Re: chromium producing constant hdd access

2011-01-16 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 11:51:43AM +, Alexander Best wrote: > hi there, > > i noticed chromium is producing a lot of hdd activity. i think it writes every > 1kb of new data directly to disk or so. is there a way to increase chromiums > download buffer somehow. firefox or opera seem to have a m

Partitioning/slicing USB HD

2011-01-16 Thread Chris Brennan
So I've hot a 60GB 2.5" IDE Hard Drive in a USB Enclosure. Thing works like a champ, even in FreeBSD. I'm curious the best (or most efficient?) way to cut the drive up. My Goal is to have a bootable slice (5ish GB for the latest stable DVD), some free space if I need to write to a location reliably

Re: Lenovo G550

2011-01-16 Thread Al Plant
User Wojtek wrote: anyone knows how to: - make it's touchpad usable? without any special software and used as mouse emulator it is very bad. The problem is that it quite often produces false clicks when you type on keyboard. Tried xf86-input-synaptics but it doesn't recognize the device (prot

Re: Install gnome

2011-01-16 Thread David Demelier
On 16/01/2011 20:50, Alokat wrote: On 01/16/2011 08:37 PM, David Demelier wrote: On 16/01/2011 20:02, Alokat wrote: It works now. But after gdm is started I just see a small line (for the username) but this line is too small. I have installed xorg and configured it as in the documentation. c

Re: Install gnome

2011-01-16 Thread Alokat
On 01/16/2011 08:37 PM, David Demelier wrote: On 16/01/2011 20:02, Alokat wrote: It works now. But after gdm is started I just see a small line (for the username) but this line is too small. I have installed xorg and configured it as in the documentation. cYa, alokat On 01/16/2011 07:20 PM,

Re: Install gnome

2011-01-16 Thread David Demelier
On 16/01/2011 20:02, Alokat wrote: It works now. But after gdm is started I just see a small line (for the username) but this line is too small. I have installed xorg and configured it as in the documentation. cYa, alokat On 01/16/2011 07:20 PM, Alokat wrote: Hi guys, I want to install gnom

Re: Install gnome

2011-01-16 Thread Alokat
It works now. But after gdm is started I just see a small line (for the username) but this line is too small. I have installed xorg and configured it as in the documentation. cYa, alokat On 01/16/2011 07:20 PM, Alokat wrote: Hi guys, I want to install gnome on my blank freeBSD. pkg_add -r

Install gnome

2011-01-16 Thread Alokat
Hi guys, I want to install gnome on my blank freeBSD. pkg_add -r gnome2 Do I have to install something more (like the XServer) or does Gnome depends on X11 so it will be installed automatically? cYa ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list h

Re: Acer Aspire One D250 disk spin-down problem

2011-01-16 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 16 Jan 2011, Matthias Apitz wrote: El d??a Sunday, January 16, 2011 a las 10:05:39AM +, Bruce Cran escribi??: On Sun, 16 Jan 2011 08:24:13 +0100 Matthias Apitz wrote: Master: ad4 SATA revision 2.x As well the BIOS has no visible option for this. I want to disable this,

Re: GNU/Linux NIS tweaks was: FreeBSD Decision

2011-01-16 Thread FRLinux
On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 9:41 PM, James Phillips wrote: > It may have to do with what you are doing. At the NFS protocol level, they > are compatible as far as I can tell. However, in my testing (trying to set up > a file server in a heterogeneous environment) I had problems configuring NIS > wi

Re: problems mounting android htc

2011-01-16 Thread Patrick Lamaiziere
Le Sun, 16 Jan 2011 09:41:06 -0500, Aryeh Friedman a écrit : > My situtation is a little different I am a developer hired to do some > work on the android but have never done *ANY* mobile programming so > starting from square on from essencially yesterday I think you have to use the android SDK

Re: Acer Aspire One D250 disk spin-down problem

2011-01-16 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Sunday, January 16, 2011 a las 10:05:39AM +, Bruce Cran escribió: > On Sun, 16 Jan 2011 08:24:13 +0100 > Matthias Apitz wrote: > > > Master: ad4 SATA revision 2.x > > > As well the BIOS has no visible option for this. I want to disable > > this, what could I do? > > Since it

Re: zoneedit.com

2011-01-16 Thread Jack L. Stone
At 11:26 AM 1.14.2011 -0500, Mike. wrote: >On 1/13/2011 at 5:21 PM Al Plant wrote: > >|Jack L. Stone wrote: >|> I have used zoneedit.com's DNS zone service for about 9 years and it >|> handles a number of static IPs for my companies. >|> >|> Now, suddenly they have created a "new platform" and mig

Re: problems mounting android htc

2011-01-16 Thread Aryeh Friedman
My situtation is a little different I am a developer hired to do some work on the android but have never done *ANY* mobile programming so starting from square on from essencially yesterday On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 9:36 AM, Chris Brennan wrote: > On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 8:27 PM, Patrick Lamaiziere

Re: problems mounting android htc

2011-01-16 Thread Chris Brennan
On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 8:27 PM, Patrick Lamaiziere wrote: > Le Sat, 15 Jan 2011 18:57:33 -0500, > Aryeh Friedman a écrit : > > > No idea how but when I plug the USB in it says "USB Debugging > > Connected" > > On my HTC dream when I connect it to USB, there is a notification on the > phone and I

chromium producing constant hdd access

2011-01-16 Thread Alexander Best
hi there, i noticed chromium is producing a lot of hdd activity. i think it writes every 1kb of new data directly to disk or so. is there a way to increase chromiums download buffer somehow. firefox or opera seem to have a much larger download buffer and write bigger chunks to disk. thus they prod

Re: Acer Aspire One D250 disk spin-down problem

2011-01-16 Thread Bruce Cran
On Sun, 16 Jan 2011 08:24:13 +0100 Matthias Apitz wrote: > Master: ad4 SATA revision 2.x > As well the BIOS has no visible option for this. I want to disable > this, what could I do? Since it's a WDC disk I guess it's one of the "green" ones. These have a short default timeout after which

mfiutil cache?

2011-01-16 Thread Omer Faruk SEN
I am a bit confused with the output I get: # mfiutil cache mfid0 mfi0 volume mfid0 cache settings: I/O caching: disabled write caching: write-back read ahead: always drive write cache: default As you can see from above I/O caching is disabled. but I have write caching: write-bac