Hi Jeff
On 03/04/07, Jeff D. Hamann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've been a big fan of FreeBSD for a few years using it on desktop/headless
servers and want to use it on my laptop (clevo m38aw, sager 3880). I
couldn't find much on the web regarding hardware compatibility or
installation guides for
Hi.
On 01/03/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
Sorry this question is a little off-topic...
We've been using Freebsd for many years and all of our servers are running
freebsd.
The only thing that is a pain with freebsd, is poor commercial support :(
We are running in a
On 14/03/07, Nicole Harrington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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On Tue, 13 Mar 2007, Old Ranger wrote:
Believe it or not, I actually had an irate woman
complain to me about having a
devil image on our church website. sheesh
Nothing is more complete than the
On 13/03/07, Andrew Pantyukhin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Our beastie may be a bit devilish in some respects, but
please don't call him just a devil. Some people stay
away from FreeBSD for religious reasons. Feeding their
misconception is the last thing we want to do.
Do you really think it'll
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Date: 12-Mar-2007 12:56
Subject: Re: polling my FreeBSD compariots...
To: Eric Schuele [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 12/03/07, Eric Schuele [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 03/12/2007 03:01, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
default, window
On 11/03/07, Sergio Lenzi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What do you gain by allowing telnet access to your hosts that you don't
get with ssh?
Paul Schmehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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The University of Texas at Dallas
http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/
12, 2007 at 04:45:44 (PM) Jeff Rollin wrote:
In what way does Gmail suck?
1) No White Listing
2) No configurable SPAM Filtering
3) Bcc doesn't work
4) 500 message a day limit.
5) No PGP or S/MIME support
6) No able to 'Forward as Attachment'
7) Doesn't handle 'sig delimiter'
8
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From: Jeff Rollin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 14-Feb-2007 16:25
Subject: Re: Poll: What's the best audio player
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 13/02/07, Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What is the best audio (MP3/OGG/Etc) to use under Gnome?
I don't use GNOME
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Date: 12-Feb-2007 20:04
Subject: Re: GMail [and other free email] and these lists?
To: Thomas T. Veldhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 12/02/07, Thomas T. Veldhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Does this list automatically
On 12/02/07, Gerard Seibert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Monday February 12, 2007 at 02:50:24 (PM) Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote:
Does this list automatically reject subscribers free email addresses?
I would like to move over to Gmail to avoid all the spam coming in from
the years of using this
On Tuesday 23 January 2007 17:09, Your Name wrote:
amd64 i386 won't install with this system, what I was trying to
explain is that the system hardware works just fine- its the fact that
the 6.2-RELEASE ia64 refuses to boot off of CD..
I've never had this problem with FBSD before, I also
On 03/01/07, Chris Whitehouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Jeff Rollin wrote:
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Sorry for all the random appearances of this post, I posted once and it
didn't appear, so I posted again a couple of days later, then my posts
plus replies plus an offline
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From: Jeff Rollin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 31-Dec-2006 19:43
Subject: Re: what is operator group for?
To: Chris Whitehouse [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 31/12/06, Chris Whitehouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi all
I sent this once already but didn't see it come
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From: Jeff Rollin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 23-Dec-2006 17:21
Subject: Re: My recent Epiphany about operating systems
To: Simon Chang [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Simon
If you are located anywhere close to Grover Beach, California, please
feel free to drop by his
On 20/12/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 12/20/06, Terabyte Pete [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
U know, opposite of those oil companies - buying up the rail mass transit,
so they could DESTROY it, rip everybody off with cars gas they don't
need. It would be nice if more people
different from the one on the DVD) you may become
lost.
Jeff Rollin
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On 17/09/06, Dan Bikle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
FreeBSD and Linux people,
I have a PC which I want to boot as windows, FreeBSD, and Suse 10.1 Linux.
Currently, FreeBSD boot0 menu shows both Windows and FreeBSD as boot-able.
The FreeBSD boot0 menu does not show the Linux OS (which I just
On 17/09/06, Dan Bikle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
People,
this is great info; thanks for taking time to type it up.
I'm now convinced that Grub is good.
On my FreeBSD box I see this:
bash moibsd maco /usr/home/maco 3 $
bash moibsd maco /usr/home/maco 3 $
bash moibsd maco /usr/home/maco 3 $
On 12/09/06, Pete Slagle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
uninstall firefox
then make sure linux binary compatibility is enabled, the easiest way
to do that is with sysinstall. (read the handbook for more info on
this step)
Now cd into /usr/ports/www
and look at any
On 11/09/06, Chuck Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sep 11, 2006, at 12:15 PM, Jeff Rollin wrote:
Discussions like these leave me lost for words...
Perhaps, although it seems you recovered quickly. :-)
Heh. Maybe I ought to have said almost!
Which is to say, apart from the occasional
On 11/09/06, backyard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
--- Chuck Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sep 11, 2006, at 12:15 PM, Jeff Rollin wrote:
Discussions like these leave me lost for words...
Perhaps, although it seems you recovered quickly.
:-)
Which is to say, apart from
bad
experience. Take the time to mess around with it and
learn the basics and go from there. Or stick with
Linux its up to you. I will guarantee that when it
comes to upgrading the Linux box you will come back to
FreeBSD real quick...
Or Gentoo, Ubuntu or SuSE! ;-)
Jeff Rollin
On 12/09/06, Arindam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am a Linux user and have been recently trying to shift to FreeBSD. I
got hold of a couple of FreeBSD CD ISOs (version 6.1) - their names
being 6.1-RELEASE-i386-discX.iso, X being 1 and 2.
I did my installation with the Disc1 alone. I did not need
The base system doesn't include X Windows.
_
Right, I was thinking of NetBSD. X Window System is a FreeBSD port (so it
must be installed as a package from sysinstall).
Jeff Rollin
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be installed as a package from sysinstall).
Shouldn't you also be able to:
cd /usr/ports/x11; make install clean
--
That sentence was intended not to mean you have to install XWS as a package
from sysinstall but It must be the case that sysinstall installs it as a
package built from ports.
Jeff Rollin
On 12/09/06, backyard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
--- Jeff Rollin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 11/09/06, backyard [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
When I first installed FreeBSD, circa 2003,
version
4.9, the two reasons I chose it over Redhat and
Debian were the simplicity
files in $HOME.
Jeff Rollin
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On 12/09/06, ograbme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello Jeff,
First of all ... thanks for your help and suggestions ... please see
comments interwoven below.
Tuesday, September 12, 2006, 4:20:51 PM, you wrote:
snip
JR You need to go back into sysinstall and install the ports
JR collection. That
Windows is hard to use.
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Well said, Sir.
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Windows,
it's actually nice to have some decent documentation!
Jeff Rollin
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Hi list,
I'm using FBSD 6.1-RELEASE and I'm having trouble downloading extensions and
themes in firefox (installed from packages). They all complain that they're
not supported in Unknown.
Any ideas on how to fix this, please?
TIA
Jeff Rollin
On 05/09/06, Jeff Rollin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi list,
I'm wondering whether FreeBSD is able to support reading (at least, but
preferably also writing) Linux LVM volumes? I have an itch to try FreeBSD on
a desktop but all my data is in a Linux LVM.
Is it possible?
TIA,
Jeff Rollin
On 07/09/06, Vince [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Jeff Rollin wrote:
On 05/09/06, Jeff Rollin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi list,
I'm wondering whether FreeBSD is able to support reading (at least, but
preferably also writing) Linux LVM volumes? I have an itch to try
FreeBSD on
a desktop
as the primary OS on it at one point, but had zero
luck with either of the wifi cards (one internal, one cardbus - the cardbus
one is there because the internal one also refuses to work in Linux) in it.
A laptop with no network access isn't much good to me! :-( )
Jeff Rollin
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; and that though this
practice may come off as rudeness, it's often (hopefully never) meant that
way.
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its product anyway it wants without government
intervention; however, that is entirely another story.
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That's a good idea. And I should be able to procure products and settle
scores anyway I want without government intervention, too. /sarcasm
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On 06/09/06, White Hat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
--- Jeff Rollin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 06/09/06, White Hat [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
--- Freminlins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 06/09/06, White Hat
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I have
tried Open Office. No matter what
On 06/09/06, White Hat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
--- Freminlins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 06/09/06, White Hat [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Immaterial. the singularly most important feature
is
suitability to task. If it is free and it does not
work, what good is it?
It depends what
On 06/09/06, White Hat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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On 06/09/06, White Hat
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--- Freminlins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
Hi list,
I'm wondering whether FreeBSD is able to support reading (at least, but
preferably also writing) Linux LVM volumes? I have an itch to try FreeBSD on
a desktop but all my data is in a Linux LVM.
Is it possible?
TIA,
Jeff Rollin
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is
recognized by Linux.
I think modern flavors of Linux support FFS OK, so FFS should work,
otherwise ext2...
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In order for Linux to read FFS filesystems, you'll probably have to
recompile your kernel.
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On 03/09/06, Andy Street [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[I'm not sure if this got sent becvause I just got a message saying that
since I wasn't a member, a message entitled No Subject was waiting
approval. I think I'm a member now, but if this email went out twice, I
appologize]
Hi guys,
I had
On 21/08/06, PATRICK CARTER [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Jeff,
I hate to state (or rather ask) the obvious but are you sure you selected
the appropriate options to install the kernel? One of the people were I
work swore they had the exact same problem on an x86 they were installing on
and it
On 21/08/06, Derek Ragona [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Was this on a new install or an upgrade? I've seen this problem doing a
binary upgrade, but not with a new install.
-Derek
Nope, a new install. I'm too spoiled by Gentoo to do an upgrade that
requires downtime except for the kernel!
rebooting, there
is no live filesystem to repair the damage, and the emergency shell cannot
find any executables (it can, however, find executables directly after
installing the system).
Yours
Jeff Rollin.
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if you go the /home2 root, any users whose home directories you create
on/move to /home2 will have the correct entry to /home2/therightdirectory
in /etc/passwd. obvious but easily missed!
jeff
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On 15/08/06, Jeff Rollin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
if you go the /home2 root, any users whose home directories you create
on/move to /home2 will have the correct entry to /home2/therightdirectory
in /etc/passwd. obvious but easily missed!
jeff
erm, will NEED to have
On 14/05/06, Alex Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am aware that FreeBSD's claim to fame is that it has been ported to
anything with a processor.
I think you may be thinking of NetBSD - www.netbsd.org. That being said,
your question may be relevant to this list. What architecture, exactly,
$75.00 US. Any used game store just ask for a Nintendo DS - if someone
on the list doesn't already own one, I don't really want to ask people
to buy things they'd never use.
Ah, a NINTENDO DS! I was thinking along the lines of an Alpha DS - from HP,
via Compaq, via DEC, which FBSD might well
On 14/05/06, Alex Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yes, the Nintendo kind. It seems more than capable, technologically,
of supporting a REAL OS such as FreeBSD, something beyond its standard
EPROM startup screen, to me. Is that a supported architecture? And if
not, is NetBSD free or open
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From: Jeff Rollin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 12-May-2006 18:43
Subject: Re: hello
To: justin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi Justin
Everything runs ok and it seems like the module is installed.
There is only one problem, in the httpd.conf there is a LoadModule
Are maintenance releases of old branches always released in step with new
ones, or is it just coincidence that it's happening this way this time?
On 11/05/06, Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 05:47:07PM +0900, Kouji Ito wrote:
Hello,
I wait very much,too, but it
Ted
The most interesting time I've had with beastie was setting up servers and
a
website for a Baptist org here in Alaska. I put beastie on the site
thinking
it would never be approved. They were seeking donations and were very
sensitive about the site's image. Not only did the clergy approve
I'm going to put my 2 cents (or at the current conversion rate, 1 (British)
penny!) in here, I think.
I consider myself a new FreeBSD user. I have used it before (around 4.8),
but never really did much with it. I find that I don't very often dual boot
OSes, so I've had nothing but Gentoo on my
Take a look at the netbsd logo if you want to see how it's done. It
means something. It's neat. It represents the project. What we (the
users) seem to have ended up with is a fussy and unelegent logo that
has nothing to do with anythin, save for a pair of post-modern ice
cream cones
Does anyone else think its a logo get over it? When was the last time an
IT admin went I installed Win 2k3 becuase it has that cool logo thing
that I like for a screensaver?
I think it's a bigger problem than that. When was the last time Steve
Ballmer responded to a complaint that his shiny
I for one do not see an need to change the logo at all.
That's no reason to tell lies.
There's no reason to accuse people of telling lies without having any
evidence, either.
Can't wait till you get caught out.
Jeff.
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Since we're talking about logos: when will the next time window
open for a new try? I humbly suggest using 'FreeBSD' (the text,
Good idea. The word FreeBSD as it stood at the top of the
freebsd.orgmainpage the day before the release of
6.1-RELEASE was nice.
There were tens of
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Date: 09-May-2006 11:59
Subject: Re: New freebsd logo on freebsd.org
To: cpghost [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have to agree with the original poster. The logo is crap, and so is the
font they've started to use since
Will that only work for Linux programs?
Jeff.
On 05/05/06, Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, 5 May 2006 10:07:03 -0400
Jim Stapleton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have a proc filesystem on my computer, but it's empty. I'm used to
linux, where you can do stuff like 'cat
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