Firefox 3 for FreeBSD 7.0 release

2008-07-05 Thread dfeustel
I downloaded the firefox*gz file from devel but it doesn't make for 64-bit. Is Firefox 3 available for 64-bit AMD FreeBSD 7.0? Thanks. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Re: Firefox 3 for FreeBSD 7.0 release

2008-07-05 Thread dfeustel
On Sat, Jul 05, 2008 at 04:40:35PM +0200, Roland Smith wrote: On Sat, Jul 05, 2008 at 02:27:42PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I downloaded the firefox*gz file from devel but it doesn't make for 64-bit. Is Firefox 3 available for 64-bit AMD FreeBSD 7.0? It builds fine from ports on

Re: Firefox 3 for FreeBSD 7.0 release

2008-07-05 Thread dfeustel
On Sat, Jul 05, 2008 at 06:12:15PM +0200, Mel wrote: On Saturday 05 July 2008 17:56:00 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Jul 05, 2008 at 04:40:35PM +0200, Roland Smith wrote: On Sat, Jul 05, 2008 at 02:27:42PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I downloaded the firefox*gz file from devel but

Re: Firefox 3 for FreeBSD 7.0 release

2008-07-05 Thread dfeustel
On Sat, Jul 05, 2008 at 07:31:28PM +0300, Manolis Kiagias wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Jul 05, 2008 at 06:12:15PM +0200, Mel wrote: On Saturday 05 July 2008 17:56:00 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Jul 05, 2008 at 04:40:35PM +0200, Roland Smith wrote: On Sat, Jul

Portupgrade

2008-07-06 Thread dfeustel
I ran the command 'portupgrade -all' yesterday and now I have some questions about the way the command works. Building of numerous packages was preceeded by a graphical menu of build options for the package to be built. In the case of clisp, I changed the default to include building the pari math

Java

2008-07-22 Thread dfeustel
I read in _Absolute FreeBSD_ that there is now an easy-to-install Java package for 64-bit AMD FreeBSD 7.0, but I have so far not found this package. Does it exist? Thanks, Dave Feustel ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System

2008-07-23 Thread dfeustel
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 04:12:51PM +0300, Manolis Kiagias wrote: FreeBSD Questions wrote: And what about Absolute FreeBSD? It's updated for FreeBSD 7, so I know it's current. Is it a good book? Is it worth the read? How valuable is its content? (I know I'm asking some very subjective

Playing back motion jpeg saved by firefox

2008-06-08 Thread dfeustel
I just discovered that firefox can save motion video in addition to displaying it. But I don't know how to play back the saved video.cgi file. Mplayer complains about missing configuration data. Does anyone know how to play back the file saved by firefox? Is there some other mailing list to

Re: Is FreeBSD suitable for my thinkpad T61 ?

2008-06-11 Thread dfeustel
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 08:50:36PM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I brought a new ThinkPad T61 for work, the hardware is as follows: T7300(2GHz), 2GB RAM, 120GB 5400rpm HD, 15.4in 1680x1050 LCD, 128MB nVIDIA Quadro NVS 140M, CDRW/DVDRW, Intel 802.11agn(n-disabled), Bluetooth,

Re: FreeBSD and User Security

2008-06-11 Thread dfeustel
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 06:53:18PM -0500, Jeffrey Goldberg wrote: [mailed and posted] On Jun 11, 2008, at 4:03 PM, YANSWBVCG wrote: It is my understanding that since 1995 all computers must have a hardware back door that permits undetectable access by the government to the computer. This

Re: FreeBSD and User Security

2008-06-11 Thread dfeustel
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 07:45:51PM -0500, Jeffrey Goldberg wrote: On Jun 11, 2008, at 7:17 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A relatively new security threat known as 'The Blue Pill', based upon hardware, is a class of virtual rootkits that can silently take over Intel and AMD systems. A good site

Re: FreeBSD and User Security

2008-06-11 Thread dfeustel
even be able to detect that RAM contains something else upon boot than those hardware capture cards are supposedly reporting. Yes. I've now read through some of Rutowska's slides (following the link provided by dfeustel in another post in this thread). If all this is as she's described

Re: FreeBSD and User Security

2008-06-12 Thread dfeustel
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 01:03:00AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do you know that the bios has not been reflashed by a virus, trojan, or rootkit? For that matter, how do you know that the *original* bios was free of interesting non-essentials? It's been a few years since bios were

Re: FreeBSD and Xorg: session ending ends up in locked up Xorg server

2008-06-15 Thread dfeustel
On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 03:46:17PM +, O. Hartmann wrote: Hello, I have a strange problem on one of my FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE boxes. The machine is a FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE/AMD64 box, most recently built-world. Whenever I logout from a local X11 session (using Xorg, most recent, and

Re: New to FreeBSD

2008-06-20 Thread dfeustel
On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 06:35:26PM +0530, nerd fan wrote: Hello Every body, I am a FreeBSD newbie, want to get started with BSD and have fun. Reading Complete FreeBSD book. Interested in who uses FreeBSD and in what way FreeBSD is better than Linux for servers. Started having fun with

Re: Simple Text Mail Setup

2008-06-23 Thread dfeustel
On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 12:05:56AM -0700, Rem Roberti wrote: I am a running a minimalist setup with FreeBSD 7.0. I would like to be able to configure my system to allow me to use a text-based mail client such as Mutt. So far, I am able to receive mail, fetching my pop mail from Comcast via

Java Package for FreeBSD 7.0

2008-06-23 Thread dfeustel
Now that Java is opensource, I have looked for a Java package to install on 64-bit FreeBSD 7.0, but so far without success. Is there a simple and quick-to-install Java package for FreeBSD? Thanks. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Simple Text Mail Setup

2008-06-23 Thread dfeustel
On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 05:00:52PM -0700, Rem Roberti wrote: First of all I want to thank all who responded to my question, but I gotta tell you, if it isn't one thing it's another. I opted to install msmtp, and it did just what I hoped it would do, working perfectly out of the box, including

Amazon Kindle

2008-06-24 Thread dfeustel
Has anyone used Amazon's Kindle ebook reader with FreeBSD? Kindle has a usb interface for up/down-loading documents to/from a computer. I wonder whether and how well that interface works with FreeBSD and/or with OpenBSD. Thanks, Dave Feustel ___

Re: Firefox 3

2008-06-27 Thread dfeustel
On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 02:01:46PM +0200, Leslie Jensen wrote: Now that there's been quite some focus on the release of Firefox 3, I'm wondering if anyone on the list knows when one can expect it to appear in the ports tree? Thanks Leslie Also, will the port of Firefox 3 work with AMD