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

2012-02-24 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Friday 24 February 2012 19:20:42 Julian H. Stacey wrote: Erich Dollansky wrote: On Friday 24 February 2012 14:14:32 Matthew Seaman wrote: On 24/02/2012 06:59, Erich Dollansky wrote: I live in Asia and they really have these things here. Just without the horns

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

2012-02-23 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Friday 24 February 2012 06:18:16 Steve Bertrand wrote: On 2012-02-23 10:17, Erich Dollansky wrote: I suggest to everyone of you that you recommend to change/replace the unnecessary picture right in front of your website. Are you talking about this ugly ball? Some say

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

2012-02-23 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Friday 24 February 2012 13:59:03 Odhiambo Washington wrote: On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 02:18, Steve Bertrand steve.bertr...@gmail.comwrote: On 2012-02-23 10:17, Erich Dollansky wrote: lol iirc, Ted Mittelstaedt started the sex-toy thing sometime in the mid 2000's. I see some things

Re: Installation troubles

2012-02-22 Thread Erich Dollansky
as you keep one notebook intact. You have to check the drives in fstab and rc.conf. If I remember right the rest was ok. Erich ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe

Re: /usr/home vs /home

2012-02-21 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Tuesday 21 February 2012 12:26:03 Chip Camden wrote: Quoth Erich Dollansky on Tuesday, 21 February 2012: Hi, On Monday 20 February 2012 21:44:43 Da Rock wrote: On 02/18/12 17:47, Erich Dollansky wrote: There may have been a historic reason, but now it is philosophical

Re: /usr/home vs /home

2012-02-21 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Tuesday 21 February 2012 13:06:57 Robert Bonomi wrote: Erich Dollansky er...@alogreentechnologies.com wrote: On Monday 20 February 2012 21:44:43 Da Rock wrote: On 02/18/12 17:47, Erich Dollansky wrote: when I got my hands for the first time on a BSD system, the machine has

Re: /usr/home vs /home

2012-02-20 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Monday 20 February 2012 21:44:43 Da Rock wrote: On 02/18/12 17:47, Erich Dollansky wrote: There may have been a historic reason, but now it is philosophical - trying when I got my hands for the first time on a BSD system, the machine has had several 5MB hard disks. I assume

Re: /usr/home vs /home

2012-02-20 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Tuesday 21 February 2012 13:20:11 Chip Camden wrote: Quoth Erich Dollansky on Tuesday, 21 February 2012: On Tuesday 21 February 2012 12:26:03 Chip Camden wrote: Quoth Erich Dollansky on Tuesday, 21 February 2012: On Monday 20 February 2012 21:44:43 Da Rock wrote: On 02/18/12

Re: No updates needed to update system to 8.2-RELEASE-p6 but still on 8.2-RELEASE-p3

2012-02-19 Thread Erich Dollansky
strategy. Stay with 8 until 10 appears at the scene. You will have support for 8.x until 10.0 will be available. There is no need for you to switch to 9.x at all. Erich ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: /usr/home vs /home (was: Re: One or Four?)

2012-02-18 Thread Erich Dollansky
partitioning came from the need to have several disks to run a serious system. And yes, it was possible to boot and run BSD with at least 20 users on several 5MB disks. Erich ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: Is the list down?

2012-02-18 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi Al, On Sunday 19 February 2012 07:15:00 Al Plant wrote: Erich Dollansky wrote: Aloha Eric, My missing mail finally come down the pipe over night too. Strange but it has happened before. Thanks for your support. Where are you located? Here in Hawaii we have military installations

Re: One or Four?

2012-02-18 Thread Erich Dollansky
complication or confusion. Nor does it prevent any of the schemes people have been advocating or requesting. You seem to forget normal users who just want to use the system. They do not think of recovery until it actually happens. Erich ___ freebsd

Re: One or Four?

2012-02-18 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Sunday 19 February 2012 09:30:55 Jerry McAllister wrote: On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 08:03:39AM +0700, Erich Dollansky wrote: Hi, On Sunday 19 February 2012 04:34:17 Jerry McAllister wrote: On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 12:07:30PM +0100, Damien Fleuriot wrote: So, Polytropon's

Re: One or Four?

2012-02-18 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Sunday 19 February 2012 11:40:22 Carl Johnson wrote: Erich Dollansky er...@alogreentechnologies.com writes: Hi, On Sunday 19 February 2012 04:34:17 Jerry McAllister wrote: On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 12:07:30PM +0100, Damien Fleuriot wrote: So, Polytropon's three choice

Re: Is the list down?

2012-02-17 Thread Erich Dollansky
over night. Mails from other sources have been received normally during this period of time. Things like this happen once in a while. Erich ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: Processor question

2012-02-17 Thread Erich Dollansky
application. I noticed then that most things went smoother then. Erich ie. you almost certainly want to use amd64, I should think. I hope to give FreeBSD a try later this month. Excellent. Best of luck and any problems not covered in the handbook or google, post here. Welcome to FreeBSD

Re: One or Four?

2012-02-17 Thread Erich Dollansky
that there are many more reasons why at least / has to stay separated from /usr. Let the majority decide which layout is preferred for the default. When will the result be published? Erich ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Kernel stalling at pci0: ACPI bus on pcib0

2012-02-07 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Tuesday 07 February 2012 12:49:46 Da Rock wrote: On 02/07/12 15:48, Erich Dollansky wrote: On Tuesday 07 February 2012 12:40:09 Will McCutcheon wrote: Hello all, I recently got a HP t5700 thin client that I wanted to turn into a firewall using pfSense. For reference

Re: Kernel stalling at pci0: ACPI bus on pcib0

2012-02-06 Thread Erich Dollansky
not handle the peripherals properly. It booted but was unusable. I never tried 9 on it. Erich ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr

Re: help needed for connecting internet with ZTE ac 8700 USB cdma ( EvDO) modem

2012-02-03 Thread Erich Dollansky
at the beginning but gave up after some time. Erich regards Subhasish On 2/3/12, Subhasish Chakraborty imsubhasi...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks .. this ppp.conf worked for me . default: set log Phase Chat LCP IPCP CCP tun command disable pred1 deflate deflate24 protocomp acfcomp shortseq vj

Re: freebsd package update / upgrade

2012-02-02 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Friday 03 February 2012 08:52:07 alexus wrote: What's the procedure on updating packages (not ports), can someone point me (preferably in a handbook) or else where is fine too... it is also done with portupgrade. You just have to use -P or -PP. Check the manual to find out more. Erich

Re: Possible move back to FreeBSD

2012-02-02 Thread Erich Dollansky
, there is no problem. I experienced in very rare cases that a package was not available at the moment I needed at the server I used for downloading. Then, I used the ports as a backup. Erich ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Possible move back to FreeBSD

2012-02-02 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Friday 03 February 2012 12:49:41 Chris wrote: Allow me to apologize for top posting. where should be the problem? I am familliar with pkg_add. I guess I'm more concerned with updating userland when sec fixes ate released. portupgrade -P or -PP will do the job then. Erich Sent

Re: no borders with firefox, terminal (xfce on FreeBSD 9.0 amd64 STABLE)

2012-02-01 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Wednesday 01 February 2012 19:44:15 Antonio Olivares wrote: On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 10:08 PM, Erich Dollansky er...@alogreentechnologies.com wrote: Hi, I did not see which window manager or desktop you are using. xfce, thought I included it :( yes, you included it but not too

Re: no borders with firefox, terminal (xfce on FreeBSD 9.0 amd64 STABLE)

2012-01-31 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, I did not see which window manager or desktop you are using. Erich On Wednesday 01 February 2012 10:45:26 Antonio Olivares wrote: Dear folks, I am having some difficultites when starting up the desktop. The desktop starts up automagically and when I start firefox or terminal

Re: Help with Booting

2011-04-23 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Saturday 23 April 2011 12:57:32 Doug Hardie wrote: On 22 April 2011, at 21:28, Erich Dollansky wrote: It looks to me that not even the loader loads. Is this true? I am not sure. The last message is the timestamp from the original distribution build. Then is a line with just

Re: Help with Booting

2011-04-23 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, I only can tell what I do when a machine does not boot from the installation media: I plug the disk into another machine, install the generic kernel, edit /etc and put it back. If this does not work, it will be hard. Erich On Saturday 23 April 2011 14:25:13 Doug Hardie wrote: On 22

Re: Help with Booting

2011-04-23 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Saturday 23 April 2011 16:30:39 Doug Hardie wrote: On 23 April 2011, at 02:20, Erich Dollansky wrote: I only can tell what I do when a machine does not boot from the installation media: I plug the disk into another machine, install the generic kernel, edit /etc and put

Re: Help with Booting

2011-04-23 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Sunday 24 April 2011 00:37:52 Doug Hardie wrote: On 23 April 2011, at 03:04, Erich Dollansky wrote: On Saturday 23 April 2011 16:30:39 Doug Hardie wrote: On 23 April 2011, at 02:20, Erich Dollansky wrote: I only can tell what I do when a machine does not boot from

Re: Help with Booting

2011-04-22 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, does the loader start? It looks to me that not even the loader loads. Is this true? Erich On Saturday 23 April 2011 05:38:41 Doug Hardie wrote: I have an AMD based system that is driving me nuts. I am trying to install 8.2 on it but can't get past the first boot. I had a system up

Re: How to customize login?

2011-04-16 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, you have changed the file /etc/motd? Erich On Saturday 16 April 2011 13:06:16 Alexander Lardner wrote: Hello list, I have set a banner welcoming anybody on the console. I still see the FreeBSD/i386 (Amnesiac) (ttyvX) message. How can I stop this from displaying? I'd like the banner

Re: sound card not recognized by freebsd 8.2 but mentioned in PC-BSD 8.2

2011-04-16 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Saturday 16 April 2011 14:42:43 Erik Trulsson wrote: On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 09:42:38AM +0700, Erich Dollansky wrote: # kldload snd_driver this will never work. Yes, it will. 'snd_driver' is a meta-module which depends on, and therefore will pull in, all the available

Re: sound card not recognized by freebsd 8.2 but mentioned in PC-BSD 8.2

2011-04-15 Thread Erich Dollansky
this will never work. You must load the driver for your sound card. Something like kldload snd_hda You must replace snd_hda by the name of the driver for your card. Erich But no driver works: # cat /dev/sndstat FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm: 32bit 2009061500/i386) Installed devices

Re: sound card not recognized by freebsd 8.2 but mentioned in PC-BSD 8.2

2011-04-15 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Saturday 16 April 2011 11:16:39 Zhang Weiwu, Beijing wrote: On 04/16/2011 10:42 AM, Erich Dollansky wrote: On Friday 15 April 2011 22:11:05 Zhang Weiwu, Beijing wrote: # kldload snd_driver this will never work. You must load the driver for your sound card. Something like

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

2011-04-08 Thread Erich Dollansky
one question. Upon receiving an answer, I terminated my subscription. I did not feel the least bit inconvenienced. You did not, but the rest of us would have. Erich ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: boot error

2011-03-27 Thread Erich Dollansky
SIGTERM to parent)! If I manually run fsck -p (for example) /dev/ad0s1a I got permission denied. you have to boot into single user mode to run fsck on the root partition. Erich ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: searching for a good IDE

2011-03-27 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Sunday 27 March 2011 20:41:28 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. :-) I am pretty happy with Kate from the KDE package. Erich

Re: FreeBSD Boot

2011-03-21 Thread Erich Dollansky
sysinstall and write a plain mbr without a boot manager. Neither of these prevents the user from having to press the F1 key. Of course not. Erich ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: Mobile hard disk does not respond

2011-03-21 Thread Erich Dollansky
the disk plugged in. FreeBSD does not recognise all USB/AT bridges properly. Maybe, you have bad luck. Erich ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd

Re: HAL must die!

2011-03-15 Thread Erich Dollansky
-source community cannot even begin to agree on its replacement. Every distro is busy trying to It looks like a bunch of little Napoleons. Erich ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: IDE -- mount partitions for better performance

2011-03-14 Thread Erich Dollansky
on the other three disks which you expect to be used in parallel with the /usr disk. Of course, you can mount it anywhere else if you want. Erich ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

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

2011-03-11 Thread Erich Dollansky
exactly is the meaning of X and Y above? I'm assuming that X comes from the association numbers in the snd_hda driver, but I could be wrong. Please correct me! I do not really know but I have had to tell vlc which to use. Erich ___ freebsd-questions

Re: How to get Huawei USB modem to work ?

2011-03-11 Thread Erich Dollansky
U3GINIT_HUAWEI you have. The chances are then pretty high that all will work The next problem will then your ppp.conf. Erich ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

Re: Best practices on upgrading, etc.

2011-03-11 Thread Erich Dollansky
, a portupgrade is normally not needed. At least my ports installed this January still work. It is different on a major version number chance. Anyway, I would suggest to stay with the 8.x branch for this machine until the 10 branch is reliable. Erich

Re: Which OS for notebook

2010-10-04 Thread Erich Dollansky
me problems with USB. Erich ___ 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: Installation problem

2010-08-24 Thread Erich Dollansky
:-( ). The lappy was running ubuntu and fedora fine. this is real bad luck. Hope this does not repeat with my next try at freebsd . This was just a hardware fault not detected at the factory. This happens. Good luck for your next installation. Erich

Re: Upgrade 6.4-stable to 7.3

2010-07-28 Thread Erich Dollansky
should have a running system afterwards. Erich ___ 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

growisofs gives random errors but never writes a DVD successfully

2010-07-25 Thread Erich Dollansky
. As it was never used to burn, it also could be a hardware problem. Reading was not a problem on 8.0. Does anybody have any idea what I am missing? Erich PS: What I did: I added from the handbook atapicam according to the handbook: '18.6.9 Using the ATAPI/CAM Driver I followed this advice

Re: BSD logo

2010-07-25 Thread Erich Dollansky
logo. Have you considered changing it to something else? Doesn't have to be an angel, but perhaps something neutral ;-) ? do we none christians ask you to change the offending stuff related to this religion? Erich ___ freebsd-questions

growisofs gives random error messages on 8.1 amd64

2010-07-25 Thread Erich Dollansky
. As it was never used to burn, it also could be a hardware problem. Reading was not a problem on 8.0. Does anybody have any idea what I am missing? Erich PS: What I did: I added from the handbook atapicam according to the handbook: '18.6.9 Using the ATAPI/CAM Driver I followed this advice

Re: growisofs gives random error messages on 8.1 amd64

2010-07-25 Thread Erich Dollansky
+0800, Erich Dollansky erichfreebsdl...@ovitrap.com wrote: The output is random. It even claimed once to have the DVD finished. But the DVD is not mountable. Check file - /dev/acd0 if an ISO file system has been written to the DVD. As it was never used to burn, it also could

Re: FreeBSD Version recommend for OLD machine

2010-03-11 Thread Erich
one machine on which 8.0 does not support USB at all. The scheduler on 8.0 is much better. You will be surprised when moving directly from 4.11 to 8.0 how fast the machine feels. Erich ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: FreeBSD's UFS vs Ext4

2010-02-07 Thread Erich Dollansky
8.0 and run the same test as before. As the machine running for three years, it could be that the wrong driver for some device was used. I would never compare a running system directly to a freshly installed one. Erich ___ freebsd-questions

Re: Mac applications on FreeBSD

2010-02-03 Thread Erich Dollansky
some Windows applications can be used on FreeBSD via wine. Erich ___ 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: Shutdown

2010-02-01 Thread Erich Dollansky
a token, proc mounted... and still nothing... what else could be wrong? what happens when you enter shutdown -p now in a console? There should be some message? Erich ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: How far to go with jailing?

2010-02-01 Thread Erich Dollansky
into different jails might be a problem. Letting different jails run accessing the same data, does not make sense for me. Erich ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: Help! Upgrade from fbsd 5.4 to 8.x

2010-01-31 Thread Erich Dollansky
and it was working again with the exception of the group file. Ok, an editor fixed the problem. As the problem became obvious while rebooting into the new kernel, you whould be able to switch back to your old kernel and then move back to 7. I did not have this option. Erich On 31 January 2010 pm 12:08:05 Jeff

Re: Help! Upgrade from fbsd 5.4 to 8.x

2010-01-31 Thread Erich Dollansky
from it. Try to keep all of your old binaries - I personally don't think hardware running 5.4 typically will not boot from USB. Erich ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: Help! Upgrade from fbsd 5.4 to 8.x

2010-01-31 Thread Erich Dollansky
the setup completely on a different machine. Erich ___ 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

gam_server opening 4000 file descriptors

2010-01-29 Thread Erich Dollansky
. Isn't there any other way to tell gamin not to do this? Erich ___ 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: Weird build errors only on 3rd core of quad core CPU

2010-01-27 Thread Erich Dollansky
written onto the CPU itself. Try to get the CPU exchanged and see what happens then. Erich These commands: cd /usr/ports/sysutils/hal cpuset -c -l 2 make Will always result in errors, for example this one: gmake: *** No rule to make target `...@maintainer_mode_true@', needed by `config.h.in

Re: Migration planning - old system to new

2010-01-24 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On 24 January 2010 pm 14:42:11 John wrote: On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 10:55:14AM +0800, Erich Dollansky wrote: how did you handle the strange group IDs? Have not done that yet. My current best plan (which I'm not really crazy about, but haven't come up with anything better) is to do

Re: Migration planning - old system to new

2010-01-24 Thread Erich Dollansky
the names and the uids are quite different for the two systems.___ what happens if you first create the user names on the target system and then open the archive? It would be then very easy to move files accross systems. I never have had to do this. Erich

Re: Migration planning - old system to new

2010-01-23 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On 24 January 2010 am 00:19:34 Jerry McAllister wrote: On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 10:15:19AM +0800, Erich Dollansky wrote: On 23 January 2010 am 01:12:19 John wrote: 1) Create a migrate account in Wheel with home as /var/migrate so that I can do a dump/restore on home without messing

Re: Migration planning - old system to new

2010-01-23 Thread Erich Dollansky
context switches I have had to put the spacesin to be able to read it. I assume, the scheduler really works. Erich ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: Migration planning - old system to new

2010-01-22 Thread Erich Dollansky
write a chapter for The Complete FreeBSD after surviving this... Yes. It is a Le Must. Erich ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions

Package and Ports using PKGDIR

2010-01-19 Thread Erich Dollansky
as the directory of the current port. Basically, I get then the error message that pkg-descr cannot be ffound. I have to undefined PKGDIR to run a successful make install. Is this behaviour intenteded? Erich ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Q: recommendation for external USB disk

2010-01-17 Thread Erich Dollansky
the same interface which I can use in the machine. So, if the internal hard disk fails, will be able to exchange the disks and boot. Ok, fstab might needs to be edited. Erich ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: Information on Setting up a Jailed Webserver

2009-08-26 Thread Erich Dollansky
runs it what jail. Erich ___ 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: please help to uninstall FreeBSD!!!

2009-08-17 Thread Erich Dollansky
was then copied by Intel for the 8080 development systems? By the way, where did I read that #define macro names have to be unique within the first 6 (six) letters? :-) Hey, memory was real rare those days. Erich ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: please help to uninstall FreeBSD!!!

2009-08-17 Thread Erich Dollansky
and it affected all identifiers of linkable objects I did not know that linkers resolved macros those days. Interesting. Erich ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

Re: kernel designations terminology confusion -- amd64 used for into quad core

2009-08-06 Thread Erich Dollansky
whichever would be the IA 64? Wans't this once - or still is - the term used for the Itanium? Yes, also Intel can fail. Intel also failed with their first 32 bit design. Wasn't iAPX-32 ist name? Long before the 80386 came up? Erich ___ freebsd-questions

Re: kernel designations terminology confusion -- amd64 used for into quad core

2009-08-06 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On 06 August 2009 pm 16:40:41 Mark Stapper wrote: Erich Dollansky wrote: IA 64? Wans't this once - or still is - the term used for the Itanium? The one that didn't stick... indeed. do they really sell machines with this CPU in numbers? I have not seen one in the wild. Yes, also

Re: kernel designations terminology confusion -- amd64 used for into quad core

2009-08-06 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On 06 August 2009 pm 19:07:12 Erik Trulsson wrote: On Thu, Aug 06, 2009 at 05:18:09PM +0800, Erich Dollansky wrote: On 06 August 2009 pm 16:40:41 Mark Stapper wrote: Erich Dollansky wrote: IA 64? Wans't this once - or still is - the term used for the Itanium? The one

Re: A question for developers

2009-07-25 Thread Erich Dollansky
which seems to fit best your current task. joe has also the advantage that it behaves differently depending under which name your start it. ee is really just useful for very basic editing. But this is the idea behind ee. Erich ___ freebsd-questions

Re: upgrade from Firefox 3.0 to Firefox 3.5

2009-07-17 Thread Erich Dollansky
be touched. Do you know this from personal experience, or are you just assuming that I won't pull out all my hair five seconds after I discover it deleted a bunch of shit I wanted to keep? just copy it. If all fails, copy it back. Erich ___ freebsd

Re: Advise for buying a Refurbished machine

2009-07-09 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, you must cosinder only one thing. I have seen some of them with horizontal lines in their LCD. I could not find out the real cause if it. Just check it before you get it. I think, you should get a good deal as those machines are robust. Erich On 10 July 2009 pm 12:59:43 dhaneshk k wrote

Re: unable to install gnome

2009-07-08 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, it seems that there is no Internet connection for the machine. Gnome should be on the installation CD. Mount the CD and install it from there. Check the handbook for information of how to configure the network. Erich On 08 July 2009 pm 14:46:42 malathi selvaraj wrote: i am not able

Re: good morning to all

2009-07-07 Thread Erich Dollansky
Good Evening, On 07 July 2009 pm 16:47:58 malathi selvaraj wrote: i am not able to install freeBSD7.2 i'm getting an error like cn't upload kernel if you could be a bit more specific, we might be able to help. Can't you even boot the CD or does the freshly installed kernel not boot? Erich

Re: X Terminals problem

2009-07-05 Thread Erich Dollansky
afterwards. See my mail regarding dbus and hal. Erich ___ 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: update from 7.0 to 7.2?

2009-06-29 Thread Erich Dollansky
pages, it is public available and so prone to attacks. So, make sure that you have the security updates installed. Erich On 30 June 2009 am 02:05:29 Brad Mettee wrote: If a system is stable and ports are up to date, serving mail web pages as needed, is there any reason to update from

Re: OT: C syntax question

2009-06-29 Thread Erich Dollansky
was ahead. If this was a programming interview, I just flunked it. :( I would never get the idea asking a programmer questions like this at all. Erich ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: configuring and ssh tunneling xorg from a headless FreeBSD machine

2009-06-29 Thread Erich Dollansky
. It can run on the Windows machine - which gives a better response - or the FreeBSD machine. Start small with telnet and plain X on FreeBSD enabled and cygwin with X. X can display then your windows directly as Windows windows. Erich ___ freebsd

Re: The question of moving vi to /bin

2009-06-28 Thread Erich Dollansky
what he did do, instead send him to MICROS~1 C:\HELL.EXE with the advice to click on the devil to start the everlasting pain. :-) I do not think so. He will go directly to heaven. Why? He made all computer users pray that no data get lost when the machine freezes again. Erich

Re: The question of moving vi to /bin

2009-06-26 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On 27 June 2009 am 07:08:01 Polytropon wrote: On Fri, 26 Jun 2009 15:40:50 +0800, Erich Dollansky er...@apsara.com.sg wrote: On 26 June 2009 pm 14:01:02 Polytropon wrote: Maybe this is because vi scared me when using WEGA (which is the GDR's equivalent of UNIX System III, run

Re: The question of moving vi to /bin

2009-06-25 Thread Erich Dollansky
words are of no use when the people who matter just won't listen. So I give any hopes in this regard. I hope that they do not listen. It would be even better to have an editor like joe in /bin than anything like vi. Erich ___ freebsd-questions

Re: The question of moving vi to /bin

2009-06-25 Thread Erich Dollansky
30 years back. Didn't come CP/M 1.0 not even with a better editor? ed? edlin? Erich ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr

Re: The question of moving vi to /bin

2009-06-25 Thread Erich Dollansky
Ho, On 26 June 2009 am 04:32:31 Erik Osterholm wrote: On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 01:28:54PM +0800, Erich Dollansky wrote: On 25 June 2009 pm 13:03:01 Manish Jain wrote: If you want to make a case for replacing ed(1), you're isn't there ee in the base system? ee is in /usr/bin, just like

Re: The question of moving vi to /bin

2009-06-25 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On 26 June 2009 am 09:06:49 Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On Fri, 26 Jun 2009 08:20:19 +0800, Erich Dollansky er...@apsara.com.sg wrote: On 25 June 2009 pm 19:13:14 Konrad Heuer wrote: Maybe you're right, maybe not. 20 years ago, I've written and edited voluminous fortran code

Re: The question of moving vi to /bin

2009-06-25 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On 26 June 2009 am 09:07:00 Polytropon wrote: On Fri, 26 Jun 2009 08:24:13 +0800, Erich Dollansky er...@apsara.com.sg wrote: To be honest, I never have had a problem with /usr since disks are large enough to have all on only one. Mostly, partitioning according to directory structures

Re: The question of moving vi to /bin

2009-06-25 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On 26 June 2009 am 10:02:30 Polytropon wrote: On Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:55:48 +0800, Erich Dollansky er...@apsara.com.sg wrote: this is not what I mean. I wanted to say, as long as the boot disk come up, I also have /usr available when I have the space to have it all on the same disk

Re: The question of moving vi to /binHi,

2009-06-25 Thread Erich Dollansky
but less powerful editor) instead, set the environment variable EDITOR to /usr/bin/ee Isn't this the best reasoning why it should stay as it is? Erich ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: The question of moving vi to /binHi,

2009-06-25 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On 26 June 2009 am 10:58:08 Polytropon wrote: On Fri, 26 Jun 2009 10:33:56 +0800, Erich Dollansky er...@apsara.com.sg wrote: On 26 June 2009 am 10:02:30 Polytropon wrote: Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany big brother is watching me. Yes, Dr. Schäuble does so. :-) yeah, he

Re: The question of moving vi to /bin

2009-06-25 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On 26 June 2009 pm 12:19:32 Gary Kline wrote: On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 09:50:31AM +0800, Erich Dollansky wrote: On 26 June 2009 am 09:06:49 Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On Fri, 26 Jun 2009 08:20:19 +0800, Erich Dollansky er...@apsara.com.sg wrote: On 25 June 2009 pm 19:13:14 Konrad

Re: What's the simplest way to get a fresh copy of the source code for the system

2009-02-23 Thread Erich Dollansky
file. You also could use this to upgrade to 7.1. Erich ___ 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: Copy-paste is broken in KDE?

2008-04-16 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, could it be that you mix up the concepts behind copy and paste and the currently selected to be copied into the current windows with the click of the middle mouse button? Erich Yuri wrote: I am seeing occasionally that selected text isn't being copied into the clipboard and isn't

Re: Mousewheel verschwunden

2008-04-13 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, this is an English speaking list. Do you speak English? If not, here is the short translation. Erich Seth Brundle wrote: Hallo Liste, nach Update auf RELENG_7 und Update der Ports ist nun mein Scrollrad verschwunden... :-( Ernst is running RELENG_7. His mouse wheel disappeared after

Re: where is the new kernel(GENERIC) file?

2008-02-21 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, if nothing has changed, the file stayed the same. You can make a simple test. Delete or rename it and start csup again. If it reappears, it has to be the old file. Erich Efren Bravo wrote: Hi there. I downloaded the sources of freebsd 6.3 via cvsup. Where the new kernel file

Re: Did Microsoft give up?

2008-02-21 Thread Erich Dollansky
as they get the work done and still can charge for their programs, why not? Isn't Microsoft doing some kind of open source stuff since some time? Erich ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: POP3 recommendations...

2008-02-21 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, in addition to the IMPA server, you could run your favorite application at the server and log on remotely. Erich Peter Harrison wrote: I've not run a POP3 server before, but now I'm getting tired of confusing myself pulling my email down from my ISP across my laptop, desktop, and home

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