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Who cares, Flash is a dying technology anyway. It may not even be relevant in 2-3 years (not that HTML5 is all that great). This seems more like devd's responsibility than Gnome's. GreenMeanie probably doesn't know about devd ... Isn't there also a relatively new USB daemon that can do scripted...

And how would they configure Wi-Fi in Linux then? They have like 2-3 different utilities to configure different aspects of Wi-Fi. It's a blackeye to Linux. FreeBSD at least has seamless integration of Wi-Fi into ifconfig. Sam and Adrian did/do a great job! That said, Network Manager sure...

You're joking right? Linux Wi-Fi is the biggest hack job I've ever seen. iwconfig? Really? Also scroll through the default hostapd.conf ... most of those options aren't relevant to FreeBSD since the BSD Wi-Fi stack deals with many of those details. I also think you overlook the efforts of the...

When reports surfaced about the Sony DRM rootkit in Windows XP (an audio CD could trash your system), I decided to try something new. I had two known options: Linux and FreeBSD. The latter seemed more organized and so I went with that. With some patience, the FreeBSD handbook, and several years...

I'm running a recent 9-STABLE (last Saturday) and VLC 2.0.3 compiled cleanly even with SKINS enabled. Before 2.0.3, I merely modified three lines (cast to gzFile) to make it compile. Can you show the error message you receive? Are you sure you updated your ports tree? EDIT: also run 'make...

He just doesn't know how to use C++. As flexible as C++ is, you can easily wall yourself in with the wrong design approach. Also, having come from C, I know first hand that you can't really approach problems with the same mindset as a C programmer. As much as I despise them, established C++...

RTTI and exceptions probably don't help with executable size. Clang's documentation actually knocks RTTI quite a lot and claims that it makes executables much larger. Hands down, templates give C++ a distinct advantage over C and at no cost to run time performance. Templates look hideous but...

If you're building your own kernels, you're more than likely partitioning your system by hand anyway. This is only a barrier to new users wishing to expand their horizons by building their first kernel. The old default was good enough for GENERIC by itself. However, I'm not sure if...

Of course, but their common use in C amounts to renaming struct types. Typedefs are far more useful and powerful in C++.

typedefs are among the most useful feature in C++. If it weren't for typedefs, interesting features like type traits would never be possible. You should embed useful type information into classes with typedefs whenever it can help with generalized code. For example, something like this is very...

While C may have restrict pointers, I think C++'s templates takes the win in C vs C++. If you want both generalization and optimization, you can't expect void pointers and function pointers to help the compiler optimize your code. A widely cited example is C qsort() versus std::sort(). The...

It ran tests successfully for me. The port compiled and finished with a message akin to "All tests passed with no failure." Of course, I'm running a recent 9-STABLE (last Saturday). Maybe this is different than the PR. I'd agree, except that many ports are patched to compile and run on...

libicu compiles just fine for me (9-STABLE). Not sure why binutils is a problem. I noticed libxine had issues too (assembler). I think gcc should be dropped from base eventually since gcc 4.2 is very old and clang will eventually work flawlessly on a majority of software (not that gcc 4.2...

This one is a PCIe card with low-profile mounting bracket. It's compatible with FreeBSD's ath(4). It works pretty well with hostapd! However it's a first generation 802.11n card (AR5416) and Adrian Chad told me that the newer AR9xxx cards work better. EDIT: I should mention that I don't...

I turned on clang for everything today. It seems to compile big ports like Firefox (even with optimizations turned on), gtk, and Qt just fine. With its faster compilation speed it would be more than worthy for ports. My guess is that there are very few ports that require gcc specifically and...

Maybe the following change to your server rc.conf might help: autobridge_bridge0="tap* em1" I'm not sure it will solve your problem, but you'll probably want that anyway. If you have a firewall, you might need the following in your sysctl.conf to prevent filtering on bridge members...

It's not a new port, but this forum seems most appropriate to post this question in. I noticed bubblemon-dockapp does not properly measure memory anymore. Upon closer inspection, this is due to changes in sysctl names vm.stats instead of vfs.stats as well as changes in how swap info is...

Oh yeah, can also grep for "ath" in dmesg? I have an AR9285 and I also saw messages in the mailing list about transmit instability in AR9280. There is work on radio calibration code. I don't know if CURRENT has this or not.

I'm sorry, I meant to say that I picked up a WG111 (No edit button). It's a USB 802.11b/g Wi-Fi adapter. You can get one for $20-$30 from Best Buy. It works flawlessly.

The problem is clearly ath not wpa_supplicant. I picked up a Netgear WG311 (v3) today (urtw) and was able to use WPA flawlessly. Some time ago, I found a message about WPA and ath keycache issues on the mailing lists. CURRENT supposedly has fixes for ath.