Re: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of?

a permission by its concurrent to make his product work. It would also show a security feature being an aspect of defective by design regarding computer hardware and its manufacturers. Compiling from source? You don't even get that far! :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since

Re: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of?

of this model. You may live in the flat, but by paying a rent you don't own it. What you may do is limited. Another valid interpretation of this problem is of course defective by design and planned obsolescense. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: find date of last boot

`date`. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd

Re: find date of last boot

/var/log/thisboot.log and then just look at the file. Requires at least one reboot to take effect. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Mouse stopped working in X

On Sat, 09 Jun 2012 06:06:49 +0200, Bernt Hansson wrote: 2012-05-22 10:44, Polytropon skrev: On Tue, 22 May 2012 10:17:16 +0200, Bernt Hansson wrote: There is a second way of doing this stunt. Start X When X is up and running press CTRL+ALT+F3 or any F* frpm F3 up to F8 then you

Re: prune ports tree?

with an incomplete ports tree is not supported and may cause unexpected results. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: altfn going to X

combination Ctrl+Alt+Fx should work without alteration in any window manager; at least it does in the few I've tried. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: possbility of a port for older versions of libintl?

compatverx-arch-x.y (which has the required lib version you need) in combination with the ld.so library mapping (see man libmap.conf) will work? -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd

Re: any way to grab just One port to upgrade?

builds in a somewhat clean environment, that's why it sometimes really helps to delete files of a previous build. Are you using a port management tool (e. g. portmaster) or do you operate on bare ports)? -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: text format

text editor. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd

Re: note

: FreeBSD _is_ free to download and to use. You don't need to buy it (even though you _may_ do so; refer to the FreeBSD website for details). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd

Re: text format

. But you need to test this yourself with your input text format. See man nroff for details. For using roff macros, man 7 mdoc has a nice summary. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd

Re: Newbie question: Why aren't my cron jobs running?

columns. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions

Re: text format

On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 16:32:40 -0500 (CDT), Lars Eighner wrote: On Tue, 12 Jun 2012, pwnedomina wrote: On 12-06-2012 08:22, Polytropon wrote: On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 09:06:07 +0100, i pwn wrote: on groff i've used this cmd to format the text groff -Tascii normal.txt | sed 's/^//'$1

Re: P5-FuzzyOcr port

-stable/All/ or whatever matches your platform and OS version). But the ports p5-FuzzyOcr and p5-FuzzyOcr-devel are still present (at least in my not up-to-date ports tree) - have you tried installing from a port instead? -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe

Re: `ls -l` shows size of file other than of the folder?

On Thu, 14 Jun 2012 08:40:27 +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 14/06/2012 07:11, Polytropon wrote: Even school taught that in the 80's: When dealing with computers, 1 kB != 1000 B, but 1 kB = 1024 B. That is considered basic knowledge. Schools teach a lot of things that are so glossed over

Re: USB device activity when not mounted

that _inside_ the USB stick there is still an action that needs to be performed and therefore requires power. But I doubt this takes several seconds to complete... -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: Why Clang

. WP has a nice comparison: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_free_and_open_source_software_licenses http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_General_Public_License All those licenses do _not_ allow to steal copyright! -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi

Re: Why Clang

, not law) to have a polite and normal discussion on this list, you're not any better than the communists you hate that much. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: Why Clang

On Wed, 20 Jun 2012 01:09:11 +0400, Евгений Лактанов wrote: 20.06.2012 00:50, Polytropon пишет: On Tue, 19 Jun 2012 22:06:49 +0200 (CEST), Anonymous Remailer (austria) wrote: GPL protects the freedom of the programmer who licensed his code under those licenses: He wants it to be free

Re: Why Clang

. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr

Re: Why Clang

), and that fork could keep the old license. Now there are two independent projects. BUT - as everyone is free to obtain, modify and re-issue GPL source code, I'm not sure such a consensus could be reached. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: Why Clang

are the creator, copyright is yours. Even if it sounds strange, it still can apply in an employment setting. But as I said, contracts and local law may have some regulations that applies. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: New to FreeBSD - Some questions

, low-power ready-made hardware for such a purpose which is supported by FreeBSD. Everything that contains standard-compliant components will do. Dell servers are known to work very well. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: New to FreeBSD - Some questions

, no real benefit). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: Why Clang

knowledge I know for sure that what's written in the law and how law is practiced in reality does very much differ, in unpredictable and volatile. So I don't make any claims here. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: FreeBSD 8.2 Add second hard drive multi-boot

not seem to help. You need to apply boot0cfg to install the initial boot blocks. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: How can i disable cups, docbook, gutenprint and other ports?

and their dependencies. You know, by accident, you could even install LaTeX (teTeX) as a dependency! :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: fsck_ufs running too often

your file systems, do mount -o ro / and then perform the fsck run on all file systems. It's typically adviced to perform file system checks on unmounted (or at least read-only mounted) file systems. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: backup tools

appear inside a network with non-trusted participants, or across the Internet). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: fsck_ufs running too often

power supply, bad PSU and the like). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe

Re: Building 9.0 failure

chflags noschg for that directory and maybe try again? Should be something like this (on 8.2-STABLE/i386 here): % ll -do /var/empty dr-xr-xr-x 2 root wheel schg 512 2012-05-27 06:15:34 /var/empty/ Probably noschg? -- Polytropon Magdeburg

Re: Understanding XDM

, Xfce means version 4). Works great. I prefer XDM, most secure and easy to use. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: fetch error

properly: % env /usr/bin/fetch usage: fetch [-146AadFlMmnPpqRrsUv] It seems that env is used here to set environment and execute command; see man env for details. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: files need

-IMAGES/8.3/ -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd

Re: OT: Linux EXT4 dump/restore equivalent?

impression: Use what's there and see if it works, as it _should_ work (given fundamental UNIX basics). (Sorry, my Linux knowledge is a bit outdated as I don't use it anymore on a regular basis.) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: video buffer location

/monsieurvideo/get-flash-videos for details. HOWTO find the video buffer location if it is not /tmp ? I would assume there's some temporary storage either in ~/.opera or ~/.macromedia (for the Flash plugin). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: WITHOUT_MODULES in /etc/make.conf doesn't work

explicitely specity, and src.conf to avoid building of modules you're intendedly not going to need. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: WITHOUT_MODULES in /etc/make.conf doesn't work

On Tue, 03 Jul 2012 04:54:05 -0400, Thomas Mueller wrote: from Polytropon free...@edvax.de: On Mon, 02 Jul 2012 22:59:44 -0400, Thomas Mueller wrote: How does one, when building the kernel, prevent building one or more modules? Use the new means of /etc/src.conf (see man src.conf

Re: Understanding XDM

manager and it designed to work well with WindowMaker, but it's a very nice replacement for xdm if you need that specific functionality. It's quite lightweight (compared to gdm or kdm) and easily configurable. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: Understanding XDM

On Wed, 4 Jul 2012 10:40:05 +0200, uki wrote: 2012/7/4 Polytropon free...@edvax.de: On Tue, 3 Jul 2012 23:27:21 -0700 (PDT), sw2wolf wrote: I am using slim to login which can choose Window Manager by pressing F1 key. Can XDM choose Window Manager when loginning ? No, xdm cannot do

Re: Hi i want to ask a question

. Mister Coffee was my first FreeBSD workstation. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: Hi i want to ask a question

the screen... :-) And I still have the machine I described. Mister Coffee is currently installed with FreeBSD 8.2, expecting to be used for experimental projects as an internal file / IRC / maybe OA server. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: Does FreeBSD start slices at head boundaries?

the slice and just create two partitions (one for FS and one for swap), FreeBSD will use this fine. Just make sure to set the boot parameters properly. Or simply use the GPT-related tools, so you don't have to deal with the question at all. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user

Re: Does FreeBSD start slices at head boundaries?

. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions

Re: Does FreeBSD start slices at head boundaries?

as i don't use installer As far as I know, the installer dropped dedicated mode some time ago. So if you intendedly want to use it, you need to bypass the installer and do the few simple steps using the CLI. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: Does FreeBSD start slices at head boundaries?

it... :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr

Re: GUI for gpart

with that system. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: Format a USB flash drive using gpart

and partitions 'n stuff. :-) # newfs /dev/da0 This is all you need (see man newfs and man tunefs for options you might need to optimize utilization, and check best fitting options for /etc/fstab, e. g. noatime if you are not going to need it). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user

Re: Format a USB flash drive using gpart

. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr

Re: Format a USB flash drive using gpart

. I'd like to recommend reading for details: http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/disksetup.html and http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/geom-glabel.html -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: Format a USB flash drive using gpart

, you will be fine every time. If you practice them regularly, you will remember them, and if you do so, you'll surely write a script that allows you to automate the task so you can forget the commands again. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: Format a USB flash drive using gpart

flexibility, which is especially useful in the discussed case: initializing a USB flash drive that might need different options than what you could default to for a regular disk drive. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: Format a USB flash drive using gpart

On Sun, 08 Jul 2012 14:27:05 +0100, Bruce Cran wrote: On 08/07/2012 13:30, Polytropon wrote: With few routine, tasks are performed more natural using the desired CLI tools. You don't go Now I have to remember which command to format the disk, you just format the disk, which means spaking

Re: Format a USB flash drive using gpart

boot images stored in some arbitrary (but addressable) manner on the CD. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: NTFS data recovery

back. I hope the files are worth it. The absence of a backup seems to imply the opposite. :-) Anyway, good luck! -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: fsck on FAT32 filesystem?

fsck for -n, -v and maybe -d). Addendum: For dealing with non-standard file systems (such as FAT/msdosfs), the use of the _native tools_ seems to be the best solution in most times. In exceptions, it makes things worse. Still in most situations it just does the right thing. -- Polytropon

Re: fsck on FAT32 filesystem?

/linux/ddrescue/ http://www.gnu.org/software/ddrescue/ddrescue.html -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: Help solving the sysadm's nightmare

. On a server actually running, using a malformed configuration and many altered settings (where you can't even properly tell _what_ has been altered!), testing will be quite hard. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: fsck on FAT32 filesystem?

-fashioned hammer session, executed on the disk platters? :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: find USB v2.0 physical ports on the computer

documentation, take a USB 2.0 device (where you are _sure_ it's USB 2.0) and try it on all the ports. Check the dmesg output informing you about how the device has been initialized (e. g. transfer speed mentioned). You can also use usbconfig to obtain this information. -- Polytropon Magdeburg

Re: Power failure during portsnap fetch update

, but that has been inteneded. Side note: You can use the program fsdb to investigate inode information in detail. See man fsdb and man clri for details. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: Power failure during portsnap fetch update

altogether). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd

Re: X server already running on display :0

install Xfce 4 in one of the usual ways. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: xdm and gdm

? (except: just use gdm please) Just use... computer. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: xdm and gdm

possibly relevant preparations should be done by those scripts. I can't check those as I haven't got Gnome installed here. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: help about free bsp version netcat to work it on ubuntu

On Mon, 23 Jul 2012 12:59:55 +0800, lei yang wrote: On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 12:25 AM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Sun, 22 Jul 2012 22:41:57 +0800, lei yang wrote: Hi, I want to build a netcat on my local pc (ubuntu) with gcc, is it possible? I'm new to free bsd I hope I

Re: Question about install from ports

more than one source listed. If one fails, try the next one. Then place the file in /usr/ports/distfiles and restart the build. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions

Re: help about free bsp version netcat to work it on ubuntu

hierarchy which should have detailed information on what is stored where. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: usb identity issue (adds more info)

of the commands you entered (just to make sure it's not blocked by permission issues or typos). :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Removing sendmail from an installed system

in mergemasterrc? I've never tried to actually _remove_ sendmail (because simply ignoring it seems so much easier when needed), but did you try the make delete-old and make delete-old-libs as explained in /usr/src/Makefile's comment header for the updating process? -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy

Re: help about free bsp version netcat to work it on ubuntu

On Tue, 24 Jul 2012 19:13:00 +0800, lei yang wrote: On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 12:47 AM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Mon, 23 Jul 2012 23:29:38 +0800, lei yang wrote: Yes, the second version I post is using the source from you supplied, then I compiled it, but it has no -U flag like

Re: how to speed up port make??

% -875+548k 44987+6963io 2950pf+0w -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe

Re: how to determine the temperature of your CPU?

311 hostb/amdtemp There are programs in ports like mbmon and xmbmon to easily output the CPU temperature values. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: how to speed up port make??

by control files (loader.conf et al.) which previously required at least rebuilding the kernel (e. g. firewall, divert). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: how to speed up port make??

to make.conf: FORCE_MAKE_JOBS=yes MAKE_JOBS_NUMBER=4 I'm not sure this is supported on a _single_ core Pentium 4 CPU (or will gain speed if it was emulated). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: On-access AV scanning

that inspects network packets! :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

Re: On-access AV scanning

convince his superior to switch on his brain for thinking about the corporate guidelines. It's worth it, and it saves money. I'm confident that it is a chance to finally dump the stupid idea of insisting to have a virus scanner on FreeBSD where there are no viruses it could scan for. -- Polytropon

Re: FreeBSD on SSD

) appear. If I'm wrong and it should really be two units in one, your idea would work. Install FreeBSD to the SSD part and apply the known optimizations. Make use of the HDD part for OS components that need much writes to prevent wearing the SSD. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD

Re: FreeBSD on SSD

other hard disk. You will then (hopefully) see a speed gain when in use. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: acroread9 makes CPU spin (busy loop?)

is still responsive (as far as you can say this for bloated programs). In top, the WCPU value increases until it reaches 100.00%, and CPU utilization monitor shows a bar. When the program is closed, everything goes back to normal. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0

Re: Where did my port go?

with bin/ to find the binaries. However, I don't see a port haskell-platform on my systems (ports collection updated few days ago). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions

Re: acroread9 makes CPU spin (busy loop?)

. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr

Re: Where did my port go?

as described in my previous message. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

Re: Where did my port go?

mentioned investigation, it's probably the ghc or runhaskell command. I'm not familiar with Haskell, so I can only guess. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: Where did my port go?

or pkg_delete). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: Flash in Firefox

linux-f10-flashplugin-10.3r183.5 -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

Re: Mail Reference Manual?

. I understand mail is not very popular these days, but for me a combination of mail/mpack does all I need. Maybe it looks to you that it's not popular among users, but it's very popular among programs. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: confused about the png/APNG issue

the PNG library to be part of that basic distribution content. obviously, i'm confused. will some patient person please explain where i'm going wrong? I think it has been done hereby. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: Installing details

. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr

Webpage screenshot

if the result is a 800x1 px image with 300 px white margin left and right. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: Mounting raw disk backup file.

it: # mount -t msdosfs -o ro /dev/md0s2 /mnt/win Of course you can access all slices and partitions independently. That should be the best approach for recovering data. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: Patent hit - MS goes after Linux - FreeBSD ?

a lawsuit, it seems that spreading FUD is often the more profitable way of using patents: I told you! I have patents! But if you pay me $$$, maybe I won't sue you and your users. Maybe... but now PAY!!! -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: Why can't I set my cpu type in kernel config ?

. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions

Re: Why can't I set my cpu type in kernel config ?

On Wed, 8 Aug 2012 01:04:49 +0100, RW wrote: On Tue, 7 Aug 2012 23:26:33 +0200 Polytropon wrote: On Tue, 7 Aug 2012 14:14:30 -0500 (CDT), Robert Bonomi wrote: From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Tue Aug 7 02:44:36 2012 Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2012 09:41:41 +0200 (CEST) From

Re: Apple Aluminium Keyboard (w/ numpad) woe

, german layout). Thanks very much, and apologies if there's a known answer, it's not something I've managed to find yet if it is. Sorry, no solution here, only confirmation... :-( -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: Question?

emulation existed, I'm not sure you're legally allowed to run PS3 games outside of a real Sony PS3. Anyway, I'm not a typical gamer, so my short statement is ready to be corrected by someone who knows better. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa

Re: problem

If possible, you may consider updating your system to a newer version, 8.3 or 9.0 if it fits your requirements. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: How to keep freebsd-update from trashing custom kernel?

fallback kernel in case of problems!), and you boot from /boot/mykernel which still contains your untouched kernel. However, what you're doing seems to be not supported, but it would be a shame if it was impossible. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe

Re: Optimus vga on notebook

of problems, provide more information (commands you tried, their results, significant log messages etc.). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

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