On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 4:10 PM, firm...@gmail.com wrote:
> What is the best option out there for a mini-pc to run FreeBSD as a home
> router/firewall? (needs to have 2 nic's)
>
I had some pretty good experiences with older Soekris models (net-4801)
acting as fanless routers and little servers (
On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 12:21 PM, Jerry wrote:
> On Sat, 06 Apr 2013 23:57:47 +0200
> Ralf Mardorf articulated:
>
> > On Sat, 2013-04-06 at 23:53 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> > > On Sat, 2013-04-06 at 23:39 +0200, Jens Schweikhardt wrote:
> > > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ywn2Lz5zmYg
> > >
>
On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 11:03 PM, Jeff Belyea wrote:
> I have a new computer with windows 8, which I hate with a passion. I don't
> play music and I don't do a lot of pictures. Basically I only search, some
> EBay and games. Can I replace win8 with BSD?
>
Of course you can. I suggest that you
0
On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 9:37 PM, Joshua Isom wrote:
> On 3/27/2013 3:25 PM, Walter Hurry wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 27 Mar 2013 14:12:06 -0400, grarpamp wrote:
>>
>> Now there are very few, if any, free servers
>>>
>>
>> There are still free news servers available. My ISP bundles usenet,
>> nevertheles
On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 10:49 AM, Matthias Apitz wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> This is a bit OT, but maybe some of you FreeBSD folks are as well
> affected like me and/or have any answer or comments...
>
> In the past I've used a lot the so called newsgroups, even running my own
> inn
> news server for o
On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 5:10 PM, Shane Ambler wrote:
> On 26/03/2013 23:30, C. P. Ghost wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm wondering if there's been some progress on the Xen/Dom0
>> front recently. The Wiki
>>
>> https://wiki.freebsd.org/**FreeBS
Hello,
I'm wondering if there's been some progress on the Xen/Dom0
front recently. The Wiki
https://wiki.freebsd.org/FreeBSD/Xen
still doesn't show any improvements in this area, but it may
also be outdated (?).
Thanks,
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On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 1:36 AM, Polytropon wrote:
> Any suggestion is welcome!
How about crawling the metadata, locating each block
that is already allocated, and skip those blocks when you
scan the disk? That could reduce the searching space
significantly. blkls(1) et al. from the Sleuth Kit are
On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 11:49 AM, Julien Cigar wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm looking for a small Soekris-like (http://soekris.com/) box which support
> FreeBSD, any experience or brand to advise .. ?
I'm using Soekris net4801 boxes with FreeBSD without problems
since many years as small routers with pf,
On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 8:50 AM, Aryeh Friedman wrote:
> is there a site or other location that lists *NEW* (not updated) ports
> since a given date?
http://www.freshports.org/
has some limited options (24hrs, 48hrs, 7days, one month)...
but since the ports tree is now under SVN, it's probably ea
On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 7:34 PM, Jens Schweikhardt
wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 04:44:06PM +0100, C. P. Ghost wrote:
> # On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 3:47 PM, Jens Schweikhardt
> # wrote:
> # > hello, world\n
> # >
> # > currently the only gvinum partition on my
On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 3:47 PM, Jens Schweikhardt
wrote:
> hello, world\n
>
> currently the only gvinum partition on my home system is a stripe for /home
> across two Velociraptor HDDs. I'm thinking of replacing the HDDs with a
> pair of SSDs. I was thinking of reducing complexity and in the migr
On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 11:10 AM, alwin doss wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I am a C++ developer and I want to contribute to FreeBSD.
> There are so many applications.
> Is there any C++ project which is simple enough to start with.
>
> Thanks in advance for your help.
Hi Alwin,
there's indeed a lot to do
On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 5:29 PM, Leslie Jensen wrote:
> Hello.
>
> I want to write a script, where I as a normal user, can back up my files
> with rsync to another machine (pc01), which shares a directory via NFS.
>
> I have an entry in the local machines /etc/fstab
>
> pc01:/backup /mnt/backup
On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 10:01 PM, Walter Hurry wrote:
> $ sudo /usr/libexec/locate.updatedb
WARNING
Executing updatedb as root. This WILL reveal all filenames
on your machine to all login users, which is a security risk.
> $
>
> Why is it a "security risk"? Security through obscuri
On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 2:13 PM, David Demelier
wrote:
> I hope it will be removed soon, it pollutes the uname -a output.
I don't hope so. It helps us keep track of the exact revision
numbers of deployed servers here. Please don't remove it,
or at least, provide an additional switch to uname to
r
On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 12:08 PM, Arthur Chance wrote:
> On 12/14/12 10:34, Polytropon wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, 14 Dec 2012 01:45:43 -0800 (PST), Jack Mc Lauren wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi all
>>> I want to monitor files access and change time. How can I
>>> listen to specific file or directory to monitor ? I'm
On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 6:01 PM, Hexing wrote:
> "C. P. Ghost" writes:
>
>> On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 1:31 PM, Hexing wrote:
>>> I guess that just remove it and install /usr/ports/emulators/wine or
>>> /usr/ports/emulators/wine-devel would be OK.
On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 1:47 PM, Volodymyr Kostyrko wrote:
> 19.11.2012 14:34, Ivan Voras wrote:
>>
>> On 17/11/2012 22:48, Chris Rees wrote:
>>
>>> (and is GPL btw)
>>
>>
>> Since we're discussing it, Mercurial is BSDL-ed, and apparently has
>> proper crypto signing using GPG:
>>
>>
>> http://mer
On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 1:31 PM, Hexing wrote:
> per...@pluto.rain.com (Perry Hutchison) writes:
>
>> Bernt Hansson wrote:
>>> On 2012-11-17 21:36, Gary Aitken wrote:
>>> > # portmaster -n emulators/wine-fbsd64
>>> > ===>>> No /usr/ports/emulators/wine-fbsd64 exists, and no information
>>> >
On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 6:59 AM, grarpamp wrote:
>>> joerg_wun...@uriah.heep.sax.de
>> You don't even have a name
>
> Your domain indicates Germany, please have a chat with CCC.de about
> the various good uses for nyms. And consult your library for some
> fine historical use cases. If that's count
On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 11:02 AM, Polytropon wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Nov 2012 21:56:21 -0700, Gary Aitken wrote:
>> I don't see a way to force refetch of the actual ports files
>> like "distinfo" when portsnap thinks the port is up to date.
>
> You cansolve the problem of "few per-file mismatches" by
Hello,
I'm looking for an NNTP newsreader that can gracefully
handle newsgroups with a *huge* number of posts, if
possible with a moderate memory and CPU footprint.
My newsreader of choice, news/tin, while quite good for
newsgroups with a moderate number of articles can't
cope with some alt.binar
On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 2:53 PM, Matthias Apitz wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> Is there work in progress to bring http://wayland.freedesktop.org/
> into the ports collection?
I don't think that this will happen anytime soon.
There are way too many Linuxisms in Wayland:
http://forums.freebsd.org/showthrea
On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 1:57 PM, Polytropon wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Oct 2012 11:38:48 +0100 (BST), Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
>> Anyway, I think I've heard there are some laptops
>> with no BIOS, is this true?
>
> Per termini technici, yes.
>
> Some systems use EFI (or UEFI) instead of a BIOS. It's
> c
On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 7:34 PM, Chad Perrin wrote:
> Is there some way I could get the number of unique IPs hitting FreeBSD
> servers for software updates? I'm curious about the direct comparison of
> numbers between FreeBSD, Ubuntu, Fedora, and SUSE for this metric.
You could ask for this, but
On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 1:46 AM, Gary Kline wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 10:40:29PM +0400, Boris Samorodov wrote:
>> 10.10.2012 02:35, Gary Aitken пишет:
>>
>> > Can someone give me advice on editing pdf files?
>>
>> Take a look at graphics/inkscape.
>>
>> --
>> WBR, Boris Samorodov (bsam)
>>
On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 11:29 PM, Polytropon wrote:
> I have a question regarding the use (or the "make usable again")
> of hard disks locked with ATA password: I have a Samsung disk
> (2.5" with PATA interface) and approx. 160 GB capacity which
> is locked by some ATA password which nobody knows.
On Sun, Sep 30, 2012 at 10:09 AM, s m wrote:
> thanks saeedeh
>
> OK i try to explain what i have done more in detail.
>
> i want to restore unencrypted dump files on an encrypted file system.
> in order to do that, i encrypted my file system by geli command and
> sure that is done correctly becau
On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 9:18 PM, Karl Vogel wrote:
> Here's a simple, system-independent way to find duplicate files. All you
There's also sysutils/samefile:
http://www.schweikhardt.net/samefile/index.html
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On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 1:26 PM, Helmut Schneider wrote:
> Currently I'm updating ports and src twice a day so I will keep using
> svn for both.
While you certainly can, isn't it a bit excessive to update so frequently?
Remember, it's not just fetching the sources and ports, you must also
compile
On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 3:41 PM, David Jackson wrote:
> That sort of shows my point in fact. There is nothing stopping FreeBSD from
> implementing cgroups, udev, fanotify, timerfd, signalfd, its not like
> Linux is going to enforce patents on these things, its software, and
> freebsd can easily a
On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 6:44 AM, Aric wrote:
> Hi,all
>
> could anybody knows how to get the FreeBSD system APIs
What do you mean with "system API"?
Maybe the interfaces to the kernel, as defined in
/usr/include/sys?
> 2012-08-18
>
> Aric
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On Sun, Aug 5, 2012 at 8:41 PM, Polytropon wrote:
> I'm searching for a simple way to create a screenshot from
> a web page, i. e. convert the rendered page into a PNG (or
> something similar) graphic format. This is intended to be
> used for usability and design visualization where different
> co
On Sun, Aug 5, 2012 at 8:15 PM, Jerry wrote:
> I never stated than anyone should be denied the right to create or write
> basically whatever they so desire; however, if they are going to
> piggyback their work on another author or developer's works, then that
> individual deserves to receive compe
On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 6:15 PM, Julian H. Stacey wrote:
>> This is the reason software patents comprise such a blight on the world
>> of software development.
>
> Yes, agreed, & not just software.
>
> The european patent office system pressures examiners towards granting
> if they can't quickly fi
On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 8:57 PM, Chad Perrin wrote:
> It is possible that Microsoft is going the way of SCO -- into its grave,
> having hung all its hopes on litigation. Along the way, though, it will
> probably do a lot of damage to a lot of people, projects, and businesses,
> and I just hope it
On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 6:07 PM, Wojciech Puchar
wrote:
>> regulations have been tightened further recently as to mandate
>> sector-level encryption of the hard disks as well, just to be on the
>> sure(rer) side. At least in certain particularly sensitive areas.
>
> which may be a proof that gover
On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 4:53 AM, Robert Bonomi wrote:
> All I'm going to say is:
> 1) There's a _reason_ the gov't requires hard drives with anthing higher
> than 'somewhat' classified data on them to be =physically= destroyed
> before leving the secure area.
Speaking from experience,
On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 7:28 PM, Mark Felder wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Jun 2012 12:16:31 -0500, Wojciech Puchar
> wrote:
>
>> programs compiled by GPLv3 compiler are not encumbered.
>
> This has not been decided in court yet.
In which court not? Of which jurisdiction?
Even if one jurisdiction says so
On Sat, Jun 9, 2012 at 12:17 AM, grarpamp wrote:
> I did say "effectively". If people would actually read that chapter
> in the spec (minimally 27.5) they would find that they can:
> - Load a new PK without asking if in default SetupMode
> - If not in SetupMode, chainload a new PK provided it is
>
# Intel High Definition Audio
device snd_ich # Intel, NVidia and other ICH AC'97 Audio
device snd_uaudio # USB Audio
device snd_via8233 # VIA VT8233x Audio
Regards,
-cpghost.
> Thanks
> Subhro
>
> --
> Subhro Sankha Kar
>
On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 8:19 PM, Kurt Buff wrote:
> UEFI considerations drive Fedora to pay MSFT to sign their kernel binaries
> http://cwonline.computerworld.com/t/8035515/1292406/565573/0/
>
> This would seem to make compiling from source difficult.
>
> Kurt
I'm not sure I understand the issue,
On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 7:14 PM, C. P. Ghost wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 1:14 AM, Walter Hurry wrote:
>> Firstly, sorry if this is a bit of a newbie question. I am quite new to
>> FreeBSD (though fairly experienced at Linux). Almost everything in FreeBSD
>> is fine, excep
On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 1:14 AM, Walter Hurry wrote:
> Firstly, sorry if this is a bit of a newbie question. I am quite new to
> FreeBSD (though fairly experienced at Linux). Almost everything in FreeBSD
> is fine, except that no matter what I try I cannot get the (USB) mouse to
> work.
IMHO, you'
On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 10:44 AM, Polytropon wrote:
> On Tue, 22 May 2012 10:17:16 +0200, Bernt Hansson wrote:
>> There is a second way of doing this stunt.
>>
>> Start X
>> When X is up and running press CTRL+ALT+F3 or any F* frpm F3 up to F8
>> then you get to the console
>> Su to root in the co
Hello,
what does this boot message means, and where
does it come from?
link_elf_obj: symbol ata_controlcmd undefined
linker_load_file: Unsupported file type
It appears between between
ZFS storage pool version 28
and
drm0: on vgapci0
uname -a:
FreeBSD phenom.cordula.ws 9.0-STABLE FreeBSD 9
On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 2:27 PM, Bernt Hansson wrote:
> 2012-05-18 13:49, J. W. Ballantine skrev:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Before the update of x11 on 4/21/2012, X was working fine, but now
>> when I startx, my usb and touchpad mouse are no longer found. The
>> mouse works in terminal mode, and hald and db
On Sun, Apr 8, 2012 at 2:40 PM, Tony wrote:
> The current design is an uneven mix of various styles, and seems more
> forced than well thought out. First you have the shiny Satanic 3D-lookalike
> logo (yes, despite what y'all say, it's still Satanic) that might look cool
> the first few times one
On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 8:32 AM, Polytropon wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Apr 2012 15:29:42 +1000, Da Rock wrote:
>> On 04/10/12 21:32, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote:
>> > Mark Felder wrote:
>> >
>> >> Python on Planes is the future, mn.
>> > Shouldn't that be spelled "plains", as in the places where the
On Sun, Apr 1, 2012 at 12:09 PM, Da Rock
wrote:
> On 04/01/12 19:29, Polytropon wrote:
>>
>> Firmware attacks!
>
> ROFL! Sorry my mind went to an interesting place with this one images of
> printers on spring break flashing their cartridges, opening flaps to show
> off their drums... :D
Remin
On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 8:19 PM, Tim Daneliuk wrote:
> I have a situation where I need to provide people with the ability to edit
> files. However, under no circumstances do I want them to be able to exit
> to the shell. The client in question has strong (and unyielding) InfoSec
> requirements
On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 10:14 PM, Polytropon wrote:
> I have a problem installing a Samsung CLX-2160 color
> laser printer using CUPS. In the http://localhost:631
> web-based configuration, none of the methods that are
> supposed to be used for installing a printer works.
(... snip ...)
> What a
On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 8:32 AM, Erich Dollansky
wrote:
> On Friday 24 February 2012 14:14:32 Matthew Seaman wrote:
>> On 24/02/2012 06:59, Erich Dollansky wrote:
>> > I live in Asia and they really have these things here. Just without the
>> > horns.
>>
>> That would be what most people call a "
On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 12:28 PM, Daniel Feenberg wrote:
> An email address can be hidden from bots without violating section 508, for
> instance:
>
> feenberg is at nber dot org
>
> or some variant won't be picked up by a robot.
Most bots use some rather sophisticated regexp pattern
matching no
Hello,
is there an equivalent to Linux' cryopid for FreeBSD?
http://code.google.com/p/cryopid/
Thanks,
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On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 2:56 AM, _ wrote:
> Trying to recover these files on 8.2, I found that some of the archives -
> unfortunately those with
> the files that are dear to me - are corrupted.
Do you have MD5, SHA256 etc... checksums of the
.tar.gz files somewhere? Do they still match, or do
the
On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 5:34 PM, Waitman Gobble wrote:
>
> On Feb 6, 2012 6:13 PM, "C. P. Ghost" wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 11:37 PM, Jorge Biquez
>> wrote:
>> > Now we will try to have a graphical mode in Freebsd. With that we would
>
On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 11:37 PM, Jorge Biquez wrote:
> Now we will try to have a graphical mode in Freebsd. With that we would like
> to be able to develop graphical applications for Windows (we all know that's
> the market and here some companies is what they are looking), so maybe sound
> crazy
On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 11:01 PM, Roland Smith wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 09:50:54PM +0100, Michel Talon wrote:
>> You can find various cmucl snapshots here:
>> http://common-lisp.net/project/cmucl/downloads/snapshots/2012/01/ i think
>> one of the authors has a sparc machine, and also runs
Hi,
is anyone running a Common Lisp port on FreeBSD/sparc64?
I'm asking because none of our Common Lisp ports lang/clisp,
lang/ccl, lang/cmucl, lang/sbcl compile on sparc64.
On Debian Linux 6.0.1a for SPARC, at least sbcl is available.
Maybe clisp as well, IIRC.
Any suggestions for running Commo
On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 7:41 PM, doug wrote:
> That said, FreeBSD has a giant disadvantage in the desktop world. In trying
> to find if there will be any sort for my current laptop I came across a
> comment from Robert Noland saying that Xorg is becoming more and more Linux
> centric. That is a pro
On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 10:01 AM, Irk Ed wrote:
> For the first time, a customer is asking me for root access to said
> customer's servers.
Are we talking about jail(8)- or server-level root access?
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On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 6:24 PM, Conrad J. Sabatier wrote:
> Myself, personally, as much as I dislike the look of FreeBSD's boot
> menu, it does have the advantage of being very lightweight and adding
> minimal overhead to the booting process, which is an important
> consideration for a lot of peo
On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 4:41 PM, Julien Cigar wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm running 9.0-RC3 on a HP Proliant Microserver (N40L). A disk died in my
> graid3 array and I replaced it with a new one, and now have tons of:
>
> ahcich3: Timeout on slot 5 port 0
> ahcich3: is cs ss 3f60 rs
On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 10:03 PM, Jimmie James wrote:
> Symptoms: total lockup of X, Xorg pegged at 100% CPU time, LEDs don't work,
> keyboard is usless. SSH in allows a clean shutdown, about 50% of the time.
>
> FreeBSD jimmiejaz.org 8.2-STABLE FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE #0: Sun Jun 26 08:42:45
> EDT 201
On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 11:24 PM, Mario Lobo wrote:
> My apologies to all for this, specially to those who already know about this
> and those who think too little of it.
>
> I am really worried about this:
>
> http://americancensorship.org/
Mario, I couldn't agree more and it's a very important
On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 9:23 AM, Allen wrote:
> On 10/31/2011 3:50 PM, Zantgo wrote:
>>
>> I mean, like BSD is based on the original UNIX, and Linux on System
>> V,
>
> Um, no BSD was a version of Unix that was done at Berkeley. They were
> one of the first Universities to REALLY get work done
On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 10:11 AM, saeedeh motlagh
wrote:
> - change the baud rate in /etc/ttys file
(...)
> when i use "stty -f /dev/ttyu0.init 115200" the baud rate for
> ttyu0.init change to 115200. after that i use "kill -1 1" in order to
> reinitialize devices but nothing happened and the ba
On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 7:27 AM, James Colannino wrote:
> No, I don't mean checking for broken ports :-P In fact, when I Google
> around for the answer to my question, that's all I can find, which is why I
> bring my question to the mailing list instead :) Maybe "broken ports" or
> "broken packag
On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 3:36 PM, Zantgo wrote:
> I will say my question clear.
> If I have FreeBSD-8.2-stable, updated 2011/05/18, what I want to do is update
> the current, as for example 2011/11/01. I am willing to read me a manual that
> tells me how to do this.
On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 3:36 PM, Zantgo wrote:
> I will say my question clear.
> If I have FreeBSD-8.2-stable, updated 2011/05/18, what I want to do is update
> the current, as for example 2011/11/01. I am willing to read me a manual that
> tells me how to do this.
On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 1:13 PM, Jerry wrote:
> The biggest loser in this is FreeBSD itself. Virtually any new PC or
> laptop, with the exception of the bargain basement brands, and even
> some of them are exempt, now come with "N" protocol wireless devices.
Instead of devoting so much time and e
On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 5:29 PM, Polytropon wrote:
> BUT: CUPS seems to be hardcoded into many applications
> today. They stopped working with the non-CUPS default
> system tools. An example is Opera. Another one is Gimp
> which works with system lp* tools, but has hardcoded
> queries to "lpstat"
On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 12:39 PM, Peter Kryszkiewicz
wrote:
> I have several machines installed in my temporary location and only my
> laptop gets the internet through wireless. So far I've been building ports
> on the other machines by rsync'ing the distfiles from the laptop as I need
> them (all
On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 5:19 AM, Jonathan Vomacka wrote:
>> On 10/17/2011 12:04 PM, Michael M wrote:
>> *SNIP* / *PRUNE*
>>
>> For whatever it may be worth; I fully stand by dedicating the next
>> release to dmr, as it wouldn't exist without him and Ken.
>
> +1
Another reason for a dmr release is
On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 11:43 PM, mikel king wrote:
>
> On Oct 13, 2011, at 4:38 PM, Roland Smith wrote:
>
>> With the recent death of Dennis Ritchie, we've lost one of the giants on
>> whose
>> shoulders we are standing. But rather that mourn his passing, I think it
>> would
>> be proper to rem
On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 9:34 PM, Gary Kline wrote:
> guys,
>
> can anyone start me on the way of porting a python program to C?
> tia,
Gary,
if you experience a performance bottleneck somewhere,
you may be better off performing some timings to
determine the exact cause, and then to port the spec
On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 10:24 PM, Matthew Seaman
wrote:
> On 21/08/2011 05:13, Jorge Biquez wrote:
>> if for some reason, I know it is impossible, but if for some reason
>> FreeBSD would stop existing... serious users of FreeBSD, what would be
>> your next OS?
>
> If the FreeBSD project disbanded
On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 9:37 AM, Christian Barthel
wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 10:27:08PM +0200, Polytropon wrote:
>> Current system is 8.2-STABLE/amd64. Should I better re-install
>> everything (Intel Core2 4300 1.80GHz / 1799.81-MHz K8-class CPU
>> here, and 2 GB RAM, that's why the AMD64
On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 9:12 PM, Christian Barthel
wrote:
> What is your window manager?
+1 for fluxbox. Minimalistic, functional, very easy to
configure. Using it for a long time and no desire to
change.
I used fvwm2 and ctwm before, and I still like and
use olvwm every now and then.
> Christi
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
>&g
On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 8:56 AM, Yuri wrote:
> 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.
>
On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 9:57 PM, Mark Moellering wrote:
> I want to automate some tasks, creating directories, file editing, etc. I
> was going to pick up a book on shell scripting but wanted to ask the list
> if;
> A) I am barking up the wrong tree and should use something else.
> B) If I am hea
On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 12:36 PM, Dick Hoogendijk wrote:
> And going back on the
> subject of network managers I have to agree I too hate these tools from the
> moment they took over the manual way of setting things. Even good old
> solaris now has this on by *default*. Horrible (imho).
Yes, nwam
On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 12:15 PM, Dick Hoogendijk wrote:
> I want a plain console version of emacs installed on my freebsd-8.2 system.
> So I chose the editors/emacs-nox11 port, but I get an option screen with a
> lot of options set to 'on' for which I get the feeling they are X related.
> I.e. Fr
On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 8:44 AM, Unga wrote:
> Hi all
>
> How to sync a file on FreeBSD (esp. on 8.1) to disk?
>
> I used fsync(2), but does not immediately flush to disk.
>
> I want my writing to a file (a log file) immediately available to other users
> to read.
It shouldn't matter: as soon as
On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 6:58 PM, Chad Perrin wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 05:13:56PM +0100, Jamie Paul Griffin wrote:
>>
>> Also, due to the nature of the course-work I absolutely could not work
>> with anything other than UNIX and so I have to select my hardware
>> around my choice of OS whic
On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 2:05 PM, wrote:
> Gary Gatten wrote:
>
>> ... can a HAL be developed that runs on BSD that "emulates"
>> Winblow$ such that any driver written for Winblow$ will "work"
>> on *BSD?
>> ...
>> Something in the back of my head says there was / is something
>> along this line
On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 3:49 PM, Robert Bonomi wrote:
>> > For example, if it is part of the _terms_of_emplyment_ -- which one
>> > *agreed* to, by going to work there --that you (the employeee) give
>> > permission for the company, or it's agents, to examine any file you
>> > store on the system.
On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 5:20 PM, Robert Bonomi wrote:
> Obviously, it is _not_ unlawful to 'even open' a file that is 'labelled as
> private'.
>
> Herr Ghost subsequently clarified that he meant 'opened by a person' -- which,
> if _that_ is an accurate description of the law in question, means th
On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 1:57 PM, Robert Bonomi wrote:
>> The poorly written IT TOS of a company can never bypass the law,
>> regardless of anything you agreed to in your company's TOS.
>
> "male bovine excrement" applies.
>
> For example, if it is part of the _terms_of_emplyment_ -- which one
> *a
On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 1:38 PM, Jerome Herman wrote:
> The best way to block illegal download before they happen. I found that
> closing most ports and requiring a login and password before giving access
> to unknown websites works wonder. (The access to the website is not blocked
> in any way, b
On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 12:54 PM, Damien Fleuriot wrote:
> On 7/19/11 11:06 AM, C. P. Ghost wrote:
>> On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 8:55 AM, Damien Fleuriot wrote:
>>> On 19 Jul 2011, at 08:15, Frank Bonnet wrote:
>>>> In France it's illegal and I have my boss&#
On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 11:51 AM, Lars Eighner
wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Jul 2011, C. P. Ghost wrote:
>
>> Speaking with my university sysadmin hat on: you're NOT allowed to
>> peek inside personal files of your users, UNLESS the user has waived
>> his/her rights to priv
On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 9:32 AM, Polytropon wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Jul 2011 08:18:41 +0200 (CEST), Konrad Heuer wrote:
>> The
>> number of installations is not the most important figure. Functionality is
>> important -- ZFS, HAST, CARP, jails, as already mentioned -- would be nice
>> to see a distrib
On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 8:55 AM, Damien Fleuriot wrote:
> On 19 Jul 2011, at 08:15, Frank Bonnet wrote:
>> In France it's illegal and I have my boss's instruction :
>>
>> - find and delete the files that's all.
>
> Bon courage then...
>
> A file can not be illegal per se, so you won't be able to
On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 1:00 PM, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
>> I've had some trouble netbooting / jumpstaring recently with a similar
>> pattern (using RARP/BOOTP/TFTP/NFS). It turned out to be a dying
>> port on the switch whose errors were masked by TCP in day to day
>> use, but alas were too freq
On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 12:44 AM, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
> I'm trying to troubleshoot tftpd(8).
(...)
> 192.168.232.10.15388 > buzi.tftp: [no cksum] 25 RRQ "/bsd.rd.IP32" octet (
> o
> 23:25:21.024160 IP (tos 0x0, ttl 64, id 56, offset 0, flags [none], proto UDP
> (1
> 7), length 30, bad
On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 8:05 PM, ahmad javadi
wrote:
> hi
> I use " inet_aton" function in the kernel socket programming but i have the
> following warrning:
> "crypto.c:63: warning: implicit declaration of function 'inet_aton'
> crypto.c:63: warning: nested extern declaration of 'inet_aton'
> "
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