Re: FreeBSD kernel init slower than linux

2011-03-04 Thread Bruce Cran
oot in a couple of seconds - but that was without any network card, USB support etc. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "free

Re: Is it safe to run tcpdump?

2011-03-05 Thread Bruce Cran
On Sat, 5 Mar 2011 11:47:19 -0700 Modulok wrote: > What do you mean by 'safe'? As in secure? http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-07:06.tcpdump.asc -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://list

Re: Quick question about sound drivers (esp. snd_hda)

2011-03-12 Thread Bruce Cran
er appears to load, then /dev/dsp should be created automatically when something tries to access it (e.g. cat /dev/random > /dev/dsp). -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questio

Re: spam?

2011-03-13 Thread Bruce Cran
>free...@edvax.de, href="mailto:lum...@gmail.com";>lum...@gmail.com, mailto:freebsd- > questi...@freebsd.org">freebsd-questions@freebsd.org That's not from me - it's from a company called ParkLogic who are forging emails. See http://unix.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/F

Re: allBSD Japan servers ?

2011-03-25 Thread Bruce Cran
:5d59:5c40:0:1 --> 2001:2f0:104:e001::34 16 bytes from 2001:2f0:104:e001::34, icmp_seq=0 hlim=48 time=269.213 ms 16 bytes from 2001:2f0:104:e001::34, icmp_seq=1 hlim=48 time=268.705 ms 16 bytes from 2001:2f0:104:e001::34, icmp_seq=2 -- Bruce Cran ___

Re: searching for a good IDE

2011-03-27 Thread Bruce Cran
On Sun, 27 Mar 2011 15:41:28 +0200 Alokat wrote: > I'm searching for a good IDE for my development stuff - c, c++, > python, rails, php > Can someone advise one? > And I don't wanna use eclipse. :-) KDevelop (http://www.kdevelop.org/) 4 is quite

Re: console based sound control

2011-04-03 Thread Bruce Cran
On 03/04/2011 14:59, Alokat wrote: I'm looking for a sound control tool (like alsamixer) but for oss. Does someone know one? Have you tried mixer(8)? http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=mixer&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=FreeBSD+8.2-RELEASE&format=html -- Bruce Cran

Re: am i back up....???

2011-04-03 Thread Bruce Cran
On 02/04/2011 21:54, David Chanters wrote: You could have just sent yourself an email. But yes, here you are. I was going to suggest Gary should have used the freebsd-test mailing list but then I realised it's been broken since May last year. -- Bruce Cran

Re: am i back up....???

2011-04-04 Thread Bruce Cran
year and it doesn't appear to have been fixed yet. -- Bruce Cran ___ 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: allBSD Japan servers ?

2011-04-04 Thread Bruce Cran
On Mon, 4 Apr 2011 16:53:59 +0200 Ross Cameron wrote: > works just fine here (im in south africa) so maybe a routing issue ??? It seems to have been fixed in the time between the original message and your reply :) -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questi

Re: allBSD Japan servers ?

2011-04-04 Thread Bruce Cran
is really slow - I only get around 12 kB/s from the UK. From looking at things at my end it looks like a problem with a machine somewhere between the USA and Japan, but I don't know if the path's symmetric. It's been suggested that it might be a TCP windowing problem on one of

Re: GEOM warning in dmesg

2011-04-06 Thread Bruce Cran
erating systems don't. -- Bruce Cran ___ 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: 8-CURRENT: where is my memory?

2011-04-07 Thread Bruce Cran
On Thursday 07 Apr 2011 11:58:50 Matthias Apitz wrote: > VMware memory control driver initialized Could this have removed a block of memory for its own use outside of the normal VM subsystem? -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mail

Re: Mailing list etiquette (Was: Re: Linksys-E4200 Wireless N-router)

2011-04-08 Thread Bruce Cran
know about anyone else, but personally I like getting replies CC'd to me because they end up in my INBOX - otherwise I often don't notice someone's replied since there are so many new messages to the mailing list each day. -- Bruce Cran _

Re: [UPDATE] host-setup(1): a dialog(1)-based utility for configuring FreeBSD

2011-04-22 Thread Bruce Cran
On Fri, 22 Apr 2011 15:41:46 + Alexander Best wrote: > FreeBSD 9.0-CURRENT amd64 A new version of dialog was imported a few days ago - maybe something broke? -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.

Re: [UPDATE] host-setup(1): a dialog(1)-based utility for configuring FreeBSD

2011-04-23 Thread Bruce Cran
On Fri, 22 Apr 2011 09:52:44 -0700 "Devin Teske" wrote: > Looks like `--hline' is not supported anymore. Thinking this should > either be patched or documented in ERRATA/UPGRADING. I think you mean UPDATING :) -- Bruce Cran

Re: disk problem: suggestion on how to handle...

2011-04-26 Thread Bruce Cran
way past the end of the disk? -- Bruce Cran ___ 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: gpart questions

2011-04-26 Thread Bruce Cran
ant to specify a size, you can use "-s 512m" -- Bruce Cran ___ 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: Password theft from memory?

2011-04-26 Thread Bruce Cran
happens once for each byte, so realloc() and reallocf() calls do not zero memory that was previously allocated. This is intended for debugging and will impact performance negatively. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-question

Re: FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE

2011-05-03 Thread Bruce Cran
On Tue, 03 May 2011 20:48:55 -0400 Daniel Staal wrote: > Basically, as far as I can tell, 9 and/or 8.3 will come out when they > come out. No sooner and no later. I think the plan for 9.0 is some time this summer. -- Bruce Cran ___ f

Re: Critical issues with WD green drives

2011-06-02 Thread Bruce Cran
robably due to their overly-aggressive power management. If you can, run wdidle3.exe from a Windows environment to turn off the default idle timer. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/fre

Re: finding kernel 'r' number

2011-06-16 Thread Bruce Cran
rnel? I'm not sure you can: the revision only shows up if you have svn installed (devel/subversion-freebsd) and have built the kernel from code checked out from the svn server. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://li

Re: {SPAM} New games for you

2011-06-19 Thread Bruce Cran
I had to ask Norton to re-check it before it marked it as OK. -- Bruce Cran ___ 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: ghghg

2011-07-15 Thread Bruce Cran
"not available" The last email in the freebsd-test archives is from May 2010, so I think it's broken - which is rather unfortunate. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/

Re: 2020: Will BSD and Linux be relevant anymore?

2011-07-21 Thread Bruce Cran
the API/ABI issue is far worse, since you have a different ABI between different builds of the same kernel. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

Re: 2020: Will BSD and Linux be relevant anymore?

2011-07-21 Thread Bruce Cran
e in Vista, for example. However, they do seem rather good at supporting older technologies such as TDI, and I suspect those drivers that fail aren't very well written. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.free

Re: build ports from not a root user?

2011-07-21 Thread Bruce Cran
robably to use portmaster (ports-mgmt/portmaster): it has a PM_SU_CMD which is normally set to /usr/local/bin/sudo which it uses whenever it needs to elevate to root. -- Bruce Cran ___ 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: Lennart Poettering: BSD Isn't Relevant Anymore

2011-07-23 Thread Bruce Cran
tings. %SystemRoot%\System32\drivers\etc contains several BSD configuration files for DNS settings, protocols etc. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any ma

Re: Alternative windowmanagers

2011-08-07 Thread Bruce Cran
On 05/08/2011 20:12, Christian Barthel wrote: Are there any other window manager worth looking? What is your window manager? When I'm not running KDE I like using Window Maker. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: A quality operating system

2011-08-27 Thread Bruce Cran
On 27/08/2011 20:58, Frank Shute wrote: Where's the documentation for Windows Explorer for Vista on microsoft.com? A link will do. http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-vista/help/using ? -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebs

Re: Turn off hyperthreading on dual core Atom?

2011-08-29 Thread Bruce Cran
and the topology of such CPUs. I don't know what it does with the information, but it probably works to optimize cache usage etc. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-quest

Re: Breakin attempt

2011-10-22 Thread Bruce Cran
carry on? I suspect that these sorts of attacks are fairly normal if you're running ssh on the standard port. I used to have lots of 'break-in attempts' before I moved the ssh server to a different port. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions

Re: Breakin attempt

2011-10-22 Thread Bruce Cran
On 22 Oct 2011, at 15:12, Polytropon wrote: > On Sat, 22 Oct 2011 15:08:50 +0100, Bruce Cran wrote: >> I suspect that these sorts of attacks are fairly normal if you're >> running ssh on the standard port. I used to have lots of 'break-in >> attempts'

Re: Urgent!. Problem with / etc / rc.conf

2011-11-06 Thread Bruce Cran
f The ">>" appends the line instead of replacing the existing contents. -- Bruce Cran ___ 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"

9.0 and bsdinstall - avoiding updating the MBR

2011-11-20 Thread Bruce Cran
bsdinstall? I don't seem to remember seeing any option to avoid writing out the new boot code. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any m

Re: Why not simplify Copyright at boot/dmesg?

2013-02-23 Thread Bruce Cran
right assignment agreements so all the code is under a single owner. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-question

Re: List Spam Filtering

2013-05-16 Thread Bruce Cran
ng put off posting to it. -- Bruce Cran ___ 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: List Spam Filtering

2013-05-17 Thread Bruce Cran
. All that the present system does is act as an enabler for Spam merchants and Trolls. Yes, seriously. Have you seen the number of people who post messages "PLEASE REMOVE ME FROM THIS MAILING LIST!!", apparently not understanding how to manage their subscription? --

Re: SU+J Lost files after a power failure

2013-10-14 Thread Bruce Cran
e replayed, bringing both data and metadata into a consistent state. This mode is the slowest except when data needs to be read from and written to disk at the same time where it outperforms all other modes. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@free

Re: SU+J Lost files after a power failure

2013-10-14 Thread Bruce Cran
development system the only ways to improve the situation would be to mount with the 'sync' option, disable write caching on the disk or to switch to a different filesystem like ZFS. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: Cache Memory in top command

2010-09-29 Thread Bruce Cran
and cache. You can find more information about the VM architecture at http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/arch-handbook/vm.html . -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: Updating bzip2 to remove potential security vulnerability

2010-10-01 Thread Bruce Cran
x27;s been fixed in all supported security branches as well as HEAD (see http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base/releng/8.1/UPDATING?view=log for example). -- Bruce Cran ___ 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: Updating bzip2 to remove potential security vulnerability

2010-10-01 Thread Bruce Cran
On Fri, 1 Oct 2010 17:49:29 -0400 Jerry wrote: > OK, I just updated my sources; however, this notation from the > UPDATING file does NOT appear in the UPDATING file on my machine: > > 20100920: p1 FreeBSD-SA-10:08.bzip2 > Fix an integer overflow in RLE length parsing when > decomp

Re: Massive portupgrade without being interrupted by configuration screens?

2010-10-02 Thread Bruce Cran
On Sat, 2 Oct 2010 09:49:49 -0500 Brandon Gooch wrote: > Well, I'm not using portupgrade, but instead ports-mgmt/portmaster: +1 -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-q

postfix installed in base, mailwrapper spins using 100% CPU

2010-10-07 Thread Bruce Cran
xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 21 Oct 2 09:50 /usr/sbin/sendmail -> /usr/sbin/mailwrapper Should it actually be the sendmail binary that postfix installs, and if so I'm wondering how it could have ended up being a symlink? -- Bruce Cran ___ freebs

Re: Cache Memory in top command

2010-10-07 Thread Bruce Cran
On Thu, 7 Oct 2010 14:42:06 + Michel Talon wrote: > Bruce Cran said: > > > The top(1) man page is clearly in error, at least on FreeBSD > > systems. I did not say that. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: postfix installed in base, mailwrapper spins using 100% CPU

2010-10-07 Thread Bruce Cran
normally (when installed from ports) installs a "fake" > sendmail binary in /usr/local/bin. I think the problem occurs because in the OPTIONS menu I told it to install to /usr: INST_BASE "Install into /usr and /etc/postfix" I guess I need to remove /usr/sbin/sendmail a

FreeBSD warning about unclean filesystems which won't be mounted

2010-10-08 Thread Bruce Cran
hasn't been asked to mount yet? -- Bruce Cran ___ 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: FreeBSD warning about unclean filesystems which won't be mounted

2010-10-08 Thread Bruce Cran
HDD only ever contained /usr, /home, /var and swap. -- Bruce Cran ___ 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: how now [green] KDE?

2010-10-10 Thread Bruce Cran
On Sunday 10 October 2010 15:34:39 Polytropon wrote: > The "startkde" command should be fully sufficient, as all other things > are to be configured inside KDE. That may be "/usr/local/kde4/bin/startkde", since /usr/local/kde4/bin probably won'

VIA EPIA 5000 and ACPI Cx levels

2010-10-10 Thread Bruce Cran
ls, but setting hw.acpi.cpu.cx_lowest to C3 I'm only seeing 0.8% time spent in C2 mode, the rest being in C1. The CPU's idle so I don't understand why it's not going into deeper sleep modes. Is this likely to just be an ACPI bug? -- Bruce Cran __

Re: VIA EPIA 5000 and ACPI Cx levels

2010-10-10 Thread Bruce Cran
recommendations to allow more sleeping, like at: > > http://wiki.freebsd.org/TuningPowerConsumption I haven't done anything extra yet, since I was mainly interested in seeing if one-shot mode worked on this box. I can't use powerd because running at

Re: Like it or not, Theo has a point... freebsd is shipping export-restricted software in the core

2010-10-11 Thread Bruce Cran
perform the audit. Which is why it's so important not to customize the license text when creating new files! -- Bruce Cran ___ 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: VIA EPIA 5000 and ACPI Cx levels

2010-10-14 Thread Bruce Cran
deeper sleep states. Thanks. It sounds like things are working as they should then. Good to know the new timer code is working properly on this more unusual hardware! -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.or

Re: fsync: Linux vs FreeBSD

2010-10-26 Thread Bruce Cran
ttp://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=da&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=FreeBSD+8.1-RELEASE&format=html -- Bruce Cran ___ 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: Amavisd-new issues..

2010-10-27 Thread Bruce Cran
On Wed, 27 Oct 2010 01:11:32 -0700 (PDT) "Justin V." wrote: > Everything goes fine until its time to start amavisd-new. > > It just doesnt start and I do not see anything in the logs to > indicate a problem. Have you checked /var/log/mai

Re: sysinstall(8) && bsdlabel a new disk

2010-10-31 Thread Bruce Cran
e.g. gpart create -s mbr /dev/disk gpart add -t freebsd /dev/disk gpart create -s bsd /dev/disk gpart add -t freebsd-ufs /dev/disks1 newfs /dev/disks1a -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listi

Re: sysinstall(8) && bsdlabel a new disk

2010-11-01 Thread Bruce Cran
is still rather poor, and I'm not aware of any official documentation. I wrote a more detailed post in http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-fs/2010-August/009176.html which explains the commands. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.or

Re: sysinstall(8) && bsdlabel a new disk

2010-11-01 Thread Bruce Cran
e freebsd container, you would use ad4s1. -- Bruce Cran ___ 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: sysinstall(8) && bsdlabel a new disk

2010-11-01 Thread Bruce Cran
one). There's a new version of sade being worked on by ae@ in svn /user/ae that fixes lots of the problems. With pc-sysinstall getting all the attention I doubt sysinstall will have any more work done on it. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questi

Re: is there a utillity...?

2010-11-02 Thread Bruce Cran
um raw throughput. It's normally obtained via a web browser but some modems can also be configured to provide it over SNMP. By the way your subject lines could be improved - they don't tend to be very descriptive :) -- Bruce Cran ___ f

Re: SSHgaurd and PF

2010-11-02 Thread Bruce Cran
(assuming it is a legit hoster that cares) and they do > something about it, there are thousands more. Yes but it's one less. Most recently I emailed a VPS provider and got the owner's account suspended after they ran an ssh attack on my server. -- Bruce Cran _

Re: is there a utillity...?

2010-11-02 Thread Bruce Cran
data that is flowing in via the background that stalls things. > (I have just shut off the automated flow.) You can run "systat -if" to see how much bandwidth is being used by the computer. At 1M you should see around 120KB/s downlink. -- Bruce Cran __

Re: Tips for installing windows and freeBSD both.. anyone??

2010-11-06 Thread Bruce Cran
e from ports) to run both at the same time. -- Bruce Cran ___ 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: Tips for installing windows and freeBSD both.. anyone??

2010-11-06 Thread Bruce Cran
ually. FreeBSD by itself may be a lot more lightweight than Windows but once you add in Xorg and KDE I think it needs about the same, if not more, memory. People will argue that you don't have to run KDE or GNOME but as can be seen from the success of Ubuntu people like complete desktop

Re: Tips for installing windows and freeBSD both.. anyone??

2010-11-07 Thread Bruce Cran
e kdiff3 instead of plain "svn diff" and KDE makes that simple. -- Bruce Cran ___ 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: FreeBSD as a xen host

2010-11-07 Thread Bruce Cran
perator > Error expanding embedded variable. > > > Does anyone have any advice on how to get this to work? Looks like you might need to use GNU make ("gmake") instead of "make"? -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-question

Re: Anybody know apt-get ?

2010-11-07 Thread Bruce Cran
On Sun, 7 Nov 2010 08:52:00 -0500 Chris Brennan wrote: > I am going to take a stab in the dark here and suggest that some sort > of db needs to be built for apt ... clues in the part /var/db.. > (man apt-get?) "apt-get update&qu

Re: Tips for installing windows and freeBSD both.. anyone??

2010-11-07 Thread Bruce Cran
-> branch/tag..." to create a branch and have it done in a minute. Using the command-line I'd have to spend time reading up on the commandline parameters to achieve the same thing, since it's something I only do about once a year or so. -- Bruce Cran

Re: Tips for installing windows and freeBSD both.. anyone??

2010-11-08 Thread Bruce Cran
minals and command-line operation - and I grew up running BBC BASIC and have been using FreeBSD for many years. I love having the command-line available and indeed often develop software using just an xterm but I do think a well-designed GUI can increase productivity by bringing things together

Re: Tips for installing windows and freeBSD both.. anyone??

2010-11-08 Thread Bruce Cran
On Mon, 8 Nov 2010 11:00:59 +0100 Polytropon wrote: > On Mon, 8 Nov 2010 09:43:01 +0000, Bruce Cran > wrote: > > [...] I do think a well-designed GUI can increase productivity by > > bringing things together that would otherwise be separate. > > Yes. Plain YES. I&#x

Re: Tips for installing windows and freeBSD both.. anyone??

2010-11-08 Thread Bruce Cran
done, mainly because I've always had more important things to learn and the "inefficiencies" of GUI editors don't really worry me. -- Bruce Cran ___ 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: Tips for installing windows and freeBSD both.. anyone??

2010-11-10 Thread Bruce Cran
o script GUI applications. -- Bruce Cran ___ 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: Tips for installing windows and freeBSD both.. anyone??

2010-11-10 Thread Bruce Cran
the UI), and then working around it. This is why at least on Windows there's often a C/COM/.NET API that allows the same level of control that the GUI provides, so that customers can automate tasks. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd

Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?

2010-11-12 Thread Bruce Cran
know that by now. -- Bruce Cran ___ 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: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?

2010-11-12 Thread Bruce Cran
and as such is rather offputting. If you want it to be your signature it should be separated from the main block of text somehow - preferably by the signature separator ("-- " followed by a newline). -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freeb

Re: FreeBSD on Rackspace Could

2010-11-13 Thread Bruce Cran
osting on a DSL line is out of the question due to both latency and reliability. -- Bruce Cran ___ 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: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?

2010-11-13 Thread Bruce Cran
a moderator with a set for this forum. The NTDEV list has another way of dealing with these issues: a thread can get locked if it strays off-topic or becomes otherwise useless, preventing further follow-ups. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: Tips for installing windows and freeBSD both.. anyone??

2010-11-13 Thread Bruce Cran
pplication, until its handle has been closed. This is also referred to as exclusive access." from http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa363874%28VS.85%29.aspx -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.or

Re: Does MAC version of iTunes work on FreeBSD?

2010-11-17 Thread Bruce Cran
far as I know nobody's working on Mach-O compatbility on FreeBSD so applications would need to be recompiled. http://wiki.gnustep.org/index.php/Cocoa -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailm

Re: spamassassin config help

2010-11-17 Thread Bruce Cran
about filtering spam into different directories. -- Bruce Cran ___ 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: FreeBSD and large harddrives

2010-11-18 Thread Bruce Cran
fixing filesystem errors isn't something you can normally do. There's a guide to installing FreeBSD on zfs at http://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/GPTZFSBoot . Note that even if you have a 'legacy' BIOS you can still use GPT - if you use the MBR sc

Re: FreeBSD and large harddrives

2010-11-18 Thread Bruce Cran
On Thu, 18 Nov 2010 12:51:13 + Bruce Cran wrote: > There's a guide to installing FreeBSD on zfs at > http://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/GPTZFSBoot . Note that even if you > have a 'legacy' BIOS you can still use GPT - if you use the MBR scheme > you'll be limit

Re: FreeBSD and large harddrives

2010-11-19 Thread Bruce Cran
on-zero so I think people should probably stop worrying about the raw value and learn to focus on the Value/Worst/Thesh fields instead. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questi

Re: 32 or 64 bit as server ?

2010-11-23 Thread Bruce Cran
ling a 32-bit version is if you're stuck with a machine with a very limited amount of memory. For example I'm having to run www/mail/db in only 256MB, so I chose not to install the 64-bit version which would use more memory. -- Bruce Cran __

Re: foo; no such thing as a "dual-nic" atom firewall

2010-11-24 Thread Bruce Cran
e.g. http://reviews.cnet.com/adapters-nics/d-link-dfe-570tx/1707-3380_7-785663.html -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ques

Re: How long laptop battery should live ?

2010-11-24 Thread Bruce Cran
settings to tune which will decrease power consumption. In order to get those savings you need to set hw.acpi.cpu.cx_lowest to C2 or C3. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questio

Re: Digital camera (Canon)

2010-11-28 Thread Bruce Cran
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picture_Transfer_Protocol . -- Bruce Cran ___ 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"

gpt zfs booting - loader takes 25s

2010-11-30 Thread Bruce Cran
time when booting from GPT? -- Bruce Cran ___ 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: gpt zfs booting - loader takes 25s

2010-11-30 Thread Bruce Cran
re are no > messages, just a pause. I'm doing a clean reboot, and I don't remember it taking this long when I had a ZFS-only system booting from a disk with an MBR scheme. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lis

Re: 8 partitions maximum

2010-12-01 Thread Bruce Cran
On Wed, 1 Dec 2010 13:51:48 + Paul B Mahol wrote: [snip 9 levels of quoting] > It is hardcoded. Not my code. Could you remember to remove excess quotes please? It's getting a bit ridiculous having to scroll past 50 lines to see a one-line reply :) -- Br

Re: USB Thumb Drive

2010-12-01 Thread Bruce Cran
;file -s" against the device node. e.g. /dev/ada0s3: x86 boot sector, code offset 0x52, OEM-ID "NTFS", sectors/cluster 8, reserved sectors 0, Media descriptor 0xf8, heads 255, hidden sectors 440608768, dos < 4.0 BootSector (0x80) That tell

Re: USB Thumb Drive

2010-12-01 Thread Bruce Cran
lts to FAT32 on removable drives, so you might need to use '-t msdosfs' instead. In newer versions of Windows you can also format disks using exFAT which I don't believe is supported in the open source world yet. -- Bruce Cran ___ fr

Re: Support for hard drives > 2 TB?

2010-12-03 Thread Bruce Cran
d=100 there are Caviar Black drives up to 2TB. -- Bruce Cran ___ 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: Support for hard drives > 2 TB?

2010-12-03 Thread Bruce Cran
abeled drive. So regardless of your OS, you may > still have issues. That's why we have the Protective MBR that allows a 'legacy' BIOS to boot from GPT. I'm not sure if you can boot past the 2TB point with it though. -- Bruce Cran _

Re: Support for hard drives > 2 TB?

2010-12-04 Thread Bruce Cran
tall it. It turns out that it only supports booting from GPT via an EFI firmware, not using the PMBR and a legacy BIOS. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscrib

Re: gpt zfs booting - loader takes 25s

2010-12-05 Thread Bruce Cran
re are no > messages, just a pause. It seems you're right: I checked and the HDD light is permanently on during the pause. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Re: Installer program for FreeBSD-9.0?

2010-12-06 Thread Bruce Cran
be made while not taking on the work of a complete rewrite. -- Bruce Cran ___ 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: Installer program for FreeBSD-9.0?

2010-12-06 Thread Bruce Cran
unusable for specific > settings (headless, serial, text)? There's a discussion including the announcement at http://markmail.org/message/nlmq7yquevkpmb47 . But yes, I think you will need to use some sort of web browser unless someone writes a diffe

Re: Installer program for FreeBSD-9.0?

2010-12-07 Thread Bruce Cran
m CD, DVD > or USB drive. If the user starts with a blank HDD then the installer loads from the CD/DVD, starts the web server on the disc and the user browses to the machine as normal. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org maili

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