OT: The future of USENET?

2013-03-27 Thread grarpamp
Usenet was great. 'Was' because it really isn't there anymore. Servers used to be widespread, you could use your ISP, your school, your work, and failing that plenty of free ones even if for the asking, even some public/open ones. Now there are very few, if any, free servers and likely none are pub

Re: Bad gpg signature on 9.1 announcement mail?

2012-12-31 Thread grarpamp
This was a local mailer issue. The sig on the release announcement is fine. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.

Bad gpg signature on 9.1 announcement mail?

2012-12-30 Thread grarpamp
Anyone else having trouble verifying the signature on the announcement mail? If your's works, can you inline a base64 encoded version of the verified message text so I can see what's wrong with my verifier? Thanks. gpg --verify msg.txt.asc msg.txt ___ fre

about unattended installation

2012-12-20 Thread grarpamp
Though I do have a need for completely unattended and/or network installs, I don't have a need to continue with sysinstall.cfg. Whatever is done, be sure not to hobble any new installer out of some perceived need to be backwards compatible, or invest much time in being so. Writing and using a confi

Re: FreeBSD needs Git to ensure repo integrity [was: 2012 incident]

2012-11-18 Thread grarpamp
> I won't fail to defend general anti-nym opinion or guidance d-oh, s/defend/defend against/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-un

Re: FreeBSD needs Git to ensure repo integrity [was: 2012 incident]

2012-11-18 Thread grarpamp
>> grarpamp >> the various good uses for nyms. > cpgh...@cordula.ws > I hope you realize whom you're trying to lecture here! > Joerg Wunsch is a highly appreciated long-time FreeBSD contributor Of course. No one here has any question as to anyone's FreeBSD particip

Re: FreeBSD needs Git to ensure repo integrity [was: 2012 incident]

2012-11-18 Thread grarpamp
On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 1:57 AM, Garrett Wollman wrote: >> the various good uses for nyms. > > There are no such uses on the FreeBSD mailing-lists; if you wish for > anyone to pay attention to you, then use a real name. Otherwise, > FOAD. > > -GAWollman It appears you have not reviewed the maili

Re: FreeBSD needs Git to ensure repo integrity [was: 2012 incident]

2012-11-17 Thread grarpamp
>> joerg_wun...@uriah.heep.sax.de > You don't even have a name Your domain indicates Germany, please have a chat with CCC.de about the various good uses for nyms. And consult your library for some fine historical use cases. If that's counter to your beliefs, you are free to show us the way and pos

FreeBSD needs Git to ensure repo integrity [was: 2012 incident]

2012-11-17 Thread grarpamp
http://www.freebsd.org/news/2012-compromise.html http://it.slashdot.org/story/12/11/17/143219/freebsd-project-discloses-security-breach-via-stolen-ssh-key This is not about this incident, but about why major opensource projects need to be using a repository that has traceable, verifiable, built-in

Re: Character set conversion, locales, UTF-8, etc

2012-11-05 Thread grarpamp
>> As an aside, why does FreeBSD seem to default to the above locale >> instead of say, en_US.UTF-8 ? > > FreeBSD's file system does not default to any locale, as far as I > know. The system is "agnostic" to what the characters in the file > name mean or what symbol they should represent. Sure the

Character set conversion, locales, UTF-8, etc

2012-11-04 Thread grarpamp
Hi. I think I'm looking for a character conversion tool. I have a few thousand files in a hier. I believe an app, possibly a Java one, created them while in en_US.US-ASCII mode, or perhaps some other unidentified locale. Whatever it was, I think it took binary filename data, interpreted it and wrot

Re: `ls -l` shows size of file other than of the folder?

2012-06-14 Thread grarpamp
>>> > The following creates a file with a size of 102402 (a gig) >>> > fseek(stdout, 100*1024, SEEK_END); >>> Nope :) What you have there is not actually called (anything). >> It would maybe be called a MKiB. :-) I'll buy that, if someone chips in the deuce :) > In SI units it is called

`ls -l` shows size of file other than of the folder?

2012-06-13 Thread grarpamp
> The following creates a file with a size of 102402 (a gig) > fseek(stdout, 100*1024, SEEK_END); Nope :) What you have there is not actually called (anything). A proper gibibyte = GiB = 2^30 = 1024^3 = 1073741824 for data storage, ram (binary bit handling) A proper gigabyte = GB = 1E9 =

Many open branches = excess FreeBSD project work?

2012-06-13 Thread grarpamp
We talk about release dates and always slippage and effect on downstream in other thread. But maybe some causes and even just related efficiency thing is: FreeBSD officially maintaining right now [1]: - G HEAD - G RELENG_9 - S RELENG_9_0 - G RELENG_8 - S RELENG_8_3 - S RELENG_8_2 - S RELENG_8_1 -

Re: UEFI Secure Boot Specs - And some sanity

2012-06-08 Thread grarpamp
>> Isn't there a lot of needless handwaving going on when the spec is >> pretty clear that installing your own complete PKI tree will all >> boil down to what is effectively a jumper on the motherboard? > Hoping a jumper Might be under an easily unscrewable panel seems unlikely. I did say "effect

UEFI Secure Boot Specs - And some sanity

2012-06-06 Thread grarpamp
Isn't there a lot of needless handwaving going on when the spec is pretty clear that installing your own complete PKI tree will all boil down to what is effectively a jumper on the motherboard? First, some sanity... Users could fully utilize the UEFI Secure Boot hardware by say: - Using openssl

Re: /usr/bin/find - binary operands howto

2012-06-05 Thread grarpamp
A single find already had the needed selection and execution ops. So I was trying it first, before writing an external parser, etc. It's still not clear to me how find is compiling the arguments internally, but using -vv on the utils helped a lot. After adding -false after all the -exec's, it now

/usr/bin/find - binary operands howto

2012-06-03 Thread grarpamp
Given a fs with millions of inodes, multiple find runs is expensive. As is performing the ch* on more than the minimum required inodes, which also needlessly updates the inode ctime. So I want one find, doing the ch* only if necessary. I came up with this. But any true line short circuits the rest

Re: Regex Wizards

2011-09-27 Thread grarpamp
I think I'm grokking my mistake with the greedy stuff now. I'll try implementing a couple of your suggestions. Thanks guys! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

Regex Wizards

2011-09-26 Thread grarpamp
Under the ERE implementation in RELENG_8, I'm having trouble figuring out how to group and backreference this. Given a line, where: If AAA is present, CCC will be too, and B may appear in between. If AAA is not present, neither CCC or B will be present. is always present. Junk may be pres

Re: UDF and DVD's

2011-05-20 Thread grarpamp
> Obviously, the base system UDF support is minimal and needs some work. > But you may find that ports like sysutils/cdrtools[-devel] or > sysutils/udfclient will allow you to do much of what you want to do. Hmm. perhaps I may be able to create and burn [both modes occurring in userland] with cdr

Re: UDF and DVD's

2011-05-20 Thread grarpamp
> Thoughts: please provide commands, full output, etc. that show how > you're trying to mount the disc, as well as relevant /dev entries > pertaining to your DVD drive. dmesg might also be helpful. And I > assume you have looked at mount_udf(8)? Apologies, it is late. However I used only the obv

UDF and DVD's

2011-05-19 Thread grarpamp
Greetings... :) The first filesystem DVD... other than a movie DVD (DVD-VIDEO?), and the FreeBSD make release DVD's (iso9660)... that I've ever tried to mount, well... don't. It is: Windows 7 Ultimate with Service Pack 1 (x64) - DVD (English) 5/12/2011 You can find the SHA-1 hash here: http://ms

[FYI] Bittorrent for 8.2 release

2011-02-20 Thread grarpamp
Some observations for those considering using bt this time... Vuze 4.6.0.2 under OpenJDK7 works fine. You need to grab swt-devel, log4j, junit, commons-cli. If you're using the ancient Vuze port, just replace the Vuze jar from that with the current one from sourceforge. Until swt is updated, you p

Upgrading from FreeBSD 4.10 to 8.1?

2011-01-06 Thread grarpamp
I know I'll take heat from everyone else who responded saying to effectively ship a new box. But maybe this user has significant costs involved with that. Along with any other reasons... v4 to v8 can be done. I've done it entirely live over the net. Nothing crazy about it. The basic idea is that

ghostscript x11

2010-11-01 Thread grarpamp
>> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2010-October/222897.html >> Unknown device: x11 >> Unrecoverable error: undefined in .uninstallpagedevice >> Operand stack: defaultdevice > Wrote elhosots: > After my post, ive been unable to reproduce my own results. The > only thing that wo

ghostscript x11 [8-stable]

2010-10-26 Thread grarpamp
An FYI regarding: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2010-October/222897.html This problem has existed for me for many months, if not more. Currently: -rw-r--r--1 110 1002 11407910 Oct 07 11:33 ghostscript8-8.71_6.tbz 4a2328c262b08dc78938c66548117d27dc6a3586 ghosts

Better processor, SSE3, crypto?

2010-02-12 Thread grarpamp
Hi. I'm stretching a couple machines with spare parts. I've got a midrange P4 Northwood 2.4G/533 SL6PC and a lowball P4 Prescott 2.4G/533 SL7E8. They're apparently missing 64bit, HT, NX, VT and friends. To me, the Prescott only seems better by 512K more L2 cache, SSE3 and more heat for the winter.

Adding up kernel mem usage

2009-10-15 Thread grarpamp
If I subtract vmstat and kldstat from wired, I'm missing approx 100M. What am I doing wrong or what should I be adding up to find the total mem in use by the kernel and a breakdown of that usage? Thanks. top -SH -d 1 1000 | egrep '^Mem:' Mem: 114M Active, 65M Inact, 258M Wired, 468K Cache, 46M Buf

Re: Adding up kernel mem usage

2009-10-15 Thread grarpamp
Is multiplying out the size and used columns from vmstat -z completely in addition to the amount used in vmstat -m, or do some of them overlap? vmstat -z | sed 's,^.*:,,' | sed -E 's,^ +,,' | sed -E 's/^([0-9]+),[^,]+, +/\1*/;s/,.*$//' | egrep '^[0-9]' | bc | add 58483416 Is netstat -m accounted