Re: Fast personal printing _without_ CUPS

2011-10-30 Thread Frank Shute
On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 07:28:24AM -0400, Jerry wrote: You cannot even get a decent N - protocol wireless device, or even a not so decent one for that matter, to work on FreeBSD while the rest of the world has had working solutions for 5 years. What the hell are they waiting for -- the second

Re: Wine-fbsd64 updated to 1.3.31 (32bit Wine for 64bit FreeBSD)

2011-10-30 Thread Romain Garbage
2011/10/25 David Naylor naylor.b.da...@gmail.com: Hi, Hi, Packages [1] for wine-fbsd64-1.3.31 have been uploaded to mediafire [2] and the wine-fbsd64.diff patch has been updated.  There is a known UDP related problem with wine (see http://markmail.org/message/i7rtfz7uxd5s4fvl for details).

[OFFTOPIC] Solution for school lab

2011-10-30 Thread Peter
Hi, I am about to setup a small PC lab for teaching operating systems. Since computers will need to be used for teaching Windows/Unix(FreeBsd)/Linux(Novell) I need to find a way: 1. Systems to coexists on the same hardware 2. Easily restore system images to the initial state. I do not want we

Re: [OFFTOPIC] Solution for school lab

2011-10-30 Thread Rares Aioanei
On Sun, 30 Oct 2011 12:01:20 +0200 Peter pe...@aboutsupport.com wrote: Hi, I am about to setup a small PC lab for teaching operating systems. Since computers will need to be used for teaching Windows/Unix(FreeBsd)/Linux(Novell) I need to find a way: 1. Systems to coexists on the same

Re: [OFFTOPIC] Solution for school lab

2011-10-30 Thread Mark Blackman
On 30 Oct 2011, at 10:01, Peter wrote: Hi, I am about to setup a small PC lab for teaching operating systems. Since computers will need to be used for teaching Windows/Unix(FreeBsd)/Linux(Novell) I need to find a way: 1. Systems to coexists on the same hardware 2. Easily restore system

Re: Fast personal printing _without_ CUPS

2011-10-30 Thread Jerry
On Sun, 30 Oct 2011 08:25:11 + Frank Shute articulated: On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 07:28:24AM -0400, Jerry wrote: You cannot even get a decent N - protocol wireless device, or even a not so decent one for that matter, to work on FreeBSD while the rest of the world has had working

Re: Fast personal printing _without_ CUPS

2011-10-30 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 1:13 PM, Jerry je...@seibercom.net wrote: The biggest loser in this is FreeBSD itself. Virtually any new PC or laptop, with the exception of the bargain basement brands, and even some of them are exempt, now come with N protocol wireless devices. Instead of devoting so

Re: Wine-fbsd64 updated to 1.3.31 (32bit Wine for 64bit FreeBSD)

2011-10-30 Thread David Naylor
Hi Romain, Thank you for the report. I will address this over the coming week and update the packages. In the interim, the packages will work for both nvidia and non-nvidia users except nvidia users will need to run patch-nvidia-wine.sh (from mediafire) manually... Regards On 30 October 2011

Re: Fast personal printing _without_ CUPS

2011-10-30 Thread Jerry
On Sun, 30 Oct 2011 13:59:58 +0100 C. P. Ghost articulated: On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 1:13 PM, Jerry je...@seibercom.net wrote: The biggest loser in this is FreeBSD itself. Virtually any new PC or laptop, with the exception of the bargain basement brands, and even some of them are exempt,

Re: Fast personal printing _without_ CUPS

2011-10-30 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 30 Oct 2011 09:48:08 -0400, Jerry wrote: On Sun, 30 Oct 2011 13:59:58 +0100 C. P. Ghost articulated: On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 1:13 PM, Jerry je...@seibercom.net wrote: The biggest loser in this is FreeBSD itself. Virtually any new PC or laptop, with the exception of the bargain

question regarding style(9) and field initialisers in structs

2011-10-30 Thread Alexander Best
hi there, i found hundreds of the following cases in the FreeBSD src: [...] struct periph_driver { periph_init_func_t init; char*driver_name; TAILQ_HEAD(,cam_periph) units; u_int generation; u_int

Solution for school lab

2011-10-30 Thread Sergio de Almeida Lenzi
I use a solution that is: 1) a large Freebsd box (phenon X4,8Gb of memory, 1TB disk) 2) OS=Freebsd 8.2 with all gnome2.32 installed 3) Virtualbox 10.x installed in FreeBSD 4) NT 2003 server with unlimited number of users on rdp (the iso is in internet or torrent). 5) internet connection Here this

Re: Solution for school lab

2011-10-30 Thread Dennis Glatting
On Sun, 30 Oct 2011, Sergio de Almeida Lenzi wrote: I use a solution that is: 1) a large Freebsd box (phenon X4,8Gb of memory, 1TB disk) 2) OS=Freebsd 8.2 with all gnome2.32 installed 3) Virtualbox 10.x installed in FreeBSD 4) NT 2003 server with unlimited number of users on rdp (the iso is

idletime in login.conf

2011-10-30 Thread Modulok
List, Goal: Automatically logoff users that are idle after 'x' minutes. Attempt: I added this to /etc/login.conf to the default login class: :idletime=10m: I then rebuilt the database: cap_mkdb /etc/login.conf Problem: It doesn't work. The 'w' command shows users idle for 20 minutes

Re: Solution for school lab

2011-10-30 Thread Sergio de Almeida Lenzi
Consider installing VMWare ESXi and instances of whatever operating system you like. We have template operating systems we copy to new/replacement instances. You can export your disks to the instances but with all things you gain some, you loose some. with the small machine (phenon 4,

The ports are really funcional?

2011-10-30 Thread Zantgo
What happens is that I tried to install things on the ports, but almost no one serves me, I've only been able to install firefox, I tried also install KDE, GNOME and KFCE, but I have been many errors, commonly solocionables, for example I had to modify REFRESH to true, but also to get out other

IPsec woes in 8.2

2011-10-30 Thread Michael Sierchio
I've been trying to upgrade a client firewall to 8.2, but have an odd problem. The current config, based on 7.4, has the firewall as an IPsec endpoint for other offices, but also is doing 1:1 NAT and passing L2TP traffic to a VPN endpoint inside the firewall. The upgrade to 8.2 breaks the L2TP

Re: The ports are really funcional?

2011-10-30 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 30 Oct 2011, Zantgo wrote: What happens is that I tried to install things on the ports, but almost no one serves me, I've only been able to install firefox, I tried also install KDE, GNOME and KFCE, but I have been many errors, commonly solocionables, for example I had to modify

Re: The ports are really funcional?

2011-10-30 Thread Zantgo
El 30-10-2011, a las 19:55, Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com escribió: On Sun, 30 Oct 2011, Zantgo wrote: What happens is that I tried to install things on the ports, but almost no one serves me, I've only been able to install firefox, I tried also install KDE, GNOME and KFCE, but I have

Re: [OFFTOPIC] Solution for school lab

2011-10-30 Thread Chris Whitehouse
On 30/10/2011 10:01, Peter wrote: Hi, I am about to setup a small PC lab for teaching operating systems. Since computers will need to be used for teaching Windows/Unix(FreeBsd)/Linux(Novell) I need to find a way: 1. Systems to coexists on the same hardware 2. Easily restore system images to

Re: The ports are really funcional?

2011-10-30 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 30 Oct 2011, Zantgo wrote: El 30-10-2011, a las 19:55, Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com escribi?: On Sun, 30 Oct 2011, Zantgo wrote: What happens is that I tried to install things on the ports, but almost no one serves me, I've only been able to install firefox, I tried also install

Re: The ports are really funcional?

2011-10-30 Thread Neal Hogan
u . . . this person has been doing similar hold-my-hand-I-do-not-want-to-take-the-time kinda thing on the oBSD lists recently. On 10/30/11, Zantgo zan...@gmail.com wrote: El 30-10-2011, a las 19:55, Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com escribió: On Sun, 30 Oct 2011, Zantgo wrote: What

Re: The ports are really funcional?

2011-10-30 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 30 Oct 2011 18:19:16 -0300, Zantgo wrote: What happens is that I tried to install things on the ports, but almost no one serves me, I've only been able to install firefox, I tried also install KDE, GNOME and KFCE, but I have been many errors, commonly solocionables, for example I had

Re: The ports are really funcional?

2011-10-30 Thread Alejandro Imass
On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 5:19 PM, Zantgo zan...@gmail.com wrote: What happens is that I tried to install things on the ports, but almost no one serves me, I've only been able to install firefox, I tried also install KDE, GNOME and KFCE, but I have been many errors, commonly solocionables, for

Re: nice man pages?

2011-10-30 Thread Eric Schuele
On 10/25/2011 20:20, Patrick Lamaiziere wrote: Hello, I use sysutils/most to have nice manual pages in color, that's cool but is there a way to do this with the base system (ie without adding port)? Thanks, regards. ___

Re: The ports are really funcional?

2011-10-30 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 30 Oct 2011 22:36:44 -0400, Alejandro Imass wrote: For very large packages such as the graphics system, open or libre office etc. it's much better to use binary versions via pkg_add. It's a waste of time to compile these very large suites and most of the time you will get the config