Skype freeze

2005-10-31 Thread gb

Hi all,

I installed the latest port of skype on my FreeBSD 6.0 laptop using 
linux_base 8. The program comes up without any problems until I type in 
my user info and press connect. then the whole OS freezes. The only 
thing left for me to do is to press the power button. I have never had a 
total freeze up on a FreeBSD or Linux machine (millions on windows) so 
this is a first :(


I looked in var/log/messages but nothing was recorded. How can I debug 
this?



thanks

alex
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Problem with more than one connection Win VPN of client through FreeBSD 4.6 + IPNAT + IPF to W2k VPN server

2002-10-27 Thread GB
Hi All!
Can you help in the below problem:
We have 4.6 FreeBSD box with IPF and IPNAT. FreeBSD has two Ethernet cards
(with real IP and with IP from internal private network). We have some
amount of Win98/W2K workstations in our office with IP from internal private
network. We need VPN connection from above workstations to external W2K VPN
server with real IP through IPNAT of FreeBSD box. But we can make only one
VPN connection. The Win workstation shows message that VPN server doesn't
answer if we try creating second VPN (I think that the IPNAT can't pass more
than one PPTP, maybe I am wrong). However maybe W2K server doesn't answer on
two or more MASQ VPN requests from the same server.
Can you explain above problem?
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Thank you in advance
With best regards
Gennady


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Thinkpad

2006-09-10 Thread gb

Hi all,

Got hold of an old IBM X21 Thinkpad. Anyone out there have any 
recommendations for a good kernel  config  or whatever to squeeze the 
most of  this  little fellow?



Thanks

George
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Re: Best laptop for Freebsd

2006-11-16 Thread gb

Thanks Guys,

I think that I might go with the Toshiba as unfortunately the Thinkpad 
seem a bit pricey (I can't stay of the booze any longer :)



cheers

g
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Re: Unsubscribe me please

2006-11-18 Thread gb

Clyde's Human Unit wrote:

Dear FreeBSD,

I have no idea how this has happened, but somehow I have been put on 
your mailing lists.


I do not use your products or service and it has no application for me.

I would appreciate it if you would remove me from your mailing list.

Sincerely,


Uh duh

and I thought that I had a drinking problem :)

no comment :) must be a Windows Media Edition user (or whatever it is 
called).


:)


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intel wireless 3945 driver situation :(

2006-12-03 Thread gb

Hi All,

My boss gave me a new laptop but it has the 3945 intel wireless card.
I know that this was not supported and there is only one experimental 
driver out there.
Any news on whether or not this thing will be supported. Anybody  get it 
to work?


thanks

G
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Re: wireless 3945 status?

2006-12-18 Thread gb

Hi all,

This would really interest me as well. I was forced to put linux on the 
laptop for the time being so that I could use the wireless. Even with 
that I had a small struggle. Is this Microsoft doing a old boys network 
with the hardware vendors, or is it just that the hardware vendors are 
too lazy to support open source? On another machine I had to fight with 
the bloody ATI video card. Does not seem fair, I am sure that there are 
more and more Freebsd and linux desktop users out there, why can't the 
vendors just give us a choice.


cheers

G
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mplayer-plugin firefox

2005-08-14 Thread gb
Dear all,

I have tried to build mplayer-plugin from the ports/www. My browser is
firefox so I did a make WITH_MOZILLA=firefox. I get an error in the
configuration phase error: Unable to find gecko sdk.

I am running 5.3

this is probably something simple and to do with paths. Any help would
be much appreciated.

gb
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camcorder

2005-09-19 Thread gb

In Relation to Ergard's question about video cameras.

I have a Samsung camcorder that came with its own windoze software to 
transfer video. I would like to do this in freebsd, anyone have any good 
links for instructions. I did read about trandering with DV but, and 
correct me if I am wrong, it seems that you need to have a firewire 
connection for this. I have only USB.


any help would be appreciated.

cheers

Oburk
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Re: SVR4 -- Linux compatibility

2002-09-19 Thread GB Clark

On Tue, 17 Sep 2002 23:44:13 +
"Weston M. Price" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hello,
>   I am trying to run a few applications, most notably Eclipse 2.0.1 and 
> Netscape7 (the FreeBSD port). Each time I try and start an app I get the 
> following error
> 
> ELF interpreter /compat/svr4/lib/ld-linux.so.2 not found
> 
> The library does exist just not where the application(s) are looking. Can 
> anyone give me a hint as to how the dynamic linker works with these types of 
> applications. The real confusion for me is the svr4 part, I am just not sure 
> why these applications are looking there. 
> 
> Thanks. 
> 
> Weston
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I had the same problems.  I ended up having to remove SVR4 compat from my system.  If 
you
unload the two modules (streams and svr4) then it will work.  Since I don't use the 
SVR4 stuff,
I have not taken a look further.  Looks like a launcher problem, but it has been years 
since I looked
at that stuff and well...:(
 
GB

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Re: MySQL or Postgresql on FreeBSD, have I just started a holy war?

2002-10-02 Thread GB Clark

Hello,

I'm a PostgreSQL person so take all my comments with that in mind.

On Wed, 2 Oct 2002 03:06:37 -0700
Mailing Lists <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I've just been getting ready to start serious MySQL development on a 
> Dual Processor FreeBSD box and I stumbled across the following blog 
> entry on the web today which has me thinking:
> 
> http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/000203.html#000203
> 
> The coles notes version is that the author, who seems to have some 
> chops in both MySQL and FreeBSD (looks like he's a sysadmin at Yahoo, 
> hi if you're out there Jeremy), has come across some issues with 
> threading and smp support while using MySQL & FreeBSD. Now, of course, 
> he doesn't mention is the machines where these issues come up are super 
> high traffic or not, so this may be all moot if you're not running say, 
> Yahoo!

For the kind of traffic your talking about, either system (MySQL or PostgreSQL) 
would work just fine.

> I'm still a babe in the woods when it comes to MySQL, but I'm 
> redeveloping several databases that I did some time ago in a 
> proprietary database solution (4D) and I'll be damned if I'm going to 
> redo these things again any time soon, so I'd like to know that I've 
> made the right choice of DB & Platform. I've been really happy with 4D 
> overall, but need to have more connectivity options, hence the move.

Everything being about equal at this point for you, look at the available
features.  Do you use subselects, procedures, triggers, FK or transactions?

Yes, I know that the latest development versions of MySQL support FK and
transactions, but in this case you loose hot backups (ie when the server is up)
unless your willing to pay for the util.
 
> There must be a ton of people running MySQL on FreeBSD, so my first 
> question is, are the issues raised here ones likely to occur on a low 
> to medium volume system? I'm doing about 100,000 queries a day on our 
> current db server from a variety of websites and would expect this 
> volume to double or triple in the next year.

100,000 to 400,000 trans a day should be nothing to any decent database.  
This is only about 1 to 4 transactions a second.  I've handled this kind of 
load using DBM files with perl.

> My FreeBSD Box is currently DP PIII 500's, but I'll be upgrading it to 
> Ghz PIII's before deployment with a gig of RAM, more if needed. My 
> current DB server is actually an iMac, it's a long story, with a 400Mhz 
> G3 and 512 mb RAM running OS X 10.2 and keeping up quite nicely, so I 
> don't imagine the hardware itself will be a limiting factor.
> 
> My second question is, if it looks like this will potentially be an 
> issue, how does Postgresql perform on FreeBSD. I could use it just as 
> easily as MySQL and, from what I've heard, it's a little beefier in 
> some aspects. With regards to threading issues, am I likely to be 
> happier with Postgresql in the long term?

PostgreSQL is non-threaded so that is a moot point.

PostgreSQL works quite well on FreeBSD under heavy load.  I've got a
system (1,000,000+ rows) that takes 3 to 10 connections a second without
a sweat running on a PIII 800 1000MB SCSI system.  Mind you, this is mostly
insert transactions.

> Our current DB server runs for _MONTHS_ at a time without me even 
> having to look at it, so reliability is the key factor in my decision 
> process. Moving away from FreeBSD is not an option I'd like to consider 
> at the moment, as I'm quite happy with it so far, so I'd like to pick 
> the db that likes FreeBSD the best.

I've got automatic monitoring on my high load system to watch my diskspace
and with some of my scripts to delete old data (it monitors a set of web sites
in real time), I forget it's there until the next time someone requests a new
feature.

> Sorry if I just started a holy war, I promise not to ask about Postfix 
> v Qmail! :-)
> Tom Wiebe
> 
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Hopefully it helps.

GB

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Re: X Remotely on a Win2k Box

2002-11-13 Thread GB Clark
On Tue, 12 Nov 2002 22:00:02 -0700
Aaron J Siegel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hello
> I do not believe you can run kde remotely, you can run kde applications,
> from the ssh shell
> $ xhost (remote system) (this is not secure xauth is more secure)
> $ kmail -display system:0&
> will display kmail on your system. 
> 
> If you want the entire kde environment you will want to use VNC this is 
> available in the port collection (net/vnc) and at the following link for the 
> windows client.
> 
> http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/

If KDE can not be used on a remote X server, then it's broken.  It looks like
all he wants is to use the 2k box as a X terminal.  X was designed to do this.

VNC is NOT the way to go with this, unless your on a highspeed LAN, it is glacial.

> On Tuesday 12 November 2002 17:52, Brian McCann wrote:
> > Hi all...I tried searching through the archives to find some
> > help...but there was WAY to much returned.  So...here's my question.  I
> > need to be able to open an X session (complete with KDE and all) from a
> > Win2k Box.  I've got Xmanager for Win2k, and I can connect and get an
> > xterm session via ssh, but when I type startx, it starts up X on the
> > console.  I would have thought it would have grabbed the name/number of
> > the display I was currently logged into to send the output to.  Anyone
> > know how I can do this, or a good site with a how-to?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > --Brian

Have you setup XDM on the master server?  How about letting the master server know 
that the
2k box is allowed to connect to XDM?

Try looking on google for setting up an X terminal (which is all your trying to do 
here).


GB

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