Re: small fanless mini-pc for home router/firewall?

2013-05-08 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 4:10 PM, firm...@gmail.com firm...@gmail.com wrote: What is the best option out there for a mini-pc to run FreeBSD as a home router/firewall? (needs to have 2 nic's) I had some pretty good experiences with older Soekris models (net-4801) acting as fanless routers and

Re: Youtube Flash Videos broken?

2013-04-07 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 12:21 PM, Jerry je...@seibercom.net wrote: On Sat, 06 Apr 2013 23:57:47 +0200 Ralf Mardorf articulated: On Sat, 2013-04-06 at 23:53 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Sat, 2013-04-06 at 23:39 +0200, Jens Schweikhardt wrote: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ywn2Lz5zmYg

Re:

2013-03-29 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 11:03 PM, Jeff Belyea jbely...@gmail.com wrote: I have a new computer with windows 8, which I hate with a passion. I don't play music and I don't do a lot of pictures. Basically I only search, some EBay and games. Can I replace win8 with BSD? Of course you can. I

Re: OT: The future of USENET?

2013-03-27 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 10:49 AM, Matthias Apitz g...@unixarea.de wrote: Hello, This is a bit OT, but maybe some of you FreeBSD folks are as well affected like me and/or have any answer or comments... In the past I've used a lot the so called newsgroups, even running my own inn news

Re: OT: The future of USENET?

2013-03-27 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 9:37 PM, Joshua Isom jri...@gmail.com wrote: On 3/27/2013 3:25 PM, Walter Hurry wrote: On Wed, 27 Mar 2013 14:12:06 -0400, grarpamp wrote: Now there are very few, if any, free servers There are still free news servers available. My ISP bundles usenet,

Status of Xen/Dom0 on FreeBSD?

2013-03-26 Thread C. P. Ghost
Hello, I'm wondering if there's been some progress on the Xen/Dom0 front recently. The Wiki https://wiki.freebsd.org/FreeBSD/Xen still doesn't show any improvements in this area, but it may also be outdated (?). Thanks, -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/

Re: Status of Xen/Dom0 on FreeBSD?

2013-03-26 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 5:10 PM, Shane Ambler free...@shaneware.biz wrote: On 26/03/2013 23:30, C. P. Ghost wrote: Hello, I'm wondering if there's been some progress on the Xen/Dom0 front recently. The Wiki https://wiki.freebsd.org/**FreeBSD/Xenhttps://wiki.freebsd.org/FreeBSD/Xen

Re: Grepping though a disk

2013-03-04 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 1:36 AM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: Any suggestion is welcome! How about crawling the metadata, locating each block that is already allocated, and skip those blocks when you scan the disk? That could reduce the searching space significantly. blkls(1) et al. from

Re: an upto date list of new ports

2013-03-01 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 8:50 AM, Aryeh Friedman aryeh.fried...@gmail.com wrote: is there a site or other location that lists *NEW* (not updated) ports since a given date? http://www.freshports.org/ has some limited options (24hrs, 48hrs, 7days, one month)... but since the ports tree is now

Re: Soekris or .. ?

2013-03-01 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 11:49 AM, Julien Cigar jci...@ulb.ac.be wrote: Hello, I'm looking for a small Soekris-like (http://soekris.com/) box which support FreeBSD, any experience or brand to advise .. ? I'm using Soekris net4801 boxes with FreeBSD without problems since many years as small

Re: Should I bother with a gvinum stripe when using a pair of SSDs?

2013-02-16 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 3:47 PM, Jens Schweikhardt schwe...@schweikhardt.net wrote: hello, world\n currently the only gvinum partition on my home system is a stripe for /home across two Velociraptor HDDs. I'm thinking of replacing the HDDs with a pair of SSDs. I was thinking of reducing

Re: Should I bother with a gvinum stripe when using a pair of SSDs?

2013-02-16 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 7:34 PM, Jens Schweikhardt schwe...@schweikhardt.net wrote: On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 04:44:06PM +0100, C. P. Ghost wrote: # On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 3:47 PM, Jens Schweikhardt # schwe...@schweikhardt.net wrote: # hello, world\n # # currently the only gvinum partition

Re: Entry level C++ projects

2013-01-12 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 11:10 AM, alwin doss alwindos...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, I am a C++ developer and I want to contribute to FreeBSD. There are so many applications. Is there any C++ project which is simple enough to start with. Thanks in advance for your help. Hi Alwin, there's

Re: Trying to find out how to mount as user

2013-01-03 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 5:29 PM, Leslie Jensen les...@eskk.nu wrote: Hello. I want to write a script, where I as a normal user, can back up my files with rsync to another machine (pc01), which shares a directory via NFS. I have an entry in the local machines /etc/fstab pc01:/backup

Re: svn revision in uname

2012-12-18 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 2:13 PM, David Demelier demelier.da...@gmail.com wrote: I hope it will be removed soon, it pollutes the uname -a output. I don't hope so. It helps us keep track of the exact revision numbers of deployed servers here. Please don't remove it, or at least, provide an

Re: updatedb?

2012-12-18 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 10:01 PM, Walter Hurry walterhu...@gmail.com wrote: $ sudo /usr/libexec/locate.updatedb WARNING Executing updatedb as root. This WILL reveal all filenames on your machine to all login users, which is a security risk. $ Why is it a security risk? Security through

Re: wine-fbsd64 -- no longer in ports

2012-11-19 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 1:31 PM, Hexing hexhex...@gmail.com wrote: per...@pluto.rain.com (Perry Hutchison) writes: Bernt Hansson b...@bananmonarki.se wrote: On 2012-11-17 21:36, Gary Aitken wrote: # portmaster -n emulators/wine-fbsd64 === No /usr/ports/emulators/wine-fbsd64 exists, and

Re: FreeBSD needs Git to ensure repo integrity [was: 2012 incident]

2012-11-19 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 1:47 PM, Volodymyr Kostyrko c.kw...@gmail.com wrote: 19.11.2012 14:34, Ivan Voras wrote: On 17/11/2012 22:48, Chris Rees wrote: (and is GPL btw) Since we're discussing it, Mercurial is BSDL-ed, and apparently has proper crypto signing using GPG:

Re: wine-fbsd64 -- no longer in ports

2012-11-19 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 6:01 PM, Hexing hexhex...@gmail.com wrote: C. P. Ghost cpgh...@cordula.ws writes: On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 1:31 PM, Hexing hexhex...@gmail.com wrote: I guess that just remove it and install /usr/ports/emulators/wine or /usr/ports/emulators/wine-devel would be OK. Nope

Re: FreeBSD needs Git to ensure repo integrity [was: 2012 incident]

2012-11-18 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 6:59 AM, grarpamp grarp...@gmail.com wrote: joerg_wun...@uriah.heep.sax.de You don't even have a name Your domain indicates Germany, please have a chat with CCC.de about the various good uses for nyms. And consult your library for some fine historical use cases. If

Re: how to correct corrupted ports tree?

2012-11-17 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 11:02 AM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Fri, 16 Nov 2012 21:56:21 -0700, Gary Aitken wrote: I don't see a way to force refetch of the actual ports files like distinfo when portsnap thinks the port is up to date. You cansolve the problem of few per-file

Which NNTP newsreader for huge newsgroups?

2012-10-30 Thread C. P. Ghost
Hello, I'm looking for an NNTP newsreader that can gracefully handle newsgroups with a *huge* number of posts, if possible with a moderate memory and CPU footprint. My newsreader of choice, news/tin, while quite good for newsgroups with a moderate number of articles can't cope with some

Re: laptop with no BIOS? or BIOS reflash pain

2012-10-24 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 1:57 PM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Fri, 19 Oct 2012 11:38:48 +0100 (BST), Anton Shterenlikht wrote: Anyway, I think I've heard there are some laptops with no BIOS, is this true? Per termini technici, yes. Some systems use EFI (or UEFI) instead of a BIOS.

Re: port of wayland?

2012-10-24 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 2:53 PM, Matthias Apitz g...@unixarea.de wrote: Hello, Is there work in progress to bring http://wayland.freedesktop.org/ into the ports collection? I don't think that this will happen anytime soon. There are way too many Linuxisms in Wayland:

Re: a metric for number of users

2012-10-17 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 7:34 PM, Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: Is there some way I could get the number of unique IPs hitting FreeBSD servers for software updates? I'm curious about the direct comparison of numbers between FreeBSD, Ubuntu, Fedora, and SUSE for this metric. You could

Re: editing pdf files

2012-10-12 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 1:46 AM, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 10:40:29PM +0400, Boris Samorodov wrote: 10.10.2012 02:35, Gary Aitken пишет: Can someone give me advice on editing pdf files? Take a look at graphics/inkscape. -- WBR, Boris Samorodov (bsam)

Re: Unlocking HDD ATA password

2012-10-09 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 11:29 PM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: I have a question regarding the use (or the make usable again) of hard disks locked with ATA password: I have a Samsung disk (2.5 with PATA interface) and approx. 160 GB capacity which is locked by some ATA password which

Re: how restore an unencrypted dump on an encrypted file system?

2012-09-30 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Sun, Sep 30, 2012 at 10:09 AM, s m sam.gh1...@gmail.com wrote: thanks saeedeh OK i try to explain what i have done more in detail. i want to restore unencrypted dump files on an encrypted file system. in order to do that, i encrypted my file system by geli command and sure that is done

Re: cksum entire dir??

2012-09-14 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 9:18 PM, Karl Vogel vogelke+free...@pobox.com wrote: Here's a simple, system-independent way to find duplicate files. All you There's also sysutils/samefile: http://www.schweikhardt.net/samefile/index.html -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/

Re: svn and/or portsnap

2012-09-09 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 1:26 PM, Helmut Schneider jumpe...@gmx.de wrote: Currently I'm updating ports and src twice a day so I will keep using svn for both. While you certainly can, isn't it a bit excessive to update so frequently? Remember, it's not just fetching the sources and ports, you must

Re: Warning - FreeBSD (*BSD) entanglement in Linux ecosystem

2012-08-22 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 3:41 PM, David Jackson djackson...@gmail.com wrote: That sort of shows my point in fact. There is nothing stopping FreeBSD from implementing cgroups, udev, fanotify, timerfd, signalfd, its not like Linux is going to enforce patents on these things, its software, and

Re: about system api

2012-08-18 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 6:44 AM, Aric leea...@126.com wrote: Hi,all could anybody knows how to get the FreeBSD system APIs What do you mean with system API? Maybe the interfaces to the kernel, as defined in /usr/include/sys? 2012-08-18 Aric -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web.

Re: Patent hit - MS goes after Linux - FreeBSD ?

2012-08-05 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Sun, Aug 5, 2012 at 8:15 PM, Jerry je...@seibercom.net wrote: I never stated than anyone should be denied the right to create or write basically whatever they so desire; however, if they are going to piggyback their work on another author or developer's works, then that individual deserves

Re: Webpage screenshot

2012-08-05 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Sun, Aug 5, 2012 at 8:41 PM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: I'm searching for a simple way to create a screenshot from a web page, i. e. convert the rendered page into a PNG (or something similar) graphic format. This is intended to be used for usability and design visualization where

Re: Patent hit - MS goes after Linux - FreeBSD ?

2012-08-03 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 6:15 PM, Julian H. Stacey j...@berklix.com wrote: This is the reason software patents comprise such a blight on the world of software development. Yes, agreed, not just software. The european patent office system pressures examiners towards granting if they can't

Re: Patent hit - MS goes after Linux - FreeBSD ?

2012-08-02 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 8:57 PM, Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: It is possible that Microsoft is going the way of SCO -- into its grave, having hung all its hopes on litigation. Along the way, though, it will probably do a lot of damage to a lot of people, projects, and businesses, and

Re: fsck on FAT32 filesystem?

2012-07-20 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 4:53 AM, Robert Bonomi bon...@mail.r-bonomi.com wrote: All I'm going to say is: 1) There's a _reason_ the gov't requires hard drives with anthing higher than 'somewhat' classified data on them to be =physically= destroyed before leving the secure area.

Re: fsck on FAT32 filesystem?

2012-07-20 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 6:07 PM, Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: regulations have been tightened further recently as to mandate sector-level encryption of the hard disks as well, just to be on the sure(rer) side. At least in certain particularly sensitive areas. which

Re: Why Clang

2012-06-22 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 7:28 PM, Mark Felder f...@feld.me wrote: On Thu, 21 Jun 2012 12:16:31 -0500, Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: programs compiled by GPLv3 compiler are not encumbered. This has not been decided in court yet. In which court not? Of which

Re: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of?

2012-06-14 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 8:19 PM, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote: UEFI considerations drive Fedora to pay MSFT to sign their kernel binaries http://cwonline.computerworld.com/t/8035515/1292406/565573/0/ This would seem to make compiling from source difficult. Kurt I'm not sure I

Re: link_elf_obj: symbol ata_controlcmd undefined

2012-06-14 Thread C. P. Ghost
Audio Regards, -cpghost. Thanks Subhro -- Subhro Sankha Kar System Administrator Working and playing with FreeBSD since 2002 On 20-May-2012, at 5:53 PM, C. P. Ghost wrote: Hello, what does this boot message means, and where does it come from? link_elf_obj: symbol ata_controlcmd

Re: UEFI Secure Boot Specs - And some sanity

2012-06-14 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Sat, Jun 9, 2012 at 12:17 AM, grarpamp grarp...@gmail.com wrote: I did say effectively. If people would actually read that chapter in the spec (minimally 27.5) they would find that they can: - Load a new PK without asking if in default SetupMode - If not in SetupMode, chainload a new PK

Re: FreeBSD9 - I can't get my mouse to work

2012-06-07 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 1:14 AM, Walter Hurry walterhu...@gmail.com wrote: Firstly, sorry if this is a bit of a newbie question. I am quite new to FreeBSD (though fairly experienced at Linux). Almost everything in FreeBSD is fine, except that no matter what I try I cannot get the (USB) mouse to

Re: FreeBSD9 - I can't get my mouse to work

2012-06-07 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 7:14 PM, C. P. Ghost cpgh...@cordula.ws wrote: On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 1:14 AM, Walter Hurry walterhu...@gmail.com wrote: Firstly, sorry if this is a bit of a newbie question. I am quite new to FreeBSD (though fairly experienced at Linux). Almost everything in FreeBSD

Re: Mouse stopped working in X

2012-05-23 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 10:44 AM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Tue, 22 May 2012 10:17:16 +0200, Bernt Hansson wrote: There is a second way of doing this stunt. Start X When X is up and running press CTRL+ALT+F3 or any F* frpm F3 up to F8 then you get to the console Su to root in

Re: Mouse stopped working in X

2012-05-20 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 2:27 PM, Bernt Hansson b...@bananmonarki.se wrote: 2012-05-18 13:49, J. W. Ballantine skrev: Hi, Before the update of x11 on 4/21/2012, X was working fine, but now when I startx, my usb and touchpad mouse are no longer found.  The mouse works in terminal mode, and

link_elf_obj: symbol ata_controlcmd undefined

2012-05-20 Thread C. P. Ghost
Hello, what does this boot message means, and where does it come from? link_elf_obj: symbol ata_controlcmd undefined linker_load_file: Unsupported file type It appears between between ZFS storage pool version 28 and drm0: ATI Radeon HD 3200 Graphics on vgapci0 uname -a: FreeBSD

Re: FreeBSD's backwards webdesign / corporate identity

2012-04-11 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Sun, Apr 8, 2012 at 2:40 PM, Tony ableton...@gmail.com wrote: The current design is an uneven mix of various styles, and seems more forced than well thought out. First you have the shiny Satanic 3D-lookalike logo (yes, despite what y'all say, it's still Satanic) that might look cool the

Re: Printer recommendation please

2012-04-02 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Sun, Apr 1, 2012 at 12:09 PM, Da Rock freebsd-questi...@herveybayaustralia.com.au wrote: On 04/01/12 19:29, Polytropon wrote: Firmware attacks! ROFL! Sorry my mind went to an interesting place with this one images of printers on spring break flashing their cartridges, opening flaps to

Re: Editor With NO Shell Access?

2012-03-13 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 8:19 PM, Tim Daneliuk tun...@tundraware.com wrote: I have a situation where I need to provide people with the ability to edit files.  However, under no circumstances do I want them to be able to exit to the shell.   The client in question has strong (and unyielding)

Re: Security? [Re: Why is this Symbol in the front of your website. A humble request.]

2012-02-25 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 12:28 PM, Daniel Feenberg feenb...@nber.org wrote: An email address can be hidden from bots without violating section 508, for instance:  feenberg is at nber dot org or some variant won't be picked up by a robot. Most bots use some rather sophisticated regexp pattern

Re: Why is this Symbol in the front of your website. A humble request.

2012-02-25 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 8:32 AM, Erich Dollansky er...@alogreentechnologies.com wrote: On Friday 24 February 2012 14:14:32 Matthew Seaman wrote: On 24/02/2012 06:59, Erich Dollansky wrote: I live in Asia and they really have these things here. Just without the horns. That would be what

Re: Installing Samsung CLX-2160 color laser printer on USB using CUPS

2012-02-25 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 10:14 PM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: I have a problem installing a Samsung CLX-2160 color laser printer using CUPS. In the http://localhost:631 web-based configuration, none of the methods that are supposed to be used for installing a printer works. (... snip

Cryopid for FreeBSD?

2012-02-17 Thread C. P. Ghost
Hello, is there an equivalent to Linux' cryopid for FreeBSD? http://code.google.com/p/cryopid/ Thanks, -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: corrupted tar.gz archive - I lost my backups :)/:(

2012-02-14 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 2:56 AM, _ pancakekin...@gmail.com wrote: Trying to recover these files on 8.2, I found that some of the archives - unfortunately those with the files that are dear to me - are corrupted. Do you have MD5, SHA256 etc... checksums of the .tar.gz files somewhere? Do they

Re: Software Development using Freebsd.

2012-02-07 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 5:34 PM, Waitman Gobble gobble...@gmail.com wrote: On Feb 6, 2012 6:13 PM, C. P. Ghost cpgh...@cordula.ws wrote: On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 11:37 PM, Jorge Biquez jbiq...@intranet.com.mx wrote: Now we will try to have a graphical mode in Freebsd. With that we would like

Re: Software Development using Freebsd.

2012-02-06 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 11:37 PM, Jorge Biquez jbiq...@intranet.com.mx wrote: Now we will try to have a graphical mode in Freebsd. With that we would like to be able to develop graphical applications for Windows (we all know that's the market and here some companies is what they are looking), so

Re: Which Common Lisp port for FreeBSD/sparc64?

2012-01-23 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 11:01 PM, Roland Smith rsm...@xs4all.nl wrote: On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 09:50:54PM +0100, Michel Talon wrote: You can find various cmucl snapshots here: http://common-lisp.net/project/cmucl/downloads/snapshots/2012/01/ i think one of the authors has a sparc machine, and

Which Common Lisp port for FreeBSD/sparc64?

2012-01-16 Thread C. P. Ghost
Hi, is anyone running a Common Lisp port on FreeBSD/sparc64? I'm asking because none of our Common Lisp ports lang/clisp, lang/ccl, lang/cmucl, lang/sbcl compile on sparc64. On Debian Linux 6.0.1a for SPARC, at least sbcl is available. Maybe clisp as well, IIRC. Any suggestions for running

Re: sour grapes .. was FreeBSD Kernel Internals Documentation

2012-01-01 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 7:41 PM, doug d...@fledge.watson.org wrote: That said, FreeBSD has a giant disadvantage in the desktop world. In trying to find if there will be any sort for my current laptop I came across a comment from Robert Noland saying that Xorg is becoming more and more Linux

Re: OT: Root access policy

2011-12-29 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 10:01 AM, Irk Ed irked7...@gmail.com wrote: For the first time, a customer is asking me for root access to said customer's servers. Are we talking about jail(8)- or server-level root access? -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/

Re: Graphic /boot/loader menu

2011-12-20 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 6:24 PM, Conrad J. Sabatier conr...@cox.net wrote: Myself, personally, as much as I dislike the look of FreeBSD's boot menu, it does have the advantage of being very lightweight and adding minimal overhead to the booting process, which is an important consideration for

Re: Consistent ATI lockups [mi] EQ overflowing.

2011-11-22 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 10:03 PM, Jimmie James jimmie...@gmail.com wrote: Symptoms: total lockup of X, Xorg pegged at 100% CPU time, LEDs don't work, keyboard is usless. SSH in allows a clean shutdown, about 50% of the time. FreeBSD jimmiejaz.org 8.2-STABLE FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE #0: Sun Jun 26

Re: [OT] but concerns all of us

2011-11-18 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 11:24 PM, Mario Lobo l...@bsd.com.br wrote: My apologies to all for this, specially to those who already know about this and those who think too little of it. I am really worried about this: http://americancensorship.org/ Mario, I couldn't agree more and it's a very

Re: What are the technical differences between Linux and BSD?

2011-11-12 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 9:23 AM, Allen unix.hac...@comcast.net wrote: On 10/31/2011 3:50 PM, Zantgo wrote: I mean, like BSD is based on the original UNIX, and Linux on System V, Um, no BSD was a version of Unix that was done at Berkeley. They were one of the first Universities to REALLY

Re: changing baud rate without recompiling

2011-11-09 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 10:11 AM, saeedeh motlagh saeedeh.motl...@gmail.com wrote: - change the baud rate in /etc/ttys file (...) when i use  stty -f /dev/ttyu0.init 115200 the baud rate for ttyu0.init change to 115200. after that i use kill -1 1 in order to reinitialize devices but nothing

Re: -Stable periodic updates

2011-11-05 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 3:36 PM, Zantgo zan...@gmail.com wrote: I will say my question clear. If I have FreeBSD-8.2-stable, updated 2011/05/18, what I want to do is update the current, as for example 2011/11/01. I am willing to read me a manual that tells me how to do

Re: -Stable periodic updates

2011-11-05 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 3:36 PM, Zantgo zan...@gmail.com wrote: I will say my question clear. If I have FreeBSD-8.2-stable, updated 2011/05/18, what I want to do is update the current, as for example 2011/11/01. I am willing to read me a manual that tells me how to do

Re: Checking for broken packages (as in linking)

2011-11-05 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 7:27 AM, James Colannino ja...@colannino.org wrote: No, I don't mean checking for broken ports :-P  In fact, when I Google around for the answer to my question, that's all I can find, which is why I bring my question to the mailing list instead :)  Maybe broken ports or

Re: Fast personal printing _without_ CUPS

2011-10-30 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 1:13 PM, Jerry je...@seibercom.net wrote: The biggest loser in this is FreeBSD itself. Virtually any new PC or laptop, with the exception of the bargain basement brands, and even some of them are exempt, now come with N protocol wireless devices. Instead of devoting so

Re: Fast personal printing _without_ CUPS

2011-10-27 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 5:29 PM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: BUT: CUPS seems to be hardcoded into many applications today. They stopped working with the non-CUPS default system tools. An example is Opera. Another one is Gimp which works with system lp* tools, but has hardcoded queries

Re: rsync and the ports tree

2011-10-26 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 12:39 PM, Peter Kryszkiewicz tundra2b...@gmail.com wrote: I have several machines installed in my temporary location and only my laptop gets the internet through wireless. So far I've been building ports on the other machines by rsync'ing the distfiles from the laptop as

Re: Dennis Ritchie has died. A suggestion

2011-10-24 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 5:19 AM, Jonathan Vomacka juvi...@gmail.com wrote: On 10/17/2011 12:04 PM, Michael M wrote: *SNIP* / *PRUNE* For whatever it may be worth; I fully stand by dedicating the next release to dmr, as it wouldn't exist without him and Ken. +1 Another reason for a dmr

Re: Dennis Ritchie has died. A suggestion

2011-10-15 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 11:43 PM, mikel king mikel.k...@olivent.com wrote: On Oct 13, 2011, at 4:38 PM, Roland Smith wrote: With the recent death of Dennis Ritchie, we've lost one of the giants on whose shoulders we are standing. But rather that mourn his passing, I think it would be

Re: *caution* severely OT!!

2011-09-13 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 9:34 PM, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: guys, can anyone start me on the way of porting a python program to C? tia, Gary, if you experience a performance bottleneck somewhere, you may be better off performing some timings to determine the exact cause, and then to

Re: A quality operating system

2011-08-22 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 10:24 PM, Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk wrote: On 21/08/2011 05:13, Jorge Biquez wrote: if for some reason, I know it is impossible, but if for some reason FreeBSD would stop existing... serious users of FreeBSD, what would be your next OS? If the

Re: Installing and using wine on amd64

2011-08-15 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 9:37 AM, Christian Barthel b...@nyx.user-mode.org wrote: On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 10:27:08PM +0200, Polytropon wrote: Current system is 8.2-STABLE/amd64. Should I better re-install everything (Intel Core2 4300 1.80GHz / 1799.81-MHz K8-class CPU here, and 2 GB RAM,

Re: Alternative windowmanagers

2011-08-06 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 9:12 PM, Christian Barthel b...@nyx.user-mode.org wrote: What is your window manager? +1 for fluxbox. Minimalistic, functional, very easy to configure. Using it for a long time and no desire to change. I used fvwm2 and ctwm before, and I still like and use olvwm every

Re: Xorg at 100%CPU when browser is on

2011-08-02 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 10:03 AM, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: C. P. Ghost cpgh...@cordula.ws wrote: ... when mplayer plays some (rare) video files. Xorg then stays at 100% CPU, and it is impossible to kill it, neither from the inside, nor from the outside (logged in via ssh) with SIGKILL

Re: Xorg at 100%CPU when browser is on

2011-08-01 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 8:56 AM, Yuri y...@rawbw.com wrote: I saw this with firefox, now I see the same with chrome. After a while when the browser is launched with ~10 tabs open, Xorg begins to consume 100% CPU and all graphics apps get sluggish. Quitting the browser brings situation back to

Re: Book recommendations (slightly OT)

2011-07-27 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 9:57 PM, Mark Moellering m...@msen.com wrote: I want to automate some tasks, creating directories, file editing, etc.  I was going to pick up a book on shell scripting but wanted to ask the list if; A) I am barking up the wrong tree and should use something else. B) If

Re: emacs-nox11

2011-07-24 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 12:15 PM, Dick Hoogendijk d...@nagual.nl wrote: I want a plain console version of emacs installed on my freebsd-8.2 system. So I chose the editors/emacs-nox11 port, but I get an option screen with a lot of options set to 'on' for which I get the feeling they are X

Re: How to sync a file on FreeBSD?

2011-07-22 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 8:44 AM, Unga unga...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi all How to sync a file on FreeBSD (esp. on 8.1) to disk? I used fsync(2), but does not immediately flush to disk. I want my writing to a file (a log file) immediately available to other users to read. It shouldn't matter:

Re: 2020: Will BSD and Linux be relevant anymore?

2011-07-21 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 2:05 PM, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: Gary Gatten ggat...@waddell.com wrote: ... can a HAL be developed that runs on BSD that emulates Winblow$ such that any driver written for Winblow$ will work on *BSD? ... Something in the back of my head says there was / is

Re: 2020: Will BSD and Linux be relevant anymore?

2011-07-21 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 6:58 PM, Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 05:13:56PM +0100, Jamie Paul Griffin wrote: Also, due to the nature of the course-work I absolutely could not work with anything other than UNIX and so I have to select my hardware around my choice

Re: Tools to find unlegal files ( videos , music etc )

2011-07-20 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 5:20 PM, Robert Bonomi bon...@mail.r-bonomi.com wrote: Obviously, it is _not_ unlawful to 'even open' a file that is 'labelled as private'. Herr Ghost subsequently clarified that he meant 'opened by a person' -- which, if _that_ is an accurate description of the law

Re: Tools to find unlegal files ( videos , music etc )

2011-07-20 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 3:49 PM, Robert Bonomi bon...@mail.r-bonomi.com wrote: For example, if it is part of the _terms_of_emplyment_ -- which one *agreed* to, by going to work there --that you (the employeee) give permission for the company, or it's agents, to examine any file you store

Re: Tools to find unlegal files ( videos , music etc )

2011-07-19 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 8:55 AM, Damien Fleuriot m...@my.gd wrote: On 19 Jul 2011, at 08:15, Frank Bonnet f.bon...@esiee.fr wrote: In France it's illegal and I have my boss's instruction : - find and delete the files that's all. Bon courage then... A file can not be illegal per se, so you

Re: 2020: Will BSD and Linux be relevant anymore?

2011-07-19 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 9:32 AM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Tue, 19 Jul 2011 08:18:41 +0200 (CEST), Konrad Heuer wrote: The number of installations is not the most important figure. Functionality is important -- ZFS, HAST, CARP, jails, as already mentioned -- would be nice to see a

Re: Tools to find unlegal files ( videos , music etc )

2011-07-19 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 11:51 AM, Lars Eighner luvbeas...@larseighner.com wrote: On Tue, 19 Jul 2011, C. P. Ghost wrote: Speaking with my university sysadmin hat on: you're NOT allowed to peek inside personal files of your users, UNLESS the user has waived his/her rights to privacy

Re: Tools to find unlegal files ( videos , music etc )

2011-07-19 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 12:54 PM, Damien Fleuriot m...@my.gd wrote: On 7/19/11 11:06 AM, C. P. Ghost wrote: On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 8:55 AM, Damien Fleuriot m...@my.gd wrote: On 19 Jul 2011, at 08:15, Frank Bonnet f.bon...@esiee.fr wrote: In France it's illegal and I have my boss's instruction

Re: Tools to find unlegal files ( videos , music etc )

2011-07-19 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 1:38 PM, Jerome Herman jher...@dichotomia.fr wrote: The best way to block illegal download before they happen. I found that closing most ports and requiring a login and password before giving access to unknown websites works wonder. (The access to the website is not

Re: Tools to find unlegal files ( videos , music etc )

2011-07-19 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 1:57 PM, Robert Bonomi bon...@mail.r-bonomi.com wrote: The poorly written IT TOS of a company can never bypass the law, regardless of anything you agreed to in your company's TOS. male bovine excrement applies. For example, if it is part of the _terms_of_emplyment_ --

Re: tftp - bad checksum error? can't transfer file

2011-07-10 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 1:00 PM, Anton Shterenlikht me...@bristol.ac.uk wrote: I've had some trouble netbooting / jumpstaring recently with a similar pattern (using RARP/BOOTP/TFTP/NFS). It turned out to be a dying port on the switch whose errors were masked by TCP in day to day use, but alas

Re: tftp - bad checksum error? can't transfer file

2011-07-08 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 12:44 AM, Anton Shterenlikht me...@bristol.ac.uk wrote: I'm trying to troubleshoot tftpd(8). (...)    192.168.232.10.15388 buzi.tftp: [no cksum]  25 RRQ /bsd.rd.IP32 octet ( o 23:25:21.024160 IP (tos 0x0, ttl 64, id 56, offset 0, flags [none], proto UDP (1 7),

Re: Re: why desktop apps are able to kill my freebsd box?

2011-07-05 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 2:42 AM, Timo timo.bsdm...@gmail.com wrote: Why a faulty desktop application run as unprivileged user is able to crash my system? I mean, I know programs have bugs and sometimes they lead to crashes. I'm fine with that. But why a crashing program (for example firefox or

Re: PID 11 using 400% CPU

2011-07-05 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 6:27 AM, manish jain invalid.poin...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Dan, It looks like ppp is doing a lot of read and write operations, which keeps the disk spinning. How do I set this right ? Is there something wrong with my ppp.conf (see below) ? ppp.conf : default:  set

Re: the alternative function for inet_aton

2011-07-05 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 8:05 PM, ahmad javadi seyyedahmad.jav...@gmail.com wrote: hi I use inet_aton  function in the kernel socket programming but i have the following warrning: crypto.c:63: warning: implicit declaration of function 'inet_aton' crypto.c:63: warning: nested extern declaration

Re: Opinion on using AMD Phenom II x6 1090t with Gigabyte 890BPA-UD3H and 8GB DDR-3 as a WebServer.

2011-06-30 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 5:27 PM, Gary Gatten ggat...@waddell.com wrote: Of course it depends on your apps, but unless you're doing some HUGE number of connections, or your apps are not good, this will be MORE than enough RAM and CPU. (...) Maybe turn this into a virtual host and make

Re: Opinion on using AMD Phenom II x6 1090t with Gigabyte 890BPA-UD3H and 8GB DDR-3 as a WebServer.

2011-06-30 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 4:53 PM, eculp ec...@encontacto.net wrote: Quoting C. P. Ghost cpgh...@cordula.ws: On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 5:27 PM, Gary Gatten ggat...@waddell.com wrote: Of course it depends on your apps, but unless you're doing some HUGE number of connections, or your apps

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