Re: What VM does FreeBSD run well under

2009-10-31 Thread Peter Thoenen
Virtual Box runs it great, both as a host and a guest (its also in the port collection) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubs

Lenovo X200s

2008-10-01 Thread Peter Thoenen
The Thinkpad series has always had strong FreeBSD support with the two digit models (Xnn) but I am a bit iffy on Lenovo's attempts to morph the Thinkpads into something else via the three digit series (Xnnn). Anybody own a X200s and successfully running FreeBSD 7.x? Cheers, -Peter ___

Re: vmware timekeeping

2008-06-07 Thread Peter Thoenen
I run FreeBSD 7.0 inside VMware Workstation-6.0.4 (ACE Edition) and I don't have to setup anything. The time is the always same as the host How long do you keep it up though Odhiambo and how intensive are you using your native OS? I have a similar setup and while it sync's on boot, I routinel

Setting up Smart Cards? (SCR3310)

2008-01-09 Thread Peter Thoenen
Morning everybody, How exactly does one setup FreeBSD (primarily Firefox and Thunderbird) to use smart cards. While I understand both FF and TB have security device settings, trying to figure out how to get FreeBSD to first recognize my card. I have both a STCII and a SCR3310 and not sure wh

Re: Sun Fire x2100

2007-01-08 Thread Peter Thoenen
--- DAve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is anyone running FreeBSD on a Sun Fire X2100? Any caveats I should > know > about? I don't recommend them if you plan to use as a file server. They have an issue with randomly rebooting under a large network load with thousands of open connections. Have s

GELI + sync issue

2006-11-18 Thread Peter Thoenen
Hallo, Recently updated to 6.2RC1 and upon reboot GELI is now asking me for a password when it attempts to mount /dev/ad0. This is left over from an old atempt at removable fulldisk encryption that is no longer used. I can type the password wrong 3 time and then it mounts /dev/ad0 as normal. Tr

Re: Opera and FreeBSD

2006-11-17 Thread Peter Thoenen
> > My name is Anna Rajsman and I am working in Opera Software. Hallo Anna. Sorry for the rudeness you will get from many of the users on here. I have been using Opera on *nix for nearly a decade now and unlike our flamers, I understand all Opera *nix distro's fall under the Linux subgroup at Ope

Re: 6.2 Release delayed?

2006-11-13 Thread Peter Thoenen
> > What do they mean by this ? > > http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.2R/schedule.html > > that schedule is the perfect world schedule. things have slipped. This has bothered me and has done so since I first started tracking this site back around 5.1 .. why is it the FBSD RELENG team can't take 5

Re: Hard crash on 6.x -- reproducible, multiple people affected

2006-04-10 Thread Peter Thoenen
> What help do you need to implement the above? Not a coder or software debugger sort of guy so pretty much all :) (as I ain't going to understand the logging / bachs / ktrace output anyways). What does somebody who might understand what is going on need me to provide them. What exactly do I run

Re: Hard crash on 6.x -- reproducible, multiple people affected

2006-04-09 Thread Peter Thoenen
--- Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Apr 02, 2006 at 04:09:30PM -0400, Anish Mistry wrote: > > > It's not clear what he means by "hard crash", but he also says > > > power off", which is the part that is most confusing to me. > > Hmmm...I missed that part. Yeah, if it powers off

Hard crash on 6.x -- reproducible, multiple people affected

2006-03-30 Thread Peter Thoenen
Hallo everybody. Will prob end up PR'ing this but want to post to the list first and get some feelers. At first I thought it was just me but as the port maintainer for tor-devel I have had a couple other folk email me with the exact same problem (believing tor to be the cause). Its not. Problem

Spam on the list

2006-03-16 Thread Peter Thoenen
Lately I have noticed a massive increase in SPAM on various FBSD lists. Do we not have some sort of filter? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAI

New Sun X2100 servers: Anybody see any glaring issues with FBSD6 in amd64 mode with them?

2005-09-14 Thread Peter Thoenen
So I am thinking about getting one of those new Sun X2100 servers. Was going to go with a competing item a couple days ago but these just came out and are actually priced pretty competively. Anybody have one yet or see any glaring incompatibilities with FBSD 6? Going to ship directly to a colo (

Re: FreeBSD Co-location

2005-06-05 Thread Peter Thoenen
I have always had good luck with John Companies (http://www.johncompanies.com/) ... might also want to try Vixie's personal colo site: http://www.vix.com/personalcolo/ -Peter --- Bob Perry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Vinicius Pavanelli Vianna wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm looking for FreeBSD co