experiences with the beta nvidia driver

2007-09-27 Thread Aryeh Friedman
Last night I mentioned it is now avaible... has any one tried it with anything near this combo: P-35 Chipset GeForce 5200 GT (PCI) 7-CURRENT The reason for asking is when I installed it the kernel reconizes my card but Xorg (7.3) doesn't recognize it (same as before the beta) BTW it does not

Re: Portupgrading cups-base gives compiler error

2007-09-28 Thread Aryeh Friedman
I have the same issue on 7-current On 9/28/07, beni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm running 6.2-STABLE and my ports are up to date. When trying to portupgrade > print/cups-base from 1.2.12 to 1.3.0 I am getting a "compiler error". Any > cure for this ? > > Thanks ! > > ... > echo Comp

Re: xorg nvidia

2007-09-28 Thread Aryeh Friedman
This is a known issue with all nvidia cards and xorg 7.3... nvidia should release an updated driver very soon... until then to get some possible hints do a search of this list for nvidia issues. --Aryeh On 9/28/07, Marcel Cuculici <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello everyone, > To install nvidia d

Re: Install problems with CD

2007-09-28 Thread Aryeh Friedman
If I remember right this is a known issue with some older distro CD's (the boot code doesn't need any kind of software driver for the CD but the install code does)... I suggest either using a newer version like 6.2 or using the install from network option for install medium. --Aryeh On 9/28/07, F

Re: Install problems with CD

2007-09-28 Thread Aryeh Friedman
]> wrote: > On 9/29/07, Aryeh Friedman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If I remember right this is a known issue with some older distro CD's > > (the boot code doesn't need any kind of software driver for the CD but > > the install code does)... I suggest either

Re: Portupgrading cups-base gives compiler error

2007-09-28 Thread Aryeh Friedman
When will this be in cvsup? --Aryeh On 9/29/07, Frank Jahnke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The cups-base upgrade error can be fixed with a simple patch. See > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=116721 > > (I was bitten by this as well.) > ___

url encoding a string with base system tools

2007-09-28 Thread Aryeh Friedman
I am creating a new port and part of the install procedure is the install script needs to send some data to a web server in the form of http://.?X where XXX is the url encoded plain text (can include any ascii printable character) that needs to be sent. Since this for a port I want to do t

Re: what cpu type to use for a intel duo e6850 (i386 or amd64)

2007-09-29 Thread Aryeh Friedman
t did not give a clue on this. --Aryeh On 9/29/07, Lowell Gilbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Aryeh Friedman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Currently I have done a build/installworld build/install/kernel using > > a i386 CPUTYPE (w/ SMP and APIC set

Re: what cpu type to use for a intel duo e6850 (i386 or amd64)

2007-09-29 Thread Aryeh Friedman
> Please don't top-post. Anyway, if you're not seeing all 4G, then you > are most likely running an i386 kernel/release and not amd64. In order > to use 4G on a 32-bit (i386) install, you need to include: > > options PAE I already tried that and it barfed on a cast in adavsys.c (forget what subdir

Re: what cpu type to use for a intel duo e6850 (i386 or amd64)

2007-09-29 Thread Aryeh Friedman
Would the following procedure work to do an inplace upgrade: 1. Download the amd64 iso 2. Install it on a spare disk/partition 3. Do a cvsup on it's /usr/src 4. Make buildworld/buildkernel 5. Mount the x86 disk/partition 6. Copy /usr/obj (and /usr/src for good measure) from the amd partition to th

Re: 7.0-CURRENT Ports Collection?

2007-09-29 Thread Aryeh Friedman
Are you attempting to download ports on 6.2 before you move to 7 or on 7? If the and your on a SMP (dual core don't know about physically seperate) there are some known issues in the protocol stack On 9/29/07, Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > James Jeffery wrote: > > Does 7.0 come with

Re: what cpu type to use for a intel duo e6850 (i386 or amd64)

2007-09-29 Thread Aryeh Friedman
> 2. Install it on a spare disk/partition How do I force sysinstall to only slice and install on the spare partition (don't have a spare disk) --Aryeh ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-quest

Re: 7.0-CURRENT Ports Collection?

2007-09-29 Thread Aryeh Friedman
On 9/29/07, Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Aryeh Friedman wrote: > > Are you attempting to download ports on 6.2 before you move to 7 or on > > 7? If the and your on a SMP (dual core don't know about physically > > seperate) there are some known iss

Re: what cpu type to use for a intel duo e6850 (i386 or amd64)

2007-09-29 Thread Aryeh Friedman
On 9/29/07, RW <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 29 Sep 2007 16:03:05 + > "Aryeh Friedman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I have more then 4gb and was wondering why it didn't all show up > > is there anyway to do a in place upgrade

oops (was Re: what cpu type to use for a intel duo e6850 (i386 or amd64))

2007-09-30 Thread Aryeh Friedman
well the procedure *ALMOST* worked turns out that sysinstall clobbers any unmodified bsdlabels (bug?) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL P

(amd64) kernel reconizes sound card but no dev nodes are made

2007-09-30 Thread Aryeh Friedman
My kernel reconizes my sound card: monster# kldload snd_hda monster# kldstat Id Refs AddressSize Name 1 12 0x8010 b2b1d0 kernel 21 0x80c2c000 9dc0 linprocfs.ko 32 0x80c36000 3a060linux.ko 41 0xb11ac000 e3de snd_hda

the continuing adventures of nvidia vs. xord 7.3

2007-09-30 Thread Aryeh Friedman
Normally I wouldn't mention this this may point to a deeper set of bugs in xorg/nv/nvidia/freebsd 7-current. Where things stood: 1. I had xorg 7.3 on freebsd 7-current (i386) 2. It did not reconize any nvidia card in anyway shape or form (nv, nvidia (even he latest beta's posted on 9/26), etc.) 3

hpiod (hplip version) dies immediatly on freebsd

2007-09-30 Thread Aryeh Friedman
uname -a FreeBSD monsert 7.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT #2: Sun Sep 30 20:57:46 UTC 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 monsert# hpiod can't open or create : m io/hpiod/hpiod.cpp 195 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing li

Re: X on ThinkPad crashes after sleeping (zzz'ing)

2007-09-30 Thread Aryeh Friedman
If this has always been true then it is a known issue (happens on both desktops [p4 w/ 6.2 and dual-core w/ 7-current amd64] I have also) On 10/1/07, C Thala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hardware: IBM ThinkPad T41 > OS: FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE-p7 > > My laptop recently started exhibiting very weird be

Re: linux-flashplugin9 (usable?)

2007-10-03 Thread Aryeh Friedman
> I'm running 6.2-RELEASE-p7. I haven't tried the Linux Flash player but > I do know the GNU Flash project ["gnash"] is worth looking at. Sure > it's not perfect, but they're certainly having a good try at it. It > works fairly well in Firefox at least. crashs X on 7-current amd64

Re: linux-flashplugin9 (usable?)

2007-10-03 Thread Aryeh Friedman
> > > youtube -dl and clive work flawlessly. You can also use clive to convert > .flv to friendlier formats. > I have never had a luck with those adds on for Firefox. Even their ftp > client sucks. That is way I use Opera and Lynx. > Do not get me wrong. I am recommending Opera's ftp or bittorrent

Re: linux-flashplugin9 (usable?)

2007-10-03 Thread Aryeh Friedman
> http://monkey.org/freebsd/archive/freebsd-questions/200707/msg01926.html > Used to work flawlessly while you could download v7 but the distfile > disappeared. Actually the latest cvsup replaced it with a working dist file ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.

Re: linux-flashplugin9 (usable?)

2007-10-03 Thread Aryeh Friedman
On 10/3/07, Predrag Punosevac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Aryeh Friedman wrote: > >> youtube -dl and clive work flawlessly. You can also use clive to convert > >> .flv to friendlier formats. > >> I have never had a luck with those adds on for Firefox. Even thei

good replacement for open office

2007-10-04 Thread Aryeh Friedman
Open office does not compile on 7-current amd64 what would be a good replacement(s) for most of it's functionality (word processing and spreadsheets are what matter to me) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/lis

Re: good replacement for open office

2007-10-04 Thread Aryeh Friedman
since when... tried it last week and nothing On 10/4/07, Boris Samorodov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 4 Oct 2007 20:39:39 +0000 Aryeh Friedman wrote: > > > Open office does not compile on 7-current amd64 what would be a good > > editors/openoffice.org-2 does co

Re: good replacement for open office

2007-10-04 Thread Aryeh Friedman
On 10/4/07, Boris Samorodov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Please, don't top-post. > > On Thu, 4 Oct 2007 21:00:03 + Aryeh Friedman wrote: > > On 10/4/07, Boris Samorodov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Thu, 4 Oct 2007 20:39:39 + Aryeh Friedman

Re: good replacement for open office

2007-10-04 Thread Aryeh Friedman
On 10/5/07, RW <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 4 Oct 2007 20:00:10 -0400 > "Philip M. Gollucci" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > NetOpsCenter wrote: > > > I have a working Open office on a FreeBSD 4.11 box here that I use > > > when all else fails. > > > Is there a way to copy that and have it

Re: good replacement for open office

2007-10-04 Thread Aryeh Friedman
On 10/5/07, Frank Jahnke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > what would be a good replacement(s) for most of it's functionality > > (word processing and spreadsheets are what matter to me) > > You really have to decide what you want to suite to do. Otherwise, your > problem is underspecified. > > 1) Co

Re: how to play online TV program

2007-10-04 Thread Aryeh Friedman
> - multimedia data file bears the (asf/asx) file extensions ; > - streaming formats using in CityTV: > Video : Microsoft Mpeg- 4 codec V2 [320 x 240, 25fps] > Audio : Mpeg Layer-3 (16KB/s, 11kHz, mono) VLC can handle this ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.o

Re: Abit Motherboard

2007-10-05 Thread Aryeh Friedman
On 10/5/07, Doug Hardie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am planning for replacing one of my servers. I want to upgrade to > at least a dual-core machine. I found the Abit IP 35 Pro motherboard > at Frys which looks like it has most everything I need. However, I > don't find any discussions about

Re: C++ Compiler On FreeBSD

2007-10-06 Thread Aryeh Friedman
> PHP isn't really a programming language. It's more a fancy templating > system that happens to be able to use extensions that can provide C > style linkage. That said, I laude you for your desire to learn a real > programming language, and agree with the recommendation that you start > with somet

Re: Which java binary to use?

2007-10-07 Thread Aryeh Friedman
On 10/7/07, Stephen Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I installed the Diablo java packages > (http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/downloads/java.shtml), but "which > java" shows "/usr/local/bin/java" which is a link to javavm in the same > directory. > > I wondered about changing the link to point to

wyswyg editors for tex (was re: replacement for open office)

2007-10-07 Thread Aryeh Friedman
I finally got around to compiling abiword and I get the following when I try to run it: > abiword Segmentation fault (core dumped) > uname -a FreeBSD monsert 7.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT #1: Sun Oct 7 20:47:51 UTC 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/MONSTER amd64 I don't want to

Re: wyswyg editors for tex (was re: replacement for open office)

2007-10-07 Thread Aryeh Friedman
> Yes there is wyswyg editor for TeX. Look among ports. I do not use one > like most long time TeX users as it is useless. Every time you compile lyx and I like it so far. > You sound like using TeX is a bad thing and so difficult. It is not my > 11 year old nice uses for her homeworks. >From wh

setting up a cvsup mirror

2007-10-09 Thread Aryeh Friedman
I want to setup a local cvsup mirror on my local machine (someone told me if you do it right you don't need to hand apply uncommitted patches) what do I need to do this? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/l

Re: wyswyg editors for tex (was re: replacement for openoffice)

2007-10-09 Thread Aryeh Friedman
> If you know neither and want to learn one well, choose TeX. That is > what is used more commonly. There's nothing wrong with troff, and the > support is still quite good, but all the major journals, for example, > accept TeX code but not troff. It is still a good idea to know enough > troff to

getting better then 1024x768 on xorg 7.3 w/ nv

2007-10-09 Thread Aryeh Friedman
Is there anyway using the NV (not kernel mod) to get better then 1024x768? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

NVidia 100.14.19 for FreeBSD i386 released

2007-10-10 Thread Aryeh Friedman
Not on amd64 but no nvidia kernel module ever has On 10/10/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > see: http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=100077 > > is it working for anybody? > > regards, > > usleep > ___ > freebsd-ques

rebranding a i386 binary to be a amd64 binary

2007-10-10 Thread Aryeh Friedman
Even though I know this is asking for it I want to test the new nVidia driver on amd64 and the only issue with a hand compile (from nVidia's tar not the ports one) is src/nv-kernel.o is branded elf-i386-32 and amd64 wants it branded elf-amd64-64. This file comes from them as a precompiled object s

Re: best way to update ports

2007-10-10 Thread Aryeh Friedman
On 10/11/07, Bill Stwalley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I need your advice on how to update security patches for ports on a dozen > servers with minimal efforts. If the servers are homogenious why not have a single /usr/local and nfs mount it? __

Re: best way to update ports

2007-10-10 Thread Aryeh Friedman
> yeah, in that situation nfs mount will be easy. > > My servers are in different cities, and the ports are installed with > different options on different servers, for example, some postfix use unix > login accounts, some postfix use courier authentication with mysql database. > So unfortunately

Re: rebranding a i386 binary to be a amd64 binary

2007-10-10 Thread Aryeh Friedman
On 10/11/07, Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Aryeh Friedman wrote: > > Even though I know this is asking for it I want to test the new nVidia > > driver on amd64 and the only issue with a hand compile (from nVidia's > > tar not the ports one) is src/nv

Re: rebranding a i386 binary to be a amd64 binary

2007-10-11 Thread Aryeh Friedman
> > There are several kernel features that need to be implemented before an > amd64 nVidia driver will work - see > http://wiki.freebsd.org/NvidiaFeatureRequests for more info. nVidia do > want to create an amd64 driver, but they need the kernel work to be done > first. I just sent nVidia an off

Re: How to create a user account with the same permission as "root" ?

2007-10-11 Thread Aryeh Friedman
On 10/11/07, williamkow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Finally, I manage to setup X.org and then KDE 3.5.4 running on FreeBSD > 6.2-Release. > I created a user account named "william" and do not assign any group as > I do not know what are the list of group name for me to select. To start > KDE, i us

Re: can not load KDE in FreeBSD 6.2

2007-10-11 Thread Aryeh Friedman
On 10/11/07, williamkow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > After configuring to run X.org, and I manage to have KDE by running > command "kdm". > Then I do some changes related to display, example : > a) 1024x768 to 800x600 > b) fonts size for menu, wallpaper ...etc > but then after the computer have s

Re: How to create a user account with the same permission as "root" ?

2007-10-11 Thread Aryeh Friedman
After seeing some of his other questions he should get a book on basic sysadmin also. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: How to create a user account with the same permission as "root" ?

2007-10-11 Thread Aryeh Friedman
> In my case, william is better than root. I can never login to my GNOME > desktop through GDM by root. A root account is absolutely useless to me. I use gnome and there is not a single thing I can not do with a root account that I can't with one. If you mean opening GUI apps try adding the foll

Re: How to create a user account with the same permission as "root" ?

2007-10-11 Thread Aryeh Friedman
On 10/11/07, Aryeh Friedman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > In my case, william is better than root. I can never login to my GNOME > > desktop through GDM by root. A root account is absolutely useless to me. > > > I use gnome and there is not a single thing I can not do w

Re: memory pool, rfc

2007-10-31 Thread Aryeh Friedman
On 11/1/07, Eduardo Morras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 00:38 01/11/2007, you wrote: > >Ouch! ...you are not trying to sell anything are you? It may be in > >your best interest if you proceed to the hackers list, to initiate > >conversation in a way that explains how your code will benefit a > >

strangeness with enigmail and thunuderbird

2007-10-31 Thread Aryeh Friedman
Installing the port for enigmail-thunderbird and manually installing the plugin into my personal thunderbird profile (as per instructions in the port's pkg-message) and manually configuring it to use /usr/local/gpg (couldn't find it automatically) it spins forever (i.e. the task never completes) i

csup broken on -currnet amd64?

2007-10-31 Thread Aryeh Friedman
monster# uname -a FreeBSD monster 8.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT #0: Tue Oct 30 18:07:21 UTC 2007 root@:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 monster# csup -h cvsup8.us.freebsd.org /usr/share/examples/cvsup/ports-supfile Connected to 216.165.129.134 Updating collection ports-all/cvs Checkout p

Re: csup broken on -currnet amd64?

2007-10-31 Thread Aryeh Friedman
On 11/1/07, Steve Kargl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 03:06:54AM +0000, Aryeh Friedman wrote: > > monster# uname -a > > FreeBSD monster 8.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT #0: Tue Oct 30 > > 18:07:21 UTC 2007 root@:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd

Re: About Freebsd 7.0 versus 6.3

2007-11-08 Thread Aryeh Friedman
On Nov 8, 2007 11:55 AM, Expresso Digital ISP <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, my name is Cesar. > > I'd like to know what is the diference between 7.0 and 6.3 and why create a > newest version and after old version. 6.X is the last of versions meant primarilly for single processing machines (with

Re: need an explanation of "make serarch" output

2007-11-11 Thread Aryeh Friedman
Sorry beinf rude but I wonder if either of the responders took there own advice and RTFM'ed (where M=mail) What I mean is I was *NOT* asking how to get the deps list... I was asking that for example "make search key=jdk16 display=bdeps" will display multiple "bdeps" lines which one contains the co

Re: OT: Beastie 3D-rendered

2007-11-11 Thread Aryeh Friedman
On Nov 11, 2007 3:55 PM, Tino Engel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Look what happened to Beastie: > > http://www.tilolit.de/images/tb/wallpapers/teufel.jpg Nice Can you produce an icon size one (or a powered by size one)? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.

Re: +bfe0: watchdog timeout -- resetting

2007-11-23 Thread Aryeh Friedman
On 11/23/07, Michael Hawkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have been receiving the same error message from my NAS box as of late. > > Until last week, I was been running Freebsd6.2, and I occassionally > received the message "re0: watchdog timeout". It would happen about > once a week. Last week

getting rid of xconsole on xdm

2007-11-24 Thread Aryeh Friedman
I am in the middle of setting up a new machine and want to get rid of the &^&*(*&%*&@ xconsole on xdm (it doesn't go away on login either)... how? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions T

Upper limit on make -j ?

2007-11-27 Thread Aryeh Friedman
Before I file a PR I just want to know if it is worth it to file a PR for: make -j1000 buildworld buildkernel installkernel seg faulting ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubsc

Re: In the spirit of Godwin's law - I propose Beastie's law

2007-11-27 Thread Aryeh Friedman
> > A typical "TV set service" is not really supported by FreeBSD > neither... or FreeBSD is not supported by "TV set service", or > something!! Talk about being a little literal I don't own a TV and watch everything I care about thanks to the networks sites, bit torrent and miro (hopefully will

urgent: undoing a cvsup update

2007-11-27 Thread Aryeh Friedman
I just cvsuped the latest sources and they break many programs named and most X11-apps comes to mind immediately Well how do I backout of the this keep in miond I use cvs-supfile to populate a local repo and did a rm -rf /usr/obj /usr/src thinking that might clear stuff up but it didn't As fa

smart_host on sendmail min config

2007-12-10 Thread Aryeh Friedman
What else do I need to add to this to make it work (i.e. send all mail via mx1.optonline.net): OSTYPE(`freebsd6')dnl define(`SMART_HOST', `mx2.optonline.net')dnl btw shouldn't there be a frebsd7 or freebsd8 OSTYPE? (I run -current) ___ freebsd-questions

loading modules not in /boot/kernel from loader.conf

2007-12-10 Thread Aryeh Friedman
I have had bad experiences with loading modules anywhere except /boot/loader.conf and even so there is some hacking in the rc to make it work fine for example: (sleep 5;ntfs-3g )& is the last line in the rc > > Remember that this is the loader which will be loading the > module, so if /usr i

looking for ideas: creating a data partition for a dual boot system

2007-12-11 Thread Aryeh Friedman
I have both vista and freebsd 8-current installed on the same drive and also have allocated the rest of the disk to be a fat32 partition. I know I should put any data I want to be passed between the two on the fat32 partition. Now the question is how to lay it out so that: 1. The home dir for m

OT: XML newbie

2009-12-10 Thread Aryeh Friedman
I am a relative XML newbie (i.e. our backend does spit out some XML I wrote but it just slapped together with no knowledge of the underlaying structure of XML)... Now I am going back and actually learning XML... our main application is to insert XML directly into XHTML documents and use either CSS

Re: example c program that does "beep"

2009-12-25 Thread Aryeh Friedman
printf("\007"); /* assumes that your using a console/terminal that will beep on ctl-g */ On Fri, Dec 25, 2009 at 1:58 PM, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > How can I get a beep from c? > I looked at curses and syscons.c, but > still not clear. > Could somebody send me an example. > I'd be soo grate

boting straight into firefox

2011-07-14 Thread Aryeh Friedman
I am setting a read only kiosk (it displays various web pages progmatically and has *NO OTHER* function) and security is not a concern because the hardware is locked away and need to find the most hands free way method of going from power on to full screen www/firefox is it sufficent to have a

Re: boting straight into firefox

2011-07-14 Thread Aryeh Friedman
>> I wonder, though . . . why Firefox?  Would a more minimal (but still GUI) >> browser -- such as Surf, perhaps -- serve your needs better? > > Maybe it's worth considering that in case the menu bar, > navigation bar and all the other (mostly nonsense) bars > of web browsers are not needed for the

Re: boting straight into firefox

2011-07-14 Thread Aryeh Friedman
On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 1:38 AM, Polytropon wrote: > On Fri, 15 Jul 2011 01:30:32 -0400, Aryeh Friedman wrote: >> >> I wonder, though . . . why Firefox?  Would a more minimal (but still GUI) >> >> browser -- such as Surf, perhaps -- serve your needs better? >> &g

how to force a hard reboot remotely

2011-07-16 Thread Aryeh Friedman
Is there any way to force a complete power down and then reset of a i386 without physically being present? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd

Re: Lennart Poettering: BSD Isn't Relevant Anymore

2011-07-17 Thread Aryeh Friedman
I am working on making a general purpose image for XEN (specifically for rack space but since it is a common framework attempting to make it vendor neutral) On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 12:16 AM, Outback Dingo wrote: > On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 11:03 PM, Adam Vande More > wrote: > >> On Sun, Jul 17, 20

Fwd: Lennart Poettering: BSD Isn't Relevant Anymore

2011-07-18 Thread Aryeh Friedman
-- Forwarded message -- From: Aryeh Friedman Date: Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 3:16 AM Subject: Re: Lennart Poettering: BSD Isn't Relevant Anymore To: per...@pluto.rain.com That is the approach I am taking... RS's recommendation was we make a disk image to overwrite the exis

Re: Lennart Poettering: BSD Isn't Relevant Anymore

2011-07-18 Thread Aryeh Friedman
On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 7:30 AM, Jerry wrote: > On Mon, 18 Jul 2011 15:47:24 +0700 > C. Bergström articulated: > >> I wish people would spend as much time solving problems in *BSD as >> they do trying to defend an irrelevant OS ;) > > Personally, I wish they would spend more time in developing ful

Re: Lennart Poettering: BSD Isn't Relevant Anymore

2011-07-18 Thread Aryeh Friedman
, 2011 at 7:50 AM, Aryeh Friedman wrote: > On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 7:30 AM, Jerry wrote: >> On Mon, 18 Jul 2011 15:47:24 +0700 >> C. Bergström articulated: >> >>> I wish people would spend as much time solving problems in *BSD as >>> they do trying to defend

best way to force a single packet to be sent via a specific interface

2011-07-21 Thread Aryeh Friedman
I have both ethernet (the default route and such) and ppp done via "ppp -ddial" the man page for ppp(8) says tun0 will not have an IP assigned until a single packet is sent on it... what is the best way to have one packet sent on it (ping only always ifaces on multicast, traceroute seems to have no

Fwd: best way to force a single packet to be sent via a specific interface

2011-07-21 Thread Aryeh Friedman
-- Forwarded message -- From: Aryeh Friedman Date: Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 4:00 AM Subject: best way to force a single packet to be sent via a specific interface To: FreeBSD Mailing List I have both ethernet (the default route and such) and ppp done via "ppp -ddial" th

best way to replicate system

2011-07-21 Thread Aryeh Friedman
I have set up a machine that is 100% configred and now needs to be duplicated to an arbitrary number of other machines (23 currently)... none of the machines have optical drives (or floppies) so it has to be a USB install... what is the best way to do this all I can think of is "make release" or ma

make release question

2011-07-21 Thread Aryeh Friedman
Where does "make release" place the disk images (iso's) by default ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Fwd: make release question

2011-07-21 Thread Aryeh Friedman
-- Forwarded message -- From: Aryeh Friedman Date: Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 12:35 PM Subject: Re: make release question To: Nathan Whitehorn On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 12:33 PM, Aryeh Friedman wrote: > found them in CHROOT/R and found I needed to do mkisofs on them to get

skype

2011-07-23 Thread Aryeh Friedman
I have a number of clients that prefer Skype over IM last time I tried to build it from ports I was unable to get to anywhere past the account login page (no matter what I tried it said it could not log me in and when I registered for an account it never registered)

Fwd: skype

2011-07-23 Thread Aryeh Friedman
-- Forwarded message -- From: Aryeh Friedman Date: Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 7:43 AM Subject: Re: skype To: claudiu vasadi not quiet webcamd sees my webcam but not skype On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 7:42 AM, claudiu vasadi wrote: > Try it now. It wo

re: skype

2011-07-23 Thread Aryeh Friedman
escription "Open Sound System" } } -- Forwarded message -- From: Frank Shute Date: Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 7:52 AM Subject: Re: skype To: Aryeh Friedman Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 06:16:28AM -0400, Aryeh Friedman wrote: > > I have a num

baffled on how to get packages onto the disc image of a custom release

2011-07-25 Thread Aryeh Friedman
I have been banging my head for almost a day now about how to get "make release" (or make iso.1 or package-split) to populate releaase/R/cdrom/* (actually I only care about dvd1 for now) and am totally lost on how to go from having a valid package list (and split) in /usr/ports/package to having it

How to turn off screen blanking

2011-08-10 Thread Aryeh Friedman
I have a kiosk system I am almost done building and the last snag is attempting to make it so idle time (no keyboard or mouse attached) does not blank the screen. I have already tried the following: vidcontrol -S off disabling acpi and apmd from the kernel config enabling dpms via the kernel con

Re: How to turn off screen blanking

2011-08-10 Thread Aryeh Friedman
, Frank Shute wrote: > On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 04:04:42PM -0400, Aryeh Friedman wrote: > > > > I have a kiosk system I am almost done building and the last snag is > > attempting to make it so idle time (no keyboard or mouse attached) does > not > > blank the scre

Re: Hi

2011-08-28 Thread Aryeh Friedman
On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 5:09 PM, Spencer Thompson < spencer.s.thomp...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear FreeBSD.org, > > I would like to order a CD with FreeBSD for an IBM Thinkpad. What is the > best package to get? Will it work perfectly? I want a package with the > manual, man-pages and how to use F

a portmaster/ports question

2011-09-18 Thread Aryeh Friedman
Is there any way to get portmaster to reinstall every port in the *EXACT* same order they where installed in, preferably with out any knowledge of what ports where installed after the current one was the reason for asking is many times it seems that subtle incompatibilities solely due to either

video acceleration on vbox

2011-10-24 Thread Aryeh Friedman
I have installed win 7 as a guest on emulator/virtualbox-ose on my 9.0-RC1 (i386) machine and no matter what I set the video acceleration to it gives me nothing but "standard VGA" in win 7 (even after downloading the driver from nvidia) I am using x11/nvidia-driver under xfce4 on the FB side __

Re: video acceleration on vbox

2011-10-24 Thread Aryeh Friedman
What port do I find them in? On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 8:02 PM, Adam Vande More wrote: > On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 6:44 PM, Aryeh Friedman > wrote: > >> I have installed win 7 as a guest on emulator/virtualbox-ose on my 9.0-RC1 >> (i386) machine and no matter what I set the vid

an upto date list of new ports

2013-02-28 Thread Aryeh Friedman
is there a site or other location that lists *NEW* (not updated) ports since a given date? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsub

stupid portmaster question

2013-03-25 Thread Aryeh Friedman
How do I tell portmaster -ad to ignore certain ports because they are broken such as editors/libreoffice is currently marked as (I am sure this will change soon) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/free

java/icetea-web broken?

2013-07-03 Thread Aryeh Friedman
I install it (on a machine that it used to work on until I had to reinstall FB) and there is none of the normal command line tools and when I attempt to open a jnlp file in ff (21.0) java/icetea-web (1.4) it goes into an infinite loop of opening new blank tabs the site in question works perfect

where to get the release notes for 9.2

2013-07-27 Thread Aryeh Friedman
There is a specific feature I need to see if it is in 9.2 or just 10 where can I find the draft release notes for 9.2? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: FreeBSD on Rackspace Could

2010-11-13 Thread Aryeh Friedman
Also you can make an official vote for freebsd at http://feedback.rackspacecloud.com/forums/71021-product-feedback and then search for freebsd On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 9:20 AM, Aryeh Friedman wrote: > Thats good news because currently we have a gentoo machine with them > (the closest linux

Re: FreeBSD on Rackspace Could

2010-11-13 Thread Aryeh Friedman
Thats good news because currently we have a gentoo machine with them (the closest linux distro to FreeBSD in philosophy and implementation) and since i have been a big FB user for years I have already told them we would like to switch if they offered the option On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 11:43 AM, To

Fwd: FreeBSD on Rackspace Could

2010-11-15 Thread Aryeh Friedman
For us it is mostly cost but the other advantage (with RS at least) is you can size the "hardware" to fit your needs and not get any more then you need... for example when we first started our consulting firm back in July we bought 256MB of RAM (RS sizes the Disk, CPU, Bandwidth, etc. as a multiple

Re: FreeBSD on Rackspace Could

2010-11-15 Thread Aryeh Friedman
oops should of said the main disadvantage is it is not FreeBSD On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 9:49 AM, Aryeh Friedman wrote: > For us it is mostly cost but the other advantage (with RS at least) is > you can size the "hardware" to fit your needs and not get any more > then you need.

problems mounting android htc

2011-01-15 Thread Aryeh Friedman
I am attempting to make it so I can communicate with the linux on my Android HTC 0100 and when I insert it I get the following on the console: ugen5.2: at usbus5 umass0: on usbus5 umass0: SCSI over Bulk-Only; quirks = 0x umass0:0:0:-1: Attached to scbus0 (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): TEST UNIT

Re: problems mounting android htc

2011-01-15 Thread Aryeh Friedman
Forgot to include the list On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 6:27 PM, Aryeh Friedman wrote: > Already tried based on several email threads found on the net but here > is one last try: > > flosoft-stable# dd if=/dev/null of=/dev/da0 count=0 > dd: /dev/da0: Device not configured > flosoft-

Re: problems mounting android htc

2011-01-15 Thread Aryeh Friedman
No idea how but when I plug the USB in it says "USB Debugging Connected" On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 6:48 PM, George Liaskos wrote: >>> Already tried based on several email threads found on the net but here >>> is one last try: >>> >>> flosoft-stable# dd if=/dev/null of=/dev/da0 count=0 >>> dd: /dev/

Re: problems mounting android htc

2011-01-16 Thread Aryeh Friedman
ere > 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 n

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