ACPI suspend/resume on RELENG_7 vs. Dell Inspiron XPS

2008-11-18 Thread Scott Bennett
I have a Dell Inspiron XPS (3.4 GHz P4 Prescott) that will be four years old in a few more days. Currently, I'm running 6.3 (mostly), but I intend to install 7.1 once it has been released. One thing that has never worked for me under FreeBSD on this machine is the standby stuff

Re: ACPI suspend/resume on RELENG_7 vs. Dell Inspiron XPS

2008-11-18 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 02:57:15AM -0600, Scott Bennett wrote: I have a Dell Inspiron XPS (3.4 GHz P4 Prescott) that will be four years old in a few more days. Currently, I'm running 6.3 (mostly), but I intend to install 7.1 once it has been released. One thing that has never worked for

Re: Help! (Re: 7.1)

2008-11-18 Thread Ott Köstner
Ott Köstner wrote: I had my workstation running 7.0-STABLE. Perfectly well till today. Now I compiled and installed the latest 7.1-PRERELEASE and now Thunderbird and Firefox got really SLOW. Everything works, but Xorg is consuming time constatnly. Scrolling inbox is especially slow. Asked

Delay startup of services in rc.conf || elswhere

2008-11-18 Thread bsd
Hello, I have a server configured to start 10 services at startup (in /etc/ rc.conf) Unfortunately, the startup of MySQL seems to be returning ok before It actually has started completely the program… the next program rely on MySQL and does not start well because the database is not

Vuala for FreeBSD

2008-11-18 Thread Konrad Heuer
Are there any chances to see FreeBSD supported by vua.la? Does anybody know? Best regards Konrad Heuer GWDG, Am Fassberg, 37077 Goettingen, Germany, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: IPsec's use of processors

2008-11-18 Thread Riaan Kruger
On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 3:15 PM, Patrick Lamaizière [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Le Fri, 14 Nov 2008 13:37:58 +0200, Riaan Kruger [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : I would like to know how IPsec makes use of a multi processor machine? I have gateway (FreeBSD 7.0) with four SAs configured. When

Re: Vuala for FreeBSD

2008-11-18 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Are there any chances to see FreeBSD supported by vua.la? Does anybody know? no idea what vua.la, but ask it's author about it. if it's already unix program (be it linux, solaris, netbsd, whatever) it's just matter of few hours (worst case few days) of work. Best regards Konrad Heuer

Re: FreeBSD and hardware??

2008-11-18 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I have read briefly on FreeBSD and it seems to be the winner on speed and stability versus Linux and of course MS Windows. versus linux - of course, versus windows - it's different OS, we should define how do you compare. for example running windows apps under FreeBSD with wine will probably

Re: Delay startup of services in rc.conf || elswhere

2008-11-18 Thread Valentin Bud
Hello bsd, I once had a problem just like yours. I introduced at the end of the mysql startup script from /usr/local/etc/rc.d a sleep 10 command and that did the trick. all the best, v On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 1:05 PM, bsd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I have a server configured to start

Re: Delay startup of services in rc.conf || elswhere

2008-11-18 Thread Mel
On Tuesday 18 November 2008 12:05:33 bsd wrote: Hello, I have a server configured to start 10 services at startup (in /etc/ rc.conf) Unfortunately, the startup of MySQL seems to be returning ok before It actually has started completely the program… the next program rely on MySQL and does

Re: FreeBSD and hardware??

2008-11-18 Thread Wojciech Puchar
If you're thinking of trying out FreeBSD, then this is the right place to come. A word of warning though: it's not at all like Windows, or even MacOSX. You will be expected to learn quite a bit about the low level MacOSX can run unix programs, but in every other respect is not like unix as

Re: FreeBSD and hardware??

2008-11-18 Thread Mel
On Tuesday 18 November 2008 12:27:42 Wojciech Puchar wrote: If you're thinking of trying out FreeBSD, then this is the right place to come. A word of warning though: it's not at all like Windows, or even MacOSX. You will be expected to learn quite a bit about the low level MacOSX can run

Re: smbfs 2 GB file size limit

2008-11-18 Thread Derek Ragona
At 12:23 AM 11/18/2008, David Horn wrote: On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 8:36 PM, Derek Ragona [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have FreeBSD 7.0 Release and if I mount_smbfs a network NTFS share I have a 2 GB size limit on files. I checked the handbook and list archives but have not found a solution.

Re: Delay startup of services in rc.conf || elswhere

2008-11-18 Thread RW
On Tue, 18 Nov 2008 12:05:33 +0100 bsd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I have a server configured to start 10 services at startup (in /etc/ rc.conf) Unfortunately, the startup of MySQL seems to be returning ok before It actually has started completely the program___ the next program

Re: Vuala for FreeBSD (means wuala)

2008-11-18 Thread Beat Siegenthaler
wua.la is what you search for java based, maybe in qemu or linux emulation.. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: FreeBSD and hardware??

2008-11-18 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 12:23:24PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar typed: once again i repeat - FreeBSD is not windows replacement. it's unix. All nice GUI for unices turned to be bad idea, every windows user will say it's poor compared to windows. and they are right. I totally disagree. Please note

Re: pkg_delete core dump

2008-11-18 Thread Tsu-Fan Cheng
Hi Mel, the link to download the +CONTENTS file is here http://www.megaupload.com/?d=YDKFRCZG, and you know what? I don't have +REQUIRED_BY file. thanks!! there is a empty entry in the +CONTENTS file: [snip] @pkgdep linux-scim-libs-1.4.4 @comment DEPORIGIN:textproc/linux-scim-libs @pkgdep

Help needed: Which gcc version supports xmemalign

2008-11-18 Thread Vijayalakshmi BN
Hello, I'm working on Solaris 9 and using gcc version 2.9.5. I'm facing issues with respect to memory misalignment. I'm getting SIGBUS errors. Through various websites, I found that xmemalign can be used while compiling to handle memory alignment issues. Bu the version I'm using doesn't support

Re: FreeBSD and hardware??

2008-11-18 Thread Zbigniew Szalbot
Hi, On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 13:31, Ruben de Groot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 12:23:24PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar typed: once again i repeat - FreeBSD is not windows replacement. it's unix. All nice GUI for unices turned to be bad idea, every windows user will say it's

Re: pkg_delete core dump

2008-11-18 Thread Mel
On Tuesday 18 November 2008 13:37:11 Tsu-Fan Cheng wrote: Hi Mel, the link to download the +CONTENTS file is here http://www.megaupload.com/?d=YDKFRCZG, and you know what? I don't have +REQUIRED_BY file. thanks!! there is a empty entry in the +CONTENTS file: [snip] @pkgdep

Re: FreeBSD and hardware??

2008-11-18 Thread Wojciech Puchar
All nice GUI for unices turned to be bad idea, every windows user will say it's poor compared to windows. and they are right. I totally disagree. Please note that your *opinion* doesn't become truth, i exactly repeat opinion of LOTS of windoze users that tried any unix GUI. it's poor mans

Re: FreeBSD and hardware??

2008-11-18 Thread Wojciech Puchar
usage or need. You seem to be reserving FBSD only for the experts. I wouldn't be here is someone that simply use unix an expert? no. By constantly repeating that UNIX is no Windows replacement you are and i will repeat it because it's true. it's every other unix replacement. as linux

Re: Help needed: Which gcc version supports xmemalign

2008-11-18 Thread Mel
On Tuesday 18 November 2008 11:40:08 Vijayalakshmi BN wrote: I'm working on Solaris 9 and using gcc version 2.9.5. I can't for the life of me see any reason how this would be related to FreeBSD. Running FreeBSD 4 (gcc 2.x) on Sun hardware, maybe, but that doesn't seem to be the case. -- Mel

Re: FreeBSD and hardware??

2008-11-18 Thread Wojciech Puchar
For FreeBSD supported laptops Lenovo as generally good choice. Not anymore. They were when it was still IBM. Some in-depth discussion here: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-mobile/2008-July/010831.html thanks for info. it was really on place as i told someone yesterday. fortunately

Re: pkg_delete core dump

2008-11-18 Thread Tsu-Fan Cheng
it works!! thanks Mel. TFC On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 8:16 AM, Mel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 18 November 2008 13:37:11 Tsu-Fan Cheng wrote: Hi Mel, the link to download the +CONTENTS file is here http://www.megaupload.com/?d=YDKFRCZG, and you know what? I don't have +REQUIRED_BY

Re: FreeBSD and hardware??

2008-11-18 Thread Manfred Usselmann
On Tue, 18 Nov 2008 14:18:13 +0100 (CET) Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: usage or need. You seem to be reserving FBSD only for the experts. I wouldn't be here is someone that simply use unix an expert? no. By constantly repeating that UNIX is no Windows replacement

Re: large binary, why not strip ?

2008-11-18 Thread Paul B. Mahol
On 11/17/08, Masoom Shaikh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 5:21 PM, Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 12:56:31PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: most of the programs installed from ports have large binary size on disk stripping em all

Re: FreeBSD and hardware??

2008-11-18 Thread Wojciech Puchar
This is nonsense. The Windows interface itself is quite limited and not very powerful. as KDE and Gnome and others. when Win/95 came out being an OS/2 user at that time. From what I have read even the user interface of Mac OS X is much better that Windows although they have a much smaller

Wifi Card for laptop

2008-11-18 Thread Albert Shih
Hi all I would like to buy a PCMCIA card for my new laptop (because FreeBSD do not recognise my internal wifi AND RJ45 ethernet cardsh** windows say it's Broadcom netXtreme 57xx gigabit ). So I just want to known what 802.11G card I can buy without drivers problem. My local dealer have

Re: shrink ntfs

2008-11-18 Thread Albert Shih
Le 18/11/2008 à 01:39:48+0100, Albert Shih a écrit Hi all, Newbie question from a not newbie (well I think ;-) ) I've install many FreeBSD, but I always use the all disk. If I've a laptop come with winxp ? How can I shrink the WinNT partition ? Can the FreeBSD install CD do that ?

Re: FreeBSD and hardware??

2008-11-18 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 03:40:09PM +0100, Manfred Usselmann wrote: On Tue, 18 Nov 2008 14:18:13 +0100 (CET) Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: usage or need. You seem to be reserving FBSD only for the experts. I wouldn't be here is someone that simply use unix an expert?

Re: FreeBSD and hardware??

2008-11-18 Thread Andrew Gould
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 8:49 AM, Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is nonsense. The Windows interface itself is quite limited and not very powerful. as KDE and Gnome and others. GUI's (and operating systems) should be evaluated by user type. For many, the command line is

Ath vs Netgear wg311t stuck beacon error

2008-11-18 Thread Mark Busby
I am having trouble getting a Netgear WG311t card to work, I had tried 7.1beta but kept getting irq interrupt storm no matter what slot or irq was set to the slot/card. Installed 6.3, stuck beacon error. I have tried a, b, and g mode. I have tested the card with other os's to see if was

OMSA Live CD, DSET and FreeBSD based Dell 2950 Server?

2008-11-18 Thread VeeJay
Hello there, To diagnose and solve a Disk Encluser issue, I am advised to run two tools 1. Run OMSA live CD on the Server? Since, OMSA Live CD is linux based, I am just wondering if it will work or not? 2. Run Dell's DSET Tool, which is also for Linux systems And seeking your comments

Re: FreeBSD and hardware??

2008-11-18 Thread Dan
Wojciech Puchar([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2008.11.18 12:23:24 +0100: FreeBSD is very good in hardware support now, with most of drivers being very stable and high performance. for now there is no such thing, except ReactOS which is in early alpha state. Have you used, erm... Linux? Both Linux

Re: FreeBSD and hardware??

2008-11-18 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I am one of the few UNIX administrators who prefers to use Windows (XP or 2K; cannot stand Vista) as a desktop/workstation operating system. if you need really windows-like computing/desktop-environments/whatever is called they RIGHT - windows is most windows like and it's good choice.

Re: FreeBSD and hardware??

2008-11-18 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Have you used, erm... Linux? Both Linux and FreeBSD run pretty much at hardware level. You benchmark either, you'll get very close results in for benchmarks doing same thing over and over, or same thing in parallel linux can even be better. but try running many different tasks in parallel

Re: Wifi Card for laptop

2008-11-18 Thread Dan
Albert Shih([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2008.11.18 15:55:35 +0100: Netgear WPN511 RangeMax Netgear WG511 | PCMCIA WiFi D-LINK DWA-610 D-LINK DWL-G630 Trendnet TEW-421PC D-LINK DWA-645 RangeBooster N65 ...

Re: FreeBSD and hardware??

2008-11-18 Thread Dan
Wojciech Puchar([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2008.11.18 16:51:16 +0100: Have you used, erm... Linux? Both Linux and FreeBSD run pretty much at hardware level. You benchmark either, you'll get very close results in for benchmarks doing same thing over and over, or same thing in parallel linux can

Re: Wifi Card for laptop

2008-11-18 Thread Wojciech Puchar
D-LINK DWL-G630 Trendnet TEW-421PC D-LINK DWA-645 RangeBooster N65 ... Linksys WPC54G Linksys WPC54GS Speedbooster Trendnet TEW-441PC ask about chipset they use and then look at FreeBSD site for hardware compatibility. FreeBSD supports a lot

Re: FreeBSD and hardware??

2008-11-18 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 02:16:37PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar typed: All nice GUI for unices turned to be bad idea, every windows user will say it's poor compared to windows. and they are right. I totally disagree. Please note that your *opinion* doesn't become truth, i exactly repeat opinion

Re: Help needed: Which gcc version supports xmemalign

2008-11-18 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Nov 18), Vijayalakshmi BN said: I'm working on Solaris 9 and using gcc version 2.9.5. I'm facing issues with respect to memory misalignment. I'm getting SIGBUS errors. Through various websites, I found that xmemalign can be used while compiling to handle memory alignment

Re: FreeBSD and hardware??

2008-11-18 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 02:18:13PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: usage or need. You seem to be reserving FBSD only for the experts. I wouldn't be here is someone that simply use unix an expert? no. By constantly repeating that UNIX is no Windows replacement you are and i will

Re: FreeBSD and hardware??

2008-11-18 Thread Zbigniew Szalbot
Hi, but it is an MS replacement. If you overwrite your MS-Win with FreeBSD, it completely replaces it. It will do everything you need except look like MS-Win and people who are trying to get out of MS-land are happy to find that to be true.Give them a hand rather than a kick in the

FreeBSD Media Center

2008-11-18 Thread Gary Hartl
Hi all; I have an old laptop (Dell Inspiron 7500), P3 550mhz, 256mb ram 20 gig hdd. I am wondering what the validity of putting FBSD on it running VLC or something like that feeding to my tv. Anyone with any feedback on this. Or is there a FBSD Media Center project out either in

Re: FreeBSD Media Center

2008-11-18 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Gary Hartl wrote: Hi all; I have an old laptop (Dell Inspiron 7500), P3 550mhz, 256mb ram 20 gig hdd. I am wondering what the validity of putting FBSD on it running VLC or something like that feeding to my tv. Anyone with any feedback on this. I believe it will work in

Re: FreeBSD and hardware??

2008-11-18 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 03:49:40PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: This is nonsense. The Windows interface itself is quite limited and not very powerful. as KDE and Gnome and others. when Win/95 came out being an OS/2 user at that time. From what I have read even the user interface of

Re: FreeBSD and hardware??

2008-11-18 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 02:16:37PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: All nice GUI for unices turned to be bad idea, every windows user will say it's poor compared to windows. and they are right. I totally disagree. Please note that your *opinion* doesn't become truth, i exactly repeat opinion

[OT] printing question

2008-11-18 Thread Andrew Gould
Time to buy a new printer. I don't print much from FreeBSD; but the need occasionally arises. Most of my printing is done while using Mac OS X. The Epson Artisan 800 is looking awfully nice; but it's not in the Linux printing database yet (http://openprinting.org/printer_list.cgi). Question:

Re: FreeBSD and hardware??

2008-11-18 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 10:54:48AM -0500, Dan wrote: Wojciech Puchar([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2008.11.18 16:51:16 +0100: Have you used, erm... Linux? Both Linux and FreeBSD run pretty much at hardware level. You benchmark either, you'll get very close results in for benchmarks doing same

Re: FreeBSD and hardware??

2008-11-18 Thread Andrew Gould
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 10:49 AM, Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 10:54:48AM -0500, Dan wrote: Wojciech Puchar([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2008.11.18 16:51:16 +0100: Have you used, erm... Linux? Both Linux and FreeBSD run pretty much at hardware level. You

Re: FreeBSD and hardware??

2008-11-18 Thread en0f
Guys, stephen jackson wrote: I have read briefly on FreeBSD and it seems to be the winner on speed and stability versus Linux and of course MS Windows. [ ... ] Can we play cool with each other? If someone likes/has to use Gnu/Linux over FreeBSD or for that matter any other operating system,

Re: FreeBSD and hardware??

2008-11-18 Thread Dan
Jerry McAllister([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2008.11.18 11:49:47 -0500: I can't point this out between Linux and FreeBSD, but back a few years ago, when I was involved in benchmarking high performance Oh well, that was a few years ago... Even So, a few years ago Felix von Leitner did webserving

RE: FreeBSD Media Center

2008-11-18 Thread Gary Hartl
-Original Message- From: michael [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: November-18-08 11:30 AM To: Gary Hartl Subject: Re: FreeBSD Media Center Gary Hartl wrote: Hi all; I have an old laptop (Dell Inspiron 7500), P3 550mhz, 256mb ram 20 gig hdd. I am wondering what the

Re: [OT] printing question

2008-11-18 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 10:49:44AM -0600, Andrew Gould wrote: Time to buy a new printer. I don't print much from FreeBSD; but the need occasionally arises. Most of my printing is done while using Mac OS X. The Epson Artisan 800 is looking awfully nice; but it's not in the Linux printing

Re: FreeBSD and hardware??

2008-11-18 Thread Chad Perrin
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 12:51:07PM +0100, Mel wrote: Not anymore. They were when it was still IBM. Some in-depth discussion here: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-mobile/2008-July/010831.html Well, that's disappointing. My current laptop is a Thinkpad R52, from just after the sale

Re: smbfs 2 GB file size limit

2008-11-18 Thread David Horn
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 7:06 AM, Derek Ragona [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 12:23 AM 11/18/2008, David Horn wrote: On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 8:36 PM, Derek Ragona [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have FreeBSD 7.0 Release and if I mount_smbfs a network NTFS share I have a 2 GB size limit on files. I

porting jdownloader to freebsd

2008-11-18 Thread Tsu-Fan Cheng
Hi, does anyone port Jdownloader (java app) to freebsd yet?? thanks!! TFC ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: FreeBSD and hardware??

2008-11-18 Thread Chad Perrin
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 12:23:24PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: I have read briefly on FreeBSD and it seems to be the winner on speed and stability versus Linux and of course MS Windows. versus linux - of course, versus windows - it's different OS, we should define how do you compare. for

Re: FreeBSD and hardware??

2008-11-18 Thread Wojciech Puchar
versus linux - of course, versus windows - it's different OS, we should define how do you compare. for example running windows apps under FreeBSD with wine will probably be slower than under windows. This is not as constant a truism as one might think. I haven't run much software in Wine, but

Re: FreeBSD and hardware??

2008-11-18 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Can you point out some places on the web that confirm this? no. for me it's important that i confirmed this. that's why i'm far away from using linux anywhere. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: FreeBSD and hardware??

2008-11-18 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Time to forget this.It is a semantic and religious battle playing hair splitting games with words.It is not a MS clone but it is an MS replacement. If you overwrite your MS-Win with FreeBSD, it completely replaces it. and you get something completely different. FORTUNATELY different.

Re: [OT] printing question

2008-11-18 Thread David Kelly
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 07:51:47PM +0100, Roland Smith wrote: On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 10:49:44AM -0600, Andrew Gould wrote: Time to buy a new printer. I don't print much from FreeBSD; but the need occasionally arises. Most of my printing is done while using Mac OS X. The Epson Artisan

Re: FreeBSD and hardware??

2008-11-18 Thread Chad Perrin
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 02:18:13PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: By constantly repeating that UNIX is no Windows replacement you are and i will repeat it because it's true. it's every other unix replacement. It did a quite admirable job of replacing MS Windows for me. I don't know why

Re: FreeBSD and hardware??

2008-11-18 Thread Wojciech Puchar
are happy to find that to be true.Give them a hand rather than a kick in the face. Amen to that! This is something I am also asking for. Wojciech you often help others here. Let's keep it this way. Please?! i will do exactly what i'm doing now. no more no less. helping those who ask

Re: FreeBSD and hardware??

2008-11-18 Thread Wojciech Puchar
so why it have a much smaller market share? Because MS wrote restrictive contracts with companies trying to sell PCs saying that if they wanted to put MS on any of their Apple produces it's own computers. Actually a branded PCs now. what a problem? the problem is that Apple works the same

Re: FreeBSD and hardware??

2008-11-18 Thread Chad Perrin
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 07:10:48AM -0800, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 03:40:09PM +0100, Manfred Usselmann wrote: I have a lot of reasons for loathing X. A *lot*. I've spent a lot of time (and even money; anyone remember AccelX back in the 90s? Yep, I bought it) trying

Re: FreeBSD and hardware??

2008-11-18 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Chad Perrin wrote: On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 02:18:13PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: By constantly repeating that UNIX is no Windows replacement you are and i will repeat it because it's true. it's every other unix replacement. It did a quite admirable job of replacing MS

Re: FreeBSD and hardware??

2008-11-18 Thread Chad Perrin
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 10:42:26AM -0500, Dan wrote: Wojciech Puchar([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2008.11.18 12:23:24 +0100: FreeBSD is very good in hardware support now, with most of drivers being very stable and high performance. for now there is no such thing, except ReactOS which is in early

Re: FreeBSD and hardware??

2008-11-18 Thread Chad Perrin
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 11:13:40AM -0600, Andrew Gould wrote: I read once that: The difference between the lab and the real world is that, in the lab, there is no difference. I wish I had noted the source. The way I'd heard that sentiment was slightly different: In theory, theory and

Re: FreeBSD and hardware??

2008-11-18 Thread Robert Huff
Chad Perrin writes: I read once that: The difference between the lab and the real world is that, in the lab, there is no difference. I wish I had noted the source. The way I'd heard that sentiment was slightly different: In theory, theory and practice are the same. In

Re: [OT] printing question

2008-11-18 Thread Chad Perrin
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 10:49:44AM -0600, Andrew Gould wrote: Time to buy a new printer. I don't print much from FreeBSD; but the need occasionally arises. Most of my printing is done while using Mac OS X. The Epson Artisan 800 is looking awfully nice; but it's not in the Linux printing

Re: [OT] printing question

2008-11-18 Thread Andrew Gould
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 1:53 PM, Chad Perrin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Your best bet for printer compatibility is to ensure that it's available as a network device rather than having to connect to it directly, and that it's a Postscript printer. If you want to get a printer and connect it

Re: FreeBSD and hardware??

2008-11-18 Thread Chad Perrin
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 12:37:21PM -0700, Chad Perrin wrote: The same applies to the X Window System. It sucks. It is laden with various and sundry big problems; annoyances and poor design decisions litter the X Window System. The drawbacks of Luna, Aqua, and Aero are all even worse than

Re: FreeBSD and hardware??

2008-11-18 Thread Chad Perrin
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 08:26:36PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: are happy to find that to be true.Give them a hand rather than a kick in the face. Amen to that! This is something I am also asking for. Wojciech you often help others here. Let's keep it this way. Please?! i will do

Re: FreeBSD and hardware??

2008-11-18 Thread Chad Perrin
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 08:22:56PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: Time to forget this.It is a semantic and religious battle playing hair splitting games with words.It is not a MS clone but it is an MS replacement. If you overwrite your MS-Win with FreeBSD, it completely replaces it.

RE: [OT] printing question

2008-11-18 Thread Bob McConnell
On Behalf Of Andrew Gould Time to buy a new printer. I don't print much from FreeBSD; but the need occasionally arises. Most of my printing is done while using Mac OS X. The Epson Artisan 800 is looking awfully nice; but it's not in the Linux I can't help with the setup issues, as I don't

Re: [OT] printing question

2008-11-18 Thread Chad Perrin
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 02:00:03PM -0600, Andrew Gould wrote: So the bottom line is: Get a postscript printer. They're rather expensive. It may be worth the inconvenience of sharing drive space and printing from the Mac via VNC window. ;-) The reason Postscript printers tend to be

Re: [OT] printing question

2008-11-18 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 02:00:03PM -0600, Andrew Gould wrote: On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 1:53 PM, Chad Perrin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Your best bet for printer compatibility is to ensure that it's available as a network device rather than having to connect to it directly, and that it's a

Re: [OT] printing question

2008-11-18 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Andrew Gould [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So the bottom line is: Get a postscript printer. They're rather expensive. It may be worth the inconvenience of sharing drive space and printing from the Mac via VNC window. ;-) It's not clear to me that anyone posting here had tried printing to a

BSD-licensed text utility updates

2008-11-18 Thread Chad Perrin
I've been trying to keep generally aware of where things are with the attempts to port and develop BSD-licensed text processing utilities for FreeBSD: http://www.freebsd.org/projects/ideas/#p-bsdtexttools Apparently, the Google Summer of Code project that tackled the problem met with some

Re:FreeBSD, OMSA Live CD and DSET tools for Dell 2950 Server?

2008-11-18 Thread VeeJay
Any help??? On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 4:41 PM, VeeJay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello there, To diagnose and solve a Disk Encluser issue, I am advised to run two tools 1. Run OMSA live CD on the Server? Since, OMSA Live CD is linux based, I am just wondering if it will work or not? 2.

tcpdump(1) filter by date

2008-11-18 Thread Eduardo Meyer
Hello, I have a kind big tcpdump file, which has data from the last week. I want to dump information based on date. Can I do it without generating a full output and later parse the headers? Say, I want to filter by date in the expression filter and not with tcpdump -r dumpfile | awk

Re: FreeBSD Media Center

2008-11-18 Thread andrew clarke
On Tue 2008-11-18 11:21:02 UTC-0500, Gary Hartl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I have an old laptop (Dell Inspiron 7500), P3 550mhz, 256mb ram 20 gig hdd. I am wondering what the validity of putting FBSD on it running VLC or something like that feeding to my tv. 550 MHz will be a bit slow for

Re: realtime network replication

2008-11-18 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Nov 17, 2008, at 5:32 PM, Ansar Mohammed wrote: Ok, I have /home on one server, I need to REPLICATE /home to another server in realtime. Kinda like a mirror, but over a network. I don't want to use rsync because its not realtime. Yeah, your problem description is clear enough. If you

Re: kqemu runs 2x faster on i386 than amd64!?

2008-11-18 Thread Juergen Lock
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you write: Guess I should've mentioned the target is 32-bit win2k... On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 11:28 AM, Steve Franks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not comparing apples-to-apples exactly, but both my disks are in the same system, both are running 7-stable from within

Re: FreeBSD Media Center

2008-11-18 Thread michael
andrew clarke wrote: On Tue 2008-11-18 11:21:02 UTC-0500, Gary Hartl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I have an old laptop (Dell Inspiron 7500), P3 550mhz, 256mb ram 20 gig hdd. I am wondering what the validity of putting FBSD on it running VLC or something like that feeding to my tv.

Newbie question

2008-11-18 Thread Gary Hartl
Hi all; Quick newbie question. I've been out of the bsd loop for a bit, i'm trying to setup nagios which is fine There are a couple of settings that I either don't remember or never remembered and forgot that I never knew it. Ok so nagios is asking me for an rc.d path, which if i

Apology

2008-11-18 Thread Gary Hartl
Sorry group I just realized I've been sending HTML emails to the group Plain text now set. Stupid outlook Thanks Gary ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

is threr a database for freeBSD with??

2008-11-18 Thread Gary Kline
I'm looking to write a simple program to extract stuff from Project Gutenberg's books (--of whivh there are tens ofthousands thanks to Michael HArt and his volunteers). There is no collection of metaphors in the public domain, and it wouldn't take that much

Re: FreeBSD and hardware??

2008-11-18 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 08:29:27PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: so why it have a much smaller market share? Because MS wrote restrictive contracts with companies trying to sell PCs saying that if they wanted to put MS on any of their Apple produces it's own computers. Actually a branded

Re: Wifi Card for laptop

2008-11-18 Thread Albert Shih
Le 18/11/2008 à 16:43:47+0100, Wojciech Puchar a écrit D-LINK DWL-G630 Trendnet TEW-421PC D-LINK DWA-645 RangeBooster N65 ... Linksys WPC54G Linksys WPC54GS Speedbooster Trendnet TEW-441PC ask about chipset they use and then look at FreeBSD site

Re: FreeBSD Media Center

2008-11-18 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 18 Nov 2008 11:21:02 -0500, Gary Hartl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all; I have an old laptop (Dell Inspiron 7500), P3 550mhz, 256mb ram 20 gig hdd. I am wondering what the validity of putting FBSD on it running VLC or something like that feeding to my tv. Anyone with any

Re: Newbie question

2008-11-18 Thread matt donovan
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 5:41 PM, Gary Hartl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all; Quick newbie question. I've been out of the bsd loop for a bit, i'm trying to setup nagios which is fine There are a couple of settings that I either don't remember or never remembered and forgot that I

Re: Wifi Card for laptop

2008-11-18 Thread John Nielsen
On Tuesday 18 November 2008 09:55:35 am Albert Shih wrote: Hi all I would like to buy a PCMCIA card for my new laptop (because FreeBSD do not recognise my internal wifi AND RJ45 ethernet cardsh** windows say it's Broadcom netXtreme 57xx gigabit ). So I just want to known what 802.11G

FBSD 7.1 kern.maxdsiz

2008-11-18 Thread Drew Tomlinson
I installed FBSD 7.1-PRERELEASE amd64 version on an Intel Core2Duo box with 4 GB of RAM. The main purpose of this box is to run the Urchin web analysis software from Google. The Urchin installation docs (https://secure.urchin.com/helpwiki/en/Urchin_Installation_Guide_(FreeBSD_and_Linux))

Re: FBSD 7.1 kern.maxdsiz

2008-11-18 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:34:32 -0800, Drew Tomlinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The Urchin installation docs [...] contain a note for FreeBSD users waring of a hard coded process datasiz limit of 500 MB and instruct on to set kern.maxdsiz=1073741824 in /boot/loader.conf. However FBSD 7.1

Running X without a videocard

2008-11-18 Thread Gary Hartl
Hi all; More questions... I am running FBSD-stable 6.0 on some Sun Netra X1's so it is sparc64. There is no video card on these puppies. But I seem to recall that we ran solaris X using WinAXE or VNC or something like that I'm wondering if it is possible to do the same with FBSD. Thanks

Re: FBSD 7.1 kern.maxdsiz

2008-11-18 Thread Drew Tomlinson
Polytropon wrote: On Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:34:32 -0800, Drew Tomlinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The Urchin installation docs [...] contain a note for FreeBSD users waring of a hard coded process datasiz limit of 500 MB and instruct on to set kern.maxdsiz=1073741824 in /boot/loader.conf.

preparing for an upgrade

2008-11-18 Thread Kelly Martin
With the release of FreeBSD 6.4 imminent, I'd like to prepare for an upgrade from FreeBSD 6.2 - 6.4. Please excuse my ignorance but in my mind here's what I plan to do when it's available: 1. install / run the upgrade script using CD-ROM media to a 6.4 GENERIC kernel, reboot 2. customize the

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