Re: newbie - Audio CD question

2001-01-29 Thread Dan Feldman
haven't tried them on FreeBSD, and I'm pretty sure they're not in the ports tree. Anyone else want to clarify? -- Dan Feldman On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, vijay wrote: > Hi, I am new to FreeBSD. I wanted to know if I can play audio > CDs on "my" system. I have culled

Re: No-passwd account and reboot records

2001-02-04 Thread Dan Feldman
y, it should be trivial to modify /etc/rc.local (or /usr/local/etc/rc.d) to record the time of each bootup. Shutdown recording should be simple too. Hope I'm making sense right now, -- Dan Feldman On Sun, 4 Feb 2001, Zhiui Zhang wrote: > > Is it possible to create a no-passwor

Re: syscall kernel modules on 3.0-release

2001-02-07 Thread Dan Feldman
orrow" one from a nearby 4.0-series machine, install it, and reboot, taking the machine offline for a couple of minutes. This is obviously a bad idea, since userspace will still be 3.0, but it's something to think about. Sorry this is so OT. -- Dan Feldman On Wed, 7 Feb 200

Re: [OT] Fibre channel enclosures?

2001-03-10 Thread Dan Feldman
www.cinonic.com, I think. - dan feldman student, garfield high school, seattle On Sat, 10 Mar 2001, David Miller wrote: > Apologies for the off topic nature of the question... > > I see FC drives for sale unbelievably cheap in a number of > places. megahaus.com has 36 GB I

Re: [OT] Fibre channel enclosures?

2001-03-10 Thread Dan Feldman
rives, and are lucky enough to find a very cheap used host adapter. I'm not sure this is a good thing, since it doesn't seem like Fiber Channel is easy to set up reliably - dan feldman student, garfield high school, seattle On Sat, 10 Mar 2001, David Miller wrote: > Apologies

Re: Remote boot, but not diskless operation

2001-03-18 Thread Dan Feldman
For more docs, check out http://matt.simerson.net/computing/freebsd.netboot.shtml . It clarifies a great deal. - dan feldman student, garfield high school, seattle On Fri, 16 Mar 2001, Paul Saab wrote: > Thierry Herbelot ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Hi, > > > >

Re: so where is our press-release about MacOS X ?

2001-03-24 Thread Dan Feldman
l. "We intend to further dissociate ourselves from FreeBSD, Inc." said a company representative. "We'll finish developing our in-house version of ps before the end of Q3 2002." Resoources: * www.apple.com * www.freebsd.org * www.getreal.net :) - dan feldman stude

Re: so where is our press-release about MacOS X ?

2001-03-24 Thread Dan Feldman
way to attract developers from the other Unices, but I don't see that coming. What would help FreeBSD the most? An on-time, complete and stable release of 5.0. When I have a bit more free time, I'm planning to fix a few easy PRs - dan feldman student, garfield high school, seat

Re: FreeBSD kernel as a replacement for Linux kernel

2000-05-23 Thread Dan Feldman
arely. Thus I think the only advantage would be that FreeBSD userspace apps could use glibc, which is nice, but would break the copyrights on both trees :). If you're really interested in this kind of OS hybridism, why not use the GNU/FreeBSD system put out by Debian a while back? -- D

Re: FreeBSD kernel as a replacement for Linux kernel

2000-05-23 Thread Dan Feldman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Here's a Slashdot article about Debian/FreeBSD. It has links and a LOT of angry comments :). http://slashdot.org/bsd/99/11/23/1939210.shtml -- Dan Feldman Hacker, webmaster and computer connoisseur Out of sight

Re: FreeBSD kernel as a replacement for Linux kernel

2000-05-23 Thread Dan Feldman
that's a little more portable than their fancy GUI things, rather than asking the kernel hackers to go the extra mile to ensure every Linux program works perfectly. -- Dan Feldman Hacker, webmaster and computer connoisseur Out of sight, out of mind,