Re: OT: typing with broken arm
> On 11 Jun 2022, at 07:39, Aryeh Friedman wrote: > I just broke my wrist and find typing (coding) very hard (took me 5 mins to > type this sentence for example). Any ideas on how to make it easier to > type/input code (Java, HTML and JavaScript)? I'd ask a physiotherapist :) FWIW when I broke my collar bone it wasn't too bad so long as I supported the elbow with the table underneath. -- Daniel O'Connor "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum
Re: is strlen()'s read-4-bytes-ahead a standard?
On 16/07/2010, at 18:57, Oliver Fromme wrote: Just wondering. There's no reason not to read the string as aligned words. Because they're aligned, there's no risk to accidentally hit the next VM page after the end of the string. Unless you're calling strlen on something that isn't memory (eg memory mapped device). Although that would be dumb precisely because you don't know how it's implemented. Also the compiler would warn you because your mmap'd device pointer should be declared volatile anyway.. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C ___ freebsd-chat@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-chat To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-chat-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Flow analysis tools
Can anyone recommend some flow analysis tools? I am mostly interested in who (from inside my network) is downloading how much (ie who is costing us money :) I have enabled netflow in mpd and I can capture it but I haven't really found a suitable analysis tool yet. I tried nfsen and stager but I couldn't get them to break down based on IP, just AS - not nearly fine grained enough for my needs. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: 50 baud is dead
On Sat, 12 Jul 2008, Christian Weisgerber wrote: Daniel O'Connor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It turns out that uplcom(4) adapters don't support the required speed of 50 baud anymore. You know, it might actually support it if you hack up the driver. The source says the PL2303X can set any rate. The data sheet disagrees. The flexible baud rate generator of PL-2303X could be programmed to generate any rate between 75 bps and 6Mbps. I guess you're out of luck then :( It would be pretty straightforward to get a microcontroller to interface to it instead (eg dual UART) Hmm, I wonder if you can oversample and use a higher baud rate (obviously would require modified ntpd) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: 50 baud is dead
On Sat, 12 Jul 2008, Christian Weisgerber wrote: Today I thought I'd hook up a simple DCF77 radio clock receiver, serial port type, by way of a USB-to-serial converter. Just to see how this compares to the same gadget hooked up to an actual serial port (which are getting rare). ntpd[37130]: ntpd 4.2.0-a Sun Jul 6 13:31:43 CEST 2008 (1) ntpd[37130]: PARSE receiver #1: parse_start: tcsetattr(14, tio): Input/output error ntpd[37130]: internal error: refclockio structure not found It turns out that uplcom(4) adapters don't support the required speed of 50 baud anymore. The times they are a-changin'. [Please note that I have posted this as a curious observation; it is not a request for assistance.] You know, it might actually support it if you hack up the driver. The source says the PL2303X can set any rate. Worth a try anyway :) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: FreeBSD's problems as seen by the BSDForen.de community
On Sun, 13 Jan 2008, Robert Watson wrote: Sorry, but (especially in this case) that is nonsense as it's primarily an excuse and disparages the work done there. There's another element in play here -- FreeBSD.org is a mailing list-centric community driven by people who are very much part of the e-mail world. For many newer computer users, e-mail is the old world, and the new world is instant messaging and web forums. Many developers I've talked to feel quite uncomfortable with the medium of web forums, and therefore don't tend to use them. If our newer user communities are forming around web forums (i.e., for PC-BSD), then we do need to find some way to bridge the gap. A usenet-forum bridge would be nice since news looks enough like email for oldies to use :) Pitty the few I have seen are basically unmaintained :( (eg Papercut) Hmm I wonder how hard it would be to write a forum scraper -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: FreeBSD's problems as seen by the BSDForen.de community
On Sun, 13 Jan 2008, johan beisser wrote: Pitty the few I have seen are basically unmaintained :( (eg Papercut) Hmm I wonder how hard it would be to write a forum scraper Not too difficult. Quite a few forums provide RSS feeds. That doesn't let you go both ways though, although just being able to browse forums in a usenet like way would be much nicer.. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: Live CD
On Thu, 20 Dec 2007, Benjamin Adams wrote: I want to create my own live cd. I'm looking for a good tutorial. Live cd will be off version 7.0 of FreeBSD. http://www.freesbie.org/ I've only made 6.2 ones but I don't see why 7.0 wouldn't work. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: mailing lists
On Fri, 14 Dec 2007, Brian wrote: Filter on the Sender header. That is controlled by the list manager and doesn't have duplicate names. For -questions, the Sender is [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is just the kind of thing we should avoid, we're choosing to make the more difficult on user route because??? Filter on List-Id. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: Restore/Recovery or OS CD for Toshiba Satellite 1415-S173?
On Tuesday 29 May 2007 18:51, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: Ulf Zimmermann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Does anyone have by chance the restore/recovery cd or the Windows XP Home cd which came with a Toshiba Satellite 1415-S173 (about 4 years old)? Trying to wipe the system before sending it for someone in Indonisia. Would prefer not spending extra money on a OS license. As long as the laptop has a license sticker on the bottom, you can use any XP install CD for the same edition (Home or Professional). SP2 and additional drivers are available online. Actually that may not be true :( The OEM versions of XP sometimes use different keys. It's a real PITA. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C pgp3JxwSDDhFy.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Hardware support
On Sunday 13 May 2007 04:10, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: between 2TB and 8TB of storage in a RAID configuration 1U or 2U case good reputation Sounds like you need a SunFire X4500, except they're 4U. I'm not sure you can get 8 TB into 2U with today's hardware; you'd need at least 16 data disks, plus parity and spares, say 20 altogether. The most I've ever seen in a 2U case is 8. Hitachi sell 1Tb disks now. (Or at least they advertise them ;) http://www.hitachigst.com/tech/techlib.nsf/techdocs/DF2EF568E18716F5862572C20067A757/$file/Ultrastar_A7K1000_final_DS.pdf -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C pgpGOY6zrJNSN.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Don't buy AMD products (was Re: Xorg and ATI card query.)
[moved to -chat] On Wednesday 14 March 2007 08:16, Kip Macy wrote: Please be very careful. The only real alternative (Intel comes and goes) is Nvidia whose driver is binary-only for i386 (no amd64 support) and has a history for being notoriously buggy. I only buy ATI because of the problems I keep seeing people have with the Nvidia driver. I have a friend who has basically abandoned his dual-head Nvidia card due to recurring issues. Well, the open source 2d only stuff works for more modern nvidia chipsets I believe (although I don't have a 7800 or 8800 to test it with). I have had a few issues with the nvidia binary driver but by in large it works very well. I'd prefer open source support too but I don't think it's an especially realistic dream (for full 3d support from a modern card). -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C pgpvkecEXYvAW.pgp Description: PGP signature
