Re: Do I really have to install 80 packages?

2013-10-14 Thread Da Rock
On 10/13/13 17:38, Thomas Mueller wrote: On the question of playing Adobe Flash in FreeBSD, could one use the MS-Windows 32-bit version with (i386-)Wine? I plan to try that. Apparently that won't solve much. The primary issue now with watching flash movies is the drm - on linux it somehow

Re: Adoble Flash troubles on 9.2-RELEASE

2013-10-13 Thread Da Rock
On 10/12/13 20:37, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Sat, 2013-10-12 at 11:52 +0200, David Demelier wrote: I don't like much chrome but I'll give a try to see. +1 It's not a browser I like. Since I'm using my computer for audio production my FreeBSD isn't maintained, I need to use Linux, so I don't know

maildrop port build/configure fail: failed for liblock

2013-06-20 Thread Da Rock
Quick question, one that hasn't come up since 2002 apparently; does anyone know what to do with this error when building maildrop? checking whether setpgrp takes no argument... no checking for fcntl... yes checking for flock... yes checking for lockf... yes checking for locking method...

Re: Connecting EFTPOS terminals to FreeBSD

2013-05-15 Thread Da Rock
On 05/16/13 12:42, Shane Ambler wrote: On 15/05/2013 12:13, Da Rock wrote: If anyone has some dev material (or links to such) would be handy as well- I need to get a far better picture of all this. I don't have any experience to help but ledgersmb.org may be what you are looking

Re: List Spam Filtering

2013-05-14 Thread Da Rock
On 05/12/13 22:04, Rich Kulawiec wrote: 1. Restricting mailing lists to subscribers only has been a best practice since the last century. It's a very good anti-spam tactic. 2. However, doing so -- for a list run via Mailman, like this one -- does not pose a significant impediment for

Connecting EFTPOS terminals to FreeBSD

2013-05-14 Thread Da Rock
I have a client looking for a POS system and they need to be able to connect an EFTPOS terminal (credit/debit card terminal) to obtain data for transactions from. Has anyone here had any experience with this? I'm used to servers and such, but the goal here is to use a CRM (vTiger or such)

Re: Stop ifconfig high intensity message from master console

2013-04-24 Thread Da Rock
On 04/25/13 01:53, Joe wrote: When I do a ifconfig bridge create or ifconfig epair create commands I get some high intensity messages on the hosts F1 session master console. I would like to suppress these messages. Is there any way to do that? You'd have to adjust your syslog.conf I'd

Re: FreeBSD-update?

2013-04-24 Thread Da Rock
On 04/25/13 06:31, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote: On Wed, 24 Apr 2013 14:52:17 -0500 Mark Felder f...@feld.me wrote: On Wed, 24 Apr 2013 14:34:30 -0500, Steve O'Hara-Smith st...@sohara.org wrote: You have updated to 9.1-RELEASE-p2 - but since there have been no kernel changes since 9.1-RELEASE

Re: FreeBSD-update?

2013-04-24 Thread Da Rock
On 04/25/13 09:07, Mike Brown wrote: Da Rock wrote: sysctl kern.version For me, that's the same info as in uname -a. Try this: grep -v # /usr/src/sys/conf/newvers.sh | head -4 That shows even less. But the point of the OP was having a file in etc with the info on version, which I fell could

Re: FreeBSD-update?

2013-04-24 Thread Da Rock
On 04/25/13 13:32, Mike. wrote: On 4/25/2013 at 4:47 AM Polytropon wrote: |On Wed, 24 Apr 2013 22:32:17 -0400, Mike. wrote: | If uname -r [-a] does not give the proper version of the OS, then it is | either a bug, or the documentation for uname should be changed. | Currently, the man page for

Thunderbird MCD/Autoconfig - functions not working?

2013-04-23 Thread Da Rock
Quick question guys - anyone using the autoconfig feature of Thunderbird out there? I might have to either create something or add something to something else that will actually do the same job otherwise. I decided to give it a go and see if it might save some work on deployment, but the

SDXC compatibility

2012-11-06 Thread Da Rock
Not to bug people, but is there support for sdxc in any version of FBSD? (9.x would be nice :) ) I understand it is mostly in the fs (exfat), and as such there is a fuse module for it, but I'm concerned at a hardware/driver level- namely speeds. Any light on what happens when one uses a fs other

Re: Questions about dump/restore to/from DVD media

2012-11-04 Thread Da Rock
On 11/05/12 11:18, Polytropon wrote: On Sun, 04 Nov 2012 16:56:58 -0800, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: I would like to make a backup of one of my systems using dump(8) in order to be sure that I get everything, including all of the obscure file attribute bits. That eliminates at least some

Re: Questions about dump/restore to/from DVD media

2012-11-04 Thread Da Rock
On 11/05/12 14:14, Polytropon wrote: On Sun, 04 Nov 2012 19:49:24 -0800, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: In message 20121105035233.e3c4ae8a.free...@edvax.de, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: But as I said (above) to make this really work right, dump restore really need to have -z options, and

Re: ATI HD 4850 driver

2012-11-03 Thread Da Rock
On 11/04/12 00:08, ds wrote: Hi, there's something wrong with the dri package list. The original pkg-list (look attachment) shows the reason why the r600 driver was not correctly installed: all drivers in the pkg-list have the same path: /lib/dri/rxx_dri.so except for the r600 driver

Re: I need a simple cli tool to rotate mp4 video.

2012-10-31 Thread Da Rock
On 10/31/12 19:22, Jakub Lach wrote: Strange thing is, -sameq should give same quality as original. Thanks for all help! Using mencoder with a mixture of -mc and -forceidx should help the sync issues. Then just use delay to either adjust the audio or video track. If you are using dvb ts

Re: OT: gEDA, SPICE, electronic cad/simulation

2012-10-18 Thread Da Rock
On 10/16/12 20:38, Bernt Hansson wrote: 2012-10-14 14:26, Da Rock skrev: I'm struggling with this damn gEDA/SPICE thing - I think I have gEDA schem figured, but I can't be sure because I can't test it. For the life of me I can't seem to get my head around it, but then I might just be too tired

OT: gEDA, SPICE, electronic cad/simulation

2012-10-14 Thread Da Rock
I'm struggling with this damn gEDA/SPICE thing - I think I have gEDA schem figured, but I can't be sure because I can't test it. For the life of me I can't seem to get my head around it, but then I might just be too tired. Can anyone point out what I'm missing? I open geda, create a sch file

.package files?

2012-09-06 Thread Da Rock
Just a quickie- has anyone been able to install a .package file on FBSD? File offered an interesting diagnosis: bash script 4 file. Opening in ee (gedit had kittens) displayed that it was indeed a bash script file with one massive difference: there is a line that says skipline=insert number

apache webdav svn locking issues

2012-08-23 Thread Da Rock
I've got a webdav setup on apache using svn, and all seems well until I use openoffice and it comes up with locking issues. I can mount the webdav drive and use locking to stop the io errors in openoffice, but it still tells me it is locked and can only be opened read only. I've checked

Re: problem with Xorg

2012-04-11 Thread Da Rock
On 04/12/12 02:28, Bernt Hansson wrote: 2012-04-10 16:50, Da Rock skrev: It gives a black screen. Vesa or not. Is that with the retro option? No it was not. Now I have fixed it, wife on my back so I had to fix it quickly. Pkg_delete \* cd x11-wm/xfce4 so now it starts up without errors

Re: How to successfully enable HP LaserJet Professional m1212nf MFP,

2012-04-11 Thread Da Rock
On 04/12/12 11:14, Polytropon wrote: On Wed, 11 Apr 2012 14:17:01 -0500, Edwin L. Culp W. wrote: hpcups 3.12.2, requires proprietary plugin that seems to not be available in the HP site. I have tried to get it using hplip-3.12.2 with no success. I have tried with both cups and hplip and

Re: FTP oddness, over SSH session.

2012-04-11 Thread Da Rock
On 04/11/12 21:51, Dave B wrote: FreeBSD FBSD.67MK181QZ 8.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE #0: Wed Apr 14 22:55:09 BST 2010 root@FBSD.67MK181QZ:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/PPSGENERIC i386 Hi. I have a small FreeBSD 8.0 system (above, yes I know, not current, but it works.) That is mainly used for

Re: problem with Xorg

2012-04-10 Thread Da Rock
On 04/11/12 00:30, Bernt Hansson wrote: 2012-04-09 13:57, Da Rock skrev: On 04/09/12 21:38, Bernt Hansson wrote: 2012-04-09 13:03, Da Rock skrev: On 04/09/12 20:38, Bernt Hansson wrote: Hello list. When I try to start X I'm getting this error Yep. This one will be fun

Re: FreeBSD losing market share?

2012-04-09 Thread Da Rock
On 04/09/12 16:01, Polytropon wrote: Tony, I'm always fascinated how people consider market share the purpose of everyone and everything. FreeBSD is not a profit-oriented company (it's not even a company in this regards), and you can hardly _measure_ its market share. Hell, you can't even

Re: problem with Xorg

2012-04-09 Thread Da Rock
On 04/09/12 20:38, Bernt Hansson wrote: Hello list. When I try to start X I'm getting this error Yep. This one will be fun... :) X.Org X Server 1.7.7 Release Date: 2010-05-04 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0 Build Operating System: FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE i386 Current Operating System: FreeBSD

Re: problem with Xorg

2012-04-09 Thread Da Rock
On 04/09/12 21:38, Bernt Hansson wrote: 2012-04-09 13:03, Da Rock skrev: On 04/09/12 20:38, Bernt Hansson wrote: Hello list. When I try to start X I'm getting this error Yep. This one will be fun... :) X.Org X Server 1.7.7 Release Date: 2010-05-04 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0 Build

Re: Token Ring (really- and why)

2012-04-09 Thread Da Rock
On 04/09/12 23:42, Jay West wrote: It was written --- Might it not be both more historically accurate, and a great deal easier, to just use the version of FreeBSD that corresponds to the historical era being re-created? And skip feature, performance, and security

Re: problem with Xorg

2012-04-09 Thread Da Rock
On 04/10/12 00:36, Warren Block wrote: On Mon, 9 Apr 2012, Da Rock wrote: On 04/09/12 21:38, Bernt Hansson wrote: 4. What does Xorg -configure produce? No idea, haven't tried it. Using HAL. Given your previous answers, I'd say you _have_ to run it. Then the last option I offered _will_

Re: fsck problem FreeBSD 8.3

2012-04-09 Thread Da Rock
On 04/10/12 05:02, Коньков Евгений wrote: Yes, I have tested. and on this hardware on this OS it works from Fri Feb 24 17:07:48 UTC 2012 but last two days: reboot ~ Mon Apr 9 19:50 reboot ~ Mon Apr 9 18:30 reboot ~

Re: zpool creation on geli failed with FreeBSD-9.0

2012-04-09 Thread Da Rock
On 04/10/12 02:07, Christopher J. Ruwe wrote: I was trying to install FreeBSD 9.0 using a geli encrypted disk and ZFS on my ThinkPad R500 this weekend. I failed. Having sucessfully initialized the geli part and having attached the provider, my attempt to create a zpool on the geli section thus

Re: Kind OFF Topic. FreeBSD for Blocking URLS? Nanny?

2012-04-09 Thread Da Rock
On 04/10/12 13:46, Jorge Biquez wrote: Hello. Yes I know and we ill do our best to solve it... but if that does not work, then I still will try to solve it technically in some way if possible. For the interim (and as a POC), setup squid and dans guardian and point the browsers to proxy

Re: FreeBSD's backwards webdesign / corporate identity

2012-04-09 Thread Da Rock
On 04/10/12 21:32, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: Mark Felderf...@feld.me wrote: Python on Planes is the future, mn. Shouldn't that be spelled plains, as in the places where the snake-containing grass grows? :-) Ha! One would think so, but with ruby on rails one would think that

Re: Music production on FreeBSD

2012-04-08 Thread Da Rock
On 04/08/12 15:32, Conrad J. Sabatier wrote: On Sun, 08 Apr 2012 13:28:51 +1000 Da Rockfreebsd-questi...@herveybayaustralia.com.au wrote: On 04/08/12 11:39, Mario Lobo wrote: On Saturday 07 April 2012 21:04:41 Tony wrote: Hello! Is anybody aware of any talented producers who produce their

Re: Upgrade to 9.0 - Mount to root failed..

2012-04-08 Thread Da Rock
On 04/09/12 02:17, Joshua Isom wrote: On 4/8/2012 8:51 AM, Airosoβicz fb. wrote: Hi Matthew, Thanx for the quick reply.. Can't get it to work though.. On 08/04/2012 09:53, Airosoβicz fb. wrote: So I've upgraded from 8.1 to 9.0 now the system can't mount in single user mode to go through

Re: FreeBSD's backwards webdesign / corporate identity

2012-04-08 Thread Da Rock
On 04/09/12 07:44, RW wrote: On Sun, 8 Apr 2012 14:40:12 +0200 Tony wrote: Tony http://siegelgale.com/ The FreeBSD site isn't great, but this site is worse. Has no-one ever pointed-out the irony that the top 20% of the page bangs-on about simplifying, and has a fight bloat on your website

Re: Music production on FreeBSD

2012-04-07 Thread Da Rock
On 04/08/12 11:39, Mario Lobo wrote: On Saturday 07 April 2012 21:04:41 Tony wrote: Hello! Is anybody aware of any talented producers who produce their music primarily on FreeBSD? Thanks! Tony Man, that has been my dream for a good while! Ardour is a fine multitrack but no MIDI, at least

Re: Problem installing bind in jail

2012-04-05 Thread Da Rock
On 04/06/12 03:24, bsd wrote: Hi, I have followed the tutorial provided in http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/jails-application.html I have now five jails up and running and I am very happy with the system. One of my jail is acting as an important DNS server and It

Re: what is the path of kernel build directory?

2012-04-05 Thread Da Rock
On 04/05/12 17:21, saeedeh motlagh wrote: hello guys i want to install the openvswitch 1.4.0 from a linux package. the below command should be executed: ./configure --with-linux=/lib/modules/'uname -r '/build this is a linux command and i should execute the FreeBSD equivalent but i don't know

Re: Printer recommendation please

2012-04-03 Thread Da Rock
On 04/04/12 04:22, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: Jerryje...@seibercom.net wrote: By the way, since you seem so concerned over your printers security, I assume that you all ready have it at least password protected. No need. I have no wireless at all -- everything is hardwired -- and I trust

Re: Printer recommendation please

2012-04-03 Thread Da Rock
On 04/03/12 23:30, Polytropon wrote: On Tue, 3 Apr 2012 08:40:05 -0400, Jerry wrote: On a serous note, I have spent the last 12 hours, more or less, checking with my friends and business associates. Not a single one has ever had or knows of a single incident of anyone actually ever being

Re: FreeBSD Security in Multiuser Environments

2012-04-02 Thread Da Rock
On 04/02/12 17:48, Ian Smith wrote: In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 408, Issue 10, Message: 5 On Sat, 31 Mar 2012 21:05:00 +0700 Erich Dollanskyerichfreebsdl...@ovitrap.com wrote: On Saturday 31 March 2012 20:26:14 Julian H. Stacey wrote: [..] Da Rock wrote: On 03/31/12 17

Re: Printer recommendation please

2012-04-02 Thread Da Rock
On 04/03/12 01:09, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: Polytroponfree...@edvax.de wrote: On Sat, 31 Mar 2012 14:01:43 -0700, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: I personally don't trust wireless, because it's well nigh impossible to truly secure it. In that case, one should also pay attention to secure

Re: Access to Time Warner cable network

2012-04-01 Thread Da Rock
On 04/01/12 14:06, Outback Dingo wrote: On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 11:21 PM, Erich Dollansky erichfreebsdl...@ovitrap.com wrote: Hi, On Sunday 01 April 2012 08:57:00 Da Rock wrote: Did they come to your location and run a test to their equipment? My neighbor had a recent cable outage

Re: log error..

2012-04-01 Thread Da Rock
On 04/01/12 16:01, jangkawij...@students.itb.ac.id wrote: Apr 1 19:33:10 johannesang named[18782]: starting BIND 9.7.4-P1 -t /var/named -u bind Apr 1 19:33:10 johannesang named[18782]: built with '--localstatedir=/var' '--disable-linux-caps' '--disable-symtable'

Re: Printer recommendation please

2012-04-01 Thread Da Rock
On 04/01/12 19:29, Polytropon wrote: On Sat, 31 Mar 2012 14:01:43 -0700, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: I personally don't trust wireless, because it's well nigh impossible to truly secure it. In that case, one should also pay attention to secure the printer. Wait - secure the printer? What am I

Re: Access to Time Warner cable network

2012-04-01 Thread Da Rock
On 04/02/12 00:59, Jerry wrote: On Sun, 01 Apr 2012 15:35:02 +0100 Matthew Seaman articulated: On 01/04/2012 14:35, RW wrote: I had a modem that did something similar, it issued a temporary private ip address and the replaced it with a routable address. It's fairly sad that they don't use

Re: Access to Time Warner cable network

2012-04-01 Thread Da Rock
On 04/02/12 02:29, Jerry wrote: On Mon, 02 Apr 2012 01:27:36 +1000 Da Rock articulated: Until it loses that configuration and you're expected to delete it and re-enter the connection details... Or until elephants fly, or whatever. No. This is the common mantra for any Windows net technician

Re: using clang

2012-04-01 Thread Da Rock
On 04/02/12 04:02, Conrad J. Sabatier wrote: On Sun, 1 Apr 2012 09:06:08 -0400 Robert Huffroberth...@rcn.com wrote: Conrad J. Sabatier writes: Note, too, that none of these exceptions have anything to do with my /usr/src builds. I've been using clang for buildworld and buildkernel

Re: Access to Time Warner cable network

2012-04-01 Thread Da Rock
On 04/02/12 04:10, Fbsd8 wrote: Well here is the results of my attempts to connect to Time Warner cable network. After 4 calls to their call center which was in the Philippines where all the people just read a scripted answer FAQ and only had the ability to remotely reset the modem. I

Re: Access to Time Warner cable network

2012-04-01 Thread Da Rock
On 04/02/12 08:41, Jerry wrote: On Mon, 02 Apr 2012 08:20:02 +1000 Da Rock articulated: Both networking in FreeBSD _and_ Winblows can be difficult at times. My point is that Winblows is not some magical fairy that can make everything better. It doesn't. It quite often gets it wrong, and when

Re: Printer recommendation please

2012-03-31 Thread Da Rock
On 03/31/12 05:17, Warren Block wrote: On Fri, 30 Mar 2012, Karel Miklav wrote: Could you please recommend me a home printer that works nicely with FreeBSD? HP inkjets aren't that bad, FreeBSD drivers are allright, but I'd like to shift towards some kind of PostScript laser. Xerox Phaser

Re: Printer recommendation please

2012-03-31 Thread Da Rock
On 03/31/12 07:23, Polytropon wrote: On Fri, 30 Mar 2012 17:38:36 +0200, Karel Miklav wrote: Could you please recommend me a home printer that works nicely with FreeBSD? HP inkjets aren't that bad, FreeBSD drivers are allright, but I'd like to shift towards some kind of PostScript laser. Xerox

Re: Printer recommendation please

2012-03-31 Thread Da Rock
On 03/31/12 08:32, RW wrote: On Fri, 30 Mar 2012 16:14:20 -0400 Mike Jeays wrote: I strongly recommend a laser printer over an inkjet even for home use. The reduced running costs and better reliability are easily worth the lack of colour, IMO. How do they compare for light and occasional

Re: FreeBSD Security in Multiuser Environments

2012-03-31 Thread Da Rock
On 03/31/12 17:46, Julian H. Stacey wrote: Hi, Reference: From: schu...@ime.usp.br Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 22:44:16 -0300 Message-id: 20120330224416.13643xk4rsfd2...@webmail.ime.usp.br schu...@ime.usp.br wrote: Hello, I would like to raise a discussion about the

Re: Printer recommendation please

2012-03-31 Thread Da Rock
On 03/31/12 21:32, Polytropon wrote: On Sat, 31 Mar 2012 21:17:52 +1000, Da Rock wrote: Watch the older type fusers though- they can develop 'flat spots' on the rollers. The newer printers use a ceramic type fuser which has fast warm-up and no flat spot troubles. But it's still possible to get

Re: ps, clang and make variables

2012-03-31 Thread Da Rock
On 03/31/12 23:56, andrew clarke wrote: On Sat 2012-03-31 20:32:04 UTC+1000, R Skinner (ro...@herveybayaustralia.com.au) wrote: Stupid question, but I need to clarify and make sure I'm right here: what should I see as the running process if clang is compiling? ATM I see cc1plus. clang for C,

Re: using clang

2012-03-31 Thread Da Rock
On 04/01/12 05:45, Jakub Lach wrote: /etc/make.conf : .if !empty(.CURDIR:M/usr/ports/*) set clang as you like .endif clang for ports, YMMV as always. http://wiki.freebsd.org/PortsAndClang Yes but setting that does not seem to affect the ports build operation - make.conf or -DCC etc, Seems to

Re: Trouble installing py-sqlite3 port for python3.x

2012-03-31 Thread Da Rock
On 04/01/12 06:00, Modulok wrote: List, I'm *guessing* this is more of FreeBSD problem than a python one, so I'll ask on this list. I'm trying to import sqlite3 in python3.2 on FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE and ran into trouble: $ python3.2 ... import sqlite3 Traceback (most recent

Re: Access to Time Warner cable network

2012-03-31 Thread Da Rock
On 04/01/12 09:52, Fbsd8 wrote: Just purchased an account on the northern Ohio Time Warner cable system. Having problem connecting to their service. Seems their dhcp server has an ip address of 10.2.0.1 which is not public routable. I know my Freebsd 8.2 box functions because it worked fine

Re: Access to Time Warner cable network

2012-03-31 Thread Da Rock
On 04/01/12 10:52, Fbsd8 wrote: Da Rock wrote: On 04/01/12 09:52, Fbsd8 wrote: Just purchased an account on the northern Ohio Time Warner cable system. Having problem connecting to their service. Seems their dhcp server has an ip address of 10.2.0.1 which is not public routable. I know my

Re: Access to Time Warner cable network

2012-03-31 Thread Da Rock
On 04/01/12 11:22, Al Plant wrote: Da Rock wrote: On 04/01/12 10:52, Fbsd8 wrote: Da Rock wrote: On 04/01/12 09:52, Fbsd8 wrote: Just purchased an account on the northern Ohio Time Warner cable system. Having problem connecting to their service. Seems their dhcp server has an ip address

Re: problem

2012-03-31 Thread Da Rock
On 04/01/12 13:18, jangkawij...@students.itb.ac.id wrote: I've got the problem like this Apr 1 17:03:15 johannesang named[576]: zone 79.205.167.in-addr.arpa/IN: loading from master file /etc/namedb/master/db.johannesang failed: extra input text Apr 1 17:03:15 johannesang named[576]: zone

Re: Off-Topic: Computing for the Blind

2012-03-27 Thread Da Rock
On 03/27/12 20:41, Jerry wrote: On Mon, 26 Mar 2012 18:50:06 -0400 Robert Huff articulated: Polytropon writes: Speech recognition requires training. Both the user and the system have to learn from each other. But you have a learning curve everywhere, be it typing, talking, or reading

Re: Vivaldi Tablet

2012-03-27 Thread Da Rock
...@thought.org wrote: On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 11:28:50AM +1000, Da Rock wrote: Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2012 11:28:50 +1000 From: Da Rockfreebsd-questi...@herveybayaustralia.com.au Subject: Re: Vivaldi Tablet To: Chuck Swigercswi...@mac.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org On 03/27/12 09:32, Chuck Swiger

Re: Off-Topic: Computing for the Blind

2012-03-27 Thread Da Rock
On 03/28/12 15:28, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: Jerryje...@seibercom.net wrote: When it comes to speech recognition, the only two applications that seem to work reliably at all levels are Siri on iPhone 4S and Dragon NaturallySpeaking, neither of which are obviously available on FreeBSD. I

Re: Off-Topic: Computing for the Blind

2012-03-26 Thread Da Rock
On 03/26/12 19:32, Keith McKenzie wrote: On 25/03/12 23:33, Barbara La Scala wrote: Apologies for the off topic posting but my stepfather is blind and he wants my advice about how to get online. I have no idea where to start looking for information on hardware and/or software for him.

Re: Vivaldi Tablet

2012-03-26 Thread Da Rock
On 03/27/12 01:42, Chad Perrin wrote: On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 07:21:51PM -0500, Robert Bonomi wrote: Considering that FreeBS positions itself 'primrily' as a _server_ OS, I would suggest that it is 'unlikely'. I suppose iXsystems and the PC-BSD project might be a place to send out feelers as

Re: Vivaldi Tablet

2012-03-26 Thread Da Rock
On 03/27/12 09:29, Chad Perrin wrote: On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 09:07:25AM +1000, Da Rock wrote: On 03/27/12 01:42, Chad Perrin wrote: I think the point of the initial email to start this thread was to see if there were people in the community with an interest in working on this project

Re: Vivaldi Tablet

2012-03-26 Thread Da Rock
On 03/27/12 09:32, Chuck Swiger wrote: On Mar 26, 2012, at 4:07 PM, Da Rock wrote: To explain the major hurdle in porting to a tablet, you'd need to probably find an alternative windowing solution then Xorg (low memory, especially in vivaldi)- I'm not 100% sure what iOS and Android use. iOS

Intercepting X11 events

2012-03-25 Thread Da Rock
I'm not 100% sure where else to ask this. I have an annoying window that disappears when I click close (ha ha, yes I know it will usually do that, but this one doesn't go away) but it is unable to cooperate with the system tray so it simply becomes invisible, and hangs about in the background.

Re: NFS locking and linux NFS server

2012-03-25 Thread Da Rock
On 03/25/12 23:59, Christoph Egger wrote: Hi all! I have a Linux Host (2.6.32 kernel, Debian stable) providong NFS shares. Locking files on that share works fine for linux clients [0] while it fails on a freebsd 9.0-STABLE system. The interwebs indicate there have been problems witha buggy

Re: Vivaldi Tablet

2012-03-25 Thread Da Rock
On 03/26/12 06:49, Skippy 311 wrote: With a large portion of the open source community looking towards the Vivaldi Tablet as the push for mobile linux, The site reminds me of someone organising a large party and no one showing up :) I was curious if there was any plans to make an official push

Re: Vivaldi Tablet

2012-03-25 Thread Da Rock
On 03/26/12 09:39, Jerome Herman wrote: On 26/03/2012 01:29, Da Rock wrote: On 03/26/12 06:49, Skippy 311 wrote: With a large portion of the open source community looking towards the Vivaldi Tablet as the push for mobile linux, The site reminds me of someone organising a large party and no one

Java and the system tray

2012-03-24 Thread Da Rock
General question: I'm trying to get Jitsi running with video (please, no suggestions on other apps - I know and tested them from ports), and while that is not going so well my most annoying bug bear is when I click the close button on the title bar it disappears! Heaven forbid I forget to

Re: FreeBSD: syslog-ng: I/O error occurred while writing; fd='xx', error='No buffer space available (yy)'

2012-03-22 Thread Da Rock
On 03/22/12 19:00, Traiano Welcome wrote: Hi List I've been seeing the following in the messages log of my freebsd syslog server for quite some time now: --- Mar 20 12:19:12 syslog2 syslog-ng[35313]: I/O error occurred while writing; fd='12', error='No buffer space available (55)' Mar 20

Re: INN port version 2.4.6 instead of 2.5.X

2012-03-22 Thread Da Rock
On 03/22/12 20:17, Bastien Semene wrote: Hi, I can't find an explanation of why the port of INN (news/inn, http://www.isc.org/software/inn) is still on version 2.4.6 (EOL) instead of 2.5.X. Is there someone who can enlighten me ? And how can I find this kind of information on my own ?

Re: about change file mode

2012-03-22 Thread Da Rock
On 03/22/12 20:44, Xavier FreeBSD questions wrote: Hi tot all, Why don't change the files mode ? casa# mount -t msdosfs /dev/da0s1 /mnt/JetFlash\ Transcend\ 1GB/ casa# cd /mnt/JetFlash\ Transcend\ 1GB/ casa# ls -lh total 21940 -r-xr-xr-x 1 xxavi wheel16M 21 mar 00:12 COLOR.pdf -r-xr-xr-x

Re: Convert mp3 to audio CD

2012-03-21 Thread Da Rock
On 03/21/12 13:10, Steve Bertrand wrote: I know this is a backwards request, as I haven't had to go from mp3 to audio CD format in at least 10 years, but I do now. What is available to do so? There is something in ports to do this - don't ask me which, but I noticed it in there recently :) It

Re: dbus, epiphany, rekonq

2012-03-21 Thread Da Rock
On 03/21/12 19:29, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 04:12:50AM +0100, Bernt Hansson wrote: 2012-03-19 13:21, Anton Shterenlikht skrev: I can't lauch www/epiphany or www/rekonq on ia64 -current, due to some dbus issue: TZAV ps ax|grep dbus 1435 - Is 0:00.02

Re: Dualboot with Windows 7

2012-03-19 Thread Da Rock
On 03/19/12 17:49, Polytropon wrote: On Mon, 19 Mar 2012 08:29:22 +0100, David Demelier wrote: On 19/03/2012 07:28, Polytropon wrote: On Sun, 18 Mar 2012 23:05:58 +0100, David Demelier wrote: Hello, I try to create a dualboot with Windows 7, I set up partitions like that : ada0s1 - NTFS

Re: dbus, epiphany, rekonq

2012-03-19 Thread Da Rock
On 03/19/12 23:07, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 01:44:23PM +0100, Polytropon wrote: On Mon, 19 Mar 2012 12:21:29 +, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: I can't lauch www/epiphany or www/rekonq on ia64 -current, due to some dbus issue: TZAV ps ax|grep dbus 1435 - Is

Re: Racoon failed to get subjectAltName

2012-03-15 Thread Da Rock
On 03/15/12 11:56, Da Rock wrote: I could be wrong in my assumption, but I cannot seem to get this to work for me and this error will not disappear while my problem continues. I'm trying to get a RoadWarrior setup for an Android L2TP/IPSec vpn. I had it working at one time on my LAN

Re: start at boot, run as non-root

2012-03-14 Thread Da Rock
On 03/14/12 18:12, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 14/03/2012 07:30, n dhert wrote: I have FreeBSD8.2. Sedna, an XML database server, had no port in th FreeBSD ports collection but has a binary compiled for FreeBSD8 on www.sedna.org. I installed that. To start it at boot I created a script

Re: oops, now: bsd question: how to record a tv stream?

2012-03-14 Thread Da Rock
On 03/15/12 05:30, Gary Kline wrote: On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 02:58:30PM +1000, Da Rock wrote: Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 14:58:30 +1000 From: Da Rockfreebsd-questi...@herveybayaustralia.com.au Subject: Re: oops, now: bsd question: how to record a tv stream? To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org On 03

Racoon failed to get subjectAltName

2012-03-14 Thread Da Rock
I could be wrong in my assumption, but I cannot seem to get this to work for me and this error will not disappear while my problem continues. I'm trying to get a RoadWarrior setup for an Android L2TP/IPSec vpn. I had it working at one time on my LAN but failed getting through the pf firewall,

Re: Making Music / Video folders on FreeBSD visible on HD TV

2012-03-13 Thread Da Rock
On 03/14/12 03:29, Carmel wrote: Presently, I have three HD TVs, two Samsung and one Sony. On these TVs there is a menu where I can access remote devices to access music or videos. By marking the folders shared in Windows, these folders are available on these TVs. I have found no way to

Re: oops, now: bsd question: how to record a tv stream?

2012-03-13 Thread Da Rock
On 03/14/12 13:09, Polytropon wrote: On Tue, 13 Mar 2012 19:19:46 -0700, Gary Kline wrote: i have heard about the 848 or whatever cards for years. should i have my sister's technician add one? i understood everything but your last paragraph. please do send me the

Re: Suggestion

2012-03-12 Thread Da Rock
On 03/13/12 02:14, Allen wrote: On 3/11/2012 7:33 PM, Da Rock wrote: On 03/11/12 21:03, ajtiM wrote: On Saturday 10 March 2012 17:36:53 Da Rock wrote: No system is actually truly capable of this, with the exception of the newest kid on the block Plan9. Winblows, in its current form

Re: 9.0 spontaneously reboots

2012-03-12 Thread Da Rock
On 03/13/12 02:56, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 12/03/2012 14:07, Volodymyr Kostyrko wrote: What should I blame now? Is it some programming error or should I continue with testing/changing motherboard and cpu? Instability that appears spontaneously (and especially if it persists across system

Re: 9.0 spontaneously reboots

2012-03-12 Thread Da Rock
On 03/13/12 06:07, Adam Vande More wrote: On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 9:07 AM, Volodymyr Kostyrkoc.kw...@gmail.comwrote: Hi all. I have one machine behaving unstable. This happened before 9.0. After upgrading to 9.0 machine was given a light load and now it reboots. Memory was already tested

Re: Which compiler compiled system?

2012-03-12 Thread Da Rock
On 03/13/12 06:49, Pierre-Luc Drouin wrote: If Java is broken, then you know FreeBSD was compiled with clang... I wouldn't say that is categorical. On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 3:45 PM,kalth...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi, Is there a way to determine whether a FreeBSD-system was compiled with gcc

Re: Jail and questions

2012-03-12 Thread Da Rock
On 03/13/12 09:15, Bernt Hansson wrote: Hello list I've setup a 32-bit jail on amd64 freebsd 8.2-stable. It works, sort of, but when i run portsnap extract in the jail it say Building new INDEX files... make_index: fopen(/dev/stdin): No such file or directory #ls /dev lrwxr-xr-x 1 root

Re: oops, now: bsd question: how to record a tv stream?

2012-03-12 Thread Da Rock
On 03/13/12 12:27, Shane Ambler wrote: On 12/03/2012 10:16, Da Rock wrote: On 03/12/12 07:19, Polytropon wrote: On Sun, 11 Mar 2012 13:28:19 -0700, Gary Kline wrote: here us a FBSD qauestion how can i capture any tv stream---or radio stream for later replay? I've been using a BrookTree

Re: Suggestion

2012-03-11 Thread Da Rock
On 03/11/12 21:03, ajtiM wrote: On Saturday 10 March 2012 17:36:53 Da Rock wrote: No system is actually truly capable of this, with the exception of the newest kid on the block Plan9. Winblows, in its current form, is the bastard love child of DOS and some black sheep cousin of Unix (twice

Re: oops, now: bsd question: how to record a tv stream?

2012-03-11 Thread Da Rock
On 03/12/12 07:19, Polytropon wrote: On Sun, 11 Mar 2012 13:28:19 -0700, Gary Kline wrote: here us a FBSD qauestion how can i capture any tv stream---or radio stream for later replay? I've been using a BrookTree (Haupauge WinTV) PCI card for capturing from TV which worked very good using

Re: Suggestion

2012-03-10 Thread Da Rock
On 03/11/12 02:31, Erich Dollansky wrote: Hi, On Saturday 10 March 2012 22:08:37 Alejandro Imass wrote: On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 2:36 AM, Erich Dollansky erichfreebsdl...@ovitrap.com wrote: On Saturday 10 March 2012 14:28:05 Joshua Isom wrote: [...] it seems that you delete the

Re: Suggestion

2012-03-09 Thread Da Rock
On 03/09/12 14:56, Bruno Comerci wrote: Hi guys. Instead of wasting your time and man power, why wont you join to the ReactOS project? It would be more beneficial to the internet community and to the users around the world who wants a free OS with similar looking and functions than Windows,

Re: Suggestion

2012-03-09 Thread Da Rock
On 03/09/12 16:56, Hexing B wrote: Isn't it illegal to emulate windows OS? Wine would be illegal then. This is Wine on steroids, and then some. Poke a needle in for testing and it will pop ;) Frankly, its not as good as winblow$ and cant do pretty much anything else with it, so its hopeless.

Re: imap server performance benchmarks

2012-03-09 Thread Da Rock
On 03/10/12 08:21, Mark Felder wrote: On Fri, 09 Mar 2012 14:33:53 -0600, Weldon Godfrey wel...@excelsusphoto.com wrote: I would highly recommend looking at Dovecot. I have used courier for several ISPs then switched to Dovecot on my last install. Its ability for caching the index per user

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