Re: No floppy-images for FreeBSD 8.0 installation anymore?

2010-02-09 Thread Aiza
herbert langhans writes: I cannot boot this computer from the SCSI-CD drives. Is there any chance to get 8.0 for floppies? I do not believe there are (by default) floppies for 8.0; whether this is new for this release of not I cannot say. Is the machine modern enough it could bo

Re: FBSD 8.0 littering the filesystem with *.gmon files

2010-02-09 Thread Tim Daneliuk
On 2/9/2010 11:57 PM, Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (Feb 09), Tim Daneliuk said: >> I realize that developers find these helpful, but is there a way to >> suppress the creation of these files all over the filesystem? > > You must have enabled profiling in CFLAGS somewhere; it's not on by

Re: FBSD 8.0 littering the filesystem with *.gmon files

2010-02-09 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Feb 09), Tim Daneliuk said: > I realize that developers find these helpful, but is there a way to > suppress the creation of these files all over the filesystem? You must have enabled profiling in CFLAGS somewhere; it's not on by default. Search for "-p" or "-pg" in /etc/make

FBSD 8.0 littering the filesystem with *.gmon files

2010-02-09 Thread Tim Daneliuk
I realize that developers find these helpful, but is there a way to suppress the creation of these files all over the filesystem? -- Tim Daneliuk tun...@tundraware.com PGP Key: http://www.tundraware.com/PGP/

Re: curl question - not exactly on-topic

2010-02-09 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Feb 09), Kurt Buff said: > Actually, it's not merely a curl question, it's a "curl and squid" > question. > > I'm trying to determine the cause of a major slowdown in web browsing on > our network, so I've put curl on the squid box, and am using the following > incantations to

Re: sftp from home wireless box to work - get is much faster that put

2010-02-09 Thread Richard Mahlerwein
>From: Anton Shterenlikht >To: Vincent Hoffman >Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >Sent: Tue, February 9, 2010 5:38:25 PM >Subject: Re: sftp from home wireless box to work - get is much faster that put > >On Tue, Feb 09, 2010 at 11:24:48PM +, Vincent Hoffman wrote: >> On 09/02/2010 23:16, An

Re: problem with `find -delete`

2010-02-09 Thread Jason
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 02:51:52AM +0100, Alexander Best thus spake: hi there, i've been trying to delete all the works directories in my ports dir. this is the command i'm trying to use: sudo /usr/bin/find /usr/ports -name work -depth 3 -type d -delete after i issue the command however sudo

Re: Problem building GCC - Postfix install from ports failed

2010-02-09 Thread Danny Edge
On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 5:09 PM, Adam Vande More wrote: > On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 3:59 PM, Danny Edge wrote: > >> I was advised to try this again. New install FreeBSD 7.2 R, installing >> Postfix from cd /usr/ports/mail/postfix && make install clean >> >> I receive the following error near the end

problem with `find -delete`

2010-02-09 Thread Alexander Best
hi there, i've been trying to delete all the works directories in my ports dir. this is the command i'm trying to use: sudo /usr/bin/find /usr/ports -name work -depth 3 -type d -delete after i issue the command however sudo /usr/bin/find /usr/ports -name work -depth 3 -type d tells me that not

curl question - not exactly on-topic

2010-02-09 Thread Kurt Buff
Actually, it's not merely a curl question, it's a "curl and squid" question. I'm trying to determine the cause of a major slowdown in web browsing on our network, so I've put curl on the squid box, and am using the following incantations to see if I can determine the cause of the slowdown: c

Re: display and manipulate math symbols?

2010-02-09 Thread Warren Block
On Tue, 9 Feb 2010, Gary Kline wrote: On Tue, Feb 09, 2010 at 10:55:34PM +0100, Polytropon wrote: On Tue, 9 Feb 2010 21:04:41 +0100, Ond??ej Majerech wrote: As I guess the main reason for wanting to move symbols around visually is so that you don't have to remember tons of TeX sequences, this

Re: xorgconfig missing FBD_8

2010-02-09 Thread Warren Block
On Tue, 9 Feb 2010, Steve Franks wrote: HAL & DBUS are evil bloated hogs. mount always worked fine for me. (Mount?) Of course dbus and hal aren't required. I think if you locate the section in /usr/ports/UPDATING that mentions "AllowEmptyInput" you may find the fix you are looking for. A

Re: sftp from home wireless box to work - get is much faster that put

2010-02-09 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Tue, Feb 09, 2010 at 11:24:48PM +, Vincent Hoffman wrote: > On 09/02/2010 23:16, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > > I was trying to measure the file transfer > > rates between my home and my office boxes. > > Both are 9.0-current. > > > > At home I've wireless, TL-WN851N, using ath(4) driver. > >

Re: sftp from home wireless box to work - get is much faster that put

2010-02-09 Thread Vincent Hoffman
On 09/02/2010 23:16, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > I was trying to measure the file transfer > rates between my home and my office boxes. > Both are 9.0-current. > > At home I've wireless, TL-WN851N, using ath(4) driver. > > I used sftp(1), which I launch from the home box. > > I made files sized 10M

sftp from home wireless box to work - get is much faster that put

2010-02-09 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
I was trying to measure the file transfer rates between my home and my office boxes. Both are 9.0-current. At home I've wireless, TL-WN851N, using ath(4) driver. I used sftp(1), which I launch from the home box. I made files sized 10MB, 100MB and 1GB via dd if=/dev/zero of=/home/mexas/1gb bs=1m

Re: display and manipulate math symbols?

2010-02-09 Thread Gary Kline
On Tue, Feb 09, 2010 at 10:55:34PM +0100, Polytropon wrote: > On Tue, 9 Feb 2010 21:04:41 +0100, Ond??ej Majerech > wrote: > > As I guess the main reason for wanting to move symbols around visually > > is so that you don't have to remember tons of TeX sequences, this > > could be rather helpful.

Re: net/samba34: after upgrade from samba33 -> samba34 no client can connect to samba34-server anymore!

2010-02-09 Thread O. Hartmann
On 02/09/10 11:00, tequ...@frogmi.net wrote: Am Mon, 08 Feb 2010 11:43:12 + schrieb "O. Hartmann": I have no idea what's going wrong. The authentication is done via LDAP. Using samab33 works without problem. did you use "smbpasswd -w ..." to store the ldap password? i realized that this i

openal-soft

2010-02-09 Thread ajtiM
I had mplayer installed and I have also option Enable OpenAL sound support checked. I did as UPDATING says and everything were look okay but when I update (big update) the system "mplayer" complain that cannot install openALL because openal-soft is installed. I went bacjk to the openALL and it

Re: display and manipulate math symbols?

2010-02-09 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 9 Feb 2010 21:04:41 +0100, Ondřej Majerech wrote: > As I guess the main reason for wanting to move symbols around visually > is so that you don't have to remember tons of TeX sequences, this > could be rather helpful. There was a tool called LyX; I have to admit that I never used it, but

Re: VirtualBox is broken?

2010-02-09 Thread Bernhard Froehlich
On Tue, 09 Feb 2010 21:18:17 +0100, Bernt Hansson wrote: > 2010-02-09 20:16, Yuri: >> Every time I try to run a VM my whole system hangs. This started after >> the resent system/ports update. I even force-recompiled all ports that >> VirtualBox depends on and still have the problem. >> >> Anybody

Re: xorgconfig missing FBD_8

2010-02-09 Thread Adam Vande More
On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 11:34 PM, Tiv wrote: > Hi there --- > > I'm writing this to tell you how much FreeBSD has gone downhill since > version 5.3... > > I don't know who's bright idea it was to remove the xorgcfg and the > xorgconfig programs, > but they should be beaten sensless with an IBM AT

midnight commander

2010-02-09 Thread ajtiM
It was the worse update in my more than two years experience with FreeBSD...uh. Now is almost everything done except Midnight Commander: bs/libmc_la-util.o util.c: In function 'is_printable': util.c:111: error: 'eight_bit_clean' undeclared (first use in this function) util.c:111: error: (Each und

Re: firefox3.6 dumps core - bus error

2010-02-09 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Tue, Feb 09, 2010 at 04:55:09PM -0300, Jorge Medina wrote: > On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 1:15 PM, Anton Shterenlikht > wrote: > > On 9.0-current ia64, firefox-3.6,1: > > > > TZAV> firefox3 & > > [6] 91741 > > TZAV> Bus error (core dumped) > > > > [6]    Exit 138                      firefox3 > > TZ

Re: xorgconfig missing FBD_8

2010-02-09 Thread Steve Franks
On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 10:34 PM, Tiv wrote: > Hi there --- > > I'm writing this to tell you how much FreeBSD has gone downhill since > version 5.3... > > I don't know who's bright idea it was to remove the xorgcfg and the > xorgconfig programs, > but they should be beaten sensless with an IBM AT k

Re: Should root partition be first partition?

2010-02-09 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 8:09 AM -0600 2/8/10, Peter Steele wrote: I've set up a system with gpart and have the swap partition first followed by root, var, and so on. This works fine but I've seen documents that always have root first, then swap. Is there any reason that root should be the first partition or can it

Re: can't make an 'a' slice except with auto-defaults

2010-02-09 Thread Steve Franks
> If you're running into the issue that I think you're running into, > then there is a way to trick sysinstall to do what you want. > > When you ask sysinstall to create that first partition, claim that > you are creating the partition named '/'.  If you do that, it will > put the partition in as "

Re: Max UDP packet size + Java: weirdness

2010-02-09 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Feb 9, 2010, at 12:59 PM, Nerius Landys wrote: >> % sysctl net.inet.udp.maxdgram >> net.inet.udp.maxdgram: 9216 >> >> However, increasing it will guarantee that you will exceed even normal jumbo >> frame size and thus depend upon IP fragmentation / reassembly for the >> traffic. I don't cons

Re: can't make an 'a' slice except with auto-defaults

2010-02-09 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 7:59 PM -0700 2/2/10, Steve Franks wrote: On a running system. I mean, I know I should quit being a &%^#& and read the manpage for bsdlabel, but sysintall really does have a nice tui.'C'reate slice goes straight to 'd', even on a 'fresh' disk. I see in the handbook, this is alluded to, bu

Re: Max UDP packet size + Java: weirdness

2010-02-09 Thread Nerius Landys
> You've encountered: > > % sysctl net.inet.udp.maxdgram > net.inet.udp.maxdgram: 9216 > > However, increasing it will guarantee that you will exceed even normal jumbo > frame size and thus depend upon IP fragmentation / reassembly for the > traffic. I don't consider that to be a good idea, but

Re: Max UDP packet size + Java: weirdness

2010-02-09 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Feb 9, 2010, at 12:41 PM, Nerius Landys wrote: > First, I noticed that I was able to send data that is 9216 in length > between 2 FreeBSD 7.1 hosts ("far apart" in network distance) running > Sun JDK 1.5.0_16-p9 (compiled myself from /usr/ports/java/jdk15). [ ... ] > For my particular applicatio

Max UDP packet size + Java: weirdness

2010-02-09 Thread Nerius Landys
I'm trying to send large UDP packets between 2 programs written in the Java programming language. These 2 programs will be running on 2 different hosts which are far apart. The "test" code for these programs is only a few lines and is here: http://daffy.nerius.com/temp/BigUDPPacketTestClient.j

Re: VirtualBox is broken?

2010-02-09 Thread Yuri
Warren Block wrote: Did you rebuild the kernel module after updating the system? Yes, I rebuilt the module too. Yuri ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

Re: VirtualBox is broken?

2010-02-09 Thread Warren Block
On Tue, 9 Feb 2010, Yuri wrote: Bernt Hansson wrote: I can run the GUI but not load the kernelmodule. I can run GUI and load module, but module seems to crash the system on VM start. Did you rebuild the kernel module after updating the system? -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA

Re: VirtualBox is broken?

2010-02-09 Thread Yuri
Bernt Hansson wrote: I can run the GUI but not load the kernelmodule. I can run GUI and load module, but module seems to crash the system on VM start. Yuri ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/fre

Re: display and manipulate math symbols?

2010-02-09 Thread Ondřej Majerech
On 9 February 2010 20:27, Polytropon wrote: > As you intendedly state that you're not searching for a > solution in the field of typesetting - where LaTeX comes > to mind immediately - I could imagine that you can do it > the hard way. > > First, see the symbols here: > > http://web.ift.uib.no/Fys

Re: firefox3.6 dumps core - bus error

2010-02-09 Thread Jorge Medina
On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 1:15 PM, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > On 9.0-current ia64, firefox-3.6,1: > > TZAV> firefox3 & > [6] 91741 > TZAV> Bus error (core dumped) > > [6]    Exit 138                      firefox3 > TZAV> gdb /usr/local/bin/firefox3 ./firefox-bin.core > GNU gdb 6.1.1 [FreeBSD] > Copy

Re: PASSWORD LOST!!

2010-02-09 Thread Chris Rees
On 9 February 2010 15:59, Mike Jeays wrote: > On February 8, 2010 01:53:22 pm Eric Petersen wrote: >> Hey guys, >> >> I have a web/ftp server loaded with FreeBSD. This was done a couple >> of years back. Since then the person or persons that did the original >> install have gone out of business an

Re: display and manipulate math symbols?

2010-02-09 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 8 Feb 2010 20:40:07 -0800, Gary Kline wrote: > Is there any app or web site where you can select from a bunch of > math symbols and arrange them on-screen? I'm not talking about a > program to solve; just display. And i think you can describe > things in english l

VirtualBox is broken?

2010-02-09 Thread Yuri
Every time I try to run a VM my whole system hangs. This started after the resent system/ports update. I even force-recompiled all ports that VirtualBox depends on and still have the problem. Anybody is able to run vbox? Yuri virtualbox-ose-3.1.2_1 virtualbox-ose-kmod-3.1.2_1 8.0-STABLE _

Re: for vpn connection

2010-02-09 Thread regis505
>The attached configuration files, options.pptpd and pptpd.conf >are the ones I'm using. I used your configuration on 7.2 with some minor adjustments for the path and I get: Warning: Label /etc/ppp/options.pptpd rejected -direct connection: Configuration label not found Any ideas? Reg --

Re: display and manipulate math symbols?

2010-02-09 Thread Gary Kline
On Tue, 2010-02-09 at 07:11 -0600, Jason Aubrey wrote: > On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 6:23 AM, b. f. wrote: > >> Is there any app or web site where you can select from a bunch > >>of math symbols and arrange them on-screen? I'm not talking > >>about a program to solve; just display. And i think you ca

Re: Migrating from ipfw and natd to pf

2010-02-09 Thread RW
On Tue, 9 Feb 2010 10:54:45 -0600 John wrote: > On Tue, Feb 09, 2010 at 03:31:34PM +, RW wrote: > > On Tue, 9 Feb 2010 08:59:07 -0600 > > John wrote: > > > > > Is there a good guide somewhere for migrating from ipfw and natd > > > rules to pf? I had pretty much gotten used to ipfw, and now

Re: No floppy-images for FreeBSD 8.0 installation anymore?

2010-02-09 Thread herbert langhans
Yes, just checked it. There is a 'boot from usb-cdrom' option in the setup. I guess I have to sacrifice a usb-stick for the installation. Will it work this way? This is not yet updated in the the handbook -- but the 8.0-RELEASE-amd64-memstick.img seems to be a file I have to dump on the usb-sti

Re: sysinstall and mfs Great News and another Question

2010-02-09 Thread J65nko
On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 4:41 AM, Martin McCormick wrote: >        I really hate to give up on anything and I finally found > out my problem with getting sysinstall to use the hard drive > rather than garbaging up mfs every time. The problem is not > something you can set in the partition editor or

Re: documentation about enabling IPFW

2010-02-09 Thread Robert Huff
Matthew Seaman writes: > >> Can someone affirmatively verify that this part (30.6.1) of the > >> Handbook is correct? Particularly the last sentence. > >> Quote: > >> > >> IPFW is included in the basic FreeBSD install as a > >> separate run time loadable module. The

Re: for vpn connection

2010-02-09 Thread Bill Campbell
On Tue, Feb 09, 2010, Bill Campbell wrote: >On Mon, Feb 08, 2010, D?nielisz L?szl? wrote: >>hi, > >>i also choose poptop and pptp but i'm still getting errors while >>connecting, would you be so kind to send me some configuration files? > >The attached configuration files, options.pptpd and pptpd.c

Re: documentation about enabling IPFW

2010-02-09 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/02/2010 16:36, Steve Bertrand wrote: > Robert Huff wrote: >> Can someone affirmatively verify that this part (30.6.1) of the >> Handbook is correct? Particularly the last sentence. >> Quote: >> >> IPFW is included in the b

Re: for vpn connection

2010-02-09 Thread Bill Campbell
On Mon, Feb 08, 2010, D?nielisz L?szl? wrote: >hi, >i also choose poptop and pptp but i'm still getting errors while >connecting, would you be so kind to send me some configuration files? The attached configuration files, options.pptpd and pptpd.conf are the ones I'm using. note that the paths f

No floppy-images for FreeBSD 8.0 installation anymore?

2010-02-09 Thread Robert Huff
herbert langhans writes: > I cannot boot this computer from the SCSI-CD drives. Is there any > chance to get 8.0 for floppies? I do not believe there are (by default) floppies for 8.0; whether this is new for this release of not I cannot say. Is the machine modern enough it cou

No floppy-images for FreeBSD 8.0 installation anymore?

2010-02-09 Thread herbert langhans
Hi Daemons, I use to install FreeBSD with the floppies, then choosing the ftp-install. It was quite a while ago I had done so -- but now I see the x.flp images are gone. Or maybe I just havent found them on the ftp-site?? I cannot boot this computer from the SCSI-CD drives. Is there any chan

Re: documentation about enabling IPFW

2010-02-09 Thread Steve Bertrand
Robert Huff wrote: > Can someone affirmatively verify that this part (30.6.1) of the > Handbook is correct? Particularly the last sentence. > Quote: > > IPFW is included in the basic FreeBSD install as a > separate run time loadable module. The system will

documentation about enabling IPFW

2010-02-09 Thread Robert Huff
Can someone affirmatively verify that this part (30.6.1) of the Handbook is correct? Particularly the last sentence. Quote: IPFW is included in the basic FreeBSD install as a separate run time loadable module. The system will dynami

Re: NFSv4: mount -t nsf4 not the same as mount_newnfs?

2010-02-09 Thread Rick Macklem
On Tue, 9 Feb 2010, O. Hartmann wrote: Well, I guess I havn't uderstood everything of NFSv4. The 'concept' of the 'root' is new to me, maybe there are some deeper explanation of the purpose? Are there supposed to be more than one 'root' enries or only one? Only to specify different securi

RE: What is easiest way to build a BSD 8 binary on a BSD 7 box?

2010-02-09 Thread Peter Steele
>I suspect I know the problem. The tool I'm building links with a bunch of >other libraries we've developed, which I didn't write. I only modified the >makefile of my >own code. I'm going to have to tweak the makefiles of a dozen different >library modules. Unfortunately the problem isn't quite

firefox3.6 dumps core - bus error

2010-02-09 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On 9.0-current ia64, firefox-3.6,1: TZAV> firefox3 & [6] 91741 TZAV> Bus error (core dumped) [6]Exit 138 firefox3 TZAV> gdb /usr/local/bin/firefox3 ./firefox-bin.core GNU gdb 6.1.1 [FreeBSD] Copyright 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GDB is free software, covered by th

Re: FreeBSD's UFS vs Ext4

2010-02-09 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Mon, 8 Feb 2010 12:58:07 -0700, Chad Perrin wrote: >On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 03:00:00PM +, Frank Shute wrote: >> >> AFAIK, the system compiler is going to be clang in the future and for >> ports you'll install a compiler from ports. > > Can you provide a URL for some discussion of this? I h

Re: PASSWORD LOST!!

2010-02-09 Thread Mike Jeays
On February 8, 2010 01:53:22 pm Eric Petersen wrote: > Hey guys, > > I have a web/ftp server loaded with FreeBSD. This was done a couple > of years back. Since then the person or persons that did the original > install have gone out of business and cannot be found. > > Currently I have an issue log

Re: display and manipulate math symbols?

2010-02-09 Thread Warren Block
On Tue, 9 Feb 2010, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: Gary Kline wrote: Is there any app or web site where you can select from a bunch of math symbols and arrange them on-screen ... pre-drawn symbols that could be moused around? If not for the WYSIWYG requirement I'd suggest some variant of TeX.

Re: Migrating from ipfw and natd to pf

2010-02-09 Thread RW
On Tue, 9 Feb 2010 08:59:07 -0600 John wrote: > Is there a good guide somewhere for migrating from ipfw and natd rules > to pf? I had pretty much gotten used to ipfw, and now pf seems very > different to use and understand. http://www.openbsd.org/faq/pf/index.html __

Migrating from ipfw and natd to pf

2010-02-09 Thread John
Is there a good guide somewhere for migrating from ipfw and natd rules to pf? I had pretty much gotten used to ipfw, and now pf seems very different to use and understand. -- John Lind j...@starfire.mn.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: display and manipulate math symbols?

2010-02-09 Thread Jason Aubrey
On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 6:23 AM, b. f. wrote: >> Is there any app or web site where you can select from a bunch >>of math symbols and arrange them on-screen?  I'm not talking >>about a program to solve; just display.  And i think you can >>describe things in english like "sqrt(2)" in OOo, and have

Re: MTU, fragmentation and Jumbo Frames question

2010-02-09 Thread Harald Schmalzbauer
Ilya Zhuravlev schrieb am 09.02.2010 13:22 (localtime): On 09.02.2010 20:12, Harald Schmalzbauer wrote: Hello all, I have 3 machines connected to an JumboFrame enabled switch. One FreeBSD 8-stable and two windows machines. I can send echo requests with payload of 8972 between the windows machin

How to run cron scripts (310.locate) in chrooted env.

2010-02-09 Thread Erik Norgaard
Hi: I have a setup with diskless clients mounting /var/diskless/FreeBSD read-only as root file system. How do I configure cron/locate.rc to run on the server such that the locate database is relative to the root for the diskless systems? I could do a chroot and run it within this environmen

Re: MTU, fragmentation and Jumbo Frames question

2010-02-09 Thread Ilya Zhuravlev
On 09.02.2010 20:12, Harald Schmalzbauer wrote: Hello all, I have 3 machines connected to an JumboFrame enabled switch. One FreeBSD 8-stable and two windows machines. I can send echo requests with payload of 8972 between the windows machines, but I don't get an answer from the FreeBSD machine. A

Re: net/samba34: after upgrade from samba33 -> samba34 no client can connect to samba34-server anymore!

2010-02-09 Thread tequnix
Am Mon, 08 Feb 2010 11:43:12 + schrieb "O. Hartmann" : > I have no idea what's going wrong. The authentication is done via > LDAP. Using samab33 works without problem. did you use "smbpasswd -w ..." to store the ldap password? i realized that this is a necessary step when upgrading from samba

Re: display and manipulate math symbols?

2010-02-09 Thread b. f.
> Is there any app or web site where you can select from a bunch >of math symbols and arrange them on-screen? I'm not talking >about a program to solve; just display. And i think you can >describe things in english like "sqrt(2)" in OOo, and have that sq >root sign displayed. Not that either; ra

MTU, fragmentation and Jumbo Frames question

2010-02-09 Thread Harald Schmalzbauer
Hello all, I have 3 machines connected to an JumboFrame enabled switch. One FreeBSD 8-stable and two windows machines. I can send echo requests with payload of 8972 between the windows machines, but I don't get an answer from the FreeBSD machine. At the edge of 8130 bytes, the FreeBSD machine e

Re: display and manipulate math symbols?

2010-02-09 Thread perryh
Gary Kline wrote: > Is there any app or web site where you can select from a bunch of > math symbols and arrange them on-screen ... pre-drawn symbols that > could be moused around? If not for the WYSIWYG requirement I'd suggest some variant of TeX. Based entirely on reputation, I'd think PowerP

Re: FreeBSD's UFS vs Ext4

2010-02-09 Thread George Liaskos
For what is worth these are the results on my Lenovo Thinkpad T500 with zfs. http://global.phoronix-test-suite.com/?k=profile&u=thuglife-5875-16786-4629 > dmesg | grep ada0 ada0 at ahcich0 bus 0 scbus0 target 0 lun 0 ada0: ATA-8 SATA 2.x device ada0: 300.000MB/s transfers (SATA 2.x, UDMA6, PIO s

Re: FreeBSD's UFS vs Ext4

2010-02-09 Thread krad
On 9 February 2010 01:54, J65nko wrote: > On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 5:46 AM, alex wrote: > > > > I do suspect personally that the ext4 filesystem is the reason for the > > difference here, since ext4 has a number of features such as deferred > disk > > writes etc. Even deleting a large file off tha

Re: NFSv4: mount -t nsf4 not the same as mount_newnfs?

2010-02-09 Thread O. Hartmann
On 02/08/10 22:37, Rick Macklem wrote: On Mon, 8 Feb 2010, O. Hartmann wrote: So I guess the above one is the more 'transparent' one with respect to the future, when NFSv4 gets mature and its way as matured into the kernel? Yea, I'd only use "mount -t newnfs" if for some reason you wan

Re: xorgconfig missing FBD_8

2010-02-09 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/02/2010 05:34, Tiv wrote: > Hi there --- > > I'm writing this to tell you how much FreeBSD has gone downhill since > version 5.3... > > I don't know who's bright idea it was to remove the xorgcfg and the > xorgconfig programs, > but they should