Re: good replacement for open office

2007-10-05 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, do you really want the world to know what you are writing? icantthinkofone wrote: Frank Jahnke wrote: Why not use Google Docs? And ask NSA in case you need a backup? Erich ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebs

Re: what kind of UPS will work best?

2007-10-06 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, there are basically two types of UPS' around: online and stand-by or fly-by. The online version is much more expensive but also much better in critical conditions. Gary Kline wrote: Hi Folks, Recently, a storm happened and the power surge blew me off-line. Time to ge

Re: what kind of UPS will work best?

2007-10-07 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, Gary Kline wrote: On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 11:12:00AM +0800, Erich Dollansky wrote: *right* about the price. Can I assume that a ballpark would be 400W for each server? (My wife is right: I've got to cut back to three computers:-) I've found one APC 220

Re: Hardware compatible : Marble_Mouse/TrackMan Wheel from Logitech

2007-10-07 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, I used the Trackman with earlier versions and I did not have any problems. I do not use it with the current version. Erich Roland Smith wrote: On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 08:51:16AM +0800, williamkow wrote: Tahnk you for your reply, may I ask if I to purchase TrackMan Wheel Mouse (Logi

Re: what kind of UPS will work best?

2007-10-08 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, Rob wrote: think. Most the draw in a residence is the HVAC. what is this? HVAC? Erich ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: what kind of UPS will work best?

2007-10-08 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, Ray wrote: On Monday 08 October 2007 8:36:39 pm Erich Dollansky wrote: Hi, Rob wrote: think. Most the draw in a residence is the HVAC. what is this? HVAC? Heating Ventilation Air Conditioning move the machine around to be used for heating during winter. Compared to that PCs are a

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

2007-10-11 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, FreeBSD is not Windows. You cannot have another "root" in the system. What you can do is the creation of the group "wheel" and put "william" into this group. Allow then all members of "wheel" to access the files needed by the group "wheel". I would not do this as it creates many secur

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

2007-10-11 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, Jerry McAllister wrote: On Thu, Oct 11, 2007 at 07:34:54PM +0800, Erich Dollansky wrote: FreeBSD is not Windows. True statement - thank heaven. You cannot have another "root" in the system. Unless I misunderstand what you are saying, this is NOT a true statement. You can

Re: mailing list

2007-10-13 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, Bill Moran wrote: "John Tele2" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: K you please stop sending me this spam from your account: [EMAIL PROTECTED] this guy first writes to all the lists and the complains that he gets answers. I believe that it is some remote controlled Windows machine whith someon

Re: How to set up a network-attached printer

2007-10-13 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, did you consider using CUPS? It also should work with LPR but I never tried it. Erich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Where would I find a specific method for setting up a Samsung ML-2571N network-attached PostScript printer in FreeBSD 6.1? I'm hoping for something less generic than what I've fo

Re: Why 7.0 is so late ?

2007-10-17 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, Albert Shih wrote: Hi all Anyone known why this time the release of 7.0 is so late ? In generaly the date on http://www.freebsd.org/releng/index.html is alway very optimist. But this time it's almost 5 mounth (annonced june 2007). while companies like Microsoft must publish in time to

Re: Power Point Files

2007-10-17 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, KOffice also includes a presenter. Erich Robert Huff wrote: Rem P Roberti writes: Are there any programs in the ports collection which allow you to view MS Power Point files? I occasionally receive these files and it would be nice to set up the .mailcap to be able to view them, if th

Re: www.freebsd.org won't load in IE 7.x in vista box.

2007-10-18 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, Gerard wrote: On October 17, 2007 at 07:44PM David Benfell wrote: [ ... ] But I believe Firefox is also one of the few pieces of software that can be installed on a Windows system without administrator privileges; you just install it in the user account space, and the Windows system will

Re: Newby Question: What to do when one port can't recognize another port?

2007-10-30 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, there should be a file under /usr/ports/ called UPGRADING It contains some hints of changes. Jeff D wrote: IGNORED Unknown Berkeley DB version Can you configure Apache to use other database systems? Erich ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org m

Re: Recommended servers for FreeBSD

2007-10-30 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, ok, I did not buy any kind of servers in recent times. Before I either took Tyan motherboards for real low-cost servers and either got them built into a machine by the supplier or even did it myself. Both routes offered the best price/performance ratio. In all other cases I took Fire ser

Re: Fetching sources for 6.2-Release including changes ....

2007-10-31 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, Tino Engel wrote: Today I read that a file called helloween.exe is using dancing sceletons to act as a virus using ones pc as a part of a botnet. Why do only windows user have the oppotunity to use such features. We should provide sth. for freebsd, too. didn't your mother tell you not to p

Re: extracting 7_bit_ascii from ms_word files

2007-10-31 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, if I get you right, you just need something like Abiword or KOffice to read or write Wrod files. You also could use OpenOffice. I think that AbiWord is the smallest program with the most limitations and OpenOffice is the largest program with the least limitations. Install AbiWord and h

Re: Does anyone know how to get the required downloads from Sun to build Java?

2007-11-23 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, Bill Moran wrote: Luckily, Sun is run by a bunch of Nazis, and doesn't use a standard did you do some research in the family history of one of the founders? thus I can't build OpenOffice.org for my shiny, new laptop ... Do not worry, my old and dirty laptop is also without OpenOffice.

Re: Partition to be shared over OSes

2007-11-24 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, Caio Figueiredo Abecia wrote: Hi I have some operation systems installed on a hd in some partitions. I'd like to know if could I have a partition FAT32 in my hd and let my linux/bsd/windows read/write any file there. To that purpose (share a partition to windows/linux/bsd) what's the best

Re: who wrote this

2007-11-25 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, eBoundHost: Artur wrote: T, I don't know any soft way to say this. The man, Hitler, was the most evil person that our generation has ever witnessed. The things he did this is why he has to be quoted so people see from where certain ideas originate. I live in a country where many th

Re: top posting (off-topic)

2007-11-25 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, Brent Jones wrote: Sorry if this is a bit off topic for this list, but it seem to be a comment that comes up very regularly; "please don't top post..." at least, you make me understand what this means. Yes, it is stupid to avoid top posting as they save a lot of time as long as it is sti

Re: who wrote this

2007-11-26 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, eBoundHost: Artur wrote: On Sun, Nov 25, 2007 at 08:12:36PM -0600, eBoundHost: Artur wrote: 1) first of all, i don't think that freebsd operating system is an appropriate forum to express political views. so whether we are for or against censorship or democracy or fascism or communism

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

2007-11-26 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: Beastie's Law: Any demand of a modification of FreeBSD or it's website using political incorrectness as the justification is automatically wrong. Political Incorrectness is very subjective t

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

2007-11-26 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: both terms are offensive here. I am a foreign talent. Really? Cool! Which planet are you from? third rock from the sun. This brings up a new question: what is with the local talent. The Earthlings started going downhill about 60 years ago when they an

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

2007-11-26 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: Does this include YouTube? this is an incorrect question as Flash is not really supported by FreeBSD. Erich ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To u

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

2007-11-27 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, Joshua Isom wrote: On Nov 27, 2007, at 1:32 AM, Erich Dollansky wrote: Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: "Hitler was a good facist, he did his job well." no, he was a bad one. He finally lost Flame war anyone? Verbrannte Erde was the motto of his final campaign. The mother of

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

2007-11-27 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, Joshua Isom wrote: On Nov 27, 2007, at 2:44 AM, Erich Dollansky wrote: Joshua Isom wrote: On Nov 27, 2007, at 1:32 AM, Erich Dollansky wrote: Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: "Hitler was a good facist, he did his job well." no, he was a bad one. He finally lost But he lost i

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

2007-11-29 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, Jerry McAllister wrote: On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 06:13:21PM +0800, Erich Dollansky wrote: Joshua Isom wrote: On Nov 27, 2007, at 2:44 AM, Erich Dollansky wrote: Joshua Isom wrote: On Nov 27, 2007, at 1:32 AM, Erich Dollansky wrote: Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: His was a classic case of

Re: who wrote this

2007-11-29 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, Boris Samorodov wrote: On Mon, 26 Nov 2007 22:14:30 -0800 Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: Fundamentally, you have to be educated to understand it. FreeBSD is first and formost, for the educated computer user. Ted, you may exchange famous Hitler's quotes with your highly educated friends, laugh

Re: who wrote this

2007-11-30 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, Gerard wrote: On November 30, 2007 at 02:37AM Erich Dollansky wrote: [ snip ] sensorship starts in the mind of the people. ^ "censorship " I have had a good laugh on this. Let me tell you, why it was so. I have had to write two documents over the last month with the wo

Re: How to find out when a package is installed?

2007-12-09 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, pkg_info | grep name or whereis name /var/db/pkd contains for every installed port an enry. Isn't the date the date of the first installation of this package? Erich Simon Gao wrote: Hi, Is there a command that can help find out when a package is installed/compiled? Or what options sh

performance impact of large /etc/hosts files

2007-12-10 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, I wonder what the performance impact of the entries in /etc/hosts really is. What is your experience? Google tells me a lot of hosts running FreeBSD but I could not find anything regarding the hosts file itself. I use hosts for filtering all unwanted content on my personal machine. I ru

Re: performance impact of large /etc/hosts files

2007-12-11 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, Nikos Vassiliadis wrote: On Tuesday 11 December 2007 05:18:40 Erich Dollansky wrote: I use hosts for filtering all unwanted content on my personal machine. That's not apparent. What are your filtering? all the sites I personally do not want to see. and how do your filter using

Re: performance impact of large /etc/hosts files

2007-12-11 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, Warren Block wrote: On Tue, 11 Dec 2007, Erich Dollansky wrote: This is really what I want. Just avoiding the traffic, the time and the optical disturbance caused by all those sites. I would even prefer a method as simple as hosts but linked even to my user account. http

Re: performance impact of large /etc/hosts files

2007-12-11 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, Alex Zbyslaw wrote: Erich Dollansky wrote: Assuming I've understood your initial post correctly, then I do the same, redirecting some dozen ad sites to a local web server. With a this is how I started. Then friends did the same. We exchanged the files. We added hosts files fro

Re: performance impact of large /etc/hosts files

2007-12-12 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, Nikos Vassiliadis wrote: On Wednesday 12 December 2007 04:06:01 Erich Dollansky wrote: There's no clean solutions to getting different lookups per-user that Both ipfw and pf support tables, which is what you I would like to avoid having a fire wall running on each machine. O

Re: performance impact of large /etc/hosts files

2007-12-12 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, Warren Block wrote: On Wed, 12 Dec 2007, Erich Dollansky wrote: If you still see unwanted content, just add a line and it will be gone during your next visit. Like AdBlockPlus, only more work. The beauty is, Internet feels still faster then before. Like AdblockPlus. It has one

Re: Mousewheel verschwunden

2008-04-13 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, this is an English speaking list. Do you speak English? If not, here is the short translation. Erich Seth Brundle wrote: Hallo Liste, nach Update auf RELENG_7 und Update der Ports ist nun mein Scrollrad verschwunden... :-( Ernst is running RELENG_7. His mouse wheel disappeared after th

Re: Copy-paste is broken in KDE?

2008-04-16 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, could it be that you mix up the concepts behind copy and paste and the currently selected to be copied into the current windows with the click of the middle mouse button? Erich Yuri wrote: I am seeing occasionally that selected text isn't being copied into the clipboard and isn't availa

Re: Kernel stalling at "pci0: on pcib0"

2012-02-06 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Tuesday 07 February 2012 12:40:09 Will McCutcheon wrote: > Hello all, > > I recently got a HP t5700 thin client that I wanted to turn into a > firewall using pfSense. For reference, this system uses a Transmeta Crusoe > TM5800 CPU with a VIA chipset that I'm having difficulty identifying.

Re: Kernel stalling at "pci0: on pcib0"

2012-02-07 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Tuesday 07 February 2012 12:49:46 Da Rock wrote: > On 02/07/12 15:48, Erich Dollansky wrote: > > > > On Tuesday 07 February 2012 12:40:09 Will McCutcheon wrote: > >> Hello all, > >> > >> I recently got a HP t5700 thin client that I wanted to tu

Re: Is the list down?

2012-02-17 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Friday 17 February 2012 08:49:37 Da Rock wrote: > On 02/17/12 11:21, Al Plant wrote: > > I have not seen any action in 2 days. > There's been plenty of action in the last 2 days. Maybe check your mail > server logs for errors? I noticed the same thing. The missing mails arrived all meanwh

Re: Processor question

2012-02-17 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Thursday 16 February 2012 17:20:23 krad wrote: > On 14 February 2012 20:28, Frank Shute wrote: > > > On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 02:47:08PM -0500, Mike Dockery wrote: > > > > > > Greetings, > > > > Aloha, > > > > > > > > I have been a user of Linux since 1994, but most of the linux distros >

Re: One or Four?

2012-02-17 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Saturday 18 February 2012 05:05:23 Robison, Dave wrote: > > It has always been FreeBSD's default to create four partitions and swap > as such: > > / > /tmp > /var > /usr > swap > it really makes sense to keep it this way. > The recent changes in 9.x with bsdinstall use a default behavi

Re: /usr/home vs /home (was: Re: One or Four?)

2012-02-18 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Saturday 18 February 2012 13:05:49 Lars Eighner wrote: > On Fri, 17 Feb 2012, Daniel Staal wrote: > > > I've never seen anything listing the main reasons for having /home under > > /usr > > though. I figure there must be a decent reason why. Would anyone care to > > enlighten me? Wha

Re: Is the list down?

2012-02-18 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi Al, On Sunday 19 February 2012 07:15:00 Al Plant wrote: > Erich Dollansky wrote: > > > Aloha Eric, > > My missing mail finally come down the pipe over night too. Strange but > it has happened before. > > Thanks for your support. Where are you located? Here in

Re: One or Four?

2012-02-18 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Sunday 19 February 2012 04:34:17 Jerry McAllister wrote: > On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 12:07:30PM +0100, Damien Fleuriot wrote: > > > > > So, Polytropon's three choice pattern is good. Or, I could even > suggest just two choices. > yes, three options is ok. > [ ] all in one + swap

Re: One or Four?

2012-02-18 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Sunday 19 February 2012 09:30:55 Jerry McAllister wrote: > On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 08:03:39AM +0700, Erich Dollansky wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > On Sunday 19 February 2012 04:34:17 Jerry McAllister wrote: > > > On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 12:07:30PM +0100, Damie

Re: One or Four?

2012-02-18 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Sunday 19 February 2012 11:40:22 Carl Johnson wrote: > Erich Dollansky writes: > > > Hi, > > > > On Sunday 19 February 2012 04:34:17 Jerry McAllister wrote: > >> On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 12:07:30PM +0100, Damien Fleuriot wrote: > >> > &

Re: No updates needed to update system to 8.2-RELEASE-p6 but still on 8.2-RELEASE-p3

2012-02-19 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Sunday 19 February 2012 18:17:59 Antonio Olivares wrote: > > I hope this is the case, but that -p3 makes me think? I am hesistant > to move to 9.0-RELEASE as of yet. There will apparently be an > 8.3-RELEASE and I am not sure whether I have to rebuild all ports if I you could adapt my s

Re: /usr/home vs /home

2012-02-20 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Monday 20 February 2012 21:44:43 Da Rock wrote: > On 02/18/12 17:47, Erich Dollansky wrote: > >> There may have been a historic reason, but now it is philosophical - trying > > when I got my hands for the first time on a BSD system, the machine has had > >

Re: /usr/home vs /home

2012-02-20 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Tuesday 21 February 2012 13:20:11 Chip Camden wrote: > Quoth Erich Dollansky on Tuesday, 21 February 2012: > > On Tuesday 21 February 2012 12:26:03 Chip Camden wrote: > > > Quoth Erich Dollansky on Tuesday, 21 February 2012: > > > > On Monday 20 Februa

Re: /usr/home vs /home

2012-02-21 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Tuesday 21 February 2012 12:26:03 Chip Camden wrote: > Quoth Erich Dollansky on Tuesday, 21 February 2012: > > Hi, > > > > On Monday 20 February 2012 21:44:43 Da Rock wrote: > > > On 02/18/12 17:47, Erich Dollansky wrote: > > > > > >> T

Re: /usr/home vs /home

2012-02-21 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Tuesday 21 February 2012 13:06:57 Robert Bonomi wrote: > Erich Dollansky wrote: > > On Monday 20 February 2012 21:44:43 Da Rock wrote: > > > On 02/18/12 17:47, Erich Dollansky wrote: > > > > > > when I got my hands for the first time on a BSD system,

Re: /usr/home vs /home

2012-02-21 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Tuesday 21 February 2012 22:18:38 Polytropon wrote: > On Mon, 20 Feb 2012 22:53:10 -0800, Doug Hardie wrote: > > The RK05 had one removable platter in a plastic housing. > > Please compare the images of the drive and the media. > Does it look similar? > > > > Removable platters types E

Re: One or Four?

2012-02-21 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Wednesday 22 February 2012 02:48:21 David Brodbeck wrote: > On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 9:26 PM, Erich Dollansky > wrote: > > it will not even boot if there is only a single slice with root and the > > rest on it if the background fsck cannot be run. > > > &g

Re: Installation troubles

2012-02-22 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Wednesday 22 February 2012 21:04:12 herbert langhans wrote: > Hi Daemons, > yesterday I tried to install FreeBSD 9 on my 'new' laptop - an IBM X31. > > Since this model has no CD or floppy drive I copied the memstick-file to > such an USB-thing and tried to boot. The laptop freezes when th

Re: Why is this Symbol in the front of your website. A humble request.

2012-02-23 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, what effort was it to collect the nearly 400 addresses? On Thursday 23 February 2012 19:29:12 Al Hadith wrote: > > My name is Roy Mathew. I am new to FreeBSD. I had a look at the history of > your operating system. > Al, Mathew? > I suggest to everyone of you that you recommend to change/r

Re: Why is this Symbol in the front of your website. A humble request.

2012-02-23 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Friday 24 February 2012 01:19:23 Jerry wrote: > On Thu, 23 Feb 2012 21:27:08 +0400 > Andrey Chernov articulated: > > {snip} > > 1) Was there anyone NOT CC'd in that last post? it was only 400 of yours. So, not so bad. > > 2) Why are we feeding this troll? To have some fun trolling the

Re: Why is this Symbol in the front of your website. A humble request.

2012-02-23 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Friday 24 February 2012 06:18:16 Steve Bertrand wrote: > On 2012-02-23 10:17, Erich Dollansky wrote: > > >> I suggest to everyone of you that you recommend to change/replace the > >> unnecessary picture right in front of your website. > > > > Are you ta

Re: Why is this Symbol in the front of your website. A humble request.

2012-02-23 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Friday 24 February 2012 13:59:03 Odhiambo Washington wrote: > On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 02:18, Steve Bertrand wrote: > > > On 2012-02-23 10:17, Erich Dollansky wrote: > > > > lol iirc, Ted Mittelstaedt started the sex-toy thing sometime in the mid > > 2000&#

Re: Why is this Symbol in the front of your website. A humble request.

2012-02-24 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Friday 24 February 2012 14:14:32 Matthew Seaman wrote: > On 24/02/2012 06:59, Erich Dollansky wrote: > > I live in Asia and they really have these things here. Just without the > > horns. > > That would be what most people call a "ball." They have them

Re: Security? [Re: Why is this Symbol in the front of your website. A humble request.]

2012-02-24 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Friday 24 February 2012 17:10:21 Dave wrote: > Can I please request, you all check your mail client "reply to" settings. I think, some - like me too - reply here always to all. > > Many of the "replies" to this thread, have also been sent to the 388 (was > it) addresses in the original T

Re: Why is this Symbol in the front of your website. A humble request.

2012-02-24 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Friday 24 February 2012 19:20:42 Julian H. Stacey wrote: > Erich Dollansky wrote: > > On Friday 24 February 2012 14:14:32 Matthew Seaman wrote: > > > On 24/02/2012 06:59, Erich Dollansky wrote: > > > > I live in Asia and they really have these things here. J

Re: Why is this Symbol in the front of your website. A humble request.

2012-02-25 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Sunday 26 February 2012 03:26:48 C. P. Ghost wrote: > On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 8:32 AM, Erich Dollansky > wrote: > > On Friday 24 February 2012 14:14:32 Matthew Seaman wrote: > >> On 24/02/2012 06:59, Erich Dollansky wrote: > >> > I live in Asia and they re

Re: Custom Kernel Target Ignored

2012-02-26 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Sunday 26 February 2012 15:10:16 Carolyn Longfoot wrote: > > When I start > cd /usr/src > make buildkernel KERNELCONF=MYKERNEL > > then the process start and gives > -- > >>> Kernel build for GENERIC started on Sat Feb 25 10:59:2

Re: Custom Kernel Target Ignored

2012-02-26 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Sunday 26 February 2012 21:37:32 Carolyn Longfoot wrote: > > > > > > make buildkernel KERNCONF=AsusAMD620 > > > > is what I do. > > > > Erich > > ARGHHH... KERNCONF not KERNELCONF... scuse my blindness... > this is what we are for. The simples

Re: Is it worthy upgrading to 9.0 ?

2012-02-28 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, I cannot tell how often I have said this already. I stay with the even branches until the next even branch comes out. Currently, the machine here runs 8.3 and will stick to 8 until 10.0 or 10.1 will arrive at the scene. But for technical reasons, I have left one machine on 7 after the upgra

Re: hard disk behavior

2012-02-29 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Thursday 01 March 2012 00:18:03 jb wrote: > I very often hear this metallic (mechanical) clicking from my hard disk when > it is active. I experience this behavior under FreeBSD only (not other OSs). > Is there any way to figure out what it means ? > Any other tools, except SMART below, to

Re: which FF ad blocker?

2012-02-29 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Thursday 01 March 2012 07:57:53 Gary Kline wrote: > which of the many adblockers should i try? I use /etc/hosts to block unwanted sites. I used http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.htm as a starting point and added other sites over time. If course, adds which are served from the visited

Re: replacing disk

2012-03-03 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Sunday 04 March 2012 08:01:33 Martin Alejandro Paredes Sanchez wrote: > > I am replacing an IDE disk (ad0) with a SATA disk (ad4) what did you want to tell us? If you still have the old one, copy the data over. Of course, you need a kernel which can use SATA. fstab, maybe rc.conf shoul

Re: replacing disk

2012-03-03 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Sunday 04 March 2012 08:47:39 Martin Alejandro Paredes Sanchez wrote: > On Saturday 03 March 2012 18:01:33 Martin Alejandro Paredes Sanchez wrote: > > > > In the disk I have 3 OS (FreeDOS, XP and FreeBSD) > I never used any other operating system on a machine with FreeBSD. So, my comment

Re: Suggestion

2012-03-09 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Friday 09 March 2012 11:56:25 Bruno Comerci wrote: > > Hi guys. > > > Instead of wasting your time and man power, why wont you join to the ReactOS > project? hey, who clean my desk now? I was just eating when I read this crap. Best trolling ever! > It would be more beneficial to the

Re: Suggestion

2012-03-09 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Saturday 10 March 2012 07:57:59 Graeme Dargie wrote: > > > I try not to reply to these things, but I have to say this bloke is having a > proper tin bath (laugh) in development since 1996 their website proudly > claims, and here we are in 2012 and it is still an alpha! > you can see on

Re: Suggestion

2012-03-09 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Saturday 10 March 2012 14:28:05 Joshua Isom wrote: > On 3/9/2012 7:07 PM, Erich Dollansky wrote: > > you can see on this how difficult it is to be 100% compatible with Windows. > > Especially the Virus layer of Windows is hard to redo. > > > > It is a masterpiec

Re: Suggestion

2012-03-10 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Saturday 10 March 2012 22:08:37 Alejandro Imass wrote: > On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 2:36 AM, Erich Dollansky > wrote: > > > > On Saturday 10 March 2012 14:28:05 Joshua Isom wrote: > > [...] it seems that you delete the 'masterpiece'. > > > &

Re: Suggestion

2012-03-10 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, I think that your irony detectors got damaged while reading my post. I am sorry for this. On Sunday 11 March 2012 10:53:26 Chad Perrin wrote: > On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 11:31:33PM +0700, Erich Dollansky wrote: > > On Saturday 10 March 2012 22:08:37 Alejandro Imass wrote: > >

Re: Freebsd9.0 and the fgets directive in gcc

2012-03-21 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Wednesday 21 March 2012 21:50:25 Martin McCormick wrote: > I've got some code which I wrote about 6 or 8 years ago that > apparently doesn't get along right now with FreeBSD9.0. In the > problem code, there is a loop that uses fgets to read a line > from a file. It runs properly until the 2

Re: boot time error(?) involving snd_hda

2012-03-23 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Friday 23 March 2012 21:18:37 Robert Huff wrote: > > On a system running: > > FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT #0: Sun Mar 11 08:20:02 EDT 2012 amd64 > > a message flashes by during boot about "Missing required module > 'sound'." > loader.conf has: > > snd_hda_load="YES" the ker

Re: need help in freebsd

2012-03-25 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Monday 26 March 2012 06:36:35 Stanley Aisi wrote: > hi there, > > i need your help in freebsd > you found the right place to get help but you have to be a bit more specific. Erich ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.free

Re: Printer recommendation please

2012-03-30 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Saturday 31 March 2012 11:28:55 Polytropon wrote: > On Sat, 31 Mar 2012 00:12:07 -0400, Matt Emmerton wrote: > > When I was at university, there was a student, a rich one > as one could assume: When he had emptied a printer, he > bought a new one, dropping the "old" one into the garbage >

Re: Printer recommendation please

2012-03-30 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Saturday 31 March 2012 11:12:07 Matt Emmerton wrote: > On Fri, 30 Mar 2012 16:14:20 -0400 > > Mike Jeays wrote: > > > > > I strongly recommend a laser printer over an inkjet even for home use. > > > The reduced running costs and better reliability are easily worth the > > > lack of colou

Re: FreeBSD Security in Multiuser Environments

2012-03-31 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Saturday 31 March 2012 20:26:14 Julian H. Stacey wrote: > Hi, > Reference: > > From: Da Rock > > Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2012 21:25:37 +1000 > > Message-id: <4f76e9b1.5040...@herveybayaustralia.com.au> > > Da Rock wrote: > > On 03/31/12 17:46, Julian H. Stacey wro

Re: Access to Time Warner cable network

2012-03-31 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Sunday 01 April 2012 06:52:48 Fbsd8 wrote: > Just purchased an account on the northern Ohio Time Warner cable system. > Having problem connecting to their service. Seems their dhcp server has > an ip address of 10.2.0.1 which is not public routable. I know my > Freebsd 8.2 box functions b

Re: Access to Time Warner cable network

2012-03-31 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Sunday 01 April 2012 08:57:00 Da Rock wrote: > > > > Did they come to your location and run a test to their equipment? My > > neighbor had a recent cable outage of an existing cable on our block > > that was too low and a moving van hit it. > > Apparently the Windows system works, so I'

Re: modem

2012-04-02 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Tuesday 03 April 2012 06:49:55 tim smith wrote: > > My us robotics serial modem worked without issue on previous freebsd > versions. With 9, user ppp term, I get /dev/cuau0/ device failed to open > > Suggestions? > what does ls /dev say? Is the modem at least seen by FreeBSD? Erich

Re: compiling glib20 failed

2012-04-03 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, when did you update your ports tree? It works here on 8.3 with a ports tree from last week. Erich On Wednesday 04 April 2012 10:02:51 gahn wrote: > hi gurus: > > i got problem with compiling glib20: > > ===> glib-2.28.8_4 depends on file: /usr/local/bin/perl5.10.1 - found > /libexec/ld-

Re: FreeBSD's backwards webdesign / corporate identity

2012-04-08 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, not again. Erich On Sunday 08 April 2012 19:40:12 Tony wrote: > Hello! > > As much as I love FreeBSD, I'm a bit alarmed by its webdesign / corporate > identity. Since FreeBSD is the world's best OS, I believe it should have a > design that reflects this. A design that is so neutral and stri

Re: Kind OFF Topic. FreeBSD for Blocking URLS? Nanny?

2012-04-10 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Tuesday 10 April 2012 10:27:24 Jorge Biquez wrote: > > As I have mentioned before I am helping a school , non profit with non profit --> no cost? > One of the managers asked me for help to block some web sites were Have you checked hosts? A rough but easy way. Erich

Re: Xorg doesn't go back correctly to console when closed on FreeBSD 9.0

2012-04-12 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Friday 13 April 2012 09:10:22 Conrad J. Sabatier wrote: > On Thu, 12 Apr 2012 10:13:00 -0300 > Gabriel Marchi wrote: > > > Hi all, > > I´m running 9.0-RELEASE on my laptop, everything works fine, except > > when I try go back to console I get a black screen. > > > > dmesg: http://pastebi

Re: Xorg doesn't go back correctly to console when closed on FreeBSD 9.0

2012-04-12 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Friday 13 April 2012 12:24:04 Matthias Apitz wrote: > El día Friday, April 13, 2012 a las 11:50:39AM +0700, Erich Dollansky > escribió: > > > Please show your ~/.xinitrc and ~/.xserverrc; mine look like this: I do not have an .xserverrc. The .xinitrc looks like t

Re: Xorg doesn't go back correctly to console when closed on FreeBSD 9.0

2012-04-13 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Friday 13 April 2012 14:18:32 Matthias Apitz wrote: > El día Friday, April 13, 2012 a las 01:34:53PM +0700, Erich Dollansky > escribió: > > > On Friday 13 April 2012 12:24:04 Matthias Apitz wrote: > > > El día Friday, April 13, 2012 a las 11:50:39AM +0700, Erich D

Re: FreeBSD's backwards webdesign / corporate identity

2012-04-13 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Friday 13 April 2012 18:44:07 Steffen Daode Nurpmeso wrote: > Julian H. Stacey wrote [2012-04-13 13:13+0200]: > > The 1000 year Reich lasted 6. > > 13. > Not for all, though. 1945 - 1933 gives 12. Do I have to start a calculator now? Erich ___

Re: FreeBSD's backwards webdesign / corporate identity

2012-04-13 Thread Erich Dollansky
On Friday 13 April 2012 20:56:35 Sean Cavanaugh wrote: > Hi, > > -Original Message- > > From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd- > > questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Erich Dollansky > > Sent: Friday, April 13, 2012 9:12 AM > >

Re: FreeBSD's backwards webdesign / corporate identity

2012-04-13 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Friday 13 April 2012 23:37:16 Polytropon wrote: > On Fri, 13 Apr 2012 22:59:41 +0700, Erich Dollansky wrote: > > On Friday 13 April 2012 20:56:35 Sean Cavanaugh wrote: > > > > > > -Original Message- > > > > From: owner-freebsd-ques

Re: FreeBSD's backwards webdesign / corporate identity

2012-04-13 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Saturday 14 April 2012 07:54:40 Polytropon wrote: > > > > > Its 13 INCLUSIVE. You're calculating exclusive > > > > > > > > it also fits better to today's date. > > > > > > Fits even better next Friday! ;-) > > > > > oh, yeah, the big birthday bash. Is it organised via facebook? > > Who

Re: Xorg doesn't go back correctly to console when closed on FreeBSD 9.0

2012-04-14 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Saturday 14 April 2012 15:53:16 Matthias Apitz wrote: > El día Friday, April 13, 2012 a las 08:10:09PM +0700, Erich Dollansky > escribió: > > > I did but it is too short to see the error. After creating this file, I > > tried to close X and got into the usual prob

Re: Problems using usb wireless adapter

2012-04-15 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, have you tried to unplug the device and put it back in? Erich On Sunday 15 April 2012 18:54:20 fake fake wrote: > I've just got FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE on HP Pavillion dv4. > When I found the internal wireless adapter (Broadcom BCM4322) is not > supported, I decided to use the usb wireless adapt

Re: Problems using usb wireless adapter

2012-04-15 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Sunday 15 April 2012 21:44:11 fake fake wrote: > Yes, I did. > Here is the result. > > when it plugged out, > # ugen2.2: at usbus2 (disconnected) > run0: uhub2, port2, addr2 (disconnected) > > when it plugged in again, > # ugen2.2: at usbus2 > run0: <1.0> on usbus2 > run0: MAC/BBP RT337

Re: ia64 vs amd64

2012-04-16 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Monday 16 April 2012 20:08:13 Eugen Konkov wrote: > > I have Corei3 540 only the amd64 will run on that CPU. If you have less than 4GB of RAM you could also run the i386 version. > What is the best fit to this processor: ia64 or amd64? > and what one from those is more stable? I do not

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