Re: How to run Microsoft Internet Explorer on NetBSD?

2016-01-29 Thread Mayuresh
On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 09:58:52AM -0700, Swift Griggs wrote: > * I get slightly better performance on system benchmarks (again mostly the > memory benchmarks) with AMD64. Interestingly, lately with NetBSD 7.0 > some benchmarks are beating Linux across the board on the same hardware > (I use

Re: gpt/fdisk and harddrive identified with 2 cylinders?

2016-01-29 Thread Robert Elz
darren...@yahoo.com said: | wd0: | wd0: drive supports 16-sector PIO transfers, LBA48 addressing | wd0: 2794 GB, 5814021 cyl, 16 head, 63 sec, 512 bytes/sect x5860533168 sectors That is too big for 32 bit labels, which means that you cannot use either fdisk or disklabel to manipulate it

Re: gpt/fdisk and harddrive identified with 2 cylinders?

2016-01-29 Thread Michael van Elst
darren...@yahoo.com (Darren) writes: >wd0 at atabus0 drive 0 >wd0: >wd0: drive supports 16-sector PIO transfers, LBA48 addressing >wd0: 2794 GB, 5814021 cyl, 16 head, 63 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 5860533168 sec= >tors >wd0: drive supports PIO mode 4, DMA mode 2, Ultra-DMA mode 6 (Ultra/133) >wd0(ahci

gpt/fdisk and harddrive identified with 2 cylinders?

2016-01-29 Thread Darren
NetBSD armv7 7.0 NetBSD 7.0 (CUBIETRUCK.201509250726Z) evbarm wd0 at atabus0 drive 0 wd0: wd0: drive supports 16-sector PIO transfers, LBA48 addressing wd0: 2794 GB, 5814021 cyl, 16 head, 63 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 5860533168 sectors wd0: drive supports PIO mode 4, DMA mode 2, Ultra-DMA mode 6 (Ult

Re: Speaking of PAE

2016-01-29 Thread John Nemeth
On Jan 29, 10:23pm, Martin Husemann wrote: } On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 02:09:17PM -0700, Swift Griggs wrote: } > } > Can any of the kernel gods comment on if PAE is still considered unstable? } > It's hard to tell if it's disabled by default because it conflicts with } > the Xen memory model, or i

Re: Speaking of PAE

2016-01-29 Thread Martin Husemann
On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 02:09:17PM -0700, Swift Griggs wrote: > > Can any of the kernel gods comment on if PAE is still considered unstable? > It's hard to tell if it's disabled by default because it conflicts with > the Xen memory model, or if it's because it causes stability issues. Not unsta

Speaking of PAE

2016-01-29 Thread Swift Griggs
Can any of the kernel gods comment on if PAE is still considered unstable? It's hard to tell if it's disabled by default because it conflicts with the Xen memory model, or if it's because it causes stability issues. Can anyone in the know speak to that question? -Swift

Re: How to run Microsoft Internet Explorer on NetBSD?

2016-01-29 Thread Swift Griggs
On Fri, 29 Jan 2016, Hal Murray wrote: The thing you get with 64 bits is pointers that work in more than 4 gigabytes of memory. Yes, of course, but with PAE that shouldn't be a problem. Of course, it appears that PAE is still considered experimental in NetBSD, since it's not enabled by defaul

Re: How to run Microsoft Internet Explorer on NetBSD?

2016-01-29 Thread Hal Murray
swiftgri...@gmail.com said: > All in all, Mayuresh, while I can see some reasons to run AMD64, I'm really > on the same wavelength as you are - what's the point of hassling with AMD64 > anyway ? Perhaps someone will point out the "killer feature" that we > missed. :-) The thing you get with 6

Re: How to run Microsoft Internet Explorer on NetBSD?

2016-01-29 Thread Swift Griggs
On Fri, 29 Jan 2016, Mayuresh wrote: This may be an OT. Nah, it's "user" related. Spot on the topic. :-) I don't think using i386 is a bad idea either, unless one has some specific reason to use amd64. I mostly agree with this sentiment. I recently switched to amd64. I gained nothing, at l

Re: How to run Microsoft Internet Explorer on NetBSD?

2016-01-29 Thread Mayuresh
On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 09:13:29AM -0700, Swift Griggs wrote: > On Fri, 29 Jan 2016, Mayuresh wrote: > >On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 11:31:17AM +0100, Jose Luis Rodriguez Garcia wrote: > >>I need to use Internet Explorer for access a web from my company: > >www/ies4linux? [ I haven't used of late. ] >

Re: How to run Microsoft Internet Explorer on NetBSD?

2016-01-29 Thread Swift Griggs
On Fri, 29 Jan 2016, Mayuresh wrote: On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 11:31:17AM +0100, Jose Luis Rodriguez Garcia wrote: I need to use Internet Explorer for access a web from my company: www/ies4linux? [ I haven't used of late. ] That is a useful package, but it won't work if you are on NetBSD 7.0 AM

Re: How to run Microsoft Internet Explorer on NetBSD?

2016-01-29 Thread Eric Haszlakiewicz
On January 29, 2016 5:31:17 AM EST, Jose Luis Rodriguez Garcia wrote: >I need to use Internet Explorer for access a web from my company: >Siebel software. > >It uses Active X and it only works with Internet Explorer. (They >haven't activated the mode of Siebel Software for non Microsoft >browsers

Re: How to run Microsoft Internet Explorer on NetBSD?

2016-01-29 Thread coypu
If you're content with VirtualBox, Microsoft themselves provide images of various versions of Windows with various versions of IE already installed. https://dev.windows.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/tools/vms/windows/

Re: How to run Microsoft Internet Explorer on NetBSD?

2016-01-29 Thread Marina Brown
On 01/29/2016 05:31 AM, Jose Luis Rodriguez Garcia wrote: > I need to use Internet Explorer for access a web from my company: > Siebel software. > > It uses Active X and it only works with Internet Explorer. (They > haven't activated the mode of Siebel Software for non Microsoft > browsers). > >

Re: How to run Microsoft Internet Explorer on NetBSD?

2016-01-29 Thread Mayuresh
On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 11:31:17AM +0100, Jose Luis Rodriguez Garcia wrote: > I need to use Internet Explorer for access a web from my company: www/ies4linux? [ I haven't used of late. ] Mayuresh.

How to run Microsoft Internet Explorer on NetBSD?

2016-01-29 Thread Jose Luis Rodriguez Garcia
I need to use Internet Explorer for access a web from my company: Siebel software. It uses Active X and it only works with Internet Explorer. (They haven't activated the mode of Siebel Software for non Microsoft browsers). .It is a application that I must use, very few times. It is the option th