Re: FreeBSD 6

2005-07-30 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 7/30/05, Subhro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -O2 is known to create broken binaries. Reduce it to -O and recompile. > Report back if it still does not work. > -O2 is the default now for 6.x. I just added "device drm" and am rebuilding it to see if that works, will post the results when it's

Re: onboard ethernet support

2005-07-30 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 7/30/05, Subhro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nikolas Britton wrote: > > >On 7/29/05, Antoine Solomon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >>Hello all, > >> > >>has anyone tried to get a marvell Yukon 88E8053 pci-e gigabit etherne

Re: Using a hard drive without partitions

2005-07-30 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 7/30/05, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Jul 30, 2005, at 2:26 AM, Nikolas Britton wrote: > > > What are the ramifications, good or bad, of not using partitions on a > > FreeBSD disk?. > > My understanding is that if you use part

Re: Using a hard drive without partitions

2005-07-30 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 7/30/05, Gary W. Swearingen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nikolas Britton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Drive: > > Dangerously dedicated > > /dev/da0s1 > > newfs -O2 -U > > I think you're using "dangerously dedicated" wr

Re: Networking with FreeBSD

2005-08-02 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 8/2/05, Kevin Kinsey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Stephan Weaver wrote: > > > Hello Everyone. > > > > We are going to be connecting our Stores to our Main Head Office Via > > Fiber. > > We want to separate our Internal Lan from the store computers. > > So we have decided to separate them by net

Re: Networking with FreeBSD

2005-08-02 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 8/2/05, Stephan Weaver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >From: Chuck Swiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >To: Stephan Weaver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >CC: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > >Subject: Re: Networking with FreeBSD > >Date: Tue, 02 Aug 2005 14:26:07 -0400 > > > >Stephan Weaver wrote: > >[ ...

Re: Networking with FreeBSD

2005-08-03 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 8/3/05, Stephan Weaver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >From: Nikolas Britton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > >Internet > >| > >| |WANs 1-4, 192.168.2/24, 192.168.3/24, 192.168.4/24, > >192.168.5/24 &

Re: sound vs. PCIX bus

2005-08-04 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 8/3/05, hal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can anyone recommend a sound card for the PCIX bus? > You will not be able to find a sound card that's PCI-X. A 16-bit / 44KHz PCM audio stream is something like 1MB/s and the 32-bit / 33MHz PCI bus can support 133MB/s. I don't think their will ever be

Re: Software Router

2005-08-04 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 8/3/05, Subhro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello Folks, > > One of my clients had asked me to provide a router. I was planning to > use an old P1 boxs to make the router. The requirements state that it is > for the purpose of internet – vlan communication. The router must have > features like

Re: sound vs. PCIX bus

2005-08-04 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 8/4/05, hal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Aug 4, 2005, at 3:54 AM, Nikolas Britton wrote: > > On 8/3/05, hal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Can anyone recommend a sound card for the PCIX bus? > > > > You will not be able to find a so

Re: FW: Looking to get involved.

2005-08-06 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 8/5/05, Mitch Graves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > -Original Message- > From: Mitch Graves [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, August 05, 2005 6:48 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Looking to get involved. > > > I am a newbie to freeBSD. > > In my job I work with Solar

Re: FW: Looking to get involved.

2005-08-06 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 8/5/05, Mitch Graves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > With all of that said, is there a place I can help and learn at the same > time? By the way, I live in Longmont and Work in Louisville. Personally I think the best way to learn and help at the same time is to answer questions on this l

Re: Vending

2005-08-07 Thread Nikolas Britton
same. Distributing your modify product as FreeBSD is not ok, this is a trademark, and copyright, matter which is not subject to the BSD license. Copyright (c) 2005 Nikolas Britton Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation

Big Files

2005-08-07 Thread Nikolas Britton
> date && nice +20 cat /dev/urandom > testfile || date 06:27:43 to 12:44:06 (18919 seconds) > ll total 655028704 -rw-r--r-- 1 nbritton nbritton 670421843968 Aug 6 12:44 testfile > df -h|grep mnt /dev/da0s1d679G625G2.0K 100%/mnt Average write speed: 670422MB / 18919 = 35.44M

Re: Vending

2005-08-07 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 8/7/05, Nikolas Britton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > YES! You can do ANYTHING you want with BSD licensed software including > selling or including it in your propriety software (Mac OS-X). I > reference the MIT license when talking about the BSD license because > it's

Re: Conflict between high resolution console and X

2005-08-07 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 8/6/05, Mervin McDougall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all > I have been experimenting with FreeBSD 6.0 BETA 2 on > my laptop which uses a ati radeon Mobile Utiliy 1 > (IGP 320M) video vard. I have been able to configure > both high console resolution MODE_279 and X on the > laptop, however

Re: RocketRaid 454 in FreeBSD 5.4?

2005-08-07 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 8/7/05, Joachim Dagerot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > My freeBSD 5.3 system supports HighPoint RocketRaid 454 flawless, using > Highpoints own driver. > > The freeBSD 5.4 panics if I load Highpoints driver (marked for version 5.3) > and without loading it it simply doesn't identify it as a

FreeBSD handbook, 16.3.2.2

2005-08-07 Thread Nikolas Britton
Quoting the FreeBSD Handbook: "16.3.2.2 Dedicated If you will not be sharing the new drive with another operating system, you may use the dedicated mode. Remember this mode can confuse Microsoft operating systems; however, no damage will be done by them. IBM's OS/2(r) however, will "appropriate" a

Re: 4.7-Release

2005-08-08 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 8/8/05, Eric Wolfe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, I'm trying to upgrade a system using 4.7 to 5.4 or whatever, but, > I'm having problems finding 4.7 anywhere on the net to do the upgrade > (since it asks for it). Any suggestions? > --Eric Wolfe 4.7 to 5.4 is a big jump, It may be better, in

Re: Backup Products

2005-08-09 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 8/8/05, Sean Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We currently our using Veritas Netbackup Datacenter 4.5 on a Windows > server to backup our FreeBSD, Apple, Windows, Netware, and Solaris Servers. > > This Cross-Platform works wonderfully. However I was wondering if > anyone had any successs wi

Re: FreeBSD 5.4 install problem. Newbee needs help.

2005-08-10 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 8/10/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 09 Aug 2005 21:11:53 -0400 > William Manley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I am a new FreeBSD user and I have an installation that has gone bad. > > My problems started when I enabled XDM for a graphical logon into > > Gnome. W

Re: sorry for the idiot question, but....

2005-08-10 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 8/10/05, Gary Kline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Folks, > > *Which* ports do I need to install to get Gnome and KDE > working? On my laptop (w/ omly 12G of disk) I may not have > nough room; but on my main server I should have plenty. > > I have instal

Re: FreeBSD 5.4 install problem. Newbee needs help.

2005-08-10 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 8/10/05, Nikolas Britton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 8/10/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, 09 Aug 2005 21:11:53 -0400 > > William Manley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I am a new FreeBSD user and I have an in

Re: Sound Blaster SB0410 vs. 5.4

2005-08-11 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 8/10/05, hal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just bought a Creative Labs Sound Blaster SB0410 sound card. > > It uses the EMU10K1 chipset. > > The hardware notes imply that this card will work with FreeBSD 5.4. > > I am using the card in a SuperMicro X5DP8-G2 motherboard PCI-X slot. > > Here is

Re: Serial Console Install over Lan?

2004-08-21 Thread Nikolas Britton
Kaboofa wrote: Hi, I'm trying to setup a headless FreeBSD machine (5.1 Release Cd version), using a serial console, but instead of using a serial port, is it possible to use a lan cable instead? Or, is there anyway to set up a ssh server when the installer program is booted? Thank you, Tom Norr

Re: NIC and RPM of a hard disk

2004-10-04 Thread Nikolas Britton
Mike Woods wrote: Ajesh John wrote: Hi, How can I know if there is an in-built NIC in my mother-board? And How can I know the RPM of my hard disk?, Is it possible to know both these in FreeBSD?, I'm using FreeBSD5.1 - Release, For the NIC, ifconfig will show all the network devices installed

Re: Question about ports

2004-10-06 Thread Nikolas Britton
Pierre LeBlanc wrote: Hello, I'm new to the port collection and updating ports with CVSup but I managed to update the ports of my FreeBSD 4.10 system using CVSup. Now, I want to upgrade Perl to version 5.6 and I notice there is a perl5 port in the list I`ve seen on: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/Fr

Re: Sparkling Brand New FreeBSD Admin

2006-09-02 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 9/2/06, Robert C Wittig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Keith Phipps wrote: >Right now my biggest resources have to be google and the O'Reilly > book "Essential Sys. Admin." but I'd like to have a reference guide more > suited to only the FreeBSD platform. Any recommendations on this as well?

Re: Best gigabit network interface for FreeBSD?

2006-09-04 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 9/3/06, Brett Glass <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Was going to post this to net@, but figured I'd get a bigger audience and better answers on this list. (Please copy responses to me as well as the list to make sure I see them.) I'm building a machine which is going to have very high network load

Re: Word processor for 6.1

2006-09-04 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 9/4/06, Perry Hutchison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Anyone know where I can find a working word processor for 6.1? AbiWord and OpenOffice both require Gnome, which won't build. richtext builds OK, but as soon as I try to select "bold" it writes 4 lines to stderr and drops core: Message backt

Re: Word processor for 6.1

2006-09-04 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 9/4/06, Perry Hutchison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Anyone know where I can find a working word processor for 6.1? > > AbiWord and OpenOffice both require Gnome, which won't build. ... > KOffice 1.5 has OpenDocument support. Not that I'm any more eager to get into a KDE mess than a Gnome m

Re: Word processor for 6.1

2006-09-05 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 9/5/06, Perry Hutchison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > FreeBSD and Linux will not meet your teenagers needs, If you really > > want to introduce your kid to UNIX then buy a Mac... trust me on > > this... I interact with many high school and college kids on a daily > > basis. Any used Mac capab

Re: Word processor for 6.1

2006-09-05 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 9/5/06, RW <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tuesday 05 September 2006 09:35, Erik Norgaard wrote: > In the standard-supfile for the base system you'd specify RELENG_6 which > means you'll get head of -STABLE, or if you are conservative RELENG_6_1 > which means that you'll just get security patch

Re: Word processor for 6.1

2006-09-05 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 9/5/06, Jerold McAllister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Nikolas Britton writes: > On 9/4/06, Perry Hutchison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > > Anyone know where I can find a working word processor for 6.1? >> > > AbiWord and OpenOffice both require Gnome,

Re: Upgrading firmware on Areca RAID card?

2006-10-09 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 10/9/06, Bob Willcox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi All, I would like to upgrade the firmware on my Areca ARC-1210 SATA RAID card. Has anyone out there done this, and if so, do you have any advice on doing it? I have downloaded a program called archttp32 that appears to be a FreeBSD 4.2 32-bi

Re: Upgrading firmware on Areca RAID card?

2006-10-09 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 10/9/06, Bob Willcox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi All, I would like to upgrade the firmware on my Areca ARC-1210 SATA RAID card. Has anyone out there done this, and if so, do you have any advice on doing it? I have downloaded a program called archttp32 that appears to be a FreeBSD 4.2 32-bi

Re: Teletronics wlan 200mW card supported under 5.x?

2006-10-16 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 10/16/06, Gordon Pedersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Has anyone got the Teletronics XI-325HP 200mW PRISM 2.5-based PCMCIA card to work under freebsd 5.4, which I currently run? or 6.x? The Teletronics XI-325HP 200mW PRISM 2.5-based PCMCIA card is high on my list of possible cards with extern

Downloading files from -CURRENT, How?

2006-10-21 Thread Nikolas Britton
I'm trying grab a copy of /usr/src/sys/dev/sound and /usr/src/sys/modules/sound from HEAD so I can MFC a few things. I tried this, but it didn't work: $ more current-supfile *default host=cvsup12.us.FreeBSD.org *default base=/usr/src/HEAD/var/db *default prefix=/usr/src/HEAD/usr *default release=

Re: Downloading files from -CURRENT, How?

2006-10-21 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 10/22/06, Patrick Bowen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Nikolas Britton wrote: > I'm trying grab a copy of /usr/src/sys/dev/sound and > /usr/src/sys/modules/sound from HEAD so I can MFC a few things. I > tried this, but it didn't work: > > $ more current-

Re: RESEND: Re: BSDstats report for Mar 1st, 2006

2007-03-07 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 3/4/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > suggested adding a prompt to sysinstall asking if ppl wanted to > participate, and the response I heard was that someone basically > needed to submit a patch ... anyone here know enough about > sysinstall to do so? If considering work on

Re: Howmany CPU Does FreeBSD Support ?

2007-03-12 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 3/12/07, Ivan Voras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Vulpes Velox wrote: > That is only true if the process is giant locked. When look at dmesg, > look for things that say GIANT-LOCKED and those will be ones confined > to one processor. Which happens to include all SCSI devices I've encountered...

Re: Howmany CPU Does FreeBSD Support ?

2007-03-12 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 3/12/07, Ivan Voras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Nikolas Britton wrote: > On 3/12/07, Ivan Voras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Which happens to include all SCSI devices I've encountered... >> sigh. >> >> And it's NOT rare to see giant l

Don't buy AMD products (was Re: Xorg and ATI card query.)

2007-03-13 Thread Nikolas Britton
We need to start hounding on AMD to publish the developer documentation for all radeon chipsets. I for one will not buy any AMD or ATI components until they decide to fix the problem. Here's the email address of AMD's president: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Give him your two cents. On 3/12/07, Daniel O'

Re: You have been unsubscribed from the freebsd-questions mailing list

2007-04-06 Thread Nikolas Britton
It takes months to find new users, but only seconds to lose one... the good news is that we should run out of them in no time. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

Re: is THIS why the 6.2 release seems stalled ?

2007-01-09 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 1/9/07, Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 09:33:18AM -0800, Jim Pazarena wrote: > http://farragut.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org/articles/2007/01/08/a-shadow-lies-upon-all-bsd-distributions > - > Gentoo/Fr

Re: is THIS why the 6.2 release seems stalled ?

2007-01-09 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 1/9/07, Peter Giessel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tuesday, January 09, 2007, at 02:38PM, "Nikolas Britton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Why then? Are you guys ever going to do something about Xorg DRI/DRM >for Radeon cards, Java, and Flash support? More

Re: is THIS why the 6.2 release seems stalled ?

2007-01-09 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 1/9/07, Garrett Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Don't know about some of the items, but... -Flash support with Mozilla products is being done through Mozilla's ActionScript Engine: . So, I expect the late

Re: is THIS why the 6.2 release seems stalled ?

2007-01-09 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 1/9/07, Andreas Rudisch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, 10 Jan 2007 00:08:45 +0100, Nikolas Britton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Why then? Are you guys ever going to do something about Xorg DRI/DRM > for Radeon cards, Java, and Flash support? More importantly: Since w

Re: is THIS why the 6.2 release seems stalled ?

2007-01-09 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 1/9/07, Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: You shouldn't! If you are that taken back - you certainly don't need the issues of a project that does not deliver on it's promises. On the other hand - feel free to use Microsoft's products because we all know that they tend to keep promises AND, as

Re: is THIS why the 6.2 release seems stalled ?

2007-01-09 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 1/9/07, Greg 'groggy' Lehey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tuesday, 9 January 2007 at 17:08:45 -0600, Nikolas Britton wrote: > On 1/9/07, Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 09:33:18AM -0800, Jim Pazarena wrote: >>> >

Re: is THIS why the 6.2 release seems stalled ?

2007-01-09 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 1/9/07, Jerry McAllister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: FreeBSD is created and supported by volunteers. Seems like you just posted a nice list of things for you to get busy and contribute. I don't have time to contribute work, I have a business to manage as well as other obligations that come

Re: is THIS why the 6.2 release seems stalled ?

2007-01-09 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 1/9/07, Jeff Mohler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Fbsd needs SAN support before it can cope with virtualization..virtualization requires a lot of disk..spindles..and FCP/iSCSI is a great way to drive this condensation. I mean..when you have to read this list, and see people wonder which end of a

Re: is THIS why the 6.2 release seems stalled ?

2007-01-09 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 1/9/07, Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 05:07:08PM -0600, Nikolas Britton wrote: > > Why then? Various administrative delays, mostly. e.g. the main ftp distribution server had hardware failure for a few weeks. Shit happens and we did just ch

Re: is THIS why the 6.2 release seems stalled ?

2007-01-09 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 1/10/07, Colin Percival <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Nikolas Britton wrote: > I don't have time to contribute work, I have a business to manage as > well as other obligations that come first... I need this stuff to just > work... so I can get real things done. In other w

Re: is THIS why the 6.2 release seems stalled ?

2007-01-09 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 1/10/07, Rico Secada <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, 10 Jan 2007 00:01:51 -0600 "Nikolas Britton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > FreeBSD is created and supported by volunteers. > > Seems like you just posted a nice list of things > > for you to

Re: is THIS why the 6.2 release seems stalled ?

2007-01-09 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 1/10/07, Rico Secada <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, 10 Jan 2007 00:48:39 -0600 "Nikolas Britton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am unhappy but I care too much about FreeBSD to just up and leave, > it may be time for a sabbatical though... And I complain becau

Re: is THIS why the 6.2 release seems stalled ?

2007-01-10 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 1/10/07, Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 01:12:46AM -0600, Nikolas Britton wrote: > On 1/10/07, Rico Secada <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Wed, 10 Jan 2007 00:01:51 -0600 > >"Nikolas Britton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]&g

Re: is THIS why the 6.2 release seems stalled ?

2007-01-10 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 1/10/07, Greg 'groggy' Lehey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [irrelevant cruft removed] On Tuesday, 9 January 2007 at 23:54:02 -0600, Nikolas Britton wrote: > On 1/9/07, Greg 'groggy' Lehey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Tuesday, 9 January 2007

Re: is THIS why the 6.2 release seems stalled ?

2007-01-10 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 1/10/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: "Nikolas Britton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Maybe core needs to make it easier to direct are funds to the > sub-projects of are choice and still qualify it as a deductible > expense. For accounting/

Re: /etc/make.conf CPUTYPE question (nacona vs. pentium4)

2007-01-10 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 1/9/07, Oliver Fromme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I'm trying to write an appropriate CPUTYPE entry for /etc/make.conf for the following machine: CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz (2799.95-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0xf41 Stepping = 1 Features=0xbfebfbff F

Re: is THIS why the 6.2 release seems stalled ?

2007-01-10 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 1/10/07, Robert Huff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Nikolas Britton writes: > > For accounting/tax purposes, aren't salary and benefits just as > > deductible as "contributions"? Hire someone qualified as your > > own full- or part-time employee, and a

Re: is THIS why the 6.2 release seems stalled ?

2007-01-10 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 1/10/07, Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 10/01/07, Josef Grosch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 10:44:36AM -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 12:01:51AM -0600, Nikolas Britton wrote: > > > > > On 1/9/07

Re: is THIS why the 6.2 release seems stalled ?

2007-01-10 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 1/10/07, Jeff Mohler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I dunno..Linux got _somewhere_ before big money came into it. Like I said..when Fbsd 2.5 was light _years_ ahead of Linux..sometime after that, focus was lost. USL v. BSDi happened. ___ freebsd-ques

Re: is THIS why the 6.2 release seems stalled ?

2007-01-11 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 1/11/07, Bill-Schoolcraft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: At Thu, 11 Jan 2007 it looks like Nikolas Britton composed: > On 1/10/07, Jeff Mohler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I dunno..Linux got _somewhere_ before big money came into it. > > > > Like I said..when

Best way to kill pixels?

2007-01-14 Thread Nikolas Britton
What's the best way to make more dead pixels on an LCD display?... So a manufacturer will be forced to replace it. Would a high voltage static discharge through the panel work? Would it leave physical evidence of tempering, like melted silicon? Thanks.

Re: Best way to kill pixels?

2007-01-15 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 1/15/07, [LoN]Kamikaze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Nikolas Britton wrote: > What's the best way to make more dead pixels on an LCD display?... So > a manufacturer will be forced to replace it. Would a high voltage > static discharge through the panel work? Would it leave ph

Re: duo core question

2007-01-16 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 1/16/07, Tsu-Fan Cheng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: hi, just chat here... how much faster will a duo core CPU gives me when running freebsd, nothing optimised.. 1. You need to rebuild the kernel with SMP support. 2. The correct names are; Core Duo, Core 2 Duo, Core Solo, and Core 2 Solo. 3.

Re: Newbie needs help setting up rackmount server

2005-08-11 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 8/11/05, Maude User <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thank you for your quick answer! In the link you sent, there is a chapter > about doing a "headless install" -- and my rackmount server is certainly > "headless". > > My laptop is so new it doesn't appear to have a serial port, but I think I >

Re: Newbie needs help setting up rackmount server

2005-08-11 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 8/11/05, Maude User <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I didn't realize it would be slow using a null-cable modem - thanks for that > info. > > I guess I should borrow a monitor and keyboard to do the install faster. > > I'm personally liking the usb flash drive thingy idea I mentioned earlier if

Re: Browser ?

2005-08-12 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 8/11/05, Carstea Catalin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't want x server and kde but i want a good browser to downlod my email > > from mail box (gmail). Can u help me how ( ori what browser to use)? Try using Links, I'm posting this message right now from Links (in text mode) and all the g

Re: Browser ?

2005-08-12 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 8/12/05, Nikolas Britton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 8/11/05, Carstea Catalin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I don't want x server and kde but i want a good browser to downlod my > email > > > > from mail box (gmail). Can u help me how ( ori what b

Re: Browser ?

2005-08-12 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 8/12/05, Giorgos Keramidas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2005-08-12 14:10, Dmitry Mityugov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On 8/11/05, Giorgos Keramidas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I know that this isn't quite what you asked, but judging from my past > >> experience with browser-based mailer

Re: differences in supported filesystems between FreeBSD versions

2005-08-12 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 8/12/05, Glenn Dawson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 10:44 PM 8/11/2005, Dmitry Mityugov wrote: > >Hello, > > > >I have a small FreeBSD machine at home used as a file server and a > >gateway to the Internet. Currently when a new version of FreeBSD is > >released (and I have enough time), I copy

Re: Browser ?

2005-08-12 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 8/12/05, Giorgos Keramidas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2005-08-12 06:47, Nikolas Britton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On 8/12/05, Giorgos Keramidas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>On 2005-08-12 14:10, Dmitry Mityugov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Re: simple (very) Bash problem

2005-08-12 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 8/12/05, Aaron Peterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 8/12/05, tg webb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > In SuSe 9.1 and in the shell, Bash works fine until I attempt "make". It > > responds with unknown command. I know I'm missing something obvious but > > what? Any help gratefully received >

Re: PowerChute && FreeBSD 5.4 / 6.0

2005-08-12 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 8/12/05, Matthias Apitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello, > > In our rack we have a APC Smart-UPS RT 5000 and in most of > the Linux servers we use some java-based daemon 'PowerChute'; the > daemon on each server creats LISTEN in TCP/3052 and UDP/3052 > and the Smart-UPS does UDP broadcast

Installing from a USB Flash Drive (Was: Newbie needs help setting up rackmount server)

2005-08-12 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 8/11/05, Nikolas Britton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm personally liking the usb flash drive thingy idea I mentioned > earlier if you have no floppy or cd-rom drives. Not sure if this will > even work btw, never tried it. > > What you would do is download the

Re: Browser ?

2005-08-12 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 8/12/05, Gary W. Swearingen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nikolas Britton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Like what? > > Like the indemnification clause in > http://mail.google.com/mail/help/terms_of_use.html > > One can limit their exposure t

Re: Monitor Tuning

2005-08-12 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 8/12/05, Sean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My display is not very sharp and I was looking for a few tips that might > help to cure things. I tweeked a few things and no luck. Still a soft > dull image. Little annoying on the eyes. > > Is anyone running a NEC Multisync XV17+ with an Nvidia 6500

Re: [nycbug-talk] Can I install FreeBSD 5.3 from a USB CD drive?

2005-08-13 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 8/12/05, Kliment Andreev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Maude User wrote: > > Thanks for this info. > > > > The handbook chapter on BIOS (see below) doesn't mention "USB" but it > > says the machine > > can boot from "Removable Devices" so it sounds like your first > > suggestion about booting fro

Re: Asking the experts. . .

2005-08-13 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 8/13/05, Bryan Maynard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm setting up a web/mail/source coude server for my open source project > and am using FreeBSD. > > My first concern is security. I read through the appropriate area of the > Handbook and really enjoyed it. However, I do not know what suid, g

Re: Monitor Tuning

2005-08-15 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 8/15/05, Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Friday, 12 August 2005 at 15:52:13 -0400, Sean wrote: > > > >>My display is not very sharp and I was looking for a few tips that might > >>help to cure things. I tweeked a few things and no luck. Still a soft > >>dull image. Little annoying on

Re: multicore Intel

2005-08-16 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 8/16/05, Charles Smyth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Will FreeBSD still be functional with the new crop of Intel dual and multicore > processors, when they become more available and replace single core > processors. > > I don't see why not as this should all be transparent to the ope

Re: ath driver within 5.4-RELEASE

2005-08-16 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 8/16/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > I just wanted to know if the ath driver is included within the 5.4-RELEASE as > I can't seem to find it with the GENERIC config or do I just load auth with > kldload ? > I can't check as I'm not at home atm. > Thanks in advance > Gly

Re: atacontrol

2005-08-16 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 8/16/05, Dick Hoogendijk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a simple question. Some time ago I was told always to use the > same type of harddisk transfers. Now I have i.e.: > > Master = UDMA100 > Slave = UDMA66 > > Does this mean the first disk really works on UDMA100 or is is delayed > by

Re: Stable server

2005-08-16 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 8/16/05, Carstea Catalin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > what version of freebsd do u recomand for a stable server? > 5.x ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

Re: Stable server

2005-08-16 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 8/16/05, dpk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 16 Aug 2005, Carstea Catalin wrote: > > > what version of freebsd do u recomand for a stable server? > > 4.11 is solid, hasn't shown any problems here. 5.4 is the best of the 5.x > series but we (I mean at my company, not speaking as a FreeBSD

Re: How to Force UDMA100 Mode on Boot?

2005-08-17 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 8/16/05, Mark Kane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snipped] > > If I eliminate one of the drives and run one on each channel, they all > work fine together. I'm not sure if that rc.local trick that was > suggested would work now. I don't know if drives get mounted before > rc.local would get execut

Re: Stable server

2005-08-17 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 8/17/05, Dmitry Mityugov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 8/17/05, Nikolas Britton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 8/16/05, dpk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Tue, 16 Aug 2005, Carstea Catalin wrote: > > > > > > > what version of fr

USB video devices supported / Video surveillance?

2005-08-18 Thread Nikolas Britton
Hello all... I was just recruited by a friend to help build an Internet based video surveillance system, I recommend FreeBSD to him for the project. I checked the 5.4 hardware notes but didn't see anything about USB video capture devices, I only see the PCI based bktr devices... So are they suppor

Re: Embedded FreeBSD

2005-08-19 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 8/19/05, Bsderss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > --- Lowell Gilbert > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > useful. Have you looked at the FreeBSD > > Documentation article on > > "FreeBSD and Solid State Devices"? > > > Thank you very much for the comperhensive > documentation. > I want to c

Re: Long Uptime

2005-08-19 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 8/11/05, Kent Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 11 August 2005 12:09 pm, Matt Kosht wrote: > > >On 8/11/05, Peter Giessel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > There are uptimes greater than 4 years listed here: > > > http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/today/top.avg.html > > > > A Windows 2

Re: Long Uptime

2005-08-19 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 8/19/05, Jerahmy Pocott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 20/08/2005, at 11:34 AM, Nikolas Britton wrote: > > > > > You can keep a windows 2000 system secure without patching!: > > > > * Uninstall Outlook Express and IE ( http://www.litepc.com/ ),

Re: OT: Re: WinXP administration guide for unix guru

2005-08-21 Thread Nikolas Britton
I have a few tips, I started my computer life as a windows guy (I hate the dam thing now). hmm, Grab a copy of ActiveState's ActivePerl and a find a good Perl for Win32 book. Most everything you want is in the "Control Panel" and you can find "Computer Management" in there, To get to "Control Pane

Re: RELENG_6 upgrade from RELENG_5

2005-08-23 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 8/22/05, Joel Hatton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Before I go crazy and change my RELENG_5 to 6 and resync my sources, can > someone point me at a README/UPDATING for upgraders? I'm sure I'll find > one _after_ I cvsup, but I'd like to read it first. > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvswe

Re: converting from FREEBSD to DRAGONFLY

2005-08-23 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 8/23/05, Fafa Hafiz Krantz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > hello! > > i'm about to convert from freebsd to dragonflybsd. > > i'm wondering if those who have done the same might share their experiences > with me, so that my migration can become as painless as possible. http://www.dragonflybsd.

Re: Help diagnosing system hangs?

2005-08-23 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 8/23/05, Eric Rescorla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've recently been experiencing frequent hangs with FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE-p20. > Strangely, this didn't appear to happen with 5.3-RELEASE or before > a few months ago. > > My platform is a P4-2.8 GHz (dmesg appended at end). > > The behavior is

Re: Intel related question ...

2005-08-23 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 8/23/05, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > That is what you get for using an Intel based board :-) > What's that suppose to mean? Every board I've bought from Intel is rock solid. Intel board + Intel chipset + Intel cpu = can't go wrong. __

Re: Intel related question ...

2005-08-23 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 8/22/05, Marc G. Fournier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Sorry for asking here, but y'all are the only "useful techies" I know :) > > Am trying to put together my next new FreeBSD server ... Intel based, on > an SE7520JR2 DDR2 motherboard ... problem is simple ... > > I have 4x1G Kingston DIM

Re: Intel related question ...

2005-08-23 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 8/23/05, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Aug 23, 2005, at 12:40 PM, Nikolas Britton wrote: > > > On 8/23/05, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> > >> > >> That is what you get

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