Re: Broken multimedia/dvdauthor repaired at last

Hi, Reference: > From: Harald Weis > Date: Sun, 29 Nov 2009 16:43:14 +0100 > Message-id: <20091129154314.ga2...@pollux.local.net> Harald Weis wrote: > I just found a way to ''repair'' dvdauthor which is broken since several > months. > It suffices to comment two lines - 1082

Re: Root exploit for FreeBSD

> Fortuantely, I had no problem setting up a "black" FreeBSD box to > preserve my sanity. A tip for those threatened with no BSD box at work: FreeBSD runs fine _inside_ a box that looks like a multi sheet scanner. OK, slow, but invisible to managers who require MS only. These scanners often lie a

Re: Technical Support Question

Chip Oakley wrote: > Hello, > > I am upgrading to BSD from windows. > > I am having complications with an old password from Windows that I cannot > remember. > > I created an ISO Boot CD on another computer and installed it and made sure > to set the BIOS to boot from CD, to no avail. There's 2

Re: How to prevent gam_server from running?

"Conrad J. Sabatier" wrote > Any clues, anyone? I'm really worn out from trying to solve this one. I've not heard of gam_server but try cd /var/db/pkg/gam_server* ; more ./+REQUIRED_BY same result with pkg_info -R gam_server* BTW for window manager I have been using /usr/ports/

Re: Technical Support Question (fwd)

Hi, Please keep on list so others can help you too. Forwarded from: "Julian Stacey" http://www.berklix.com/~jhs/ --- Forwarded Message >From silverskymus...@gmail.com Thu Feb 16 16:20:10 2012 To: "Julian H. Stacey" Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=00151

Re: Technical Support Question

> You claim to have made a CD on nother machine. Will _that_ machine boot from > the CD you made? If not, you made the CD incorrectly. Good point Chip Oakley Please first make sure you are subscribed to this list freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, as I see you have fallen off cc l

Re: Technical Support Question

> Am tempted to remove the drive and insert a new one, not sure as there is > memory on the drive available and nothing really wrong with it. I suggest temporarily disconnect data cable of old disc, (no need to unscrew it & replace with another hard disc yet), Then push reset, & see if the raw PC

Re: Maildir Format

Hi, Reference: > From: APseudoUtopia > Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 12:16:29 -0500 > Message-id: > APseudoUtopia wrote: > Hello, > > I'm setting up the email system on my server. I got rid of sendmail > and installed postfix, and I will be installing dovecot. I researched > the

Re: One or Four?

> We'd like a show of hands to see if folks prefer the "old" style default > with 4 partitions and swap, or the newer iteration with 1 partition and > swap. I've been doing Unix 30+ years, so there's a tendency to respond "Multiple", 'cos seeing a single 1 partition on a system normaly meant it

Re: One or Four?

"Robison, Dave" wrote: > On 02/17/2012 15:22, Julian H. Stacey wrote: > > > > > >> Let the majority decide which layout is preferred for the default. > > No. Bad idea. Not on questions@, the list of the least clued up, > > the list raw beginners are

Re: One or Four?

Hi, Reference: > From: Daniel Staal > Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2012 11:10:57 -0500 > Message-id: Daniel Staal wrote: > --As of February 19, 2012 3:30:15 PM +0100, Julian H. Stacey is alleged to > have said: > > > Beside the point: the Wrong list was

add see also swapinfo to man df

>Submitter-Id: current-users >Originator:Julian H. Stacey >Organization: http://berklix.com BSD Linux Unix Consultancy, Munich/Muenchen. >Confidential: no >Synopsis: add see also swapinfo to man df >Severity: non-critical >Priority: low >C

Re: Which mailinglist is appropriate for discussing uart changes?

Frank Shute wrote: > On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 07:10:30PM +0100, Terrence Koeman wrote: > > > > Could someone point me to the right mailinglist to discuss adding > > support for the MCS9904 chip to uart? I'm working on it, but I have > > some questions regarding FIFO sizes and how they are currently

Re: One or Four?

> > I remember when & why the list was set up. > > See src/ etc/motd > > Wow, you must be old. Unless you are clueless, it's trivial to find when questions@ was created, & easy to find when motd pointed to questions, those dates are insufficient to predicate age. > I don't see how this is so OT

Re: One or Four?

Jerry wrote: > So, the OP posted a question about normal and/or preferred use > of FreeBSD and people responded. Or do you consider this thread > to be too technical? Maybe the discussion could fit in Hackers. Yes, hackers@Would have been a better choice. sysinstall@ Perhaps yet

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Arthur Chance wrote: > DO NOT FEED THE TROLL! Well spotted & said :-) > Not only is "Al Hadith" the Islamic term for the teachings and acts of > the Islamic prophet Muhammad, but the To: field had 388 other addresses > in it. It's a nasty troll. Those 388 probably explain why I just saw on a

Re: Security? [Re: Why is this Symbol in the front of your website. A humble request.]

=?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= wrote: > "Dave" writes: > > Also, just where did he originaly harvest all those addresses from, are > > they publicly available, or is there a gaping hole in some server > > somewhere. > > It is public information: > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO88

Re: Converting C++ to C

per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: > Some early implementations of C++ operated as preprocessors > that emitted C code. Is there any current tool that will do > that? I didn't recognize any such option in the g++ manpage, > although I suppose it's possible that one of the -fdump-tree- > options would c

Re: Why is this Symbol in the front of your website. A humble request.

Erich Dollansky wrote: > Hi, > > On Friday 24 February 2012 14:14:32 Matthew Seaman wrote: > > On 24/02/2012 06:59, Erich Dollansky wrote: > > > I live in Asia and they really have these things here. Just without the > > > horns. > > > > That would be what most people call a "ball." They have t

Re: Why is this Symbol in the front of your website. A humble request.

> > cm = 1") diameter, pack of 2. Pick one up & it feels like an outer > > stainless steel shell, connected by springs to an inner weight. > > Reflex was to want to saw it apart to see what was inside, & how > > they assembled the 2 halves. I suppose spot welding, then circular > > rim welding, t

Re: clang vs gcc linking problem

Artifex Maximus wrote: > Hello! > > Absolutely not a flame war but would like to switch to clang in a > project. Project uses ncurses. gcc works well but the executable fails > when compiled other than -O0. Then I think I should change to clang > which will becomes the default compiler in FreeBSD.

Re: request a quote

jb wrote: > Mariusz Herman advatech.pl> writes: > > > > > Hi, > > > > I would be thankful, if you could send me price of 4-year support for > > FreeBSD. > > ... > > This may help (NetBSD and FreeBSD support comes in pairs): > http://netbsd.org/gallery/consultants.html http://berklix.com/cons

Re: question about SMTP-authentication

kamolpat wrote: > To whom it may concern: I hope you get a more useful reply than mine later, & no time here, sorry but I've had SASL-1 running fine for years FreeBSD both ends. Documented here, http://www.berklix.com/~jhs/txt/sasl.html There's various URLs there to SASL-2 Cheers, Julia

Re: What happened to FreeBSD.org DNS earlier today?

> No -- you were not imagining things. The DNS for freebsd.org was > temporarily broken. It was that most impossible to remove of causes: > human error. Thats good, as it means not sun spots aka EMP aka gammma :-) Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultants Munich ht

Re: Joseph Campbell on PBS today

Steve Bertrand wrote: > On 2012-03-11 11:38, Jerry wrote: > > On Sun, 11 Mar 2012 10:16:54 -0500 > > Conrad J. Sabatier articulated: > > > > {snip} > > > > WTF > > With this, the ReactOS crap, and the Microsoft sucks debacle, I woke up > this morning thinking it may be April 1st :) Yes. To

Re: Cacti

Olafiranye Olakunle wrote: > > What Commands to restart cacti ?please. Kunle You are too lazy to deserve help from that ! We are not mind readers, so work harder ! State what uname -a reports State what version of cacti you use. State if you read any/which docs. with package Fre

Re: Off-Topic: Computing for the Blind

Martin McCormick wrote: > There may be several people on this list who are blind, > meaning no usable vision to see a screen. I definitely fit that > description so I will gladly try to answer questions which ... Hi Martin, cc questions@ Might you be prepared to write a page for the FreeBSD

Re: need info builing ports properly

Mark Felder wrote: > My second suggestion is to please never ever ever mess with CFLAGS on > FreeBSD. You can get away with it on some Linux distros, but FreeBSD > strongly discourages it. Not true. eg I've set various CFLAGS for years. What FreeBSD requires is if one sets either CFLAGS or

Re: FreeBSD Stable Image

Hi, Reference: > From: Mike Barnard > Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 09:32:39 +0300 > Message-id: > Mike Barnard wrote: > On 29 March 2012 19:22, Matthew Seaman wrote: > > > On 29/03/2012 17:18, Matthew Seaman wrote: > > > On 29/03/2012 17:10, Mike Barnard wrote: > > >> Hi, > > >

Re: Printer recommendation please

Karel Miklav wrote: > Could you please recommend me a home printer that works nicely with FreeBSD? > > HP inkjets aren't that bad, FreeBSD drivers are allright, but I'd like > to shift towards some kind of PostScript laser. Xerox Phaser 6500 looks > nice, but I can not economically justify my ap

Re: FreeBSD Security in Multiuser Environments

Hi, Reference: > From: schu...@ime.usp.br > Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 22:44:16 -0300 > Message-id: <20120330224416.13643xk4rsfd2...@webmail.ime.usp.br> schu...@ime.usp.br wrote: > Hello, > > I would like to raise a discussion about the security features > of FreeBSD as a whole a

Re: FreeBSD Security in Multiuser Environments

Hi, Reference: > From: Da Rock > Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2012 21:25:37 +1000 > Message-id: <4f76e9b1.5040...@herveybayaustralia.com.au> Da Rock wrote: > On 03/31/12 17:46, Julian H. Stacey wrote: > > Hi, > > Reference: > >> From:

Re: FreeBSD's backwards webdesign / corporate identity

Tony, cc questions@ > I also hear > PostgreSQLis planning to sue FreeBSD for > stealing its design. URLs please. > I propose a new, supersimple look for FreeBSD based on > Helvetica. Requires Flash. 3rd party commercial bi

Re: FreeBSD's backwards webdesign / corporate identity

> Once i went to Dachau with my school year in the mid-eighties our ( Happened to interest me, as I happen to live nearish, & into history), But to avoid being off remit for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions I set Re

Re: Can FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE mount Ext3 file system ?

Hi, Reference: > From: Xavier > Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2012 22:25:28 +0200 > Message-id: > Xavier wrote: > On Sat, Apr 07, 2012 at 04:15:41PM -0400, ill...@gmail.com wrote: > > Hi, > > > On 7 April 2012 13:53, Xavier wrote: > > > Hi to all, > > > > > > I have: > > > > > > casa

Re: mounting ext2fs

> # kldload ext2fs > kldload: can't load ext2fs: File exists what does lsvfs show ? Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultants Munich http://berklix.com Reply below not above, cumulative like a play script, & indent with "> ". Format: Plain text. Not HTML, multipart/

Re: mounting ext2fs

> what does lsvfs show ? Maybe try: dd if=/dev/da0s1 count=20 of=/tmp/t ; file /tmp/t (it show interesting stuff on my /xp anyway ). Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultants Munich http://berklix.com Reply below not above, cumulative like a play script, & indent wi

Re: mounting ext2fs

> > what does lsvfs show ? > > Maybe try: dd if=/dev/da0s1 count=20 of=/tmp/t ; file /tmp/t > (it show interesting stuff on my /xp anyway ). kldstat # I guess that shows you have the module linked in too ? or else already compiled in config -x /boot/kernel/kernel | grep ext so a puzzle if all t

Re: Can FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE mount Ext3 file system ?

Hi, Reference: > From: RW > Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2012 14:13:19 +0100 > Message-id: <20120418141319.7cb8c...@gumby.homeunix.com> RW wrote: > On Wed, 18 Apr 2012 14:12:41 +0200 > Julian H. Stacey wrote: > > > > No mention of ext3 there, nor from

Re: "Cloud" software ?

Frank Bonnet wrote: > Hello > > I'm searching for a "cloud software" :-) > > More precisely we would like to offer to our students and professors > a kind of private cloud to access/manipulate their personnal data > from almost anywhere and with almost any devices ... > ( Personnal PC, Mac, smar

Re: "Cloud" software ?

> Well ... in short I need to let our users ( students + profs ) access > and share their data ( living in their UNIX home directories ) NFS + AMD > The access must be easy and possible from as much devices as possible. Aim for device drivers & servers that can interact as client & server pair

Re: kde4 on 8.3 and laptop

Hi, Reference: > From: "Brian W." > Date: Tue, 29 May 2012 22:48:20 -0700 > Message-id: > "Brian W." wrote: > On May 29, 2012 10:28 PM, "Gary Aitken" wrote: > > > > On 05/29/12 22:15, Jim Pazarena wrote: > > > I had kde3 running just fine on 8.2 on my laptop. > > > > > > I

Re: Address to reach human operator regarding problems with list?

Hi Tom + questions@ "Thomas Mueller" wrote: > When a list member has problems with the list that require contacting a human > list owner/operator, what is the address to send to? > > I received a probe message regarding messages to me that bounced, might have > been spams that slipped by the li

Re: Address to reach human operator regarding problems with list?

Hi Matthew cc questions@ & "Thomas Mueller" > Mailman has an adaptive system that scores you based on how many rejects > you generate in a certain time period. I didn't know that, nice :-) > If you log into mailman at eg. > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/options/freebsd-questions > you can s

Re: Address to reach human operator regarding problems with list?

Matthew Seaman wrote: > On 30/05/2012 14:09, Julian H. Stacey wrote: > >> If you log into mailman at eg. > >> > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/options/freebsd-questions > >> > you can see your current score. > > > I'm logged in there, >

Re: Why am I, Still subscribed and reading this list ?

Jason Hellenthal wrote: > Because... at some point it may return to normal without all the > bikeshedding and, I run because, I don't run because. Agreed ! Many replies were sent to Wrong lists. Original poster & respondents abused stable@ & questions@ Cross posting 2 lists un-necessaril

Re: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of?

jerr...@msu.edu wrote: > Quoting Kurt Buff : > > > UEFI considerations drive Fedora to pay MSFT to sign their kernel binaries > > http://cwonline.computerworld.com/t/8035515/1292406/565573/0/ > > > > This would seem to make compiling from source difficult. > > > > I don't see how this MS scam is

Re: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of?

> I do wonder about that. What incentive does the possesor of a signing key > have to keep it secret? Contract penalty clause maybe ? Lawyers ? Otherwise one of us would purchase a key for $99, & then publish the key so we could all forever more compile & boot our own kernels. But that would pr

Re: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of?

> > Contract penalty clause maybe ? Lawyers ? > > A limited-liability company with no assets is judgement-proof. There's set up & running costs (time & money), & other exposure http://berklix.com/~jhs/mecc/ltd_gmbh.html Easiest done by those who have done it before, One wo

Re: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of?

> > (cf. EULA) that you accept those "licensing of hardware". > Also, I think you'll find that such actions are already illegal > certainly in the UK, and I believe EU wide. Yes illegal for English law (England & Scotland have different contract laws). Contract terms given after money changes ha

Re: bug in /usr/bin/calendar: "Thu+1" doesn't match on 7th or December

Hi, Please report bugs with send-pr (cos bug reports to mail list get lost) See man send-pr If you can attach a patch to fix it, so much the better Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultants Munich http://berklix.com Reply below not above, cumulative like a pl

Re: UEFI Secure Boot Specs - And some sanity

grarpamp wrote: > Isn't there a lot of needless handwaving going on when the spec is > pretty clear that installing your own complete PKI tree will all > boil down to what is effectively a jumper on the motherboard? The hope for a jumper is insufficient. Cracking open laptops is no fun. It's not

Re: How do I determine support for $xx?

Hi Devin There were some great tips in your last post. Would be great if they couldfo in FreeBSD handbook somewhere. Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultants Munich http://berklix.com Reply below not above, cumulative like a play script, & indent with "> ". Format:

Re: prune ports tree?

Gary Aitken wrote: > Is it possible to specify that parts of the ports tree should never be used? Yes. Although as others pointed out it depend quite what you mean by that :-) Example setenv DUDS SomeEndPortToSkip_eg_ghostview One could also do setenv DUDS "`printenv DUDS` vietn

Re: Question about FreeBSD for IA-64 software

Hi, Reference: > From: Denis Guzanov > Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2012 15:45:54 +0400 > Message-id: > Denis Guzanov wrote: > Dear FreeBSD Team, > > Firstly I would like to say you Big thanks for your really good job and the > best system for us, small IT staff. > > Second, I would

Re: how to allow by MAC

Hi, Reference: > From: Bill Yuan > Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2012 21:09:01 +0800 > Message-id: > Bill Yuan wrote: > come on , someone help please, > > > > On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 5:43 PM, Bill Yuan wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > how to allow by MAC in ipfw > > > > currently i set th

Re: how to allow by MAC

"Julian H. Stacey" wrote: > Bill Yuan wrote: > > come on , someone help please, > > > > > > > > On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 5:43 PM, Bill Yuan wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > how to allow by MAC in ipfw > > >

Re: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of?

Too much hot air & preaching to the choir is counter productive & would die away after internal argument. Better be active Externaly. Defend our future by alerting governments there is an upcoming issue. (eg EU has mega fined MS before for monopoly abuse, EU etc could warn off MS if we alert gover

Re: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of?

Jerry wrote > It is posts like this that basically turn my stomach Never argue with a drunk. Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultants Munich http://berklix.com Reply below not above, cumulative like a play script, & indent with "> ". Format: Plain text. Not HTML, m

Re: USB 3.0 delay in 'detecting' attached drive

Waitman Gobble wrote: > On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 1:56 PM, Julian H. Stacey wrote: > > > Waitman Gobble wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I have a new machine with 2 USB 3.0 ports and 2 USB 2.0 ports. When I > > plug > > > a USB 3.0 drive / cable i

Re: freebsd-update Not Recognizing Updated Custom Kernel for 9.0-RELEASE-p3

Resend as I lost cc questions@ by mistake Ryan Frederick wrote: > I have several FreeBSD 9 systems with custom compiled kernels. After > using freebsd-update to go from 9.0-RELEASE-p2 to 9.0-RELEASE-p3 this > morning I rebuilt the kernels. However after recompiling, installing, > and reboo

Re: FreeBSD 10/9: Lexar 64GB JumpDrive USB 2.0 isn't recognized anymore!

> I have a Lexar 64GB USB 2.0 JumpDrive which worked in its "pristine" or > "virgine" state very well. I used it yesterday, brand new, to fill it up > with data. Some 30GB data got stored, I shut down the system (FreeBSD > 10.0-CURRENT/amd64) and this morning, I put the USB drive out of the USB > p

Re: FreeBSD 8.3 + MySQL 5.0.95

> Maybe I'm contacting wrong mailling list, I can't seem to get ahold of > ISP/hosting guys > on this list. Truly amazing that for a server OS, there is so little input > for something like > MySQL server. Perhaps everyone else is still using text files, does 10TPS, or > runs > linux, don't know

Re: FreeBSD 8.3 + MySQL 5.0.95

> Those only using questions@ _Please_ realise there are other lists. > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo > Read the remits of the other lists & subscribe &/or post those lists > that match your topic. PS All credit & thanks to a few highly skilled & informed people on questions@ wh

Re: FreeBSD 8.3 + MySQL 5.0.95

Hi Simon > Thanks Julian. The reason for freebsd-questions is because when I looked > thru isp, database, and performance, and few others, they had one or two > threads a month with barely much input. Yup, isp@ is quiet, some other lists too, doesn't necessarily mean there'snot good people listen

Re: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of?

Hi, Reference: > From: "C. P. Ghost" > Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2012 09:51:46 +0200 > Message-id: > "C. P. Ghost" wrote: > On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 8:19 PM, Kurt Buff wrote: > > UEFI considerations drive Fedora to pay MSFT to sign their kernel binaries > > http://cwonline.computerw

Re: UEFI Secure Boot Specs - And some sanity

Hi Cordula, Good points you made. The sooner it's blocked the easier to block. *BSD, + *Linux, Solaris etc people could start contacting their local anti monopoly / anti free trade, government departments to give them time to look into the issues. If eg EU commision found it a monopolist con

Re: Why Clang

> GNU communist licence for C compiler is not bad at all (contrary to other ..^ ..^ > software). I & many others _Know_ what BSD & FSF licenses are. Don't wwant repeated nonsense about 'communism'. If you didn't subscribe http://lists.freebsd.or

Re: Why Clang

Sorry, my last header wrongly to Mark Felder, & could give the wrong impression. I would like Wojciech Puchar (not Mark F.) to stop banging on about 'GNU communist licence' etc. Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultants Munich http://berklix.com Reply below not above

Re: Why Clang

Wojciech Puchar wrote: > > If you cannot see this - i cannot help you any more. sorry. Your noise is no help. Use appropriate lists. http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultants Munich http://berklix.com Reply below no

Re: Why Clang

Polytropon wrote: > I assume it's just an aspect of "still being too young" in > regards of missing the difference between freedom and > anarchy: the right to extend one's freedom is limited > as soon as it limits the freedom of others. Maybe another > aspect is the lack of discussion culture and t

Re: Why Clang

Hi Polytropon, cc questions@ (No CC Wojciech P. as my local filters drop text from him ) > To translate this to a programmer's job: > > You're being paid to write a program for a customer. You > deliver the program. That's what you are paid for. Still > the source code is yours (as _you_ are the

Re: Is ZFS production ready?

> Agreed. Wojciech Puchar is in my 'probable troll' file at this point, Here too, http://berklix.com/~jhs/dots/.procmailrc.lists Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultants Munich http://berklix.com Reply below not above, cumulative like a play script, & indent with

Re: A bash scripting question

CyberLeo Kitsana wrote Odhiambo Washington: > By the way, what's gammu, /usr/ports/comms/gammu presumably ( for mobile phone connection ) > and why is it in /usr/bin ? Pass. Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultants Munich http://berklix.com Reply below not above

Re: Why Clang

Chad Perrin wrote: > On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 01:06:12PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote: > > i already proposed (but not publically) to turn FreeBSD into > > commercial system. > > > > REALLY i would not see a problem to pay say 100$ per server licence. > > I would see a problem with that -- not bec

Re: fsck_ufs running too often

> My suggestion: Set background_fsck="YES" in /etc/rc.conf and let > the system boot up that way. _If_ you have a faulty disk or other > data corruption, you'll notice this _before_ going multi-user and > maybe making things worse. Yes, it might take some time, but it's > time well invested in your

Re: FreeBSD vs Hurd what is the differences?

Hi, Reference: > From: IamTrying > Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2012 05:47:06 -0700 (PDT) > Message-id: <1341406026965-5724143.p...@n5.nabble.com> IamTrying wrote: > http://pastehtml.com/view/c3kw80dyq.html - Does anyone know if FreeBSD core > developers left FreeBSD to work in Google? W

Re: FreeBSD vs Hurd what is the differences?

Carsten Mattner wrote: > On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 8:29 PM, Wojciech Puchar > wrote: > > the major difference between Hurd and FreeBSD is that FreeBSD actually work. > > > > > >> http://pastehtml.com/view/c3kw80dyq.html - Does anyone know if FreeBSD > >> core > >> developers left FreeBSD to work in G

Re: FreeBSD vs Hurd what is the differences?

Hi, Reference: > From: Carsten Mattner > Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2012 09:41:27 +0200 > Message-id: > Carsten Mattner wrote: > On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 2:11 AM, Julian H. Stacey wrote: > > Carsten Mattner wrote: > >> On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 8:29 P

Re: FreeBSD vs Hurd what is the differences?

Hi, Reference: > From: Carsten Mattner > Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2012 00:28:32 +0200 > Message-id: > Carsten Mattner wrote: > On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 4:39 PM, Wojciech Puchar > wrote: > >>> As for reading anything else than internal firefox data it is not > >>> possible > >>> exce

Re: Hi i want to ask a question

Hi, Reference: > From: "Thomas Mueller" > Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2012 20:09:17 -0400 > Message-id: <53.21.06836.dac26...@smtp02.insight.synacor.com> "Thomas Mueller" wrote: > from Ivan Ivanov : > > > Hi i want to ask a question about the new release of FreeBSD (9) is it > > posi

Re: FreeBSD vs Hurd what is the differences?

Hi, Carsten Mattner wrote: > On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 2:42 AM, Julian H. Stacey wrote: > > Hi, > > Reference: > >> From: Carsten Mattner > >> Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2012 00:28:32 +0200 > >> Message-id: > >> > > > > Carst

Re: CPU heating!

Hi, [ I'm late on thread, so briefly ] If you get desperate overheating & crashes, try eg /usr/sbin/powerd -a min -b min -n min Thats what I'm doing on one box, till I can remove, review/ regrease. One can also observe subsets of values from sysctl -a | grep temp in a while (1)

Re: Apple & FreeBSD relationship

Hi questions@, Original question from Nerius Landys : > Basically I have some cash sitting around. I'm thinking of investing > part of it with a company that I believe in. Apple came to mind. You > could say that I'd like to judge Apple's moral character before > investing money with them. Do

Re: Apple & FreeBSD relationship

> Sorry, Julian, but Chuck had it _legally_ correctly, for the U.S.A.. ... etc ... Thanks for the explanation Robert. Sad that people are not free to speak. Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultants Munich http://berklix.com Mail plain text; Not quoted-printable,

Re: Skyip? question

> What does the list think of XBill's buyout of Skype? i know there is probably > a port for this for the BSD'S. ISn't it just a VOIP thing... maybe with some > video glued on? /usr/ports/net/asterisk exists. Not used it, but compiling to try some time. It's been around years, e

Re: Expanding tabs (was Re: kwik way?)

Hi, Reference: > From: Gary Kline > Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 12:10:01 -0700 > Message-id: <20110518191001.ga22...@thought.org> Gary Kline wrote: > On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 01:09:36PM -0500, Dan Nelson wrote: > > Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 13:09:36 -0500 > > From: Dan Nelson > > Sub

Re: Hardware Recovery Company

Hi, Reference: > From: Alejandro Imass > Date: Fri, 20 May 2011 11:08:21 -0400 > Message-id: Alejandro Imass wrote: > Hi folks, > > I recently sent a hard drive to be recovered and I think they just > ripped me off. I have the back-up drive and believe it or not it has > th

Re: Hardware Recovery Company

Hi Polytropon cc list, you wrote > > You could look at man fsdb > > FreeBSD offers a lot of versatile diagnostic and rescue > tools, and surely fsdb is one of them. Others, provided > by the base system, are "fetch -rR " and also > recoverdisk. > > In the ports collection you'll find tools like

Other lists exist too - Was Re: Hardware Recovery Company

For Alejandro Imass as original poster re. Hardware Recovery Company: FreebSD has a special mail list for file systeme it's name is f...@freebsd.org. (we also have hardware@ etc) For all, Questions@ started as a catch all fallback address for simple beginners questions from the new

Re: Other lists exist too - Was Re: Hardware Recovery Company

Hi Robert, Thanks for your repsonse, I mailed postmas...@freebsd.org that this thread exists, & invited him to consider list definitions in light of past, present & possible future response that may be psoted on this thread. Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultants Mu

Re: x11-wm/olvwm

fr...@getnet.com wrote: > Hello, > > I have updated ports and when reinstalling I found x11-wm/olvwm which > I was using was gone from the ports tree. Why? Better ask on po...@freebsd.org Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultants Munich http://berklix.com Mail pl

Re: CRUX and FREE BSD

Hi, Reference: > From: Ramu Chakravadhanula > Date: Tue, 24 May 2011 16:38:36 +0200 > Message-id: Ramu Chakravadhanula wrote: > hi, > > I have to make CRUX and FREE BSD dual boot. Is that possible? how can i do > that?? I have CRUX installed before. now i want to use Free B

Re: CRUX and FREE BSD

Ramu Chakravadhanula wrote: > hi, > > I have to make CRUX and FREE BSD dual boot. Is that possible? how can i do > that?? I have CRUX installed before. now i want to use Free BSD 7.3. please PS did you know 8.2 exists ? Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultants Munic

Re: x11-wm/olvwm

"C. P. Ghost" wrote: > On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 3:53 PM, wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I have updated ports and when reinstalling I found x11-wm/olvwm which I was > > using was gone from the ports tree.  Why? > > I noticed that too, and was bit by that change as well. > Since I love the olvwm look an

Re: CRUX and FREE BSD

Hi Ramu cc questions@ > > I have to make CRUX and FREE BSD dual boot. Is that possible? how can i do > > that?? I have CRUX installed before. I wrote some notes here: http://berklix.com/~jhs/txt/install_bsd.html Hope it may help you & or similar enquirers. I dont see anything about this

Re: CRUX and FREE BSD

Hi, Reference: > From: Chris Whitehouse > Date: Wed, 25 May 2011 22:15:16 +0100 > Message-id: <4ddd7164.9020...@onetel.com> Chris Whitehouse wrote: > On 25/05/2011 18:45, Julian H. Stacey wrote: > > Hi Ramu cc questions@ > > > >>>

Re: CRUX and FREE BSD

Jerry McAllister wrote: > On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 07:45:38PM +0200, Julian H. Stacey wrote: > > > Hi Ramu cc questions@ > > > > > > I have to make CRUX and FREE BSD dual boot. Is that possible? how can i > > > > do > > > > that?? I have CR

Re: Hardware Recovery Company

Hi Polytropon cc list, I wrote: > > > > You could look at man fsdb > > > > FreeBSD offers a lot of versatile diagnostic and rescue > > tools, and surely fsdb is one of them. Others, provided > > by the base system, are "fetch -rR " and also > > recoverdisk. > > > > In the ports collection you'll

Re: editors/openoffice.org-3

Jamie Paul Griffin wrote: > Hello > the build of this port fails due to a problem with the 'moz' module: > ERROR: error 65280 occurred while making > /usr/ports/editors/openoffice.org-3/work/000330_m20/moz > [ ... ] > I found a thread sent to freebsd-openoffice@ earlier this month

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