Re: FreeBSD anti-competitive activities

2010-04-16 Thread deeptech71
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=misc/145735 Something sure stinks here... ___ 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

Re: My whitespace style

2009-04-16 Thread deeptech71
Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On Wed, 15 Apr 2009 06:48:12 +0200, deeptec...@gmail.com wrote: Could you please give me a (preferrably widely used) example of columnizing calls which cross different levels of indentation? It's not so uncommon as it may initially seem... I've seen switch() cases in

Re: My whitespace style

2009-04-14 Thread deeptech71
David Kelly wrote: On Apr 14, 2009, at 6:24 PM, deeptec...@gmail.com wrote: David Kelly wrote: On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 10:46:26AM +0200, deeptec...@gmail.com wrote: Tabs are better, because they allow the programmer to specify the desired width, and is dynamically changable at any time.

Re: Google Chrome

2008-10-31 Thread deeptech71
Brett Glass wrote: Google itself harvests users' personal data from their Gmail users' e-mail What? I create a new box and drop an old one several times a day. :D ___ freebsd-chat@freebsd.org mailing list

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

2008-02-15 Thread deeptech71
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\any_dir_except_All\any_symlink on your Windows system

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

2008-02-14 Thread deeptech71
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Re: What's up with the symlinks in the 7.0-RC2 ISO images?

2008-02-14 Thread deeptech71
Well, Rock Ridge is a nonstandard extension, and I don't see why it is needed. Also, Windows sees these files as 0 length empties. ___ freebsd-chat@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-chat To unsubscribe, send any

bits wrap when leftshifting non-constant amounts

2008-02-12 Thread deeptech71
My gcc 3.4.6 behaves weirdly when left shifting, and I couldn't find any info on this. the program: #include stdio.h int main( void ) { unsigned n; for( n = 13; n 100; n += 7 ) { printf( 0x42f1u %u = %u\n, n, 0x42f1u n ); } return 0; } the

C out-of-bound pointer question

2007-11-15 Thread deeptech71
int x[N]; Values in x[] are (rand()%10)+268435410, aka 268435410..268435419. The algorith counts each individual value. // v1.0 uses if( x[n] == ___ )'s // v2.0: int k[268435420] = {0}; // k uses almost 1GB of memory for (n = 0; n N; n++) { k[ x[n] ]++; } // v2.1: int k[10] = {0};

YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss

2007-11-04 Thread deeptech71
What does it take to transition to the international standard for representing times? http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-time.html ___ freebsd-chat@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-chat To unsubscribe, send

Re: YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss

2007-11-04 Thread deeptech71
Josh Paetzel wrote: On Sunday 04 November 2007 14:10:31 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What does it take to transition to the international standard for representing times? http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-time.html alias date to date +%Y-%m-%d I suppose. In reality how difficult it is for you

Re: Mailer Error Messages

2007-10-31 Thread deeptech71
Jason C. Wells wrote: This is just a short little complaint. Could we please make mail exchange error messages just a little more understandable? For the rare occurrences where I actually get a legit non-spam induced bounce it would be nice to be able to quickly discern what happened. 1 -

Re: filesystem timestamps and their usage

2007-09-13 Thread deeptech71
Oliver Fromme wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Let's talk about file system timestamps. What kind of timestamps are there currently, and what are they used for? This is a late reply, but I haven't seen that question of yours answered so far, so I try to give it a shot. First of all, time

Re: filesystem timestamps and their usage

2007-09-13 Thread deeptech71
Oliver Fromme wrote: All properties (meta data) of a file are stored in the inode. That includes owner, permissions, flags, and all the time stamps, including the birth time. So if you have multiple entries (hard links) pointing to the same inode, they point to the same meta data. In other

time required for administration

2007-09-05 Thread deeptech71
I rememeber ~approximately~ something like this: On Windows, a given setup task will take 3 days to do, if you are lucky, and requires constant monitoring and user input. On FreeBSD, the task may take up to 3 days, out of which at most 10 minutes of administration time is required. I don't

Re: freebsdmall.com prices

2007-09-05 Thread deeptech71
Michael Hernandez wrote: On Sep 5, 2007, at 12:44 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Matt, I'm wondering how many people are behind the Mall, what the order statistics are, and how much the income is. If the Mall is just a secondary job, and you donate a considerable excess amount, then I have

Re: freebsdmall.com prices

2007-09-05 Thread deeptech71
Diane Bruce wrote: Hi, On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 06:44:08PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Darren Pilgrim wrote: I have multiple subscriptions, one going all the way back to 3.2 and most since mid-4.x. Actually shipping is $4.95 on top of the purchase cost, IIRC. But then, ... penguin

freebsdmall.com prices

2007-09-03 Thread deeptech71
I've just looked at the prices at www.freebsdmall.com, and found that they are overwhelming. A full FreeBSD release costs like 40$. 40$?! HOLY SHIT! Who would buy it for that much money when you can download it for free? Now you might think that giving 40$ is a great way for supporting the

Re: Computers and parts to donate...

2007-07-25 Thread deeptech71
Michael S. Eubanks wrote: I'm just curious if anyone knows of a place that will accept relatively extinct hardware and/or good UNIX starter machines? If not, I'll just wait until I meet someone who wants some stuff for fun or otherwise. You can sell them on eBay for some fee (if you think

3D @ radeon xorg 7.2

2007-05-23 Thread deeptech71
Using Xorg 7.2, has anyone tested the 3D performance of radeon cards, series 9500 and up? (xorg 6.9 radeon drivers have 1 fps) ___ freebsd-chat@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-chat To unsubscribe, send any

Re: POLL: should the last line end with LF?

2007-04-22 Thread deeptech71
Oliver Fromme wrote: The question doesn't make sense. A file that doesn't end with a newline character is not a legal UNIX text file. The standard UNIX text editors (ed, vi) don't even let you create files that don't end with a newline character. Oh really? Is it just that they do not show

POLL: should the last line end with LF?

2007-04-16 Thread deeptech71
I've set up a poll here for this here: http://www.misterpoll.com/2553298996.html Oh and.. Why? ___ freebsd-chat@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-chat To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Erroneous delivery of list e-mail

2007-04-11 Thread deeptech71
jzyjack wrote: i don't know why i keep getting your mail. please stop - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2007 12:00 PM Subject: rm --clear-directory /home/me/another_dir Is there a way to clear a directory with

Re: what can i do with a 486?

2007-04-09 Thread deeptech71
Gray, David W wrote: Is that a 48*6* or a 48*7*??? You MUST HAVE a floating point emulator if you don't have a '487 (also known as a '486 overdrive), or no boot. I'm at work, so I don't know if we still ship the emulator(s), but you need it. That might be it. How to add FPU emu support to the

Re: what can i do with a 486?

2007-04-07 Thread deeptech71
This is so goddamn. I've disabled almost everything in the kernel and the 486 still wont boot! OK, forget about the router, just get FreeBSD running on it! Any suggestions? ident BAREv6 machine i386 cpu I486_CPU #cpuI586_CPU #cpuI686_CPU # To

Re: what can i do with a 486?

2007-04-07 Thread deeptech71
spellberg_robert wrote: ok - first, you have what des said and what i said back. that covers most of this [ must've crossed in the mail ]. yeah i received his mail later all i'm doing is removing anything i don't recognize [ i am a minimalist at heart ], but my needs aren't necessarily

Re: what can i do with a 486?

2007-04-07 Thread deeptech71
OK now I've tried everything. Most minimal kernel I could get without compilation error. No optimizations. And it still reboots the system! Something more: now I've tried to pull out the floppy cables, and that 4slot-isa expantion card stuff, played around with all jumpers (IRQ, EPC

Re: what can i do with a 486?

2007-04-05 Thread deeptech71
Returning topic. Archives are here: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-chat/2007-January/subject.html I've just tested dangerously dedicated mode, and it worked! Next stop: it can't load the kernel (only on the 486). --- PART OF OUTPUT: Loading /boot/defaults/loader.conf

Re: what can i do with a 486?

2007-04-05 Thread deeptech71
Oliver Fromme wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've just tested dangerously dedicated mode, and it worked! Next stop: it can't load the kernel (only on the 486). --- PART OF OUTPUT: Loading /boot/defaults/loader.conf /boot/kernel/kernel text=0x51a2e4 readin failed

Re: what can i do with a 486?

2007-04-05 Thread deeptech71
Oliver Fromme wrote: I assume that you don't have enough RAM. If I remember correctly, your 486 machine only has 8 MB of RAM, which is not enough to load a GENERIC kernel nowadays. You will have to compile a smaller kernel by removing all things that you don't need. Making progress. With my

Re: 64bit timestamp

2007-03-26 Thread deeptech71
Oliver Fromme wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: but server-client apps, such as games, where 32bit integer timers must be restarted every 3 weeks I don't understand qwhat you're saying there. Why do they have to be restarted every three weeks? I don't see a reason for that. If an application

Re: 64bit timestamp

2007-03-26 Thread deeptech71
Jan Grant wrote: On Sun, 25 Mar 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oliver Fromme wrote: Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2007-03-25 01:36, [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

Re: 64bit timestamp

2007-03-25 Thread deeptech71
Oliver Fromme wrote: What's your problem? In your first mail you seemed to be complaining that there isn't sufficient range and accuracy in the time stamps. I explained to you that there is indeed more accuracy than you thought, and now you complain that there's too much of it? I am in not

64bit timestamp

2007-03-23 Thread deeptech71
UNIX Timestamp: 32 bits, starts from year 1970, ticks every second capable of representing the time from 1970 to 2106 'til then, computers will change sufficient for file timestamps, comparing file times Let's see what 64 bits can do! 2^64, that is 18446744073709551616 different values

Re: newspeak

2007-02-24 Thread deeptech71
Matthew McDonald wrote: Well, because if it involves hacking it's obviously not as legitimate as anything that a corporation would do. After all, hackers are malicious by nature. -Matt McDonald The idea of hacking may conjure up stylized images of electronic vandalism, espionage, dyed hair,

Re: The truth about SigEx Ventures and the SigEx Foundry

2007-02-18 Thread deeptech71
PWNT ___ freebsd-chat@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-chat To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: what can i do with a 486?

2007-01-31 Thread deeptech71
John Baldwin wrote: Did you install boot0? (The MBR boot block that will list the partitions?) If so, you need to use boot0cfg to turn off 'packet' mode to instruct boot0 to not use LBA. I think I mentioned this earlier in the thread. You can do this by booting the disk up in the newer

Re: what can i do with a 486?

2007-01-26 Thread deeptech71
Sten Daniel Sørsdal wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 5.1-RELEASE tested, yielded the same result: Missing operating system. The installation can boot on a new machine, but can not boot on the 486. Seems like the source of the error is the capabilitiy of the mainboard. I've given up. FreeBSD will

Re: what can i do with a 486?

2007-01-26 Thread deeptech71
Kevin Kinsey wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 8MB RAM That's likely the issue, although I don't remember if you've mentioned exactly when it fails. The installer attempts to create a memory disk that's a good bit larger than 8MB; IIRC, with current FreeBSD versions you can't even install

Re: what can i do with a 486?

2007-01-22 Thread deeptech71
David King wrote: Can you see the hard drive if you boot from a floppy? Is the hard drive in the boot path in the BIOS? Are you using a 40-pin cable for an EIDE drive? It sounds like you can't see the drive at all Can't boot FreeBSD from a floppy. That is, it boots, but gives an error.

what can i do with a 486?

2007-01-17 Thread deeptech71
Can you install FreeBSD on a 486 machine? ___ freebsd-chat@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-chat To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Gmail idea

2006-12-24 Thread deeptech71
Jim Capozzoli wrote: I know this isn't related to FreeBSD at all, but I wanted to see what other people thought about this. What if google set up a mechanism where emails are shared between user accounts? Like, suppose this email is submitted to [EMAIL PROTECTED], right, and the gmail mail