Re: Warning - FreeBSD (*BSD) entanglement in Linux ecosystem

2012-08-22 Thread Michel Talon
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Re: Why Clang

2012-06-21 Thread Michel Talon
system, which has replaced the previous focus on quality and performance). -- Michel Talon ta...@lpthe.jussieu.fr

Re: Why Clang

2012-06-19 Thread Michel Talon
like mencoder which require the highest efficiency. I will not comment on the better error messages coming from clang, this could be a more serious argument. -- Michel Talon ta...@lpthe.jussieu.fr

Re: Brother Printer

2012-03-02 Thread Michel Talon
epson dot printers or similar, which means FreeBSD is excluded, unfortunately. -- Michel Talon ta...@lpthe.jussieu.fr ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

[Fwd: [HEADSUP][CFT] pkgng beta1 is out]

2012-01-31 Thread Michel Talon
that the only problem was to provide a total order on ports compatible to the partial order fixed by dependency, and this is very easy. There is for example one routine to do that in portupgrade. Or do you have something more sophisticated in mind? -- Michel Talon ta...@lpthe.jussieu.fr

Re: [Fwd: [HEADSUP][CFT] pkgng beta1 is out]

2012-01-31 Thread Michel Talon
rewind to a safe level and restart * with step 1 */ gives an idea of the aim of this analysis. -- Michel Talon ta...@lpthe.jussieu.fr ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: When I put up any version of FBSD I usually try to install Maxima ...

2012-01-28 Thread Michel Talon
something - which implies in particular that no apt-get like tool can be devised. -- Michel Talon ta...@lpthe.jussieu.fr ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

Re: *caution* severely OT!!

2011-09-14 Thread Michel Talon
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Re: *caution* severely OT!!

2011-09-13 Thread Michel Talon
would be cheap and direct. It may be that the end result is very fast, C-like, or it may be that the end result is almost as slow as python, there is black magic here. -- Michel TALON ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: returning to 8.2 from 9.0

2011-09-10 Thread Michel Talon
. And as far as i have seen, FreeBSD9 seems an extremely nice release, with tons of exciting new stuff. The new installer is *very* efficient, the system is fast, even with witness, I don't see many reasons to come back to 8.2. -- Michel TALON ___ freebsd

Re: returning to 8.2 from 9.0

2011-09-10 Thread Michel Talon
destroy -F disk. You should be able to recreate a GPT or MBR scheme after that. If gpart destroy doesn't work, perhaps gpart recover followed by gpart destroy may work. If gpart is unavailable, reading man gpart shows that the second copy is at the end of the disk. -- Michel TALON

Re: HAL must die!

2011-03-18 Thread Michel Talon
it in a HAL config file, not in xorg.conf. The only problem is that the HAL config files are in xml crap, not in usual form. In fact the main HAL problem is a documentation problem, like for many other softs. How many new features of FreeBSD are correctly documented presently? -- Michel TALON

Re: Is there any way of transfering my excellent PDF file into plain HTML

2010-10-27 Thread Michel Talon
, and have been more satisfied with hevea. However problems creep in when you have math symbols in your text. -- Michel TALON ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

Re: Cache Memory in top command

2010-10-07 Thread Michel Talon
some stats associatiated with active pages also. -- Michel TALON ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: Which OS for notebook

2010-10-06 Thread Michel Talon
any further interaction. -- Michel TALON ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: LDAP Authentication from console

2010-10-06 Thread Michel Talon
no_warn try_first_pass passwordsufficient /usr/local/lib/pam_ldap.so no_warn passwordsufficient pam_unix.so no_warn try_first_pass -- Michel TALON ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Which OS for notebook

2010-10-05 Thread Michel Talon
people to claim otherwise. -- Michel TALON ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: Free BSD 8.1

2010-09-28 Thread Michel Talon
the ports tree itself and the destabilization which ensues. Of course you can also upgrade frequently the ports tree and run frequently portupgrade or portmaster, if you like tinkering with your machine. (*) in any given port you will find Download this directory in tarball -- Michel TALON

Re: ld(1) cannot find entry symbol _start;

2010-09-28 Thread Michel Talon
main which shows that _start is defined here, (but not e.g. _init). On the other hand the function main() which is defined in your program is referred to but undefined here. -- Michel TALON ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Free BSD 8.1

2010-09-26 Thread Michel Talon
. There is a lot to be said for this option, and many users will be happier doing that, at least people who want to use their machine and not spend their time upgrading, compiling and fighting bugs. -- Michel TALON ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: this is probably a little touchy to ask...

2010-09-15 Thread Michel Talon
immediately several important applications using a Java enabled browser. -- Michel TALON ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr

Re: this is probably a little touchy to ask...

2010-09-15 Thread Michel Talon
this is an extremely voluminous and complicated software, and the number of developers working on Java support is very small. -- Michel TALON ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe

Re: Is KDE 4.4.5 on FreeBSD 8.1 this bad?

2010-08-02 Thread Michel Talon
configuration closely, modifications which can be summarized as: Why do it simple when one can do it complex?. -- Michel TALON ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

Re: Is KDE 4.4.5 on FreeBSD 8.1 this bad?

2010-07-31 Thread Michel Talon
controlled. Firefox3 is very crappy, only usable for most basic browsing. Seamonkey works perfectly fine for everything i have tried. Konqueror has regressions from KDE 3, but in general KDE4 is nicer than KDE3. Of course icons on the dektop work to launch programs. -- Michel TALON

Re: Is KDE 4.4.5 on FreeBSD 8.1 this bad?

2010-07-31 Thread Michel Talon
work with this recent version. It may be related to locale effects, i don't know, but i don't have problems with konqueror and seamonkey. -- Michel TALON ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: TexLive on FreeBSD 8.1

2010-07-25 Thread Michel Talon
a dependency on TeX would install this several hundred mega bytes monster for any one, even those who don't intend to use TeX in any way. Even most TeX users have no use for LuaTex and other niceties of TexLive. -- Michel TALON ___ freebsd-questions

Re: lang/cmucl broken on amd64?

2010-06-11 Thread Michel Talon
cmucl using older cmucl versions, which works quite easily. Here i am afraid that Alex Goncharov has encountered some problem, and also that Darwin, Linux and NetBSD support were considered more important ... -- Michel TALON ___ freebsd-questions

Re: lang/cmucl broken on amd64?

2010-06-11 Thread Michel Talon
on a large matrix, which gets a considerable speed boost. -- Michel TALON ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: INN configuration

2009-07-25 Thread Michel Talon
need some other software, the best one being newsx (in the ports). You also need to edit the active file to add newsgroups. -- Michel TALON ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

FixIt CD Tool Availability

2009-07-04 Thread Michel Talon
appropriate kernel modules were not loaded and commands failed silently. -- Michel TALON ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions

Re: Can I rebuild amd without rebuilding world?

2009-05-09 Thread Michel Talon
4 amd). As for your config file, it seems fine at first sight, but perhaps there are some invisible characters in it causing problems. The syntax is explained in man amd.conf -- Michel TALON ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Autofs howto

2009-05-08 Thread Michel Talon
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Re: Autofs howto

2009-05-06 Thread Michel Talon
1682772 32653156 5% /.amd/ada/adm Note that autodir is /.amd and fs is ${autodir}/${rhost} as you can see. Getting out of /Net/ada those mounts are unmounted. I hope this helps explaining some of the mysteries of amd. -- Michel TALON

Re: new package system proposal

2009-04-09 Thread Michel Talon
://www.lpthe.jussieu.fr/~talon/pkgupgrade -- Michel TALON ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: Determining scancodes for obscure keyboard to modify keymap

2009-02-24 Thread Michel Talon
, with all the problems this entails. On the other hand one can find scancode documentation on Microsoft site. (*) more precisely there is a partial mapping of scancodes to keycodes. xmodmap manages a second mapping from keycodes to symbols, as recognized by your X applications. -- Michel TALON

Re: OCR...

2009-01-28 Thread Michel Talon
for commercial software (it runs under wine). -- Michel TALON ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: technical drawing program

2009-01-23 Thread Michel Talon
for free, the OP can try both and see what he prefers for his job. -- Michel TALON ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr

Re: technical drawing program

2009-01-22 Thread Michel Talon
and was wondering if something more appropriate is available. The most appropriate freely available program to do that is qcad, otherwise autocad if you want to pay money. See /usr/ports/cad/qcad -- Michel TALON ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: zip files...

2009-01-05 Thread Michel Talon
Gary Kline wrote: guys, i have three huge zip files, .zip, and z02, z01. how do i unzip these into the original? Note that FreeBSD tar now extracts zips (tarr xvfz zipfile) -- Michel TALON ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: FreeBSD kernel Debugging tools for Virtual Memory Module

2009-01-02 Thread Michel Talon
Mehul Chadha wrote: But I am working on a virtual mode freebsd project similar to what UML does in linux. Do you mean like vkernel in DragonFlyBSD? http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/cgi/web-man/?command=vkernelsection=ANY -- Michel TALON ___ freebsd

Re: Optimising NFS for system files

2008-12-30 Thread Michel Talon
10 MB/s, or more on Gig ethernet) as on a local disk (40 MB/s or more). -- Michel TALON ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions

Re: Dell 2850 use 32 or 64 bit?

2008-12-26 Thread Michel Talon
than 4 gigs memory is just one advantage of 64 bits mode, and by the way, very few of our machines have more than 4 gigs memory, and they don't lack it at all. -- Michel TALON ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: socket: too many open file descriptors (Re: Python with many threads)

2008-12-17 Thread Michel Talon
Ott Köstner wrote: In /var/log/messages: named[63198]: socket: too many open file descriptors See the sysctl variables: kern.maxfiles kern.maxfilesperproc Note that Google leads immediately to this: http://unix.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/FreeBSD/net/2008-07/msg00251.html -- Michel

Re: Python with many threads

2008-12-16 Thread Michel Talon
computation. The FreeBSD thread library has no particular limitations, you can run hundreds or thousands of threads without much problem, for example under Java. -- Michel TALON ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: Centralized DB of system users

2008-12-13 Thread Michel Talon
clients. This is extremely easy to achieve, and *much* more efficient, networkwise than using a thing like NIS or LDAP, where each client is constantly polling the server to get information about home directories, tilde expansions,etc. -- Michel TALON

Re: Why FreeBSD not popular on hardware vendors

2008-12-13 Thread Michel Talon
card. -- Michel TALON ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: need help with disklabel, expected rawoffset 0, found 32

2008-10-21 Thread Michel Talon
. Note that the first partition a) should start at offset 16 (see the offset entry in man bsdlabel) but this is not enforced in sysinstall. -- Michel TALON ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: performance problem in regex

2008-10-09 Thread Michel Talon
in FreeBSD. -- Michel TALON ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: adding a slice to gmirror instead of a whole disk, will it work?

2008-10-08 Thread Michel Talon
anything, this is the beauty of the GEOM idea. -- Michel TALON ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: lokking for a disk partition editor

2008-09-21 Thread Michel Talon
logical partitions. /usr/ports/sysutils/linuxfdisk will do the job no problem. This FreeBSD port provides fdisk, cfdisk and sfdisk fromLinux, ported to FreeBSD. In turn FreeBSD can make use of logical partitions. -- Michel TALON ___ freebsd-questions

Re: File system corruption upon reboot with gmirror

2008-09-11 Thread Michel Talon
, shutdown: can't exec %s: %m., _PATH_REBOOT); warn(_PATH_REBOOT); } -- Michel TALON ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: File system corruption upon reboot with gmirror

2008-09-11 Thread Michel Talon
of rebooting. -- Michel TALON ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Still, no-joy with kdm......

2008-08-19 Thread Michel Talon
, and this killed some programs (tin, mutt, kdm, etc.) who do locking. I recompiled tin,mutt, etc. but i did not want to recompile kdebase, so i took a kdebase package from FreBSD-7.0-RELEASE and extracted the kdm-bin out of here. It works on my FreeBSD-STABLE box without problem. -- Michel TALON

Re: FreeBSD, Ubuntu and Win XP on one system

2008-08-14 Thread Michel Talon
coming with Ubuntu doesn't read the UFS2 filesystem, so one needs to load FreeBSD by chain booting instead of directly loading /boot/loader. -- Michel TALON ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

RE: geom_raid5

2008-07-04 Thread Michel Talon
Wojciech Puchar wrote: (geom_raid5) is it planned? or maybe already exist but not in main tree? It exists, it is used in FreeNAS, but is not in the main tree. -- Michel TALON ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Too Much Context Switching?

2008-06-30 Thread Michel Talon
, etc.). The problem is really inside python. -- Michel TALON ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Too Much Context Switching?

2008-06-30 Thread Michel Talon
imposes a rapid regression on throughput. -- Michel TALON ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Too Much Context Switching?

2008-06-30 Thread Michel Talon
with psyco. I have found a speed comparison which may enlighten you here: http://www.alrond.com/en/2007/jan/25/performance-test-of-6-leading-frameworks/ It has some remarks at the end which may help for plone. -- Michel TALON ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

2008-04-21 Thread Michel Talon
2 (%o1) y + 2 x y + x (%i2) -- Michel TALON ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: cmucl and sbcl crash on FreeBSD 7.0

2008-04-21 Thread Michel Talon
Sorry, my previous message should have a subject line of Re: cmucl and sbcl crash on FreeBSD 7.0 -- Michel TALON ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: How use helvetica font?

2008-01-20 Thread Michel Talon
. fc-list also shows aliases. By the way, it is not a very good sans serif font. -- Michel TALON ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Realtek 8111B LAN Chipset

2008-01-20 Thread Michel Talon
a good and *very quiet* machine for a surprising small amount of money (i spent less than 150 euros for the mobo, the processor and a new power supply). The performance is light years ahead of the previous Athlon, and the fan sound which was very present is now almost unaudible. -- Michel TALON

Re: batch rename

2008-01-05 Thread Michel Talon
several transformations at one stroke, and fine tune the transformations. Double quotes avoid that the shell breaks names on white space. -- Michel TALON ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: still no luck in coping a 6 G dvd to a 4.7 dvd.

2007-12-11 Thread Michel Talon
program to run under your KDE account (k9copy). -- Michel TALON ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: copying DVD material :: somewhat OT.

2007-12-08 Thread Michel Talon
is burncd. By the way if you want to copy 8 Gigs DVD on 4 Gigs DVD, i can recommend you k9copy, which is fantastic. Does as well as dvdshrink, and very fast. -- Michel TALON ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: Msdos/FAT stability issues

2007-11-13 Thread Michel Talon
with soft updates for writing and slightly faster for reading when both use their best block sizes. Writing is slower for msdosfs because of more sync writes. Reading is faster for msdosfs because indirect blocks interfere with clustering in ffs. -- Michel TALON

Re: Equations

2007-10-06 Thread Michel Talon
afterwards. Scientists in other domains would be well inspired to do the same. This being said, this question doesn't have much relevance to FreeBSD. -- Michel TALON ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: Equations

2007-10-06 Thread Michel Talon
experience. -- Michel TALON ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Sadly, my tinker-time has run out....

2007-09-06 Thread Michel Talon
such that the ethernet loses as many packets as it transmits (myk driver) and X locks up at least once a day. It is not very difficult to understand why Ubuntu is massively gaining users, while FreeBSD doesn't, and is now ranked position 22 on Distrowatch. -- Michel TALON

Re: best way to keep track of new developments

2007-08-25 Thread Michel Talon
. -- Michel TALON ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: GEOM, Vinum difference

2007-08-22 Thread Michel Talon
the gvinum stuff was extremely buggy, and was completely non functional when i tried it. I hope it is fixed now. -- Michel TALON ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe

Re: Any FBSD Filesystem with Mandatory Locks?

2007-05-12 Thread Michel Talon
. I have looked at HAVP CVS, apparently they have added an option to compile without mandatory locks (NOMAND). -- Michel TALON ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe