Re: Twitter.com is loading slowly after updating to Firefox 13.0.1

2012-07-17 Thread Wojciech Puchar
and the other running 9.0-STABLE. After updating Firefox from 12.0 to 13.0.1, whenever I access twitter.com, I can log in but after that a message appears saying that Twitter.com is loading slowly, and the site is practically unusable - clicking on any of the links has no effect. i don't

Re: fsck on FAT32 filesystem?

2012-07-17 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Surely SpinRite is more clever than that, i would bet otherwise. simple tools and free tools are always better You continue to demonsteate that you don't know what you don't know. are you another sponsored by some recovery tool commercial producer?

Re: fsck on FAT32 filesystem?

2012-07-16 Thread Wojciech Puchar
read attempts. In worst case, there will be gaps in the result. Surely SpinRite is more clever than that, i would bet otherwise. simple tools and free tools are always better ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: fsck on FAT32 filesystem?

2012-07-16 Thread Wojciech Puchar
On Sun, 15 Jul 2012, Adam Vande More wrote: On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 4:29 PM, Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: totally in error. SpinRite will attempt to read a damage sector up to 2000 times and through different algorithms determine what is most man dd Even

Re: fsck on FAT32 filesystem?

2012-07-16 Thread Wojciech Puchar
SpinWrong is a scam, Gibson is a fraud, and this conversation is pure marketing gibberish. maybe you exaggerate but this is what i feel in that discussion. instead of help - seemed like marketing. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: fsck on FAT32 filesystem?

2012-07-15 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Is there any such a tool (as fsck for FAT32) available for freeBSD? If so, where would I find it? fsck_msdosfs but, in spite of some fanatics here my get worried, i do recommend use windoze scandisk. When recovering data from FAT32 i've proven myself what is actually a better tool.

Re: fsck on FAT32 filesystem?

2012-07-15 Thread Wojciech Puchar
On Sun, 15 Jul 2012, Bruce Cran wrote: On 15/07/2012 09:56, Wojciech Puchar wrote: but, in spite of some fanatics here my get worried, i do recommend use windoze scandisk. I'd forgotten about scandisk - for modern Windows (XP and newer) you'll want to use chkdsk ( e.g. 'chkdsk /F C

Re: fsck on FAT32 filesystem?

2012-07-15 Thread Wojciech Puchar
If you absolutely, positively have to recover the drive, I would recommend SpinRite 6 http://www.grc.com/intro.htm. Its not free; again i would recommend standard windows scandisk. such tools as the other utilities are usually not better. make sure you have full disk backup anyway

Re: fsck on FAT32 filesystem?

2012-07-15 Thread Wojciech Puchar
totally in error. SpinRite will attempt to read a damage sector up to 2000 times and through different algorithms determine what is most man dd conv=sync,noerror ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Squid issue

2012-07-14 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Firstly I know this is a bit off topic for this list, please accept my apologies in advance. I have tried asking in more relevant circles but I have had no responses at all. Under pfSense I have openVPN running and Squid, the vpn has rules to route traffic on ports 119 and 563 via the VPN

Re: profiling library smaller than non-profiling, while it contains more symbols. Why?

2012-07-13 Thread Wojciech Puchar
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 6582354 Jul 12 22:56 libslatec.a -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 6555122 Jul 12 23:02 libslatec_p.a # profile library or -fpic library? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Is there a way to run FreeBSD ports through port 80?

2012-07-13 Thread Wojciech Puchar
We handle a lot of highly sensitive information and that's the need for the severe lock-down. Even the web-proxy is restricted to the sites accessible meaning that we need to request access if we need to go somewhere not governed by that proxy. this make sense. just blocking everything except

Re: 9.0 w/ACPI enabled, excluding NICs

2012-07-13 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I am running a small personal file server. To ensure constant network access, had to disable the ACPI, hence no power saving at all. The CPU why you had to disable ACPI. i never ever seen network problems with ACPI. basically it works, or it doesn't at all. gets very warm as everything

Re: Is there a way to run FreeBSD ports through port 80?

2012-07-13 Thread Wojciech Puchar
http://www.freeproxy.ru/en/free_proxy/faq/index.htm How to bypass corporate proxy? go away from corporation. A side effect is saving your mental health on the long run. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: How to mirror the FreeBSD OS on two disks

2012-07-12 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I am no expert at this however a quick Google search comes up with: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/geom-mirror.html The procedure shown there produces a mirror that will not boot on FreeBSD 9. no idea but my procedure certainly would work if you use installer 1) install to first disk

Re: Is there a way to run FreeBSD ports through port 80?

2012-07-12 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I am trying to introduce FreeBSD into my office and it's been looked at with quite a bit of enthusiasm however, what makes it look bad is our companies 'security' policy to block FTP. do you work FOR that company. Ask administrator to unblock if for you as you need it for work. Do you do

Re: How to mirror the FreeBSD OS on two disks

2012-07-12 Thread Wojciech Puchar
The current Handbook procedure avoids the copy by using the existing disk as-is and just writing the gmirror metadata to the last block. Exactly what i do doing instalations manually! If that last block is already part of an MBR partition, the more strict checking stops booting in 9.0.

Re: Is there a way to run FreeBSD ports through port 80?

2012-07-12 Thread Wojciech Puchar
The information comes straight down from the IT director who will **not** change his mind on this as I have asked several times in the past. I just told about solution to a problem. Not a workaround. How you can make your work if your director actively prevent it!? Basically without getting

Re: Is there a way to run FreeBSD ports through port 80?

2012-07-12 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Most surprise for me is why no one is interested about what kind of a danger the ftp protocol can ever be? i. e. skype is much more vicious in comparison to As in lots of companies where idiots are directors (common case) the danger is because it is something that doesn't exist. As we all know

Re: How to mirror the FreeBSD OS on two disks

2012-07-12 Thread Wojciech Puchar
If that last block is already part of an MBR partition, the more strict checking stops booting in 9.0. not making MBR partition would not make problems. There's no guarantee that bsdlabel checking won't be made more strict. No matter what type of partitioning scheme, the metadata should not

Re: How to mirror the FreeBSD OS on two disks

2012-07-12 Thread Wojciech Puchar
last partition includes the block of gmirror metadata, that's an error. no it doesn't i do this 2 ways: method 1) i FIRST do gmirror on whole disk THEN partition it, so partition sizes sums up to gmirror size which is 1 sector less disk size. then bsdlabel -B method 2) i make same

Re: How to mirror the FreeBSD OS on two disks

2012-07-12 Thread Wojciech Puchar
no it doesn't You appear to be agreeing with me, but saying that your method does not produce that problem. sorry - possibly i missed something. both method results in system bootable from both drives and proper disklabels. Yes, these are the same methods that can be used with MBR

Re: Is there a way to run FreeBSD ports through port 80?

2012-07-12 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Does your IT director understand the active/passive distinction? If not From what he described his director is plain moron. He required him to block things that HE needs to work, leaving port 80 open so things that are best in distracting from work (youtube, facebook...) works, as well as

Re: Is there a way to run FreeBSD ports through port 80?

2012-07-12 Thread Wojciech Puchar
My issues start coming into play when building the actual port itself. Ie. fetching the distfile, as you suggested above. As soon as I start running portmaster -a or a 'make install clean' on certain ports, the progress just bombs out totally. as you've said it is not a problem at all

Re: FreeBSD 9.0 LSI MegaRAID SATA problem

2012-07-10 Thread Wojciech Puchar
# gmirror list gmirror: Command 'list' not available. # gmirror status gmirror: Command 'status' not available. gmirror load It is probably soft-RAID, but I prefer to use it though appropriate driver instead of classical software RAID configured through OS. i would recommend otherwise.

Re: FreeBSD 9.0 LSI MegaRAID SATA problem

2012-07-10 Thread Wojciech Puchar
That's clear to me. These hardware raid controllers are not very reliable because they are indeed not real hardware raid controllers, but software based. Maybe for desktop usage it's ok/ good enough? precise what is desktop usage is. i don't see a reason for doing mirroring for home use. It

Re: FreeBSD 9.0 LSI MegaRAID SATA problem

2012-07-10 Thread Wojciech Puchar
'geom raid load;geom raid list' doesn't give anything. I've tried 'geom load mirror', but 'geom mirror list' is also empty. what other do you expect with no mirrors created yet? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: FreeBSD 9.0 LSI MegaRAID SATA problem

2012-07-10 Thread Wojciech Puchar
On Tue, 10 Jul 2012, Bosko Radivojevic wrote: On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 12:26 PM, Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: what other do you expect with no mirrors created yet? But mirror (raid10) array is created through LSI MegaRAID BIOS. I'm if it is RAID10 i assume you

Re: FreeBSD 9.0 LSI MegaRAID SATA problem

2012-07-10 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Hi Bosko, I do not have any experience with these kind of controllers, so I could just guess. I have a lot ;) but the only thing i always do is to disable RAID in BIOS just after receiving new machine. whole experience. ___

Re: power failure, boot, and fsck

2012-07-09 Thread Wojciech Puchar
fsck does run automatically when a filesystem does not get shut down cleanly. However, fsck cannot fix all of the problems a filesystem can experience without risk of loss of data. In those cases, there is no option but to stop and ask the operator to intervene. fsck_y_enable=YES in rc.conf

Re: power failure, boot, and fsck

2012-07-09 Thread Wojciech Puchar
After a power failure at home, my FreeBSD server automatically starts again but fails to mount my UFS /boot disk because it was not properly unmounted. Here is my fstab: $ cat /etc/fstab # Device Mountpoint FStype Options Dump Pass# /dev/da0s1a /boot-disk ufs

Re: Format a USB flash drive using gpart

2012-07-09 Thread Wojciech Puchar
If you're talking about an MS-DOS disk, then yes, it contains a DOS partition which is formatted. In FreeBSD, we would call it a slice (slice == DOS primary partition). In this case, there is no (sub)partitioning, the _slice_ carries the MS-DOS unless you need windows 98 support partitionless

Re: YASSDQ

2012-07-09 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Notes: 1. SSDs don't necessarily use 4k blocks, some use larger ones. Starting the All use 4K as it is NTFS default block size and most are sold to be used with windoze. first filesystem partition at 1M works for most of the common values. Alignment of filesystem cannot be better than

Re: Format a USB flash drive using gpart

2012-07-09 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Floppy disks aren't partitioned/sliced - they use 'dangerously dedicated' they use dangerously obsolete mode. nobody use them at all. disk's empty. If you're on an old system and run 'gpart show da0' and don't see a partition table it's quite easy to forget to check if da0 itself contains a

Re: Format a USB flash drive using gpart

2012-07-09 Thread Wojciech Puchar
A company I worked with were still distributing files on floppy disks as recently as 2009. quite funny :) They _are_ obsolete, but I suspect plenty of people still use them. unless it is a normal way of using it. That's right - I was thinking of my system where I destroyed all the data on

Re: NTFS data recovery

2012-07-09 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I have been given a laptop to look at for a friend, the hard disk is close to death with a SMART error on POST. My initial thought was to just mount it on an Windows 7 machine and grab what I can from the drive. No joy Windows insists that the partition is RAW and I need to format it. I can

Re: df(1) and missing space in partition /dev/ada0p2

2012-07-08 Thread Wojciech Puchar
FreeBSD aurora-clone.Sisis.de 10.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT #2 r235646M: Thu Jul 5 09:38:00 UTC 2012 r...@aurora-clone.sisis.de:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 $ df -k Filesystem 1024-blocks UsedAvail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ada0p274130588 25389436 4281070837%/

Re: Format a USB flash drive using gpart

2012-07-08 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Magdeburg, Germany I have used gpart to partition a USB flash drive into FreeBSD boot partition, root partition and swap partition. making swap partition on USB pendrive is at least stupid. if you won't swap at all - wasted space. If you will it would be so slow and wear USB pendrive so

Re: Format a USB flash drive using gpart

2012-07-08 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Interestingly enough, I searched through the man pages and FreeBSD help but never came across anything that specifically addressed flash drive. because there is no need to. For freebsd it is just a storage device. for FreeBSD only i recommend using bsdlabel, not gpart, for multiOS using

Re: Format a USB flash drive using gpart

2012-07-08 Thread Wojciech Puchar
with using the commands provided by Warren, you will be fine every time. If you practice them regularly, you will remember them, and if you do so, you'll surely write a script that after doing man gpart he will understand it, so remembering is easy.

Re: for loops with /bin/sh on command line.

2012-07-08 Thread Wojciech Puchar
am I suffering from too much use of bash and as such shouldnt expect it to work? maybe. i actually use bash for script. banshee# for foo in 1 2 3 ; do echo $foo ; done for: Command not found. foo: Undefined variable. banshee# echo 'for foo in 1 2 3; do echo $foo ; done' bahh.sh banshee# sh

Re: for loops with /bin/sh on command line.

2012-07-08 Thread Wojciech Puchar
banshee# for foo in 1 2 3 ; do echo $foo ; done for: Command not found. foo: Undefined variable. banshee# echo 'for foo in 1 2 3; do echo $foo ; done' bahh.sh banshee# sh bahh.sh 1 2 3 banshee# echo $SHELL is it /bin/sh really? ___

Re: Format a USB flash drive using gpart

2012-07-08 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I know your question specified gpart, but the easiest way I know of to put UFS filesystems on flash drives is to use sade(8), incorporating the the easiest way to put UFS filesystem on flash drives is to ... put UFS filesystem using newfs command. You DO NOT NEED any partitioning.

Re: for loops with /bin/sh on command line.

2012-07-08 Thread Wojciech Puchar
3 banshee# echo $SHELL is it /bin/sh really? Doh, yes that was it. Cant believe I forgot to check. I was running csh for no good reason. the reason is that it is default. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Format a USB flash drive using gpart

2012-07-08 Thread Wojciech Puchar
In general they're not distinct in usage from any other type of disk. The more expensive disks of course support TRIM so you'd want to pass -t to newfs to enable it. can you give me an example of pendrive that supports TRIM? ___

Re: qbittorrent freezes, ioctl sign-extension ioctl ffffffff8004667e

2012-07-08 Thread Wojciech Puchar
On Sun, 8 Jul 2012, RW wrote: On Sat, 7 Jul 2012 20:52:50 +0200 Jens Schweikhardt wrote: hello, world\n is anybody else seeing this? On a fresh 9-STABLE/amd64 as of July 7, with all ports compiled from scratch. Qbittorrent (2.9.11) freezes after about 10 to 20 seconds, reacts to mouse

Re: Format a USB flash drive using gpart

2012-07-08 Thread Wojciech Puchar
seems like SSD style controller+USB 3.0 bridge. sizes suggest this. thanks. On Sun, 8 Jul 2012, Bruce Cran wrote: On 08/07/2012 21:51, Wojciech Puchar wrote: can you give me an example of pendrive that supports TRIM? LaCie FastKey (http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/usb-3.0-thumb-drive-flash

Re: Format a USB flash drive using gpart

2012-07-08 Thread Wojciech Puchar
You don't. You wipe the FAT32 with fdisk and make a FreeBSD slice on it. Then you can bsdlabel it with one partition and newfs it. Or you can repeat 100 times more that you have to make fdisk and bsdlabel. you don't, and it doesn't make sense ___

Re: Format a USB flash drive using gpart

2012-07-08 Thread Wojciech Puchar
file system (as you said without partitions, and I'll take that literally): You can use tar, the universal file system that isn't a file system to write data to the USB stick. which is best in USB pendrive wear and speed point of view. pendrive's flash translation layers are just awful, only

Re: Does FreeBSD start slices at head boundaries?

2012-07-07 Thread Wojciech Puchar
it without any problem. It _may_ be possible that some systems like Windows have trouble with this approach, what trouble? Windows doesn't probably see anything. anyway i would not risk running windows with FreeBSD containing disk connected at the same time anyway. it's always risky. To

Re: Does FreeBSD start slices at head boundaries?

2012-07-07 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Ah the FAQ http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/faq/disks.html#DANGEROUSLY-DEDICATED I don't think it's dangerous either. Thanks for your explanations. While it's far simpler. Anyway i wasn't aware it's called that way as i don't use installer ___

Re: Does FreeBSD start slices at head boundaries?

2012-07-07 Thread Wojciech Puchar
disks. Maybe you get a few kb of extra space. Don't do it. because? ___ 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: Does FreeBSD start slices at head boundaries?

2012-07-07 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Is there any performance advantage to using a dedicated disk layout no. it is simplicity adventage, as well as (for SSD and 4K sector disks) far easier to put partitions aligned. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Does FreeBSD start slices at head boundaries?

2012-07-07 Thread Wojciech Puchar
While it's far simpler. Anyway i wasn't aware it's called that way as i don't use installer As far as I know, the installer dropped dedicated mode some time ago. So if you intendedly want to use it, you need to bypass the installer and do the few simple steps using the CLI. i already do this,

Re: Does FreeBSD start slices at head boundaries?

2012-07-07 Thread Wojciech Puchar
http://www.unixguide.net/freebsd/faq/09.03.shtml That is EXTREMELY old advice. completely irrevelant now. Why so many people blindly repeat some rules without understanding it. Even years after that rule no longer matters. The other example is creating lots of partitions.

Re: Does FreeBSD start slices at head boundaries?

2012-07-07 Thread Wojciech Puchar
environment. gpart(8) can create MBR slice/partition layouts (and GPT and other partition schemes). See the man page. There is little reason to use fdisk and bsdlabel any more. i use only disklabel, no fdisk at all. i put partition start sector where i want - no align problems. I did

Re: GUI for gpart

2012-07-07 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I have heard, although I never personally saw it, a GUI for gpart I heard that there exists one for Linux. Is there any comparable one for FreeBSD and comparable with KDE? no idea. If you want it with already installed system, try to compile linux software. Anyway i see no reason for such a

Re: GUI for gpart

2012-07-07 Thread Wojciech Puchar
What happened to the idea of having a choice ? If you want to keep living in the 80's with a text based menu, go ahead, I prefer a click not only me but anyone that wants productivity do live in 80's text based interfaces or even 60-70's command line interfaces. These are facts. And

RE: GUI for gpart

2012-07-07 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Perhaps your English phrasing loses something in translation, but your opinions are always presented in a way that you are correct and the rest of the world is just wrong. what you expect - to assume i am wrong and everyone else is right. if i assume so i don't present such opinion

Re: Hi i want to ask a question

2012-07-06 Thread Wojciech Puchar
1. You won't be able to build things from source on that machine. Consider using packages for installation, or a second system to build and export (via NFS) the data required. You can but... too slow 3. For using your applications within the GUI, choose a good window manager, e. g. FVWM or

Re: Does FreeBSD start slices at head boundaries?

2012-07-06 Thread Wojciech Puchar
automatically start partitions at head boundaries? The reason I ask is because I am most familiar with sector 64 being the start of a head boundary as opposed to 63. Is my understanding incorrect? yes. 63 is normal. Anyway just don't make slices at all if your disk is dedicated to FreeBSD

Re: FreeBSD vs Hurd what is the differences?

2012-07-06 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Not had tme to pursued it though. I dont feel like exporting that data public in case its already gone too far. You don't have to export it at all. Can you confirm the data within is the same as say the same file in /etc or ~/.ssh? If that's really the case, it's a problem. the real problem

Re: Does FreeBSD start slices at head boundaries?

2012-07-06 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Anyway just don't make slices at all if your disk is dedicated to FreeBSD Except for swap, right? wrong. i said slices (==DOS/Windoze MBR partitions), not disklabel ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Does FreeBSD start slices at head boundaries?

2012-07-06 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I think Ryan means partition and not slice? I would not recommend no slices at all, It's deprecated to use dangerously dedicated disks Starting with 9 I don't see slices in mount ouput anymore but still there are FreeBSD partitions in slices (which is a partitions in dos terms) Example / is

Re: How can i decrease memory occupied by xorg ?

2012-07-05 Thread Wojciech Puchar
1083 root 1 210 99444K 11544K select 0 1:28 0.00% Xorg doesn't take much, only 11.5MB is resident ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: FreeBSD vs Hurd what is the differences?

2012-07-05 Thread Wojciech Puchar
http://pastehtml.com/view/c3kw80dyq.html - Does anyone know if FreeBSD Can someone post the content of that link. I only see a stack of This page was viewed but no actual content. http://pastehtml.com/raw/c3kw80dyq.html ___

Re: FreeBSD vs Hurd what is the differences?

2012-07-05 Thread Wojciech Puchar
woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: http://pastehtml.com/view/c3kw80dyq.html - Does anyone know if FreeBSD Can someone post the content of that link. I only see a stack of This page was viewed but no actual content. http://pastehtml.com/raw/c3kw80dyq.html Same problem really

Re: Tweetless

2012-07-05 Thread Wojciech Puchar
pages not loading completely in Firefox 13.0.1,1. the best solution is to not use that services like twitter, facebook and just stay away from it so they will not hurt you. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: FreeBSD vs Hurd what is the differences?

2012-07-05 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Thanks. Can anyone confirm Julian's password stealing script problem. no idea but probably everything is possible with current style of how web browsers work. As for reading anything else than internal firefox data it is not possible except very basic bug is there.

Re: FreeBSD vs Hurd what is the differences?

2012-07-05 Thread Wojciech Puchar
As for reading anything else than internal firefox data it is not possible except very basic bug is there. Yes otherwise all the flash sites would have gathered files from local disks. true. javascript activity is sandboxed. But within that sandbox there are million bugs. i've already seen

Re: Understanding XDM

2012-07-04 Thread Wojciech Puchar
and xdm executes ~/.xession. In fact, I have a cascade xdm file specified in xdm-config default file Xsession try running ~/.xsession otherwise run other defaults. nothing is hardwired. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: FreeBSD vs Hurd what is the differences?

2012-07-04 Thread Wojciech Puchar
the major difference between Hurd and FreeBSD is that FreeBSD actually work. http://pastehtml.com/view/c3kw80dyq.html - Does anyone know if FreeBSD core developers left FreeBSD to work in Google? What will be the future of FreeBSD and Google? single man from FreeBSD is listed and other from

Re: FreeBSD 9.0 hang

2012-07-03 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I have no ATM interfaces so it shouldn't be loading to my way of thinking. so check while this module is loading at all, no matter if it's unsuccessull. FreeBSD is not random place like windows, everything must have a reason. ___

Re: video buffer location

2012-07-02 Thread Wojciech Puchar
to work for a lot of other sites. I just tested it for Dailymotion. Thanks also for the get-flash-videos link which I am glad to study in detail, including the git port I've now installed. FreeBSD is a wonderful OS! absolutely agree but to be clear, both youtube-dl and get-flash-videos have

Re: FreeBSD 9.0 hang

2012-07-02 Thread Wojciech Puchar
link_eif symbol atm_event undefined KLD if_en.ko: depends on utopia - not available or version mismatch. I haven't found anything relevant on those through Google. if_en.ko os present as is utopia.ko. I don't understand why the kernel would try to load if_en as I don't have any of those

Re: WITHOUT_MODULES in /etc/make.conf doesn't work

2012-07-02 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I think MODULES_OVERRIDE is for building only a few modules instead of a large number of modules? true. definitely works for me. Alternatively, how can I prevent ulpt.ko from automatically loading when I connect a USB printer (HP) that is supposed to work with ugen but not ulpt.

Re: PostgreSQL Slony-I Replication

2012-07-01 Thread Wojciech Puchar
AFAIK postgres is just unix processes nothing special compared to say .. linux On Sun, 1 Jul 2012, Iqbal Aroussi wrote: Hi dear friends, I'm trying to setup a master-slave replication with PostgreSQL 9.1 / Slony-I, this is first time I'm doing it and I'm kind of lost :( Is there any tutorial

Re: binary diff utility

2012-06-30 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Der, someone over my shoulder highlights the fact that there's bsdiff and bspatch in the base system for diffing/patching binary files. great but not for comparing 3GB files with 4GB total RAM . But your mileage may vary with such large files. Something from ports that's already been

Re: binary diff utility

2012-06-30 Thread Wojciech Puchar
/wbr Ariel Burbaickij On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 5:53 PM, Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: i have many windows images running over virtualbox. each takes several gigabytes. i use flat image format. each differs by very little. Is there any program that can do diff and keep just

Re: video buffer location

2012-06-30 Thread Wojciech Puchar
For YouTube, check out the port youtube-dl. For most of everything else, see http://github.com/monsieurvideo/get-flash-videos for details. xpi-unplug firefox plugin is useful too. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Cannot mount storage drive in workstation

2012-06-29 Thread Wojciech Puchar
From time when i was still using linux i cannot remember a case that linux dump utilities actually worked. tar was usable, gnu tar can do SOMEWHAT like incremental backups too. On Thu, 28 Jun 2012, Lynn Steven Killingsworth wrote: Dear FreeBSD - I have broken my ability to mount my storage

Re: Anatomy of Perfomance tests

2012-06-29 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Most probably all filesystems were used with defaults. MAYBE softupdates, but not even sure for this. Compare this to linux which is async-like. Comparing with UFS+async would be more fair. Still - FreeBSD default MAXPHYS in param.h is far too low. i change it to 2048*1024 (default is

Re: Anatomy of Perfomance tests

2012-06-29 Thread Wojciech Puchar
when properly configured FreeBSD is quite good. if that company: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_itempx=MTExNDM chose FreeBSD in spite of hype-overloaded linux it must be a reason. As well as it seems they know what they are doing, storage configuration is IMGO an example how

Re: Anatomy of Perfomance tests

2012-06-29 Thread Wojciech Puchar
what i would like to see too is how these systems compare on such test: - run lots of heavy disk I/O tests, many different in the same time, including ones doing many writes to different places. - turn off power while doing this, by unplugging from wall plug. - compare amount of loss and

Re: Anatomy of Perfomance tests

2012-06-29 Thread Wojciech Puchar
That said, I think that the Linux kernel performs better simply due to wider adoption (larger developer base, wider set of use-cases, etc) and thus a higher chance of getting performance improvements. Note that stability matters too. of course - this is what i pointed out at first. the

Re: Anatomy of Perfomance tests

2012-06-29 Thread Wojciech Puchar
___ 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 It would be very interesting to see the results of stress-testing

binary diff utility

2012-06-29 Thread Wojciech Puchar
i have many windows images running over virtualbox. each takes several gigabytes. i use flat image format. each differs by very little. Is there any program that can do diff and keep just a difference between each of them instead copy of whole VM disk??

Re: SOLVED: Xorg listening on the WAN? (was Xorg listening on the WAN?)

2012-06-26 Thread Wojciech Puchar
# look like: # XTerminalName:0 foreign # :0 local /usr/local/bin/X -nolisten tcp :0 If there's batter way of doing this, please would someone let me know. this is the right way if you use xdm. similar settings are in kdm and gdm possible. ___

Re: Omega Zip Drives on FreeBSD 8.*

2012-06-25 Thread Wojciech Puchar
http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org I am amazed anyone still has a working Zip drive! I have 250MB zipdrive and 100MB disks. all works properly over USB

Re: printing jpeg slides to a Postscript printer

2012-06-25 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I did this with OpenOffice 3.x and you have - 10 times to Inser Picture - 10 times pic-up the correct picture from the file dialog - 10 times to move the picture to the correct place in the page - 10 times to scale the image so that two fit and adjust them a bit - 4 time Create new page it took

Re: CLANG vs GCC tests of fortran/f2c program

2012-06-25 Thread Wojciech Puchar
programming involves many of the classic trade-offs in programming: dynamic features add flexibility, static features add speed and type checking. My Note: please keep in mind we are talking about language used for writing clang, a compiler tool. So, Objective-C has disadvantage with regard

Re: CLANG vs GCC tests of fortran/f2c program

2012-06-25 Thread Wojciech Puchar
If it would be truly about removing GPLv3 code that hurts, replacing libstdc++ would be first thing to do. I assume you mean like the new libc++? http://wiki.freebsd.org/NewC%2B%2BStack yes. this is actually GREAT MOVE! even if it's slower, object oriented languages are not about speed

Re: printing jpeg slides to a Postscript printer

2012-06-25 Thread Wojciech Puchar
On Mon, 25 Jun 2012, Matthias Apitz wrote: El día Monday, June 25, 2012 a las 02:52:24PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar escribió: simplest case: 1)convert them in batch to postscript. I did this already with: for i in *.jpg do ; convert $i $i.ps ; done this works fin; 2)place it with mpage

Re: Xorg listening on the WAN?

2012-06-25 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Xorg -nolisten tcp to disable at all to disable wan only use firewall On Mon, 25 Jun 2012, Walter Hurry wrote: FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE I think Xorg is listening on external addresses: $ sockstat -46 |grep Xorg root Xorg 1573 1 tcp6 *:6000*:* root Xorg

Re: Xorg listening on the WAN?

2012-06-25 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I'm probably being stupid here, and I should have mentioned that I had already tried 'man Xorg' and 'man Xsession'. I appreciate that the answer is probably to put '-nolisten tcp' somewhere, but where? As far as I can see, XDM invokes /usr/local/lib/X11/xdm/Xsession, which at Xservers file

Re: Omega Zip Drives on FreeBSD 8.*

2012-06-25 Thread Wojciech Puchar
How did you get the drive to work with USB? By a hardware adapter? I i have USB drives. not an adapter read there is a USB to ide on the market. I remember specifically that Iomega produced USB Zip drives, though not when they first produced SCSI, ATAPI and parallel-port Zip drives. One

Re: Euro Millions lottery prize Donation

2012-06-24 Thread Wojciech Puchar
i not yet won but soon will :) Anyway - congratulations for listserver admin for making spam amount THAT SMALL! IT is less than one per day for such a list - IN SPITE of no need to subscribe. Anyway - is requirement to subscribe somehow bad? ___

Re: Off Topic. DNS, Android.

2012-06-23 Thread Wojciech Puchar
a) Normally any Domain name registered has to have 2 Nameservers. Some don't have to. but should. registry like the one responsible for .ORG requires 2 at least to propagate the domain. In teh case of .COM that is not a requirement, one nameserver could work. If for some reason I have 2 of

Re: backup tools

2012-06-23 Thread Wojciech Puchar
My criteria for procedures are: 1. They should minimize the need for additional software beyond the base system as much as reasonably possible. This means not only that I do not good idea. 3. They should provide for incremental backups. do backed up laptops use FreeBSD or have another

Re: fsck_ufs running too often

2012-06-23 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Hi, since a few of days ago, I noticed my home server turns very slow more than once a day, so every time I run top to see what's processes are running, I can see fsck_ufs at the very top, and the hard drive working like mad. background_fsck=NO in /etc/rc.conf I've checked my crontab and

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