upgrade of portupgrade to 2.4.9,2

2011-08-21 Thread n dhert
I did a portupgrade on a freebsd 8.2-RELEASE of the portupgrade program itself portupgrade-2.4.8_1,2 needs updating (index has 2.4.9,2) (that upgraded also ruby to 1.9: ... === Cleaning for ruby-1.9.2.290,1 === Cleaning for ruby19-bdb-0.6.6 === Cleaning for libffi-3.0.9 ===

Re: amarok doesn't support id3v2?

2011-08-21 Thread Tijl Coosemans
On Saturday 20 August 2011 22:31:18 Conrad J. Sabatier wrote: On Sat, 20 Aug 2011 12:10:01 -0500 Conrad J. Sabatier conr...@cox.net wrote: On Sat, 20 Aug 2011 10:22:28 +0200 Tijl Coosemans t...@coosemans.org wrote: I suspect taglib uses id3v2.4 whereas id3lib (used by id3v2 port) only

Re: A quality operating system

2011-08-21 Thread Ryan Coleman
On Aug 21, 2011, at 10:11 AM, Adam Vande More wrote: On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 9:46 PM, Daniel Staal dst...@usa.net wrote: --As of August 20, 2011 7:01:07 PM -0700, Carl G Smith is alleged to have said: I have heard that the OS X OS is based on FreeBSD. Is this true? --As for the

Re: ZFS and NFS or CIFS

2011-08-21 Thread Daniel Staal
--As of August 19, 2011 1:43:23 AM -0400, Chris Brennan is alleged to have said: I have several ZFS volumes set up on my FreeBSD 8.2 (32-bit) server at home and I am trying to figure out how to set up a NFS and/or CIFS share of the various volumes I have created and for the life of me, I can't

Re: A quality operating system

2011-08-21 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 11:13:32PM -0500, Jorge Biquez wrote: Hello. ;=) Thanks for the comments.. :=) No, I am curious what they decided to use that covers all the points , at least better that FreeBSD. Seriously I would like to see or hear about the comparison chart between all

What dialup modem WILL work with 8.x and uart?

2011-08-21 Thread Lars Eighner
Okay, I'm back. I sprang for Gentoo and Fedora 15 distribution discs, and now I seem to have a nice, but expensive, set of coasters because apparently all of Linux has gone tiny console fonts at something like 170x48 resolution (and really are turning themselves into Gnome machines that totally

Re: A quality operating system

2011-08-21 Thread Christian Barthel
On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 11:13:32PM -0500, Jorge Biquez wrote: Hello. ;=) Thanks for the comments.. :=) No, I am curious what they decided to use that covers all the points , at least better that FreeBSD. Seriously I would like to see or hear about the comparison chart between all

Re: A quality operating system

2011-08-21 Thread Alejandro Imass
On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 12:47 AM, Evan Busch antiequal...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Hi Evan, I think your post should spark a reality check for many here but I come from the Linux world and I must say that at least in all tthe techincal aspects my experience has been completely different, so I have

Re: A quality operating system

2011-08-21 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 21/08/2011 05:13, Jorge Biquez wrote: if for some reason, I know it is impossible, but if for some reason FreeBSD would stop existing... serious users of FreeBSD, what would be your next OS? If the FreeBSD project disbanded (for some unimaginable reason), then I guess I'd have to choose an

Firefox consistently inconsistent in the playing of videos

2011-08-21 Thread Carmel
I am trying to figure out why some video files play fine while others simply do not work at all. This would be the latest example: http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-august-11-2011/lactate-intolerance It works fine on a Windows machine with IE (no surprise there); however, using Firefox 6.0

Re: Firefox consistently inconsistent in the playing of videos

2011-08-21 Thread Adam Vande More
On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 4:12 PM, Carmel carmel...@hotmail.com wrote: I am trying to figure out why some video files play fine while others simply do not work at all. This would be the latest example: http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-august-11-2011/lactate-intolerance Video plays

Re: Firefox consistently inconsistent in the playing of videos

2011-08-21 Thread Edwin L. Culp W.
On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 4:12 PM, Carmel carmel...@hotmail.com wrote: I am trying to figure out why some video files play fine while others simply do not work at all. This would be the latest example: http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-august-11-2011/lactate-intolerance I'm running FreeBSD

Re: Firefox consistently inconsistent in the playing of videos

2011-08-21 Thread Conrad J. Sabatier
On Sun, 21 Aug 2011 17:12:56 -0400 Carmel carmel...@hotmail.com wrote: I am trying to figure out why some video files play fine while others simply do not work at all. This would be the latest example: http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-august-11-2011/lactate-intolerance It works fine

Re: How much memory does ZFS use?

2011-08-21 Thread RW
On Sat, 20 Aug 2011 11:38:27 -0700 Yuri wrote: Someone told me that ZFS is a memory hog and it should be avoided as such. Is this true? I wonder if this might be a mix-up between virtual and physical memory. It's use of address space can be prohibitive on i386.

Re: Firefox consistently inconsistent in the playing of videos

2011-08-21 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 21 Aug 2011, Carmel wrote: I am trying to figure out why some video files play fine while others simply do not work at all. This would be the latest example: http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-august-11-2011/lactate-intolerance Works here on 8.2-stable i386, Firefox 6. Remember

Ezjail freebsd-update

2011-08-21 Thread Rocky Borg
I had an opportunity to upgrade a server from freebsd 8.1 to 8.2 since it had to be restarted any way. I upgraded it with freebsd-update and compiled a custom kernel with no problem. However I haven't been able to find a procedure for updating jails when they've been setup with ezjail. I did

Re: Parklogic making a mess

2011-08-21 Thread parklogic
Bernt Hansson wrote: 2010-08-22 00:48, Bruce Cran skrev: On Sat, 21 Aug 2010 17:35:57 +0200 Svein Skogenlt;sv...@stillbilde.netgt; wrote: Anybody else seem to get these header-falsified messages lately: I think anyone who posts to freebsd-questions is probably getting them. I haven't