Re: How to remove redundant login in a FreeBSD live CD?

2009-05-27 Thread Unga
--- On Tue, 5/26/09, Manolis Kiagias wrote: > From: Manolis Kiagias > Subject: Re: How to remove redundant login in a FreeBSD live CD? > To: "Unga" > Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Date: Tuesday, May 26, 2009, 6:48 PM > Unga wrote: > > Hi all > > > > I made a live CD based on FreeBSD 7.2

Re: netbooks vs FreeBSD

2009-05-27 Thread Stephan Lichtenauer
Peter, Am 26.05.2009 um 23:13 schrieb Peter Jeremy: On 2009-May-24 15:33:43 +0200, Gabor Kovesdan wrote: Acer Aspire ONE. I haven't got comments from these lists about that model in particular but I googled a bit and it seems mostly everything works with it. I have the SSD version and e

Mobile Internet Sticks

2009-05-27 Thread Christopher Chambers
Hi, Does FreeBSD support those USB "internet anywhere" sticks? Regards, Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@fre

Re: dump through ssh problem

2009-05-27 Thread Matiss
Allright, false alarm.. should've just tried to enter the password and not look at the messages, lol cheers, Matt Quoting Matiss : Hey there, Here's a command that I use dump -0aunL -f - / | gzip -2 | ssh -p 182 m...@192.168.0.1 "dd of=/home/matt/usb_hdd/mail.err.lv/dump.root.l0.gz" problem is,

dump through ssh problem

2009-05-27 Thread Matiss
Hey there, Here's a command that I use dump -0aunL -f - / | gzip -2 | ssh -p 182 m...@192.168.0.1 "dd of=/home/matt/usb_hdd/mail.err.lv/dump.root.l0.gz" problem is, when ssh asks for password, it is fed a piped output from previous commands, not allowing me to enter a password for connection. What

Re: dump through ssh problem

2009-05-27 Thread Chris Rees
2009/5/27 Matiss : > Allright, false alarm.. > should've just tried to enter the password and not look at the > messages, lol > cheers, > Matt >  Quoting Matiss : Hey there, >  Here's a command that I use >  dump -0aunL -f - / | gzip -2 | ssh -p 182 m...@192.168.0.1 "dd > of=/home/matt/usb_hdd/mail

Re: A FreeBSD program that rotates text

2009-05-27 Thread Matthew Seaman
Polytropon wrote: > So I miss things like: > - draw first circle with line thickness of 10 px Select the object, then go to Object: Fill and Stroke In the stroke style tab, set the width to 10px > - draw second (concentric) circle with line thickness of 10 px Draw two circles of a

7.2: Xorg no keyboard/mouse input

2009-05-27 Thread Pieter Donche
I set upFreeBSD-7.2 on a PC from scratch (deleted prevvious 7.0 partition, reinstalled 7.2) installed xorg and kde via pkg_add adapted /etc/ttys to start KDM window manager (ttyv8 "/usr/local/bin/kdm-nodaemon" xterm on secure) at reboot, I get KDE login screen, but keyboard and mouse do not react

Re: 7.2: Xorg no keyboard/mouse input

2009-05-27 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 27 May 2009 11:38:25 +0200 (CEST), Pieter Donche wrote: > I set upFreeBSD-7.2 on a PC from scratch (deleted prevvious 7.0 > partition, reinstalled 7.2) > [...] > at reboot, I get KDE login screen, but keyboard and mouse do not react to > any input/move. > (in 7.0 on same system, with same

Re: Mobile Internet Sticks

2009-05-27 Thread Stephan Lichtenauer
Chris, Am 27.05.2009 um 10:58 schrieb Christopher Chambers: Hi, Does FreeBSD support those USB "internet anywhere" sticks? I suggest to check http://people.freebsd.org/~n_hibma/u3g.html and "man u3g". I use u3g on 7.2 (with GENERIC kernel, I am simply loading the module) and a HUAWEI

Re: pam_groupdn/pam_member_attribute does not with OpenLDAP/PAM and FreeBSD. Why?

2009-05-27 Thread nok_compx
I found this problem too. I use CentOS 5.2 and openldap-2.3.43-3.el5. How can I configure this issue, please tell me? :-) O. Hartmann-5 wrote: > > On our FreeBSD 7.2/8.0 driven infrastructure we use OpenLDAP: > > openldap-sasl-client-2.4.16 Open source LDAP client implementation with > SASL2

ipod nano 3th 8gig

2009-05-27 Thread Roy Stuivenberg
Hello, Has anyone been able to connect an ipod nano 3th (windows version) ? Mounting it gives me this error. rs-unix# mount -t msdosfs /dev/da1s1 /ipod mount_msdosfs: /dev/da1s1: : Invalid argument dmesg : rs-unix# dmesg Copyright (c) 1992-2009 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 198

Re: reducing Windows Vista to install FreeBSD dual-boot

2009-05-27 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Wednesday, May 06, 2009 a las 01:26:50PM +0300, Manolis Kiagias escribió: > Matthias Apitz wrote: > >Hello, > > > >Maybe a bit off-topic (sorry for this). I've got a fresh Dell M4400 > >laptop with 250 GByte, pre-installed Vista on it. Is there a way to > >reduce the Vista to let's say 50 G

Re: ipod nano 3th 8gig

2009-05-27 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 27 May 2009 13:01:06 +0200, Roy Stuivenberg wrote: > Hello, > > Has anyone been able to connect an ipod nano 3th (windows version) ? > Mounting it gives me this error. > > rs-unix# mount -t msdosfs /dev/da1s1 /ipod > mount_msdosfs: /dev/da1s1: : Invalid argument Can you check #

Re: reducing Windows Vista to install FreeBSD dual-boot

2009-05-27 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Matthias Apitz wrote: El día Wednesday, May 06, 2009 a las 01:26:50PM +0300, Manolis Kiagias escribió: Matthias Apitz wrote: Hello, Maybe a bit off-topic (sorry for this). I've got a fresh Dell M4400 laptop with 250 GByte, pre-installed Vista on it. Is there a way to reduce the Vista

Re: reducing Windows Vista to install FreeBSD dual-boot

2009-05-27 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Wednesday, May 27, 2009 a las 02:57:10PM +0300, Manolis Kiagias escribió: > >Concerning EasyBCD, it tries always in unattended mode to boot the damn > >Vista and not the other FreeBSD partition which I have i 1st place in > >the boot menu, i.e. if you just switch on the laptop and go for co

Sponsoring FreeBSD

2009-05-27 Thread Kian T. Gould - AOE media GmbH
Dear FreeBSD Team, We are a small Open Source company in Germany, and due to our close connection to the Open Source world we sponsor several successful Open Source projects that help us in our daily work and/or are great contributions to the OS world as such. Therefore we have also picked your

RE: Watchdog timer

2009-05-27 Thread Peter Steele
>It depends on the watchdog hardware itself. Some are not able to >handle long timeouts. Check the man pages for the hardware you are >using. The VIA hardware that we hacked a driver for said it could go >upto 512 seconds, but we could not get to that length > >http://www.tancsa.com/watchdog/ Th

Re: netbooks vs FreeBSD

2009-05-27 Thread Chris Rees
2009/5/23 Wojciech Puchar : >> >> I'm about to buy a netbook, which: >> - is compatible with FreeBSD (wifi is especially important) >> - has a good battery life (at least 4 hours) >> - has a normal HDD not an SSD > > point 2 and 3 is somehow incompatible - HDD takes more power. anyway in > order of

Re: Another uptime story

2009-05-27 Thread Chris Rees
2009/5/27 Glen Barber : > On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 11:23 PM, Polytropon wrote: >> Maybe there's a way of patching the uptime utility that it adds >> the previous uptime of the system (since last shutdown) to the >> actual uptime. I know this denies everything uptime stands for, >> let's call it acc

Re: Another uptime story

2009-05-27 Thread Steve Bertrand
Chris Rees wrote: > 2009/5/27 Glen Barber : >> On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 11:23 PM, Polytropon wrote: >>> Maybe there's a way of patching the uptime utility that it adds >>> the previous uptime of the system (since last shutdown) to the >>> actual uptime. I know this denies everything uptime stands f

Re: Another uptime story

2009-05-27 Thread Glen Barber
Hi, Chris On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 9:45 AM, Chris Rees wrote: >> >> I like that idea, actually.. Not for faking cumulative uptime.  It'd >> be kinda nice knowing how long a particular machine has been 'alive' >> without looking through service tag records. >> > > How about: > > [ch...@amnesiac]~%

Re: Another uptime story

2009-05-27 Thread Glen Barber
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 9:56 AM, Steve Bertrand wrote: > > Not really a biggie, I've got another test box right behind it ;) > > ww9# uptime >  9:09AM  up 501 days, 22:20, 1 user, load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 > > Due to network restructuring, the test hardware will be coming out... > Steve, J

Re: Another uptime story

2009-05-27 Thread Andrew Gould
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 8:45 AM, Chris Rees wrote: > 2009/5/27 Glen Barber : > > On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 11:23 PM, Polytropon wrote: > >> Maybe there's a way of patching the uptime utility that it adds > >> the previous uptime of the system (since last shutdown) to the > >> actual uptime. I know

Re: Another uptime story

2009-05-27 Thread Steve Bertrand
Glen Barber wrote: > On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 9:56 AM, Steve Bertrand wrote: >> Not really a biggie, I've got another test box right behind it ;) >> >> ww9# uptime >> 9:09AM up 501 days, 22:20, 1 user, load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 >> >> Due to network restructuring, the test hardware will be c

something broke last night. www.freebsd.org offline?

2009-05-27 Thread Michael Scheidell
none of my freebsd systems can surf to www.freebsd.org anymore. host www.freebsd.org www.freebsd.org has address 69.147.83.33 www.freebsd.org has IPv6 address 2001:4f8:fff6::21 www.freebsd.org mail is handled by 0 . mx1.slpowers.com.ionspam.net# host -t a www.freebsd.org www.freebsd.org has addr

Re: Another uptime story

2009-05-27 Thread Chris Rees
2009/5/27 Andrew Gould : > On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 8:45 AM, Chris Rees wrote: >> >> 2009/5/27 Glen Barber : >> > On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 11:23 PM, Polytropon wrote: >> >> Maybe there's a way of patching the uptime utility that it adds >> >> the previous uptime of the system (since last shutdown)

Re: something broke last night. www.freebsd.org offline?

2009-05-27 Thread Steve Bertrand
Michael Scheidell wrote: > none of my freebsd systems can surf to www.freebsd.org anymore. > > host www.freebsd.org > www.freebsd.org has address 69.147.83.33 > www.freebsd.org has IPv6 address 2001:4f8:fff6::21 > www.freebsd.org mail is handled by 0 . > mx1.slpowers.com.ionspam.net# host -t a ww

Re: something broke last night. www.freebsd.org offline?

2009-05-27 Thread Michael Scheidell
Steve Bertrand wrote: Michael Scheidell wrote: none of my freebsd systems can surf to www.freebsd.org anymore. ah. I see problem.. you didn't look up the host I documented. freebsd.org is different then www.freebsd.org host freebsd.org freebsd.org has address 69.147.83.40 freebsd

Re: Canon printer and TurboPrint

2009-05-27 Thread kristian.tenorio
Well, the fact is if you want an easier way, find someone to fix it for you. But man, if ya wanna change to *NIX, become a sysadmin better and go. You'll see that it's not that hard, is VERY SIMPLE, only ya've gotta get accostumed. Jerry-107 wrote: > > On Mon, 25 May 2009 12:01:49 -0700 (PDT) >

Re: Sponsoring FreeBSD

2009-05-27 Thread Wojciech Puchar
1. Monthly sponsoring of around 50 to 100 USD add two zeroes to this values then maybe FreeBSD core team will be interested. of course i can't speak of them, but i think so. if they would mention companies for 50$ then www.freebsd.org would be unreadable completely as there will be 5

Re: something broke last night. www.freebsd.org offline?

2009-05-27 Thread Steve Bertrand
Michael Scheidell wrote: > > > Steve Bertrand wrote: >> Michael Scheidell wrote: >> >>> none of my freebsd systems can surf to www.freebsd.org anymore. >>> >> > ah. I see problem.. you didn't look up the host I documented. > > freebsd.org is different then www.freebsd.org D'oh! In t

Re: Another uptime story

2009-05-27 Thread Wojciech Puchar
radius# uptime 11:01PM up 553 days, 13:38, 1 user, load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 very good result, but thinking that way is quite a nonsense. you have to shut down, then just shut down! if you want to talk about how well your server works, how stable it is and how good admin are you, then

Re: Another uptime story

2009-05-27 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Maybe there's a way of patching the uptime utility that it adds the previous uptime of the system (since last shutdown) to the actual uptime. I know this denies everything uptime stands for, let's call it accumulated uptime. :-) if it will add only in case of clean shutdown - it would be good.

Re: FreeBSD & Software RAID

2009-05-27 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I really don't have any hard data on ZFS performance relative to UFS + geom. so please test yourself :) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd

Re: FreeBSD & Software RAID

2009-05-27 Thread Wojciech Puchar
ZFS should work on i386. As far as I know there aren't any killer bugs that are architecture specific, but I'm no expert. Unless your aim is to learn unless someone assume than size of pointers are 4 bytes, and write program in C, there will work as good in 64-bit mode and in 32-bit mode. ___

Re: Sponsoring FreeBSD

2009-05-27 Thread Chris Rees
2009/5/27 Wojciech Puchar : >> 1.         Monthly sponsoring of around 50 to 100 USD > > add two zeroes to this values then maybe FreeBSD core team will be > interested. of course i can't speak of them, but i think so. > > if they would mention companies for 50$ then www.freebsd.org would be > unre

Re: Another uptime story

2009-05-27 Thread Glen Barber
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 10:06 AM, Steve Bertrand wrote: > Glen Barber wrote: >> Steve, >> >> Just out of curiosity, what function did 'radius' serve? > > RADIUS ;) > I didn't think it could be that easy. :) -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd-questions@freebs

Re: something broke last night. www.freebsd.org offline?

2009-05-27 Thread Bob Johnson
On 5/27/09, Michael Scheidell wrote: > none of my freebsd systems can surf to www.freebsd.org anymore. > > host www.freebsd.org > www.freebsd.org has address 69.147.83.33 > telnet www.freebsd.org 80 > Trying 69.147.83.33... > > on macos. > just hangs. I see the same thing. I don't think the p

Re: Sponsoring FreeBSD

2009-05-27 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Kian: This guy doesn't speak for the majority, so please ignore him. as usually - i speak for myself. and will keep it that way. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe,

Re: Sponsoring FreeBSD

2009-05-27 Thread Zbigniew Szalbot
Hi there, > as usually - i speak for myself. and will keep it that way. Grrr... there are times when I think that freedom of speech is not such a good thing after all... -- Zbigniew Szalbot www.fairtrade.net.pl ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mail

Re: Sponsoring FreeBSD

2009-05-27 Thread Chris Rees
2009/5/27 Wojciech Puchar : >> Kian: This guy doesn't speak for the majority, so please ignore him. > > as usually - i speak for myself. and will keep it that way. > But the email was not addressed to you, nor was it asking your opinion. Or do you consider yourself a member of the FreeBSD Team? D

Re: something broke last night. www.freebsd.org offline?

2009-05-27 Thread Michael Scheidell
looks up now. -- Michael Scheidell, CTO Phone: 561-999-5000, x 1259 > *| *SECNAP Network Security Corporation * Certified SNORT Integrator * 2008-9 Hot Company Award Winner, World Executive Alliance * Five-Star Partner Program 2009, VARBusiness * Best Anti-Spam Product 2008, Network

Setting up a cloud space server

2009-05-27 Thread Kelly Jones
I have a lot of disk space on one of my remote dedicated FreeBSD servers, and I'd like to resell it as cloud space. Is there a program that does something like this? Specifically: % Makes the disk space available through standard cloud protocols % Calculates how much space/bandwidth each user

Formatted text conversion

2009-05-27 Thread Kelly Jones
I have e-books in several formats (DOC, LIT, PDF, RTF, HTML, TXT, etc). Is there a Unix command-line tool that converts between these formats? If not, is there at least a tool that converts these formats to TXT? My goal is to read these books on my Kindle, even if it means losing some formatting/

Patching? Probably a trivial question, but...

2009-05-27 Thread Kurt Buff
All, I've gotten a patch for a program in the ports tree from one of the authors of the program - not the port maintainer - to fix a small problem, but don't know how to install the updated port. I cd'ed into the /usr/ports/%CATEGORY%/%PROGRAM%/work/%PROGRAM-VERSION% directory, then performed 'pa

Re: FreeBSD & Software RAID

2009-05-27 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Wednesday 27 May 2009 09:52:42 am Wojciech Puchar wrote: > > ZFS should work on i386. As far as I know there aren't any killer bugs > > that are architecture specific, but I'm no expert. Unless your aim is to > > learn > unless someone assume than size of pointers are 4 bytes, and write progra

Re: Patching? Probably a trivial question, but...

2009-05-27 Thread Chris Rees
2009/5/27 Kurt Buff : > All, > > I've gotten a patch for a program in the ports tree from one of the > authors of the program - not the port maintainer - to fix a small > problem, but don't know how to install the updated port. > > I cd'ed into the > /usr/ports/%CATEGORY%/%PROGRAM%/work/%PROGRAM-VE

Re: Sponsoring FreeBSD

2009-05-27 Thread Boris Samorodov
On Wed, 27 May 2009 16:45:19 +0200 (CEST) Wojciech Puchar wrote: > > 1. Monthly sponsoring of around 50 to 100 USD > add two zeroes to this values then maybe FreeBSD core team will be > interested. of course i can't speak of them, but i think so. No, any financial contributions are welco

VM server sharing (OT)

2009-05-27 Thread Kelly Jones
Has anyone setup a VM server sharing arrangement, whereby I run some of their vmdk files on my VM server, and they run some of my vmdk files on their VM server? VM servers are great, but if the whole server (or its network) goes down, there's no redundancy. VM server sharing would allow people to

Re: Patching? Probably a trivial question, but...

2009-05-27 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I've gotten a patch for a program in the ports tree from one of the authors of the program - not the port maintainer - to fix a small problem, but don't know how to install the updated port. i think it's best to add your patch to /usr/ports/blah/blah/files with name patch-something look at ex

Re: Sponsoring FreeBSD

2009-05-27 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Did you even add anything constructive, or did you just potentially scare off a sponsor? never. All i write is always unconstructive, rude, stupid and wrong in your opinion. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mai

Re: Sponsoring FreeBSD

2009-05-27 Thread Wojciech Puchar
as usually - i speak for myself. and will keep it that way. Grrr... there are times when I think that freedom of speech is not such a good thing after all... Of course - ban it! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.or

Re: Sponsoring FreeBSD

2009-05-27 Thread Wojciech Puchar
add two zeroes to this values then maybe FreeBSD core team will be interested. of course i can't speak of them, but i think so. No, any financial contributions are welcome. they request small logo/advert on main webpage. that's the difference. ___ fr

Re: Sponsoring FreeBSD

2009-05-27 Thread Glen Barber
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 11:56 AM, Wojciech Puchar wrote something useless, again...: >> >> Did you even add anything constructive, or did you just potentially >> scare off a sponsor? > > never. All i write is always unconstructive, rude, stupid and wrong in your > opinion. > Not just his opinion.

Re: Sponsoring FreeBSD

2009-05-27 Thread Fabian Keil
Wojciech Puchar wrote: > > 3. Drafts for a possible redesign of your project's website > > > current webpage is excellent - no need to :) Most important - it works in > every browser. Actually it's known to render poorly in a lot of browser configurations: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/que

RE: Sponsoring FreeBSD

2009-05-27 Thread Gary Gatten
As humorous and entertaining as this witty banter is, can we k!ll it now - at least from the global list? Please feel free to banter amongst yourselves privately and cc me for my amusement! "This email is intended to be reviewed by only the intended recipient and may contain informatio

regardinf Virtual File system VOP_RENAME_APV function.

2009-05-27 Thread Balaji Cherukuri
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Re: VM server sharing (OT)

2009-05-27 Thread Glen Barber
Hi, Kelly On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 11:50 AM, Kelly Jones wrote: > Has anyone setup a VM server sharing arrangement, whereby I run some > of their vmdk files on my VM server, and they run some of my vmdk > files on their VM server? > > VM servers are great, but if the whole server (or its network)

Re: Patching? Probably a trivial question, but...

2009-05-27 Thread Kurt Buff
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 08:48, Chris Rees wrote: > 2009/5/27 Kurt Buff : >> All, >> >> I've gotten a patch for a program in the ports tree from one of the >> authors of the program - not the port maintainer - to fix a small >> problem, but don't know how to install the updated port. >> >> I cd'ed

Re: Canon printer and TurboPrint

2009-05-27 Thread Chris Rees
2009/5/26 Polytropon : > Jerry, > > please excuse my reply, but I think you're not right, and > unfair. Atleast in Germany, they let a "computer literate friend" do this, because they are not able to, not willing to, or just too lazy. :-) > -- > Polytropon > >From Magdeburg, Germany > Happy F

Fwd: Patching? Probably a trivial question, but...

2009-05-27 Thread Kurt Buff
I really should learn to hit reply-all on these lists... Kurt On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 08:54, Wojciech Puchar wrote: >> >> I've gotten a patch for a program in the ports tree from one of the >> authors of the program - not the port maintainer - to fix a small >> problem, but don't know how to in

Re: turning [x]html files into .odt files.

2009-05-27 Thread Chris Rees
2009/5/26 Gary Kline : > >        This may or may not be of interest to anybody who creates professional >        typeset-looking manuscripts.  I use vi as I have for 30 years simply >        because my fingers know it.  I can keep fingers on keyboard rather than >        switch back and forth to m

Re: Sponsoring FreeBSD

2009-05-27 Thread Zbigniew Szalbot
>> Grrr... there are times when I think that freedom of speech is not such >> a >> good thing after all... > > Of course - ban it! One of your problems is that you type faster than you think. But the thing that really pisses me - YOU MAKE MONEY out of FreeBSD OS by offering hosting but every time

Re: Fwd: Patching? Probably a trivial question, but...

2009-05-27 Thread Wojciech Puchar
with name patch-something look at existing as an example That didn't seem to work. what exactly doesn't? could you please post error messages? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-question

Re: Sponsoring FreeBSD

2009-05-27 Thread Wojciech Puchar
One of your problems is that you type faster than you think. But the thing that really pisses me - YOU MAKE MONEY out of FreeBSD OS by offering hosting but every time someone on this lists says "hello" and wants to either learn or help with the development, you scare them off as if you owned this

Re: Patching? Probably a trivial question, but...

2009-05-27 Thread Chris Rees
Er, I also need to learn that reply-all skill! This'll make for easy understanding in the Archives 2009/5/27 Kurt Buff : > On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 08:48, Chris Rees wrote: >> 2009/5/27 Kurt Buff : >>> All, >>> >>> I've gotten a patch for a program in the ports tree from one of the >>> authors

Re: something broke last night. www.freebsd.org offline?

2009-05-27 Thread Gary Gatten
We use ATT dns and were having probs resolving some domains this morning. I think they have it fixed now. Maybe related. Maybe not - Original Message - From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org To: Bob Johnson Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Wed May 27 10:33:01 2009 Subjec

Re: Sponsoring FreeBSD

2009-05-27 Thread Chris Rees
2009/5/27 Wojciech Puchar : >> >> One of your problems is that you type faster than you think. But the thing >> that really pisses me - YOU MAKE MONEY out of FreeBSD OS by offering >> hosting but every time someone on this lists says "hello" and wants to >> either learn or help with the development

Re: Sponsoring FreeBSD

2009-05-27 Thread Chris Rees
2009/5/27 Wojciech Puchar : >>> add two zeroes to this values then maybe FreeBSD core team will be >>> interested. of course i can't speak of them, but i think so. >> >> No, any financial contributions are welcome. > > they request small logo/advert on main webpage. that's the difference. Do you

Re: Sponsoring FreeBSD

2009-05-27 Thread Wojciech Puchar
It is NOT an opinion that you were rude in your reply, and it is NOT an opinion that it's not your place to advise on how much constitutes an 'acceptable' or 'sufficient' donation. You were just plain wrong in doing so, and you should either quietly stop replying defending your actions, or even

Re: Fwd: Patching? Probably a trivial question, but...

2009-05-27 Thread Kurt Buff
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 09:23, Wojciech Puchar wrote: >>> with name patch-something >>> >>> look at existing as an example >> >> That didn't seem to work. > > what exactly doesn't? could you please post error messages? There were no error messages. Then, being the incredibly brilliant person I a

Re: FreeBSD & Software RAID

2009-05-27 Thread Wojciech Puchar
in C, there will work as good in 64-bit mode and in 32-bit mode. Wojciech, I have to ask: are you actually a programmer or are you repeating yes i am. if you are interested i wrote programs for x86, ARM (ARM7TDMI), MIPS32 (4Kc), and once for alpha. I have quite good knowledge for ARM and MIP

Re: Sponsoring FreeBSD

2009-05-27 Thread Neal Hogan
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 11:32 AM, Wojciech Puchar wrote: >> >> It is NOT an opinion that you were rude in your reply, and it is NOT >> an opinion that it's not your place to advise on how much constitutes >> an 'acceptable' or 'sufficient' donation. >> >> You were just plain wrong in doing so, and

Re: Fwd: Patching? Probably a trivial question, but...

2009-05-27 Thread Wojciech Puchar
time after taking the blindingly obvious step of deleting the 'work' directory. This seems to be a key part of the process. The patch doesn't install correctly, as the make process generates the it installs correctly for sure :) as you don't see errors following: HttpHeader.cc:127: erro

Re: Sponsoring FreeBSD

2009-05-27 Thread Wojciech Puchar
stop replying defending your actions, or even perhaps admit you were wrong and apologise. just another funny post - it's not an opinion, it's a fact BECAUSE YOU DECIDED SO. How many "opinions" do you need before you start taking this seriously? rather - from whom, now how. quality, not quant

Flamewar ( was: Sponsoring FreeBSD)

2009-05-27 Thread Glen Barber
This is enough. On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 12:32 PM, Wojciech Puchar wrote: >> >> It is NOT an opinion that you were rude in your reply, and it is NOT >> an opinion that it's not your place to advise on how much constitutes >> an 'acceptable' or 'sufficient' donation. >> >> You were just plain wrong

Re: Sponsoring FreeBSD

2009-05-27 Thread Wojciech Puchar
No, any financial contributions are welcome. they request small logo/advert on main webpage. that's the difference. Do you know who Boris is? checked a FreeBSD site - he is a listed as a developer. but how does it compare to what i said about logo of main webpage and "improving" website.

Re: Sponsoring FreeBSD

2009-05-27 Thread Chris Rees
2009/5/27 Wojciech Puchar : >> >> It is NOT an opinion that you were rude in your reply, and it is NOT >> an opinion that it's not your place to advise on how much constitutes >> an 'acceptable' or 'sufficient' donation. >> >> You were just plain wrong in doing so, and you should either quietly >>

Re: Fwd: Patching? Probably a trivial question, but...

2009-05-27 Thread Kurt Buff
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 09:41, Wojciech Puchar wrote: >> time after taking the blindingly obvious step of deleting the 'work' >> directory. >> >> This seems to be a key part of the process. >> >> The patch doesn't install correctly, as the make process generates the > > it installs correctly for s

Re: Flamewar ( was: Sponsoring FreeBSD)

2009-05-27 Thread Wojciech Puchar
You are then told that your reply was unnecessary and unwarranted, then you continue to post snide remarks and taunt those telling you that you are wrong. Thanks to your attitude, actions, and demeanor, I will be unsubscribing from this list. PLEASE NO! I like your posts :)

Re: Sponsoring FreeBSD

2009-05-27 Thread Gary Gatten
Boris Becker? Or the dude from Rocky and Bullwinkle? J/k - I can only assume he's on the core team? Btw - sorry for top posting, bad habit! And glad to see my plea for this to d!e didn't have much weight! Oh well - Original Message - From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org To:

Re: Fwd: Patching? Probably a trivial question, but...

2009-05-27 Thread Steve Bertrand
Kurt Buff wrote: > On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 09:23, Wojciech Puchar > wrote: with name patch-something look at existing as an example >>> That didn't seem to work. >> what exactly doesn't? could you please post error messages? > > There were no error messages. > > Then, being the in

Re: Sponsoring FreeBSD

2009-05-27 Thread Chris Rees
2009/5/27 Wojciech Puchar : No, any financial contributions are welcome. >>> >>> they request small logo/advert on main webpage. that's the difference. >> >> >> Do you know who Boris is? > > checked a FreeBSD site - he is a listed as a developer. > > but how does it compare to what i said abou

Re: FreeBSD & Software RAID

2009-05-27 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Wednesday 27 May 2009 11:40:51 am Wojciech Puchar wrote: > you talk about performance or if it work at all? Both, really. If they have to code up macros to support identical operations (such as addition) on both platforms, and accidentally forget to use the macro in some place, then voila:

Re: Flamewar ( was: Sponsoring FreeBSD)

2009-05-27 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Wednesday 27 May 2009 11:44:03 am Glen Barber wrote: > Thanks to your attitude, actions, and demeanor, I will be > unsubscribing from this list. Don't. He's hardly the only PITA in support mailing lists. Just add him to your killfile and move on. -- Kirk Strauser __

Re: Flamewar ( was: Sponsoring FreeBSD)

2009-05-27 Thread Zbigniew Szalbot
> Thanks to your attitude, actions, and demeanor, I will be > unsubscribing from this list. Glen - please don't. I have never met so many supportive people as on this list. I do hope Wojtek will just stop doing this but even if he doesn't, we should not let such people determine the quality of thi

Re: FreeBSD & Software RAID

2009-05-27 Thread Wojciech Puchar
you talk about performance or if it work at all? Both, really. If they have to code up macros to support identical operations OK. talking about performance: - 64-bit addition/substraction on 32-bit computer: 2 instructions instead of one (ADD+ADC) - 64-bit NOT, XOR, AND, OR and compare/t

Re: Sponsoring FreeBSD

2009-05-27 Thread Wojciech Puchar
checked a FreeBSD site - he is a listed as a developer. but how does it compare to what i said about logo of main webpage and "improving" website. Beg pardon, my mistake, thought he was the guy from the Foundation. Still, he's a developer. Are you? no i'm not. but you don't answer my questio

RE: Is this a gmirror bug?

2009-05-27 Thread Peter Steele
>Wouldn't it look like > >Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on >/dev/mirror/gm0d 4058062 -377792 4111210 110%/tmp >/dev/mirror/gm0e 15231278 -113942 14126718 101%/var > >then? I always assumed that a disk occupation > 100% would go into

RE: Is this a gmirror bug?

2009-05-27 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/mirror/gm0d 4058062 -377792 4111210 110%/tmp /dev/mirror/gm0e 15231278 -113942 14126718 101%/var then? I always assumed that a disk occupation > 100% would go into this reserved area, which wou

Re: Flamewar ( was: Sponsoring FreeBSD)

2009-05-27 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Thanks to your attitude, actions, and demeanor, I will be unsubscribing from this list. Glen - please don't. Me too! Don't unsubscribe :) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To u

Re: Flamewar ( was: Sponsoring FreeBSD)

2009-05-27 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Glen Barber wrote: >> >> just another funny post - it's not an opinion, it's a fact BECAUSE YOU >> DECIDED SO. >> >> please post more :) >> > > You continuously do this. You post responses to posts that (as > previously stated) scare off users and, in this case, a potential > sponsor. > > You

Re: Flamewar ( was: Sponsoring FreeBSD)

2009-05-27 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Thanks to your attitude, actions, and demeanor, I will be unsubscribing from this list. Glen: Please don't! I agree. And Wojciech, is there any way we can convince you to show a more positive attitude to the people on this list? it is positive. actually very positive :) While being att

Re: Fwd: Patching? Probably a trivial question, but...

2009-05-27 Thread Kurt Buff
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 09:51, Steve Bertrand wrote: > Can you post the patch, and I'll test it out here? (Forgive me if you've > done this and I missed it). > > Steve > Sent off-list. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.

Re: Canon printer and TurboPrint

2009-05-27 Thread Jerry
On Wed, 27 May 2009 17:09:05 +0100 Chris Rees wrote: >Seriously, why give up on something because it takes an hour or two >out of your day, and carry on the ~seven minute >reboot-to-'Windows'-cycle out of laziness? Sounds counter-productive >and defeatist. 1) You are assuming that the same PC co

Re: Flamewar ( was: Sponsoring FreeBSD)

2009-05-27 Thread Zbigniew Szalbot
> While being attacked for almost EVERY my opinion just because is not > "mainstream", or because i have opinion at all, i just respond normally. Wojtek - I also think you have the capacity to help and you often do. But don't pretend to be speaking for the FreeBSD team because you are doing them d

Re: Sponsoring FreeBSD

2009-05-27 Thread Kevin Monceaux
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 06:44:28PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote: >> Do you know who Boris is? > > checked a FreeBSD site - he is a listed as a developer. > > but how does it compare to what i said about logo of main webpage > and "improving" website. What I can gather from this thread is that he,

interrupt storm on irq 10

2009-05-27 Thread Andrew Gould
I purchased a NetGear WPN511 cardbus wireless adapter (atheros chipset) yesterday. The card uses irq 10, as does the firewire port and ethernet port (fxp0) on my Dell Inspiron 8100. The laptop is running FreeBSD 7.2 Release (generic kernel). When I bootup the laptop with the wireless adapter in

Re: Fwd: Patching? Probably a trivial question, but...

2009-05-27 Thread Steve Bertrand
Kurt Buff wrote: > On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 09:51, Steve Bertrand wrote: >> Can you post the patch, and I'll test it out here? (Forgive me if you've >> done this and I missed it). >> >> Steve >> > > Sent off-list. Ok, got it. I'm pretty much taking an "easy" day today to recover my broken -STABL

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