On Sun, 7 Mar 2010 14:29:57 +0700, Pongthep Kulkrisada
wrote:
> I checked /var/db/pkg; I have 464 ports installed on my system (including X).
> I would probably not do so.
The pkg_add utility is especially useful when building a new
installation from scratch, because it additionally automaticall
Hi Polytropon,
Firstly, thanks for your suggestion.
* Polytropon (free...@edvax.de) wrote:
> You can consider using "pkgadd -r" to install binary packages.
> Those are quite synchon with the ports tree (as they are
> centrally built from the ports tree).
I checked /var/db/pkg; I have 464 ports in
On Sun, 7 Mar 2010 07:29:48 +0100, Sabine Baer wrote:
> OK, I really didn't know youtube_dl (and clive someone mentioned in
> the thread). So, thanks a lot. I youtube-dl-ed my puff pastry examle.
> It took me 5 minutes and 11.69M space on diks but then I was able to
> look at it using mplayer. Fi
On Sat, Mar 06, 2010 at 09:25:41AM +0100, Polytropon wrote:
> On Sat, 6 Mar 2010 09:03:58 +0100, Sabine Baer wrote:
> > Well, it is, indeed. Me I am very glad beeing able to do eg
> > linux-opera -display :0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhmf4l4OxNw
> > since I live in a Windows free zone at home
On Sun, 7 Mar 2010 11:30:04 +0700, Pongthep Kulkrisada
wrote:
> But it takes very long time to rebuild all ports.
> Main problem is KDE, big big ports.
> Okay, I shall do it, when I have time.
You can consider using "pkgadd -r" to install binary packages.
Those are quite synchon with the ports t
In the last episode (Mar 07), Alexander Best said:
> hi there,
>
> what are the steps i need to perform to get a copy of the entire mailingslist
> archive of lets say freebsd-current@ in mbox format?
Go to ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/doc/mailing-lists/archive/ where you
can download weekly
* Chuck Swiger (cswi...@mac.com) wrote:
> Yes, it's not enough.
>
> When you upgrade the base OS to a new major version (ie, going from
> 7.x to 8.x), the system libraries get bumped to a new version, but any
> libraries coming from ports are still linked against the older version
> of the f
Marco Beishuizen wrote:
> Fot the first time in years I had a kernel panic in FreeBSD
> (8.0-ST). While playing a flash movie in Firefox (3.6),
> everything just locked up and only resetting helped. After the
> reboot it wrote a corefile in /var/crash/ which is unfortunately
> too big to read by
hi there,
what are the steps i need to perform to get a copy of the entire mailingslist
archive of lets say freebsd-current@ in mbox format?
cheers.
alex
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Hi,
Fot the first time in years I had a kernel panic in FreeBSD (8.0-ST).
While playing a flash movie in Firefox (3.6), everything just locked up
and only resetting helped. After the reboot it wrote a corefile in
/var/crash/ which is unfortunately too big to read by any text editor. The
trap
On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 17:06, Mikhail Goriachev wrote:
>
> Jason Garrett wrote:
> > On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 14:18, Jason Garrett wrote:
> >
> >>
> >>
> >> On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 14:12, Tim Judd wrote:
> >>
> >>> On 3/6/10, Jason Garrett wrote:
> >>> > On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 13:51, Tim Judd wrot
On 03/06/10 16:57, Jerry wrote:
> Please check out this URL:
>
> http://www.java.com/en/download/faq/firefox_newplugin.xml
>
> I believer that the FreeBSD version of Java is several versions behind
> that. Therefore, it would appear to be a FreeBSD problem.
>
I'll just wait for FreeBSD to upda
On Sat, 06 Mar 2010 14:30:28 -0600
Programmer In Training articulated:
> According to /usr/ports/UPDATING the Java plugin does not work in
> FF3.6. Is this a Java issue, a FireFox issue or a FreeBSD issue? I
> just noticed this today as I was going through looking through it
> because of the thre
Tim Judd wrote:
> > makeoptions DEBUG=-g# Build kernel with gdb(1) debug
> > symbols
> > options PREEMPTION # Enable kernel thread preemption
> >
> > why are these still in GENERIC after release?
>
> I can confirm debug symbols is still in the kernel, but t
On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 14:18, Jason Garrett wrote:
>
>
> On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 14:12, Tim Judd wrote:
>
>> On 3/6/10, Jason Garrett wrote:
>> > On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 13:51, Tim Judd wrote:
>> >
>> >> On 3/6/10, Jason Garrett wrote:
>> >> > Hello all,
>> >> >
>> >> > I am currently tracking
According to /usr/ports/UPDATING the Java plugin does not work in FF3.6.
Is this a Java issue, a FireFox issue or a FreeBSD issue? I just noticed
this today as I was going through looking through it because of the
thread about upgrading from perl5.8 to perl5.10 (the instructions in
UPDATING don't s
On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 18:06, Aaron Lewis wrote:
> Bas v.d. Wiel wrote:
>
>> Aaron Lewis wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Umm... that's incorrect. Maybe you mean ATI doesn't supply closed
drivers for FreeBSD (although they do have Linux drivers, I think).
Well , the opensource ati driver
On 3/6/10, Jason Garrett wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 13:51, Tim Judd wrote:
>
>> On 3/6/10, Jason Garrett wrote:
>> > Hello all,
>> >
>> > I am currently tracking RELENG_8_0. I did a csup last night and noticed
>> that
>> > debug is still enabled in the GENERIC kernel. I thought debugging wa
On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 13:51, Tim Judd wrote:
> On 3/6/10, Jason Garrett wrote:
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I am currently tracking RELENG_8_0. I did a csup last night and noticed
> that
> > debug is still enabled in the GENERIC kernel. I thought debugging was
> > supposed to be left out once the 8 b
On 3/6/10, Jason Garrett wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I am currently tracking RELENG_8_0. I did a csup last night and noticed that
> debug is still enabled in the GENERIC kernel. I thought debugging was
> supposed to be left out once the 8 branch went RELEASE? Can anyone shed
> light on this subject?
On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 1:07 PM, C. P. Ghost wrote:
> And remember, youtube-dl is a hack. It can break anytime
> YT changes its embedding. I wished YouTube would switch
> to HTML5, or at least added this as an option.
Actually this option exists
http://www.youtube.com/html5
The problem is Opera a
On Mar 6, 2010, at 12:44 PM, James Phillips wrote:
Correction: Apple stopped selling computers with floppy drives about
10 years ago. The floppy drive is not obsolete because there is
still no viable replacement that has the same (or better)
functionality.
While I think floppy drives are s
On 3/6/10, C. P. Ghost wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 9:25 AM, Polytropon wrote:
>> On Sat, 6 Mar 2010 09:03:58 +0100, Sabine Baer wrote:
>>> Well, it is, indeed. Me I am very glad beeing able to do eg
>>> linux-opera -display :0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhmf4l4OxNw
>>> since I live in a
> Date: Sat, 06 Mar 2010 09:54:38 +
> From: Matthew Seaman
> Subject: Re: freebsd install from floppy
> To: per...@pluto.rain.com
> Cc: questi...@freebsd.org,
> plukaw...@gmail.com
> Message-ID: <4b92265e.5030...@infracaninophile.co.uk>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
>
> -BEG
On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 5:42 PM, Chad Perrin wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 06, 2010 at 03:19:31PM +0200, Ross Cameron wrote:
>> What system board revision does you're Thinkpad have?
>> You can use CPU-Z (http://www.cpuid.com/cpuz.php) to check on this.
>
> That looks like a handy tool. Is there a versi
On Sat, Mar 06, 2010 at 03:19:31PM +0200, Ross Cameron wrote:
> What system board revision does you're Thinkpad have?
> You can use CPU-Z (http://www.cpuid.com/cpuz.php) to check on this.
That looks like a handy tool. Is there a version that will run on
FreeBSD?
--
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> "Matthew" == Matthew Seaman writes:
Matthew> On the whole, I don't see the value in having a high-numbered MX to
Matthew> dumbly accept, queue and forward messages like this.
High-numbered MX came from a time where an internal machine could
only be delivered from outside via an external ga
Hello all,
I am currently tracking RELENG_8_0. I did a csup last night and noticed that
debug is still enabled in the GENERIC kernel. I thought debugging was
supposed to be left out once the 8 branch went RELEASE? Can anyone shed
light on this subject?
_
On Friday 05 of March 2010 17:09:56 Pietro Cerutti wrote:
> On 2010-Mar-05, 16:47, Jan Henrik Sylvester wrote:
> > There has been one more commit on that port:
> >
> > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/x11-toolkits/fltk/files/patch
> >-src_filename_list.cxx.diff?r1=1.4;r2=1.5;f=h
> >
> >
On Sat, 6 Mar 2010, Matthew Seaman wrote:
> On 06/03/2010 06:33:53, Ian Smith wrote:
> > In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 300, Issue 10, Message: 6
> > On Fri, 05 Mar 2010 16:07:29 + Matthew Seaman
> > wrote:
> > > On 05/03/2010 15:51:52, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
> > > > The spamtrap
On Mar 6, 2010, at 4:36 AM, Matthew Seaman wrote:
Having an IPv6-only high-mx seems to terminally confuse most
spambots...
I understand why IPv6 would confuse them, but don't follow why higher
numbered MXs would be more attractive to them in the first place?
Are they assuming a 'secondary' MX
On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 2:54 PM, Robert Huff wrote:
>> > And remember, youtube-dl is a hack. It can break anytime
>> > YT changes its embedding.
>>
>> That's what "make update" is used for. :-)
>
> More importantly, it's about the author (and maintainer, if
> they're different) fixing thi
Chuck Swiger writes:
> For all practical purposes, if you upgrade to a new major
> version, then you must rebuild all installed ports.
And if you have the time and knowledge to not have to do this
... you're probably not involved in the discussion to begin with.
:-)
On Mar 6, 2010, at 1:57 AM, Pongthep Kulkrisada wrote:
So your system is approx. 4 months old, despite you cvsup-ping?
I don't know what do you mean.
Normally, FBSD issues new STABLE RELEASE once a year (approx).
Whenever new release or new branch is available,
I shall do either wget iso images
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Polytropon writes:
> > And remember, youtube-dl is a hack. It can break anytime
> > YT changes its embedding.
>
> That's what "make update" is used for. :-)
More importantly, it's about the author (and maintainer, if
they're different) fixing things promptly after a change, My
expe
On Mar 5, 2010, at 11:35 PM, Pongthep Kulkrisada wrote:
* Warren Block (wbl...@wonkity.com) wrote:
When you upgrade from 7.x to 8.x, it's necessary to rebuild *all*
ports.
Thanks for your suggestion, but it does not seem likely.
All operating systems can always distinguish the system and pac
Polytropon writes:
> A small addition: In order to be able to use X with an
> initialisation file even when not using XDM (i. e. starting X by
> "startx") AND not having to maintain two startup files (.xsession
> and .xinitrc) AND furthermore incorporating shell settings for
> the shell of c
What system board revision does you're Thinkpad have?
You can use CPU-Z (http://www.cpuid.com/cpuz.php) to check on this.
The revision 3 and above system boards can run 64bit OS's.
Also if you're CPU is one of the following a a BIOS upgrade/setting
may enable the full set of processor feature
Fbsd1 writes:
> just dd the image to what ever drive you want
That is the goal. The challenge is to launch a script
that detects when the boot device has been unmounted as dd will
not work on an active file system.
Memory disk images apparently survive until reboot so
there is a p
On Fri, Mar 05, 2010 at 12:14:15PM +0700, Pongthep Kulkrisada wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have been using FBSD since 5.4 until now 8.0.
> Mostly, I use it as a server and coding C (as my hobby).
> All the time I stay in console without fancy of any GUI.
> For GUI applications, I mostly use Windows.
>
On Sat, 6 Mar 2010 12:24:30 +0100, Piotr Lukawski
wrote:
> In many situations, especially for and old or non standard equipment
> floppies are the best or even the only solution.
> [...]
> The decision to make floppies obsolete is very bad, because it is still
> needed by many people.
Sometimes
I'm curious if it's possible to get a
pinnacle nanostick 73e
to work with Freebsd.
When inserted /var/log/messages repports the following
root: Unknown USB device: vendor 0x2304 product 0x0237 bus uhub7
kernel: ugen7.2: at usbus7
/Leslie
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On Sat, 6 Mar 2010 12:15:37 +0100, "C. P. Ghost" wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 10:01 AM, Polytropon wrote:
> > If they don't want to make one, there's no way to convince
> > them. Since the majority of free and standardized operating
> > systems isn't oriented at market share, there is no reaso
In many situations, especially for and old or non standard equipment
floppies are the best or even the only solution.
Actually if I haven't found the solution to use floppy to install FreeBSD, I
would be forced to use another system eg. OpenBSD instead, even if I prefer
FreeBSD.
The decision to mak
On Sat, 6 Mar 2010 12:07:25 +0100, "C. P. Ghost" wrote:
> That's true. I love youtube-dl too, as it helps me keep a local
> .flv copy, even for videos that have been removed for one reason
> or another.
A very useful feature, especially for offline operations.
> However, there are other video
On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 10:01 AM, Polytropon wrote:
> If they don't want to make one, there's no way to convince
> them. Since the majority of free and standardized operating
> systems isn't oriented at market share, there is no reason
> for Adobe to follow a crying "Please!" :-)
There is only one
On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 9:25 AM, Polytropon wrote:
> On Sat, 6 Mar 2010 09:03:58 +0100, Sabine Baer wrote:
>> Well, it is, indeed. Me I am very glad beeing able to do eg
>> linux-opera -display :0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhmf4l4OxNw
>> since I live in a Windows free zone at home.
>
> Well,
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 11:53 PM, Jerry wrote:
> Adobe, a commercial entity, obviously feels that the cost of
> supporting the FreeBSD community is not a financially prudent business
> venture.
Well, that's their decision, of course. However, Linux and FreeBSD
aren't so far apart either, at least
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On 06/03/2010 09:26:22, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote:
> I seem to remember something about the floppy images being dropped
> because few current (or even recent) systems have a floppy drive at
> all, much less a bootable one.
Yeah, but the floppy disk
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On 06/03/2010 06:33:53, Ian Smith wrote:
> In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 300, Issue 10, Message: 6
> On Fri, 05 Mar 2010 16:07:29 + Matthew Seaman
> wrote:
> > On 05/03/2010 15:51:52, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
> > > The spamtrap is a shiny o
Piotr Lukawski wrote:
> ... I really cannot understand why nobody can change
> just one parameter and put the file in a proper place in
> ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/8.0-RELEASE/floppies/
I seem to remember something about the floppy images being dropped
because few current (o
Leslie Jensen wrote:
>
> If it's a wireless you need to set wlan0 as described in the handbook.
> This is new from version 8.
>
The handbook hasn't been updated yet, but the man page for ath has all the
details:
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ath
These commands work for me:
ifconfi
> On Fri, 5 Mar 2010 23:02:36 -, "Graham Bentley"
> wrote:
>>
>> > It looks very bad for browsing web without flash viewer.
>>
>> I think it looks great - no ads !!! Hurray !!!
>
> I may politely add that exactly this is the reason I removed
> a working "Flash" support from my system. I rathe
Pongthep Kulkrisada wrote:
> * Warren Block (wbl...@wonkity.com) wrote:
> > When you upgrade from 7.x to 8.x, it's necessary to rebuild
> > *all* ports.
> ...
> Some people only use console, they should rebuild all ports
> relating to their work.
> They do not have to rebuild KDE or GNOME, for exa
On Sat, 6 Mar 2010 08:46:16 -, "Graham Bentley" wrote:
> Points very well made. In fact shouldn't we be campaigning against
> such closed source perversion of our Open Standards Internet, not
> complaining that one company doesn't make a media content viewer
> for us?
In fact, if Adobe wishes
On Sat, 6 Mar 2010 09:03:58 +0100, Sabine Baer wrote:
> Well, it is, indeed. Me I am very glad beeing able to do eg
> linux-opera -display :0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhmf4l4OxNw
> since I live in a Windows free zone at home.
Well, there's always "youtube-dl -a" for that. Just for YT
I don'
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On Fri, 5 Mar 2010 16:58:20 -0600 Dan Nelson wrote:
> In the last episode (Mar 05), Peter Steele said:
>
> > What's the proper way to calculate kernel/user/idle time? I know the raw
> > values come from sysctl kern.cp_time, but these
On Sat, Mar 06, 2010 at 04:49:16AM +0100, Polytropon wrote:
[SNAFU]
> That's the situation with "Flash". And as I have experienced
> it, I can honestly say that I'm fine without "Flash". I may
> review my opinion, if given some reason to do so.
>
> But as it has already been mentioned, that's a
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