Reading thru one of the postgres mailing lists regarding which
character encoding to use for a database, someone chimed in and
claimed this:
Umm, you should choose an encoding supported by your platform and the
locales you use. For example, UTF-8 is a bad choice on *BSD because
there is
If you make sure that your data goes into the database in a binary safe
form (look for escape methods supplied by your favourite programming
language) it doesn't matter how the database is encoded, because you
will always get the data back the way you put it in.
Vivek Khera wrote:
Reading thru
On Mar 20, 2006, at 12:16 PM, [LoN]Kamikaze wrote:
If you make sure that your data goes into the database in a binary
safe
form (look for escape methods supplied by your favourite programming
language) it doesn't matter how the database is encoded, because you
will always get the data back
On Mar 20, 2006, at 12:21 , Vivek Khera wrote:
I expect that to happen. What I'm more curious about is the
collating speed. Ie, how fast are the sorting and string
comparison functions. The clam here is that in *BSD these are
somehow not fast. I'm not sure if that is a BSD issue or a
Dear All,
I have a FreeBSD box running 5.4-RELEASE-p8.
Two interfaces:
fxp0 - internet, SKA4 internal interface
fxp0: Intel 82559 Pro/100 Ethernet
bge0 - internal with 30 vlans on it, old bge Gigabit 64/32 PCI-2.1 adapter.
bge0: Altima AC1002 Gigabit Ethernet, ASIC rev. 0x105
Firewall is pf
I've raised this before but I haven't tested it recently.
With a NFS server-only kernel built from 6.1-pre cvsupped today,
rpc.lockd still refuses to run with ..
rpc.lockd: open: nfslock: No such file or directory
.. appearing in /var/log/messages. nfslock obviously refers to
Dear friends:
I decided to go out and buy the latest issue of Linux Format with the
FreeBSD 6 CD. I am very glad I did. FreeBSD is tough to install, but
after spending several hours I finally succeeded in doing a perfect
installation. ONE BIG PROBLEM: When I removed the CD and rebooted, I got
Dear friends:
I have an old but very reliable Dell Dimension 8200 that's 6 years old.
It does not have a boot option for both of my separate hard disks. The
only BOOT options are: floppy, CD or hard drive. That's why I need the
boot manager solution.
Thank you again.
Benjamin
Dear friends:
I have an old but very reliable Dell Dimension 8200 that's 6 years old.
It does not have a boot option for both of my separate hard disks. The
only BOOT options are: floppy, CD or hard drive. That's why I need the
boot manager solution.
Thank you again.
Benjamin
At 04:43 PM 20/03/2006, Benjamin Sher wrote:
I read the instructions about the FreeBSD Boot Manager. It said clearly
that it should allow switching from one OS to another. But I did not see
any configuration for that. How, may I ask, do I do this while
installing FreeBSD?
Google around for
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 16:43:25 -0500
From: Benjamin Sher [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Dear friends:
I decided to go out and buy the latest issue of Linux Format with the
FreeBSD 6 CD. I am very glad I did. FreeBSD is tough to install, but
after spending several hours I
Dear Kevin:
Sounds great! Just what I need. One question before I proceed: what is
the holographic shell. Please be specific and provide step-by-step
instructions. I am a bit nervous about this kind of brain surgery.
Thank you again.
Benjamin
To write the MBR on the first disk, just boot the
Benjamin Sher wrote:
Dear Kevin:
Sounds great! Just what I need. One question before I proceed: what is
the holographic shell. Please be specific and provide step-by-step
instructions. I am a bit nervous about this kind of brain surgery.
Thank you again.
Benjamin
To write the MBR on the
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 17:44:28 -0500
From: Benjamin Sher [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Dear Kevin:
Sounds great! Just what I need. One question before I proceed: what is
the holographic shell. Please be specific and provide step-by-step
instructions. I am a bit nervous
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Damian Gerow [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
: Thus spake Alex Dupre ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [11/03/06 22:18]:
: : This problem has been discussed many times on the lists. In order to
: : update devfs you can use:
: :
: : cat /dev/null /dev/daX
: :
: : I
Dear Kevin:
You sure know your stuff, Kevin. No question about it. I am almost
there. The only problem is that when I boot up to the new FreeBSD system
(CD unselected and hardrive selected in boot sequence), I get a kind of
login that says:
FreeBS/i386 boot
Default: 1: ad (1,a) default
No
Dear Kevin:
By the way, I have a CD Rom drive and a DVD drive. The FreeBSD CD is in
the first CD Rom drive.
Benjamin
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Dear Kevin:
By the way, for future reference, what boot manager should I choose next
time I install FreeBSD? Lilo? Grub? If so, where is the option for
installing it?
Thank you.
Benjamin
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: On Sun, Mar 19, 2006 at 04:39:19PM -0500, Matt Emmerton wrote:
: On Sun, Mar 19, 2006 at 11:28:45AM -0500, Matt Emmerton wrote:
: OK, now you can post about your other panic :-)
Yes. Please. I'm interested in
Dear Kevin:
By the way, when I booted up, I did see and use the F1 for Windows
option and the F5 for FreeBSD (F1) along with Other (F5). So, it's
working. But its' not getting me into FreeBSD. Would appreciate your
explanation.
Thank you.
Benjamin
Dear Kevin:
Here is another line from the FreeBSD boot sequence:
Loader: not a directory
No /boot/loader.
Benjamin
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Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 18:43:04 -0600
From: Benjamin Sher [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dear Kevin:
You sure know your stuff, Kevin. No question about it. I am almost
there. The only problem is that when I boot up to the new FreeBSD system
(CD unselected and hardrive selected in boot sequence), I
All,
I have two USB hard drives attached through an Adaptec USB2 card.
The disks were working fine (although seemed a bit slow ~3MB/s random
reads/writes as reported by iostat while rsync was copying from one to
the other a complete freebsd install). The drives were left connected
to the
On Mon, 2006-Mar-20 21:26:56 +0300, Anton Nikiforov wrote:
I have a FreeBSD box running 5.4-RELEASE-p8.
...
A week ago it was working just properly, but after adding more RAM (2GB
additional RAM, and i do not thing that this is the reason of the
problem) it starts to drop large packets.
How
As mentioned, this belongs on freebsd-qyestions, not freebsd-stable.
Also, could you please keep your questions as a single thread - it
makes it much easier to follow.
On Mon, 2006-Mar-20 18:43:04 -0600, Benjamin Sher wrote:
FreeBS/i386 boot
Default: 1: ad (1,a) default
No /boot/kernel/kernel
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