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Hi everyone, When a file is deleted in the ufs file system, only the path to that file is deleted and the data of the file remains on disk. How can I find this data, this data will help me to recover the file. (As a reminder, I do this …
Is this a "typedef" problem? This is the definition in one file. typedef BYTE SOCKET; //Socket descriptor BYTE is defined elsewhere as type char. (I made sure the file where SOCKET is assigned a type is included in the file the problem is in.) This is one place it is …
Hi All (Sorry if this is the wrong place, it's an odd question so couldn't think where else!) I need to setup email alerts on a Cathexis CCTV Server which runs NetBSD and Cathexis' Cat6000 software. However, it only gives the option for address and smtp (nothing else), and our …
Hey! So I am new at programming, Pretty much all of my knowledge is Arduino, Processing, and Lua. I was wondering if anyone had any advice about which direction I should go from here. I would want somthing that is Compatible with Windows, Mac, and Linux (possibly BSD). Thanks in …
Hi all I am having problems recieving my emails through free bsd . what are the general commands to allow mails to be released and come through?? cheers Cougar367
hi all all the deps were met,and autotools & ./configure run smooth,but make fails with the following error,tried with gcc2 & gcc4 environement,the same error, i hope to find some help here. here it is: In file included from xine.c:33:0: /boot/develop/headers/bsd/string.h:16:7: error: expected declaration specifiers or '...' before '(' token …
Having trouble dual booting Windows and BSD? I was! I highly recommend using EasyBCD to add in an entry to the windows boot loader. I couldn't get the Windows bootloader to recognize bsd, but using this I could! I am not affiliated with the company, but it has done me …
I am going to assume that gcc is the compiler people are using on their *NIX. so for that, I know that [CODE]#if defined(__GNUC__) [/CODE] will work. SO... for Centos, Solaris, HPUX, AIX, Linux, BSD, FreeBSD, OpenSUSE, Fedora, redhat, what #if defined()'s do I use to detect these OS's?
A friend gave me this computer. The problem was there when I got it. He had tried to put Win 2K on it along with DOS and Win 98. I have tried to just install Win 2K and it did not work. When computer goes to reboot computer into W2K, …
why is it every time i load a new distro i never find one that has default FFS support? why is it however that virtually/probably every distro out there comes ready to read proprietary FAT(FAT16), VFAT(FAT32) and NTFS partitions but not non-proprietary filesystems such as FFS?!? *BSD are opensource too …
Hi, I'm a BSD Socket beginner and I would like to make a small networking program written in C. I've read many instructional articles and I haven't found a example how to send/receive a non-char - string sending everywhere. I mean, I thought about sending some various structures as "frames". …
still looking for a solution to this problem in my ibook G3 any one with an answer?
Hi everyone, I'm on FreeBSD. and I don't know if the C language is the good one, but anyway, I'm here to ask question. So, I would like to make a kernel module for my FreeBSD that detect my webcam , initialize it and store, in real time, the RGB …
Ok i have a 486DX something (around 20-50mhz) with 10mb ish of RAM and about 0.5 gigs of HDD space. I would like X if possible. Can anyone reccomend any distros? P.S I will need boot floppies - it has no NIC either
Hi, I have a HP laptop with intel dual core 32bit processor with 512MB RAM & 80 GB HDD. 2 years back I have installed windows XP on it on my own, it was quite easy. But now I need to install FreeBSD for the C++ development on the same …
Hi all. Is there a way that I can change the font color of the boot up messages? if so how? (I checked the vidcontrol man page and that only changes the font color after FreeBSD done with boot up) Thanks Mark
Hi there! somebody know about *NIX for Sam.GT-S5230??? I've one and the O.S. is just ugly (like my righting :) If you know about some BSD/Linux/Minix/*NIX for that mobile, please give me a clue about how to get it to work. Thanx!!!! greetings from Argentina! :)
Hello all. I was trying to do some text recovery ([url]http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/linuxunix-recover-deleted-files.html[/url]) but after running grep -b 'TEXT' /dev/ad0 > good.txt i only see "Binary file /dev/ad0 matches" in the good.txt, whats wrong here ? =) Thanks in advance.
Fellow members Just bought a 3,06Ghz 27" iMac today and when setting up transferred data from my MacBookPro 15" from external hard disk via Time Machine. The setting of the MacBookPro have now affected my iMac and when I rebooted with the OS X 10.6 disk inserted I got the …
According to an ongoing debate over the GPL version 3, he does. How can this be, since Linus Torvalds, creator and chief architect of the Linux kernel, knows about software freedom and free software? He doesn't have a problem with what Richard Stallman refers to as "tivoization," which is the …
Seems every time I write a piece suggesting open source as an option, I get a couple of comments warning readers about the scary complexities of open source licenses. So I decided to ask a guy who knows free and open source (FOSS) exactly what the deal was regarding FOSS …
Open source means that it's not possible to pirate the software, right? Well, somehow OpenBSD developers have found out exactly how you can do that, by copying sections of some Linux wireless drivers (released under the GPL of course) and then releasing them under OpenBSD's less-restrictive license, allowing proprietary use. …
Recently I have decided to switch from Ubuntu linux to Freebsd and here I am going to outline why. 1. [B]The Ubuntification of linux:[/B] Lately I have noticed a trend on social bookmarking sites, mainly digg, which have people posting articles with titles like "Ubuntu Tutorials" or something similar. In …
I recently found an article that included a simple theory on how to see whether or not your computer is being watched by the nsa. Ok so basically the background on this is that the nsa has been taking information out of AT&T's San Francisco's offices in a secret room. …
Lately, it appears that computer certifications are becoming one of the most important credentials that employers are looking for. It seems that while employers are looking for this key asset, corporations are starting to put out more certifications for people to get. Microsoft and Red Hat both have a 3 …
Hi, I did a project a while back and as the grading TA insist on it compiling on Solaris. I have a 0 for a perfectly working project. Can someone please help me with getting a program to compile on both the free free bsd and of course annoying Solaris. …
I wanna setup a home sever so all my PCs at home can have a central storage plus one network printer. I would like to install either freeBSD or fedora 7... I am new to all these and trying to learn. What machine would you suggest me to buy? a …
I have a Gateway 500MHz machine which works perfectly fine with exception to a windows GUI. Works fine in DOS mode, in DOS, it seems as functional as it was meant to be, but will not function when switched to a windows gui, despite several different versions including XP, 98SE, …
Is free bsd a good linux choice? I want to install it but I want to get a few words on what people think of it first. I have been drawn to Linux ever since I started using a linux server and now I want to try an Linux Operating …
Beside windows, mac, and free BSD, what are other free alternative operating systems that are available?
Is there any interest in the FreeBSD/Gentoo project ? Gentoo was always my distro of choice, and I later found OpenBSD. Now I've found found this combo that's great (I'll go with FreeBSD instead of OpenBSD) if I can just get an install going. 'Just "testing the waters"............
Hello, I was hoping for some advice, and hopefully this is the correct area. I am looking email based support ticketing software, and preferable is open source and runs on Linux or BSD system. I have reviews a number so far, but they are all lacking an feature that our …
For a while I have read stuff on GNU I don't agree with their views on copyrights.Is there any BSD like groups like GNU that are more about open source then anti copyrights. I like the BSD license for stuff better.
i bought an Ibook G4 in late 2005. It crashed about 2 months ago while I was in the middle of editing some video and now only boots into the Darwin/BSD mode. I am able to login and get the bash prompt. Someone told me it has to do with …
[B]Intro[/B] I just moved from Linux(ubuntu) to BSD (DesktopBSD/FreeBSD) as you might have read in my blog. So here are some things you might want to know about my install situation that could help you out later. [B]First Scenario: Remove Linux Completely[/B] I installed my DesktopBSD right over my Linux …
BSD broke my thinkpad. I have searched and apparently when the machine starts up the bios looks for a hibernate partition (which happens to be similar to the bsd filesystem) so it hangs. I cant tell it to boot from the cd instead and then use a livecd to kill …
if you havent used linux then first of all i suggest you try it. If you have been a user of linux u know there is a terminal/console that has many different names, which can perform many tasks. Sometimes you might want to do these commands on windows and save …
How many IPs can I configure on Linux system on one NIC ?? If its different for freeBSD, Fedora and RedHat Linux then whats the exact figures for each ....
As most of you know, Apple's Mac OS X uses a custom version of Unix (more specifically, a BSD variant). This makes much of the operating system feel like home to many Unix and Linux people. (For example, you can compile code using gcc, and have full acess to a …
How can I bring the GUI mode of FreeBSD. In Linux (RedHat) I can just press Ctrl-Alt-F7 and the GUI comes up ... but FreeBSD doesnt work that way ... so how does it work ??
Hello! I came across daniweb.com from googling a problem I was having with .htaccess. The link actually helped with issue I was having so I decided to join in the group and hopefully will be able to help others in any way as best I can to return back to …
Hey, I've been using linux forever and want to start dual booting slackware and BSD. I've heard that Slackware doesn't like this very much and was wondering if anyone has any experience with this type of setup?
Hello, I am new here, and this web site looks great! I hope I'm not taking up too much of your time, I just had a couple questions relating to networking Linux and using a Unix OS called OpenBSD. Is there a best Linux recommended to use for file servers? …
I´ve tried searching for freeBSD running from the CD but haven´t found one except from Brasil. Suggestions?
Can someone tell me what is Open Bsd and Free Bsd? Contents from the book and from the web tells me two different things. Would you mind to clarify the terms for me?? Thank you! Because i'm still very vague about it.
HELP! ibook G3 recently updated OSX 10.2 to 10.2.8, and also security updates - suddenly froze, and now will only startup via OSX startup screen directly into Darwin terminal window. I can login; and get a welcome to Darwin message, but don't know how to get back to the visual …
Hey, I just became a member. This is a nice website. So my question is what are the difference between OpenBSD and FreeBSD...They both seem to be about the same. Thanks for the help (if i get any).:)
This step by step install is a hand written record, while the install took place. Disregard any typo's Let me start by saying that the BSD's are very responsive & quick, so do not hit buttons rapidly. :lol: I might, make a openBSD/ solaris/pitbull LX guide in the future, if …
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