New LGA1150 / C222, C224 Xeons

2013-06-02 Thread mike miskulin
Hi - I am trying to replace an aging workstation on its last legs and have been waiting on the release of the new Intel hardware. They did so this weekend and I am leaning towards the E3-1245V3 over the vanilla i7s because of the extended page support for virutualization. So.. before I get

Sound cards

2013-06-02 Thread mike miskulin
Hi all - I may be building a system which does not have any onboard sounds thus need to find either a pci-e or usb solution which will work with FreeBSD. I've combed newegg and have to say I never realized how crappy the sound cards have become - that used to be a big thing back in the day!

i386 vs amd64

2012-11-28 Thread mike miskulin
About to build a replacement system for an older i386 setup. A few years ago I had tried the amd64 port on it and found it was frustrating as things that just worked on i386 did not on amd64. IIRC ports were large annoyance too. Now I have a new system with 8GB, etc,etc and wonder if I am best

Re: i386 vs amd64

2012-11-28 Thread mike miskulin
What port was that ? I've never had a *single* problem due to using amd64 over i386. Well I have to apologize, I've reached senility! My past bad experience was with netbsd amd64 afterwhich I bailed and went to FreeBSD i386 (thanks google). But I guess the basic question remains - are

Re: odd ssh/X11 forward behavior

2010-04-18 Thread Mike Miskulin
--- On Sun, 4/18/10, Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk wrote: From: Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk Subject: Re: odd ssh/X11 forward behavior To: Mike Miskulin birdf...@yahoo.com Date: Sunday, April 18, 2010, 3:55 AM Hmmm What's $DISPLAY in the second

odd ssh/X11 forward behavior

2010-04-17 Thread Mike Miskulin
Appreciate any insight, I'm stumped. Situation is as below: host#1: freebsd host#2: linux I would like to run X apps on host #2 so they are displayed on host #1. I've set up as best I can tell the appropriate options in ssh_/sshd_config files to do this. Procedure: in an open xterm