Having WiFi available at a coffeeshop is a major selling point for travelers that frequent certain areas (or even have the foresight to do a little Googling beforehand).
For example, I used to travel frequently between school in San Luis Obispo to see my girlfriend in Fresno. When her work schedule changed to put her in the office on the only days I could come over, I opted to simply wait her out in a coffee shop and do homework. The coffee shop we frequented for this purpose (biweekly or so) had free WiFi, which made me working from there possible.
The point is: I would not go to that coffeeshop and buy coffee (I purchased several drinks and some food during each 8 hour stint) unless it had free WiFi.
Does it mean e-mail received in California? What does it mean for e-mail to be delivered in California? Must the server physically reside in California or just the reader? This might have implications for those that outsource their email to hosting companies, mega-ISPs (AOL jumps to mind), etc.
I have an older Belkin OmniCube 4-port. It supports 1600x1200 @ 60hz but ghosted a bit on my 21" monitor. I used higher end Belkin "gold" cables and cheapo keyboard/mouse cables.
However, I do have it doing Dual PS/2 and USB action. Belkin makes a cute little PS/2 to USB converter box that converts the PS/2 signals into usable USB signals. This way, I have my Sun Blade 100 working with my cordless PS/2 trackball and PS/2 keyboard. This may not be true of all systems, but I needed to do a little xmodmap'ing to properly map some of the buttons on my keyboard to their equivilents on the Sun.
My setup, way back when, cost me around $300. I'm pleased with it and I think that I can safely say I recommend Belkin KVM's. I'd go for higher end video cables to prevent artifacts and ghosting on your monitor.
Answer to 1 I can assure you, there will be. It might take a few days though.
Answer to 2 Grab the image, rawrite/dd it onto a floppy. FTP installations are supported, in fact... its the only way I install it! An ISO won't help you there...
Answer to 3 It can be. I've noticed that the packages included are a little old. I recommend you install the ports tree, refresh it (using cvsup), and then check out the stuff in/usr/ports/x11-wm/. KDE is most certainly in there.
Answer to 4 Ok, this is a tough question. No, FreeBSD does not use LILO (LInux LOader). It uses its own boot manager. You can use LILO however, but must have a Linux installation to do so. The FreeBSD loader does support booting multiple OSes, quite easily in fact. At boot, instead of being presented with a 'LILO' prompt, you get a F-key list.
ie: F1 - DOS F2 - FreeBSD F3 - Linux
As far as I can tell, it reads the partitions from the drives its installed from and generates a list based on the partition type. Its selectable at startup, and the default selection at boot is the OS you last booted into.
Answer to 5 Er, its not really a lack of stability really. Its more of a lack of polishing. The so-called.0 releases are more of a release for early adopters, and allow a full release to put the finishing touches on it. It is very stable, no worries. I run -CURRENT (pre -RELEASE) on my network server here. Stable. Fast. No problems.
Answer to 6 3.4-RELEASE/STABLE is out. Most likely the sound support in 4.0 is better (I got it working pretty easy on my Soundblaster). I'd opt for 4.0 because 3.x will be retired, and the code is old. Floppy booting works in 3.x, and so does over-the-internet installation.
After reading all the visible posts, I see a lot of complaints about licensing. One person in particular said "its not under the GPL."
I challenge anyone to give me definitave proof why one is better than the other. Different situations and/or different goals require different styles of thinking.
I personally run Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and Solaris on a wide range of machines. I even run a pre -RELEASE 4.0-CURRENT on my server and a partition on my predominantly Linux box. I don't pay much attention to the licenses, as long as it is free software, I don't care! GPL, BSD, whatever, if it is free, it works for me. If you're a big company and want to deliver a propriatary solution, BSD-licensed code might be better for you. If not, GPL is just fine.
Now, onto the new FreeBSD. I must say that the new IDE/ATA driver is much superior to the old one. I'm happy that I no longer need a gcc2.9.5 package installed, and the OpenSSH/OpenSSL stuff is great. I had to rewrite the entire kernel configuration file for both machines because the new release changed a lot of the syntax. All in all though, I was suprised to find that the upgrade to 3.4-STABLE to 4-CURRENT wasn't as painful as I thought it would be.
I'm enthoozed about the new jail feature, and I can't wait until the BSD/OS code is merged in (5-R).
If Linux is getting to easy, you might not like FreeBSD:-) It is REALLY easy.
IP Masquerading in FreeBSD is called "NAT," for network address translation. It uses a translation daemon: natd(8), with a firewall rule to route correctly.
First off, I should say that this person as a novice should have chosen the disk labeller's "Auto Defaults for All" feature. This would have created a disk layout well suited for most systems. The layout he chose was definately odd, I've never had a Linux machine with 300MB on the root partition.
As for making the FreeBSD src in/usr/src, he did "make" followed by "make install" - I don't really know what these do, but I know that this method isn't the one he had originally intended. The correct procedure is to do a "make world" or a "make buildworld" followed by a "make installworld" then recompile a kernel. On a P2 300 running 3.4-STABLE (UW SCSI Disks) with SoftUpdates on/usr, it takes just shy of 1 hour and 20 minutes to build, 15 to install, and 10 for a fresh kernel.
My Background: I use Debian GNU/Linux and FreeBSD in a networked environment.
Insights: I think the Debian package mangement system, apt, is a good step ahead for the managing packages and dependencies with Linux. I like the Debian view on free software. However, Debian is for the most part the userland on a kernel, in this case Linux.
I love the ports collection offered in FreeBSD. I think its quite a bit easier, and farther along. I also like how it is source compiled so you can make any modification you need to instead of getting just stock software. Example: apt-get install irssi picks up irssi, and gnome, and all the related dependencies. What if you don't want gnome? A quick change in a Makefile will settle that on FreeBSD, whereas you'd have to make a new irssi in Linux from source.
Fact: Linux is a kernel. Debian GNU/Linux is a distribution.
FreeBSD is an entire operating system. The kernel just makes up a nessecary core. It wouldn't be FreeBSD if the kernel was unlinked.
NetBSD and OpenBSD are not BSD distributions like most people tend to think. They are seperate operating systems, like Solaris, or Windows.
Question: How would the Debian GNU/FreeBSD kernel get upgraded? In a lot of cases, any updates to the kernel have related, dependent modifications in userland. You really can't go ftp.freebsd.org and get just a kernel.
Exactly how many ISPs filter viruses from their email? It shouldn't be Microsoft's duty to filter their client's email.
Moreover, FreeBSD can't be blamed. It isn't a FreeBSD problem. If they care that much, they can write filters themselves (afterall, they are a massive software company), or just say "no" to attachments.
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Having WiFi available at a coffeeshop is a major selling point for travelers that frequent certain areas (or even have the foresight to do a little Googling beforehand).
For example, I used to travel frequently between school in San Luis Obispo to see my girlfriend in Fresno. When her work schedule changed to put her in the office on the only days I could come over, I opted to simply wait her out in a coffee shop and do homework. The coffee shop we frequented for this purpose (biweekly or so) had free WiFi, which made me working from there possible.
The point is: I would not go to that coffeeshop and buy coffee (I purchased several drinks and some food during each 8 hour stint) unless it had free WiFi.
Just a thought,
Sean
What does "California Email" mean?
Does it mean e-mail sent from California?
Does it mean e-mail received in California? What does it mean for e-mail to be delivered in California? Must the server physically reside in California or just the reader? This might have implications for those that outsource their email to hosting companies, mega-ISPs (AOL jumps to mind), etc.
Just curious.
I have an older Belkin OmniCube 4-port. It supports 1600x1200 @ 60hz but ghosted a bit on my 21" monitor. I used higher end Belkin "gold" cables and cheapo keyboard/mouse cables.
However, I do have it doing Dual PS/2 and USB action. Belkin makes a cute little PS/2 to USB converter box that converts the PS/2 signals into usable USB signals. This way, I have my Sun Blade 100 working with my cordless PS/2 trackball and PS/2 keyboard. This may not be true of all systems, but I needed to do a little xmodmap'ing to properly map some of the buttons on my keyboard to their equivilents on the Sun.
My setup, way back when, cost me around $300. I'm pleased with it and I think that I can safely say I recommend Belkin KVM's. I'd go for higher end video cables to prevent artifacts and ghosting on your monitor.
Good luck!
Answer to 1
/usr/ports/x11-wm/. KDE is most certainly in there.
.0 releases are more of a release for early adopters, and allow a full release to put the finishing touches on it. It is very stable, no worries. I run -CURRENT (pre -RELEASE) on my network server here. Stable. Fast. No problems.
I can assure you, there will be. It might take a few days though.
Answer to 2
Grab the image, rawrite/dd it onto a floppy. FTP installations are supported, in fact... its the only way I install it! An ISO won't help you there...
Answer to 3
It can be. I've noticed that the packages included are a little old. I recommend you install the ports tree, refresh it (using cvsup), and then check out the stuff in
Answer to 4
Ok, this is a tough question. No, FreeBSD does not use LILO (LInux LOader). It uses its own boot manager. You can use LILO however, but must have a Linux installation to do so. The FreeBSD loader does support booting multiple OSes, quite easily in fact. At boot, instead of being presented with a 'LILO' prompt, you get a F-key list.
ie:
F1 - DOS
F2 - FreeBSD
F3 - Linux
As far as I can tell, it reads the partitions from the drives its installed from and generates a list based on the partition type. Its selectable at startup, and the default selection at boot is the OS you last booted into.
Answer to 5
Er, its not really a lack of stability really. Its more of a lack of polishing. The so-called
Answer to 6
3.4-RELEASE/STABLE is out. Most likely the sound support in 4.0 is better (I got it working pretty easy on my Soundblaster). I'd opt for 4.0 because 3.x will be retired, and the code is old. Floppy booting works in 3.x, and so does over-the-internet installation.
Good luck!
After reading all the visible posts, I see a lot of complaints about licensing. One person in particular said "its not under the GPL."
I challenge anyone to give me definitave proof why one is better than the other. Different situations and/or different goals require different styles of thinking.
I personally run Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and Solaris on a wide range of machines. I even run a pre -RELEASE 4.0-CURRENT on my server and a partition on my predominantly Linux box. I don't pay much attention to the licenses, as long as it is free software, I don't care! GPL, BSD, whatever, if it is free, it works for me. If you're a big company and want to deliver a propriatary solution, BSD-licensed code might be better for you. If not, GPL is just fine.
Now, onto the new FreeBSD. I must say that the new IDE/ATA driver is much superior to the old one. I'm happy that I no longer need a gcc2.9.5 package installed, and the OpenSSH/OpenSSL stuff is great. I had to rewrite the entire kernel configuration file for both machines because the new release changed a lot of the syntax. All in all though, I was suprised to find that the upgrade to 3.4-STABLE to 4-CURRENT wasn't as painful as I thought it would be.
I'm enthoozed about the new jail feature, and I can't wait until the BSD/OS code is merged in (5-R).
Had the same problem. The 'install' program is broke, so you need to reinstall it before it works:
/usr/src/usr.bin/xinstall; make all install
cd
Good luck!
If Linux is getting to easy, you might not like FreeBSD :-) It is REALLY easy.
IP Masquerading in FreeBSD is called "NAT," for network address translation. It uses a translation daemon: natd(8), with a firewall rule to route correctly.
First off, I should say that this person as a novice should have chosen the disk labeller's "Auto Defaults for All" feature. This would have created a disk layout well suited for most systems. The layout he chose was definately odd, I've never had a Linux machine with 300MB on the root partition.
/usr/src, he did "make" followed by "make install" - I don't really know what these do, but I know that this method isn't the one he had originally intended. The correct procedure is to do a "make world" or a "make buildworld" followed by a "make installworld" then recompile a kernel. On a P2 300 running 3.4-STABLE (UW SCSI Disks) with SoftUpdates on /usr, it takes just shy of 1 hour and 20 minutes to build, 15 to install, and 10 for a fresh kernel.
As for making the FreeBSD src in
My Background:
I use Debian GNU/Linux and FreeBSD in a networked environment.
Insights:
I think the Debian package mangement system, apt, is a good step ahead for the managing packages and dependencies with Linux. I like the Debian view on free software. However, Debian is for the most part the userland on a kernel, in this case Linux.
I love the ports collection offered in FreeBSD. I think its quite a bit easier, and farther along. I also like how it is source compiled so you can make any modification you need to instead of getting just stock software. Example: apt-get install irssi picks up irssi, and gnome, and all the related dependencies. What if you don't want gnome? A quick change in a Makefile will settle that on FreeBSD, whereas you'd have to make a new irssi in Linux from source.
Fact:
Linux is a kernel. Debian GNU/Linux is a distribution.
FreeBSD is an entire operating system. The kernel just makes up a nessecary core. It wouldn't be FreeBSD if the kernel was unlinked.
NetBSD and OpenBSD are not BSD distributions like most people tend to think. They are seperate operating systems, like Solaris, or Windows.
Question:
How would the Debian GNU/FreeBSD kernel get upgraded? In a lot of cases, any updates to the kernel have related, dependent modifications in userland. You really can't go ftp.freebsd.org and get just a kernel.
Exactly how many ISPs filter viruses from their email? It shouldn't be Microsoft's duty to filter their client's email.
Moreover, FreeBSD can't be blamed. It isn't a FreeBSD problem. If they care that much, they can write filters themselves (afterall, they are a massive software company), or just say "no" to attachments.
-magician