Re: OT: SVN checkout checksumming

2009-02-06 Thread cpghost
he signature of the NUMBER.sha256 files would be trivial. This doesn't solve the problem entirely, but it would alleviate it somewhat (it's easier to get the GnuPG Public Key *once* over a secure channel when you have access to it, e.g. when traveling abroa

Re: Could we get rid of the extra blank line in the MOTD?

2009-02-04 Thread cpghost
[1] http://ascii-table.com/ansi-escape-sequences-vt-100.php -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: can i split a pdf file?

2009-01-26 Thread cpghost
the PDF by using the program 'pdfimages' (part of the graphics/xpdf port); and look at them individually with an image processor (Gimp etc...). Then run an OCR program on those images. Try graphics/gocr for example. But it would still be tedious, to say the least. > At least t

Re: make -jN build with portmaster

2009-01-26 Thread cpghost
ion smallish ports could come later when maintainers have some time to follow up, but they are not really all that critical. Memory may fail me, but wasn't there a GSoC project to parallelize the ports infrastructure? Or was that about building many different ports simultaneously instead of one p

Re: can i split a pdf file?

2009-01-25 Thread cpghost
wer of your desktop and use it to: > > nice tool. thanks Thanks. Though I prefer your solution (via mpage). pdftk looks a bit too heavy for such a simple task. ;-) Cheers, -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ ___ freebsd-

Re: can i split a pdf file?

2009-01-25 Thread cpghost
://www.accesspdf.com/pdftk/ There are also other less heavy-weight programs to extract pages and page-ranges from a PDF and PostScript file... -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing li

Re: make -jN build with portmaster

2009-01-25 Thread cpghost
On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 05:22:04PM -0500, Josh Carroll wrote: > On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 4:44 PM, cpghost wrote: > > To build ports in parallel on a 4 core machine, I usually > > do this manually: > > > > # cd /usr/ports/some/port > > # make configure &&

make -jN build with portmaster

2009-01-25 Thread cpghost
n't clean up some/port/work before building, thus using the manual parallel step before. So, how can portmaster run 'make -jN build' instead of simple 'make build'? (I know about portmaster's -m option, but passing -jN to it won't work, as it would also try to

Re: how to create a DVD backup filesystem?

2009-01-25 Thread cpghost
checking > > umount /mnt > mdconfig -d -u 0 > > (assumed you don't use other md devices that moment, if so, device number > will not be md0) Right. But you can do it even faster, since our bsdtar is able to read (most) iso966

Re: how to create a DVD backup filesystem?

2009-01-24 Thread cpghost
o To burn to a DVD, use growisofs, using something like this: # growisofs -dvd-compat -speed=8 -Z /dev/cd0=cdr.iso Regards, -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.

Re: Registry corrupt?

2009-01-23 Thread cpghost
nearly all your existing ports are unusable and need to be recompiled against libintl.so.8. Since misc/compat6x doesn't contain libintl.so.[765] (it's not a system library), you'd still be out of luck. -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/

Re: Registry corrupt?

2009-01-23 Thread cpghost
065c000) libc.so.7 => /lib/libc.so.7 (0x80076c000) If it required libc.so.6 instead of libc.so.7, and there's no libc.so.6 anymore after the upgrade, you'll need to recompile zip. -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/

Re: how to create a DVD backup filesystem?

2009-01-23 Thread cpghost
ally represented by a .iso file. > > > So if I use my space in /usr/tmp, would I use the cmd given by > cpghost: > > % mkisoft -R -J -o cdr.iso /usr/tmp/cdr/ ? If this wouldn't > % create the RockRidge extension, what then? The -R (or -r

Re: how to create a DVD backup filesystem?

2009-01-23 Thread cpghost
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 10:59:49PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: > On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 02:40:01AM +0100, cpghost wrote: > > Perhaps there is something like that, but I do it manually like this: > > > > * mkdir cdr/ > > * copy approx 3.0 to 3.1 GB worth of files into cd

Re: how to create a DVD backup filesystem?

2009-01-22 Thread cpghost
ed in K3B or some other fancy GUI front-ends, or it may not: I'm not familiar with the GUI tools. > tia, > > gary Regards, -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mail

Re: Foiling MITM attacks on source and ports trees

2009-01-13 Thread cpghost
On Fri, Jan 02, 2009 at 05:44:12PM +0100, cpghost wrote: > Any idea? Could this be implemented as a plugin to Subversion (since > it must access previous revisions of files and previously computed > digests)? Given read-only access to the repository, a set of simple > Python sc

Re: Suggestion

2009-01-04 Thread cpghost
> for professionals. But the inner perfectionist in me HAD to send > this ridiculous email in hopes to see a change in v 7.1 RTM. If > this isn't the right group, and you know how to get in touch with > the people who can help, I would greatly appreciate it. Chee

Re: Foiling MITM attacks on source and ports trees

2009-01-03 Thread cpghost
t obtained through secure channel, unpack the list, and compare the local checksums with the checksums on the list. > Cheers, > > Matthew > > [*] Buying a high security cert from the likes of Verisign or OpenSRS would > set you back about ?800 p.a. and it would pr

Re: Foiling MITM attacks on source and ports trees

2009-01-03 Thread cpghost
s replication all over the net, fingerprint in books etc...). -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: Foiling MITM attacks on source and ports trees

2009-01-02 Thread cpghost
t doesn't matter if they're compelled by law to do it, or if they or some interloper did it illegally). It's the matter of being confident that what you've downloaded was actually also what you've asked for. ;) -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ __

Re: X11 - radeon or radeonhd? (ATI Radeon HD 2400 XT)

2009-01-02 Thread cpghost
ee support for DRI and Xv and even 3D in RV780 chipsets soon, esp. now that AMD has finally decided to release the RV600/700 specs to the public: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=amd_r600_oss_3d&num=1 -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ __

Re: Foiling MITM attacks on source and ports trees

2009-01-02 Thread cpghost
ch) with the integrity of the cvsup mirrors themselves (I trust cvsup server admins to take proper precautions against MITM between themselves and the master server, right guys?), but with the integrity of the TCP connection of random clients to those mirrors. That's the weakest link in the securi

Re: Foiling MITM attacks on source and ports trees

2009-01-02 Thread cpghost
On Fri, Jan 02, 2009 at 05:30:12PM +, Vincent Hoffman wrote: > cpghost wrote: > > Hello, > > > > with MITM attacks [1] on the rise, I'm concerned about the integrity > > of local /usr/src, /usr/doc, and /usr/ports trees fetched through csup > > (and p

Re: Foiling MITM attacks on source and ports trees

2009-01-02 Thread cpghost
On Fri, Jan 02, 2009 at 11:26:45AM -0600, Matt wrote: > On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 10:44 AM, cpghost wrote: > > Hello, > > > > with MITM attacks [1] on the rise, I'm concerned about the integrity > > of local /usr/src, /usr/doc, and /usr/ports trees fetched through csu

Foiling MITM attacks on source and ports trees

2009-01-02 Thread cpghost
of files and previously computed digests)? Given read-only access to the repository, a set of simple Python scripts or C/C++ programs could easily implement the basic functionality and cache the results for fast retrieval by other scripts. But how well will all this scale? Thanks, -cpghost.

Re: May I load DLL same as SO in FreeBSD?

2008-12-23 Thread cpghost
ve an NTlator comparable to the linuxulator. Of course, there's always /usr/ports/emulators/wine, which has the limited ability to load DLLs. Regards, -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebs

Re: Is FreeBSD subject to the EAR ?

2008-12-19 Thread cpghost
eBSD Foundation can help providing contact to a lawyer which is familiar with FreeBSD and US export regulations? http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/ > Best regards, > > K.Okisaka > Exprt Control Department, > Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation Kind regards, -cpghost. -- Cordula

Re: GPL version 4

2008-12-16 Thread cpghost
stick to GPLv2 GNU tools in the base system (ports has more recent versions of course) and tries to avoid GPLv3 for now. Yet another license right now would only complicate matters even more. ;-) Regards, -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/

Re: named and ntpd start order in rc.d

2008-12-05 Thread cpghost
tarting until a specific subset is ready (say: networking fully up, and named ready to reply)? Perhaps some keyword or class to add to a startup script would be nice to have! Thanks, --cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ ___ free

Re: Official FreeBSD Forums

2008-11-17 Thread cpghost
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 04:23:55PM -0600, Steven Susbauer wrote: > cpghost wrote: > > On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 09:04:28AM -0700, Brad Davis wrote: > >> You can register and start using our new service here: > >> > >> http://forums.FreeBSD.org > > >

Re: Official FreeBSD Forums

2008-11-17 Thread cpghost
archive them locally, as we do now with the mailing lists. Please give it a thought. Thanks, -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-quest

Re: "High Noonn" DVD??

2008-11-15 Thread cpghost
gt; is important to you, you should considering purchasing a drive that can > be flashed with a "hacked" firmware. Check out for RPC1 modded firmwares. http://forum.rpc1.org/portal.php Of course, you'll void your drive's warranty, if something

Re: mdconfig(8) with offset? Or: resizing a NTFS qemu image

2008-11-15 Thread cpghost
On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 01:46:43AM +0100, cpghost wrote: > Hello, > > I'm trying to extend a ntfs filesystem in a qemu raw image, by > following the instructions here: > > http://qemu-forum.ipi.fi/viewtopic.php?p=12362 > > Of course, this requires sysutils/nt

mdconfig(8) with offset? Or: resizing a NTFS qemu image

2008-11-14 Thread cpghost
le to mdconfig a file, but starting from a specific offset? (Of course, taking the image file apart, mdconfig one of its fragments, then putting it back together could be a hackish work-around (?), but it would be nice if mdconfig were able to map a partial file directly.) Thanks, -cpghost. -- Cordula&

Re: Release schedules

2008-11-12 Thread cpghost
t the PRERELEASE phase is so long: in this time, more bugs are being fixed that would have normally been lingering in the pr database. Quality is much more important than deadlines, IMHO; and those lenghty code freeze phases are a blessing since they help stabilize

Re: what is your programming language on freebsd?

2008-11-06 Thread cpghost
o optimize CPU bottlenecks or call into / link against other compiled code. Hybrid systems are usually very fast to set up, yet don't significantly sacrifice speed. Ever used numpy, scipy etc. with optimized C and FORTRAN libraries (ATLAS, FFTW3 etc.) in Python for big numeric computations? W

Re: Watching /var/log/pflog grow

2008-11-04 Thread cpghost
On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 05:15:57PM -0800, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 08:13:54PM +0100, cpghost wrote: > > How can I watch /var/log/pflog grow with tcpdump, "tail -f" style? > > > > This won't work: > > $ tail -f /var/log/pflog

Re: Watching /var/log/pflog grow

2008-11-04 Thread cpghost
On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 09:22:42PM -0500, Sahil Tandon wrote: > cpghost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > How can I watch /var/log/pflog grow with tcpdump, "tail -f" style? > > > > This won't work: > > $ tail -f /var/log/pflog | tcpdump -n -s 1

Re: Watching /var/log/pflog grow

2008-11-04 Thread cpghost
On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 07:20:42PM +, Matthew Seaman wrote: > cpghost wrote: > > How can I watch /var/log/pflog grow with tcpdump, "tail -f" style? > > > > This won't work: > > $ tail -f /var/log/pflog | tcpdump -n -s 116 -r - > >

Watching /var/log/pflog grow

2008-11-04 Thread cpghost
pflog would be incomplete, because some packets would have been snatched away from pflog0 by tcpdump, before pflogd ever got a chance to read them out. Is there a way to watch /var/log/pflog grow, while still making sure that pflogd logs EVERY packet that appears on the pflog0 interfa

Re: Extract Songs from DVD

2008-10-24 Thread cpghost
rite to DVD-RAM and to copy Solaris boot CD's. - scgcheck (checks and validates the ABI of libscg) - rscsi (daemon providing access to local SCSI-devices over the network) WWW: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/old/private/cdrecord.html Regards, -cpghost. -- Cord

Re: stupid xfce clock question

2008-10-07 Thread cpghost
n't depend on the specifics of the window manager, and can still be customized with multiple flags like -fn, -fg, -bg, -geometry, -strftime etc... Regards, -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ ___ freebsd-questions@fr

Re: Realtek 8111C?

2008-10-01 Thread cpghost
prefetchable) Expansion ROM at feaf [disabled] Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 3 Capabilities: [50] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit+ Queue=0/1 Enable- Capabilities: [70] Express Endpoint, MSI 01

Re: which gray is best for print?

2008-09-06 Thread cpghost
that of the default theme would usually still be (sadly IMHO, luckily in most other peoples' mind) pure white background... so it's still 'user-specific CSS' for new websites. -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ ___

Re: which gray is best for print?

2008-09-06 Thread cpghost
text into > manageble chunks (two, three paragrahs at most) and link them > appropriately. But do also provide a 1-page version with a sensible print medium CSS (or even a nicely formatted PDF), so that users can create a hard copy version with a minimun of fuss and

Re: Realtek RTL8111C and re(4) driver

2008-08-24 Thread cpghost
On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 06:02:13PM -0600, Andrew Falanga wrote: > cpghost wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I'm about to get an MSI K9A2GM-FIH mobo with an on-board Realtek > > RTL8111C GigE adapter (I've picked that because the on-board Radeon HD > > 3200 RS780

Re: Realtek RTL8111C and re(4) driver

2008-08-24 Thread cpghost
On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 12:58:19AM +0200, Popof Popof wrote: > 2008/8/24 cpghost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Hello, >> >> I'm about to get an MSI K9A2GM-FIH mobo with an on-board Realtek >> RTL8111C GigE adapter (I've picked that because the on-board Radeon H

Realtek RTL8111C and re(4) driver

2008-08-24 Thread cpghost
a NIC if at all possible. Thanks, -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Questions?

2008-08-15 Thread cpghost
html > Do you have any license for any application or even himself? The FreeBSD License for FreeBSD itself. Every third party application uses their own license (BSD, GPL, etc.). http://www.freebsd.org/copyright/ > Thank you! -cpghost. -- Cordula

Re: postgres: [2-1] FATAL: the database is starting up

2008-08-14 Thread cpghost
L message. It still works flawlessly nonetheless. If there are no other FATAL messages, this one may not be a reason for concern. You may want to read this as well: http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2007-12/msg01339.php Regards, -cpghost. --

Re: Max. number of opened files, efficiency

2008-08-13 Thread cpghost
> stop = time.time() > print "created %s files/second" % ( int(N/(stop-start)) ) > > On my computer this program prints "3814 files/second" for N=1000, and > "1561 files/second" for N=1. > > Thanks, > >Laszlo Regards, -cpghost. --

Re: Auto-saving distfiles on freebsd

2008-07-23 Thread cpghost
On Wed, 23 Jul 2008 18:06:36 +0200 Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > cpghost wrote: > > On Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:51:10 +0200 > > Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> cpghost wrote: > >>> On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 11:47:04PM

Re: Auto-saving distfiles on freebsd

2008-07-23 Thread cpghost
On Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:51:10 +0200 Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > cpghost wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 11:47:04PM -0700, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > >> Another problem with ports is that all of them like pulling the > >> original source from t

Auto-saving distfiles on freebsd (was: FreeBSD for webserver?)

2008-07-23 Thread cpghost
idth), but should the original distfile disappear, it would be still available on freebsd. -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questi

Re: disk encryption; hidden containers

2008-07-22 Thread cpghost
filled > > with random numbers. > > > why hiding the ENCRYPTED partition at all? what's a problem someone else > will know that it exist, being unable to read what's inside. It depends where you live. In some places out there, having encrypted data alone is already suspicious

Re: disk encryption; hidden containers

2008-07-22 Thread cpghost
to look out for regions on the partition with very high entropy, and to proceed by elimination (e.g. by trying to decompress files or looking for specific markers in, say, MPEG files and what not). Hiding encrypted contents is not as easy as it may seem... -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. h

Re: [OT] Why behaves my application different when run in gdb

2008-07-06 Thread cpghost
n you run under gdb, the debugger dynamically inserts special instructions into the program so you can single-step through it. This tends to slightly modify the memory layout of your program, and you'll be jumping back to some other address. -cpghost. --

Re: cant su to root

2008-07-01 Thread cpghost
default only users in the ``wheel'' group can switch to UID 0 (``root''). This group requirement may be changed by modifying the ``pam_group'' section of /etc/pam.d/su. See pam_group(8) for details on how to modify this setting. -cpghost. -- Cordula's We

Re: Too Much Context Switching?

2008-06-30 Thread cpghost
se of multiple CPUs in Zope. Here's a small HOWTO. It's for gentoo, but easily adaptable to FreeBSD: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_ZEO/Zope_and_Plone Good luck optimizing the Beast! ;-) > Alex Kirk -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ _

Re: FreeBSD based web hosting?

2008-06-18 Thread cpghost
NIC.COM: http://www.kionic.com/ but only for simple web hosting (no jails). They may offer jails too... Service is excellent so far. ;) Regards, -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http:/

Re: Flashplugin

2008-06-16 Thread cpghost
. Nothing against Flash: those who want to provide it or view it, nice! But any respectable site ought to provide a viable alternative to an important class of users: it's not just us FreeBSD users, it's far, FAR more than that! -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/

Re: FreeBSD and User Security

2008-06-11 Thread cpghost
to detect once inserted, and so the focus would > have to be entirely on prevention. > > Again, these are just my first thoughts after looking at this very > briefly. The people who come up with this stuff and do proper > analysis are both smarter and more knowledgeable than I am.

Re: Is FreeBSD suitable for my thinkpad T61 ?

2008-06-11 Thread cpghost
may also be quite useful: http://www.scipy.org/ http://code.google.com/p/sympy/ http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/ If you prefer an integrated environment, try: http://sagemath.org/ -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.

Re: Whine when EHCI controller enabled in BIOS

2008-06-09 Thread cpghost
ecialist and it may be an urban legend, but from what I gathered, some coils could exhibit the behavior of generating those high-pitched whines when exposed to certain frequencies. -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ ___

Re: Need to build a new mail server

2008-05-30 Thread cpghost
has proved both dead-easy to configure and able to withstand many waves of serious DDoS attacks by rate-limiting itself. Its anti-spam features, if used right, are also quite effective. I've used sendmail extensively in the past, and that was not bad either, though a little tough to confi

Re: Stumped:: web HTML. Caution, may be OT.

2008-05-29 Thread cpghost
plone3 as is Silva: /usr/ports/www/zope-silva But be forewarned: both are resource hogs and need a reasonable fast server to run smoothly if you've got a lot of traffic; and finding a good Zope-provider may prove a little more difficult than the usual LAMP-based el-cheapo web hostin

Re: Dowloading entire source code

2008-05-11 Thread cpghost
area) as described in the Handbook (have a look at /usr/src/UPDATING, near the end), and move the compiled binaries from /usr/obj to where they belong (again: see the Handbook). > regards, > Onkar -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ ___

Re: [SSHd] Increasing wait time?

2008-05-06 Thread cpghost
On Tue, 06 May 2008 19:11:45 +0200 Gilles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there a way to configure SSHd, so that the wait time between login > attempts increases after X failed tries? It shouldn't be too hard to patch /usr/src/crypto/openssh/sshd.c:server_accept_loop() by adding code for per-

Re: Problem with reconnecting ppp (ppp -ddial isp)

2008-04-28 Thread cpghost
XX" set link max-redial 0 set link mtu 1460 set link mru 1460 set link keep-alive 10 60 set link disable acfcomp set link disable protocomp set pppoe iface sis0 set pppoe service "" set log +echo open

Re: Where to have my .so files install?

2008-04-18 Thread cpghost
x27;t put your own stuff in /lib or /usr/lib, since this is used by FreeBSD's userland itself. On FreeBSD, third party stuff goes into /usr/local/{lib,bin,etc,...}. See hier(7). As to plugins: if you've got many of them, it's better to group them in a subdirectory of /usr/

Re: [SSHd] Limiting access from authorized IP's

2008-04-18 Thread cpghost
passively for requests from "clients". "Servers" run on "hosts", regardless of the number of users on those hosts (ranging from 0 to very high). Obviously, the security implications vary considerably if you have to host many user accounts, esp.

Re: GELI encryption and HDD critical temperature

2008-02-21 Thread cpghost
it is no wonder that encrypted partitions tend to result in higher drive temps (and faster drive wear). Is there a way to measure the number of head seeks in near real-time to confirm or disprove this? > Grigorian -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ ___

Re: Via EDEN Chipset?

2008-02-15 Thread cpghost
awlessly here :) Did you perhaps have special flags in /etc/src.conf? You shouldn't have anything there hat would let gcc generate cmov instructions, because VIA C3 / EDENs don't support the cmov instruction set. -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/

Re: HTTP POST

2008-02-12 Thread cpghost
ing static content very efficiently, even for very high bandwidth sites. ;) Regards, -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: HTTP POST

2008-02-11 Thread cpghost
FC, but possibly didn't RTFM right. Regards, -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Recommendations for djvu and bittorrent

2008-02-10 Thread cpghost
e bittorrent ports, and you should be up and running. ;) > Thanks, > Bob Hall Regards, -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questio

Re: Three wishes of a wannabe developer

2008-02-09 Thread cpghost
Whether you go the Python or Ruby route is really a matter of taste: both routes do have interesting things to show and are definitely worth a try (or two). > Just my two cents. > > Brgds: John -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ __

Re: OT: www search engines

2008-02-06 Thread cpghost
SPs are NOT (yet?) required to save the payload itself; and may even be prohibited to do so under privacy / data protection statutes without special overriding court order. As an ISP, you should *really* check with a specialized lawyer and err on the side of caution. Laws can be tricky, wherev

Re: Fwd: This has begun to annoy me...

2008-02-01 Thread cpghost
o run the following command immediatly, without having to wait for the daemon to collect data: # smartctl -a /dev/ad6 and consider running a long test as well: # smartctl -t long /dev/ad6 followed by another "smartctl -a /dev/ad6" again once the test completes (the drive will tell

Re: restore(1) dumpfile to directory rather than filesystem -- possible? -- SOLVED

2008-01-29 Thread cpghost
tore the dump there: % mkdir /path/to/new/dir % cd /path/to/new/dir % restore -r -f /path/to/old/dumpfile -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/li

Re: No spam???

2008-01-15 Thread cpghost
ame for the others, which seem occasionally a little bit too eager/aggressive and accumulate way too many false positives. -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Low Level Language Suggestions: OT

2007-12-31 Thread cpghost
the Boost.Python C++ library. Give it a try, you won't regret it. Even if only while developping pure C/C++ code, it ain't bad to use a hybrid approach for unit testing, rapid prototyping etc. during development. Happy new year to all. -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula

Re: devel/boost -- where is tools/build/v2?

2007-12-15 Thread cpghost
run. Those are *not* copied over. A few html files are put in doc/, but not the real stuff (which belongs elsewhere, see 3.). 3. Those files are NOT doc files: they are needed by bjam. Their "right" place should be something like

devel/boost -- where is tools/build/v2?

2007-12-14 Thread cpghost
it? Thanks for any insight, -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Absolute FreeBSD

2007-12-14 Thread cpghost
torial beats a 350 pages book anytime; and a 350 pages book with the right mix of selected topics beats an 800+ pages "reference-style" all-rounder book as well, most of the time. -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ ___ freeb

Re: ls -l takes a forever to finish.

2007-12-13 Thread cpghost
what does "top" say? Is that process accumulating CPU time, or is it just sitting around waiting, waiting, waiting...? Are you using NFS or another file system where stat(2) is expensive? > Thanks > Mark > > > - Original Message - > From: "cpghost" &l

Re: When switching from console to X, mousebuffer gets pasted

2007-12-05 Thread cpghost
6 I've noticed this too but thought I had misconfigured something or that it was related to sysutils/screen from where I was switching back to X. Glad to see that others are affected by this as well; so it's really a bug. -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/

Re: [RFC/P] Port System Re-Engineering (Repost from -ports@)

2007-12-03 Thread cpghost
some slight tweaks here and there, but overall, it is very usable and I'm quite happy with it, despite its (unavoidable) shortcomings. Regards, -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing li

Re: smtp in inetd.conf

2007-12-02 Thread cpghost
o see what happens) The line should be commented out. Otherwise, inetd (if started) will try to grab port 25 and start qmail on it. AFAICT, it's commented out by default. > Thank you for info; > Jeff K Regards, -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ __

Re: ls -l takes a forever to finish.

2007-11-29 Thread cpghost
(line.split()[-1], line) for line in lines ] dsu.sort() return ''.join(tupl[1] for tupl in dsu) if __name__ == '__main__': import sys if len(sys.argv) < 2: print >>sys.stderr, "Usage:", sys.argv[0], "path" sys.exit(1) p

Re: ls -l takes a forever to finish.

2007-11-28 Thread cpghost
alls fts_open(), which itself calls fts_sort() from /usr/src/lib/libc/gen/fts.c, and that function calls qsort(3); so it's not entirely impossible... -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org maili

Re: Help for very bad perf for MySQL

2007-11-27 Thread cpghost
sary, i.e. check the index tables. If on the contrary the disks are quiet while the select runs, check if mysqld is accumulating CPU time (with top): if it is NOT, I'd guess it is some issue with the threading library, i.e. some threads are deadlocked and waiting. -cpghost. -- Cordula'

Re: Desktop printing, a request for your experiences

2007-11-26 Thread cpghost
erwise) I > would also be interested. Well, disregarding the problem of not being able to talk to my HP-1320 via USB (instead of parallel), all other problems are not FreeBSD-specific; they show up in Linux distros as well. Regards, -cpghost. -

Re: [OT] who wrote this

2007-11-25 Thread cpghost
patch to reword this page and have that discussed on the appropriate mailing list. questions@ is probably not the appropriate forum for that. Thank you, -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing lis

Re: How to reset a TCP connection

2007-11-13 Thread cpghost
purious TCP RST packets with a sniffer (and at first, the sniffer machine had also one of those buggy NICs, go figure!) So Comcast is doing it all over again? Shooting down connections from the middle? Crazy nasty folks over there! A short-term fix is to filter out TCP RST packets a

Re: OT: Beastie 3D-rendered

2007-11-12 Thread cpghost
reat if the author not only agreed to put the rendering under a permissive license, but also considered releasing and licensing the (graphics/povray?) source code too. I'd love to experiment a little bit with that! ;) Anyway, whatever comes out of it, kudos for the great find! :-))) -c

Re: New FreeBSD art?

2007-11-07 Thread cpghost
e "horned ball" sticker. But perhaps it's not so much the sticker, than them running RELENG_7 now while the others still run RELENG_6... but who knows for sure? ;) -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ ___ freebsd-que

Re: DNS and IP

2007-11-04 Thread cpghost
xample.com This header, alongside other HTTP headers is received on port 80 of your web server, and it's up to your web server to route that to the right virtual domain by serving the correct files... By the way, if you're using Lighty (lighttpd), you can host virtual domains

Re: pdf edit again.

2007-11-03 Thread cpghost
On Sat, 3 Nov 2007 17:54:53 -0800 Gary Kline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Nov 04, 2007 at 02:39:14AM +0100, cpghost wrote: > > On Sat, 3 Nov 2007 16:38:55 -0800 > > Gary Kline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > A couple weeks ago I skimmed th

Re: pdf edit again.

2007-11-03 Thread cpghost
into some bitmap format, and run some kind of OCR software on that. It's a slow, unreliable, error-prone and painful process though. Good luck! -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list ht

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