Re: history of mrproper

2001-07-03 Thread Kip Macy
Mr. Proper On Tue, 3 Jul 2001, Mike Sklar wrote: > > Hopefully someone could enlighten me on the history of mrproper. I think > its a great name for making sources *proper*. In particular I'd like to > know what the *mr* might stand for. > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: history of mrproper

2001-07-03 Thread Kip Macy
Mr. Proper On Tue, 3 Jul 2001, Mike Sklar wrote: Hopefully someone could enlighten me on the history of mrproper. I think its a great name for making sources *proper*. In particular I'd like to know what the *mr* might stand for. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: When the FUD is all around (sniff).

2001-06-26 Thread Kip Macy
It's amazing what masquerades as news. It's also noteworthy that they didn't bother to have a native speaker of English to edit the article: An executive of another affiliated company said that he felt the passion of IBM, which is determined to invest US$1 billion, this year alone, in Linux.

Re: When the FUD is all around (sniff).

2001-06-26 Thread Kip Macy
It's amazing what masquerades as news. It's also noteworthy that they didn't bother to have a native speaker of English to edit the article: An executive of another affiliated company said that he felt the passion of IBM, which is determined to invest US$1 billion, this year alone, in Linux.

Re: 3com Driver and the 3XP Processor

2001-06-14 Thread Kip Macy
of my 5-10 3cr990s and replace > them with someone else's product? > Nick > > On Thu, 14 Jun 2001, Kip Macy wrote: > > > IPsec support will be binary only. > > As I mentioned previously IP heavy is a euphemism for commodity. - To unsubscribe fro

Re: 3com Driver and the 3XP Processor

2001-06-14 Thread Kip Macy
IPsec support will be binary only. -Kip On Thu, 14 Jun 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > So what is the truth to the rumors 3com was throwing around about the > "linux driver with ipsec support"? > Nick > > On Thu, 14 Jun 2001, Martin Moerman wrote: > > > > > > > On Thu, 14 Jun

Re: 3com Driver and the 3XP Processor

2001-06-14 Thread Kip Macy
IPsec support will be binary only. -Kip On Thu, 14 Jun 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So what is the truth to the rumors 3com was throwing around about the linux driver with ipsec support? Nick On Thu, 14 Jun 2001, Martin Moerman wrote: On Thu, 14 Jun 2001, Brent D.

Re: 3com Driver and the 3XP Processor

2001-06-14 Thread Kip Macy
? Nick On Thu, 14 Jun 2001, Kip Macy wrote: IPsec support will be binary only. As I mentioned previously IP heavy is a euphemism for commodity. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo

Re: threading question

2001-06-12 Thread Kip Macy
For heavy threading, try a user-level threads package. -Kip On Tue, 12 Jun 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, > > due to the nature of the problem (a pairwise mutual alignment of n > sequences results in mx. n^2 alignments which can each be done in a > separate thread), I

Re: threading question

2001-06-12 Thread Kip Macy
This may sound like flamebait, but its not. Linux threads are basically just processes that share the same address space. Their performance is measurably worse than it is on most commercial Unixes and FreeBSD. They are not, or at least two years ago, were not POSIX compliant (they behaved badly

Re: threading question

2001-06-12 Thread Kip Macy
This may sound like flamebait, but its not. Linux threads are basically just processes that share the same address space. Their performance is measurably worse than it is on most commercial Unixes and FreeBSD. They are not, or at least two years ago, were not POSIX compliant (they behaved badly

Re: threading question

2001-06-12 Thread Kip Macy
For heavy threading, try a user-level threads package. -Kip On Tue, 12 Jun 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, due to the nature of the problem (a pairwise mutual alignment of n sequences results in mx. n^2 alignments which can each be done in a separate thread), I need

Re: 3com Driver and the 3XP Processor

2001-06-11 Thread Kip Macy
I think that they are relatively friendly. However, if they publish the interface to their card another company could come along with a card with the same functionality and take advantage of pre-existing drivers and undercut their price, thus taking away their margins. At least that is the

Re: 3com Driver and the 3XP Processor

2001-06-11 Thread Kip Macy
It can't because 3com hasn't implemented in the driver and they won't publish the interface. -Kip On Mon, 11 Jun 2001, Brent D. Norris wrote: > I just had one of the "3com Etherlink 10/100 PCI NIC with 3XP processor" > float accross my desk, I was wondering how much the linux

Re: 3com Driver and the 3XP Processor

2001-06-11 Thread Kip Macy
It can't because 3com hasn't implemented in the driver and they won't publish the interface. -Kip On Mon, 11 Jun 2001, Brent D. Norris wrote: I just had one of the 3com Etherlink 10/100 PCI NIC with 3XP processor float accross my desk, I was wondering how much the linux kernel

Re: 3com Driver and the 3XP Processor

2001-06-11 Thread Kip Macy
I think that they are relatively friendly. However, if they publish the interface to their card another company could come along with a card with the same functionality and take advantage of pre-existing drivers and undercut their price, thus taking away their margins. At least that is the

Looking for device to write device driver for

2001-06-04 Thread Kip Macy
This may well be a question whose appropriate response is RTFM. However, I did look first. I am taking a class on writing device drivers for Linux. I am currently looking for a device to write a driver for. I first tried to get the engineering specification for my soundcard, but after much

Looking for device to write device driver for

2001-06-04 Thread Kip Macy
This may well be a question whose appropriate response is RTFM. However, I did look first. I am taking a class on writing device drivers for Linux. I am currently looking for a device to write a driver for. I first tried to get the engineering specification for my soundcard, but after much