Re:Best Laptop to buy for Freebsd Without OS?

2011-02-20 Thread James Phillips
reader Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub (Camera not listed) Regards, James Phillips ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

GNU/Linux NIS tweaks was: FreeBSD Decision

2011-01-15 Thread James Phillips
=2000) \ ] /notes Regards, James Phillips I actually was able to log in from a test installation of Debian using that hack (files appeared on server as expected). It took some trial and error though. PS: perhaps my difficulty is I don't really want to do programming until the fileserver is up

Re: FreeBSD Decision

2011-01-14 Thread James Phillips
anyway :P Regards, James Phillips ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: office apps

2010-06-09 Thread James Phillips
like HTML or XML, but those can be tedious to manually edit. For quick messages, Plain ASCII text is much better unless you need a different character set. In that case, Unicode text will probably work. Regards, James Phillips -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http

RE: Media streaming

2010-05-28 Thread James Phillips
is why I did not respond to your first post. Regards, James Phillips ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr

RE: Media streaming

2010-05-28 Thread James Phillips
-Original Message- From: James Phillips [mailto:anti_spam...@yahoo.ca] Sent: 28 May 2010 18:23 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Media streaming Date: Fri, 28 May 2010 00:14:09 +0100 From: Graeme Dargie a...@tangerine-army.co.uk Subject: RE: Media streaming To: freebsd

dump/restore (to DVD+R) test failure

2010-05-24 Thread James Phillips
appears to create a .snap directory by default now. Regards, James Phillips ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr

Re: [#24512320] Re: Apache22 Upgrade Failure

2010-05-22 Thread James Phillips
hit by the spam filter. IMO, the message body is being used as unique filler text to get past Bayesian filters. I don't claim to know if the effect is intentional or accidental. -James Phillips ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Is the freeBSD mailing list using an automated ticket system?

2010-05-20 Thread James Phillips
; Thu, 20 May 2010 00:11:32 -0500 (CDT) To: James Phillips anti_spam...@yahoo.ca Subject:[#24508771] Re: 7.0/i386 to 8.0/amd64 - gmirror/gstripe migration Date: Thu, 20 May 2010 00:11:32 -0500 From: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Add sender

Re: 7.0/i386 to 8.0/amd64 - gmirror/gstripe migration

2010-05-19 Thread James Phillips
notes) but I'm not sure if that is possible with gmirror. Thanks for your help! ++AMARU PS: Your reply to yourself was in the same digest message. Not everybody is in your timezone either. Regards, James Phillips ___ freebsd-questions

Re: freebsd install from floppy

2010-03-06 Thread James Phillips
with CD-R images is that any tweaks to the disk image require burning a new disk. Regards, James Phillips Recent Slashdot exchange about exactly this issue: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1565678cid=31302916 __ Make your

Re: video cam with room view for FreeBSD

2010-03-05 Thread James Phillips
certification. From the Wikipedia page: FreeBSD Not implemented yet, there are patches available which make Linux kernel USB mediadrivers work in userspace by using an asynchronous USB interface. It's the first OS allowing to have an entire highspeed USB driver in userland. Regards, James Phillips

Re: Compiler Flags problem with core2 CPU

2010-03-01 Thread James Phillips
are backwards compatible, so you don't strictly need the latest instructions. Regards, James Phillips __ The new Internet Explorer® 8 - Faster, safer, easier. Optimized for Yahoo! Get it Now for Free! at http

Re: [FR]Lien mort sur install-pre (floppies)

2009-12-20 Thread James Phillips
-IMAGES-i386/8.0/ (I was able to confirm the link *is* broken.) Regards, James Phillips __ Yahoo! Canada Toolbar: Search from anywhere on the web, and bookmark your favourite sites. Download it now http

Re: disk with high frequency noise only on FreeBSD

2009-12-12 Thread James Phillips
. To the original poster: you say this is a laptop. How do you know the noise is coming from the hard drive and not some other component like the speakers/Network card/fan? Regards, James Phillips __ Looking for the perfect

Re: Dangerously Dedicated

2009-12-10 Thread James Phillips
to work with different architectures. Of course, if you are just storing raw data, you don't always *need* a filesystem. Regards, James Phillips __ Yahoo! Canada Toolbar: Search from anywhere on the web, and bookmark your

Re: Dangerously Dedicated (was: How do I create large ...)

2009-12-09 Thread James Phillips
(and Master Boot Records) are mentioned specificly. Regards, James Phillips __ Yahoo! Canada Toolbar: Search from anywhere on the web, and bookmark your favourite sites. Download it now http://ca.toolbar.yahoo.com

Re: freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 287, Issue 13

2009-12-04 Thread James Phillips
Sorry about that (accidentally quoted most the Digest (issue 12) in a reply). Need to start using a real email client :( -james. __ Looking for the perfect gift? Give the gift of Flickr! http://www.flickr.com/gift/

Re: [Solved] Having problems burning a DVD

2009-12-04 Thread James Phillips
--- On Fri, 12/4/09, Al Plant n...@hdk5.net wrote: From: Al Plant n...@hdk5.net Subject: Re: [Solved] Having problems burning a DVD To: James Phillips anti_spam...@yahoo.ca Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: Friday, December 4, 2009, 12:26 PM James Phillips wrote: SNIP! I

Re: [Solved] Having problems burning a DVD

2009-12-03 Thread James Phillips
and is strongly discouraged. Is there anything special I should do to try to disable the atapicd driver? I don't think my 'atapicd_load=no' line in /boot/loader.conf has much of an effect. Regards, James Phillips __ Looking

Re: Phoronix Benchmarks: Waht's wrong with FreeBSD 8.0?

2009-11-30 Thread James Phillips
Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 20:07:15 +1100 From: alex a...@mailinglist.ahhyes.net Subject: Re: Phoronix Benchmarks: Waht's wrong with FreeBSD 8.0? To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: 4b138b43.4000...@mailinglist.ahhyes.net Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed

Re: Phoronix Benchmarks: Waht's wrong with FreeBSD 8.0?

2009-11-30 Thread James Phillips
--- On Mon, 11/30/09, Bruce Cran br...@cran.org.uk wrote: This is actually the way UFS/FFS works too: when my system was crashing fairly regularly I was a bit surprised to find empty files after editing them. Also, I just verified that saving a file, rebooting, editing it again

Re: slightly complex query - one machine with two network interfaces

2009-11-29 Thread James Phillips
. Regards, James Phillips PS: If I want to be paranoid over wireless I need new hardware. My PII 350 can only do SSH (128 bit 3-DES?) at ~1MB/s. __ Looking for the perfect gift? Give the gift of Flickr! http://www.flickr.com

FreeBSD torrent tracker give wierd numbers?

2009-11-27 Thread James Phillips
minutes. This leads to strange results like my download speed being listed as 1.89 MB/sec when it is in fact capped at 100kB/sec. Before downloading, I was wondering why everybody seemed to have such fat pipes :P Regards, James Phillips

Re: 7.2, usb mouse, uhub0: device problem

2009-11-21 Thread James Phillips
. Newer mice have higher resolution I guess.) Regards, James Phillips PS: I genuinely did not see the radio buttons when looking for menu items (I did check the drop-down lists). Not sure how proper it is to declare radio buttons not menu items. In my mind, menu items have an immediate effect. I

Re: 7.2, usb mouse, uhub0: device problem (IOERROR),

2009-11-20 Thread James Phillips
a USB mouse because none of them are USB Certified (http://www.usb.org). Many of them also had a Side-scrolling scroll wheel (designed with Vista in mind?) very awkward to use as a middle button. If you mouse IS a USB mouse, try a different one. Regards, James Phillips

Re: 7.2, usb mouse, uhub0: device problem (IOERROR),

2009-11-20 Thread James Phillips
--- On Fri, 11/20/09, Chuck Swiger cswi...@mac.com wrote: On Nov 20, 2009, at 11:06 AM, James Phillips wrote: Last time I was looking for a mouse, I could not find a PS/2 version. I was reluctant to get a USB mouse because none of them are USB Certified (http://www.usb.org). Many of them

Re: [Solved] Do permissions take time to take effect?

2009-11-18 Thread James Phillips
--- On Wed, 11/18/09, Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com wrote: In the last episode (Nov 17), James Phillips said: I wanted to create a shared directory writable by all users. When it initially failed, I assumed there may be a blanket ban on writing to directories owned by root

Re: hdd voltage

2009-11-17 Thread James Phillips
of the tempature for this hdd, I think its normal. After that Google study, I prefer to keep my drives below 40C if I can. Current temp (idle): 41C. Regards, James Phillips __ Yahoo! Canada Toolbar: Search from anywhere on the web

Do permissions take time to take effect?

2009-11-17 Thread James Phillips
,backup $ Incidentally, I had another reason for creating a special-purpose Share user: I am exporting /home to Debian (Linux) clients. Since the system groups conflict with the Debian choices, I modified /var/yp/Makefile to only export users and groups in the range of 1001-2000. Regards, James

Re: [FreeBSD Questions] Filesystem image as root

2009-11-16 Thread James Phillips
--- On Sun, 11/15/09, CyberLeo Kitsana cyber...@cyberleo.net wrote: James Phillips wrote: Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2009 20:29:59 -0600 From: CyberLeo Kitsana cyber...@cyberleo.net Subject: [FreeBSD Questions] Filesystem image as root The single IDE connector is accessible via the legacy

Re: freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 284, Issue 11

2009-11-15 Thread James Phillips
, frequently used files will be cached. (I have a CF card that has 15MB/s symmetric read/write. Don't know how special it is.) With a CF card there should be no seek delay of ~ 10 ms (for reads anyway, deleting blocks probably takes 10ms). Regards, James Phillips SNIPPED pivot_root attempt I can't help

Re: APM

2009-11-13 Thread James Phillips
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 10:28:10 -0800 (PST) From: James Phillips anti_spam...@yahoo.ca Subject: APM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: 784120.47330...@web65508.mail.ac4.yahoo.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii SNIP! I realize the memory can't be shutdown without

Re: APM

2009-11-13 Thread James Phillips
I was going to just respond to myself again, but I see I generated some discussion :) Anyway, In the http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=1012 page at least two people mentioned the ATAidle utility. It is not recommended for the same reason APM isn't: devices sleep without OS consent.

APM

2009-11-12 Thread James Phillips
it without hibernate support though. apm(4) does not mention suspend timers at all. acpi(4) mentions timer as a sub-device and feature that can be disabled. Regards, James Phillips __ Connect with friends from any web browser

Re: freebsd forgets root password

2009-10-23 Thread James Phillips
is not the same. With how flimsy the entry-level keyboards are these days, it may be *almost* as likely ;) Regards, James Phillips __ Looking for the perfect gift? Give the gift of Flickr! http://www.flickr.com/gift

Re: I hate to bitch but bitch I must

2009-10-17 Thread James Phillips
. Meaning: it is technically possible, but the maintainers have not done the necessary (possibly tedious) work yet. Regards, James Phillips __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

Re: usb key problem

2009-10-16 Thread James Phillips
utility let me choose between Fat16 and FAt32 or something :P A better tool, under both Windows (via Cygwin) and BSD, would be ntfsprogs. http://www.linux-ntfs.org/doku.php?id=ntfsmount Regards, James Phillips -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe

Re: windoz, how do i install it last

2009-10-06 Thread James Phillips
in section: 2.6.3 Install a Boot Manager. Regards, James Phillips __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ freebsd-questions

Re: Voting for a native i386/amd64 flash player

2009-10-04 Thread James Phillips
, 2009 at 08:01:07AM -0700, James Phillips wrote: I have this fantasy that if I design and build a better streaming video format, They (broadcasters) will use it, if properly marketed. It may be a fantasy, but as fantasies go, it's not a bad one. This would be despite the lack

Re: Voting for a native i386/amd64 flash player

2009-10-04 Thread James Phillips
--- On Sun, 10/4/09, jhell jh...@dataix.net wrote: From: jhell jh...@dataix.net Subject: Re: Voting for a native i386/amd64 flash player To: James Phillips anti_spam...@yahoo.ca Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: Sunday, October 4, 2009, 1:07 PM On Sun, 4 Oct 2009 08:33

Re: Voting for a native i386/amd64 flash player

2009-10-03 Thread James Phillips
that implements features I really don't want to see. (Read: anything deliberately incompatible.) 5. I seem to be pre-occupied with the video compression, ignoring sound. Regards, James Phillips PS: was this too off-topic? __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired

Re: freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 276, Issue 5

2009-09-15 Thread James Phillips
Message: 15 Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2009 14:13:17 -0400 From: Jerry ges...@yahoo.com Subject: Re: reporter on deadline seeks comment about reported     security bug in FreeBSD To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: 20090915141317.7a41b...@scorpio.seibercom.net Content-Type:

Re: netbooks and sdhci

2009-09-01 Thread James Phillips
. If you are aware of that and sill want a SDHC reader, I don't have any reason to stop you :) Regards, James Phillips So my question is: does anybody know _for sure_ of a hard-disk netbook with a media reader that uses the sdhci interface and is supported by FBSD 7.2 (supported = wireless

Re: questions about FreeBSD

2009-08-31 Thread James Phillips
Regards, James Phillips __ Looking for the perfect gift? Give the gift of Flickr! http://www.flickr.com/gift/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: freebsd

2009-08-17 Thread James Phillips
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Re: FreeBSD for the common man(or woman) (was: upgrade 7.2

2009-08-08 Thread James Phillips
at 02:56:41PM -0700, James Phillips wrote: Following the FreeBSD Handbook, I got stuck on trying to get the printer to work. The handbook was basicly instructing me to write my own print driver! I checked the HP website: they will release the details of the PCL language (version 4

Re: FreeBSD for the common man(or woman) (was: upgrade 7.2

2009-08-07 Thread James Phillips
Phillips anti_spam...@yahoo.ca Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: Thursday, August 6, 2009, 7:45 PM On Thu, 6 Aug 2009 14:56:41 -0700 (PDT), James Phillips anti_spam...@yahoo.ca wrote: SNIP! I checked the HP website: they will release the details of the PCL language (version 4

Re: FreeBSD for the common man(or woman) (was: upgrade 7.2

2009-08-07 Thread James Phillips
--- On Fri, 8/7/09, freebsd-questions-requ...@freebsd.org freebsd-questions-requ...@freebsd.org wrote: Message: 6 Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2009 02:04:16 +0200 From: Polytropon free...@edvax.de On Fri, 07 Aug 2009 02:09:51 +0300, Manolis Kiagias son...@otenet.gr wrote: Windows experience won't

Re: FreeBSD for the common man(or woman) (was: upgrade 7.2

2009-08-06 Thread James Phillips
, it becomes essential. I won't be able to have it out of commission for weeks at a time. I hope with the server properly set up, win98 may even be usable again: just do a clean install every morning! I even downloaded the Windows 7 RC so that I can be informed when I say it sucks. Regards, James

Re: FreeBSD for the common man(or woman) (was: upgrade 7.2

2009-08-06 Thread James Phillips
(backups) expected to be? Am I reading too much because of a learning disability, or do I really need to read and understand that much detail? I have some experience with Dos/Windows, and Linux (mainly Debian based). Regards, James Phillips

Re: Sony PRS-505 Reader and camcontrol load problem

2009-08-03 Thread James Phillips
I like to blame things like that on DRM. Proving it is the tricky part. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MagicGate The Wikipedia article says the Sony Portable e-Reader PRS-500 did not support MagicGate, but future support is possible through a firmware update. Regards, James Date: Sun, 2 Aug

Re: Looking for fast graphical web browser

2009-08-01 Thread James Phillips
that websites can use an arbitrary amount of CPU time (sometimes deliberately), unless throttled. Regards, James Phillips --- On Fri, 7/31/09, freebsd-questions-requ...@freebsd.org freebsd-questions-requ...@freebsd.org wrote: Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 12:30:02 +0200 From: Wolfgang Riegler w.rieg