Re: Hacked - FreeBSD 7.1-Release

2009-12-29 Thread Tuomo Latto
Adam Vande More wrote: > I use security/denyhosts for this, very simple to setup like 5 minutes if > you're a fast reader. There are other options as well that offer similar > functionality. Like security/bruteblock -- Tuomo ... The way to a man's heart is through the left ventricle

Re: NSIS compile failed on FreeBSD 7.2

2009-11-19 Thread Tuomo Latto
Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 05:18:02PM +0100, Mikael Bak wrote: >> Matt Wilks wrote: >>> I'm attempting to install NSIS (http://nsis.sourceforge.net/) on an >>> amd64 FreeBSD 7.2 system and having trouble. When I run >>> >> [snip] >> >> >From the project's home page: >> "NSIS

Re: reecommendations for an 'appliance" platform ?

2009-06-14 Thread Tuomo Latto
Aragon Gouveia wrote: > TJ Varghese wrote: >>> They're also fanless. :) >>> >> Chipset has a fan, however the processor itself is fanless. I've read > > You are correct about the Intel GCLF2, however I was talking > specifically about the tranquil system. They build their systems to be > fanless

Re: Keeping Updated

2009-05-06 Thread Tuomo Latto
Paul Stewart wrote: > This raises my first question - getting updating source. Where do I obtain > it from and how do I know when it's updated? I presume only during major > updates/upgrades and/or security issues is when the source tree ever > changes? Umm... No. Or depends on what you mean. http

Re: Backup solution suggestions

2008-01-16 Thread Tuomo Latto
Johan Ström wrote: I create regular tarball (gziped maybee) with some files i want to backup, Then i encrypt this file with ie gpg. Then i send of this file using some unspecified network protocol to the storage server. Encrypted all the way, from my end to the remote disk.. The downside is tha

Re: Realtek Gigabit Network Card 0xd6088086

2007-10-30 Thread Tuomo Latto
Daniel Dias Gonçalves wrote: > What is WIP version ? http://www.acronymfinder.com/af-query.asp?Acronym=WIP&Find=find&string=exact -- Tuomo ... Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://

[OT] Re: rm(1) bug, possibly serious

2007-09-26 Thread Tuomo Latto
Alex Zbyslaw wrote: > .??* is a standard workaround that works most of the time. Won't match > .a .b etc but such antisocial files are the exception, one might hope. What? I name all my files that way! Granted, that only allows under 30 files per directory, but so what? -- Tuomo ... Alright!

Re: fast rate of major FreeBSD releases to STABLE

2007-05-17 Thread Tuomo Latto
Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > As someone who has had to show many people "how" to use the FreeBSD > installer, I can confirm what Chris is referring to. > > Here's some of the generic end-user complaints I've heard (and some > of which I have); [...] As someone who only very rarely plays with the inst

Re: install SCSI over ATAPI for DVD

2007-05-02 Thread Tuomo Latto
KAYVEN RIESE wrote: > Then run config NEW_FILE > > Go into kernel build directory run > make cleandepend ; make depend ; make && make install > > but i don't know what the "kernel build directory" is > > prolly simple for you guys. i just did the command > in the > > /usr/src/sys/i386/conf >

Re: Dell 1955 Blade - Broadcom NIC not detected (BCM5708S)

2006-11-01 Thread Tuomo Latto
Scott Long wrote: >>How hard would it be to use the linux driver code base to add tthe >>SerDes support to the FreeBSD driver? I am not a C programmer, but I >>can copy and paste ;) > > FreeBSD has the MII and PHY blocks abstracted out into separate drivers, > unlike linux. It's not clear to me h

Re: Upgrading to 6.1-RELEASE problems with make buildkernel

2006-05-16 Thread Tuomo Latto
Yousef Raffah wrote: > After cvsupping using the above cvs-supfile, I managed to buildworld > with problems (I get a lot of segmentation fault 11) but it completed > the build after several tries. Check your hardware. Especially search for memory problems (eg. memtest) and overheating. http://www

Re: Pros and Cons of amd64 (versus i386).

2006-04-11 Thread Tuomo Latto
Chris H. wrote: > Interesting to note (to me anyway) is my SCSI reports fastest on the outside > whereas my (earlier reported) ATA reports faster in the center (middle). You get better seek times on average in the center. Maybe that affected your results? -- Tuomo ... Nitpicking - not just a h

Re: new FreeBSD-webpage

2005-10-07 Thread Tuomo Latto
Miguel Saturnino wrote: >>You'd expect popups from the links on the top (they look like that >>sort of links), but none seem to appear and I've just wasted time >>waiting for them to appear. > > Why would you expect pop-up windows from the new menu? Why does this > menu looks like a menu that will

Re: new FreeBSD-webpage

2005-10-07 Thread Tuomo Latto
Greg Barniskis wrote: > Dan Ponte wrote: >>>I doubt the primary goal here >>>was to appear trendy. >> >>Well, it certainly seems as if that was one of the goals, seeing how the >>new site uses quite a few new webdesign concepts that came into >>existence in the past few years, while providing littl

Re: new FreeBSD-webpage

2005-10-06 Thread Tuomo Latto
Alexander S. Usov wrote: >>Just pointed firefox to freebsd.org and I was greeted with a new look! ... > And in general, I have already heard from quite a lot of people today that > the old design was quite authentic and recognizable, while the new one > looks as a quite standard portal. Yecch. All

freebsd-stable@freebsd.org and [EMAIL PROTECTED]

2005-05-22 Thread Tuomo Latto
Would it be possible to force the mailing list software to rename recipient header freebsd-stable@freebsd.org to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or vice versa and then remove duplicates? I mean it seems like half the people on the list use freebsd-stable@freebsd.org address and the other half [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Strange make buildworld behaviour with 5.4-RELEASE ( amd64 )

2005-05-17 Thread Tuomo Latto
Steven Hartland wrote: Didnt get through the first time so resending :) You did get through to me, at least. (stable) Apparently you didn't get Kris Kennaway's answer either? -- Tuomo ... As Descartes said: "Cogito ergo dimsum" - I think, therefore I eat takeaway. -- http://w

Re: Alright you primitive screwheads, LISTEN UP!!

2005-05-17 Thread Tuomo Latto
Bill Paul wrote: You see what is says? It says "Bill Paul." It does *NOT* say "Paul Bill," does it now. WELL DOES IT!!?!?! Couldn't you just change your name? -- Tuomo ... I honor my personality flaws for without them I would have no personality at all

Re: Strange top(1) output

2005-05-12 Thread Tuomo Latto
Dominic Marks wrote: This includes at least the following changes (some not visible): + The entire header line is limited to the window width too. + The USERNAME column is hard-limited to 8 characters. ... I suppose it could be argued that using usernames of that format is a poor choice on my pa

Re: xl(4) & polling

2005-05-11 Thread Tuomo Latto
Subhro wrote: ... In Device Polled systems, the NIC does not generate any interrupt at all. Instead whenever the packets arrive at a Network interface, they are captured and put into a queue. The kernel scheduler checks the quese at regular intervals and processes the packets which are waiting.