Re: Best procedure for full backup of live system

2009-10-17 Thread Michael David Crawford
can't just look. ... and as has been pointed out, you'll also want your BSD disklabel which is a whole different beast. Mike -- Michael David Crawford m...@prgmr.com prgmr.com - We Don't Assume You Are Stupid. Xen-Powered Virtual Private Servers: http://prgmr.com/xen

Re: Change one file in an ISO image

2009-09-16 Thread Michael David Crawford
, but man mount will tell you.) Once mounted that way you can use it like any other filesystem. I actually did this once, but it was years ago. Mike -- Michael David Crawford m...@prgmr.com prgmr.com - We Don't Assume You Are Stupid. Xen-Powered Virtual Private Servers: http://prgmr.com

Re: [OFF?] Mac OX Driver

2009-09-13 Thread Michael David Crawford
as to how to port them in reverse. One doesn't generally port device drivers between such different systems; it's more like doing a complete rewrite. Mike -- Michael David Crawford m...@prgmr.com prgmr.com - We Don't Assume You Are Stupid. Xen-Powered Virtual Private Servers: http

What I'd Like To See In A Netbook

2009-09-10 Thread Michael David Crawford
customers than just myself. I have actually considered purchasing one of the netbooks of today, but after looking them over, I have to say that their tiny screens would be very disruptive to my writing Muse. Thank You All For Humouring Me On This. Mike -- Michael David Crawford m...@prgmr.com

Re: Is there such thing as a 'soft checksum' tool?

2009-09-06 Thread Michael David Crawford
images. Small differences in individual pixels would be blurred away. Mike -- Michael David Crawford m...@prgmr.com prgmr.com - We Don't Assume You Are Stupid. Xen-Powered Virtual Private Servers: http://prgmr.com/xen ___ freebsd-questions

Re: itunes on FreeBSD

2009-09-01 Thread Michael David Crawford
, to eventually become a media framework for ZooLib, which previously hasn't had any media support. Video will come eventually, but not for quite a while. Mike -- Michael David Crawford m...@prgmr.com prgmr.com - We Don't Assume You Are Stupid. Xen-Powered Virtual Private Servers: http

Re: memory usage displsy

2009-09-01 Thread Michael David Crawford
process. For example, to map some virtual memory requires memory to store the mappings in. Open files have kernel structures, as do filesystems. If top or ps were only to show userspace memory allocations, then you're right, a lot of memory would be unaccounted for. Mike -- Michael David

Re: SUID permission on Bash script

2009-08-29 Thread Michael David Crawford
to avoid all the potential pitfalls. Mike -- Michael David Crawford m...@prgmr.com prgmr.com - We Don't Assume You Are Stupid. Xen-Powered Virtual Private Servers: http://prgmr.com/xen ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: SUID permission on Bash script

2009-08-29 Thread Michael David Crawford
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Re: SUID permission on Bash script

2009-08-28 Thread Michael David Crawford
. If a program is going to be setuid at all, you really have to know what you're doing when you write it or else you'll find yourself opening a can of worms. Mike -- Michael David Crawford m...@prgmr.com prgmr.com - We Don't Assume You Are Stupid. Xen-Powered Virtual Private Servers: http

What does one call name server registration?

2009-07-15 Thread Michael David Crawford
behalf. Thanks! Mike -- Michael David Crawford m...@prgmr.com prgmr.com - We Don't Assume You Are Stupid. Xen-Powered Virtual Private Servers: http://prgmr.com/xen ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: What does one call name server registration?

2009-07-15 Thread Michael David Crawford
that as a request to establish NS and GLUE records for a new name server! Clearly, I myself have a lot of studying to do. The Wikipedia article on the Domain Name System is very helpful, for anyone else wanting info on this topic. Mike -- Michael David Crawford m...@prgmr.com prgmr.com - We

XC86Config mouse settings for VirtualBox?

2009-06-13 Thread Michael David Crawford
e5420 box. Thanks! Mike -- Michael David Crawford m...@prgmr.com prgmr.com - We Don't Assume You Are Stupid. Xen-Powered Virtual Private Servers: http://prgmr.com/xen ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: Need a filesystem with unlimited inodes

2009-06-10 Thread Michael David Crawford
Could you use several large hard drives each with several partitions that each have one filesystem? With eight drives and eight partitions on each, you would multiply the maximum total number of inodes by 256. Mike -- Michael David Crawford m...@prgmr.com prgmr.com - We Don't Assume You

Re: Need a filesystem with unlimited inodes

2009-06-10 Thread Michael David Crawford
Frank Bonnet wrote: It seems ZFS would match his needs , why don't use it ? Does ZFS really work on FreeBSD? It seems like every day someone is posting about ZFS either getting corrupted or panicking their kernel. Mike -- Michael David Crawford m...@prgmr.com prgmr.com - We Don't

Re: please recommend a disk-exercising program?

2009-06-07 Thread Michael David Crawford
of the utilities are DOS boot disk images. You make either a floppy or a CD from them, then boot off of it. Mike -- Michael David Crawford m...@prgmr.com prgmr.com - We Don't Assume You Are Stupid. Xen-Powered Virtual Private Servers: http://prgmr.com/xen

Re: What do ASCII codes 128-159 stand for?

2009-05-25 Thread Michael David Crawford
standard. which as I have mentioned, is a seven-bit standard. Just to clarify, are you saying that ASCII is a 7-bit standard? Innocently, Mike -- Michael David Crawford m...@prgmr.com prgmr.com - We Don't Assume You Are Stupid. Xen-Powered Virtual Private Servers: http://prgmr.com

Re: How can this 'top' command output make sense? Load over 7 and total CPU use ~5%

2009-05-24 Thread Michael David Crawford
of them by the end of the year. Is there a FreeBSD ARM port? There's not one for 7.2. Mike -- Michael David Crawford m...@prgmr.com prgmr.com - We Don't Assume You Are Stupid. Xen-Powered Virtual Private Servers: http://prgmr.com/xen ___ freebsd

Re: My FreeBSD-current/Xen install notes

2009-05-22 Thread Michael David Crawford
to get at the contents of that particular jail. But all of the jails are just subdivisions of a single operating system; I can't run other OSes within them. [1] http://www.oggfrog.com/free-music-software/ No, there is nothing to download yet. Real Soon Now. Mike -- Michael David Crawford

Partitioning for multiple systems

2009-04-26 Thread Michael David Crawford
. If I'm running FreeBSD out of one MBR partition (or slice), can I mount a directory that's in a different one? Thanks for your help! Mike -- Michael David Crawford m...@prgmr.com prgmr.com - We Don't Assume You Are Stupid. Xen-Powered Virtual Private Servers: http://prgmr.com/xen

Re: Modern FreeBSD Installer?

2009-04-26 Thread Michael David Crawford
of the community's limited resources. Mike -- Michael David Crawford m...@prgmr.com prgmr.com - We Don't Assume You Are Stupid. Xen-Powered Virtual Private Servers: http://prgmr.com/xen ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Modern FreeBSD Installer?

2009-04-23 Thread Michael David Crawford
experienced this the other day, and have been meaning to file a bug report about it. Mike -- Michael David Crawford m...@prgmr.com prgmr.com - We Don't Assume You Are Stupid. Xen-Powered Virtual Private Servers: http://prgmr.com/xen ___ freebsd

Re: Can you ACTUALLY print from FreeBSD?

2009-04-20 Thread Michael David Crawford
that you're having. Windows client computers can download printer drivers from their print servers. I imagine the above DLL is meant to enable that. Mike -- Michael David Crawford m...@prgmr.com prgmr.com - We Don't Assume You Are Stupid. Xen-Powered Virtual Private Servers: http