In message 519794e9.6080...@sneakertech.com,
Quartz qua...@sneakertech.com wrote:
3) Assuming that I want to do this stuff, what BIOS options should I
be setting or unsetting on the motherboard?
You need the sata ports running in straight up pure ahci mode (as
opposed to IDE mode or
In message 20882.9169.697806.928...@jerusalem.litteratus.org,
Robert Huff roberth...@rcn.com wrote:
Ronald F. Guilmette writes:
I bought one of these things awhile ago:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004LXJXSW/ref=oh_details_o00_s00_i00?ie=U
TF8psc=1
I believe I have
In message 20130514144721.aa321c25.free...@edvax.de,
Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote:
I've been using SCSI hot swap devices for many years, and
they usually required a re-scan of the bus. The same often
works for USB-connected devices which also use CAM, and maybe
SATA and eSATA also support
I bought one of these things awhile ago:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004LXJXSW/ref=oh_details_o00_s00_i00?ie=UTF8psc=1
So far, it seems to be working just peachy, but I have yet to do anything
the least bit adventurous with it, such as trying to either insert a drive
into it or remove a
In message 518e1a51.3020...@cyberleo.net, you wrote:
On 05/10/2013 03:04 PM, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
snip
pkg_sanity: ImageMagick-6.8.0.7_1: +CONTENTS file does not exist -- skipped
pkg_sanity: ORBit2-2.14.19: /usr/local/lib/libORBit-2.so: File failed MD5
checksum
pkg_sanity: ORBit2
The subject line pretty much says it all.
As I explained here the other day, numerous of my installed ports
have semi-mysteriously had their corresponding +CONTENTS files
just disappear. I do have a backup of my /var partition, from which
I could, in theory, fetch replacements for the specific
A couple of three weeks ago or so, I experienced an unfortunate series
of three or four system crashes, all of which I ultimately found to
be attributable to CPU automatic over-temp shutdowns, where the reason
for the overheating turned out to be something really rather stupid.
Some cables inside
In message 20130407060507.76fd8bd1.free...@edvax.de,
Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote:
This is what shutdown -p now does.
It's times like these than make me want to go off to some dark place and
hang my head in shame.
I confess that I wasn't ever aware of the -p option for shutdown until
So, um, I just upgraded my main system. Maybe that is too weak a word.
I cannibalized the drives and most of the add-in cards out of my old
system and put them into a new system I built which has a new case,
new motherboard, new CPU, new memory, and a new video card.
So far everything seems to
In message 515aae16.9030...@qeng-ho.org, you wrote:
On 04/02/13 04:02, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
[Overheating CPU war story snipped.]
...
I've had a fan jam that way. Cable ties are your friends.
Yes.
P.P.S. I have a (relatively) monster sized heatsink in this system, and
it sits atop
In message 20130402231522.71cb7352.free...@edvax.de,
Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote:
First order question: Why is it that in FreeBSD there are so many man
pages like this one, _purporting_ to describe some low level interface
to some sort of hardware, and the man page _doesn't_ include a
[[ Mostly, this posting is just a story. But it does include one
question, towards the end. See below. ]]
Well, I accidentally found what I believe is most likely the reason
for the system halts I have been having recently, so I just thought
that I would share that. It _is_ a bit humorous.
Today my system crashed twice while I was doing portupgrade -a.
I'm not sure but I suspect the new cards I have installed recently may
just be a bit too much for the old power supply I have. (When the thing
crashed, the machine just simply shut itself off. This exact same thing
has also
In message 5153a2fd.8020...@sneakertech.com, you wrote:
Why exactly is the bs=10240 is there? Wouldn't the default of 512
do just as well?
Modern systems can read and write far more than 512 bytes per operation.
Sticking with 512 would work perfectly fine, but you'd be imposing
In message 5153feff.4090...@sneakertech.com, you wrote:
I have filed the following PR:
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=177431
Er, don't take my word for law:
I didn't. I won't.
I have *no* idea if 1M is a good idea
Any size which is an exact multiple of the physical block
In message 51543b7a.4030...@qeng-ho.org,
Arthur Chance free...@qeng-ho.org wrote:
On 03/28/13 10:32, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
It is possible, I would guess, that dd may notice the EOF occuring
before it has filled up an entire input buffer, and then just quit
at that point, _without_
So, um, I downloaded the memstick.img file for FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE and
then I dd'ed that to my 16GB ADATA USB flash thingy. After that, it
worked just fine, and as expected. No problems. I could boot FreeBSD
from it.
Now however, I need to use that USB stick for something else, and I
want to
I've never used any FreeBSD memstick image before, but now I have reason
to do so.
I'm reading the instructions for creating a bootable memstick that are
located on this page:
http://www.freebsd.org/releases/9.1R/announce.html
which include the following example of how to perform the copy:
In the man page for restore(8) I see the following:
The -r flag ... can be detrimental to one's health if
not used carefully (not to mention the disk). An example:
newfs /dev/da0s1a
mount /dev/da0s1a /mnt
cd /mnt
restore rf /dev/sa0
As a result of this past Black Friday weekend, I now enjoy a true abundance
of disk space, for the first time in my life.
I wanna make a full backup, on a weekly basis, of my main system's shiny
new 1TB drive onto another 1TB drive that I also picked up cheap back on
Black Friday.
I've been
I must not be attending the Right conferences, or else the Right parties,
because I don't get the joke.
Could somebody please explain to me the meaning of the BUGS section of the
chmod(1) man page, as distributed with 9.1-RELEASE?
___
In message 63618304-837e-4b76-8157-d99c744ac...@wolfhut.org,
Ben Cottrell tam...@wolfhut.org wrote:
I guess the same text in the man page could be read several
different ways! The way I read it (which may or may not be
correct) is that the example given is an example of how to
use it
In message 20130304125634.8450cfaf.free...@edvax.de,
Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote:
On Mon, 04 Mar 2013 03:35:30 -0800, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
Now, unfortunately, I have just been bitten by the evil... and apparently
widely known (except to me)... ``You can't use dump(8) to dump
In message alpine.bsf.2.00.1303040645420.66...@wonkity.com,
Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote:
Until SUJ has been deemed 100%, I avoid it and suggest others do also.
It can be disabled on an existing filesystem from single user mode.
hehe
Silly me! What do *I* know? I just go about my
In message 20130304151707.gc76...@jerrymc.net,
Jerry McAllister jerr...@msu.edu wrote:
This and the previous reply are correct. This example shows
a correct way to use 'restore -r'
The '-r' flag causes it to write where you are cd-ed to without any
warning what you are doing or
I have a somewhat eclectic system, currently running (or at any rate,
trying to run) 9.1-RELEASE. The system in question contains three
drives, to wit:
WDC WD1002FAEX-00Z3A0 05.01D05 ATA-8 SATA 3.x device
ST3500320AS SD1A ATA-8 SATA 1.x device
Hitachi HTS541010A9E680 JA0OA480 ATA-8
In message cao+pfdcan9k9gast7fkju+otejywoxcwg9jrjo9x3es4rh0...@mail.gmail.com
David Demelier demelier.da...@gmail.com wrote:
I've never understood the difference between ATA_CAM and atapicam, what are
the difference between them?
I'm sorry if I confused anyone or anything.
When I said atapicam
First let me say Thank you! to everyone who responded.
Several people asked if I got my cdrecord from ports or packages.
It was/is freshly built from ports. (I don't use packages anymore,
because I always want the latest and greatest for all my ports.)
Anyway, after I posted here, I did
I am not a happy camper.
Now that I've ``upgraded'' from 8.3-RELEASE to 9.1-RELEASE it appears that
good old burncd no longer works, apparently because the CD/DVD drive is
now exclusively handled as an ATAPICAM device.
So I try to use cdrecord and I get this:
# cdrecord dev=0,0,0
In message CAFYkXjmA_DTP=Bzf=D+QSw890tbrz0+ZNTiLaWNj=dmr749...@mail.gmail.com
CeDeROM cede...@tlen.pl wrote:
On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 10:38 PM, Ronald F. Guilmette
r...@tristatelogic.com wrote:
Looking into this issue a bit deeper, I've now learned that all of
one's personal settings are stored
In general, I don't upgrade my ports very often, so up until recently
I was running a fairly old version of firefox (firefox-15.0.1,1).
But over the weekend, I moved everything over to a new drive
containing the latest 9.1-RELEASE FreeBSD, and with a complete set
of freshly rebuilt ports,
In message alpine.bsf.2.00.1302120808400.95...@mail.fig.ol.no,
=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Trond_Endrest=F8l?= trond.endres...@fagskolen.gjovik.no wrote:
On Mon, 11 Feb 2013 18:33-0800, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
I exactly followed the directions here:
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd
I exactly followed the directions here:
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2012-February/238118.html
Nontheless, my /dev/lpt0 node still only has permissions set to 0644.
Why?
What did I do wrong?
___
One question about portupgrade has been nagging me, in the back of my
mind, for some time now.
Assume for the moment that on some given system, the root user has two
terminal sessions open, i.e. either two instances of xterm or else two
console sessions.
Also assume that there exist three
I am, at long last, moving my main system over onto a new drive where
I have just installed a fresh copy of 9.1-RELEASE, and where I have
built and installed essentially all of the ports I had on my old
(8.3-RELEASE) system... at least the ones that I am actually still
actively using.
A problem
This problem has been annoying me for some time now, but until now
it was never really an issue that I could not easily work-around.
I was just trying to download a PDF document off of the Pacer[tm]
federal courts web site. These are not free. They cost ten cents
per page. I tried to download
I'd like to write a small program or shell script that simply lists all
of the physical hard drives attached to the local system, along with their
product identifiers and their respective capacities.
The following simple script works well for both PATA/SATA and USB hard drives,
but it does not
In message 50c12b6c.5020...@tundraware.com,
Tim Daneliuk tun...@tundraware.com wrote:
On 12/06/2012 05:30 PM, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
I'd like to write a small program or shell script that simply lists all
of the physical hard drives attached to the local system, along with their
product
In message alpine.bsf.2.00.1211272215360.62...@wonkity.com,
Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote:
I tried to do as you suggest and change the partition type to freebsd-ufs,
but there's a problem...
# gpart modify -i 1 -t freebsd-ufs /dev/da1
gpart: Invalid argument
da1 is the drive.
In message alpine.bsf.2.00.1211281735290.69...@wonkity.com,
Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote:
On Wed, 28 Nov 2012, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
In message alpine.bsf.2.00.1211272215360.62...@wonkity.com,
Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote:
I tried to do as you suggest and change
In message alpine.bsf.2.00.1211262232330.38...@wonkity.com,
Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote:
On Mon, 26 Nov 2012, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
Starting sector 2048 is definitely a multiple of 4KB, so I am assuming
that all I really need to do here in order to use this new drive as extra
Just a brief follow-up on my questions here (about 2 weeks ago) regarding
so-called Advanced Format (4KB block) drives...
I just got myself a shiny new Seagate 2.5 portable external 1TB hard drive.
fdisk is telling me this about it:
I just wanted to add another data point... in case anybody is interested...
uring my recent spending binge, I also acquired a Hatachi portable external
2.5 inch Touro Moble 500GB drive.
Righ out of the box, this is what fdisk tells me about this one:
Well friends, it's that time of year again... yep, it's shop till you drop
time!
This year it appears that everybody and his brother is having a sale on
compact (mostly 2.5 inch) external drives, and most of them nowadays have
a USB 3.0 connection.
That's swell, and there are some really good
In message alpine.bsf.2.00.1211142231420.58...@wonkity.com,
Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote:
On Wed, 14 Nov 2012, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
...
Given these facts, I am more than a little surpised to learn (or rather
just to realize) that the good old traditional fdisk and bsdlabel
In message alpine.bsf.2.00.1211142250370.58...@wonkity.com,
Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote:
On Wed, 14 Nov 2012, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
I'm looking at the examples section of the gpart(8) man page. May I
assume that if I just want to merely ``try out'' GPT... you know...
taking
In message 50a4f2c8.5040...@qeng-ho.org,
Arthur Chance free...@qeng-ho.org wrote:
On 11/15/12 12:41, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
-b is the beginning block of a partition. 34 is a magic value, the size
of a standard GPT partition table.
It probably wouldn't have hurt anything to mention
In message alpine.bsf.2.00.1211150828040.62...@wonkity.com,
Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote:
On Thu, 15 Nov 2012, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
In your tutorial document, you say:
Create a boot partition to hold the loader, size of 512K.
How big is that thing (gpart boot loader
In message alpine.bsf.2.00.1211150844350.62...@wonkity.com,
Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote:
On Thu, 15 Nov 2012, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
Well, given that newfs has been ``fixed'' so that its defaults will
Do The Right Thing with the latest generation of (4KB block) disks,
I for one
In message alpine.bsf.2.00.1211151456450.66...@wonkity.com,
Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote:
It wouldn't hurt to add the above info to your tutorial page.
The problem with that sort of detail is that too much of it obscures the
point, which in this case is just trying to show the right
Warren,
In the EXAMPLES section of the gpart(8) man page, they do this:
/sbin/gpart bootcode -b /boot/pmbr ad0
In your document however, you first create an explicit (special) partition
named gpboot and then you do this instead:
gpart bootcode -b /boot/pmbr -p /boot/gptboot -i 1 da0
(This stuff would probably be a lot less confiusing if I actually knew
what I was doing, but...)
OK, Warren, I've just done the following steps. The first two I drew
from the manpage examples, and then followed those up with two commands
from your tutorial.
/sbin/gpart create -s GPT ada0
NEVERMIND!
It took me awhile, but I think I've finally got the hang of this gpart/GPT
stuff... well... mostly anyway (but see below).
I understand now that /boot/mbr is a regular sort of MBR, with regular
sort of MBR bootstrap code, whereas /boot/pbmr is the ``protected'' MBR
record that says,
In message 20121113073030.87bc0608.free...@edvax.de,
Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote:
Note that 4k = 8 x 512 byte, and so 64 sectors would be a
good alignment grid, while 63 sectors is not. That implies
that in case you use fdisk to create a slice holding your
partitions, try to make it start
In message 50a2002b.9040...@qeng-ho.org,
Arthur Chance free...@qeng-ho.org wrote:
According to the manual as of 9.0-RELEASE the default fragment and block
sizes for newfs are 4k and 32k, so provided your partitions/slices are
4k aligned everything Should Just Work. Before 9.0 fragments and
In message 20121105051447.6eef32ef.free...@edvax.de,
Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote:
The problem is that delegating compression to a sub-task would
imply that dump cannot precisely adjust its output to match the
media size (as the limit is now defined by how good the compression
works).
I would like to make a backup of one of my systems using dump(8) in order
to be sure that I get everything, including all of the obscure file attribute
bits.
I would like to make this backup to a _minimal_ number of DVD+R disks.
What's the proper procedure for this?
In the dump(8) man page, I
In message caogwamvoncti7akmtjw0+caastfhfae5gw+pkmh+4ldr00-...@mail.gmail.com
Mehmet Erol Sanliturk m.e.sanlit...@gmail.com wrote:
Assume one file will NOT be copied more than ONE DVD , i.e. , each file
will be completely recorded on one DVD :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cutting_stock_problem
In message 20121105021817.fc5bff1b.free...@edvax.de,
Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote:
I would like to make this backup to a _minimal_ number of DVD+R disks.
If you think you can add compression to your files (if it makes
sense), it should be incorporated to the command.
Yes. There really
In message 50971b88.40...@herveybayaustralia.com.au,
Da Rock freebsd-questi...@herveybayaustralia.com.au wrote:
Also, you may have considered this already (or not :) ), but you are
using a direct write to backup your system, and then considering
compression on top of that. CD/DVD filesystems
In message 20121105035233.e3c4ae8a.free...@edvax.de,
Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote:
But as I said (above) to make this really work right, dump restore really
need to have -z options, and do the zipping/unzipping internally. Only
if this were available could dump properly deal with
I have a laptop which has an HDMI output port.
I can get video out of that (with xbmc) just fine. Audio, not so much.
Like not at all, as far as I can tell.
So anyway, here is what I get when I do cat /dev/sndstat:
pcm0: HDA Realtek ALC888 PCM #0 Analog (play/rec) default
pcm1: HDA Realtek
Bernt Hansson bah at bananmonarki.se wrote:
As root sysctl hw.snd.default_unit=2
Yes, unfortunately I had already tried that before I posted. (Sorry, I
should have mentioned that also.)
That made no difference whatsoever to the outcome. There was still no
sound coming out when I tried
I am impatient by nature.
Nowadays, whenever I use portinstall/portupgrade, I use the --batch
option, so that I don't have to sit around at the console, waiting
for and then accepting the default build options for a boatload of
depended-upon ports for whatever I am actually trying to install or
In message 20121007234043.cadf5863.free...@edvax.de,
Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote:
A workaround (and not directly the answer to your question) is
to process the config dialogs before starting the build:
# make config-recursive
Once set, the options won't be requested on a second
In message 20121008012414.34fd6a65.free...@edvax.de,
Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote:
...
# make config-recursive
...
This target (and several other useful ones) are listed
and explained in the manpage: man 7 ports. :-)
Hey! Thanks again. I didn't know about that man page either!
When I view man pages in a xterm window, some parts of them are coming
out a bit garbled.
I'm sure that there must be some recommended option or options for
xterm that will cause man pages to display properly. If someone would
tell me what those options are, I would appreciate it. Thanks.
I have a sizable (200GB) external USB 2.0 interface hard drive. (Actually,
it's a plain old PATA drive in one of those enclosures that allows it
to speak USB 2.0.)
So anyway, to make this external drive work with things other than just my
FreeBSD system, the drive has been formatted so that it
In message CA+tpaK0H=L8pcSkOxxAekfy2rQV49-sWof0FDPsutb8=04b...@mail.gmail.com
, Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 2:23 AM, Ronald F. Guilmette
r...@tristatelogic.comwrote:
Is there any such a tool (as fsck for FAT32) available for freeBSD? If so,
where
In message 5002b996.2000...@cran.org.uk,
Bruce Cran br...@cran.org.uk wrote:
On 15/07/2012 09:56, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
but, in spite of some fanatics here my get worried, i do recommend use
windoze scandisk.
I'd forgotten about scandisk - for modern Windows (XP and newer) you'll
want to
In message alpine.bsf.2.00.1206092039260.71...@wonkity.com, you wrote:
On Sat, 9 Jun 2012, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
Also, I don't like backups taking longer than absolutely necessary, and
this is why I am specifically _not_ attracted to either the dd solution
or to dump/restore, because
In message alpine.bsf.2.00.1206100543280.75...@wonkity.com,
Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote:
On Sun, 10 Jun 2012, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
1) In your example under the heading Copying Filesystems, the second
shell command line shown is:
dump -C16 -b64 -0uanL -h0 -f - /usr | (cd
Warren? Just a couple more quick questions. You recommend:
dump -C16 -b64 -0uanL -h0 -f - /usr | (cd /mnt restore -ruf -)
I'm real curious about you suggestions for the -C and -b values.
I have what amounts to a personal workstation. Yea, OK, it is running
mail, web, and FTP servers
In message 4fd38b9a.4010...@qeng-ho.org,
Arthur Chance free...@qeng-ho.org wrote:
There's a BFI (brute force and ignorance) way of doing it in the base
system - dd. Provided your system disk is quiescent (ideally when
running from a live CD or all partitions mounted read-only, otherwise
pray
I've been lucky. Over about the past 20 years I've never had a hard
disk go bad on me. (Knock on wood.) Of course I _do_ only buy the
better quality ones (with the 5 year warranties), and I'm sure that
has helped. Still, one never knows, and it is best to be prepared.
Primarily however, I am
In message 20120420004050.9b3f1a3a.free...@edvax.de,
Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote:
On Thu, 19 Apr 2012 14:25:48 -0700, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
The man page for the psm driver says:
... The current resolution can be changed at runtime.
Unfortunately, it fails to mention
In message 4f44e576.5000...@ifdnrg.com,
Paul Macdonald p...@ifdnrg.com wrote:
On 21/02/2012 22:33, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
Port 25 is apparently implementing _something_ that sort-of vaguely acts
like an SMTP server. However it appears to me that it only accepts e-mail
for one very
In message 20120222005734.1353.qm...@joyce.lan, John Levine wrote:
Regarding port 9100, my local /etc/services file says:
jetdirect 9100/tcp #HP JetDirect card
That's typically known as socket. Works great with CUPS.
As Robert Bonomi was kind enough to relate to me, this is the
It would appear that the device node /dev/ulpt0 gets (re-)created every
time I plug my USB printer back in.
Could somebody please kindly tell me what the exact mechanism is that
causes this device node to be (re-)created upon such events?
I am rather hoping that whatever that mechanism is, that
In message 4ee03877.643serzmrkxlotg4%per...@pluto.rain.com, you wrote:
Ronald F. Guilmette r...@tristatelogic.com wrote:
At least this gives me confidence that it can be done. I am still
somewhat at a loss to know exactly _how_ it can be done however.
For me, it just works. I installed 8.1
In message 4edf4d7a.ac3xg02r+czwn8xy%per...@pluto.rain.com, you wrote:
Ronald F. Guilmette r...@tristatelogic.com wrote:
I've been trying to look at California Dept. of Transportation
webcams using Firefox on FreeBSD and so far it simply ain't workin'.
...
http://www.dot.ca.gov/dist3
With a pre-recorded CD in the drive, the following works fine for me when
I'm root:
cdda2wav -D 0,0,0 -B
My question is: What do I need to do in order to make this work also
when executed from a non-root account?
Here's what I get when I try to do the above from a non-root account:
I've been trying to look at California Dept. of Transportation webcams
using Firefox on FreeBSD and so far it simply ain't workin'. Somebody
please tell me what I'm doing wrong.
Yes, I already installed the mozilla-mplayer port.
Here's where you can get at the webcams:
In message 20111207014948.9fb0cb4b.free...@edvax.de,
Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote:
On Tue, 06 Dec 2011 16:02:24 -0800, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
I've been trying to look at California Dept. of Transportation webcams
using Firefox on FreeBSD and so far it simply ain't workin'. Somebody
In message CAPYw7P7g=FZDOXc2PGqMHm=C2q5KxgxrvO3=zeirntkzwf9...@mail.gmail.com
, Paul B. Mahol one...@gmail.com wrote:
On 12/7/11, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote:
On Tue, 06 Dec 2011 16:02:24 -0800, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
I've been trying to look at California Dept. of Transportation
Looking at the man page for mkisofs I see the following:
-r ... If any of the special mode bits are set,
clear them, because file locks are not useful on a read-only
file system, ...
Just curious: What the bleep have file mode
This isn't really a question. It's more of a semi-rant, combined with some
information that I wanted to put on the record (so that it can be googled)
because it may benefit some folks, other than just me.
I'm impatient by nature, and I don't like CUPS. (I would say that I hate
it, but I don't
In message 20111027143609.60335.qm...@joyce.lan, you wrote:
I'm not a huge fan of CUPS, but at this point it's the best of a bad
lot. I find the queueing useful, since I often print documents long
enough that I don't want to wait.
I don't quite understand the issue you are raising john.
Even
In message alpine.bsf.2.00.1110270834540.94...@wonkity.com,
Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote:
...
The only thing that worries me about my rather ad-hoc way of setting up
a personal printer (as describe above) is that I sort of wonder what
will happen if I ever try to print something
I knew that this was a problem for older versions of the adobe acrobat
reader (acroread) but I really thought that SOMBODY would have fixed this
by now, as it has been a longstanding problem.
But alas, acroread9-9.4.2 as installed from the ports tree on a reasonably
up-to-date 8.2-RELEASE/amd64
In message 20111022125209.9ba97a1f.free...@edvax.de,
Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote:
On Fri, 21 Oct 2011 18:29:25 -0700, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
The really strange thing is that after I followed all the directions here:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/sound-setup.html
I've been bringing up a new amd64 box with 8.2-RELEASE. So far I've managed
to get everything installed OK, including a boatload of freshly-built ports.
I've even gotten flash10 working with firefox... well...
Unfortunately, this is only MOSTLY working. The video works great, but for
audio all
I need to get sources for the Linux version of certain programs that
reside in a package called bsdutils. I have built and installed
the apt-get program and now I'm just trying to use it, and things
are going very badly indeed.
Can anyone tell me what I am doing wrong here? The errors I am
In message 20101107140353.5...@unknown, you wrote:
On Sun, 7 Nov 2010 08:52:00 -0500
Chris Brennan xa...@xaerolimit.net wrote:
I am going to take a stab in the dark here and suggest that some sort
of db needs to be built for apt ... clues in the part /var/db..
(man apt-get?)
apt-get
In message 20101107155831.67847.qm...@joyce.lan,
John Levine jo...@iecc.com wrote:
In article 24360.1289127...@tristatelogic.com you write:
I need to get sources for the Linux version of certain programs that
reside in a package called bsdutils.
So get them, already. No need to screw around
The subject line says it all... well... pretty much.
I have Sleepycat/Oracle DB 4.something installed, and I really
would like to rebuild and reinstall the standard DB_File package
so as to get it to use the 4.something version of DB, rather than
the 1.85 version that's in my libc.a. But I
I just got a spam from some numbnuts spammer who said (in the spam), and I
quote:
Why would anyone still pay recruitment agency fees? Wouldn't you prefer to
RECRUIT AS MANY PEOPLE/strong per campaign for $499?
Your contact details were on
In message 20091121015230.cf2c15dd.free...@edvax.de,
Polytropon free...@edvax.dewrote:
On Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:48:34 -0800, Ronald F. Guilmette r...@tristatelogic.c
om wrote:
But I have one question. The author sez to do this:
dd if=8.0-BETA1-amd64-memstick.img of=/dev/da0 bs=10240 conv
Where/how can I get more information about Open Issue #20090501 as
listed in Section 3 (Open Issues) in the 7.2 Eratta?
http://www.freebsd.org/releases/7.2R/errata.html
This problem has been annoying me greatly, primarily because I wasn't
sure if it might be due to my own (faulty?) CD/DVD
Who should I be talking to if the BTX loader is crashing on my
specific hardware configuration, and what specific info do I
need to be gathering for him/her in order to have hope of getting
the problem rectified?
I'd pulled stuff out of the system in question until there's
practically nothing
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