On Mar 16, 2011, at 12:29 AM, Matthew Seaman wrote:
>
> Microsoft may once have had 90% of the desktop market -- but is that
> still true? Macs seem to be everywhere nowadays.
It may have change a couple of percentage points. Apple marketshare has gone
up a lot percentage wise but in the who
On 16/03/2011 00:37, Jerry wrote:
> Microsoft has approximately 90% of the desktop market share with
> everyone else dividing up the remainder. If you are on a Microsoft
> platform you use their products. The same applies to other platforms
> and their utilities.
Microsoft may once have had 90% of
On 03/16/11 10:43, Chad Perrin wrote:
On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 08:37:53PM -0400, Jerry wrote:
The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to
choose from.
. . . and most of them are supported on any given platform that isn't
pathologically closed.
Microsoft h
Erich Dollansky writes:
> > The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to
> > choose from.
>
> when it comes to screwing, we use - at least outside the USA -
> metric screws. M3, M4 ... M10 ...
>
> We do not care much who manufactured them.
>
> The software indu
> Sorry if this is a bit off topic. I am looking to run a Freebsd server with a
> hosting company. Preferably on the cheaper side as our needs in the beginning
> will be somewhat limited. I would need enough ram/storage to do some trial
> and
> error with different databases. So the vmware vir
Hi,
On Wednesday 16 March 2011 07:37:53 Jerry wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Mar 2011 08:32:01 +1000
> Da Rock articulated:
>
> > On 03/08/11 03:00, Chad Perrin wrote:
> > > On Mon, Mar 07, 2011 at 07:31:43AM -0800, Nerius Landys wrote:
> > >
>
> The nice thing about standards is that there are so man
> "Darren" == Darren writes:
Darren> Sorry if this is a bit off topic. I am looking to run a Freebsd
Darren> server with a hosting company. Preferably on the cheaper side
Darren> as our needs in the beginning will be somewhat limited. I would
Darren> need enough ram/storage to do some tri
On Tue, 15 Mar 2011, Jerry wrote:
Now, as far as HAL goes, the fragmented open-source community cannot
even begin to agree on its replacement. Every distro is busy trying to
reinvent the wheel. Here you want the majority of users to be dictated
to by a minority of users who cannot even agree on
Sorry if this is a bit off topic. I am looking to run a Freebsd server with a
hosting company. Preferably on the cheaper side as our needs in the beginning
will be somewhat limited. I would need enough ram/storage to do some trial and
error with different databases. So the vmware virtual ser
On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 08:37:53PM -0400, Jerry wrote:
>
> The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to
> choose from.
. . . and most of them are supported on any given platform that isn't
pathologically closed.
>
> Microsoft has approximately 90% of the desktop market s
Been a while since I've had time to check the list- I became a dad again
a couple of weeks ago so its been hectic to say the least. Apologies for
the previous thread revival- my email client didn't show up with _all_
the emails I missed so I thought I was more recent than I had realised.
I'm r
On Wed, 16 Mar 2011 08:32:01 +1000
Da Rock articulated:
> On 03/08/11 03:00, Chad Perrin wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 07, 2011 at 07:31:43AM -0800, Nerius Landys wrote:
> >
> >> Sorry I could not help but to realize the title of this forum
> >> discussion.
> >>
> >> "I'm sorry Dave, I can't do that
On 03/08/11 03:00, Chad Perrin wrote:
On Mon, Mar 07, 2011 at 07:31:43AM -0800, Nerius Landys wrote:
Sorry I could not help but to realize the title of this forum discussion.
"I'm sorry Dave, I can't do that." :-/
"I'm sorry Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that."
(full quote)
ht
I had patches for this a couple of years ago when I worked on this
problem for summer of code. What I did back then is surely stale, but
if people really want it, I'd be happy to take another stab at it.
On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 3:35 PM, Eitan Adler wrote:
>>Is this possible or am I being unreaso
>Is this possible or am I being unreasonable, or both, or not?
This is unsupported, but you are not being unreasonable. This is a
much wanted feature.
> Yes. Ports which support parallel builds will have MAKE_JOBS_SAFE=yes set in
> the port Makefile. It defaults to running -j with
> MAKE_JOBS
On Tue, 15 Mar 2011 17:07:20 -0500, Adam Vande More
wrote:
> Your statement about master being faster than a slave is simply not true for
> almost every scenario when using devices with same capabilites. All
> master/slave really controls is enumeration, and shouldn't effect
> performance in and
On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 3:59 PM, Polytropon wrote:
> Keep in mind that performance "across" ad0 and ad2 is best.
> Masters are always good. Slaves are slower. Using primary
> and secondary in parallel works good, working on a master
> and a slave simultanously is worse.
>
Your statement about ma
We use a Dell rack system with a JAVA based virtual console facility,
iDRAC6, which works well when used via Windows 7 or some Linux boxes. On
FreeBSD 9.0/amd64 (most recent) with JAVA
diablo-jdk-1.6.0.07.02_13 Java Development Kit 1.6.0_07.02
openjdk6-b22_2 Oracle's Java 6 virtual machine
On Tue, 15 Mar 2011 15:17:34 -0400, freebsd_u...@guice.ath.cx wrote:
> > did I get it right? You have four hard disks?
>
> Yes, four separate HDD's
I assume you have two on each of the two lines:
ad0 = primary master
ad1 = primary slave
ad2 = secondary master
a
On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 3:17 PM, wrote:
> Annotated below ...
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Tuesday 15 March 2011 07:00:30 freebsd_u...@guice.ath.cx wrote:
> >> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> >>
> >> Guidance with the following:
> >>
> >> We are limited to Support for ATA-100/66/33 IDE and ATAPI complian
Hi--
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On Mar 15, 2011, at 12:20 PM, John wrote:
> I am no expert on make, so, here goes:
>
> Can -j options be used for make when building ports?
Yes. Ports which support parallel builds will have MAKE_JOBS_SAFE=yes set in
the port Makefile. It
Hello freebsd-questions,
I am no expert on make, so, here goes:
Can -j options be used for make when building ports? I have an AMD X2
6000+ so presumably I'd use -j3 if this is possible. I know from the
docs that -j is not recommended for make installkernel or installworld -
but for some ports pa
Annotated below ...
> Hi,
>
> On Tuesday 15 March 2011 07:00:30 freebsd_u...@guice.ath.cx wrote:
>> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
>>
>> Guidance with the following:
>>
>> We are limited to Support for ATA-100/66/33 IDE and ATAPI compliant
>> devices. With that said, we have our atapi/33 optical o
On 14 March 2011 20:00, wrote:
> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
>
> Guidance with the following:
>
> We are limited to Support for ATA-100/66/33 IDE and ATAPI compliant
> devices. With that said, we have our atapi/33 optical on a add in
> controller (PCI) and are seeking to place four HDD’s on th
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