Re: any audio wizards know howto store *.smil files?

2006-07-25 Thread Andy Reitz
On Tue, 25 Jul 2006, Gary Kline wrote: > How best to decode this:: > > > + fetch > http://web.lightningcast.net/servlets/getAd?version=4.5a&naid=175&playerid=1&streamref=1&session=8AB1883F11EB3EE3&spot=[0,0]&ext=.rm Hi Gary, Try pointing mplayer at that URL. -Andy. _

Re: any audio wizards know howto store *.smil files?

2006-07-25 Thread Andy Reitz
. For example, I just pulled this smil file from NPR: http://www.npr.org/"; /> You can see the tags contain the good bits (in this case, RTSP-style URLs). You can feed those URLs directly to mplayer, which in my testing should work fine. -Andy Reitz.

Re: any audio wizards know howto store *.smil files?

2006-07-25 Thread Andy Reitz
On Tue, 25 Jul 2006, Gary Kline wrote: > > Is there a way of saving *.[ra|ram|smil] or any real audio > type files locally? I've poked around and haven't found any > means of saving real* stuff. Hi Gary, I think you might be able to convince mplayer to do it, depending on the

Re: Reload commands

2006-07-21 Thread Andy Reitz
rce your .cshrc (or .tcshrc) file, then the cache will be refreshed. You could also try simply exiting your shell, and re-logging in. It is very rare to need to reboot in UNIX. Good luck, -Andy Reitz. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mail

Re: place to obtain 4.11 install ISOs

2006-06-26 Thread Andy Reitz
On Sun, 25 Jun 2006, D G Teed wrote: > Hi, > > I cannot locate 4.11 installer CD ISOs. The mirror says they > are moved to the archive FTP site, but they are not in that > site, at least not as an ISO. > > Anyone have a hint/tip? Actually, the I believe that the ISOs are stored on the archive FT

Re: "find" misbehaving??

2006-06-23 Thread Andy Reitz
On Fri, 23 Jun 2006, Robert Huff wrote: > > Can anyone explain what's happening here? > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]>> find /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/ -name > Net_SNMP_util,pm Looks like a typo - you have a comma (',') in the target for find. -Andy. _

Re: AMD64 Desktop Support

2006-06-20 Thread Andy Reitz
On Tue, 20 Jun 2006, Michael Collette wrote: > Any and all feedback is appreciated. For as nice as the AMD64 processor > may be, sounds like things are a ways off before the software has fully > caught up. In 64-bit mode, that does appear to be the case. However, it sounds like you could purchas

Re: smp kernel

2006-06-20 Thread Andy Reitz
On Tue, 20 Jun 2006, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > Hello, > > Is SMP enabled in the GENERIC kernel? I have a hyperthreading box, and on > Linux it shows up with two cpus. When I do a top on the box in FreeBSD I still > see only one CPU. Also, sysctl -a | grep cpu only shows a dev.cpu.0. Hi Mike, I

Re: migrating to 64-bit

2006-06-20 Thread Andy Reitz
On Tue, 20 Jun 2006, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > Hello, > > I recently got an ia64 box at work, and I threw my i386 freebsd 5.4 on it. > Now, is there a way to rebuild world with 64-bit support from there? Hi Mike, I believe that ia64 refers to the Itanium port of FreeBSD, and I'm not sure of th

Re: Configuring FreeBSD for use as an interactive kiosk

2006-06-08 Thread Andy Reitz
th getting Firefox to work in kiosk mode, here is what Google turned up for me: http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS6013296355.html Good luck, -Andy Reitz. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Beginner Questions

2006-06-08 Thread Andy Reitz
tp://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x11-wm.html In the KDE section, there are instructions for installing KDE, and for enabling it so that KDE starts when you login. Hope this helps, -Andy Reitz. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: portupgrade question

2006-06-07 Thread Andy Reitz
ports system uses fetch(1) in order to download any files. I thought that there was a way to convince the ports to use a different file retreiver, but I don't see anything in the handbook. Have you tried setting the ftp_proxy and http_proxy environment variables, so that f

Re: getting alerts about system upgrades

2006-05-31 Thread Andy Reitz
On Wed, 31 May 2006, Bill Moran wrote: > On Wed, 31 May 2006 23:22:16 +1200 (NZST) > Andrew McNaughton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > portaudit gives me alerts when security issues arise in installed ports, > > and portversion keeps me abreast of less critical updates. It's a whole > > lot ea

Re: audio playback glitches while using CD drive

2006-05-30 Thread Andy Reitz
resources when your IDE controller is being exercised. To remedy this, you may need to play around a bit. I found a KB article at creative that seems to cover this topic in a general fashion: http://dmzweb4.europe.creative.com/SRVS/CGI-BIN/WEBCGI.EX

Re: A neural/distributed FreeBSD network

2006-05-19 Thread Andy Reitz
On Fri, 19 May 2006, Kyrre Nygard wrote: > > Hello! > > Got a weird question here ... > > I'm a bit curious as to how one can make multiple computers > act as one network. I'm not talking merely /etc/hosts and gateways > or some VPN where connections are just encrypted, but like > something more .

Re: ping on desktop

2006-05-18 Thread Andy Reitz
d.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-natd.html HTH, -Andy Reitz. [1] Well, but "all" traffic, I really mean "most" traffic. :) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinf

Re: ftp install / base not found

2006-05-11 Thread Andy Reitz
On Thu, 11 May 2006, Johan Nilsson wrote: > But can you do a ftp-install from an archived version? If, how? Johan, While I have never tried this, sysinstall appears to support entering non-standard FTP URLs. After you choose the FTP option, you can choose the FTP server. The second option in thi

Re: 1 cpu + 2 monitors + 2 keybord/mouse is it possible

2006-05-11 Thread Andy Reitz
On Thu, 11 May 2006, NAOD TSIGHE wrote: > Hi, > Is it possible to attach two monitors, 2keybord and 2 > mouse to one PC, by just buying some card that will > connect with a PC. > > I just want to know if it is possible for me to just > buy 1 more monitor, a mouse and a keyboard > so that two stud

Re: ftp install / base not found

2006-05-11 Thread Andy Reitz
On Thu, 11 May 2006, Mike Hunter wrote: > Dear FreeBSD Questions, > > I have a not-so-new laptop that I tried to install FBSD on yesterday. > This laptop can only be made to boot from floppies (usb boot doesn't work, > no cdrom) and I happen to have some 5.3-RELEASE boot floppies laying > around.

Re: HTTP

2006-05-05 Thread Andy Reitz
On Fri, 5 May 2006, jason zeng wrote: > Hi, > I need some basic helps! :) > >our sytem run at FreeBSD 5.3, and my team leader let me change logo > in a PHP file because our company will change name. I do but not > really finished. I changed the index.php file, so every time if I > ente

Re: How to do physical-to-virtual translation in FreeBSD? Does FreeBSD support kmap() or kmap_atomic()?

2006-04-21 Thread Andy Reitz
On Fri, 21 Apr 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi guys: > > > > We are doing HBA driver (Soft Raid5) porting from Linux to FreeBSD. As we > need to do XOR in kernel space, we need to map a physical address into a > virtual address. In Linux, we use kmap_atomic() to implement it, and could > you te

Re: Remote screen control software - recommendations please

2006-04-21 Thread Andy Reitz
On Fri, 21 Apr 2006, Graham Bentley wrote: > (OK I know this is OT but theres alot of good experience here > so please dont flame me :)) > > What are people using for this ? > > I have used VNC and TighVNC in the past to good effect > although they do seem a bit laggy. > > I notice that GoToMyPC i

Re: SYSTEM HANG - NATD running FINE

2006-04-19 Thread Andy Reitz
On Wed, 19 Apr 2006, Ben and Jen wrote: > My system has recently "locked up" after 65 days uptime, running only > natd for my local network. Natd still works fine and routes information > properly - but I am no longer able to telnet or login to my machine even > from a local console(alt f1-fx).

Re: How do I change hostname in freebsd?

2006-04-17 Thread Andy Reitz
Hi Matt, As root, type "hostname ", and the hostname will be changed immediately. To make this change permanent across reboots, edit the file '/etc/rc.conf', and add the following line: hostname="new.host.name" The '/etc/rc.conf' file is described here: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.

Re: Newbie question -- which files to back up?

2006-04-16 Thread Andy Reitz
Hi Oliver, At a minimum, you will probably want to back up the following directories: /etc /usr/local/etc /home That will get all of the configuration files for FreeBSD and the software thar you installed from ports. The last directory will det all of your user's data.

Re: Wanted: Flash player for ....

2006-04-12 Thread Andy Reitz
On Wed, 12 Apr 2006, Ashley Moran wrote: > On Wednesday 12 April 2006 15:15, you wrote: > > I forwarded this license issue to an engineer I know there. His > > response was positive. We'll have to see how it goes with their > > management and legal. > > Cool > > From reading the license I got the

Re: pow function working unexpectedly

2006-04-11 Thread Andy Reitz
On Tue, 11 Apr 2006, Jonathan Herriott wrote: > Question then. Why would it work when I don't use variables if I > don't include the library? This question is just out of curiosity. That's a pretty good question. In the case where we have pow(x,y), I see this: [EMAIL PROTECTED]/src]$ gcc -c po

Re: Reboot hangs on xeon server

2006-04-11 Thread Andy Reitz
On Tue, 11 Apr 2006, Christopher McGee wrote: > The server I have is using an Intel SE7501CW2 server board with 1 Xeon > 2.0Ghz processor. It's got a Mylex AcceleRAID 170 card with 6 - 36GB > scsi drives. When I reboot the machine, via ctrl-alt-del, or typing > reboot, it syncs disks, then gives

Re: NAT, VPN and other SOHO router advice

2006-04-06 Thread Andy Reitz
yes In terms of the divert rule, mine looks like this: /sbin/ipfw add 50 divert natd all from any to any via fxp0 You'll want to replace 'fxp0' with your external interface, in this case, 'rl1'. On FreeBSD 6, the /etc/rc.firewall script will automatically add the

Re: Access ip local

2006-04-06 Thread Andy Reitz
O8859-1/books/handbook/network-natd.html Good luck, -Andy Reitz. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Cvsup src-all and installworld process question

2006-04-04 Thread Andy Reitz
ouldn't want to be without on a normal FreeBSD machine. The things that you probably could cut, like 'games' and kerberos, represent less than 10Mb of the 400+ Mb total of my /usr/src directory. So, I would say that if you are sensitive about disk space, be sure to clea