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Umm, as your planet grows bigger (thus further from the center of gravity) your weight would increase - standing on Jupiter [where it becomes dense enough not to sink] would be bad for your legs (not that this would be your biggest issue). Standing on a solid lead planet the size of say a house...

virus or tightass If you want a way to block [torrent] downloads just say so - you will get much better answers if you were honest :OO; no wonder you are not concerned about separate email servers etc. (For those that don't know technologically Australia is still very backwards, internet is...

Nothing wrong with discussion of other operating systems being brought up, that is if brought up in those other operating systems' forums - not here. (comparisons - maybe to some extent - but not if trying to state which is better for the world)

Originally that was true but these days the most common way to produce a compiler is to write the first one in another language (commonly C) and/or on another machine (with a modified output stage for the target machine). Sure the first few C compilers were written in PDP assembly (PDP-7) but...

Millions of generations of chickens and eggs can't be wrong: C is still the best choice for an operating system. (Hmmm, or is it eggs before chickens?)

It's the same path that works so well for Microsoft. They can now move to either optimising the bloat ("improved speed etc") and when that reaches it's its limit replacing it with new incompatible "enhanced" replacement bloat - keeping the loop going forever. (A-la win 2k-> XP -> Vista -> 7 -...

Comparing the price/availability of those ram-drive cages compared to the value of the ram often ends up not so cost effective. If you are just feeling bad about binning the old rams how about a chance to catch some good karma: check with the Salvo's or similar charities if there is a PC...

Yes it will slows things down, lets see, the proportion of time taken to write and read the files to/from disk against the time it takes to bring those files over the network, ohh off the top of my head the speed saving of doing it memory would be what, 0.001% faster. IOW: instead of taking say...

Add a SATA controller and attach the hard disk image/vdi to that. IDE HDD in Vbx has been reported by some to cause problems.

In the virtualbox are you using is the hard disk (vdi) attached to the SATA or IDE controller? Use SATA (add the SATA controller if neccesary) for hard disks, IDE has been reported by some people to cause problems. (You will still need the IDE for the CD device.)

TheOne: I prefer coffee over tea, doesn't mean I jump on the tea drinkers forum and rant about tea being a crappy drink. You were happy using linux, tried FreeBSD but didn't like it: so? Where are the moderators?

DD: It's hardly a thread anymore, it's already going in many different directions, given the smokey smell on some of those branches flame wars may not be too far off. I know it's in the off-topic forum but should have been capped when those referenced articles (that answer the original...

Born in '61, but I stopped counting a few years back. And if you ask my kids they will give the same answer as I always give: 27. Proof: The kids are 12 and 13 and in school scoring well, even won maths awards, so they must be smart; ergo: 27: is correct.

Well it starts as the 3p software fault when it's running, it becomes the OS's problem when the 3p ap exits (yes the 3p ap "should clean up after itself" but if doesn't, it's not too much to ask an OS to properly release handles ect.. Windows: F, 'nix: A). (Just as doze's UI is cobbled up...

Seeing as somebody else started the thread when does a junior member become a member?

If they are all on disk0 why bother with grub - it's an unessesary extra step with zero gain, just copy out FreeBSD's boot1 and load it from win7 boot manager. Fast, simple, elegant and user-friendliest boot selection. (Used to have XP, FBSD and Win7 all booting from Win7 boot manager - until I...

Would be simple to reply "RTFM" but I've on a rare quiet weekend so: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/usb-disks.html A bit over halfway down the page, "To make this device mountable as a normal user . . ."

As you say package goes into CURRENT, people test (or just use) it, report problems, problems get fixed, no new bugs reported (for a while), package moved to STABLE . . . then new problems are reported (can happen, particularly with libs and also more people using stable than current). The only...

vboxsf does not exist for freeBSD guests. Until it becomes available use smbfs - see the howto forum section. I just went through exactly what you are doing, I've explained the solution for XP host/FBSD guest - should be similar for other hosts too).

Hmm, are you sure you would even notice the difference between running with 3.2G instead of full 4G? (At least when the amd64 NDIS driver is fixed you have a slightly easier transition.)