I Guess I Don't Understand NFS As Well As I Thought

2012-11-24 Thread Tim Daneliuk

Can someone kindly explain what is going on here:

Machine A:  FreeBSD - was running 8, just upgraded to 9.1-PRE
(I don't recall seeing the behavior described below
 in V8, but then, I don't think I ever tried it).

Machine B:  Linux Mint Desktop

- Machine A acts as an NFS server for Machine B.

- Machine A exports a particular directory like this:

   /usr/foo  -maproot=myid -network ...


- /usr/foo/bar is owned by root on Machine A and has files therein
  owned as root:root with permissions of 600.

- If I access /usr/foo/bar/file1 from Machine B, I cannot read it
  but - and this is the part I don't get - I CAN *rename* it.

What's going on?  Since /foo/bar/ is owned by root and everything
in it is 600 root:root, I would not expect a remote access to allow
things like renaming.  Clearly I am missing something here, but I
don't get it.


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Re: I Guess I Don't Understand NFS As Well As I Thought

2012-11-24 Thread Doug Hardie

On 24 November 2012, at 12:32, Tim Daneliuk wrote:

 Can someone kindly explain what is going on here:
 
 Machine A:  FreeBSD - was running 8, just upgraded to 9.1-PRE
(I don't recall seeing the behavior described below
 in V8, but then, I don't think I ever tried it).
 
 Machine B:  Linux Mint Desktop
 
 - Machine A acts as an NFS server for Machine B.
 
 - Machine A exports a particular directory like this:
 
   /usr/foo  -maproot=myid -network ...
 
 
 - /usr/foo/bar is owned by root on Machine A and has files therein
  owned as root:root with permissions of 600.
 
 - If I access /usr/foo/bar/file1 from Machine B, I cannot read it
  but - and this is the part I don't get - I CAN *rename* it.
 
 What's going on?  Since /foo/bar/ is owned by root and everything
 in it is 600 root:root, I would not expect a remote access to allow
 things like renaming.  Clearly I am missing something here, but I
 don't get it.

What are the permissions on the directory /usr/foo/bar?
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Re: I Guess I Don't Understand NFS As Well As I Thought

2012-11-24 Thread Tim Daneliuk

On 11/24/2012 03:25 PM, Doug Hardie wrote:


On 24 November 2012, at 12:32, Tim Daneliuk wrote:


Can someone kindly explain what is going on here:

Machine A:  FreeBSD - was running 8, just upgraded to 9.1-PRE
(I don't recall seeing the behavior described below
 in V8, but then, I don't think I ever tried it).

Machine B:  Linux Mint Desktop

- Machine A acts as an NFS server for Machine B.

- Machine A exports a particular directory like this:

   /usr/foo  -maproot=myid -network ...


- /usr/foo/bar is owned by root on Machine A and has files therein
  owned as root:root with permissions of 600.

- If I access /usr/foo/bar/file1 from Machine B, I cannot read it
  but - and this is the part I don't get - I CAN *rename* it.

What's going on?  Since /foo/bar/ is owned by root and everything
in it is 600 root:root, I would not expect a remote access to allow
things like renaming.  Clearly I am missing something here, but I
don't get it.


What are the permissions on the directory /usr/foo/bar?


775


Let me correct something.  The files in that directory are
owned by root:wheel (not root:root - I got my *nixes
confused), but they definitely have 600 perms.

On Machine A, user 'myid' is IN the wheel group but I still
don't see how he's getting permission to rename the file.





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Re: I Guess I Don't Understand NFS As Well As I Thought

2012-11-24 Thread Doug Hardie

On 24 November 2012, at 14:37, Tim Daneliuk wrote:

 On 11/24/2012 03:25 PM, Doug Hardie wrote:
 
 On 24 November 2012, at 12:32, Tim Daneliuk wrote:
 
 Can someone kindly explain what is going on here:
 
 Machine A:  FreeBSD - was running 8, just upgraded to 9.1-PRE
(I don't recall seeing the behavior described below
 in V8, but then, I don't think I ever tried it).
 
 Machine B:  Linux Mint Desktop
 
 - Machine A acts as an NFS server for Machine B.
 
 - Machine A exports a particular directory like this:
 
   /usr/foo  -maproot=myid -network ...
 
 
 - /usr/foo/bar is owned by root on Machine A and has files therein
  owned as root:root with permissions of 600.
 
 - If I access /usr/foo/bar/file1 from Machine B, I cannot read it
  but - and this is the part I don't get - I CAN *rename* it.
 
 What's going on?  Since /foo/bar/ is owned by root and everything
 in it is 600 root:root, I would not expect a remote access to allow
 things like renaming.  Clearly I am missing something here, but I
 don't get it.
 
 What are the permissions on the directory /usr/foo/bar?
 
 775
 
 
 Let me correct something.  The files in that directory are
 owned by root:wheel (not root:root - I got my *nixes
 confused), but they definitely have 600 perms.
 
 On Machine A, user 'myid' is IN the wheel group but I still
 don't see how he's getting permission to rename the file.\

Renaming a file does not change the file itself.  It updates the directory.  
Any user in group wheel has the authority to write to the directory (e.g., 
change a file's name).  The directory permissions are rwx for group wheel.  You 
can either try a user on machine B who is not in group wheel or change the 
directory permissions to 755 on /usr/foo/bar.  Then it would work as you expect.

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Re: I Guess I Don't Understand NFS As Well As I Thought

2012-11-24 Thread Tim Daneliuk

On 11/24/2012 05:13 PM, Doug Hardie wrote:


On 24 November 2012, at 14:37, Tim Daneliuk wrote:


On 11/24/2012 03:25 PM, Doug Hardie wrote:


On 24 November 2012, at 12:32, Tim Daneliuk wrote:


Can someone kindly explain what is going on here:

Machine A:  FreeBSD - was running 8, just upgraded to 9.1-PRE
(I don't recall seeing the behavior described below
 in V8, but then, I don't think I ever tried it).

Machine B:  Linux Mint Desktop

- Machine A acts as an NFS server for Machine B.

- Machine A exports a particular directory like this:

   /usr/foo  -maproot=myid -network ...


- /usr/foo/bar is owned by root on Machine A and has files therein
  owned as root:root with permissions of 600.

- If I access /usr/foo/bar/file1 from Machine B, I cannot read it
  but - and this is the part I don't get - I CAN *rename* it.

What's going on?  Since /foo/bar/ is owned by root and everything
in it is 600 root:root, I would not expect a remote access to allow
things like renaming.  Clearly I am missing something here, but I
don't get it.


What are the permissions on the directory /usr/foo/bar?


775


Let me correct something.  The files in that directory are
owned by root:wheel (not root:root - I got my *nixes
confused), but they definitely have 600 perms.

On Machine A, user 'myid' is IN the wheel group but I still
don't see how he's getting permission to rename the file.\


Renaming a file does not change the file itself.  It updates the directory.  
Any user in group wheel has the authority to write to the directory (e.g., 
change a file's name).  The directory permissions are rwx for group wheel.  You 
can either try a user on machine B who is not in group wheel or change the 
directory permissions to 755 on /usr/foo/bar.  Then it would work as you expect.





D'oh ... of course that's it.   Thanks.



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Re: well, try here first...

2012-11-14 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi,

On Wed, 14 Nov 2012 03:58:14 +0100
Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote:

 On Wed, 14 Nov 2012 08:26:00 +0700, Erich Dollansky wrote:
  Hi,
  
  On Tue, 13 Nov 2012 17:07:38 -0800
  Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote:
  
   On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 04:47:48AM +0700, Erich Dollansky wrote:
Hi,

On Tue, 13 Nov 2012 11:00:07 -0800
Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote:

 On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 09:12:55AM +0100, Polytropon wrote:
  On Tue, 13 Nov 2012 15:10:33 +0700, Erich Dollansky wrote:
   Hi,
ja vohl.  futher dhclient is there.  I'll go
back to
   
   you wanted to say 'jawohl'?
  
  Jawohl mein Herr! :-)
  
   What, no comma!?

what the Playboy did to the German language ...

Playboy's German tag line missed out on a comma too. It was
obviously a mistake. I have heard that they brought it back
after decades of no comma in the tag line.
   
   
 do you mean that it was Play boy? or what? what was the
   tag line?
   
  Playboy alles was Maennern Spass macht
 
 Ouch.
 
 Unlike in English, the comma in German is an important symbol
 in grammar. It brings structure to sentences. In English, there
 is the word order that achieves this goal, and a comma is
 mostly optional or left to preferences. In German, there are
 rules where to place a comma, and where not to. Those rules
 are relatively easy to understand, and luckily they do not
 leave much space for individual preferences. :-)
 
 In the above example,
 
   Playboy, alles was Maennern Spass macht
 
 or better using a hyphen
 
   Playboy - alles was Maennern Spass macht
 
 would have been correct, as it's shown on the current web page
 in a correct manner.
 
I have had to open playboy.de again. Just for the comma.

I think that it is a bit more complicated. Especially as Playboy is
here the brand

'Alles, was Maennern Spass macht' is the tag line and needs a comma
after alles.

Playboy does it now properly in the header of their site but wrongly in
the title. Your second line with the hyphen is there the best option if
there would be the comma after alles.

I never would have believed that Playboy becomes part of a serious
discussion which started with an sshd problem.

Ok, the world knows now the importance of Playboy for the IT world.

Erich
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Re: well, try here first...

2012-11-14 Thread RW
On Wed, 14 Nov 2012 00:58:02 -0600 (CST)
Robert Bonomi wrote:


 In 'classic' English (as taught in the 60s and earlier), a comma was
 _required_ before a trailing 'and' in a list of 3 or more items, and
 forbidden if there were only two items.

Not really:

http://oxforddictionaries.com/words/what-is-the-oxford-comma

Perhaps is should be taken to chat, it has nothing to do with
FreeBSD.
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Re: well, try here first...

2012-11-13 Thread Gary Kline
On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 06:39:52AM +0100, Polytropon wrote:
 On Mon, 12 Nov 2012 21:22:00 -0800, Gary Kline wrote:
  Anyway, linux is 
  installed; the box is on my internal IP net.  I can ssh *out*. to my
  server, vut from my server or wherever, I cant ssh back in.
  
  doing an % ssh 10.47.0.114  OR ssh tao gives me an instant
  Connection refused.  if I try an ssh -X tao I get a string like
  Connnection closed.  can any of you network wizards or setup
  wizards clue me in.  {FWIW:: the ssh stuff is from OpenBSD.}
 
 Have you checked that tao is actually running a SSH server?

ja vohl.  futher dhclient is there.  I'll go back to comparing 
tao to ethic.
 
 The way _how_ to enable it depends on the distribution you're
 using and is very different among the Linusi.

rt., and this is fedora, my least fav distro.  But I've always had
trouble   with ssh, even with FBSD.

 
 The FreeBSD equivalent would be something like
 
   # /etc/rc.d/sshd start
 
 or putting sshd_enable=YES into /etc/rc.conf to have this
 task at boot.
 
 Depending on what Linux you are using, this may be as easy as
 on FreeBSD... or overcomplicated, because nobody needs this
 anyway. :-)


no mo' energy.  I hear my bed singing sirens' songs:)

5 mins later: I ssh'd from tao to ethic then used the ssh-vvv
for debug.  Somewhere this string shoewd up.  as noted, this 
is from OBSD:

SSH2_MSG_IGNORE

so  if anybody running openbsd or fedora, or anybody who has stubbed
his toe this way, give a hollar.

S'All,

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Re: well, try here first...

2012-11-13 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 12 Nov 2012 23:57:21 -0800, Gary Kline wrote:
 On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 06:39:52AM +0100, Polytropon wrote:
  On Mon, 12 Nov 2012 21:22:00 -0800, Gary Kline wrote:
   Anyway, linux is 
 installed; the box is on my internal IP net.  I can ssh *out*. to my
 server, vut from my server or wherever, I cant ssh back in.
   
 doing an % ssh 10.47.0.114  OR ssh tao gives me an instant
 Connection refused.  if I try an ssh -X tao I get a string like
 Connnection closed.  can any of you network wizards or setup
 wizards clue me in.  {FWIW:: the ssh stuff is from OpenBSD.}
  
  Have you checked that tao is actually running a SSH server?
 
   ja vohl.  futher dhclient is there.  I'll go back to comparing 
   tao to ethic.

The dhclient is a client (just as the ssh program), while
the system has to run some kind of SSH _server_ (sshd on
FreeBSD for example). Additionally, network configuration
and especially firewall has to _permit_ the access to that
specific service (that has to be enabled).



  The way _how_ to enable it depends on the distribution you're
  using and is very different among the Linusi.
 
   rt., and this is fedora, my least fav distro.  But I've always had
   trouble   with ssh, even with FBSD.

There is a nice summary on how to get the OpenSSH server
set up on Fedora:

http://www.techotopia.com/index.php/Configuring_Fedora_Linux_Remote_Access_using_SSH

Basically, it's about installing and enabling it. The article
also discusses how to enable configure the firewall properly.





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Re: well, try here first...

2012-11-13 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi,

On Mon, 12 Nov 2012 23:57:21 -0800
Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote:

 On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 06:39:52AM +0100, Polytropon wrote:
  On Mon, 12 Nov 2012 21:22:00 -0800, Gary Kline wrote:
   Anyway, linux is 
 installed; the box is on my internal IP net.  I can ssh
   *out*. to my server, vut from my server or wherever, I cant ssh
   back in.
   
 doing an % ssh 10.47.0.114  OR ssh tao gives me an instant
 Connection refused.  if I try an ssh -X tao I get a
   string like Connnection closed.  can any of you network wizards
   or setup wizards clue me in.  {FWIW:: the ssh stuff is from
   OpenBSD.}
  
  Have you checked that tao is actually running a SSH server?
 
   ja vohl.  futher dhclient is there.  I'll go back to

you wanted to say 'jawohl'?

Erich
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Re: well, try here first...

2012-11-13 Thread Gary Kline
On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 09:08:12AM +0100, Polytropon wrote:
 On Mon, 12 Nov 2012 23:57:21 -0800, Gary Kline wrote:
  On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 06:39:52AM +0100, Polytropon wrote:
   On Mon, 12 Nov 2012 21:22:00 -0800, Gary Kline wrote:
Anyway, linux is 
installed; the box is on my internal IP net.  I can ssh *out*. 
to my
server, vut from my server or wherever, I cant ssh back in.

doing an % ssh 10.47.0.114  OR ssh tao gives me an instant
Connection refused.  if I try an ssh -X tao I get a string 
like
Connnection closed.  can any of you network wizards or setup
wizards clue me in.  {FWIW:: the ssh stuff is from OpenBSD.}
   
   Have you checked that tao is actually running a SSH server?
  
  ja vohl.  futher dhclient is there.  I'll go back to comparing 
  tao to ethic.
 
 The dhclient is a client (just as the ssh program), while
 the system has to run some kind of SSH _server_ (sshd on
 FreeBSD for example). Additionally, network configuration
 and especially firewall has to _permit_ the access to that
 specific service (that has to be enabled).


hmmm. that might be it.  my firewall is in a nice small, 4w netgear
box.  it's got a web interface and runs some flavor of firewall that 
I never studied.  yuk.  

 
 
 
   The way _how_ to enable it depends on the distribution you're
   using and is very different among the Linusi.
  
  rt., and this is fedora, my least fav distro.  But I've always had
  trouble   with ssh, even with FBSD.
 
 There is a nice summary on how to get the OpenSSH server
 set up on Fedora:
 
 http://www.techotopia.com/index.php/Configuring_Fedora_Linux_Remote_Access_using_SSH
 
 Basically, it's about installing and enabling it. The article
 also discusses how to enable configure the firewall properly.
 


thank you.  I'll ck it out.  also google other stuff if I have to.

 
 
 
 
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Re: well, try here first...

2012-11-13 Thread Gary Kline
On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 03:10:33PM +0700, Erich Dollansky wrote:
 Hi,
 
 On Mon, 12 Nov 2012 23:57:21 -0800
 Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote:
 
  On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 06:39:52AM +0100, Polytropon wrote:
   On Mon, 12 Nov 2012 21:22:00 -0800, Gary Kline wrote:
Anyway, linux is 
installed; the box is on my internal IP net.  I can ssh
*out*. to my server, vut from my server or wherever, I cant ssh
back in.

doing an % ssh 10.47.0.114  OR ssh tao gives me an instant
Connection refused.  if I try an ssh -X tao I get a
string like Connnection closed.  can any of you network wizards
or setup wizards clue me in.  {FWIW:: the ssh stuff is from
OpenBSD.}
   
   Have you checked that tao is actually running a SSH server?
  
  ja vohl.  futher dhclient is there.  I'll go back to
 
 you wanted to say 'jawohl'?
 
 Erich


Ha! yes!  I did not know it was one word, but should have remembered
the v should be a w ...



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Re: well, try here first...

2012-11-13 Thread Gary Kline
On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 09:12:55AM +0100, Polytropon wrote:
 On Tue, 13 Nov 2012 15:10:33 +0700, Erich Dollansky wrote:
  Hi,
  
  On Mon, 12 Nov 2012 23:57:21 -0800
  Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote:
  
   On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 06:39:52AM +0100, Polytropon wrote:
On Mon, 12 Nov 2012 21:22:00 -0800, Gary Kline wrote:
 Anyway, linux is 
   installed; the box is on my internal IP net.  I can ssh
 *out*. to my server, vut from my server or wherever, I cant ssh
 back in.
 
   doing an % ssh 10.47.0.114  OR ssh tao gives me an instant
   Connection refused.  if I try an ssh -X tao I get a
 string like Connnection closed.  can any of you network wizards
 or setup wizards clue me in.  {FWIW:: the ssh stuff is from
 OpenBSD.}

Have you checked that tao is actually running a SSH server?
   
 ja vohl.  futher dhclient is there.  I'll go back to
  
  you wanted to say 'jawohl'?
 
 Jawohl mein Herr! :-)
 
What, no comma!?

:)




 
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Re: well, try here first...

2012-11-13 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi,

On Tue, 13 Nov 2012 11:00:07 -0800
Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote:

 On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 09:12:55AM +0100, Polytropon wrote:
  On Tue, 13 Nov 2012 15:10:33 +0700, Erich Dollansky wrote:
   Hi,
   
   On Mon, 12 Nov 2012 23:57:21 -0800
   Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote:
   
On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 06:39:52AM +0100, Polytropon wrote:
 On Mon, 12 Nov 2012 21:22:00 -0800, Gary Kline wrote:
  Anyway, linux is 
  installed; the box is on my internal IP net.  I can
  ssh *out*. to my server, vut from my server or wherever, I
  cant ssh back in.
  
  doing an % ssh 10.47.0.114  OR ssh tao gives me an
  instant Connection refused.  if I try an ssh -X tao I get
  a string like Connnection closed.  can any of you network
  wizards or setup wizards clue me in.  {FWIW:: the ssh stuff
  is from OpenBSD.}
 
 Have you checked that tao is actually running a SSH server?

ja vohl.  futher dhclient is there.  I'll go back to
   
   you wanted to say 'jawohl'?
  
  Jawohl mein Herr! :-)
  
   What, no comma!?

what the Playboy did to the German language ...

Playboy's German tag line missed out on a comma too. It was obviously a
mistake. I have heard that they brought it back after decades of no
comma in the tag line.

You know, while in other countries man could say that they read Playboy
only because of the articles, in Germany they read Playboy only to check
on the comma.

Erich
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Re: well, try here first...

2012-11-13 Thread Gary Kline
On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 09:08:12AM +0100, Polytropon wrote:
 On Mon, 12 Nov 2012 23:57:21 -0800, Gary Kline wrote:
  On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 06:39:52AM +0100, Polytropon wrote:
   On Mon, 12 Nov 2012 21:22:00 -0800, Gary Kline wrote:
Anyway, linux is 
installed; the box is on my internal IP net.  I can ssh *out*. 
to my
server, vut from my server or wherever, I cant ssh back in.

doing an % ssh 10.47.0.114  OR ssh tao gives me an instant
Connection refused.  if I try an ssh -X tao I get a string 
like
Connnection closed.  can any of you network wizards or setup
wizards clue me in.  {FWIW:: the ssh stuff is from OpenBSD.}
   
   Have you checked that tao is actually running a SSH server?
  
  ja vohl.  futher dhclient is there.  I'll go back to comparing 
  tao to ethic.
 
 The dhclient is a client (just as the ssh program), while
 the system has to run some kind of SSH _server_ (sshd on
 FreeBSD for example). Additionally, network configuration
 and especially firewall has to _permit_ the access to that
 specific service (that has to be enabled).
 

and I believe you need to give the full path name; that's one of the 
things ii just did.

 
   The way _how_ to enable it depends on the distribution you're
   using and is very different among the Linusi.
  
  rt., and this is fedora, my least fav distro.  But I've always had
  trouble   with ssh, even with FBSD.
 
 There is a nice summary on how to get the OpenSSH server
 set up on Fedora:
 
 http://www.techotopia.com/index.php/Configuring_Fedora_Linux_Remote_Access_using_SSH
 
 Basically, it's about installing and enabling it. The article
 also discusses how to enable configure the firewall properly.
 

well, it works.  im not sure what I did, but no comp;laints!
I'm running pfSense in a netgear box.  before I rebooted, my
local IP ended in .114; after and now it moved to .113.  when 
I did an ssh 10.47.0.113, voila! the new tao requested my password.
and I was in.  and go ssh back and forth.  Whew!

thanks for the help, guys.  

gary

ps:  I'v got to figure out how to remove gnome and install kde, 
c, but  at least that should be easy.
 
 
 
 
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Re: well, try here first...

2012-11-13 Thread Gary Kline
On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 04:47:48AM +0700, Erich Dollansky wrote:
 Hi,
 
 On Tue, 13 Nov 2012 11:00:07 -0800
 Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote:
 
  On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 09:12:55AM +0100, Polytropon wrote:
   On Tue, 13 Nov 2012 15:10:33 +0700, Erich Dollansky wrote:
Hi,
   ja vohl.  futher dhclient is there.  I'll go back to

you wanted to say 'jawohl'?
   
   Jawohl mein Herr! :-)
   
  What, no comma!?
 
 what the Playboy did to the German language ...
 
 Playboy's German tag line missed out on a comma too. It was obviously a
 mistake. I have heard that they brought it back after decades of no
 comma in the tag line.


do you mean that it was Play boy? or what? what was the tag line?

 
 You know, while in other countries man could say that they read Playboy
 only because of the articles, in Germany they read Playboy only to check
 on the comma.


:-) funny.  I, of course, =always= read playboy for the articles,
just like every other guy.  {that line goes back to the  early
1970s.  at least.}

gary

 
 Erich
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Re: well, try here first...

2012-11-13 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi,

On Tue, 13 Nov 2012 17:07:38 -0800
Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote:

 On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 04:47:48AM +0700, Erich Dollansky wrote:
  Hi,
  
  On Tue, 13 Nov 2012 11:00:07 -0800
  Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote:
  
   On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 09:12:55AM +0100, Polytropon wrote:
On Tue, 13 Nov 2012 15:10:33 +0700, Erich Dollansky wrote:
 Hi,
  ja vohl.  futher dhclient is there.  I'll go back to
 
 you wanted to say 'jawohl'?

Jawohl mein Herr! :-)

 What, no comma!?
  
  what the Playboy did to the German language ...
  
  Playboy's German tag line missed out on a comma too. It was
  obviously a mistake. I have heard that they brought it back after
  decades of no comma in the tag line.
 
 
   do you mean that it was Play boy? or what? what was the tag
 line?
 
Playboy alles was Maennern Spass macht

Playboy corrected this meanwhile as you can see on www.playboy.de.

Just on the side. Does playboy.com still mirror FreeBSD as they did
many years ago?

Erich
  
  You know, while in other countries man could say that they read
  Playboy only because of the articles, in Germany they read Playboy
  only to check on the comma.
 
 
   :-) funny.  I, of course, =always= read playboy for the
 articles, just like every other guy.  {that line goes back to the
 early 1970s.  at least.}
 
A brother-in-law does this for another professional reason. He does or
did those days plastic surgery and has had to see the results of other
people's work. Of course, he was also interested in the articles.

Listening to his comments was more fun than reading the humour page of
Playboy. 

Erich
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Re: well, try here first...

2012-11-13 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 13 Nov 2012 10:50:40 -0800, Gary Kline wrote:
 On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 09:08:12AM +0100, Polytropon wrote:
  On Mon, 12 Nov 2012 23:57:21 -0800, Gary Kline wrote:
   On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 06:39:52AM +0100, Polytropon wrote:
On Mon, 12 Nov 2012 21:22:00 -0800, Gary Kline wrote:
 Anyway, linux is 
   installed; the box is on my internal IP net.  I can ssh *out*. 
 to my
   server, vut from my server or wherever, I cant ssh back in.
 
   doing an % ssh 10.47.0.114  OR ssh tao gives me an instant
   Connection refused.  if I try an ssh -X tao I get a string 
 like
   Connnection closed.  can any of you network wizards or setup
   wizards clue me in.  {FWIW:: the ssh stuff is from OpenBSD.}

Have you checked that tao is actually running a SSH server?
   
 ja vohl.  futher dhclient is there.  I'll go back to comparing 
 tao to ethic.
  
  The dhclient is a client (just as the ssh program), while
  the system has to run some kind of SSH _server_ (sshd on
  FreeBSD for example). Additionally, network configuration
  and especially firewall has to _permit_ the access to that
  specific service (that has to be enabled).
 
 
   hmmm. that might be it.  my firewall is in a nice small, 4w netgear
   box.  it's got a web interface and runs some flavor of firewall that 
   I never studied.  yuk.  

I assume your HW firewall protects you to the outside. Of
course it should allow SSH connections from the outside to
the tao box _if_ you want it that way.

But I was thinking about the firewall run by the Fedora OS
that might block SSH connections to tao, no matter from
where they come, just as if you would have set up FreeBSD's
ipfw with the default to deny connections: without explicitely
enabling SSH connections the server cannot be reached, no
matter if it's running.



The way _how_ to enable it depends on the distribution you're
using and is very different among the Linusi.
   
 rt., and this is fedora, my least fav distro.  But I've always had
 trouble   with ssh, even with FBSD.
  
  There is a nice summary on how to get the OpenSSH server
  set up on Fedora:
  
  http://www.techotopia.com/index.php/Configuring_Fedora_Linux_Remote_Access_using_SSH
  
  Basically, it's about installing and enabling it. The article
  also discusses how to enable configure the firewall properly.
  
 
 
   thank you.  I'll ck it out.  also google other stuff if I have to.

Check if the Techotopia article matches your version of Fedora.
It shows how to install and enable the SSH server and also
mentions the built-in firewall that has to be configured
to allow connections to that server.

From my limited experience with Fedora (haven't used it for some
time), this looks like what you need to do.



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Re: well, try here first...

2012-11-13 Thread Bernt Hansson

2012-11-13 06:22, Gary Kline skrev:


guys,

hold your flame-throwers, because this is about how to get ssh working
from an outside computer into my brand new tao that is running a
flavor of linux.  I just got my quad i5 box to replace the old, broken
tao.  this was the box with the busted USB. [!]  Anyway, linux is
installed; the box is on my internal IP net.  I can ssh *out*. to my
server, vut from my server or wherever, I cant ssh back in.

doing an % ssh 10.47.0.114  OR ssh tao gives me an instant
Connection refused.  if I try an ssh -X tao I get a string like
Connnection closed.  can any of you network wizards or setup
wizards clue me in.  {FWIW:: the ssh stuff is from OpenBSD.}

anybody know what im NOT doing?


You have to start the ssh daemon (sshd)
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Re: well, try here first...

2012-11-13 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 14 Nov 2012 08:26:00 +0700, Erich Dollansky wrote:
 Hi,
 
 On Tue, 13 Nov 2012 17:07:38 -0800
 Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote:
 
  On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 04:47:48AM +0700, Erich Dollansky wrote:
   Hi,
   
   On Tue, 13 Nov 2012 11:00:07 -0800
   Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote:
   
On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 09:12:55AM +0100, Polytropon wrote:
 On Tue, 13 Nov 2012 15:10:33 +0700, Erich Dollansky wrote:
  Hi,
 ja vohl.  futher dhclient is there.  I'll go back to
  
  you wanted to say 'jawohl'?
 
 Jawohl mein Herr! :-)
 
What, no comma!?
   
   what the Playboy did to the German language ...
   
   Playboy's German tag line missed out on a comma too. It was
   obviously a mistake. I have heard that they brought it back after
   decades of no comma in the tag line.
  
  
  do you mean that it was Play boy? or what? what was the tag
  line?
  
 Playboy alles was Maennern Spass macht

Ouch.

Unlike in English, the comma in German is an important symbol
in grammar. It brings structure to sentences. In English, there
is the word order that achieves this goal, and a comma is
mostly optional or left to preferences. In German, there are
rules where to place a comma, and where not to. Those rules
are relatively easy to understand, and luckily they do not
leave much space for individual preferences. :-)

In the above example,

Playboy, alles was Maennern Spass macht

or better using a hyphen

Playboy - alles was Maennern Spass macht

would have been correct, as it's shown on the current web page
in a correct manner.





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Re: well, try here first...

2012-11-13 Thread Gary Kline
On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 03:58:14AM +0100, Polytropon wrote:
 On Wed, 14 Nov 2012 08:26:00 +0700, Erich Dollansky wrote:
  Hi,
  
  On Tue, 13 Nov 2012 17:07:38 -0800
  Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote:
  
   On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 04:47:48AM +0700, Erich Dollansky wrote:
   
  Playboy alles was Maennern Spass macht
 
 Ouch.
 
 Unlike in English, the comma in German is an important symbol
 in grammar. It brings structure to sentences. In English, there
 is the word order that achieves this goal, and a comma is
 mostly optional or left to preferences. In German, there are
 rules where to place a comma, and where not to. Those rules
 are relatively easy to understand, and luckily they do not
 leave much space for individual preferences. :-)
 
 In the above example,
 
   Playboy, alles was Maennern Spass macht
 
 or better using a hyphen
 
   Playboy - alles was Maennern Spass macht
 
 would have been correct, as it's shown on the current web page
 in a correct manner.
 


So!  this explains a lot that I've noticed over the years.  
remember that im beyong =getting= old; I really Am  old.

before I started high school, the rules for commas were
almost set in concrete.  my english teacher took points off
if there was an incorrect comma.  it looks like in germany
language has remained very strict. {but then, that's why 
punctuation exists.}

I've noticed an easing of punctuation--esp'ly in the use of
commas--in how I was taught.  but let's face it: it's easier 
to text by slacking off.  :)

 
 
 
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Re: well, try here first...

2012-11-13 Thread Gary Kline
On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 02:35:43AM +0100, Polytropon wrote:
  box.  it's got a web interface and runs some flavor of firewall that 
  I never studied.  yuk.  
 
 I assume your HW firewall protects you to the outside. Of
 course it should allow SSH connections from the outside to
 the tao box _if_ you want it that way.


my netgear and pfSense setup surprised me this afternoon.  the
initial setup listed my internal IP as

10.47.0.114,

but something I did changed the DHCP leases section to

10.47.0.113 .

after that, I could ssh out and then ssh back to tao.


 But I was thinking about the firewall run by the Fedora OS
 that might block SSH connections to tao, no matter from
 where they come, just as if you would have set up FreeBSD's
 ipfw with the default to deny connections: without explicitely
 enabling SSH connections the server cannot be reached, no
 matter if it's running.
 

I havent used ipfw for many years.  the most recent firewall I 
ran was on FBSD 5.X and was {i think} pfw.  I got quite good
at it.  I should learn more about plain pf and pfSense.
do you know if pf/pfsense defaults to DENY incoming connections?
that would explain a Lot!

 
 The way _how_ to enable it depends on the distribution you're
 using and is very different among the Linusi.

rt., and this is fedora, my least fav distro.  But I've always 
had
trouble   with ssh, even with FBSD.
   
   There is a nice summary on how to get the OpenSSH server
   set up on Fedora:
   
   http://www.techotopia.com/index.php/Configuring_Fedora_Linux_Remote_Access_using_SSH
   
   Basically, it's about installing and enabling it. The article
   also discusses how to enable configure the firewall properly.
   
  
  
  thank you.  I'll ck it out.  also google other stuff if I have to.
 
 Check if the Techotopia article matches your version of Fedora.
 It shows how to install and enable the SSH server and also
 mentions the built-in firewall that has to be configured
 to allow connections to that server.


the URL you had was fedora-13; what I installed fedora-17.
and just recently--maybe when I rebooted--i saw fedora-19[?]
not sure... .

 
 From my limited experience with Fedora (haven't used it for some
 time), this looks like what you need to do.
 

well, the deal is that my volunteer system admin worked for 
red hat for about 5 years.  I'm more used to ubuntu, but my
friend says that im on my own

anyway, things are starting to eork.  [!]


 
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Re: well, try here first...

2012-11-13 Thread Chad Leigh Shire.Net LLC

On Nov 13, 2012, at 7:58 PM, Polytropon wrote:
 
 Ouch.
 
 Unlike in English, the comma in German is an important symbol
 in grammar. It brings structure to sentences. In English, there
 is the word order that achieves this goal, and a comma is
 mostly optional or left to preferences. In German, there are
 rules where to place a comma, and where not to. Those rules
 are relatively easy to understand, and luckily they do not
 leave much space for individual preferences. :-)
 
 In the above example,
 
   Playboy, alles was Maennern Spass macht
 
 or better using a hyphen
 
   Playboy - alles was Maennern Spass macht
 
 would have been correct, as it's shown on the current web page
 in a correct manner.

To be fair, a lot of the same rules exist for English.  The comma is not 
optional or left to preferences in English, either.  There are definite rules 
and it brings structure.   Unfortunately, lots of people forget (or don't pay 
attention to) these rules, or, they are casual with them in the casual forms of 
communication, like email.  (And there are some people who believe that the 
text language is English -- OMG, WTF, GR8, B4, LOL, etc -- 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text_language )

Wie mit deutscher Sprache, man kann (mit englischer Sprache) vieles mit der 
Wortstellung machen.  Und dazu, ist, natürlich, die richtige Anwendung (und 
Verständnis) der Grammatik wichtig.
(Like with the German language, one can do a lot with word order (in English).  
 And for that, the proper use and understanding of Grammar is important)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eats,_Shoots_%26_Leaves

Und Playboy alles was Maennern Spass macht ist 100% verständlich auf deutsch, 
da es einen richtigen Dativ Kasus gibt, im Gegensatz zu englischer Sprache.
(and playboy -- everything that is fun for men [in German] is 100% 
understandable in German, because there is a real dative case in German, unlike 
in english.)

Gruss aus Utah
Chad



Re: well, try here first...

2012-11-13 Thread Gary Kline
On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 04:01:20AM +0100, Bernt Hansson wrote:
 2012-11-13 06:22, Gary Kline skrev:
 
  guys,
 
  hold your flame-throwers, because this is about how to get ssh working
  from an outside computer into my brand new tao that is running a
  flavor of linux.  I just got my quad i5 box to replace the old, broken
  tao.  this was the box with the busted USB. [!]  Anyway, linux is
  installed; the box is on my internal IP net.  I can ssh *out*. to my
  server, vut from my server or wherever, I cant ssh back in.
 
  doing an % ssh 10.47.0.114  OR ssh tao gives me an instant
  Connection refused.  if I try an ssh -X tao I get a string like
  Connnection closed.  can any of you network wizards or setup
  wizards clue me in.  {FWIW:: the ssh stuff is from OpenBSD.}
 
  anybody know what im NOT doing?
 
 You have to start the ssh daemon (sshd)


this may have been what did the trick; also, you need the full 
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Re: well, try here first...

2012-11-13 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 13 Nov 2012 20:09:08 -0800, Gary Kline wrote:
 On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 02:35:43AM +0100, Polytropon wrote:
 box.  it's got a web interface and runs some flavor of firewall that 
 I never studied.  yuk.  
  
  I assume your HW firewall protects you to the outside. Of
  course it should allow SSH connections from the outside to
  the tao box _if_ you want it that way.
 
 
   my netgear and pfSense setup surprised me this afternoon.  the
   initial setup listed my internal IP as
 
   10.47.0.114,
 
   but something I did changed the DHCP leases section to
 
   10.47.0.113 .
 
   after that, I could ssh out and then ssh back to tao.

If you have the option of configuring the DHCP subsystem to
hand out IPs according to MAC addresses, that should make you
safe from reboots and _possible_ new IPs. (At least that's
how I've configured my home system so every device will get
the same IP, no matter how or when it requests one from the
DHCP server. It also includes certain port redirections so
a SSH request from external source will _always_ be directed
to the _correct_ machine on the LAN.)



  But I was thinking about the firewall run by the Fedora OS
  that might block SSH connections to tao, no matter from
  where they come, just as if you would have set up FreeBSD's
  ipfw with the default to deny connections: without explicitely
  enabling SSH connections the server cannot be reached, no
  matter if it's running.
  
 
   I havent used ipfw for many years.  the most recent firewall I 
   ran was on FBSD 5.X and was {i think} pfw.  I got quite good
   at it.  I should learn more about plain pf and pfSense.
   do you know if pf/pfsense defaults to DENY incoming connections?
   that would explain a Lot!

That depends on the pre-configuration of the firewall on the
Linux side. From reading the article I've mentioned, I got the
impression that the firewall would deny SSH connections per
default, and that _you_ would have to enable it if you wanted
to use that service. That is comparable to OpenBSD's service
disabled by default policy. I'm still not sure if this idea
will get much love or understanding in Linux land where an
do everything out of the box experience seems to be very
important among some distributions. :-)

On FreeBSD, ipfw can DEFAULT_TO_DENY or DEFAULT_TO_ACCEPT, and you
have to specify your rules usually according to the chosen paradigm.
Of course, there are rules to achieve the same effect, even if in
the opposite paradigm.



  The way _how_ to enable it depends on the distribution you're
  using and is very different among the Linusi.
 
   rt., and this is fedora, my least fav distro.  But I've always 
 had
   trouble   with ssh, even with FBSD.

There is a nice summary on how to get the OpenSSH server
set up on Fedora:

http://www.techotopia.com/index.php/Configuring_Fedora_Linux_Remote_Access_using_SSH

Basically, it's about installing and enabling it. The article
also discusses how to enable configure the firewall properly.

   
   
 thank you.  I'll ck it out.  also google other stuff if I have to.
  
  Check if the Techotopia article matches your version of Fedora.
  It shows how to install and enable the SSH server and also
  mentions the built-in firewall that has to be configured
  to allow connections to that server.
 
 
   the URL you had was fedora-13; what I installed fedora-17.
   and just recently--maybe when I rebooted--i saw fedora-19[?]
   not sure... .

Then there's the possibility that things have changed. Even though
there should not be a massive or paradigm-wide shift in things, you
never know when using automated updating on Linux. Still the 
instructions should be usable at least to identify the steps
involved and the tools to be used.




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Re: well, try here first...

2012-11-13 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 13 Nov 2012 20:20:51 -0700, Chad Leigh Shire.Net LLC wrote:
 
 On Nov 13, 2012, at 7:58 PM, Polytropon wrote:
  
  Ouch.
  
  Unlike in English, the comma in German is an important symbol
  in grammar. It brings structure to sentences. In English, there
  is the word order that achieves this goal, and a comma is
  mostly optional or left to preferences. In German, there are
  rules where to place a comma, and where not to. Those rules
  are relatively easy to understand, and luckily they do not
  leave much space for individual preferences. :-)
  
  In the above example,
  
  Playboy, alles was Maennern Spass macht
  
  or better using a hyphen
  
  Playboy - alles was Maennern Spass macht
  
  would have been correct, as it's shown on the current web page
  in a correct manner.
 
 To be fair, a lot of the same rules exist for English.  The comma
 is not optional or left to preferences in English, either.  There
 are definite rules and it brings structure. 

That matches what I've learned in school, but it doesn't match
realitiy anymore. :-)

A famous thing is comma in lists: Unlike German, where and
substitutes a comma, in English it seems to be valid to put a
comma infront of and:

He bought a glass, a towel, a toothpick, and a nose.

In German, that would be

Er kaufte ein Glas, ein Handtuch, einen Zahnstocker
und eine Nase.

There are in fact only two exceptions of comma prior to 'and'
in German. But I don't want to start a school lesson here. The
exceptions are closures and appended main clause. :-)



 Unfortunately, lots of people forget (or don't pay attention to)
 these rules, or, they are casual with them in the casual forms of
 communication, like email. 

Well, I don't think that the e-mail (as a medium) implies abandoning
rules for written language. Sure, it's sloppy very often, but it
should not mangle the languge in a way that the reader has to guess
or to ask for what the writer wanted to express. Proper spelling and
punctuation help a lot, and it should not be too much struggle to
get it right: children learn it in the early years in school, so why
should adults forget it?



 (And there are some people who believe that the text language
 is English -- OMG, WTF, GR8, B4, LOL, etc --
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text_language )

There is also a transition of this written representation to spoken
language - some (young) people actually speaking like SMS.

I don't think that people actually confuse SMS text with the
actual english language. They could have done so almost 100 years
ago with Q groups and abbreviations used in amateur radio telegraphy
(and even in phone mode), ok dr om, hw? :-)

All those specific language deviations have their place and
are fully valid. It depends on context. For example, if you got
a business letter with every 3rd word spelled wrong and containing
SMS and L33T slang, would you take it as a serious information?
Form and content have to match. Nobody would accept a tax form
printed on toilet paper, even if it would be 100% correct in all
content and number details.



 Wie mit deutscher Sprache, man kann (mit englischer Sprache) vieles
 mit der Wortstellung machen.  Und dazu, ist, natürlich, die richtige
 Anwendung (und Verständnis) der Grammatik wichtig.

Sure it is, but it's not about an 1:1 translation. You need to think
in German if you want to get it fully right. Baumkuchen... :-)

Your sentence would have been:

In der deutschen Sprache kann man (wie in der englischen Sprache)
vieles mit der Wortstellung machen. Dazu ist natürlich die richtige
Anwendung (und das Verstaendnis) der Grammatik wichtig.

That is little difference, but it makes a big difference in
readability. Note that the structure of a sentence, aided by
punctuation, is an important part during the reading experience.
Sentences that do not show any structure are hard to read and
to understand, and a missing comma can decide about life or
death easily:

KILL HIM NOT WAIT UNTIL I ARRIVE

It's either kill him, not wait until I arrive or kill him not,
wait until I arrive, and this translation is not very good as
nicht ~= do not cannot be represented so nicely as in the
german equivalent sentence.

Er begann seinen Hut auf dem Kopf zu essen.

is another (famous) example of how a missing comma can confuse
the reader: He started eating the hat on his head is the first
interpretation, even if He started eating, (having) the hat on
his head, and the comma already makes this difference.



 (Like with the German language, one can do a lot with word order
 (in English).   And for that, the proper use and understanding of
 Grammar is important)
 
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eats,_Shoots_%26_Leaves

Haha, nice! :-)

But pleese pay atension too, the new englis orfograffy which
make`s every thing easyer to under stand and, more freedems
to mak punctation and les speeling errer's.

Funkzionier't auch in, Deutsch! :-)



 Und Playboy alles

Re: well, try here first...

2012-11-13 Thread Chad Leigh Shire.Net LLC

On Nov 13, 2012, at 9:48 PM, Polytropon wrote:

 That matches what I've learned in school, but it doesn't match
 realitiy anymore. :-)
 
 A famous thing is comma in lists: Unlike German, where and
 substitutes a comma, in English it seems to be valid to put a
 comma infront of and:
 
   He bought a glass, a towel, a toothpick, and a nose.
 
 In German, that would be
 
   Er kaufte ein Glas, ein Handtuch, einen Zahnstocker
   und eine Nase.


This is interesting, because the comma before the and in a list is much more 
understandable, because it is open to less interpretation.   This is where the 
eats shoots and leaves comes in, kind of.  There are similar examples where 
ambiguity arises from the lack of a comma before and in a list.   The comma 
before the and is traditional English.   There are, however, lots of people 
who advocate for the lack of a comma before the and in a list and that is 
taught in some classes in some schools.

I don't claim to be a great German speaker or writer.   I have not visited 
there in 12 years nor lived there in almost 20 years.  But people at least can 
understand me and I can get my point across.  :)

Most of my post was meant to support what you were saying, btw.   As well as 
give examples and interesting tidbits.  I agree that proper grammar is 
important in language, even when I don't always use it or do it; especially in 
informal speech like email lists, forums, etc.

 But pleese pay atension too, the new englis orfograffy which
 make`s every thing easyer to under stand and, more freedems
 to mak punctation and les speeling errer's.
 
 Funkzionier't auch in, Deutsch! :-)


You must really be taking a conniption fit with the changes (Verbilligen -- 
cheapening --  though the exact words I was searching for have failed me 
tonight)  that have happened in German in the last 10 or so years ( striking of 
ß; to always be written with ss now, etc)...

 
 Und Playboy alles was Maennern Spass macht ist 100% verständlich
 auf deutsch, da es einen richtigen Dativ Kasus gibt, im Gegensatz
 zu englischer Sprache.
 
 It may be 100% understandable, but it's not correct, because it's
 not a sentence or a grammatically valid construct. The translation
 would have been (quite literally, I admit):
 
   Playboy everything what men fun makes

Actually, no.   A more correct translation would be:Playboy everything that 
to men fun makes.

[Or, if you wanted the same mistake (lack of comma or hyphen) but proper 
English word order:   Playboy everything that is fun for men.]

Männern is dative case, which, when used without a preposition, is best 
translated as to something where something is written with dative case 
endings.

 
 Again, a hyphen after the 1st word would it much more readable.
 
 
 
 (and playboy -- everything that is fun for men [in German] is
 100% understandable in German, because there is a real dative case
 in German, unlike in english.)
 
 In _that_ translation, you've used the hyphen correctly (which was
 missing in the german version discussed).
 


Yes, my bad.  I was trying to write it the same but fixed it unconsciously.


regards
Chad



Re: well, try here first...

2012-11-13 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 13 Nov 2012 22:27:37 -0700, Chad Leigh Shire.Net LLC wrote:
 
 On Nov 13, 2012, at 9:48 PM, Polytropon wrote:
 
  That matches what I've learned in school, but it doesn't match
  realitiy anymore. :-)
  
  A famous thing is comma in lists: Unlike German, where and
  substitutes a comma, in English it seems to be valid to put a
  comma infront of and:
  
  He bought a glass, a towel, a toothpick, and a nose.
  
  In German, that would be
  
  Er kaufte ein Glas, ein Handtuch, einen Zahnstocker
  und eine Nase.
 
 
 This is interesting, because the comma before the and in a list
 is much more understandable, because it is open to less interpretation. 

This is different to 'and' substitutes a comma, but makes
sense. For example, I prefer reading the english documentation
of FreeBSD (manpages, handbook, FAQ and articles) over their
often sloppily and quite mechanically done translations.
Good quality in documentation helps to raise the quality of
the complete product.



 This is where the eats shoots and leaves comes in, kind of.
 There are similar examples where ambiguity arises from the
 lack of a comma before and in a list.   The comma before
 the and is traditional English.

Interesting, thanks for this pointer. So modern English
is what makes the difference here...



 There are, however, lots of people who advocate for the lack
 of a comma before the and in a list and that is taught in
 some classes in some schools.

This kind of arbitraryness is not good. Whatever way is
preferred, it should be used consistently.



 I don't claim to be a great German speaker or writer.   I have
 not visited there in 12 years nor lived there in almost 20 years. 
 But people at least can understand me and I can get my point
 across.  :)

With enough mental variability, that shouldn't be a problem. :-)



 Most of my post was meant to support what you were saying, btw.  
 As well as give examples and interesting tidbits.  I agree that
 proper grammar is important in language, even when I don't always
 use it or do it; especially in informal speech like email lists,
 forums, etc.

Personally I do not make such differences. Proper spelling
is easier (at least for me) than artificially avoiding it,
like _not_ putting a comma where it belongs to, _not_ capitalizing
a word that is to be capitalized, or _not_ using the proper
spelling in favour of some variant. However, I'm not considered
normal so whatever I do does not imply anything. :-)



  But pleese pay atension too, the new englis orfograffy which
  make`s every thing easyer to under stand and, more freedems
  to mak punctation and les speeling errer's.
  
  Funkzionier't auch in, Deutsch! :-)
 
 
 You must really be taking a conniption fit with the changes
 (Verbilligen -- cheapening --  though the exact words I was
 searching for have failed me tonight)  that have happened in
 German in the last 10 or so years ( striking of ß; to always
 be written with ss now, etc)...

The Eszett has been abolished in Switzerland, not in Germany.
The new rule (historically: old, has been abolished after
about 100 years in use because too much prone to errors)
says something about short vs. long vowels which is nonsense
(as vowel length depends on dialect, not on spelling), so
some valid ß get turned into ss. Effect: Most valid ß get
turned into ss, and even some innocent s get turned into
ss, like Massband or Zeugniss. :-)

I'm still looking for a valid translation of bespaßen,
an accusative-passive construct of to entertain somebody. :-)



  Und Playboy alles was Maennern Spass macht ist 100% verständlich
  auf deutsch, da es einen richtigen Dativ Kasus gibt, im Gegensatz
  zu englischer Sprache.
  
  It may be 100% understandable, but it's not correct, because it's
  not a sentence or a grammatically valid construct. The translation
  would have been (quite literally, I admit):
  
  Playboy everything what men fun makes
 
 Actually, no.   A more correct translation would be:
Playboy everything that to men fun makes.

Yes, that's much more valid, that's why I wrote literally, which
means sloppy and possibly wrong, because I didn't find a proper
way to have the dative case encoding without adding additional
words, so it's even wronger. :-)



 [Or, if you wanted the same mistake (lack of comma or hyphen) but
 proper English word order:   Playboy everything that is fun for men.]

Whom is it fun for? +Dativ.
Whom is it fun to? +Dativ.

Sadly, I can't bring the Dativ joke here:
Ulli hat Dativ mitgebracht - für jedem einem.

Ulli has brought Dativ - one for everyone. Yes, the translation
isn't funny anymore. :-(



 Männern is dative case, which, when used without a preposition,
 is best translated as to something where something is written
 with dative case endings.

Case endings and clear preposition requirements are something
much stronger for example in the russian language. They are
represented even in spelling. Here we have to get them from
context

Re: well, try here first...

2012-11-13 Thread Robert Bonomi

 Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2012 05:48:48 +0100
 From: Polytropon free...@edvax.de
 Subject: Re: well, try here first...

 On Tue, 13 Nov 2012 20:20:51 -0700, Chad Leigh Shire.Net LLC wrote:
  
  To be fair, a lot of the same rules exist for English.  The comma
  is not optional or left to preferences in English, either.  There
  are definite rules and it brings structure. 

 That matches what I've learned in school, but it doesn't match
 realitiy anymore. :-)

 A famous thing is comma in lists: Unlike German, where and
 substitutes a comma, in English it seems to be valid to put a
 comma infront of and:

In 'classic' English (as taught in the 60s and earlier), a comma was
_required_ before a trailing 'and' in a list of 3 or more items, and forbidden
if there were only two items.

The famous eats roots, shoots... would parse as eating 3 objects, with the
comma before the 'and'.
for three actions, change the 'and' to 'then', comma before 'then'.
If eating two objects, eats roots AND shoots *comma* and... (emphasis added)

The accepted 'rules' changed about the time new math was foisted on the
world.  The most visible ones involved comma placement, and punctuation
inside trailing quotes.

  The password is frodo.
  It is 5 characters long.

  The password is frodo.
  It is 6 characters long.

BAH, HUMBUG!!! 

Make the first one:
  The password is frodo. 
and all the ambiguity goes away.*snarl*

   He bought a glass, a towel, a toothpick, and a nose.

 In German, that would be

   Er kaufte ein Glas, ein Handtuch, einen Zahnstocker
   und eine Nase.

how do you write:
The sandwich choices are: tuna salad, chicken, roast beef and
ham, and cheese.
*without* making the last option a '{2 meats} and cheese' sandwich ??
(the next-to-last has two types of meat on it)

*EVIL* grin

 Note that the structure of a sentence, aided by
 punctuation, is an important part during the reading experience.
 Sentences that do not show any structure are hard to read and
 to understand, and a missing comma can decide about life or
 death easily:

   KILL HIM NOT WAIT UNTIL I ARRIVE

the traditional one of these in English is:
Go kill Joe Brown
_who_ is to die depends on whether or not there is a comma after
the second word.  Ditto for who -does- the deed.


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Re: well, try here first...

2012-11-12 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi,

On Mon, 12 Nov 2012 21:22:00 -0800
Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote:

   hold your flame-throwers, because this is about how to get

you do not allow us some fun?

 ssh working from an outside computer into my brand new tao that is
 running a flavor of linux.  I just got my quad i5 box to replace the
 old, broken tao.  this was the box with the busted USB. [!]  Anyway,
 linux is installed; the box is on my internal IP net.  I can ssh
 *out*. to my server, vut from my server or wherever, I cant ssh back
 in.
 
   doing an % ssh 10.47.0.114  OR ssh tao gives me an instant
   Connection refused.  if I try an ssh -X tao I get a string
 like Connnection closed.  can any of you network wizards or setup
   wizards clue me in.  {FWIW:: the ssh stuff is from OpenBSD.}
 
   anybody know what im NOT doing?

Proper setup?
Firewall?
inetd?

It sounds like something very, very obvious. But I know how it feels if
one cannot see the tiny thing. 

Erich
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Re: well, try here first...

2012-11-12 Thread Lucas B. Cohen
On 2012.11.13 06:22, Gary Kline wrote:
   anybody know what im NOT doing?
running sshd ? :)
Have you installed it ? sshd is the server program, it is fairly
independent from ssh, the client program.
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ImageMagick, pecl-imagick (FreeBSD vs Ubuntu) problem (djvu as well?)

2011-03-16 Thread B. Cook

I have a server that I just put together to work with image creation.

Its running lighttpd with php being handled by php-fpm all from ports 
running 8.2 amd64.


My problem is quite strange; a simple php script reading in a djvu file 
(via Imagick()) causes php to hang and not do anything. - no errors, 
nothing.


Running the script via php -f also does the same thing..

cat -n something.php
 1  ?php
 2  $im = new Imagick('/tmp/c3067.djvu');// open DjVu image
 3  $im-setImageFormat('png');// force output format to PNG
 4  
 5  // now write to browser
 6  header('Content-type: '.$im-getImageFormat());
 7  echo $im-getimageblob();
 8  ?

So aside from the problem that this php does not do anything..

root@fbsd [/tmp]# 28  convert /tmp/c3067.djvu /tmp/file.png  echo $?
0

root@fbsd [/tmp]# 29  file file.png
file.png: PNG image, 957 x 1063, 8-bit/color RGBA, non-interlaced

Running the command to convert the djvu file manually seems to have no 
problems at all..


The problem lies in that the developer of this (I am not the main 
developer) says that all this works perfectly on my Ubuntu 10.04 LTS 
server at home.. *sigh*


He sent me a php -m to compare my minimal setup to his bloated one; and 
I built every damn module to match.. no difference..


I've asked for a: `convert -list format` output from the lts machine to 
compare it against my own; as well as a `convert -list configure`


Tried to do an strace to see what I could see.. but strace doesn't work 
on amd64..


So can someone offer *something* that I could start to look at or use to 
look at what is causing this to happen? Otherwise it is looking like I 
will be loosing a perfectly good FreeBSD machine to an Ubuntu one.. *sniff*


Thanks in advance.
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Well.... {was:: Re: Which php??}

2011-01-11 Thread Gary Kline
On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 10:49:26AM -0800, Gary Kline wrote:
 On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 04:10:02PM -0200, Rodrigo Gonzalez wrote:


It isn't esp'ly tasty to have to eat one's own words, but that
is what happened for about 90 mins this morning.  ---I could
have _sworn_ that I had cron'd the ports upgrade stuff at least
weekly.  Nope.

At least I think things are back on track.

-- 
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   Journey Toward the Dawn, E-Book: http://www.thought.org
  The 7.97a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org

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Re: Well, I broke it! FreeBSD V8.1 release

2010-12-23 Thread Dave
On 22 Dec 2010 at 9:49, Chris Brennan wrote:

 IIRC ';' isn't a valid bash comment ... (which has been previously
 discussed elsewhere). It's usually safer to use '#' for  comment in
 /etc/rc.conf and other system config files as they typically use BASH
 style structs.
 

Accepted and acknowledged as my finger trouble.
As earlier, that issue is now fixed.

Thanks.

Dave B.

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Well, I broke it! FreeBSD V8.1 release

2010-12-22 Thread Dave
Hi...

I was trying to disable the console screensaver, and found that in 
sysinstall, there is no way to select none as an option.

So I went and edited /etc/rc.conf to comment out the line:-
Saver=fire (or whatever it is)

I put a ; at the beginning of the line, and now FreeBSD wont come up, 
showing an error (unexpected ;) and leaving me with a # prompt.

How do I get to re-edit rc.conf, to correct the problem, as all command 
line commands result in a not found error.

Also.  What's the Correct way to disable a console screensaver?

Sysinstall alows you to select and enable one, but not remove it!

Bit of an oversight that I suspect

Regards.

Dave B.  (Chief numpty!)



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Re: Well, I broke it! FreeBSD V8.1 release

2010-12-22 Thread Chris Rees
Your PATH isn't set.

# fsck /
# mount -uw /
# /bin/sed -i.bak -e 's/^;//' /etc/rc.conf

Or (can't remember where des is kept)

# fsck /usr
# mount /usr
# /usr/bin/sed -i.bak -e 's/^;//' /etc/rc.conf

Good luck!

Chris



Sorry for top-posting, Android won't let me quote, but K-9 can't yet do
threading.
On 22 Dec 2010 11:01, Dave d...@g8kbv.demon.co.uk wrote:
 Hi...

 I was trying to disable the console screensaver, and found that in
 sysinstall, there is no way to select none as an option.

 So I went and edited /etc/rc.conf to comment out the line:-
 Saver=fire (or whatever it is)

 I put a ; at the beginning of the line, and now FreeBSD wont come up,
 showing an error (unexpected ;) and leaving me with a # prompt.

 How do I get to re-edit rc.conf, to correct the problem, as all command
 line commands result in a not found error.

 Also. What's the Correct way to disable a console screensaver?

 Sysinstall alows you to select and enable one, but not remove it!

 Bit of an oversight that I suspect

 Regards.

 Dave B. (Chief numpty!)



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Re: Well, I broke it! FreeBSD V8.1 release

2010-12-22 Thread Odhiambo Washington
On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 2:27 PM, Chris Rees utis...@gmail.com wrote:

 Your PATH isn't set.

 # fsck /
 # mount -uw /
 # /bin/sed -i.bak -e 's/^;//' /etc/rc.conf

 Or (can't remember where des is kept)

 # fsck /usr
 # mount /usr
 # /usr/bin/sed -i.bak -e 's/^;//' /etc/rc.conf


For someone who asked a question like the OP, this is a too advanced to
understand.
mount -u / is almost enough unless he cold-booted the computer at some
point. Yes, it's safe to do fsck I agree.
Just tell the poster that it id necessary to edit /etc/rc.conf by doing xyz.



-- 
Best regards,
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Nairobi,KE
+254733744121/+254722743223
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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Re: Well, I broke it! FreeBSD V8.1 release

2010-12-22 Thread b. f.
dave wrote:
...
I was trying to disable the console screensaver, and found that in
sysinstall, there is no way to select none as an option.

So I went and edited /etc/rc.conf to comment out the line:-
Saver=fire (or whatever it is)

I put a ; at the beginning of the line, and now FreeBSD wont come up,
showing an error (unexpected ;) and leaving me with a # prompt.

How do I get to re-edit rc.conf, to correct the problem, as all command
line commands result in a not found error.

You didn't provide much information, but probably what happened is
that your defective rc.conf caused an error when booting, and your
normal boot aborted and dropped into single-user. This typically
means that some partitions that are mounted by default during a normal
boot and that contain editors and other programs are not initially
mounted.  So probably if you did something like:

fsck -p /
mount -uw /
swapon -a
mount -a

you could then edit /etc/rc.conf with your favorite editor. Or you
could just use sed, ed, or vi from /rescue, or from the release media,
to make the necessary changes, rather than attempting to mount all
partitions.


Also.  What's the Correct way to disable a console screensaver?

Sysinstall alows you to select and enable one, but not remove it!

On the fly, you can use vidcontrol -t ...

To change the default setting, comment out or delete the  saver=...
line, or change it to

saver=NO

which is what is originally in /etc/defaults/rc.conf.

Sysinstall is only one tool you can use to install or configure the
system.  It's not necessary, and for minor changes like this, it's not
the method of choice.

b.
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Re: Well, I broke it! FreeBSD V8.1 release

2010-12-22 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 11:01:10AM -, Dave wrote:
 Hi...
 
 I was trying to disable the console screensaver, and found that in 
 sysinstall, there is no way to select none as an option.
 
 So I went and edited /etc/rc.conf to comment out the line:-
 Saver=fire (or whatever it is)
 
 I put a ; at the beginning of the line, and now FreeBSD wont come up, 
 showing an error (unexpected ;) and leaving me with a # prompt.

To comment out a line in a shell script (which is what rc.conf actually
is) you should put a '#' at the beginning of the line, not a ';'.

 
 How do I get to re-edit rc.conf, to correct the problem, as all command 
 line commands result in a not found error.
 
 Also.  What's the Correct way to disable a console screensaver?

Changing rc.conf is the Correct way. If you do it by hand or use some
other tool (like sysinstall) to do it does not really matter.
Putting  'saver=NO'  in rc.conf or not having and 'saver=' line
there will both do the same thing - not starting any screen saver.

 
 Sysinstall alows you to select and enable one, but not remove it!
 
 Bit of an oversight that I suspect

Probably. The shortcomings of sysinstall are many and varied, so one
more is not surprise.


-- 
Insert your favourite quote here.
Erik Trulsson
ertr1...@student.uu.se
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Re: Well, I broke it! FreeBSD V8.1 release

2010-12-22 Thread Dave
On 22 Dec 2010 at 11:41, b. f. wrote:

 dave wrote:
 ...
 I was trying to disable the console screensaver, and found that in
 sysinstall, there is no way to select none as an option.
 
 So I went and edited /etc/rc.conf to comment out the line:-
 Saver=fire (or whatever it is)
 
 I put a ; at the beginning of the line, and now FreeBSD wont come up,
 showing an error (unexpected ;) and leaving me with a # prompt.
 
 How do I get to re-edit rc.conf, to correct the problem, as all
 command line commands result in a not found error.
 
 You didn't provide much information, but probably what happened is
 that your defective rc.conf caused an error when booting, and your
 normal boot aborted and dropped into single-user. This typically
 means that some partitions that are mounted by default during a normal
 boot and that contain editors and other programs are not initially
 mounted.  So probably if you did something like:
 
 fsck -p /
 mount -uw /
 swapon -a
 mount -a
 
 you could then edit /etc/rc.conf with your favorite editor. Or you
 could just use sed, ed, or vi from /rescue, or from the release media,
 to make the necessary changes, rather than attempting to mount all
 partitions.
 
 
 Also.  What's the Correct way to disable a console screensaver?
 
 Sysinstall alows you to select and enable one, but not remove it!
 
 On the fly, you can use vidcontrol -t ...
 
 To change the default setting, comment out or delete the  saver=...
 line, or change it to
 
 saver=NO
 
 which is what is originally in /etc/defaults/rc.conf.
 
 Sysinstall is only one tool you can use to install or configure the
 system.  It's not necessary, and for minor changes like this, it's not
 the method of choice.
 
 b.
 

Thank you Sir, it's back working again, with no screen saver.

Thank's also to others who responded, much apprecaited.

I'll be back later, now I can see the error messages that were hidden 
behind the saver when something burped, only becoming visible as the 
otherwise stalled machine shutdown on one short press of the power key..   
I just need to wait now for the trouble to manifest itself again.

Cheers All

Dave B.

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Re: Well, I broke it! FreeBSD V8.1 release

2010-12-22 Thread Bruce Cran
On Wed, 22 Dec 2010 11:01:10 -
Dave d...@g8kbv.demon.co.uk wrote:

 Sysinstall alows you to select and enable one, but not remove it!
 
 Bit of an oversight that I suspect

Fixed in r216651 :)

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Re: Well, I broke it! FreeBSD V8.1 release

2010-12-22 Thread Chris Brennan
On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 8:07 AM, Bruce Cran br...@cran.org.uk wrote:

 On Wed, 22 Dec 2010 11:01:10 -
 Dave d...@g8kbv.demon.co.uk wrote:

  Sysinstall alows you to select and enable one, but not remove it!
 
  Bit of an oversight that I suspect

 Fixed in r216651 :)



IIRC ';' isn't a valid bash comment ... (which has been previously discussed
elsewhere). It's usually safer to use '#' for  comment in /etc/rc.conf and
other system config files as they typically use BASH style structs.
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Re: Well, I broke it! FreeBSD V8.1 release

2010-12-22 Thread Jerry
On Wed, 22 Dec 2010 09:49:46 -0500
Chris Brennan xa...@xaerolimit.net articulated:

 On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 8:07 AM, Bruce Cran br...@cran.org.uk wrote:
 
  On Wed, 22 Dec 2010 11:01:10 -
  Dave d...@g8kbv.demon.co.uk wrote:
 
   Sysinstall alows you to select and enable one, but not remove it!
  
   Bit of an oversight that I suspect
 
  Fixed in r216651 :)
 
 IIRC ';' isn't a valid bash comment ... (which has been previously
 discussed elsewhere). It's usually safer to use '#' for  comment
 in /etc/rc.conf and other system config files as they typically use
 BASH style structs.

If you want to insert a really long comment block:

:  IMPORTANT

 mumble bla bla bla ...

IMPORTANT

You can pretty much put anything you want between the:
:  IMPORTANT
and
IMPORTANT

tags. You don't have to use IMPORTANT either. It works with
Bash; however, I am unsure of how it works with other shells. Unless
you have a really long comment block, I think the # syntax is easier
to use. Plus, I don't know if it would even work in an rc file.

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Re: Well, I broke it! FreeBSD V8.1 release

2010-12-22 Thread Robert Bonomi
 From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org  Wed Dec 22 05:01:28 2010
 From: Dave d...@g8kbv.demon.co.uk
 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
 Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2010 11:01:10 -
 Subject: Well, I broke it!   FreeBSD V8.1 release

 Hi...

 I was trying to disable the console screensaver, and found that in 
 sysinstall, there is no way to select none as an option.

 So I went and edited /etc/rc.conf to comment out the line:-
 Saver=fire (or whatever it is)

 I put a ; at the beginning of the line, and now FreeBSD wont come up, 
 showing an error (unexpected ;) and leaving me with a # prompt.

It's rogt. you did wrong;.  Should have been a '#', not a ';'

 How do I get to re-edit rc.conf, to correct the problem, as all command 
 line commands result in a not found error.

  # fsck -p || fsck
  # mount -a
  # vi /etc/rc.conf{ or editor of your choice }
  # reboot

 Also.  What's the Correct way to disable a console screensaver?

 # vidcontrol -t off

see 'man splash'


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Re: Well, I broke it! FreeBSD V8.1 release

2010-12-22 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 22 Dec 2010 09:54:02 -0600 (CST), Robert Bonomi 
bon...@mail.r-bonomi.com wrote:
  From: Dave d...@g8kbv.demon.co.uk
  Also.  What's the Correct way to disable a console screensaver?
 
  # vidcontrol -t off
 
 see 'man splash'

Also see /etc/defaults/rc.conf which states:

blanktime=300 # blank time (in seconds) or NO to turn it off.
saver=NO  # screen saver: Uses /boot/kernel/${saver}_saver.ko


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Re: Well, I broke it! FreeBSD V8.1 release

2010-12-22 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 22 Dec 2010 09:49:46 -0500, Chris Brennan xa...@xaerolimit.net wrote:
 On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 8:07 AM, Bruce Cran br...@cran.org.uk wrote:
 
  On Wed, 22 Dec 2010 11:01:10 -
  Dave d...@g8kbv.demon.co.uk wrote:
 
   Sysinstall alows you to select and enable one, but not remove it!
  
   Bit of an oversight that I suspect
 
  Fixed in r216651 :)
 
 
 
 IIRC ';' isn't a valid bash comment ... (which has been previously discussed
 elsewhere). It's usually safer to use '#' for  comment in /etc/rc.conf and
 other system config files as they typically use BASH style structs.

Putting emphasize on _BA_sh seems to be a typical Linuxism. :-)

FreeBSD's standard scripting shell is the Bourne Shell, /bin/sh.
The Bourne Again Shell, bash, isn't even part of the FreeBSD
(base) system. Only under exceptional circumstances there
will be a /bin/bash.

As it has been pointed out, /etc/rc.conf is a shell script
(or to be correct: part of a shell script) that basically
consists of variable assignments, name=value. In this
context, ; has the default meaning in sh syntax - this
refers to Bourne Shell syntax.

The ; means command separator. It is a valid syntactical
element of the sh language. A command like

; saver=NO

causes the shell to stop processing the script (which causes
the system boot to stop as it interrupts reading /etc/rc.conf,
which interrupts the start of /etc/rc). Infont of ; there
has to be a command, and in this case, nothing is there.

As the Bourne Shell is the standard scripting shell on most
UNIX systems, relying on bash specific constructs may have
impact to script portability (which may develop into an
issue if you have to create scripts that should run on many
different kinds of UNIX).

The form

:  DELIMITER
... pile ...
...  of  ...
... text ...
DELIMITER

is indirectly refered to in man sh:

The following redirection is often called a ``here-document''.

  [n] delimiter
here-doc-text
...
  delimiter

All the text on successive lines up to the delimiter is saved away and
made available to the command on standard input, or file descriptor n if
it is specified.  If the delimiter as specified on the initial line is
quoted, then the here-doc-text is treated literally, otherwise the text
is subjected to parameter expansion, command substitution, and arithmetic
expansion (as described in the section on Word Expansions).  If the oper-
ator is ``-'' instead of ``'', then leading tabs in the here-doc-text
are stripped.

//

The option of specifying : as a file descriptor works with
the standard /bin/sh of FreeBSD, but I'm not sure this should
be encouraged for use in configuration files like /etc/rc.conf.

Using the form

# blah

is also better for use with syntax highlighting as comments
can be determined more easily, whereas the form using the here-doc
is primarily a here-doc and NOT a comment (unless directed
toward :).

From man sh:

The character `#' introduces a comment if used at the beginning of a
word.  The word starting with `#' and the rest of the line are ignored.

//

The use of # also makes sure there is NO kind of variable
expansion or arithmetic operation done - which you could
achieve using

:  'DELIMITER'
... pile ...
...  of  ...
... text ...
$((the)) $USER `/bin/laden` ${causes `NO' touble here!
'DELIMITER'

but # is the really safe form, as you can write ANYTHING
behind it. Again, the form illustrated above could cause
some interpretation problems for syntax highlighting
algorithms.

See man rc.conf for details. :-)



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Re: Well, I broke it! FreeBSD V8.1 release

2010-12-22 Thread Jason Helfman

On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 09:49:46AM -0500, Chris Brennan thus spake:

On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 8:07 AM, Bruce Cran br...@cran.org.uk wrote:


On Wed, 22 Dec 2010 11:01:10 -
Dave d...@g8kbv.demon.co.uk wrote:

 Sysinstall alows you to select and enable one, but not remove it!

 Bit of an oversight that I suspect

Fixed in r216651 :)




IIRC ';' isn't a valid bash comment ... (which has been previously discussed
elsewhere). It's usually safer to use '#' for  comment in /etc/rc.conf and
other system config files as they typically use BASH style structs.


IMHO...
It seems that /etc/rc.conf is in need of a sytax check script. Something
similiar to visudo for editing /usr/local/etc/sudoers.

-jgh
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Re: Well, I broke it! FreeBSD V8.1 release

2010-12-22 Thread Rob Farmer
On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 12:45, Jason Helfman jhelf...@e-e.com wrote:
 IMHO...
 It seems that /etc/rc.conf is in need of a sytax check script. Something
 similiar to visudo for editing /usr/local/etc/sudoers.


Just run it with /bin/sh. If no errors appear the syntax is good. Or
you can use /bin/sh -x to see more detail.

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Re: Well, I broke it! FreeBSD V8.1 release

2010-12-22 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Jason Helfman jhelf...@e-e.com writes:

 On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 09:49:46AM -0500, Chris Brennan thus spake:
On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 8:07 AM, Bruce Cran br...@cran.org.uk wrote:

 On Wed, 22 Dec 2010 11:01:10 -
 Dave d...@g8kbv.demon.co.uk wrote:

  Sysinstall alows you to select and enable one, but not remove it!
 
  Bit of an oversight that I suspect

 Fixed in r216651 :)



IIRC ';' isn't a valid bash comment ... (which has been previously discussed
elsewhere). It's usually safer to use '#' for  comment in /etc/rc.conf and
other system config files as they typically use BASH style structs.

 IMHO...
 It seems that /etc/rc.conf is in need of a sytax check script. Something
 similiar to visudo for editing /usr/local/etc/sudoers.

Well, rc.conf isn't supposed to have anything but variable settings, so
for syntax alone, /bin/sh /etc/rc.conf is a perfectly fine test.  If
you want to check semantics as well, things get complicated very quickly.
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Re: Well, I broke it! FreeBSD V8.1 release

2010-12-22 Thread Adam Vande More
On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 3:08 PM, Lowell Gilbert 
freebsd-questions-lo...@be-well.ilk.org wrote:

 Well, rc.conf isn't supposed to have anything but variable settings, so
 for syntax alone, /bin/sh /etc/rc.conf is a perfectly fine test.  If
 you want to check semantics as well, things get complicated very quickly.


rcorder(8) is a good starting point for basic semantic checking.

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Attempting to use the kernel debugger over the serial port not working (well)

2010-09-24 Thread Patrick Mahan
All,

Cannot seem to find anything on the net to collaborate my experience
with remote KGDB over a serial port.

Here is my setup -

+--+-+---
|  | |
   bce0  eth1   bce0
|  | |
+---+--+   +---++
+---+---+
|   HP Proliant GL360 G5   |   | Cyclades ACS32 || HP Proliant GL360 G5 
 |
+---+--+   ++---+
+---+
|   |
  ttyu0(uart0)port 28
|   |
+---+

The Cyclades is a 32 port terminal server that has serial port 28 connected
to the DB9 locate on the back of the HP server.  I am running KGDB inside
of an emacs session on the Sony Vaio.

The HP's are running in 64-bit (amd64) FreeBSD 8.0.

The uart0 on the target is configured as (from dmesg.boot):

uart0: 16550 or compatible port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x90 on acpi0
uart0: [FILTER]
uart0: console (9600,n,8,1)

The Cyclades port is configured the same.

My kernel is built with the following options:

options KDB
options DDB
options GDB

The kernel is built with -O2 -g

In /boot/loader.conf I have the following lines:

console=comconsole vidconsole
comconsole_speed=9600
hint.uart.0.flags=0x90

I invoke the kernel debugger on the target using:

  'sysctl debug.kdb.enter=1'

Which gets me to the DB prompt where I enter the following:

DBgdb
Step to enter the gdb debugger
DBs

I am invoking KGDB inside of emacs on the build server in the 'obj' tree
where the kernel build is located.

kgdb -fullname kernel.debug

Once I have the gdb prompt, I enter the following target command:

   target remote 10.10.29.111:7028

Where 10.10.29.111 is the address of the Cyclades and port 7028 connects
me to serial port 28 on the Cyclades.

This brings up the kernel with the break point.  I then set my break
point(s) and enter 'c' to continue.

Sometimes the break points fire, sometimes they don't.  However, in some
indeterminant time (seconds) I start seeing the following on the
Video console (not the serial one).

Fatal double fault
rip = 0x8055bdc4
rsp = 0xff8078405000
rbp = 0xff8078405000
cpuid = 1; apic id = 01
panic: double fault
cpuid = 1
KDB: stack backtrace:
db_trace_self_wrapper() at db_trace_self_wrapper+0x2a
kdb_backtrace() at kdb_backtrace+0x32
mi_switch() at mi_switch+0x70
sched_bind() at sched_bind+0x60
boot() at boot+0x45
panic() at panic+0x1f2
dblfault_handler() at dblfault_handler+0xab
Xdblfault() at Xdblfault+0xac
--- trap 0x17, rip = 0x8055bdc4, rsp = 0xff817ff0, rbp = 
0xff8078405000 ---
_thread_lock_flags() at _thread_lock_flags+0x4
critical_exit() at critical_exit+0x5d
spinlock_exit() at spinlock_exit+0x17
mi_switch() at mi_switch+0x6b

Then it repeats over and over again, the box becomes unresponsive and I am 
unable
to proceed.

My googling turned up this issue only in relation to lock order reversals, but 
I am not
seeing that issue here and I don't have the kernel compiled with 'options 
WITNESS'.

Any pointers would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Patrick
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Re: well, i guess it's time to ask.....

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Re: well, i guess it's time to ask.....

2010-08-19 Thread Gary Kline
On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 08:26:11AM +0700, C. Bergstr?m wrote:
 Gary Kline wrote:
 ok guys, 
 i have been waiting for [a] a better/faster/more generally useful
 computer as well as =mostly= cheaper unit.  i figured i would wait
 until fall to ask, but it's close enough.
 
 can i watch a streamed movie on am atom [[[1.6ghz intel]]] chip.
   
 (Disclaimer I work for a commercial compiler company)
 
 If you experience problems with performance of Atom I would generally 
 not blame the processor.  There are *zero* very well tuned compilers for 
 Atom that I'm aware of.  Most are content that the compiler works good 
 enough(tm) and it's difficult (impossible) to get the low level timing 
 data details out of Intel.  Unless you're hand writing inline asm 
 (*cough* ffmpeg) then it's certainly possible the code isn't optimized 
 well enough.  Depending on what else the processor is busy with, codec 
 type and video size it should certainly possible to stream an average 
 sized movie with no problem.  Now can it handle Blu-ray I doubt it...


i am not planning on watching a movie that is on a DVD-RW but 
via [say] kmplayer via video stream.  and rather than the std
'movie-length' of 120 minutes, an hour or less streamed by PBS.

with my 2.4ghz Dell loaded at its usual 0.25 - 0.4, and using
kmplayer or vlc, the video is jerky or hangs for several seconds.

i probably should get-real and use whatever notebook i buy for 
what i originally intended it for: as a small and usable computer
than can produce understandable speech.  

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Re: well, i guess it's time to ask.....

2010-08-19 Thread Gary Kline
On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 10:38:20PM -0300, Gonzalo Nemmi wrote:
 On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 10:10 PM, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote:
 
  ok guys,
  i have been waiting for [a] a better/faster/more generally useful
  computer as well as =mostly= cheaper unit.  i figured i would wait
  until fall to ask, but it's close enough.
 
  can i watch a streamed movie on am atom [[[1.6ghz intel]]] chip.
  i have trouble on my 2003 dell that has a 2.4ghz cpu.  it has plenty of
  ram, disk, etc.  so i've hesitated.   on my 3.0gh thinkpad, streams fly
  flawlessly.  So if i buy one of the notebooks with a 7 - 10 screen,
  can i use it for things other than a text-to-speech computer?
 
  how thrifty | cheap should i be?  i'd like to buy the optical device
  rather than install via one of those stick memory devices.  i have
  never used anything but the disc.  i think it is at least two hundred
  bux more, but if it is a must, then so be it.  i've looked for am atom
  notebook fo r  200 bux. pretty hard to find, so are there any places i
  can trust?
 
  i saw an A9 tablet with some kind of keyboard that might work as a
  speech computer.  this is my real goal, leaving shit and shinola
  behind.  but i'm not sure that a tablet would be as useful as a
  notebook.
 
  RESt of the story: i'm using the kde ktt* along with the festival
  speech toolkit.  i also have vi/nvi or vim set up with around 125 abbrv
  so that people who type slowly can be more efficient.
 
 Way OT .. but it just hit me that some folks could benefit from that
 vim set up with around 125 abbrv if you posted somewhere ;)
 


sure thing!  i can put it up onmy bsd.thought.org page---if i 
still have that site.  the backstory is pretty short.  years before 
i tore up my shoulder, typing wasn't exactly =easy= so i used the
'abbrev' functionality of the original vi and added ~130 or so 
of the most freq english words [ plus computer-geek jargon ]. 

the stats showed that the average person could save about 31% of
his time if he memorized this list.  130-150 words was the drop-off
point.  i.e., memorizing 160 abbreviations might save 31.9% or
whatever it was.  i gave up on this project after an almost-new
SCSI drive crashed (nov, '99).  my tape backup overwrote itself.
my BAD.

And so it goes...



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Re: well, i guess it's time to ask.....

2010-08-19 Thread Gary Kline
On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 10:16:51PM -0500, Depo Catcher wrote:
 
 On 8/18/2010 8:10 PM, Gary Kline wrote:
 've hesitated.   on my 3.0gh thinkpad, streams fly
 flawlessly.  So if i buy one of the notebooks with a
 
 Stream what kind of movies?  Some video players (like VLC) have hardware 
 acceleration that will help a lot if your video card/driver supports it.
 Things like Flash based movies might be kind of iffy though since they 
 can't take advantage of the video hardware [?].  Once you start moving 
 up to high def video you might have some problems, but know a lot of 
 Home Theater guys that use Atoms for media centers:
 http://hardforum.com/forumdisplay.php?f=103


hm and hm.  do you have any idea if linux/ubuntu may have done
this?  i've got ubuntu 8.04 on my 'G41 Thinkpad' and it handles
whatever i stream pretty well.  even if i click fr 'full screen'
size.

 
 My gfs Atom 330 plays videos in VLC fine and flash fine, but full screen 
 flash drops frames.  This is under WinXP.
 The new D510 CPU are faster in benchmarks; it has dual cores with 
 hyperthreading.  If you wait a few months, the new D525 CPUs should be 
 out in consumer computers - these are 1.8Ghz (instead of 1.6Ghz) and 
 support DDR3 (instead of DDR2).  That might help a bit.  Both are 
 limited to 4 gigs.


you are going way over my head in talking brand name terminology,
:)   now i'm back to my original quandry of: do i want to hide
in my room and watch streaming video or built a tts device.   it's
like: Well, if i =wait= [just a bit longer] ...  :-D


 
 So, I would bet that 90% of the time it'll be enough if you have a good 
 video card with good drivers.  I'm not an expert on them though, I think 
 they are neat though.


i had no clue that there were flash movies until your note; but
it points u p the value of having a good driver.

 
 Another options would be to go with an i3/i5 or get a used 775 (core 2) 
 system.  My Core2Duo  2.2Ghz runs more than fast enough and can probably 
 get them for cheap if you buy them used.

need to have a small screen and low weight, pref.  but yeah, it's
an option.  thanks much for the datapoints.

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Re: well, i guess it's time to ask.....

2010-08-19 Thread Roland Smith
On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 11:54:53AM -0700, Gary Kline wrote:
 
   i am not planning on watching a movie that is on a DVD-RW but 
   via [say] kmplayer via video stream.  and rather than the std
   'movie-length' of 120 minutes, an hour or less streamed by PBS.
 
   with my 2.4ghz Dell loaded at its usual 0.25 - 0.4, and using
   kmplayer or vlc, the video is jerky or hangs for several seconds.

A 2.4 GHz machine with a decent grahics card should have no problem with
displaying full screen video, if you are using the XVideo extension. For
mplayer try '-vo xv' on the mplayer command line, or put 'vo=xv' in
~/.mplayer/config. For VLC choose tools-preferences, and in the dialog window
check Accelerated video output in the Video tab.

It sounds more like a network issue. (you can confirm that if you can play
files from a local disk without hiccups) Maybe increasing the buffering might
help. 

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Re: well, i guess it's time to ask.....

2010-08-19 Thread Gary Kline
On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 09:01:56PM -0700, Charlie Kester wrote:
 On Wed 18 Aug 2010 at 20:16:51 PDT Depo Catcher wrote:
 
 On 8/18/2010 8:10 PM, Gary Kline wrote:
 've hesitated.   on my 3.0gh thinkpad, streams fly
 flawlessly.  So if i buy one of the notebooks with a
 
 Stream what kind of movies?  Some video players (like VLC) have 
 hardware acceleration that will help a lot if your video card/driver 
 supports it.
 Things like Flash based movies might be kind of iffy though since 
 they can't take advantage of the video hardware [?].  Once you start 
 moving up to high def video you might have some problems, but know a 
 lot of Home Theater guys that use Atoms for media centers:
 http://hardforum.com/forumdisplay.php?f=103
 
 My gfs Atom 330 plays videos in VLC fine and flash fine, but full 
 screen flash drops frames.  This is under WinXP.
 The new D510 CPU are faster in benchmarks; it has dual cores with
 hyperthreading.  
 
 But be aware that the Xorg intel driver in the current portstree does
 NOT support the graphics controller built into the D510 and other
 Pineview Atoms.  The vesa driver works, but doesn't take advantage of
 AGP or other graphics niftiness.
 
 I have one of these myself, and can confirm that downloaded videos play
 acceptably well, despite using vesa.  I can't speak to streaming video
 performance, however, since I don't use Flash and usually don't watch
 online videos.
 
 I've seen reviews of the D510 that say HD video performance is sub-par
 even on operating systems with drivers that fully support the graphics
 controller.
 
 If you wait a few months, the new D525 CPUs should be out in consumer
 computers - these are 1.8Ghz (instead of 1.6Ghz) and support DDR3
 (instead of DDR2).  That might help a bit.  Both are limited to 4 gigs.
 
 So, I would bet that 90% of the time it'll be enough if you have a 
 good video card with good drivers.  I'm not an expert on them though, I
 think they are neat though.
 
 There are Atom-based systems available with Nvidia graphics.  Gary might
 want to consider one of those, although it probably won't be as dirt
 cheap or as low-wattage as a Pineview system.  (I have no experience
 with them myself.)


jeez, and to think i was a =hardware= major.  hm.  is there a
website than can explain the pros/cons?

a friend is helping me move from 5 tower cases to two.  money is 
always a concern, but saving watts is more important.

gary

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Re: well, i guess it's time to ask.....

2010-08-19 Thread Gary Kline
On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 10:05:47PM +0200, Roland Smith wrote:
 On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 11:54:53AM -0700, Gary Kline wrote:
  
  i am not planning on watching a movie that is on a DVD-RW but 
  via [say] kmplayer via video stream.  and rather than the std
  'movie-length' of 120 minutes, an hour or less streamed by PBS.
  
  with my 2.4ghz Dell loaded at its usual 0.25 - 0.4, and using
  kmplayer or vlc, the video is jerky or hangs for several seconds.
 
 A 2.4 GHz machine with a decent grahics card should have no problem with
 displaying full screen video, if you are using the XVideo extension. For
 mplayer try '-vo xv' on the mplayer command line, or put 'vo=xv' in
 ~/.mplayer/config. For VLC choose tools-preferences, and in the dialog window
 check Accelerated video output in the Video tab.
 
 It sounds more like a network issue. (you can confirm that if you can play
 files from a local disk without hiccups) Maybe increasing the buffering might
 help. 
 


i actually do have some discs that i BOUGHT.  they are by the late 
scholar, Joseph Campbell who taught literature at Sarah Lawrence or
wehatever and became a mythologist.  I think I have every one of
his books, most of his lectures, and the four dvd's of his 13-hour
broadcast.  they play flawlessly, so it it may be hanging on the
network side.  how can i increase the buffering? say using kmplayer
or vlc?   i've poked around here and there but do not see anyplace
to tune the buffering.  

meanwhile, i will try the 'accelerated video output' with vlc.

thanks!

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Re: well, i guess it's time to ask.....

2010-08-19 Thread Depo Catcher



There are Atom-based systems available with Nvidia graphics.  Gary might
want to consider one of those, although it probably won't be as dirt
cheap or as low-wattage as a Pineview system.  (I have no experience
with them myself.)


jeez, and to think i was a =hardware= major.  hm.  is there a
website than can explain the pros/cons?

a friend is helping me move from 5 tower cases to two.  money is
always a concern, but saving watts is more important.

gary



Money wise for Motherboard, memory and CPU the Atom or 775 (Core 2 Duo) 
will probably be cheapest.
Then i3 and most expensive is i5.  AMD also have options that would 
probably be cheaper, but I'm not familiar with their product line.
I would set your budget of $X and then compare the best system in each 
class you can get for that price.


Power wise; if it's idle, the Atom and i3/i5 should be about the same.  
With 775 (core 2 duo) probably drawing the most.  In fact, in some cases 
the i3/i5 might draw less power at idle:

http://www.servethehome.com/intel-core-i5-650-v-atom-n330-nvida-ion-review/

The other thing to concern is when it's under load, the Atom will be the 
clear winner here.  The i3/i5/c2d can and will draw a good amount under 
load.  Atom doesn't go up much under heavy load, the other systems can 
skyrocket in power usage when hit hard.


The other thing you have to concern is how many devices you'll have 
hooked up to this.  If you need an external video card it's going to be 
drawing more power... as with external NICs, sata, sound, etc
In general I would suggest picking up a board that has most of what you 
need and nothing of what you don't.  For example, I don't use sound on 
my home server, so I always buy a board without integrated sound.
Also the Atom, i3 and i5 all have integrated video in their CPUs.  That 
might save some power if you find one that supports that (and not an 
embedded integrated video)


Performance wise, i3/i5 is winner then 775 and last atom.

This thread has some links to some reviews: 
http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1538918









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Re: well, i guess it's time to ask.....

2010-08-19 Thread Gary Kline
On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 05:24:39PM -0500, Depo Catcher wrote:
 
 Money wise for Motherboard, memory and CPU the Atom or 775 (Core 2 Duo) 
 will probably be cheapest.
 Then i3 and most expensive is i5.  AMD also have options that would 
 probably be cheaper, but I'm not familiar with their product line.
 I would set your budget of $X and then compare the best system in each 
 class you can get for that price.
 
 Power wise; if it's idle, the Atom and i3/i5 should be about the same.  
 With 775 (core 2 duo) probably drawing the most.  In fact, in some cases 
 the i3/i5 might draw less power at idle:
 http://www.servethehome.com/intel-core-i5-650-v-atom-n330-nvida-ion-review/


thanks for the url; i'll check it out when i'm using a GUI MUA.

it looks like i wanted too much out of my next laptop.  looks like
i'll need to wait a few more years to get what i really want:
1st) as a small-footprint computer to use for the speech impaired,
and 2nd) to let me hide [wherever] and stream NOVA or *whatever*
far from the noise and distraction.

i have had the first goal in mind for five years or so.  my hearing
is fine but my speech is impaired, so with kmouth, ksayit or ktts* and 
vi, then using the festival suite, i can type what i want to say
and have the computer speak my words clearly.  ---yes, it takes
some messing-with to have the voices sound good.

in recent months i ran my ideas past a second speech pathologist. she 
trotted out an off-the-shelf Windows device that has pre-programmed
sentences -or- use the touch-screen keyboard to spell out whatever. 
touching a last square lets the computer speak. 

the cost of this dos/win device is $9,000 to $12,000.  the box is
heavy, the screen is brightly lit.  my bias was against the touch 
touch screen.  there was a beep you could turn on if you needed to,
and giving my crummy typing, i did.

the feedback for my free idea was that most people are not computer
savvy and would need support.  so i gave up on going the medical
route and got in touch with the laptop for children.  i learned
that the number of people that my hodge-podge could help is well
into the millions.  that's the only reason i'm still at it.  my 
thinking is that people who can type even with one finger can make
use of the festival+kde software.  either exactly as-is or with
some trivial script(s).


 
 The other thing to concern is when it's under load, the Atom will be the 
 clear winner here.  The i3/i5/c2d can and will draw a good amount under 
 load.  Atom doesn't go up much under heavy load, the other systems can 
 skyrocket in power usage when hit hard.

sounds like the atom processor is the way to go.  --at least when
i'm out i would prefer to not have to hunt for a wall socket:)

 
 The other thing you have to concern is how many devices you'll have 
 hooked up to this.  If you need an external video card it's going to be 
 drawing more power... as with external NICs, sata, sound, etc
 In general I would suggest picking up a board that has most of what you 
 need and nothing of what you don't.  For example, I don't use sound on 
 my home server, so I always buy a board without integrated sound.
 Also the Atom, i3 and i5 all have integrated video in their CPUs.  That 
 might save some power if you find one that supports that (and not an 
 embedded integrated video)
 


i never thought about hooking anything to the kind of computer i'm
thinking of.  this is where less is more.   they had one of these
10 notebooks at costco last spring but it was locked down by cable
and i had to get up from my wheelchair to check it out.  the keys
had a nice feel--maybe 2 to 4mm before the key hit bottom.  the
sound was off so i couldn't get an idea if the speakers would be
loud enough to be heard if i went shopping and had a question for
someone.  

volume was =not= an issue for the windows speech device!  i think
that could have been upped to hear from 50 meters.  --i may have to
just shut up and pony up the $Whatever before going much further.

meanwhile, thanks again for your insights and url's.  before school
starts and  the day swings back into starting during the middle of
the night.  ---can you spell GAK---, in other words, while i still 
have time and energy, maybe the best plan is just Do-It.


 Performance wise, i3/i5 is winner then 775 and last atom.
 
 This thread has some links to some reviews: 
 http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1538918
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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well, i guess it's time to ask.....

2010-08-18 Thread Gary Kline

ok guys, 
i have been waiting for [a] a better/faster/more generally useful
computer as well as =mostly= cheaper unit.  i figured i would wait
until fall to ask, but it's close enough.

can i watch a streamed movie on am atom [[[1.6ghz intel]]] chip.
i have trouble on my 2003 dell that has a 2.4ghz cpu.  it has plenty of
ram, disk, etc.  so i've hesitated.   on my 3.0gh thinkpad, streams fly
flawlessly.  So if i buy one of the notebooks with a 7 - 10 screen,
can i use it for things other than a text-to-speech computer?

how thrifty | cheap should i be?  i'd like to buy the optical device
rather than install via one of those stick memory devices.  i have
never used anything but the disc.  i think it is at least two hundred
bux more, but if it is a must, then so be it.  i've looked for am atom
notebook fo r  200 bux. pretty hard to find, so are there any places i
can trust? 

i saw an A9 tablet with some kind of keyboard that might work as a
speech computer.  this is my real goal, leaving shit and shinola
behind.  but i'm not sure that a tablet would be as useful as a
notebook.  

RESt of the story: i'm using the kde ktt* along with the festival
speech toolkit.  i also have vi/nvi or vim set up with around 125 abbrv
so that people who type slowly can be more efficient.  

gary



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Re: well, i guess it's time to ask.....

2010-08-18 Thread C. Bergström

Gary Kline wrote:
ok guys, 
i have been waiting for [a] a better/faster/more generally useful

computer as well as =mostly= cheaper unit.  i figured i would wait
until fall to ask, but it's close enough.

can i watch a streamed movie on am atom [[[1.6ghz intel]]] chip.
  

(Disclaimer I work for a commercial compiler company)

If you experience problems with performance of Atom I would generally 
not blame the processor.  There are *zero* very well tuned compilers for 
Atom that I'm aware of.  Most are content that the compiler works good 
enough(tm) and it's difficult (impossible) to get the low level timing 
data details out of Intel.  Unless you're hand writing inline asm 
(*cough* ffmpeg) then it's certainly possible the code isn't optimized 
well enough.  Depending on what else the processor is busy with, codec 
type and video size it should certainly possible to stream an average 
sized movie with no problem.  Now can it handle Blu-ray I doubt it...

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Re: well, i guess it's time to ask.....

2010-08-18 Thread C. Bergström

Gary Kline wrote:
ok guys, 
i have been waiting for [a] a better/faster/more generally useful

computer as well as =mostly= cheaper unit.  i figured i would wait
until fall to ask, but it's close enough.

can i watch a streamed movie on am atom [[[1.6ghz intel]]] chip.
i have trouble on my 2003 dell that has a 2.4ghz cpu.
One other quick note.. it's likely that the graphics will make a bigger 
impact in movie performance than the host processor.  (Look at the 
examples of how efficient Tegra2 is at decoding videos..)

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Re: well, i guess it's time to ask.....

2010-08-18 Thread Gonzalo Nemmi
On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 10:10 PM, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote:

 ok guys,
 i have been waiting for [a] a better/faster/more generally useful
 computer as well as =mostly= cheaper unit.  i figured i would wait
 until fall to ask, but it's close enough.

 can i watch a streamed movie on am atom [[[1.6ghz intel]]] chip.
 i have trouble on my 2003 dell that has a 2.4ghz cpu.  it has plenty of
 ram, disk, etc.  so i've hesitated.   on my 3.0gh thinkpad, streams fly
 flawlessly.  So if i buy one of the notebooks with a 7 - 10 screen,
 can i use it for things other than a text-to-speech computer?

 how thrifty | cheap should i be?  i'd like to buy the optical device
 rather than install via one of those stick memory devices.  i have
 never used anything but the disc.  i think it is at least two hundred
 bux more, but if it is a must, then so be it.  i've looked for am atom
 notebook fo r  200 bux. pretty hard to find, so are there any places i
 can trust?

 i saw an A9 tablet with some kind of keyboard that might work as a
 speech computer.  this is my real goal, leaving shit and shinola
 behind.  but i'm not sure that a tablet would be as useful as a
 notebook.

 RESt of the story: i'm using the kde ktt* along with the festival
 speech toolkit.  i also have vi/nvi or vim set up with around 125 abbrv
 so that people who type slowly can be more efficient.

Way OT .. but it just hit me that some folks could benefit from that
vim set up with around 125 abbrv if you posted somewhere ;)

 gary



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Re: well, i guess it's time to ask.....

2010-08-18 Thread Depo Catcher


On 8/18/2010 8:10 PM, Gary Kline wrote:

've hesitated.   on my 3.0gh thinkpad, streams fly
flawlessly.  So if i buy one of the notebooks with a


Stream what kind of movies?  Some video players (like VLC) have hardware 
acceleration that will help a lot if your video card/driver supports it.
Things like Flash based movies might be kind of iffy though since they 
can't take advantage of the video hardware [?].  Once you start moving 
up to high def video you might have some problems, but know a lot of 
Home Theater guys that use Atoms for media centers:

http://hardforum.com/forumdisplay.php?f=103

My gfs Atom 330 plays videos in VLC fine and flash fine, but full screen 
flash drops frames.  This is under WinXP.
The new D510 CPU are faster in benchmarks; it has dual cores with 
hyperthreading.  If you wait a few months, the new D525 CPUs should be 
out in consumer computers - these are 1.8Ghz (instead of 1.6Ghz) and 
support DDR3 (instead of DDR2).  That might help a bit.  Both are 
limited to 4 gigs.


So, I would bet that 90% of the time it'll be enough if you have a good 
video card with good drivers.  I'm not an expert on them though, I think 
they are neat though.


Another options would be to go with an i3/i5 or get a used 775 (core 2) 
system.  My Core2Duo  2.2Ghz runs more than fast enough and can probably 
get them for cheap if you buy them used.

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Re: well, i guess it's time to ask.....

2010-08-18 Thread Charlie Kester

On Wed 18 Aug 2010 at 20:16:51 PDT Depo Catcher wrote:


On 8/18/2010 8:10 PM, Gary Kline wrote:

've hesitated.   on my 3.0gh thinkpad, streams fly
flawlessly.  So if i buy one of the notebooks with a


Stream what kind of movies?  Some video players (like VLC) have 
hardware acceleration that will help a lot if your video card/driver 
supports it.
Things like Flash based movies might be kind of iffy though since 
they can't take advantage of the video hardware [?].  Once you start 
moving up to high def video you might have some problems, but know a 
lot of Home Theater guys that use Atoms for media centers:

http://hardforum.com/forumdisplay.php?f=103

My gfs Atom 330 plays videos in VLC fine and flash fine, but full 
screen flash drops frames.  This is under WinXP.

The new D510 CPU are faster in benchmarks; it has dual cores with
hyperthreading.  


But be aware that the Xorg intel driver in the current portstree does
NOT support the graphics controller built into the D510 and other
Pineview Atoms.  The vesa driver works, but doesn't take advantage of
AGP or other graphics niftiness.

I have one of these myself, and can confirm that downloaded videos play
acceptably well, despite using vesa.  I can't speak to streaming video
performance, however, since I don't use Flash and usually don't watch
online videos.

I've seen reviews of the D510 that say HD video performance is sub-par
even on operating systems with drivers that fully support the graphics
controller.


If you wait a few months, the new D525 CPUs should be out in consumer
computers - these are 1.8Ghz (instead of 1.6Ghz) and support DDR3
(instead of DDR2).  That might help a bit.  Both are limited to 4 gigs.

So, I would bet that 90% of the time it'll be enough if you have a 
good video card with good drivers.  I'm not an expert on them though, I

think they are neat though.


There are Atom-based systems available with Nvidia graphics.  Gary might
want to consider one of those, although it probably won't be as dirt
cheap or as low-wattage as a Pineview system.  (I have no experience
with them myself.)
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Re: Why my Firefox doesn't display Cyrillic fonts well?

2009-11-28 Thread S4mmael
webfont works well. You can also install ttf fonts from windows.Or use Ubuntu).

2009/11/28 Yuri y...@rawbw.com:
 Boris Samorodov wrote:

 Install x11-fonts/webfonts and do apropriate changes to xorg.conf.
 I have webfonts right after misc fonts at xorg.conf. That always
 gave me good results.


 I placed 'webfonts' into xorg.conf after 'misc' but firefox still shows
 Cyrillic texts in a messed up way. Also in Belarussian texts letters і and ў
 stand out (ex. http://be-x-old.wikipedia.org).
 And Opera shows Cyrillic texts very neatly. I don't quite understand what
 causes such difference.

 Ubuntu Linux doesn't have such problem at all, not in firefox and not in
 opera.

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Re: Why my Firefox doesn't display Cyrillic fonts well?

2009-11-28 Thread Yuri

S4mmael wrote:

webfont works well. You can also install ttf fonts from windows.Or use Ubuntu).
  


webfonts is installed on my system and doesn't work in ff, as I 
mentioned before.
My question is why ff shows Cyrillic so poorly, as opposed opera on the 
same system, and you didn't answer it.


Thanks,
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Re: Why my Firefox doesn't display Cyrillic fonts well?

2009-11-27 Thread Yuri

Boris Samorodov wrote:

Install x11-fonts/webfonts and do apropriate changes to xorg.conf.
I have webfonts right after misc fonts at xorg.conf. That always
gave me good results.
  


I placed 'webfonts' into xorg.conf after 'misc' but firefox still shows 
Cyrillic texts in a messed up way. Also in Belarussian texts letters і 
and ў stand out (ex. http://be-x-old.wikipedia.org).
And Opera shows Cyrillic texts very neatly. I don't quite understand 
what causes such difference.


Ubuntu Linux doesn't have such problem at all, not in firefox and not in 
opera.


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What VM does FreeBSD run well under

2009-10-31 Thread stan
I am planing on rebuilding my laptop shortly. I am going to put Ubuntu 9.10
on as the base OS, and I want to be able to run various versions of FreebSD
as guest OS'es under one of the free (EG not VMWare) virtual machine
choices.

Which of these does FreebSD run well under?

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Re: What VM does FreeBSD run well under

2009-10-31 Thread Robert Joosten
Hi,

 Which of these does FreebSD run well under?

It runs okay under virtualbox.

Cheers,
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Re: What VM does FreeBSD run well under

2009-10-31 Thread stan
On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 04:19:21PM +0100, Robert Joosten wrote:
 Hi,
 
  Which of these does FreebSD run well under?
 
 It runs okay under virtualbox.
 
OK, thanks. I tried this a couple of months ago, and had troube witj either
OpenBSD, or FrebSD under VirtualBox. Given your commnet, my problems must
have been with OpenBSD.

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Re: What VM does FreeBSD run well under

2009-10-31 Thread Randy Belk
On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 10:14 AM, stan st...@panix.com wrote:
 I am planing on rebuilding my laptop shortly. I am going to put Ubuntu 9.10
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I have tried FreeBSD 7.2 on both VmWare and Virtualbox. Just make sure
you have NTP running, I have experienced time issues. ,




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Re: What VM does FreeBSD run well under

2009-10-31 Thread Warren Block

On Sat, 31 Oct 2009, stan wrote:


I am planing on rebuilding my laptop shortly. I am going to put Ubuntu 9.10
on as the base OS, and I want to be able to run various versions of FreebSD
as guest OS'es under one of the free (EG not VMWare) virtual machine
choices.

Which of these does FreebSD run well under?


Although I can't say I've tested it much, FreeBSD 7 seems to run fine on 
qemu.


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Re: What VM does FreeBSD run well under

2009-10-31 Thread Peter Thoenen
Virtual Box runs it great, both as a host and a guest (its also in the 
port collection)

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Re: Why my Firefox doesn't display Cyrillic fonts well?

2009-10-02 Thread Boris Samorodov
On Thu, 01 Oct 2009 11:19:20 -0700 Yuri wrote:

 I have this problem for a long time. Firefox shows all Cyrillic fonts
 with very large spaces between letters, almost the same as the real
 space character. So it's very difficult to read. Interestingly, Opera
 shows the same pages very neatly in different font looking very
 well. I attach here fonts section from my xorg.conf.

 What's wrong in my configuration?

 Yuri


 --- fonts section from xorg.conf ---
 Section Files
ModulePath   /usr/local/lib/xorg/modules
FontPath /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/misc/
FontPath /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/
FontPath /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/OTF
FontPath /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/
FontPath /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/
FontPath /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/
FontPath   /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType/
FontPath /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/tmu/
FontPath   /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic/
FontPath  /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/dejavu
 EndSection

 --- cyrillic fonts installed ---
 font-cronyx-cyrillic-1.0.0 X.Org Cronyx Cyrillic font
 font-misc-cyrillic-1.0.0 X.Org miscellaneous Cyrillic font
 font-screen-cyrillic-1.0.1 X.Org Screen Cyrillic font
 font-winitzki-cyrillic-1.0.0 X.Org Winitzki Cyrillic font
 xorg-fonts-cyrillic-7.4 X.Org Cyrillic bitmap fonts

Install x11-fonts/webfonts and do apropriate changes to xorg.conf.
I have webfonts right after misc fonts at xorg.conf. That always
gave me good results.

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Re: Why my Firefox doesn't display Cyrillic fonts well?

2009-10-02 Thread Yuri

Boris Samorodov wrote:

Install x11-fonts/webfonts and do apropriate changes to xorg.conf.
I have webfonts right after misc fonts at xorg.conf. That always
gave me good results.
  



Boris, Thanks for the advice.
I did what you suggested but there is no visible change.

Yuri

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Re: Why my Firefox doesn't display Cyrillic fonts well?

2009-10-02 Thread Eugene L.

Yuri ?:

Boris Samorodov wrote:

Install x11-fonts/webfonts and do apropriate changes to xorg.conf.
I have webfonts right after misc fonts at xorg.conf. That always
gave me good results.



Boris, Thanks for the advice.
I did what you suggested but there is no visible change.

Yuri

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Well, personally I used the apparently old, as I was informed, method, 
described in the handbook, e.g. I borrowed the fonts from the Windows 
system, mapped them with the appropriate tool (read the handbook) and 
edited xorg.conf .

Worked nicely, the default font was revolting ^_^
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Why my Firefox doesn't display Cyrillic fonts well?

2009-10-01 Thread Yuri
I have this problem for a long time. Firefox shows all Cyrillic fonts 
with very large spaces between letters, almost the same as the real 
space character. So it's very difficult to read. Interestingly, Opera 
shows the same pages very neatly in different font looking very well. I 
attach here fonts section from my xorg.conf.


What's wrong in my configuration?

Yuri


--- fonts section from xorg.conf ---
Section Files
   ModulePath   /usr/local/lib/xorg/modules
   FontPath /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/misc/
   FontPath /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/
   FontPath /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/OTF
   FontPath /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/
   FontPath /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/
   FontPath /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/
   FontPath   /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType/
   FontPath /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/tmu/
   FontPath   /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic/
   FontPath  /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/dejavu
EndSection

--- cyrillic fonts installed ---
font-cronyx-cyrillic-1.0.0 X.Org Cronyx Cyrillic font
font-misc-cyrillic-1.0.0 X.Org miscellaneous Cyrillic font
font-screen-cyrillic-1.0.1 X.Org Screen Cyrillic font
font-winitzki-cyrillic-1.0.0 X.Org Winitzki Cyrillic font
xorg-fonts-cyrillic-7.4 X.Org Cyrillic bitmap fonts

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Re: Lenovo s9e or well supported netbook

2009-05-20 Thread Peter Harrison
Tuesday, 19 May 2009 at  6:38:05 -0600, Tim Judd said:
 On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 5:32 AM, Peter Harrison
 peter.piggy...@virgin.netwrote:
 
  Is anyone running FreeBSD on a Lenovo s9e? I'm in the market for a netbook,
  and have seen these fairly cheap but can't find anything on Google about
  anyone trying FreeBSD on one.
 
  I'd rather not run Linux, so can anyone share experiences of the Lenovo, or
  suggest a better supported netbook?
 
  Thanks,
 
  Peter Harrison
 
 
 
 Look at the T-series.  Google can probably confirm the general answer that
 they run unixen well.  The X series I think work, but you might and might
 not have better success with them.
 
 I use BSD on a Lenovo T60 with no problems. The USB bio-reader isn't
 recognized and sometimes the wpi0 looses it's link (but it looses it
 sometimes in Windows too).  Bring the link back up by
   ifconfig wpi0 up scan
 
 I don't know about the other series, but the T and X have got lots of google
 hits last time I checked.

Thanks for the suggestion Tim - and everyone else who replied. Sorry for not 
responding earlier.

I can certainly pick up a T23 reasonably cheaply, but I was thinking more of 
something kind of netbook sized - ie. with a 9in screen. Something that's a bit 
easier to lug around.

The s9e runs an Intel 945GSE chipset apparently. Any thoughts on that?

Thanks for the help.


Peter Harrison.
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Lenovo s9e or well supported netbook

2009-05-19 Thread Peter Harrison
Is anyone running FreeBSD on a Lenovo s9e? I'm in the market for a netbook, and 
have seen these fairly cheap but can't find anything on Google about anyone 
trying FreeBSD on one.

I'd rather not run Linux, so can anyone share experiences of the Lenovo, or 
suggest a better supported netbook?

Thanks,

Peter Harrison
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Re: Lenovo s9e or well supported netbook

2009-05-19 Thread Leslie Jensen


 Is anyone running FreeBSD on a Lenovo s9e? I'm in the market for a
 netbook, and have seen these fairly cheap but can't find anything on
 Google about anyone trying FreeBSD on one.

 I'd rather not run Linux, so can anyone share experiences of the Lenovo,
 or suggest a better supported netbook?

 Thanks,

 Peter Harrison
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I've tried on a Lenovo R500. Install went ok but ACPI did give me some
problems.

I also tried PC-BSD but it wouldn't boot from install DVD.

/Leslie





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Re: Lenovo s9e or well supported netbook

2009-05-19 Thread Alexandr Matveev

Peter Harrison wrote:

Is anyone running FreeBSD on a Lenovo s9e? I'm in the market for a netbook, and 
have seen these fairly cheap but can't find anything on Google about anyone 
trying FreeBSD on one.

I'd rather not run Linux, so can anyone share experiences of the Lenovo, or 
suggest a better supported netbook?

  

 I'm use FreeBSD on my Lenovo T61. All works perfect.

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Re: Lenovo s9e or well supported netbook

2009-05-19 Thread Tim Judd
On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 5:32 AM, Peter Harrison
peter.piggy...@virgin.netwrote:

 Is anyone running FreeBSD on a Lenovo s9e? I'm in the market for a netbook,
 and have seen these fairly cheap but can't find anything on Google about
 anyone trying FreeBSD on one.

 I'd rather not run Linux, so can anyone share experiences of the Lenovo, or
 suggest a better supported netbook?

 Thanks,

 Peter Harrison



Look at the T-series.  Google can probably confirm the general answer that
they run unixen well.  The X series I think work, but you might and might
not have better success with them.

I use BSD on a Lenovo T60 with no problems. The USB bio-reader isn't
recognized and sometimes the wpi0 looses it's link (but it looses it
sometimes in Windows too).  Bring the link back up by
  ifconfig wpi0 up scan

I don't know about the other series, but the T and X have got lots of google
hits last time I checked.
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Re: Lenovo s9e or well supported netbook

2009-05-19 Thread Wojciech Puchar



I'm use FreeBSD on my Lenovo T61. All works perfect.


and T23



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MPlayer experiment not working out well

2009-04-12 Thread Manish Jain

Robert Huff wrote:

Erik Gustafson writes:

  

 Have you tried the ports multimedia/mplayer or multimedia/vlc? I
 can't live without mplayer on my desktop and it usually just
 works on everything i try to play.



I use mplayer too, but (as far as I know) the list of supported
codecs hasn't changed in several years.  That's mostly not a
problem, but there are certain file types (.wmvs I have been told
are handled correctly by Windows Media Player 10/11; this may be a
DRM thing) that completely do not play.

  

 If you want a fancy GUI, search in ports/multimedia for mplayer
 and you will find kde-mplayer, gnome-mplayer and friends.



Mplayer has a gui (gmplayer) but it's pretty minimal.


Robert Huff


  


Hello Robert / Erik / All,

The mplayer installation went pretty smoothly - no problems with that. 
And the gui is more than acceptable - I don't need the gnome-mplayer 
add-on. But the application has failed to play any file/CD/DVD for me so 
far. The typical complaint for unencrypted vob files/iso-images is 'Too 
many packets in the buffer', whereas for encrypted DVD's the application 
produces garbage. (Please note it is willing to take dvd://1 on the 
commandline but not dvdnav://1, even though libdvd[nav/read/css] are all 
installed on my system). My DVD device in mplayer is /dev/dvd 
(permissions 644), which is a symlink to /dev/acd0 (permissions 444).


For .dat files copies straight from CD's, the playback seems to occur at 
the rate of one frame per annum. On more than a couple of occasions, I 
remember getting some warning message to the effect 'gl missing : be 
prepared for a severe performance penalty'.


Needless to say, my spirits are dampened after all the initial 
enthusiasm and effort. Maybe somebody can point out what might be wrong 
with my setup. Following is the output of my 'make showconfig' in 
/usr/ports/multimedia/mplayer :
=== The following configuration options are available for 
mplayer-0.99.11_12:

 DEBUG=off Include debug symbols in mplayer's binary files
 RTCPU=on Let mplayer dynamically check for CPU features
 OCFLAGS=on Use optimized compiler flags
 SIMD=on Allow mplayer to use vector engines (MMX...)
 IPV6=off Include inet6 network support
 X11=on Enable X11 support for mplayer's video output
 X11XV=on X11 video drivers: XV
 X11DGA=on X11 video drivers: DGA
 X11GL=on X11 video drivers: OpenGL
 X11XIN=on X11 video drivers: Xinerama
 X11VM=off X11 VidMode support
 GUI=on Enable GTK2 graphical user interface with X11
 SDL=off Enable SDL video output
 VIDIX=off Enable VIDIX video output on supported archs
 SKINS=on Force dependency on mplayer-skins
 FREETYPE=on Use freetype for OSD fonts (TrueType!)
 RTC=off Add support for kernel real time clock timing
 ARTS=off Enable KDE sound system support
 ESOUND=on Enable GNOME esound support
 JACK=off Enable JackIt audio server support
 NAS=off Enable NAS sound server support
 OPENAL=off Enable OpenAL sound support
 LIBUNGIF=on Enable gif support
 AALIB=off Enable aalib support
 LIBCACA=off Enable libcaca support
 SVGALIB=off Enable svgalib support
 LIBDV=off Enable libdv support
 MAD=on Enable mad MPEG audio engine support
 DTS=on Enable DTS audio codec support
 LIBMPCDEC=off Enable libmpcdec support
 LADSPA=off Enable LADSPA plugin support
 SPEEX=off Enable speex audio codec support
 TREMOR=on Use built-in tremor instead of libvorbis
 XMMS=on Enable XMMS plugin support
 THEORA=off Enable ogg theora video support
 WIN32=on Enable win32 codec set on the IA32 arch
 AMR=off Enable AMR audio codec support
 X264=on Enable x264 (H.264) video codec support
 XANIM=on Enable xanim DLL support
 XVID=on Enable XVID video codec support
 REALPLAYER=off Enable real player plugin
 LIVEMEDIA=off Enable LIVE555 streaming support
 SMB=off Enable Samba input support
 FRIBIDI=off Enable FriBiDi support
 LIRC=off Enable lirc support
 LIBCDIO=off Enable libcdio support
 CDPARANOIA=off Enable cdparanoia support
 LIBLZO=off Enable external liblzo library
 JOYSTICK=off Enable joystick support
=== Use 'make config' to modify these settings


In mplayer's Preferences/codecs, I am using the DirectShow codecs. Could 
that be a problem ?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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Re: MPlayer experiment not working out well

2009-04-12 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 05:04:52PM +0530, Manish Jain wrote:
 
 The mplayer installation went pretty smoothly - no problems with that. 
 And the gui is more than acceptable - I don't need the gnome-mplayer 
 add-on. But the application has failed to play any file/CD/DVD for me so 
 far. The typical complaint for unencrypted vob files/iso-images is 'Too 
 many packets in the buffer', whereas for encrypted DVD's the application 
 produces garbage. (Please note it is willing to take dvd://1 on the 
 commandline but not dvdnav://1, even though libdvd[nav/read/css] are all 
 installed on my system). My DVD device in mplayer is /dev/dvd 
 (permissions 644), which is a symlink to /dev/acd0 (permissions 444).

I'm pretty sure that you need write access to the (real) DVD device as
well. A good way to do that would be to create a group named e.g. cdrom,
and add yourself to that group. Next you need to set the following in
/etc/devfs.conf: 

own acd0 root:cdrom
permacd0 0660
linkacd0 cdrom
linkacd0 dvd
 
 For .dat files copies straight from CD's, the playback seems to occur at 
 the rate of one frame per annum. On more than a couple of occasions, I 
 remember getting some warning message to the effect 'gl missing : be 
 prepared for a severe performance penalty'.

What video output are you using? If supported by you graphics card
driver, use the xv video device (vo=xv in ~/.mplayer/config).
 
 Needless to say, my spirits are dampened after all the initial 
 enthusiasm and effort. Maybe somebody can point out what might be wrong 
 with my setup. Following is the output of my 'make showconfig' in 
 /usr/ports/multimedia/mplayer :
  === The following configuration options are available for 

The config looks OK.

 In mplayer's Preferences/codecs, I am using the DirectShow codecs. Could 
 that be a problem. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Are those the binary-only windows codecs? I've always run mplayer with
none in those preferences. Works fine here.

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Issues with OpenLDAP 2.4.15 and FreeBSD 8.0-CUrrent as well as with FreeBSD 7.2-PRE using DB 4.7

2009-03-31 Thread O. Hartmann
I reported this earlier here and now I'm about to file a PR. Before 
that, I will ask whether there is a solution out here or someone can 
give a hint in case I ran into a hidden misconfiguration.


First I see on all FreeBSD flavours (7.2 and 8.0) a coredump of LDAP 
clients when doing ldapsearch, ldappasswd. The client performs well, but 
at the end it terminates with some SIG 11.


Another very severe issue is with Db 4.7 and OpenLDAP 2.4.15 as taken 
from ports. On FreeBSD 7.1/7.2 I was running a OpenLDAP 1.4.15 server, 
used with DB 4.6. Several experimental boxes with FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT 
and FreeBSD 7.1/7.2 were referring to that LDAP server for user 
authetication. After backing up the database, installing DB 4.7, 
recompiling everything that depends on DB 4.X, recompiling at last 
OpenLDAP and doing a Db recover ends up in a problem. The clients which 
were willing to perform logins via ssh by autheticating users via this 
LDAP server refuses now authentication! The same client authenticates 
the users of the LDAP server via LDAP authentication when accessing 
protected webpages served by lighttpd. I also can enumerate /home with 
users taken from the LDAP server, except login in via ssh. I did not 
change sshd's config, so I suspect something else. Watching console log 
and slapd log I see no issues aside the slapd log, but console and sshd 
log tell something about an unknown user with uid . Googling for 
this error I find a lot of sshd/nss/ldap related issues - but no 
solution. Doinf a 'sudo' or 'su' on the same machine to users residing 
on LDAP db is possible. But connection via ssh isn't possible.


Another very strange behaviour occurs on FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT serving as 
OpenLDAP 2.4.15 server with cysrus-sasl compiled in and DB 4.7. 
Authentication to this server, even from the local host, takes 
approximately 20 - 30 seconds, connecting LUMA for administering also 
takes that long, even showing up the DIT in LUMA takes unconveniently 
long times to perform. This happens when this server was updated from 
FreeBSD 7.2-PRE to FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT with all the stuff completely 
fresh installed. Before the upgrade, the OpenLDAP server was running 
2.4.15 with DB 4.7 as well as it does now under FreeBSD 8.0-CUR.


Well, even with fresh standard installations taken from the templates 
when using nss_ldap/pam_ldap/OpenLDAP shows those strange issues on all 
mentioned boxes and OS flavours.


Now I think I ran into a severe issue with either OpenLDAP 2.4.15 and/or 
FreeBSD 8.0.


Regards,
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Re: Issues with OpenLDAP 2.4.15 and FreeBSD 8.0-CUrrent as well as with FreeBSD 7.2-PRE using DB 4.7

2009-03-31 Thread Bartosz Stec

O. Hartmann pisze:
I reported this earlier here and now I'm about to file a PR. Before 
that, I will ask whether there is a solution out here or someone can 
give a hint in case I ran into a hidden misconfiguration.


First I see on all FreeBSD flavours (7.2 and 8.0) a coredump of LDAP 
clients when doing ldapsearch, ldappasswd. The client performs well, 
but at the end it terminates with some SIG 11.


That's really funny when ldapadd just do what you want it to do, and 
gives you core dump instead of bye bye ;) I have the same issue with 
FreeBSD 7.2 (I'm not using OpenLDAP on CURRENT). From my observations 
this behaviour depends on options checked with 'make config'. SIG 11 
occurs with default settings, so I checked ONLY bdb, perl and SASL (just 
what I needed for shared address book). and now it is working like a 
charm. However it's not a SOLUTION for this problem, especially when you 
need other options from config.


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Re: Issues with OpenLDAP 2.4.15 and FreeBSD 8.0-CUrrent as well as with FreeBSD 7.2-PRE using DB 4.7

2009-03-31 Thread Thierry Lacoste

 First I see on all FreeBSD flavours (7.2 and 8.0) a coredump of LDAP
 clients when doing ldapsearch, ldappasswd. The client performs  
well, but

 at the end it terminates with some SIG 11.
http://www.mail-archive.com/openldap-softw...@openldap.org/msg15161.html

Regards,
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Well, almost back to normal....

2009-02-19 Thread Gary Kline
Guys,

Anybody know what I have to rebuild/fix to get rid of the
following error output:


Xlib:  extension Generic Event Extension missing on display :0.0.
Xlib:  extension Generic Event Extension missing on display :0.0.
Xlib:  extension Generic Event Extension missing on display :0.0.


I had a system crash and had to reboot via using /boot/kernel.prev,
then was able to do a complete upgrade to the latest 7.1; then did a 
wholesale upgrade.  After 4 days it finished.  I Did an 
X -configure to get a new xorg . conf and thought everything was Fixed.
Still, whenever I initiate a new Konsole; whenever I ssh in from
elsewhere, I get the Xlib missing on display 0.0 errs.What' is
still not right?

[back to thesis.  hope some of you knows what's going on with this!

tia,

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Re: Well, almost back to normal....

2009-02-19 Thread matt donovan
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 1:43 PM, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote:

 Guys,

 Anybody know what I have to rebuild/fix to get rid of the
 following error output:


 Xlib:  extension Generic Event Extension missing on display :0.0.
 Xlib:  extension Generic Event Extension missing on display :0.0.
 Xlib:  extension Generic Event Extension missing on display :0.0.


 I had a system crash and had to reboot via using /boot/kernel.prev,
 then was able to do a complete upgrade to the latest 7.1; then did a
 wholesale upgrade.  After 4 days it finished.  I Did an
 X -configure to get a new xorg . conf and thought everything was Fixed.
 Still, whenever I initiate a new Konsole; whenever I ssh in from
 elsewhere, I get the Xlib missing on display 0.0 errs.What' is
 still not right?

 [back to thesis.  hope some of you knows what's going on with this!

 tia,

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nothing the xserver does not support that extension yet so that is a normal
thing as of right now for Xorg
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Re: Well, almost back to normal....

2009-02-19 Thread Matthew Seaman

Gary Kline wrote:

Guys,

Anybody know what I have to rebuild/fix to get rid of the
following error output:


Xlib:  extension Generic Event Extension missing on display :0.0.
Xlib:  extension Generic Event Extension missing on display :0.0.
Xlib:  extension Generic Event Extension missing on display :0.0.




This is apparently harmless.  It's happened because development of 
Xlib has got a bit ahead of development of the X server -- so Xlib

incorporates features not yet released in X server.

The story is this will be fixed when xorg-server-1.6 hits the tree.
That could be at any moment.  In the mean time, just ignore the 
excess verbiage.


Cheers,

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Re: well, blew it... sed or perl q again.

2008-12-31 Thread Karl Vogel
 On Tue, 30 Dec 2008 11:31:14 -0800, 
 Gary Kline kl...@thought.org said:

G The problem is that there are many, _many_ embedded A
G HREF=http://whatever Site/A in my hundreds, or thousands, or
G files.  I only want to delete the http://junkfoo.com lines, _not_
G the other Href links.

   Use perl.  You'll want the i option to do case-insensitive matching,
   plus m for matching that could span multiple lines; the first
   quoted line above shows one of several places where a URL can cross
   a line-break.

   You might want to leave the originals completely alone.  I never trust
   programs to modify files in place:

 you% mkdir /tmp/work
 you% find . -type f -print | xargs grep -li http://junkfoo.com  FILES
 you% pax -rwdv -pe /tmp/work  FILES

   Your perl script can just read FILES and overwrite the stuff in the new
   directory.  You'll want to slurp the entire file into memory so you catch
   any URL that spans multiple lines.  Try the script below, it works for
   input like this:

  This
  a HREF=http://junkfoo.com;
 Site/A should go away too.

  And so should
  a HREF=
http://junkfoo.com/;
   Site/A this

  And finally a HREF=http://junkfoo.com/;Site/A this

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#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;

my $URL = 'href=(.*?)http://junkfoo.com/*;';
my $contents;
my $fh;
my $infile;
my $outfile;

while () {
chomp;
$infile = $_;

s{^./}{/tmp/};
$outfile = $_;

open ($fh,  $infile) or die $infile;
$contents = do { local $/; $fh };
close ($fh);

$contents =~ s{  # substitute ...
a(.*?)  # ... URL start
$URL # ... actual link
(.*?)# ... min # of chars including newline
/a # ... until we end
  }
  { }gixms;  # ... with a single space

open ($fh,  $outfile) or die $outfile;
print $fh $contents;
close ($fh);
}

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Re: well, blew it... sed or perl q again.

2008-12-31 Thread Gary Kline
On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 03:20:14PM -0500, Karl Vogel wrote:
  On Tue, 30 Dec 2008 11:31:14 -0800, 
  Gary Kline kl...@thought.org said:
 
 G The problem is that there are many, _many_ embedded A
 G HREF=http://whatever Site/A in my hundreds, or thousands, or
 G files.  I only want to delete the http://junkfoo.com lines, _not_
 G the other Href links.
 
Use perl.  You'll want the i option to do case-insensitive matching,
plus m for matching that could span multiple lines; the first
quoted line above shows one of several places where a URL can cross
a line-break.
 
You might want to leave the originals completely alone.  I never trust
programs to modify files in place:
 
  you% mkdir /tmp/work
  you% find . -type f -print | xargs grep -li http://junkfoo.com  FILES
  you% pax -rwdv -pe /tmp/work  FILES
^^^

pax is like cpio, isn't it?

anyway, yes, i'll ponder this.  i [mis]-spent hours
undoing something bizarre that my scrub.c binary did
to directories, turning foo and bar, (and scores
more)
into foo and foo.bar, bar and bar.bak.  the bak were 
the saved directories.  the foo, bar were bizarre. i
couldn't write/cp/mv over them.  had to carefully 
rm -f foo; mv foo.bar foo [et cetera]..

then i scp'd my files to two other computers.
(*mumcle)

 
Your perl script can just read FILES and overwrite the stuff in the new
directory.  You'll want to slurp the entire file into memory so you catch
any URL that spans multiple lines.  Try the script below, it works for
input like this:
 
   This
   a HREF=http://junkfoo.com;
  Site/A should go away too.
 
   And so should
   a HREF=
 http://junkfoo.com/;
Site/A this
 
   And finally a HREF=http://junkfoo.com/;Site/A this
 
 -- 
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 The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
 --item for a lull in conversation
 
 ---
 #!/usr/bin/perl -w
 
 use strict;
 
 my $URL = 'href=(.*?)http://junkfoo.com/*;';
 my $contents;
 my $fh;
 my $infile;
 my $outfile;
 
 while () {
 chomp;
 $infile = $_;
 
 s{^./}{/tmp/};
 $outfile = $_;
 
 open ($fh,  $infile) or die $infile;
 $contents = do { local $/; $fh };
 close ($fh);
 
 $contents =~ s{  # substitute ...
 a(.*?)  # ... URL start
 $URL # ... actual link
 (.*?)# ... min # of chars including newline
 /a # ... until we end
   }
   { }gixms;  # ... with a single space
 
 open ($fh,  $outfile) or die $outfile;
 print $fh $contents;
 close ($fh);
 }
 
 exit(0);
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well, blew it... sed or perl q again.

2008-12-30 Thread Gary Kline
Guys,

Someone send a sed website that i thought i had bookmarked on
firefox3.  I don't see it in history; it is not b'marked.
This question may not be do-able in sed, I don't know.
BEen searching around for over an hour and a half; have tried
things that have failed in my /tmp/test directory; time to
ask the list.

The problem is that there are many, _many_ embedded 
A HREF=http://whatever Site/A in my hundreds, or
thousands, or files.  I only want to delete the
http://junkfoo.com lines, _not_ the other Href links.

Which would be best to use, given that a backup is critical?
sed or perl?

tia, as always, 

gary



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Re: well, blew it... sed or perl q again.

2008-12-30 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 11:31:14AM -0800, Gary Kline wrote:
   The problem is that there are many, _many_ embedded 
   A HREF=http://whatever Site/A in my hundreds, or
   thousands, or files.  I only want to delete the
   http://junkfoo.com lines, _not_ the other Href links.
 
   Which would be best to use, given that a backup is critical?
   sed or perl?

IMHO, perl with the -i option to do in-place editing with backups. You
could also use the -p option to loop over files. See perlrun(1).

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Re: well, blew it... sed or perl q again.

2008-12-30 Thread Gary Kline
On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 09:16:23PM +0100, Roland Smith wrote:
 On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 11:31:14AM -0800, Gary Kline wrote:
  The problem is that there are many, _many_ embedded 
  A HREF=http://whatever Site/A in my hundreds, or
  thousands, or files.  I only want to delete the
  http://junkfoo.com lines, _not_ the other Href links.
  
  Which would be best to use, given that a backup is critical?
  sed or perl?
 
 IMHO, perl with the -i option to do in-place editing with backups. You
 could also use the -p option to loop over files. See perlrun(1).
 
 Roland


All right, then is this the right syntax.  In other words, do
I need the double quotes to match the http: string?

  perl -pi.bak -e 'print unless /m/http:/ || eof; close ARGV if eof' *

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Re: well, blew it... sed or perl q again.

2008-12-30 Thread David Kelly
On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 12:51:31PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote:
 On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 09:16:23PM +0100, Roland Smith wrote:
  On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 11:31:14AM -0800, Gary Kline wrote:
 The problem is that there are many, _many_ embedded 
 A HREF=http://whatever Site/A in my hundreds, or
 thousands, or files.  I only want to delete the
 http://junkfoo.com lines, _not_ the other Href links.
   
 Which would be best to use, given that a backup is critical?
 sed or perl?
  
  IMHO, perl with the -i option to do in-place editing with backups. You
  could also use the -p option to loop over files. See perlrun(1).
  
  Roland
 
 
   All right, then is this the right syntax.  In other words, do
   I need the double quotes to match the http: string?
 
   perl -pi.bak -e 'print unless /m/http:/ || eof; close ARGV if eof' *

In years past I used fetch(1) to download the day's page from a comic
strip site, awk to extract the URL of the day's comic strip, and fetch
again to put a copy of the comic strip in my archive. This application
sounds similar.

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