Re: Hacked - FreeBSD 7.1-Release

2009-12-29 Thread Tuomo Latto
Adam Vande More wrote: I use security/denyhosts for this, very simple to setup like 5 minutes if you're a fast reader. There are other options as well that offer similar functionality. Like security/bruteblock -- Tuomo ... The way to a man's heart is through the left ventricle

Re: NSIS compile failed on FreeBSD 7.2

2009-11-19 Thread Tuomo Latto
Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 05:18:02PM +0100, Mikael Bak wrote: Matt Wilks wrote: I'm attempting to install NSIS (http://nsis.sourceforge.net/) on an amd64 FreeBSD 7.2 system and having trouble. When I run [snip] From the project's home page: NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable

Re: reecommendations for an 'appliance platform ?

2009-06-14 Thread Tuomo Latto
Aragon Gouveia wrote: TJ Varghese wrote: They're also fanless. :) Chipset has a fan, however the processor itself is fanless. I've read You are correct about the Intel GCLF2, however I was talking specifically about the tranquil system. They build their systems to be fanless, so I

Re: Keeping Updated

2009-05-06 Thread Tuomo Latto
Paul Stewart wrote: This raises my first question - getting updating source. Where do I obtain it from and how do I know when it's updated? I presume only during major updates/upgrades and/or security issues is when the source tree ever changes? Umm... No. Or depends on what you mean.

Re: Backup solution suggestions

2008-01-16 Thread Tuomo Latto
Johan Ström wrote: I create regular tarball (gziped maybee) with some files i want to backup, Then i encrypt this file with ie gpg. Then i send of this file using some unspecified network protocol to the storage server. Encrypted all the way, from my end to the remote disk.. The downside is

Re: Realtek Gigabit Network Card 0xd6088086

2007-10-30 Thread Tuomo Latto
Daniel Dias Gonçalves wrote: What is WIP version ? http://www.acronymfinder.com/af-query.asp?Acronym=WIPFind=findstring=exact -- Tuomo ... Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list

[OT] Re: rm(1) bug, possibly serious

2007-09-26 Thread Tuomo Latto
Alex Zbyslaw wrote: .??* is a standard workaround that works most of the time. Won't match .a .b etc but such antisocial files are the exception, one might hope. What? I name all my files that way! Granted, that only allows under 30 files per directory, but so what? -- Tuomo ... SROL

Re: fast rate of major FreeBSD releases to STABLE

2007-05-17 Thread Tuomo Latto
Jeremy Chadwick wrote: As someone who has had to show many people how to use the FreeBSD installer, I can confirm what Chris is referring to. Here's some of the generic end-user complaints I've heard (and some of which I have); [...] As someone who only very rarely plays with the installer,

Re: install SCSI over ATAPI for DVD

2007-05-02 Thread Tuomo Latto
KAYVEN RIESE wrote: Then run config NEW_FILE Go into kernel build directory run make cleandepend ; make depend ; make make install but i don't know what the kernel build directory is prolly simple for you guys. i just did the command in the /usr/src/sys/i386/conf directory and

Re: Dell 1955 Blade - Broadcom NIC not detected (BCM5708S)

2006-11-01 Thread Tuomo Latto
Scott Long wrote: How hard would it be to use the linux driver code base to add tthe SerDes support to the FreeBSD driver? I am not a C programmer, but I can copy and paste ;) FreeBSD has the MII and PHY blocks abstracted out into separate drivers, unlike linux. It's not clear to me how this

Re: Upgrading to 6.1-RELEASE problems with make buildkernel

2006-05-16 Thread Tuomo Latto
Yousef Raffah wrote: After cvsupping using the above cvs-supfile, I managed to buildworld with problems (I get a lot of segmentation fault 11) but it completed the build after several tries. Check your hardware. Especially search for memory problems (eg. memtest) and overheating.

Re: Pros and Cons of amd64 (versus i386).

2006-04-11 Thread Tuomo Latto
Chris H. wrote: Interesting to note (to me anyway) is my SCSI reports fastest on the outside whereas my (earlier reported) ATA reports faster in the center (middle). You get better seek times on average in the center. Maybe that affected your results? -- Tuomo ... Nitpicking - not just a

Re: new FreeBSD-webpage

2005-10-07 Thread Tuomo Latto
Greg Barniskis wrote: Dan Ponte wrote: I doubt the primary goal here was to appear trendy. Well, it certainly seems as if that was one of the goals, seeing how the new site uses quite a few new webdesign concepts that came into existence in the past few years, while providing little benefit in

Re: new FreeBSD-webpage

2005-10-07 Thread Tuomo Latto
Miguel Saturnino wrote: You'd expect popups from the links on the top (they look like that sort of links), but none seem to appear and I've just wasted time waiting for them to appear. Why would you expect pop-up windows from the new menu? Why does this menu looks like a menu that will pop up

Re: new FreeBSD-webpage

2005-10-06 Thread Tuomo Latto
Alexander S. Usov wrote: Just pointed firefox to freebsd.org and I was greeted with a new look! ... And in general, I have already heard from quite a lot of people today that the old design was quite authentic and recognizable, while the new one looks as a quite standard portal. Yecch. All

freebsd-stable@freebsd.org and [EMAIL PROTECTED]

2005-05-22 Thread Tuomo Latto
Would it be possible to force the mailing list software to rename recipient header freebsd-stable@freebsd.org to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or vice versa and then remove duplicates? I mean it seems like half the people on the list use freebsd-stable@freebsd.org address and the other half [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Alright you primitive screwheads, LISTEN UP!!

2005-05-17 Thread Tuomo Latto
Bill Paul wrote: You see what is says? It says Bill Paul. It does *NOT* say Paul Bill, does it now. WELL DOES IT!!?!?! Couldn't you just change your name? -- Tuomo ... I honor my personality flaws for without them I would have no personality at all

Re: Strange make buildworld behaviour with 5.4-RELEASE ( amd64 )

2005-05-17 Thread Tuomo Latto
Steven Hartland wrote: Didnt get through the first time so resending :) You did get through to me, at least. (stable) Apparently you didn't get Kris Kennaway's answer either? -- Tuomo ... As Descartes said: Cogito ergo dimsum - I think, therefore I eat takeaway. --

Re: Strange top(1) output

2005-05-12 Thread Tuomo Latto
Dominic Marks wrote: This includes at least the following changes (some not visible): + The entire header line is limited to the window width too. + The USERNAME column is hard-limited to 8 characters. ... I suppose it could be argued that using usernames of that format is a poor choice on my

Re: xl(4) polling

2005-05-11 Thread Tuomo Latto
Subhro wrote: ... In Device Polled systems, the NIC does not generate any interrupt at all. Instead whenever the packets arrive at a Network interface, they are captured and put into a queue. The kernel scheduler checks the quese at regular intervals and processes the packets which are waiting.