Re: Euro Millions lottery prize Donation

2012-06-24 Thread Wojciech Puchar
i not yet won but soon will :) Anyway - congratulations for listserver admin for making spam amount THAT SMALL! IT is less than one per day for such a list - IN SPITE of no need to subscribe. Anyway - is requirement to subscribe somehow bad? ___

Re: USB system: FreeBSD 9-STABLE and 10-CURRENT do not recognize 64GB USB drive while Linux and Windows do

2012-06-24 Thread Thomas Mueller
Hi, On Saturday 23 June 2012 15:08:53 Thomas Mueller wrote: I don't think I ever tried to connect a USB 2.0 device to 3.0 port, but I tried the opposite. I have here 2 hard disks and 2 flash drives with USB 2.0. Three of them work on FreeBSD on an USB 3.0 port. One hard disk only works

AMD Radeon CUDA under FreeBSD?

2012-06-24 Thread Dennis Glatting
I found useful blogs regarding NVIDIA but nothing useful how to get CUDA installed for the AMD Radeon series chips under FreeBSD, native or Linux. Would someone please point me to a clue? Google wasn't helpful. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: AMD Radeon CUDA under FreeBSD?

2012-06-24 Thread Eduardo Morras
At 20:00 24/06/2012, Dennis Glatting wrote: I found useful blogs regarding NVIDIA but nothing useful how to get CUDA installed for the AMD Radeon series chips under FreeBSD, native or Linux. Would someone please point me to a clue? Google wasn't helpful. AFAIK AMD has no official driver for

Building 9.0 failure

2012-06-24 Thread Chuck Bacon
Running 9.0 on host, bsdinstall from CD or ftp. Fatal message: Error while extracting base.txz: Can't set user=0/group=0 for /var/empty Can't update time for /var/empty Chuck Bacon c...@cape.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Understanding XDM

2012-06-24 Thread Christian Graulund
Hello Guys, I just install FreeBSD 9, and after compiling Xorg, I started trying to figure out how to install a Window Manager. When Following the handbook, I suggest installing XDM. I want to use something like Openbox, as my window manager, and I can't figure out if Openbox is a replacement for

Re: Building 9.0 failure

2012-06-24 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 24 Jun 2012 15:48:05 -0400 (EDT), Chuck Bacon wrote: Running 9.0 on host, bsdinstall from CD or ftp. Fatal message: Error while extracting base.txz: Can't set user=0/group=0 for /var/empty Can't update time for /var/empty Looks like file flags (noschg). See if you can apply

Re: Understanding XDM

2012-06-24 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 24 Jun 2012 22:19:54 +0200, Christian Graulund wrote: Hello Guys, I just install FreeBSD 9, and after compiling Xorg, I started trying to figure out how to install a Window Manager. When Following the handbook, I suggest installing XDM. I want to use something like Openbox, as my

Re: CLANG vs GCC tests of fortran/f2c program

2012-06-24 Thread jb
Chad Perrin perrin at apotheon.com writes: Anyway, switching from GCC to Clang has essentially nothing to do with the kinds of problems we increasingly see in the Linux world. In fact, one of the biggest problems in the Linux world is the fact that GNU projects have a tendency to degrade

Understanding XDM

2012-06-24 Thread Robert Huff
Christian Graulund writes: I just install FreeBSD 9, and after compiling Xorg, I started trying to figure out how to install a Window Manager. When Following the handbook, I suggest installing XDM. Assuming we're talking about the same xdm ... your first problem is it's not window

Re: Understanding XDM

2012-06-24 Thread Walter Hurry
On Sun, 24 Jun 2012 22:19:54 +0200, Christian Graulund wrote: Hello Guys, I just install FreeBSD 9, and after compiling Xorg, I started trying to figure out how to install a Window Manager. When Following the handbook, I suggest installing XDM. I want to use something like Openbox, as my

Re: CLANG vs GCC tests of fortran/f2c program

2012-06-24 Thread Jakub Lach
I am more concerned about an aspect of the language the clang tools are written in, namely the use of object-oriented paradigm of c++ (it is a phony paradigm, one that does not exist in nature or reality, which explains the failure rate of C++ OO projects historically and current usage

Re: Is ZFS production ready?

2012-06-24 Thread Edward M
On 06/23/2012 10:38 PM, Wojciech Puchar wrote: last binary production ready, used version 14; i also found it to be stable Any opensource zfs pool verisons beyound that, i am not really sure about their stablity compared to UFS rock solid filesystem. No ZFS pool version can be as

Re: changing md5 hashed for sha

2012-06-24 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Christopher J. Ruwe c...@cruwe.de writes: For setting the dafault hash used to hash /etc/master.passwd, it has been recommended changing md5 for something more secure in the sense of being more expensive to crack. The handbook describes the procedure used in

Re: changing md5 hashed for sha

2012-06-24 Thread Mike Tancsa
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 6/23/2012 9:37 AM, Christopher J. Ruwe wrote: For setting the dafault hash used to hash /etc/master.passwd, it has been recommended changing md5 for something more secure in the sense of being more expensive to crack. The handbook describes

Re: Is ZFS production ready?

2012-06-24 Thread Ross Cameron
On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 4:44 PM, Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: One interesting feature of ZFS if it's block checksum: all reads and writes include block checksum, so it can easily detect situations where, for example, data is quietly corrupted by RAM. you may be

Omega Zip Drives on FreeBSD 8.*

2012-06-24 Thread Al Plant
Aloha, I need to get an old parallel Omega Zip drive to work on a freeBSD 8.* to transfer some archives to new media. I have a problem with getting the OS to read the Omega Zip drive so it can be seen in dmesg to manually set the id correctly in /etc/fstab Flash drives and floppies show up

Re: Omega Zip Drives on FreeBSD 8.*

2012-06-24 Thread Adam Vande More
On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 6:59 PM, Al Plant n...@hdk5.net wrote: I need to get an old parallel Omega Zip drive to work on a freeBSD 8.* to transfer some archives to new media. I have a problem with getting the OS to read the Omega Zip drive so it can be seen in dmesg to manually set the id

Re: Is ZFS production ready?

2012-06-24 Thread Edward M
On 06/24/2012 04:23 PM, Adam Vande More wrote: On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 5:43 PM, Edward M eam1edw...@gmail.com mailto:eam1edw...@gmail.com wrote: Dont email me privately. Don't be an ass. Standard list conventions allows for private email. If this is simply an individual case of not

Re: Omega Zip Drives on FreeBSD 8.*

2012-06-24 Thread Mike Jeays
On Sun, 24 Jun 2012 19:13:00 -0500 Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 6:59 PM, Al Plant n...@hdk5.net wrote: I need to get an old parallel Omega Zip drive to work on a freeBSD 8.* to transfer some archives to new media. I have a problem with getting

Re: Omega Zip Drives on FreeBSD 8.*

2012-06-24 Thread Al Plant
Adam Vande More wrote: On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 6:59 PM, Al Plant n...@hdk5.net mailto:n...@hdk5.net wrote: I need to get an old parallel Omega Zip drive to work on a freeBSD 8.* to transfer some archives to new media. I have a problem with getting the OS to read the Omega Zip

Re: Omega Zip Drives on FreeBSD 8.*

2012-06-24 Thread Mark Felder
Now would be an ideal time to dd the device to an image file and play with that until you get it working. If your hardware or media fails as-is you'll be rather disappointed :-) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Omega Zip Drives on FreeBSD 8.*

2012-06-24 Thread Thomas Mueller
from Mike Jeays mike.je...@rogers.com: I am amazed anyone still has a working Zip drive! Both mine suffered from the click of death some years ago, round about when 4.11 was current. I would get any data off them and onto a CD/DVD as soon as possible. For me, they would make nice museum

Re: Omega Zip Drives on FreeBSD 8.*

2012-06-24 Thread Al Plant
Thomas Mueller wrote: from Mike Jeays mike.je...@rogers.com: I am amazed anyone still has a working Zip drive! Both mine suffered from the click of death some years ago, round about when 4.11 was current. I would get any data off them and onto a CD/DVD as soon as possible. For me, they would

Re: Omega Zip Drives on FreeBSD 8.*

2012-06-24 Thread Thomas Mueller
from Al Plant n...@hdk5.net: Thanks Of the 4 I had to play with one literally fell apart one scsi card is throwing errors. The one I finally got working is an old IDE on a FreeBSD 10 box that I experiment with. This should work fine to archive the Omega disks we found. Again thanks

Re: Omega Zip Drives on FreeBSD 8.*

2012-06-24 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 06/25/12 02:58, Mike Jeays wrote: I am amazed anyone still has a working Zip drive! I have a SCSI one and I'm using it to backup some data (can't even remember how old that is, 10 years probably, but never had any glitches). I also have a couple of customers still using two or three

[OT] Re: Omega Zip Drives on FreeBSD 8.*

2012-06-24 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 06/25/12 04:58, Thomas Mueller wrote: Zip 100 drive, and also SyQuest SyJet drive, got to where they would just eject the disk a few seconds after insertion. I hope I'm remembering this correctly (this happened probably ten years ago or so): I had an internal Zip drive which showed this