Re: corporate backers of freebsd

2008-01-02 Thread Gary Smithe
On Jan 2, 2008 4:56 AM, Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Gary Smithe Sent: Monday, December 31, 2007 10:11 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: corporate backers of freebsd

corporate backers of freebsd

2007-12-31 Thread Gary Smithe
Good Day All and Happy New Year, I'm not looking to incite anyone, but here comes a BSD vs Linux question. Yes, I tried searching the archives and found nothing. I used FreeBSD back in 2000 for a few firewalls, but due to certain influences I switched to Linux after a couple of years. I'm

Re: Re: Frequent loss of contact with ISP

2005-03-24 Thread Gary Smithe
On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 19:12:31 +, Ned Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: Frequent loss of contact with ISP Date: Tuesday 22 March 2005 01:15 pm From: Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Ned Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [My

Re: more info again

2005-03-23 Thread Gary Smithe
On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 18:30:40 -0500, Francis Whittington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'll let you know how its going from time to time if thats ok. I have only one question about this. If I still want to use my wireless router as a switch.will it work?

Re: What's an easy way to replace a drive?

2005-03-23 Thread Gary Smithe
On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 05:09:24 +0100, Anthony Atkielski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The continuing problems I'm having with my SATA drives seem to center on only one of the two drives, /dev/ad10, and since both drives are identical (Western Digital WD1200JD 120-GB SATA drives), this is a good

Re: Accessing Windows XP Desktop (Home Edition) remotely

2005-03-22 Thread Gary Smithe
On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 18:54:38 +0300, Odhiambo Washington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello dudes, I have this big curse that I have to access the office computer from home. The office PC runs WinXP Home, not Professional. I have turned the Internet upside-down trying to get an app that will

Re: Accessing Windows XP Desktop (Home Edition) remotely

2005-03-22 Thread Gary Smithe
XP Home edition does not have Remote Desktop. XP Pro has. I am running the former. -Wash oops. missed the home part in the original post. sorry. Go with VNC. I'm not sure how it works cross-platform, but ultravnc has a file transfer option where it can send files over the vnc ports.

Re: Anthony's drive issues.Re: ssh password delay

2005-03-22 Thread Gary Smithe
[SNIP] Haven't you ever used Knoppix? It's liveboot. This machine won't boot from a CD. [SNIP] Anthony I don't really like adding trivial stuff to an already long thread, but... with Knoppix, you can make floppies to boot from (they're on the cd) and it will load the kernel and search for

Re: ssh password delay

2005-03-21 Thread Gary Smithe
I have done quite a bit of googling and I realize that the problem likely has something to do with reverse DNS lookups. But, I don't know how to pinpoint the problem from there. I've basically been playing with the /etc/resolv.conf and /etc/hosts settings. In my hosts file, I have an entry

Re: more info (was Just finished Install)

2005-03-21 Thread Gary Smithe
On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 21:05:05 -0500 (EST), Chris Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 21 Mar 2005, Francis Whittington wrote: Sorry if I wasn't clear on my hookup to the internet. (WLAN |

Re: NIC won't DHCP or configure

2005-03-21 Thread Gary Smithe
On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 10:54:24 -0800, Andrew Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello FreeBSD community, I'm trying to get my network card working under 5.3 Release. It won't DHCP. Configuring it using ifconfig doesn't permit any connection. (I also tried the February Stable, with no