Re: FreeBSD and SSD drives

2011-02-14 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 13 Feb 2011 22:10:47 -0800, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: Chip Camden sterl...@camdensoftware.com wrote: But for users who do not wish to learn anything ... the Microsoft Way fits the bill. ^ Of course. It's his company. But does it fit anyone

Re: how to add a few hundred ip on one interface?

2011-02-14 Thread krad
On 11 February 2011 13:25, Guillermo Fernando Cotone guillermo.cot...@gmail.com wrote: On 02/11/2011 09:55 AM, Vladislav V. Prodan wrote: And this construction work?       ipv4_addrs_ed0=192.0.2.129/27 192.0.2.1-2/28 192.0.2.4-5/28 It would work only if all the IPs were on the same subnet.

Re: CPU heating!

2011-02-14 Thread Chris Rees
On 13 Feb 2011 23:06, Mario Lobo ml...@digiart.art.br wrote: Hi; I am following 8-CURRENT AMD64. I have a Phenom II 955. Up to the 3rd week of January, I had 8-STABLE. Idle CPU temp was 42~44 C (which is already not excellent, i know) and full load would never go above 60 C (compiling VBox

dwm / dmenu advice

2011-02-14 Thread Graham Bentley
Anyone using these two give me some advice? Im trying to launch dmenu with Alt-P and a predefined list of about 6 apps in something like ~/.menu.lst but having a tough time getting this to work. Any tips? http://www.mail-archive.com/dwm@suckless.org/msg00468.html This looked the part but

Re: 64-bit Windows XP NDIS drivers giving missing symbols

2011-02-14 Thread Paul B. Mahol
On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 5:31 AM, Gautham Ganapathy Would these changes be available in 8.2-release? They should be already in 8.2 RC3 (dunno about loader bug). Anyway you always can track FreeBSD STABLE and stable branch of https://github.com/richardpl/NDISulator .

Re: CPU heating!

2011-02-14 Thread Chris Brennan
You need to replace the thermal grease on your processor? It goes hard and loses effectiveness. I recommend Arctic Silver 5. It even comes in this little push-tube applicator with a plunger ... but it works great! Arctic Silver is probably the best their is, highly recommended.

Re: CPU heating!

2011-02-14 Thread Mario Lobo
On Monday 14 February 2011 11:32:18 Chris Brennan wrote: You need to replace the thermal grease on your processor? It goes hard and loses effectiveness. I recommend Arctic Silver 5. It even comes in this little push-tube applicator with a plunger ... but it works great! Arctic Silver is

Upgrading ImageMagick fails 2 of 48 tests

2011-02-14 Thread Mike Clarke
I'm trying to upgrade ImageMagick from 6.6.5.10 to 6.6.6-10 on FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE but 2 tests fail with segmentation faults - validate-formats-in-memory.sh and validate-formats-on-disk.sh. I'll stick with 6.6.5.10 for now but would welcome suggestions on how to deal with this problem

Re: CPU heating!

2011-02-14 Thread Chris Rees
On 14 Feb 2011 15:51, Mario Lobo l...@bsd.com.br wrote: On Monday 14 February 2011 11:32:18 Chris Brennan wrote: You need to replace the thermal grease on your processor? It goes hard and loses effectiveness. I recommend Arctic Silver 5. It even comes in this little push-tube

Please Review, I look forward to your call

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RE: CPU heating!

2011-02-14 Thread Graeme Dargie
-Original Message- From: Chris Rees [mailto:utis...@gmail.com] Sent: 14 February 2011 10:11 To: Mario Lobo Cc: FreeBSD Subject: Re: CPU heating! On 13 Feb 2011 23:06, Mario Lobo ml...@digiart.art.br wrote: Hi; I am following 8-CURRENT AMD64. I have a Phenom II 955. Up to the 3rd

Re: CPU heating!

2011-02-14 Thread Chris Brennan
Sorry to jump in, yes I would agree about Artic Silver 5, while researching the topic of thermal compounds I discovered that it takes approx 200 hours of being used before AS5 will start to operate at its peak. That's only a little over 8 days...

Invitation

2011-02-14 Thread Amanda Bilson
Hello, you have been invited to participate in the tester campaign of the new Dell XPS16 laptop. As a reward for your contribution we are willing to let you keep the testing model. The shipment is at our expense. Follow the link below if you wish to join the tester campaign.

Re: Invitation

2011-02-14 Thread Simon Tibble
On 14/02/11 19:31, Amanda Bilson wrote: Hello, you have been invited to participate in the tester campaign of the new Dell XPS16 laptop. As a reward for your contribution we are willing to let you keep the testing model. The shipment is at our expense. Follow the link below if you

Re: Invitation

2011-02-14 Thread David Kelly
On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 08:54:59PM +, Simon Tibble wrote: Now, see, I can't help thinking that if we all just abandoned money then the motivation for people to do this sort of thing would then disappear - would it not? Without money, how would we keep score to know who is winning? --

Re: Invitation

2011-02-14 Thread Jarrod Slick
On 2/14/11 2:12 PM, David Kelly wrote: On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 08:54:59PM +, Simon Tibble wrote: Now, see, I can't help thinking that if we all just abandoned money then the motivation for people to do this sort of thing would then disappear - would it not? Without money, how would we keep

Re: Invitation

2011-02-14 Thread Chris Brennan
You're back?!? well not for long. Your discussion doesn't pertain to FreeBSD. -- Sent from my Droid On Feb 14, 2011 3:56 PM, Simon Tibble si...@tibble.net wrote: On 14/02/11 19:31, Amanda Bilson wrote: Hello, you have been invited to participate in the tester campaign of the new Dell

Re: Invitation

2011-02-14 Thread Simon Tibble
On 14/02/11 21:12, David Kelly wrote: On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 08:54:59PM +, Simon Tibble wrote: Now, see, I can't help thinking that if we all just abandoned money then the motivation for people to do this sort of thing would then disappear - would it not? Without money, how would we

Re: Invitation

2011-02-14 Thread Simon Tibble
On 14/02/11 21:18, Jarrod Slick wrote: On 2/14/11 2:12 PM, David Kelly wrote: On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 08:54:59PM +, Simon Tibble wrote: Now, see, I can't help thinking that if we all just abandoned money then the motivation for people to do this sort of thing would then disappear - would

Re: Invitation

2011-02-14 Thread ill...@gmail.com
On 14 February 2011 16:58, Simon Tibble si...@tibble.net wrote: Sorry I'm taking up your ever so valuable disk space! That's okay, /dev/null is pretty big. -- -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

script help

2011-02-14 Thread Jack L. Stone
Hello folks: No doubt this will be easy for those with scritping abilities. I have a gazillion files by the same name and each contains the same line requiring the same change. But the problem is that they are in many different directories on a server with numerous domains. While I could handle

Re: script help

2011-02-14 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 04:34:37PM -0600, Jack L. Stone wrote: # find all of the same filenames (copyright.htm) and then replace the year 2010 with 2011 in each file. Once I have a working script, I should be able to add it as a cron job to run on the first day of each new year. The following

Re: script help

2011-02-14 Thread Chip Camden
Quoth Jack L. Stone on Monday, 14 February 2011: Hello folks: No doubt this will be easy for those with scritping abilities. I have a gazillion files by the same name and each contains the same line requiring the same change. But the problem is that they are in many different directories

Re: script help

2011-02-14 Thread Jarrod Slick
On 2/14/11 3:34 PM, Jack L. Stone wrote: Hello folks: No doubt this will be easy for those with scritping abilities. I have a gazillion files by the same name and each contains the same line requiring the same change. But the problem is that they are in many different directories on a server

Re: script help

2011-02-14 Thread Adam Vande More
On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 4:34 PM, Jack L. Stone ja...@sage-american.comwrote: Hello folks: No doubt this will be easy for those with scritping abilities. I have a gazillion files by the same name and each contains the same line requiring the same change. But the problem is that they are in

Re: script help

2011-02-14 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Feb 14, 2011, at 2:34 PM, Jack L. Stone wrote: # find all of the same filenames (copyright.htm) and then replace the year 2010 with 2011 in each file. Once I have a working script, I should be able to add it as a cron job to run on the first day of each new year. find . -name

Re: FreeBSD and SSD drives

2011-02-14 Thread David Brodbeck
On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 10:12 AM, Frank Shute fr...@shute.org.uk wrote: Agreed. I posted my short experience of using an SSD as a workstation drive and I'd be interested in hearing the experience of any other users. Problems? Praise? Let's hear it. While not quite a workstation application, in

Re: FreeBSD and SSD drives

2011-02-14 Thread Chuck Swiger
Hi-- On Feb 14, 2011, at 3:17 PM, David Brodbeck wrote: I would be curious to hear stories from people who actually *have* run into SSD failures related to write limitations. I've heard a lot of speculation but no actual anecdotes. I'm sure they're out there; but I also know people are more

Redux

2011-02-14 Thread Rem P Roberti
I need to ask this question again in the hopes that something will come of it. In the process of going through an update (I finally got that sorted out) all of my partitions were renamed. Here they are: Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on

Re: Invitation

2011-02-14 Thread Chad Perrin
On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 09:47:11PM +, Simon Tibble wrote: On 14/02/11 21:12, David Kelly wrote: On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 08:54:59PM +, Simon Tibble wrote: Now, see, I can't help thinking that if we all just abandoned money then the motivation for people to do this sort of thing

Re: FreeBSD and SSD drives

2011-02-14 Thread Chad Perrin
On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 03:32:30PM -0800, Chuck Swiger wrote: From what I understand (a quick review of wikipedia helps :), modern flash cards are now typically rated for 100K writes, include ECC bits to actually correct or at least detect errors and try to remap bad blocks to unused blocks,

Re: Redux

2011-02-14 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 14 Feb 2011 15:38:28 -0800, Rem P Roberti r...@remdog.net wrote: I need to ask this question again in the hopes that something will come of it. In the process of going through an update (I finally got that sorted out) all of my partitions were renamed. Here they are: Filesystem

Re: Redux

2011-02-14 Thread Rem P Roberti
On Mon, 14 Feb 2011 15:38:28 -0800, Rem P Robertir...@remdog.net wrote: I need to ask this question again in the hopes that something will come of it. In the process of going through an update (I finally got that sorted out) all of my partitions were renamed. Here they are: Filesystem

android

2011-02-14 Thread ajtiM
Hi! I bought HTC Inspire 4G phone and I lie to upload some mp3 files. When I connected a phoe to the USB port I got: da4 at umass-sim1 bus 1 scbus3 target 0 lun 0 da4: HTC Android Phone 0100 Removable Direct Access SCSI-2 device da4: 4 MB/s transfers How can I mount it, please? Thanks in

Re: android

2011-02-14 Thread ill...@gmail.com
On 14 February 2011 20:00, ajtiM lum...@gmail.com wrote: Hi! I bought HTC Inspire 4G phone and I lie to upload some mp3 files. When I connected a phoe to the USB port I got: da4 at umass-sim1 bus 1 scbus3 target 0 lun 0 da4: HTC Android Phone 0100 Removable Direct Access SCSI-2 device da4:

Re: android

2011-02-14 Thread Mike Tancsa
On 2/14/2011 8:00 PM, ajtiM wrote: Hi! I bought HTC Inspire 4G phone and I lie to upload some mp3 files. When I connected a phoe to the USB port I got: da4 at umass-sim1 bus 1 scbus3 target 0 lun 0 da4: HTC Android Phone 0100 Removable Direct Access SCSI-2 device da4: 4 MB/s

Re: Redux

2011-02-14 Thread ill...@gmail.com
On 14 February 2011 19:24, Rem P Roberti remeg...@comcast.net wrote: On Mon, 14 Feb 2011 15:38:28 -0800, Rem P Robertir...@remdog.net  wrote: I need to ask this question again in the hopes that something will come of it.  In the process of going through an update (I finally got that sorted

Re: android

2011-02-14 Thread Chris Hill
On Mon, 14 Feb 2011, ajtiM wrote: I bought HTC Inspire 4G phone and I lie to upload some mp3 files. When I connected a phoe to the USB port I got: da4 at umass-sim1 bus 1 scbus3 target 0 lun 0 da4: HTC Android Phone 0100 Removable Direct Access SCSI-2 device da4: 4 MB/s transfers How can

Re: Invitation (waaaaay off-topic)

2011-02-14 Thread Simon Tibble
On 14/02/11 23:42, Chad Perrin wrote: On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 09:47:11PM +, Simon Tibble wrote: On 14/02/11 21:12, David Kelly wrote: On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 08:54:59PM +, Simon Tibble wrote: Now, see, I can't help thinking that if we all just abandoned money then the motivation for

delay in boot: ata2: ATA channel 0 on atapci0

2011-02-14 Thread Xn Nooby
I get about a 30 second delay during boot for each hard-drive connected to my PC. I'm running FreeBSD 8.1 AMD64 on an ASUS Sabertooth X58 motherboard. atapci0: [ITHREAD] ata2: ATA channel 0 on atapci0 ata2: [ITHREAD] ata3: ATA channel 1 on atapci0 Is there something I can define or disable to

Re: Redux

2011-02-14 Thread Rem P Roberti
I need to ask this question again in the hopes that something will come of it. In the process of going through an update (I finally got that sorted out) all of my partitions were renamed. Here they are: Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted

Re: Redux

2011-02-14 Thread Warren Block
On Mon, 14 Feb 2011, Rem P Roberti wrote: To tell the truth, I'm content to leave things as they are, but unfortunately one of the side effects of all this is that I can't figure out how create and entry in the fstab which will again allow me to mount my other hard drive. The former fstab

Re: delay in boot: ata2: ATA channel 0 on atapci0

2011-02-14 Thread Alexander Best
On Mon Feb 14 11, Xn Nooby wrote: I get about a 30 second delay during boot for each hard-drive connected to my PC. I'm running FreeBSD 8.1 AMD64 on an ASUS Sabertooth X58 motherboard. atapci0: [ITHREAD] ata2: ATA channel 0 on atapci0 ata2: [ITHREAD] ata3: ATA channel 1 on atapci0 Is

Re: Redux

2011-02-14 Thread Carl Johnson
Rem P Roberti remeg...@comcast.net writes: To tell the truth, I'm content to leave things as they are, but unfortunately one of the side effects of all this is that I can't figure out how create and entry in the fstab which will again allow me to mount my other hard drive. The former fstab

Re: delay in boot: ata2: ATA channel 0 on atapci0

2011-02-14 Thread Xn Nooby
Hi Alex, I will double-check my BIOS, I thought I had unused ports disabled, but I might have missed some (it's a complex motherboard!). I probably wont recompile my kernel, because I think that would prohibit me from using the freebsd-update program. I can always just wait, it was a bigger

What is the best way to image copy a FreeBSD system?

2011-02-14 Thread Xn Nooby
On Linux I use clonezilla, which understands the EXT3 filesystem, and it can skip unused space (I'm using about 3GB out of 1TB). On FreeBSD, I have to fill the 1TB drive with zero-filled files, then delete them, on each partiton, since CloneZilla uses DD+gzip on the entire drive. I like to make

portsnap fetch corrupt

2011-02-14 Thread Alain G. Fabry
Hello, Whenever I try to do a portsnap, it tels me metadata is corrupt. harley# portsnap fetch update Looking up portsnap.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 5 mirrors found. Fetching snapshot tag from portsnap5.FreeBSD.org... done. Fetching snapshot metadata... done. Updating from Fri Feb 11 01:08:40 CET

Re: android

2011-02-14 Thread Bill Tillman
I haven't mounted my Android yet on my FreeBSD servers but I would think the advice below of mounting it like a MSDOS thumb drive would be correct. I would also think you'd need to use the longname switch as well on your command line. Otherwise you'll be stuck with the old 8.3 filename format