Re: FreeBSD logo design competition

2005-02-09 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, stheg olloydson wrote: Any communications should come from someone with an easy-to-pronounce northern European surname (but not French) and, if at all possible, a first name that sounds American. Can I suggest Mark from a lovely town in Austria? www.fucking.at This is the next kind of problems

Re: Logo Contest

2005-02-10 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, Anthony Atkielski wrote: Erich Dollansky writes: Do above attributes apply to the logo of the most successful software package known as Windows? Yes. The Windows logo is simple and easy to recognize. The full logo is in multiple colors and requires screens to print, which is a bit

Re: Logo Contest

2005-02-10 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, Anthony Atkielski wrote: Erich Dollansky writes: Do you believe that Windows is this successful because of its logo? No, but the logo accounts for a lot of brand recognition for Windows, as it does for most other products. Simple logos are easy to retain and Yes, after Windows become

Re: All your laptops are belong to Windows.

2005-02-14 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, bsdnooby wrote: I'm defeated. The FreeBSD install gives no hints as to why it turns off my laptop. FreeBSD's weakest point is the support for notebooks. I could get it running at least but it did not make real sense to keep it as the power management was to limited. I kept this machine as

Re: What laptop do you recommend?

2006-03-13 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, Eric Brunner-Williams wrote: I've a related question, but my primary constraints are physical. I'm looking for a lightweight and low-profile package, like the fabulous (and wicked prone to hard failure) Sony 505 series of products. take a look at the P-series from Fujitsu. I ran FreeBSD

Re: Please explain.

2004-09-19 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, Martin P. Hellwig wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: cut Well, fair enough but it still comes down to if you have a other OS which does what you need than use that OS. SMP support is only one thing to consider. But perhaps you require the BSD license for you biz? Actually I'm not very knowledged

Re: firefox-1.0.1.p_2 crashing on javascript

2004-10-16 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, h wrote: bogus ports such as firefox-1.0.1.p_2 should be moved to firefox-devel or The problems are never detected if the port is not brought to the masses like this. As an example, it works perfectly on my machine like it is working perfectly on many others. Erich

Re: Explaining FreeBSD features

2005-06-20 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, Fafa Hafiz Krantz wrote: I am curious why it's so difficult to get a simple and straight forward list of FreeBSD's features, that normal people can understand? There is no real answer to this question. I am trying to write one of the largest articles ever to be published on

Re: Explaining FreeBSD features

2005-06-20 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, Fafa Hafiz Krantz wrote: This sounds good. How much time is left for you to write it? A couple of weeks :) So I have a lot of time to do research. You could subscribe to more technical lists to see how help is done and what kind of problems people face with a none-technical

Re: Explaining FreeBSD features

2005-06-21 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: Let's say this: Multi-threaded SMP architecture capable of executing the kernel in parallel on multiple processors, and with kernel preemption, allowing high priority kernel tasks to preempt other kernel activity, reducing latency. This includes a

Re: Explaining FreeBSD features

2005-06-21 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, Vulpes Velox wrote: Ignorant useless users should be supported by commercial ventures, not community ones. They will just drag the community down with their weight if they don't help out. This would be the real tough one. There should also be a way to write some kind of descripton for

Re: Explaining FreeBSD features

2005-06-22 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: I do not think that it the design of Windows which makes it target. It is the kind of support people with no knowledge get which makes it. People pay for Windows, not for FreeBSD. The support structures are totally different because of this. If support is what

Re: Explaining FreeBSD features

2005-06-23 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, Andrew L. Gould wrote: On Wednesday 22 June 2005 10:35 pm, Erich Dollansky wrote: Hi, /--big snip--/ That was a good idea. That's a great analogy; but I disagree with the way you've applied it. Yes, the hunters and farmers shared the food. That's not to say that the farmers

Re: Explaining FreeBSD features

2005-06-23 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: Tone is in the eye of the beholder. Sure, posts all contain a tone to them. But very little posted on this mailing list has been anywhere near as harsh as what you see sometimes on Usenet in the FreeBSD groups there. I did not say this

Re: Explaining FreeBSD features

2005-06-23 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: _I_ don't. Who does? Some do a logo contest to make FreeBSD more appearing, there is some activity going in. Most of the rank and file argued long against that contest. Not only them. Why should I study the drivers manual before getting a drivers

Re: OT - Filter for Thunderbird

2004-12-18 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, Chris wrote: Sorry for posting here - but perhaps someone has done this. Is so, reply please. I wish to create a filter based on the Subject, in short, I want it to flag all duplicate emails. Has someone done this? I think the access to the other mails is missing. The main problem will be

Re: OT - Filter for Thunderbird

2004-12-18 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, Chris wrote: Erich Dollansky wrote: Hi, Chris wrote: Sorry for posting here - but perhaps someone has done this. Is so, reply please. I wish to create a filter based on the Subject, in short, I want it to flag all duplicate emails. Has someone done this? I think the access to the other mails

Re: OT - Filter for Thunderbird

2004-12-19 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, Colin J. Raven wrote: On Dec 18, Chris launched this into the bitstream: Erich Dollansky wrote: Hi, If I failed to articulate that - then it's my fault. I hope I'm understanding...you mean apply a filter to *existing* mail?? I'm not even sure it's possible in T/Bird. Mozilla Co

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

2009-02-23 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Mon, 2009-02-23 at 01:15 +, af300...@gmail.com wrote: My churches web server is having problems compiling world for FreeBSD 7.0-p10 (I believe I just did the csup last night). It gets to this point and then stops with this error: so, you did what you are supposed to do to get

Re: Q: recommendation for external USB disk

2010-01-17 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, just buy the hard disk of your choice and put it into the case of your choice. I use only disks which come with five years warrenty. On 14 January 2010 pm 20:01:08 Matthias Apitz wrote: El día Tuesday, January 12, 2010 a las 08:12:17AM +0100, Bas Smeelen escribió: I use Freecom hard

Package and Ports using PKGDIR

2010-01-19 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, I use a mix of ports and packages. I keep the downloaded packages stored at the machine. PKGDIR is defined. So, I use pkg_add -r --keep PackageName to download and install the package. When I then compile a port, I will not be able to install it as PKGDIR is defined and used as the

Re: Migration planning - old system to new

2010-01-22 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On 23 January 2010 am 01:12:19 John wrote: Now that I've actually gotten the new system to boot, I need to figure out how I'm going to migrate everything - users, data, MySQL, NAT, firewall, apache, DHCP, gateway services BIND, Sendmail, etc., etc from FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE #0: Thu Jan 22

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
Hi, On 24 January 2010 am 01:08:27 John wrote: doing this on a new machine! And I don't need any migration storage, because, well, gosh - it's tcp, people! ;) I just did the first transfer of home, and it went swell: how did you handle the strange group IDs? 10:56AM up 492 days, 13:57,

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
Hi, On 24 January 2010 pm 15:35:20 Doug Hardie wrote: On 23 January 2010, at 22:42, John wrote: I just tried it with FreeBSD 7.2 creating a tar file. Digging through the file it shows the ascii names for owner and group - not uid/gid. I un-tar'd it on a Mac and sure enough it used the

Re: Weird build errors only on 3rd core of quad core CPU

2010-01-27 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On 28 January 2010 am 06:54:13 Pieter de Goeje wrote: I am suspecting a broken CPU, but am not sure. it really looks like. Are you sure it is a quad core and not just a triple core? As already mentioned, you should check the stepping the software tells you but also what is actually

gam_server opening 4000 file descriptors

2010-01-29 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, I have had to set a FreeBSD up again after the hard disk died. It runs now on 7.2. I noticed today that the gam_server opens some 4000 file descriptors. Ok, I have read http://www.gnome.org/~veillard/gamin/ All I have found out is that I should increase the number of file descriptors.

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

2010-01-31 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, I did recently an unplaned update of a machine out of the same time. You will face so many changes that simply setting up the machine newly might be less work. Of course, do a good backup to at least two media and then install the new version. One thing I experienced was a bit strange.

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

2010-01-31 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On 31 January 2010 pm 19:18:35 Volodymyr Kostyrko wrote: On 31.01.2010 06:08, Jeff Mitchell wrote: Strikes me most people will recommend (3) -- nice big new drive, no risk of destroying a working machine (can always slap old drive back in), easy migration of service by service, etc

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

2010-01-31 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On 01 February 2010 am 08:12:56 Jeff Mitchell wrote: On Sun, 31 Jan 2010, Volodymyr Kostyrko wrote: 5.4 seemed to actually have many issues with USB; some devices including 7.2. USB was the main reason why I left the machine on 6.x. I planned then an direkt update to 8.0 when it

Re: Shutdown

2010-02-01 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On 02 February 2010 am 10:18:28 Jeff Molofee wrote: I have completely lost the ability to shutdown/reboot/logout... I've found a few pages on this issue, and nothing seems to resolve the issue. I'm in wheel, operator groups, hal, dbus, gnome_enable all set... consolekit showing a

Re: How far to go with jailing?

2010-02-01 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On 02 February 2010 am 09:57:13 Jeff Mitchell wrote: Strikes me that setting up jails for bloody-well-every-other service might be 'fun' .. it is just your work. As there is still only a single kernel running, there is no real difference. But you must maintain every jail as

Re: Mac applications on FreeBSD

2010-02-03 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On 03 February 2010 pm 23:38:55 Bill White wrote: Will Mac OS X applications run on FreeBSD? Specifically, Microsoft Office:Mac? If so, does it require special manipulation like hacking the system kernel and/or application in order to get it to run? Thanks not to my knowledge. Only

Re: FreeBSD's UFS vs Ext4

2010-02-07 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On 07 February 2010 pm 22:41:29 alex wrote: Today I reformatted a machine (network server) thats run FreeBSD nonstop for at least the last 3 years and installed linux on it. I have a raid 0 setup with 2 hard disks in the very same machine. can you do the same for FreeBSD? Just install

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

2011-03-11 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Saturday 12 March 2011 04:29:44 Brian Waters wrote: It seems to me that under /dev, you can have the following sound-related device files: dspX dspX.Y (among others) this is what you see after your driver is loaded. You might have to tell an application which one to use. I'm

Re: How to get Huawei USB modem to work ?

2011-03-11 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Sunday 02 January 2011 19:54:57 Manish Jain wrote: Hello, From a similar thread, I picked up some information that I should try kldload'ing usba. But when I ran the command, I got an error message that there is no such module. I searched under sys/modules and there

Re: Best practices on upgrading, etc.

2011-03-11 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Saturday 12 March 2011 05:03:22 Ed Flecko wrote: I have a production server running FBSD 8.1 (and I'm following the errata branch) that works just fine, with no problems. I see that the Production Release of 8.2 is available. Obviously, 8.2 has features that 8.1 does not, but I

Re: IDE -- mount partitions for better performance

2011-03-14 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Tuesday 15 March 2011 07:00:30 freebsd_u...@guice.ath.cx wrote: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Guidance with the following: We are limited to Support for ATA-100/66/33 IDE and ATAPI compliant devices. With that said, we have our atapi/33 optical on a add in controller (PCI) and

Re: HAL must die!

2011-03-15 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Wednesday 16 March 2011 07:37:53 Jerry wrote: On Wed, 16 Mar 2011 08:32:01 +1000 Da Rock freebsd-questi...@herveybayaustralia.com.au articulated: On 03/08/11 03:00, Chad Perrin wrote: On Mon, Mar 07, 2011 at 07:31:43AM -0800, Nerius Landys wrote: The nice thing about

Re: FreeBSD Boot

2011-03-21 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, you have a bootmanager installed. On Monday 21 March 2011 19:48:27 Michael Klapheke wrote: Hi. I know this subject has been addressed in other posts, but I cannot seem to get it to work. I have inherited a FreeBSD server and I cannot get it to boot properly. I read the articles on

Re: Mobile hard disk does not respond

2011-03-21 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Tuesday 22 March 2011 10:04:42 xinyou yan wrote: I have i mobile hard disk 320g . this is not of very much help. However ,frebsd can't respond to it ls dev/ have no message da0 for it Can you enlight us with information from dmesg and usbconfig? Maybe with and without the

Re: boot error

2011-03-27 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Sunday 27 March 2011 20:17:09 Franci Nabalanci wrote: Hi! My system is FreeBSD releaese 8.2. I installed KDE 4.6.1 and run it. And I updated ATI drivers too. When I start KDE It freeze when I try to change a background picture.. After restart of computer I got an error and boot in

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

2011-04-08 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Saturday 09 April 2011 05:46:43 Carmel wrote: On Fri, 8 Apr 2011 15:50:52 -0600 Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com articulated: The solution to this problem is so obvious that I am amazed that no one this is a solution which creates just new problems. has proposed it. Simply require

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

2011-04-15 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, did you really get no other answer? On Friday 15 April 2011 22:11:05 Zhang Weiwu, Beijing wrote: Hello. I intend to use FreeBSD instead of PC-BSD. The sound card doesn't work on FreeBSD 8.2. I tried to follow the manual and loaded all sound card drivers # kldload snd_driver this

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: 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 to

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: 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 and

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
April 2011, at 23:46, Erich Dollansky wrote: 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

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: The question of moving vi to /bin

2009-06-25 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On 25 June 2009 pm 13:03:01 Manish Jain wrote: If you want to make a case for replacing ed(1), you're going to have to come up with some concrete reasons for doing so, not just make a (long and hyperbolic) statement that you don't like it. requirements of being interactive. That's

Re: The question of moving vi to /bin

2009-06-25 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On 25 June 2009 pm 19:13:14 Konrad Heuer wrote: On Thu, 25 Jun 2009, Manish Jain wrote: Maybe you're right, maybe not. 20 years ago, I've written and edited voluminous fortran code on a silly rs232 terminal using ed. So, it is possible, and one I do not believe you. This must have been

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
On 26 June 2009 am 10:02:30 Polytropon wrote: Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany big brother is watching me. An xterm just came up with this message: The default editor in FreeBSD is vi, which is efficient to use when you have learned it, but somewhat user-unfriendly. To use ee (an easier

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: 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

2009-06-28 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On 26 June 2009 pm 14:01:02 Polytropon wrote: On Thu, 25 Jun 2009 22:23:17 -0700, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: have a vi keyboard reference in my extremely important documentation folder - and yes, it is a real folder, not a directory. :-) So if everything fails, there's still vi

Re: update from 7.0 to 7.2?

2009-06-29 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, my general concept is not to stick with the releases but to keep the kernel on the current development like using RELENG_7 for CVS. You will notice that HAL and DBUS changed. I noticed because of this real speed improvements on a slower machine. Anyway, if this server runs mail and web

Re: OT: C syntax question

2009-06-29 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On 30 June 2009 am 10:40:01 Charlie Kester wrote: On Mon 29 Jun 2009 at 19:20:04 PDT Charlie Kester wrote: (Don't you hate it when your mistakes come back to haunt you in your inbox?) at least there is nobody seeing your red face on a mailing list. I should have quit while I was

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

2009-06-29 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On 30 June 2009 am 08:57:23 Dan Naumov wrote: Hello list. I have the following setup: a Windows Vista x64 SP1 machine (my primary desktop) and a FreeBSD 7.2/amd64 running on a home NAS system that's relatively powerful (Intel Atom 330 dualcore, 2gb ram). I would like to be able to run

Re: X Terminals problem

2009-07-05 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On 04 July 2009 pm 23:17:48 Leonardo M. Ramé wrote: In my newly installed 7.2-STABLE, any X Terminal (xterm, xfce's did you install from CD? I upgraded and I did not have this problem. If nothing helps, install 7.1 from CD and do an upgrade via sources. I faced others I have solved

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: 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 to

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: upgrade from Firefox 3.0 to Firefox 3.5

2009-07-17 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On 18 July 2009 am 08:07:36 Chad Perrin wrote: On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 01:43:47AM +0200, Polytropon wrote: On Fri, 17 Jul 2009 16:48:37 -0600, Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: So . . . how do I upgrade Firefox from 3.0 to 3.5 without No idea. Anyway, user's files won't be

Re: A question for developers

2009-07-25 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, let me answer very shortly. On 25 July 2009 am 10:49:10 Steve Bertrand wrote: Forgive the verbosity. I use joe, gedit, kate and bluefish. All have their week points. One advantage of using several in parallel is that you can configure each to a special need of you and then start the one

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

2009-08-06 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On 06 August 2009 pm 14:35:40 Mark Stapper wrote: Mel Flynn wrote: On Wednesday 05 August 2009 05:27:55 Erik Trulsson wrote: The amd64 architecture is called that because it was AMD who invented and created it and was for a while the only one Now I come to think of it, isn't it

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: 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 there is

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: 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
Hi, On Friday 03 February 2012 12:34:57 Chris wrote: Hi I have been using Debian for a few years now (previous BSD user) and I'm considering moving back. Admittedly, I have gotten used to the simplicity of using apt-get to update the system. What will pull me back is if there is an

Re: Possible move back to FreeBSD

2012-02-02 Thread Erich Dollansky
from my HTC. - Reply message - From: Erich Dollansky erichfreebsdl...@ovitrap.com Date: Thu, Feb 2, 2012 11:44 pm Subject: Possible move back to FreeBSD To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Chris rac...@makeworld.com Hi, On Friday 03 February 2012 12:34:57 Chris wrote: Hi

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

2012-02-03 Thread Erich Dollansky
/12, Erich Dollansky erichfreebsdl...@ovitrap.com wrote: Hi, On Thursday 02 February 2012 22:43:21 Subhasish Chakraborty wrote: at last connected .. thanks a lot man . So have to automate the process.. put the commands now into your ppp.conf. Put nothing else into it and forget all

Re: Kernel stalling at pci0: ACPI bus on pcib0

2012-02-06 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, 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, this system uses a Transmeta Crusoe TM5800 CPU with a VIA chipset that I'm having difficulty identifying. My

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: Is the list down?

2012-02-17 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Friday 17 February 2012 08:49:37 Da Rock wrote: On 02/17/12 11:21, Al Plant wrote: I have not seen any action in 2 days. There's been plenty of action in the last 2 days. Maybe check your mail server logs for errors? I noticed the same thing. The missing mails arrived all meanwhile

Re: Processor question

2012-02-17 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Thursday 16 February 2012 17:20:23 krad wrote: On 14 February 2012 20:28, Frank Shute fr...@shute.org.uk wrote: On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 02:47:08PM -0500, Mike Dockery wrote: Greetings, Aloha, I have been a user of Linux since 1994, but most of the linux distros

Re: One or Four?

2012-02-17 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Saturday 18 February 2012 05:05:23 Robison, Dave wrote: It has always been FreeBSD's default to create four partitions and swap as such: / /tmp /var /usr swap it really makes sense to keep it this way. The recent changes in 9.x with bsdinstall use a default behavior which

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

2012-02-18 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Saturday 18 February 2012 13:05:49 Lars Eighner wrote: On Fri, 17 Feb 2012, Daniel Staal wrote: I've never seen anything listing the main reasons for having /home under /usr though. I figure there must be a decent reason why. Would anyone care to enlighten me? What are the

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
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 pattern is good. Or, I could even suggest just two choices. yes, three options is ok. [ ] all in one + swap

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

2012-02-19 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Sunday 19 February 2012 18:17:59 Antonio Olivares wrote: I hope this is the case, but that -p3 makes me think? I am hesistant to move to 9.0-RELEASE as of yet. There will apparently be an 8.3-RELEASE and I am not sure whether I have to rebuild all ports if I you could adapt my

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: /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: Installation troubles

2012-02-22 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Wednesday 22 February 2012 21:04:12 herbert langhans wrote: Hi Daemons, yesterday I tried to install FreeBSD 9 on my 'new' laptop - an IBM X31. Since this model has no CD or floppy drive I copied the memstick-file to such an USB-thing and tried to boot. The laptop freezes when the

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

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