Re: Why is the FreeBSD TCP/IP stack the best?

2010-08-23 Thread Depo Catcher
On 8/23/2010 11:20 AM, Ed Flecko wrote: Hi folks, I have several networking books (TCP/IP, Network Security, etc., etc.) and it seems that several of them discuss TCP/IP in different scenarios. One of the common discussions of different OSes are their own implementations of the TCP/IP stack.

Re: anybody onlist know about KVM stuff?

2010-08-21 Thread Depo Catcher
On 8/20/2010 7:07 PM, Gary Kline wrote: On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 06:45:11PM -0500, Adam Vande More wrote: On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 4:38 PM, Gary Klinekl...@thought.org wrote: of my three tower cases still linked by wires so i can click-over to each and use my one screen and keyboard, my

Re: Mail and DNS setup

2010-08-20 Thread Depo Catcher
On 8/20/2010 2:42 AM, Joshua Isom wrote: On 8/19/2010 8:06 PM, RW wrote: On Thu, 19 Aug 2010 17:44:46 -0500 Depo Catcherdepocatc...@gmail.com wrote: getmail + qmail + procmail replacement + courier-imap = win? Why use an mta at all? getmail was specifically designed to avoid that. You

Re: well, i guess it's time to ask.....

2010-08-19 Thread Depo Catcher
There are Atom-based systems available with Nvidia graphics. Gary might want to consider one of those, although it probably won't be as dirt cheap or as low-wattage as a Pineview system. (I have no experience with them myself.) jeez, and to think i was a =hardware= major. hm. is

Mail and DNS setup

2010-08-19 Thread Depo Catcher
I have a local box that downloads all my mail (~8 accounts) via fetchmail. It's processed by sendmail/procmail and sorted into Maildir folder. From there I retrieved via courier-imap (ssl) in Thunderbird. This has worked well, but since it's been running there have been quite a few security

Re: Mail and DNS setup

2010-08-19 Thread Depo Catcher
On 8/19/2010 8:06 PM, RW wrote: On Thu, 19 Aug 2010 17:44:46 -0500 Depo Catcherdepocatc...@gmail.com wrote: getmail + qmail + procmail replacement + courier-imap = win? Why use an mta at all? getmail was specifically designed to avoid that. You can just do something like: getmail -

Hibernation

2010-08-18 Thread Depo Catcher
I can't find any good docs or guides to this. I checked the handbook, but had a bunch of references to 5.x. Can anyone point me to the right direction? I'd like to go with FreeBSD 8.1 amd64 for my next system. Hibernation and Wake on Lan would both be useful.

Re: Hibernation

2010-08-18 Thread Depo Catcher
On 8/18/2010 5:26 AM, Bruce Cran wrote: On Wed, 18 Aug 2010 03:55:12 -0500 Depo Catcherdepocatc...@gmail.com wrote: I can't find any good docs or guides to this. I checked the handbook, but had a bunch of references to 5.x. Can anyone point me to the right direction? I'd like to go

Re: well, i guess it's time to ask.....

2010-08-18 Thread Depo Catcher
On 8/18/2010 8:10 PM, Gary Kline wrote: 've hesitated. on my 3.0gh thinkpad, streams fly flawlessly. So if i buy one of the notebooks with a Stream what kind of movies? Some video players (like VLC) have hardware acceleration that will help a lot if your video card/driver supports it.

Re: BSD equivalent of Linux's free(1)?

2010-08-18 Thread Depo Catcher
On 8/18/2010 1:06 PM, Aleksandr Miroslav wrote: on wed, aug 18, 2010 at 1:04 pm, chris manessch...@chrismaness.com wrote: Would not the info displayed in the command top suffice? Yes, top -n 1 does (sort of) display the info I need. The swap portion gives me the same info as Linux free,

ZFS Question

2010-08-15 Thread Depo Catcher
Hi, I'm building a new file server. Right now I'm on FreeBSD 6.4/UFS2 and going to go to 8.1 with ZFS. Right now I have 3 disks, but one of them has data on it. I'd like to setup a RaidZ but have a question on how to do this: Basically, I need to setup a mirror with the two empty drives,

Re: amd64

2010-08-09 Thread Depo Catcher
On 8/9/2010 4:14 PM, Robert Huff wrote: Polytropon writes: I've installed FreeBSD-amd64. It runs very well. The packages I fetch are amd64 too, but what about the ports I compile myself? Are those amd64 too? Yes, as your compiler infrastructure and target platform is

Backing up video DVDs?

2010-08-08 Thread Depo Catcher
I have 100+ physical DVDs that I would copy to disk (for fast easy access and backup purposes). Is there any software in ports that will make a good copy of the dvd? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Anti virus, anti spam step guide.

2010-08-07 Thread Depo Catcher
Anti-virus, the only free one I know about is calm av. Should work on FreeBSD: http://www.clamav.net/lang/en/ and /usr/ports/security/clamav spamd is a black/white list spam filter. I also heard SpamAssassin is good, but can't find it in ports. For mail I like Courier-imap. It's imap,

Good Terminal for X?

2010-08-06 Thread Depo Catcher
I use Icewm, so don't want to install all that kde/gnome libs/dependencies and such to get konsole or gnome-console (but both are nice) xterm does display some things correctly (like sysinstall type command line GUIs). eterm is nice, but again, requires a ton of libs and looks funny on

lightweight Chat client/server?

2010-08-03 Thread Depo Catcher
I have a combination of Spark (windows client) and Open Fire (FreeBSD server, actually Java) for my lan. We've used this setup for years, but the OpenFire server takes up ~500 + MB. Anyways, we were looking for something a bit smaller. We just need to send text messages to LAN users (less

Re: lightweight Chat client/server?

2010-08-03 Thread Depo Catcher
Thanks. I guess I should started with that first. It's a nice program, so if I can reduce it's load a bit that would be great. I tried setting Xmx to 16M and removed the '-server' from the /usr/local/etc/rc.d/openfire script openfire_javargs=-Xmx16M ps shows that it took the setting:

Disk very slow in FreeBSD

2010-07-09 Thread Depo Catcher
I've tried everything here: http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=15747 and here: http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=15722 Also followed this: http://forums.freebsd.org/showpost.p...8postcount=38 http://forums.freebsd.org/showpost.php?p=76148postcount=38 I have a 2TB WD drives