Trouble with SMC2602W wireless card

2003-02-11 Thread David Brodbeck
I bought an SMC2602W wireless PCI card, based on it being listed in the FreeBSD Handbook as supported. However, I can't get the system to recognize it. I get this in dmesg: pci0: unknown card (vendor=0x1317, dev=0x8201) at 8.0 irq 12 I'm running 4.6.2-RELEASE. Do I need to upgrade to a more

Re: Trouble with SMC2602W wireless card

2003-02-13 Thread David Brodbeck
Pascal Giannakakis wrote: ARRGH!!! FFS!!! I ordered 2 of these, based on availability and the list, and now i read i might be unsupported! :( Could NE1 please confirm this card is running under FreeBSD 5.0? I'm beginning to suspect there are multiple versions of this card. Some of the

Re: Trouble with SMC2602W wireless card

2003-02-22 Thread David Brodbeck
Pascal Giannakakis wrote: Now i got the SMC 2602W (the package says it is version 2 :/ ) which has a Admtek ADM8211 chip on it. BLOODY! I plugged in the card, and hey, of course it does NOT work. pciconf -v -l: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:8:0: class=0x028000 card=0x260210b8 chip=0x82011317 rev=0x11

puc driver -- config problem?

2003-12-11 Thread David Brodbeck
I'm sure this is something really simple I'm missing, but after an hour of tinkering and doing Google searches I'm at a loss. I'm running FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE on an Alpha. I just installed an NM9835 2-port PCI serial card. I added 'device puc' to my kernel configuration file, as suggested in

RE: puc driver -- config problem?

2003-12-12 Thread David Brodbeck
On Fri, 12 Dec 2003, fbsd_user wrote: Device puc is for reading older bios on i386 machines, you are on Alpha. You are sol (shit out of luck). So PCI serial ports aren't supported on Alpha? Is there any way at all I can get another serial port on my Alpha system?

Re: Best Laptop to buy for Freebsd Without OS?

2011-02-17 Thread David Brodbeck
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 10:43 AM, Jorge Biquez jbiq...@intranet.com.mx wrote: I am evaluating to buy a new laptop for using it only with Freebsd. I know in the website mention some options. Thing is that here the most powerful ones (I3, I5 I7) are sold ONLY with Windows installed and that

Re: Best Laptop to buy for Freebsd Without OS?

2011-02-19 Thread David Brodbeck
On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 6:36 PM, Julian H. Stacey j...@berklix.com wrote: Reality:  XP purchased with a Toshiba laptop runs native, but fails on  virtualbox, on the same laptop.  I believe XP is crippled to only  run on Toshiba, vbox presents too clean/generic an environment ;-) Sometimes

Re: ZFS-only booting on FreeBSD

2011-02-19 Thread David Brodbeck
On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 1:52 PM, Daniel Staal dst...@usa.net wrote: I see the advantage, and that it offers higher levels of resiliency and if properly handled should cause no problems.  I just hate relying on humans to remember things and follow directions.  That's what computers are for.

Re: bash can not find most of my commands

2011-02-22 Thread David Brodbeck
On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 9:53 AM, Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: Thus, if you *really* want a superuser account with bash as its default shell, you can always use toor for that purpose.  I don't much see the point in setting a superuser account to use bash anyway -- or any other

Re: bash can not find most of my commands

2011-02-22 Thread David Brodbeck
On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 12:39 PM, Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: Just do us all a favor; don't write code in bash. Yeah, I try to avoid bash-specific syntax unless it's for one-off scripts. csh suffers the same kinds of problems; I only write csh code under extreme duress, like when

Re: How to forward old root mails to an external email address?

2011-02-24 Thread David Brodbeck
On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 5:20 PM, Bill Tillman btillma...@yahoo.com wrote: Yes, but in the good ol' USA it's all about the money. They will not let me do anything like this unless I pay more to upgrade my service. The wierd thing is that once in a blue moon my IP address will change. Then I can

Re: Finish upgrading remote server without physically being there?

2011-03-02 Thread David Brodbeck
On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 8:24 AM, Nerius Landys nlan...@gmail.com wrote: Another way to do this, but is quite rare, is to log in via serial console.  This requires you to configure serial logins to your server (quite easy, but you should test it first) and it requires the data center to somehow

Re: Simplest way to deny access to a class C

2011-03-04 Thread David Brodbeck
On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 4:02 PM, Gary Gatten ggat...@waddell.com wrote: Be careful of automated responses.  What if someone spoofs IP's of legit users / customers / whatever and your automated response blocks them?  Not good. Fortunately this is a relatively low risk with fail2ban, because to

Re: xdm-options - non-bsd user needs bsd rc.d advice

2011-03-04 Thread David Brodbeck
On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 9:34 AM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: While I found that generic UNIX knowledge was applicable everywhere, Linux knowledge was not, as you could see from file names and locations, procedures, and configuration statements which could not be transferred 1:1 between

Re: FreeBSD kernel init slower than linux

2011-03-04 Thread David Brodbeck
On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 2:51 PM, Bruce Cran br...@cran.org.uk wrote: I think it's because no concerted effort has been put into optimizing the boot time on FreeBSD. I tested a stripped-down kernel on my iBook G4 a while ago and it would boot in a couple of seconds - but that was without any

Re: Purchased Binaries

2011-03-04 Thread David Brodbeck
On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 2:54 PM, Doug Hardie bc...@lafn.org wrote: Pretty much I will have the real software on Monday and will need to get it up and going very quickly.  I want to use FreeBSD because all the other parts of what he needs I already have running on various FreeBSD servers.  

Re: HAL must die!

2011-03-07 Thread David Brodbeck
I think now we know the real reason HAL was deprecated -- too many crusty old jokes. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Re: Apple FreeBSD relationship

2011-03-10 Thread David Brodbeck
On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 8:57 AM, Mark Felder f...@feld.me wrote: On Wed, 09 Mar 2011 17:31:32 -0600, Frank Shute fr...@shute.org.uk wrote: Apple produces the clusterfuck that is CUPS, I believe. Apple took over the CUPS project. They didn't write it. They're improving it a lot with every

Re: HAL must die!

2011-03-16 Thread David Brodbeck
On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 5:43 PM, Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: The largest possible paying audience is generally everybody capable of using an open standard. Since we're talking about video, though, it's worth noting that there don't appear to *be* any truly open video compression

Re: HAL must die!

2011-03-16 Thread David Brodbeck
On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 11:09 AM, Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: It's certainly true that video is a bit of a sticky widget with regard to open standards.  The moment someone develops something that is verifiably free of patent encumbrances for video and doesn't just *suck*, I expect

Re: HAL must die!

2011-03-17 Thread David Brodbeck
On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 5:59 PM, Da Rock freebsd-questi...@herveybayaustralia.com.au wrote: The problem is it'd have to be someone who's unemployed. ;)  Any software company is going to want to patent something that valuable; they'd be failing their shareholders if they didn't. Except a

Re: FreeBSD mirror server on a Debian operating system?

2011-03-28 Thread David Brodbeck
On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 3:46 PM, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: Chris Brennan xa...@xaerolimit.net wrote: ... the list does not 'mail-back' your e-mail ... i.e. you do not see your own post until someone replies to it. ... unless you go to the subscription page and select the option to be

Re: Easiest desktop BSD distro

2011-03-30 Thread David Brodbeck
On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 4:56 PM, Chip Camden sterl...@camdensoftware.com wrote: Quoth Polytropon on Wednesday, 30 March 2011: T: (a deep sigh while rolling his eyes) No, that's not the fuel,    that's the tachometer. It is supposed to point at zero if the    car is not started. The fuel

Re: remaining goal.. .

2011-04-04 Thread David Brodbeck
On Sat, Apr 2, 2011 at 4:56 PM, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote:        simply that i'm looking for somebody  who know how to transfer pfsense        from a standalone system to this kit. I would suggest using Diagnostics/Backup/restore on the current system to save a copy of the

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

2011-04-04 Thread David Brodbeck
On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 2:41 AM, Arthur Chance free...@qeng-ho.org wrote: In the near future I'm probably going to have to implement a web mail system for times when my clients are travelling and don't have access to an IMAP capable client. If Roundcube isn't a decent solution, what is? I kind

Re: How to be an imap Client?

2011-04-21 Thread David Brodbeck
On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 6:51 AM, Jerry freebsd.u...@seibercom.net wrote: No humor intended. I have read another post that might also describe why the network is being blacklisted. I firmly believe that a diligent SA (note the word diligent) could attempt to correct this problem. One of the

Re: Can I bridge the same subnet across a VPN?

2011-05-04 Thread David Brodbeck
On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 8:19 AM, krad kra...@gmail.com wrote: you can do this with a combination of openvpn (using tap, not tun) and if_bridge both ends. However I have found it to be flakey and not really worth the effort. Better to go with a routed solution. The problem I've always found with

Re: Can I bridge the same subnet across a VPN?

2011-05-05 Thread David Brodbeck
On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 4:31 PM, Geoff Roberts ge...@apro.com.au wrote: Was this easy to measure, and how did you measure this - dropped packets on the bridge interface? I don't remember. It's been too long since I last tried it. Dropped packets would be a good measure, though, assuming the

Re: Can I bridge the same subnet across a VPN?

2011-05-05 Thread David Brodbeck
On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 10:39 AM, Nikos Vassiliadis nv...@gmx.com wrote: There is no inbuilt reason why a L2 VPN is more easily saturated than a L3 VPN. I disagree slightly. With L2 you have broadcasts and non-routable protocols being sent over the wire. This is fortunately becoming less of an

Re: rox-fm

2011-05-05 Thread David Brodbeck
On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 7:50 PM, Alejandro Imass a...@p2ee.org wrote: I wish someone could clearly explain why the reply-to field should ONLY have the mailing-list address, or at least have as the default address and not the other way around as it is here! This is one of the all-time great

Re: Sending a Fax

2011-05-06 Thread David Brodbeck
On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 3:47 AM, Bill Tillman btillma...@yahoo.com wrote: I read the other replies to your post so let me put in my 2 cents worth. For the last few years, I have basically abandoned faxing in favor of e-mailing PDF and other document files. Paperless is not only more

Re: Sending a Fax

2011-05-06 Thread David Brodbeck
On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 10:50 AM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: In the past, I've also used the hylafax port with a regular external serial modem, and it worked perfectly. I think the moden was an... Elsa? MicroLink something? Looked like a green toy, but worked very well. I've used it

Re: NFS zfs serveur (hardware question)

2011-06-23 Thread David Brodbeck
On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 6:26 PM, Damien Fleuriot m...@my.gd wrote: As a rule of thumb and for a serious server, I would recommend 1 SSD as dedicated cache and 2 SSD for a mirrored ZIL (you don't want to lose this data). However I think ppl posted about running intro trouble when using both

Re: NFS zfs serveur (hardware question)

2011-06-26 Thread David Brodbeck
On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 5:07 AM, Peter Toth free...@snap.net.nz wrote: There is still a way to increase NFS performance in 9.0 (without a ZIL SSD) by setting zfs property sync=disabled, which will disable synchronous writes - comes with some risks, research it before switching it off. Also,

Re: Poll on server attacks

2011-08-15 Thread David Brodbeck
On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 4:33 AM, Alejandro Imass a...@p2ee.org wrote: There you go! How do you actually know if you've had actual breaches if you don't follow up on the logs and spend actual __hours__ doing that? How do you know your servers are not root-kitted? I had an experience with a

ZFSv28+NFSv4 poor file creation performance, sync=disabled has no effect

2011-08-31 Thread David Brodbeck
I'm testing FreeBSD 9.0-BETA with an eye toward eventually using FreeBSD 9.0 to replace some existing OpenSolaris 2008.11 installations. I've found NFS file creation performance (as measured by Bonnie++) is equally slow for both with default settings. However, on OpenSolaris I disable the ZIL to

Re: KVM switch with FreeBSD-8.2

2011-09-12 Thread David Brodbeck
On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 4:43 PM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Sun, 11 Sep 2011 15:10:48 -0600 (MDT), Warren Block wrote: On Sun, 11 Sep 2011, Daniel Feenberg wrote: If you are asking, Is there a FreeBSD command to cause the KVM switch to move to the next system? then the answer is

Re: KVM switch with FreeBSD-8.2

2011-09-12 Thread David Brodbeck
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 10:45 AM, David Brodbeck g...@gull.us wrote: The USB switches generally emulate a generic USB keyboard and mouse, so drivers aren't a problem.  Sometimes they work by simulating a USB disconnect from the machine they're switching to, though, so you need good keyboard

Re: 9.0 bata2 keymap

2011-09-23 Thread David Brodbeck
I don't think not asking the question is the right answer. Asking about the keyboard layout during installation is the right thing to do; working with the wrong one is difficult and not everyone has a standard US keyboard. I think the problem is that the keymap names are kind of obscure, making

Re: much to my surprise....

2011-09-23 Thread David Brodbeck
On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 12:14 AM, Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk wrote: Not my experience.  Running my own DNS is simple and trouble free, plus it gives me much more scope to play with things like DNSSEC. I've done it before, but I don't anymore. Partly because it's very hard

Re: rsync over nfs or rsync protocol

2011-09-23 Thread David Brodbeck
On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 2:04 PM, Jason C. Wells j...@speakeasy.net wrote: I am looking into finally setting up a backup solution that's a little more sophisticated than a bunch of DVD-RWs.  I have two servers.  I'd like to make each a backup server for the other.  I'm considering using rsync.

Re: rsync over nfs or rsync protocol

2011-09-23 Thread David Brodbeck
On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 2:15 PM, Chuck Swiger cswi...@mac.com wrote: Lots.  The handbook has a chapter on backups which is worth reading, also True. Personally, I like dump/restore for disaster-recovery backups on FreeBSD. However, if you frequently need individual file recovery (e.g., Joe

Re: [0.5 OT] Looking for recommendation on Unix shell account

2011-09-28 Thread David Brodbeck
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 5:29 AM, Carlos A. M. dos Santos unixma...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, For reasons hard to explain I need to set-up a Unix (preferably FreeBSD) shell account that I can access from anywhere. Arbornet and PBS were the first names that came to my mind, but I'm open to other

Re: X on Xterminals but not on console

2011-10-05 Thread David Brodbeck
On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 10:59 AM, Matthias Apitz g...@unixarea.de wrote: El día Wednesday, October 05, 2011 a las 12:10:47PM -0400, Lowell Gilbert escribió: n dhert ndhert...@gmail.com writes: FreeBSD-8.2 with Xorg: Is there a way one can specify that your never have X on the console

Re: Turning system accounting data into money

2011-10-12 Thread David Brodbeck
On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 1:23 PM, Christopher J. Ruwe c...@cruwe.de wrote: So, systems that do what you want (and customers who want to pay on a per use basis) must be around for quite some time. Yeah, this was the normal way of doing things for many years on large systems, back when a large

Re: strange behavior of restore(8)

2011-10-21 Thread David Brodbeck
On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 4:06 AM, Victor Sudakov v...@mpeks.tomsk.su wrote: Colleagues, I am trying to restore a UFS2 zero level dump sized about 51G. restore has created 6105 directories and no files at all, and now is waiting forever in the runnable state. I don't have any specific advice

Re: zfs file names (inodes) without files (ENOENT)

2011-11-07 Thread David Brodbeck
On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 3:32 AM, Martin von Gagern martin.vgag...@gmx.net wrote: Makes me wonder whether I'd be better off with either some OpenSolaris descendant (hoping that the problem only lies in the FreeBSD port of ZFS) or with Linux (and either btrfs or some more mature fs). Both of

Re: zfs file names (inodes) without files (ENOENT)

2011-11-08 Thread David Brodbeck
On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 11:12 PM, Martin von Gagern martin.vgag...@gmx.net wrote: Thought the same, and gave it a try. zpool claims there is no pool of that name. zpool -f doesn't help. Looking at the device nodes, it appears as though OI would only recognize 3 of my 4 HDDs, which seems really

Re: Unprintable 8-bit characters

2011-11-09 Thread David Brodbeck
It's worth noting, too, that most of the non-Unicode encoding systems predate the Internet. When computers weren't really talking to each other, there was no real emphasis on interoperability, and every OS tended to come up with their own way of encoding foreign languages. Languages like French,

Re: X server and xinit works excellent....almost.

2011-11-10 Thread David Brodbeck
On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 11:12 AM, Chuck Swiger cswi...@mac.com wrote: FreeBSD's users generally are more technically inclined and might be willing to deal with this, but even so, I suspect that most folks would appreciate the system trying to figure out that an AZERTY keyboard layout means

Re: DBUS + kvm breaks X server (was: X server and xinit works excellent....almost.)

2011-11-10 Thread David Brodbeck
On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 11:56 AM, Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: Are the keyboard and mouse USB devices?  A KVM should not disconnect them on switching, but maybe it does. In my experience, most inexpensive USB KVMs work by disconnecting the keyboard/mouse from one system and

Re: fbsd safety of the ports

2012-02-07 Thread David Brodbeck
On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 9:37 AM, dick d...@nagual.nl wrote: I'm a bit confused. I always believed FreeBSD is a very safe system. That may be true for the core files, but what about ports. On the net I read _never_ to let the webserver be the owner of its files and yet, ports like Drupal or

Re: fbsd safety of the ports

2012-02-08 Thread David Brodbeck
On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 6:54 PM, mikel king mikel.k...@olivent.com wrote: Unfortunately, WP isn't exactly a well designed CMS form the untaring standpoint. Most aren't. TWiki is a nightmare to update, basically requiring you to copy your old content to a new install and then hand-merge the new

Re: 'rm' Can not delete files

2012-02-08 Thread David Brodbeck
2012/2/7 Ingo Hofmann ingo.hofm...@dont-panic.org: What helps me sometimes is wrapping it up: for i in *; do rm $i; done Won't that just expand the * and result in the same problem? It seems like you've just moved the problem from the rm statement to the for statement.

Re: One or Four?

2012-02-17 Thread David Brodbeck
On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 3:49 PM, Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org wrote: Why not add a selection to the installer, something like this:        Partition scheme                [ ] all in one + swap            Create one partition containing all subtrees            plus one

Re: One or Four?

2012-02-21 Thread David Brodbeck
On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 9:26 PM, Erich Dollansky erichfreebsdl...@ovitrap.com wrote: it will not even boot if there is only a single slice with root and the rest on it if the background fsck cannot be run. I have to go to real remote locations once in a while where an USP is not of real

Re: Security? [Re: Why is this Symbol in the front of your website. A humble request.]

2012-02-24 Thread David Brodbeck
On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 5:15 AM, Dave d...@g8kbv.demon.co.uk wrote: Those address links need changing to graphic's, so that most address harvesting bots won't get anything usable. Mk1 eyeball can still see what's what, but if you have to use the info, you have to re-type it manually. I

Re: Still having trouble with package upgrades

2012-03-07 Thread David Brodbeck
On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 10:56 AM, David Jackson djackson...@gmail.com wrote: You have just now declared complete indifference to and alienated about 99% of the potential user base and their needs, those who could care less about compiling source and messing with compiler options. Maybe FreeBSD

Re: Editor With NO Shell Access?

2012-03-12 Thread David Brodbeck
On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 7:19 PM, Tim Daneliuk tun...@tundraware.com wrote: I have a situation where I need to provide people with the ability to edit files.  However, under no circumstances do I want them to be able to exit to the shell.   The client in question has strong (and unyielding)

Re: how often to update ports?

2012-04-20 Thread David Brodbeck
On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 1:31 PM, Aleksandr Miroslav alexmiros...@gmail.com wrote: From what I've gleaned from this list and other BSD mailing lists that I'm on, is that some people don't update their port-installed packages nearly as frequently (security patches/updates aside). Some people go

Re: editor that understands CTRL/B, CTRL/I, CTRL/U

2012-04-26 Thread David Brodbeck
On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 11:55 PM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: Thanks for that article, it's really sad. One of the main problems is (in my opinion) that GENERIC SKILLS aren't recognozed with the big importane they have. This applies to hiring as well as education. When they read a job

Re: editor that understands CTRL/B, CTRL/I, CTRL/U

2012-04-27 Thread David Brodbeck
On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 2:52 PM, Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: Indeed -- and the employer who bucks this trend does him/her self a huge service, because large numbers of very skilled and/or talented people are being rejected on entirely arbitrary criteria that have little or no

Re: `ls -l` shows size of file other than of the folder?

2012-06-14 Thread David Brodbeck
On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 12:37 PM, Peter Vereshagin pe...@vereshagin.org wrote: Hello. 2012/06/14 00:23:25 +0400 Peter Vereshagin pe...@vereshagin.org = To freebsd-questions@freebsd.org: PV ot the least how could I see the 'real' size of each of those files, both  ~150M PV actulally, with

Re: Uptime [OT]

2012-06-15 Thread David Brodbeck
On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 4:00 PM, Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: No power conditioning (implied by no UPS) is nothing to brag about. If your utility power is very -- common now in places with buried utilities -- a UPS of the non-enterprise variety can actually make reliability *worse*.

Re: Uptime [OT]

2012-06-15 Thread David Brodbeck
On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 11:47 PM, David Brodbeck g...@gull.us wrote: On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 4:00 PM, Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: No power conditioning (implied by no UPS) is nothing to brag about. If your utility power is very -- common now in places with buried utilities -- a UPS

Re: Uptime [OT]

2012-06-15 Thread David Brodbeck
On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 11:54 PM, Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: I don't consider the ability to stay up for a few minutes when there's a brief blackout to be the most important function of a good UPS, even though that's kinda the reason the things were invented in the first place.  

Re: UEFI Secure Boot Specs - And some sanity

2012-06-15 Thread David Brodbeck
On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 12:23 AM, C. P. Ghost cpgh...@cordula.ws wrote: Only if they fully follow the spec. This is rather unlikely. Even today, there are still many broken DMI/SMBIOS tables out there that contain barely enough stuff for Windows to boot successfully. What makes you think

Re: Why Clang

2012-06-18 Thread David Brodbeck
On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 4:37 PM, Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: And the facts are: Lots of worktime were spent to make new C compiler from scratch and this resulted with thing 5 times larger, working at similar speed and producing similar code to GCC that is already

Re: Patent hit - MS goes after Linux - FreeBSD ?

2012-08-06 Thread David Brodbeck
On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 5:37 PM, Steve O'Hara-Smith st...@sohara.org wrote: On Mon, 6 Aug 2012 08:16:38 -0400 Jerry je...@seibercom.net wrote: Yes you can. You are stating a commonly held incorrect belief. You can always request a license from the patient holder. No one, well no one

Re: Patent hit - MS goes after Linux - FreeBSD ?

2012-08-06 Thread David Brodbeck
On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 7:48 PM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: It's also debatable if one of today's most prominent use of patents is fair: I tell you! I have patents! You are infringing! I'm not gonna tell you which patents about what, but I'll sue all your users! Of course, if such a

Re: The nightmarish problem of installing a printer

2010-09-21 Thread David Brodbeck
I think conspiracy theories miss the point. The reason more printers work on Windows than on FreeBSD is if you don't support Windows, you can't sell printers to 92% of computer users. This is an extremely powerful incentive to spend money on writing Windows drivers. The financial incentive is

Re: The nightmarish problem of installing a printer

2010-09-22 Thread David Brodbeck
On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 5:24 PM, Robert Bonomi bon...@mail.r-bonomi.com wrote: A) *THEY* developed the interface specifications. They license printer manufacurers to build to it.   They _would_ obejct if somebody used their technology to compete against them. B) As it is, to _use_ one of

Re: The nightmarish problem of installing a printer

2010-09-22 Thread David Brodbeck
On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 11:36 AM, Peter A. Giessel pgies...@mac.com wrote: The question you are missing is *HOW* does MacOS X print to all these cheap printers? Lets take a couple of screen captures from Mac OS X.6 (Apple's latest released OS) with all current updates installed:

Re: [fbsd_questions] i386 vs amd64, on intel_64

2010-10-04 Thread David Brodbeck
On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 12:51 PM, spellberg_robert email...@emailrob.com wrote:  q:    if i install an amd64 version on an intel_64 platform,          am i restricted to 16 64_bit registers and 48_bit pointers or          can i compile for both cpu_models          [ perhaps, with nothing more

Re: [fbsd_questions] i386 vs amd64, on intel_64

2010-10-04 Thread David Brodbeck
that i asked. per your statement, on i386, amd64 or both ? David Brodbeck wrote: On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 12:51 PM, spellberg_robert email...@emailrob.com wrote: q:    if i install an amd64 version on an intel_64 platform,        am i restricted to 16 64_bit registers and 48_bit pointers

Re: Which OS for notebook

2010-10-06 Thread David Brodbeck
On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 6:25 AM, Mark Blackman m...@exonetric.com wrote: There's also the whole train of thought that says FreeBSD isn't really aimed at the desktop/laptop/notebook use model and any benefit in that arena is entirely coincidental. That tends to be my perspective. Linux tends to

Re: newsyslog.conf and Apache log files

2010-10-07 Thread David Brodbeck
On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 11:25 AM, Lowell Gilbert freebsd-questions-lo...@be-well.ilk.org wrote: Joe Auty j...@netmusician.org writes: Hello, I have the following entry for dealing with my Apache log files: /var/log/httpd/*             644  2     *  $M1D0 GBJ /var/run/httpd.pid 30

Re: Like it or not, Theo is having a good laugh ..

2010-10-13 Thread David Brodbeck
I feel like the main thing being proven by this thread is that Theo is excellent at trolling FreeBSDers. The ratio of text in Theo's original post to text in this thread has to be approaching 10,000:1. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Netbooks BSD

2010-10-20 Thread David Brodbeck
On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 10:32 AM, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote:        Sure, the optical uses [I think] a USB connector.  Pretty sure        that all these tiny toys are made at one factory! and then        labeled by the vendor.  If all the opticals are essentially        the same, then

Re: Netbooks BSD

2010-10-20 Thread David Brodbeck
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. Now, the USB keyboard protocol...ugh, they really dropped the

Re: Greybeards (Re: Netbooks BSD)

2010-10-20 Thread David Brodbeck
On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 1:10 PM, Arthur Chance free...@qeng-ho.org wrote: On 10/20/10 20:46, Bob Hall wrote: Getting back to reality, although I never did it (fortunately), a friend of mine who was about a decade older than me (I'm mid/late 50s) had the experience of programming microcode on a

Re: Netbooks BSD

2010-10-20 Thread David Brodbeck
On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 4:19 PM, Chip Camden sterl...@camdensoftware.com wrote: Quoth David Brodbeck on Wednesday, 20 October 2010: Now, the USB keyboard protocol...ugh, they really dropped the ball on that one.  It's standardized, which is good, but it's a polling interface and tends

Re: Greybeards (Re: Netbooks BSD)

2010-10-22 Thread David Brodbeck
On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 6:32 AM, Arthur Chance free...@qeng-ho.org wrote: Dredging up physics unused for 30+ years, ferrite is ferromagnetic and intensifies magnetic fields so a coil of wire with ferrite inside is a massively bigger inductor then an empty coil. I vaguely remember that brass is

Re: ZFS and NFS, can't see subvolumes.

2010-10-25 Thread David Brodbeck
On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 7:58 AM, Mickaël Canévet cane...@embl.fr wrote: Hi, I have a problem whith ZFS + NFS export. I have a zpool 'data' that contains subvolumes 'user' and 'group' that also contains subvolumes. I share data (zfs set sharenfs=on data) and showmount shows all my exports:

Re: ZFS License and Future

2010-11-08 Thread David Brodbeck
On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 12:01 PM, Svein Skogen (Listmail account) svein-listm...@stillbilde.net wrote: And I'm ... all too familiar with redundancy strategies (and backups). Including their shortcomings. Speaking of which: Has there been any progress on properly backing up ZFS on FreeBSD yet?

Re: Per core frequency control

2010-11-09 Thread David Brodbeck
On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 5:17 AM, Svein Skogen (Listmail account) svein-listm...@stillbilde.net wrote: You did read the symmetric part of symmetric multi processor didn't you? It's a limitation of the technology. One clock. I don't think that's quite true. The newer Intel server chipsets have

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

2010-11-12 Thread David Brodbeck
On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 12:24 PM, Peter A. Giessel pgies...@mac.com wrote: On 2010/11/12 at 10:33, rfar...@predatorlabs.net (Rob Farmer) wrote: it is better for real/serious work, but the general public doesn't see it as new or valuable - its just a stupid change in the way everything has

Re: Is ZFS ready for prime time?

2010-11-15 Thread David Brodbeck
One problem I ran into is that the file sharing technologies in FreeBSD have not kept up; I consider NFSv4 a requirement for sanely sharing ZFS over a network, and FreeBSD's NFSv4 server is still under heavy development and not yet production-ready. That may not matter for a backup server,

Re: FreeBSD and large harddrives

2010-11-19 Thread David Brodbeck
On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 1:58 AM, krad kra...@gmail.com wrote: A few people have mentioned labelling the drives. Its a good thing to do, but take it a step further. Before you put the drives in the system, physically label them with something identifiable (colored sticker, number whatever).

Re: Can MS Exchange play nice with the mailing lists?

2010-12-01 Thread David Brodbeck
You might also try sending a message from the exchange server to another email account of yours, so you can examine the headers on the outgoing message for anything strange. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: printer recommendations?

2010-12-07 Thread David Brodbeck
On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 10:13 AM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Thu, 2 Dec 2010 20:38:05 -0800, Charlie Kester corky1...@comcast.net wrote: My old HP Laserjet 4+ is broken and I'm thinking about buying a new printer. In case you have been happy with your 4+, consider getting a used

Re: next question....

2010-12-16 Thread David Brodbeck
On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 9:06 AM, Chris Brennan xa...@xaerolimit.net wrote: When sudo'ing, pass 'sudo su -' (same principle applies, but you don't need to to be in wheel to use this command) Is the end result of 'sudo su - ' any different from the simpler command 'sudo -i'?

Re: SEBSD is dead?

2010-12-17 Thread David Brodbeck
On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 8:02 AM, Jerry McAllister jerr...@msu.edu wrote: Anyway, SeLinux ain't 100% popular over there I noticed. Maybe it is just a matter of getting used to it.  I got tired of reading the posts on it, so haven't figured out if they were substantive or just whiney. The

Re: SEBSD is dead?

2010-12-20 Thread David Brodbeck
On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 2:51 AM, krad kra...@gmail.com wrote: On 17 December 2010 22:20, David Brodbeck g...@gull.us wrote: On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 8:02 AM, Jerry McAllister jerr...@msu.edu wrote: Anyway, SeLinux ain't 100% popular over there I noticed. Maybe it is just a matter

Re: ssh interactive session, through intermediate hosts ... problems ...

2010-12-20 Thread David Brodbeck
On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 4:43 PM, Josh Suid joshs...@yahoo.com wrote: First, where on the ssh client command line (see above) can I specify a more liberal timeout value ?  Since my interactive session has three or more layers of host between it, the whole thing falls apart if even one link slows

Re: printer recommendations?

2010-12-20 Thread David Brodbeck
On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 1:42 AM, Charlie Kester corky1...@comcast.net wrote: As a last gasp effort, I gave my LJ4+ a thorough cleaning and replaced the rollers for the output feed in the back.  And hey, it seems to be working now!  The way it had been sounding, I was sure I'd broken something

Re: Installer program for FreeBSD-9.0?

2010-12-20 Thread David Brodbeck
On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 3:27 AM, Bruce Cran br...@cran.org.uk wrote: On Wed, 08 Dec 2010 11:14:22 + Thomas Mueller mueller6...@bellsouth.net wrote: The argument is normally that even without a CD drive everyone has USB so should install using that instead of floppies. Not true on a

Re: printer recommendations?

2010-12-20 Thread David Brodbeck
On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 9:35 PM, Charlie Kester corky1...@comcast.net wrote: Thanks for suggesting the jetdirect cards, guys.  I vaguely remembered seeing something like that, but I assumed that if any still existed in operating condition, they were inside a printer and not available for

Re: cpio misunderstanding?

2010-12-26 Thread David Brodbeck
On Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 4:57 PM, Joe Kraft jvk-l...@thekrafts.org wrote: OK, now I know what's going on.  I just don't know why.  The immutable flag was set on all these files, if you clear it cpio will happily copy them to the new directory. Does cpio attempt to preserve flags? Since the

Re: Does anybody know a PeerGuardian like app?

2010-12-29 Thread David Brodbeck
On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 8:04 AM, S Mathias smathias1...@yahoo.com wrote: Are there any programs blocking ip, and has frequently updated lists, like the peerguardian on windows? I'm not entirely sure what services you're trying to protect, but I find /usr/ports/security/denyhosts works pretty

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