FreeBSD

Status of ports
Robert Kopp <iconoklastic(a)yahoo.com> wrote: During the last week of March it was announced that ports would be "unstable" for a period of 7-10 days due to many commits. May one now assume that (as of April 6) this situation has changed so that one can go full-bore with updating and installing ports? p... 1 May 2010 12:02

dual-boot instructions?; populating ports tree in PC-BSD 8.0?
Hi, all, (Feel free to skip the chatty intro paragraph if it's not of interest...) After using FreeBSD on desktop and server for several years, I switched my desktop to ubuntu because of the greater ease of getting applications to work properly. I enjoyed ubuntu from about 2006 to 2009, but recently I've been... 6 Apr 2010 17:34

A tool for remapping bad sectors
fsck finds errors (cannot read block xxxx) on one of my drives. How can I map these out so I can mount the drive? -alan ... 11 Apr 2010 07:57

Can't play audio CD's
I recently installed FreeBSD 8.0 (i386), with the GNOME desktop. When I insert an audio CD, the following message appears: "Unable to mount audio disk. Dbus error org.freedesktop.Dbus.Error.NoReply: Message did not receive a reply (timeout by message bus)." Similar problems have been noted elsewhere: http://fo... 5 Apr 2010 00:44

NYC LOCAL: Friday 2 April 2010 Student and Startup Hackathon NYC
Hackathon NYC will start 6:00 pm Friday 2 April 2010 in Room 109 Courant Institute of Mathematics, 251 Mercer St Island of the Manahattoes Already over 150 students and 18 startup companies have signed up to take part. This Hackathon will run for a full 26 hours. Food will be provided to keep up... 1 Apr 2010 15:45

regular expression hassle
I've been trying without success to make a back reference regular expression work in milter-regex, but it seems I misunderstand something more basic. Using old-style re's, an re like \(..*\)\1 will match a string 123abcabc456 returning abcabc That works fine in a trivial test program. I'm using fbsd 6... 11 Apr 2010 03:41

NYC LOCAL: Tuesday 30 March 2010 NYLUG Hackfest
<blockquote what="official NYLUG Workshop/Hackfest announcement" edits=""> From: NYLUG Announcements <info(a)nylug.org> To: NYLUG Announcements <nylug-announce(a)nylug.org> Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2010 09:25:01 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [nylug-announce] NYLUG Workshop / Hacking Society (Smalltalk, C++, Python) Tuesday... 30 Mar 2010 02:52

Well, here we go again!
Ports freeze is over and the overnight update of the ports tree results in literally 100s of ports to be updated in order to stay current. Problem is, as it has been the last several cycles, that several of the ports which are dependencies for many others - cairo, for example - are broken or are themselves depende... 1 Apr 2010 00:21

Stale BINDings
I note that the release notes for BIND 9.6-ESV and 9.7.0-P1 claim it works with FreeBSD 4.10,5.2.1,and 6.2 (those for the still-patched 9.4-ESV-R1,though it is a newer version than came with 6.4,only say it works with 6.1). So are 4.11 and 5.5 and 6.4 and 7.3 and 8.0 and 9-CURRENT untested by BIND people at ISC?... 27 Mar 2010 02:15

devfs confusion
Can't write to usb devices as a non-root user on 7.2-stable. Have in /etc/devfs.conf: perm da* 0660 own da* root:operator in /etc/devfs.rules: [local=20] add path 'da*' mode 0660 group operator in /etc/rc.conf: devfs_system_ruleset="local" in /etc/sysctl.conf vfs.usermount=1 A use... 26 Mar 2010 11:57