Re: ISP questions

2009-06-05 Thread Matthew Seaman
Reid Linnemann wrote: Written by Mark Hartkemeyer on 06/04/09 11:23 I'm pretty new to FreeBSD and was reading part of Greg Lehey's The Complete FreeBSD 4th Edition. I found the section on ISPs in chapter 18 really interesting. I put some of his recommended questions to my ISP, Cincinnati

Re: ISP questions

2009-06-05 Thread Wojciech Puchar
My isp have up to 1Gbyte/s costs 1000SEK a month 1Gbyte/s? Yes. it's 10Gbit/s No. So 1Gbyte or Gbit/s? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: ISP questions

2009-06-05 Thread Wojciech Puchar
in the service to know the meaning of your questions and the answers. Man, you're with the wrong ISP. Or maybe it's best ISP available there? :) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: n00b question regarding installation via serial console

2009-06-05 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Thursday 04 June 2009 17:28:56 Tim Judd wrote: On 6/4/09, Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: Hello list, Is it possible to boot into the serial console from the installation CD, or must boot.flp be used as per make your own CD add file boot.config containing

Re: pkg_deinstall: delete all packages installed, except for X, Y and Z

2009-06-05 Thread Valentin Bud
On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 6:13 AM, Fbsd1 fb...@a1poweruser.com wrote: Wojciech Puchar wrote: ignore errors about package can't be deleted because X, Y or Z requires it. it's exactly what you want. pkg_delete `cat /tmp/pkglist` gives error 'no such package `cat /tmp/pkglist` installed

pf nat dual gateways

2009-06-05 Thread Ghirai
Hi, I would need some help in getting this working. The idea is pretty simple, i have a box with 3 NICs; 2 for net pipes, and one for LAN. Routing and NAT works, however, i need that requests to u_ips always get NATed through u_if, and everything else through ext_if. As it is now, everything

ICQ - IPFW

2009-06-05 Thread Roy Stuivenberg
Hello, I want to start using ICQ (never did before). The question is, I'm looking for a rule in my IPFW script. Running 7.2 stable - ipfw configured in the kernel without nat. Because after some googl'in, i read it's dangerous to just open port 4000 udp. Any suggestions ? Regards, Roy.

Re: Named ignoring forward-only zones?

2009-06-05 Thread Jeff Laine
On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 11:53:38AM -0500, Kirk Strauser wrote: For some reason, BIND 9 (FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE) isn't properly forwarding queries. A snippet of named.conf: acl clients { localnets; localhost; ::1; 10.45.12/19; };

Portupgrade very slow upgrading gtk-sharp

2009-06-05 Thread Mike Clarke
I started portupgrade -a at midnight last night. It started to upgrade gtk-sharp-1.0.10 from _14 to _15 at 00:58 and is still running more than 9 hours later and clocking up 80% to 90% CPU on both cores of my 2.5GHz Athlon. curlew:/root# top 2 last pid: 47507; load averages: 2.00, 2.05,

Re: ICQ - IPFW

2009-06-05 Thread Wojciech Puchar
The question is, I'm looking for a rule in my IPFW script. Running 7.2 stable - ipfw configured in the kernel without nat. Because after some googl'in, i read it's dangerous to just open port 4000 udp. dangerous because of? are you running any insecure service on port 4000 udp? Of course ICQ

it is about installing FreeBSD on USB stick

2009-06-05 Thread Eric Hsieh
hello, this is my first time to ask a help from FreeBSD. I have a question about installing FreeBSD on USB stick. There are so many informations about how to install FreeBSD on USB stick from Internet, but I can not find out any information about follow : first, if i install FreeBSD on USB stick.

Re: Date representation as YY/DDD or YYYY/DDD

2009-06-05 Thread Gary Kline
On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 11:16:05PM +0200, Polytropon wrote: On Thu, 4 Jun 2009 17:00:06 -0400, Jerry McAllister jerr...@msu.edu wrote: Yes, I know. That is why some other additional for is also useful. I don't really propose changing man, but do often wish for some other form. Many

Re: ICQ - IPFW

2009-06-05 Thread Ivailo Tanusheff
Hi, Generally you have 2 options: 1. To use ICQ over HTTPS connection, which means you should use Proxy server or permit https traffic out of your firewall/nat. 2. To use it directly. As you may use dynamic NAT, i.e. there will be not possible to have incomming connection on port 4000 and it

Opinion request about a file server

2009-06-05 Thread Valentin Bud
Hello community, I have an old computer (ASRock P4Dual-915GL) with Intel P4 CPU at 3.0Ghz and 2Gb of RAM. I am asking the list maybe is somebody out there with a similar configuration and running FreeBSD on such a system as a File Server and Print Server using samba. What i mainly try to

Re: ISP questions

2009-06-05 Thread Steve Bertrand
itsemu wrote: if your dealing with a isp such as a cable/dsl company, remember the requirements to work there, they arent trained on anything besides windows.. Excuse me, unless you have ever worked at an ISP, might I kindly ask you to have some respect. (if you have, the call centre you likely

Re: Opinion request about a file server

2009-06-05 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Valentin Bud wrote: Hello community, I have an old computer (ASRock P4Dual-915GL) with Intel P4 CPU at 3.0Ghz and 2Gb of RAM. I am asking the list maybe is somebody out there with a similar configuration and running FreeBSD on such a system as a File Server and Print Server using samba.

Getting old versions of FreeBSD

2009-06-05 Thread Frederique Rijsdijk
Hi, For some 'issue' I have to install an old version FreeBSD: 4.7-p28. The ISO of 4.7 I have found, but how to get to p28? Thanks, -- Frederique ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: ISP questions

2009-06-05 Thread Steve Bertrand
Modulok wrote: While it sounds pretty bad, I think my ISP takes the cake: - Regardless of the problem, their solution is to unplug the cable modem, wait 30 seconds and plug it back in and hope for the best. Well, I don't know about cable, but this is the way DSL works. 90%+ of the issues

Re: Opinion request about a file server

2009-06-05 Thread David Kelly
On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 03:57:21PM +0300, Valentin Bud wrote: Hello community, I have an old computer (ASRock P4Dual-915GL) with Intel P4 CPU at 3.0Ghz and 2Gb of RAM. I am asking the list maybe is somebody out there with a similar configuration and running FreeBSD on such a system as a

Re: ISP questions

2009-06-05 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Steve Bertrand st...@ibctech.ca: [snip] Disclaimer: I work as a network engineer at a small ISP. From time to time, I still have to answer the phone every once in a while (unfortunately). I do not like dealing directly with users. Most of them complain, bitch and snivel and

Re: Getting old versions of FreeBSD

2009-06-05 Thread Valentin Bud
On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 4:22 PM, Frederique Rijsdijk frederi...@isafeelin.org wrote: Hi, For some 'issue' I have to install an old version FreeBSD: 4.7-p28. The ISO of 4.7 I have found, but how to get to p28? Thanks, -- Frederique ___

Re: Getting old versions of FreeBSD

2009-06-05 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Frederique Rijsdijk frederi...@isafeelin.org: For some 'issue' I have to install an old version FreeBSD: 4.7-p28. The ISO of 4.7 I have found, but how to get to p28? That code is still in the version control system, all you need to do is configure cvsup to fetch it and rebuild

Re: ISP questions

2009-06-05 Thread Steve Bertrand
Bill Moran wrote: In response to Steve Bertrand st...@ibctech.ca: [snip] Disclaimer: I work as a network engineer at a small ISP. From time to time, I still have to answer the phone every once in a while (unfortunately). I do not like dealing directly with users. Most of them complain,

Re: ISP questions

2009-06-05 Thread Reid Linnemann
Written by Steve Bertrand on 06/05/09 08:43 Despite frustrations try to remember, it's not the tech support people's fault. They're just there 8-5 trying to make rent and pay for their kids dental. If you want to blame somebody, blame management. The tech support people do what they are told

Re: Date representation as YY/DDD or YYYY/DDD

2009-06-05 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Thursday 04 June 2009 04:17:56 pm Chris Rees wrote: Info is horrible to use as a quick reference, because as Polytropon said earlier, you can't just dive in to get something specific. The info is split into (arbitrary) sections, through which you have to tread, and jump around

D'oh! was Re: Named ignoring forward-only zones?

2009-06-05 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Thursday 04 June 2009 11:53:38 am Kirk Strauser wrote: For some reason, BIND 9 (FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE) isn't properly forwarding queries. Commenting out // zone 10.in-addr.arpa { type master; file master/empty.db; }; from named.conf fixed the problem. That's kind of... embarrassing. --

offer laptop accessory Code:241

2009-06-05 Thread Bill luo
To: Purchase Dept I am very happy to know you from website http://www.freebsd.org that you are doing business of laptop parts. This is Bill from HongKong Flier Developers Co.,Limited, a reputed supplier of laptop battery. Besides replacement laptop battery, we also have a wide and stable source

Re: phidgets for FreeBSD?

2009-06-05 Thread Ian Smith
On Wed, 3 Jun 2009 15:07:53 +0300 Ghirai ghi...@ghirai.com wrote: Is there any (native) FreeBSD supoprt for Phidgets (http://www.phidgets.com? Someone seems to have attempted (and succeeded) to run things on 7.0, some time ago, but there doesn't seem to be any further info

Re: The quest for linux-oracle-instantclient-sqlplus

2009-06-05 Thread Martin McCormick
Michael Powell writes: This is one of the worst I have seen to date. Click here: Copy to /usr/ports/distfiles/oracle/ directory. Good luck to you. It worked beautifully but there is the following dependency requiring yet another trip to the same well: I sure hope this is it. Due to

RE: The quest for linux-oracle-instantclient-sqlplus

2009-06-05 Thread Gary Gatten
Can you record your horse-shoe tying prowess and post on uTub3? -Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Martin McCormick Sent: Friday, June 05, 2009 10:24 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: The

GCC/GCJ and pdftk

2009-06-05 Thread Joe Auty
Hello, I'm a little confused. I need pdftk to compile on an amd64 system, and see in the pdftk Makefile the following: # gcj/libgcj don't exist on these platforms NOT_FOR_ARCHS= amd64 ia64 sparc64 However, I've also read in the pdftk port logs that gcj is included in GCC 3.4+ when

Re: Opinion request about a file server

2009-06-05 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I have an old computer (ASRock P4Dual-915GL) with Intel P4 CPU at 3.0Ghz and 2Gb of RAM. this is not old - very powerfull machine. I am asking the list maybe is somebody out there with a similar configuration and running FreeBSD on such a system as a File Server and Print Server using samba.

Re: ISP questions

2009-06-05 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Well, I don't know about cable, but this is the way DSL works. 90%+ of the issues with DSL are due to the modem losing connectivity overnight, so a reboot is the quickest and easiest method of troubleshooting. i don't remember now what brand of modem i have (i'm not in place) from Polish

Re: ISP questions

2009-06-05 Thread Wojciech Puchar
You are absolutely right, and I'm glad you pointed that out. Even I will admit to not minding hanging on the phone a few extra minutes with a calm, polite user (no matter how 'green' they are) if they do what I say (without click-click-clicking in the background) throughout the troubleshooting

Re: ISP questions

2009-06-05 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I did the support gig for the better part of two years when I started school. It was difficult, especially when the people that were frustrated, angry, and determined to take it out on me had broken or ancient hardware and lived out in the boondocks where audible crackling Just put the earphone

Re: openoffice.org-3 compiling issue

2009-06-05 Thread Jason Helfman
On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 08:33:22AM +0300, Manolis Kiagias thus spake: Jason wrote: Hello, Newbie to FreeBSD here, however I have been studying like a madman, running it on my desktop, and administering systems on a daily basis so I've learned quiet a bit recently. I am trying to install

Re: Date representation as YY/DDD or YYYY/DDD

2009-06-05 Thread Chris Rees
2009/6/5 Kirk Strauser k...@strauser.com: On Thursday 04 June 2009 04:17:56 pm Chris Rees wrote: Info is horrible to use as a quick reference, because as Polytropon said earlier, you can't just dive in to get something specific. The info is split into (arbitrary) sections, through which

Re: Opinion request about a file server

2009-06-05 Thread Chris Rees
2009/6/5 Valentin Bud valentin@gmail.com: Hello community,  I have an old computer (ASRock P4Dual-915GL) with Intel P4 CPU at 3.0Ghz and 2Gb of RAM.  I am asking the list maybe is somebody out there with a similar configuration and running FreeBSD on such a system as a File Server and

Re: GCC/GCJ and pdftk

2009-06-05 Thread Greg Larkin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Joe Auty wrote: Hello, I'm a little confused. I need pdftk to compile on an amd64 system, and see in the pdftk Makefile the following: # gcj/libgcj don't exist on these platforms NOT_FOR_ARCHS= amd64 ia64 sparc64 However, I've also read

What is the equivalent of Linux command 'ps --forest'?

2009-06-05 Thread Yuri
How can I see processes in a hierarchical way? Yuri ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: Wireless Woes (NDIS, WPA2)

2009-06-05 Thread Gene
On Thu, 4 Jun 2009 23:18:42 +, Paul B. Mahol wrote On 6/4/09, Gene f...@brightstar.bomgardner.net wrote: Hi All: I'm trying to get wireless working on a laptop. It works fine as long as no encryption is used, but if I try to use either WEP or WPA2, I ueem to always wind up with

Re: Date representation as YY/DDD or YYYY/DDD

2009-06-05 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Friday 05 June 2009 11:50:58 am Chris Rees wrote: Is there a 'quick' way to use emacs instead of info? Like info-emacs topic? Not that I know of. :-/ I've remembered why I hate the info browser so much; it reminds me of the 'help' included with MS-DOS 6.22. Anyone remember that? Ouch.

Re: What is the equivalent of Linux command 'ps --forest'?

2009-06-05 Thread Paul B. Mahol
On 6/5/09, Yuri y...@rawbw.com wrote: How can I see processes in a hierarchical way? http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/svn-src-head/2009-May/006912.html or pstree from ports. -- Paul ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Opinion request about a file server

2009-06-05 Thread David Kelly
On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 06:16:49PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote: What i mainly try to achieve, talking in storage space, is 2 HDD of 1TB in mirroring using gmirror(8) and 1 separate HDD of 500Gb. So do you think the system I've mentioned would handle the load? The server 10 times more

Re: Open_Source

2009-06-05 Thread Chad Perrin
On Tue, Jun 02, 2009 at 07:59:55PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote: other programs i have on disk, my addressbook etc. YES!This is the biggest of the three things I have against MS and one of the main reasons for using FreeBSD and other Open Source software as much as possible. I think

Re: Open_Source

2009-06-05 Thread Chad Perrin
On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 12:49:14AM +0100, Bruce Cran wrote: On Tue, 2 Jun 2009 17:59:51 +0200 (CEST) Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: I would add - with Open Source add it's far smaller (actually close to zero) probability that it doesn't do anything except it's

Re: Open_Source

2009-06-05 Thread Chad Perrin
On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 08:49:50AM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote: but it's at least much more difficult. And - my other rule fits very well here. Avoid OVERCOMPLEX programs. I tend to agree with this take on things, and I follow a similar philosophy of software choice. Slight tangent, and

Are there any fonts I can install to see Mandarin words in the console (non-X)?

2009-06-05 Thread Yuri
In KDE4 Mandarin is displayed correctly everywhere. But in console there are question marks. Yuri ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Re: ISP questions

2009-06-05 Thread Karl Vogel
On Fri, 05 Jun 2009 09:43:17 -0400, Steve Bertrand st...@ibctech.ca said: S If you've ever had a job in which every single incoming call is someone S who is frustrated, angry and is going to take it out on *you*, it might S be understandable why the tech support call centre business is like an

Re: Open_Source

2009-06-05 Thread Paul B. Mahol
On 6/5/09, Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 08:49:50AM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote: but it's at least much more difficult. And - my other rule fits very well here. Avoid OVERCOMPLEX programs. I tend to agree with this take on things, and I follow a similar

Re: Open_Source

2009-06-05 Thread Chad Perrin
On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 08:32:38PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote: Everyone can find them and fix, but at the same time everyone can find them and use them. With closed source both are more difficult. That's not strictly true. In general, it's easier to discover vulnerabilities through

Re: Open_Source

2009-06-05 Thread Chad Perrin
On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 06:50:39PM +0200, Polytropon wrote: A counter-example is VMS. It is a commercial product, but highly reliable and secure. It's also a much *simpler* piece of software than something like MS Windows, which makes it much easier to secure. That's just one more thing

Re: ISP questions

2009-06-05 Thread Wojciech Puchar
S months. I've been at a US Air Force MIS helpdesk since Sept 1988. I wrote an article about some of my favorite tools, and as an aside I mentioned my time working in IT support. My favorite article comment: If I'm still doing this in 21 years, someone please write a program to

Re: Open_Source

2009-06-05 Thread Chad Perrin
On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 04:06:18PM -0500, Gary Gatten wrote: Whatever happened to BeOS? Be went out of business. There have been a couple of clone projects to spring up since then. As mentioned, there's Haiku, the heir apparent to BeOS at this point. -- Chad Perrin [ original content

Re: Opinion request about a file server

2009-06-05 Thread Wojciech Puchar
10 times more power than needed. disks speed is the only limit I have a P-II at 400 MHz running as a file server. See about 5 MB/sec on it depends from both sides ability, but pentium 100 with SDRAM memory can saturate 100Mbit/s network running FreeBSD 6.2

Re: Open_Source

2009-06-05 Thread Chad Perrin
On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 09:50:24PM +0100, Chris Rees wrote: 2009/6/3 Roland Smith rsm...@xs4all.nl: On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 09:35:31PM +0200, Polytropon wrote: On Wed, 3 Jun 2009 13:46:15 -0500, Gary Gatten ggat...@waddell.com wrote: Isn't there an OpenVMS somewhere? There is an

Re: Open_Source

2009-06-05 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Slight tangent, and you may have mentioned it before: What window manager do you use? fvwm2, BUT not because i like it's tools and widgets, but because all of them can be easily turned off :) My configuration strips everything possible including window titles and borders, window moving and

Re: Open_Source

2009-06-05 Thread Wojciech Puchar
A counter-example is VMS. It is a commercial product, but highly reliable and secure. It's also a much *simpler* piece of software than something like MS Windows, which makes it much easier to secure. you meant more logical? It's really hard to take care of software product that looks like

Re: Open_Source

2009-06-05 Thread Wojciech Puchar
The OZONE OS [http://www.o3one.org/] uses a lot of VMS concepts. I just LOVE the webpage. The kind of one I'd make in my spare time... That's horrifying. Remind me to never visit one of your Webpages. Luckily, I can touch-type, because the temporary blindness induced by that site when the

Re: Open_Source

2009-06-05 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 11:46:21AM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: The links browser's interface is crap, as is that of every other text console based browser I've ever encountered. Moving around within a page and selecting a link are two tasks for which text console based browsers have not

Re: Can a Bourn Shell Script put itself in the background?

2009-06-05 Thread Chad Perrin
On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 09:29:30AM -0700, Nerius Landys wrote: Just a thought, you can use the screen utility depending on what you are trying to do. For example if you want to start a job, long out of the machine completely, and then return to your job to see how it's running, you may choose

Re: Opinion request about a file server

2009-06-05 Thread Michael Powell
Valentin Bud wrote: Hello community, I have an old computer (ASRock P4Dual-915GL) with Intel P4 CPU at 3.0Ghz and 2Gb of RAM. I am asking the list maybe is somebody out there with a similar configuration and running FreeBSD on such a system as a File Server and Print Server using

Re: Opinion request about a file server

2009-06-05 Thread Wojciech Puchar
This is one place where FreeBSD is very good. It will give you performance on slightly downlevel hardware that Windows Server just can't touch. is really pentium 4 downlevel hardware? sound like a joke to me. i made all-need server for small office (8 people) using PIII/500 and 384 MB RAM. i

Re: Opinion request about a file server

2009-06-05 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Wojciech Puchar wrote: This is one place where FreeBSD is very good. It will give you performance on slightly downlevel hardware that Windows Server just can't touch. is really pentium 4 downlevel hardware? sound like a joke to me. Not really. But considering how everyone is buying Core

Re: Open_Source

2009-06-05 Thread Chris Rees
2009/6/5 Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com: On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 09:50:24PM +0100, Chris Rees wrote: 2009/6/3 Roland Smith rsm...@xs4all.nl: On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 09:35:31PM +0200, Polytropon wrote: On Wed, 3 Jun 2009 13:46:15 -0500, Gary Gatten ggat...@waddell.com wrote: Isn't

Re: Date representation as YY/DDD or YYYY/DDD

2009-06-05 Thread Chris Rees
2009/6/5 Kirk Strauser k...@strauser.com: On Friday 05 June 2009 11:50:58 am Chris Rees wrote: Is there a 'quick' way to use emacs instead of info? Like info-emacs topic? Not that I know of.  :-/ I've remembered why I hate the info browser so much; it reminds me of the 'help' included with

Re: Date representation as YY/DDD or YYYY/DDD

2009-06-05 Thread Kurt Buff
On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 13:23, Chris Rees utis...@googlemail.com wrote: 2009/6/5 Kirk Strauser k...@strauser.com: On Friday 05 June 2009 11:50:58 am Chris Rees wrote: Is there a 'quick' way to use emacs instead of info? Like info-emacs topic? Not that I know of.  :-/ I've remembered why I

Re: Date representation as YY/DDD or YYYY/DDD

2009-06-05 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 09:23:06PM +0100, Chris Rees wrote: Seriously, why are long options encouraged? Some programs simply have a lot of options, and after a dozen or so, a single letter loses its mnemonic value. X applications have been using long options for 20 years - long enough to get

Re: Opinion request about a file server

2009-06-05 Thread Michael Powell
Wojciech Puchar wrote: This is one place where FreeBSD is very good. It will give you performance on slightly downlevel hardware that Windows Server just can't touch. is really pentium 4 downlevel hardware? sound like a joke to me. Sorry - it wasn't really intended that way. Please note

Re: Opinion request about a file server

2009-06-05 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Sorry - it wasn't really intended that way. Please note that slightly downlevel... was meant to refer to a combination of older Netburst architecture and consumer retail motherboard. The Core Xeons that replaced the old Netburst processors are much better performers. In a true datacenter server

Re: Date representation as YY/DDD or YYYY/DDD

2009-06-05 Thread Wojciech Puchar
GNU recommended: $ tar --extract --verbose --gunzip --file bluurgh.tgz Seriously, why are long options encouraged? there are people that like to write a lot? ;) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

RegEx

2009-06-05 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, Does anyone know of a current mailing list that discusses regular expressions? I have Googled a number of time, but everything I find is old. Specifically, I am looking for a modification to this per code: #!/usr/local/bin/perl ... my $iframeexp=[\IFRAMEiframe

Re: Opinion request about a file server

2009-06-05 Thread Wojciech Puchar
is really pentium 4 downlevel hardware? sound like a joke to me. Not really. But considering how everyone is buying Core Duos and quads these days, you can get decent P4s for free. could you please tell me where i can get P4 machine for free? :)

Re: Date representation as YY/DDD or YYYY/DDD

2009-06-05 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 10:49:19PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote: GNU recommended: $ tar --extract --verbose --gunzip --file bluurgh.tgz Seriously, why are long options encouraged? there are people that like to write a lot? ;) no..., otherwise the people generating this thread would cite

Re: Date representation as YY/DDD or YYYY/DDD

2009-06-05 Thread Chris Rees
2009/6/5 Thomas Dickey dic...@radix.net: On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 10:49:19PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote: GNU recommended: $ tar --extract --verbose --gunzip --file bluurgh.tgz Seriously, why are long options encouraged? there are people that like to write a lot? ;) no..., otherwise

Re: Opinion request about a file server

2009-06-05 Thread Gabriel Lavoie
I think my file/print/mail server is a bit overkill: http://w3.mutehq.net:8008/sysinfo/ 2009/6/5 Valentin Bud valentin@gmail.com: Hello community,  I have an old computer (ASRock P4Dual-915GL) with Intel P4 CPU at 3.0Ghz and 2Gb of RAM.  I am asking the list maybe is somebody out there

Re: Opinion request about a file server

2009-06-05 Thread Chris Rees
2009/6/5 Gabriel Lavoie glav...@gmail.com: I think my file/print/mail server is a bit overkill: http://w3.mutehq.net:8008/sysinfo/ What a waste... How much power does that chug?? Chris -- A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad

Re: Date representation as YY/DDD or YYYY/DDD

2009-06-05 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 10:11:00PM +0100, Chris Rees wrote: The point I was trying to make (badly), was that long options are a PITA to type. I don't believe it's any easier to learn the long names for options than the short ones. Since you're typing huge amounts of text quickly, you're more

Re: RegEx

2009-06-05 Thread Lars Eighner
On Fri, 5 Jun 2009, Grant Peel wrote: Hi all, Does anyone know of a current mailing list that discusses regular expressions? No. Well I don't anyway. I have Googled a number of time, but everything I find is old. Sometimes the old stuff is best. If you had googled very much you should

GCC/GCJ and pdftk

2009-06-05 Thread Joe Auty
Hello, I'm a little confused. I need pdftk to compile on an amd64 system, and see in the pdftk Makefile the following: # gcj/libgcj don't exist on these platforms NOT_FOR_ARCHS= amd64 ia64 sparc64 However, I've also read in the pdftk port logs that gcj is included in GCC 3.4+ when

Re: Opinion request about a file server

2009-06-05 Thread Gabriel Lavoie
Much less than a Pentium 4! Exactly I don't know. This server is a normal PC with a 380W PSU (still too much for the hardware). The funny thing is that the CPU in it (Pentium Dual Core E5200 45nm) is supposed to draw under 4W of power when idle with EIST enabled. This power draw on Intel 45nm CPUs

Re: Opinion request about a file server

2009-06-05 Thread Tim Judd
On 6/5/09, Gabriel Lavoie glav...@gmail.com wrote: Much less than a Pentium 4! Exactly I don't know. This server is a normal PC with a 380W PSU (still too much for the hardware). The funny thing is that the CPU in it (Pentium Dual Core E5200 45nm) is supposed to draw under 4W of power when

Re: What's wrong with this picture?

2009-06-05 Thread Paul Chvostek
Ian, On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 04:00:40PM +1000, Ian Smith wrote: Woj, 20 out of 36 messages, over 55% of all these messages, are by you. ... You are equally as capable in this role as wannabe list wrecker, opining on every second message including all the silly wildly off-topic ones. If you

Re: phidgets for FreeBSD?

2009-06-05 Thread Brooks Davis
On Sat, Jun 06, 2009 at 01:25:09AM +1000, Ian Smith wrote: On Wed, 3 Jun 2009 15:07:53 +0300 Ghirai ghi...@ghirai.com wrote: Is there any (native) FreeBSD supoprt for Phidgets (http://www.phidgets.com? Someone seems to have attempted (and succeeded) to run things on 7.0, some time

Re: Can a Bourn Shell Script put itself in the background?

2009-06-05 Thread relay.lists
= #!/bin/bash # This script will sleep # 50 times for 1 second in # the background main() { for ((i=0 ; i=50 ;i++)) do sleep 1 let i++ done } main # EOF == -- Best regards, Daniel

Re: Opinion request about a file server

2009-06-05 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Much less than a Pentium 4! Exactly I don't know. This server is a normal PC with a 380W PSU (still too much for the hardware). The funny thing is that the CPU in it (Pentium Dual Core E5200 45nm) is supposed to draw under 4W of power when idle with EIST enabled. This power draw unless CPU are

Re: Can a Bourn Shell Script put itself in the background?

2009-06-05 Thread Karl Vogel
On Fri, 5 Jun 2009 13:02:00 -0600, Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com said: C I got the impression this question was about a script backgrounding itself, C though -- possibly creating a daemon using bash. Same here. This seems a bit slimy, but it works (assuming you don't already have an

Re: named: error sending response: not enough free resources

2009-06-05 Thread Chris St Denis
Steve Bertrand wrote: Chris St Denis wrote: Steve Bertrand wrote: What type of device is em1 attached to? Is it a switch or a hub? Is it possible to upgrade this? You should upgrade it to 100 (or 1000) anyways. Does this device show any collisions? This is a dedicated

Re: Open_Source

2009-06-05 Thread Chad Perrin
On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 08:22:48PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote: That's horrifying. Remind me to never visit one of your Webpages. Luckily, I can touch-type, because the temporary blindness induced by that site when the bright yellow irradiated my retinas still hasn't entirely faded.

Re: Open_Source

2009-06-05 Thread Chad Perrin
On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 09:17:17PM +0100, Chris Rees wrote: 2009/6/5 Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com: That's horrifying.  Remind me to never visit one of your Webpages. Luckily, I can touch-type, because the temporary blindness induced by that site when the bright yellow irradiated my

Re: GCC/GCJ and pdftk

2009-06-05 Thread Greg Larkin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Greg Larkin wrote: Joe Auty wrote: Hello, I'm a little confused. I need pdftk to compile on an amd64 system, and see in the pdftk Makefile the following: # gcj/libgcj don't exist on these platforms NOT_FOR_ARCHS= amd64 ia64 sparc64

Re: Open_Source

2009-06-05 Thread Chad Perrin
On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 08:20:24PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote: Slight tangent, and you may have mentioned it before: What window manager do you use? fvwm2, BUT not because i like it's tools and widgets, but because all of them can be easily turned off :) My configuration strips

Re: Open_Source

2009-06-05 Thread Chad Perrin
On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 02:33:28PM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote: On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 11:46:21AM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: The links browser's interface is crap, as is that of every other text console based browser I've ever encountered. Moving around within a page and selecting a link

Re: named: error sending response: not enough free resources

2009-06-05 Thread Wojciech Puchar
This is a dedicated server in a datacenter. I don't know the exact switch specs but it's likely a layer 2/3 managed switch. Probably a 1U catalyst. you mean cisco? there are actually most problematic switches. They don't properly autonegotiate speed and full/half duplex with many network

Re: Opinion request about a file server

2009-06-05 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Sat, Jun 06, 2009 at 12:43:23AM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote: Much less than a Pentium 4! Exactly I don't know. This server is a normal PC with a 380W PSU (still too much for the hardware). The funny thing is that the CPU in it (Pentium Dual Core E5200 45nm) is supposed to draw under 4W

Re: GCC/GCJ and pdftk

2009-06-05 Thread bf
I need pdftk to compile on an amd64 system, and see in the pdftk Makefile the following: # gcj/libgcj don't exist on these platforms NOT_FOR_ARCHS= amd64 ia64 sparc64 NOT_FOR_ARCHS is _usually_ there for a reason. In this case, it's because the lang/gcc4* maintainer hasn't devised a way

Re: Opinion request about a file server

2009-06-05 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Not counting the CPU and its power circuitry, I would be very suprised if the other components on a normal motherboard pulled as much as half of that even when under load. In fact a typical modern desktop computer will, when idle, draw less than 100W for the whole system. It is not even

Re: Opinion request about a file server

2009-06-05 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Sat, Jun 06, 2009 at 01:31:16AM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote: Not counting the CPU and its power circuitry, I would be very suprised if the other components on a normal motherboard pulled as much as half of that even when under load. In fact a typical modern desktop computer will,

Installing latest version of LaTeX

2009-06-05 Thread Daniel Underwood
I added the winefish package (LaTeX editor) and installed the print/latex port. During the installation/building of the latex port, I received a message that the version being installed was over 5 years old. When I tried to add latex via pkg_add, I had no success (I assumed the package was named

Re: Installing latest version of LaTeX

2009-06-05 Thread bf
MY QUESTION: Please help me to install the newest version of latex. I'm using 7.2-RELEASE. Install the latest version available in FreeBSD Ports, which is in print/teTeX. If your program still doesn't function properly, then you're probably have to install a more recent version of TeX Live (

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