the easiest in the world as far as I can tell. When I send something (other than plain text) to lpr my printer makes some bumping and warmup noises but prints nothing. /etc/printcap: # /etc/printcap epson|lp:\ :sh:\

Re: [TYPO]What I would like to see, or How many FreeBSD boxen are out there?

2006-07-26 Thread Aftab Jahan Subedar
On Wednesday 26 July 2006 00:52, Aftab Jahan Subedar wrote: IMHO this is the first and oldest one. http://www.netccraft.com it should be http://www.netcraft.com Double oops. -- Aftab Jahan Subedar CEO/Software Engineer Subedar Technologies Ltd Subedar Baag Bibir Bagicha #1 North Jatrabari

Configure postfix to forward to isp smtp server?

2006-07-26 Thread Chris T.
I am trying to create a home mail gateway. First thing is getting it to relay messages to my ISP as if I had connected directly to the isp in the first place. That is without adding any information to headers to reveal that it went through my smtp server. I also want to create a repositry

Re: Replacing windows XP at home.

2006-07-26 Thread RW
On Wednesday 26 July 2006 20:39, Garrett Cooper wrote: Performance is all relative though, based on what your machine's speed is, how much RAM it has, disk space, etc. I personally abandoned Gnome and KDE approximately 1-2 years ago because I found compiling the packages to be too much of

Re: Configure postfix to forward to isp smtp server?

2006-07-26 Thread Charles Swiger
On Jul 26, 2006, at 5:46 PM, Chris T. wrote: I am trying to create a home mail gateway. First thing is getting it to relay messages to my ISP as if I had connected directly to the isp in the first place. Set: relayhost = [mailserver.isp.net] ...in main.cf. That is without adding any

vmware

2006-07-26 Thread Robin Becker
I see there are several versions of vmware in /usr/ports/emulators. Is there any simple way to run a vmware image under freebsd? I'm a vmware newbie and don't really understand the player/server version 2/3 differences. -- Robin Becker ___

Re: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ?

2006-07-26 Thread Gerard Seibert
Darrin Chandler wrote: Do you see that if support in 4.x had been based on open specs from Adaptec that this issue would not exist? Adaptec is controlling your ability to use their product, and that's the real problem. It's consumer-hostile, unless you fit their perfect picture of consumer.

A General Question.

2006-07-26 Thread D W
Hi I hope I am directing my question to the correct address. Could you please send me a link to a page numerating contrasting BSD and Linux, i.e. what are the advantages and disadvantages to either system? Thank you in advance, Daniel. ___

Re: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ?

2006-07-26 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2006-07-26 18:59, Gerard Seibert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Darrin Chandler wrote: Do you see that if support in 4.x had been based on open specs from Adaptec that this issue would not exist? Adaptec is controlling your ability to use their product, and that's the real problem. It's

Re: any audio wizards know howto store *.smil files?

2006-07-26 Thread Derrick Ryalls
On 7/26/06, RW [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 26 July 2006 01:31, Gary Kline wrote: Rats. Here's what happened whn I added the two switches to mplayer. Anybody know why the streamm bmbed out?? ... Connecting to server real.npr.org[63.236.6.227]:80 ... Cache size set to

help installing FreeBSD

2006-07-26 Thread adrian esquivel
I had similar errors reported when I tried to install FreeBSD from a CDRom drive which was connected to the motherboard with a standard udma(33?) ribbon cable (Yes write errors). Make sure your connectors are the better 80 conductor ones. -- John. Thanks John but how do I do that??

Re: Replacing windows XP at home.

2006-07-26 Thread Chris Hill
On Wed, 26 Jul 2006, Joshua Lewis wrote, in part: I am replacing my XP system with a FreeBSD 6.1 system. I finished installing it last night and cvsuped. Now I need to choose a window manager. I want something lean and fast but I want to have my cake and eat it to because I do want

Re: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ?

2006-07-26 Thread Gerard Seibert
Giorgos Keramidas wrote: If the technical specifications are open, there is *zero* support cost for the hardware vendor. They don't even _have_ to make a driver for their hardware. What they *can* do though is reply to requests for an open source driver with: ``Piss off! We have you the

Re: A General Question.

2006-07-26 Thread David Schulz
http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/rants/bsd4linux/bsd4linux1.php (good one) http://people.freebsd.org/~murray/bsd_flier.html On Jul 27, 2006, at 5:30 AM, D W wrote: Hi I hope I am directing my question to the correct address. Could you please send me a link to a page numerating

Re: FreeBSD 6 Hard Lock no logs

2006-07-26 Thread Rob Connon (Info)
HI, The system completly locks up, attached keyboard is useless.. and as mentioned no errors.. the only pattern is tuesday/wednesday it freezes.. other days of the week it's fine under heavy load.. buildworlds are not a problem.. Rob. Lowell Gilbert wrote: Rob Connon (Info) [EMAIL

Re: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ?

2006-07-26 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
- Original Message - From: Greg Barniskis [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Nick Withers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 24, 2006 11:59 AM Subject: Re: Are hardware vendors starting to

Re: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ?

2006-07-26 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
- Original Message - From: Gerard Seibert [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2006 6:17 PM Subject: Re: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ? Giorgos Keramidas wrote: If the technical specifications are open, there is