Re: *BSD is considered the safest OS

On Wed, 03 Nov 2004 19:45:38 +0100, Henrik W Lund [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually, I read somewhere that UNIX systems are more vulnerable to buffer overflows than Windows systems. Can't confirm the validity of this, though. Buffer overflows are already being addressed.

Re: Serious investigations into UNIX and Windows

On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 23:20:08 -0700, Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip PMFJI, (especially since I'm a newbie) but I think I understand at least some of what Ted is saying here. I set up a home firewall and later had a hardware failure. I replaced the box and decided to use Mandrake

Re: Aterm cut-and-paste was Re: Rid of those Windows Desktops!

On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 14:33:06 -0400, Frank Laszlo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This has been around for as long as I can remember, since before XFree86 4.x. Its nothing new. Regards, Frank Yes, it's all here. Takes a little getting used to the way it works. Is there any documentation on

Re: Rid of those Windows Desktops!

On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 14:07:29 +0100, Brian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Can people recommend some nice window managers, email clients etc ? I use 4.10 with Blackbox on my laptop. I installed the libraries for both Gnome and KDE so I can use some of their apps. I like Evolution as an Outlook

Aterm cut-and-paste was Re: Rid of those Windows Desktops!

On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 08:46:48 -0500, Pratt, Benjamin E. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Terry mentioned Aterm, I like the flexibility, but I have gotten cut-and-paste to work. Just copy by highlighting what you want on the clipboard, and then paste by clicking my scroll wheel button. Cool, how

Re: Aterm cut-and-paste was Re: Rid of those Windows Desktops!

On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 09:16:27 -0500, Pratt, Benjamin E. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was searching for a way to cut-and-paste but couldn't find any documentation on how to do it with Aterm. I think I got frustrated and just started clicking and when I hit the scroll button it worked!! The only

Re: Compatibility freeBSD

On Wed, 20 Oct 2004 17:35:42 -0400, Lester Stiefel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am open to alternate OS. The person told me the OS was legit. I have my doubts. Now looking for Low cost or free OS to Replace current. My current equipment is: Canon S450 printer, Gigabyte Motherboard

Re: Good newsreaders for FreeBSD?

On Mon, 18 Oct 2004 18:36:32 -0400, Frank J. Laszlo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think evolution has a news reader. You might want to look into that. Regards, Frank Yes evolution has a news reader and it works quite well for me. Have had a few problems but it wasn't with evolution, it was

Re: Good newsreaders for FreeBSD?

On Tue, 19 Oct 2004 15:51:28 +0100, Walker, Michael [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I really didn't know that. At the moment I am using evolution for my mail and mozilla as my news client. How do you access the news client? I just had a quick look through the Ximian online doc's and couldn't find

Re: questions

On Fri, 15 Oct 2004 17:37:57 -0300, MAMware [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip so when i installed freebsd 4.10 i dont know what to do, i google for basic commands for freebds but that isnt much helpfull for me It sounds like your looking for basic unix commands. If that's what you mean try

Re: questions

On Fri, 15 Oct 2004 21:05:11 -0500, Vulpes Velox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.freebsd.org/projects/newbies.html is nice too Oops, forgot about that, thanks for reminding me. ;) -- Terry ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: Unable to umount Cdrom drive.

On Wed, 13 Oct 2004 11:22:12 -0700, Laszlo Antal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have FreeBSD 4.10 installed. When I mount the cdrom with #mount -t cd9660 /dev/acd0c /cdrom everything works fine.I can get to my ports and everything But when I want to swap cds and I type #umount /cdrom I get

Re: pccard is started every other time

On Sun, 10 Oct 2004 09:00:34 +1000, gradeAstudent.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello anyone have any experience configuring pccards? I've installed my favourite os (version 4.10) on my laptop but my pccard is only ever initialized and started on every other boot meaning that every second time

Re: pccard is started every other time

On Sat, 9 Oct 2004 19:09:38 -0500, terry tyson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 10 Oct 2004 09:00:34 +1000, gradeAstudent.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello anyone have any experience configuring pccards? I've installed my favourite os (version 4.10) on my laptop but my pccard is only ever

RE: apache install problem

-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Marty Landman Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2003 11:21 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: apache install problem I just installed Apache2 and not sure how to proceed, if I'm doing things wrong from

RE: how to mount floppy disk?

Denis, Make sure there is a floppy disk in the drive before running the command. Also, I think the actual command is mount_msdos not mount_msdosfs. :-) Terry -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Denis Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2003 2:20 PM

RE: Running X from a windows PC

Try cygwin. http://www.cygwin.com/ -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Edinho Sent: Friday, March 28, 2003 12:35 PM To: freebsd-questions Subject: Running X from a windows PC Is it possible to run X remotely from a windows PC? What is the

RE: Stupid question

Check the man pages for write and talk. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Gerard Samuel Sent: Friday, March 28, 2003 10:17 AM To: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Stupid question How does one send a message to another logged in user on the same box

RE: Sony VAIO w/ Linksys card

I don't think it is a hardware problem. I have the same laptop (currently out of the office). It has a Linksys EtherFast 10/100 Integrated PC Card. When I was dual booting with Win98 and Mandrake9.0, the card worked fine with both OS. I changed to Win98 and FBSD4.7. The card still works under