Re: freebsd asm

2004-06-16 Thread Wes Peters
to create > this file yourself, it is neither part of nasm nor part of the standard > FreeBSD distribution :) See the last paragraph on the page - "Go ahead, > enter it into your editor and save it as system.inc." :) Gee, maybe somebody should do that and submit the file

Re: FreeBSD or other BSD for no-MMU ARM processor ?

2004-06-16 Thread Wes Peters
On Tuesday 15 June 2004 11:50, Gary Corcoran wrote: > Wes Peters wrote: > > On Monday 14 June 2004 12:32 pm, Gary Corcoran wrote: > >>Does anyone know if there is a port of FreeBSD, or any of the > >>other BSDs (e.g. NetBSD) for that matter, which will run on an >

Re: FreeBSD or other BSD for no-MMU ARM processor ?

2004-06-15 Thread Wes Peters
am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: HEADS UP! KSE needs more attention

2004-06-06 Thread Wes Peters
lopment. I'll contact dlo@ with details. sparc64 and alpha need a few champions. Without them, these ports will quickly be relegated to the bit-bucket. At any rate, FreeBSD will continue to move, in a direction we've decided to call "forward." -- Where am I, and what a

Re: [HEADS-UP] mbuma is in the tree

2004-06-03 Thread Wes Peters
to give it a try. I'll see if I can't get a couple of our beefier machines at work updated to -CURRENT in the next week. Thanks for the good work. -- Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket? Wes Peters

Re: Vendors of multi-port PCI ethernet cards?

2004-05-03 Thread Wes Peters
ck? http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductDetail.jsp?ProductCode=251442 They didn't show 10/100 cards, but they're still around. -- Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket? Wes Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: a serious error in sched_ule.c?

2004-03-14 Thread Wes Peters
8 years to waste, apparently. Wowsers. Sounds like they need a cluster. Introduce her to Dillon! ;^) -- Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket? Wes Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___

Re: a serious error in sched_ule.c?

2004-03-14 Thread Wes Peters
On Tue, 09 Mar 2004 21:29:54 +0100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dag-Erling Smørgrav) alleged: > Wes Peters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > One of the classic trade-offs in making a 'server' vs. 'workstation' > > operating system. Workstations require a strong prefe

Re: a serious error in sched_ule.c?

2004-03-09 Thread Wes Peters
ere some way (boot hint?) we could change SCHED_SLICE_INTERACTIVE between slice_max and something approaching slice_min? -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] _

Re: FreeBSD 5.2 v/s FreeBSD 4.9 MFLOPS performance (gcc3.3.3 v/s gcc2.9.5)

2004-02-19 Thread Wes Peters
On Monday 16 February 2004 10:11 am, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 03:52:16AM -0800, Wes Peters wrote: > > > Should I commit this? > > > > What effect does it have on non-i386 architectures?

Re: FreeBSD 5.2 v/s FreeBSD 4.9 MFLOPS performance (gcc3.3.3 v/s gcc2.9.5)

2004-02-15 Thread Wes Peters
uld do this more machine/compiler-independently. +*/ + vectp = (char **)(((vm_offset_t)vectp & ~(vm_offset_t)0x1F) - 4); /* * vectp also becomes our initial stack base -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters

Re: FreeBSD 5.2 v/s FreeBSD 4.9 MFLOPS performance (gcc3.3.3 v/s gcc2.9.5)

2004-02-10 Thread Wes Peters
t want to try -funroll-loops, but that's enough effort for a decade-old benchmark. For me, at least. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: binary files in src tree

2004-01-12 Thread Wes Peters
files used to test uuencode/uudecode should NOT be uuencoded, for obvious reasons. -- Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket? Wes Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailin

Re: Future of RAIDFrame and Vinum

2004-01-12 Thread Wes Peters
o work with. Perforce was built with a LAN in mind and scales reasonably well to the Internet, but can be painful unless you have relatively low latency and relatively high bandwidth to the server. cvsup updates much faster on slow links, too. A few years ago Perforce was working on a write

Re: Discussion on the future of floppies in 5.x and 6.x

2004-01-12 Thread Wes Peters
wing up here? -- Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket? Wes Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Discussion on the future of floppies in 5.x and 6.x

2004-01-11 Thread Wes Peters
> for it. Otherwise, let sleeping dogs lie? The dog isn't sleeping, it's dead. Like everything else in FreeBSD, it takes time. If someone wants to donate that time, it'll continue getting done, otherwise it'll fall by the wayside. --

Re: Discussion on the future of floppies in 5.x and 6.x

2004-01-10 Thread Wes Peters
hine. -- Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket? Wes Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Where is FreeBSD going?

2004-01-06 Thread Wes Peters
p' or 'laptop' computer users are probably better served by Mac OS X than anything I want to turn FreeBSD into, which is why my 68 year old father is a Mac owner. -- Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket? Wes Peters

Re: Where is FreeBSD going?

2004-01-06 Thread Wes Peters
he system they find troubling, or delightful, or have a better way of doing. Strike up a relationship with a committer or two (or twenty), let your ability and willingness to work be known, and become a committer too. 400 or so of your peers have already done it. -- Where a

Re: Power consumption in desktop computers

2003-12-27 Thread Wes Peters
On Friday 26 December 2003 05:41 pm, Martin Cracauer wrote: > Wes Peters wrote on Fri, Dec 26, 2003 at 08:15:38AM -0800: > > If you want a desktop machine with low power consumption (and far > > less cooling fan noise as a bonus) you may want to look into the VIA > > Epia mot

Re: Power consumption in desktop computers

2003-12-26 Thread Wes Peters
motherboards and systems. Matt Dillon has posted his results in building workstations (sort of glorified Xterms) using Epia systems and LCD panels. You can read his reivew at: http://apollo.backplane.com/FreeBSD/epia/review.html -- "Where am I, and what am I d

Re: Does indent(1) have a KNF mode?

2003-12-08 Thread Wes Peters
up a patch to add a knf mode, I'm happy to test and commit it. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing

Re: "secure" file flag?

2003-11-28 Thread Wes Peters
you're in there, paint that bikeshed blue. -- Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket? Wes Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: "secure" file flag?

2003-11-23 Thread Wes Peters
On Sunday 23 November 2003 04:46 am, Stefan Eßer wrote: > On 2003-11-23 00:19 -0800, Wes Peters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Saturday 22 November 2003 02:54 am, Stefan Eßer wrote: > > > On 2003-11-22 11:04 +0100, Dag-Erling Smørgrav <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrot

Re: "secure" file flag?

2003-11-23 Thread Wes Peters
On Sunday 23 November 2003 04:15 am, Stefan Eßer wrote: > On 2003-11-23 00:16 -0800, Wes Peters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Friday 21 November 2003 03:56 pm, Stefan Eßer wrote: > > > A simple algorithm could just mark each buffer with a special > > > kind of

Re: "secure" file flag?

2003-11-23 Thread Wes Peters
l flag "needs to be securely removed" to > the inode. That way, an interrupted overwrite process could be > continued after next reboot (for example initiated by fsck). But why would somebody trying to steal your data run fsck on it? You're not thin

Re: "secure" file flag?

2003-11-23 Thread Wes Peters
On Friday 21 November 2003 03:56 pm, Stefan Eßer wrote: > On 2003-11-21 14:09 -0800, Wes Peters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > As for performance, you really need to flush the on-device cache on > > each pass to make sure the bit patterns get written to the platter in >

Re: "secure" file flag?

2003-11-21 Thread Wes Peters
rmance would be abysmal. Imagine removing a large file, overwriting each block in 37 (IIRC) passes, syncing all the way through the on-disk cache after *every block.* Disk encryption suddenly doesn't look so bad, does it? -- &

Re: "secure" file flag?

2003-11-20 Thread Wes Peters
esting file flag. Would you expect the process to block on the unlink(2) call while the overwrite takes place, or for this to happen in a kernel thread? The former seems pretty straight- forward, hacking at ffs_blkfree. The latter I really wouldn't know how

Re: Observations on make release process?

2003-11-15 Thread Wes Peters
y) I've found in > "man release" and the above pages: Patches or additions to existing documentation, or even just providing text to one of our many dedicated doco contributors, would be greatly appreciated. What can you do for F

Re: non-root process and PID files

2003-11-14 Thread Wes Peters
hat you worked with at Whistle makes a lot of difference in what you can do as well. > Anyway, FreeBSD has steadfastly disliked the concept of a registry, > ever since Microsoft implemented it in Windows95; it's on of the > biggest "NIH" items of all time. And yet struggles to

Re: non-root process and PID files

2003-10-27 Thread Wes Peters
On Monday 27 October 2003 12:42 pm, Dan Langille wrote: > On Mon, 27 Oct 2003, Wes Peters wrote: > > On Monday 27 October 2003 07:31 am, Dan Langille wrote: > > > If a process starts up and does a setuid, should it be writing the > > > PID file before or after the setu

Re: non-root process and PID files

2003-10-27 Thread Wes Peters
ange the user or group id, chown(2) or chgrp(2) the file just before setuid(2) / setgid(2) calls. -- Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket? Wes Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: FreeBSD mail list etiquette

2003-10-27 Thread Wes Peters
ertainly NOT going to help relationships between any groups of humans. Bad form, Mr. Macy. Please come back when you have a point. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters

FreeBSD mail list etiquette

2003-10-23 Thread Wes Peters
reeBSD. -- Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket? Wes Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsub

Re: smallest piece of hardware that runs *BSD?

2003-10-10 Thread Wes Peters
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Re: Changing the NAT IP on demand?

2003-10-07 Thread Wes Peters
On Sunday 05 October 2003 19:11, Nick Rogness wrote: > On Sun, 5 Oct 2003, Wes Peters wrote: > > On Sunday 05 October 2003 01:02 am, Nick Rogness wrote: > > > On Sat, 4 Oct 2003, Leo Bicknell wrote: > > > > I'm considering options for a new project, and I think I

Re: VT8237 serial-ATA support, Promise ATA stalls, GEOM noise

2003-10-06 Thread Wes Peters
system is quite fast; it outperforms my P4 2.0 workstation at work on 'worldstones' by several minutes. -- Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket? Wes Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___

Re: Changing the NAT IP on demand?

2003-10-06 Thread Wes Peters
nat' and 'multiple' or something like that. Good luck! -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list ht

Re: Changing the NAT IP on demand?

2003-10-05 Thread Wes Peters
ch might see the next request as a different 'session', but I doubt those are much a problem across the internet. Good luck. If you run into bugs, I've always found Darren Reed to be helpful and interested in improving ipfilter/ipnat. This might even be a feature that i

Re: [PATCH] : libc_r/uthread/uthread_write.c

2003-10-05 Thread Wes Peters
thaw in -stable before it goes in there. > > Bugger... which means it won't be into 4.9-RELEASE. If it is important, forward the code and the reason it is needed to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Code freeze means 'only critical bug fixes&#

Re: Is socket buffer locking as questionable as it seems?

2003-10-04 Thread Wes Peters
u might first try to figure out > why that's occuring. Is this one of the areas you are planning to get to, Sam? -- Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket? Wes Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] __

Re: Wireless Embedded monitoring

2003-09-26 Thread Wes Peters
ocessor meets your needs, you'll like it a lot. I haven't tried the net4801 board, but I've worked with other Geode designs and if you need more cpu, that'll probably do. Good luck. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters

Re: percent support in sysinstall slice editor

2003-09-23 Thread Wes Peters
that's a great idea! Where's your patch? ;^) -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http:/

Re: Shared memory question

2003-09-10 Thread Wes Peters
lications > have to use shmget(2), shmat(2), shmdt(2) system calls > to obtain, attach and release the chunk of shared memory. Or mmap(2) with the MAP_SHARED attribute set. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters

Re: Addition to reboot(8): reboot / halt reasons

2003-09-02 Thread Wes Peters
now how to use at(1) and wall(1) to effect the same results, and to write a script if you really want to do that over and over again. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] __

Re: Ugly Huge BSD Monster

2003-09-02 Thread Wes Peters
t; speak up! portinstall -r -p pkgname will build a package for pkgname and all of it's dependencies. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___

3Com 3C940 gigabit ethernet adapter

2003-08-14 Thread Wes Peters
. If you have some hardware, you may wish to poke into this. Good luck. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ma

Re: Committing a driver to -stable

2003-07-18 Thread Wes Peters
one from the TRB (is there a list of who's part of > this group somewhere, anyway?) and/or -core to respond before you > take action. Agreed. I suggest dashing off a copy of your original message to arch@ and follow up to trb@ ONLY IF someone complains. --

Re: RFC: Change to sys_errlist

2003-07-10 Thread Wes Peters
eve our way is > the right way. In point of fact, errno == 0 does NOT mean "Success", it means "WTF?". 0 isn't a valid errno, so no meaning can be gleaned from errno == 0 any more than it could be gleaned from errno == 0xb00bface or errno == 6.023e23. -- Wher

Re: raw socket programming SOLVED

2003-07-10 Thread Wes Peters
is in order. -- Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket? Wes Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: gethostbyname_r

2003-07-02 Thread Wes Peters
o remove > it on 4.x as well. General consensus seems to be that implementing > it properly is Hard. Yes, it is, or at least was in 4.x. I thought we got a shiny new gethostbyname_r with Jacques Vidrine's nss implementation in 5.0, though. Is this not right? -- "

Re: kqueue alternative?

2003-06-16 Thread Wes Peters
oked at in this light, it would be really stupid if select didn't behave as it does when fed a file handle. -- Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket? Wes Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Is BSD a Linux operating system?

2003-06-10 Thread Wes Peters
sites. I sent them a note about 5.1 and all the new architectures; let's see how responsive they are about updates. ;^) -- Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket? Wes Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___

Re: gcc bug? Openoffice port impossibel to compile on 4.8

2003-05-31 Thread Wes Peters
. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: gcc bug? Openoffice port impossibel to compile on 4.8

2003-05-29 Thread Wes Peters
that we can't compile valid K&R code without the compiler throwing a conniption fit trying to typecheck something it has no real knowledge of. -- Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket? Wes Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: gcc bug? Openoffice port impossibel to compile on 4.8

2003-05-29 Thread Wes Peters
On Wednesday 28 May 2003 05:12 am, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > Wes Peters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > GCC 3.2 is broken by design. It insists, amongst other stupidities, > > on type-checking arguments using old style declarations like: > > > >

Re: gcc bug? Openoffice port impossibel to compile on 4.8

2003-05-27 Thread Wes Peters
ave decided for us the world doesn't need any stinking 20-year-old software. -- Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket? Wes Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] m

Re: [hackers] Re: Realtek

2003-03-30 Thread Wes Peters
r $10 (at TigerDirect.com). -- Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket? Wes Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsu

BSD tar (was Re: Making pkg_XXX tools smarter about file types...)

2003-03-30 Thread Wes Peters
for a BSD-licensed tar to replace GNU tar. > I understand a few people have wanted such a thing. Why yes, yes they have. -- Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket? Wes Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] __

Re: Lots of kernel core dumps

2003-03-26 Thread Wes Peters
On Monday 24 March 2003 11:18, Daniela wrote: > On Sunday 23 March 2003 20:20, Wes Peters wrote: > > > > The reason for creating the 5.0 release is to make it easy for more > > developers and testers to jump onto the 5.x bandwagon by giving them > > a known (relatively)

Re: Lots of kernel core dumps

2003-03-23 Thread Wes Peters
your tenacity. We really do appreciate the contributions of everyone. -- Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket? Wes Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Realtek

2003-03-13 Thread Wes Peters
On Wednesday 12 March 2003 10:37, Doug Ambrisko wrote: > Wes Peters writes: > | Or you can cheat and use a SmartBits-2000 like I did. It can send > | exactly 148,800 packets per second, with very precise timing of the > | inter-packet > > Soon we should be getting an Ixia. Th

Re: Realtek

2003-03-12 Thread Wes Peters
Wow. The receiving side handled the first 93 packets and then rolled over, recovering for only the last packet. (Look at the icmp_seq numbers.) FreeBSD behaves similarly, but try the test on your own. ;^) -- Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket? Wes Peters

Re: Realtek

2003-03-10 Thread Wes Peters
; would be interesting to see you kill it in 1s. Again our issue is PCI > bus. Flood it with wire speed 64-byte packets and drive it into receive interrupt livelock. Yup, the PCI bus is (most of) the problem here too. -- Where am I, and what am I doing in

Re: Insecure PHP installation?

2003-03-10 Thread Wes Peters
heel 5957 Dec 21 18:01 /usr/local/bin/pear Did you install from the package? If not, why not? If so, is your package different from mine or has your installation been changed after the fact? -- Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket? Wes Peters

Re: High CPU usage when forwarding packets

2003-03-08 Thread Wes Peters
copying is going on. I'd like to get a PCI card and stop using the > onboard lnc, but unfortunately the single PCI slot is already taken up > by other other NIC. You need a PCI dual NIC, then. ISA network adapters suck, as you've noted. -- Where am I, and what am I d

Re: Realtek

2003-03-07 Thread Wes Peters
our testing so far. I don't recall the vendor, it is "Ad-something." I can look them up Monday if you email me about it then. I think they make a 4-port 551 card without the relays as well, but I don't know about pricing. -- Where

Re: Realtek

2003-03-07 Thread Wes Peters
On Friday 07 March 2003 09:16, Doug Ambrisko wrote: > Wes Peters writes: > | On Thursday 06 March 2003 15:02, Paulo Roberto wrote: > | > --- Bram Van Dam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > | > > cheap they are they do their job fairly well. If performance > | >

Re: Realtek

2003-03-06 Thread Wes Peters
bulk you can probably get them for $8-9. Those are a LOT better than the RealTek cards. JUST SAY NO. -- Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket? Wes Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: C coding editor

2003-03-01 Thread Wes Peters
On Saturday 01 March 2003 03:12 pm, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On 2003-02-28 07:52, Terry Lambert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Wes Peters wrote: > > > No, but your editor really ought to be able to interpret tab > > > stops correctly at like 0.5 in increments. C

Re: C coding editor

2003-02-28 Thread Wes Peters
n Letter-size paper. For those of us weird enough to print code, that is. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: C coding editor

2003-02-27 Thread Wes Peters
On Wednesday 26 February 2003 09:57 am, Jason Andresen wrote: > Wes Peters wrote: > > > Seriously, limiting your programming for a lifetime to 80 columns > > because you couldn't figure out how to make some grotty old dot > > matrix printer do 8-point printing

Re: C coding editor

2003-02-26 Thread Wes Peters
On Monday 24 February 2003 08:43, Jason Andresen wrote: > Stacy Millions wrote: > > Wes Peters wrote: > >> Terminal? You have heard of this really cool thing called > >> windowing software? ;^) > >> > >> I completely utterly fail to understand why s

Re: bootp_subr.c forget it.

2003-02-24 Thread Wes Peters
source tree. Yes, we are, and we are also very willing to give credit. We don't want to create anymore licensing nightmare than we already have if we can avoid it. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters

Re: Monitoring changes in extended attributes?

2003-02-24 Thread Wes Peters
e in a while anyway. The > functionality you're looking for sounds a bit more database-esque than in > line with a traditional file store. BeFS (in BeOS) had some interesting capabilities along these lines. It seems to me that the ability to monitor a mounted filesystem for inode chan

Re: C coding editor

2003-02-23 Thread Wes Peters
27;ll like it. You might even find a use for that mouse. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscr

Re: arc4random() range

2003-02-19 Thread Wes Peters
but he's not in yet. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROT

Re: Raising SIGSEGV in SIGSEGV handler makes FreeBSD loop

2003-02-19 Thread Wes Peters
(Ah, Wes, that software comedian.) -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Hi!Dear FreeBSD!

2003-02-18 Thread Wes Peters
s & lakes, roads and buildings, in the Digital Feature Analysis Data or DFAD datasets.) The CIA has maps for most of the world available in the same format in their World DataBank, but so far doesn't seem interested in releasing theirs. -- Where am I, and what am I doin

Re: Binary security updates

2003-02-16 Thread Wes Peters
some mirror sites willing to bear the traffic for you. We'll bring the efforts of the Donations Liason Officer, Michael W. Lucas, to bear on this. All you need to do is let him know what resources you will need. -- Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket? Wes Peters

Re: Got X working with via driver ( Re: Another EPIA M 9000 update ) results (was Re: Lower power SMP boxes?))

2003-02-11 Thread Wes Peters
lways) Matt. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Missing commit bit [PATCH].

2003-02-09 Thread Wes Peters
let us (the Core Team) know if you see anything in the Rules that is somehow unfair to individuals or groups, or otherwise objectionable. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/committers-guide/rules.html -- Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket? Wes Peters

Re: anyone working on a new file system metaphor?

2003-01-10 Thread Wes Peters
tem? A filesystem with extensible attributes might be a good companion to such a system, where you can tag a file with one or more attributes, then sort and view the files by attribute. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters

Re: nsswitch help for you?

2003-01-04 Thread Wes Peters
On Wed, 2002-12-25 at 06:54, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Quoting Danny Braniss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > what exactly do you want/need? > > danny > > Sorry, I'll try to get as specific as I can with my currently limited knowledge > of the FBSD source code. > > Basically, I would like to know wh

Re: I'm leaving the project

2002-12-19 Thread Wes Peters
il to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message And, to quote one of the better TV commercials in the USA, "get a rope!" -- Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket? Wes Peters

Re: more kernel programming style questions

2002-12-14 Thread Wes Peters
nate address space" which means they have to be accessed using different instructions (LDA/STA) than those that access memory (LD/ST). Attempting memory I/O to devices on SPARC is doomed to failure. It's a whole new (portable) world, folks... -- "Wh

Re: How can I post a pr when my IP can't be reverse-resolved?

2002-12-14 Thread Wes Peters
t; Not very satisfying to me, either, since a lot of people are > "PR-blind" to patches posted to the mailing list. > > Maybe you could also ask them to reenable web send-pr, as I did. Probably not gonna happen, it's just an invitation to abuse. Sorry. Bad people

Re: none

2002-12-09 Thread Wes Peters
try that? ;^) http://www.freebsd.org/ -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send ma

Re: Arp and Route Commands

2002-11-19 Thread Wes Peters
nf file. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: finding unmatched quotes in shell scripts

2002-11-19 Thread Wes Peters
face. Or simply set -x at the beginning of the script? -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://softweyr.com/

Re: finding unmatched quotes in shell scripts

2002-11-18 Thread Wes Peters
ly parse Bourne shell syntax (quiet Terry - I *know* what > you're going to say) /usr/src/bin/sh/parser.c? ;^) -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC [EMAIL PROT

Re: Shrinking /(s)bin: A Proposal

2002-11-14 Thread Wes Peters
gt; for /recover would be useful too. Time to bring back /lib? -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://softweyr.com/ To Unsub

Re: Shrinking /(s)bin: A Proposal

2002-11-13 Thread Wes Peters
th crunchgen you get the full-featured FreeBSD versions of commands, not the stripped-down sometimes functionless versions in BusyBox. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC [E

Re: FreeBSD performing worse than Linux?

2001-11-27 Thread Wes Peters
re consistent results. Ick. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: OT: firewire slugs available ?

2001-09-11 Thread Wes Peters
e of the embedded firewire SDKs; using some of the sample code you should be able to produce 300 boneheaded firewire devices for very low cost after the purchase price of the SDK. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters

Re: What is VT_TFS?

2001-09-08 Thread Wes Peters
t; (Apart from Adrians story of course :-) > > If you think you can beat it out of him... I think we'd all > like to sit around the camp fire and listen to it, while > stroking our long grey beards... Do I have to grow my beard as long as

Re: Routing Performance?

2001-09-04 Thread Wes Peters
q Alpha boxes, and 16 API CS20s) > > No I didn't. That's really sad. I wonder if the impending Hewlett-Compaqard merger will hasten the Alpha into its grave. The King is Dead, Long Live the King! -- "W

Re: wireless nic recommendations

2001-08-24 Thread Wes Peters
Warner Losh wrote: > > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Wes Peters writes: > : I've had no problems with this card, it is currently reaching about 6.5 > : miles without an amplifier, using a 24 dB "fruit basket" antenna on the > : roof of my house. > &

Re: wireless nic recommendations

2001-08-21 Thread Wes Peters
at the access point 24x7. The initial speed tests performed by the ISP showed speed consistent above 1,000 Kbps. You should have little problem with speed going between two houses. The Cisco cards are pretty expensive compared to other brands. -- "Where am

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