FreeBSD

brute force attacks
I've seen this question pop up in this group here and there, but I'm not sure there's ever been an answer that's satisfied me. If someone wants to use, say, telnet or ftpd, is there a good way to thwart brute force attacks? It would be nice if either of those programs had a lockout feature, or something like ... 3 Jan 2010 11:36

FBSD 8.10 And VirtualBox 3.1
I have a machine running Win/XP Pro SP3 hosting VirtualBox 3.1. The hardware happily boots the Ubuntu amd64 CDROM natively and FreeBSD 8.0 also boots fine - well ... up to the point where it has to ID the hard drive, but that's another story. IOW, the hardware is 64-bit capable (It is an Intel mobo w/a Pentium-... 19 Dec 2009 12:42

Trying to verify the isos via md5
On 12/13/09 12:00 PM, Warren Block wrote: Justin<justin(a)nobecauseihatespam.com> wrote: Hi folks, I downloaded all of the freebsd 8.0 isos. I'm running Snow Leopard on this machine and I would like to verify my burn is correct. Here is what I tried justin$ openssl md5 8.0-RELEASE-ia64-dvd1.is... 14 Dec 2009 14:20

Why is PulseAudio used with Firefox35?
If I have FF-3.5 compatible audio/video plugins available, why would I want or need Pulseaudio (or any other "sound server") to be required and installed by Firefox-3.5? ... 12 Jan 2010 08:04

FreeBSD 8 and Winbind via pam_krb5
I'm not sure how many of you use FreeBSD in Windows enterprises, but those that do are likely frustrated with the current support for Samba's winbind on this platform. The biggest problems revolve around Kerberos library compatibility problems and PAM module bugs. After much tearing of the hair and gnashing of th... 20 Dec 2009 03:52

Error compiling epiphany from ports
Is anyone else getting this error? Making all in glade gmake[3]: Entering directory `/usr/ports/www/epiphany/work/ epiphany-2.28.1/data/ glade' /usr/local/bin/gtk-builder-convert certificate-dialogs.glade certificate- dialogs ..ui env: python: No such file or directory gmake[3]: *** [certificate-dialogs.ui] ... 10 Dec 2009 20:06

netxen 10Gbit/s card driver
hello, is there any working driver for NetXen chip based 10G cards for freeBSD ? Regards, Marcin ... 3 Dec 2009 21:36

MSI Wind U90 and 8.0.
Hello. I am actually new to FreeBSD but it seems it worth studying it rather than GNU/Linux full of many different distros. (Even though Debian and other are sometimes well made what I can't say about Ubuntu 9.10.) And wish to ask - just in case... had anyone tried FreeBSD on MSI Wind U90? Low chances anyon... 2 Dec 2009 15:31

NYC LOCAL: Wednesday 2 December 2009 NYCBUG: Lightning Talks on BSD Unix Tips and Tricks
<blockquote what="official NYC*BUG announcement" edits=""> Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 17:44:02 -0500 To: announce(a)lists.nycbug.org From: NYC*BUG Announcements <announce(a)lists.nycbug.org> Subject: [announce] NYC*BUG Wednesday, and more Reply-To: announce(a)lists.nycbug.org This week's NYC*BUG meeting is ... 1 Dec 2009 20:40

building a file server with zfs for personal use - recommenations?
Hi, Now that FreeBSD 8.0 is out, I am thinking about building me a new file server at home. In general, thiss will be a small PC type box, and it will only be a file server, no other duties. I am thinking: - amd64 - 2 to 4 GB RAM - 3 physical hard drives for the system drive and the storage pool. Quest... 18 Dec 2009 01:50