Re: I hate to beat a dead horse, but... (spam-related)

2002-02-26 Thread Josh Hansen
Agreed. But what if somebody gets a virus (ahem, Outlook users) and it spams everybody in their address book? Isn't it possible some legitimate users could end up on the shared spam list by accident? Just a thought. But you're right - I'm tired of having my heart melted with this beautiful

Reconfiguring Mach

2002-01-25 Thread Josh Hansen
I just recently got my Hurd setup semi-working (I can log in, in other words). I believe I need to recompile GnuMach for network card support and IDE disk controller support. My network card is tulip-based, and the disk controller is CMD649 (close and possibly ??? compatible relative of the

Re: httpfs what is it?

2002-01-19 Thread Josh Hansen
Is it possible that this could become a part of a more all-encompassing Virtual FileSystem implementation like that seen in KDE? (KIOSlaves, etc.) Allowing any application to view data using any protocol is very powerful idea, used well in KDE and I believe becoming implemented in GNOME.

Re: httpfs what is it?

2002-01-19 Thread Josh Hansen
Excellent! I'm glad to hear it, sine that's how it should be! :-) Thanks Marcus, - Josh

CMD649 Chipset

2001-11-12 Thread Josh Hansen
I cross-compiled Mach and booted it (I think I installed the new kernel right, anyway) and upon doing so the system told me that my primary hard disk partition doesn't have a file in /dev. Could this be because Mach doesn't support my CMD649 ATA-100 controller? Thank you - Josh

Cross compiling problem

2001-10-29 Thread Josh Hansen
Well, I'm not even at the compiling stage yet. I'm trying to compile a clean version of Mach using Debian Linux Unstable. I got the CVS code onto my machine, and here's what the configure script telle me: checking host sytem type... i686-pc-linux-gnu configure: error: sorry.

Ext2 Partition size limit

2001-10-05 Thread Josh Hansen
Hello, I'm in the midst of trying to install the Hurd to an Ext2 partition, and I was wondering if the 1 GB limit to partition still applies. The installation manual I read states that the system can't handle more than a gigabyte on the Ext2 partition. Thanks! - Josh

Re: Ext2 Partition size limit

2001-10-05 Thread Josh Hansen
Thanks for the info. What's the prospective on overcoming this limitation? -Josh