Re: new FreeBSD-webpage

2005-10-06 Thread Dan Ponte
On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 03:42:14PM -0700, Murray Stokely <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was witnessed plotting the following conspiracy: > On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 06:15:41PM -0400, Dan Ponte wrote: > > One idea is to revert to the old design, which suited people's needs > > just f

Re: new FreeBSD-webpage

2005-10-06 Thread Dan Ponte
On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 04:49:31PM -0500, Greg Barniskis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was witnessed plotting the following conspiracy: > Dan Ponte (>) [with help from some others (>>)] wrote: > > >>A lot of stuff has been removed from plain sight which means > >>mo

Re: new FreeBSD-webpage

2005-10-06 Thread Dan Ponte
On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 05:49:04PM -0400, Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was witnessed plotting the following conspiracy: > On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 05:37:40PM -0400, Dan Ponte wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 05:33:26PM -0400, Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >

Re: new FreeBSD-webpage

2005-10-06 Thread Dan Ponte
On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 05:33:26PM -0400, Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was witnessed plotting the following conspiracy: > On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 04:43:36PM -0400, Dan Ponte wrote: > > > I second that all the way. Personally, I feel that the FreeBSD project > > is d

Re: new FreeBSD-webpage

2005-10-06 Thread Dan Ponte
ck. > > > The old one was better. > > I second that all the way. Personally, I feel that the FreeBSD project is doing too much in the way of appearing "trendy" to attract new users, and it's at the expense of its existing userbase. Not to mention that the o

Re: lpt0 always busy

2005-09-24 Thread Dan Ponte
? > > thx > regards, > stan > > ps: i am running fbsd 5.4 > Usually, if you get "device busy," it means that the printer is simply not on or connected properly. Check your parallel cable. -Dan -- Dan Ponte http://www.theamigan.net/ A great many p

Re: /dev/midi and /dev/sequencer

2005-08-23 Thread Dan Ponte
it with sequencer > or midi... any ideas? > > Thanks, > Ben As of now, FreeBSD has no support for MIDI. We once had it, but not anymore. -Dan -- Dan Ponte http://www.theamigan.net/ When a fly lands on the ceiling, does it do a half roll or a half loop? _

Re: weird df -k output

2005-06-11 Thread Dan Ponte
oc Apparently, you're mounting those directories using nullfs (man 8 mount_nullfs). Look around in fstab; maybe you or someone else put such entries there. It is extremely odd, though. -Dan -- Dan Ponte http://www.theamigan.net/ Never be led astray onto the path of virtue. pgpLyiR5zqgIO.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: dump woes

2005-04-22 Thread Dan Ponte
asI've seen many posts in various archives where the exact command syntax I had was used, and it showed positive tape block calculations and real percentages. This filesystem is only 17GB, with 4.1GB used (as I said earlier). -Dan -- Dan Ponte http://www.theamigan.net/ An age is called Dar

Re: dump woes

2005-04-22 Thread Dan Ponte
On Sat, Apr 23, 2005 at 06:05:25AM +1000, Peter Jeremy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was witnessed plotting the following conspiracy: > On Thu, 2005-Apr-21 23:07:48 -0400, Dan Ponte wrote: > >I'm having a rather strange predicament with dump(8). First, I tried > >dumping a sna

dump woes

2005-04-21 Thread Dan Ponte
(repeat...) Apparently, it's filling up the file with just NULLs and that! I am at a loss as to what is happening. Any insight in to the matter would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, -Dan -- Dan Ponte http://www.theamigan.net/ Brain, n.: The apparatus with which we t

Re: kernel errors : AE_NOT_FOUND

2005-04-10 Thread Dan Ponte
: AcpiLoadTables: Could not load namespace: > AE_NOT_FOUND >ACPI-0213: *** Error: AcpiLoadTables: Could not load tables: > AE_NOT_FOUND > ACPI: table load failed: AE_NOT_FOUND > > --ebm > You could try flashing your motherboard's BIOS to see if it mitigates it. -Dan

Re: ACPI errors on boot

2005-03-15 Thread Dan Ponte
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 10:00:49PM -0800, Doug White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was witnessed plotting the following conspiracy: > On Sat, 12 Mar 2005, Dan Ponte wrote: > > > I've been seeing lots of ACPI errors in my dmesg lately. They haven't > > really affected fun

ACPI errors on boot

2005-03-12 Thread Dan Ponte
52: *** Error: No object was returned from [\\_SB_.PCI0.PX40.UAR2._STA] (Node 0xc15b8dc0), AE_NOT_EXIST ACPI-0252: *** Error: No object was returned from [\\_SB_.PCI0.PX40.UAR2._STA] (Node 0xc15b8dc0), AE_NOT_EXIST -- Thanks. -Dan -- Dan Ponte http://www.theamigan.net/ You have th

Re: RELENG_4 tag in stable-supfile on 5.2.1 box - change it to RELENG_5?

2005-02-22 Thread Dan Ponte
new stable-supfile? > > thanks, > > woody > > p.s. sorry if hotmail is sending HTML, I know, I know, all you pine users > hate it. Firstly, read the handbook. Secondly, please read http://www.freebsd.org/releng/ for a list of tags to use. Dan P.S. I use mutt, not pine. :)

Re: Logo competition (was: Re: Save the Demon!)

2005-02-14 Thread Dan Ponte
lso no sane reason that they should refuse to use FreeBSD because of a 20-year old cartoon graphic. Really, such kooks would only give FreeBSD a bad name if they chose to use it. -Dan -- Dan Ponte http://www.theamigan.net/ Schizophrenia beats being alone. ___

Re: Save the Demon!

2005-02-14 Thread Dan Ponte
is chosen, it *will* offend /someone/ in /some way/. Though, maybe a plain black square would work, but on the other hand, it could be racist. See? You cannot win. -Dan -- Dan Ponte http://www.theamigan.net/ It's easier to get forgiveness for being wrong than forgiveness for being right.