Re: Free BSD install tutorial I wrote

2006-01-01 Thread Frank J. Laszlo
Allen wrote: I wrote this quite a while ago and I've posted it to the docs list before and it got a good repsonce, but I've seen a couple install questions on here so I'm going to link to it again for this list. I don't think there is an easier to follow installer help anywhere. Not arrogance,

Re: Free BSD install tutorial I wrote

2006-01-03 Thread Frank J. Laszlo
Allen wrote: On Tuesday 03 January 2006 16:50, Josh Soza wrote: <..snip..> And another mail I sent to the list today, I pointed out the reason I didn't link tot he docs. I WANT people to BUY the books from Free BSD to help support the project. You can't possibly think that was wrong of

Re: Applications using hard disk too often

2006-03-05 Thread Frank J. Laszlo
Michael Tuchman wrote: I am running freeBSD 5.4 stable on a P133 box with 128 Mb ram. Although I don't think I'm overloading the system, it seems that my system is using virtual memory too often. Admittedly, this is a subjective question where 'too often' means only 'more often than I remem

Re: Applications using hard disk too often

2006-03-06 Thread Frank J. Laszlo
Kevin Kinsey wrote: Frank J. Laszlo wrote: Michael Tuchman wrote: I am running freeBSD 5.4 stable on a P133 box with 128 Mb ram. Although I don't think I'm overloading the system, it seems that my system is using virtual memory too often. Admittedly, this is a subjective ques

FreeBSD Non-Profit Status

2004-12-26 Thread Frank J. Laszlo
According to http://www.freebsdfoundation.org the goal of $32,000 has been reached (and passed) at 123% !! Great job for all those who contributed, and all those who thought about contributed, but were unable to. Please remember that just because the quota for this year has been met, doesnt mean

Re: Looking for 'ideal' web-server partitions

2004-12-28 Thread Frank J. Laszlo
Kiffin Gish wrote: I want to create a web server for a few personal web sites (virtual named hosts) using Apache, Perl, PHP and MySQL. Maybe later using mod_perl and ssl. No mail servers or other complicated stuff, just a plain-vanilla web server for the general public and an average visitor traffi

Re: Supermicro Hardware and FreeBSD

2005-01-05 Thread Frank J. Laszlo
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -- Your point might have some teeth if the "newer" version were better, but the entire problem is that 5.x is much worse than 4.x, so there lies the issue. 4.10 is NOT supposed to be an "old" version. Its the production version. Because its readily admitte

Re: building a package without installing it

2005-01-10 Thread Frank J. Laszlo
Chuck Swiger wrote: daniel quinn wrote: On January 10, 2005 05:17 pm, Michael C. Shultz wrote: If the port is allready installed try: pkg_create -b {name of installed port as listed under /var/db/pkg} cool, thanks and what if i don't want it installed on this machine? if i just want to build i

Re: Need Guidance in my Internet Connection Sharing configuration

2005-01-10 Thread Frank J. Laszlo
Srot BULL wrote: Hello and Good Day to all, I have tried to configure my system for Internet Connection Sharing but I could not implement the configuration properly. I am afraid that this is all my mind can figure out. Please look through below and I would appreciate if you could point out the

ATI TV Wonder VE

2005-01-11 Thread Frank J. Laszlo
I recently found in my hardware pile an ATI TV Wonder VE. I vaguely remember using this card with v4l on linux and decided I would give it a go on freebsd. Its apparently supported by bktr(4) I went ahead a kldload'd the module. this the what dmesg told me: bktr_mem: memory holder loaded bktr0:

Re: CVSup the port collection

2005-01-11 Thread Frank J. Laszlo
Olivier Nicole wrote: Hi, I was trying to cvsup the port collection, but all it did was deleting some ports, and never replaced them with new ones. I would have thought that the following configuration file would do the trick, but it did not. What have I wrong? TIA Olivier *default tag=RELENG_5_3

Re: Which OS should we use?

2005-01-11 Thread Frank J. Laszlo
sp0ng3b0b wrote: I also know that Yahoo operates a lot of FreeBSD servers. I would love to hear their results if they are testing 5.3. Yahoo most likely runs some home-brewed version of FreeBSD. highly customized for their needs. -Frank ___ freebsd-qu

Re: Items exist in ports, but not as packages.

2005-03-09 Thread Frank J. Laszlo
Paul Richards wrote: Well I hit a few compile errors which I had to tweak the source code to fix. My ports tree is the stock one which comes on the 5.3-RELEASE cds and so perhaps it's a little old. There's no harm in having to tweak source every now and again. :) It builds character. If you ha

Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such asNetBSD!!!

2005-02-10 Thread Frank J. Laszlo
Anthony Atkielski wrote: Frank Laszlo writes: Yes, Process colors being 4 plates, but rendered properly, it could be less. All process printing requires four (or six) colors. That's what process means. The current "logo" as it is shown on freebsd.org, COULD be printed on 2 plates, as a 2

http://www.freebsd.org

2005-10-02 Thread Frank J. Laszlo
Did someone break apache on http://www.freebsd.org? Seems to reply to ping requests but the web page doesnt load. -Frank ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

Re: creating a local cvsup mirror.

2005-05-02 Thread Frank J. Laszlo
Derrick MacPherson wrote: I want to create a local mirror for my internal freebsd systems. I seem to be confusing articles that are 'how to mirror' and 'how to be a mirror'. Is there some details/info out there that could be of help? I would have thought it would be enough to be running ports/net/c

Re: Good newsreaders for FreeBSD?

2004-10-18 Thread Frank J. Laszlo
Tom Connolly wrote: Hello List, I'm looking for a newsreader that has multi-server capabilities in that it can piece together articles using different newsgroup servers. Similar to NewsPro for windoze. Anyone had any luck with a good newreader port for FreeBSD? I'm running FreeBSD 4.10 if that