Re: PC-BSD on top of FreeBSD - does it matter ?

2012-03-05 Thread Jerry
as it returns a 404 > page. Nothing instills confidence in a potential client like a broken "Support" page with the possible exception of calling a telephone number and finding it has been disconnected. -- Jerry ♔ Disclaimer: off-list followups get on-list replies or get

Re: PC-BSD on top of FreeBSD - does it matter ?

2012-03-05 Thread Jerry
e URL for PC-BSD: <http://www.ixsystems.com/quote-request> is now apparently working. Obviously, the above is based on the belief that I am referring to the correct entity to begin with. -- Jerry ♔ Disclaimer: off-list followups get on-list replies or get ignored. Please do not ignore the

Re: Suggestion

2012-03-11 Thread Jerry
t can handle images stored on various types of cameras At best, there are only a few designed for the non-Windows world, and they work like crap, if you can get one to work at all. They are all feature poor, again assuming you can get one to actually work without having an engineering degre

Re: Suggestion

2012-03-11 Thread Jerry
ersus-open-source-in-the-third-world-20021115/ Seriously, did anyone bother to look at the dates of those articles? -- Jerry ♔ Disclaimer: off-list followups get on-list replies or get ignored. Please do not ignore the Reply-To header. ___

Re: Joseph Campbell on PBS today

2012-03-11 Thread Jerry
On Sun, 11 Mar 2012 10:16:54 -0500 Conrad J. Sabatier articulated: {snip} WTF -- Jerry ♔ Disclaimer: off-list followups get on-list replies or get ignored. Please do not ignore the Reply-To header

Re: What happened to FreeBSD.org DNS earlier today?

2012-03-11 Thread Jerry
On Sun, 11 Mar 2012 11:36:28 -0700 Robert articulated: > Let's just blame it on Bush! Everybody else does. Unless you are a right wing fascist; i.e. Limbaugh or Hannity, then you blame Obama or Clinton. -- Jerry ♔ Disclaimer: off-list followups get on-list replies or get ignored. P

Re: Wireless PCI card

2012-03-17 Thread Jerry
Essential TEW-643PI, 300 Mbps, TrendNet > > That's a Realtek 8190 chipset. There is no native driver at present, > ndisgen may be an option. I have never had any luck with ndisgen and 64 bit drivers and even less with "N" protocol devices. -- Jerry ☘ Disclaimer: off-list f

Re: Off-Topic: Computing for the Blind

2012-03-27 Thread Jerry
tion to suit your needs. By the way, in the US anyway, there are many foundations that will give you financial assistance or grants to purchase software that will make your PC more readily available to you. I am not sure if that kind of support is available in your locale. -- Jerry ♔ Discla

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-03-29 Thread Jerry
access and heavy network access, and usually leaves the > drive light on, while all activity monitors (alldisk, allcpu, > allnetwork) are still active, although on this laptop disk takes > priority, and network slows to a crawl. occasionally, the mouse will > stop working, along with

Re: Printer recommendation please

2012-03-30 Thread Jerry
about the same. I could replace probably four cheap ink-jet units for what it is gong to cost me just to replace the cartridges in my Brother Laser Color unit. Then when you factor in the other parts that eventually will need replacement, it really gets expensive. -- Jerry ♔ Disclaimer: off-lis

Re: Printer recommendation please

2012-03-31 Thread Jerry
y functional device. By the way, PS is going the way of the dodo bird. PDF is quickly becoming the printing norm. If you are going to spend a significant amount of money on a printing device, make sure it supports native PDF. -- Jerry ♔ Disclaimer: off-list followups get on-list replies or

Re: Access to Time Warner cable network

2012-04-01 Thread Jerry
he TW empire the only one using this configuration? I kind of doubt that myself. It would seem to me that the problem lies in the OP's configuration itself. He claimed it worked with "AT&T". Is it possible he has some left over remnants of that configuration that are causing this prob

Re: Access to Time Warner cable network

2012-04-01 Thread Jerry
printers he could not get it to print because it was not being assigned the same IP as the old unit because he had failed to enter the new MAC address for the newer printer. A simple problem that took a few hours before it dawned on him what the problem was. Actually, Windows did find the print

Re: Access to Time Warner cable network

2012-04-01 Thread Jerry
ied accessing your modem via http? Usually 192.168.1.0 or 192.168.1.1 will work. Give your stations static addresses and see if that makes life easier. By the way, while I don't know what modem you have, mine can accommodate multiple units simultaneously. I don't know why you have t

Re: Access to Time Warner cable network

2012-04-01 Thread Jerry
so go back to whatever it is that you are semi capable of doing, which will also save your employer monies spent on time wasted. Unless of course this happens to be your own unit, in which case run down the block and find a 12 year old and have him/her fix it for you. -- Jerry ♔ Disclaimer: o

Re: Access to Time Warner cable network

2012-04-01 Thread Jerry
to ruin your delusion. No delusion here. You have confirmed what I suspected. A classic case of "The blind leading the blind." If one idiot can screw something up, just think what two idiots can accomplish? -- Jerry ♔ Disclaimer: off-list followups get on-list replies or get ignored. P

Re: Printer recommendation please

2012-04-02 Thread Jerry
y of that matter up to the student. By the way, since you seem so concerned over your printers security, I assume that you all ready have it at least password protected. Personally, I prefer using certificates. Now that is real security. Again, I assume you are using printers capable of that securit

Re: Printer recommendation please

2012-04-03 Thread Jerry
On Tue, 03 Apr 2012 11:22:24 -0700 per...@pluto.rain.com articulated: > Jerry wrote: > > > Obviously you are not aware of the latest trend towards the > > movement to standardize PDF as the standard print format. I would > > recommend you start by reading the documentati

Re: Updating GnuTLS to latest version

2012-04-04 Thread Jerry
On Wed, 04 Apr 2012 13:18:35 -0700 Doug Barton articulated: > On 04/04/2012 05:27, Jerry wrote: > > The answer then is to simply do what has been done with other ports > > that have numerous major version numbers; i.e. Bash, MySQL, > > etcetera. Create a GnuTLS-2 and a GnuTL

Re: FreeBSD losing market share?

2012-04-08 Thread Jerry
a pauper. Some of us actually like the amenities that hard work can buy. -- Jerry ♔ Disclaimer: off-list followups get on-list replies or get ignored. Please do not ignore the Reply-

Re: Postfix + Courier IMAP local email problems

2012-04-13 Thread Jerry
of the documentation for how to report a problem on this URL: <http://www.postfix.com/DEBUG_README.html> In particular, this section: <http://www.postfix.com/DEBUG_README.html#mail> If you had done this to begin with your problem would have been solved by now. -- J

Re: blu ray recorders

2012-04-20 Thread Jerry
-level 3 create it fine > >Even Windows can then see it properly, but FreeBSD shows multiple >files. Try filing a PR against it. Perhaps somebody might actually look into it. -- Jerry ♔ Disclaimer: off-list followups get on-list replies or get ignored. Please do not

Re: recommendation(s) for new computer

2012-04-20 Thread Jerry
cards for starters) I would probably choose the nVidia cards. They works well and nVidia supplies the drivers so you know that they are going to work. As a side bar, be careful what NIC card you get. FreeBSD still does not support many "wireless N" cards if you plan on going that ro

Re: blu ray recorders

2012-04-22 Thread Jerry
27;ve got info it is already known, but thanks anyway. Really, what PR is that? I could not find one that specifically dealt with it; although I most probably missed it. Obviously you must know which one it is. -- Jerry ♔ Disclaimer: off-list followups get on-list replies or

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

2012-04-26 Thread Jerry
come proficient in the skills stated in the job description for which they are applying or do what everyone else does; i.e. lie on their résumé. If the mountain will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet must go to the mountain. -- Jerr

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

2012-04-27 Thread Jerry
On Fri, 27 Apr 2012 10:32:24 -0600 Chad Perrin articulated: >On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 06:43:06PM -0400, Jerry wrote: >> On Thu, 26 Apr 2012 15:52:56 -0600 >> Chad Perrin articulated: >> >> >On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 02:45:53PM -0700, David Brodbeck wrote: >

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

2012-04-27 Thread Jerry
On Fri, 27 Apr 2012 13:58:40 -0600 Chad Perrin articulated: >On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 01:57:10PM -0400, Jerry wrote: >> On Fri, 27 Apr 2012 10:32:24 -0600 Chad Perrin articulated: >> >On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 06:43:06PM -0400, Jerry wrote: >> >> On Thu, 26 Apr 2

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

2012-04-27 Thread Jerry
ertised for by the prospective employer is just a waste of time. If the employer is looking for skill "A" and "B", crying to him/her that you have skill "C" is just a waste of both your times. -- Jerry ♔ Disclaimer: off-list followups get on-list repl

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

2012-04-28 Thread Jerry
On Sat, 28 Apr 2012 07:41:18 +0200 Polytropon articulated: >On Fri, 27 Apr 2012 16:46:52 -0400, Jerry wrote: >> On Fri, 27 Apr 2012 13:58:40 -0600 >> Chad Perrin articulated: >> >> >On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 01:57:10PM -0400, Jerry wrote: >> >> On F

Re: bsdpan-* ports, portmanager, and "@comment ORIGIN:"

2012-04-29 Thread Jerry
re that many modules are available in the ports system, but not under the correct CPAN name. Don't ask why; I did once and got so much BS that I just abandoned the question. -- Jerry ♔ Disclaimer: off-list followups get on-list replies or get ignored

Re: bsdpan-* ports, portmanager, and "@comment ORIGIN:"

2012-04-29 Thread Jerry
On Sun, 29 Apr 2012 13:23:23 -0400 Daniel Staal articulated: >--As of April 29, 2012 12:46:52 PM -0400, Jerry is alleged to have >said: > >>> Which would be fine, if annoying, if everything actually was >>> available in Ports. But it's not: I'm using seve

Re: firefox is marked as broken?

2012-04-30 Thread Jerry
just me, but trying to live by the KISS principal as much as possible, wouldn't it have been easier, and saved a lot of chatter to have just disabled the option and removed it from the Makefile? A splash screen could have been used to alert the user that the option was turned off. -- Jerry ♔

Re: Performance and mouse problems

2012-05-02 Thread Jerry
problem still exists. Since 2008, when HAL was being deprecated, no one has properly addressed the problem. Everyone plays the "blame game". -- Jerry ♔ Disclaimer: off-list followups get on-list replies or get ignored. Please do not ignore the Reply-To header. __ signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Best mail setup for home server?

2012-05-06 Thread Jerry
stick with Postfix, obviously the latest version. It is far easier to configure than Sendmail and you can actually speak with its author if a problem arises. -- Jerry ♔ Disclaimer: off-list followups get on-list replies or get ignored. Please do not ignore the Reply-To header. __

Re: securing MySQL: easiest/best ways?

2012-05-08 Thread Jerry
pository for configuration files greatly simplifies system maintenance. -- Jerry ♔ Disclaimer: off-list followups get on-list replies or get ignored. Please do not ignore the Reply-To header. __ signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: securing MySQL: easiest/best ways?

2012-05-08 Thread Jerry
On Tue, 08 May 2012 21:51:49 +0100 Matthew Seaman articulated: >On 08/05/2012 20:55, Jerry wrote: >> On Tue, 08 May 2012 15:34:02 +0100 >> Matthew Seaman articulated: >> >>> >Sounds almost as if the my.cnf you've been editing is not the >>> >my.

Re: "Cloud" software ?

2012-05-25 Thread Jerry
or a single bit of data to a cloud venture. However, that is just my 2¢ on the matter. In any case, good luck with your venture. -- Jerry ♔ Disclaimer: off-list followups get on-list replies or get ignored. Please do not ignore the Reply-To header. _

Re: how do I fix this?

2012-06-04 Thread Jerry
with yours. I might suggest the following. 1) Clean out "/usr/ports/distfiles" 2) Update your ports tree 3) Run: make clean in the gnupg port 4) Attempt to rebuild and install the port. -- Jerry ♔ Disclaimer: off-list followup

Re: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of?]

2012-06-05 Thread Jerry
The question that I have not seen answered in this thread is what FreeBSD intents to do. From what I have seen, most FreeBSD users do not use the latest versions of most hardware, so it may be a while before its user base is even effected. -- Jerry ♔ Disclaimer: off-list followups get on-list repl

Re: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of?

2012-06-05 Thread Jerry
will lose a few users. But I can't tell from the >discussions mentioned above. Either way, I don't think it will destroy >FreeBSD, or Linux, but I would be interested anyway. I thought this URL <http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/12368.html> also shown above, answered that question.

Re: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of?

2012-06-06 Thread Jerry
ing to cause a problem, I'll donate the $99. In any case, the real problem appears to be how FreeBSD is going to handle drivers which apparently will need to be signed since they work at the kernel level. Apparently Fedora

Re: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of?

2012-06-06 Thread Jerry
On Wed, 06 Jun 2012 11:47:11 +0100 Matthew Seaman articulated: >On 06/06/2012 11:24, Jerry wrote: >> I think you are in error there Matthew. From what I have read The $99 >> goes to Verisign, not Microsoft - further once paid you can sign as >> many binaries as you want. >

Re: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of?]

2012-06-06 Thread Jerry
On Wed, 06 Jun 2012 12:49:53 -0400 Daniel Staal articulated: >On 2012-06-05 17:20, Jerry wrote: > >> The question that I have not seen answered in this thread is what >> FreeBSD intents to do. From what I have seen, most FreeBSD users do >> not >> use the latest ve

Re: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of?]

2012-06-06 Thread Jerry
On Wed, 6 Jun 2012 15:55:16 -0400 Robert Simmons articulated: >On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 3:05 PM, Jerry wrote: >> On Wed, 06 Jun 2012 12:49:53 -0400 >> Daniel Staal articulated: >> >>>On 2012-06-05 17:20, Jerry wrote: >>> >>>> The question t

Re: FreeBSD9 - I can't get my mouse to work

2012-06-07 Thread Jerry
l it works correctly. Furthermore, the real fun is when the keyboard is not even recognized. For the record, my Microsoft friends are really impressed with this. They have started a pool to s

Re: FreeBSD9 - I can't get my mouse to work

2012-06-07 Thread Jerry
ed on GNU/Linux systems, with functionality being merged into udev as of 2008–2010. Why would anyone try to resurrect a dead application. As of 2011, GNU/Linux distributions such as Ubuntu, Debian, and Fedora, and projects such as KDE, GNOME and X.org are in the process of deprecating HAL as it has "

Re: find date of last boot

2012-06-08 Thread Jerry
rd" that he used as a joke. On day he tried it on an internet site for a throw away account he was creating and the site rejected it claiming it was not a valid password. Perhaps FreeBSD could have some sort of validation in place to refuse to accept certain user-IDs such as "reboot"

Re: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of?

2012-06-10 Thread Jerry
ware as "open-sore" or "socialist-software" the FOSS community becomes enraged. However, when the open-source community retaliates it is considered acceptable. Quite frankly I read far more Microsoft based forums than open-source based ones and I can say without a d

Re: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of?

2012-06-10 Thread Jerry
t slightly funny, it is pathetic. If 1% of the effort of spreading this BS over UEFI had gone into working on a solution for UEFI two years ago, we wouldn't be having this di

Re: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of?

2012-06-11 Thread Jerry
On Mon, 11 Jun 2012 10:11:11 -0600 Chad Perrin articulated: >On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 07:23:20AM -0400, Jerry wrote: >> >> It is fairly easy to understand both sides in this discussion. When >> Microsoft supporters refer to open-source software as "open-sore" or &

Re: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of?

2012-06-11 Thread Jerry
On Mon, 11 Jun 2012 11:44:11 -0600 Chad Perrin articulated: >On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 12:59:46PM -0400, Jerry wrote: >> On Mon, 11 Jun 2012 10:11:11 -0600 Chad Perrin articulated: >> >> >On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 07:23:20AM -0400, Jerry wrote: >> >> >> >

Re: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of?

2012-06-11 Thread Jerry
ling that everyone is casting aspersions and heaping maledictions upon you. It is really sad. Personally, I would much rather have a discussion with Poly. I respect him, although I don't often agree with him. At least he discusses facts and doesn't spend his time trying to defend himsel

Re: seems i cannot fully understand {/,/usr/local/}/etc/rc.d/*

2012-06-20 Thread Jerry
t the moment. Anyway, in the "samba" file, it has this notation: # PROVIDE: nmbd smbd I don't know if that makes any difference or not. I have never had to move the starting order of samba around. I do know that in other applications, they appear to have their name in the &

Re: Why Clang

2012-06-20 Thread Jerry
he first time a few days ago. You might also want to familiarize yourself with the term "Sour Grapes" <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sour_grapes>. It is expressed by a certain clique here quite frequently. By the way Fred, please don't "Top Post". That pisses

Re: seems i cannot fully understand {/,/usr/local/}/etc/rc.d/*

2012-06-20 Thread Jerry
quot;/usr/local/bin/foo" load_rc_config $name run_rc_command "$1" You will notice the prominent use of ":". If you feel that is in error, please feel fr

Re: Why Clang

2012-06-20 Thread Jerry
fore, the "other operating system" requirement has been fulfilled. I did not say, nor mean to convey that every condition had to be met in every post in every thread. It is more of a cumulative effect. Very easy to overlook unless each post is read in its entirety. -- Jerry ♔ Disclaimer:

Re: USB system: FreeBSD 9-STABLE and 10-CURRENT do not recognize 64GB USB drive while Linux and Windows do

2012-06-23 Thread Jerry
ude, except of course when I do attempt to plug one in a FreeBSD machine with negative results. I do not know what is more pathetic; the fact that so many devices fail to operate correctly -- if at all --, or the willingness of the FreeBSD community to accept it as the norm. -- Jerry ♔ Disclaimer:

Re: USB system: FreeBSD 9-STABLE and 10-CURRENT do not recognize 64GB USB drive while Linux and Windows do

2012-06-23 Thread Jerry
;http://wiki.freebsd.org/USB> although that might have recently changed. In any case, as a wise man once stated, it is better to light a candle than curse the darkness. -- Jerry ♔ Disclaimer: off-list followups get on-lis

Re: Messages not reaching the lists

2012-06-29 Thread Jerry
n that you should have had some sort of backup plan in place in case your mail server goes down. There are methods of handling this problem and I am sure if you started a new thread and requested help that many knowledgeable users would be willing to lend you their expertise. -- Jerry ♔ Discla

Re: NTFS data recovery

2012-07-09 Thread Jerry
It took a week but it got all of the data back. I did take the HD out of the original PC and put it into a backup unit since I could not tie that PC up for an extended time. SpinRite does not need a super high speed machine to work off of. Good luck, you'll need it. -- Jerry ♔ Disclaimer: off-

Re: openldap not starting

2011-02-21 Thread Jerry
Perhaps you mean: include /usr/local/etc/openldap/schema/core.schema include /usr/local/etc/openldap/schema/cosine.schema include /usr/local/etc/openldap/schema/inetorgperson.schema -- Jerry ✌ freebsd.u...@seibercom.net Disclaimer: off-list followups get on-list replies o

HAL's demise

2011-02-24 Thread Jerry
FreeBSD now "HAL" free or is it still a requirement? I still have it activated via "/etc/rc.conf" If it is not needed, I would be happy to remove the entry. -- Jerry ✌ freebsd.u...@seibercom.net Disclaimer: off-list followups get on-list replies or get igno

Re: Backtick versus $()

2011-02-24 Thread Jerry
anyone had ever files a PR against that behavior though? -- Jerry ✌ freebsd.u...@seibercom.net Disclaimer: off-list followups get on-list replies or get ignored. Please do not ignore the Reply-To header. __ Ignorance is never out of st

Re: HAL's demise

2011-02-25 Thread Jerry
On Thu, 24 Feb 2011 20:20:13 -0700 (MST) Warren Block articulated: > On Thu, 24 Feb 2011, Edwin L. Culp W. wrote: > > > 2011/2/24 Warren Block : > >> On Thu, 24 Feb 2011, Jerry wrote: > >> > >>> Is FreeBSD now "HAL" free or is it still a re

Re: python27 update

2011-03-06 Thread Jerry
ng portupgrade on 3 different systems (7.4 and 8.1) to > upgrade Python 2.6 to 2.7 worked like a charm. Just my two cents. +1 -- Jerry ✌ freebsd.u...@seibercom.net Disclaimer: off-list followups get on-list replies or get ignored. Please d

Re: Apple & FreeBSD relationship

2011-03-10 Thread Jerry
help investing or donating would have on his financial health. He would probably be well advise to see a professional tax consultant prior to following either avenue. Personally, I donate to the Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. I find donating money to help find a cure for a disease or aid those tha

Re: Apple & FreeBSD relationship

2011-03-10 Thread Jerry
y beyond CUPS. Just look at the debauchery regarding a HAL replacement. Instead of the different distros creating a uniform replacement, they are each intent on reinventing the wheel with their own implementation. In the end, nobody gains and the status quo per se remains as fragmented as ever. -- Jer

Re: HAL must die!

2011-03-15 Thread Jerry
distro is busy trying to reinvent the wheel. Here you want the majority of users to be dictated to by a minority of users who cannot even agree on a common platform that is uniformly used throughout all the non-Microsoft community. That reasoning is totally irrational. -- Jerry ✌ freebsd.u...@seibe

Re: HAL must die!

2011-03-16 Thread Jerry
On Wed, 16 Mar 2011 06:29:25 + Matthew Seaman articulated: > On 16/03/2011 00:37, Jerry wrote: > > Microsoft has approximately 90% of the desktop market share with > > everyone else dividing up the remainder. If you are on a Microsoft > > platform you use their products

Re: postfix / windows live mail problems (possibly OT)

2011-03-16 Thread Jerry
via Postfix all the time. I know it works quite well. You probably do not have SASL or some other simple thing configured incorrectly. This is not a Windows Live Mail problem. -- Jerry ✌ freebsd.u...@seibercom.net Disclaimer: off-list followups get on-list replies or get i

Re: HAL must die!

2011-03-17 Thread Jerry
elieve that XFCE has dropped all support for HAL too. Is that Microsoft's fault too? I have two Linksys Wireless-N PCI cards in front of me that work fine on a Windows platform. FreeBSD doesn't even have a driver for them, thereby rendering them useless. I suppose that is Microsoft's f

Re: HAL must die!

2011-03-17 Thread Jerry
On Thu, 17 Mar 2011 16:36:37 -0600 Chad Perrin articulated: > On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 05:35:57PM -0400, Jerry wrote: > > On Thu, 17 Mar 2011 13:48:52 -0600 > > Chad Perrin articulated: > > > > > I blame Microsoft, GNU, and Canonical for this trend, mostly. >

Re: HAL must die!

2011-03-18 Thread Jerry
On Thu, 17 Mar 2011 18:26:57 -0600 Chad Perrin articulated: > On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 07:48:58PM -0400, Jerry wrote: > > On Thu, 17 Mar 2011 16:36:37 -0600 > > Chad Perrin articulated: > > > > > > No, not really. It's more the fault of the hardware manu

Re: Recommendations for 3D modelling code for 3D printing?

2011-03-24 Thread Jerry
probably be using shapeways.com to do the actual printing. Perhaps this URL might prove useful: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3D_computer_graphics_software For a comparison: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_3D_computer_graphics_software -- Jerry ✌ freebsd.u...@seibercom.net Disclaimer: off-l

Re: MySQL 3 needed but how?

2011-03-26 Thread Jerry
rc.d/mysql-server start > Starting mysql. > gw# /usr/local/etc/rc.d/mysql-server status > mysql is not running. > gw# > > > There is nothing in /var/log/messages. > > It was working with 4.1 server, but I just uninstalled that (because > the upgrading faq told me to in

Re: MySQL 3 needed but how?

2011-03-26 Thread Jerry
eing where the server expects it to be. > >> > > > > > No matter which version of mysql you install, > you have to run this command > mysql_install_db --user=mysql > on the command line to create mysql's > control databases first. I believe that all of that i

Unable to update to kde-4.6.1

2011-03-27 Thread Jerry
e, errors occurred! *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/x11/kdebase4-runtime. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/x11/kde4. -- Jerry ___ 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"

Unable to update "dirmngr"

2011-03-28 Thread Jerry
1 Stop in /usr/ports/security/dirmngr. Script done on Mon Mar 28 14:35:53 2011 I have deinstalled and reinstalled LDAP, both server and client and they are working. -- Jerry ___ 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: Unable to update "dirmngr"

2011-03-28 Thread Jerry
On Mon, 28 Mar 2011 22:25:52 +0200 Jens Jahnke articulated: > I can confirm this. I have the problem on 3 freebsd boxes all running > 8.2. I don't know if anyone has filed a PR against this or not. If it is not fixed by tomorrow and no one else files one, I will. -- Jerry

Re: Easiest desktop BSD distro

2011-03-29 Thread Jerry
On Wed, 30 Mar 2011 00:00:07 +0200 Polytropon articulated: > On Tue, 29 Mar 2011 17:39:36 -0400, Jerry McAllister > wrote: > > Just a nit here -- I would think of BSD as less cluttered > > rather than simpler. > > The definition of "simple" is individual,

Re: Easiest desktop BSD distro

2011-03-30 Thread Jerry
that it does come with a configuration utility. I have not seen any of the top rated ones that did not. If for some reason that did not work, you could still manually enter any of the specific information manually, assuming that you actually took the time to learn (where did I here that term

Re: Place to install library of shell functions

2011-04-05 Thread Jerry
ot.com/en/scorecard/jafdip.com -- Jerry ✌ freebsd.u...@seibercom.net Disclaimer: off-list followups get on-list replies or get ignored. Please do not ignore the Reply-To header. __ __

Re: GEOM warning in dmesg

2011-04-06 Thread Jerry
s they do not affect the system. I had a disk two years ago that caused FBSD to spew the same nonsense. I downloaded FreeDOS <http://www.freedos.org/>, created a CD then proceeded to removed all of the partition information from the disk. I then recreated the partition format I wanted, rebooted

Re: How to be an imap Client?

2011-04-20 Thread Jerry
the gateway which, I guess, must be > whitlisted. Why are you blacklisted? It seems correcting that problem would be my first priority. -- Jerry ✌ freebsd.u...@seibercom.net Disclaimer: off-list followups get on-list replies or get ignored. Please do not ignore the

Re: Modifying Sendmail's Configuration the Correct way.

2011-04-21 Thread Jerry
ostings get, I consider that replay appropriate. In any case, the poster did reply to the OPs question regarding Sendmail -- he told him how to remove it from his system and install Postfix. A solution that would

Re: How to be an imap Client?

2011-04-21 Thread Jerry
On Wed, 20 Apr 2011 23:22:35 -0700 per...@pluto.rain.com articulated: > Jerry wrote: > > > On Wed, 20 Apr 2011 10:01:28 -0500 > > Martin McCormick articulated: > > > ... our entire network is on the blacklist ... > > > > Why are you blacklisted? It see

Re: How to be an imap Client?

2011-04-21 Thread Jerry
On Thu, 21 Apr 2011 23:21:25 +1000 (EST) Ian Smith articulated: > On Thu, 21 Apr 2011 07:34:32 -0400 Jerry > wrote: > > On Wed, 20 Apr 2011 23:22:35 -0700 > > per...@pluto.rain.com articulated: > > > > > Jerry wrote: > > > > > > &

Re: Hardware suggestions

2011-04-26 Thread Jerry
ors. The Intel Atom is Intel's line of low-power, low-cost and low-performance x86 and x86-64 microprocessors. It sounds like the OP is interested in something more substantial. -- Jerry ✌ jerry+f...@seibercom.net Disclaimer: off-list followups get on-list replies, ignor

Re: NVIDIA-driver-173

2011-05-01 Thread Jerry
ports system. You might want to check with regarding that. All of the FreeBSD nVidia drivers are listed on: <http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html>. -- Jerry ✌ jerry+f...@seibercom.net Disclaimer: off-list followups get on-list replies, ignored or reported as Spam. Do not CC this pos

Re: A possibly odd upgrade question

2011-05-04 Thread Jerry
diablo-jre that require you to have the distfile all ready in the /usr/ports/distfiles directory prior to attempting to build the port, then do that prior to updating your system and running portmanager. -- Jerry ✌ jerry+f...@seibercom.net Disclaimer: off-list followups get on-list replie

Re: A possibly odd upgrade question

2011-05-04 Thread Jerry
On Wed, 04 May 2011 22:51:05 +0100 Chris Whitehouse articulated: > I second Jerry, portmanager is indeed a very effective tool, it's > simple and thorough and probably has as good a chance of fixing ports > issues as anything. Or used to, I've been trying out tinderbox so >

Re: Home firewall with DLink router & FreeBSD

2011-05-06 Thread Jerry
tly redundant; it borders on insane. Yet, unfortunately, it is done all the time. -- Jerry ✌ jerry+f...@seibercom.net Disclaimer: off-list followups get on-list replies, ignored or reported as Spam. Do not CC this poster. Please do not ignore th

Re: Sending a Fax

2011-05-06 Thread Jerry
On Fri, 6 May 2011 19:50:47 +0200 Polytropon articulated: > On Fri, 6 May 2011 10:30:58 -0700, David Brodbeck > wrote: > > On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 3:47 AM, Bill Tillman > > wrote: > > Believe it or not, there are industries where faxing is still the > > norm. > > Don't just think about "big in

Re: Kernel errors after upgrade from 8.1 to 8.2

2011-05-09 Thread Jerry
tp://ftp.wl0.org/SOURCES/postfinger. The output from the "postfinger" tool is always the best option. -- Jerry ✌ jerry+f...@seibercom.net Disclaimer: off-list followups get on-list replies, ignored or reported as Spam. Do not CC this poster. Please do not

Re: (8.2) amd64 + linuxulator + nvidia driver is it stable ?

2011-05-10 Thread Jerry
I don't think that a day goes by that I don't have to kill a dozen npviewer.bin instances and delete one or two 300M+ npviewer.bin.core files. A real PIA to say the least. -- Jerry ✌ jerry+f...@seibercom.net Disclaimer: off-list followups get on-list replies, ignored or reported as Spam.

Re: (8.2) amd64 + linuxulator + nvidia driver is it stable ?

2011-05-11 Thread Jerry
& <http://www.nvidia.com/object/freebsd-x64-270.41.06-driver.html> for 64 bit systems and <http://www.nvidia.com/object/freebsd-x86-270.41.06-driver.html> for 32 bit systems. -- Jerry ✌ jerry+f...@seibercom.net Disclaimer: off-list followups get on-list replies, ignored or reported as S

Re: Skyip? question

2011-05-12 Thread Jerry
r, to incorporate Skype into XBox and Outlook for starters. It will undoubtedly make the use of Skype far easier on Microsoft's operating system. I have yet to see the downside of the deal. -- Jerry ✌ jerry+f...@seibercom.net Disclaimer: off-list followups get on-list replies, ignored or r

Re: Ekiga && FreeBSD (for a future without Skype)

2011-05-22 Thread Jerry
r. However, I would fully expect them to maintain and improve on a model tailored for Linux. It is in their best interest. -- Jerry jerry+f...@seibercom.net ''~``

Re: FreeBSD Python version

2011-05-25 Thread Jerry
is what I have anyway, and I don't remember ever updating it. There is Python 3.2.0 available in the ports system. The new release version from python for 3.2.1RC1 is due out May 23. It will probably reach the ports shortly after that date. -- Jerry ✌ jerry+f...@seibercom.net Disclaimer: o

Re: Dell R210 "no disks found"

2011-05-30 Thread Jerry
On Thu, 26 May 2011 16:28:22 -0400 Brian Seklecki articulated: > Remember, Dell and LSI would club a baby seal over the head to save a > buck. A buck that I dare say you don't mind saving when purchasing said unit. -- Jerry ✌ jerry+f...@seibercom.net Disclaimer: off-list follo

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