The old times ...

Just though that some of you old guys (like me) might enjoy this one, too: http://abstrusegoose.com/347 Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung: secnetix

Re: Odd cron errors

-- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung: secnetix Verwaltungsgesellsch. mbH, Handelsregister: Registergericht Mün- chen, HRB 125758, Geschäftsführer: Maik Bachmann, Olaf Erb, Ralf Gebhart

Re: is strlen()'s read-4-bytes-ahead a standard?

libraries for C) store the length separately for every string, so you don't have to iterate through the whole string to get its length. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606

Re: LinuxBSDos.com article

;-) Sounds like you don't know what MIDI really is, and how important it still is for musicians. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung: secnetix

Re: LinuxBSDos.com article

works fine. I'm using the flashplugin with linux-opera on 8-stable. (It's important to have the latest versions of all the software involved, and don't forget to mount linprocfs and the other prerequisites. There are instructions in the FreeBSD handbook.) Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme

Re: ISO Image dd To DVD+RW

to determine the laser power, it doesn't know how to enable burn-proof, it doesn't know how to fixate a CD or DVD, i.e. the session won't be closed properly, and so on. That's why a special-purpose tool is better suited to handle recording of CD and DVD media. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver

Re: which port for this job?

, so it might become too small (i.e. unreadable). Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung: secnetix Verwaltungsgesellsch. mbH, Handelsregister: Registergericht Mün

Re: Is there anybody to use Linux?

Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung: secnetix Verwaltungsgesellsch. mbH, Handelsregister: Registergericht Mün- chen, HRB 125758, Geschäftsführer: Maik Bachmann, Olaf Erb, Ralf

Re: FreeBSD vs Russian's laws

purposes in the industry, let alone in private homes. So please stop spreading FUD and crying wolf, people. You're definitely not doing FreeBSD a favour. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA

Re: Why is sendmail is part of the system and not a package?

? Those who need to run a real mail server that accepts remote mail (probably a small minority) can install their favourite-MTA-of-the-day from the ports collection. Oh, by the way, I would like the bike shed painted orange. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG

Re: Quickie question

-stable packages. (Or use the ports collection via portsnap, csup or similar, but it seems you don't want to do that.) Of course, updating to a newer version of FreeBSD is not an entirely bad idea either. ;-) Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567

Re: Text based games for FreeBSD

://www.secnetix.de/tools/porgle/porgle.py?w=ncdq=curses+game Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung: secnetix Verwaltungsgesellsch. mbH, Handelsregister: Registergericht Mün

Re: [ fbsd_chat ] Re: sh(1) documentation_set

) because it's so convenient. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung: secnetix Verwaltungsgesellsch. mbH, Handelsregister: Registergericht Mün- chen, HRB 125758

Re: [ fbsd_chat ] Re: sh(1) documentation_set

, it will be gratefully accepted and comitted if appropriate. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung: secnetix Verwaltungsgesellsch. mbH, Handelsregister

Re: [ fbsd_chat ] sh(1) docs [ was: Bourne shell short-circuit operators improperly documented ]

, but was removed in favour of the external command. And sometimes bugs are fixed, of course. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung: secnetix Verwaltungsgesellsch

Re: Bourne shell short-circuit operators improperly documented

if ! foo; then if ! bar; then baz; fi; fi Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung: secnetix Verwaltungsgesellsch. mbH, Handelsregister: Registergericht Mün- chen, HRB

Re: ping wars

filters installed (IPFW, IPF, PF). Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung: secnetix Verwaltungsgesellsch. mbH, Handelsregister: Registergericht Mün- chen, HRB

Re: End of Life is Meaningless

Dag-Erling Smørgrav d...@des.no wrote: Oliver Fromme o...@lurza.secnetix.de writes: Basically, from a security point of view, running EOLed versions of FreeBSD is not a very good idea. Given the fact that the EOL deadlines are announced long in advance, and the fact that updating

Re: End of Life is Meaningless

will regret not having a working update plan. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung: secnetix Verwaltungsgesellsch. mbH, Handelsregister: Registergericht Mün- chen, HRB

Re: Oracle buys Sun

think things will be much different for MySQL. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung: secnetix Verwaltungsgesellsch. mbH, Handelsregister: Registergericht Mün- chen

Re: Oracle buys Sun

change anything regarding MySQL, and let the MySQL development group continue to do their work. So, I'm really not worried about the future of MySQL. PostgreSQL is much better anyway. ;-) Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M

Re: Oracle buys Sun

, much like FreeBSD. It is distributed under a very liberal license: a zero-clause BSD- style license. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung: secnetix

Re: My whitespace style

the old ASCII tab die and rest in peace (or lost in space ... ok, bad pun). Best regards Oliver PS: Don't get me wrong, I'm *not* proposing to change the style(9) sections dealing with tabs. Heaven forbid! ;-) -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M

Re: My whitespace style

deeptec...@gmail.com wrote: Oliver Fromme wrote: [...] That's another good reason to let the old ASCII tab die and rest in peace (or lost in space ... ok, bad pun). In this and other posts you only give reason to kill off the space, not the tab. If two things conflict, which

Re: Why?? (prog question)

/bin/vi on Solaris is a little bit brain-damaged, but you can easily install vim from a package). Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung: secnetix

Re: Why?? (prog question)

Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: Oliver Fromme wrote: [...] What's bad is when several styles are mixed, e. g. Of course. I don't think anyone disagrees with that. I assume that every modern editor can be configured that way. Even old fashioned ones can, take the mcedit

Re: April Fools from /etc/periodic/monthly/200.accounting?

Matthew D. Fuller wrote: On Wed, Apr 01, 2009 at 05:40:57PM +0200 I heard the voice of Oliver Fromme, and lo! it spake thus: Of course, the above numbers are nonsense, even the one for lynette (2903 hours would be about 120 days). That's actually very easy to pull off. Just

Re: Why?? (prog question)

) { // . . . } // . . . } Problem solved, and the whole thing is much more readable. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung: secnetix Verwaltungsgesellsch. mbH

Re: April Fools from /etc/periodic/monthly/200.accounting?

a serious answer, but here it is anyway. Of course, the above numbers are nonsense, even the one for lynette (2903 hours would be about 120 days). Probably your /var/log/wtmp file has been corrupted. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M

Re: FreeBSD and Astronomy

astronomical object catalogs * Automatic scheduling of observational activity. WWW: http://nova.sourceforge.net/ Note that I haven't used this port myswlf, so I can't tell for sure how good it is. But according to the description it might be useful for you. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme

Re: spamassassin helps lots, but I'm tired of sorting the ?backscatter ; -)

David Wolfskill wrote: Oliver Fromme wrote: ... The only reasonable thing you can do with spam is drop it to /dev/null. If it makes you feel better, you can create a symlink /dev/painful_death - /dev/null and instruct your mail filter to drop spam there instead. With respect

Re: Flash on FreeBSD

Oliver Fromme wrote: [...] In particular, I'm using the sites http://www.youtupe.de and http://www.spiegel.de/video/ (sorry, mostly German). I'm sorry for the stupid typo, that should be http://www.youtube.com of course. I just noticed that the bogus domain youtupe.de does indeed exist

Re: FreeBSD Bounties

to the bounty, it might become attractive enough for a developer to look at it. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung: secnetix Verwaltungsgesellsch. mbH, Handelsregister

Re: using VPNs to cope with IP address changes

! Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung: secnetix Verwaltungsgesellsch. mbH, Handelsregister: Registergericht Mün- chen, HRB 125758, Geschäftsführer: Maik Bachmann

Re: Would Linux exist without the Internet?

UnIX system family tree, 1969-1985 (edited for BSD) Figure 1.2 UNIX system family tree (edited for BSD/Linux) 1986-1996 See /usr/share/misc/bsd-family-tree Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht

Re: Google Chrome

!-- Thus you will only get a small text (Ad blocked) in place of the ads. If you don't even want that, remove the text between BODY and /BODY completely. The !-- line is important because it prevents Squid's signature from being displayed. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co

Re: projects for wrt54gl

regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung: secnetix Verwaltungsgesellsch. mbH, Handelsregister: Registergericht Mün- chen, HRB 125758, Geschäftsführer: Maik Bachmann, Olaf

Re: Stop Adobe Flash Petition

-- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung: secnetix Verwaltungsgesellsch. mbH, Handelsregister: Registergericht Mün- chen, HRB 125758, Geschäftsführer: Maik Bachmann, Olaf Erb, Ralf Gebhart

Re: slide rules

== .* ]]; then X=0$X # Add zero before. fi fi LBUFFER=${LBUFFER}$X fi } zle -N user-insert-math-expression bindkey '^[m' user-insert-math-expression -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M

Re: Feature requests for open-source graphics (OT)

installation on the root server with FreeBSD. ;-) Best regards Oliver PS: I'm not affiliated with any of the above companies, and I don't benefit from mentioning them. I'm just a satisfied customer. -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister

Re: file system

) so only certain users or groups can access it. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung: secnetix Verwaltungsgesellsch. mbH, Handelsregister: Registergericht Mün

Re: Returning to the FreeBSD community ...

. something like newfs -i 262144). That will also reduce fsck time considerably in the case of a crash. You might even want to play with larger bsize/fsize values (e.g. setting both to 16k so you won't get fragments). Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567

Re: What's up with the symlinks in the 7.0-RC2 ISO images?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oliver Fromme wrote: The symlinks don't hurt Windows-readability at all. There's nothing that needs to be fixed. Show me that what sucks is actually my Windows system only instead of all Windows systems: try opening 7.0-RC2-CD2\packages

Re: What's up with the symlinks in the 7.0-RC2 ISO images?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oliver Fromme wrote: Well, someone might want to look at the doc CD on Windows (e.g if he's offline and needs to loo at the docs before installing FreeBSD). Or maybe someone might want to make a FreeBSD-7.0-RC2 DVD, and a FreeBSD installation is too far

Re: why is it called /boot/beastie.4th ?

/vloader/fontformat.txt -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung: secnetix Verwaltungsgesellsch. mbH, Handelsregister: Registergericht Mün- chen, HRB 125758, Geschäftsführer: Maik Bachmann, Olaf

Re: why is it called /boot/beastie.4th ?

... ;-) What do you think about this screen shot? http://www.secnetix.de/olli/tmp/vloader.png Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung: secnetix Verwaltungsgesellsch

Re: why is it called /boot/beastie.4th ?

Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: Oliver Fromme writes: No need for ASCII art ... ;-) What do you think about this screen shot? http://www.secnetix.de/olli/tmp/vloader.png This is brilliant! Send patches! :) Does that mean you're volunteering to be my mentor? :) The patches

Re: why is it called /boot/beastie.4th ?

Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: Oliver Fromme writes: Dag-Erling Smørgrav [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Oliver Fromme [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: http://www.secnetix.de/olli/tmp/vloader.png This is brilliant! Send patches! :) Does that mean you're volunteering to be my mentor

Re: why is it called /boot/beastie.4th ?

daemon. But Beastie is still there and can be enabled with an option. You can look at the beastie.4th file with a text editor. Best regards Oliver [1] http://www.freebsd.org/copyright/daemon.html [2] http://www.mckusick.com/beastie/index.html -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG

Re: FreeBSD's problems as seen by the BSDForen.de community

Bernd Walter wrote: Oliver Fromme wrote: Certainly, but as I wrote, it's not a big deal. I have several other patches that I maintain on my own for various reasons. For example I have a local patch set that enables -c none in ssh, so I can scp large files much faster between

Re: strace broken in 7.0?

a hell of a power supply and was a good replacement for a radiator. I remember several people running FreeBSD on it in the previous century. Nowadays a single-core processor is probably much faster and consumes a fraction of the power. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co

Re: FreeBSD's problems as seen by the BSDForen.de community

Note: Reply-To set to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Timo Schoeler wrote: Oliver Fromme wrote: I think the real answer is: You cannot prevent anyone from writing a piece of software, no matter how useless or ridiculous it might be for the majority of users. I don't want to do this, either

Re: cvs commit: src/sys/conf files src/sys/netinet tcp_ofld.c ?tcp_ofld.h tcp_var.h toedev.h src/sys/sys socket.h

-- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung: secnetix Verwaltungsgesellsch. mbH, Handelsregister: Registergericht Mün- chen, HRB 125758, Geschäftsführer: Maik Bachmann, Olaf Erb, Ralf Gebhart

Re: 6.3 Pre-Release

on the FreeBSD 7 train. Going back to the 6.2 security branch would be a step backwards. Don't do that unless you have problems that would be fixed by that step. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen

Mailing lists via NNTP gateway (was Re: top posting (off-topic))

Angel Martin Alganza wrote: On Fri, Nov 23, 2007 at 12:12:32PM +0100, Oliver Fromme wrote: In fact, I do read the FreeBSD mailing lists via an NNTP gateway which stores them as news groups. I'm using a That really great! Is it a public gateway? Could you please let me know how

Re: top posting (off-topic)

the entire full quote that you you had below your reply was completely useless, confusing and a waste of space and bandwidth. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung

Re: C out-of-bound pointer question

that you need. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung: secnetix Verwaltungsgesellsch. mbH, Handelsregister: Registergericht Mün- chen, HRB 125758, Geschäftsführer

Re: filesystem timestamps and their usage

supports it, too, by the way). Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung: secnetix Verwaltungsgesellsch. mbH, Handelsregister: Registergericht Mün- chen, HRB 125758

Re: filesystem timestamps and their usage

CEST 2007 3651805 -rw--- 2 olli olli 0 Sep 13 17:02:49 2007 a 3651805 -rw--- 2 olli olli 0 Sep 13 17:02:49 2007 b $ Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606

Re: Virtualization versus jails [was Re: Creating and copying jail ?images]

). Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung: secnetix Verwaltungsgesellsch. mbH, Handelsregister: Registergericht Mün- chen, HRB 125758, Geschäftsführer: Maik Bachmann

Re: Creating and copying jail images

useless. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung: secnetix Verwaltungsgesellsch. mbH, Handelsregister: Registergericht Mün- chen, HRB 125758, Geschäftsführer: Maik

Re: TMPFS, is it available on FreeBSD 6 or 7?

mount an MD filesystem on some non-standard name (i.e. not /tmp) and use it, and when you're done you simply umount it. You get all memory back then. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA

Re: TMPFS, is it available on FreeBSD 6 or 7?

by workstation at the office from RELENG_6 to 7-current (in the hope for better USB support), with no problem at all, so far. The update was completely painless. The FreeBSD folks are doing a fantastic job. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing

Re: compressed HDD image using dd...clearing unused blocks

is certainly _much_ smaller than the hard disk in question, so the majority of blocks has already been zeroed on disk when the dd command finishes. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606

Re: Where software meets hardware..

. :-) Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung: secnetix Verwaltungsgesellsch. mbH, Handelsregister: Registergericht Mün- chen, HRB 125758, Geschäftsführer: Maik

Re: Where software meets hardware..

Thierry Thomas wrote: Oliver Fromme wrote: I have a cousin who's taking up a programming course. He doesn't have background with programming nor an in depth understanding of how the computer works. I tried explaining him that it all started with abacus, and that people wanted

Re: Can anybody terminate an IP-IP tunnel for me?

friends, so I pay only 12,50 per month. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung: secnetix Verwaltungsgesellsch. mbH, Handelsregister: Registergericht Mün- chen, HRB

Re: building a ports test server

Benjamin Adams wrote: I'm trying to build a server that will do port build testing (amd64 system) [...] I'm trying to build a system that will do this. Anyone know any documentation for doing this? http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/portbuild/ Best regards Oliver -- Oliver

Re: what can i do with a 486?

. It doesn't make much sense to try to view it with more. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung: secnetix Verwaltungsgesellsch. mbH, Handelsregister: Registergericht Mün

Re: Terry Lamber's Mr. Bullet Mr. Foot quote...

anyway. :-) (YMMV, of course.) Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung: secnetix Verwaltungsgesellsch. mbH, Handelsregister: Registergericht Mün- chen, HRB 125758

Re: 64bit timestamp

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oliver Fromme wrote: FreeBSD's UFS2 already uses 96bit timestamps, where 64 bits are used for seconds and 32 bits are used for nanoseconds. Is that sufficient for you? What the hell for? What's your problem? In your first mail you seemed to be complaining

Re: 64bit timestamp

Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung: secnetix Verwaltungsgesellsch. mbH, Handelsregister: Registergericht Mün- chen, HRB 125758, Geschäftsführer: Maik Bachmann, Olaf Erb, Ralf

Re: open source graphics card

the frequency settings to violate FCC regulations). Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung: secnetix Verwaltungsgesellsch. mbH, Handelsregister: Registergericht Mün

Re: open source graphics card

enough to play OpenGL games such as ports/games/crack-attack or kobo-deluxe. That's more than enough for me. YMMV, of course. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606

Re: open source graphics card

this discussion to the -chat list. -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung: secnetix Verwaltungsgesellsch. mbH, Handelsregister: Registergericht Mün- chen, HRB 125758, Geschäftsführer: Maik

Re: Productivity with FBSD, or: portupgrade vs. virus scans....

only and didn't plan to officially release them to the public, but here they are nevertheless. Maybe they're useful to somebody. http://www.secnetix.de/~olli/scripts/ports-check-update http://www.secnetix.de/~olli/scripts/portsup Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG

Re: what can i do with a 486?

suggestions? Or, anything I can DO with this thing? You could frame it and nail it to the wall. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing Dienstleistungen mit Schwerpunkt FreeBSD: http://www.secnetix.de/bsd Any opinions expressed in this message

Re: what can i do with a 486?

, saving me significant amounts of time and troubles. Unless you have some historical interest in that 486 machine, I recommend you replace it with something better, too. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing Dienstleistungen mit Schwerpunkt

Re: Security Patches for Port Applications in Releases

/i386/packages-6-stable) to get newer packages. They should run fine under the latest release. (Of course, you can chose to update your base system to 6-stable, too, if you like.) I hope that answers some of your questions. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG

Re: Static Link with Shared Object

mentioned above for details. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing Dienstleistungen mit Schwerpunkt FreeBSD: http://www.secnetix.de/bsd Any opinions expressed in this message may be personal to the author and may not necessarily reflect

Re: FreeBSD branches stats

-- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing Dienstleistungen mit Schwerpunkt FreeBSD: http://www.secnetix.de/bsd Any opinions expressed in this message may be personal to the author and may not necessarily reflect the opinions of secnetix in any way. C++ is over

Re: FreeBSD branches stats

just reinforces my perception that mosts users don't read the mailing lists so even if it were included in the base system it might not get activated. Yes, I think so, too. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing Dienstleistungen mit

Re: Performance 4.x vs. 6.x

alltogether, and so far I'm very pleased with the new features and the performance (except for the NFS performance which is not as good as it used to be, but I assume it's already being worked on, since NFS is such an important thing). -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567

Re: The future of NetBSD

versions of the bigger ones. True. It could be argued whether they should be counted separately. Personally I don't think they should. The big ones are clearly DragonFly, Free-, Net- and OpenBSD. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing

Re: Why is not more FreeBSD software written in C++?

-safety, and it's impossible to implement buffer overflows. They're not in the FreeBSD base system, though. YMMV. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing Dienstleistungen mit Schwerpunkt FreeBSD: http://www.secnetix.de/bsd Any opinions

Re: LOCALE, Ltd.?

, sounds funny, but that's how the world is. I guess matters are even more complicated for our friends in the Asian areas. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing Dienstleistungen mit Schwerpunkt FreeBSD: http://www.secnetix.de/bsd Any opinions

Re: [FreeBSD-Announce] FreeBSD 2.2.9 Released!

. It's not quite as usable with FreeBSD 3.x or any later version of FreeBSD. I'm not going to update to 2.2.9-Release, though. :-) Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing Dienstleistungen mit Schwerpunkt FreeBSD: http://www.secnetix.de/bsd Any

Re: Activity?

the average in the past 6 weeks is about 3 mails per week. Best regards Oliver PS: You should be able to get the same information from the online list archives anyway ... -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing Dienstleistungen mit Schwerpunkt FreeBSD: http

Re: Shouldn't we update this fortune?

/audio (symlink to audio0.0) is world-writable by default, so no sudo required, and cp works fine. (In fact, it does _not_ work for me when I try to use sudo.) It doesn't really sound like the ocean, though. :-) Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29

Re: Cleaning up packages after cd /usr/ports make

will not be removed; you can simply ignore them. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing Dienstleistungen mit Schwerpunkt FreeBSD: http://www.secnetix.de/bsd Any opinions expressed in this message may be personal to the author and may not necessarily reflect

Re: Spam filters

Kris Kennaway wrote: Aaron Holmes wrote: Any recomendations on good spam filters? IMO, you can't beat bogofilter.. I second that. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing Dienstleistungen mit Schwerpunkt FreeBSD: http

Re: ssh pre-login message

banner strings (one line) that will be printed before the login prompt, and the if capability to specify a file name. After changing the gettytab, you need to kill the getty processes. They will be restarted automatically by init(8). Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG

Re: ssh pre-login message

Oliver Fromme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jakob Breivik Grimstveit [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Aaron Holmes wrote on Mon, 05 Sep 2005 03:11: I'm not entirely sure this is the proper place for this, but how can i get a pre-login message to show up before the login as: prompt