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I think what's most controversial, is that foreign countries, which shouldn't have any jurisdiction in other countries, have the power to spy on you. IMO this is an instrument of global repression soon to come. @Crivens, great link! Thank you very much :)!

Nice expression ... "el-cheapo" :e. I like how you structured your document, feels almost like reading something from the HOW-TO section :e. I don't have these problems, but I do get emails from "the bank of Zimbabwe" claiming that I will get 1,000,000 € if I give them personal data, because...

Maybe the variable was removed in a sloppy fashion, since the make buildworld reads both make.conf and src.conf. Perhaps you could mail him on dinoex@FreeBSD.org.

Well, if it makes you feel any better, my wireless card doesn't work as well under FreeBSD as it does under Linux or Windows (at least on boot time), so I have to turn it off, and do it again. Before you fetch and assume you have a working Internet connection, try ping google.con. That's what I...

Exactly as @DutchDaemon suggested, you can copy /usr/ports to safe location, and refetch the entire ports tree. # rm -rf /var/db/portsnap/tag # cp -R /usr/ports /root/ports.bak # rm -rf /usr/ports # portsnap fetch extract If all went well, you can delete the backup rm -rf /root/ports.bak. If...

As @dave suggests it could be bad memory. In my experience, UFS is quite strict with reboots and whatnot. If the partitions are not unmounted in a clean way, the system might refuse to start, especially if it was compiling something beforehand. Boot into single user mode and run fsck on all your...

I think NO_SENDMAIL=TRUE is only for port mail/sendmail. In any case, use make.conf for ports and src.conf for world. If you don't want it to be included in your base system installation, you have to read src.conf(5). There you can find, that the appropriate way to do it, is merely define a...

Well, I understand you prefer to use make program itself to do that, but that's "last-line-of-defense" tool. For serious usage of ports you should really consider installing ports-mgmt/portupgrade or ports-mgmt/portmaster (the last one is just one big shell script, and requires no external...

Me and my girlfriend have video chats quite often, I've been trying to convince her to make a switch, and now she finally gave in (YES! :e). Do you guys know any alternatives to Skype in that respect? I don't want to use Google hangouts or some other tool that cannot be installed since it's on...

Hmmmm I use PKGNG, and I noticed that pkg updating | less gives me a different report, than say, less /usr/ports/UPDATING does. The PKGNG solutions only give me report regarding devel/subversion and then continue with audio/flac, skipping the two entries in between (the perl upgrade and...

It seems that your problem is loss of/slow Internet connection, so your packages get just timed out. Did you experience Internet problems on your Gentoo box as well?

I played it for a few hours ... boy does the time fly by! :e In one game, however, I didn't need all the pieces to finish -- there were two excess pipes. I'm saying it, because I find it interesting, that on the map with dimensions 7x7 one could still find cases that have ambiguous solutions...

First of all, make sure your ports tree is up to date (for example portsnap fetch update will do). If you have any settings that might be of interest to us in make.conf, src.conf or even just your port's build options, post them here. Lastly, tell us which version of FreeBSD you're running...

Perhaps this thread will be useful (maybe your mouse needs a similar treatment).

You don't have to rebuild the kernel, but if you update your "world" you should update the kernel as well (freebsd-update does that too, the difference is, it pulls binaries, and doesn't compile things). Since you would rebuild the entire "world", you would rebuild freebsd-update as well, which...

It's not unclean, but if you don't trust it, you can always use devel/subversion to checkout the RELENG version from sources and compile it yourself. To do that you can try something like make -C /usr/ports/devel/subversion install clean rm -rf /usr/src/* /usr/obj/* svn co...

So far there have always been instructions for ports-mgmt/portupgrade users. You should really read and not just skim through /usr/ports/UPDATING file or you'll be in a world of hurt one day.

They're awesome, but like the authors of x11-wm/spectrwm say, x11-wm/dwm has silly defaults (no really, they're terrible), so be prepared for some tweaking yourself. For starters try x11-wm/spectrwm or x11-wm/i3, so you can live and tell how horrible x11-wm/dwm is with them.

It depends on the entire partition table (/usr, /usr/local ...), not just your root (/) partition. Installing from ports will keep all sources (even after installation) in /usr/ports/distfiles, but you can delete those with make distclean or rm -rf /usr/ports/distfiles/* for example. I don't...

To be quite honest, neither is FreeBSD anymore. See FreeBSD C99 & POSIX project. However, I really can't wait for the day, when I'll be able to say that I'm using FreeBSD Unix.