Re: Which Lenovo Laptop?

2011-12-09 Thread Pierre-Luc Drouin
On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 2:03 AM, 文鳥 wrote: > Hi, > > I am typing this message on a W520 running 9.0 stable, which should be > similar enough to the T520. > > - MBR boot works fine, but GPT seems to be impossible (Lenovo >  appears to have messed up again). > - The NVidia driver is working almost pe

9.0RC2 IPV6 warnings from ntpd

2011-12-09 Thread Mike Clarke
After installing 9.0RC2 I'm getting the following warnings at boot time: Dec 9 10:31:09 curlew ntpd[1081]: bind() fd 23, family AF_INET6, port 123, scope 3, addr fe80::6ef0:49ff:fe9e:8897, mcast=0 flags=0x11 fails: Can't assign requested address Dec 9 10:31:09 curlew ntpd[1081]: unable to cr

OT: C|Net's Download.com adware, spyware, malware hijinkx.

2011-12-09 Thread Chris Brennan
Sorry for the cross post I hadn't seen any chatter about this on the lists. It would seem that Download.com got caught with their pants down and were re-wrapping F/OSS with their own installer and bundling adware, spyware and malware with it. NMap's author, over at insecure.org got pretty hot abou

Re: OT: C|Net's Download.com adware, spyware, malware hijinkx.

2011-12-09 Thread Ryan Coleman
On Dec 9, 2011, at 9:35 AM, Chris Brennan wrote: > Sorry for the cross post I hadn't seen any chatter about this on the lists. > It > would seem that Download.com got caught with their pants down and were > re-wrapping F/OSS with their own installer and bundling adware, spyware > and malware with

Re: OT: C|Net's Download.com adware, spyware, malware hijinkx.

2011-12-09 Thread Chris Brennan
On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 10:38 AM, Ryan Coleman wrote: Yeah, someone on my LUG list tried to claim that the TCLUG list was the > reason for the /. article… > > stupid peons… > > It's still not malware, it's bloatware. Why would you not go to the > development website to get the program anyway? S

Re: OT: C|Net's Download.com adware, spyware, malware hijinkx.

2011-12-09 Thread Ryan Coleman
On Dec 9, 2011, at 9:41 AM, Chris Brennan wrote: > On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 10:38 AM, Ryan Coleman > wrote: > Yeah, someone on my LUG list tried to claim that the TCLUG list was the > reason for the /. article… > > stupid peons… > > It's still not malware, it's bloatware. Why would you not go

Re: Which Lenovo Laptop?

2011-12-09 Thread 𫝆井 Pierre
On Fri, 9 Dec 2011 09:18:17 -0500 Pierre-Luc Drouin wrote: > On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 2:03 AM, 文鳥 wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I am typing this message on a W520 running 9.0 stable, which should > > be similar enough to the T520. > > > > - MBR boot works fine, but GPT seems to be impossible (Lenovo > >

Re: restore(8) to UFS on USB key: terrible slow

2011-12-09 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Matthias Apitz wrote: > El día Thursday, December 08, 2011 a las 09:57:13AM -0600, Dan Nelson > escribió: > > > Cheap USB thumb drives aren't really optimized for small random-I/O writes. > > Can you try mounting the filesystem async? that might help a little. A > > workaround would be to use

Re: restore(8) to UFS on USB key: terrible slow

2011-12-09 Thread Michael Sierchio
Cheap USB drives, and even many CF drives, aren't much good as random read-write devices. On my Soekris boxen I run FreeBSD, and mount the root filesystem rw,noatime. And I don't write to it. ;-) /var is a memory filesystem, there /var/db/... contain symbolic links to /usr/local/db/.. because th

Re: OT: C|Net's Download.com adware, spyware, malware hijinkx.

2011-12-09 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 9 Dec 2011 09:38:59 -0600, Ryan Coleman wrote: > It's still not malware, it's bloatware. Why would you > not go to the development website to get the program anyway? Uninvitedly adding toolbars, changing web browser home page and default search engine are - in my opinion - malicious acts,

Re: Which Lenovo Laptop?

2011-12-09 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 9 Dec 2011 16:50:23 +0100, 𫝆井 Pierre wrote: > If there is a setting to xorg.conf that does work for setting the > screen brightness, please tell me. Everything I tried so far turned out > negative, but maybe there's something I overlooked. Don't "modern" laptops come with keys (or key com

Re: Which Lenovo Laptop?

2011-12-09 Thread 文鳥
On Fri, 9 Dec 2011 09:18:17 -0500 Pierre-Luc Drouin wrote: > On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 2:03 AM, 文鳥 wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I am typing this message on a W520 running 9.0 stable, which should > > be similar enough to the T520. > > > > - MBR boot works fine, but GPT seems to be impossible (Lenovo > >

Re: OT: C|Net's Download.com adware, spyware, malware hijinkx.

2011-12-09 Thread Ryan Coleman
On Dec 9, 2011, at 12:03 PM, Polytropon wrote: > On Fri, 9 Dec 2011 09:38:59 -0600, Ryan Coleman wrote: >> It's still not malware, it's bloatware. Why would you >> not go to the development website to get the program anyway? > > Uninvitedly adding toolbars, changing web browser > home page and d

Re: Which Lenovo Laptop?

2011-12-09 Thread 文鳥
On Fri, 9 Dec 2011 19:05:26 +0100 Polytropon wrote: > On Fri, 9 Dec 2011 16:50:23 +0100, 𫝆井 Pierre wrote: > > If there is a setting to xorg.conf that does work for setting the > > screen brightness, please tell me. Everything I tried so far turned > > out negative, but maybe there's something I o

blender - python32

2011-12-09 Thread ajtiM
H! I have fresh installed 9.0-RC3 FreeBSD 9.0-RC3 #0 and I use KDE 4. I like to install Blender 2.6 but: Required To Build: lang/python32 Required To Run: lang/python32 Installed Python on the system is 2.7. I don't like to update on 32 because some problems (py27-numpy for example). Is it poss

PAM configuration to allow passwords from both Unix and Kerberos

2011-12-09 Thread Matt Mullins
For my systems, the canonical source of authentication information is a Kerberos server, but I also want to support old-fashioned Unix passwords for a handful of users (including myself) just in case the Kerberos system is unreachable.  I'm having a bit of trouble adjusting to the semantics of Free

FreeBSD & ROX Desktop

2011-12-09 Thread Douglas F Taylor
Can ROX-Desktop work on FreeBSD, I am just starting to learn FreeBSD?? Doug ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@free

Re: OT: C|Net's Download.com adware, spyware, malware hijinkx.

2011-12-09 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 9 Dec 2011 13:05:05 -0600, Ryan Coleman wrote: > > On Dec 9, 2011, at 12:03 PM, Polytropon wrote: > > > On Fri, 9 Dec 2011 09:38:59 -0600, Ryan Coleman wrote: > >> It's still not malware, it's bloatware. Why would you > >> not go to the development website to get the program anyway? > >

Re: FreeBSD & ROX Desktop

2011-12-09 Thread Thomas Mueller
--- On Sat, 12/10/11, Douglas F Taylor wrote: > Can ROX-Desktop work on FreeBSD, I am > just starting to learn FreeBSD?? > Doug I think I remember seeing ROX-Desktop and roxterm in the ports collection? Tom ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing