Re: Best Laptop to buy for Freebsd Without OS?

2011-02-18 Thread Julian H. Stacey
The major OEMs will say OK, then you must return the computer, and you have no option but to comply. This is true for the USA. 192 sovereign countries exist with differing laws. Licenses I've seen from usually USA companies in Europe over decades have often seemed to contravene local law.

Re: CPU heating!

2011-03-04 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi, [ I'm late on thread, so briefly ] If you get desperate overheating crashes, try eg /usr/sbin/powerd -a min -b min -n min Thats what I'm doing on one box, till I can remove, review/ regrease. One can also observe subsets of values from sysctl -a | grep temp in a while (1)

Re: Apple FreeBSD relationship

2011-03-10 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi questions@, Original question from Nerius Landys nlan...@gmail.com : Basically I have some cash sitting around. I'm thinking of investing part of it with a company that I believe in. Apple came to mind. You could say that I'd like to judge Apple's moral character before investing money

Re: Apple FreeBSD relationship

2011-03-10 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Sorry, Julian, but Chuck had it _legally_ correctly, for the U.S.A.. ... etc ... Thanks for the explanation Robert. Sad that people are not free to speak. Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultants Munich http://berklix.com Mail plain text; Not quoted-printable,

Re: Skyip? question

2011-05-12 Thread Julian H. Stacey
What does the list think of XBill's buyout of Skype? i know there is probably a port for this for the BSD'S. ISn't it just a VOIP thing... maybe with some video glued on? /usr/ports/net/asterisk exists. Not used it, but compiling to try some time. It's been around years, eg

Re: Expanding tabs (was Re: kwik way?)

2011-05-20 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi, Reference: From: Gary Kline kl...@thought.org Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 12:10:01 -0700 Message-id: 20110518191001.ga22...@thought.org Gary Kline wrote: On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 01:09:36PM -0500, Dan Nelson wrote: Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 13:09:36 -0500 From: Dan Nelson

Re: Hardware Recovery Company

2011-05-21 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi, Reference: From: Alejandro Imass a...@p2ee.org Date: Fri, 20 May 2011 11:08:21 -0400 Message-id: banlktikm6asm5uddryhqmb3w_ruxvd4...@mail.gmail.com Alejandro Imass wrote: Hi folks, I recently sent a hard drive to be recovered and I think they just ripped me off. I

Re: Hardware Recovery Company

2011-05-21 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi Polytropon cc list, you wrote You could look at man fsdb FreeBSD offers a lot of versatile diagnostic and rescue tools, and surely fsdb is one of them. Others, provided by the base system, are fetch -rR device and also recoverdisk. In the ports collection you'll find tools like

Other lists exist too - Was Re: Hardware Recovery Company

2011-05-21 Thread Julian H. Stacey
For Alejandro Imass as original poster re. Hardware Recovery Company: FreebSD has a special mail list for file systeme it's name is f...@freebsd.org. (we also have hardware@ etc) For all, Questions@ started as a catch all fallback address for simple beginners questions from the

Re: Other lists exist too - Was Re: Hardware Recovery Company

2011-05-22 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi Robert, Thanks for your repsonse, I mailed postmas...@freebsd.org that this thread exists, invited him to consider list definitions in light of past, present possible future response that may be psoted on this thread. Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultants

Re: x11-wm/olvwm

2011-05-24 Thread Julian H. Stacey
fr...@getnet.com wrote: Hello, I have updated ports and when reinstalling I found x11-wm/olvwm which I was using was gone from the ports tree. Why? Better ask on po...@freebsd.org Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultants Munich http://berklix.com Mail plain

Re: CRUX and FREE BSD

2011-05-24 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi, Reference: From: Ramu Chakravadhanula boys21cent...@gmail.com Date: Tue, 24 May 2011 16:38:36 +0200 Message-id: banlktinq0y-wkwj7rzrqh08huvquvv_...@mail.gmail.com Ramu Chakravadhanula wrote: hi, I have to make CRUX and FREE BSD dual boot. Is that possible? how can

Re: CRUX and FREE BSD

2011-05-24 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Ramu Chakravadhanula wrote: hi, I have to make CRUX and FREE BSD dual boot. Is that possible? how can i do that?? I have CRUX installed before. now i want to use Free BSD 7.3. please PS did you know 8.2 exists ? Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultants Munich

Re: x11-wm/olvwm

2011-05-24 Thread Julian H. Stacey
C. P. Ghost wrote: On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 3:53 PM, fr...@getnet.com wrote: Hello, I have updated ports and when reinstalling I found x11-wm/olvwm which I was using was gone from the ports tree.  Why? I noticed that too, and was bit by that change as well. Since I love the olvwm look

Re: CRUX and FREE BSD

2011-05-25 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi Ramu cc questions@ I have to make CRUX and FREE BSD dual boot. Is that possible? how can i do that?? I have CRUX installed before. I wrote some notes here: http://berklix.com/~jhs/txt/install_bsd.html Hope it may help you or similar enquirers. I dont see anything about this in

Re: CRUX and FREE BSD

2011-05-25 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi, Reference: From: Chris Whitehouse cwhi...@onetel.com Date: Wed, 25 May 2011 22:15:16 +0100 Message-id: 4ddd7164.9020...@onetel.com Chris Whitehouse wrote: On 25/05/2011 18:45, Julian H. Stacey wrote: Hi Ramu cc questions@ I have to make CRUX and FREE BSD dual

Re: CRUX and FREE BSD

2011-05-25 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Jerry McAllister wrote: On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 07:45:38PM +0200, Julian H. Stacey wrote: Hi Ramu cc questions@ I have to make CRUX and FREE BSD dual boot. Is that possible? how can i do that?? I have CRUX installed before. I wrote some notes here: http

Re: Hardware Recovery Company

2011-05-26 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi Polytropon cc list, I wrote: You could look at man fsdb FreeBSD offers a lot of versatile diagnostic and rescue tools, and surely fsdb is one of them. Others, provided by the base system, are fetch -rR device and also recoverdisk. In the ports collection you'll find tools

Re: Sorry. Numpty alert! FreeBSD Jails... Help?

2011-06-07 Thread Julian H. Stacey
and AFIK have downloaded all the sys and ports sources.. How do I confirm that, cd /usr/src make clean ; make cleandir ; make clean # gets rid of obj du -s -k 547684 . find . -type d -print | wc 47344734 119623 cd /usr/ports du -s -k 477244 . find .

Re: FreeBSD on IBM 3630

2011-06-14 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Peter Toth wrote: Anyone is running IBM 3630 out there with FreeBSD? Short: Try Harder ;-) Medium: If one ask a better question, one gets better answers. Long: You may improve responses by adding eg: - Why you want to know Thinking of buying or selling ? Got it working

Re: how do i fsck my server?

2011-06-16 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Facts: 8.2-RELEASE man fsck -B ... background fsck is limited to checking for only the most commonly occurring file system abnormalities. Under certain circumstances, some errors can escape background fsck. It is recommended that you perform foreground fsck

Re: versions of software

2011-06-17 Thread Julian H. Stacey
FreeBSD can also run a lot of Linux Applications just fine with the Linux_Enable=YES added to /etc/rc.conf and, not only that, I've heard /etc/defaults/rc.conf has it in lower case linux_enable=NO Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultants Munich

Re: free sco unix

2011-06-20 Thread Julian H. Stacey
I've set freebsd-chat as follow-up Me too. Postings about copyright etc too numerous/ boring/ ignorant/ irrelevant, Too much focus on American law that does not apply to many of us on this international list, eg Bernt H's Sweden, my bases of Britain Germany, 190+ other non USA

Re: Point me to resource or user info

2011-06-21 Thread Julian H. Stacey
http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo So in this reply I set: To: Allen chef11...@aol.com bcc:ctm-us...@freebsd.org cc: questi...@freebsd.org reply-to: questi...@freebsd.org, Allen chef11...@aol.com, Julian H

Re: freebsd list admins?

2011-06-21 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi questions@ Robert Simmons articulated: There seems to be a few email addresses that are subscribed to these lists that keep spamming it periodically, je...@seibercom.net wrote: Now, if this forum were conducted under the same restraints that the Postfix forums(2) adhere to, the

Re: FreeBSD paid support

2011-06-21 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Daniel Staal wrote: On Mon, June 20, 2011 3:35 am, Dennis Perisa wrote: Hi guys, Are there paid support services available for FreeBSD? If provided by a 3rd party, can you name or even recommend a few? I haven't tried any, so I can't make recommendations, but the FreeBSD website has

Re: How to connect a projector to a FreeBSD laptop?

2011-06-21 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi, Reference: From: Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2011 12:51:14 -0600 (MDT) Message-id: alpine.bsf.2.00.1106201249520.63...@wonkity.com Warren Block wrote: On Mon, 20 Jun 2011, Polytropon wrote: On Mon, 20 Jun 2011 09:32:55 -0700 (PDT), Unga

Re: List of Servers for FreeBSD and Ports Updates...

2011-06-23 Thread Julian H. Stacey
1-Port directory update through portsnap 2-FreeBSD src update through CTM 3-Port updates through distfiles and/or packages I think 1- and 2- are quite straightforward. To allow 1- I need to white list the whole content of http://portsnap.freebsd.org/ . To allow 2- I need to white list the

Re: LTO3 tape drive not detected

2011-06-23 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Adam Vande More wrote: On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 9:35 AM, Joe in MPLS j...@gracenpeace.net wrote: The system sees the SCSI controller as mpt0, and it seems to know there's something at SCSI ID 4, but I get an AutoSense Failed for hba/id/lun 0:4:0 at boot and subsequent camcontrol rescans.

Re: freebsd list admins?

2011-06-23 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Should we send in a send-pr to edit src/etc/motd ? PR it. Sounds good. Thanks. Done. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=158238 Now it'll need a commiter. Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultants Munich http://berklix.com Reply below, not above;

Re: Dual Boot 8.2 and Windows 7

2011-06-28 Thread Julian H. Stacey
I've always meant to submit it as a PR, but found the send-pr(1) too daunting. (It is impossible/undesirable for me to have a working mail sender on my system and I have not yet found a way for send-pr(1) to work in offline mode for delayed sending by a different machine.) Easy. Just run

Re: Tool to show the recent disk space consumers?

2011-07-06 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Kurt Buff wrote: On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 12:37, Yuri y...@rawbw.com wrote: Hi, I hit this problem periodically when a lot of disk space is gone and it's hard to tell where did it go. Once it was thunderbird writing huge index file as a consequence of some bug, on another occasion it was

Re: Just a quick note/correction for whomever edits the web page:

2011-07-08 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi, Reference: From: SADM-IT Officer (HAL) sadm-it_offi...@hollandamerica.com Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2011 06:23:33 -0800 Message-id: aff5047dc54c6b4cab1426a816a02b506a83e09...@statendamex01.stdmdomain.hal.com SADM-IT Officer (HAL) wrote: On the installation pages describing

Re: groff UTF-8

2011-07-18 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi Matthias Sorry, I cant help on the OCR, though I had a quick try eith /usr/ports/graphics/claraocr In the '90 I have used for a lot of my internal and external papers and letter the groff suite (gtbl, groff, ...) with good results. Me too. I still do. FYI here is my bsd make macro set

Re: groff UTF-8

2011-07-19 Thread Julian H. Stacey
If you want to produce postscript output from groff, you will have to deal with postscript fonts. The usual Type 1 fonts are single-byte fonts. Groff only deals with Latin-1 characters (see groff_char(7)). What is Latin-1 ? ( BTW is Latin a common misnomer ? - I recall Latin by

Re: How much disk space required for make release?

2011-08-16 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi, Reference: From: Miller, Vincent (Rick) vmil...@verisign.com Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2011 18:38:31 + Message-id: ca703165.3b97%vmil...@verisign.com Miller, Vincent (Rick) wrote: Hello all, I am attempting to 'make release' 8.2-RELEASE. After running for a few

Re: ISO images

2011-08-17 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Lars Eighner wrote: On Wed, 17 Aug 2011, Rui Silva wrote: Hi, I want to install FreeBSD for the first time but I have some doubts regarding the ISO images. I have downloaded an ISO image (FreeBSD-8.2-RELEASE-i386-dvd1.iso) via torrent, but soon realised that the packages

Re: ISO images

2011-08-17 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi, Reference: From: Michael Ross michael.r...@gmx.net Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2011 15:28:41 +0200 Message-id: op.v0c013xvhalquq@michael-think Michael Ross wrote: Am 17.08.2011, 14:55 Uhr, schrieb Julian H. Stacey j...@berklix.com: Lars Eighner wrote: ftp protocol does

Re: ISO images

2011-08-17 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Michael Ross wrote: Am 17.08.2011, 15:59 Uhr, schrieb Julian H. Stacey j...@berklix.com: Hi, Reference: From: Michael Ross michael.r...@gmx.net Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2011 15:28:41 +0200 Message-id:op.v0c013xvhalquq@michael-think Michael Ross wrote

Re: new to os

2011-08-19 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Aloha Lars, You mentioned WP5 in this thread. I have some docs on disks that were created in WP5. You know any FreeBSD based app like abiword that can read them for transfer to a contemporary program? Do you mean Word Perfect ? Wordperfect-8.0 used to run on FreeBSD 3.4-RELEASE was free,

Re: new to os

2011-08-19 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Lars Eighner wrote: On Fri, 19 Aug 2011, Julian H. Stacey wrote: Aloha Lars, You mentioned WP5 in this thread. I have some docs on disks that were created in WP5. You know any FreeBSD based app like abiword that can read them for transfer to a contemporary program? Do you mean

Re: to come from Linux to FreeBSD

2011-08-24 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi, Reference: From: Dick Hoogendijk d...@nagual.nl Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2011 12:24:37 +0200 Message-id: 4e54d165.7090...@nagual.nl Dick Hoogendijk wrote: Op 24-8-2011 10:41, Matthew Seaman schreef: Virtualization is actually a bit of a tricky thing with FreeBSD.

Re: A quality operating system

2011-09-03 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi, Reference: From: Allen unix.hac...@comcast.net Date: Sat, 03 Sep 2011 05:17:51 -0400 Message-id: 4e61f0bf.9030...@comcast.net Allen wrote: Maybe I can play Diplomat here, considering that I use both BSD and ..^ Linux and Windows, and I won't

Re: idletime in login.conf

2011-10-31 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi, Reference: From: Jason Helfman jhelf...@e-e.com Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2011 11:25:32 -0700 Message-id: 20111031182532.gf82...@eggman.experts-exchange.com Jason Helfman wrote: On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 10:09:34AM -0500, Dan Nelson thus spake: In the last episode (Oct 31),

Re: OT: Old books (before c. 2009) for the price of shipping

2011-11-02 Thread Julian H. Stacey
parv wrote: I have following books (bought before 2009) that need to be disposed of, one way or another within next 7-8 days. If you are interested in any of them, contact me privately about the shipping payment (to be shipped from Allentown, Pennsylvania, USA via USPS) your list ... *

Re: CARP related trivial question

2011-11-02 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi, Reference: From: Damien Fleuriot m...@my.gd Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2011 16:44:50 +0100 Message-id: 4eb16572.4080...@my.gd Damien Fleuriot wrote: On 11/1/11 8:19 AM, Snoop wrote: Sorry but I have to re-post my question as I didn't get any exhaustive reply. I can't

Re: How to get /dev/smb* ?

2011-11-02 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Have you tried: $ sysctl -a | grep temperature dev.cpu.0.temperature: 29.2C dev.cpu.1.temperature: 29.2C s/temperature/temp/ some systems will show more, eg: sysctl -a | grep temp | grep -v template dev.cpu.0.temperature: 35.0C dev.amdtemp.0.%desc: AMD K8 Thermal

mail list debug - Was Re: How to remove ACPI from boot ?

2011-11-02 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Al Plant wrote: ## Please copy me directly as I cant get messages on the list for some reason. Any one know who I can email about whats blocking the FreeBSD list? ## It's downstream from freebsd.org toward you then, so suggestions: 1) Ask your own postmas...@hdk5.net Point them at

Re: CARP related trivial question

2011-11-03 Thread Julian H. Stacey
, but you can still use send-pr. If necessary let the www@ team reverse your HTML diffs back to their SGML or whatever ;-) Thank you all for your time, have a good day. On Wed, 2011-11-02 at 17:28 +0100, Julian H. Stacey wrote: Hi, Reference: From: Damien Fleuriot m

Re: Request for Reproduction Rights (Oxford University Press Spain)

2011-11-07 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Dear Sir, Hi, To quote: http://www.freebsd.org/logo.html All images listed under the heading Resource are available for use under license from The FreeBSD Foundation. which links to http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/documents/Guidelines.shtml If you have queries, rather than

Re: Webmail for local system mail

2011-11-18 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi, Reference: From: Errol Sayre esa...@olemiss.edu Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2011 17:23:26 + Message-id: fab6ea27-2c6d-43f0-bddd-ca83b5226...@olemiss.edu Errol Sayre wrote: Does anyone know of a webmail product that can provide access to local system accounts? Even if it's

Re: Invalid fdisk partition table found

2011-11-23 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Robert wrote: Greetings [robert@dell64] ~ uname -a FreeBSD dell64.shasta204.local 8.2-STABLE FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE #34: Fri Nov 18 06:43:01 PST 2011 root@dell64.shasta204.local:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 I have two Lexar Professional 600X 16GB compact flash cards that are

Re: Free BSD Website Question

2011-11-23 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi, Reference: From: Jonathan Vomacka juvi...@gmail.com Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2011 17:39:44 -0500 Message-id: cabfwsfq+9msmvb453nvkc1whdgadkkdsreywov8vt31toec...@mail.gmail.com Jonathan Vomacka wrote: Absolutely not Jonathan, Dont top post please. (But agreed, doesnt seem

Re: Invalid fdisk partition table found

2011-11-23 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi, Reference: From: Carl Johnson ca...@peak.org Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2011 14:53:41 -0800 Message-id: 87bos2e9hm.fsf@oak.localnet Carl Johnson wrote: Julian H. Stacey j...@berklix.com writes: @ suggestions: 1 Try bsdlabel -B -w -r /dev/da1 echo unplug

Re: Invalid fdisk partition table found (fwd)

2011-11-24 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi, Please keep this on list. Forwarded from: Julian Stacey j...@berklix.com http://www.berklix.com/~jhs/ --- Forwarded Message From travelin...@cox.net Thu Nov 24 05:15:33 2011 From: Robert travelin...@cox.net To: Julian H. Stacey j...@berklix.com Subject: Re: Invalid fdisk partition table

Re: Free BSD Website Question

2011-12-01 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Adam Vande More wrote: On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 3:24 PM, Frank fr...@webhosting.net wrote: Hey FreeBSD, I saw that you had a list of web hosting providers on your website and wondered if you would consider adding WebHosting.net to your list. http://www.freebsd.org/commercial/isp.html

Re: restore(8) to UFS on USB key: terrible slow

2011-12-09 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Matthias Apitz wrote: El día Thursday, December 08, 2011 a las 09:57:13AM -0600, Dan Nelson escribió: Cheap USB thumb drives aren't really optimized for small random-I/O writes. Can you try mounting the filesystem async? that might help a little. A workaround would be to use mdconfig

hooking /usr/ports/graphics/gnash to /usr/ports/www/firefox ?

2011-12-27 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi questions@ cc Dmitry Marakasov amd...@amdmi3.ru ( of graphics/gnash/Makefile ) On 8.2-RELEASE amd64 I ran make install on both /usr/ports/www/firefox /usr/ports/graphics/gnash But I see no hint what to read, hot to get firefox to call gnash. I would like to view a flash eg

Re: hooking /usr/ports/graphics/gnash to /usr/ports/www/firefox ?

2011-12-27 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Damien Fleuriot wrote: On 12/27/11 4:45 PM, Julian H. Stacey wrote: Hi questions@ [snip] Externaly { man gnash says what to do from CLI, But I'm not clear what the URL is, of the flash to save to file } In reply to knowing the flash's URL, I think the download

Re: hooking /usr/ports/graphics/gnash to /usr/ports/www/firefox ?

2011-12-28 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi, Conrad J. Sabatier wrote: On Wed, 28 Dec 2011 05:32:42 +0100 Julian H. Stacey j...@berklix.com wrote: Damien Fleuriot wrote: On 12/27/11 4:45 PM, Julian H. Stacey wrote: Hi questions@ [snip] Externaly { man gnash says what to do from CLI

Re: FreeBSD Kernel Internals Documentation

2012-01-03 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Polytropon wrote: Maybe consider the chance that a FreeBSD OS can be turned into closed source (which the license explicitely allows) and put into some embedded device, a router, a DSL modem, a managed switch... In parts like this, you won't recognize FreeBSD anymore. If you consider such

Re: Browser

2012-01-04 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi, Reference: From: Daniel Lewis innervisionnetw...@gmail.com Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2012 07:17:47 -0500 Message-id: cahsizg-op0mo79qawg2grlyleatkcip8iabq+0ayqvk7idz...@mail.gmail.com Daniel Lewis wrote: Im running Free BSD 8.2 and was wondering whats a good web browser for

Re: Exact timestamp for sorting and renaming files according to creation order

2012-01-04 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi, Devin Teske wrote: -Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd- questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Polytropon Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2012 1:00 PM To: Dan Nelson Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Exact timestamp for sorting and

Re: COMPAT_* kernel config options -- some housecleaning overdue?

2012-01-15 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi, Conrad J. Sabatier wrote: I've been wondering for a while now about the accuracy of some of the comments in /sys/conf/NOTES re: the various COMPAT_* options, and now, with 9.0-RELEASE already out the door and 10.0-CURRENT as the current development branch, it seems even more relevant to

Re: Clang - what is the story?

2012-01-22 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi, Reference: From: Da Rock freebsd-questi...@herveybayaustralia.com.au Reply-to: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2012 01:13:49 +1000 Message-id: 4f1c27ad.9070...@herveybayaustralia.com.au Da Rock wrote: On 01/23/12 00:38, Robert Bonomi wrote: Da

Re: Technical Support Question

2012-02-16 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Chip Oakley wrote: Hello, I am upgrading to BSD from windows. I am having complications with an old password from Windows that I cannot remember. I created an ISO Boot CD on another computer and installed it and made sure to set the BIOS to boot from CD, to no avail. There's 2 types

Re: How to prevent gam_server from running?

2012-02-16 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Conrad J. Sabatier conr...@cox.net wrote Any clues, anyone? I'm really worn out from trying to solve this one. I've not heard of gam_server but try cd /var/db/pkg/gam_server* ; more ./+REQUIRED_BY same result with pkg_info -R gam_server* BTW for window manager I have been

Re: Technical Support Question (fwd)

2012-02-16 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi, Please keep on list so others can help you too. Forwarded from: Julian Stacey j...@berklix.com http://www.berklix.com/~jhs/ --- Forwarded Message From silverskymus...@gmail.com Thu Feb 16 16:20:10 2012 To: Julian H. Stacey j...@berklix.com Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary

Re: Technical Support Question

2012-02-16 Thread Julian H. Stacey
You claim to have made a CD on nother machine. Will _that_ machine boot from the CD you made? If not, you made the CD incorrectly. Good point Chip Oakley silverskymus...@gmail.com Please first make sure you are subscribed to this list freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, as I see

Re: Technical Support Question

2012-02-16 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Am tempted to remove the drive and insert a new one, not sure as there is memory on the drive available and nothing really wrong with it. I suggest temporarily disconnect data cable of old disc, (no need to unscrew it replace with another hard disc yet), Then push reset, see if the raw PC +

Re: Maildir Format

2012-02-17 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi, Reference: From: APseudoUtopia apseudouto...@gmail.com Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 12:16:29 -0500 Message-id: CAKOHg=PpeqZjEN8Romfn=by2yrtjfjnj7-jqvogorrt+ygv...@mail.gmail.com APseudoUtopia wrote: Hello, I'm setting up the email system on my server. I got rid of

Re: One or Four?

2012-02-17 Thread Julian H. Stacey
We'd like a show of hands to see if folks prefer the old style default with 4 partitions and swap, or the newer iteration with 1 partition and swap. I've been doing Unix 30+ years, so there's a tendency to respond Multiple, 'cos seeing a single 1 partition on a system normaly meant it had

Re: One or Four?

2012-02-19 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Robison, Dave wrote: On 02/17/2012 15:22, Julian H. Stacey wrote: Let the majority decide which layout is preferred for the default. No. Bad idea. Not on questions@, the list of the least clued up, the list raw beginners are referred to subscribe to. At least get a majority

Re: One or Four?

2012-02-19 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi, Reference: From: Daniel Staal dst...@usa.net Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2012 11:10:57 -0500 Message-id: bb02d7694d475b85761e4...@mac-pro.magehandbook.com Daniel Staal wrote: --As of February 19, 2012 3:30:15 PM +0100, Julian H. Stacey is alleged to have said: Beside

add see also swapinfo to man df

2012-02-20 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Submitter-Id: current-users Originator:Julian H. Stacey Organization: http://berklix.com BSD Linux Unix Consultancy, Munich/Muenchen. Confidential: no Synopsis: add see also swapinfo to man df Severity: non-critical Priority: low Category: bin Class: change

Re: Which mailinglist is appropriate for discussing uart changes?

2012-02-20 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Frank Shute wrote: On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 07:10:30PM +0100, Terrence Koeman wrote: Could someone point me to the right mailinglist to discuss adding support for the MCS9904 chip to uart? I'm working on it, but I have some questions regarding FIFO sizes and how they are currently

Re: One or Four?

2012-02-20 Thread Julian H. Stacey
I remember when why the list was set up. See src/ etc/motd Wow, you must be old. Unless you are clueless, it's trivial to find when questions@ was created, easy to find when motd pointed to questions, those dates are insufficient to predicate age. I don't see how this is so OT for a

Re: One or Four?

2012-02-20 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Jerry wrote: So, the OP posted a question about normal and/or preferred use of FreeBSD and people responded. Or do you consider this thread to be too technical? Maybe the discussion could fit in Hackers. Yes, hackers@Would have been a better choice. sysinstall@ Perhaps yet

SMTP error: 552 5.6.0 Headers too large (32768 max)

2012-02-23 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Arthur Chance wrote: DO NOT FEED THE TROLL! Well spotted said :-) Not only is Al Hadith the Islamic term for the teachings and acts of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, but the To: field had 388 other addresses in it. It's a nasty troll. Those 388 probably explain why I just saw on a

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

2012-02-24 Thread Julian H. Stacey
=?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= wrote: Dave d...@g8kbv.demon.co.uk writes: Also, just where did he originaly harvest all those addresses from, are they publicly available, or is there a gaping hole in some server somewhere. It is public information:

Re: Converting C++ to C

2012-02-24 Thread Julian H. Stacey
per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: Some early implementations of C++ operated as preprocessors that emitted C code. Is there any current tool that will do that? I didn't recognize any such option in the g++ manpage, although I suppose it's possible that one of the -fdump-tree- options would come

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

2012-02-24 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Erich Dollansky wrote: Hi, On Friday 24 February 2012 14:14:32 Matthew Seaman wrote: On 24/02/2012 06:59, Erich Dollansky wrote: I live in Asia and they really have these things here. Just without the horns. That would be what most people call a ball. They have them in the

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

2012-02-24 Thread Julian H. Stacey
cm = 1) diameter, pack of 2. Pick one up it feels like an outer stainless steel shell, connected by springs to an inner weight. Reflex was to want to saw it apart to see what was inside, how they assembled the 2 halves. I suppose spot welding, then circular rim welding, then

Re: clang vs gcc linking problem

2012-02-25 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Artifex Maximus wrote: Hello! Absolutely not a flame war but would like to switch to clang in a project. Project uses ncurses. gcc works well but the executable fails when compiled other than -O0. Then I think I should change to clang which will becomes the default compiler in FreeBSD. With

Re: Hard drive fullness limits information help request

2005-04-12 Thread Julian H. Stacey
For shame. A your question is too dumb to have written to our mailing list? I hope you are not trying to represent the great open arms of FreeBSD and the questions mailing list. My Question is quite I repeat: You were in contravention of mailing list charter: Cross posting is Not

Re: Hard drive fullness limits information help request

2005-04-13 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Message-id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] NMH [EMAIL PROTECTED], Learn Comply with http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/eresources.html#ERESOURCES-MAIL No cross posting No personal attacks Else do not post to FreeBSD lists. cc'd [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Julian Stacey

Re: request a quote

2012-03-02 Thread Julian H. Stacey
jb wrote: Mariusz Herman MHerman at advatech.pl writes: Hi, I would be thankful, if you could send me price of 4-year support for FreeBSD. ... This may help (NetBSD and FreeBSD support comes in pairs): http://netbsd.org/gallery/consultants.html

Re: question about SMTP-authentication

2012-03-08 Thread Julian H. Stacey
kamolpat wrote: To whom it may concern: I hope you get a more useful reply than mine later, no time here, sorry but I've had SASL-1 running fine for years FreeBSD both ends. Documented here, http://www.berklix.com/~jhs/txt/sasl.html There's various URLs there to SASL-2 Cheers, Julian

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

2012-03-11 Thread Julian H. Stacey
No -- you were not imagining things. The DNS for freebsd.org was temporarily broken. It was that most impossible to remove of causes: human error. Thats good, as it means not sun spots aka EMP aka gammma :-) Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultants Munich

Re: Joseph Campbell on PBS today

2012-03-11 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Steve Bertrand wrote: On 2012-03-11 11:38, Jerry wrote: On Sun, 11 Mar 2012 10:16:54 -0500 Conrad J. Sabatier articulated: {snip} WTF With this, the ReactOS crap, and the Microsoft sucks debacle, I woke up this morning thinking it may be April 1st :) Yes. To restore signal

Re: Cacti

2012-03-12 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Olafiranye Olakunle wrote: What Commands to restart cacti ?please. Kunle You are too lazy to deserve help from that ! We are not mind readers, so work harder ! State what uname -a reports State what version of cacti you use. State if you read any/which docs. with package

Re: Off-Topic: Computing for the Blind

2012-03-26 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Martin McCormick wrote: There may be several people on this list who are blind, meaning no usable vision to see a screen. I definitely fit that description so I will gladly try to answer questions which ... Hi Martin, cc questions@ Might you be prepared to write a page for the FreeBSD

Re: need info builing ports properly

2012-03-29 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Mark Felder wrote: My second suggestion is to please never ever ever mess with CFLAGS on FreeBSD. You can get away with it on some Linux distros, but FreeBSD strongly discourages it. Not true. eg I've set various CFLAGS for years. What FreeBSD requires is if one sets either CFLAGS or

Re: FreeBSD Stable Image

2012-03-30 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi, Reference: From: Mike Barnard mike.barna...@gmail.com Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 09:32:39 +0300 Message-id: cadhh34ofe5v3nrg3lzwvejomzes0fykbfr4patv2hj+j5c6...@mail.gmail.com Mike Barnard wrote: On 29 March 2012 19:22, Matthew Seaman matt...@freebsd.org wrote: On

Re: Printer recommendation please

2012-03-30 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Karel Miklav wrote: Could you please recommend me a home printer that works nicely with FreeBSD? HP inkjets aren't that bad, FreeBSD drivers are allright, but I'd like to shift towards some kind of PostScript laser. Xerox Phaser 6500 looks nice, but I can not economically justify my

Re: FreeBSD Security in Multiuser Environments

2012-03-31 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi, Reference: From: schu...@ime.usp.br Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 22:44:16 -0300 Message-id: 20120330224416.13643xk4rsfd2...@webmail.ime.usp.br schu...@ime.usp.br wrote: Hello, I would like to raise a discussion about the security features of FreeBSD as a whole and how

Re: FreeBSD Security in Multiuser Environments

2012-03-31 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi, Reference: From: Da Rock freebsd-questi...@herveybayaustralia.com.au Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2012 21:25:37 +1000 Message-id: 4f76e9b1.5040...@herveybayaustralia.com.au Da Rock wrote: On 03/31/12 17:46, Julian H. Stacey wrote: Hi, Reference: From: schu

Re: FreeBSD's backwards webdesign / corporate identity

2012-04-13 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Tony, cc questions@ I also hear PostgreSQLhttp://www.postgresql.org/is planning to sue FreeBSD for stealing its design. URLs please. I propose a new, supersimple look for FreeBSD based on Helveticahttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkoX0pEwSCw. Requires Flash. 3rd party commercial binary. No

Re: FreeBSD's backwards webdesign / corporate identity

2012-04-13 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Once i went to Dachau with my school year in the mid-eighties our ( Happened to interest me, as I happen to live nearish, into history), But to avoid being off remit for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions I set

Re: Can FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE mount Ext3 file system ?

2012-04-18 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi, Reference: From: Xavier xavierfreebsdquesti...@gmail.com Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2012 22:25:28 +0200 Message-id: CALe6D=vpy0rk1=-9rvtv46xp8zd4xvzngb1cbwwacdazwtq...@mail.gmail.com Xavier wrote: On Sat, Apr 07, 2012 at 04:15:41PM -0400, ill...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, On

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