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Fiddle dee dee, as they say in Ancient Scotland I don't know. The touchpad on my laptop worked okay as a standard PS2-like mouse device, but x11-drivers/xf86-input-synaptics makes it a tiny bit more configurable (I don't actually use any of it, though) and gave me virtual scroll bars at the...

I've run across old CD-ROM drives that do not work as master drives, and old hard drives that do not work* as slave drives (though they have the jumpers). I know this doesn't actually help, but sometimes the hardware just flat sucks. *I mean some of them aren't even recognized by the BIOS...

Married. Can't afford a GF. Definitely cannot afford a GF.

If we have a custom kernel here (per root@fc:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/VKERN) has this system been built/upgraded from source?

> df -h / Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ufs/rootfs 1.9G 70M 1.7G 4% / I'd say 500M is more than enough. Of course, those /boot/kernel/*.symbols files would take up most of the rest, obviously.

Yup, it's definitely not in 10.x, and definitely is in 11.

Should be in base, specifically /usr/sbin/iostat, per http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base/release/6.4.0/usr.sbin/iostat/ . You might have to add /usr/sbin/ to your PATH. You should also have systat & vmstat on 6.4. If these are missing, you will have to discuss how to get them, either by...

Frankly, my dear, the Simpsons sucks the big one. That was a Dennis the Menace television episode from 1961, except that instead of switching tests it's a grading error from the "Do Not Fold, Spindle, or Mutilate" problem.

I use ports so my opinion shouldn't be too weighty, however pkg_add (as synecdoche for the package system as differentiated from compiling from ports) could merely be extended to deal with a series of statically compiled packages. Maybe even as simply as the already provided shells/bash-static...

It's definitely some kind of weird bug: # portmaster -n -e p\* ===>>> No such directory/port: /var/db/pkg/pics ===>>> Aborting update # portmaster -n -e "p\*" ===>>> No such directory/port: /var/db/pkg/p\* ===>>> Aborting update # portmaster -n -e "p*" ===>>> No such directory/port...

You need not re-install FreeBSD: just remove the offending packages*, or as a last resort, delete everything under /usr/local/ and /var/db/pkg/. *Your pkg_delete idea is probably good, though you may end up with some strays. You can install ports-mgmt/pkg_cutleaves to help with that (it's...

Open the pod bay doors, HAL! What I don't get is why he didn't go ahead and code up an AI in befunge while he was at it so the laptop could say clever things like, "Dave, this conversation can serve no purpose anymore. Goodbye."

Good, md5 isn't exactly secure. The slightly higher overhead is definitely worth it.

If the horse won't go, keep beating it till it does. So you're saying the analogy is a horse, but at some point you're going to try to make that horse get up and walk and since it's an analogy and not a horse it won't be able to pull your sulky?

Ah, that's actually good to know. The Magical World of Microsoft Terminology (such as it is) can be pretty obtuse to those of us who don't actually use it any more. (I'm not excusing some of the loopy Linux/Unix/BSD terminology either)

tmpmfs (configured from /etc/rc.conf) uses mdmfs under /tmp/, essentially doing the same as if you issued mdconfig -a -t swap -u0 && newfs -U /dev/md0 && mount /dev/md0 /tmp tmpfs is, AFIK a self contained filesystem & memory disk driver, supposedly designed to be a memory disk. Maybe one of...

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Sounds like a problem with the PC-BSD installer: either you're not creating the directory/filesystem structure it's expecting, or it's just plain screwy. 7290

I'll bring up one I've mentioned a couple of times, & that's Operating Systems (second edition) by H.M. Deitel (egad! I had no idea I was sitting on a veritable gold mine). I know there's a third edition, but I'm not going to recommend something I've not read. It's a text book, & has the...

I'm not familiar with what Windows refers to as Queue length, are you talking about what you get when you issue camcontrol tags da0 -v (I don't know what the ide/ata equivalent is, sorry)?