On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 06:33:40AM -0700, Greg Morell wrote:
>
> I like to keep all of my sensitive stuff in a few encrypted mountable files.
> Something where I can copy the file to a USB key for backup, but not
> worry if I lose the USB key since it's just an encrypted file. But when
> on a com
On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 10:17:02PM -0700, Michael David Crawford wrote:
> Frank Bonnet wrote:
> > It seems ZFS would match his needs , why don't use it ?
>
> Does ZFS really work on FreeBSD? It seems like every day someone is
> posting about ZFS either getting corrupted or panicking their kernel
On Sun, Jun 07, 2009 at 07:49:41PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
> >
> > I've seen several mentions of "dd" in this thread, and I'll say that I've
> > seen several recommendations elsewhere to use a simple:
> >
> > dd if=/dev/ of=/dev/
>
> forgot bs=1m or at least 64kB, unless you like to wait
On Sun, Jun 07, 2009 at 10:43:40AM +0100, John . wrote:
> Hello list,
>
> Can anyone please recommend to me a program that will stress-test a
> disk? If it matters, two are connected by firewire, another via usb.
> Filesystem is ufs. I think I have a disk that might be about to fail,
> but it only
On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 08:51:35PM +0700, kyanh wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I'd like to hear some notification from Pidgin. When configuring Pidgin, I
> use
> mplayer %s
> to make Pidgin play stuff. But it's hard to hear the sound as pidgin's
> volume is small (while the system mixer is almost
On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 05:41:27PM -0400, John Almberg wrote:
> Thanks for all the tips. At least I have something to start with.
>
> The guys in the data center reinstalled FreeBSD (the filesystem was
> totally corrupted again), and then ran what they called "SMART test",
> which might be sma
On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 07:06:27AM -0700, new_guy wrote:
>
> Hi guys,
>
> I'd like to use geli to whole disk encrypt a FreeBSD 7.1 laptop I already
> have setup. The laptop is up and working fine and I don't want to screw it
> up. It have the default partition layout. I've already used geli to en
On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 03:27:37PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
> >
> > It does look promising, though. I hope it'll eventually surpass gcc in
>
> actually - it's matter of measurement. for example - gcc generated code is
> very fast, but often in expense of code size. Even -Os compiled program
On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 03:19:52PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
> >
> > I think the idea is to get away from gcc with its evil GPL3 license as the
>
> very good move. i wasn't aware that usable GCC replacement exist, as it
> was probably the only reason to keep "communist licenced" programs with
On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 01:49:24PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
> > On Ivoras'FreeBSD page, ``What's cooking for FreeBSD 8''
> >
> > http://ivoras.sharanet.org/freebsd/freebsd8.html
>
> LLVM site shows it's something like precompiler+runtime compiling.
>
> will it be used that way, or as usual c
On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 04:16:50PM +, Frank Shute wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 03:50:29PM +0100, Sniper wrote:
> >
> > Hi!
> >
> > I heard that changing root shell to bash is not good idea, also programing
> > in any C shell not applicable. So which shell is the most appropriate for
> > ro
On Thu, Feb 05, 2009 at 03:55:17PM -0500, Jean-Paul Natola wrote:
>
> _-
> Well the server I plan to run it a VPS server, so I REALLY DON'T know what
> the specs are on the box- and since it's not dedicated I have no clue what
> e
On Thu, Feb 05, 2009 at 09:31:56AM -0500, Jean-Paul Natola wrote:
> Can anyone recommend a newsletter application , preferably where I can just
> have an ordinary user login via a webpage , upload a file/message/ and click
> send?
>
> I was playing with mailman , but that seems to be a list serve
I recently noticed something odd.
Whenever I have a cpu-bound process (say, piping a lot of data through
"gzip -9c") that's been given an idle priority using "idprio 31 -", I
notice that my system's overall interactive responsiveness feels peppier.
Apps seems to respond faster, screens redraw fast
On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 09:23:36AM -0400, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
>
> Simple: is it possible?
>
> I have two VMs that contain the same content, on two different IPs .. I
> want to setup a third VM with something like haproxy on it that will take
> the URL (http://domain1) and pull the content f
Seems I've been bitten by the latest Xorg updates that trickled into ports
late last week.
Firstly, I stumbled with the "AllowEmptyInput" thing, as described in
/usr/ports/UPDATING (20090123 entry). Fine, that was easy enough.
After that, I found that the "sis" driver was broken, or at least it
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 07:15:47PM -0500, Eduardo Cerejo wrote:
> I just finished installing kde4, and it can barely run on my old p4
> machine! Where has kde gone? Is the developing team trying to beat VISTA?
> Pitiful at best!
Try:
cd /usr/ports/x11-wm/evilwm && make install clean
Can't b
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 08:30:56PM +0100, bsd wrote:
> Hello,
>
>
> 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 f
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 10:17:47PM -0600, Dan Nelson wrote:
> In the last episode (Jan 20), Geoff Fritz said:
> > I've been experimenting with a series scripts that takes ZFS
> > snapshots every minute, eventually destroying the oldest so that only
> > so many remain av
Hello.
I've been experimenting with a series scripts that takes ZFS snapshots every
minute, eventually destroying the oldest so that only so many remain available
for a given window of time.
This may seem a trivial concern with hard drive sizes being what they are
these days, but after running a
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