Re: Sustainability of switching power supplies

2020-11-21 Thread soralx
stream PSUs run much cooler that before, too, so have exponentially longer life (in accordance with Arrhenius equation). > You will be correct about 99% of the time, and since you came up > with the right answer > before you even looked, you'll be considered to be either psychic > or a

Re: Inspired by Two years ago today...

2008-10-06 Thread soralx
be a record. I've seen a higher uptime once, but that was a rather old cluster. What does the box do? -- Alex Moura p.s.: Only the name have been changed to protect the innocent [SorAlx] ridin' VN2000 Classic LT In torque we trust. ___ freebsd-chat

Re: Two years ago today...

2008-10-04 Thread soralx
[SorAlx] ridin' VN2000 Classic LT In torque we trust. ___ freebsd-chat@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-chat To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Newbie Question - about newbie user support

2008-03-29 Thread soralx
with mainframes, or some such?)! http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/rants/bsd4linux/bsd4linux2.php Few small things have changed since the time of that article, but the ideas there still seem to be up-to-date (and hopefully will stay that way). [SorAlx] ridin' VS1400

Re: Suggestions please for what POP or IMAP servers to use

2007-12-18 Thread soralx
truthfulness Feynman was lecturing about). So, it seems someone here tries to weasel out of the fight before it is over, no? ;-P DS [SorAlx] ridin' VS1400 ___ freebsd-chat@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-chat

Re: 6.3 Pre-Release

2007-11-26 Thread soralx
[.2]-STABLE then? Frank [SorAlx] ridin' VN1500-B2 ___ freebsd-chat@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-chat To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: 6.3 Pre-Release

2007-11-26 Thread soralx
What is the CVS tag for 6[.2]-STABLE then? Hi, I think that the tag for 6.2 is RELENG_6, revise handbook. nope, 'src-all tag=RELENG_6' with cvsup updated everything to 6.3-PRERELEASE... Hideo [SorAlx] ridin' VN1500-B2 ___ freebsd-chat@freebsd.org

Re: comment about LISP book?

2007-09-19 Thread soralx
Because the original poster wanted to make a class from a book PCL is very good for his needs (in my opinion). Actually, the OP wanted someone to review _his_ book on LISP, AFAIR :) [SorAlx] ridin' VS1400 ___ freebsd-chat@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Seeking Monsieur Joliet

2007-04-14 Thread soralx
- they coexist well) But RockRidge already takes care of long filenames, doens't it? DES [SorAlx] ridin' VN1500-B2 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-chat To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

Re: Erroneous delivery of list e-mail (was Re: adding keyboard after reboot with no keyboard )

2007-04-10 Thread soralx
? :-o I can't seem to think of a sane reason to send out messages full of garbage that have a chance of being deleted close to 100%. Doing that on a massive scale seems to me to be beyond any logic or reason. Kevin Kinsey [SorAlx] ridin' VN1500-B2

Re: [ot] seeking usa vendor of two_year_old technology

2007-04-07 Thread soralx
intelligent it is using using such a crap case on a performance workstation. Maybe the bright color LEDs on fans (WTF???) made it all look in rose-colored light. rob [SorAlx] ridin' VN1500-B2 ___ freebsd-chat@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: open source graphics card

2007-03-16 Thread soralx
part of the cost (unless the tax is ridiculously inflated). Best regards Oliver [SorAlx] ridin' VN1500-B2 ___ freebsd-chat@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-chat To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

Re: Venting my frustration with FreeBSD

2006-12-11 Thread soralx
independent of the quantity of processing units. I still believe that an operating system that scales close to linearly is possible. The question is, how big an overhaul FreeBSD needs for a jump start to becoming of interest in the areas where performance scalability matter? -- John Baldwin [SorAlx

Re: Venting my frustration with FreeBSD

2006-12-05 Thread soralx
a better OS for this purpose? -- [SorAlx] ridin' VN1500-B2 ___ freebsd-chat@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-chat To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

can't query PR database

2006-11-02 Thread soralx
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr-summary.cgi: (502) The proxy server could not handle the request GET /cgi/query-pr-summary.cgi. Reason: Could not connect to remote machine: Connection refused [SorAlx] ridin' VN1500-B2 ___ freebsd-chat

GUI imap client

2006-10-29 Thread soralx
with bugs. Not very usable :( Is there a kind of compromise between KMail and sylpheed? (or something original wouldn't hurt either ;) [SorAlx] ridin' VN1500-B2 ___ freebsd-chat@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: FreeBSD branches stats

2006-10-23 Thread soralx
of which had 2.x versions comparatively recently? precisely freebsd 2.2.7 an newer were far more popular than 2.1 (which is in the stats) [SorAlx] ridin' VN1500-B2 ___ freebsd-chat@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: windoze 'kldload' equivalent

2006-10-21 Thread soralx
in a piece of hardware, or run the installer that comes with it. I'm booting from a live-cd, and the stupid thing tries to copy the driver files to it's system dir (which obviously it can't) before loading them [SorAlx] ridin' VN1500-B2 ___ freebsd-chat

windoze 'kldload' equivalent

2006-10-20 Thread soralx
is there? anyone brave enough to use windows (the nerve-wrecking type -- without the X)? [SorAlx] ridin' VN1500-B2 ___ freebsd-chat@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-chat To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

Re: Propietary NVIDIA driver pwn3d

2006-10-19 Thread soralx
to local privilege escalation attacks. al least those can be promptly fixed... DES [SorAlx] ridin' VN1500-B2 ___ freebsd-chat@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-chat To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Propietary NVIDIA driver pwn3d

2006-10-19 Thread soralx
there's no mention of nvidia at all until September 2006. Kris [SorAlx] ridin' VN1500-B2 ___ freebsd-chat@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-chat To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: The future of NetBSD

2006-09-04 Thread soralx
not mistaken, it's easy, now that we have GEOM). Simple and reliable. DES [SorAlx] ridin' VN1500-B2 ___ freebsd-chat@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-chat To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: The future of NetBSD

2006-09-02 Thread soralx
from cd0, pause 15 min, play from cd1, etc. Do you think it would be convenient to use? Break out your flame-proof suits, gentlemen (and ladies too, of course). :) For those who really feel like flaming, I have a flame extinguisher handy (it's heavy and looks like a baseball bat!) ;) [SorAlx

Re: The future of NetBSD

2006-09-01 Thread soralx
workstation with SCSI drive never had a single case of corrupted FS (and I crash it a lot), when other ATA-based computers sometimes get 'unexpected soft updates inconsistency', and it's really killing the whole FS. Slowly (but sometimes instantly) and surely. [SorAlx] ridin' VN1500-B2

Re: The future of NetBSD

2006-09-01 Thread soralx
didn't instruct it to play a movie, why it does that? You know, if PCs are getting too smart, they may as well start drinking you beer, walking you dog and riding you bike for you, too ;) [SorAlx] ridin' VN1500-B2 ___ freebsd-chat@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: The future of NetBSD

2006-09-01 Thread soralx
If you didn't instruct it to play a movie, why it does that? You did: by putting the disc in. Bad logic. Putting the disc in != requesting (or wanting) to play a movie. [SorAlx] ridin' VN1500-B2 ___ freebsd-chat@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: portable audio player = 18Gb

2006-08-31 Thread soralx
(extended m3u; however, pipe *.m3u through unix2dos). [SorAlx] ridin' VN1500-B2 ___ freebsd-chat@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-chat To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

electronic circuit drawing/simulation

2006-04-12 Thread soralx
('flexibility'). Also, I remember launching some electronic component library editor from shell accidentally. It was long time ago, and now I can't remember how's the binary named (could be part of geda, spice, oregano, or something else). Could someone refresh my memory? Timestamp: 0x443CC700 [SorAlx

Re: Wasted CPU cycles

2005-03-22 Thread soralx
/download.html http://d2ol.childhooddiseases.org/stats/snapshot.jsp The only possible problem is that it requires Java. Timestamp: 0x424085E2 [SorAlx] http://cydem.org.ua/ ridin' VN1500-B2 ___ freebsd-chat@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org