Re: RFC: Upgrade BIND version in RELENG_7 to BIND 9.6.x

2010-12-19 Thread Ade Lovett

On Dec 17, 2010, at 23:41 , Doug Barton wrote:
> Your feedback on the issue of upgrading BIND in RELENG_7 is welcome.
> Sooner is better. :)

Seriously?  For RELENG_7 which is going to be with us a long time.  Looks like 
we have a bunch of DNS mongers here that have tested out their stuff with 
RELENG_8 to no apparent "omg, iceberg" ill-effect.

Light blue touch paper.  Stand back.

-aDe

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Re: [solved] Re: Re: Re: diskless - NFS root mount problem

2009-11-16 Thread Ade Lovett

On Nov 16, 2009, at 13:32 , Doug Barton wrote:
> You're not a real sysadmin until you've firewalled yourself out of at
> least one mission-critical system.
> 
> Bonus points if it has no out-of-band control plane.
> 
> Further bonus points if it is more than 100 miles away, and you are
> the one who has to drive to the data center.

Extreme bonus points if said system is on another continent, and you have to 
get on a plane _right_now_ (spending the flight wondering why the OOB system is 
dead).

-aDe

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Re: HEADS UP: Impending autotools changes

2007-07-27 Thread Ade Lovett

Note that the below instructions are not strictly accurate (*sigh*)

See http://freebsd.lovett.com/patches/autotools-updating.txt

for the UPDATING entry.

This has been tested on a machine with a full GNOME and KDE  
environment installed and will become part of ports/UPDATING.


-aDe


On Jul 27, 2007, at 00:45 , Ade Lovett wrote:

Please note that this change will be committed some time this  
coming weekend.


-aDe


Begin forwarded message:


From: Ade Lovett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: July 23, 2007 19:13:21  PDT
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: Ade Lovett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: HEADS UP: Impending autotools changes

In the next few days, after extensive testing, the next major  
update to the autotools infrastructure will be committed to the  
ports tree.


These changes bring FreeBSD's autoconf/automake in line with  
autotool suites available on other platforms, allowing for  
multiple versions to be installed and run in isolation of each other:


[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/local/bin] 4% ls autoconf* automake*
autoconf   autoconf-wrapper   automake-1.6
autoconf-2.13  automake   automake-1.7
autoconf-2.53  automake-1.10  automake-1.8
autoconf-2.59  automake-1.4   automake-1.9
autoconf-2.61  automake-1.5   automake-wrapper

As you will see from the above, the naming conventions have been  
changed to be "stock", with unversioned scripts allowing the use  
of any version of the tools via a couple of wrapper scripts  
written by [EMAIL PROTECTED]


There are 3 key points associated with this change:

1.  The ports versions of autoconf* and automake* can now be used,  
not only for building other ports, but also for developing  
platform-independent code using this tools -- as such, the gnu-*  
variants will be disappearing shortly.


2.  For IDEs, or development in general, a new port, devel/ 
autotools (also available in a port Makefile as USE_AUTOTOOLS=  
autotools:run) will bring in all available versions of the autotools.


3.  When it comes to the actual update, a number of ports, most  
notably IDEs and php{4,5}, but all software that embeds the  
current names of autotools in build scripts etc. will need to be  
updated, or bad things will happen.  Regretfully, particularly in  
the case of PHP, this will likely require manual intervention  
outside of the portupgrade/portmaster update methodologies.


That aside, this is a significant step forward for autotools on  
FreeBSD, and my thanks go out to those that have provided  
assistance and testing.  In particularly, I would like to thank  
linimon@, pav@, kris@ and des@ for their respective efforts in  
making this happen.


-aDe




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Fwd: HEADS UP: Impending autotools changes

2007-07-27 Thread Ade Lovett
Please note that this change will be committed some time this coming  
weekend.


-aDe


Begin forwarded message:


From: Ade Lovett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: July 23, 2007 19:13:21  PDT
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: Ade Lovett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: HEADS UP: Impending autotools changes

In the next few days, after extensive testing, the next major  
update to the autotools infrastructure will be committed to the  
ports tree.


These changes bring FreeBSD's autoconf/automake in line with  
autotool suites available on other platforms, allowing for multiple  
versions to be installed and run in isolation of each other:


[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/local/bin] 4% ls autoconf* automake*
autoconf   autoconf-wrapper   automake-1.6
autoconf-2.13  automake   automake-1.7
autoconf-2.53  automake-1.10  automake-1.8
autoconf-2.59  automake-1.4   automake-1.9
autoconf-2.61  automake-1.5   automake-wrapper

As you will see from the above, the naming conventions have been  
changed to be "stock", with unversioned scripts allowing the use of  
any version of the tools via a couple of wrapper scripts written by  
[EMAIL PROTECTED]


There are 3 key points associated with this change:

1.  The ports versions of autoconf* and automake* can now be used,  
not only for building other ports, but also for developing platform- 
independent code using this tools -- as such, the gnu-* variants  
will be disappearing shortly.


2.  For IDEs, or development in general, a new port, devel/ 
autotools (also available in a port Makefile as USE_AUTOTOOLS=  
autotools:run) will bring in all available versions of the autotools.


3.  When it comes to the actual update, a number of ports, most  
notably IDEs and php{4,5}, but all software that embeds the current  
names of autotools in build scripts etc. will need to be updated,  
or bad things will happen.  Regretfully, particularly in the case  
of PHP, this will likely require manual intervention outside of the  
portupgrade/portmaster update methodologies.


That aside, this is a significant step forward for autotools on  
FreeBSD, and my thanks go out to those that have provided  
assistance and testing.  In particularly, I would like to thank  
linimon@, pav@, kris@ and des@ for their respective efforts in  
making this happen.


-aDe




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Re: Patch available for shared em interrupts (Re: em, bge, network problems survey.)

2006-10-08 Thread Ade Lovett

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On Oct 5, 2006, at 19:34 , Kris Kennaway wrote:

Based on successful testing on a machine with shared em interrupt, the
following patch should work around the problem *in that case*.


This solves the em(4) issue for me on a shared interrupt.  Prior to  
this, the network hang (no watchdog timeouts) was trivially  
reproducible with an NFS-mounted FreeBSD repository to two builder  
boxes, and running cvs -q upd on the ports tree at the same time.  
(the builder boxes also have em(4) interfaces, which I haven't  
patched, but they're running 7.0-CURRENT).  Everything is i386.


[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/dtbox] 739# vmstat -i
...
irq21: em0 acpi0  965426857
...

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Re: cvs commit: www/en/releases/6.1R todo.sgml

2006-03-06 Thread Ade Lovett

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While we're at it, bin/94028 points out a fundamental problem with  
ifconfig(8) as it stands on 6.1-PRERELEASE, preventing MTUs from  
being set on vlan interfaces.


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Re: ahd0: Invalid Sequencer interrupt occurred.

2005-11-11 Thread Ade Lovett


On Nov 11, 2005, at 23:10 , John-Mark Gurney wrote:

obviously you haven't done any research or even talked with Seagate
about this issue...  Seagate has a Linux version of their Seagate
Enterprise Utility that allows you to flash their drives...


Yes, I have done plenty of research with Seagate, Adaptec, and a  
number of VARs.


Edit your kernel config, add:

options KVA_PAGES=384

(for a 2.5G/1.5G kernel/userland split, as opposed to 2G/2G)

recompile, install, watch the linuxulator explode in a frenzy.

I have absolutely no interest in putting Linux (or, indeed, anything  
*but* FreeBSD) on my production boxes.


-aDe

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Re: ahd0: Invalid Sequencer interrupt occurred.

2005-11-11 Thread Ade Lovett


On Nov 11, 2005, at 12:51 , Amit Rao wrote:
0) Upgrade to Seagate 10K.7 drive firmware level 0008. That seems  
to help. One "ahd sequencer error" message still appears at boot,  
but after that it seems to work (with your fingers crossed).


Of course, you then spend far too much time ensuring that any  
replacement drives are flashed appropriately (which, afaict,  
*requires* Windows to do), and also running the gauntlet of further  
problems down the road when you throw the drives into a new machine  
with a subtly different HBA bios.


No thanks, I'll stick with option (2).  A few more months, and  
Seagate drives will be a nice distant memory that I can look back on  
in a few years, and laugh nervously about.


-aDe

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Re: ahd0: Invalid Sequencer interrupt occurred.

2005-11-10 Thread Ade Lovett


On Nov 10, 2005, at 05:30 , Ricardo A. Reis wrote:

Reducing the problem to the relevant pieces:

ahd0:  port 0x2400-0x24ff, 
0x2000-0x20ff mem 0xdd20-0xdd201fff irq 32 at device 2.0 on pci3

ahd0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
aic7902: Ultra320 Wide Channel A, SCSI Id=7, PCI-X 67-100Mhz, 512 SCBs
ahd1:  port 0x2c00-0x2cff, 
0x2800-0x28ff mem 0xdd202000-0xdd203fff irq 33 at device 2.1 on pci3

ahd1: [GIANT-LOCKED]
aic7902: Ultra320 Wide Channel B, SCSI Id=7, PCI-X 67-100Mhz, 512 SCBs


[...]


da0 at ahd0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0
da0:  Fixed Direct Access SCSI-3 device
da0: 320.000MB/s transfers (160.000MHz, offset 63, 16bit), Tagged  
Queueing Enabled

da0: 70007MB (143374744 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 8924C)
da1 at ahd0 bus 0 target 1 lun 0
da1:  Fixed Direct Access SCSI-3 device
da1: 320.000MB/s transfers (160.000MHz, offset 63, 16bit), Tagged  
Queueing Enabled

da1: 70007MB (143374744 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 8924C)
Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/da0s1a


Adaptec HBAs and Seagate drives have a long and intensely painful  
history of not working well together.  Adaptec blames Seagate.   
Seagate blames Adaptec.  Throw in the myriad of subtly different AIC  
controllers that are commonplace on 1U and 2U rackmount servers, and  
things get even more entertaining.


You essentially have 3 options

1) replace the HBA -- somewhat difficult to do if it's embedded and  
you need the PCIX slots for something else.


2) replace the drives -- IBM/Hitachi are fine choices here.  Make  
sure to tell whomever you purchase systems from that you'll not  
accept Seagate drives in the future.


3) inside the adaptec bios, drop the drives to U160 speed, making  
sure that *both* packetizing *and* QAS are turned OFF.  You'll lose a  
little bit of performance (but not all that much, Seagate drives  
really are garbage), and get some semblance of stability.


-aDe

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Re: SCSI troubles

2005-07-06 Thread Ade Lovett
Niki Denev wrote:
> From what i understand this is not exactly a FreeBSD problem, but rather
> a consequence of U320 being really hard on the hardware with pushing it
> to the limits.

Incorrect.  The relevant parts of the output you pasted are:

ahd
Seagate drives

Attaching more than one Seagate drive to a single Adaptec chain will
result in various weird and wonderful behavior as you've described.

This is above and beyond well known (and documented) issues with data
loss and corruption with certain firmware revisions on Seagate drives.

You have essentially two options:

(1) disable the (on-board) adaptec controller, and use something else
(LSI cards work pretty good)

(2) chunk the Seagate drives, and replace them with some other vendor
(Hitachi, for example, in our high-stress environments, show equivalent
MTBFs)

I've spent several years (no, I'm not kidding) going around the loop
between Adaptec, Seagate, and various motherboard manufacturers, trying
to get sensible U320 performance out of the hardware.  Each vendor
blames the other.

Now, I'm a tenacious person by nature (guess it's part of being
English), and I have no intention of letting this just go until I hear
some real, valid, reasons as to the interoperability issues (are you
listening Seagate?)

However, in the meantime, if you don't want to cripple those expensive
U320 drives by dropping the controller to U160 for each and every
device, I strongly recommend either option (1) or (2) above, and move on.

-aDe
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Re: SATA vs SCSI ...

2005-06-27 Thread Ade Lovett
Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> 
> looking at the specs between two cards, the SATA card(s) seem to rate
> ~100-150MB/s on each channel (if I'm reading right), with both the 3Ware
> and ICP cards having 4 individual channels ... looking at the SCSI
> cards, they are rated at 320MB/s, but that is total for the SCSI bus
> itself, right?

[snip]

As is often the case, these kind of comparisons are only working against
one side of the equation:

"What happens when the system is operational"

Now, for your average desktop system, the converse:

"What happens when things break"

becomes negligable.  Slap in new drive, slap in DVD/CD install media, Do
Stuff[tm], make working system.

In the Non-Stop (probably a trademark of Tandem) server-class world,
things work somewhat differently.  This is why we run
postgresql instead of mysql.  This is also the reason we run
U320 SCSI enclosures at twice the cost of equivalent SATA systems.  The
extra cash is well spent when things go wrong.

Absolute performance (assuming it can be measured correctly for the
specific environment you're in, as opposed to marketing figures) counts
for less than 50% of the whole equation when it comes to the purchase
decision.

-aDe
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Re: FreeBSD 5.3p6-5.4RC3, Supermicro X6DHR-8G, Dual 3.6GHzXeons,Adaptec aic7902 SCSI interface doesn't work in UP kernel

2005-04-25 Thread Ade Lovett
Guy Helmer wrote:

Reducing the problem to its relevant parts:

> SuperMicro [...] Seagate [...] 
> on-board aic7902 

and, from your dmesg output:

da0:  Fixed Direct Access SCSI-3 device
da0: 320.000MB/s transfers [...]

Supermicro boards and Seagates generally hate each other.  Supermicro
blames Seagate, Seagate blames Supermicro.  Even under normal operation,
you'll see spurious SCSI errors, both at bootup, and under load,
exacerbated if you put more than one Seagate drive on the same chain, or
run them at their native U320 speeds.

To make matters worse, your ST373207LC model is, even by Seagate
standards, a piece of unmitigated crap.

At an absolute minimum, have the existing drive swapped out for an
ST373453LC model, making VERY certain that the firmware is rev 0006 --
prior revisions WILL corrupt your data, set fire to your cat, and
otherwise ruin your entire life -- and that's before they've actually
spun up.

A second option is to change the drive out for one from a vendor that
actually cares -- ok, maybe only *just* cares, but cares nonetheless.
Hitachi drives work fine, and certainly seem to be in the same ballpark
for overall reliability.

Likewise, swapping out the motherboard for a non-Supermicro unit may be
an option, though be wary of anything with onboard Broadcom gigabit
ethernet if you plan on doing continuous high network I/O -- Seagate
drives *appear* to have considerably fewer problems when connected to
non-Adaptec hardware in general, and the onboard Supermicro variant in
particular.

If you're stuck with the hardware you have (modulo this particular 73GB
drive model, as mentioned above), pick up another SCSI controller and
use that, not forgetting to disable the onboard controllers.

At an absolute pinch, head in to the adaptec bios and lock down the
drive to U160 speeds -- that *may* help in a few edge cases.

Someone (I forget who, sorry) recently suggested a considerable
portition of the  Supermicro vs Seagate mess was down to a weird
interaction between the bios and the occasional SMM interrupt -- a
hackaround to run at boot was even suggested -- check the archives for
details, though unfortunately it did not appear to fix the issues I was
seeing on boxes here.  You may have better luck.

-aDe
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Re: 5.3 Buildworld Problems on AMD

2005-03-17 Thread Ade Lovett
Tom wrote:
> I have an update - I just tried to build from source from the CD and the
> FTP site, no dice...
> I've tried cvsup'ing to 5.4-PRE and that doesn't build either.
> 
> Anyone? I didn't see anything in the archives, and some googling
> doesn't show anything either.
> 
> Is 5.3-4 broken for AMD?

Nope.  RELENG_5 from around 1800 PST today (3/17) built just fine, and
is currently being hammered pretty hard doing some tinderbox builds of
GNOME 2.10 against the newly imported XOrg 6.8.2 on a couple of boxes here.

What specific errors are you seeing?  Without those, along with the
contents of /etc/make.conf, it's going to be essentially impossible for
anyone to give any further suggestions.

-aDe

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Re: kernel build failure amd64

2005-01-12 Thread Ade Lovett
Christopher Vance wrote:
The only file mentioning KB_CONF_NO_PROBE_TEST in any version appears
to be src/sys/dev/kbd/atkbd.c, with no definition anywhere.
Your src/ tree is not up to date, or has been otherwise mangled.
The commit that added KB_CONF_NO_PROBE_TEST touched two files:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/sys/dev/kbd] 2% grep KB_CONF_NO_PROBE_TEST *
atkbd.c:if (!(flags & KB_CONF_NO_PROBE_TEST))
atkbdreg.h:#define  KB_CONF_NO_PROBE_TEST   (1 << 3) /* don't test 
keyboard during probe */

-aDe
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Re: SCB - timed out on FreeBSD 4.10-p2

2004-11-08 Thread Ade Lovett
Dave Hayes wrote:
/kernel: da0:  Fixed Direct Access SCSI-3 device 

/kernel: da1:  Fixed Direct Access SCSI-3 device 

We use a metric boatload of these machines and disks at REALJOB.
The mismatch on the drive firmware is almost certainly likely to be the 
issue here.

What's the revision of the Adaptec BIOS on the motherboard (4.00? 
4.10.1? 4.30.x?)

-aDe
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Re: HEADS UP: databases/postgresql72 is dying

2004-11-06 Thread Ade Lovett
Sebastian Böck wrote:
Have you considered that 7.2 is the last Version that doesn't have
schemas. Out there may be some / are lot of applications that depend
on this behaviour.
I've considered lots of things.
Nothing is *forcing* you to upgrade, and there will be packages for this 
port all the way up to 5.3-RELEASE (those that use older databases tend 
to stick with older OS releases, too).

Speculations as to software that *may* be out there, that *does* want to 
run on a brand new 5.3+ OS, are not useful without concrete evidence to 
back them up.

-aDe
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HEADS UP: databases/postgresql72 is dying

2004-11-05 Thread Ade Lovett
FYI.  Prior to the postgresql new-world-order in ports/, I have now 
tagged databases/postgresql72 (current version 7.2.5) as DEPRECATED, 
with it being removed from the tree on or about 1st January 2005.

You are *strongly* urged to upgrade to either 7.3.x or 7.4.x
As previously stated (on ports@), this will also affect the FreePascal 
in lang/fpc (but *not* lang/fpc-devel, corresponding to a relatively new 
beta prior to 2.0) which will be tagged as BROKEN once postgresql72 goes 
away, and will be subject to the usual reaper-timeout for defunct ports.

Of course, if someone comes up with patches to fix 
databases/fpc-postgres to work with postgresql-7.3.x or (preferably) 
7.4.x, feel free to mail me and I'll add them in.

-aDe
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4.9-RC + XFree86-4 + nvidia weirdness

2003-10-16 Thread Ade Lovett
A few system details:

FreeBSD scythe.lovett.com 4.9-RC FreeBSD 4.9-RC #0: Thu Oct 16 14:02:55 
PDT 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386

Bootstrapped from a minimal install from the 4.9-RC2 ISO image.

Relevant devices:

agp0:  mem 0xf800-0xfbff at 
device 0.0 on pci0
nvidia0:  mem 
0xf400-0xf7ff,0xf200-0xf2ff irq 11 at device 0.0 on pci1

Ports of the same vintage:

XFree86-4.3.0,1
XFree86-FontServer-4.3.0_2
XFree86-Server-4.3.0_11
XFree86-clients-4.3.0_3
XFree86-documents-4.3.0
XFree86-font100dpi-4.3.0
XFree86-font75dpi-4.3.0
XFree86-fontCyrillic-4.3.0
XFree86-fontDefaultBitmaps-4.3.0
XFree86-fontEncodings-4.3.0
XFree86-fontScalable-4.3.0
XFree86-libraries-4.3.0_6
XFree86-manuals-4.3.0
Xft-2.1.2
nvidia-driver-1.0.4365  (compiled with WITH_FREEBSD_AGP=YES)
The problem:

Using the 'nv' driver brings up X with no problems.  Switching to the 
'nvidia' driver, I get:

(EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to allocate a DMA push buffer context
(EE) NVIDIA(0):  *** Aborting ***
The exact same configuration and set of ports works fine on the same 
hardware with -current.

After a quick conversation elsewhere, it was noted that USER_LDT, 
whilst the default in -current, is not present by default in -stable.  
Adding "options USER_LDT" to /sys/i386/conf/GENERIC, 
buildkernel/installkernel, and a rebuild of nvidia-driver later, I got 
a panic:

[...]
#11 0xc0702420 in ?? ()
#12 0xc026272a in spec_ioctl ()
#13 0xc0262455 in spec_vnoperate ()
#14 0xc033f06d in ufs_vnoperatespec ()
#15 0xc025ee1f in vn_ioctl ()
#16 0xc0238bae in ioctl ()
#17 0xc039e311 in syscall2 ()
#18 0xc038eec5 in Xint0x80_syscall ()
#19 0x8441a07 in ?? ()
Bugger.  No debugging kernel built with GENERIC.

Ok.  Add in "makeoptions DEBUG=-g # (growl, maim, slash, burn)", 
buildkernel/installkernel, rebuild nvidia-driver and reboot, we switch 
back to the previous behavior (no panic! gah!):

(EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to allocate a DMA push buffer context
(EE) NVIDIA(0):  *** Aborting ***
Any suggestions?

-aDe (currently back to the 'nv' driver)

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GNOME 1.4

2001-04-03 Thread Ade Lovett

FYI, GNOME 1.4 was released today.  Sadly, with the magnitude of
the changes (some 15,000 lines of diff now), and the timeline
for the ports freeze (April 10th), I am not going to be able
to get this in 4.3-RELEASE :(

However, I should have final patches available for testing within
the next couple of days, and will send out a note asking for
testers who are prepared to completely trash their machines :)

-aDe [FreeBSD/GNOME maintainer]

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Re: gnome 1.2 install

2000-10-19 Thread Ade Lovett

On Thu, Oct 19, 2000 at 09:44:51AM -0500, Ade Lovett wrote:
> Find the port that installed /usr/local/include/malloc.h and delete it
> with extreme prejudice.

It's devel/libmalloc, which I've just marked as BROKEN so this issue
won't come up again until either the port is fixed or just plain
deleted.

pkg_delete libmalloc-1.18

and start over, and you'll be fine.

Thanks to Sean O'Connell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> for kicking me hard
enough to realise I could do this myself :)

-aDe

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