Re: Sustainability of switching power supplies

2020-11-22 Thread Ralf Mardorf via freebsd-chat
On Sat, 21 Nov 2020 17:30:08 -0700, Brett Glass wrote: >At 01:24 AM 11/21/2020, Ralf Mardorf via freebsd-chat wrote: > >That's why Glass's Law of Electronic Diagnosis states: Whenever you >are asked about the failure of an electronic device, simply say, "It's >the po

Sustainability of switching power supplies

2020-11-21 Thread Ralf Mardorf via freebsd-chat
Hi, does anybody know about papers related to the sustainability of switching power supplies? In my very limited experiences they are seemingly less sustainable than old school power supplies. I'm curious, if any paper does exist related to energy efficiency of usage of a power supply, but also

[moved from FreeBSD User questions] "I run ArchLinux and never look back" - Kindu Smith

2020-06-09 Thread Ralf Mardorf via freebsd-chat
Hi, for good reasons I moved this thread. https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2020-June/289988.html On Tue, 09 Jun 2020 21:28:12 +0800, kindu smith wrote: >Secondly, it drives all my hardware, including sound card, nvidia >graphics card, wireless network card, screen

Re: Why I support BSD software

2020-06-06 Thread Ralf Mardorf via freebsd-chat
My very last comment ;). Standard not as in POSIX, but related to a group of software: [rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ pacman -Qi dssi lv2 | grep License Licenses: BSD LGPL Licenses: ISC BSD and BSD alike side by side with the GPL. Btw. I'm in favour of audio units

Re: Why I support BSD software

2020-06-06 Thread Ralf Mardorf via freebsd-chat
PPS: On Sat, 06 Jun 2020 12:19:16 +0200, Ralf Mardorf via freebsd-chat wrote: >> [rocketmouse@archlinux extra-x86_64]$ grep python2\ waf\ configure >> PKGBUILD -A7 >> python2 waf configure --prefix=/usr \ >> --configdir=/etc \ >>

Re: Why I support BSD software

2020-06-06 Thread Ralf Mardorf via freebsd-chat
Correction of a few typos I noticed: On Sat, 2020-06-06 at 12:08 +0200, Ralf Mardorf via freebsd-chat wrote: > All operating systems and licenses have got pros and cons. > If you want to compare operating systems and licenses you should list > pros and cons of the mentioned operatin

Re: Why I support BSD software

2020-06-06 Thread Ralf Mardorf via freebsd-chat
All operating systems and licenses have got pros and cons. If you want to compare operating systems and licenses you should list pros and cons of the mentioned operating systems, excluding untruth. If you just want to mention pros of an operating system and licenses, don't add comparisons at all

Re: Why I support BSD software

2020-06-05 Thread Ralf Mardorf via freebsd-chat
On Fri, 5 Jun 2020 10:51:56 +0300, Yury Grebenkin wrote: >Please, let me know if something is inaccurate in the article: > >Why I support BSD software >https://yvgrebenkin.wordpress.com/bsd/ This is absolutely correct, you are just missing a few points. For example, the Free Software Foundation

Re: Stay safe everyone

2020-03-25 Thread Ralf Mardorf via freebsd-chat
That's me, selling two rolls of dirty toilet paper, for the price of 8 clean rolls: https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/muppet/images/d/d6/Ernie8Salesman.jpg/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/250?cb=20180103044853 However, I keep safe distance to the customer, who looks a bit like Donald Trump,

Images on computers - Was: Re: Basic photo viewing/editing for Xfce?

2020-01-11 Thread Ralf Mardorf via freebsd-chat
On Sat, 11 Jan 2020 14:20:57 -0600, Tim Daneliuk wrote: > On 1/11/20 1:43 PM, Ralf Mardorf via freebsd-questions wrote: > > On Sat, 11 Jan 2020 14:11:38 -0500, Jerry wrote: > > > The question you have to ask yourself is which is more > > > important to you, cost or usability? > > Unfortunately

Re: What you should do about it?

2019-10-13 Thread Ralf Mardorf via freebsd-chat
Hi, _attention_ I replied to https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-chat , _not_ to freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org , so I didn't trim your original mail. "About freebsd-chat This list contains the overflow from the other lists about non-technical, social information. It includes

Re: I've got a major question...

2019-06-28 Thread Ralf Mardorf via freebsd-chat
PS: Guerilla Open Access Manifesto: https://archive.org/stream/GuerillaOpenAccessManifesto/Goamjuly2008_djvu.txt Perhaps we should move this discussion to freebsd-chat@freebsd.org ;). ___ freebsd-chat@freebsd.org mailing list

Disposable email addresses - Was: Regarding threats to "CoC" you. - You do have recourse - license rescission

2019-05-09 Thread Ralf Mardorf via freebsd-chat
Hi, please ban disposable email addresses, such as redchan.it. There are enough lists of disposable email addresses available for exactly this purpose. Regards, Ralf ___ freebsd-chat@freebsd.org mailing list

Bogofilter's first action in 2019

2019-01-01 Thread Ralf Mardorf via freebsd-chat
C'mon! It's not that hard to do, what almost all admins on other mailing lists already did ;). The first action done by bogofilter on my machine this year was sorting out mails of an idiot, that is already banned from almost all mailing lists, but came through this list. Happy New Year! Ralf

Re: Why is no one discussing this anymore?

2018-12-28 Thread Ralf Mardorf via freebsd-chat
On Fri, 28 Dec 2018 14:51:04 + (UTC), Robbie Herb wrote: >Would it be possible to blacklist those domains? I was wondering that >from the first mail in this thread. This is my first and last reply regarding this topic. This troll sends this kind of spam to more mailing lists, than "just"

Re: FreeBSD has a politics problem

2018-03-08 Thread Ralf Mardorf via freebsd-chat
On Thu, 8 Mar 2018 14:31:28 -0500, Geheimnisse wrote: >So, FreeBSD may have a politics problem - an alt-right politics >problem. Manchildren who cry any time something happens that isn't >right-wing. They don't want "politics out of FreeBSD" regarding the >CoC, they want a CoC that aligns with

Re: FreeBSD's politics problem

2018-03-04 Thread Ralf Mardorf via freebsd-chat
On Sun, 4 Mar 2018 18:58:29 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >PPS: It's not my intention to offend geek feminism, it just reminds me >of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.R. , basically good ideas >compromised by ideology. Tricky link :D "People H.R. (born 1956), lead singer of American band Bad

Re: FreeBSD's politics problem

2018-03-04 Thread Ralf Mardorf via freebsd-chat
PPS: It's not my intention to offend geek feminism, it just reminds me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.R. , basically good ideas compromised by ideology. ___ freebsd-chat@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-chat

Re: FreeBSD's politics problem

2018-03-03 Thread Ralf Mardorf via freebsd-chat
Most of this CoC https://www.freebsd.org/internal/code-of-conduct.html is overdoing problems, let alone that the reporting instructions are a bit overdone or unnecessary. "simulated physical contact (e.g., textual descriptions like "*hug*"" "If you believe anyone is in physical danger, please