Re: Great American Gas Out

2000-03-04 Thread Jamie A. Lawrence
++ 04/03/00 13:26 -0500 - Crist J. Clark: > Driving is an activity that incurrs a cost on society, building roads, > regular maintainance, salter, snow plows, maintainace to fix the > damage the snow plows did, etc. A cost that is not fully realized in the US. > > This week, I traveled from Wyo

Re: ijppp for isdn, ppp compression, and netgraph (also: load balancing)

2000-03-04 Thread Hellmuth Michaelis
>From the keyboard of Juergen Lock: > And the other reason i'm looking at ijppp is ppp compression. It > currently supports deflate (rfc1979) and predictor1 (rfc1978), which > should at least help if the other end is running bsd or linux, > but if your other end is something like an ascend or a

Re: Can't write to stdout in assembly

2000-03-04 Thread Thomas M. Sommers
Marco van de Voort wrote: > > > >From what I understand, the following should print "Hello, world." on > > stdout. I stole the code from the Linux HOWTO, but I think it should > > work on FreeBSD as well. Instead, the call to write returns 9 (EBADF). > > I disassembled FreeBSD programs (create a

Re: Can't write to stdout in assembly

2000-03-04 Thread Thomas M. Sommers
Brian Fundakowski Feldman wrote: > > On Sat, 4 Mar 2000, Thomas M. Sommers wrote: > > > >From what I understand, the following should print "Hello, world." on > > stdout. I stole the code from the Linux HOWTO, but I think it should > > work on FreeBSD as well. Instead, the call to write returns

Re: ijppp for isdn, ppp compression, and netgraph (also: load balancing)

2000-03-04 Thread Brian Somers
> And the last thing, is anyone working on moving more of ppp back > into the kernel, like, by using netgraph? (i hadn't really looked > at this netgraph thing yet until i read the daemonnews article > today... impressive stuff.) and is someone working on linking i4b > and netgraph? that seems

Re: Onstream?

2000-03-04 Thread Matthew Jacob
Ditto here. What happened with me on this is that I looked at the amount of fooling around it would take, then heard they'd do a "real" SCSI i/f in the next 6 months, and so dropped the ball. I have one also, which I can let someone have. On Sat, 4 Mar 2000, Warner Losh wrote: > In message <[E

Re: Onstream?

2000-03-04 Thread Warner Losh
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Matthew Jacob writes: : I gave up on supporting it- too much work for too little gain, IMO. The same thing happened on the IDE side of things. Even with Soren's hacks, I never could get it to work well. It worked as well as one would expect a win-tape drive to wo

Re: Onstream?

2000-03-04 Thread Matthew Jacob
I gave up on supporting it- too much work for too little gain, IMO. However, somebody has contacted me about doing the work, but it'll be quite some time before it would be supported. On Sat, 4 Mar 2000, Alan Batie wrote: > I just got an onstream scsi tape drive only to discover that I should'

Onstream?

2000-03-04 Thread Alan Batie
I just got an onstream scsi tape drive only to discover that I should've checked the archives because it don't work. I see that 6+ months ago there was some talk about working on it eventually and I thought I'd see if anything came of that? Is there work being done or should I just send it back?

ijppp for isdn, ppp compression, and netgraph (also: load balancing)

2000-03-04 Thread Juergen Lock
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: >Don't know whether it is the right term but what would be >desirable is a way to raise priority of certain protocols, and >lower e.g. ftp, http and such. > >You know what I mean? You are fetching a big file, but wanna do >an rlogin at the same time. I'm d

Re: Keeping using locally modified source

2000-03-04 Thread Bill Fenner
I've got this program in my head that takes a CVS tree and turns it into a branch ofanother CVS tree (e.g. FreeBSD rev 1.7 turns into rev 1.1.1.7) but it's never managed to make it out of my head, so it must be harder than I keep thinking it is =) Bill To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PRO

Re: Tuning TCP/IP Performance

2000-03-04 Thread Tony Finch
Joe Abley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If 4.0 (or later 3.x's) support SACK, turn that on here too. Neither of them does. Tony. -- f.a.n.finch[EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] 441 the tone-arm of turbidity To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hac

Re: empty lists in for

2000-03-04 Thread Doug Barton
Sheldon Hearn wrote: > > On Mon, 21 Feb 2000 22:10:15 +0600, Max Khon wrote: > > > bash and ksh complain about unexpected ';'. > > /bin/sh (FreeBSD) thinks it's ok and does nothing. > > Which behaviour is more POSIXly correct? > > Neither bash nor ksh claim to be particularly POSIX compliant.

Re: Tuning TCP/IP Performance

2000-03-04 Thread Joe Abley
On Sat, Mar 04, 2000 at 08:21:20PM +, Paul Robinson wrote: > I've been trying to get TCP/IP performance as fast as possible by playing > around with sysctl (playing in the net.inet area) and so on, and was > wondering if there were any comprehensive resources on this that I've > missed. I hav

Re: Tuning TCP/IP Performance

2000-03-04 Thread Andrzej Bialecki
On Sat, 4 Mar 2000, Paul Robinson wrote: > Hi, > > I've been trying to get TCP/IP performance as fast as possible by playing > around with sysctl (playing in the net.inet area) and so on, and was > wondering if there were any comprehensive resources on this that I've > missed. Whenever I do a sy

Tuning TCP/IP Performance

2000-03-04 Thread Paul Robinson
Hi, I've been trying to get TCP/IP performance as fast as possible by playing around with sysctl (playing in the net.inet area) and so on, and was wondering if there were any comprehensive resources on this that I've missed. Whenever I do a sysctl -d -a to get a list of descriptions, I get the fo

Re: Can't write to stdout in assembly

2000-03-04 Thread Marco van de Voort
> >From what I understand, the following should print "Hello, world." on > stdout. I stole the code from the Linux HOWTO, but I think it should > work on FreeBSD as well. Instead, the call to write returns 9 (EBADF). I disassembled FreeBSD programs (create a small C prog, compile, and use objdump

Re: Great American Gas Out

2000-03-04 Thread Crist J. Clark
On Sat, Mar 04, 2000 at 09:20:09AM -0700, Brett Glass wrote: > At 04:42 PM 3/3/2000 , Mark Newton wrote: > > >Our prices are held *up* by the fact that over 50% of them constitute > >State and Federal taxes. > > Same in the US and Europe. Driving is a sin that must be taxed, y'know. Driving

Re: Great American Gas Out

2000-03-04 Thread Dennis
>This week, I traveled from Wyoming to California and discovered that >gas prices were 25% higher in the Golden State than in the Cowboy >State. Why? Because Californians "tax" themselves by requiring that >everyone buy fuel with high concentrations of MTBE, an oxygenating agent. >MTBE was suppos

Re: Great American Gas Out

2000-03-04 Thread Brett Glass
At 04:42 PM 3/3/2000 , Mark Newton wrote: >Our prices are held *up* by the fact that over 50% of them constitute >State and Federal taxes. Same in the US and Europe. Driving is a sin that must be taxed, y'know. This week, I traveled from Wyoming to California and discovered that gas prices w

Re: DeCSS

2000-03-04 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > He, I have the bits ported here since november'99, I'll gladly > > offer them for inclusion on the CD's :) > > > > -Søren > > drwx-- 2 sos wheel 512 Jan 5 08:06 DVD > > Well, I believe you, I just can't get to it :) > Actually, opendvd.org

PAM modules

2000-03-04 Thread Gergely EGERVARY
hello, I've just played a bit with libpam, and the modules. My basic problem is: I _really need_ login accounting, and pam_limits.so (in Linux-PAM) does a good work for me. I have seen that the code imported into the cvs tree is rather old - (v0.65?) so I grabbed the new sources, and started ha

Re: empty lists in for

2000-03-04 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Mon, 21 Feb 2000 22:10:15 +0600, Max Khon wrote: > bash and ksh complain about unexpected ';'. > /bin/sh (FreeBSD) thinks it's ok and does nothing. > Which behaviour is more POSIXly correct? Neither bash nor ksh claim to be particularly POSIX compliant. our /bin/sh does. I seem to remembe

Re: Can't write to stdout in assembly

2000-03-04 Thread Brian Fundakowski Feldman
On Sat, 4 Mar 2000, Thomas M. Sommers wrote: > >From what I understand, the following should print "Hello, world." on > stdout. I stole the code from the Linux HOWTO, but I think it should > work on FreeBSD as well. Instead, the call to write returns 9 (EBADF). > [ Linux-specific asm elided ...

Can't write to stdout in assembly

2000-03-04 Thread Thomas M. Sommers
>From what I understand, the following should print "Hello, world." on stdout. I stole the code from the Linux HOWTO, but I think it should work on FreeBSD as well. Instead, the call to write returns 9 (EBADF). .data msg:.string "Hello, world.\n" len = . - msg - 1 .tex

Re: DeCSS

2000-03-04 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Warner Losh wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Kris Kennaway >writes: > : You know, I half want to add a note in the release notes that "FreeBSD 4.0 > : now ships with DeCSS included", but that might be a bit political :-) > > It would be political. All things are. > > What could

Re: DeCSS

2000-03-04 Thread David Malone
On Sat, Mar 04, 2000 at 01:06:04AM -0700, Warner Losh wrote: Incase anyone is interested, there is a big DVD conference comming up in Dublin, and some people here are going to try to cause some noise while it is on. I can track down details if anyone is interested. Dacid. To Unsubscrib

Re: How to fdisk/disklabel whole disk for FreeBSD from command line?

2000-03-04 Thread Warner Losh
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Doug White writes: : > fdisk -e /dev/rda1 : > disklabel -r -w da1 auto : : Yeah, this is wrong. You need to specify a slice. But you can't specify a slice here. It won't work. If you give it the whole path, disklabel won't even try. If you day da1s1, i

Re: DeCSS

2000-03-04 Thread Warner Losh
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Kris Kennaway writes: : You know, I half want to add a note in the release notes that "FreeBSD 4.0 : now ships with DeCSS included", but that might be a bit political :-) It would be political. All things are. What could they do to us? Haul us into court? In wh