eeBSD drivers made it into MacOS X. Don't know of any
Apple product which used Intel Etherexpress Pro chipsets but I popped a PCI
card in a Mac one day and it magically worked as if it had always been there.
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nd continue to say it at $350.
There are a lot of smart people at Apple who have had nothing better to do the
past 10 years than to study and learn from Steve Jobs.
I'm waiting for $500.
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> svn: Can't connect to host '10.10.10.14': Connection refused
Forget the SVN server daemon its much easier to use svn+ssh:// than svn://
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ow who is winning?
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> The man in HEAD is now a shell script.
In ancient times man was originally a shell script. What is old is new again.
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I'm looking
> > for a fairly easy way to do this, or confirmation it would involve
> > internal gymnastics I may not be willing to perform.
>
> Set the 'columns' attribute of your tty:
>
> stty columns 60
> man xxx
>
> This should do it.
*Shou
mat for one's console rather than the default
Postscript output. "man -t" generates very nice printable man pages.
As for the request not to be CC'ed in reply, put the list address in the
Reply-To: header as I
h evaluating. An entire Mac Mini Server
with two 500G drives an unlimited user license is a budget busting $995
full MSRP.
Many former FreeBSD core members now work for Apple. Many of the man
pages in MacOS X still say FreeBSD. Apple has done a lot for FreeBSD.
-
l puts a copy of everything in ~/Mail_Backup/ just in case.
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This is important
because I print something like 2 envelopes per month. :-)
Several years ago I was secretary/treasurer of a dirtbike club and was printing
as many as 1800 envelopes and the materials inside the envelopes per year. Many
times I went to the Post Office and bought $400
t; and "closed". You
> want to set "firewall_type" in rc.conf to be "open" or whatever your
> firewall type is in /etc/rc.firewall.
What he needs to do is use firewall_script="/etc/ipfw.rules" rather than
firewall_type=
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one could use to reinstall.
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MacOS X but not in 10.6.4.
NICs supported by fxp were favorites of Jordan Hubbard and other
FreeBSD'ers now working for Apple.
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the BSD license permitting a "hostile takeover." Some would
claim FreeBSD has executed a "hostile takeover" of what it is to be BSD. The
pre-FreeBSD code is out there, you are welcome to it. Some would say OpenBSD
attempted a hostile takeover of BSD.
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input.
I would suggest that you not try to learn awk on the command line but
put your script in a file. Then once you have it working and know what
you are doing put it on a single command line if its simple enough.
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A similar stunt is required when using less to view +DESC and +CONTENTS
files in /var/db/pkg/*/ as the leading plus sign has meaning to less on
the command line.
less ./+DESC
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edit a reply to another thread into something else. This is not the same
thing as a new email.
Address a new email to the list with your new thread.
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On Aug 1, 2010, at 11:31 PM, Corey Smith wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 7:30 PM, David Kelly wrote:
>> Gigabit ethernet from a 2.8 GHz P4 to or from MacPro I am only limited by
>> disk data rate. About 60 MB/sec on one end of the disk, more on the other
>> end of the d
ated."
Gigabit ethernet from a 2.8 GHz P4 to or from MacPro I am only limited by disk
data rate. About 60 MB/sec on one end of the disk, more on the other end of the
disk.
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For some reason
today my friend's Blackberry is sending 7bit rather than
quoted-printable. He doesn't know why.
:0 fW
* ^X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit
| tr '\240' ' '
:0 afW
| formail -I "X-Converted: 0
tr or
sed do the job than it would have taken to knock something out in C, but
I think there should be something laying around already in the base
system to perform this task.
Suggestions? Repair the email while procmail has it? Reconfigure mutt
and/o
the dd in the sub-shell to _exit_ after the first 10mb,
> whereupon the subshell would exit after the 3 second sleep, whereupon
> 'somebody" is going to holler about a 'broken pipe'.
Am not sure why the actual example
pe program.
Someone else has probably written a slow pipe. I haven't looked.
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On Jul 5, 2010, at 5:59 PM, Steve Bertrand wrote:
On 2010.07.05 12:57, David Kelly wrote:
On Mon, Jul 05, 2010 at 10:16:19AM -0600, Modulok wrote:
Criteria:
- HostA must never directly talk to HostB.
- Both hostA and hostB have an Internet connection.
What I have to work with
g on a the untrusted port into a VLAN. And/Or configure so that
the untrusted port is switched only to the FreeBSD router port.
Would be easiest to slip another NIC in the FreeBSD router for this purpose.
Then no VLAN, everything is handled in your firewall.
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A and
hostB.
Furthermore, it would be even easier to disallow hostB from within
hostA's firewall. And do the same at hostB.
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On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 10:10:20AM -0700, Joe's Morgue wrote:
> Looking thru your manuals, I have not seen anything about gaming on a
> FreeBSD machine. ?
You are not reading the manual correctly. Then *entire* manual is the
game. :-)
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ive either...
Why would you want something more than the Garmin "puck"?
I have a couple of instrumentation grade GPS's at work but their
primary justification is to generate IRIG time to sync a multitude of
instruments which expect a time signal in IRIG format.
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mandatory) for all users I can see
justification for what you are trying. But for just one user why not
keep it simple with a "|/usr/local/bin/procmail" in /etc/aliases?
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>
> # ls -1F
> keep
> old/
[...]
I think mtree(8) is the proper tool for this job. Especially the -r option:
-rRemove any files in the file hierarchy that are not described in
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t mention 3Com cards one way or the
> other, yet there's a lot of them out there. Any comment on those?
3com's downfall has been due to their mixed bag of sometimes great,
sometimes disappointing.
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On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 11:29:21PM +0200, Kaya Saman wrote:
> David Kelly wrote:
> >On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 12:51:00PM -0800, Rob Farmer wrote:
[...]
> >>I'm sure it has been answered somewhere, but I can't find it - which
> >>FreeBSD archs are little/bi
he OS chooses the mode. I'm not familiar with these platforms -
> I'm sure it has been answered somewhere, but I can't find it - which
> FreeBSD archs are little/big endian? Thanks.
i386 is little endian. Would expect ia64 to be the same
cked into cvs compatible format and all cvsup can do is pull down the
entire file.
I would be happy to use svn as I do for my own projects.
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On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 01:07:46AM -0800, Andrei Antoukh wrote:
> LinkedIn
>
>
> Andrei Antoukh requested to add you as a connection on LinkedIn:
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cluding kernel was under 10 MB. Plus another
10 or 15 MB for Apache, and another 10 MB or so for Perl. Kept a 500 MHz
P3 busy for a while. :-)
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n, e. g.
>
> while(1)
> ;
>
> instead of
>
> while(1);
Agreed. I did exactly this in a code sample posted earlier in this
thread.
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On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 05:08:40AM +0200, Polytropon wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Oct 2009 08:58:05 -0500, David Kelly wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 05:43:44AM +0200, Polytropon wrote:
> > > to make sure s is not NULL, or testing for it explicitely like
> > >
> > >
and gcc use the same preprocessor? Comments are stripped
in the preprocessor.
The only thing we can really say is that gcc accepts // as a comment. Is
becoming an accepted convention in other C's but I doubt one can
universally state that its accepted in all "re
On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 05:43:44AM +0200, Polytropon wrote:
> On Sun, 18 Oct 2009 22:23:43 -0500, David Kelly wrote:
> > When not using a count to indicate how much data is in a char* you
> > should always test for null. Testing for null is not a sure fire way
> > to pre
re way
to prevent buffer over runs but its better than nothing.
Use the above something like this:
char *buffPtr;
buffPtr = skipTags( buffPtr ); // advance over < > tags
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places you have been so as to warn you that the connection
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On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 03:29:43PM -0400, Carmel NY wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Sep 2009 14:08:21 -0500
> David Kelly wrote:
>
> [snip]
>
> > It would, but he's approaching the problem with Windows-colored
> > glasses.
>
> I am not sure what that is even suppos
do
> > it the other way around.
>
> Am I missing something or would ssh, scp and directing your Xwindows
> display from the headless machine to a desktop X server cover
> everything you are asking for?
It would, but he&#x
sharing band-aids that issue.
Multi-user Unix systems trivially allow remote logins including ftp and
scp file copying.
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I will investigate it ASAP.
This isn't Windows where everything changes between every new release.
The fundamentals of NFS haven't changed much in 10 years.
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submitting a PR, perhaps that is the case
here?
Why is this in -questions? Seems -chat is more appropriate.
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ing to spend to save $12?
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regards zohreh ?
>
> You seem to have blocked FTP access by tweaking the firewall ruleset.
Client side passive ftp can function through simple firewalls but
non-passive (which is *not* "active") requires very special handling.
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On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 04:33:24PM -0400, Michael Powell wrote:
> David Kelly wrote:
> >
> > Last sentences in last paragraph before See Also at
> >
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrier_sense_multiple_access_with_collision_detection:
> >
> > "Also
On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 02:49:11AM -0400, Michael Powell wrote:
> David Kelly wrote:
>
> > Since when does one have CSMA/CD when configured as full duplex? All
> > full duplex ethernet connections are point to point, machine to
> > machine, or machine to switch. There
On Jul 15, 2009, at 5:41 PM, Michael Powell wrote:
David Kelly wrote:
Not directly FreeBSD related, but how much of a chance is there
that two
machines could communicate directly over 5,000 feet of cat5 with no
special hardware?
IIRC the classic ethernet problem limiting the distance
erters (UTP to fiber) for
$1000.
Transceivers are easy to find. Matching cable has not been easy to find.
Don't be afraid by the cost of fiber optic, most of the cost is
labour to bury the fiber, it is not the cost of the cable
itself.
Not going to bury it. Is temporary for less than a we
On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 10:27:35PM +0200, Michelle Konzack wrote:
> Hello David,
>
> Am 2009-07-15 14:47:18, schrieb David Kelly:
> > Not directly FreeBSD related, but how much of a chance is there that two
> > machines could communicate directly over 5,000 feet of cat
particular range extenders you have used and would
recommend for making this task a sure thing on the first try? Perhaps I
should put an inexpensive ethernet switch at each junction to serve as a
regenerative repeater?
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On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 11:12:05PM +0200, Polytropon wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Jun 2009 15:59:44 -0500, David Kelly wrote:
> > We are already there. SSDs are not slower than mechanical disk
> > drives, they are faster. The only detriments are 1) cost, 2) limited
> > write life.
> the current mechanical technology. it will wind up being considerably
> faster than the current drives and suck Much less juice.
We are already there. SSDs are not slower than mechanical disk drives,
they are faster. The only detriments are 1) cost, 2) limited write life.
;t let someone scare you away
from the 99.8% solution waiting on the 99.9% solution."
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ing that time. Possibly the hub/switch lost
power, or the modem was down.
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potential
FLASH speeds. Its fast relative to hard drive speeds. Writing may not be
as fast as a "real" HD, YMMV.
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is drive off since 2000.
The WD drive claims to have 1418293 hours of uptime. Know that is not
right.
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load? The
> server will be used by 4 people for storage of all sorts of files that
> can be found in Design and daily Office World (Photoshop, Illustrator,
> etc, Word Documents, etc).
I think its gross overkill for that very
the same.
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ect(s) of VMS
went to Microsoft and were given NT to mold in their own likeness. This
is where rings of security levels originated in modern Windows.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Cutler
NT 3.5 and possibly 4.0 supported VMS-like versioned files as part of
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ld build and install the new version. Then "pkgdb -fu" may or may not
have been required to force an update of the ports database.
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gt;
> The problem turned up when an update for fftw3 became available.
>
> Apparently gcc43 is a new dependency for fftw3!
>
> Any hints appreciated
Add this to /etc/make.conf. Worked for me:
WITHOUT_JAVA=1
Apparently to build Java one has to increase the size of some tables in
the k
er with the suspect cable no matter which
drive is connected to that cable, no matter which port it is connected
to.
Two supposedly identical SATA cables purchased together. Will purchase
new cables to try tonight.
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always unambiguous.
> int8_t int16_t is just unneeded work. anyway - it's just defines, having
> no effect on compiled code and it's performance.
No, they are not "just defines", I said "typedef". Typedef is subject to
stricter checking by the compiler.
Packin
d the other drive on ad6 worked. Thought the card was
bad but decided to try swapping cables which fixed ad4 and broke ad6.
Ergo, bad cable.
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proper typedefs to create them.
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't make any sense
It makes a certain degree of sense. Sometimes things have to be done
wrong for us to realize how good we had it before. How would we know how
great FreeBSD is if we didn't have Linux? I had to look at ZFS to decide
not to use it when I rebuild my storage this week
at ZFS recently. Appears to be a memory hog, needs about 1
GB especially if large file transfers may occur over gigabit ethernet
to/from other machines.
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ht I optimize it for performance? Stick with geom, or
something else?
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Ditto. Intel NICs are exceptionally well supported. If one must run
Windows, an Intel NIC and Intel driver provide a lot of features which
are otherwise missing.
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ility of attempting an accidental write to CDROM.
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there such a thing as a USB->DB9(M) null modem cable? If not, would a
> USB->DB9 adapter stuck on one end of a null modem cable work?
Yes, its a smart adapter. I've had best luck using a
"Keyspan High Speed USB Serial Adapter" model USA-19HS. About $31 at
Amazon.com and m
On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 03:41:55PM -0400, John Almberg wrote:
> On Mar 23, 2009, at 3:19 PM, David Kelly wrote:
>
> >How about something as simple as "arp -a"? This lists the arp cache
> >of machines recently heard by your machine. If you know the IP
> >address
s "arp -a"? This lists the arp cache of
machines recently heard by your machine. If you know the IP address of
the machine in question and its not in your arp table, ping it. Then the
MAC address will appear unless there is a router between here and th
On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 11:27:39AM -0400, Joe Chimento wrote:
> Is there an easy way to rename a user account belonging to 'www' group?
vipw(8)
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sson in how to lie the way they claim
this is somehow "free" and/or "freedom."
GPL states that if you make changes those changes must be made available
under the same terms as the original source code. Yet somehow darlings
of the GPL world such as Red Hat, MySQL, and others, skir
written by FreeBSD which
MacOS was happily honoring. Would happily put an HFS+ partition on the
drives. But MacOS X RAID had to be established at a lower level using a
Macintosh disk label.
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On Fri, Feb 06, 2009 at 11:17:13AM -0800, Gary Kline wrote:
>
> % lpr /etc/fstab
>
> works. from the apsfilter log, it lookas as tho i need to upgrade
> this libgs.so.8 shared library. but *how* do i find who/what build
> this library?
% grep -l libgs /var/db/pkg/*/+CONTENT
On Tue, Feb 03, 2009 at 09:41:19PM +, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 03, 2009 at 02:48:24PM -0600, David Kelly wrote:
> >
> > I think "portupgrade -f p5-XML-Parser" got me over the hurdle. There
> > was a file missing altho the port was installed. Force
On Tue, Feb 03, 2009 at 01:36:19PM -0800, Rem P Roberti wrote:
> On 2009.02.03 14:48:24 +0000, David Kelly wrote:
> >
> > I think "portupgrade -f p5-XML-Parser" got me over the hurdle. There was
> > a file missing altho the port was installed. Forced it to build an
ortupgrade -f p5-XML-Parser" got me over the hurdle. There was
a file missing altho the port was installed. Forced it to build and
reinstall and things were able to build once again.
Portupgrade is still building so I can't get at my shell history to
verify.
Did something similar for th
fuses.
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on at the SCSI card?
You said there was termination on the cable, but is there also on-board
termination on the drive?
No other drive on the bus has termination enabled?
One terminator on each end of the bus, no more, no less.
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the larger block size?
You list -v as a tar option. Is tar sticking on a file?
Another question is whether or not tar could be getting caught in a hard
link or symbolic link infinite loop? Look for duplicates in the output.
uniq(1) should be of assistance. Perhaps uniq needs a sort(1) to
prepr
On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 11:52:48PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
>
>
> On Mon, 26 Jan 2009, David Kelly wrote:
>
> >On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 11:39:19PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
> >>is it any decruncher for unix for this format (it's compressed audio
> &
On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 11:39:19PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
> is it any decruncher for unix for this format (it's compressed audio
> CD, from size i think it's kind of lossless compression)
What does file(1) think it is?
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# idiot autoresponder on freebsd lists, 1/21/2009
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* ^From:.*supp...@aebc.com
/dev/null
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es, i know that many of these
> audio files can be subscribed to as podcasts. I have several
> on my Google page.
Get A Mac!
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of
your machines but there is no point unless you want/need to see the
contents of the packets. A switch that smart should also be able to
count packets and tally total byte counts. If I understand correctly
that is all you want.
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e double quotes to match the "http:" string?
>
> perl -pi.bak -e 'print unless "/m/http:/" || eof; close ARGV if eof' *
In years past I used fetch(1) to download the day's page from a comic
strip site, awk to extract
rtunately AFAIK there is no similar tool for DVDs
Thought readcd (out of cdrtools) also knew how to read DVD?
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of a disc verify
utility. These days the Disk Utility in MacOS X automatically verifies.
But back then under FreeBSD I used dd and handled EOF specially in my
shell script.
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work ;)
> >
> > http://xkcd.com/323/
>
> Damn ... I thought it was something more realistic looking ...
There is hope yet. The Oracle of Undisputed Fact and Wisdom :-)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xkcd#Life_imitates_xkcd, says l
s about
the Brother (or printer drivers because this was pre-MacOS X) but I
enjoyed wonderful cheap B&W prints off the HP but the Brother isn't
nearly as good. Text and line graphics are excellent.
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