Re: taking many 198k mp3 files and converting them to 16k mp3

2006-08-27 Thread andrew clarke
On Sat, Aug 26, 2006 at 10:36:54PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: Is there a way of using sox (or another translator) to turn HUGE audio mp3 files into much much smaller files? Say taking man mp3 files that are stored at 198k high fidelity and outputting these to 16k or 32k mp3 (or *.ogg or

Re: port tk84 won't upgrade properly on AMD64 system

2006-08-27 Thread Dino Vliet
The build gives this error: [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/ports/x11-toolkits/tk84]# make build === Building for tk-8.4.13,2 cc -pipe -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -pipetkAppInit.o -L/usr/ports/x11-toolkits/tk84/work/tk8.4.13/unix -ltk84 -L/usr/local/lib -ltcl84 -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lX11 -lm

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The FreeBSD Diary: 2006-08-06 - 2006-08-26

2006-08-27 Thread Dan Langille
The FreeBSD Diary contains a large number of practical examples and how-to guides. This message is posted weekly to freebsd-questions@freebsd.org with the aim of letting people know what's available on the website. Before you post a question here it might be a good idea to first search the

Re: taking many 198k mp3 files and converting them to 16k mp3

2006-08-27 Thread Gary Kline
On Sun, Aug 27, 2006 at 04:01:23PM +1000, andrew clarke wrote: On Sat, Aug 26, 2006 at 10:36:54PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: Is there a way of using sox (or another translator) to turn HUGE audio mp3 files into much much smaller files? Say taking man mp3 files that are stored at 198k

Re: port tk84 won't upgrade properly on AMD64 system

2006-08-27 Thread Stanislav Sedov
On Sat, 26 Aug 2006 23:39:59 -0700 (PDT) Dino Vliet [EMAIL PROTECTED] mentioned: The build gives this error: [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/ports/x11-toolkits/tk84]# make build === Building for tk-8.4.13,2 cc -pipe -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -pipetkAppInit.o

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Re: BSDstats: Just added - Vendor Stats

2006-08-27 Thread Joao Barros
On 8/27/06, Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What I think is interesting is the only ~50% uptake of FreeBSD/amd64 on 64-bit x86 capable systems. FreeBSD/i386 takes ~90% of the pie. Also the less then 1% uptake of sparc64 and alpha ports and 0% for FreeBSD/PPC. Maybe we should can some of

Fw: lothlorien.nagual.nl security run output

2006-08-27 Thread dick hoogendijk
I'm a little worried after reading the security output this morning. It seems some files [ping, ping6, shutdown, at, atq and atrm] have setuid diffs. I really don't know why this could have happened. I updated some ports yesterday, but I don't think any port writes in /sbin (?) Could someboddy

Re: Intel 64bit / AMD 64 bit advantage

2006-08-27 Thread ke han
Generally speaking, mail and file server are not RAM intensive. A 32 proc can directly address 4GB RAM (2**32). FreeBSD allows you to address more than 4GB on a 32 bit proc but limited to 4GB max per process. The actual per process limit will be a bit less, I think. A 64 bit proc can

PHP5 and MySQL

2006-08-27 Thread Muhammad Omer Iqbal
Hi folks, I have problems with PHP5 and MySQL running together. I know this is a freebsd mailing list, not PHP/MySQL, but I am unable to find an appropriate mailing list for getting my problem resolved. Can someone help and let me know what the right mailing list is? Thanks Omer (Please do

Re: PHP5 and MySQL

2006-08-27 Thread Gerard Seibert
Muhammad Omer Iqbal wrote: I have problems with PHP5 and MySQL running together. I know this is a freebsd mailing list, not PHP/MySQL, but I am unable to find an appropriate mailing list for getting my problem resolved. Can someone help and let me know what the right mailing list is?

RE: PHP5 and MySQL

2006-08-27 Thread Muhammad Omer Iqbal
I have gone through the mysql and php docs and there are some possible solutions listed, none of those worked. Of course, I tried looking for a solution first before sending it here, this is like one of the last resort places, don't want to bug people with something trivial or easily fixable. I

Re: PHP5 and MySQL

2006-08-27 Thread Gerard Seibert
Muhammad Omer Iqbal wrote: I have gone through the mysql and php docs and there are some possible solutions listed, none of those worked. Of course, I tried looking for a solution first before sending it here, this is like one of the last resort places, don't want to bug people with something

RE: PHP5 and MySQL

2006-08-27 Thread Muhammad Omer Iqbal
I am sorry, being a newbie, I do not know what this means: Please don't top post! What version issue are you referring to? As for this: I am assuming that you installed both MySQL and PHP5 from an updated ports collection. Did you run: 'make config' in the PHP5 directory before building the

RE: PHP5 and MySQL

2006-08-27 Thread Muhammad Omer Iqbal
Sorry, typo. I recently installed Apache 2.2, so it is as updated a ports collection as I could get. I meant to say I recently installed FreeBSD 6.0. -Original Message- From: Muhammad Omer Iqbal [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, August 27, 2006 5:42 AM To:

Re: BSDstats: Just added - Vendor Stats

2006-08-27 Thread Matthew Seaman
Nikolas Britton wrote: What I think is interesting is the only ~50% uptake of FreeBSD/amd64 on 64-bit x86 capable systems. FreeBSD/i386 takes ~90% of the pie. Also the less then 1% uptake of sparc64 and alpha ports and 0% for FreeBSD/PPC. Maybe we should can some of these platform ports, how

Re: PHP5 and MySQL

2006-08-27 Thread Matthew Seaman
Muhammad Omer Iqbal wrote: Looking through phpinfo, I do not find mysql or mysqli installed, even though I have enabled, remade and reinstalled both MySQL and PHP5. In fact, I think that my PHP5 is no longer remade, it just reconfigures it and reinstalls it because the build date shows as

Re: Right-to-Left Language Support

2006-08-27 Thread Yousef Raffah
On Sat, 2006-08-26 at 04:57 -0700, Nate Peck wrote: In FreeBSD, is there good support for right to left languages such as Hebrew and Arabic? Depends on what you really mean by support for right to left, in all GTK2+ and QT3+ applications you have proper support. This means if you are running

Re: BSDstats: Just added - Vendor Stats

2006-08-27 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Sun, 27 Aug 2006, Nikolas Britton wrote: On 8/26/06, Atom Powers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/26/06, Darrin Chandler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Aug 26, 2006 at 10:43:38PM -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote: Neat to see nVidia *much* more popular then ATI though ... Really? Why is

Re: Fw: lothlorien.nagual.nl security run output

2006-08-27 Thread Bill Moran
dick hoogendijk wrote: I'm a little worried after reading the security output this morning. It seems some files [ping, ping6, shutdown, at, atq and atrm] have setuid diffs. I really don't know why this could have happened. I updated some ports yesterday, but I don't think any port writes in

OpenOffice2 with german user interface

2006-08-27 Thread Martin Schweizer
Hello My goal is to run OpenOffice 2.0.3 on FreeBSD 6.1/KDE 3.5.3 with a german user interface. Until now OO is only in english. I did the following: - Changed the localization as described at http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/using-localization.html (in

RE: PHP5 and MySQL

2006-08-27 Thread fbsd
I just installed PHP5 Mysql5 from the ports collection without any problems. And yes this is correct place to ask question about installing PHP5 Mysql5 on Freebsd 6.1 system. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Muhammad Omer Iqbal Sent:

RE: PHP5 and MySQL

2006-08-27 Thread Muhammad Omer Iqbal
My installation also completed without any problems. However, it is the php5-mysql/mysqli libraries that are missing. This will show up as a problem only when you try to connect to mysql from a php web-page. Otherwise, my server runs php just fine, and I am also able to run mysql and issue

Re: driver source compilation question

2006-08-27 Thread Jim Stapleton
I found something I can use, but I have some errors, I've no clue how to deal with: Makefile: .PATH: /usr/src/sys/dev/sound/pci;. KMOD= snd_hdac SRCS= device_if.h bus_if.h isa_if.h pci_if.h mixer_if.h SRCS

User permissions to mount CDROM

2006-08-27 Thread Viswas Nair
I have been trying to figure out how to give users to mount CD rom and have been largely unsuccessful. Here are a few things I tried: 1) Added user to the 4th field (options) in /etc/fstab 2) Added vfs.usermount=1 to sysctl.conf 3) Created a group called optical and added the root and alpha to

Re: PHP5 and MySQL

2006-08-27 Thread Mike Fern
hello, there are some mailing lists which may suit your needs. http://www.php.net/mailing-lists.php my recommendation is general user list. regards, ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Problems booting HP Proliant DL-320 G4 6.1-RELEASE

2006-08-27 Thread bharris
1 sounds like my problem. The machine booted fine to multi-user until I configured the nic. I'll test it first thing tommoro. Bill -Original Message- From: Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subj: Re: Problems booting HP Proliant DL-320 G4 6.1-RELEASE Date: Sat Aug 26, 2006 4:22

Re: BSDstats: Just added - Vendor Stats

2006-08-27 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 8/27/06, Matthew Seaman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nikolas Britton wrote: What I think is interesting is the only ~50% uptake of FreeBSD/amd64 on 64-bit x86 capable systems. FreeBSD/i386 takes ~90% of the pie. Also the less then 1% uptake of sparc64 and alpha ports and 0% for FreeBSD/PPC.

Re: Cluster mail system using FreeBSD

2006-08-27 Thread Jan Grant
On Wed, 23 Aug 2006, bsd wrote: The idea is to offer a simple and very efficient solution in order for the server to have a 100% uptime under any circumstances. That goal is not realistic. I was first thinking about using Linux-HA aka. heartbeat and syncing the two boxes using rsync ? One

RE: PHP5 and MySQL

2006-08-27 Thread Muhammad Omer Iqbal
Thank you for the help! It seems strange to have to install it again especially when I installed php5-extensions with mysql and mysqli extensions. When I tried to make, it tries to fetches MySQL 4.1 whereas I have 5.0 installed. How can I update the version? I have updated Makefile.ext in PHP5

RE: PHP5 and MySQL

2006-08-27 Thread fbsd
I have HTML/php5 web site that connects to mysql5 database and adds new records, deletes records and searches. Sounds to me like you did not do make options and select php-mysql interface of php5 before doing make install. For some reason in Freebsd 6.1 they removed php-mysql interface as

RE: PHP5 and MySQL

2006-08-27 Thread Muhammad Omer Iqbal
And by the way, I already have MySQL 5.0 as a .tar in the mysql folder, so probably all I need to do is let php5-mysql extension know how to access that .tar file. -Original Message- From: Muhammad Omer Iqbal [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, August 27, 2006 9:48 AM To: 'Matthew

Re: You've got an e-card at jwave.net!

2006-08-27 Thread Jonathan Horne
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RE: PHP5 and MySQL

2006-08-27 Thread fbsd
Review the questions archives for details on how to correct this problem. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Muhammad Omer Iqbal Sent: Sunday, August 27, 2006 12:48 PM To: 'Matthew Seaman' Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: PHP5 and

Re: You've got an e-card at jwave.net!

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Understanding CARP

2006-08-27 Thread freebsd
Hi I'm new to FreeBSD but I'm loving it very much! I'm experimenting with CARP to create a redundant router/firewall. I created a functioning two machine routing cluster and it works very well while configured for failover. I'm going to test it with load balancing and I'm wondering about some

ifconfig wi0 10 number HEX key arg ?

2006-08-27 Thread Bill-S
Hello Family, I'm on a wifi network where all the other Unix(like) and Windows laptops seem to be able to pass a ten (10) digit number as the hex key. In the ifconfig manpage for FreeBSD-6.1 it states, under the stanza for wepkey that the number must be 5 or 13 chars long. The number that is

rsync problems w/FreeBSD.org

2006-08-27 Thread Tim Daneliuk
When I run this: /usr/local/bin/rsync --delete -vaz rsync://ftp13.FreeBSD.org:/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-4-stable /usr1 echo rsync Exit Status: $? I get this: receiving file list ... done deleting packages-4-stable/All/.linux-enemyterritory-2.60b.tgz.fzZLWH packages-4-stable/All/

BSDstats: Error message

2006-08-27 Thread Garrett Cooper
Just wondering if this is a usual response to my accidentally hammering the bsdstats server: bash-2.05b# /usr/local/etc/periodic/monthly/300.statistics [1] 5437 bash-2.05b# Posting monthly OS statistics to bsdstats.org Posting monthly device/CPU statistics disabled set

Re: BSDstats: Just added - Vendor Stats

2006-08-27 Thread pauls
--On August 27, 2006 12:08:55 AM -0500 Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What I think is interesting is the only ~50% uptake of FreeBSD/amd64 on 64-bit x86 capable systems. FreeBSD/i386 takes ~90% of the pie. Also the less then 1% uptake of sparc64 and alpha ports and 0% for FreeBSD/PPC.

Fw: [m0n0wall-announce] Prize for FreeBSD 6.1 port of m0n0wall doubled ($2000)

2006-08-27 Thread albi
FYI Begin forwarded message: Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2006 16:25:40 +0200 From: Manuel Kasper [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], m0n0wall@lists.m0n0.ch Subject: [m0n0wall-announce] Prize for FreeBSD 6.1 port of m0n0wall doubled ($2000) Hello m0n0wall developers, I am

{Could Be Spam?} FreeBSD 6.1 network configurarion on VMware workstation

2006-08-27 Thread Mohammad Al - Jamal
Hi all I have just installed FreeBSD 6.1 on VMware workstation , and am facing a problem configuring the network connection , i havn't tryed many things , when i ping any ip i get no route to host could you PLZ advice !! thanks in advance .

got a new monitor, trying to reconfig xorg

2006-08-27 Thread Jonathan Horne
i just brought home new samsung 22 widescreen LCD. so far, i cannot get xorg to take anything other than standard CRT type resolutions, such as 1280x1024. i took at look at my Xorg.0.log, and saw this: (II) I810(0): [EMAIL PROTECTED] (II) I810(0): [EMAIL PROTECTED] (II) I810(0): [EMAIL

Re: Intel 64bit / AMD 64 bit advantage

2006-08-27 Thread Wojciech Puchar
32 vs 64 bits does not give you any raw performance boost for most apps. The yes it will. FreeBSD/amd64 works at least 10% faster than FreeBSD/i386 on athlon64 machine, when i386 version were recompiled for P4. With default FreeBSD/i386 - it will be at least 30%. just because it's not just

Re: taking many 198k mp3 files and converting them to 16k mp3

2006-08-27 Thread hackmiester (Hunter Fuller)
On 27 August 2006, at 02:49, Gary Kline wrote: Ah, thank you, thank you. I just can't see wasting so much of my disk [and bakup disks] for what are mostly voice/lectures. I suppose I can buy a DVD-R[W] and fnd out, but is there any reason why I can't have many hours of

Re: User permissions to mount CDROM

2006-08-27 Thread ajm
On Sun, Aug 27, 2006 at 08:11:16PM +0530, Viswas Nair wrote: I have been trying to figure out how to give users to mount CD rom and have been largely unsuccessful. Here are a few things I tried: 1) Added user to the 4th field (options) in /etc/fstab 2) Added vfs.usermount=1 to sysctl.conf 3)

IPSEC, am I missing something?

2006-08-27 Thread Jim Stapleton
I was googling freebsd and vpn so I could use my notebook to handle work stuff remotely, and I found this: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ipsec.html guess I didn't need google. Regardless, it mentions a lot of kernel options. I checked my kernel configuration file, to

Re: taking many 198k mp3 files and converting them to 16k mp3

2006-08-27 Thread dgmm
On Sunday 27 August 2006 06:36, Gary Kline wrote: files. Reply-To: X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: Observing twenty years of service to the Unix community Is there a way of using sox (or another translator) to turn HUGE audio

5.5 and SMP

2006-08-27 Thread Noah
Hi there, I just installed 5.5 for the first time and I am trying to make sure that SMP is operating properly. The kernel I have loaded is rebuilt with SMP support. okay the dmesg is showing two logical CPUs. I actually only have one CPU as you can tell by the boot information. I am

Re: PHP5 and MySQL

2006-08-27 Thread Matthew Seaman
Muhammad Omer Iqbal wrote: And by the way, I already have MySQL 5.0 as a .tar in the mysql folder, so probably all I need to do is let php5-mysql extension know how to access that .tar file. A .tar of what? The sources? Better put them into /usr/ports/distfiles. It seems strange to have to

Re: taking many 198k mp3 files and converting them to 16k mp3

2006-08-27 Thread Gary Kline
On Sun, Aug 27, 2006 at 03:04:10PM -0500, hackmiester (Hunter Fuller) wrote: On 27 August 2006, at 02:49, Gary Kline wrote: Ah, thank you, thank you. I just can't see wasting so much of my disk [and bakup disks] for what are mostly voice/lectures. I suppose I can

Re: Understanding CARP

2006-08-27 Thread Matthew Seaman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I'm new to FreeBSD but I'm loving it very much! I'm experimenting with CARP to create a redundant router/firewall. I created a functioning two machine routing cluster and it works very well while configured for failover. I'm going to test it with load balancing

Proof of concept box with 8mB RAM

2006-08-27 Thread hackmiester (Hunter Fuller)
Everyone will laugh at this, but I have an old box with a 25mHz processor or so. It has 8mB of memory. I want to install some type of UNIX clone on it, as a proof of concept. I don't care if it's linux, freebsd, or something else, but I need something that will run with enough speed to run

Re: got a new monitor, trying to reconfig xorg

2006-08-27 Thread John Nielsen
Quoting Jonathan Horne [EMAIL PROTECTED]: i just brought home new samsung 22 widescreen LCD. so far, i cannot get xorg to take anything other than standard CRT type resolutions, such as 1280x1024. snip the first part, seems to be the normal video modes that i would expect to see from an i810

Re: taking many 198k mp3 files and converting them to 16k mp3

2006-08-27 Thread Howard Jones
hackmiester (Hunter Fuller) wrote: On 27 August 2006, at 02:49, Gary Kline wrote: --Might be nice to gather (parts of) my favorite CD's onto one Very long-playing disk. That would require you to burn an audio DVD, which you couldn't read in a normal CD drive... and I really don't know

Re: taking many 198k mp3 files and converting them to 16k mp3

2006-08-27 Thread hackmiester (Hunter Fuller)
On 27 August 2006, at 16:26, Gary Kline wrote: I have a DVD burner in my newest server; my thinking is that I would burn some N *.mp3 files onto a DVD, then play it back. On what? The questions are whether I would have to create a filesystem, or if the DVD

Re: Proof of concept box with 8mB RAM

2006-08-27 Thread albi
On Sun, 27 Aug 2006 16:35:51 -0500 hackmiester (Hunter Fuller) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Everyone will laugh at this, but I have an old box with a 25mHz processor or so. It has 8mB of memory. I want to install some type of UNIX clone on it, as a proof of concept. I don't care if it's linux,

Re: taking many 198k mp3 files and converting them to 16k mp3

2006-08-27 Thread hackmiester (Hunter Fuller)
On 27 August 2006, at 16:38, Howard Jones wrote: hackmiester (Hunter Fuller) wrote: That would require you to burn an audio DVD, which you couldn't read in a normal CD drive... and I really don't know how exactly you would do it either... Not necessarily. Both of my current DVD players

Re: Proof of concept box with 8mB RAM

2006-08-27 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Sun, Aug 27, 2006 at 04:35:51PM -0500, hackmiester (Hunter Fuller) wrote: Everyone will laugh at this, but I have an old box with a 25mHz processor or so. It has 8mB of memory. I want to install some type of UNIX clone on it, as a proof of concept. I don't care if it's linux, freebsd,

Re: taking many 198k mp3 files and converting them to 16k mp3

2006-08-27 Thread steveb
Ah, thank you, thank you. I just can't see wasting so much of my disk [and bakup disks] for what are mostly voice/lectures. I suppose I can buy a DVD-R[W] and fnd out, but is there any reason why I can't have many hours of audio on a DVD? In other words, id a

Re: IPSEC, am I missing something?

2006-08-27 Thread Erik Nørgaard
Jim Stapleton wrote: What I found and added: #ipsec: Required for VPN optionsIPSEC#IP security optionsIPSEC_ESP#IP security (crypto; define w/ IPSEC) #ipsec optimsations optionsFAST_IPSEC # new IPsec (cannot define w/ IPSEC) options

Re: IPSEC, am I missing something?

2006-08-27 Thread Jim Stapleton
OK, thanks. Right now there are no problems, I just am looking to figure out how to connect to my works VPN from home. Right now I'm looking at the actual VPN part, but after that I have to check how to do remote desktop/terminal services for the windows server I have to work on. Thank you,

Re: Proof of concept box with 8mB RAM

2006-08-27 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 8/27/06, hackmiester (Hunter Fuller) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Everyone will laugh at this, but I have an old box with a 25mHz processor or so. It has 8mB of memory. I want to install some type of UNIX clone on it, as a proof of concept. I don't care if it's linux, freebsd, or something else,

Re: Proof of concept box with 8mB RAM

2006-08-27 Thread hackmiester (Hunter Fuller)
On 27 August 2006, at 18:01, Nikolas Britton wrote: On 8/27/06, hackmiester (Hunter Fuller) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That box doesn't have enough memory to run a current version of FreeBSD or Linux. I just want a version to run, a new one is obviously pushing it :) Also what CPU does it

Re: ipfilter on 6.1

2006-08-27 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2006-08-26 20:31, J.D. Bronson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 07:59 PM 8/26/2006, you wrote: I'd go for the simpler syntax of: MYADDR: ! /sbin/ipf -y well that didnt work either. what a pain. :( tun0: Warning: /etc/ppp/ppp.linkup: ! /sbin/ipf -y: Invalid command perhaps its

Re: Proof of concept box with 8mB RAM

2006-08-27 Thread hackmiester (Hunter Fuller)
On 27 August 2006, at 16:42, albi wrote: it's a 386 ? try minix first Does it have a way to install without a CD? FBSD has floppies that you can network install using. I can't use CDs because the CD drive of this box can't read CD-Rs =( , then FreeBSD 3.x :]

Re: BSDstats: Just added - Vendor Stats

2006-08-27 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Sun, 27 Aug 2006, Matthew Seaman wrote: Nikolas Britton wrote: What I think is interesting is the only ~50% uptake of FreeBSD/amd64 on 64-bit x86 capable systems. FreeBSD/i386 takes ~90% of the pie. Also the less then 1% uptake of sparc64 and alpha ports and 0% for FreeBSD/PPC. Maybe we

File associations, Mime-types and X

2006-08-27 Thread Steve Lake
Just curious of something. How are file associations handled in Freebsd? Are they handled on the OS level, Xwindows, or is it handled by the actual Window Manager such as KDE or Gnome? Just curious because I'm trying to help someone troubleshoot something he's developing. Thanks.

Re: 5.5 and SMP

2006-08-27 Thread Mikhail Goriachev
Noah wrote: Hi there, I just installed 5.5 for the first time and I am trying to make sure that SMP is operating properly. The kernel I have loaded is rebuilt with SMP support. okay the dmesg is showing two logical CPUs. I actually only have one CPU as you can tell by the boot

Re: Ports cvsup failure

2006-08-27 Thread Lowell Gilbert
stan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I just set up a new cvsup server, using the cvsup-mirror port. I can use it to update everything that I need but the ports collection. It fails like this: Parsing supfile ports-supfile Connecting to cvsup.meadwestvaco.com Connected to cvsup.meadwestvaco.com

Re: File associations, Mime-types and X

2006-08-27 Thread hackmiester (Hunter Fuller)
On 27 August 2006, at 19:36, Steve Lake wrote: Just curious of something. How are file associations handled in Freebsd? Are they handled on the OS level, Xwindows, or is it handled by the actual Window Manager such as KDE or Gnome? Your file manager determines which app to run

Re: Proof of concept box with 8mB RAM

2006-08-27 Thread David Kelly
On Aug 27, 2006, at 4:35 PM, hackmiester (Hunter Fuller) wrote: Everyone will laugh at this, but I have an old box with a 25mHz processor or so. It has 8mB of memory. I want to install some type of UNIX clone on it, as a proof of concept. I don't care if it's linux, freebsd, or something

ports/net-p2p/ktorrent - can't compile

2006-08-27 Thread Laurence Sanford
Just looking for pointers, as I've seen them here from time to time when a port won't build. I'm using the following command line: portupgrade -NR ktorrent All dependencies build successfully. The ktorrent build fails like this: /usr/X11R6/bin/moc ./peermanager.h -o peermanager.moc

Re: Intel 64bit / AMD 64 bit advantage

2006-08-27 Thread ke han
On Aug 28, 2006, at 4:03 AM, Wojciech Puchar wrote: 32 vs 64 bits does not give you any raw performance boost for most apps. The yes it will. FreeBSD/amd64 works at least 10% faster than FreeBSD/ i386 on athlon64 machine, when i386 version were recompiled for P4. With default

Re: taking many 198k mp3 files and converting them to 16k mp3

2006-08-27 Thread Gary Kline
On Sun, Aug 27, 2006 at 10:38:05PM +0100, Howard Jones wrote: hackmiester (Hunter Fuller) wrote: On 27 August 2006, at 02:49, Gary Kline wrote: --Might be nice to gather (parts of) my favorite CD's onto one Very long-playing disk. That would require you to burn an audio DVD, which you

Re: Proof of concept box with 8mB RAM

2006-08-27 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 8/27/06, David Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Aug 27, 2006, at 4:35 PM, hackmiester (Hunter Fuller) wrote: Everyone will laugh at this, but I have an old box with a 25mHz processor or so. It has 8mB of memory. I want to install some type of UNIX clone on it, as a proof of concept. I

Re: BSDstats: Error message

2006-08-27 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Sun, 27 Aug 2006, Garrett Cooper wrote: Just wondering if this is a usual response to my accidentally hammering the bsdstats server: bash-2.05b# /usr/local/etc/periodic/monthly/300.statistics [1] 5437 bash-2.05b# Posting monthly OS statistics to bsdstats.org Posting monthly device/CPU

Subscribe request result (debian-devel ML)

2006-08-27 Thread debian-devel-admin
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Re: Help for Hardware Selection

2006-08-27 Thread Mauricio Araya V.
Hi there! On 8/25/06, VeeJay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello FreeBSD Gurus!!! I am wondering if any of you could help me to select a Good Reliable hardware for Dedicated FreeBSD Web/Database Server. There is a list of hardware vendors at FreeBSD.org

Re: Proof of concept box with 8mB RAM

2006-08-27 Thread Nikolas Britton
I just tested the minimum memory requirements for FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE through 2.2.9-RELEASE using VMware 5 Workstation: FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE: 4MB, 8MB: Dies at bootstrap loader. 12MB, 16MB: Dies while loading acpi.ko. 20MB: Boots / Successfully installed the default minimal distribution set. Mem:

FreeBSD's minimum memory requirements.

2006-08-27 Thread Nikolas Britton
I just tested the minimum memory requirements for FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE through 2.2.9-RELEASE using VMware 5 Workstation: FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE: 4MB, 8MB: Dies at bootstrap loader. 12MB, 16MB: Dies while loading acpi.ko. 20MB: Boots / Successfully installed the default minimal distribution set. Mem: