dump/restore (to DVD+R) test failure

2010-05-24 Thread James Phillips
appears to create a .snap directory by default now. Regards, James Phillips ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr

Re: [#24512320] Re: Apache22 Upgrade Failure

2010-05-22 Thread James Phillips
hit by the spam filter. IMO, the message body is being used as unique filler text to get past Bayesian filters. I don't claim to know if the effect is intentional or accidental. -James Phillips ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Is the freeBSD mailing list using an automated ticket system?

2010-05-20 Thread James Phillips
; Thu, 20 May 2010 00:11:32 -0500 (CDT) To: James Phillips anti_spam...@yahoo.ca Subject:[#24508771] Re: 7.0/i386 to 8.0/amd64 - gmirror/gstripe migration Date: Thu, 20 May 2010 00:11:32 -0500 From: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Add sender

Re: 7.0/i386 to 8.0/amd64 - gmirror/gstripe migration

2010-05-19 Thread James Phillips
notes) but I'm not sure if that is possible with gmirror. Thanks for your help! ++AMARU PS: Your reply to yourself was in the same digest message. Not everybody is in your timezone either. Regards, James Phillips ___ freebsd-questions

Re: Xorg 7.5, XFCE4 and radeon

2010-05-04 Thread Jimmie James
On 05/04/10 17:03, Warren Block wrote: On Tue, 4 May 2010, Jimmie James wrote: Along with not being to start xfce4 many times, The workaround is to deinstall xfce4-session, or just keep trying until xfce starts. This let's me start XFCE4 I've also lost the resolution of 1600x1200 using

Re: internet connection tester script

2010-03-27 Thread James
` is_dead=1 fi if [ $is_dead -eq 1 -a $fping_rc -eq 0 ]; then echo Alive at `date` is_dead=0 fi sleep 30 done -- James. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: freebsd install from floppy

2010-03-06 Thread James Phillips
with CD-R images is that any tweaks to the disk image require burning a new disk. Regards, James Phillips Recent Slashdot exchange about exactly this issue: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1565678cid=31302916 __ Make your

Re: video cam with room view for FreeBSD

2010-03-05 Thread James Phillips
certification. From the Wikipedia page: FreeBSD Not implemented yet, there are patches available which make Linux kernel USB mediadrivers work in userspace by using an asynchronous USB interface. It's the first OS allowing to have an entire highspeed USB driver in userland. Regards, James Phillips

Re: Compiler Flags problem with core2 CPU

2010-03-01 Thread James Phillips
are backwards compatible, so you don't strictly need the latest instructions. Regards, James Phillips __ The new Internet Explorer® 8 - Faster, safer, easier. Optimized for Yahoo! Get it Now for Free! at http

Re: kde4/python26 and pth help. [SOLVED]

2010-02-25 Thread Jimmie James
On 02/25/10 00:12, Dima Panov wrote: On Thursday 25 February 2010 14:47:08 Jimmie James wrote: On 02/24/10 23:28, Adam Vande More wrote: On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 12:11 PM, Jimmie Jamesjimmie...@gmail.com mailto:jimmie...@gmail.com wrote: On a freshly installed 8-STABLE box (4 days old

kde4/python26 and pth help.

2010-02-24 Thread Jimmie James
On a freshly installed 8-STABLE box (4 days old) and up to date ports, KDE4 will not install for me, always the same errors. I've even removed all ports and reinstalled from scratch and hit the same errors. I have no /etc/make.conf. I'm at a loss here, I have no idea why this is happening. I

Re: kde4/python26 and pth help.

2010-02-24 Thread Jimmie James
On 02/24/10 23:28, Adam Vande More wrote: On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 12:11 PM, Jimmie James jimmie...@gmail.com mailto:jimmie...@gmail.com wrote: On a freshly installed 8-STABLE box (4 days old) and up to date ports, KDE4 will not install for me, always the same errors. I've even

'gmirror clear' error

2010-02-16 Thread James Smallacombe
without taking it down to single user mode again? Thanks! James Smallacombe PlantageNet, Inc. CEO and Janitor u...@3.am http://3.am

Re: yikes! MAC address changed ??

2010-02-11 Thread James Smallacombe
. On Wed, 10 Feb 2010, James Smallacombe wrote: Please disregard this...sleep deprication...the IP in questions (which I should have disfuised anyway) was not my server's IP, but that of the default gateway...the problem was external. On Wed, 10 Feb 2010, James Smallacombe wrote

Re: yikes! MAC address changed ??

2010-02-11 Thread James Smallacombe
On Thu, 11 Feb 2010, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 11/02/2010 11:00, James Smallacombe wrote: Sorry for replying to myself (AND top-posting!) twice in a row, but this is become a huge concern. My first thought is that my provider changed routers or router Ethernet ports, hence the MAC address

Re: yikes! MAC address of default gateway changed ??

2010-02-11 Thread James Smallacombe
Hi: Please reply-all ; I am not subscribed On Thu, 11 Feb 2010, Vince Hoffman wrote: On 11/02/2010 11:00, James Smallacombe wrote: Sorry for replying to myself (AND top-posting!) twice in a row, but this is become a huge concern. My first thought is that my provider changed routers

Mac address changed ??

2010-02-10 Thread James Smallacombe
didn't find? Even if their was, would it be possible for the www user, with no priveleges to even cause this kind of problem? I had disabled suhosin after customers patched their Zen Carts, because it interfered with it. Or...could this be a bug in the re0 driver? It's just weird. James

Re: Mac address changed ??

2010-02-10 Thread James Smallacombe
Please disregard this...sleep deprication...the IP in questions (which I should have disfuised anyway) was not my server's IP, but that of the default gateway...the problem was external. On Wed, 10 Feb 2010, James Smallacombe wrote: This freaked me out a bit, so I'm just running it past

The Atheros 9285 patch on 8.0-stable

2010-02-07 Thread James Colannino
that testers were needed for this driver, and I'd love to help out if possible. If anybody wants me to send any additional information, just let me know. Thanks so much everyone! James ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Modules and Custom Kernels

2010-02-07 Thread James Colannino
GENERIC and tweak it but there are better ways than this. That's what I'm doing as well. Not at all. Enjoy :-) Thanks for the help! James ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Modules and Custom Kernels

2010-02-06 Thread James Colannino
too many changes to the GENERIC config. Hopefully this isn't a dumb question :) I really like FreeBSD so far, and think I'm going to enjoy my new experience quite a bit. Thanks in advance! James ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Server compromised Zen-Cart record company Exploit

2010-02-04 Thread James Smallacombe
basis, not just in php.ini. Fantastic and is working great. About the only thing I could want more would be to control the functions under the apache Directory directives (on top of in VirtualHost). On Mon, 1 Feb 2010, James Smallacombe wrote: (please reply-all; I am not sub'd and sorry

Re: 8.0-RELEASE/amd64 - full ZFS install - low read and write disk performance

2010-02-03 Thread James R. Van Artsdalen
Dan Naumov wrote: [j...@atombsd ~]$ dd if=/dev/zero of=/home/jago/test2 bs=1M count=4096 4096+0 records in 4096+0 records out 4294967296 bytes transferred in 143.878615 secs (29851325 bytes/sec) This works out to 1GB in 36,2 seconds / 28,2mb/s in the first test and 4GB in 143.8 seconds /

Re: Server compromised Zen-Cart record company Exploit

2010-02-01 Thread James Smallacombe
! ref's: http://www.hardened-php.net/suhosin.127.html http://beta.pgn.ro/phps/phpinfo.php On Sun, 31 Jan 2010, James Smallacombe wrote: Whoever speculated that my server may have been compromised was on to something (see bottom). The good news is, it does appear to be contained to the www

Server compromised Zen-Cart record company Exploit

2010-01-31 Thread James Smallacombe
of the issue and refers you to Zen for the fix. Only problem is, this is an old version of Zen cart, and the James Smallacombe PlantageNet, Inc. CEO and Janitor u...@3.am http://3.am

UDP flooding / Ethernet issues? WAS Re: named error sending response: not enough free resources

2010-01-29 Thread James Smallacombe
On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 12:59 PM, James Smallacombe u...@3.am wrote: To follow up on this: Noticed the issue again this morning, which also was accompanied by latency so high that I could not connect (some pings got through at very high latency). I emailed the provider and they told me

Re: named error sending response: not enough free resources

2010-01-28 Thread James Smallacombe
On Wed, 27 Jan 2010, Chuck Swiger wrote: Hi-- On Jan 27, 2010, at 1:15 PM, James Smallacombe wrote: Jan 26 21:50:32 host named[667]: client IP REMOVED#57938: error sending response: not enough free resources Jan 26 21:50:32 host named[667]: client IP REMOVED#59830: error sending response

named error sending response: not enough free resources

2010-01-27 Thread James Smallacombe
. I am not even sure if this error caused the outage(s) or was caused by them, let alone a fix or workaround. Appreciate any and all clues, especially if you are familiar with this. TIA! James Smallacombe PlantageNet, Inc. CEO and Janitor u...@3.am

Re: named error sending response: not enough free resources

2010-01-27 Thread James Smallacombe
On Wed, 27 Jan 2010, Chuck Swiger wrote: On Jan 27, 2010, at 10:24 AM, James Smallacombe wrote: NOTE: Please reply off-list as well as I am not subscribed OK. In return, please don't cross-post or multi-post the same question to multiple FreeBSD lists. I posted to the -isp list a couple

Re: named error sending response: not enough free resources

2010-01-27 Thread James Smallacombe
On Wed, 27 Jan 2010, Chuck Swiger wrote: On Jan 27, 2010, at 1:15 PM, James Smallacombe wrote: Jan 26 21:50:32 host named[667]: client IP REMOVED#57938: error sending response: not enough free resources indicates a problem sending UDP traffic; netstat -s output would be Unfortunately, I

Re: mrtg broken dependency

2009-12-31 Thread James Harrison
On Dec 30, 2009, at 11:22 AM 12/30/09, Sergio de Almeida Lenzi wrote: Hello... mrtg (net-mgmt/mrtg) misses a dependency on perl module=== p5-SNMP_Session in the Makefile: RUN_DEPENDS+= ${SITE_PERL}/SNMP_util.pm: ${PORTSDIR}/net-mgmt/p5-SNMP_Session fix the problem what

Re: Failed port upgrade

2009-12-31 Thread James Harrison
On Dec 25, 2009, at 8:48 PM 12/25/09, Rem P Roberti wrote: When running portupgrade the process is choking when it comes to consolekit. Here is the error message: gmake[2]: *** [libgirepository_1_0_la-gfield.lo] Error 1 gmake[2]: Leaving directory

Re: [FR]Lien mort sur install-pre (floppies)

2009-12-20 Thread James Phillips
-IMAGES-i386/8.0/ (I was able to confirm the link *is* broken.) Regards, James Phillips __ Yahoo! Canada Toolbar: Search from anywhere on the web, and bookmark your favourite sites. Download it now http

Re: disk with high frequency noise only on FreeBSD

2009-12-12 Thread James Phillips
. To the original poster: you say this is a laptop. How do you know the noise is coming from the hard drive and not some other component like the speakers/Network card/fan? Regards, James Phillips __ Looking for the perfect

Re: Dangerously Dedicated

2009-12-10 Thread James Phillips
to work with different architectures. Of course, if you are just storing raw data, you don't always *need* a filesystem. Regards, James Phillips __ Yahoo! Canada Toolbar: Search from anywhere on the web, and bookmark your

Re: Dangerously Dedicated (was: How do I create large ...)

2009-12-09 Thread James Phillips
(and Master Boot Records) are mentioned specificly. Regards, James Phillips __ Yahoo! Canada Toolbar: Search from anywhere on the web, and bookmark your favourite sites. Download it now http://ca.toolbar.yahoo.com

Re: freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 287, Issue 13

2009-12-04 Thread James Phillips
Sorry about that (accidentally quoted most the Digest (issue 12) in a reply). Need to start using a real email client :( -james. __ Looking for the perfect gift? Give the gift of Flickr! http://www.flickr.com/gift

Re: [Solved] Having problems burning a DVD

2009-12-04 Thread James Phillips
--- On Fri, 12/4/09, Al Plant n...@hdk5.net wrote: From: Al Plant n...@hdk5.net Subject: Re: [Solved] Having problems burning a DVD To: James Phillips anti_spam...@yahoo.ca Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: Friday, December 4, 2009, 12:26 PM James Phillips wrote: SNIP! I

Re: [Solved] Having problems burning a DVD

2009-12-03 Thread James Phillips
and is strongly discouraged. Is there anything special I should do to try to disable the atapicd driver? I don't think my 'atapicd_load=no' line in /boot/loader.conf has much of an effect. Regards, James Phillips __ Looking

Re: Phoronix Benchmarks: Waht's wrong with FreeBSD 8.0?

2009-11-30 Thread James Phillips
Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 20:07:15 +1100 From: alex a...@mailinglist.ahhyes.net Subject: Re: Phoronix Benchmarks: Waht's wrong with FreeBSD 8.0? To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: 4b138b43.4000...@mailinglist.ahhyes.net Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed

Re: Phoronix Benchmarks: Waht's wrong with FreeBSD 8.0?

2009-11-30 Thread James Phillips
are doubly important. -james. __ Looking for the perfect gift? Give the gift of Flickr! http://www.flickr.com/gift/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: slightly complex query - one machine with two network interfaces

2009-11-29 Thread James Phillips
. Regards, James Phillips PS: If I want to be paranoid over wireless I need new hardware. My PII 350 can only do SSH (128 bit 3-DES?) at ~1MB/s. __ Looking for the perfect gift? Give the gift of Flickr! http://www.flickr.com

FreeBSD torrent tracker give wierd numbers?

2009-11-27 Thread James Phillips
minutes. This leads to strange results like my download speed being listed as 1.89 MB/sec when it is in fact capped at 100kB/sec. Before downloading, I was wondering why everybody seemed to have such fat pipes :P Regards, James Phillips

Poor throughput with natd

2009-11-23 Thread James Long
Please copy me on replies. I am testing ipfw and natd on a gateway machine running FreeBSD 7.2-STABLE #0: Tue Oct 27 00:12:39 PDT 2009 with the generic kernel. ipfw.ko and ipdivert.ko are loaded as modules, since they're not part of the GENERIC kernel. The symptom is that scp uploads from the

Re: 7.2, usb mouse, uhub0: device problem

2009-11-21 Thread James Phillips
. Newer mice have higher resolution I guess.) Regards, James Phillips PS: I genuinely did not see the radio buttons when looking for menu items (I did check the drop-down lists). Not sure how proper it is to declare radio buttons not menu items. In my mind, menu items have an immediate effect. I

Re: 7.2, usb mouse, uhub0: device problem (IOERROR),

2009-11-20 Thread James Phillips
a USB mouse because none of them are USB Certified (http://www.usb.org). Many of them also had a Side-scrolling scroll wheel (designed with Vista in mind?) very awkward to use as a middle button. If you mouse IS a USB mouse, try a different one. Regards, James Phillips

Re: 7.2, usb mouse, uhub0: device problem (IOERROR),

2009-11-20 Thread James Phillips
--- On Fri, 11/20/09, Chuck Swiger cswi...@mac.com wrote: On Nov 20, 2009, at 11:06 AM, James Phillips wrote: Last time I was looking for a mouse, I could not find a PS/2 version. I was reluctant to get a USB mouse because none of them are USB Certified (http://www.usb.org). Many of them

Re: [Solved] Do permissions take time to take effect?

2009-11-18 Thread James Phillips
--- On Wed, 11/18/09, Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com wrote: In the last episode (Nov 17), James Phillips said: I wanted to create a shared directory writable by all users. When it initially failed, I assumed there may be a blanket ban on writing to directories owned by root

Re: hdd voltage

2009-11-17 Thread James Phillips
of the tempature for this hdd, I think its normal. After that Google study, I prefer to keep my drives below 40C if I can. Current temp (idle): 41C. Regards, James Phillips __ Yahoo! Canada Toolbar: Search from anywhere on the web

Do permissions take time to take effect?

2009-11-17 Thread James Phillips
-purpose Share user, I ran into the same problem again. $ cd $ pwd /home/james $ cd /home/Share $ ls -la total 4 drwxrwxr-x 2 root users 512 Nov 14 09:39 . drwxr-xr-x 5 root wheel 512 Nov 14 09:39 .. $ grep users /etc/group users:*:100:james,backup $ cat test.txt What? now it worked? $ ls

Re: [FreeBSD Questions] Filesystem image as root

2009-11-16 Thread James Phillips
--- On Sun, 11/15/09, CyberLeo Kitsana cyber...@cyberleo.net wrote: James Phillips wrote: Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2009 20:29:59 -0600 From: CyberLeo Kitsana cyber...@cyberleo.net Subject: [FreeBSD Questions] Filesystem image as root The single IDE connector is accessible via the legacy

Re: freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 284, Issue 11

2009-11-15 Thread James Phillips
, frequently used files will be cached. (I have a CF card that has 15MB/s symmetric read/write. Don't know how special it is.) With a CF card there should be no seek delay of ~ 10 ms (for reads anyway, deleting blocks probably takes 10ms). Regards, James Phillips SNIPPED pivot_root attempt I can't help

Re: APM

2009-11-13 Thread James Phillips
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 10:28:10 -0800 (PST) From: James Phillips anti_spam...@yahoo.ca Subject: APM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: 784120.47330...@web65508.mail.ac4.yahoo.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii SNIP! I realize the memory can't be shutdown without

Re: APM

2009-11-13 Thread James Phillips
I was going to just respond to myself again, but I see I generated some discussion :) Anyway, In the http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=1012 page at least two people mentioned the ATAidle utility. It is not recommended for the same reason APM isn't: devices sleep without OS consent.

APM

2009-11-12 Thread James Phillips
it without hibernate support though. apm(4) does not mention suspend timers at all. acpi(4) mentions timer as a sub-device and feature that can be disabled. Regards, James Phillips __ Connect with friends from any web browser

ask for help on a strange question

2009-11-03 Thread Jove James
Hi friend, I've set up a FreeBSD virtual machine with VmWare Player. After configuring networ I installed xampp-linux-1.7.2.tar.gz on it. But quite weird that I got command not found error: jove# pwd /opt/lampp jove# ls RELEASENOTESerror lampp logssbin backup

Re: dvdauthor can't find fribidi headers?

2009-11-01 Thread Jimmie James
Seems as dvdauthor is broken on 8-rc1...anything I might have done? Steve [st...@fyre /usr/ports/multimedia/dvdauthor]$ sudo make install clean === Building for dvdauthor-0.6.14_4 Making all in doc gmake[1]: Entering directory `/usr/ports/multimedia/dvdauthor/work/dvdauthor-0.6.14/doc'

Re: freebsd forgets root password

2009-10-23 Thread James Phillips
is not the same. With how flimsy the entry-level keyboards are these days, it may be *almost* as likely ;) Regards, James Phillips __ Looking for the perfect gift? Give the gift of Flickr! http://www.flickr.com/gift

Re: I hate to bitch but bitch I must

2009-10-17 Thread James Phillips
. Meaning: it is technically possible, but the maintainers have not done the necessary (possibly tedious) work yet. Regards, James Phillips __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

Re: usb key problem

2009-10-16 Thread James Phillips
utility let me choose between Fat16 and FAt32 or something :P A better tool, under both Windows (via Cygwin) and BSD, would be ntfsprogs. http://www.linux-ntfs.org/doku.php?id=ntfsmount Regards, James Phillips -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe

kdeutils4 compile problem w/ superkaramba

2009-10-12 Thread James Cole
I am trying to compile KDE4 but when it tries to compile the kdeutils4 dependency (doing so manually here), it croaks with superkaramba. From what I can tell, superkaramba cannot find python.h or any other call in /usr/ports/misc/kdeutils4/work/kdeutils-4.3.1/superkaramba/src/python/karamb a.cpp I

Re: windoz, how do i install it last

2009-10-06 Thread James Phillips
in section: 2.6.3 Install a Boot Manager. Regards, James Phillips __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ freebsd-questions

Re: Voting for a native i386/amd64 flash player

2009-10-04 Thread James Phillips
, 2009 at 08:01:07AM -0700, James Phillips wrote: I have this fantasy that if I design and build a better streaming video format, They (broadcasters) will use it, if properly marketed. It may be a fantasy, but as fantasies go, it's not a bad one. This would be despite the lack

Re: Voting for a native i386/amd64 flash player

2009-10-04 Thread James Phillips
--- On Sun, 10/4/09, jhell jh...@dataix.net wrote: From: jhell jh...@dataix.net Subject: Re: Voting for a native i386/amd64 flash player To: James Phillips anti_spam...@yahoo.ca Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: Sunday, October 4, 2009, 1:07 PM On Sun, 4 Oct 2009 08:33

Re: Voting for a native i386/amd64 flash player

2009-10-03 Thread James Phillips
that implements features I really don't want to see. (Read: anything deliberately incompatible.) 5. I seem to be pre-occupied with the video compression, ignoring sound. Regards, James Phillips PS: was this too off-topic? __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired

Re: dhcpd related issues

2009-09-21 Thread James Tanis
that server soon to cut down on other hotspot related problems. -- James Tanis Technical Coordinator Computer Science Department Monsignor Donovan Catholic High School On Sep 20, 2009, at 10:41 PM, Olivier Nicole wrote: Hi James, I have a FreeBSD 7.0 gateway/server with isc-dhcpd 3.1.2p1_2. Late

Re: dhcpd related issues

2009-09-21 Thread james
Yeah, it seems to be the case that enough traffic was being generated to delay the dhcp leases that the client computers were giving up. I used dhcping to watch and witnessed it in action. Moving dhcp to another server solved the issue. Likely I'll be moving some other services off that

dhcpd related issues

2009-09-18 Thread James Tanis
. After the problem manifested I upgraded to the above mentioned version and added the shared-network with the second subnet. So far the nature of the problem has not change whatsoever. -- James Tanis Technical Coordinator Computer Science Department Monsignor Donovan Catholic High School

Can't boot Marvel Sheevaplug from USB

2009-09-17 Thread James Butler
Maks Verver wrote: James Butler wrote: Sounds similar to: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=138798 Apparently Scott Long is working on a fix. Interesting! Is there any way I can help debug/solve this? Test the fix when it arrives? Scott seems to have some idea what the problem

Re: freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 276, Issue 5

2009-09-15 Thread James Phillips
Message: 15 Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2009 14:13:17 -0400 From: Jerry ges...@yahoo.com Subject: Re: reporter on deadline seeks comment about reported     security bug in FreeBSD To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: 20090915141317.7a41b...@scorpio.seibercom.net Content-Type:

Can't boot Marvel Sheevaplug from USB

2009-09-15 Thread James Butler
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Re: FreeBSD commands... refcard

2009-09-11 Thread James Seward
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 8:30 AM, Matthias Apitz g...@unixarea.de wrote: In some Linux mailing list of Cuba I'm subscribed to, I just stumbled over this Debian GNU/Linux Reference Card: http://xinocat.com/refcard/ which is available in many languages. This would be very helpfull for my wife

Re: netbooks and sdhci

2009-09-01 Thread James Phillips
. If you are aware of that and sill want a SDHC reader, I don't have any reason to stop you :) Regards, James Phillips So my question is: does anybody know _for sure_ of a hard-disk netbook with a media reader that uses the sdhci interface and is supported by FBSD 7.2 (supported = wireless

Re: questions about FreeBSD

2009-08-31 Thread James Phillips
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data captured by fprobe but not shown on nfsen

2009-08-20 Thread Ren, James (China)
was I getting wrong? Could anyone give me a hand? Regards, James Ren The British Council is the United Kingdom's international organisation for educational opportunities and cultural relations. We are a registered charity; 209131 (England and Wales) SC037733 (Scotland). We build

Strange networking issue.

2009-08-18 Thread Jimmie James
Setup - DSL modem/router 192.168.2.1. Static IP of 192.168.2.100 to FreeBSD jimmiejaz.org 7.2-STABLE FreeBSD 7.2-STABLE #0: Sun Aug 2 01:00:16 EDT 2009 r...@jimmiejaz.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/FORTYTWO i386. DHCP in the .2.10 to .2.100 with two XP machines. I've turned IPFW off, as

Re: freebsd

2009-08-17 Thread James Phillips
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Re: FreeBSD for the common man(or woman) (was: upgrade 7.2

2009-08-08 Thread James Phillips
at 02:56:41PM -0700, James Phillips wrote: Following the FreeBSD Handbook, I got stuck on trying to get the printer to work. The handbook was basicly instructing me to write my own print driver! I checked the HP website: they will release the details of the PCL language (version 4

Re: FreeBSD for the common man(or woman) (was: upgrade 7.2

2009-08-07 Thread James Phillips
archives? This list is probably best suited to very specific questions. Some the stuff I mentioned has little to do with BSD. --- On Thu, 8/6/09, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: From: Polytropon free...@edvax.de Subject: Re: FreeBSD for the common man(or woman) (was: upgrade 7.2 To: James

Re: FreeBSD for the common man(or woman) (was: upgrade 7.2

2009-08-07 Thread James Phillips
. Reboots don't magically fix or break things. SNIP! Once taken the time to set things up, they make you happy running for a lifetime. :-) I love and hate that about *nix :D -James __ Yahoo! Canada Toolbar: Search from

Re: FreeBSD for the common man(or woman) (was: upgrade 7.2

2009-08-06 Thread James Phillips
, it becomes essential. I won't be able to have it out of commission for weeks at a time. I hope with the server properly set up, win98 may even be usable again: just do a clean install every morning! I even downloaded the Windows 7 RC so that I can be informed when I say it sucks. Regards, James

Re: FreeBSD for the common man(or woman) (was: upgrade 7.2

2009-08-06 Thread James Phillips
(backups) expected to be? Am I reading too much because of a learning disability, or do I really need to read and understand that much detail? I have some experience with Dos/Windows, and Linux (mainly Debian based). Regards, James Phillips

Re: Sony PRS-505 Reader and camcontrol load problem

2009-08-03 Thread James Phillips
I like to blame things like that on DRM. Proving it is the tricky part. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MagicGate The Wikipedia article says the Sony Portable e-Reader PRS-500 did not support MagicGate, but future support is possible through a firmware update. Regards, James Date: Sun, 2 Aug

Re: Looking for fast graphical web browser

2009-08-01 Thread James Phillips
that websites can use an arbitrary amount of CPU time (sometimes deliberately), unless throttled. Regards, James Phillips --- On Fri, 7/31/09, freebsd-questions-requ...@freebsd.org freebsd-questions-requ...@freebsd.org wrote: Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 12:30:02 +0200 From: Wolfgang Riegler w.rieg

rm -rf and fat fingers

2009-07-22 Thread Jimmie James
So here I was, half asleep, removing some old directories as root, and here's what I did...sitting in /home/jimmie after su jim...@jimmiejaz 101 [0] /home/jimmie#rm -rf cd /usr/local/lib (note the space, the PWD is home/jimmie/) Now, a lot of libs went missing from /usr/local/lib. With

Re: rm -rf and fat fingers

2009-07-22 Thread Jimmie James
Rolf G Nielsen wrote: Jimmie James wrote: So here I was, half asleep, removing some old directories as root, and here's what I did...sitting in /home/jimmie after su jim...@jimmiejaz 101 [0] /home/jimmie#rm -rf cd /usr/local/lib (note the space, the PWD is home/jimmie/) Now, a lot

Order To New Zealand

2009-07-18 Thread Bryan James
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Re: Cloning to different disks.

2009-07-01 Thread james
Each machine only has 1 hard disk, but they all have a CD ROM and USB available. I have built a pristine system with all packages and ports installed that I need. I am now wanting to clone this to all the machines. The dificulty being that they all have various Disk sizes and interfaces

msmtp port with tls

2009-06-30 Thread James Griffin
Hello I've installed msmtp using ports but it doesn't have tls support. I have read the ports information in the handbook and i understand you can modify the compile options, but it's not clear to me how i can do that with msmtp. I've had a look at the Makefile which is where i think i need to

Re: FreeBSD 7.2 Intel i915 / Xorg issue

2009-06-21 Thread Jimmie James
Hi, I've seen several posts with similar issues, but none of them have helped me resolve my own. I am using 7.2-RELEASE on my laptop with an Intel i915 graphics card. My problem is that Xorg refuses to start (most of the time) and posts an error in the log: drmDropMaster failed: Unknown

xf86-video-intel-2.7.1

2009-06-04 Thread Jimmie James
I'm tired of X craping it's pants. After a day or so, if I try to exit and restart X X locks up, screen garbles and the following is in Xorg.0.log shows: WW) intel(0): drmDropMaster failed: Unknown error: -1 (II) intel(0): [drm] removed 1 reserved context for kernel (II) intel(0): [drm]

Re: Can't play videos on 7.2

2009-05-22 Thread Jimmie James
jery wrote: Hi, I am using Freebsd 7.2 my system hangs when playing videos, it's the same for vlc and totem. From the Xorg.0.log file intel: Driver for Intel Integrated Graphics Chipsets: i810, i810-dc100, i810e, i815, i830M, 845G, 852GM/855GM, 865G, 915G, E7221 (i915),

issues with Intel Pro/1000 and 1000baseTX

2009-05-14 Thread James Tanis
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Re: issues with Intel Pro/1000 and 1000baseTX

2009-05-14 Thread James Tanis
Bill Moran wrote: In response to James Tanis jta...@mdchs.org: .. snip .. Attempting to force 1000baseTX via: ifconfig em1 media 1000baseTX mediaopt full-duplex gets me: status: no carrier After forcing the NIC to go 1000baseTX the LEDs on the backpane are both off. I can only come

Re: Repeatable X lockups

2009-05-13 Thread Jimmie James
Jimmie James wrote: When using the xv output driver for vlc or mplayer, X will lockup, crash instantly, trashing the screen and forcing a reboot Image of screen corruption: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v287/jimmiejaz/xcrash.jpg William Bulley wrote: I have experienced the same problem

Re: single SATA disk and yet identified as 'ad4'

2009-05-11 Thread James Seward
On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 3:30 PM, Jonathan McKeown j.mcke...@ru.ac.za wrote: Your BIOS is reporting two IDE interfaces, each of which could have a master and slave disk drive, so ad0-3 are reserved for those four drives, meaning SATA starts at ad4. Some BIOSes let you change this. Or you can

dmesg: sysctl kern.msgbuf Cannot allocate memory

2009-05-02 Thread Jimmie James
After searching google and various man pages, I'm not finding out what it actually means, anyone care to shed some light? During boot: dmesg: sysctl kern.msgbuf Cannot allocate memory #sysctl -a |grep msgbuf kern.msgbuf_clear: 0 kern.msgbuf: kern.consmsgbuf_size: 8192

Repeatable X lockups

2009-05-02 Thread Jimmie James
When using the xv output driver for vlc or mplayer, X will lockup, crash instantly, trashing the screen and forcing a reboot Image of screen corruption: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v287/jimmiejaz/xcrash.jpg This just started manifesting in the past week or so. HW/SW details All that's

xf86-video-intel-2.6.3 resolution issues

2009-04-06 Thread Jimmie James
With the previous intel driver, my screen resolution was 1400x1050, and after this latest update: ~xrandr Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1280 x 960, maximum 1280 x 1280 VGA connected 1280x960+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 306mm x 230mm 1280x960 60.0* 1024x768

Re: xf86-video-intel-2.6.3 resolution issues [fixed?]

2009-04-06 Thread Jimmie James
After removing HorizSync and VertRefresh from xorg.conf xrandr happily shows #xrandr Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1600 x 1200, maximum 1600 x 1600 VGA connected 1600x1200+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 306mm x 230mm 1600x1200 65.0* 1280x1024 75.0

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