Re: 8.2-RELEASE-amd64.iso weirdness (help!)

2011-08-02 Thread Michael Powell
Conrad J. Sabatier wrote: > I burned a copy of FreeBSD-8.2-RELEASE-amd64-disc1.iso to CD. It > booted and ran OK, but I encountered some rather odd behavior in a few > places: > > As another user mentioned elsewhere, the packages distributions are > beyond minimal, consisting only of some basic

Re: can't build teTeX port in FreeBSD 8.2 amd64

2011-08-02 Thread Antonio Olivares
@all I notice that some of the packages that *are* missing have different names, for instance pdfnup is available on FreeBSD ports -> /usr/ports/print/pdfjam/ psnup is available on FreeBSD ports -> /usr/ports/print/psutils-letter/ These are automagically installed if one installs TeXLive full s

Re: password hash weaknesses in FreeBSD ?

2011-08-02 Thread RW
On Tue, 2 Aug 2011 17:36:12 +0100 マンロークリストファ wrote: > The crypt program to hash passwords uses md5 /DES/blowfish for > password hashing as I have read in the handbook. DES and md5 are > widely regarded to be broken (certainly DES). I would prefer password > hashing to be done using salted SHA1 / S

Re: 8.2-RELEASE-amd64.iso weirdness (help!)

2011-08-02 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 2 Aug 2011 18:06:06 -0500, Conrad J. Sabatier wrote: > As another user mentioned elsewhere, the packages distributions are > beyond minimal, consisting only of some basic documentation in a > variety of locales or languages. No software packages at all. Since the documentation has been mo

8.2-RELEASE-amd64.iso weirdness (help!)

2011-08-02 Thread Conrad J. Sabatier
I burned a copy of FreeBSD-8.2-RELEASE-amd64-disc1.iso to CD. It booted and ran OK, but I encountered some rather odd behavior in a few places: As another user mentioned elsewhere, the packages distributions are beyond minimal, consisting only of some basic documentation in a variety of locales o

Re: can't build teTeX port in FreeBSD 8.2 amd64

2011-08-02 Thread Antonio Olivares
>> http://tobi.oetiker.ch/lshort/lshort-5.01.src.tar.gz >> >> ran gmake and I see the errors. >> > > One error is that in src/ folder, the file lshort-letter.tex does not > exist :(, if we cd to that folder and copy the lshort-a5.tex > lshort-letter.tex then it will build provided most of the other

Re: password hash weaknesses in FreeBSD ?

2011-08-02 Thread Thomas D. Dean
On Tue, 2011-08-02 at 17:36 +0100, マンロークリストファ wrote: > The crypt program to hash passwords uses md5 /DES/blowfish for > password hashing as I have read in the handbook. DES and md5 are > widely regarded to be broken (certainly DES). I would prefer password > hashing to be done using salted SHA1 / S

password hash weaknesses in FreeBSD ?

2011-08-02 Thread マンロークリストファ
The crypt program to hash passwords uses md5 /DES/blowfish for password hashing as I have read in the handbook. DES and md5 are widely regarded to be broken (certainly DES). I would prefer password hashing to be done using salted SHA1 / SHA256 to meet my security needs. Is this configuration possib

Re: do I have to acknowledge use of FreeBSD's *.css in my pages

2011-08-02 Thread Christian Barthel
Maybe, you can find further information from one of these people: * Nik Clayton * Jun Kuriyama * Simon L. Nielsen * Jesus Rodriguez * Wolfram Schneider The webmaster team is reachable under webmas...@freebsd.org (maybe, it's better to contact this address instead of a pe

Re: "Distributions" are missing from home burnt CD

2011-08-02 Thread Grant Walter
lol, that its my problem. Base is not installed! The part of the install where you normally install base does not let me install it! Its not there!! Only a bunch of dutch translations On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 11:17 PM, Ryan Coleman wrote: > Is portsnap installed? I was going with the effed up i

Re: Xorg at 100%CPU when browser is on

2011-08-02 Thread Test Rat
Yuri writes: > I saw this with firefox, now I see the same with chrome. > > After a while when the browser is launched with ~10 tabs open, Xorg > begins to consume 100% CPU and all graphics apps get > sluggish. Quitting the browser brings situation back to normal. [...] Have you tried to reprodu

Re: Xorg at 100%CPU when browser is on

2011-08-02 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 10:03 AM, wrote: > "C. P. Ghost" wrote: > >> ... when mplayer plays some (rare) video files. >> >> Xorg then stays at 100% CPU, and it is impossible to kill it, >> neither from the inside, nor from the outside (logged in via >> ssh) with SIGKILL. Only a reboot helps here.