Re: Celeron

2005-06-13 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 6/7/05, Nosehouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello FreeBSD :D A question and I'm out: I have an old pc, running on a 300 MHz Intel Celeron CPU, on an Intel MOBO. Now, what platform should I choose from your site: Alpha, i386? And also for and AMD Athlon XP 2600+ with an Asus A7V600-X, what

Re: Celeron

2005-06-13 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 6/13/05, Andreas Davour [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 13 Jun 2005, Nikolas Britton wrote: On 6/7/05, Nosehouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello FreeBSD :D A question and I'm out: I have an old pc, running on a 300 MHz Intel Celeron CPU, on an Intel MOBO. Now, what platform should I

Re: Celeron

2005-06-13 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 6/13/05, Bart Silverstrim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snipped] You could call GNU/Linux an operating system but I wouldn't, not after being introduced to an engineered system like FreeBSD. FreeBSD is to Linux as Gold is to Lead, there very similar but one is worthless. I think the

Re: Celeron

2005-06-13 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 6/13/05, Christopher Black [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snipped] On the contrary, lead has great worth if, for example, you need radiation shielding. Isn't it ironic how lead can hurt and help you, I'm referring to lead poisoning. A point of note is that the third party shells packaged

Re: With all we can do in Unix ...

2005-06-12 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 6/11/05, Marc G. Fournier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... why is it impossible to view/edit the BIOS while the server is live? It's not impossible to view the BIOS settings in an OS but if you changed the BIOS settings you would still need to reboot before the changes take effect, so there

Re: Performance

2005-06-07 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 6/6/05, Michael Louie Loria [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Will FreeBSD 5.4 run smoothly in a Compaq 750 Mhz, 64 MB RAM PC installing all of the packages because I want to test and try setting up different servers? You need more ram. This

Re: re-setting root password for MYSQL win 2003

2005-06-07 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 6/6/05, John Andrews [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: in order to access the MYSQL control centre and MYSQL administrator I need to be able to re-set the root userpassword, can someone please advise on how this is done in win2003 server admin tools/computer management/ local users and groups

Re: Personal Wiki without a webserver/database

2005-06-07 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 6/7/05, Ray Seals [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are you sure? I believe that some are pure cgi which will work with lynx (with lynxcgi enabled) without a server. Since this is for my laptop and I'm running Gnome (Mozilla and FireFox). I decided to try Instiki from the ports. Uses Ruby

Re: Personal Wiki without a webserver/database

2005-06-06 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 6/6/05, Ray Seals [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to have a desktop wiki that doesn't need a big database server or web server. I have been using wikidPad for windows but since my main machine is a BSD laptop. I looked through the ports but basically everything wants a web server

Online Capacity Expansion, RAID, Etc.

2005-05-31 Thread Nikolas Britton
Me again, I was looking mainly for more advanced info, like stripe sizing, not debating whether software RAID is better then a Hardware RAID, How slow RAID 5 is, or how to waste 1TB of may storage space switching the array to RAID 1 or 10 so I can get a speed boost, even though the LAN is the

Online Capacity Expansion, RAID, Etc.

2005-05-29 Thread Nikolas Britton
Hello all, I'm going to be purchasing a HighPoint RocketRAID 2220 (SATA II) to build a 1.7TB RAID 5 array but I have some relatively simple questions... I'm going to be starting the array in a RAID 1 config using 2 drives, I will then migrate, and grow, the array to RAID 5 using the ORLM and

Re: Online Capacity Expansion, RAID, Etc.

2005-05-29 Thread Nikolas Britton
Wojciech Puchar wrote: to be starting the array in a RAID 1 config using 2 drives, I will then migrate, and grow, the array to RAID 5 using the ORLM and OCE features of the board when more space is required. FreeBSD, RELENG_5_4, will NOT be install on this array, it will be on a separate

gnome menu editor

2005-03-22 Thread Nikolas Britton
I had a hard time trying to track down this file, think it's part of one of the gnome meta-ports, posting it here for FYI. ftp://ftp.internat.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/distfiles/gnome-menu-editor-0.1.tar.gz http://www.nbritton.org/uploads/gnome-menu-editor-0.1.tar.gz

Re: Loading module for sound chip SiS 7102

2005-02-05 Thread Nikolas Britton
Fabrice wrote: On Saturday 05 February 2005 00:56, you wrote: Nikolas Britton wrote: Nikolas Britton wrote: Fabrice wrote: Hi ! Debian user just have installed FreeBSD 5.3. Seems great ! But I my sound chip do not properly work. I tried to : kldload snd_... pilots one

Re: Simple questions, MAKE_ARGS in pkgtools.conf

2005-02-03 Thread Nikolas Britton
Michael C. Shultz wrote: On Thursday 27 January 2005 11:27 pm, Nikolas Britton wrote: Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2005-01-27 21:36, Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2005-01-25 21:30, Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

Re: Simple questions, MAKE_ARGS in pkgtools.conf

2005-02-03 Thread Nikolas Britton
Nikolas Britton wrote: Michael C. Shultz wrote: If you put the following in /etc/make.conf: .if ${.CURDIR:M*/multimedia/mplayer} WITH_OPTIMIZED_CFLAGS=yes WITHOUT_RUNTIME_CPUDETECTION=yes \ WITH_GTK1=yes WITH_RTC=yes WITH_LIBUNGIF=yes WITH_ARTS=yes \ WITH_FRIBIDI=yes

Re: distrubuting distro

2005-02-02 Thread Nikolas Britton
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 can i copy my distro Cd's sell @

Re: distrubuting distro

2005-02-02 Thread Nikolas Britton
Erik Trulsson wrote: On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 06:29:08AM -0600, Nikolas Britton wrote: 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

Re: distrubuting distro

2005-02-02 Thread Nikolas Britton
Nikolas Britton wrote: Erik Trulsson wrote: But remember that several parts of FreeBSD are covered by the GNU GPL which has somewhat more restrictions (mainly in that (slightly simplified) you need to include the sourcecode for anything you distribute.) In either case it is certainly allowed

Re: distrubuting distro

2005-02-02 Thread Nikolas Britton
Erik Trulsson wrote: On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 07:11:36AM -0600, Nikolas Britton wrote: Nikolas Britton wrote: Erik Trulsson wrote: But remember that several parts of FreeBSD are covered by the GNU GPL which has somewhat more restrictions (mainly in that (slightly simplified) you need

Re: Firefox

2005-02-01 Thread Nikolas Britton
Alfredo Perez wrote: Hi I just updated my ports and installed Firefox. I have installed Firefox version 0.9.3. How can I update it to version 1.0? Thanks PS: I am running FreeBSD 5.3 Your post is a bit ambiguous. did you have 0.9.3 on your system and wanted to upgrade to 1.0 or did you update

Re: Firefox

2005-02-01 Thread Nikolas Britton
Chris Hodgins wrote: Nikolas Britton wrote: Alfredo Perez wrote: Hi I just updated my ports and installed Firefox. I have installed Firefox version 0.9.3. How can I update it to version 1.0? Thanks PS: I am running FreeBSD 5.3 Your post is a bit ambiguous. did you have 0.9.3 on your system

Re: Firefox

2005-02-01 Thread Nikolas Britton
Aperez wrote: Nikolas Britton wrote: Chris Hodgins wrote: Nikolas Britton wrote: Alfredo Perez wrote: Hi I just updated my ports and installed Firefox. I have installed Firefox version 0.9.3. How can I update it to version 1.0? Thanks PS: I am running FreeBSD 5.3 Your post is a bit ambiguous

Re: Alright, you jdk14 geeks...

2005-02-01 Thread Nikolas Britton
John wrote: I finally got around my problems by manually deinstalling and reinstalling all the packages that linux_base-8 depended upon. I have done a make install on linx_base-8 and linux-sun-jdk14 on the NFS server (I gave up trying to do it over NFS, though that may not have been the problem).

Re: Firefox

2005-02-01 Thread Nikolas Britton
Joshua Tinnin wrote: On Tuesday 01 February 2005 04:24 pm, Joshua Tinnin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 01 February 2005 03:07 pm, Aperez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nikolas Britton wrote: Chris Hodgins wrote: Nikolas Britton wrote: Alfredo Perez wrote

Intel E7210 (CanterWood ES) Chipset Supported (aka P4 PCI-X boards)?

2005-01-30 Thread Nikolas Britton
Hello, The first thing I want to make clear is DON'T FEED THE TROLL, yes I'm talking about you TM* I mean [EMAIL PROTECTED] I know that this questions has been asked many times here but it has never been fully answered because TM always hi-jacks the thread, ignore him! What I would like to

Re: Intel E7210 (CanterWood ES) Chipset Supported (aka P4 PCI-X boards)?

2005-01-30 Thread Nikolas Britton
Nikolas Britton wrote: Hello, The first thing I want to make clear is DON'T FEED THE TROLL, yes I'm talking about you TM* I mean [EMAIL PROTECTED] I know that this questions has been asked many times here but it has never been fully answered because TM always hi-jacks the thread, ignore him

Re: php ports question

2005-01-27 Thread Nikolas Britton
Andrew L. Gould wrote: I noticed that php ports conflict with php-cli ports. Does that mean you can't do both web and cli programs in php on the same computer? Or does php include command line capabilities? Thanks, Andrew The standard php4 port installs both mod_php for apache and the cli

Re: Simple questions, MAKE_ARGS in pkgtools.conf

2005-01-27 Thread Nikolas Britton
Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2005-01-25 21:30, Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lets say I have BATCH=yes (/etc/make.conf) and I have a port with a menu that turns on some flags i.e.: OPTIONS=DEBUG Build a debugging image off \ LOGGING Enable additional log messages

Re: Simple questions, MAKE_ARGS in pkgtools.conf

2005-01-27 Thread Nikolas Britton
Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2005-01-27 21:36, Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2005-01-25 21:30, Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I do something like the following: MAKE_ARGS = { 'www/firefox' = 'WITH_OPTIMIZED_CFLAGS=yes

Re: Xmms FreeBSD and buzzing or skipping sound

2005-01-26 Thread Nikolas Britton
Derek wrote: Collin McClendon wrote: I've noticed for quite some time (at least on 5.x even before -CURRENT) that if I'm unzipping or tarring a file that it is enough to make xmms play mp3s with intermittent buzzing. I have a fairly fast machine, dual athlon 1.53 Ghz with 1 GB of ram and a

Re: making music

2005-01-26 Thread Nikolas Britton
Gert Cuykens wrote: Does freebsd has programs to make music ? like sonar or logic or fruityloops ? Audacity, a multi-platform sound editor: http://audacity.sourceforge.net/about.php also take a look in the ports tree: http://www.freebsd.org/ports/audio.html

Re: GNOME nautilus-cd-burner problems

2005-01-26 Thread Nikolas Britton
Doug Poland wrote: My son's a budding Unix enthusiast, but he's no CLI jockey yet. In my attempt to help him be independent and burn his own data and/or audio CD's, I came across nautilus-cd-burner. It seems simple enough, but it doesn't work. I've got existing ISO images that I try to burn

Simple questions, MAKE_ARGS in pkgtools.conf

2005-01-25 Thread Nikolas Britton
Lets say I have BATCH=yes (/etc/make.conf) and I have a port with a menu that turns on some flags i.e.: OPTIONS=DEBUG Build a debugging image off \ LOGGING Enable additional log messages off \ OPTIMIZED_CFLAGS Enable some additional optimizations off \

Re: Thank you!

2005-01-14 Thread Nikolas Britton
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 1/14/05 1:07:20 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: still-under-development 5.x. Which seems counterproductive for an O/S that is trying to establish itself as a choice as a server platform. Not necessarily. The interesting

Re: Kris' World

2005-01-14 Thread Nikolas Britton
Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Friday, 14 January 2005 at 18:36:35 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you have a name? In a message dated 1/14/05 5:56:01 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Why are you abandoning support for new hardware in 4.x when you admit that 5.x is not

Re: Kris' World

2005-01-14 Thread Nikolas Britton
Eric F Crist wrote: On Jan 14, 2005, at 11:05 PM, Kris Kennaway wrote: Welcome back to my killfile (although I doubt you'll stay there long because of your desperate need to hear your own voice). Kris Now, I understand his/her/it's words are harsh, but is killing them really a fair alternative?

Re: Thank you!

2005-01-13 Thread Nikolas Britton
Boris Spirialitious wrote: Oh, but I do understand! FreeBSD is not good choice for companies that need support for the latest hardware. Thank you for informing me. Boris Personally I moved away from Linux because of all the support problems it had, I've learned more about UNIX from the 1 1/2

Re: Linksys WPC11 Wireless Card.

2005-01-12 Thread Nikolas Britton
Walker, Michael wrote: Hi I apologise for asking this, as I know for a fact this question has been asked before, however when searching the archives, I am finding conflicting answers. I have a Linksys WPC11 Version 4 wireless notebook adapter, and am wondering if anyone has successfully set this

Re: FreeBSD Gateway

2005-01-02 Thread Nikolas Britton
Victor Foulk wrote: Hello all, I have been looking into setting up a network gateway using a FreeBSD box, so that I may employ many of the network security features of the system (and to overcome the fact that the current network is insecurely connected to a much larger ~public LAN). The

Re: CDROM Mounting and Permissions (easy)

2005-01-02 Thread Nikolas Britton
Sergei Gnezdov wrote: Hi, I need to mount /dev/acd0 (cdrom) from the standard user account. Do I have to give the user account write access to /dev/acd0 device or there is another way I don't know about?

Re: Prism GT Chipset, hostap?

2005-01-02 Thread Nikolas Britton
http://linux.junsun.net/intersil-prism/ http://tools.collegeterrace.net/prismfw/ http://www.red-bean.com/proski/firmware/readme.html http://www.red-bean.com/proski/firmware/ http://taosecurity.blogspot.com/2004_02_01_taosecurity_archive.html (Adventures in Flashing Firmware)

Weird problem with 3C509 ISA NIC

2005-01-02 Thread Nikolas Britton
I was looking at the dmesg output on my firewall and re-remembered that I have this 3Com 509 card that doesn't work quite right. take a look at the demsg output below... dmesg: ep0: 3Com 3C509-TPO EtherLink III at port 0x300-0x30f irq 10 on isa0 ep0: No irq?! ep0: ep_alloc() failed! (6)

Re: Please help: burncd errors

2005-01-02 Thread Nikolas Britton
Fabian Keil wrote: Low speed == better quality is a myth why so? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: FreeBSD Gateway

2005-01-02 Thread Nikolas Britton
Micah Bushouse wrote: Victor Foulk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] However, in my experience, the most critical hardware choice is the network cards themselves. Cheapo network cards will really hurt performance under load. So toss the

Re: Building a custom kernel

2005-01-01 Thread Nikolas Britton
Kvesdn Gbor wrote: Hi, I'd like to build a monolithic kernel without loadable module support. I've also made it on Linux, but I haven't found such howto for FreeBSD. Is there any opportunity to do this? makeoptions MODULES_OVERRIDE= this will only prevent kernel modules from being build, so

Re: Prism GT Chipset, hostap?

2005-01-01 Thread Nikolas Britton
Tabor Kelly wrote: Nikolas Britton wrote: Do the Prism GT chipsets support hostap mode in freebsd (does freebsd even support this chipset?)? and are there any other chipsets besides Prism 2/2.5/3? that work in hostap mode? From wi(4) (http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=wisektion=4manpath

Re: Something wrong in stable 5.3?

2004-12-31 Thread Nikolas Britton
Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote: On Thu, 30 Dec 2004, Tom Connolly wrote: Eugene M. Minkovskii wrote: Hi! I'm confusing now: about a month ago I have upgrated from FreeBSD 5.2.1 to stable 5.3. Since this moment strange things have been happens on my PC. Usually system works Ok, and can be run as long as

Prism GT Chipset, hostap?

2004-12-30 Thread Nikolas Britton
Do the Prism GT chipsets support hostap mode in freebsd (does freebsd even support this chipset?)? and are there any other chipsets besides Prism 2/2.5/3? that work in hostap mode? Thank you, Nikolas ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: upgrading perl

2004-12-30 Thread Nikolas Britton
Karl Agee wrote: Freebsd 4.11-pre. I am working on learning perl, and have perl 5.00x that is in the base system when I installed 4.10-Release. Since most of the learning materials out there are based on later verisions esp since 5.6.x some of the features arent in this older version. I am

Re: FreeBSD's Visual Identity: Outdated?

2004-12-29 Thread Nikolas Britton
Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: nbritton wrote: gain this is are target market; consultants, integrators, vars, etc. I bet 80% of them don't even know FreeBSD exists and of the 20% that do only 20% would consider using and recommending it based on technical merit alone. A var that has a thriving

Re: Minimal system installation

2004-12-28 Thread Nikolas Britton
Dinesh Nair wrote: On 28/12/2004 05:08 Greg 'groggy' Lehey said the following: On Monday, 27 December 2004 at 13:21:51 -0600, Dan Thomas wrote: A friend gave me a laptop with a Pentium 100 and 24 megs of ram. It only has a floppy drive. What version of FreeBSD do you recommend and would you send

Re: FreeBSD's Visual Identity: Outdated?

2004-12-28 Thread Nikolas Britton
Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg Sent: Monday, December 27, 2004 4:57 PM To: Simon Burke Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re:

Re: Minimal system installation

2004-12-28 Thread Nikolas Britton
Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: Your just not going to be able to do this one as it is, you need to boot into FreeBSD in order to write a FreeBSD boot selector or boot loader on the hard disk. Borrow another laptop and temporairly move the hard drive from the first laptop to the second, then load FreeBSD

HP OmniBook 6000

2004-12-28 Thread Nikolas Britton
Any OmniBook 6000 owners out there that can comment on ACPI support in FreeBSD 5.x?... or any other problems with this system. I was thinking about getting one. As I'm sure there are meny variants of this model the specs for the system in question are: [EMAIL PROTECTED], 12GB, 256 or 512MB,

Re: Armada 17xx, ACPI thermal management broken.

2004-12-27 Thread Nikolas Britton
Nate Lawson wrote: Nikolas Britton wrote: I can't find his name or email address anywhere BUT I think I can do one better then that. Here are two ASL's that where uploaded to the ACPI4Linux project: http://acpi.sourceforge.net/dsdt/tables/Compaq/Armada_1750/Compaq-Armada_1750-686EM_99.1130_A

Re: A few questions regarding sound drivers

2004-12-27 Thread Nikolas Britton
Jorn Argelo wrote: Hi all, I've installed FreeBSD 5.3 AMD64 a few days ago. However, I am having sound problems. I have an Ensoniq 5880 as specified by lspci and dmesg: 00:0d.0 Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq 5880 AudioPCI (rev 02) pci0: multimedia, audio at device 13.0 (no driver attached)

Re: fBSD on Duron

2004-12-27 Thread Nikolas Britton
Cristi Tauber wrote: Vadim Maksimenko wrote: Do you get kind of these messages at boot time?: I got just the first line npx0: [FAST] then it stops . Setup hangs with no other error. the CPU in at 1600Mhz and is not overclocked ! Cristi I'm

Re: FreeBSD's Visual Identity: Outdated?

2004-12-27 Thread Nikolas Britton
Frank Pawlak wrote: This is one of several issues that have been brought up on an almost periodic basis for the past several years. There have been several attempts by various folks, including a rather ambitious one by this author, and all have died because of severe lack of interest. It has

Re: Need help *fast*

2004-12-27 Thread Nikolas Britton
Broder Mizzérable wrote: Hello there.. i'm switching to FreeBSD ' now '... i did try to use the floppy installation way. but it seems like all my floppy's are 50kb to small =/ ... so i was wondering .. is it possible to use a CD ' That does already has stuffs on it but still boot it and

Re: Need help *fast*

2004-12-27 Thread Nikolas Britton
Chris wrote: Nikolas Britton wrote: Broder Mizzérable wrote: Hello there.. i'm switching to FreeBSD ' now '... i did try to use the floppy installation way. but it seems like all my floppy's are 50kb to small =/ ... so i was wondering .. is it possible to use a CD ' That does already has stuffs

Re: Need help *fast*

2004-12-27 Thread Nikolas Britton
Chris wrote: Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Nikolas Britton Sent: Monday, December 27, 2004 7:08 PM To: Broder Mizzérable Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Need help *fast* Broder Mizzérable wrote

Re: Need help *fast*

2004-12-27 Thread Nikolas Britton
Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Nikolas Britton Sent: Monday, December 27, 2004 7:08 PM To: Broder Mizzérable Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Need help *fast* Broder Mizzérable wrote: Hello

Re: a quick question

2004-12-27 Thread Nikolas Britton
andrei wrote: Thank you for your quick replay but i am still not sure about a couple of things: I have tried what Mr. Lane suggested ... it took lets say about 8-9 hours (it connects to an ftp and starts downloading packages and installing them from all that writing on the screen and i have

Re: Netgear MA111 wifi card with Project Evil

2004-12-26 Thread Nikolas Britton
. --- Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Project Evil, Yes, That's what I'd call the netgear MA111. This is the most flakiest POS I have ever see. Eventually I got so pissed at it that I calmly unplugged it from the USB port and forcefully wiped it across the room at a high velocity rate

Re: a quick question ...

2004-12-26 Thread Nikolas Britton
andrei wrote: Hi, my name is Andrei and I have recently purchased FreeBSD from BSDMall and I ran into few problems. I am a windows user but i have some experince in Linux BUT, I got rid of my windows machine and installed FreeBDS. After the install for some reason i log into root and i use the

Re: FreeBSD Non-Profit Status

2004-12-26 Thread Nikolas Britton
See what just a little bit of marketing and PR can do, It took 5 days to get to 80%, after it was posted here it went from 80% to 120% in one day. Heck there was one guy that posted saying he had been using FreeBSD since 3.4 and didn't even know the foundation existed! From the FreeBSD

Re: FreeBSD Non-Profit Status

2004-12-26 Thread Nikolas Britton
Kris Kennaway wrote: On Sun, Dec 26, 2004 at 08:26:29PM -0600, Nikolas Britton wrote: From the FreeBSD Foundation's charter: What can I expect from the FreeBSD Foundation? one of the sub point says: Cultivating press coverage and advertising the utility and availability of FreeBSD. Since

Re: FreeBSD Non-Profit Status

2004-12-26 Thread Nikolas Britton
Nikolas Britton wrote: Kris Kennaway wrote: On Sun, Dec 26, 2004 at 08:26:29PM -0600, Nikolas Britton wrote: From the FreeBSD Foundation's charter: What can I expect from the FreeBSD Foundation? one of the sub point says: Cultivating press coverage and advertising the utility and availability

Re: FreeBSD Non-Profit Status

2004-12-26 Thread Nikolas Britton
Kris Kennaway wrote: On Sun, Dec 26, 2004 at 09:02:02PM -0600, Nikolas Britton wrote: Anyone who will listen, being that this mailing list has the most readership of all the FreeBSD lists and It says -questions It is only common sense to post questions here. Also the fact

Re: Armada 17xx, ACPI thermal management broken.

2004-12-26 Thread Nikolas Britton
Nate Lawson wrote: Nikolas Britton wrote: When I try it with Linux it worked, in fact, here is a patch for kernel 2.6.7: https://kilobyte.dyndns.info/linux/armada_1700_dsdt_linux-2.6.7.diff.bz2 Compaq Armada 1700/1750 ACPI/Sound/PM/i2c kernel patch: This patch(2.6.7) fixes the DSDT (broken aml

Re: FreeBSD Non-Profit Status

2004-12-26 Thread Nikolas Britton
Lane wrote: Hey, Kris! do they gotta freebsd-foundation-questions list? 'Cause I wanna get me a subscription! I said yesterday that I had been using FreeBSD since 3.4, but I misspoke. Actually it has been since 3.1. Turns out I hadda dig out those disks just today, and lo and behold! It was

Re: Armada 17xx, ACPI thermal management broken.

2004-12-26 Thread Nikolas Britton
Nikolas Britton wrote: Nate Lawson wrote: Can you get the author of this patch to send you the raw dsdt.asl, instead of the compiled version? If so, send it to me so I can diff against the one I asked you to dump and post. Thank you for responding, here is a copy of my asl (Compaq Armada

Re: FreeBSD's Visual Identity: Outdated?

2004-12-25 Thread Nikolas Britton
Colin J. Raven wrote: On Dec 25, Dag-Erling Smørgrav launched this into the bitstream: Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: One does not need to know how to rebuild an engine to know how to drive the car. One should not criticize the design of an engine while vehemently claiming to have no interest in

Re: Freebsd non-profit stat OT

2004-12-25 Thread Nikolas Britton
Mark wrote: I was looking at the bsd site and noticed the Quarterly Report was out, and in this report it states we are in danger of losing the non-profit status. Please read this report. http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/press/20041221-newsletter.shtml Yes, I saw that yesterday, they need to

Re: Netgear MA111 wifi card with Project Evil

2004-12-25 Thread Nikolas Britton
Shahar Yuval wrote: Hi, I'm trying to use my Netgear MA111 wireless USB card in FreeBSD. As I understand, FreeBSD's wi module does not support it (OpenBSD's does). Therefore, I decided to check out NDISulator (Project Evil). I followed the instructions in the FreeBSD Handbook, installed ndis,

Re: Freebsd non-profit stat OT

2004-12-25 Thread Nikolas Britton
Andrew P. wrote: Popularity is a big deal. I could never understand why this organization (not community) was not aiming at getting more users and supporters. I mean, this is the best OS I've ever seen. And while I don't even remember how or when I first heard about it, I'm sure there are

Re: FreeBSD's Visual Identity: Outdated?

2004-12-24 Thread Nikolas Britton
Michael C. Shultz wrote: On Thursday 23 December 2004 10:44 pm, Nikolas Britton wrote: Michael C. Shultz wrote: I hate to see FreeBSD to something like my once favorite news site (www.antiwar.com) did. Early on they had a website that wasn't at all artistic, but they always had links

Re: FreeBSD's Visual Identity: Outdated?

2004-12-23 Thread Nikolas Britton
From a business perspective we look amateurish. I REALLY REALLY agree with this point, from the prospective of an outsider the website and Image conveys a real lack of professionalism, which is not true. I'm looking at the start page for FreeBSD right now and here are the things I do not

Re: FreeBSD's Visual Identity: Outdated?

2004-12-23 Thread Nikolas Britton
Chris wrote: Nikolas Britton wrote: From a business perspective we look amateurish. I have held off thus far... I REALLY REALLY agree with this point, from the prospective of an outsider the website and Image conveys a real lack of professionalism, which is not true. No you don't - would you

Re: FreeBSD's Visual Identity: Outdated?

2004-12-23 Thread Nikolas Britton
Michael C. Shultz wrote: I hate to see FreeBSD to something like my once favorite news site (www.antiwar.com) did. Early on they had a website that wasn't at all artistic, but they always had links to great news stories and updated those several time a day. A while back they re-did the site

Re: FreeBSD's Visual Identity: Outdated?

2004-12-23 Thread Nikolas Britton
John-Mark Gurney wrote: Nikolas Britton wrote this message on Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 22:46 -0600: 2. I cringe when I see Times New Roman, again redo the whole site with a modern web font: Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, Etc. (ever here of Cascading Style Sheets?) you mean a sans-serif font? yes

Re: best newsgroup?

2004-12-22 Thread Nikolas Britton
Joshua Tinnin wrote: On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 10:20:04AM -0600, Joshua Lokken wrote: On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 10:21:46 -0500, Pervert Files [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, What is the best newsgroup to read freebsd question. muc.lists.freebsd.questions doesn't seem to be updating with anything

Re: best newsgroup?

2004-12-22 Thread Nikolas Britton
Nikolas Britton wrote: This ones easy (tho I hate there new style), bookmark this link to your toolbar as BSD Search: http://groups-beta.google.com/groups?as_ugroup=mailing.freebsd.* This will let you google all the freebsd mailing lists, in the search box you'll see group:mailing.freebsd

Re: Armada 17xx, ACPI thermal management broken.

2004-12-22 Thread Nikolas Britton
Uwe Laverenz wrote: On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 06:25:05AM -0600, Nikolas Britton wrote: Any help would be appreciated on ether fixing this problem or a way to use ACPI but disable the thermal monitoring so the system can control the fan? I might be wrong, but I think on the 1750 you should

Armada 17xx, ACPI thermal management broken.

2004-12-21 Thread Nikolas Britton
Hello, I have a Compaq Armada 1750 laptop and ACPI is some what broken. If I enable ACPI the fan will never run causing the system to overheat and shutdown, there are a few other problems with ACPI but this is the major one. This is a standard 440BX/MX chipset (82443BX) so I don't understand

Re: Armada 17xx, ACPI thermal management broken.

2004-12-21 Thread Nikolas Britton
Nikolas Britton wrote: Hello, I have a Compaq Armada 1750 laptop and ACPI is some what broken. If I enable ACPI the fan will never run causing the system to overheat and shutdown, there are a few other problems with ACPI but this is the major one. This is a standard 440BX/MX chipset (82443BX

Re: Armada 17xx, ACPI thermal management broken.

2004-12-21 Thread Nikolas Britton
Nikolas Britton wrote: Nikolas Britton wrote: Hello, I have a Compaq Armada 1750 laptop and ACPI is some what broken. If I enable ACPI the fan will never run causing the system to overheat and shutdown, there are a few other problems with ACPI but this is the major one. This is a standard 440BX

Anyone use cplay? I have a question

2004-12-21 Thread Nikolas Britton
First off, this program is kick-ass, everything I was looking for, simplicity and minimalism at its best. The basic commands took me 10 minutes to master, it plays everything including mp3 streams / mp3 stream playlists, has a file manager style music browser (In windows I used explorer to

Re: web calendar recommendation

2004-12-21 Thread Nikolas Britton
Noah wrote: FreeBSD-4.9 well I am back to the drawing board here. webcalendar is not very well supported, and it does not interface that well with my Palm calendar. I cant appear to upload my calendar to it. http://www.k5n.us/webcalendar.php can somebody please send along their recommendations

Re: 3Com Megahertz 3CXEM556 B Multifunction Card Not Working

2004-12-20 Thread Nikolas Britton
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello. I have problems trying to get my multifunction 3Com Megahertz 3CXEM556 B Ethernet/56K Modem PCMCIA card working on FreeBSD 5.1 on my Compaq Armada 7400. The card works perfectly (as far as the modem part, can't test the ethernet portion) on Windows 98 SE.

Re: Old Computers, -Os, Stripping, and 4-STABLE

2004-12-18 Thread Nikolas Britton
Kris Kennaway wrote: On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 06:48:42AM -0600, Nikolas Britton wrote: 1. I'd like to know if it's (relatively) safe to use -Os for CFLAGS and COPTFLAGS? Only on 5.3 and above. Kris Thanks but I desided to try it anyways, I set -Os for CFLAGS and COPTFLAGS and cvsup'd 4

Re: (cvsup newbie questions)

2004-12-18 Thread Nikolas Britton
Joshua Tinnin wrote: Well, if you build a port with make options once, then it will remember your make options. Otherwise, you can enter make arguments in /etc/pkgtools.conf, although this only helps if you know what arguments the ports you're installing might need. What do you mean it

migrating from thunderbird to mutt?

2004-12-18 Thread Nikolas Britton
Need some advice here... I would like to change my mail client from thunderbird to a text based client so I can email from anywhere using just ssh (don't like web based clients, too slow). I would like to try mutt being that it's a very popular text client but I have many questions about it. so

Re: Migrating from 4.10 to 5.3?

2004-12-17 Thread Nikolas Britton
Toomas Aas wrote: Roger Merritt wrote: I guess I'm just looking for recommendations -- should I install 5.3 now or stick with 4.10? I'd say go with 5.3. Contrary of what you think, it's now STABLE. Ditto ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Undelivered Mail Returned to Sender

2004-12-17 Thread Nikolas Britton
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Re: Firefox for FBSD?

2004-12-17 Thread Nikolas Britton
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: thanks for answering everyone :^) I really appreciate it. the thing is, I use FreeBSD 4.7 and I was thinking about the latest version of firefox. greetings, Dimitris - http://www.mail.gr/ - Get Your Private Free

Re: cvsup newbie questions

2004-12-17 Thread Nikolas Britton
Tom Connolly wrote: [snip] If you want to install the latest version of gnome, you should cvsup the ports tree (ports-all), then cd into the directory for the gnome meta-port (it builds gnome and alot of associated apps) and build it, like so: # cd /usr/ports/x11/gnome2 # make install clean

Re: cvsup newbie questions

2004-12-17 Thread Nikolas Britton
for. and why can't we have statically linked (or what ever its called) so we don't have to install all these f'ing build and run time dependencies and have every thing linked to everything else, hard drive space is not an issue now a days? -Original Message- From: Nikolas Britton [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: Why reccomend Bash shell?

2004-12-16 Thread Nikolas Britton
Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote: I like a .30-06 for deer, antelope, etc, .762[mm] for terrorists, and a .340 Weatherby magnum for big game (cape buffalo, elephant, etc, where legal). The Weatherby is also great for moose and elk with a Nosler 210 gg. partition bullet and a good high-velocity

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