Re: Greybeards (Re: Netbooks & BSD)

2010-10-21 Thread Arthur Chance
On 10/20/10 23:07, Gary Kline wrote: On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 09:10:28PM +0100, Arthur Chance wrote: On 10/20/10 20:46, Bob Hall wrote: On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 12:07:55PM -0500, Tim Daneliuk wrote: On 10/20/2010 11:55 AM, Gary Kline wrote: On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 12:47:38AM -0700, per...@pluto

Re: Greybeards (Re: Netbooks & BSD)

2010-10-21 Thread perryh
"Svein Skogen (Listmail account)" wrote: > On 20.10.2010 09:47, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: > > Matthias Apitz wrote: > >> El d?a Tuesday, October 19, 2010 a las 07:29:46PM -0700, Gary Kline > >> escribi?: > >>> PS: I really _was_ current on hardware stuff. Back in the VAX > >>> 780 days :-)

Re: Netbooks & BSD

2010-10-21 Thread four . harrisons
Sorry for top posting - I'm stuck on my phone. I successfully installed FreeBSD on my Lenovo Ideapad before the memstick image was available by pulling the circuitry guts out of a USB HD and hooking it to a standard internal IDE CD-ROM. Wasn't pretty, but it worked. Best avoiding Ideapads gener

Re: need help with php.

2010-10-21 Thread four . harrisons
Sorry for top posting - I'm stuck on my phone. Shouldn't that be: use perl; ;-) Peter Harrison www.4harrisons.blogspot.com - From: "Alejandro Imass" Subject:Re: need help with php. Date: 20th October 2010 21:28 On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 1:49 PM,

Re: HP METAL FUSER FILM SLEEVE

2010-10-21 Thread JACK
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Re: Greybeards (Re: Netbooks & BSD)

2010-10-21 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi, Reference: > From: David Brodbeck > Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2010 14:58:40 -0700 > Message-id: David Brodbeck wrote: > On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 1:10 PM, Arthur Chance wrote: > > On 10/20/10 20:46, Bob Hall wrote: > > Getting back to reality, although I never did it (fortunately

Re: Greybeards (Re: Netbooks & BSD)

2010-10-21 Thread krad
On 20 October 2010 21:10, Arthur Chance wrote: > On 10/20/10 20:46, Bob Hall wrote: > >> On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 12:07:55PM -0500, Tim Daneliuk wrote: >> >>> On 10/20/2010 11:55 AM, Gary Kline wrote: >>> On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 12:47:38AM -0700, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: > Matthi

How FreeBSD Handles a DNS that is Down

2010-10-21 Thread Martin McCormick
This is an extremely novice question on my part, but after what I recently witnessed, I am not so sure I understand all I know. The normal procedure on internet-connected systems is to set the resolv.conf file to include at least 2 domain name servers. Example: nameserver 139

Re: Greybeards (Re: Netbooks & BSD)

2010-10-21 Thread Robert Bonomi
> From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Wed Oct 20 15:04:17 2010 > From: Mike Jeays > To: Bob Hall , > FreeBSD Mailing List > Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2010 16:05:34 -0400 > Cc: > Subject: Re: Greybeards (Re: Netbooks & BSD) > > On October 20, 2010 03:46:06 pm Bob Hall wrote: > > On Wed, Oct

Re: Greybeards (Re: Netbooks & BSD)

2010-10-21 Thread Robert Bonomi
> From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Thu Oct 21 02:18:28 2010 > Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2010 08:20:07 +0100 > From: Arthur Chance > To: FreeBSD-Questions > Subject: Re: Greybeards (Re: Netbooks & BSD) > > On 10/20/10 23:07, Gary Kline wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 09:10:28PM +0100, Arthur C

Re: How FreeBSD Handles a DNS that is Down

2010-10-21 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Thursday, October 21, 2010 a las 06:22:15AM -0500, Martin McCormick escribió: > This is an extremely novice question on my part, but > after what I recently witnessed, I am not so sure I understand > all I know. > > The normal procedure on internet-connected systems is to > se

Re: How FreeBSD Handles a DNS that is Down

2010-10-21 Thread RW
On Thu, 21 Oct 2010 06:22:15 -0500 Martin McCormick wrote: > Last night, I had to take down our primary DNS for > maintenance and lots of systems began having trouble of various > kinds. > > While I expected the FreeBSD system I was on to hang for > a couple of seconds and then start

Re: Netbooks & BSD

2010-10-21 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 20 Oct 2010 14:54:21 -0700, David Brodbeck wrote: > Fortunately, USB mass storage devices are highly standardized. One of > the things they got right. Highly, but not fully. In some cases, manufacturers "know better" and produce memory sticks that don't work on FreeBSD as they do require

Re: Greybeards (Re: Netbooks & BSD)

2010-10-21 Thread RW
On Wed, 20 Oct 2010 21:10:28 +0100 Arthur Chance wrote: > 50s) had the experience of programming microcode on a machine by > inserting brass slugs for 0s and ferrite slugs for 1s on a pin board. I wonder why it was brass/ferrite rather than brass/empty or ferrite/empty.

freeradius snmp support

2010-10-21 Thread Omer Faruk SEN
Hi, I have read in this mailing list that snmp support of freeradius (radiusd) has some issues and it was removed. What is the current (as of 2.1.10) status of snmp support in radiusd? Regards. PS: I may have fully misunderstood this issue because it had been really very long time. I couldn't

Re: Greybeards (Re: Netbooks & BSD)

2010-10-21 Thread Arthur Chance
On 10/21/10 13:38, RW wrote: On Wed, 20 Oct 2010 21:10:28 +0100 Arthur Chance wrote: 50s) had the experience of programming microcode on a machine by inserting brass slugs for 0s and ferrite slugs for 1s on a pin board. I wonder why it was brass/ferrite rather than brass/empty or ferrite/em

Re: Greybeards (Re: Netbooks & BSD)

2010-10-21 Thread Alex Stangl
On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 01:38:44PM +0100, RW wrote: > On Wed, 20 Oct 2010 21:10:28 +0100 > Arthur Chance wrote: > > 50s) had the experience of programming microcode on a machine by > > inserting brass slugs for 0s and ferrite slugs for 1s on a pin board. > > I wonder why it was brass/ferrite rath

Re: Netbooks & BSD

2010-10-21 Thread RW
On Thu, 21 Oct 2010 14:33:46 +0200 Polytropon wrote: > I couldn't not format it (it was some FAT format on it) as it > detached from the system by itself as soon as accessed. It might just have been faulty. If it couldn't be accessed as a normal device, how would the driver get installed in the

Re: need help with php.

2010-10-21 Thread Alejandro Imass
On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 4:53 AM, wrote: > Sorry for top posting - I'm stuck on my phone. > > Shouldn't that be: > > use perl; > That is correct sir! ;-) > ;-) > > Peter Harrison > www.4harrisons.blogspot.com > ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: Netbooks & BSD

2010-10-21 Thread Antonio Olivares
On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 7:33 AM, Polytropon wrote: > On Wed, 20 Oct 2010 14:54:21 -0700, David Brodbeck wrote: >> Fortunately, USB mass storage devices are highly standardized.  One of >> the things they got right. > > Highly, but not fully. In some cases, manufacturers "know better" > and produc

Re: Netbooks & BSD

2010-10-21 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 21 Oct 2010 09:01:56 -0500, Antonio Olivares wrote: > This is true. I had some problems making a usb mouse work, but I had > to manually plug it in to different usb slots till it worked from the > start. The keyboard(usb) sometimes takes a while longer to respond > than the PS2 one, but

Re: Netbooks & BSD

2010-10-21 Thread Lowell Gilbert
David Brodbeck writes: > On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 2:42 PM, Lowell Gilbert > wrote: >> The plug isn't the issue.  Drivers are. > > Fortunately, USB mass storage devices are highly standardized. One of > the things they got right. ATAPI devices passed through a converter to USB often don't work a

Re: Greybeards (Re: Netbooks & BSD)

2010-10-21 Thread RW
On Thu, 21 Oct 2010 14:32:23 +0100 Arthur Chance wrote: > On 10/21/10 13:38, RW wrote: > > On Wed, 20 Oct 2010 21:10:28 +0100 > > Arthur Chance wrote: > > > > > >> 50s) had the experience of programming microcode on a machine by > >> inserting brass slugs for 0s and ferrite slugs for 1s on a pin

Re: Greybeards (Re: Netbooks & BSD)

2010-10-21 Thread Henry Olyer
My first machine was an IBM 1620, but hey, at least we had an actual disk. A couple of 2311's. To quote a fellow I used to consult for, two days' I had solved a particularly nasty programming problem for his company, "But what have you done for us lately?" On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 10:57 AM, RW

/usr/local/lib/compat and /usr/local/lib/compat/pkg

2010-10-21 Thread Joe Auty
The other night I spent some frustrating time discovering that after updating from 7.2 to 8.1, for some reason some of the libraries in /usr/local/lib/compat/pkg were 32 bit on my 64 bit system which was causing several of my binaries to generate "unsupported filesystem layout" errors. I ended up c

Re: /usr/local/lib/compat and /usr/local/lib/compat/pkg

2010-10-21 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Oct 21), Joe Auty said: > The other night I spent some frustrating time discovering that after > updating from 7.2 to 8.1, for some reason some of the libraries in > /usr/local/lib/compat/pkg were 32 bit on my 64 bit system which was > causing several of my binaries to generate

Re: Netbooks & BSD

2010-10-21 Thread Jerry
On Thu, 21 Oct 2010 14:33:46 +0200 Polytropon articulated: > umass0: on > uhub2 da0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 > da0: Removable Direct Access SCSI-0 > device da0: 40.000MB/s transfers > da0: Attempt to query device size failed: UNIT ATTENTION, Medium not > present umass0: at uhub2 port

Re: /usr/local/lib/compat and /usr/local/lib/compat/pkg

2010-10-21 Thread Joe Auty
Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (Oct 21), Joe Auty said: >> The other night I spent some frustrating time discovering that after >> updating from 7.2 to 8.1, for some reason some of the libraries in >> /usr/local/lib/compat/pkg were 32 bit on my 64 bit system which was >> causing several of

Re: Netbooks & BSD

2010-10-21 Thread Gary Kline
On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 02:26:36PM -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote: > > Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2010 14:15:46 -0700 > > From: Gary Kline > > Sender: owner-freebsd-mob...@freebsd.org > > > > On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 11:32:01AM -0700, David Brodbeck wrote: > > > On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 10:32 AM, Gary Kline wr

Anybody know what causes "movie player" to return "ERR"?

2010-10-21 Thread Gary Kline
I don't think this is OS-specific, but this morning I *wasted* a few hours trying to watch a DVD of "Dr. Strangelove." I tried to dd the iso into /usr/tmp, but that errored out too. No, I have 0.0 intent of wasting the diskspace on movies, but just wonder if why /dev/dvd and /media fail. Ubuntu

Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode

2010-10-21 Thread Michael Stellar
Hi, I have got these after running Freebsd 8.1 Release p1 Amd64 for a couple hours, i have done kernel debugging it seems has anything to do with sched_ule? : admin# kgdb kernel.debug /var/crash/vmcore.0 GNU gdb 6.1.1 [FreeBSD] Copyright 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GDB is free software,

Re: Netbooks & BSD

2010-10-21 Thread Ian Smith
On Thu, 21 Oct 2010, Gary Kline wrote: > On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 02:26:36PM -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote: > > > Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2010 14:15:46 -0700 > > > From: Gary Kline [..] > > > The thing about the memsticks is that on my tower cases, you > > > have to get down and crawl around and find