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

2013-01-08 Thread Harald Weis
On Sun, Jan 06, 2013 at 07:40:37PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: itHOught I'd ask the best list which ad-blocking software I should use. firefox is my std browsers; also use ixquick. thanks for some tips, Have a look at midori. -- Harald Weis

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

2013-01-08 Thread Gary Kline
On Tue, Jan 08, 2013 at 11:16:05AM +0100, Harald Weis wrote: On Sun, Jan 06, 2013 at 07:40:37PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: itHOught I'd ask the best list which ad-blocking software I should use. firefox is my std browsers; also use ixquick. thanks for some

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

2013-01-08 Thread Walter Hurry
On Sun, 06 Jan 2013 19:40:37 -0800, Gary Kline wrote: itHOught I'd ask the best list which ad-blocking software I should use. firefox is my std browsers; also use ixquick. I just use a hosts file and it works well (as long as you're not running a web server on port 80 of the

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

2013-01-07 Thread herbert langhans
All I use is Adblock Plus. With the automatic updates I havent seen any ad for month.. herb langhans ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

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

2013-01-07 Thread Mike Woods
Quoting herbert langhans w...@langhans.com.pl: 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 of squishy cynicism

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

2013-01-07 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 6 Jan 2013 19:40:37 -0800, Gary Kline wrote: itHOught I'd ask the best list which ad-blocking software I should use. firefox is my std browsers; also use ixquick. Simply deactivate Flash. :-) There are several extensions for Firefox to make the web less

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

2013-01-07 Thread RW
On Mon, 7 Jan 2013 14:32:35 +0100 Polytropon wrote: Today I don't need to deal with this question anymore. I've been using a two browsers approach: Firefox with Flash installed, everything works as intended, and Opera as my main browser, with Flash deactivated, and quite picky about what

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

2013-01-07 Thread Gary Kline
On Mon, Jan 07, 2013 at 04:44:18PM +0200, Aldis Berjoza wrote: 07.01.2013, 05:43, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org: itHOught I'd ask the best list which ad-blocking software I should use. firefox is my std browsers; also use ixquick. thanks for some tips,

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

2013-01-06 Thread Gary Kline
itHOught I'd ask the best list which ad-blocking software I should use. firefox is my std browsers; also use ixquick. thanks for some tips, gary -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix Twenty-six

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

2013-01-06 Thread Kurt Buff
On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 7:40 PM, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: itHOught I'd ask the best list which ad-blocking software I should use. firefox is my std browsers; also use ixquick. thanks for some tips, gary For firefox I use the following:

Re: An idea I have!

2012-06-19 Thread Kevin Kinsey
having to much to do right now, I needed a little break, and, well, I like humor, and making people laugh. Of course, this COULD actually be a neat idea if done right lol. Anyway, I Hope someone gets a good laugh out of this. I'm generally actually pretty good with coming up with ideas, as I'm

Needs GSOC project idea guide.

2012-03-05 Thread Tiwari Punit
like mario, countra, for the user who doesn't knows programming language. Please, suggest is this project can be given for GSOC, if not plz suggest me some project idea. Thank you, Punit Tiwari ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: FLAME - security advisories on the 23rd ? uncool idea is uncool

2011-12-24 Thread Michael Sierchio
Careful reading, as opposed to blindly applying updates, is often rewarded. If you aren't running telnetd, it follows that you are not vulnerable to the most serious exploit addressed by the patch (remote root). I have had no trouble since applying the patch to 7.4 and 8.2 systems. YMMV. Given

Re: FreeBSD idea

2011-11-08 Thread RW
On Tue, 08 Nov 2011 11:20:12 +1100 David Morton wrote: I'm very new to BSD, and had a career that left me mostly doing commercial IT help desk in Windows, but am hoping to finally learn and do something of interest to me: get deep knowledge of one platform. A local magazine, Silicon Chip;

FreeBSD idea

2011-11-07 Thread David Morton
I'm very new to BSD, and had a career that left me mostly doing commercial IT help desk in Windows, but am hoping to finally learn and do something of interest to me: get deep knowledge of one platform. A local magazine, Silicon Chip; and one of it's writers have developed a little computer

Re: FreeBSD idea

2011-11-07 Thread Ryan Coleman
I'd love to have this discussion on the list for the record, in case someone in the future wants to give this a shot, too. On Nov 7, 2011, at 6:20 PM, David Morton wrote: I'm very new to BSD, and had a career that left me mostly doing commercial IT help desk in Windows, but am hoping to

Re: FreeBSD idea

2011-11-07 Thread Adam Vande More
On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 6:20 PM, David Morton toto...@gmail.com wrote: I'm very new to BSD, and had a career that left me mostly doing commercial IT help desk in Windows, but am hoping to finally learn and do something of interest to me: get deep knowledge of one platform. A local magazine,

Re: FreeBSD idea

2011-11-07 Thread Mehmet Erol Sanliturk
On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 7:20 PM, David Morton toto...@gmail.com wrote: I'm very new to BSD, and had a career that left me mostly doing commercial IT help desk in Windows, but am hoping to finally learn and do something of interest to me: get deep knowledge of one platform. A local magazine,

same function name in multiple archives - bad idea?

2011-02-01 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
Is it wrong to have functions with the same name in multiple archives? E.g: % ar -t /usr/local/lib/libslatec.a | grep fdump.o fdump.o % ar -t /usr/local/lib/libcmlib.a | grep fdump.o fdump.o Which fdump function will be used if I then link against -larchive1.a -larchive2.a? And is there an easy

RE: same function name in multiple archives - bad idea?

2011-02-01 Thread Patrick Mahan
-Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd- questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Anton Shterenlikht Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2011 9:08 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: same function name in multiple archives - bad idea

Re: Is it a good idea to use DHCP for point to point connections ?

2010-10-16 Thread Liontaur
modem, with just DHCP set up. The hotel is composed of 33 small residences connected with fiber. The idea is to avoid the part where we buy 33 layer3 switches at 3000$ a piece. Jerome Herman I work for a hotel as well and we ended up going with a 3rd party solution due to our chain's

Re: Is it a good idea to use DHCP for point to point connections ?

2010-10-14 Thread Jerome Herman
? Jerome Herman On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 9:02 AM, Jerome Hermanjher...@dichotomia.frwrote: Hello, Given the price (an tedious management) of layer 3 switches I was thinking about using modified DHCP to distribute addresses with a /32 netmask (255.255.255.255) The Idea : Create a cheap

Re: Is it a good idea to use DHCP for point to point connections ?

2010-10-14 Thread Nathan Vidican
addresses with a /32 netmask (255.255.255.255) The Idea : Create a cheap (and preferably not dirty) way to have client isolation, without creating tons of vlan. Pratictal overview : The DHCP server will be serving IP addresses and gateways with a /32 mask. Client1 would recieve IP adress

Re: Is it a good idea to use DHCP for point to point connections ?

2010-10-14 Thread Jerome Herman
management) of layer 3 switches I was thinking about using modified DHCP to distribute addresses with a /32 netmask (255.255.255.255) The Idea : Create a cheap (and preferably not dirty) way to have client isolation, without creating tons of vlan. Pratictal overview : The DHCP server will be serving IP

Re: Is it a good idea to use DHCP for point to point connections ?

2010-10-14 Thread Gary Gatten
topic for this list. - Original Message - From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; nat...@vidican.com nat...@vidican.com Sent: Thu Oct 14 12:56:19 2010 Subject: Re: Is it a good idea

Is it a good idea to use DHCP for point to point connections ?

2010-10-13 Thread Jerome Herman
Hello, Given the price (an tedious management) of layer 3 switches I was thinking about using modified DHCP to distribute addresses with a /32 netmask (255.255.255.255) The Idea : Create a cheap (and preferably not dirty) way to have client isolation, without creating tons of vlan

Re: Is it a good idea to use DHCP for point to point connections ?

2010-10-13 Thread Elliot Finley
switches I was thinking about using modified DHCP to distribute addresses with a /32 netmask (255.255.255.255) The Idea : Create a cheap (and preferably not dirty) way to have client isolation, without creating tons of vlan. Pratictal overview : The DHCP server will be serving IP addresses

Re: denying spam hosts ssh access - good idea?

2010-01-13 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 11:36:11PM +0100, Erik Norgaard wrote: Anton Shterenlikht wrote: - why not let your firewall do the blocking? If your blocking is IP based that's the place to block. I'm already under the University firewall. Only port 22 is let through. But even that filles

Re: denying spam hosts ssh access - good idea?

2010-01-12 Thread Erik Norgaard
Anton Shterenlikht wrote: I'm thinking of denying ssh access to host from which I get brute force ssh attacks. This is a returning topic, search the archives. Anyway, the returning answer: - why not let your firewall do the blocking? If your blocking is IP based that's the place to block.

Re: denying spam hosts ssh access - good idea?

2010-01-12 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
, then you can ignore all the brute force attempts. I don't allow password based authentication. - above not a solution? See if you can tweak the sshd_config: MaxAuthTries MaxStartups can slow down brute force attacks preventing it from sucking up resources. also a good idea

Re: denying spam hosts ssh access - good idea?

2010-01-12 Thread Erik Norgaard
Anton Shterenlikht wrote: - why not let your firewall do the blocking? If your blocking is IP based that's the place to block. I'm already under the University firewall. Only port 22 is let through. But even that filles my logs. What I meant was that if you want to block IPs or ranges of

denying spam hosts ssh access - good idea?

2010-01-11 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
I'm thinking of denying ssh access to host from which I get brute force ssh attacks. HOwever, I see in /etc/hosts.allow: # Wrapping sshd(8) is not normally a good idea, but if you # need to do it, here's how #sshd : .evil.cracker.example.com : deny Why is it not a good idea? Also, apparently

Re: denying spam hosts ssh access - good idea?

2010-01-11 Thread David Southwell
I'm thinking of denying ssh access to host from which I get brute force ssh attacks. HOwever, I see in /etc/hosts.allow: # Wrapping sshd(8) is not normally a good idea, but if you # need to do it, here's how #sshd : .evil.cracker.example.com : deny Why is it not a good idea? Also

Re: denying spam hosts ssh access - good idea?

2010-01-11 Thread Kaya Saman
David Southwell wrote: I'm thinking of denying ssh access to host from which I get brute force ssh attacks. HOwever, I see in /etc/hosts.allow: # Wrapping sshd(8) is not normally a good idea, but if you # need to do it, here's how #sshd : .evil.cracker.example.com : deny Why is it not a good

Re: denying spam hosts ssh access - good idea?

2010-01-11 Thread Tim Judd
On 1/11/10, David Southwell da...@vizion2000.net wrote: I'm thinking of denying ssh access to host from which I get brute force ssh attacks. HOwever, I see in /etc/hosts.allow: # Wrapping sshd(8) is not normally a good idea, but if you # need to do it, here's how #sshd

Re: denying spam hosts ssh access - good idea?

2010-01-11 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 07:18:04AM -0700, Tim Judd wrote: On 1/11/10, David Southwell da...@vizion2000.net wrote: I'm thinking of denying ssh access to host from which I get brute force ssh attacks. HOwever, I see in /etc/hosts.allow: # Wrapping sshd(8) is not normally a good idea

Re: denying spam hosts ssh access - good idea?

2010-01-11 Thread Matthew Seaman
Tim Judd wrote: I've been meaning to check this out. My firewall ssh rules are very strict, in fact, if the remote IP is unknown meaning, I don't know where the heck it's coming from, it's blocked. It's easier to say it this way: I allow ssh connections from IPs I know, preferably static

Re: denying spam hosts ssh access - good idea?

2010-01-11 Thread Matthew Seaman
Anton Shterenlikht wrote: I'm thinking of denying ssh access to host from which I get brute force ssh attacks. HOwever, I see in /etc/hosts.allow: # Wrapping sshd(8) is not normally a good idea, but if you # need to do it, here's how #sshd : .evil.cracker.example.com : deny Why

Re: denying spam hosts ssh access - good idea?

2010-01-11 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 03:25:04PM +, Matthew Seaman wrote: Anton Shterenlikht wrote: I'm thinking of denying ssh access to host from which I get brute force ssh attacks. HOwever, I see in /etc/hosts.allow: # Wrapping sshd(8) is not normally a good idea, but if you # need

Re: denying spam hosts ssh access - good idea?

2010-01-11 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Anton Shterenlikht me...@bristol.ac.uk writes: I'm very grateful for all advice, but I'm still unsure why denying ssh access to a particular host via /etc/hosts.allow is a bad idea. As far as I recall, the reason the warning was added to the manual was that it's fairly heavy on resources

Re: denying spam hosts ssh access - good idea?

2010-01-11 Thread Samuel Martín Moro
Seaman wrote: Anton Shterenlikht wrote: I'm thinking of denying ssh access to host from which I get brute force ssh attacks. HOwever, I see in /etc/hosts.allow: # Wrapping sshd(8) is not normally a good idea, but if you # need to do it, here's how #sshd

Re: denying spam hosts ssh access - good idea?

2010-01-11 Thread Ben Schumacher
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 7:01 AM, Anton Shterenlikht me...@bristol.ac.uk wrote: I'm thinking of denying ssh access to host from which I get brute force ssh attacks. HOwever, I see in /etc/hosts.allow: # Wrapping sshd(8) is not normally a good idea, but if you # need to do it, here's how

Swap on ZFS - still a bad idea?

2009-06-03 Thread Kirk Strauser
Putting swap on ZFS is listed as broken on the wiki. Is that still true of the newly MFC'ed version? -- Kirk Strauser ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

Re: Swap on ZFS - still a bad idea?

2009-06-03 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Putting swap on ZFS is listed as broken on the wiki. Is that still true of the newly MFC'ed version? No idea. You may just make separate partition for swapping and it will work. Good if you have swap just for sure. If your system needs swapping under normal operation, using ZFS is really

Re: Swap on ZFS - still a bad idea?

2009-06-03 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Wednesday 03 June 2009 01:36:37 pm Wojciech Puchar wrote: No idea. You may just make separate partition for swapping and it will work. Good if you have swap just for sure. Well, the problem is that I wanted to have a bare-metal ZFS system without any FreeBSD slices or partitions. If your

Re: Swap on ZFS - still a bad idea?

2009-06-03 Thread Wojciech Puchar
On Wednesday 03 June 2009 01:36:37 pm Wojciech Puchar wrote: No idea. You may just make separate partition for swapping and it will work. Good if you have swap just for sure. Well, the problem is that I wanted to have a bare-metal ZFS system without any FreeBSD slices or partitions. slices

In Brief: idea summary

2009-01-11 Thread Gary Kline
hEy guys, Here's my idea, And since I'm publishing on the most open of the open-source list, it'll be hard for anybody to ``steal'', assuming it is _worth_ stealing. People seem to be reading less; fact. Listening more. I'm sure

Pre-idea question.

2009-01-10 Thread Gary Kline
people, first, the idea i have that could earn some cash very likely is not new; it is text-to-speech, but in a certain way. here's my question since recently i heard a computerized voice speaking so very normally, at first i thought it was human. thus: how advanced are some of these commercial

Permission Denied for find command; No idea why

2008-11-12 Thread APseudoUtopia
and /usr/local) are +x for the other user, so the www should be able to enter them: drwxr-xr-x 17 root wheel 512 Nov 12 20:38 usr drwxr-xr-x 15 root wheel 512 Nov 12 20:24 local Does anyone have any idea what's causing this permission denied error? Obviously it's some sort of permissions

Re: Permission Denied for find command; No idea why

2008-11-12 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
have any idea what's causing this permission denied error? Obviously it's some sort of permissions problem, but I have no idea where or what exactly it is. It's driving me crazy. find: .: Permission denied would only be returned, AFAIK, if you were doing find . someflags, which your find example

new idea: requiring php and java; maybe other ports...

2008-11-07 Thread Gary Kline
Yesterday while I was trying to read a newspaper article online using firefox yet-another idea struck me. This may/may not work with FreeBSD ... or is might be crafted for FBSD 1st and later ported to every other operating system. To avoid flames, I'll

Re: improvement idea of man page of strfile

2008-10-30 Thread Zhang Weiwu
another idea: 3 A Chinese poem in Tang-dynasty style is very short, fitting in 4 lines. Some people find getting familiar with all famous 300 such poem written in Tang-dynasty a good way to use up brain-power of the days. They can display

improvement idea of man page of strfile

2008-10-30 Thread Zhang Weiwu
of the manual (not mentioned in the manual itself). I also worry improving something that hasn't been changed for 10 years could be difficult because nobody wish to move them. What should I do or who should I contact to let them decide if they include my idea in their manual as well? In fact I think

Re: improvement idea of man page of strfile

2008-10-30 Thread mdh
--- On Thu, 10/30/08, Zhang Weiwu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Zhang Weiwu [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: improvement idea of man page of strfile To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Date: Thursday, October 30, 2008, 10:47 AM Original text: OTHER USES What can you do with this besides

Re: improvement idea of man page of strfile

2008-10-30 Thread Zhang Weiwu
mdh wrote: Erm, I don't see this text in strfile(8) on RELENG_7 which is reasonably recent. Where did you get your man page from? - mdh Hi. Sorry, you are right. This text does not exist in FreeBSD. I have a freeBSD notebook and a Gentoo Linux notebook. I found this text by using the

any idea why kde4 konqueor fails?

2008-10-07 Thread Gary Kline
Well, I've finally gotten Konq to exec, but something causes it to hang instantly whenever I click on an external link. The wristwatch icon shows up with the hang. Any idea what I'm missing? tia, gary -- Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

RE: Any idea when a bind update will be forthcoming?

2008-07-10 Thread Kevin K
Given the serious nature of the vulnerability, I'm sure this is at the top of someone's list. Do we have a scheduled release date yet? From -security : Dear all, Doug just updated the ports tree with the updated BIND ports. If you urgently want to upgrade and really cannot wait for the

Any idea when a bind update will be forthcoming?

2008-07-10 Thread Paul Schmehl
Given the serious nature of the vulnerability, I'm sure this is at the top of someone's list. Do we have a scheduled release date yet? -- Paul Schmehl As if it wasn't already obvious, my opinions are my own and not those of my employer. ___

Re: Any idea when a bind update will be forthcoming?

2008-07-10 Thread Scott Ullrich
On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 12:09 PM, Paul Schmehl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Given the serious nature of the vulnerability, I'm sure this is at the top of someone's list. Do we have a scheduled release date yet? See the thread BIND update?. Scott PS: please do not crosspost.

Re: idea bouncing: using cvs as a replacement for mergemaster

2007-11-27 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Garrett Cooper wrote: On Nov 27, 2007, at 7:45 PM, Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: I was thinking seeing the fact that I already have a cvs repo of -current does it make sense to just use CVS to update /etc instead of mergemaster... if so any ideas on

Re: evil idea

2007-10-29 Thread Jerry McAllister
a jail would run faster and perhaps be more stable than running the same program within qemu. Any tips on desirability, feasibility or how to do it would be greatly appreciated When I was first looking at this that was my idea but as far I can tell the jail needs to run the same

Re: evil idea

2007-10-29 Thread Boris Samorodov
On Sat, 27 Oct 2007 21:49:46 -0400 mv wrote: Would installing Freebsd i386 within a jail on an amd64 host solve his problem? I have been running amd64 since it was first released and am quite pleased with its performance and stability. However, as a desktop there are still a number of

Re: evil idea

2007-10-27 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
if I downgrade to i386. So here is the idea: use qemu to create a virtual version of my machine (with less then 2GB or RAM) and install i386 8-CURRENT on it (I want to use -CURRENT for all my installs) Any thing I should watch out for here (I know I need to use NFS or something like

Re: evil idea

2007-10-27 Thread mv
and there are a few i386 only ports that I absolutely must have installed and at the same time since I have 4 GB of RAM all kinds of bizarreness is created if I downgrade to i386. So here is the idea: use qemu to create a virtual version of my machine (with less then 2GB or RAM) and install i386 8

Re: evil idea

2007-10-27 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
qemu. Any tips on desirability, feasibility or how to do it would be greatly appreciated When I was first looking at this that was my idea but as far I can tell the jail needs to run the same kernel as the jailing OS. -- Aryeh M. Friedman FloSoft Systems Developer, not Business, Friendly

Re: evil idea

2007-10-27 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
What would be ideal is if you can tell the OS to treat one CPU as a virtual machine and run that inside a jail and/or qemu wrapper (wrapper in that it looks like it is a seperate [emulated] machine to the host OS but in reality it is just running on partioned CPU and memory on the same machine)

Re: evil idea

2007-10-27 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
if I downgrade to i386. So here is the idea: use qemu to create a virtual version of my machine (with less then 2GB or RAM) and install i386 8-CURRENT on it (I want to use -CURRENT for all my installs) On Sat, 27 October 2007 20:33:44 Giorgos Keramidas wrote: I don't think Aryeh wants

evil idea

2007-10-26 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
I am running amd64 8-CURRENT and there are a few i386 only ports that I absolutely must have installed and at the same time since I have 4 GB of RAM all kinds of bizarreness is created if I downgrade to i386. So here is the idea: use qemu to create a virtual version of my machine (with less

evil idea

2007-10-26 Thread Astrodog
-- Forwarded message -- From: Astrodog [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Oct 26, 2007 11:34 PM Subject: Re: evil idea To: Aryeh M. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 10/26/07, Aryeh M. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am running amd64 8-CURRENT and there are a few i386 only ports that I

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Re: Dumb filesystem idea

2007-02-05 Thread Indigo
Original idea for the setup: 74GB RAID1 (Raptors) /,/var,/usr 50GB RAID0 (Caviars[10GB from each - maybe less]) swap,/usr/obj,/tmp,[/var/audit] 1TB+ RAID5 (Caviars[the rest]) /home (or just general storage) The goal is to waste as few fast/reliable space as possible on things

Dumb filesystem idea

2007-02-04 Thread Indigo
Hello Everyone, Im about to try a disklayout experiment and I wanted to ask everyone if Im trying things that are pointless or if I should extend the experiment somehow. Hardware: Highpoint RocketRAID 2320 2xWD Raptor 74GB 5xWD Caviar 320GB Original idea for the setup: 74GB RAID1

Dumb filesystem idea

2007-02-04 Thread Indigo
Hello Everyone, Im about to try a disklayout experiment and I wanted to ask everyone if Im trying things that are pointless or if I should extend the experiment somehow. Hardware: Highpoint RocketRAID 2320 2xWD Raptor 74GB 5xWD Caviar 320GB Original idea for the setup: 74GB RAID1

Re: Dumb filesystem idea

2007-02-04 Thread Atom Powers
Original idea for the setup: 74GB RAID1 (Raptors) /,/var,/usr 50GB RAID0 (Caviars[10GB from each - maybe less]) swap,/usr/obj,/tmp,[/var/audit] 1TB+ RAID5 (Caviars[the rest]) /home (or just general storage) The goal is to waste as few fast/reliable space as possible on things that CAN

Any idea how to stress test our bandwidth?

2006-08-11 Thread jay alvarez
their bandwidth. However, they want to try increasing their consumption and see for their self if they will reach the desired bandwidth if they are actually connecting to any site in the Internet, outside our network. Running iperf from their site to us doesn't seem to reflect to the MRTG. Any idea

Re: Any idea how to stress test our bandwidth?

2006-08-11 Thread Bob
if they are actually connecting to any site in the Internet, outside our network. Running iperf from their site to us doesn't seem to reflect to the MRTG. Any idea how to explain this to our client? Thank you very much for your help -JaY __ Do You Yahoo

RE: Any idea how to stress test our bandwidth?

2006-08-11 Thread fbsd
:02 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Any idea how to stress test our bandwidth? I hope you don't mind my asking this here. I'm working in an ISP right now. We are using mrtg for each client connected to us. They can view their mrtg statistics. Their way to the internet is to us. Say

Just an idea..

2006-06-11 Thread Sergio Lenzi
Hello... I was thinking well it was 2 months ago... FreeBSD I think is one of the most amazing opearting system ever coded... Stable, fast... etc... etc... The interfaces (Xwindow, with Kde, Gnome) have reached a very good level of usage, stable.. There are several problems still???

Re: Contents of freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 123, Issue 3 (Re: What's the bright idea? fam - gamin)

2006-02-08 Thread Trix Farrar
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Peter wrote: --- Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2/6/06, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My dependency are all foobared up now, How do I change them all back to fam-2.6.9_6, so I don't have

What's the bright idea? fam - gamin

2006-02-06 Thread Nikolas Britton
My dependency are all foobared up now, How do I change them all back to fam-2.6.9_6, so I don't have to run pkgdb -F everytime I portupgrade? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Re: What's the bright idea? fam - gamin

2006-02-06 Thread Peter
--- Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My dependency are all foobared up now, How do I change them all back to fam-2.6.9_6, so I don't have to run pkgdb -F everytime I portupgrade? Remove fam by force and then install gamin. What is wrong with running 'pkgdb -F' ? It is there to help

Re: What's the bright idea? fam - gamin

2006-02-06 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 2/6/06, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My dependency are all foobared up now, How do I change them all back to fam-2.6.9_6, so I don't have to run pkgdb -F everytime I portupgrade? Remove fam by force and then install gamin. I don't want

Re: What's the bright idea? fam - gamin

2006-02-06 Thread Peter
--- Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2/6/06, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My dependency are all foobared up now, How do I change them all back to fam-2.6.9_6, so I don't have to run pkgdb -F everytime I portupgrade?

Re: What's the bright idea? fam - gamin

2006-02-06 Thread martinko
Peter wrote: --- Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2/6/06, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My dependency are all foobared up now, How do I change them all back to fam-2.6.9_6, so I don't have to run pkgdb -F everytime I portupgrade?

Re: What's the bright idea? fam - gamin

2006-02-06 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 2/6/06, Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My dependency are all foobared up now, How do I change them all back to fam-2.6.9_6, so I don't have to run pkgdb -F everytime I portupgrade? Into /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf place: ALT_PKGDEP = { 'gamin*' = 'fam*', } maybe? -- --

Re: What's the bright idea? fam - gamin

2006-02-06 Thread Joe Marcus Clarke
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2/6/06, Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My dependency are all foobared up now, How do I change them all back to fam-2.6.9_6, so I don't have to run pkgdb -F everytime I portupgrade? Into

Re: What's the bright idea? fam - gamin

2006-02-06 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Feb 06, 2006 at 03:21:43PM -0500, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2/6/06, Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My dependency are all foobared up now, How do I change them all back to fam-2.6.9_6, so I don't have to run pkgdb -F everytime I portupgrade?

Re: Any idea when Xorg 7.0's coming to FBSD?

2006-02-03 Thread Stijn Hoop
On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 08:53:01AM +0100, Björn König wrote: Garrett Cooper schrieb: Erm, unless 6.9 is modular (which I didn't think was the case), there should be a noticeable difference. The noticeable difference is that 7.0 takes much more time to compile all in all because of its

Re: Any idea when Xorg 7.0's coming to FBSD?

2006-02-03 Thread Igor Robul
On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 10:12:11PM -0800, Garrett Cooper wrote: Erm, unless 6.9 is modular (which I didn't think was the case), there should be a noticeable difference. AFAIK there is only one difference - 6.9 is traditianaly packaged (6 or 7 big source tgz), while 7.0 is broken smaller source

Re: Any idea when Xorg 7.0's coming to FBSD?

2006-02-03 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Feb 3, 2006, at 12:01 AM, Stijn Hoop wrote: On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 08:53:01AM +0100, Björn König wrote: Garrett Cooper schrieb: Erm, unless 6.9 is modular (which I didn't think was the case), there should be a noticeable difference. The noticeable difference is that 7.0 takes much

Re: Any idea when Xorg 7.0's coming to FBSD?

2006-02-03 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 2/3/06, Stijn Hoop [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 08:53:01AM +0100, Björn König wrote: Garrett Cooper schrieb: Erm, unless 6.9 is modular (which I didn't think was the case), there should be a noticeable difference. The noticeable difference is that 7.0 takes much

Re: Any idea when Xorg 7.0's coming to FBSD?

2006-02-03 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 10:12:11PM -0800, Garrett Cooper wrote: Kris Kennaway wrote: On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 08:58:25PM -0800, Garrett Cooper wrote: Just tried out Xorg 7.0 on my Gentoo box and it appears to render a lot better than the 6.8 tree did. So, I was wondering if there was

Re: Any idea when Xorg 7.0's coming to FBSD?

2006-02-03 Thread Kent Stewart
On Thursday 02 February 2006 23:53, Björn König wrote: Garrett Cooper schrieb: Erm, unless 6.9 is modular (which I didn't think was the case), there should be a noticeable difference. The noticeable difference is that 7.0 takes much more time to compile all in all because of its

Re: Any idea when Xorg 7.0's coming to FBSD?

2006-02-03 Thread Björn König
Kent Stewart schrieb: On Thursday 02 February 2006 23:53, Björn König wrote: The noticeable difference is that 7.0 takes much more time to compile all in all because of its modularity. A German magazine tested both: 6.9 took 19 minutes and 7.0 75 minutes on their dual Opteron 246 machine with

Re: Any idea when Xorg 7.0's coming to FBSD?

2006-02-03 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Feb 3, 2006, at 3:39 AM, Björn König wrote: Kent Stewart schrieb: On Thursday 02 February 2006 23:53, Björn König wrote: The noticeable difference is that 7.0 takes much more time to compile all in all because of its modularity. A German magazine tested both: 6.9 took 19 minutes and 7.0

Any idea when Xorg 7.0's coming to FBSD?

2006-02-02 Thread Garrett Cooper
Just tried out Xorg 7.0 on my Gentoo box and it appears to render a lot better than the 6.8 tree did. So, I was wondering if there was any approximate timeframe mentioned anywhere where Xorg 7.0 may be coming to FreeBSD =)? -Garrett ___

Re: Any idea when Xorg 7.0's coming to FBSD?

2006-02-02 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 08:58:25PM -0800, Garrett Cooper wrote: Just tried out Xorg 7.0 on my Gentoo box and it appears to render a lot better than the 6.8 tree did. So, I was wondering if there was any approximate timeframe mentioned anywhere where Xorg 7.0 may be coming to FreeBSD =)?

Re: Any idea when Xorg 7.0's coming to FBSD?

2006-02-02 Thread Garrett Cooper
Kris Kennaway wrote: On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 08:58:25PM -0800, Garrett Cooper wrote: Just tried out Xorg 7.0 on my Gentoo box and it appears to render a lot better than the 6.8 tree did. So, I was wondering if there was any approximate timeframe mentioned anywhere where Xorg 7.0 may be

Re: Any idea when Xorg 7.0's coming to FBSD?

2006-02-02 Thread Andrew Pantyukhin
On 2/3/06, Igor Robul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 10:12:11PM -0800, Garrett Cooper wrote: Erm, unless 6.9 is modular (which I didn't think was the case), there should be a noticeable difference. AFAIK there is only one difference - 6.9 is traditianaly packaged (6 or 7

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