I'm really upset with my new computer
I can't even log in without permission errors, yet all the files in my home directory are rob.rob permissions. I end up at the root directory where all homeless users end up Nvidia video doesn't work. I downloaded the latest binary from Nvidia and I don't know where it went on my computer. I'm just having a bad day. BTW Win XP is working flawlessly, just to rub it in. This is Dell 8600 laptop. I just needed to rant and complain. It will get figured out in time. I remember when I bought my Sony laptop I had a whole crop of similar problems. Rob ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: I'm really upset with my new computer
I've heard that Sony and Dell don't support UNIX permissions on their proprietary hard drives. Stick with WinXP for now until a patch is committed into the source tree. -Craig - Original Message - From: Rob2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 09, 2004 12:41 PM Subject: I'm really upset with my new computer I can't even log in without permission errors, yet all the files in my home directory are rob.rob permissions. I end up at the root directory where all homeless users end up Nvidia video doesn't work. I downloaded the latest binary from Nvidia and I don't know where it went on my computer. I'm just having a bad day. BTW Win XP is working flawlessly, just to rub it in. This is Dell 8600 laptop. I just needed to rant and complain. It will get figured out in time. I remember when I bought my Sony laptop I had a whole crop of similar problems. Rob ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: I'm really upset with my new computer
This might help http://www.angermgmt.com/angertoolkit.html Jay -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rob2 Sent: Monday, February 09, 2004 12:41 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: I'm really upset with my new computer I can't even log in without permission errors, yet all the files in my home directory are rob.rob permissions. I end up at the root directory where all homeless users end up Nvidia video doesn't work. I downloaded the latest binary from Nvidia and I don't know where it went on my computer. I'm just having a bad day. BTW Win XP is working flawlessly, just to rub it in. This is Dell 8600 laptop. I just needed to rant and complain. It will get figured out in time. I remember when I bought my Sony laptop I had a whole crop of similar problems. Rob ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: I'm really upset with my new computer
I've heard that Sony and Dell don't support UNIX permissions on their proprietary hard drives. Stick with WinXP for now until a patch is committed into the source tree. That doesn't make any sense. No hard drive vendor supports UNIX permissions on their hard drives. File permissions are completely a software thing and have little to do with the hardware underneath - as long as the hardware works at all. Now, WinXP does NOT support UNIX file permissions... Ditch it and get a real OS! (I have FreeBSD installed on lots of Dell machines including the one I am currently typing on and file permissions work just fine) jerry -Craig - Original Message - From: Rob2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 09, 2004 12:41 PM Subject: I'm really upset with my new computer I can't even log in without permission errors, yet all the files in my home directory are rob.rob permissions. I end up at the root directory where all homeless users end up Nvidia video doesn't work. I downloaded the latest binary from Nvidia and I don't know where it went on my computer. I'm just having a bad day. BTW Win XP is working flawlessly, just to rub it in. This is Dell 8600 laptop. I just needed to rant and complain. It will get figured out in time. I remember when I bought my Sony laptop I had a whole crop of similar problems. Rob ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: I'm really upset with my new computer
On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 02:09:15PM -0500, Craig Reyenga wrote: I've heard that Sony and Dell don't support UNIX permissions on their proprietary hard drives. Stick with WinXP for now until a patch is committed into the source tree. I'm a little confused on how a hd from dell or sony could prevent unix permissions from working as any hd with store whatever kind of data you tell it, they no nothing about what that data means. The UNIX permissions are handled entirely in software. I've never heard of any kind of problem like this before, perhaps you could enlighten me? -Craig - Original Message - From: Rob2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 09, 2004 12:41 PM Subject: I'm really upset with my new computer I can't even log in without permission errors, yet all the files in my home directory are rob.rob permissions. I end up at the root directory where all homeless users end up Nvidia video doesn't work. I downloaded the latest binary from Nvidia and I don't know where it went on my computer. I'm just having a bad day. BTW Win XP is working flawlessly, just to rub it in. This is Dell 8600 laptop. I just needed to rant and complain. It will get figured out in time. I remember when I bought my Sony laptop I had a whole crop of similar problems. Rob ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- I sense much NT in you. NT leads to Bluescreen. Bluescreen leads to downtime. Downtime leads to suffering. NT is the path to the darkside. Powerful Unix is. Public Key: ftp://ftp.tallye.com/pub/lorenl_pubkey.asc Fingerprint: B3B9 D669 69C9 09EC 1BCD 835A FAF3 7A46 E4A3 280C pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
RE: I'm really upset with my new computer
Jerry McAllister wrote: I've heard that Sony and Dell don't support UNIX permissions on their proprietary hard drives. Stick with WinXP for now until a patch is committed into the source tree. That doesn't make any sense. No hard drive vendor supports UNIX permissions on their hard drives. File permissions are completely a software thing and have little to do with the hardware underneath - as long as the hardware works at all. Now, WinXP does NOT support UNIX file permissions... Ditch it and get a real OS! (I have FreeBSD installed on lots of Dell machines including the one I am currently typing on and file permissions work just fine) Ah, but did you ever check to see whether those machines had the proprietary hard drives fitted! ;) P.S. I think he's pulling someone's leg. Either that or he's had his pulled. Mind you, maybe it's a vision of the future with the DMCA and all... Write error on multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINNT: This disk only allows Microsoft file permissions to be written. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: I'm really upset with my new computer
Quoting Loren M. Lang [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 02:09:15PM -0500, Craig Reyenga wrote: I've heard that Sony and Dell don't support UNIX permissions on their proprietary hard drives. Stick with WinXP for now until a patch is committed into the source tree. I'm a little confused on how a hd from dell or sony could prevent unix permissions from working as any hd with store whatever kind of data you tell it, they no nothing about what that data means. The UNIX permissions are handled entirely in software. I've never heard of any kind of problem like this before, perhaps you could enlighten me? If I'm not mistaken, he was joking. Ken ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: I'm really upset with my new computer'
On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 09:41:07AM -0800, Rob2 wrote: I can't even log in without permission errors, yet all the files in my home directory are rob.rob permissions. I end up at the root directory where all homeless users end up What about permissions on /home, /usr, /usr/home? And the owner has permissions to read, write, and execute? What fs is the partition. Nvidia video doesn't work. I downloaded the latest binary from Nvidia and I don't know where it went on my computer. Can't help you much there, it depends on where you told it to save it as, though if you used mozilla to d/l it, you can try d/ling another file and see what directory mozilla tries to save it in. I've used that trick before when I forgot to tell it to save it in the right location. I'm just having a bad day. BTW Win XP is working flawlessly, just to rub it in. This is Dell 8600 laptop. I just needed to rant and complain. It will get figured out in time. I remember when I bought my Sony laptop I had a whole crop of similar problems. If you really want help with this, it would be nice if you asked with a little less whining and trying to tell us how well XP is working doesn't help much either. If FreeBSD was worked as flawless and easy as XP in the areas where XP is better than there would be no reason for anyone to use XP anymore and the world would convert to FreeBSD. Rob ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- I sense much NT in you. NT leads to Bluescreen. Bluescreen leads to downtime. Downtime leads to suffering. NT is the path to the darkside. Powerful Unix is. Public Key: ftp://ftp.tallye.com/pub/lorenl_pubkey.asc Fingerprint: B3B9 D669 69C9 09EC 1BCD 835A FAF3 7A46 E4A3 280C pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: I'm really upset with my new computer
On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 02:43:22PM -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote: I've heard that Sony and Dell don't support UNIX permissions on their proprietary hard drives. Stick with WinXP for now until a patch is committed into the source tree. That doesn't make any sense. No hard drive vendor supports UNIX Uh... Jerry, I think the UNIX permissions remark is a joke. I suppose. Kind of a sick troll, huh. jerry ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: I'm really upset with my new computer
The name of this list is FreeBSD-Questions. U, do you have a question? Chris Rob2 wrote: I can't even log in without permission errors, yet all the files in my home directory are rob.rob permissions. I end up at the root directory where all homeless users end up Nvidia video doesn't work. I downloaded the latest binary from Nvidia and I don't know where it went on my computer. I'm just having a bad day. BTW Win XP is working flawlessly, just to rub it in. This is Dell 8600 laptop. I just needed to rant and complain. It will get figured out in time. I remember when I bought my Sony laptop I had a whole crop of similar problems. Rob ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Christopher Hollow - Technical Consultant Infrastructure Technology Support Toronto, ON ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: I'm really upset with my new computer
in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote Rob2 thusly... Nvidia video doesn't work. I downloaded the latest binary from Nvidia and I don't know where it went on my computer. I'm just having a bad day. BTW Win XP is working flawlessly, just to rub it in. This is Dell 8600 laptop. I just needed to rant and complain. It will get figured out in time. I remember when I bought my Sony laptop I had a whole crop of similar problems. Throw it my way, i will see what i can do w/ it... on the second thought, now that 3 years of warranty has ended on my Dell i5000e and a few days ago was having w/ startup (as in *no* response on pressing the power button), i am not sure i would want anoter Dell ... - Parv -- ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
