Re: AARGH... give me some idea for ad-blockers

2013-01-07 Thread Mike Woods
Quoting herbert langhans : All I use is Adblock Plus. With the automatic updates I havent seen any ad for month.. I'll second this endorsement, i've been using it for a good few years now and I "just works" :) ---- Mike Woods Full

Re: FreeBSD's backwards webdesign / corporate identity

2012-04-13 Thread Mike Woods
Quoting Sean Cavanaugh : > 13. > Not for all, though. 1945 - 1933 gives 12. Do I have to start a calculator now? Its 13 INCLUSIVE. You're calculating exclusive All i'm saying is, Iron Sky. :D ---- Mike Woods Full of

Re: little things

2012-01-12 Thread Mike Woods
hus far proving *far* more useful! ---- Mike Woods Full of squishy cynicism ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebs

Re: Network throughput

2012-01-11 Thread Mike Woods
Quoting Matthew Seaman : On 11/01/2012 13:47, Mike Woods wrote: Also, Googling for 'netflow freebsd' produces a lot of interesting looking pages. I've had a quick look and that might be usefull, I still need to figure out how to get the data out in a form that's usef

Re: Network throughput

2012-01-11 Thread Mike Woods
pages. I've had a quick look and that might be usefull, I still need to figure out how to get the data out in a form that's usefull to me but it has promise :) ---- Mike Woods Full of squishy cynicism ___ freebsd-ques

Network throughput

2012-01-11 Thread Mike Woods
ool better suited to this ? ---- Mike Woods Full of squishy cynicism ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: Thousands of ssh probes

2010-03-05 Thread Mike Woods
What about the option of vpn access ? Mike Woods Full of squishy cynicism ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd

Re: Securing cgi scripts

2010-01-22 Thread Mike Woods
date version :) http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/suexec.html Also have a look at itk, http://mpm-itk.sesse.net/ Mike Woods Full of squishy cynicism ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/lis

Re: Fax Solutions

2009-12-31 Thread Mike Woods
g jhylafax cross platform faxing from any of our machines! ---- Mike Woods Full of squishy cynicism ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send a

Re: USBserial port convertor

2009-12-17 Thread Mike Woods
wrong!) Mike Woods Full of squishy cynicism ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: USBserial port convertor

2009-12-17 Thread Mike Woods
ports with 4 removable, self powered ucom0: on uhub3 ucom1: on uhub3 Looks like it works. :-) the ucom(4) driver attaches. Ah, but I *think* the point he's getting at is that he only seems to have 2 ports for an 8 port adaptor! Mike Woods Full of squishy cyn

Re: Nagios Client on FreeBSD 5.4

2005-10-20 Thread Mike Woods
ur nagios setup. --- Mike Woods Systems Administrator ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Nagios Client on FreeBSD 5.4

2005-10-20 Thread Mike Woods
to install yourself is the nrpe package (assuming you're using ports), you'll also need to install the nrpe package on the linux box in order to get the check command for nagios! --- Mike Woods Systems Administrator ___

Re: Nagios Client on FreeBSD 5.4

2005-10-20 Thread Mike Woods
depending on which version of nagios you have installed) and it'll install the nagios-plugins package as a dependancy, once it's installed you can configure the commands nrpe will answer and these commands in turn call a nagios plugin. Jobs-a-goodun :P -----

Pam and multiple requiste satements!

2005-10-05 Thread Mike Woods
are configured to use seperate config files with different pam_filter settings. - Mike Woods Systems Administrator ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Pam and multiple requiste satements!

2005-10-05 Thread Mike Woods
? - Mike Woods Systems Administrator ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: monitoring and alerting software ????

2005-05-14 Thread Mike Woods
along with a few other bits). Hope that's helpful to someone :) - Mike Woods Systems Administrator ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: USB GPS Receiver

2005-05-04 Thread Mike Woods
or that particular adaptor. ------ Mike Woods Systems Administrator ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: FreeBSD system update killing PostFix links?

2005-04-17 Thread Mike Woods
dmail when you do a build world. - Mike Woods Systems Administrator ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: portmanager loop?

2005-01-26 Thread Mike Woods
nd run it again today, I'd like to know also if it will eventually get out of the loop, i.e if it is really a loop or something different. I get that whenever I install X, there seem to be chunks of X that produce an effrct like watching a looping tape! - Mike

Xerox 6250 USB

2005-01-24 Thread Mike Woods
inting is being handled through cups with the ppd driver from the xerox website. So, the question is does anyone have one of these beasties working properly on FreeBSD and would care to share the details with a man at the end of his whits! Help! ----- Mike Wood

Re: FreeBSD I LOVE YOU

2005-01-19 Thread Mike Woods
7;s fair to say *nix oses in general reinforce the idea that just because it's not bright spangly and new it doesnt mean it's useless but freebsd moreso purley because of it's superb hardware support and the fact that generaly it's just

Re: Hardware Raid question

2005-01-18 Thread Mike Woods
Why does the os even detect the individual drives when the raid card made it a single drive and the os install is after the raid bios??? Because the chipset provides means to control both single disks and arrays thus you get both, just the way that card chose to do things :) - Mike

Re: Hardware Raid question

2005-01-18 Thread Mike Woods
Mike Woods wrote: Yep, ar is the Atapi Raid driver, ad is just the individual disk :) s/Atapi/ata/ Less haste, more coffee, the key to better typing. -- Mike Woods IT Technician ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Hardware Raid question

2005-01-18 Thread Mike Woods
Jason Lieurance wrote: I installed everything on 'ad4' but it I think I wanted to install it to 'ar0'. Am I right? Thanks. Yep, ar is the Atapi Raid driver, ad is just the individual disk :) -- Mike Woods IT Technician _

Re: FreeBSD Printing

2004-11-27 Thread Mike Woods
x27;ll show as a usb parallel port (most usb printers do this) and being a HP it shouldn't pose any compatability problems (most use pcl/pjl) However if you let us know what printer it is you'll get a better answer :) - Mike Woods IT Technician __

Re: securing mailserver address

2004-11-25 Thread Mike Woods
. - Mike Woods IT Technician ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Hard Disk failure

2004-10-09 Thread Mike Woods
it a few times and never had a problem, tis also a good time to make any changes to your partiton structure :) Remember to make any changes to the fstab that might need doing like moved partitions or differing device names! ---- Mike Wood

Re: RAID performance

2004-10-06 Thread Mike Woods
recommendation. Write operations on raid 5 take a massive performance hit, most controllers will try to compensate with caching tricks but i suspect this could well be the cause of your problems. -- Mike Woods IT Technician ___ [EMAIL

Re: When Unix Stops Being Fun

2004-10-05 Thread Mike Woods
l the functionality i need and syntax highlighting to boot which makes it handy for perl work but since i do a lot of my editng over ssh sessions it doesnt get used that often :) -- Mike Woods IT Technician ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: NIC and RPM of a hard disk

2004-10-04 Thread Mike Woods
chine but if you want to confirm if it's onboard.. look at the back of the machine, often above the usb ports. As for the hard drive the only way to find the rpm is to grab the model number and look it up :) - Mike Woods IT

Re: Which class 2 smard card reader works under FreeBSD 5.x

2004-10-01 Thread Mike Woods
ly into machine as if i was typed. ---- Mike Woods IT Technician ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: How to begin ???

2004-09-29 Thread Mike Woods
l.asp?affid=TRE&t=59&item=210066 ---- Mike Woods IT Technician ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Problem with USB Still...

2004-09-28 Thread Mike Woods
tch worked flawlessly for me, so you should try either the patch or simply updating your source and building a new kernel :) -- Mike Woods IT Technician ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-qu

Usbd detach event

2004-09-21 Thread Mike Woods
- As far as i can see there's nothing wrong with that entry and usbd is running the attach event however i rather need the detach event to maintain a list of printers available for load balancing! Any help would be aprea

Re: question

2004-09-16 Thread Mike Woods
Vulpes Velox wrote: I know it can easily handle 160GB drives as I have some. It should handle 200GB just fine. I've got a 250gb happily running in my fileserver, has been for a good while now :) - Mike Woods IT Technician ___ [

Anything like ftpmount on freebsd ?

2004-09-10 Thread Mike Woods
wondering does anyone know of anything that can provide this functionality ? - Mike Woods IT Technician ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Recomendations for a USB2 card

2004-07-11 Thread Mike Woods
ds to have 4 external ports and at least one internaly. Ta Muchly in advance. - Mike Woods IT Technician ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to &q

Re: mini itx

2004-06-30 Thread Mike Woods
range is a good but slightly more expensive option, ignore the travlar cases as while they are good cases the inbuilt psu is cooled by a 60mm fan and it makes a fair noise so you'd need to swap it out :) ----- Mike Woods IT Technician ___

Re: Maximum Storage

2004-06-25 Thread Mike Woods
Dew Ediho wrote: I have a FreeBSD 4.8 running on a proliant server. My box currently has 60GB space and I plan to add a Network Storage of up to 1000 GB (1 Terrabyte) 1tb should be a problem (although for the record 1tb=1024gb not 1000gb :D). Mike Woods IT Technician

Re: Sound issues on dual-boot machine

2004-06-23 Thread Mike Woods
these things are to be occasionaly expected :) - Mike Woods IT Technician ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: losing disk space

2004-06-23 Thread Mike Woods
synrat wrote: is this true though that soft updates use additional disk space ?? No, softupdates are just a different way of handling writes iirc, they dont have any space overheads afaik :) - Mike Woods IT Technician ___ [EMAIL

Re: Sound issues on dual-boot machine

2004-06-23 Thread Mike Woods
back to freebsd without a shutdown the cards isnt there, windows does something to my cardbus controler that stops it initialising properly under bsd, good thing i only boot win2k for ghosting :) ----- Mike Woods IT Technician ___ [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: losing disk space

2004-06-23 Thread Mike Woods
the drive unavailable from anyone but root as part of the filesystem optimisations, you can turn this off if you want with tunefs but expect a performance hit from it. Mike Woods IT Technician ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mai

Re: IDE hard disk recoms

2004-06-16 Thread Mike Woods
m, you've recomended them above :) Maxtor bought quantums hard dive division years ago and most maxtor drives since are basicly quantum designs or derivertives off them :) Mike Woods IT Technician ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://list

Hardware compatability list query (of d00m)

2004-06-11 Thread Mike Woods
rs ? Just wondered :P Mike Woods IT Technician ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: NFS server fail-over - how do you do it?

2004-05-30 Thread Mike Woods
s and change the mounts depending on what the responce is. also if your backup system is bespoke and can be modified you could use amd and have the script read stored data on nfs server availability so it can decide where to backup the data. --

Vinum query

2004-03-31 Thread Mike Woods
Ok, the query is this, whats the proccedure, is any for upgrading a drive used in a vinum volume, i mean could i have a vinum volume with a 20gb disk in, change it for a 40gb alter the vinum configuration accordingly and have it work (after mirroring the data over of course). -- Mike Woods IT

Re: spam removal

2004-02-16 Thread Mike Woods
spamassassin via amavisd (Milter atm, minor issues with dual-mta for me) and dcc to provide a spam "lookup", so far the content of my inbox has droped by a fair few hundered emails and founs five viruses (3 days :D). -- Mike Woods IT Technician __

SATA

2004-01-26 Thread Mike Woods
nd to upgrade my file server and im quite possibly going to move to sata (im looking at a 2u case with inbuilt caddies, so it's one or the other) -- Mike Woods IT Technician ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listin

Soundcard query

2003-12-23 Thread Mike Woods
Does anyone know of any soundcards with multiple line level inputs (and i dont mean on a breakout box) and support under freebsd ? Mike Woods IT Technician ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: Anybody Use 2 or More CPU at Production Env. ( SMP )

2003-12-18 Thread Mike Woods
> I wonder Does anybody use SMP Support without Problem . Because SMP > is very important things ... http://geofront.co.uk/cgi-bin/geo-stats.pl That box has happily been running SMP under 5.0 for well over six months now without a single glitch :) Mike Wood IT Techncian

Re: problem with perl version

2003-10-05 Thread Mike Woods
ion of perl BUT perl5.8.0 should still be there at /usr/local/bin/perl5.8.0 :D Now, the fun comes with modules :D Mike Woods IT Technician ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Newbie question about apache

2002-07-25 Thread Mike Woods
>I've just installed the apache2 from /usr/ports/www, and I want this to run >everytime when I reboot the machine. How do I do it? It sets itself up to launch at startup automaticly, you shouldnt have to do a thing. -- Mike Woods WoA SE Webmonkey & General Dogsbody Amiga North T

Re: MP3 Conversion Port?

2002-07-23 Thread Mike Woods
me, i suppose when it comes to mp3's it's a matter of for each their own. >Again, disk is cheap. :-) hehe, i've got 100gb on my fileserver with another 80 going in later today cheap it might be, but not when you buy it like i do :D -- Mike Woods WoA SE Webmonkey

Re: MP3 Conversion Port?

2002-07-23 Thread Mike Woods
drive now. VBR anyone ? When i encode mp3's i generaly use VBR, it keeps the file size down but gets good qualty, and mpg123 can handle playing VBR's with a 320-32 kbps range on a p133 so im good :D -- Mike Woods WoA SE Webmonkey & General Dogsbody Amiga North T

Re: 80GB IDE Drive Compatible?

2002-07-16 Thread Mike Woods
e a big issue, i have a 40 and 60gb drives in my file server on a mobo which only supports 2gb drives, both happily working as 40 & 60gb. -- Mike Woods WoA SE Webmonkey & General Dogsbody Amiga North Thames Webmaster & Games Co- ordinator ---