Re: ham,Re: ham,Re: Monitoring Bandwidth Usage, based on ports, service, client, etc.

2008-02-17 Thread Peter Haag
--On February 16, 2008 6:59:46 PM + Simon Slaytor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Sorry Richard, should have mentioned the RRD voodoo, hopefully Peter has set you on the right track. | | I never really liked the 'rough' graphs produced by the version of RRD Graph available from the packages co

Re: ham,Re: ham,Re: Monitoring Bandwidth Usage, based on ports, service, client, etc.

2008-02-17 Thread Peter Haag
--On February 16, 2008 9:18:07 PM + Stuart Henderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | On 2008/02/16 14:20, Richard Daemon wrote: | > He did get me on the right track, but tracking the required Perl Modules and | > each subsequent Dependencies for nfsen is a lengthy process... Unless | > there's

Re: Nfsen and php problems...?

2008-02-17 Thread Peter Haag
--On February 16, 2008 11:20:29 PM -0500 Richard Daemon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Hi, | | I'm really stumped on this and any help would be greatly appreciated. | | When trying to load the nfsen/nfsen.php page I get: | | ERROR: nfsend connect() error: No such file or directory! | ERROR: nfsend

What is our ultimate goal??

2008-02-17 Thread Mayuresh Kathe
Hi, NOTE: No intention to behave like a troll. I've been following the "multi-threaded ssh/scp" thread and read Ted's comment that he's stopped working on the kernel threads code because he doesn't have the time for it nor does he need it any more. Also that multi-threaded ssh/scp would weaken se

Re: What is our ultimate goal??

2008-02-17 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2008/02/17 17:33, Mayuresh Kathe wrote: > It would be great if developers also start working on improving the > features currently offered by OpenBSD. eh?

Re: Nfsen and php problems...?

2008-02-17 Thread Peter Haag
--On February 17, 2008 11:28:42 AM +0100 Peter Haag <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | | | --On February 16, 2008 11:20:29 PM -0500 Richard Daemon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | | | Hi, | | | | I'm really stumped on this and any help would be greatly appreciated. | | | | When trying to load the nfsen/nf

Re: What is our ultimate goal??

2008-02-17 Thread Tony Abernethy
Mayuresh Kathe wrote: > > OpenBSD is an OS with amazing security and stability, but it has too > few modern features. > H related?

Re: What is our ultimate goal??

2008-02-17 Thread Mayuresh Kathe
On Feb 17, 2008 5:50 PM, Tony Abernethy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mayuresh Kathe wrote: > > > > OpenBSD is an OS with amazing security and stability, but it has too > > few modern features. > > > H related? thats exactly my point, our mindset has become that security and stability are

Re: What is our ultimate goal??

2008-02-17 Thread openbsd misc
> -Urspr|ngliche Nachricht- > Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Im Auftrag von Tony Abernethy > Gesendet: Sonntag, 17. Februar 2008 13:20 > An: 'Mayuresh Kathe'; 'OpenBSD-Misc' > Betreff: Re: What is our ultimate goal?? > > Mayuresh Kathe wrote: > > > > OpenBSD is an OS wit

Re: What is our ultimate goal??

2008-02-17 Thread Mayuresh Kathe
On Feb 17, 2008 5:44 PM, Stuart Henderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2008/02/17 17:33, Mayuresh Kathe wrote: > > It would be great if developers also start working on improving the > > features currently offered by OpenBSD. > > eh? think soft-updates with background fsck, think a generally us

beep over ssh

2008-02-17 Thread LÉVAI Dániel
Hi! When using console on my local box, I can hear the pcspeaker beeping when it needs to (eg. mistyping some path). Is it possible to do this while connected to an OBSD box over ssh. Thanks! Daniel -- LIVAI Daniel Public key ID = 4AC0A4B1 Key fingerprint = D037 03B9 C12D D338 4412 2D83 1373 9

Re: What is our ultimate goal??

2008-02-17 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2008/02/17 18:06, Mayuresh Kathe wrote: > On Feb 17, 2008 5:44 PM, Stuart Henderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 2008/02/17 17:33, Mayuresh Kathe wrote: > > > It would be great if developers also start working on improving the > > > features currently offered by OpenBSD. > > > > eh? By thi

Re: beep over ssh

2008-02-17 Thread raven
LIVAI Daniel ha scritto: Hi! When using console on my local box, I can hear the pcspeaker beeping when it needs to (eg. mistyping some path). Is it possible to do this while connected to an OBSD box over ssh. eh? What you mean ? Example: You're in a position X of the world, and your pc on Y

Re: beep over ssh

2008-02-17 Thread Jussi Peltola
Try $ printf \\a If it beeps, your shell or whatever program you run just isn't generating the beeps. If it doesn't, something along the way is breaking the beeps. Screen is one of such programs if you configure it to do that. -- Jussi Peltola

Re: What is our ultimate goal??

2008-02-17 Thread raven
Tony Abernethy ha scritto: Mayuresh Kathe wrote: OpenBSD is an OS with amazing security and stability, but it has too few modern features. H related? Improving the file system to be a little more fast than now... for example. wpa[2] as Hagen Volpers say... network stack

Re: What is our ultimate goal??

2008-02-17 Thread Zbigniew Baniewski
On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 01:07:06PM +, Stuart Henderson wrote: > By this, I mean, developers *are* working on improving the features > currently offered by OpenBSD. In general people work on things which > they will find the most useful first. Sometimes this matches up with > what you want, oth

take threads off the table

2008-02-17 Thread Geoff Steckel
I assume that anyone posting here wants programs that work correctly all the time, or as close to that as humanly possible. If we don't agree about that, please stop reading here. Let's take threads out of the "features" debate. Threads or any other form of uncontrolled resource sharing are very

Re: What is our ultimate goal??

2008-02-17 Thread Michael Dexter
>> By this, I mean, developers *are* working on improving the features >> currently offered by OpenBSD. In general people work on things which >> they will find the most useful first. Sometimes this matches up with >> what you want, other times it doesn't. > >Are they willing to take a suggestions

Re: What is our ultimate goal??

2008-02-17 Thread Zbigniew Baniewski
On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 03:53:52PM +0200, Michael Dexter wrote: > >Are they willing to take a suggestions from the users side? > > Ask them. During last 3 weeks I tried to contact 3 (yes, three) devs. None of them responded even with "get lost". > However, you will get far further with suggesti

Re: What is our ultimate goal??

2008-02-17 Thread William Boshuck
On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 05:33:12PM +0530, Mayuresh Kathe wrote: > Hi, > > NOTE: No intention to behave like a troll. > > I've been following the "multi-threaded ssh/scp" thread and read Ted's > comment that he's stopped working on the kernel threads code because > he doesn't have the time for it

Re: Building 4.2-stable xenocara fails - /usr/src/xenocara/lib/fontconfig claims freetype-config is not installed

2008-02-17 Thread Rogier Krieger
On Feb 16, 2008 8:59 AM, Matthieu Herrb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Feb 15, 2008 5:31 PM, Rogier Krieger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Upon 'make build', the directory lib/fontconfig errors out on not > > being able to find freetype-config. > > you need to have /usr/X11R6/bin in your PATH to

Re: What is our ultimate goal??

2008-02-17 Thread David Higgs
On Feb 17, 2008 9:10 AM, Zbigniew Baniewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Who said, it must be about new features? There is an issue, about which I > wrote already - OK, once more: > > I noticed, that default path, where software from binary pkg and "ports" > gets unpacked, is /usr/local hierarc

Re: What is our ultimate goal??

2008-02-17 Thread Zbigniew Baniewski
On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 09:50:21AM -0500, William Boshuck wrote: > In essence, this is suggesting to move third party software > installed by the project's third party software management > tools out of /usr/local, so that it is out of the way for ^ > users who want to insta

Re: What is our ultimate goal??

2008-02-17 Thread William Boshuck
On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 03:10:12PM +0100, Zbigniew Baniewski wrote: > On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 03:53:52PM +0200, Michael Dexter wrote: > > > >Are they willing to take a suggestions from the users side? > > > > Ask them. > > During last 3 weeks I tried to contact 3 (yes, three) devs. None of them

Re: What is our ultimate goal??

2008-02-17 Thread Zbigniew Baniewski
On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 10:26:48AM -0500, David Higgs wrote: > Sure it is. If you have permission to install to /usr/local, you are > not a user, you are an admin. Isn't it just semantics? OK, I understand, you see no gains in proposed change. -- pozdrawiam / re

Re: What is our ultimate goal??

2008-02-17 Thread David Higgs
On Feb 17, 2008 10:18 AM, Zbigniew Baniewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 09:50:21AM -0500, William Boshuck wrote: > > > In essence, this is suggesting to move third party software > > installed by the project's third party software management > > tools out of /usr/local, so

Re: beep over ssh

2008-02-17 Thread LÉVAI Dániel
On Sunday 17 February 2008 14.27.21 Jussi Peltola wrote: > Try > $ printf \\a > > If it beeps, your shell or whatever program you run just isn't > generating the beeps. If it doesn't, something along the way is > breaking the beeps. Screen is one of such programs if you configure > it to do that.

Re: What is our ultimate goal??

2008-02-17 Thread Zbigniew Baniewski
On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 10:12:09AM -0500, David Higgs wrote: > Does the -B option to pkg_add do exactly this? Or YOU could do the > equivalent and tell ./configure to install to a different base > directory. This doesn't need any funding either. And did I ask for any funding? When? Of course,

Re: What is our ultimate goal??

2008-02-17 Thread bofh
On Feb 17, 2008 9:30 AM, William Boshuck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 05:33:12PM +0530, Mayuresh Kathe wrote: > > Hi, > > > > NOTE: No intention to behave like a troll. > > > > I've been following the "multi-threaded ssh/scp" thread and read Ted's > > comment that he's stop

Re: What is our ultimate goal??

2008-02-17 Thread Zbigniew Baniewski
On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 09:49:53AM -0600, Will Maier wrote: > You don't get it. This system isn't for you, even if you donate a > bazillion dollars. This system is for the people who make it. OK - as I understand, it's the answer for my question: "Are they willing to take a suggestions from the u

Re: What is our ultimate goal??

2008-02-17 Thread David Higgs
On Feb 17, 2008 7:36 AM, Mayuresh Kathe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Feb 17, 2008 5:44 PM, Stuart Henderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 2008/02/17 17:33, Mayuresh Kathe wrote: > > > It would be great if developers also start working on improving the > > > features currently offered by Op

Re: What is our ultimate goal??

2008-02-17 Thread Ingo Schwarze
Zbigniew Baniewski wrote on Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 03:10:12PM +0100: >>> Are they willing to take a suggestions from the users side? Oh, that's an easy one. 1. Most suggestions go nowhere because those who like them lack the skills or the time to implement them, or the time to acquire the

Re: What is our ultimate goal??

2008-02-17 Thread Will Maier
On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 04:18:16PM +0100, Zbigniew Baniewski wrote: > On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 09:50:21AM -0500, William Boshuck wrote: > > I can imagine one response: Port whatever it is, or else > > That cannot be a valid response, when given to the _user_. You don't get it. This system isn't f

Re: What is our ultimate goal??

2008-02-17 Thread David Higgs
On Feb 17, 2008 7:36 AM, openbsd misc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > -Urspr|ngliche Nachricht- > > Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Im Auftrag von Tony Abernethy > > Gesendet: Sonntag, 17. Februar 2008 13:20 > > An: 'Mayuresh Kathe'; 'OpenBSD-Misc' > > Betreff: Re: What

Re: What is our ultimate goal??

2008-02-17 Thread David Higgs
On Feb 17, 2008 10:22 AM, Zbigniew Baniewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 10:12:09AM -0500, David Higgs wrote: > > > Does the -B option to pkg_add do exactly this? Or YOU could do the > > equivalent and tell ./configure to install to a different base > > directory. This do

Re: take threads off the table

2008-02-17 Thread Marco Peereboom
Here is the catch, he is right and you are not. On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 11:18:39AM -0500, Daniel Hagerty wrote: > Geoff Steckel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I assume that anyone posting here wants programs that work > > correctly all the time, or as close to that as humanly possible. > > If

Re: take threads off the table

2008-02-17 Thread Daniel Hagerty
Geoff Steckel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I assume that anyone posting here wants programs that work > correctly all the time, or as close to that as humanly possible. > If we don't agree about that, please stop reading here. I believe that openbsd should immediately convert all programs in

Re: What is our ultimate goal??

2008-02-17 Thread Han Boetes
Mayuresh Kathe wrote: > NOTE: No intention to behave like a troll. Ha! Good you say so. Now I am absolutely sure you are trolling. # Han

Re: What is our ultimate goal??

2008-02-17 Thread Mayuresh Kathe
On Feb 17, 2008 10:24 PM, Han Boetes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mayuresh Kathe wrote: > > NOTE: No intention to behave like a troll. > > Ha! Good you say so. Now I am absolutely sure you are trolling. Shut-up and hack...

Re: What is our ultimate goal??

2008-02-17 Thread Jacob Meuser
On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 10:32:19PM +0530, Mayuresh Kathe wrote: > Shut-up and hack... in short, that's the best way to make suggestions. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org

Re: What is our ultimate goal??

2008-02-17 Thread William Boshuck
On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 05:01:14PM +0100, Zbigniew Baniewski wrote: > > Yes, there's no point in making silly changes. Case in point: Suggesting that the ports and packages infrastructure be modified to install third party software other than where the developers seem to want it so go (aka /usr/

Re: What is our ultimate goal??

2008-02-17 Thread Marco Peereboom
Let me take a stab of responding to this... On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 05:33:12PM +0530, Mayuresh Kathe wrote: > Hi, > > NOTE: No intention to behave like a troll. > > I've been following the "multi-threaded ssh/scp" thread and read Ted's > comment that he's stopped working on the kernel threads co

Re: take threads off the table

2008-02-17 Thread Daniel Hagerty
> From: Marco Peereboom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2008 10:26:51 -0600 > > Here is the catch, he is right and you are not. The topic is the evilness of threading and how it relates to spl(). You are welcome to offer actual content on the subject. Proof by violent assertion i

Re: What is our ultimate goal??

2008-02-17 Thread Markus Hennecke
On Sun, 17 Feb 2008, Zbigniew Baniewski wrote: On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 03:53:52PM +0200, Michael Dexter wrote: Are they willing to take a suggestions from the users side? Ask them. During last 3 weeks I tried to contact 3 (yes, three) devs. None of them responded even with "get lost". How

Re: What is our ultimate goal??

2008-02-17 Thread Zbigniew Baniewski
On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 12:41:46PM -0500, William Boshuck wrote: > > Yes, there's no point in making silly changes. > > Case in point: Suggesting that the ports and > packages infrastructure be modified I'm not sure (not being OpenBSD developer), that one has to use such Very Important Terms li

Re: take threads off the table

2008-02-17 Thread Marco Peereboom
On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 01:05:35PM -0500, Daniel Hagerty wrote: > > From: Marco Peereboom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2008 10:26:51 -0600 > > > > Here is the catch, he is right and you are not. > > The topic is the evilness of threading and how it relates to > spl(). You are

Re: What is our ultimate goal??

2008-02-17 Thread Jacob Meuser
On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 06:58:44PM +0100, Zbigniew Baniewski wrote: > On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 12:41:46PM -0500, William Boshuck wrote: > > > > Yes, there's no point in making silly changes. > > > > Case in point: Suggesting that the ports and > > packages infrastructure be modified > > I'm not

Re: take threads off the table

2008-02-17 Thread Tony Abernethy
Daniel Hagerty wrote: > > From: Marco Peereboom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2008 10:26:51 -0600 > > > > Here is the catch, he is right and you are not. > > The topic is the evilness of threading and how it relates to > spl(). You are welcome to offer actual content on the su

Re: What is our ultimate goal??

2008-02-17 Thread Zbigniew Baniewski
On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 06:40:49PM +, Jacob Meuser wrote: > why? if you are manually running ./configure, is it that much more > to add --prefix=/opt or whatever? if the argument is to keep manually > installed programs separate, isn't that the responsibility of the > person doing the manual

Re: What is our ultimate goal??

2008-02-17 Thread Zbigniew Baniewski
On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 08:08:22PM +0100, Zbigniew Baniewski wrote: > If - for example (just example!) - one > doesn't even has to remember, that at the "./configure" stage there wasn't > any need to switch to another directory-tree. "...that there was..." of course --

Re: What is our ultimate goal??

2008-02-17 Thread mcb, inc.
On Sun, 17 Feb 2008, Mayuresh Kathe wrote: OpenBSD is an OS with amazing security and stability, but it has too few modern features. 'Modern' is an adjective used by and on people subject to the influence of advertising and PR. "All New!" "Now in an Orange Box" "We've changed our logo!" En

Re: What is our ultimate goal??

2008-02-17 Thread Mayuresh Kathe
On Feb 17, 2008 11:23 PM, Marco Peereboom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Let me take a stab of responding to this... Thanks for responding... > On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 05:33:12PM +0530, Mayuresh Kathe wrote: > > Hi, > > > > NOTE: No intention to behave like a troll. > > > > I've been following the

Re: What is our ultimate goal??

2008-02-17 Thread David Higgs
On Feb 17, 2008 1:53 PM, Mayuresh Kathe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Its good to know that Ted did indeed try to scratch an itch of his and > laid down some ground work for future developers to take it beyond its > basic level. > But, it would have been *nicer* if Ted had put in some more of his >

Re: What is our ultimate goal??

2008-02-17 Thread Todd Alan Smith
On Feb 17, 2008 12:53 PM, Mayuresh Kathe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Feb 17, 2008 11:23 PM, Marco Peereboom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Let me take a stab of responding to this... > > Thanks for responding... > > > On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 05:33:12PM +0530, Mayuresh Kathe wrote: > > > Hi, > >

Re: What is our ultimate goal??

2008-02-17 Thread Mayuresh Kathe
On Feb 18, 2008 1:16 AM, David Higgs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Feb 17, 2008 1:53 PM, Mayuresh Kathe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Its good to know that Ted did indeed try to scratch an itch of his and > > laid down some ground work for future developers to take it beyond its > > basic level.

Re: take threads off the table

2008-02-17 Thread Marc Balmer
Geoff Steckel wrote: Threads or any other form of uncontrolled resource sharing are very bad ideas. that might be true for those that don't understand threads. for other it can be highly benefitial.

Re: What is our ultimate goal??

2008-02-17 Thread Marco Peereboom
On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 12:23:44AM +0530, Mayuresh Kathe wrote: > Its good to know that Ted did indeed try to scratch an itch of his and > laid down some ground work for future developers to take it beyond its > basic level. > But, it would have been *nicer* if Ted had put in some more of his > tim

Re: What is our ultimate goal??

2008-02-17 Thread Mayuresh Kathe
Raven, learn to write understandable English first, then try to reply to my mails. ~Mayuresh On Feb 18, 2008 1:36 AM, raven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mayuresh Kathe ha scritto: > > Its good to know that Ted did indeed try to scratch an itch of his and > > laid down some ground work for future

Re: What is our ultimate goal??

2008-02-17 Thread Edd Barrett
On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 08:08:22PM +0100, Zbigniew Baniewski wrote: > Yes, but sometimes (rare case, I agree) you've got to install something, > which has /usr/local "hardcoded". And then it's no longer a switch - you've > got to edit Makefile "manually". And yes - I can edit such file and change >

bsd.mp in Intel CoreQuad

2008-02-17 Thread Diego Fernando Nieto Moreno
Hi, Today I compile the current Kernel and the bsd.mp works fine in my Intel CoreQuad 6600 (2.4Ghz) Its great :-D Diego Fernando Nieto Moreno --- www.compumundohypermegared.org Comunidad de Usuarios OpenBSD Colombia, the dmesg is: OpenBSD 4.2-current (GENERIC.MP) #0:

Re: What is our ultimate goal??

2008-02-17 Thread Mayuresh Kathe
On Feb 17, 2008 6:37 PM, Stuart Henderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2008/02/17 18:06, Mayuresh Kathe wrote: > > On Feb 17, 2008 5:44 PM, Stuart Henderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 2008/02/17 17:33, Mayuresh Kathe wrote: > > > > It would be great if developers also start working on i

Re: What is our ultimate goal??

2008-02-17 Thread raven
Mayuresh Kathe ha scritto: Its good to know that Ted did indeed try to scratch an itch of his and laid down some ground work for future developers to take it beyond its basic level. But, it would have been *nicer* if Ted had put in some more of his time and effort to complete what he started. Als

Re: What is our ultimate goal??

2008-02-17 Thread David Higgs
On Feb 17, 2008 2:58 PM, Mayuresh Kathe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Feb 18, 2008 1:16 AM, David Higgs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Feb 17, 2008 1:53 PM, Mayuresh Kathe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > His code is free to anyone that wants it for free. Do you not > > understand how the BSD l

Re: What is our ultimate goal??

2008-02-17 Thread Marc Balmer
Mayuresh Kathe wrote: think a generally usable 64/128 bit file system, you have that much porn that you need a 128bit fs?

Re: What is our ultimate goal??

2008-02-17 Thread Jason Dixon
On Feb 17, 2008, at 2:58 PM, Mayuresh Kathe wrote: On Feb 18, 2008 1:16 AM, David Higgs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Feb 17, 2008 1:53 PM, Mayuresh Kathe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Its good to know that Ted did indeed try to scratch an itch of his and laid down some ground work for future d

Re: What is our ultimate goal??

2008-02-17 Thread raven
Mayuresh Kathe ha scritto: Raven, learn to write understandable English first, then try to reply to my mails. I will try, thanks for a suggestion, english not is my mother tongue. But, you still dumb. ~Mayuresh Francesco

Re: What is our ultimate goal??

2008-02-17 Thread Kenneth R Westerback
On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 12:23:44AM +0530, Mayuresh Kathe wrote: > On Feb 17, 2008 11:23 PM, Marco Peereboom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Let me take a stab of responding to this... > > Thanks for responding... > > > On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 05:33:12PM +0530, Mayuresh Kathe wrote: > > > Hi, > > >

Re: What is our ultimate goal??

2008-02-17 Thread Mayuresh Kathe
On Feb 18, 2008 1:04 AM, Marco Peereboom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 12:23:44AM +0530, Mayuresh Kathe wrote: > > Its good to know that Ted did indeed try to scratch an itch of his and > > laid down some ground work for future developers to take it beyond its > > basic level

Re: What is our ultimate goal??

2008-02-17 Thread Mayuresh Kathe
On Feb 18, 2008 1:23 AM, Todd Alan Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Its good to know that Ted did indeed try to scratch an itch of his and > > laid down some ground work for future developers to take it beyond its > > basic level. > > But, it would have been *nicer* if Ted had put in some mor

Re: What is our ultimate goal??

2008-02-17 Thread chefren
On 2/17/08 3:13 PM, Zbigniew Baniewski wrote: On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 03:53:52PM +0200, Michael Dexter wrote: Are they willing to take a suggestions from the users side? Ask them. During last 3 weeks I tried to contact 3 (yes, three) devs. None of them responded even with "get lost". Hm, s

Re: What is our ultimate goal??

2008-02-17 Thread Claudio Jeker
On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 01:19:55AM +0530, Mayuresh Kathe wrote: > On Feb 18, 2008 1:04 AM, Marco Peereboom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 12:23:44AM +0530, Mayuresh Kathe wrote: > > > Its good to know that Ted did indeed try to scratch an itch of his and > > > laid down some

Re: What is our ultimate goal??

2008-02-17 Thread Marco Peereboom
On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 01:19:55AM +0530, Mayuresh Kathe wrote: > I'm not telling Ted what to do at all, you're just assuming it in your > blind fury over me coming out with the truth that most of *your* > coding effort is directly or indirectly supported by non-developer > users who do so by buyin

Re: What is our ultimate goal??

2008-02-17 Thread Zbigniew Baniewski
On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 10:31:00PM +0100, chefren wrote: > Hm, should be the way you try to contact them, You mean, a question like: "Hallo, looking for a contact to *** ***, OpenBSD developer - is this e-mail address a valid contact?" isn't quite proper way? -- p

Re: What is our ultimate goal??

2008-02-17 Thread David Higgs
On Feb 17, 2008 2:49 PM, Mayuresh Kathe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm not telling Ted what to do at all, you're just assuming it in your > blind fury over me coming out with the truth that most of *your* > coding effort is directly or indirectly supported by non-developer > users who do so by bu

Re: What is our ultimate goal??

2008-02-17 Thread chefren
On 2/17/08 10:14 PM, Mayuresh Kathe wrote: BTW, you are as big an oaf as Richard Stallman, you keep ranting about how you've put in your blood, sweat and tears, but forget to understand the point that without us users you are nothing. Ehhh... 2 Big Mistakes... A) Marco does code, as far as I

Re: What is our ultimate goal??

2008-02-17 Thread Edd Barrett
On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 01:19:55AM +0530, Mayuresh Kathe wrote: > That's why I called you an idiot. > The project is not a research project, but a real live production > grade code working under Solaris 10. There is a saying "horses for courses". It means use something fit for the job. You don't

Re: What is our ultimate goal??

2008-02-17 Thread Joe Cook
- Original Message - From: "Mayuresh Kathe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "OpenBSD-Misc" Sent: Monday, February 18, 2008 8:49 AM Subject: Re: What is our ultimate goal?? On Feb 18, 2008 1:04 AM, Marco Peereboom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 12:23:44AM +0530, Mayuresh K

Re: What is our ultimate goal??

2008-02-17 Thread chefren
On 2/17/08 8:04 PM, Mayuresh Kathe wrote: I'm not belittling the developers, You do. They =give= software to you, for free, and you say it's not good enough. The only reason I reply is that in general your posts are refreshing but on this you are plain wrong. > just that I really got irrit

Re: What is our ultimate goal??

2008-02-17 Thread John Alan Shirley
On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 01:19:55AM +0530, Mayuresh Kathe wrote: > So what you are saying is that what the god father of BSD file systems > (Marshal Kirk McKusik) is doing is wrong? Last year i went to a 2 day kernel internals tutorial run by Kirk MsKusik and he was more than aware

Re: What is our ultimate goal??

2008-02-17 Thread Zbigniew Baniewski
On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 09:52:34PM +0100, raven wrote: > >Raven, learn to write understandable English first, then try to reply > >to my mails. > > > > > I will try, thanks for a suggestion, english not is my mother tongue. > But, you still dumb. I can see several _public_ answers to _quite pri

Re: What is our ultimate goal??

2008-02-17 Thread Jussi Peltola
For each message in this thread that I consider insulting (10 so far), I will donate 1 euro to OpenBSD to compensate for lost developer time reading such messages. Being a student my budget can't take more, but at least I try to be grateful. Keep up the good work making an OS that is only fixed wh

Re: What is our ultimate goal??

2008-02-17 Thread raven
Zbigniew Baniewski ha scritto: On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 09:52:34PM +0100, raven wrote: Raven, learn to write understandable English first, then try to reply to my mails. I will try, thanks for a suggestion, english not is my mother tongue. But, you still dumb. I can see seve

Re: What is our ultimate goal??

2008-02-17 Thread Siegbert Marschall
Hi, > It gets stranger. > How is a bare bones code ever going to be useful to a non developing user? > Its useful to them only when its part of an overall system. > And that overall system in a really usable state is only available via > CDs which need to be purchased. aehm, hello ? I do buy the c

Re: What is our ultimate goal??

2008-02-17 Thread Siegbert Marschall
> If all our users bought a CD set there would be a *lot* more > development going on by dedicated/paid developers. If corporations > needing paperwork to donate would contact www.openbsdfoundation.org > and donate there would be a lot more development going on. And if pigs > could code as well as

Re: What is our ultimate goal??

2008-02-17 Thread raven
Jussi Peltola ha scritto: For each message in this thread that I consider insulting (10 so far), I will donate 1 euro to OpenBSD to compensate for lost developer time reading such messages. Being a student my budget can't take more, but at least I try to be grateful. Keep up the good work making

Re: take threads off the table

2008-02-17 Thread Gregg Reynolds
On 2/17/08, Marc Balmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Geoff Steckel wrote: > > > Threads or any other form of uncontrolled resource sharing > > are very bad ideas. > > that might be true for those that don't understand threads. > for other it can be highly benefitial. Indeed, "threads are bad" stri

Re: take threads off the table

2008-02-17 Thread Brian
--- Marco Peereboom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you want to run more of the same you fork. > > Threads usefulness are limited in scope. Threads dangers are endless. > Nonetheless there are good reasons for threading; just not as many as > people give it credit for. Ssh is not one of those u

Re: take threads off the table

2008-02-17 Thread Geoff Steckel
Gregg Reynolds wrote: On 2/17/08, Marc Balmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Geoff Steckel wrote: Threads or any other form of uncontrolled resource sharing are very bad ideas. that might be true for those that don't understand threads. for other it can be highly benefitial. Indeed, "threads ar

Re: take threads off the table

2008-02-17 Thread Marco Peereboom
If you want to run more of the same you fork. Threads usefulness are limited in scope. Threads dangers are endless. Nonetheless there are good reasons for threading; just not as many as people give it credit for. Ssh is not one of those use cases where threading is important. On Sun, Feb 17, 20

Re: take threads off the table

2008-02-17 Thread David Higgs
On Feb 17, 2008 8:01 PM, Geoff Steckel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Gregg Reynolds wrote: > > On 2/17/08, Marc Balmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Geoff Steckel wrote: > >> > >>> Threads or any other form of uncontrolled resource sharing > >>> are very bad ideas. > >> that might be true for thos

Re: What is our ultimate goal??

2008-02-17 Thread Leonardo Rodrigues
> Actually what Ted has done was utterly disastrous, he knows his own > code well enough to have completed it. > BTW, you are as big an oaf as Richard Stallman, you keep ranting about > how you've put in your blood, sweat and tears, but forget to > understand the point that without us users you are

Re: What is our ultimate goal??

2008-02-17 Thread System Administrator
To the majority on this list -- my apologies if I end up feeding this troll instead of making him 'go away'. to the OP -- this is why you got absolutely NO answer from the devs. and now for the archives in the hopes that at least some of the future would be posters will research before posting.

Re: Nfsen and php problems...?

2008-02-17 Thread Richard Daemon
On Feb 17, 2008 7:15 AM, Peter Haag <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > --On February 17, 2008 11:28:42 AM +0100 Peter Haag <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > | > | > | --On February 16, 2008 11:20:29 PM -0500 Richard Daemon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > | > | | Hi, > | | > | | I'm really stumped on thi

Re: take threads off the table

2008-02-17 Thread Geoff Steckel
David Higgs wrote: On Feb 17, 2008 8:01 PM, Geoff Steckel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Gregg Reynolds wrote: On 2/17/08, Marc Balmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Geoff Steckel wrote: Threads or any other form of uncontrolled resource sharing are very bad ideas. that might be true for those that

Re: take threads off the table

2008-02-17 Thread Reid Nichol
--- Geoff Steckel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "threads" is a particular programming model of multiple execution > contexts in a (mostly) shared memory and (mostly) shared resource > environment which is not cost-effective for producing reliable > software. > Only because people design threaded pr

Re: What is our ultimate goal??

2008-02-17 Thread Mayuresh Kathe
On Feb 18, 2008 1:52 AM, Jason Dixon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Feb 17, 2008, at 2:58 PM, Mayuresh Kathe wrote: > > > On Feb 18, 2008 1:16 AM, David Higgs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Feb 17, 2008 1:53 PM, Mayuresh Kathe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> wrote: > >>> Its good to know that Ted did

Re: What is our ultimate goal??

2008-02-17 Thread Mayuresh Kathe
On Feb 18, 2008 2:25 AM, Kenneth R Westerback <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 12:23:44AM +0530, Mayuresh Kathe wrote: > > > On Feb 17, 2008 11:23 PM, Marco Peereboom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Let me take a stab of responding to this... > > > > Thanks for responding... >

Re: What is our ultimate goal??

2008-02-17 Thread Mayuresh Kathe
On Feb 18, 2008 2:22 AM, raven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mayuresh Kathe ha scritto: > > Raven, learn to write understandable English first, then try to reply > > to my mails. > > > > > I will try, thanks for a suggestion, english not is my mother tongue. > But, you still dumb. English isn't my

Re: take threads off the table

2008-02-17 Thread Daniel Hagerty
Geoff Steckel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "threads" is a particular programming model of multiple execution > contexts in a (mostly) shared memory and (mostly) shared resource > environment which is not cost-effective for producing reliable software. Are you really unable to see the irony i

Re: take threads off the table

2008-02-17 Thread David Higgs
On Feb 17, 2008 11:16 PM, Geoff Steckel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > David Higgs wrote: > > Assuming that a software program is not system-critical or requires > > high security, and it benefits greatly from a shared memory/resource > > model, I fail to see why threading can not be cost-effective.

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