On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 08:22:02PM +0100, marco.borsat...@libero.it wrote:
>
> Hi, this are my questions.
>
> 1) I've installed many packages using pkg_add -rK [package] because I
> had the idea to use the same packages on a different PC. Packages are
> present in the directory i used as a reposi
On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 08:51:02PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 08:26:02AM +0100, Roland Smith wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 08:05:59PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote:
> > > > lame -h -V 3 - nobody could tell the difference, it gives <200kbps
> >
On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 09:42:25PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 08:36:25AM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
> > >
> > >There is a special codec for speech. You'll find it the
> > >audio/speex port. From the pkg-descr:
> >
> > actually i use it with asterisk - at about 15kbps (VB
On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 08:05:59PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote:
> > lame -h -V 3 - nobody could tell the difference, it gives <200kbps bitrate
> > lame -h -b 192 - as above
> > lame -h -b 128 - they were able to tell difference, but not on all
> > music/songs
> >
> > lame -h -b 96 - i was able to tel
On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 04:02:11PM -0500, Neal Hogan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have 7-1 RELEASE running with up-to-date packages, including firefox3. I
> also have gnash-0.8.3 and mozplugger-1.10.2.
>
> I'm confused as to why gnash and mozplugger are not automatically enabled
> and/or used by ff3. That
On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 12:15:24PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote:
>
> guys, this is for any compression experts on-list. my main
> desktop is nearly full. i'm looking for the best means of
> compressing [mostly] audio files. mp3, ogg, and .flag.
All of these are already compressed.
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 10:05:19PM -0400, alexus wrote:
> or maybe someone knows which flag i need to use to use rsync?
You can use the --fileflags option, if rsync has been compiled with
it. See /usr/ports/net/rsync/Makefile
Roland
--
R.F.Smith http://www.xs4al
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 11:13:08AM -0700, Peter Steele wrote:
> >It's missing the call to devctl_notify in the devfs handling. This was
> >added to RELENG_7 on the 28th of May 2008. You'll need at least
> >rev. 1.208.2.4 of /usr/src/sys/kern/kern_conf.c. See:
>
> >http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/c
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 06:09:24PM +, Mike Clarke wrote:
> The scripts are a bit primitive and get totally confused if I insert
> more than one USB storage device at a time so would need some
> refinement for general use but work OK for me as the only user on this
> PC.
If you give the ms
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 10:49:18AM -0700, Peter Steele wrote:
> >Last week I submitted a patch to get this system and subsystem
> >documented in the manual page of devd.conf. It should be in CURRENT now,
> >and will be MFC'd to STABLE in a week or so.
>
> This looks like exactly what we need,
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 10:49:18AM -0700, Peter Steele wrote:
> >Last week I submitted a patch to get this system and subsystem
> >documented in the manual page of devd.conf. It should be in CURRENT now,
> >and will be MFC'd to STABLE in a week or so.
>
> This looks like exactly what we need,
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 08:10:46AM -0700, Peter Steele wrote:
> >My question to you would be: What exactly do you mean by
> >"automatically detect"? The drive *is* automatically detected.
> >Should it be mounted afterwards?
>
> Yeah, I guess my wording was a little vague. I know that the system
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 12:37:28AM +, Saifi Khan wrote:
> Hi all:
>
> Is there a roadmap for FreeBSD ?
I'm not sure there even is one. :)
The road that is taken depends mostly on what the people working on the
code want to tackle, I guess. Looking at the -current mailing list
should probably
On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 02:10:42PM -0500, Jerry wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I hate to start this potential storm, but...
>
> I have a machine with both an MS and FreeBSD slices on it.
> I can easily back up and recover the FreeBSD slices using dump(8)/restore(8)
> But, that won't work for the MS slice (whic
On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 09:16:02AM -0500, Tsu-Fan Cheng wrote:
> Hi all,
> I format a ext disk (UFS) and transfer some files into it, hand it
> over to my friend who has a macbook. He complained the macbook can't
> read it. I don't have a mac on hand, I wonder if there is any utility
> that wil
On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 05:00:27PM +0800, Fbsd1 wrote:
> I use the dos2unix console command all the time. I am tried to typing in
> that long name. I tried to do a hard link on it.
> ln /usr/local/bin/dos2unix /usr/local/bin/d2u
> This command is accepted without error, but when it execute it
> d2
On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 11:33:01PM +0100, Frank Wißmann wrote:
> > > > Both do have manpages. What kind of error do you get when you try
> > > > e.g. 'man portmaster'? It might be that your manual pages setup
> > > > is broken.
> > >
> > > I get the message "No manual entry for portmaster", but usi
On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 10:08:45PM +0100, Frank Wißmann wrote:
> Am Samstag 28 Februar 2009 21:42:35 schrieb Roland Smith:
> > On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 07:49:16PM +0100, Frank Wißmann wrote:
> > > Hi, list!
> > > I have a problem using the above mentioned programs becau
On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 07:49:16PM +0100, Frank Wißmann wrote:
> Hi, list!
> I have a problem using the above mentioned programs because there
> doesn't seem to be a manpage installed. Can anybody give me a clue on
> how to get help?
Both do have manpages. What kind of error do you get when you
On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 05:59:58PM -0800, Richard Stockton wrote:
> I have a Dell PowerEdge 4400 running FreeBSD 6.2 (yes, I know it's old).
> This machine has 8 hot-swapable drive bays. Recently I purchased 7 new
> drives for it (300Gig 15K) to replace the old ones (145Gig 10k). I was
> able to
On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 02:28:54PM -0700, carnage wrote:
> I'm wondering how to go about determining the scancodes for keys on
> keypress.
Try xev(1).
Roland
--
R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/
[plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much
On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 08:33:09PM +, Paul Schmehl wrote:
> --On Tuesday, February 24, 2009 14:24:29 -0600 Mel
> wrote:
>
> >
> > On Tuesday 24 February 2009 10:07:35 Paul Schmehl wrote:
> >> I have this in my /etc/cvsupfile:
> >>
> >> *default tag=RELENG_7
> >
> > And your *default prefix?
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 02:25:59PM -0800, prad wrote:
> i am puzzled by what seems to be almost a parallel processor development
> model that exists with freebsd. when 7 came out people were still
> working on 6.3 i think it was with the aim of going to 6.4 and now with
> 7.x underway, there is wor
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 12:56:11PM -0800, prad wrote:
> i got this post on the freebsd forum from kamakazi:
> "
> The kernel module is really only for wacom tablets.
More precisely for USB connected tablets, IIRC.
> To use the Xorg driver you have to run Xorg without HAL support.
I always compil
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 12:59:21PM -0800, Andrew Moran wrote:
>
> Thank you.
You're welcome!
Please don't top post; it destroys the flow of the conversation.
> I have 8 gigs of memory in this system, and I decided go to the ZFS
> route, and am now getting kernel panics about kmem exhaustion.
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 11:30:10AM -0800, Andrew Moran wrote:
>
> I installed the i386 distro on my Core 2 Duo instead of AMD64 and now
> I want to switch to using AMD64.
First of all, your Core2 Duo should work just fine with i386. The amd64
architecture is an extension of the x86 arch. Unless
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 10:52:48AM -0800, prad wrote:
> > > is there anyway to find out if the tablet is actually being
> > > recognized?
> >
> > Check if /dev/ttyd0 really exists. Also check dmesg output to see if
> > the device is recognized.
> >
> here we have a curious problem.
> /dev/ttyd
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 06:27:06PM +, af300...@gmail.com wrote:
> On Feb 23, 2009 10:43am, Roland Smith wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 01:15:16AM +, af300...@gmail.com wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> >
> > >
> >
> > > My chur
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 04:51:05PM +, Saifi Khan wrote:
> Hi all:
>
> Compaq C301TU laptop has a Broadcom chipset based wireless card and
> i'm unable to make it work on FreeBSD 7.1
There are no Broadcom wireless drivers in 7.1. The command 'apropos
broadcom' only returns a couple of wired et
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 11:26:04AM +0200, Jaco le Roux wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Would anyone know if there is any kind of X-style (or web) GUI for FreeBSD
> applications like pf and isc-dhcp3-server ?
The sysutils/webmin port would enable you to configure DHCP and a lot of
other things from a browser.
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 01:15:16AM +, af300...@gmail.com wrote:
> Hi,
>
> My churches web server is having problems compiling world for FreeBSD
> 7.0-p10 (I believe I just did the csup last night). It gets to this point
> and then stops with this error:
>
> touch gtype-desc.h
> touch: No
On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 04:49:34PM -0800, prad wrote:
> my son has a hp TC4200 tablet which worked very well with ubuntu.
>
> he has switched to fbsd7.1 and installed
> /usr/ports/x11-drivers/input-wacom
> it was compiled without usb support since the tablet uses a serial
> connection.
Are you su
On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 03:41:23PM +0200, Metias Adel wrote:
>I have IBM x3550 server with Intel Xeon (Dual-Core) processors 5160 @
> 3.0 GHz. I need to install FreeBSD 7.0 but I do not know which type of
> FreeBSD I have to use to take the best performance of the EM64T and
> Hyperthreading
On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 06:14:27PM +0100, Jos Chrispijn wrote:
> Sorry for the confusion; the problem is in the rsync line:
>
> rsync -avpog /var/db/mysql //r...@10.10.10.50:123/usr/backup/
>
> Running this line causes rsync to say:
> Unexpected remote arg: r...@10.10.10.50:123
> rsync error: syn
On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 08:43:30AM +0300, leva Thecouch wrote:
> Hello!
> It is possible, whether in FreeBSD 7.0 to use programs for creation of
> music and processing of a sound, such as FLStudio 8.0, Sony Sound
> Forge 8.0? Cubase Studio 4.1, Wave Lab 5 etc.? All of them work in
> system Window
On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 02:32:43AM -0800, prad wrote:
> any recommendations for software that can join or split wmv, mpg, avi
> etc etc?
The program you found, mencoder, will work fine. E.g. Cutting one minute
from a video starting at 8:09, and converting to msmpeg video goes like
this:
mencode
On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 11:55:50AM -0500, John Almberg wrote:
> Can anyone suggest a way to convert a tab-delimited file to csv using
> standard unix utilities? I could whip up a Ruby script to do it, but
As long as the files don't contain commas themselves, it is a
straightforward sed or perl
On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 01:23:23PM -0600, Paul Schmehl wrote:
> --On Wednesday, February 11, 2009 12:38:33 -0600 Keith Palmer
> wrote:
>
> > ... really? Write a script to copy the user's files over on a schedule...?
> >
> > I can see where that might be an option for some people, but that's
> > e
On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 01:38:33PM -0500, Keith Palmer wrote:
>
> ... really? Write a script to copy the user's files over on a schedule...?
>
> I can see where that might be an option for some people, but that's
> entirely not an option in this case. I'd have to schedule it to run every
> 5 seco
On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 11:22:17AM -0500, Keith Palmer wrote:
>
> OK, I'm sure this question has been asked a million times, but I havn't
> been able to find a straight answer that actually solves the problem, so
> here goes.
>
> We have a FreeBSD server with multiple users. I would rather each u
On Fri, Feb 06, 2009 at 08:50:46PM +0100, Pieter Donche wrote:
> FreeBSD 7.0: what is the most simple and quickest way to set up printing
> from the unix command line to a few HP printers (all Postscript enabled)
> that have an IP address (direct printer to IP address) ? (printing of
> unix text fi
On Fri, Feb 06, 2009 at 02:48:41PM -0500, Robert Huff wrote:
>
> Had a power outage recently; when trying to fsck several
> external hard drives I'm getting unexpected errors.
> For example:
>
> huff@>> fsck /dev/da3a
> ** /dev/da3a
> ** Last Mounted on /backup
> ** Phase 1 - Check Bl
On Wed, Feb 04, 2009 at 03:35:52PM +0100, t-u-t wrote:
> hi, i don't know if this is a freak question, but i was looking around to
> see if this is possible, and what the convention would be.
>
> if i have say one (or even two) single file/directories among many others,
> and i want to perform any
On Thu, Feb 05, 2009 at 12:10:30AM +1000, Da Rock wrote:
> Ok, I give up... wtf am I missing here?
The Xext library has the extension, but the server hasn't yet. It should
be harmless. I don't notice any problems with it. (7.1-RELEASE amd64
with Xorg 7.4)
> I can now confirm this problem in seve
On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 10:37:19AM -0800, drc...@yahoo.com wrote:
> I am using rsync and crontab to perform scheduled backups on FreeBSD AMD64
> Rel. 7.0
> I am following process described here for rsync :
> http://samba.anu.edu.au/rsync/examples.html
>
> I have a backup script's created for dail
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 04:30:54PM -0600, Martin McCormick wrote:
> Several months ago, I started using dar to backup a
> number of FreeBSD and Linux systems to one FreeBSD box. It
> worked fine once one got the syntax of the remote commands
> working, but then it all died when I moved it to
On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 04:18:26PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote:
> Folks,
>
> Is there a way to split a large pdf file into smaller [ say 1MB ]
> chunks? Or are there open source tools out there that i can
> build?
Ghostscript (when built with the pdfwrite driver) wi
On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 03:05:37PM -0200, Gonzalo Nemmi wrote:
> On Sunday 25 January 2009 2:25:55 pm Roland Smith wrote:
> > On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 11:06:32AM -0500, Ansar Mohammed wrote:
> > > Hello All,
> > >
> > > Does anyone know how I can rem
On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 11:06:32AM -0500, Ansar Mohammed wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> Does anyone know how I can remove the Kerberos 5 installation from FreeBSD?
Put 'WITHOUT_KERBEROS=true' in /etc/src.conf, and rebuild the system
from source, as documented in the Handbook.
Roland
--
R.F.Smith
On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 02:38:25PM +, LtCdData wrote:
> Hi
> I am having problems building ghostscript8-8.63 from ports with the below
> error
> : multiple definition of `gs_shared_init'
> ./obj/../soobj/gdevl256.o(.text+0x780): first defined here
> gmake[1]: *** [bin/../sobin/libgs.so.8.63] E
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 12:37:34PM -0800, prad wrote:
> any recommendations?
> i've tried dia and inkscape. the former seems to be good for flowcharts
> and general diagrams while the latter is great for all sorts of things,
> but i'd like to be able to do accurate geometric diagrams and was
> wond
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 08:30:56PM +0100, bsd wrote:
> I am using a FreeBSD server 7.0 as a Samba server and wanted to backup
> this server using Quantum DLT tape.
>
> I would need a simple tool that could be configured rapidl at that's
> stable enough to provide high security for the data.
>
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 01:44:48PM -0500, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
> > The mount point still has the same ownership (me) and permissions (755) as
> > before. Both /etc/devfs.rules, /etc/rc.conf and /etc/sysctl.conf have the
> > relevant lines for allowing user mounts, namely:
> >
> > /etc/sysctl.conf
On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 05:43:56PM -0500, Freebsd wrote:
>
> Sounds pretty interesting to me but i couldn't test right now. As nc
> is in /usr/bin how will i not face the same problem as with ssh? Can
> you point me to a freebsd live cd that has nc included?
The 7.0-RELEASE livefs CD that I h
On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 12:59:47PM -0500, Chuck Robey wrote:
> Your answer is perfectly correct, but a couple of reasons makes me
> want to point up a tried & true tool like rsync. It'll do what the
> man wants while using ssh to cover security, give really nice running
> feedback (if the user li
On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 12:34:26PM -0500, FreeBSD wrote:
> My question is how do you clone PC over SSH (it would be too much a PITA
> to open each case to plug the HD directly in the source PC).
Would it have to be ssh? Why not just use netcat [nc(1)] if both
machines are on your local network?
On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 10:57:38PM +0100, Marco wrote:
> First, thanks Roland.
>
> >On-disk encryption is not meant to secure access on a running machine.
> This is very true. And the reason for my thoughts on that topic.
>
> > I don't think there is something like that can be easily done. You'd
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 02:59:34PM +0100, Marco wrote:
> Hello List,
>
> i'am using the geom framework for quite a time. I'am happy about
> gbde/geli implementations(beside the race condition in geli) however, i
> wonder since some time, as the data may get
> exposed on a running server(as the par
On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 02:06:58AM +, RW wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Jan 2009 00:20:54 +0100
> Roland Smith wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 10:55:38PM +, RW wrote:
>
> > > Not just in reduced transfer rates, but also in terms of CPU cycles
> > > used
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 10:55:38PM +, RW wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Jan 2009 18:59:54 +0100
> Roland Smith wrote:
>
> > Geli is
> > convenient and seems to work well. On modern machines the performance
> > penalty is slight. It supports well-regarded encryption algorithm
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 07:03:02PM +0100, Zbigniew Szalbot wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I am now full into planning the 7.0-RELEASE to 7.1-RELEASE upgrade. I
> know that at the end of the day it will also mean upgrading all ports
> (portupgrade -af).
Not necessarily. Upgrading all ports is only mandat
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 12:23:09PM -0500, Johann Hasselbach wrote:
> I read the "encrypting disk partitions" section of the Handbook. What
> is the preferred method nowdays, geli or gbde?
Geli seems to be the preferred method these days. It is also what I use
to encrypt my /home. It works without
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 09:25:10AM -0500, Grant Peel wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Is there a port that emulates Adobe Flash? i.e. Adobe's download site
> says 'Platform not supported' is there a port or package thats can be
> used to view Flash content in Firefox?
You could try graphics/gnash
Roland
-
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 02:44:10PM +0100, Polytropon wrote:
> On Mon, 12 Jan 2009 19:59:33 -0500, Jason Lenthe wrote:
> > The problem [with CUPS] was that certain other software (gtk+ and gnome as
> > I recall)
> > expected /usr/bin/lpr to be the CUPS lpr (the CUPS port normally
> > installs lpr
On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 12:54:24PM -0500, Grant Peel wrote:
> 1. I have been searching for a iTunes client. i.e. a player that I can
> play my iTunes on. Does such a thing exist?
There are lots of players capabable of playing mp3 in
/usr/ports/multimedia/, e.g. audacious, amarok, xmms2, xmms (o
On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 08:08:16PM -0500, William Gordon Rutherdale wrote:
> I'm afraid it's gone from bad to worse.
>
> The 7.1 system may have recognised the ethernet adapter, but it seemed
> to fail writing to the hard drive.
>
> I got this during installation:
>
>Progres
On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 06:17:35PM -0500, William Gordon Rutherdale wrote:
> Well isn't that just great.
>
> I'm using the amd64 version, don't know if this makes a difference.
It shouldn't really. AFAIK the code for the network interface drivers is
architecture independant. On amd64 I also had s
On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 08:11:00PM -0500, William Gordon Rutherdale wrote:
> I have to use paper-sneakernet because
> - no network connectivity yet
> - tried plugging in a memory stick; it flashed but nothing showed up
> with the 'mount' command
>
> Here are the last two entries from the 'pciconf
On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 07:39:05AM -0500, William Gordon Rutherdale wrote:
> Is there an easy way to tell whether the new 7.1 release will officially
> support my hardware? I looked at this url:
> http://www.freebsd.org/releases/7.1R/relnotes.html#PROC
Look at this manual page for the re(4) dr
On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 08:11:00PM -0500, William Gordon Rutherdale wrote:
> I have to use paper-sneakernet because
> - no network connectivity yet
> - tried plugging in a memory stick; it flashed but nothing showed up
> with the 'mount' command
It won't mount automatically, unless you have the a
On Fri, Jan 09, 2009 at 04:05:20PM -0800, Rem P Roberti wrote:
> Roland Smith wrote:
> > When using the built-in mount_ntfs you should really mount read-only.
> > Maybe using the options 'ro' and 'late' will help.
> I changed the fstab options to 'ro&#
On Fri, Jan 09, 2009 at 01:43:45PM -0800, Rem P Roberti wrote:
> Question 1)
>
> I have this alias that allows me to mount my windoze drive at /c:
>
> alias mdc='mount_ntfs /dev/ad1s1 /c'
>
> It works fine. I thought that I could automate the process further by
> mounting /c at boot-up time, s
On Fri, Jan 09, 2009 at 12:28:46AM +0100, Polytropon wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'd like to ask a two-stage question:
>
> 1. Is it possible to recover files that have been deleted?
Sure. You just restore them from backups. (Sorry, couldn't resist. :-)
If you don't have backups it might be possible, if th
On Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 01:51:40PM -0500, Robert Huff wrote:
>
> Is there a good guide anywhere to writing 64-bit-clean code?
> Something that's thorough but understandable, possibly with examples
> of the trickier bits.
Do not assume that the size of a void* equals the size of an integer a
On Fri, Jan 02, 2009 at 01:42:38PM -0500, Adam K Kirchhoff wrote:
> On Friday 02 January 2009 13:32:57 Ewald Jenisch wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've got a PC (Dell) that came with a Radeon HD 2400 XT (RV610 chipset).
> >
> > Afaik there isn't 3D support yet with this card, so my primary goal is
> > to
On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 12:51:31PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 09:16:23PM +0100, Roland Smith wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 11:31:14AM -0800, Gary Kline wrote:
> > > The problem is that there are many, _many_ embedded
> > > "http://w
On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 11:31:14AM -0800, Gary Kline wrote:
> The problem is that there are many, _many_ embedded
> "http://whatever> Site in my hundreds, or
> thousands, or files. I only want to delete the
> "http://" lines, _not_ the other Href links.
>
> Which wo
On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 12:57:20PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 09:00:35AM -0900, Mel wrote:
> > On Sunday 28 December 2008 00:35:56 Alain G. Fabry wrote:
[snip]
> > This is a result of libmtp update. Either don't use libmtp, downgrade it to
> > previous version 0.2.6 or add
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 04:31:56PM -0800, Nerius Landys wrote:
> Thank you all for your suggestions. This will be a project for me
> over the holidays. I decided to go the standalone wireless router
> approach.
That's probably the easiest way.
> I already have. Also I don't know too much about
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 01:49:44PM -0800, Nerius Landys wrote:
> I have a PC with FreeBSD set up as a router (NAT). The PC has several
> network cards and I'm grouping the internal-facing network cards as a
> bridge (promiscuous mode for the interfaces). Everything works well.
>
> Now I'd like to
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 11:29:37AM -0800, Kurt Buff wrote:
> I'm visiting various web sites, and having a stupid little issue which
> is really annoying.
>
> FreeBSD 7.1-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 7.1-PRERELEASE #4: Sun Dec 14 22:08:22
> PST 2008 root@:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64
Same here.
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 09:39:17AM +0100, Alain BATARD wrote:
> I am M. Alain BATARD and i work in a formation center.
> For my Unix course i use Freebsd (V 7), we recently change our computers for
> laptops (Compaq 6820s) these computers are equipped with integrated video :
> ATI Mobility Radeon X
On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 10:31:16AM +0300, Gennady Kudryashoff wrote:
> Hello, all!
>
> I have Asus X51RL laptop with FreeBSD 7.1-RC1 installed.
> There were no troubles with GENERIC kernel, but when I've compiled custom
> kernel, rl ethernet driver tells to the console a lot of errors:
>
> rl0:
On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 04:34:17PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
> >>
> >> it may be problem with autoconfiguration of speed and half/full duplex.
> >> try setting it manually on one or both sides.
> >
> > Both were showing 100baseTX full-duplex on autoselect. Setting both
> > manually with 'ifconf
On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 03:45:35PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
> > Transferring files from my desktop to my laptop with rsync (over a
> > point-to-point netowork connection) is extremely slow, maxing out at
> > around 50 kB/s and often dropping to 0. Both systems show hardly any
> > activity. Is
Transferring files from my desktop to my laptop with rsync (over a
point-to-point netowork connection) is extremely slow, maxing out at
around 50 kB/s and often dropping to 0. Both systems show hardly any
activity. Is this normal for rsync running over a network? There is a
rsync daemon running on
On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 01:24:09PM -0600, Kevin Monceaux wrote:
> FreeBSD Fans,
>
> I think I've just about talked myself into coming back for another try.
> First, to ZFS or not to ZFS, that is the question. While I like some of
> the features ZFS has to offer, I realize it may be overkill fo
On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 08:23:09PM -0500, Robert Huff wrote:
>
> Roland Smith writes:
>
> > > pdftotext fail on the large [32MB] file I've got. Is there any
> > > other way I can translate this huge textfile to ascii or html or
> > > text?
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On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 03:14:43PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote:
> pdftotext fail on the large [32MB] file I've got. Is there any
> other way I can translate this huge textfile to ascii or html or
> text?
Please define "fail" in this context? I've used pdftotxt on documents
exceeding
On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 11:26:51PM -0800, Yuri wrote:
> I am trying to copy an audio CD.
>
> First I've ran:
> dd if=/dev/acd0tN of=track-N.cdr bs=2352
> for every track. This gets raw track files.
It is better to use cdparanoia (from the audio/cdparanoia port), since
it outputs WAV files. It als
On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 07:11:56PM -0800, Rommel Tan wrote:
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> Dear Sir/Madam:
> Pleasant day!
> First of all, sorry if this enquiry shouldn’t be directed to you,
> please help me direct to the right person.
The questions mailing list is OK.
> Few months ago
On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 12:49:37PM -0800, Chris Maness wrote:
> >> Would there be a major performance gain with amd64 over that of the i386
> >> build on a Xeon Quad Core?
> >>
> >
> > It will depend on your workload. If your machines were strapped fo
> > address space on i386, switching to a
On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 11:37:25AM -0800, Chris Maness wrote:
> Wojciech Puchar wrote:
> >> Since a Xeon Quad Core is a 64bit processor, would it work ok with
> >> FreeBSD? Or would the adm64 release be better for that chip?
> >
> > don't be suggested by "amd" in port name. it's for AMD64-compatib
On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 01:43:14PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote:
>
> is there a push button way of turning an odt file or plain ascii file
> into HTML using openoffice?
For converting plain text you could use this: http://txt2html.sourceforge.net/
Roland
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On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 10:49:44AM -0600, Andrew Gould wrote:
> Time to buy a new printer. I don't print much from FreeBSD; but the need
> occasionally arises. Most of my printing is done while using Mac OS X. The
> Epson Artisan 800 is looking awfully nice; but it's not in the Linux
> printing
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 12:53:02PM -0500, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
> Roland Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 05:49:04PM +0200, Yony Yossef wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I'm running cvsup -g -L 2 cvs-supfile with all kinds
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 05:49:04PM +0200, Yony Yossef wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm running cvsup -g -L 2 cvs-supfile with all kinds of host names
> from this list:
>
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/cvsup.html#HANDBOOK-MIRRORS-CHAPTER-SGML-MIRRORS-IL-CVSUP
>
> I get a Connection refused error.
>
>
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 02:01:53PM +0200, Ott Köstner wrote:
> Manolis Kiagias wrote:
>
> > I don't think it is a matter of days, we have not even reached RC
> > status yet on 7.1
> > On a production server you will probably wish to go with
> > 7.0-RELEASE-p5. It would be trivial to upgrade to
On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 01:47:14PM +0100, Fabian Keil wrote:
> On Sat, 15 Nov 2008 13:37:26 +0100, Roland Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 12:46:03AM -0800, Gary Kline wrote:
> > >
> > > Do any of you guys know why the DV
On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 12:46:03AM -0800, Gary Kline wrote:
>
> Do any of you guys know why the DVD version of HIGH NOON won't play on
> my
> computers? I've tried everything I can think of. Zero. I watched the
> *original* in the theater (I think); then have watched the tap
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