Simulating network latency

2004-05-14 Thread Mike Jeays
We have a proprietary application which will not work properly over our WAN, even though there is more than enough bandwidth. It works fine on a LAN. We suspect a latency problem, mainly because we can't think of anything else it might be. We are not getting any help from the vendor. Is there a

Re: Simulating network latency

2004-05-14 Thread Mike Jeays
On Fri, 2004-05-14 at 19:05, Kevin Stevens wrote: On Fri, 14 May 2004, Mike Jeays wrote: Is there a way to set up a machine with two network cards, which will simply forward every packet from one card to the other, but will introduce an arbitrary delay period? Ideally, the delay period

Re: mounting usb camera - no /dev/da* !!!

2004-05-17 Thread Mike Jeays
On Mon, 2004-05-17 at 19:16, Jason Taylor wrote: I have a similar situation with a Cannon Powershot A40. I can't mount it, but gphoto is able to access it. I had to modify a config file or two in order for the ugen devices to be created writable by anyone other than root. Sorry, I don't

Re: mounting usb camera - no /dev/da* !!!

2004-05-18 Thread Mike Jeays
On Tue, 2004-05-18 at 04:09, Ben Paley wrote: On Tuesday 18 May 2004 04:02, Mike Jeays wrote: On Mon, 2004-05-17 at 19:16, Jason Taylor wrote: I have a similar situation with a Cannon Powershot A40. I can't mount it, but gphoto is able to access it. I had to modify a config file

FreeBSD mailing lists

2004-05-21 Thread Mike Jeays
Hi! I have received no messages at all from freebsd-questions, or one or two of the other FreeBSD mailing lists, for about 2 days. Do you know if there is a problem at their end, or has perhaps my ISP decided they are all spam? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re:

2004-05-24 Thread Mike Jeays
On Mon, 2004-05-24 at 09:58, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have an older computer wich cant`t boot CD-ROM discs and I hawe two ways: -to boot from the hard disc; -or to boot from the floppy and instal it from CD-ROM. But i have no idea how to do this. Marko, Slovenia

Gnome System Monitor 2.2.2

2004-05-31 Thread Mike Jeays
This applet works fine for CPU and memory, but shows 0% for network utilization on my machine, even when doing a heavy FTP transfer. Is there some magic setting somewhere, please? FreebSD 5.1 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: statistical program for FreeBSD?

2004-06-04 Thread Mike Jeays
On Thu, 2004-06-03 at 21:58, Gary wrote: Hi all, Does anyone know of a statistical program that will run in FreeBSD? I am looking for one that will run the Heckman's Phase 2 model, as SPSS will not run it. The only one I know of is SAS, but it is for windows only.. (costs a lot of money

Re: Leaving a server on all day

2004-06-08 Thread Mike Jeays
On Tue, 2004-06-08 at 16:06, Bill Moran wrote: Charles Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jun 8, 2004, at 1:59 PM, Bill Moran wrote: Hopefully I'll get my flat screen back soon from repair. I guess those use less power, right? I remember having this conversation with someone

Re: USB drive questions

2004-06-20 Thread Mike Jeays
On Sat, 2004-06-19 at 09:13, stan wrote: I had a vendor give me a USB memory stick as a promotional giveaway yesterday. Kind of amazing theat they have gotten cheap enough for this. In any case, I pluged it into my laptop with STABLE on it (cvsuped last weekend). It recognized the device,

RE: [WAAAY OT]

2004-07-02 Thread Mike Jeays
On Thu, 2004-07-01 at 20:43, Eric Crist wrote: That's it! Reason for my question was that a buddy asked me as a trivia question. Bet me $50 I couldn't figure it out (we both agreed any method I could use was OK) by the time he left for Vancouver, WA tomorrow morning. Thanks guys.

Re: Fail to start KDE

2004-02-22 Thread Mike Jeays
On Sun, 22 Feb 2004 23:46:54 +0800 Stephen Liu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all folks, Version 5.2 new installation I encountered problem in starting KDE after installation. 1) KDE installed pkg_info | grep kde kde-3.1.4 The meta-port for KDE kdeaddons-3.1.4 Additional plugins and

Re: Fail to start KDE

2004-02-22 Thread Mike Jeays
On Sun, 22 Feb 2004 11:07:52 -0600 Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 22 February 2004 10:33 am, Mike Jeays wrote: On Sun, 22 Feb 2004 23:46:54 +0800 Create a file .xinitrc in the home directory, containing the single line 'startkde ' (without the quotes). Then try startx again

Re: Fail to start KDE

2004-02-23 Thread Mike Jeays
On Mon, 23 Feb 2004 11:48:56 +0800 Stephen Liu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mike Jeays wrote: Version 5.2 new installation - snip - Create a file .xinitrc in the home directory, containing the single line 'startkde ' (without the quotes). Then try startx again. Hi Mike, Tks

Re: Fail to start KDE

2004-02-24 Thread Mike Jeays
On Tue, 24 Feb 2004 21:51:14 +0800 Stephen Liu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - snip - 2) After starting 3 'Xterm windows' I can start KDE 3.1 from any one of the 'Xterm window' with; # startkde It worked with KDE started. 3) On INIT 3/text mode I can login either as 'root' or as

Re: Email account utilization warning.

2004-03-02 Thread Mike Jeays
On Tue, 2004-03-02 at 22:00, lee slaughter wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear user of FreeBSD.org mailing system, Our main mailing server will be temporary unavaible for next two days, to continue receiving mail in these days you have to configure our free auto-forwarding

Remote access in 5.1

2004-03-09 Thread Mike Jeays
Since upgrading from 4.7 to 5.1, I can no longer open an xterm from another machine by setting the DISPLAY variable to point to the 5.1 machine. Is there some setting that is now disabled by default for security? Other connectivity works fine. ___

Re: Remote access in 5.1

2004-03-10 Thread Mike Jeays
On Tue, 2004-03-09 at 23:41, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 11:13:21PM -0500, Mike Jeays wrote: Since upgrading from 4.7 to 5.1, I can no longer open an xterm from another machine by setting the DISPLAY variable to point to the 5.1 machine. Is there some setting that is now

Re: Format floppy problem

2004-03-16 Thread Mike Jeays
On Tue, 2004-03-16 at 11:39, Prodigy wrote: When u formated your floppy, u have to use disklabel to label floppy disc: disklabel -w -r /dev/fd0 fd1440 and then u have to make new file system on that floppy: newfs /dev/fd0 That's all, now u can mount your floppy disc. Hi folks,

Re: Going from Windows to X - suggestions

2002-12-18 Thread Mike Jeays
Marco Radzinschi wrote: On Wed, 18 Dec 2002, Raphaël Dingé wrote: Install KDE and/or gnome. Your call. I'm new to FreeBSD myself, having used blackbox window manager on a P133 with 48MB of RAM. Though it's not impossible, with only 16MB or RAM, GNOME or KDE would probably be

Re: Drawing diagrams a-la-Visio

2002-12-21 Thread Mike Jeays
David Schultz wrote: Thus spake Cliff Sarginson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I am looking for an application that will allow diagrams to be drawn (such as network topologies) similar to the Windows program Visio (I think that is what it is called). One that has some pre-defined shapes/lines etc

Re: Drawing diagrams a-la-Visio

2002-12-21 Thread Mike Jeays
Cliff Sarginson wrote: Ok, thanks for the answers. I shall have a look at the various suggestions... I may also mail whoever makes Visio and say what an excellent X11 application it would make :) It's sold by Microsoft - although they bought it from someone else. I don't think they will be

Copying a CD

2002-12-21 Thread Mike Jeays
How can I use dd to copy a CD? The command below does not work - I presume I have failed to understand something. I have tried other devices begining acd. 209 ~# dd if=/dev/acd0c of=x1 dd: /dev/acd0c: Invalid argument 0+0 records in 0+0 records out 0 bytes transferred in 0.000219 secs (0

Re: Copying a CD

2002-12-22 Thread Mike Jeays
David S. Jackson wrote: On Sat, Dec 21, 2002 at 09:44:58PM -0500 Mike Jeays [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How can I use dd to copy a CD? The command below does not work - I presume I have failed to understand something. I have tried other devices begining acd. 209 ~# dd if=/dev/acd0c of=x1 dd

List etiquette

2002-12-22 Thread Mike Jeays
Many times I have asked questions on this list, and had helpful replies from one or more people. My usual practice is to reply to them directly and thank them, and tell them whether their idea helped. This avoids cluttering up the list with thank-you messages, but may look as though I haven't

Re: Padding expr output

2002-12-22 Thread Mike Jeays
Kurt Bigler wrote: on 12/22/02 3:57 PM, BSD Freak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I am usiung expr in a shell script and need to pad it's output to always be 3 characters. An example will explain thing better: % expr 007 + 1 Output is 8 I need the output to be 008 I checked the expr

Re: List etiquette

2002-12-23 Thread Mike Jeays
Cliff Sarginson wrote: On Sun, Dec 22, 2002 at 08:39:17PM -0500, John Bleichert wrote: On Sun, 22 Dec 2002, Dan Nelson wrote: Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2002 18:38:37 -0600 Subject: Re: List etiquette In the last episode (Dec 22), Mike Jeays said: Many times I have asked questions

Re: cron/crontab befuddlement

2002-12-26 Thread Mike Jeays
Kirk Bailey wrote: ok, I read man cron and man crontab, and it's as clear as mud. Anyplace I can read more and maybe make the light dawn on this useful feature? OR, would anyone care to explain more? Basically, you create a file where each line is a command to be executed on a given

Browser delays

2002-12-29 Thread Mike Jeays
I am using Mozilla 1.0 with FreeBSD 4.7. The machine is attached to a cable-TV high-speed service via an SMC Barricade router. I get IP addresses assigned by DHCP running on the router. I have tried without the router (connecting directly to the cable modem), and get the same results. When

Re: Browser delays

2002-12-30 Thread Mike Jeays
Robin Damm wrote: On Sun, Dec 29, 2002 at 09:48:04PM -0500, Mike Jeays wrote: When browsing certain web sites, including www.cnn.com, there is about a 90 second delay when I load the first page; subsequent pages are quite fast. I don't get the same problem with Windows 2000. Any suggestions

Re: Browser delays

2002-12-30 Thread Mike Jeays
. After a timeout on the series of requests a request is submitted in ipv4 format and the connection is made. The only thing to do is force FreeBSD to use only ipv4 addresses. Dean Scott Network Engineer Familymeds, Inc. -Original Message- From: Mike Jeays [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Error when trying to mount cd

2002-12-31 Thread Mike Jeays
Stacey Roberts wrote: On Tue, 2002-12-31 at 21:29, Kevin Greenidge wrote: --- Stacey Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2002-12-31 at 17:28, Kevin Greenidge wrote: I was trying to mount a Windows XP disk to use as a test. Hi Kevin, To test what?

Re: Shell guru needed.

2003-01-02 Thread Mike Jeays
mike wrote: Hey guys. heres the skinny. I have a huge library and i want to organize it. I want find to go through recursively, and move any pdf files it finds to a certain directory. I need an example piece of script on how i would confront this. It will save me hours if not days so thanks in

Re: FreeBSD Stability

2003-01-02 Thread Mike Jeays
Dimitry Andric wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2003-01-03 at 02:29:49 Chris Doherty wrote: Additionally HP-UX, Linux, Solaris and recent releases of FreeBSD cycle back to zero after 497 days wacky. how/why is this the case? 2^32/100/24/60/60 ~= 497.1

Re: Bystander shot by a spam filter.

2003-01-04 Thread Mike Jeays
Brett Glass wrote: At 07:05 AM 1/1/2003, Cliff Sarginson wrote: Let's stop kicking Richard Stallman. He has his own agenda. It should remain his own. But GCC is why you can compile FreeBSD. No, it's not. You can compile FreeBSD because it's written in C. GCC just happens to

Re: Bystander shot by a spam filter.

2003-01-04 Thread Mike Jeays
Mike, this message was originally posted to the FreeBSD-chat mailing list, where by definition it's on topic. It is definitely not on topic for FreeBSD-questions. Please don't forward this sort of thing to this list. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients.

Re: mounting a dos file system

2003-01-10 Thread Mike Jeays
Adam Stroud wrote: Instal Samba. I have a silimar situation, and Samba works great foe me. I have small network at home, my system running freebsd and two other systems running windoze. I would like to be able to mount one of the logical dos drives on one of the windoze systems so I can

ASUS P4S533 on-board LAN

2002-10-09 Thread Mike Jeays
I recently bought a machine with an ASUS P4S533 motherboard, and FreeBSD 4.6 does not see the on-board LAN connection at boot-up time. (Yes, it is enabled in the BIOS.) Must I buy a separate LAN card, or is there a way to get the on board connection to work? Thanks in advance. -- Mike

Re: ASUS P4S533 on-board LAN

2002-10-09 Thread Mike Jeays
. -- Mike Jeays : Informatics Technology Services Division, Statistics Canada Room 3200, Main Building, Holland Avenue, Ottawa, Ontario, K1A 0T6 Voice (613)-951-9929 Web page : http://www.ncf.carleton.ca/~ad161 Copyright (c) 1992-2002 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986

Releasing IP addresses

2002-10-14 Thread Mike Jeays
How can I release IP addresses obtained by DHCP? I need to do the equivalent of ipconfig /release under Windows 2000, or the winipcfg utility in Windows 95. -- Mike Jeays : Informatics Technology Services Division, Statistics Canada Room 3200, Main Building, Holland Avenue, Ottawa, Ontario

NEC Versa LS and 3COM Megahertz card

2002-10-28 Thread Mike Jeays
I have a NEC Versa LX (Pentium 200), with a 3Com Megahertz combined Ethernet and modem PCMCIA card (3CCFEM556 B). The Ethernet part works fine under a well-known proprietary OS, but FreeBSD 4.7 refuses to see it on boot-up. I have fiddled with the BIOS options, but have had no success. Any

NEC Versa LX and 3COM Megahertz

2002-10-29 Thread Mike Jeays
I have a NEC Versa LX (Pentium 200), with a 3Com Megahertz combined Ethernet and modem PCMCIA card (3CCFEM556 B). The Ethernet part works fine under a well-known proprietary OS, but FreeBSD 4.7 refuses to see it on boot-up. I have fiddled with the BIOS options, but have had no success. Any

Re: NEC Versa LX and 3COM Megahertz

2002-10-29 Thread Mike Jeays
Warren Block wrote: On Tue, 29 Oct 2002, Mike Jeays wrote: I have a NEC Versa LX (Pentium 200), with a 3Com Megahertz combined Ethernet and modem PCMCIA card (3CCFEM556 B). The Ethernet part works fine under a well-known proprietary OS, but FreeBSD 4.7 refuses to see it on boot-up. I have

Scanners and software

2002-12-14 Thread Mike Jeays
Does anyone know of a combination of scanner and software that works well with FreeBSD (4.7)? The machine has USB ports built into the ASUS P4S533 motherboard. I am looking for a scanner that will handle both 35mm and 2 1/4 inch square black and white negatives with good resolution. To

OpenOffice and Mozilla

2003-02-20 Thread Mike Jeays
Several times I have found that running OpenOffice 1.0 on FreeBSD 4.7 has corrupted my Mozilla settings. The contents of .mozilla looks intact, but it refuses to recognize my profile. I have to build a new profile, and move over my bookmarks and mail folders. Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386;

Re: Remote upgrade possible?

2005-01-07 Thread Mike Jeays
On Thu, 2005-01-06 at 23:26, Tabor Kelly wrote: Laurence Sanford wrote: Joseph Koenig (jWeb) wrote: snip This is possible, however you are always taking a chance when you installworld without going to single user mode first. That said, I make a habit out of pushing my luck with

RE: Sun revokes FreeBSD license for Java

2005-01-07 Thread Mike Jeays
Only the Java Cryptography Extension is unavailable as source. More info is of course available on the FreeBSD Java mailing list. So why would anyone trust it? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

mkisofs and growisofs

2005-01-09 Thread Mike Jeays
Where are they? They don't seem to exist on my 5.3 system, and I can't find any trace of them in /usr/ports. pkg_add -r doesn't find them either. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: mkisofs and growisofs

2005-01-09 Thread Mike Jeays
On Sun, 2005-01-09 at 09:58, Fabian Keil wrote: On Sunday 09 January 2005 14:46, Mike Jeays wrote: Where are they? They don't seem to exist on my 5.3 system, and I can't find any trace of them in /usr/ports. pkg_add -r doesn't find them either. /usr/ports/sysutils/dvd+rw-tools

Re: mkisofs and growisofs

2005-01-09 Thread Mike Jeays
On Sun, 2005-01-09 at 11:35, Tom Vilot wrote: Mike Jeays wrote: Thanks very much. They both installed fine once I was told where they are! My avenue of last resort is this: cd /usr/ports find . -type f -name pkg-descr | xargs grep -i name where name is what I remember the program

Re: X11 configuration at 5.3 ?

2005-01-17 Thread Mike Jeays
On Mon, 2005-01-17 at 10:24, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2005-01-17 14:44, Frank Bonnet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: how is called the X11 configuration tool at 5.3 ? It is called `xorgcfg'. Try running as root: # xorgcfg -textmode ___

Re: X11 configuration at 5.3 ?

2005-01-17 Thread Mike Jeays
On Mon, 2005-01-17 at 19:21, John wrote: On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 07:12:16PM -0500, Mike Jeays wrote: On Mon, 2005-01-17 at 10:24, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2005-01-17 14:44, Frank Bonnet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: how is called the X11 configuration tool at 5.3 ? It is called

Re: FreeBSD I LOVE YOU

2005-01-19 Thread Mike Jeays
On Wed, 2005-01-19 at 15:10, Anthony Atkielski wrote: faisal gillani writes: fg hmmm exactly right .. u know i have a 750MHz At halon fg with 256MB ram .. still my processor is 80% idle fg most of the time .. fg i also have some windows server on my network but fg thats a compulsory

Re: Cannot connect to printer...

2005-01-22 Thread Mike Jeays
On Sat, 2005-01-22 at 06:27, Kiffin Gish wrote: I have read the manual carefully, looked in the forums and tried everything, but for the life of me I just cannot get my printer to work under FreeBSD. Actually my setup is nothing complicated or so you would think. I have an HP Deskjet 720C

Re: Help on a little script

2005-01-23 Thread Mike Jeays
On Sun, 2005-01-23 at 11:30, antenneX wrote: Am running FBSD-4.10p2 I have a serious need for some help on a CGI script I just installed. I've tried to reach the author but no dice there. It's used to automate unsubscribes on a mail list. It works well except for this: It changes my

Re: FreeBSD 5.3 CD2 ?

2005-01-23 Thread Mike Jeays
On Sun, 2005-01-23 at 10:13, Daniel S. Haischt wrote: AFAIK - The 2nd CD only contains additional software packages ... faisal gillani schrieb: i installed freebsd 5.3 the first cd installed everything i needed , but i got 2 cds with freebsd , i browsed it but couldent understand wat

RE: cannot boot after updating to 5.3 stable

2005-01-28 Thread Mike Jeays
On Fri, 2005-01-28 at 22:35, Subhro wrote: Your problem is, somehow the mountpoint entries in /etc/fstab have messed up. As a result the system cant find the root file system. At the Mount Prompt type ? to get a list of all the valid mountpoints. Then manually mount all the mount points.

Re: distrubuting distro

2005-02-02 Thread Mike Jeays
On Wed, 2005-02-02 at 04:12, faisal gillani wrote: Is it allowed to distribute Freebsd on any other distro charging only media cost related to it ? GNU based application are very hard to find here in my country ordering from Internet is very expensive, for a normal user , so i was thinking

Re: Disk Copy Software

2005-02-03 Thread Mike Jeays
On Thu, 2005-02-03 at 21:45, Donald L Swoboda wrote: Is there a Disk To Disk copy software available that can be used to copy/backup a disk that has FreeBSD operating system installed. I would like to copy my existing disk to another disk as a backup. Thanks Don Swoboda [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: SQL Questions - migrating MySQL to PostgreSQL?

2005-02-11 Thread Mike Jeays
On Fri, 2005-02-11 at 19:18, Erik Norgaard wrote: Peter Risdon wrote: Postgresql is an excellent dbms and well worth a look. But if you're starting out, I think mysql is the place to be. Ok, since the discussion is up, I have used MySQL for years, no problem serves my needs. Yet, I'd

SCSI device numbers

2005-02-13 Thread Mike Jeays
I have at present two emulated SCSI devices on my system; a USB flash drive, and a DVD-writer. They get assigned: 0,0,0 0) 'SanDisk ' 'Cruzer Micro' '2033' Removable Disk 2,0,0 200) 'HL-DT-ST' 'DVDRAM GSA-4160B' 'A300' Removable CD-ROM if the USB device is present at boot time (I

Re: SCSI device numbers

2005-02-15 Thread Mike Jeays
On Tue, 2005-02-15 at 09:45, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Mike Jeays [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have at present two emulated SCSI devices on my system; a USB flash drive, and a DVD-writer. They get assigned: 0,0,0 0) 'SanDisk ' 'Cruzer Micro' '2033' Removable Disk 2,0,0

Re: can't reboot after messing up my rc.conf file

2005-02-16 Thread Mike Jeays
On Wed, 2005-02-16 at 13:42, aklist_061666 wrote: Hi All: I was editing my rc.conf file and left off a quote mark, and now when I try to reboot I get an error and am prompted to drop into shell to fix it. The default prompt is /bin/sh, and if I hit return I get a prompt. How can I edit

Re: NFS hangs on 5.3-RELEASE-p5

2005-02-17 Thread Mike Jeays
On Thu, 2005-02-17 at 07:09, Robert Watson wrote: On Thu, 17 Feb 2005, Peter Risdon wrote: On Tue, 2005-02-15 at 14:23 +0200, Simonas Kareiva wrote: [...] The problem is, that the nfs server hangs after running for a while, like, 20 minutes. Any file operations (at the nfs

Re: Mounting iomega zip drive

2005-02-21 Thread Mike Jeays
On Mon, 2005-02-21 at 19:34, E. J. Cerejo wrote: I use to be able to mount my paralell zip drive with the following command under Fbsd 4.x: mount -t msdos /dev/da0s4 /zip now I'm running 5.3 I can't, what changed? I noticed that there is only da0 in my /dev directory, I have this in my

Re: Redistribution of FreeBSD 5.3

2005-02-23 Thread Mike Jeays
On Wed, 2005-02-23 at 21:38, Bryan Smith wrote: Hi, My name is Bryan and I am wondering if I can freely distribute FreeBSD 5.3. If I can redistribute it, is there anything I need to include with the ISO images when I distribute them? I read that I need to include the copyright notice. Do

Toshiba Satellite laptop

2005-02-25 Thread Mike Jeays
I was thinking of getting a spare hard disk for a Toshiba Satellite laptop (Pentium 3 with 256MB). Does anyone have any good or bad experiences? It runs Knoppix perfectly well. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

RE: Toshiba Satellite laptop

2005-02-26 Thread Mike Jeays
the instructions on how to get it apart. Ted -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Mike Jeays Sent: Friday, February 25, 2005 4:13 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Toshiba Satellite laptop I was thinking of getting

Re: Please help if you can

2005-03-05 Thread Mike Jeays
On Sat, 2005-03-05 at 09:41, Chuck Swiger wrote: Chris wrote: I would like to know if this OS platform supports your everday and ever so standard .EXE applications. Yes, FreeBSD will run standalone executable code in the various .exe and .dll formats, although people often use Wine or a

Re: Please help if you can

2005-03-05 Thread Mike Jeays
On Sat, 2005-03-05 at 11:33, Chuck Swiger wrote: Mike Jeays wrote: Yes, FreeBSD will run standalone executable code in the various .exe and .dll formats, although people often use Wine or a similiar emulator if they want to have a more complete Windows environment available while using

Re: Mounting iomega zip drive

2005-03-06 Thread Mike Jeays
On Sun, 2005-03-06 at 17:16, E. J. Cerejo wrote: --- Mike Jeays [EMAIL PROTECTED] escreveu: On Mon, 2005-02-21 at 19:34, E. J. Cerejo wrote: I use to be able to mount my paralell zip drive with the following command under Fbsd 4.x: mount -t msdos /dev/da0s4 /zip now I'm

Re: beastie.4th language ?

2005-03-08 Thread Mike Jeays
On Tue, 2005-03-08 at 16:13, McCy Ron wrote: Starting Forth by Leo Brodie is a good book on Forth. http://www.forth.org/ will offer other tutorialsl. Jerry McAllister wrote: Hi, My question might seem basic. Nevertheless I didn't find the answer on the net. Excuse me in case I did

Re: Mounting iomega zip drive

2005-03-09 Thread Mike Jeays
On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 22:44, E. J. Cerejo wrote: --- Mike Jeays [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2005-03-06 at 17:16, E. J. Cerejo wrote: --- Mike Jeays [EMAIL PROTECTED] escreveu: On Mon, 2005-02-21 at 19:34, E. J. Cerejo wrote: I use to be able to mount my paralell zip drive

Re: Recommend a Printer for FreeBSD

2005-03-10 Thread Mike Jeays
On Thu, 2005-03-10 at 01:04, Sergei Gnezdov wrote: My printer is dead. Can anybody recommend a good printer for FreeBSD: - Lazer (black/white) - Some colored printer ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: mount

2005-03-13 Thread Mike Jeays
On Sun, 2005-03-13 at 20:25, Gert Cuykens wrote: What happens if you mount something in a directorie that contains other directories ? Can you mount different devices in the same directorie ? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Mucking with other drive

2005-03-17 Thread Mike Jeays
On Thu, 2005-03-17 at 11:03, Jerry McAllister wrote: Jerry, Well, of course it's going to muck with the other drive what do you think writing the MBR does? Do you want to risk the MS system not booting? 95% of the time it will work OK but what if her system is in that 5% of the

Re: MS Exchange server on FreeBSD?

2005-03-18 Thread Mike Jeays
On Fri, 2005-03-18 at 08:06, Christian Tischler wrote: Hi, I would like to run an MS exchange server. But I am not at all willing to set up an MS box at all. As I know I could run something like VMware virtual server or Wine, but I do not know if such an combination would be stable (sopken

Re: MS Exchange server on FreeBSD?

2005-03-19 Thread Mike Jeays
On Sat, 2005-03-19 at 16:22, Anthony Atkielski wrote: Christian Tischler writes: Actually the number of users will be quite small, and bandwidth is not an consideration. For small installations, I don't think Exchange is really cost-effective. It's quite a monster. Easy to justify in

Re: violation copyright

2005-03-31 Thread Mike Jeays
On Tue, 2004-03-30 at 04:20, Rod Sortons.Net wrote: Hi, I'm Rod I'm working on a website + magazine in Rouen (France) about night : clubs, pubs, concerts ... look at this : http://bistrot.diablotins.free.fr Regarding your copyright legal mention page, this pub uses your logo for

Repairing an inconsistent system

2005-04-03 Thread Mike Jeays
I made a mess of my 5.3 installation. I cvsupped the ports tree, and then tried to get the gtk interface to Ruby to work, and reinstalled the port for gtk20. Firefox and Evolution then stopped working, complaining about missing libraries such as libgtk-x11-2.0.so.400 being absent - they have

Re: excluding from tar

2004-07-10 Thread Mike Jeays
On Sat, 2004-07-10 at 22:55, D Golden wrote: I've created a tar archive of my entire system, but I want to exclude everything in /proc , /usr/ports, and the FILE /usr/backup.tar when updating the archive. I've tried: 1. cd / tar -vu --file /usr/backup.tar * --exclude=/proc

Re: I downloaded everything to no avail! ISO's fail to burn

2004-07-12 Thread Mike Jeays
Jerry Schromm wrote: Hi everyone, I am not sure how this works or if I will ever get feedback. Anyway I just discovered FreeBSD yesterday. I read all about it and I am excited to intrigue myself with this new pc adventure. Sounds great and I will learn something about code at the same time. I

Re: How to install GIMP

2004-07-13 Thread Mike Jeays
On Tue, 2004-07-13 at 00:44, Jonathan Chen wrote: On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 08:43:18AM +0100, Oryx wrote: Hi, i'm just wondering how I could install gimp onto my box, I have the package stuff but I don't know how to install it via console (i'm new to freebsd by the way) If you have the

Gnome screensavers

2004-07-13 Thread Mike Jeays
I am blown away by the variety of screen-savers that come with GNOME. I have been running it for about 4 months, and there are still new ones that I haven't seen before. Is there a mechanism running to download new ones automatically, that may be adding to my collection without me being aware of

RE: Porting new Software into FreeBSD

2004-08-11 Thread Mike Jeays
On Wed, 2004-08-11 at 02:12, Eric Crist wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: have not yet found a way to port it into FreeBSD ports. Can any body tell me how its done. Are there any documentation on how to do this? The new software is called RURS (Remote Unix Recovery Service). Simply said,

Re: Problems connecting a digital camera

2004-08-12 Thread Mike Jeays
On Thu, 2004-08-12 at 13:00, Norbert Koch wrote: Hi! I run into problems trying to connect a KONICA_MINOLTA DiMAGE Xg from my FreeBSD system, FreeBSD 4.10-STABLE i386. I think, I've got all the necessary devices in my kernel. Now, dmesg tells me umass0: KONICA_MINOLTA DiMAGE Xg, rev

[Fwd: Re: licensing]

2004-08-18 Thread Mike Jeays
I omitted sending this reply to Chris to the list by mistake. Please correct me if I am wrong. ---BeginMessage--- On Wed, 2004-08-18 at 11:06, Chris Knipe wrote: Quick question I'm not sure about the license that FreeBSD falls under. Are we allowed to modify code (specifically

Re: disk2.iso: rescue disk

2004-08-23 Thread Mike Jeays
On Mon, 2004-08-23 at 17:02, Charles Ulrich wrote: Hanspeter Roth said: Hello, is the disk2.iso mainly a rescue disk? Or does it contain further stuff for installation? It is mainly a rescue disk. It contains nothing that you'll actually need for a FreeBSD install. It would be nice if

Re: mtools on -STABLE

2004-08-25 Thread Mike Jeays
On Wed, 2004-08-25 at 18:37, Steven Friedrich wrote: I discovered the culprit. I recently added acpi to my STABLE kernel. I've removed acpi and now I get, like before: fdc0: NEC 72065B or clone at port 0x3f0-0x3f5,0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on isa0 fdc0: FIFO enabled, 8 bytes threshold fd0: 1440-KB

Re: vi editor related question

2004-08-27 Thread Mike Jeays
On Fri, 2004-08-27 at 20:46, Parv wrote: in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote Soo-Hyun Choi thusly... I edit ... certain text editor under Windows XP, and then I open ... using vi editor under FreeBSD. Then, there are bunch of ^M sign at the end of each line. Does anyone know why this is

RE: Web browsing

2004-09-06 Thread Mike Jeays
On Mon, 2004-09-06 at 10:00, JJB wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Um, I know this is going to sound stupid, but I am completely dumbfounded as to how I can runa web browser in FreeBSD. I got so frustrated that I didn't know how to use FreeBSD and the fact that Elmira is a Windows city was

Re: xorg.conf block my machine

2005-10-26 Thread Mike Jeays
On Wed, 2005-10-26 at 10:01, Micah wrote: Pablo Allietti wrote: hi all. i have xorg loading in tty7 at startup. i change my mouse and i modified the file xorg.conf to mouse0 to mouse1. well the problem is my machine cant start again :( load all system but when finish and try to

DMA errors

2005-10-29 Thread Mike Jeays
I have a 40GB Maxtor D740X-6L disk, and have been unable to install 5.4 or 6.0 on it. I get errors: ad0: FAILURE WRITE_DMA STATUS=51 READY,DSC,ERROR error=84 (IRC, ABORTED) LBA=.. as soon as I try to commmit the changes in sysinstall. I have checked that the IDE cable is the 80-wire type, and

RE: DMA errors

2005-10-29 Thread Mike Jeays
On Sat, 2005-10-29 at 19:48, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: Try a different disk drive. What motherboard is in use here? Ted -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Mike Jeays Sent: Saturday, October 29, 2005 4:28 PM To: freebsd-questions

RE: DMA errors

2005-10-31 Thread Mike Jeays
On Mon, 2005-10-31 at 02:11, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: -Original Message- From: Mike Jeays [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, October 29, 2005 8:04 PM To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: DMA errors On Sat, 2005-10-29 at 19:48, Ted

RE: DMA errors

2005-11-05 Thread Mike Jeays
On Mon, 2005-10-31 at 08:00, Mike Jeays wrote: On Mon, 2005-10-31 at 02:11, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: -Original Message- From: Mike Jeays [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, October 29, 2005 8:04 PM To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: DMA

Migrating Evolution folders

2005-11-05 Thread Mike Jeays
I recently upgraded from 5.3 to 5.4, and this resulted in an upgrade of Evolution from 1.4 to 2.2.1.1. The folders are now held in ~/.evolution instead of ~/evolution, but there seem to be some format incompatibilities. I have not succeeded in migrating my mail yet. I googled for the problem,

Re: Running A Named Server

2005-11-12 Thread Mike Jeays
On Sat, 2005-11-12 at 15:52 -0500, Gerard Seibert wrote: If I understand this correctly, if I want to enable a cache name server, all I have to do is the following: In /etc/rc.conf enter: named_enable=YES Run this command: # cd /etc/namedb # sh make-localhost I enter the address:

Re: How do I re-format 'dangerously dedicated' drive?

2005-11-20 Thread Mike Jeays
On Sun, 2005-11-20 at 23:24 +, Jonathon McKitrick wrote: Hi all, I don't have an MS-DOS floppy, and I think my CDROM isn't booting because the HD is 'dangerously dedicated,' even though it is a bootable CD and the BIOS is set to boot it first. I want to totally clear my drive so I can

Re: Trouble installing fvwm2

2005-11-23 Thread Mike Jeays
On Wed, 2005-11-23 at 16:03 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I just compiled/installed fvwm2 from ports on my 6.0. But I don't know how to run it. I have gdm launching gnome 2.12 by default and fvwm2 does not appear in the list in gdm. I am such a newbie, that I can't imagine you

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