Re: Greybeards (Re: Netbooks BSD)

2010-10-21 Thread Chad Perrin
On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 07:25:14PM -0400, Rich Kulawiec wrote: And I'm appalled that my phone has more horsepower than a dual-cpu VAX 11/780 with a floating-point accelerator. That just doesn't seem right. What I find appalling is that most of the extra power on my smartphone is wasted on

Re: Greybeards (Re: Netbooks BSD)

2010-10-21 Thread Arthur Chance
On 10/20/10 23:07, Gary Kline wrote: On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 09:10:28PM +0100, Arthur Chance wrote: On 10/20/10 20:46, Bob Hall wrote: On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 12:07:55PM -0500, Tim Daneliuk wrote: On 10/20/2010 11:55 AM, Gary Kline wrote: On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 12:47:38AM -0700,

Re: Greybeards (Re: Netbooks BSD)

2010-10-21 Thread perryh
Svein Skogen (Listmail account) svein-listm...@tillbilde.net wrote: On 20.10.2010 09:47, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: Matthias Apitz g...@unixarea.de wrote: El d?a Tuesday, October 19, 2010 a las 07:29:46PM -0700, Gary Kline escribi?: PS: I really _was_ current on hardware stuff. Back

Re: Netbooks BSD

2010-10-21 Thread four . harrisons
Sorry for top posting - I'm stuck on my phone. I successfully installed FreeBSD on my Lenovo Ideapad before the memstick image was available by pulling the circuitry guts out of a USB HD and hooking it to a standard internal IDE CD-ROM. Wasn't pretty, but it worked. Best avoiding Ideapads

Re: need help with php.

2010-10-21 Thread four . harrisons
Sorry for top posting - I'm stuck on my phone. Shouldn't that be: use perl; ;-) Peter Harrison www.4harrisons.blogspot.com - From: Alejandro Imass a...@p2ee.org Subject:Re: need help with php. Date: 20th October 2010 21:28 On Wed, Oct 20, 2010

Re: HP METAL FUSER FILM SLEEVE

2010-10-21 Thread JACK
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Re: Greybeards (Re: Netbooks BSD)

2010-10-21 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi, Reference: From: David Brodbeck g...@gull.us Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2010 14:58:40 -0700 Message-id: aanlkti=zo1ojzcqs4xyezvmkonmt6uv_vmqki0hik...@mail.gmail.com David Brodbeck wrote: On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 1:10 PM, Arthur Chance free...@qeng-ho.org wrote: On 10/20/10

Re: Greybeards (Re: Netbooks BSD)

2010-10-21 Thread krad
On 20 October 2010 21:10, Arthur Chance free...@qeng-ho.org wrote: On 10/20/10 20:46, Bob Hall wrote: On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 12:07:55PM -0500, Tim Daneliuk wrote: On 10/20/2010 11:55 AM, Gary Kline wrote: On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 12:47:38AM -0700, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: Matthias

How FreeBSD Handles a DNS that is Down

2010-10-21 Thread Martin McCormick
This is an extremely novice question on my part, but after what I recently witnessed, I am not so sure I understand all I know. The normal procedure on internet-connected systems is to set the resolv.conf file to include at least 2 domain name servers. Example: nameserver

Re: Greybeards (Re: Netbooks BSD)

2010-10-21 Thread Robert Bonomi
From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Wed Oct 20 15:04:17 2010 From: Mike Jeays mike.je...@rogers.com To: Bob Hall rjh...@gmail.com, FreeBSD Mailing List freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2010 16:05:34 -0400 Cc: Subject: Re: Greybeards (Re: Netbooks BSD) On

Re: Greybeards (Re: Netbooks BSD)

2010-10-21 Thread Robert Bonomi
From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Thu Oct 21 02:18:28 2010 Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2010 08:20:07 +0100 From: Arthur Chance free...@qeng-ho.org To: FreeBSD-Questions freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Greybeards (Re: Netbooks BSD) On 10/20/10 23:07, Gary Kline wrote: On Wed, Oct

Re: How FreeBSD Handles a DNS that is Down

2010-10-21 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Thursday, October 21, 2010 a las 06:22:15AM -0500, Martin McCormick escribió: This is an extremely novice question on my part, but after what I recently witnessed, I am not so sure I understand all I know. The normal procedure on internet-connected systems is to set the

Re: How FreeBSD Handles a DNS that is Down

2010-10-21 Thread RW
On Thu, 21 Oct 2010 06:22:15 -0500 Martin McCormick mar...@dc.cis.okstate.edu wrote: Last night, I had to take down our primary DNS for maintenance and lots of systems began having trouble of various kinds. While I expected the FreeBSD system I was on to hang for a couple of

Re: Netbooks BSD

2010-10-21 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 20 Oct 2010 14:54:21 -0700, David Brodbeck g...@gull.us wrote: Fortunately, USB mass storage devices are highly standardized. One of the things they got right. Highly, but not fully. In some cases, manufacturers know better and produce memory sticks that don't work on FreeBSD as they

Re: Greybeards (Re: Netbooks BSD)

2010-10-21 Thread RW
On Wed, 20 Oct 2010 21:10:28 +0100 Arthur Chance free...@qeng-ho.org wrote: 50s) had the experience of programming microcode on a machine by inserting brass slugs for 0s and ferrite slugs for 1s on a pin board. I wonder why it was brass/ferrite rather than brass/empty or ferrite/empty.

freeradius snmp support

2010-10-21 Thread Omer Faruk SEN
Hi, I have read in this mailing list that snmp support of freeradius (radiusd) has some issues and it was removed. What is the current (as of 2.1.10) status of snmp support in radiusd? Regards. PS: I may have fully misunderstood this issue because it had been really very long time. I couldn't

Re: Greybeards (Re: Netbooks BSD)

2010-10-21 Thread Arthur Chance
On 10/21/10 13:38, RW wrote: On Wed, 20 Oct 2010 21:10:28 +0100 Arthur Chancefree...@qeng-ho.org wrote: 50s) had the experience of programming microcode on a machine by inserting brass slugs for 0s and ferrite slugs for 1s on a pin board. I wonder why it was brass/ferrite rather than

Re: Greybeards (Re: Netbooks BSD)

2010-10-21 Thread Alex Stangl
On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 01:38:44PM +0100, RW wrote: On Wed, 20 Oct 2010 21:10:28 +0100 Arthur Chance free...@qeng-ho.org wrote: 50s) had the experience of programming microcode on a machine by inserting brass slugs for 0s and ferrite slugs for 1s on a pin board. I wonder why it was

Re: Netbooks BSD

2010-10-21 Thread RW
On Thu, 21 Oct 2010 14:33:46 +0200 Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: I couldn't not format it (it was some FAT format on it) as it detached from the system by itself as soon as accessed. It might just have been faulty. If it couldn't be accessed as a normal device, how would the driver get

Re: need help with php.

2010-10-21 Thread Alejandro Imass
On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 4:53 AM, four.harris...@googlemail.com wrote: Sorry for top posting - I'm stuck on my phone. Shouldn't that be: use perl; That is correct sir! ;-) ;-) Peter Harrison www.4harrisons.blogspot.com ___

Re: Netbooks BSD

2010-10-21 Thread Antonio Olivares
On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 7:33 AM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Wed, 20 Oct 2010 14:54:21 -0700, David Brodbeck g...@gull.us wrote: Fortunately, USB mass storage devices are highly standardized.  One of the things they got right. Highly, but not fully. In some cases, manufacturers know

Re: Netbooks BSD

2010-10-21 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 21 Oct 2010 09:01:56 -0500, Antonio Olivares olivares14...@gmail.com wrote: This is true. I had some problems making a usb mouse work, but I had to manually plug it in to different usb slots till it worked from the start. The keyboard(usb) sometimes takes a while longer to respond

Re: Netbooks BSD

2010-10-21 Thread Lowell Gilbert
David Brodbeck g...@gull.us writes: On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 2:42 PM, Lowell Gilbert freebsd-questions-lo...@be-well.ilk.org wrote: The plug isn't the issue.  Drivers are. Fortunately, USB mass storage devices are highly standardized. One of the things they got right. ATAPI devices passed

Re: Greybeards (Re: Netbooks BSD)

2010-10-21 Thread RW
On Thu, 21 Oct 2010 14:32:23 +0100 Arthur Chance free...@qeng-ho.org wrote: On 10/21/10 13:38, RW wrote: On Wed, 20 Oct 2010 21:10:28 +0100 Arthur Chancefree...@qeng-ho.org wrote: 50s) had the experience of programming microcode on a machine by inserting brass slugs for 0s and

Re: Greybeards (Re: Netbooks BSD)

2010-10-21 Thread Henry Olyer
My first machine was an IBM 1620, but hey, at least we had an actual disk. A couple of 2311's. To quote a fellow I used to consult for, two days' I had solved a particularly nasty programming problem for his company, But what have you done for us lately? On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 10:57 AM, RW

/usr/local/lib/compat and /usr/local/lib/compat/pkg

2010-10-21 Thread Joe Auty
The other night I spent some frustrating time discovering that after updating from 7.2 to 8.1, for some reason some of the libraries in /usr/local/lib/compat/pkg were 32 bit on my 64 bit system which was causing several of my binaries to generate unsupported filesystem layout errors. I ended up

Re: /usr/local/lib/compat and /usr/local/lib/compat/pkg

2010-10-21 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Oct 21), Joe Auty said: The other night I spent some frustrating time discovering that after updating from 7.2 to 8.1, for some reason some of the libraries in /usr/local/lib/compat/pkg were 32 bit on my 64 bit system which was causing several of my binaries to generate

Re: Netbooks BSD

2010-10-21 Thread Jerry
On Thu, 21 Oct 2010 14:33:46 +0200 Polytropon free...@edvax.de articulated: umass0: SanDisk Cruzer Micro, class 0/0, rev 2.00/2.00, addr 2 on uhub2 da0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 da0: SanDisk Cruzer Micro 8.02 Removable Direct Access SCSI-0 device da0: 40.000MB/s transfers da0:

Re: /usr/local/lib/compat and /usr/local/lib/compat/pkg

2010-10-21 Thread Joe Auty
Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Oct 21), Joe Auty said: The other night I spent some frustrating time discovering that after updating from 7.2 to 8.1, for some reason some of the libraries in /usr/local/lib/compat/pkg were 32 bit on my 64 bit system which was causing several of my

Re: Netbooks BSD

2010-10-21 Thread Gary Kline
On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 02:26:36PM -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote: Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2010 14:15:46 -0700 From: Gary Kline kl...@thought.org Sender: owner-freebsd-mob...@freebsd.org On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 11:32:01AM -0700, David Brodbeck wrote: On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 10:32 AM, Gary

Anybody know what causes movie player to return ERR?

2010-10-21 Thread Gary Kline
I don't think this is OS-specific, but this morning I *wasted* a few hours trying to watch a DVD of Dr. Strangelove. I tried to dd the iso into /usr/tmp, but that errored out too. No, I have 0.0 intent of wasting the diskspace on movies, but just wonder if why /dev/dvd and /media fail. Ubuntu.

Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode

2010-10-21 Thread Michael Stellar
Hi, I have got these after running Freebsd 8.1 Release p1 Amd64 for a couple hours, i have done kernel debugging it seems has anything to do with sched_ule? : admin# kgdb kernel.debug /var/crash/vmcore.0 GNU gdb 6.1.1 [FreeBSD] Copyright 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GDB is free

Re: Netbooks BSD

2010-10-21 Thread Ian Smith
On Thu, 21 Oct 2010, Gary Kline wrote: On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 02:26:36PM -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote: Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2010 14:15:46 -0700 From: Gary Kline kl...@thought.org [..] The thing about the memsticks is that on my tower cases, you have to get down and crawl around and