Re: Apple FreeBSD relationship

2011-03-09 Thread David Kelly
. There are a lot of smart people at Apple who have had nothing better to do the past 10 years than to study and learn from Steve Jobs. I'm waiting for $500. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dke...@hiwaay.net Whom computers would destroy

Re: Apple FreeBSD relationship

2011-03-09 Thread David Kelly
know of any Apple product which used Intel Etherexpress Pro chipsets but I popped a PCI card in a Mac one day and it magically worked as if it had always been there. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dke...@hiwaay.net Whom computers

Re: setting up svn server - Connection refused

2011-02-25 Thread David Kelly
'10.10.10.14': Connection refused Forget the SVN server daemon its much easier to use svn+ssh:// than svn:// -- David Kelly N4HHE, dke...@hiwaay.net Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad

Re: Invitation

2011-02-14 Thread David Kelly
? -- David Kelly N4HHE, dke...@hiwaay.net Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: How to adjust man page line length [SOLVED]

2011-01-19 Thread David Kelly
is now a shell script. In ancient times man was originally a shell script. What is old is new again. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dke...@hiwaay.net Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad

Re: How to adjust man page line length

2011-01-18 Thread David Kelly
Postscript output. man -t generates very nice printable man pages. As for the request not to be CC'ed in reply, put the list address in the Reply-To: header as I have done here. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dke...@hiwaay.net Whom

Re: How to adjust man page line length

2011-01-18 Thread David Kelly
not work). -- David Kelly N4HHE, dke...@hiwaay.net Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: FreeBSD Decision

2011-01-14 Thread David Kelly
500G drives an unlimited user license is a budget busting $995 full MSRP. Many former FreeBSD core members now work for Apple. Many of the man pages in MacOS X still say FreeBSD. Apple has done a lot for FreeBSD. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dke...@hiwaay.net

Re: fetching mail (but not fetchmail)

2010-12-23 Thread David Kelly
. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dke...@hiwaay.net Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: printer recommendations?

2010-12-02 Thread David Kelly
per month. :-) Several years ago I was secretary/treasurer of a dirtbike club and was printing as many as 1800 envelopes and the materials inside the envelopes per year. Many times I went to the Post Office and bought $400 of stamps. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dke...@hiwaay.net

Re: IPFW at startup.

2010-11-15 Thread David Kelly
in rc.conf to be open or whatever your firewall type is in /etc/rc.firewall. What he needs to do is use firewall_script=/etc/ipfw.rules rather than firewall_type= -- David Kelly N4HHE, dke...@hiwaay.net Whom computers would

Re: Which OS for notebook

2010-10-05 Thread David Kelly
on the original battery. Its biggest limitation today is its 2GB max memory, but the Intel Core Duo 1.83 GHz CPU is plenty good. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dke...@hiwaay.net Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad

Re: migrate system disk

2010-09-22 Thread David Kelly
could use to reinstall. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dke...@hiwaay.net Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Is this bunk.

2010-08-23 Thread David Kelly
FreeBSD'ers now working for Apple. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dke...@hiwaay.net Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Is this bunk.

2010-08-22 Thread David Kelly
it is to be BSD. The pre-FreeBSD code is out there, you are welcome to it. Some would say OpenBSD attempted a hostile takeover of BSD. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dke...@hiwaay.net Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad

Re: Can't remove or move file

2010-08-20 Thread David Kelly
to view +DESC and +CONTENTS files in /var/db/pkg/*/ as the leading plus sign has meaning to less on the command line. less ./+DESC -- David Kelly N4HHE, dke...@hiwaay.net Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive

Re: Any awk gurus on the list?

2010-08-20 Thread David Kelly
and know what you are doing put it on a single command line if its simple enough. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dke...@hiwaay.net Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad

Re: Anti virus, anti spam step guide.

2010-08-04 Thread David Kelly
to another thread into something else. This is not the same thing as a new email. Address a new email to the list with your new thread. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dke...@hiwaay.net Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad

Re: Typical Network Performance

2010-08-02 Thread David Kelly
On Aug 1, 2010, at 11:31 PM, Corey Smith wrote: On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 7:30 PM, David Kelly dke...@hiwaay.net wrote: Gigabit ethernet from a 2.8 GHz P4 to or from MacPro I am only limited by disk data rate. About 60 MB/sec on one end of the disk, more on the other end of the disk. Did

Re: Typical Network Performance

2010-08-01 Thread David Kelly
to or from MacPro I am only limited by disk data rate. About 60 MB/sec on one end of the disk, more on the other end of the disk. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dke...@hiwaay.net Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad

Re: Strip high bit from text?

2010-07-22 Thread David Kelly
' ' ' :0 afW | formail -I X-Converted: 0xA0 Stripper -- David Kelly N4HHE, dke...@hiwaay.net Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad. ___ freebsd

Strip high bit from text?

2010-07-21 Thread David Kelly
something out in C, but I think there should be something laying around already in the base system to perform this task. Suggestions? Repair the email while procmail has it? Reconfigure mutt and/or vim? -- David Kelly N4HHE, dke...@hiwaay.net

Re: slow down dd - how?

2010-07-09 Thread David Kelly
sleep, whereupon 'somebody is going to holler about a 'broken pipe'. Am not sure why the actual example blocksize was 64k but the results are the same for FreeBSD and MacOS X. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dke...@hiwaay.net Whom

Re: slow down dd - how?

2010-07-08 Thread David Kelly
. I haven't looked. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dke...@hiwaay.net Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: VLANs is this right?

2010-07-05 Thread David Kelly
be even easier to disallow hostB from within hostA's firewall. And do the same at hostB. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dke...@hiwaay.net Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad

Re: VLANs is this right?

2010-07-05 Thread David Kelly
. And/Or configure so that the untrusted port is switched only to the FreeBSD router port. Would be easiest to slip another NIC in the FreeBSD router for this purpose. Then no VLAN, everything is handled in your firewall. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dke...@hiwaay.net

Re: VLANs is this right?

2010-07-05 Thread David Kelly
On Jul 5, 2010, at 5:59 PM, Steve Bertrand wrote: On 2010.07.05 12:57, David Kelly wrote: On Mon, Jul 05, 2010 at 10:16:19AM -0600, Modulok wrote: Criteria: - HostA must never directly talk to HostB. - Both hostA and hostB have an Internet connection. What I have to work

Re: Gaming

2010-04-29 Thread David Kelly
On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 10:10:20AM -0700, Joe's Morgue wrote: Looking thru your manuals, I have not seen anything about gaming on a FreeBSD machine. ? You are not reading the manual correctly. Then *entire* manual is the game. :-) -- David Kelly N4HHE, dke...@hiwaay.net

Re: Recommendation on GPS time source for FreeBSD

2010-01-30 Thread David Kelly
... Why would you want something more than the Garmin puck? I have a couple of instrumentation grade GPS's at work but their primary justification is to generate IRIG time to sync a multitude of instruments which expect a time signal in IRIG format. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dke...@hiwaay.net

Re: Sendmail Procmail

2010-01-29 Thread David Kelly
justification for what you are trying. But for just one user why not keep it simple with a |/usr/local/bin/procmail in /etc/aliases? -- David Kelly N4HHE, dke...@hiwaay.net Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad

Re: OT: finding every file not in a list

2010-01-28 Thread David Kelly
/ [...] I think mtree(8) is the proper tool for this job. Especially the -r option: -rRemove any files in the file hierarchy that are not described in the specification. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dke...@hiwaay.net

Re: Recommendations for NICs?

2010-01-21 Thread David Kelly
been due to their mixed bag of sometimes great, sometimes disappointing. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dke...@hiwaay.net Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad

Re: Endianness

2010-01-12 Thread David Kelly
not familiar with these platforms - I'm sure it has been answered somewhere, but I can't find it - which FreeBSD archs are little/big endian? Thanks. i386 is little endian. Would expect ia64 to be the same. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dke...@hiwaay.net

Re: Endianness

2010-01-12 Thread David Kelly
On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 11:29:21PM +0200, Kaya Saman wrote: David Kelly wrote: On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 12:51:00PM -0800, Rob Farmer wrote: [...] I'm sure it has been answered somewhere, but I can't find it - which FreeBSD archs are little/big endian? Thanks. i386 is little endian. Would

Re: Checksum mismatch -- will transfer entire file

2009-12-25 Thread David Kelly
compatible format and all cvsup can do is pull down the entire file. I would be happy to use svn as I do for my own projects. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dke...@hiwaay.net Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad

Re: Invitation to connect on LinkedIn

2009-11-18 Thread David Kelly
On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 01:07:46AM -0800, Andrei Antoukh wrote: LinkedIn Andrei Antoukh requested to add you as a connection on LinkedIn: -- Why isn't LinkedIn in FreeBSD.org's spam blocker? -- David Kelly N4HHE, dke...@hiwaay.net

Re: How do I replace the built-in OpenSSL with a source tarball ?

2009-10-28 Thread David Kelly
, and another 10 MB or so for Perl. Kept a 500 MHz P3 busy for a while. :-) -- David Kelly N4HHE, dke...@hiwaay.net Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad. ___ freebsd

Re: need C help, passing char buffer[] by-value....

2009-10-20 Thread David Kelly
On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 05:08:40AM +0200, Polytropon wrote: On Mon, 19 Oct 2009 08:58:05 -0500, David Kelly dke...@hiwaay.net wrote: On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 05:43:44AM +0200, Polytropon wrote: to make sure s is not NULL, or testing for it explicitely like if(!s

Re: need C help, passing char buffer[] by-value....

2009-10-20 Thread David Kelly
this in a code sample posted earlier in this thread. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dke...@hiwaay.net Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad. ___ freebsd-questions

Re: need C help, passing char buffer[] by-value....

2009-10-19 Thread David Kelly
On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 05:43:44AM +0200, Polytropon wrote: On Sun, 18 Oct 2009 22:23:43 -0500, David Kelly dke...@hiwaay.net wrote: When not using a count to indicate how much data is in a char* you should always test for null. Testing for null is not a sure fire way to prevent buffer

Re: need C help, passing char buffer[] by-value....

2009-10-19 Thread David Kelly
in the preprocessor. The only thing we can really say is that gcc accepts // as a comment. Is becoming an accepted convention in other C's but I doubt one can universally state that its accepted in all recent versions. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dke...@hiwaay.net

Re: need C help, passing char buffer[] by-value....

2009-10-18 Thread David Kelly
this: char *buffPtr; buffPtr = skipTags( buffPtr ); // advance over tags -- David Kelly N4HHE, dke...@hiwaay.net Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad

Re: network freebsd computers

2009-09-22 Thread David Kelly
. This isn't Windows where everything changes between every new release. The fundamentals of NFS haven't changed much in 10 years. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dke...@hiwaay.net Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad

Re: network freebsd computers

2009-09-22 Thread David Kelly
trivially allow remote logins including ftp and scp file copying. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dke...@hiwaay.net Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad. ___ freebsd-questions

Re: network freebsd computers

2009-09-22 Thread David Kelly
and directing your Xwindows display from the headless machine to a desktop X server cover everything you are asking for? It would, but he's approaching the problem with Windows-colored glasses. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dke...@hiwaay.net

Re: network freebsd computers

2009-09-22 Thread David Kelly
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 03:29:43PM -0400, Carmel NY wrote: On Tue, 22 Sep 2009 14:08:21 -0500 David Kelly dke...@hiwaay.net wrote: [snip] It would, but he's approaching the problem with Windows-colored glasses. I am not sure what that is even suppose to mean, so I'll just ignore

Re: network freebsd computers

2009-09-22 Thread David Kelly
as to warn you that the connection is not to a previously known machine. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dke...@hiwaay.net Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad. ___ freebsd

Re: reporter on deadline seeks comment about reported security bug in FreeBSD

2009-09-14 Thread David Kelly
is this in -questions? Seems -chat is more appropriate. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dke...@hiwaay.net Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: How to doc available?

2009-07-27 Thread David Kelly
? -- David Kelly N4HHE, dke...@hiwaay.net Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: question

2009-07-17 Thread David Kelly
access by tweaking the firewall ruleset. Client side passive ftp can function through simple firewalls but non-passive (which is *not* active) requires very special handling. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dke...@hiwaay.net Whom

Re: 5000' ethernet?

2009-07-16 Thread David Kelly
On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 02:49:11AM -0400, Michael Powell wrote: David Kelly wrote: Since when does one have CSMA/CD when configured as full duplex? All full duplex ethernet connections are point to point, machine to machine, or machine to switch. There is no multiple access on full

Re: 5000' ethernet?

2009-07-16 Thread David Kelly
On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 04:33:24PM -0400, Michael Powell wrote: David Kelly wrote: Last sentences in last paragraph before See Also at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrier_sense_multiple_access_with_collision_detection: Also, in Full Duplex Ethernet, collisions are impossible since

5000' ethernet?

2009-07-15 Thread David Kelly
particular range extenders you have used and would recommend for making this task a sure thing on the first try? Perhaps I should put an inexpensive ethernet switch at each junction to serve as a regenerative repeater? -- David Kelly N4HHE, dke...@hiwaay.net

Re: 5000' ethernet?

2009-07-15 Thread David Kelly
On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 10:27:35PM +0200, Michelle Konzack wrote: Hello David, Am 2009-07-15 14:47:18, schrieb David Kelly: Not directly FreeBSD related, but how much of a chance is there that two machines could communicate directly over 5,000 feet of cat5 with no special hardware? I

Re: 5000' ethernet?

2009-07-15 Thread David Kelly
) for $1000. Transceivers are easy to find. Matching cable has not been easy to find. Don't be afraid by the cost of fiber optic, most of the cost is labour to bury the fiber, it is not the cost of the cable itself. Not going to bury it. Is temporary for less than a week. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dke

Re: 5000' ethernet?

2009-07-15 Thread David Kelly
On Jul 15, 2009, at 5:41 PM, Michael Powell wrote: David Kelly wrote: Not directly FreeBSD related, but how much of a chance is there that two machines could communicate directly over 5,000 feet of cat5 with no special hardware? IIRC the classic ethernet problem limiting the distance

Re: you're not going to believe this.

2009-06-23 Thread David Kelly
. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dke...@hiwaay.net Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: What's happening

2009-06-23 Thread David Kelly
the hub/switch lost power, or the modem was down. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dke...@hiwaay.net Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: you're not going to believe this.

2009-06-23 Thread David Kelly
. Don't want to leave the old data laying around for security reasons so even if the blocks are unused the formerly heavily used blocks need to be scrubbed. As I originally said to Gary Kline, Don't let someone scare you away from the 99.8% solution waiting on the 99.9% solution. -- David Kelly N4HHE

Re: you're not going to believe this.

2009-06-23 Thread David Kelly
mechanical technology. it will wind up being considerably faster than the current drives and suck Much less juice. We are already there. SSDs are not slower than mechanical disk drives, they are faster. The only detriments are 1) cost, 2) limited write life. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dke

Re: you're not going to believe this.

2009-06-23 Thread David Kelly
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 11:12:05PM +0200, Polytropon wrote: On Tue, 23 Jun 2009 15:59:44 -0500, David Kelly dke...@hiwaay.net wrote: We are already there. SSDs are not slower than mechanical disk drives, they are faster. The only detriments are 1) cost, 2) limited write life. What about

Re: Opinion request about a file server

2009-06-05 Thread David Kelly
of all sorts of files that can be found in Design and daily Office World (Photoshop, Illustrator, etc, Word Documents, etc). I think its gross overkill for that very light load. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dke...@hiwaay.net Whom

Re: Opinion request about a file server

2009-06-05 Thread David Kelly
to have 1418293 hours of uptime. Know that is not right. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dke...@hiwaay.net Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: about restarting services

2009-06-04 Thread David Kelly
On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 09:40:16AM -0800, leonardo wrote: hello everybody: I?m new to freeBSD, I want to know how I can restart the network services Start by creating a new email and addressing it to the list rather than Reply-To another and edit it down. The two are not the same. -- David

Re: Open_Source

2009-06-03 Thread David Kelly
to Microsoft and were given NT to mold in their own likeness. This is where rings of security levels originated in modern Windows. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Cutler NT 3.5 and possibly 4.0 supported VMS-like versioned files as part of the filesystem. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dke...@hiwaay.net

Re: Stop in /usr/ports/lang/gcc43

2009-06-01 Thread David Kelly
for fftw3 became available. Apparently gcc43 is a new dependency for fftw3! Any hints appreciated Add this to /etc/make.conf. Worked for me: WITHOUT_JAVA=1 Apparently to build Java one has to increase the size of some tables in the kernel. I'd just as soon do without Java. -- David Kelly N4HHE

Re: Stop in /usr/ports/lang/gcc43

2009-06-01 Thread David Kelly
of the ports database. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dke...@hiwaay.net Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: FreeBSD Software RAID

2009-05-27 Thread David Kelly
typedefs to create them. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dke...@hiwaay.net Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: interrupt storm on irq 10

2009-05-27 Thread David Kelly
drive on ad6 worked. Thought the card was bad but decided to try swapping cables which fixed ad4 and broke ad6. Ergo, bad cable. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dke...@hiwaay.net Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad

Re: FreeBSD Software RAID

2009-05-27 Thread David Kelly
. anyway - it's just defines, having no effect on compiled code and it's performance. No, they are not just defines, I said typedef. Typedef is subject to stricter checking by the compiler. Packing and alignment in structs is a big portability problem. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dke...@hiwaay.net

Re: interrupt storm on irq 10

2009-05-27 Thread David Kelly
cable no matter which drive is connected to that cable, no matter which port it is connected to. Two supposedly identical SATA cables purchased together. Will purchase new cables to try tonight. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dke...@hiwaay.net

Re: FreeBSD Software RAID

2009-05-25 Thread David Kelly
to be a memory hog, needs about 1 GB especially if large file transfers may occur over gigabit ethernet to/from other machines. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dke...@hiwaay.net Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad

Re: FreeBSD Software RAID

2009-05-25 Thread David Kelly
things have to be done wrong for us to realize how good we had it before. How would we know how great FreeBSD is if we didn't have Linux? I had to look at ZFS to decide not to use it when I rebuild my storage this week due to a failing drive. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dke...@hiwaay.net

ATA transfer block sizes in 7.2?

2009-05-19 Thread David Kelly
it for performance? Stick with geom, or something else? -- David Kelly N4HHE, dke...@hiwaay.net Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: NIC

2009-05-04 Thread David Kelly
well supported. If one must run Windows, an Intel NIC and Intel driver provide a lot of features which are otherwise missing. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dke...@hiwaay.net Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad

Re: CD Burning

2009-04-21 Thread David Kelly
worried that changing it to rw might wreck a cd (already burnt) one day. Since cp or mv to /cdrom won't work, I guess my fear is unjustified hey? The OS doesn't know how to write/append an ISO 9660 filesystem so there would be no possibility of attempting an accidental write to CDROM. -- David

Re: Serial Communications

2009-04-03 Thread David Kelly
-DB9(M) null modem cable? If not, would a USB-DB9 adapter stuck on one end of a null modem cable work? Yes, its a smart adapter. I've had best luck using a Keyspan High Speed USB Serial Adapter model USA-19HS. About $31 at Amazon.com and many other places. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dke...@hiwaay.net

Re: utility that scans lan for client?

2009-03-23 Thread David Kelly
by your machine. If you know the IP address of the machine in question and its not in your arp table, ping it. Then the MAC address will appear unless there is a router between here and there. No need to be root. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dke...@hiwaay.net

Re: utility that scans lan for client?

2009-03-23 Thread David Kelly
On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 03:41:55PM -0400, John Almberg wrote: On Mar 23, 2009, at 3:19 PM, David Kelly wrote: How about something as simple as arp -a? This lists the arp cache of machines recently heard by your machine. If you know the IP address of the machine in question and its

Re: renaming user account?

2009-03-18 Thread David Kelly
On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 11:27:39AM -0400, Joe Chimento wrote: Is there an easy way to rename a user account belonging to 'www' group? vipw(8) -- David Kelly N4HHE, dke...@hiwaay.net Whom computers would destroy, they must

Re: bsd vs gpl

2009-03-11 Thread David Kelly
this is somehow free and/or freedom. GPL states that if you make changes those changes must be made available under the same terms as the original source code. Yet somehow darlings of the GPL world such as Red Hat, MySQL, and others, skirt around that onerous requirement. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dke

Re: read BSD format disk from Mac OSX

2009-03-02 Thread David Kelly
was happily honoring. Would happily put an HFS+ partition on the drives. But MacOS X RAID had to be established at a lower level using a Macintosh disk label. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dke...@hiwaay.net Whom computers would destroy

Re: lpr fixed, but the wrong-way... [?]

2009-02-06 Thread David Kelly
On Fri, Feb 06, 2009 at 11:17:13AM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: % lpr /etc/fstab works. from the apsfilter log, it lookas as tho i need to upgrade this libgs.so.8 shared library. but *how* do i find who/what build this library? % grep -l libgs /var/db/pkg/*/+CONTENTS -- David Kelly N4HHE

Re: policykit fails to build on 7.1-stable i386

2009-02-03 Thread David Kelly
On Tue, Feb 03, 2009 at 01:36:19PM -0800, Rem P Roberti wrote: On 2009.02.03 14:48:24 +, David Kelly wrote: I think portupgrade -f p5-XML-Parser got me over the hurdle. There was a file missing altho the port was installed. Forced it to build and reinstall and things were able

Re: policykit fails to build on 7.1-stable i386

2009-02-03 Thread David Kelly
the port was installed. Forced it to build and reinstall and things were able to build once again. Portupgrade is still building so I can't get at my shell history to verify. Did something similar for the international library stuff. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dke...@hiwaay.net

Re: policykit fails to build on 7.1-stable i386

2009-02-03 Thread David Kelly
On Tue, Feb 03, 2009 at 09:41:19PM +, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: On Tue, Feb 03, 2009 at 02:48:24PM -0600, David Kelly wrote: I think portupgrade -f p5-XML-Parser got me over the hurdle. There was a file missing altho the port was installed. Forced it to build and reinstall and things

Re: Quantum tape drive

2009-01-28 Thread David Kelly
option. Is tar sticking on a file? Another question is whether or not tar could be getting caught in a hard link or symbolic link infinite loop? Look for duplicates in the output. uniq(1) should be of assistance. Perhaps uniq needs a sort(1) to preprocess, I forget? -- David Kelly N4HHE, dke

Re: Quantum tape drive

2009-01-28 Thread David Kelly
to always set block size when writing else no telling how it would go. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dke...@hiwaay.net Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad. ___ freebsd

Re: Quantum tape drive

2009-01-28 Thread David Kelly
on-board termination on the drive? No other drive on the bus has termination enabled? One terminator on each end of the bus, no more, no less. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dke...@hiwaay.net Whom computers would destroy, they must

Re: Quantum tape drive

2009-01-28 Thread David Kelly
. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dke...@hiwaay.net Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: OT: .ape extension

2009-01-26 Thread David Kelly
On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 11:39:19PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: is it any decruncher for unix for this format (it's compressed audio CD, from size i think it's kind of lossless compression) What does file(1) think it is? -- David Kelly N4HHE, dke...@hiwaay.net

Re: OT: .ape extension

2009-01-26 Thread David Kelly
On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 11:52:48PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: On Mon, 26 Jan 2009, David Kelly wrote: On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 11:39:19PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: is it any decruncher for unix for this format (it's compressed audio CD, from size i think it's kind of lossless

Solution: Re: [Trouble Ticket #190456] AutoReply: freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 246, Issue 39

2009-01-21 Thread David Kelly
# idiot autoresponder on freebsd lists, 1/21/2009 :0 * ^From:.*supp...@aebc.com /dev/null -- David Kelly N4HHE, dke...@hiwaay.net Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad

Re: programs...

2009-01-09 Thread David Kelly
notification. There are FreeBSD ports for subscribing to podcasts that could do the same thing. How doable is this...? and, yes, i know that many of these audio files can be subscribed to as podcasts. I have several on my Google page. Get A Mac! -- David Kelly N4HHE

Re: Tool for traffic measure?

2009-01-02 Thread David Kelly
machines but there is no point unless you want/need to see the contents of the packets. A switch that smart should also be able to count packets and tally total byte counts. If I understand correctly that is all you want. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dke...@hiwaay.net

Re: well, blew it... sed or perl q again.

2008-12-30 Thread David Kelly
) to download the day's page from a comic strip site, awk to extract the URL of the day's comic strip, and fetch again to put a copy of the comic strip in my archive. This application sounds similar. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dke...@hiwaay.net

Re: DVD cloning tool

2008-12-05 Thread David Kelly
automatically verifies. But back then under FreeBSD I used dd and handled EOF specially in my shell script. -- David Kelly N4HHE, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad

Re: DVD cloning tool

2008-12-05 Thread David Kelly
knew how to read DVD? -- David Kelly N4HHE, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Regarding beer and optimal hacker productivity

2008-11-24 Thread David Kelly
it was something more realistic looking ... There is hope yet. The Oracle of Undisputed Fact and Wisdom :-) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xkcd#Life_imitates_xkcd, says life often imitates xkcd. -- David Kelly N4HHE, [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [OT] printing question

2008-11-18 Thread David Kelly
nearly as good. Text and line graphics are excellent. -- David Kelly N4HHE, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad. ___ freebsd-questions

  1   2   3   4   5   6   >