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    msk0: phy write timeout

    Hi, i have an asus motherboard (P5WDG2 WS Pro) that have the same nic (msk0). I can confirm the problem, it is something with this damn nic :P There is a workaround, just edit the file /boot/loader.conf with the following: hw.pci.enable_msi=0 hw.pci.enable_msix=0 Reboot and you can use...
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    TIP: implement web knocking to protect your sshd service

    Hi you should try fwknop with uses SPA and it's a lot more secure than portknock. http://www.cipherdyne.org/fwknop/
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    Adaptec 5805

    Hi, I can confirm the same problems with adaptec 2405 in FreeBSD 6.x and 7.x They work for some time and sudenly bum: COMMAND XXXX TIMEOUT AFTER XX SECONDS Only a hard reset will fix that for some more weeks. This is reproducible in 3 or 4 machines, runing diferents hardwares, Tyan, Intel...
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    FXP troubles ?

    Hi, can you confirm that your nick card is the 82573 NIC ?? If yes then you need to apply a patch to correct that beaviour: http://www.bohica.net/main/freebsd-and-unix-mainmenu-28/18-intel-82573-nic-patch Hope it helps.
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    FXP troubles ?

    Hum sometime ago there was a bios problem with some intel nic cards (FXP), I will try to find what revision whas and post back. Intel released a bios update that corrected that beaviour.
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    qt4.4.3 update to 4.5.2,qt4-desinger compile fail!!

    You should first remove all qt4 4.4.3 from your system and then install qt4 4.5. Something like: And then try to install qt4 4.5
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    HOWTO: monitor load average of your servers

    Hi for a lot of servers I use nagios, to monitor load average, Disks, memory and latency. Nagios can send you sms, emal and jabber alerts, and create various users and timetables to receive the alerts, very good indeed :P When I have time I will try zenoss -...
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    portmaster jpeg

    Hi, for me kde after rebuild still compiles against libjpeg.so.9 and not the correct one libjpeg.so.10 (libjpeg 1). So what I've done was: remove kde packages one by one, for example: pkg_delete -f kdelibs-3.5.10 then portmaster -dB /usr/ports/x11/kdelibs3 and so on...kdegraphics, digikam...
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    Optimize MySQL ?

    Optimizing MySQL start by optimizing your queries first. See what magento querys is tryng to make, have a look at your /var/logs/slowquery Then star by correcting this query's using the EXPLAIN command and see if all the tables have indexes and if they are using it. You also should see...
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    CUPS web interface gives 403 Forbidden

    Please don't forget to restartd cupsd after the changes. Did it work ?
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    CUPS web interface gives 403 Forbidden

    You can't access cups from another workstation because you have this line defined : Listen localhost:631 You need to configure cups to listen in your external or lan interface
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    Do you use securelevel?

    Hi have a nagios server that monitors lots of servers (FreeBSD, Windows and linux boxes). This nagios server is configured to use securelevels to avoid change of configuration files. I also run every x hours a mtree script to be sure there is no file alterations, this is a critical box :)
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    i386 or amd64?

    Hi, my recomendations is: If you dont need Wine and have an ATI card, then go with Amd64 you will not regret. If you need wine or have a nvidia card, then your best bet is to wait and be with i386.
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    I see this article how I can do this for FreeBSD

    Yes, the first generation xbox used that same trick to lock the disk to the motherboard, it is a ATA specification. But beware there is payed applications that can unlock that drives, the good side is the actual unlock method implies erasing the drive :D
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    RAID confusion on the net

    If the data that you want to put in that NAS system is valuable to you you should AVOID the following ideias : Software RAID Software RAID from motherboard - BIG BIG Mistake RAID 5 Software RAID will give you trouble sooner or later. Motherboard software RAID is a no no, if the...
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    Fatman Looking For Advice: Security - PF

    Hi for updating your ports sources you can also use : portmaster and potsnap is as easy as : portsnap fetch portsnap update portmaster -dB port path (portmaster -dB /usr/ports/x11-wm/kde35) You can also use -a (to check all ports) but I don't recomend updating all ports in one pass ;)...
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    Block traffic based on GeoIP

    Hi there is a Mod of geoip that you can use with apache (http://www.maxmind.com/app/mod_geoip). But also as already been said you can you the IPs from ipdeny (http://www.ipdeny.com/) and use it directly with pf firewall or make a script to load the rules in your firewall in case you use ipfw...
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    HFS+ r/w support in freeBSD 7.0?

    Hi sorry for taking soo long to answer. After reading the FreeBSD 7 release notes, There is no more GEOM_APPLE in the kernel, sorry for the bad info. What ive found what the following entry that you can make in your generic file to compile : options GEOM_PART_APM #...
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    FreeBSD Hosting?

    Hi, if you are from Europe you can try - http://www.dominios.pt They offer FreeBSD dedicated Servers and shared hosting also.
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    HFS+ r/w support in freeBSD 7.0?

    Have you already tried to compile freeBSD with the following module : options GEOM_APPLE Also have a look at this page, the project is stopped, but it should work for you. http://people.freebsd.org/~yar/hfs/ Sorry but I do not have an apple to test it.
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