Re: usb wifi

2008-02-05 Thread arthur
far my USB only works with OBSD 4.2, Fedora 7 (can't get ip when booting, has to manually ifup) and of course MS Win2k. Arthur - Original Message - From: Peter Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Brian [EMAIL PROTECTED]; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Monday, February 04, 2008 5:28 PM

Re: Is my hard ware sufficient?

2008-02-20 Thread arthur
v7.0 over the network 2. install kde or other app to v7.0 installation from a 6.2 CD Thanks. Arthur ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

Re: Is my hard ware sufficient?

2008-02-20 Thread arthur
Got it. Looks I will go with the floppy boot (don't want burn too many CD's, and burning CDRW is slower than boot from floppy). Thank you for the quick response. Arthur - Original Message - From: Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: arthur [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Jerry McAllister [EMAIL

MagicFilter

2004-02-26 Thread Arthur Merar
do, how do I invoke it to use it or tell it to print bold, or times new roman or font size 24?? Thanks for your time, Arthur - Do you Yahoo!? Get better spam protection with Yahoo! Mail ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing

Re: Looking for a rather interesting program

2003-03-26 Thread Arthur Chance
Dragoncrest [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Friend of mine has a rather interesting setup on his machine that I would like to have on mine. Apparently what it is, he has a program that allows the mouse and keyboard to automatically switch between two computers. [snip]

problem

2004-08-19 Thread Arthur Purnhagen
Hi, why is my computer doing this, ForbiddenYou don't have permission to access / on this server. - Apache/1.3.27 Server at www.imagine2020.com Port 80 Thank You Art Purnhagen Thank You, Art Purnhagen Oh by the way if you were interested in a Great home

Re: Problems with Xorg update

2009-01-29 Thread Arthur Barlow
On Jan 28, 2009, at 7:13 PM, Eitan Adler wrote: Arthur Barlow wrote: Two days ago I checked to see what source code was out of date and I noticed that many xf86 and various xorg drivers were. Because the number was significant I used the portupgrade -a command to make sure all

Intel video driver appears to be broken

2009-02-22 Thread Arthur Barlow
I have an old Gateway Intel PIII box with all the video, ethernet, and sound running Intel drivers. The video chip according to dmesg is Intel 82810-DC100 GMCH. Dmesg shows the agp0 driver like this: agp0: Intel 82810-DC100 (i810-DC100 GMCH) SVGA controller on vgapci0 X -configure select

Xorg is now broken

2009-03-03 Thread Arthur Barlow
I'm using Freebsd 7.1 and everything had been working fine, until I noticed there were upgrades for Xorg. I went ahead and used portupgrade to upgrade the packages and now I get a server error 11. I'm including the Xorg.0.log and xorg.conf for you to examine. I'm running an older PIII based

Re: xorg-server-1.5.3_7, /usr/ports/UPDATING, mouse

2009-03-23 Thread Arthur Barlow
Message: 25 Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 15:51:54 -0500 From: Adam Vandemore amvandem...@gmail.com Subject: Re: xorg-server-1.5.3_7, /usr/ports/UPDATING, mouse To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: 49c7f66a.7040...@gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Neal

Packages vs Ports

2009-12-23 Thread Arthur Barlow
I've recently run into a new problem. Pkg_version show that there is a new version of Firefox 3.5. However, when I try to recompile it, I get an error that the system has run out of swap space, even though I allocated a 512M slice for a machine with 256M RAM. Anyway, when I used to recompile

Re: adding disk moves ad0 to ad4

2010-02-03 Thread Arthur Chance
Steve Franks wrote: Just curious, having read the handbook section talking about freebsd going straight to the hardware and skipping the bios for disk numbering, why then, if I stick a sata disk in 'sata0' on the motherboard, does it come up as ad0, but if I add a second disk in 'sata1' or

Problem compiling xfce4-conf from ports

2010-02-07 Thread Arthur Barlow
It appears that there is a bug in the current set up scripts in xfce4-conf. It tries to run gtkdoc-fixxref and snags on an undeclared variable. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Re: How to forward old root mails to an external email address?

2011-02-23 Thread Arthur Chance
On 02/23/11 19:32, Bill Tillman wrote: The only problem with this is that unlike 10 years ago, today almost all ISP's block anything coming down port 25 unless you have an account that allows your e-mail server to work. And they of course charge for this. I used to enjoy my own private e-mail

Re: mergemaster -U ask for a lot non-user modified files

2011-02-24 Thread Arthur Chance
On 02/24/11 06:05, Matthew Seaman wrote: [Snip mergemaster options discussion.] Doing this certainly works for me -- frequently the only file I get asked about is /etc/motd And if you don't care about updating /etc/motd (the first line is automagically updated every boot anyway) add

Re: / file system is full, but du does not show that it's full

2011-02-28 Thread Arthur Chance
partition a = da0s1a is /, while /var corresponds to partition da0s1f. Unless you've got GPT disks where there are usually only partitions and they're numbered: arthur@fileserver gpart show ada5 = 34 976773101 ada5 GPT (466G) 34 6- free - (3.0K) 40

Re: portmaster -a command fails - *** Error code 1

2011-03-04 Thread Arthur Chance
On 03/04/11 15:37, Ed Flecko wrote: [Snips] Given this: ===/usr/ports/textproc/docproj-nojadetex/work not writable, skipping Any ideas on what my problem(s) is and how to solve it??? Either you've got a read-only /usr/ports or you've forgotten to run as root. [I will admit to doing

Re: portmaster -a command fails - *** Error code 1

2011-03-04 Thread Arthur Chance
On 03/04/11 17:00, Ed Flecko wrote: Thanks gentlemen; I was not running portmaster as root. When I re-run portmaster -a as root, I get the following: === Starting check for runtime dependencies === Gathering dependency list for devel/automake from ports === Dependency check complete for

Re: portmaster -a command fails - *** Error code 1

2011-03-04 Thread Arthur Chance
On 03/04/11 17:36, Ed Flecko wrote: Thanks Aurthur. :-) It's funny...I DID what it asks and it still didn't work (make deinstall, etc.). A tip for the future: always say what you've tried. It lets us save our waning mind reading powers for important cases, like working out what the wife

Re: calibre port

2011-03-22 Thread Arthur Chance
/deskutils/calcurse It's there on my system (8.2R): arthur@fileserver ls -ld /usr/ports/deskutils/cal* drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 512 Jun 8 2010 /usr/ports/deskutils/cal drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 512 Oct 23 00:34 /usr/ports/deskutils/calcurse drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 512 Nov 27 00:43 /usr/ports

Recommendations for 3D modelling code for 3D printing?

2011-03-24 Thread Arthur Chance
I need to make some parts using 3D printing, and was wondering what software I should use to do the modelling. Does anyone have any experience and/or recommendations about this? If it matters, I'll probably be using shapeways.com to do the actual printing.

Re: Recommendations for 3D modelling code for 3D printing?

2011-03-24 Thread Arthur Chance
On 03/24/11 17:58, Robert Huff wrote: Arthur Chance writes: I need to make some parts using 3D printing, and was wondering what software I should use to do the modelling. Does anyone have any experience and/or recommendations about this? If it matters, I'll probably be using

Re: Easiest desktop BSD distro

2011-03-31 Thread Arthur Chance
On 03/30/11 23:00, Polytropon wrote: There is a project called VirtualBSD that developed a FreeBSD system image that can be used with VirtualBox. Nitpick: the web site says VirtualBSD is a virtual appliance for VMware Thanks for the pointer though, could be useful in encouraging others to

Re: Easiest desktop BSD distro

2011-03-31 Thread Arthur Chance
On 03/31/11 17:06, Arthur Chance wrote: On 03/30/11 23:00, Polytropon wrote: There is a project called VirtualBSD that developed a FreeBSD system image that can be used with VirtualBox. Nitpick: the web site says VirtualBSD is a virtual appliance for VMware Following myself up

Re: am i back up....???

2011-04-04 Thread Arthur Chance
On 04/04/11 01:15, Chad Perrin wrote: On Mon, Apr 04, 2011 at 01:37:50AM +0200, Polytropon wrote: On Sun, 3 Apr 2011 09:46:26 -0600, Chad Perrinper...@apotheon.com wrote: On Sun, Apr 03, 2011 at 03:43:59AM +0200, Polytropon wrote: For example, you could install an IMAP interface for mail

Re: remaining goal.. .

2011-04-05 Thread Arthur Chance
On 04/05/11 00:39, Gary Kline wrote: On Mon, Apr 04, 2011 at 03:39:19PM -0700, David Brodbeck wrote: On Sat, Apr 2, 2011 at 4:56 PM, Gary Klinekl...@thought.org wrote: simply that i'm looking for somebody who know how to transfer pfsense from a standalone system to this kit.

Re: remaining goal.. .

2011-04-06 Thread Arthur Chance
On 04/06/11 02:37, Gary Kline wrote: On Tue, Apr 05, 2011 at 07:21:13PM -0400, Daniel Staal wrote: --As of April 5, 2011 11:05:19 AM -0700, Gary Kline is alleged to have said: It is a Alix 601 board with 1G of CF flash. But according to my hardware friend, it will take a CF

Re: Linksys-E4200 Wireless N-router

2011-04-08 Thread Arthur Chance
On 04/07/11 15:32, Carmel wrote: Odhiambo, please don't CC me. I don't need multiple copies of the same post. CCing the original poster is standard etiquette on FreeBSD mailing lists. Most lists are open to anybody to mail to without being signed up, so when replying there's no way of

Mailing list etiquette (Was: Re: Linksys-E4200 Wireless N-router)

2011-04-08 Thread Arthur Chance
On 04/08/11 16:21, Carmel wrote: On Fri, 08 Apr 2011 12:51:41 +0100 Arthur Chancefree...@qeng-ho.org articulated: On 04/07/11 15:32, Carmel wrote: Odhiambo, please don't CC me. I don't need multiple copies of the same post. CCing the original poster is standard etiquette on FreeBSD mailing

Re: Stopping Less from creating Log Files

2011-04-11 Thread Arthur Chance
are part of the new file name. I think 'more' is just a link to 'less' anyway. The binaries are the same according to dif and cmp. (not what you were asking, but...) arthur@fileserver ls -li /usr/bin/{more,less} 44019002 -r-xr-xr-x 2 root wheel 139128 Feb 25 16:40 /usr/bin/less 44019002 -r-xr

NVIDIA-driver-173

2011-04-30 Thread Arthur Barlow
Does anyone know if this will ever be supported for FreeBSD 8.x? I tried both the version in ports as well as the one directly from NVIDIA. No joy. Does anyone know of other possibilities? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 360, Issue 10

2011-05-01 Thread Arthur Barlow
Does anyone know if this will ever be supported for FreeBSD 8.x?  I tried both the version in ports as well as the one directly from NVIDIA.  No joy.  Does anyone know of other possibilities? You might try putting the port's name in question into the body of your post. Anyway, is there a

Re: Sending a Fax

2011-05-10 Thread Arthur Chance
On 05/10/11 09:36, C. P. Ghost wrote: On Sat, May 7, 2011 at 4:30 PM, Bill Tillmanbtillma...@yahoo.com wrote: I knew this thread would bring up some ironies. For the record it's all in their minds. E-Mails have been upheld in the US Court system as legal documents. Maybe. But as soon as you

Droid fonts

2011-07-13 Thread Arthur Barlow
It appears that the port droid-fonts-ttf has a few *.ttf files with bad checksum numbers. Anyone know about that? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Re: Lennart Poettering: BSD Isn't Relevant Anymore

2011-07-18 Thread Arthur Barlow
Message: 1 Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2011 14:00:49 +0200 From: Jerome Herman jher...@dichotomia.fr Subject: Re: Lennart Poettering: BSD Isn't Relevant Anymore To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: 4e242071.9050...@dichotomia.fr Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed

Unionfs - is it actually usable?

2011-07-22 Thread Arthur Chance
Ever since RELEASE-5.0 man mount_unionfs has contained a section saying BUGS THIS FILE SYSTEM TYPE IS NOT YET FULLY SUPPORTED (READ: IT DOESN'T WORK) AND USING IT MAY, IN FACT, DESTROY DATA ON YOUR SYSTEM. USE AT YOUR OWN RISK. BEWARE OF DOG. SLIPPERY WHEN WET. On the

Problem with Vim 7.2 upgrade

2009-07-29 Thread Arthur Barlow
I noticed today that Vim 7.2 had been updated, but when I tried to use portupgrade, there was an error at vim file 7.2.041. It seems there are no checksum files. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: [OT] pfSense Book Publisher

2011-09-03 Thread Arthur Chance
On 09/02/11 21:33, Alejandro Imass wrote: Anybody know the editorial/publisher of the psSense book? Presuming you mean pfSense: the Definitive Guide ..., from the front page of my copy: Publisher: Reed Media Services Editor: Jeremy C. Reed Web site: www.reedmedia.net

Re: drivin' me nuts: permissions and cdda2wav

2011-12-06 Thread Arthur Chance
machine's /dev. I'm in operator group. arthur@fileserver ls -l /dev/{cd,pass,xpt}* crw-rw 1 root operator0, 97 Nov 23 16:24 /dev/cd0 lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel3 Dec 2 16:08 /dev/cdrom - cd0 crw--- 1 root operator0, 91 Nov 23 16:24 /dev/pass0 crw--- 1 root

Re: FreeBSD license vs /usr/bin/true license

2012-01-31 Thread Arthur Chance
On 01/31/12 12:55, vermaden wrote: FreeBSD, as specified here [1] uses 2-clause BSD license, but /usr/bin/true [2] (as empty as it is) uses something like 3-clause BSD license, is that desired? [1] http://www.freebsd.org/copyright/freebsd-license.html [2]

Re: Why is this Symbol in the front of your website. DO NOT FEED THE TROLL!

2012-02-23 Thread Arthur Chance
DO NOT FEED THE TROLL! 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. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: SMTP error: 552 5.6.0 Headers too large (32768 max)

2012-02-24 Thread Arthur Chance
On 02/23/12 22:55, Da Rock wrote: On 02/24/12 05:01, Julian H. Stacey wrote: Arthur Chance wrote: DO NOT FEED THE TROLL! Well spotted said :-) [snip] However misguided they are, they may believe strongly in this; so I'm not sure there is a troll per se. The evidence is that they have

Re: FreeBSD And ARM

2012-02-29 Thread Arthur Chance
On 02/29/12 15:30, Tim Daneliuk wrote: I'm not quite sure where to ask this so even a pointer to the right place would be appreciated: Is there any intent/work underway to port FBSD to the Raspberry PI ARM SBC? At $35 this thing looks perfect for firewall/DNS/dhcp boundary machines. +1 on the

Re: Raspberry Pi

2012-03-08 Thread Arthur Chance
On 03/07/12 21:40, Chad Perrin wrote: On Wed, Mar 07, 2012 at 04:35:47PM -0500, Sean Cavanaugh wrote: People have not had a chance to get their hands on to even start on it yet. The few boards out in public before last week were developer boards that were really hard to get a hold of. Most

Re: Raspberry Pi

2012-03-09 Thread Arthur Chance
On 03/09/12 15:08, Bernt Hansson wrote: 2012-03-08 19:46, Chad Perrin skrev: On Thu, Mar 08, 2012 at 08:51:03AM +, Arthur Chance wrote: On 03/07/12 21:40, Chad Perrin wrote: If anyone has more information about planned BSD Unix ports to Raspberry Pi, or comes up with more in the next few

nVidia card manufacturer recommendations

2012-03-14 Thread Arthur Chance
Somewhere, possibly here, a while back I saw a remark that certain manufacturer's nVidia cards worked reliably with the nVidia supplied drivers and others usually have problems because they tweak nVidia's reference spec. Of course, I didn't bookmark it and neither Google nor searching the last

Re: Making Music / Video folders on FreeBSD visible on HD TV

2012-03-14 Thread Arthur Chance
On 03/13/12 19:54, Carmel wrote: On Tue, 13 Mar 2012 13:59:45 -0500 Adam Vande More articulated: Are you sure these devices aren't trying to connect to a DLNA server? Such need can be met by net/mediatomb or other port. A couple of people have replied to this thread. The Samba shares are

Re: nVidia card manufacturer recommendations

2012-03-14 Thread Arthur Chance
On 03/14/12 08:57, Arthur Chance wrote: Somewhere, possibly here, a while back I saw a remark that certain manufacturer's nVidia cards worked reliably with the nVidia supplied drivers and others usually have problems because they tweak nVidia's reference spec. Of course, I didn't bookmark

Re: Moved drives ...

2012-03-15 Thread Arthur Chance
On 03/15/12 01:11, ill...@gmail.com wrote: On 14 March 2012 17:39, David Walkerdavidianwal...@gmail.com wrote: Hey. I had installed 9.0 to a SATA drive (ada1 I think) and went to install Windows on a higher numbered drive but Windows doesn't like that or so I gathered. Anyway, I moved drives

Re: Moved drives ...

2012-03-15 Thread Arthur Chance
On 03/15/12 15:25, Warren Block wrote: On Thu, 15 Mar 2012, Robert Huff wrote: Arthur Chance writes: I'll second that remark on labelling filesystems. My life has become much easier since I did all mine - the 8.2-9.0 disk naming switch from /dev/adi to /dev/adaj had absolutely no effect

Re: Off-Topic: Computing for the Blind

2012-03-26 Thread Arthur Chance
On 03/25/12 23:33, Barbara La Scala wrote: Apologies for the off topic posting but my stepfather is blind and he wants my advice about how to get online. I have no idea where to start looking for information on hardware and/or software for him. However, I vaguely remember someone on this list

Re: editor that understands CTRL/B, CTRL/I, CTRL/U

2012-04-25 Thread Arthur Chance
On 04/24/12 20:02, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 01:33:58PM -0500, Robert Bonomi wrote: Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2012 18:50:26 +0100 From: Anton Shterenlikhtme...@bristol.ac.uk To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: editor that understands CTRL/B, CTRL/I, CTRL/U My daughter

Limiting closed port RST response

2012-05-01 Thread Arthur Chance
Every once in a while the nightly periodic security checks tell me I've got a kernel message Limiting closed port RST response from N to 200 packets/sec where N 200. The problem is that it doesn't say which port was involved. Is there any way to find that out so I can try tracking down the

Re: Cloud software ?

2012-05-25 Thread Arthur Chance
On 05/25/12 14:16, Wojciech Puchar wrote: I'm searching for a cloud software :-) look at clouds. 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 ... (

Re: Cloud software ?

2012-05-25 Thread Arthur Chance
On 05/25/12 15:12, Frank Bonnet wrote: On 05/25/2012 04:04 PM, Wojciech Puchar wrote: With apologies to Joni Mitchell: I've looked at clouds from both sides now, From up and down, and still somehow, It's cloud illusions I recall, I really don't know clouds, at all. Well, someone had to say

Re: Cloud software ?

2012-05-25 Thread Arthur Chance
On 05/25/12 16:12, Frank Bonnet wrote: [big snip] Well ... in short I need to let our users ( students + profs ) access and share their data ( living in their UNIX home directories ) The access must be easy and possible from as much devices as possible. Am I clear enough ? ( sorry English is not

Re: Making a bootable backup (hard)disk... how?

2012-06-09 Thread Arthur Chance
On 06/09/12 00:58, Warren Block wrote: On Fri, 8 Jun 2012, Robert Huff wrote: Ronald F. Guilmette writes: I got a lot of disks here, so that part is not a problem. I just need to make sure that I'm gonna do this the Right Way[tm]. (I've already been making my own ham-fisted disk-to-disk

Re: Tweetless

2012-07-03 Thread Arthur Chance
On 07/03/12 07:04, Lars Eighner wrote: Call me crazy, but it seems that since the perl bump (5.12 - threaded-5.16) when firefox (13.0.1,1) got rebuilt, it seems twitter pages do not fully load, give me the slow loading banner, and the page (not browser or X) freezes, but no such problems were

Re: YASSDQ

2012-07-09 Thread Arthur Chance
On 07/09/12 13:38, Bruce Cran wrote: On 09/07/2012 11:31, Wojciech Puchar wrote: All use 4K as it is NTFS default block size and most are sold to be used with windoze. Apparently the Intel 320 SSDs use an 8KB page/block size. From a Crucial forum, thread about Crucial M4 SSDs, posted by a

Re: On-access AV scanning

2012-07-27 Thread Arthur Chance
On 07/27/12 13:14, Daniel Bye wrote: On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 01:52:16PM +0200, Damien Fleuriot wrote: FUSE ClamFS Ah, thanks for that. I'll check it out. But then, FUSE... ew... I know. But, if it gets me my workstation... ;-) The wiki suggests that FUSE might be part of release 10:

Re: rebuilding world - is chflags -R noschg * necessary?

2010-09-23 Thread Arthur Chance
On 09/23/10 15:10, Polytropon wrote: On Thu, 23 Sep 2010 12:02:17 +0100, Anton Shterenlikhtme...@bristol.ac.uk wrote: I've never seen a file under /usr/obj/ with immutable flag set. I think it was a directory called empty/ that couldn't be removed unless the flag was unset. This makes this

Re: Clean up / filesystem

2010-10-09 Thread Arthur Chance
On 10/09/10 17:58, Caleb Stein wrote: On Fri, 08 Oct 2010 22:46:55 -0700, Robert Huff roberth...@rcn.com wrote: [Full /tmp discussion snipped] So is it safe to do rm -rf /tmp/*? Not if running an X desktop, as all sorts of things get stuck in /tmp that are needed. In single user mode it

Re: mouse problems....

2010-10-12 Thread Arthur Chance
On 10/11/10 18:31, Polytropon wrote: [snip] The psm device can be configured per /etc/rc.conf using moused. While USB mice get configured by the USB subsystem automatically, PS/2 and serial mice do not. Here's an example entry: moused_enable=YES moused_port=/dev/psm0

Re: __FreeBSD__ not available and unsigned long type

2010-10-13 Thread Arthur Chance
On 10/13/10 13:47, Chetan Shukla wrote: Hi I have two doubts working further ion FreeBSD. In my machine (8.0-RELEASE) I am not getting the macro __FreeBSD__. As a workaround I have to conditionally define it in makefile. Could someone define what is missing in this case. It's compiled into

old automake removal

2010-10-16 Thread Arthur Barlow
Recently I did my usual ports upgrade by using portsnap . The pkg_version program shows that automake-1.9 and automake-1.10 and no longer current, but for some reason the message comparison failed shows up when I check the ports versions. I've tried pkgdb -u to update the database, but I still

Re: old automake removal

2010-10-16 Thread Arthur Barlow
On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 12:16 PM, Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: On Sat, 16 Oct 2010, Arthur Barlow wrote: Recently I did my usual ports upgrade by using portsnap . The pkg_version program shows that automake-1.9 and automake-1.10 and no longer current, but for some reason

Re: Greybeards (Re: Netbooks BSD)

2010-10-20 Thread Arthur Chance
On 10/20/10 09:32, Svein Skogen (Listmail account) wrote: On 20.10.2010 09:47, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: Matthias Apitzg...@unixarea.de 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

Re: Greybeards (Re: Netbooks BSD)

2010-10-20 Thread Arthur Chance
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: Matthias Apitzg...@unixarea.de wrote: El d?a Tuesday, October 19, 2010 a las

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

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 Chancefree...@qeng-ho.org 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

Cross building for a small machine

2010-10-22 Thread Arthur Chance
In the near future I'll be getting myself a new box to run a family mail and web server on, and maybe to act as a DNS secondary. As it's small (low speed, low memory, low disk) box, it makes sense to build kernel, world and ports on another, more powerful box. I'm familiar with the idea of

Port update problem?

2010-10-28 Thread Arthur Chance
I just updated /usr/ports (with portsnap fetch update) and then ran /etc/periodic/weekly/400.status-pkg to check which needed rebuilding and got (please excuse any line wrapping) fileserver# /etc/periodic/weekly/400.status-pkg Check for out of date packages: pkg_version: Failed to get PKGNAME

Re: Port update problem?

2010-10-28 Thread Arthur Chance
On 10/28/10 17:56, Doug Spangler wrote: Fetch the current INDEX as well, that happens when there isn't a proper INDEX. Also take a look at the FreeBSD Handbook Chapter 5 and the man page for portsnap The command (it's portsnap wrapped up with start finish time messages that can be run from

OT: What's going on with gcc?

2010-10-28 Thread Arthur Barlow
I seems like there are changes every other day. And on my old machine it takes about eight hours to recompile. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Re: OT: What's going on with gcc?

2010-10-28 Thread Arthur Barlow
On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 3:15 PM, Chuck Swiger cswi...@mac.com wrote: On Oct 28, 2010, at 3:06 PM, Arthur Barlow wrote: I[t] seems like there are changes every other day. And on my old machine it takes about eight hours to recompile. The base system compiler doesn't change that often

Re: Port update problem?

2010-10-29 Thread Arthur Chance
On 10/28/10 19:07, Doug Spangler wrote: You are correct I meant chapter 4. Just out of curiosity is your INDEX intact or is that the cause of the odd behavior of /etc/periodic/weekly/400.status-pkg, portion of the problem. I understand that it is not the root cause of your problem just a

how to generate pi in c

2010-11-05 Thread Arthur Bela
Does anyone has a generate-pi.c source code? Thanks.. :D :\ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: ZFS License and Future

2010-11-08 Thread Arthur Chance
On 11/08/10 13:52, krad wrote: On 6 November 2010 21:38, Roland Smithrsm...@xs4all.nl wrote: On Sat, Nov 06, 2010 at 02:30:16PM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: Having said all that it really depends on whether you need the extra features of zfs. Personally I cant see how anyone with any important

Re: ZFS License and Future

2010-11-08 Thread Arthur Chance
On 11/08/10 16:08, Svein Skogen (Listmail account) wrote: On 08.11.2010 16:37, Arthur Chance wrote: On 11/08/10 13:52, krad wrote: On 6 November 2010 21:38, Roland Smithrsm...@xs4all.nl wrote: On Sat, Nov 06, 2010 at 02:30:16PM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: Having said all that it really

Re: History of C (Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?)

2010-11-15 Thread Arthur Chance
On 11/14/10 20:44, Gary Kline wrote: TWo questions: didn't IBM create CPL? And doesn't BCPL Stand for British Computer Programming Language? (I did have both editions of the C book by Brian and DEnnis; then loaned the 2nd edition and never got ti back.) I think

Re: foo; no such thing as a dual-nic atom firewall

2010-11-24 Thread Arthur Chance
On 11/24/10 01:43, Gary Kline wrote: Maybe someone on-list can help me; after 5+ hours of clicking and typing, I can't find an atom cpu computer with dual NICs. I _thought_ I'd found a computer to replace to Kayak firewall [pfSense], but nada. Any wizards on this list have a clue? I don't

Re: foo; no such thing as a dual-nic atom firewall

2010-11-25 Thread Arthur Chance
4GB SLC - $20 Enclosure - $9 AC adapter - $13 Is this the same board and so forth that Arthur pointed me at below? My friend's name is Noah; what he saw was that the boad was not in stock and that it would not be restocked until 20dec. Because the 15th is better for Noah to drive down, I would

Re: foo; no such thing as a dual-nic atom firewall

2010-11-25 Thread Arthur Chance
On 11/25/10 18:22, Gary Kline wrote: [Huge snip] What I don't understand is the CF card and howto install pfSense. I'll re-read wherever I have to but some clues would certainly help. I installed pfSense by CDROM initially and figure this time the install would

Re: just found this...

2010-11-26 Thread Arthur Chance
On 11/25/10 23:02, Gary Kline wrote: I've probably already ranted scores of times that there were no undergrad networking courses when i was in school, Some of us round here are old enough that computing wasn't even a degree subject when we were at university. :-) so things like these are

Re: ZFS based machine to build a backup server ?

2010-11-29 Thread Arthur Chance
On 11/29/10 09:56, Frank Bonnet wrote: Would it be safe to use a FreeBSD + ZFS based machine to build a backups server to store sensitive data ? In a word is FreeBSD + ZFS stable and mature ? That's a regular theological debate round here, and some people will say yes, and others an emphatic

Re: Shopping cart other than OSCommerce?

2010-12-08 Thread Arthur Chance
On 12/07/10 22:42, Jerry wrote: On Tue, 07 Dec 2010 16:10:38 -0600 Jorge Biquezjbiq...@intranet.com.mx articulated: [snip] I have found several already with Google just not sure what path to follow and that's why I wanted to know what suggestions other has on what are using actually

Re: FreeBSD IPSec stack contains backdoors?

2010-12-15 Thread Arthur Chance
[Top posting edited out, with heavy elisions] On 12/15/10 17:55, bsd wrote: Le 15 déc. 2010 à 15:23, Victor Lyapunov a écrit : Recently OpenBSD developer Gregory Perry disclosed information about possible backdoors in OpenBSD IPSec stack As far as I am aware, FreeBSD contains considerable

Problem with dbus update

2010-12-27 Thread Arthur Barlow
Pkg_version showed that my version of dbus need updating, so I tried to do that today by using both portupgrade and make deinstall reinstall. However, there seems to be a bug in the document generation process for dbus-cleanup-sockets.1.html. The script stops there and will not progress.

Re: Problem with dbus update

2010-12-28 Thread Arthur Barlow
Message: 26 Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2010 15:10:35 -0800 From: Charlie Kester corky1...@comcast.net Subject: Re: Problem with dbus update To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: 20101227231035.ga91...@comcast.net Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed On Mon 27 Dec 2010

Re: freeBSDFoundation donate problem

2010-12-31 Thread Arthur Chance
On 12/31/10 00:43, Frank Shute wrote: On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 10:04:23PM +, Paul Macdonald wrote: I've just tried again to donate to the foundation for the end of year push, but 3 UK based cards all failed on the groundspring interface ( 2 x visa, 1 x mastercard, all had funds obv)

Re: Any recommendations for FreeBSD VPS hosting?

2011-01-10 Thread Arthur Chance
On 01/10/11 08:56, n j wrote: On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 9:21 AM, Usmanwajdan...@gmail.com wrote: http://www.ajkservers.co.uk They support FreeBSD :) FreeBSD is indeed listed as supported OS, but for every hosting plan, the virtualization is stated as OpenVZ. To my understanding, you can't run

Virtualbox - no /dev/acd0 in VM even if it's booting from CD

2011-01-24 Thread Arthur Chance
I just upgraded to virtualbox-ose-3.2.12 (ditto the vbox kmod port), and then tried to install a new VM. It booted from the CD fine but sysinstall reported that it couldn't find a CD drive to install from. Booting another VM that already existed showed the same problem - /dev/ad0 exists but

Re: Virtualbox - no /dev/acd0 in VM even if it's booting from CD

2011-01-24 Thread Arthur Chance
On 01/24/11 14:19, Chris Brennan wrote: On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 8:22 AM, Arthur Chancefree...@qeng-ho.org wrote: I just upgraded to virtualbox-ose-3.2.12 (ditto the vbox kmod port), and then tried to install a new VM. It booted from the CD fine but sysinstall reported that it couldn't find

Re: Tracing packets - asterisk issues

2011-01-25 Thread Arthur Chance
On 01/25/11 07:13, Da Rock wrote: I have been trying to get some pointers on my asterisk issues and I've only been hearing crickets chirping (Asterisk list and here). I need a pointer or two so I can fix this issue, so I'll try another angle. How do I trace IP packets across the network (pf

Re: Virtualbox - no /dev/acd0 in VM even if it's booting from CD [SOLVED]

2011-01-25 Thread Arthur Chance
On 01/24/11 21:44, Volodymyr Kostyrko wrote: 24.01.2011 15:22, Arthur Chance wrote: I just upgraded to virtualbox-ose-3.2.12 (ditto the vbox kmod port), and then tried to install a new VM. It booted from the CD fine but sysinstall reported that it couldn't find a CD drive to install from

Re: Tracing packets - asterisk issues

2011-01-25 Thread Arthur Chance
On 01/25/11 10:41, Da Rock wrote: On 01/25/11 18:46, Bruce Ferrell wrote: On 01/24/2011 11:13 PM, Da Rock wrote: I have been trying to get some pointers on my asterisk issues and I've only been hearing crickets chirping (Asterisk list and here). I need a pointer or two so I can fix this issue,

ZFS and switching from ad to ada disks.

2011-02-02 Thread Arthur Chance
I'm currently running 8.1-R without AHCI enabled, with a raidz zpool based on /dev/ad* disks, plus one system disk that's UFS2, mounted using partition labels. I need to enable AHCI in order to get hot pluggable eSata capability, and that's going to rename the disks to /dev/ada*. Will zfs

Re: CF-Card Install for post FBSD-8.x systems

2011-02-03 Thread Arthur Chance
On 02/03/11 05:14, Martes G Wigglesworth wrote: Does anyone know what the new minimal install size is? Minimal, no, but a recent thread about DruidBSD (a rescue system) said that the whole lot was 24 MB, so that gives you an upper limit. I remember running across a blurb about FBSD-7 and

Re: Google Browser?

2011-02-16 Thread Arthur Barlow
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 09:09, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: Anybody know how to use this Chrome? I don't see any places to plug in players ... like vlc, etc. Can't find and back/Forward icons, nothing like firefoxI give it all three thumbs down. Would still like to see

Re:FreeBSD 6.1 - libltdl

2007-02-03 Thread Arthur Barlow
The so file is found in /usr/local/lib. I'd go to /usr/ports/dev/libltdl15 and do make deinstall reinstall clean. That will probably fix it. Hi, Can anyone shed some light perhaps as to why GCC is not seeing libltdl ??? bash-2.05b# gcc -lltdl /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lltdl bash-2.05b#

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