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I'm on the second post, will finish reading tomorrow (seriously :P), seems good so far.

portsmon's portoverview.py is taking about 30-45 seconds to load for me (varies), which is a bit annoying. Tiny script that uses that page: $ time perl PortLookup.pm www/gist (www net) -> A gist pastebin posting command : Maintainer: codeblock@eighthbit.net real 0m33.799s user...

Isn't that said for almost any linux distro (sans a few that come to mind)? And DutchDaemon, good point, I just have no life :).. *finds a thread to offer some real help in or something*

That's debatable :)

Ah, interesting story about the origin of the server. Does tarsnap provide web access (i.e. if the server went down, flip a dns entry, and it the forums are live again?) I didn't know vB only worked with MySQL... That'll teach me to ask before googling :P.

Yeah I might make a ctrl-<something> hotkey or something, but my standard media keys do not work with BSD :(. Regarding the amd64, I couldn't get that to work with mine, but I didn't mess with it that much... Maybe when 8.0 comes out, I'll just do a fresh install and give it another shot. Or...

You are the man! Thanks! :)

No, it doesn't matter, I was just curious as the post said. I got in a discussion the other day about sites not having appropriate backup plans, etc, and the FreeBSD site came to mind - does it have a backup plan if the main server went down? No, none of the questions matter, but at the same...

Quick question, am I correct in understanding that whenever the 'speaker' module gets loaded, /dev/speaker's permissions get reset to root? If so, how (without doing a hackish @reboot cron), do I default it to .. other permissions? I'd like my user to be able to access it (so I can add '; beep'...

hah, alias time! `kf` (kill flash) or similar :P... I know - the alias stinks, then again I have `pfu` for `portsnap fetch update`, and `pb` for `portmaster -Bad`

Right, and I agree with this, but for a while, flash10 was...non-trivial to set up, and every now and then I have to `killall npviewer.bin`... I still blame that on adobe :P

Few questions, not sure if you'll answer any/all of them, but I'm just curious: - How much disk space does the server have? - How much is used by the DB? (does it use MySQL, Postgre, etc) - What backups does BSD have if forums (or any other part of the site) goes down? Is there some backup...

Few things: 1) The nvidia driver currently works for non-64-bit machines. Been there, tried that, and am currently losing about a gig of my 4gb /ram, on my desktop, due to having to run 32-bit. 2) Some driver stuff (UVC Webcam driver, for example) doesn't work on BSD, so for example, on my...

I don't see why it would be in 8.0, because it's nothing to do with base, it's more to do with the development of the drivers, and ability to port it to BSD.. Something might have changed in 8.0 that make them easier to *port*, but I don't see them being included in 8.0.

While I come from a linux background (used it for ~5 years before switching to BSD), so I'm familiar with Linux, I do agree that the majority of differences will be found by actually using the OS and trying to accomplish different things (such as device drivers). Though as discussed before...

Yeah very interesting. Nice find!

I didn't see anything on the mailing list about the freeze - when did that happen?

Yeah `vimtutor` is very nice. I love vim, the syntax highlight stuff, the omnicomplete, the built-in regex stuff .. just all around, I love it. Granted emacs can probably do all this stuff (and more?), but I haven't had the time to learn it, and will probably stick with vim for the time being.

No, they aren't that similar, mainly for the reasons vivek pointed out plus some other things (the bsd community is better than any linux community I've seen... ports, in my opinion, are better than any package manager, etc).. Might want to read...

For both of these, check dmesg and see if they are listed. For the webcam you might try pwcbsd. For the media keys... I have yet to figure that out for my Logitech Wave - filed a PR a few weeks ago, no response at all :|.