On Sun 28 Feb 2010 at 10:49:23 PST Brandon Falk wrote:
Hello there FreeBSD people,
Why is it that FreeBSD is so far behind Linux in popularity? The fact
that lots of companies are not very supportive of FreeBSD (ex. NVIDIA
and ATI 64-bit drivers) is really starting to bother me. I guess I
On Sun 28 Feb 2010 at 16:26:46 PST Brett Glass wrote:
At 11:53 AM 2/28/2010, Jamie wrote:
In BSD (DragonflyBSD,FreeBSD,OpenBSD) there is a real attitude
problem, the idea seems to be GNU sucks and you should use BSD
alternatives.
The problem is with the licensing. Those
On Fri 19 Feb 2010 at 09:27:33 PST spellberg_robert wrote:
apparently [ from what i read ], statistically, freebsd_people are not
musicians, either. neither am i; although i --did-- take violin
lessons as a youngster. so, make mine bob wills or jascha heifetx,
please.
Heh, Bob Wills is still
On Mon 08 Feb 2010 at 17:17:39 PST Chuck Robey wrote:
Charlie Kester wrote:
I recently installed FreeBSD on a system based on Intel's latest Atom
processor -- the so-called Mount Olive motherboard. According to
my Kill-a-Watt meter, it maxes out at 25W. It's cheap (~$80 for the
motherboard
On Sun 07 Feb 2010 at 18:22:39 PST Michiel Overtoom wrote:
On Wednesday 27 January 2010 11:46:52 Charlie Kester wrote:
Not the cheapest way to heat a room, but it's probably the most fun!
I measured the power consumption of my FreeBSD system, and it's 80
watts usually, 100 watts while doing
On Thu 04 Feb 2010 at 21:07:28 PST Chuck Robey wrote:
Amarok just wouldn't build, a C++ compile error. I *do* know c++, but
I'm just no expert in it, so troubleshooting C++ isn'[t my first choice
(hell, I truly dislike C++ for the specific reason that it's hard to
troubleshoot, even for
On Tue 02 Feb 2010 at 16:04:51 PST Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
On Tue, 2 Feb 2010 15:18:41 -0800, Charlie Kester corky1...@comcast.net wrote:
On Tue 02 Feb 2010 at 14:34:42 PST Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
I've been trying Rhythmbox too lately. It also recognizes IDv3 tags,
has playlist support
On Wed 27 Jan 2010 at 02:02:56 PST james michael wrote:
soon you will be designing your room to hold as many computers as
possible without making it super hot. currently I 3 computers in a 10
by 10 room that keeps about 60-70 F without any outside heat.
Not the cheapest way to heat a room, but
On Wed 27 Jan 2010 at 04:16:05 PST Dag-Erling Smrgrav wrote:
Charlie Kester corky1...@comcast.net writes:
Not the cheapest way to heat a room, but it's probably the most fun!
Elementary thermodynamics: a computer and an electric heater produce the
exact same amount of heat per unit
