Ahoy

[John]

The newsgroup's empty? Why's the newsgroup empty?
~virginmedia.comp.linux is meant to be talkative.

[c***@isbd.net]

John <***@bs2.net> wrote:
> The newsgroup's empty? Why's the newsgroup empty?
> ~virginmedia.comp.linux is meant to be talkative.

Rhubarb, rhubarb, rhubarb, ......

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[DaveG]

On Sat, 22 Feb 2014 13:26:05 +0000, cl wrote:

> John <***@bs2.net> wrote:
>> The newsgroup's empty? Why's the newsgroup empty?
>> ~virginmedia.comp.linux is meant to be talkative.
>
> Rhubarb, rhubarb, rhubarb, ......

Custard.

Although to get back on topic (hah!) I just fucked up my system :-(

It was a KDE upgrade on FreeBSD and I missed an instruction. The upgrade
includes some path changes for data files and to "new Xorg". Now the
ports/packages database is screwed and I can't even start KDE since only
bits of it are at 4.12, the rest at 4.10. Problem now is kde-networks
breaks with a linker error during the build and the packages say they are
already installed.

Still, I can ssh into it and run pan remotely down here on the laptop.
The biggest problem is that kmail is no longer working.

I've made a list of all installed stuff with pkg_info > pkglist so I
might just do pkg_delete -f "*" and start again. Just for fun :-/

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[John]

DaveG wrote:
> On Sat, 22 Feb 2014 13:26:05 +0000, cl wrote:
>
> It was a KDE upgrade on FreeBSD and I missed an instruction.

Go on, I'm interested. I've used FreeBSD as, for example, a virtual
server for MySQL, as the safest way I knew to implement a locked-down
environment for a dataset. But I've always reckoned that adding a
windows manager and, say, any browser, was enough to prejudice all the
security which FreeBSD brings to a computer. So if you're using KDE, are
you still thinking of FreeBSD as an aid to security? Or does it have
some other attraction other than the traditional one of familiarity.

[DaveG]

On Sat, 22 Feb 2014 19:45:17 +0000, John wrote:

> Go on, I'm interested. I've used FreeBSD as, for example, a virtual
> server for MySQL, as the safest way I knew to implement a locked-down
> environment for a dataset. But I've always reckoned that adding a
> windows manager and, say, any browser, was enough to prejudice all the
> security which FreeBSD brings to a computer. So if you're using KDE, are
> you still thinking of FreeBSD as an aid to security? Or does it have
> some other attraction other than the traditional one of familiarity.

Security was never the issue. I was interested in something other than
Windows and a friend used FreeBSD 4.3 and was available for to help by
email/IM/phone if I got stuck. I've stayed with it through to 9.2 (also
just installed 10 on another PC) because it's pretty consistent in the
way things work (most of the time!!)

About the only thing I had a serious "gotcha" with was my 35mm slide
scanner. No support. But since my old flatbed scanner died, I bought a
new Epson scanner which also does slides and is properly supported.

I also run an HP Prolient microserver with 4x2TB HDDs in a ZFS RAIDz1
config (and a pair of external 4TB USB HDDs in ZFS JBOD to backup via
rsync at 3am) on FreeBSD 9.2.

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[John]

DaveG wrote:

> Security was never the issue. I was interested in something other than
> Windows and a friend used FreeBSD 4.3 and was available for to help by
> email/IM/phone if I got stuck. I've stayed with it through to 9.2 (also
> just installed 10 on another PC) because it's pretty consistent in the
> way things work (most of the time!!)

It's a long time since I looked. I've just picked up a copy of 10 and
I'll bring it up and remind myself.