RE: FreeBSD and hardware??

On Behalf Of Chad Perrin On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 01:25:24PM -0500, Bob McConnell wrote: On Behalf Of Chad Perrin On the other hand, both Unix and Linux have a long way to go before they can match Microsoft's ease of use on the GUI. I believe the best way to attack that problem is to find

RE: FreeBSD and hardware??

to begin with. Bob McConnell If a messy desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is an empty desk the sign of? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

RE: [OT] printing question

to be significantly less than a DeskJet with all of the refills it would eat. I suspect we will have covered the difference in the printer prices before we burn through the 700 pages the original cartridges should provide. Plus the pages don't smear when we handle them with damp fingers. HTH, Bob

RE: Release schedules

or consortium just to maintain various portions of the system. But until that day comes, we have to allow the maintainers some slack in this and other issues. Patience is a virtue, Bob McConnell ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

RE: Server Freezing Solid

, they wouldn't last so long and she wouldn't complain so loudly (B^). Bob McConnell ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Question on creating a video server

for FM radio. I haven't played with that one. My only significant complaint is that it requires MySQL. I would prefer PostgreSQL, since that is less proprietary and one of the systems I deal with at work. Bob McConnell ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

RE: Unable to mount / in read - write mode

and install? Bob McConnell ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: garmin forerunner 305

. All of that will help them improve the quality of future releases. Bob McConnell ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Broken quoting (was Re: XFCE4)

, it is a major pain. I really do prefer Thunderbird. Bob McConnell ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Is KDE4 usable on FreeBSD?

it, with MS-Windows running in a VM. But it can only be run on overpriced hardware available from a single supplier. Until there are multiple sources, I don't consider it worth evaluating. Bob McConnell ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

RE: DHCP and MAC addresses

DNS/DHCP server that works well on small private networks. I don't know if it runs on BSD. Bob McConnell ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

RE: DHCP server

a successful assignment with the unsuccessful variations. See which side stops responding in each conversation and troubleshoot that end. There may be some clues in the event log on MS-Windows or the syslog files on OS-X. Bob McConnell ___ freebsd-questions

RE: man -t odd page size

. Sure, my printers can handle A4, but where can I buy a couple reams of it? Bob McConnell Ithaca, NY ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: man -t odd page size

From: Jon Radel Bob McConnell wrote: On Behalf Of Al Plant Valentin Bud wrote: hello, what do you know about this site: http://www.metricamerica.com/. i don't remember where i have read that America is going to apply the SI (ess eye) unit system. so things are going to change maybe even

RE: Firewall and FreeBSD ports

? Bob McConnell ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: uptime 2 years!

that limit. He decided that forever is 30 years and wondered why QA got an error when they tried to set a schedule end date with it. No, we don't use any 64 bit OS, yet. Bob McConnell ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

RE: Why not GNU cmp?

community benefits (freedom 3). Access to the source code is a precondition. For example, Microsoft uses many of the TCP applications and drivers from BSD, but will not allow access to their source code as required by freedoms 1 and 3. Bob McConnell

RE: which gray is best for print?

that shows which colors most browsers can understand. They also have some grey scale charts at the end of their advanced HTML tutorial. Bob McConnell ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

RE: Is the list getting my e-mails?

, there are too many people and listserves involved, so it is not manageable. Bob McConnell -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gonzalo Nemmi Sent: Friday, August 22, 2008 12:36 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is the list getting

RE: IPsec with NAT-T in transport mode dropping all packets?

it be better to set up SSH tunnels or a secure VPN? Bob McConnell ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Max. number of opened files, efficiency

by adding or changing registry values and rebooting. Others can only be modified by changing constants and recompiling. Your best bet to find which this is would be to do a search on MSDN. Or, if you have an MCSE from the early years, he might be able to look it up for you. Bob McConnell

Thread safe library references

Where can I find an authoritative list of libraries and functions that are thread safe? I am using FreeBSD 7.0 RELEASE, and none of the documentation I have been able to get my eyes on even mention threads. Thank you, Bob McConnell ___ freebsd

RE: pci compliance

services you will have running on that server. We have completed level 3 for our hosted web servers and firewalls, and are shooting for level 1 by the end of the calendar year. However, I am not yet involved in any of those projects. Bob McConnell

RE: [OT ? ] getting stats out of network capture

has received theirs. Bob McConnell ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Why would it make such a difference to move mysqld to anothermachine?

and reordering some tables to more closely match their indexes? Would this reduce the response time on the new server, at least until a significant amount of additional data was added that reverses these effects? Thank you, Bob McConnell ___ freebsd-questions

RE: filesystem information

. Bob McConnell ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: k3b not detecting my burner

software packages only work with SCSI devices. They require a SCSI translator for ATA/IDE drives. Is there a SCSI emulation option available for your SATA drives. Bob McConnell ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

RE: Problems opening mail on this list

Paul, The message you sent right after this one produced the same error in Outlook as Andrew's. Bob McConnell -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Schmehl Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2008 6:35 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re

RE: what ype of app? port of *free*-service app?

From: Gary Kline On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 08:08:11AM -0400, Bob McConnell wrote: On Behalf Of Gary Kline: This is a bit hard to figure out how to phrase, so please bear with me. I want to put-back a BBS/forum type app somewhere on my site so that members of my writing group can

RE: Problems opening mail on this list

message, I do not have control over which mail agent I use. That is dictated by the company's IT group. It may soon be further downgraded to Office 2007, if the rumors I hear are correct. Bob McConnell ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

RE: what ype of app? port of *free*-service app?

have Dokuwiki running on an Apache server here at the office as an idea and collaboration incubator. There were over 1100 pages created on it the first year. It's all written in PHP and was quite simple to set up. You can get it at http://wiki.splitbrain.org/wiki:dokuwiki. Bob McConnell

Problems opening mail on this list

I have gotten several messages on this list from an Andrew Barry which Lookout cannot open. The error message is Can't open this item. Your Digital ID name can not be found by the underlying security system. Can anyone tell me what is causing this? Thank you, Bob McConnell

RE: Problems opening mail on this list

of your messages, so their SPAM filter appears to be blocking you. Bob McConnell -Original Message- From: Andrew Berry [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2008 11:50 AM To: Bob McConnell Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problems opening mail on this list On 10-Jun

RE: Whine when EHCI controller enabled in BIOS

speed command to the fan controller. Bob McConnell ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Whine when EHCI controller enabled in BIOS

from cheap flyback transformers. Other devices would buzz, hum or rattle when they resonated with EM fields. Occasionally they can be heard by humans, more frequently they can be heard by their pets. As I have gotten older, I don't notice it as much. Bob McConnell

RE: outbound serial modem now times out or drops connection

? What do you get from a '#UD' command right after the failed connection attempt? Bob McConnell ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: outbound serial modem now times out or drops connection

the process died without disabling the auto-answer status of the modem. Some of those modems are just too smart for their own good. Please do not CC me on this thread. I can read it just fine from the list. Bob McConnell ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

RE: VPN (IPSEC)

at all. IIRC, IPSEC cannot work through a NAT connection. NAT changes header fields that IPSEC uses for packet authentication. So the receiver cannot validate the content of the modified header. Bob McConnell ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Looking for message queue documentation

I see in the release notes for 7.0 that experimental support for POSIX message queues has been added. Where can I find information on what functions are available and how they differ from the POSIX descriptions? I would like to use them for inter-thread message passing. Thank you, Bob McConnell

RE: External USB disk won't mount

that owns the genuine seal, and possibly one to your local consumer rights advocate. Good luck, Bob McConnell ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

RE: FreeBSD based router ...

From: Robert Huff Bob McConnell writes: define what enterprise level router is Something that doesn't say 'Vista capable' on the box? so get 486, 16MB RAM, needed amount of network cards, install FreeBSD and configure :) (pentium may be needed for full 100Mb/s

RE: FreeBSD based router ...

slots might be problematic. Bob McConnell ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: FreeBSD based router ...

and a warranty that was acceptable to our Production group. I'm still not sure about the warranty or that we can buy it in a case with power supply. But at least I have a vector to resume my search. Thanks, Bob McConnell ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

RE: Slightly OT - steaming data server software?

sending the messages as individual udp packets would be easier - I'm already doing that internally but it doesn't work for opening up the data stream to the public). Already been done. See http://sourceforge.net/projects/aprsd/ Bob McConnell ___ freebsd

RE: Unable to talk to tap(4)

for message passing that I picked up years ago while using the CTASK and XINU kernels. Thanks for all the help, Bob McConnell ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

RE: Unable to talk to tap(4)

network. This setup, coupled with real devices on the external network should give us a much more realistic environment for stress testing our systems. Thank you, Bob McConnell ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

RE: Unable to talk to tap(4)

From: Bob McConnell From: Wojciech Puchar The basic setup sequence is: ifconfig tap0 create ifconfig tap0 inet 10.3.4.254/24 route -v add 10.3.4.0/24 10.3.4.254 ifconfig tap0 up ? 'ifconfig' already showed the interface flag UP. Adding this command to the sequence has no effect

RE: time drift

usually gets worse as the hardware ages. I believe you are also looking at the software clock, not the hardware clock. The latter may be a little more accurate, since the former may be slowed down by interrupts and software that disables them. Install ntpd and let it adjust the clock for you. Bob

Unable to talk to tap(4)

on the host only network. This setup, coupled with real devices on the external network should give us a much more realistic environment for stress testing our systems. Thank you, Bob McConnell Principal Communications Programmer The CBORD Group, Inc. 61 Brown Road Ithaca NY, 14850 Phone 607 257-2410