Polytropon writes:
> > Somebody is always coming up with something new that will
> > inevitably force me to spend money, buing new hardware, despite
> > all my resistance.
>
> I cannot wait to participate in this wonderful experience
> that keeps the "throw away society" alive (and enabl
On Tue, 09 Apr 2013 02:49:49 -0700, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
>
> In message <20130407060507.76fd8bd1.free...@edvax.de>,
> Polytropon wrote:
>
> >This is what "shutdown -p now" does.
>
> It's times like these than make me want to go off to some dark place and
> hang my head in shame.
No need
In message <20130407060507.76fd8bd1.free...@edvax.de>,
Polytropon wrote:
>This is what "shutdown -p now" does.
It's times like these than make me want to go off to some dark place and
hang my head in shame.
I confess that I wasn't ever aware of the -p option for shutdown until now.
I can't re
Polytropon wrote:
On Sat, 06 Apr 2013 20:51:58 -0700, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
I'll be attending to those thing, but for now I'd just like to know
why, when I do "shutdown -h now" and then let the system come down to
the point where it says "Press any key to reboot" pressing the power
switch a
On Sat, 6 Apr 2013, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
I'll be attending to those thing, but for now I'd just like to know
why, when I do "shutdown -h now" and then let the system come down to
the point where it says "Press any key to reboot" pressing the power
switch at that point no longer causes the
Polytropon writes:
> > But running FreeBSD seems to
> > cause it (the case power switch) to be ignored.
>
> Check the BIOS settings, the switch should be programmed to
> something like "soft power-off", it's "the other thing" to
> whatever caption has been chosen for "immediately power
> o
On Sat, 06 Apr 2013 20:51:58 -0700, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
> I'll be attending to those thing, but for now I'd just like to know
> why, when I do "shutdown -h now" and then let the system come down to
> the point where it says "Press any key to reboot" pressing the power
> switch at that point
So, um, I just "upgraded" my main system. Maybe that is too weak a word.
I cannibalized the drives and most of the add-in cards out of my old
system and put them into a new system I built which has a new case,
new motherboard, new CPU, new memory, and a new video card.
So far everything seems t
