Re: Fundraising for FreeBSD development.

2004-04-09 Thread Andrew Boothman
Simon L. Nielsen wrote: I cannot promise exposure on the main FreeBSD Project pages, that would be up to the webmasters (and to some extent the core team) to arrange and allow for such precense. We currently have list of donors both on http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/contributo

Re: SPAM/virii apparently from freeBSD addresses.

2004-03-01 Thread Andrew Boothman
Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: Somewhere out there there is a ?Virus?/?Hacker?/?Spammer? getting really annoying.. Yeah, but what do you expect anyone to do about it? Swen and MyDoom are easy to detect and reject at the SMTP stage. The fact that our mail servers don't do this is a PITA, as it force

Re: SCM options (was Re: Where is FreeBSD going?)

2004-01-10 Thread Andrew Boothman
Peter Jeremy wrote: Most of the noteworthy features of subversion are listed on the project front page: http://subversion.tigris.org/ A significant one of which is the fact that it's available under a BSD-style license. Meaning that the project wouldn't have to rely on more GPLed code. I wonder i

Re: SCM options (was Re: Where is FreeBSD going?)

2004-01-10 Thread Andrew Boothman
Peter Schuller wrote: Most of the noteworthy features of subversion are listed on the project front page: http://subversion.tigris.org/ A significant one of which is the fact that it's available under a BSD-style license. Meaning that the project wouldn't have to rely on more GPLed code. I

BSDWorld (Was: Hi!Dear FreeBSD!)

2003-02-02 Thread Andrew Boothman
Julian Elischer wrote: maybe we should make some sort of geographical registration web page so that people can find each other? A bunch of people from FreeBSD's UKUG started working on this. It was to be hosted on www.bsdworld.net (not generally viewable yet), although it was started it seeme

Re: in-kernel HTTP Server for FreeBSD?

2002-02-18 Thread Andrew Boothman
Terry Lambert wrote: >>What about HyperTransport? >>(Not that I know anything about it, but those nice AMD guys keep >>mentioning it in sales garbage :) >> > >They keep mentioning "SledgeHammer", too... > >Have you seen silicon for either one of them yet? > I don't pretend to know much about any

Re: OS Textbook FreeBSD Appendix

2002-01-29 Thread Andrew Boothman
Ronald G Minnich wrote: > >where'd they get this? that's an odd statement. Shared memory was used all >the time on Unix on -11s, that's the whole point of the shared text a.out >format. Of course shared read-only text is not exactly the standard shared >memory, but at the same time it shows feasi

OS Textbook FreeBSD Appendix

2002-01-25 Thread Andrew Boothman
Hi all! Apologies if this is common knowledge, but I recently bought Operating System Concepts by Silberschatz, Galvin and Gagne (published by Wiley) for my Computer Science course and the book has several appendices which are available for download from Wiley's web site. One of these appendi

Re: -Stable installation...

2001-08-06 Thread Andrew Boothman
in order to keep up with the latest comings and goings. An archive of recent messages is available from http://docs.freebsd.org/mail/current/freebsd-stable.html -- Andrew Boothman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://sour.cream.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsub

Automatic Documentation Index

2000-01-07 Thread Andrew Boothman
s I've been talking about and example outputs from all this are available from http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~andrew/docindex/ Does anyone have any thoughts or comments on how to proceed? Many thanks! --- Andrew Boothman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> FreeBSD UK User Group http://ukug.uk.FreeBSD.org

DMI Support

1999-12-13 Thread Andrew Boothman
help out on myself, but my knowledge of FreeBSD isn't detailed enough, and my knowledge of OS programming is even worse! :) So while I'm still learning, is anyone else working on this? Many thanks! --- Andrew Boothman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> FreeBSD UK User Group http://ukug.uk.Free

compat22 / ld.so - FAQ Addition

1999-06-12 Thread Andrew Boothman
grading, the libraries that were > used to execute the old 2.2.x binaries are upgraded so that you can > execute the new 3.x binaries. > > If you need to execute 2.2.x binaries on a 3.x system you should > install the 'compat22' port in /usr/ports/com