I have a Trendnet TEW-684UB wireless dual-band USB adapter. Googling
around for awhile leads me to believe that this probably contains an
Ralink RT3572 chipset.
Further googling also leads me to believe that a version of the
run(4) driver which should support this chipset was comitted some
consi
In message <519794e9.6080...@sneakertech.com>,
Quartz wrote:
>> 3) Assuming that I want to do this stuff, what BIOS options should I
>> be setting or unsetting on the motherboard?
>
>You need the sata ports running in straight up pure ahci mode (as
>opposed to "IDE mode" or "compatible" or so
In message <20130514144721.aa321c25.free...@edvax.de>,
Polytropon wrote:
>I've been using SCSI "hot swap" devices for many years, and
>they usually required a re-scan of the bus. The same often
>works for USB-connected devices which also use CAM, and maybe
>SATA and eSATA also support it today?
In message <20882.9169.697806.928...@jerusalem.litteratus.org>,
Robert Huff wrote:
>Ronald F. Guilmette writes:
>
>> I bought one of these things awhile ago:
>>
>> http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004LXJXSW/ref=oh_details_o00_s00_i00?ie=U
>TF8&psc=1
I bought one of these things awhile ago:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004LXJXSW/ref=oh_details_o00_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
So far, it seems to be working just peachy, but I have yet to do anything
the least bit adventurous with it, such as trying to either insert a drive
into it or remove a d
In message <518e1a51.3020...@cyberleo.net>, you wrote:
>On 05/10/2013 03:04 PM, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
>
>> pkg_sanity: ImageMagick-6.8.0.7_1: +CONTENTS file does not exist -- skipped
>> pkg_sanity: ORBit2-2.14.19: /usr/local/lib/libORBit-2.so: File failed MD5
&
The subject line pretty much says it all.
As I explained here the other day, numerous of my installed ports
have semi-mysteriously had their corresponding +CONTENTS files
just disappear. I do have a backup of my /var partition, from which
I could, in theory, fetch replacements for the specific +
A couple of three weeks ago or so, I experienced an unfortunate series
of three or four system crashes, all of which I ultimately found to
be attributable to CPU automatic over-temp shutdowns, where the reason
for the overheating turned out to be something really rather stupid.
Some cables inside
In message <20130407060507.76fd8bd1.free...@edvax.de>,
Polytropon wrote:
>This is what "shutdown -p now" does.
It's times like these than make me want to go off to some dark place and
hang my head in shame.
I confess that I wasn't ever aware of the -p option for shutdown until now.
I can't re
So, um, I just "upgraded" my main system. Maybe that is too weak a word.
I cannibalized the drives and most of the add-in cards out of my old
system and put them into a new system I built which has a new case,
new motherboard, new CPU, new memory, and a new video card.
So far everything seems t
In message <20130402231522.71cb7352.free...@edvax.de>,
Polytropon wrote:
>> First order question: Why is it that in FreeBSD there are so many man
>> pages like this one, _purporting_ to describe some low level interface
>> to some sort of hardware, and the man page _doesn't_ include a clear
>>
In message <515aae16.9030...@qeng-ho.org>, you wrote:
>On 04/02/13 04:02, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
>[Overheating CPU war story snipped.]
>...
>I've had a fan jam that way. Cable ties are your friends.
Yes.
>> P.P.S. I have a (relatively) monster sized heatsink i
[[ Mostly, this posting is just a story. But it does include one
question, towards the end. See below. ]]
Well, I accidentally found what I believe is most likely the reason
for the system halts I have been having recently, so I just thought
that I would share that. It _is_ a bit humorous.
Today my system crashed twice while I was doing "portupgrade -a".
I'm not sure but I suspect the new cards I have installed recently may
just be a bit too much for the old power supply I have. (When the thing
crashed, the machine just simply shut itself off. This exact same thing
has also happ
So, um, I downloaded the memstick.img file for FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE and
then I dd'ed that to my 16GB ADATA USB flash thingy. After that, it
worked just fine, and as expected. No problems. I could boot FreeBSD
from it.
Now however, I need to use that USB stick for something else, and I
want to
In message <51543b7a.4030...@qeng-ho.org>,
Arthur Chance wrote:
>On 03/28/13 10:32, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
>> It is possible, I would guess, that dd may notice the EOF occuring
>> before it has filled up an entire input buffer, and then just quit
>> at that p
In message <5153feff.4090...@sneakertech.com>, you wrote:
>
>> I have filed the following PR:
>>
>> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=177431
>
>Er, don't take my word for law:
I didn't. I won't.
>I have *no* idea if 1M is a good idea
Any size which is an exact multiple of the physic
In message <5153a2fd.8020...@sneakertech.com>, you wrote:
>
>> Why exactly is the "bs=10240" is there? Wouldn't the default of 512
>> do just as well?
>
>Modern systems can read and write far more than 512 bytes per operation.
>Sticking with 512 would work perfectly fine, but you'd be
I've never used any FreeBSD memstick image before, but now I have reason
to do so.
I'm reading the instructions for creating a bootable memstick that are
located on this page:
http://www.freebsd.org/releases/9.1R/announce.html
which include the following example of how to perform the copy:
In message <20130304151707.gc76...@jerrymc.net>,
Jerry McAllister wrote:
>This and the previous reply are correct. This example shows
>a correct way to use 'restore -r'
>
>The '-r' flag causes it to write where you are cd-ed to without any
>warning what you are doing or overwriting. If the
In message ,
Warren Block wrote:
>Until SUJ has been deemed 100%, I avoid it and suggest others do also.
>It can be disabled on an existing filesystem from single user mode.
hehe
Silly me! What do *I* know? I just go about my business and try not to
create too much trouble for myself. To
In message <20130304125634.8450cfaf.free...@edvax.de>,
Polytropon wrote:
>On Mon, 04 Mar 2013 03:35:30 -0800, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
>> Now, unfortunately, I have just been bitten by the evil... and apparently
>> widely known (except to me)... ``You can't use d
In message <63618304-837e-4b76-8157-d99c744ac...@wolfhut.org>,
Ben Cottrell wrote:
>I guess the same text in the man page could be read several
>different ways! The way I read it (which may or may not be
>correct) is that the example given is an example of how to
>use it *correctly*. It sounds
I must not be attending the Right conferences, or else the Right parties,
because I don't get the joke.
Could somebody please explain to me the meaning of the BUGS section of the
chmod(1) man page, as distributed with 9.1-RELEASE?
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As a result of this past Black Friday weekend, I now enjoy a true abundance
of disk space, for the first time in my life.
I wanna make a full backup, on a weekly basis, of my main system's shiny
new 1TB drive onto another 1TB drive that I also picked up cheap back on
Black Friday.
I've been pla
In the man page for restore(8) I see the following:
The -r flag ... can be detrimental to one's health if
not used carefully (not to mention the disk). An example:
newfs /dev/da0s1a
mount /dev/da0s1a /mnt
cd /mnt
restore rf /dev/sa0
I have a somewhat eclectic system, currently running (or at any rate,
trying to run) 9.1-RELEASE. The system in question contains three
drives, to wit:
ATA-8 SATA 3.x device
ATA-8 SATA 1.x device
ATA-8 SATA 3.x device
Previously, I had the ST3500320AS in this system, along with one
First let me say "Thank you!" to everyone who responded.
Several people asked if I got my cdrecord from ports or packages.
It was/is freshly built from ports. (I don't use packages anymore,
because I always want the latest and greatest for all my ports.)
Anyway, after I posted here, I did duti
In message
David Demelier wrote:
>I've never understood the difference between ATA_CAM and atapicam, what are
>the difference between them?
I'm sorry if I confused anyone or anything.
When I said "atapicam" I probably should have said "ATA_CAM".
But as far as I know, both of those terms refe
I am not a happy camper.
Now that I've ``upgraded'' from 8.3-RELEASE to 9.1-RELEASE it appears that
good old burncd no longer works, apparently because the CD/DVD drive is
now exclusively handled as an ATAPICAM device.
So I try to use cdrecord and I get this:
# cdrecord dev=0,0,0 driveropts=bu
In message
CeDeROM wrote:
>On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 10:38 PM, Ronald F. Guilmette
> wrote:
>> Looking into this issue a bit deeper, I've now learned that all of
>> one's personal settings are stored in a directory having a name which
>> has the following g
In message ,
=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Trond_Endrest=F8l?= wrote:
>On Mon, 11 Feb 2013 18:33-0800, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
>
>> I exactly followed the directions here:
>>
>> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2012-February/238118.
>html
>>
>&
In general, I don't upgrade my ports very often, so up until recently
I was running a fairly old version of firefox (firefox-15.0.1,1).
But over the weekend, I moved everything over to a new drive
containing the latest 9.1-RELEASE FreeBSD, and with a complete set
of freshly rebuilt ports, includi
I exactly followed the directions here:
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2012-February/238118.html
Nontheless, my /dev/lpt0 node still only has permissions set to 0644.
Why?
What did I do wrong?
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I am, at long last, moving my main system over onto a new drive where
I have just installed a fresh copy of 9.1-RELEASE, and where I have
built and installed essentially all of the ports I had on my old
(8.3-RELEASE) system... at least the ones that I am actually still
actively using.
A problem a
One question about portupgrade has been nagging me, in the back of my
mind, for some time now.
Assume for the moment that on some given system, the root user has two
terminal sessions open, i.e. either two instances of xterm or else two
console sessions.
Also assume that there exist three ports,
This problem has been annoying me for some time now, but until now
it was never really an issue that I could not easily work-around.
I was just trying to download a PDF document off of the Pacer[tm]
federal courts web site. These are not free. They cost ten cents
per page. I tried to download
In message <50c1313c.4000...@gmx.com>,
Nikos Vassiliadis wrote:
>I think fdisk should need a valid partition table, or not?
Apparently, yes.
>diskinfo works nice with all disk-like devices be it a physical disk,
>a slice, a partition, a swap-backed device etc. Its output is easily
>parsable u
In message <50c12b6c.5020...@tundraware.com>,
Tim Daneliuk wrote:
>On 12/06/2012 05:30 PM, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
>>
>> I'd like to write a small program or shell script that simply lists all
>> of the physical hard drives attached to the local sys
I'd like to write a small program or shell script that simply lists all
of the physical hard drives attached to the local system, along with their
product identifiers and their respective capacities.
The following simple script works well for both PATA/SATA and USB hard drives,
but it does not li
In message ,
Warren Block wrote:
>On Wed, 28 Nov 2012, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
>
>>
>> In message ,
>> Warren Block wrote:
>>
>>>> I tried to do as you suggest and change the partition type to freebsd-ufs,
>>>> but there's a probl
In message ,
Warren Block wrote:
>> I tried to do as you suggest and change the partition type to freebsd-ufs,
>> but there's a problem...
>>
>> # gpart modify -i 1 -t freebsd-ufs /dev/da1
>> gpart: Invalid argument
>
>da1 is the drive. da1s1 is the first slice.
Yeabut that's what I thought t
In message ,
Warren Block wrote:
>On Mon, 26 Nov 2012, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
>
>> Starting sector 2048 is definitely a multiple of 4KB, so I am assuming
>> that all I really need to do here in order to use this new drive as extra
>> stroage for a FreeBSD system (
I just wanted to add another data point... in case anybody is interested...
uring my recent spending binge, I also acquired a Hatachi portable external
2.5 inch "Touro Moble" 500GB drive.
Righ out of the box, this is what fdisk tells me about this one:
=
Just a brief follow-up on my questions here (about 2 weeks ago) regarding
so-called "Advanced Format" (4KB block) drives...
I just got myself a shiny new Seagate 2.5" portable external 1TB hard drive.
fdisk is telling me this about it:
===
Well friends, it's that time of year again... yep, it's shop till you drop
time!
This year it appears that everybody and his brother is having a sale on
compact (mostly 2.5 inch) external drives, and most of them nowadays have
a USB 3.0 connection.
That's swell, and there are some really good ba
NEVERMIND!
It took me awhile, but I think I've finally got the hang of this gpart/GPT
stuff... well... mostly anyway (but see below).
I understand now that /boot/mbr is a "regular" sort of MBR, with regular
sort of MBR bootstrap code, whereas /boot/pbmr is the ``protected'' MBR
record that says
(This stuff would probably be a lot less confiusing if I actually knew
what I was doing, but...)
OK, Warren, I've just done the following steps. The first two I drew
from the manpage examples, and then followed those up with two commands
from your tutorial.
/sbin/gpart create -s GPT ada0#
Warren,
In the EXAMPLES section of the gpart(8) man page, they do this:
/sbin/gpart bootcode -b /boot/pmbr ad0
In your document however, you first create an explicit (special) partition
named "gpboot" and then you do this instead:
gpart bootcode -b /boot/pmbr -p /boot/gptboot -i 1 da
In message ,
Warren Block wrote:
>> It wouldn't hurt to add the above info to your tutorial page.
>
>The problem with that sort of detail is that too much of it obscures the
>point, which in this case is just trying to show the right way to set up
>disks without overwhelming the reader.
Som
In message ,
Warren Block wrote:
>On Thu, 15 Nov 2012, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
>> Well, given that newfs has been ``fixed'' so that its defaults will
>> Do The Right Thing with the latest generation of (4KB block) disks,
>> I for one would like to register my
In message ,
Warren Block wrote:
>On Thu, 15 Nov 2012, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
>> In your tutorial document, you say:
>>
>> "Create a boot partition to hold the loader, size of 512K."
>>
>> How big is that thing (gpart boot loader), actually?
In message <50a4f2c8.5040...@qeng-ho.org>,
Arthur Chance wrote:
>On 11/15/12 12:41, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
>>> -b is the beginning block of a partition. 34 is a magic value, the size
>>> of a standard GPT partition table.
>>
>> It probably wouldn&
In message ,
Warren Block wrote:
>On Wed, 14 Nov 2012, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
>
>> I'm looking at the examples section of the gpart(8) man page. May I
>> assume that if I just want to merely ``try out'' GPT... you know...
>> taking it out on the r
In message ,
Warren Block wrote:
>On Wed, 14 Nov 2012, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
>...
>> Given these facts, I am more than a little surpised to learn (or rather
>> just to realize) that the good old traditional fdisk and bsdlabel tools
>> do not have ways to ex
In message ,
Warren Block wrote:
>On Tue, 13 Nov 2012, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
>
>> OK. I think that I always was doing that anyway. But I want to be sure
>> that I understand... If the size of the BSD partition is a multiple of,
>> say, !MB, then the _alignment
In message <50a2002b.9040...@qeng-ho.org>,
Arthur Chance wrote:
>According to the manual as of 9.0-RELEASE the default fragment and block
>sizes for newfs are 4k and 32k, so provided your partitions/slices are
>4k aligned everything Should Just Work. Before 9.0 fragments and blocks
>were 2k
In message <20121113073030.87bc0608.free...@edvax.de>,
Polytropon wrote:
>Note that 4k = 8 x 512 byte, and so 64 sectors would be a
>good alignment "grid", while 63 sectors is not. That implies
>that in case you use fdisk to create a slice holding your
>partitions, try to make it start at secto
In message <20121113065602.ee2310d7.free...@edvax.de>,
Polytropon wrote:
>On Mon, 12 Nov 2012 21:47:40 -0800, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
>> Is there _anything_ that I will have to do differently than I did for the
>> last 20 drives I've used with FreeBSD over the last
OK, so I'm lazy. Guilty as charged. I started to do some googling
around to try and find out what the meaning of this warning on the
anti-static bag outside of my brand new 1TB hard drive might be, and
what the implications might be for FreeBSD, but so far all I am finding
is seemingly endless d
In message <20121105051447.6eef32ef.free...@edvax.de>,
Polytropon wrote:
>> >The problem is that delegating compression to a "sub-task" would
>> >imply that dump cannot precisely adjust its output to match the
>> >media size (as the limit is now defined by how good the compression
>> >works).
>
In message <20121105035233.e3c4ae8a.free...@edvax.de>,
Polytropon wrote:
>> But as I said (above) to make this really work right, dump & restore really
>> need to have -z options, and do the zipping/unzipping internally. Only
>> if this were available could dump properly deal with end-of-media
In message <50971b88.40...@herveybayaustralia.com.au>,
Da Rock wrote:
>Also, you may have considered this already (or not :) ), but you are
>using a direct write to backup your system, and then considering
>compression on top of that. CD/DVD filesystems incorporate some parity
>to allow for def
In message <20121105021817.fc5bff1b.free...@edvax.de>,
Polytropon wrote:
>> I would like to make this backup to a _minimal_ number of DVD+R disks.
>
>If you think you can add compression to your files (if it makes
>sense), it should be incorporated to the command.
Yes. There really ought to b
In message
Mehmet Erol Sanliturk wrote:
>Assume one file will NOT be copied more than ONE DVD , i.e. , each file
>will be completely recorded on one DVD :
>
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cutting_stock_problem
The problem you cited is an interesting one, but I do not believe that
it is at all r
I would like to make a backup of one of my systems using dump(8) in order
to be sure that I get everything, including all of the obscure file attribute
bits.
I would like to make this backup to a _minimal_ number of DVD+R disks.
What's the proper procedure for this?
In the dump(8) man page, I s
Is it time for this page to be updated yet?
http://wiki.freebsd.org/DriDrivers
I quote:
"This information is badly out of date at present. This page will be
updated with information regarding the new structure of the xorg port
in the coming days..."
"Coming days"?
An additional
I ran into something that looks like a small bug relating to install
of the ffmpeg port. (See below.) I will be filing of formal PR (shortly)
to report this bug, but usually, I do try to spend at least a few
minutes before I file any formal PR, trying to work out for myself
what the proper solut
Bernt Hansson bah at bananmonarki.se wrote:
>As root sysctl hw.snd.default_unit=2
Yes, unfortunately I had already tried that before I posted. (Sorry, I
should have mentioned that also.)
That made no difference whatsoever to the outcome. There was still no
sound coming out when I tried cat'in
I have a laptop which has an HDMI output port.
I can get video out of that (with xbmc) just fine. Audio, not so much.
Like not at all, as far as I can tell.
So anyway, here is what I get when I do "cat /dev/sndstat":
pcm0: (play/rec) default
pcm1: (rec)
pcm2: (play)
I have the HDMI output
In message <20121008012414.34fd6a65.free...@edvax.de>,
Polytropon wrote:
...
>> ># make config-recursive
...
>This target (and several other useful ones) are listed
>and explained in the manpage: "man 7 ports". :-)
Hey! Thanks again. I didn't know about that man page either!
P.S. I'm
In message <20121007234043.cadf5863.free...@edvax.de>,
Polytropon wrote:
>A workaround (and not directly the answer to your question) is
>to process the config dialogs before starting the build:
>
> # make config-recursive
>
>Once set, the options won't be requested on a second run.
Hey!
I am impatient by nature.
Nowadays, whenever I use portinstall/portupgrade, I use the --batch
option, so that I don't have to sit around at the console, waiting
for and then accepting the default build options for a boatload of
depended-upon ports for whatever I am actually trying to install or
u
When I view man pages in a xterm window, some parts of them are coming
out a bit garbled.
I'm sure that there must be some recommended option or options for
xterm that will cause man pages to display properly. If someone would
tell me what those options are, I would appreciate it. Thanks.
_
In message <5002b996.2000...@cran.org.uk>,
Bruce Cran wrote:
>On 15/07/2012 09:56, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
>> but, in spite of some fanatics here my get worried, i do recommend use
>> windoze scandisk.
>
>I'd forgotten about scandisk - for modern Windows (XP and newer) you'll
>want to use chkd
In message
, Adam Vande More wrote:
>On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 2:23 AM, Ronald F. Guilmette
>wrote:
>>
>> Is there any such a tool (as fsck for FAT32) available for freeBSD? If so,
>> where would I find it?
>>
>
>/sbin/fsck_msdosfs
Thank you. That sure
I have a sizable (200GB) external USB 2.0 interface hard drive. (Actually,
it's a plain old PATA drive in one of those enclosures that allows it
to speak USB 2.0.)
So anyway, to make this external drive work with things other than just my
FreeBSD system, the drive has been formatted so that it
Warren? Just a couple more quick questions. You recommend:
>> dump -C16 -b64 -0uanL -h0 -f - /usr | (cd /mnt && restore -ruf -)
I'm real curious about you suggestions for the -C and -b values.
I have what amounts to a personal workstation. Yea, OK, it is running
mail, web, and FTP servers
In message ,
Warren Block wrote:
>On Sun, 10 Jun 2012, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
>> 1) In your example under the heading "Copying Filesystems", the second
>> shell command line shown is:
>>
>> dump -C16 -b64 -0uanL -h0 -f - /usr | (cd /mnt &am
In message , you wrote:
>On Sat, 9 Jun 2012, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
>
>>
>> Also, I don't like backups taking longer than absolutely necessary, and
>> this is why I am specifically _not_ attracted to either the dd solution
>> or to dump/restore, because
In message <4fd38b9a.4010...@qeng-ho.org>,
Arthur Chance wrote:
>There's a BFI (brute force and ignorance) way of doing it in the base
>system - dd. Provided your system disk is quiescent (ideally when
>running from a live CD or all partitions mounted read-only, otherwise
>pray to the deity o
I've been lucky. Over about the past 20 years I've never had a hard
disk go bad on me. (Knock on wood.) Of course I _do_ only buy the
better quality ones (with the 5 year warranties), and I'm sure that
has helped. Still, one never knows, and it is best to be prepared.
Primarily however, I am m
In message <20120420004050.9b3f1a3a.free...@edvax.de>,
Polytropon wrote:
>On Thu, 19 Apr 2012 14:25:48 -0700, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
>>
>>
>> The man page for the psm driver says:
>>
>> ... The current resolution can be changed at runtime.
&g
The man page for the psm driver says:
... The current resolution can be changed at runtime.
Unfortunately, it fails to mention any sort of command line utility
that would provide this functionality.
Is there a command line utility that provides this functionality? Or do
I need to write on
In message <4f44e576.5000...@ifdnrg.com>,
Paul Macdonald wrote:
>On 21/02/2012 22:33, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
>> Port 25 is apparently implementing _something_ that sort-of vaguely acts
>> like an SMTP server. However it appears to me that it only accepts e-mail
>
In message <20120222005734.1353.qm...@joyce.lan>, John Levine wrote:
>>Regarding port 9100, my local /etc/services file says:
>> jetdirect 9100/tcp #HP JetDirect card
>
>That's typically known as "socket". Works great with CUPS.
As Robert Bonomi was kind enough to relate to me, this i
So, um, I just came into possession of a brand spankin' new Brother
MFC-7860DW all-in-one multifunction machine, and 'me having some fun
exploring it.
Unlike the multifunction machine this is replacing (which had only an
old centronics/parallel port and a USB port) this new Brother machine
has on
It would appear that the device node /dev/ulpt0 gets (re-)created every
time I plug my USB printer back in.
Could somebody please kindly tell me what the exact mechanism is that
causes this device node to be (re-)created upon such events?
I am rather hoping that whatever that mechanism is, that
In message <4ee03877.643serzmrkxlotg4%per...@pluto.rain.com>, you wrote:
>"Ronald F. Guilmette" wrote:
>
>> At least this gives me confidence that it can be done. I am still
>> somewhat at a loss to know exactly _how_ it can be done however.
>
>For me, i
In message <4edf4d7a.ac3xg02r+czwn8xy%per...@pluto.rain.com>, you wrote:
>"Ronald F. Guilmette" wrote:
>
>> I've been trying to look at California Dept. of Transportation
>> webcams using Firefox on FreeBSD and so far it simply ain't workin'.
In message
, "Paul B. Mahol" wrote:
>On 12/7/11, Polytropon wrote:
>> On Tue, 06 Dec 2011 16:02:24 -0800, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
>>> I've been trying to look at California Dept. of Transportation webcams
>>> using Firefox on FreeBSD and so far it
In message <20111207014948.9fb0cb4b.free...@edvax.de>,
Polytropon wrote:
>On Tue, 06 Dec 2011 16:02:24 -0800, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
>> I've been trying to look at California Dept. of Transportation webcams
>> using Firefox on FreeBSD and so far it simply ain'
I've been trying to look at California Dept. of Transportation webcams
using Firefox on FreeBSD and so far it simply ain't workin'. Somebody
please tell me what I'm doing wrong.
Yes, I already installed the mozilla-mplayer port.
Here's where you can get at the webcams:
http://www.dot.ca.gov/d
With a pre-recorded CD in the drive, the following works fine for me when
I'm root:
cdda2wav -D 0,0,0 -B
My question is: What do I need to do in order to make this work also
when executed from a non-root account?
Here's what I get when I try to do the above from a non-root account:
cdd
Looking at the man page for mkisofs I see the following:
-r ... If any of the special mode bits are set,
clear them, because file locks are not useful on a read-only
file system, ...
Just curious: What the bleep have file mode bits
I knew that this was a problem for older versions of the adobe acrobat
reader (acroread) but I really thought that SOMBODY would have fixed this
by now, as it has been a longstanding problem.
But alas, acroread9-9.4.2 as installed from the ports tree on a reasonably
up-to-date 8.2-RELEASE/amd64 s
In message ,
Warren Block wrote:
>...
>> The only thing that worries me about my rather ad-hoc way of setting up
>> a "personal" printer (as describe above) is that I sort of wonder what
>> will happen if I ever try to print something when something else is
>> currently printing.
>
>There's als
In message <20111027143609.60335.qm...@joyce.lan>, you wrote:
>I'm not a huge fan of CUPS, but at this point it's the best of a bad
>lot. I find the queueing useful, since I often print documents long
>enough that I don't want to wait.
I don't quite understand the issue you are raising john.
E
This isn't really a question. It's more of a semi-rant, combined with some
information that I wanted to put on the record (so that it can be googled)
because it may benefit some folks, other than just me.
I'm impatient by nature, and I don't like CUPS. (I would say that I hate
it, but I don't
In message <20111022125209.9ba97a1f.free...@edvax.de>,
Polytropon wrote:
>On Fri, 21 Oct 2011 18:29:25 -0700, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
>> The really strange thing is that after I followed all the directions here:
>>
>>http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/book
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