Re: Advice on adding com2 to (amd64) GENERIC; enabling easier IPMI SOL with SuperMicro boards

2013-03-30 Thread Ted Unangst
On Sat, Mar 30, 2013 at 02:06, Rogier Krieger wrote: > The GENERIC kernel config has commented out com2 (at isa0, addr 0x3e8, > irq 5) and I assume this is not without reason. I've been unable to > find that reason in source changes, but perhaps someone here knows. On > i386, it is present. I am

Advice on adding com2 to (amd64) GENERIC; enabling easier IPMI SOL with SuperMicro boards

2013-03-29 Thread Rogier Krieger
Dear list, in an attempt to save on serial cabling for our machines, I'm trying to see if IPMI Serial over Lan (SOL) works as advertised. For our Dell boxes, things seem to work, but our SuperMicro boards (X7SPA-HF and X8ST3-F) require extra work. The latter seem to insist on using com2 (i.e. COM

Re: Advice for handling softraid reporting i/o error

2013-02-04 Thread Erling Westenvik
Thank you to everyone @misc that provided support and advice. Especially Joel and Barry. It turned out that the machine came back on quite fine after rebooting and without having to perform anything special. It went through fsck without complaining and I've been able to make backups of my

Re: Advice for handling softraid reporting i/o error

2013-02-03 Thread Erling Westenvik
On Mon, Feb 04, 2013 at 01:03:07AM +1100, Joel Sing wrote: > On Mon, 4 Feb 2013, Erling Westenvik wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 03, 2013 at 11:11:17AM +0530, Girish Venkatachalam wrote: > > > I hate to say it but I am sure your hard disk is dying. Replace it > > > ASAP > > > > No no, that's all right. Dea

Re: Advice for handling softraid reporting i/o error

2013-02-03 Thread Joel Sing
On Mon, 4 Feb 2013, Erling Westenvik wrote: > On Sun, Feb 03, 2013 at 11:11:17AM +0530, Girish Venkatachalam wrote: > > I hate to say it but I am sure your hard disk is dying. Replace it ASAP > > No no, that's all right. Death is an inevitable part of life. I know the > disk is dying and I'm going

Re: Advice for handling softraid reporting i/o error

2013-02-03 Thread Erling Westenvik
On Sun, Feb 03, 2013 at 11:11:17AM +0530, Girish Venkatachalam wrote: > I hate to say it but I am sure your hard disk is dying. Replace it ASAP No no, that's all right. Death is an inevitable part of life. I know the disk is dying and I'm going to replace it (or just throw away the machine which i

Re: Advice for handling softraid reporting i/o error

2013-02-02 Thread Erling Westenvik
On Sat, Feb 02, 2013 at 07:23:03PM -0600, Amit Kulkarni wrote: > post a exact dmesg i.e atleast the head -10 (top 10 lines). softraid guys > (jsing@) will then know what changed exactly and when. Thanks. The reason I ask is because I have no way of getting into ddb unless I reboot - which is what

Re: Advice for handling softraid reporting i/o error

2013-02-02 Thread Erling Westenvik
Oh, and the machine runs 5.1 or 5.2 release... On Sun, Feb 03, 2013 at 01:13:16AM +0100, Erling Westenvik wrote: > I have an old laptop configured with softraid encryption using a USB > keydisk. The machine was never intended to be used for anything more > than just testing. However, I started put

Advice for handling softraid reporting i/o error

2013-02-02 Thread Erling Westenvik
I have an old laptop configured with softraid encryption using a USB keydisk. The machine was never intended to be used for anything more than just testing. However, I started putting a few cvs repositories on it and slowly the machine became somewhat important. Today, when doing a cvs import of a

PF and altq isues...need advice please.

2012-07-05 Thread Ton Muller
in on $int0_if from 192.168.0.227 keep state queue soep_in pass in on $int0_if from 192.168.0.254 keep state queue server2_in ## END CONFIG simply sayd. i dont want a global CAP on outgoing trafic. each machine should have his own CAP on outgoing trafic. any advice ?

Re: masive problems with bind, need secondaty advice...

2012-07-03 Thread Ton Muller
nevermind pf.conf was to tight written, found the solution in it. On 29-6-2012 7:30, Ton Muller wrote: > ok, this is the situation. > i have setup named for caching entries ,and local DNS serving. > normaly i have nameserver 192.168.1.254 in my resolv.conf > so DNS requests go true ISP dns >

Re: masive problems with bind, need secondaty advice...

2012-06-28 Thread David Diggles
Put these in your options. forward first; forwarders { Your-ISP-DNS-server0; Your-ISP-DNS-server1; } On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 07:30:31AM +0200, Ton Muller wrote: > ok, this is the situation. > i have setup named for caching entries ,and local DNS serving. > normaly i have nameserver 192.168.1.254

masive problems with bind, need secondaty advice...

2012-06-28 Thread Ton Muller
ok, this is the situation. i have setup named for caching entries ,and local DNS serving. normaly i have nameserver 192.168.1.254 in my resolv.conf so DNS requests go true ISP dns below is my named.conf ,as far it is, it is correct. named.conf. // acl clients { 127.0.0.1; 192.168.0.0/24

Re: need advice, network monitor isues on LAN devices..

2012-06-28 Thread Henning Brauer
I see you got a lot of random suggestions which are all off... * Ton Muller [2012-06-19 22:13]: > i want to count send/received packets from each network device i have in > my lan. > and put them in MRTG as nice graps. you need to collect this data on your switch or each and every device. no pro

Re: need advice, network monitor isues on LAN devices..

2012-06-21 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2012-06-20, Ton Muller wrote: > On 19-6-2012 23:08, Jan Stary wrote: >> On Jun 19 22:12:07, Ton Muller wrote: >>> normaly i dont write much. >>> but this time i am stuck with nasty isue. >>> i want to count send/received packets from each network device i have in >>> my lan. >> >> netstat -I $

Re: need advice, network monitor isues on LAN devices..

2012-06-20 Thread Ton Muller
hm.. this puppy does do what i want... i needsome testing with it ! THNKS!!! On 20-6-2012 10:10, Tomasz Marszal wrote: > I think we misunderstood. You need something to show you local transfer > speed and counting pockets instead of overall interface monitor use > trafshow then > > Yours > Tome

Re: need advice, network monitor isues on LAN devices..

2012-06-20 Thread Tomasz Marszal
I think we misunderstood. You need something to show you local transfer speed and counting pockets instead of overall interface monitor use trafshow then Yours Tomek On Wed, 20 Jun 2012 09:56:29 +0200, Ton Muller wrote: > On 19-6-2012 23:08, Jan Stary wrote: >> On Jun 19 22:12:07, Ton Muller w

Re: need advice, network monitor isues on LAN devices..

2012-06-20 Thread Ton Muller
On 19-6-2012 23:08, Jan Stary wrote: > On Jun 19 22:12:07, Ton Muller wrote: >> normaly i dont write much. >> but this time i am stuck with nasty isue. >> i want to count send/received packets from each network device i have in >> my lan. > > netstat -I $iface > > wel, uhm yes and now. i need si

Re: need advice, network monitor isues on LAN devices..

2012-06-19 Thread Hendrik Meyburgh
t; however, i cant find a program that is able to do what i want. > the only program that comes close is darkstat, but darkstat doesnt have > any option to output his data in a console. > > i have found several nice packages, but none meet my wishes.. > > anyone has advice ? > > thnxs.

Re: need advice, network monitor isues on LAN devices..

2012-06-19 Thread Felix
On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 10:12:07PM +0200, Ton Muller wrote: > normaly i dont write much. > but this time i am stuck with nasty isue. > i want to count send/received packets from each network device i have in > my lan. Try nfsen > and put them in MRTG as nice graps. It doesn't use MRTG but has it

Re: need advice, network monitor isues on LAN devices..

2012-06-19 Thread Jan Stary
On Jun 19 22:12:07, Ton Muller wrote: > normaly i dont write much. > but this time i am stuck with nasty isue. > i want to count send/received packets from each network device i have in > my lan. netstat -I $iface

Re: need advice, network monitor isues on LAN devices..

2012-06-19 Thread Tomasz Marszal
arkstat doesnt have >> any option to output his data in a console. >> >> i have found several nice packages, but none meet my wishes.. >> >> anyone has advice ? >> >> thnxs.

Re: need advice, network monitor isues on LAN devices..

2012-06-19 Thread Tomasz Marszal
t; however, i cant find a program that is able to do what i want. > the only program that comes close is darkstat, but darkstat doesnt have > any option to output his data in a console. > > i have found several nice packages, but none meet my wishes.. > > anyone has advice ? > > thnxs.

need advice, network monitor isues on LAN devices..

2012-06-19 Thread Ton Muller
, but darkstat doesnt have any option to output his data in a console. i have found several nice packages, but none meet my wishes.. anyone has advice ? thnxs.

software advice need

2011-12-20 Thread Gregory Edigarov
Hi everybody, can anybody recomend a piece of software, that could "graph" a live network scanning it via snmp. requirements are: 1. must produce a text output suitable for postproduction. graphviz is an ideal, xml - acceptable. 2. must use no external database i.e. have text config file. clean te

Re: Need an advice

2011-08-10 Thread Brett
On 08/10/11 01:12, Gregory Edigarov wrote: Hello, what is the best practice if I have some locally(changes are really-really local, and from what i understand, they have absolutelly no chances to be merged) modified program(s) from base and would like to maintain those modifications between upd

Need an advice

2011-08-10 Thread Gregory Edigarov
Hello, what is the best practice if I have some locally(changes are really-really local, and from what i understand, they have absolutelly no chances to be merged) modified program(s) from base and would like to maintain those modifications between updates? thank you. -- With best regards, Gr

Best advice for a link aggregation setup

2011-03-25 Thread Andres Chavez
Hello misc.. im currently helping a friend on a link aggregation setup based on 4.8 with 2 links from the same ISP, so we have followed a bunch of faqs/how-to's but the fact is that we're in the middle of a bunch questions too. So it would be nice if you guys can help us to clear some doubs, take

Re: SMP Advice

2011-02-26 Thread Marco Peereboom
right here: http://www.openbsd.org/hppa.html thanks jsing kettenis and others that made SMP work on hppa! On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 01:48:35PM -0600, L. V. Lammert wrote: > Can't seem to find the SMP HCL results posted anywhere - does anyone have > a recommendation? > > Lee

SMP Advice

2011-02-26 Thread L. V. Lammert
Can't seem to find the SMP HCL results posted anywhere - does anyone have a recommendation? Lee

Re: Advice on learning C as first language

2010-12-15 Thread Friedrich Locke
Let's go: On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 12:55 PM, James Hozier wrote: > My first programming language ever was Visual Basic, but I was 11 years old at the time and it was just a mandatory elective class I had to take to get credits in order to graduate school, and I didn't even know what a programming

Re: Advice on learning C as first language

2010-12-14 Thread Daniel B.
On Wed, 24 Nov 2010, Marco Peereboom wrote: > The must have is: > http://www.amazon.com/Programming-Environment-Addison-Wesley-Professional-Computing/dp/0321525949/ref=pd_sim_b_8 +1

Re: Advice on pf no-sync

2010-12-07 Thread Rafal Bisingier
Hi, On Tue, 07 Dec 2010 21:15:13 -0700 Devin Reade wrote: > I understand (from pf.conf(5)) what no-sync is supposed to do, however > the only example I've seen of it in use is on the pfsync and carp > examples in pfsync(4). > > I was wondering if anyone had some adv

Re: Advice on pf no-sync

2010-12-07 Thread David Gwynne
es in pfsync(4). > > I was wondering if anyone had some advice on some specific examples of > when the use of no-sync is appropriate, specifically in a two-node > firewall cluster that uses pfsync. Assume that there are DMZ and > internal network segments, some of which are routable

Advice on pf no-sync

2010-12-07 Thread Devin Reade
I understand (from pf.conf(5)) what no-sync is supposed to do, however the only example I've seen of it in use is on the pfsync and carp examples in pfsync(4). I was wondering if anyone had some advice on some specific examples of when the use of no-sync is appropriate, specifically in a two

Re: Advice on learning C as first language

2010-12-02 Thread Mohit Chawla
On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 1:00 AM, David Vasek wrote: > /* Sorry for the noise, I simply couldn't resist. */ > > Write in C ("Let it Be") > > When I find my code in tons of trouble, > Friends and colleagues come to me, > Speaking words of wisdom: > "Write in C." > > As the deadline fast a

Re: Advice on learning C as first language

2010-12-02 Thread Ludo Smissaert
On 25.11.2010 13:20, Christiano F. Haesbaert wrote: Stick with Marco's books and you should be fine. I also recommend the following, disregard the name, it isn't all that: http://www.amazon.com/Expert-Programming-Peter-van-Linden/dp/0131774298. I have read that book after I learned C from "The

Re: Advice on learning C as first language

2010-11-25 Thread David Vasek
On Wed, 24 Nov 2010, James Hozier wrote: I have to learn ASM anyway (to learn about buffer overflows and other related topics in the family of memory-related security). Would there be any advantage to learning Assembly first or would that just be an unneccessary headache? Soon you will be gl

Re: Advice on learning C as first language

2010-11-25 Thread Nicolas P. M. Legrand
On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 09:26:52AM -0500, Kenneth Gober wrote: > On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 7:20 AM, Christiano F. Haesbaert < > haesba...@haesbaert.org> wrote: > > > On 24 November 2010 13:55, Kenneth Gober wrote: > > > since you've indicated that you are interested in a 'first' language, I > > mus

Re: Advice on learning C as first language

2010-11-25 Thread Ted Roby
On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 4:34 PM, James Hozier wrote: > I have to learn ASM anyway (to learn about buffer overflows and other related > topics in the family of memory-related security). Would there be any > advantage to learning Assembly first or would that just be an unneccessary > headache? >

Re: Advice on learning C as first language

2010-11-25 Thread Kenneth Gober
On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 7:20 AM, Christiano F. Haesbaert < haesba...@haesbaert.org> wrote: > On 24 November 2010 13:55, Kenneth Gober wrote: > > since you've indicated that you are interested in a 'first' language, I > must > > assume you plan to learn other languages later. as a result, I stron

Re: Advice on learning C as first language

2010-11-25 Thread Sevan / Venture37
Absolute beginners guide to c is very lightweight & accommodating http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/0672305100/ref=mp_s_a_1?qid=1290688733&sr=8-1 If you're going the k&r route there is the c answer book which goes with it apparently, I've not read it myself but it explains the answers to the exercis

Re: Advice on learning C as first language

2010-11-25 Thread Christiano F. Haesbaert
n 2010, that makes me said, but it's the truth. Before flaming me, I'm quite fond of scheme and elisp. Stick with Marco's books and you should be fine. I also recommend the following, disregard the name, it isn't all that: http://www.amazon.com/Expert-Programming-Peter-van-Linden

Re: Advice on learning C as first language

2010-11-25 Thread Tomas Vavrys
2010/11/24 James Hozier : > Are there any books that are more noob-friendly that want to learn C as their first language and explain basic programming terms along the way? I tried a lot of things and if I could go back I would choose "How to Design Programs". It's free and it uses DrScheme which i

Re: Advice on learning C as first language

2010-11-24 Thread Tomas Bodzar
Hi, that one is quite funny and not too technical (as one you mentioned) book http://www.dummies.com/store/product/C-For-Dummies-2nd-Edition.productCd-0764 570684,navId-322467.html . But best jump to C and assembler (in my opinion) is that one http://nostarch.com/hacking2.htm . Good description of

Re: Advice on learning C as first language

2010-11-24 Thread James Hozier
I have to learn ASM anyway (to learn about buffer overflows and other related topics in the family of memory-related security). Would there be any advantage to learning Assembly first or would that just be an unneccessary headache? > From: Marco Peereboom > Subject: Re: Advice on learnin

Re: Advice on learning C as first language

2010-11-24 Thread Marco Peereboom
mming terms along the way? > > I'm no expert, but I do program C for applications (not operating > systems). My advice would be to study data structures, pointers and > concepts such as const, struct, etc. and to understand why types are > important. When you script with Pytho

Re: Advice on learning C as first language

2010-11-24 Thread Darrin Chandler
On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 06:55:20AM -0800, James Hozier wrote: > So, as a newbie with no knowledge in programming at all whatsoever and > wanting to learn C, I bought K&R's The C Programming Language (2nd > edition) as per the suggestion on the OpenBSD website. I read the > disclaimers in the intro

Re: Advice on learning C as first language

2010-11-24 Thread Nicolas P. M. Legrand
On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 03:49:27PM +, Jona Joachim wrote: > On 2010-11-24, Jan Stary wrote: > > On Nov 24 06:55:20, James Hozier wrote: > >> I read online that the first programming language one learns could > >> be crucial to the person's future programming skills and habits > >> that become

Re: Advice on learning C as first language

2010-11-24 Thread Peter J. Philipp
front of them ala w.r. steven's books it helps explaining what each line does in that regard. To make them work use awk '{$1= ""; print;}' or something. And my advice regarding learning C is that you not only read source code but also write your own and learn from your mista

Re: Advice on learning C as first language

2010-11-24 Thread Brad Tilley
Brad Tilley wrote: > James Hozier wrote: > >> Are there any books that are more noob-friendly that want to learn C as >> their first language and explain basic programming terms along the way? Forgot to mention a book... If you decide to take the C++ route, I suggest "Accelerated C++". http://w

Re: Advice on learning C as first language

2010-11-24 Thread Brad Tilley
James Hozier wrote: > Are there any books that are more noob-friendly that want to learn C as their > first language and explain basic programming terms along the way? I'm no expert, but I do program C for applications (not operating systems). My advice would be to study data

Re: Advice on learning C as first language

2010-11-24 Thread Michael H Lambert
On 24 Nov 2010, at 11:14, Bahador NazariFard wrote: > I agree with Marco Peereboom > He told "Learning C is easy; learning to using C right is the hard part. > Read > more code to learn from the experts." > > I think if you are sharp u can learn C during one week. > But using C is not so easy. Yo

Re: Advice on learning C as first language

2010-11-24 Thread Bahador NazariFard
I agree with Marco Peereboom He told "Learning C is easy; learning to using C right is the hard part. Read more code to learn from the experts." I think if you are sharp u can learn C during one week. But using C is not so easy. You should be able to think as a programmer. I think all parts of a

Re: Advice on learning C as first language

2010-11-24 Thread Scott Learmonth
It something I keep dabbling in - very sowly - I find this a good pace for my totally noob self: It started out as a reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/carlhprogramming And morphed to: http://www.highercomputingforeveryone.com/ It's certainly a "start from zero" but I like the pace, and the C b

Re: Advice on learning C as first language

2010-11-24 Thread Kenneth Gober
On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 9:55 AM, James Hozier wrote: > ... I read online that the first programming language one learns could be > crucial to the person's future programming skills and habits that become > ported to other programming languages they learn later on, and I don't want > to develop an

Re: Advice on learning C as first language

2010-11-24 Thread Jona Joachim
On 2010-11-24, Jan Stary wrote: > On Nov 24 06:55:20, James Hozier wrote: >> I read online that the first programming language one learns could >> be crucial to the person's future programming skills and habits >> that become ported to other programming languages they learn later > > Start with LI

Re: Advice on learning C as first language

2010-11-24 Thread Marco Peereboom
That is a bit of a rough book to start with but very good. It is very dense but touches on most language features. Its density is actually what makes it so good. You can read it twice in a weekend. Once you do that pick a simple utility from /bin and go read the code. That will put what you le

Re: Advice on learning C as first language

2010-11-24 Thread Bret Lambert
On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 3:55 PM, James Hozier wrote: > My first programming language ever was Visual Basic, but I was 11 years old at the time and it was just a mandatory elective class I had to take to get credits in order to graduate school, and I didn't even know what a programming language was

Re: Advice on learning C as first language

2010-11-24 Thread Jan Stary
On Nov 24 06:55:20, James Hozier wrote: > I read online that the first programming language one learns could > be crucial to the person's future programming skills and habits > that become ported to other programming languages they learn later Start with LISP, I'm tellin' ya.

Advice on learning C as first language

2010-11-24 Thread James Hozier
My first programming language ever was Visual Basic, but I was 11 years old at the time and it was just a mandatory elective class I had to take to get credits in order to graduate school, and I didn't even know what a programming language was back then. I thought I was just writing words on the

Re: Need Advice: Thinkpad T60 or T61?

2010-10-26 Thread Jonathan Thornburg
I have owned a couple of T41p bought on Ebay and then a pair of T42 (bought reconditioned from IBM), and these have had *way* too many "screen suddenly goes blank and never comes back" or "screen goes grey over a 1-2-second period and never comes back" hardware failures, each requiring a new mother

Re: Need Advice: Thinkpad T60 or T61?

2010-10-26 Thread Neal Hogan
On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 2:10 AM, Clint Pachl wrote: > David Vasek wrote: >> >> On Sun, 24 Oct 2010, Clint Pachl wrote: >> >>> If I really need portability (flying, camping) and I'm just going to be >>> writing code in vim, then I use my trusty Sony Vaio SR17, weighing in at >>> less than 3 pounds

Re: Need Advice: Thinkpad T60 or T61?

2010-10-26 Thread Clint Pachl
David Vasek wrote: On Sun, 24 Oct 2010, Clint Pachl wrote: If I really need portability (flying, camping) and I'm just going to be writing code in vim, then I use my trusty Sony Vaio SR17, weighing in at less than 3 pounds (~1.3KG). I paid about 2400USD for it new in 2000; works like a charm.

Re: Need Advice: Thinkpad T60 or T61?

2010-10-25 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Mon, 25 Oct 2010 01:17:35 +0200 Henning Brauer wrote: > > "Intel GM965 Video" rev 0x0c at pci0 dev 2 function 1 not configured > > What's "not configured" here? > > I have no idea :) Does it have tv or vga out?

Re: Need Advice: Thinkpad T60 or T61?

2010-10-25 Thread Martin Pelikan
On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 04:59:04PM -0700, Clint Pachl wrote: > Henning Brauer wrote: > >> 1. Core Duo 32-bit (T60) or Core 2 Duo 64-bit (T61)? I've only used > >> > i386, should I think about amd64? > >> > > shouldn't make a difference. personally, I run i386 anyway. > > > > Any interes

Re: Need Advice: Thinkpad T60 or T61?

2010-10-24 Thread Clint Pachl
Henning Brauer wrote: 1. Core Duo 32-bit (T60) or Core 2 Duo 64-bit (T61)? I've only used > i386, should I think about amd64? shouldn't make a difference. personally, I run i386 anyway. Any interesting reason you run i386 on 64-bit hardware? Stability? Performance?

Re: Need Advice: Thinkpad T60 or T61?

2010-10-24 Thread Clint Pachl
Henning Brauer wrote: Well, I have this on a Dell Precision 220 and graphics acceleration > doesn't work in X. > > pchb0 at pci0 dev 0 function 0 vendor "Intel", unknown product > 0x2500 rev 0x03 > agp at pchb0 not configured > radeondrm0 at vga1: apic 2 int 16 (irq 9) > drm0 at radeondr

Re: Need Advice: Thinkpad T60 or T61?

2010-10-24 Thread Henning Brauer
* Clint Pachl [2010-10-24 23:56]: > Henning Brauer wrote: > >* Clint Pachl [2010-10-24 22:33]: > >>Henning Brauer wrote: > >>>intagp0 at vga1 > >>>agp0 at intagp0: aperture at 0xe000, size 0x1000 > >>>inteldrm0 at vga1: apic 1 int 16 (irq 10) > >>>drm0 at inteldrm0 > >>>"Intel GM965 Video

Re: Need Advice: Thinkpad T60 or T61?

2010-10-24 Thread Paolo Aglialoro
On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 12:29 AM, Clint Pachl wrote: > Paolo Aglialoro wrote: > >> Just a small hint after the 60 series all thinkpads rock... but I >> wouldn't go to T series unless you'll be moving quite seldom. My advice is >> a >> whooping X6

Re: Need Advice: Thinkpad T60 or T61?

2010-10-24 Thread Clint Pachl
Paolo Aglialoro wrote: Just a small hint after the 60 series all thinkpads rock... but I wouldn't go to T series unless you'll be moving quite seldom. My advice is a whooping X61, ultraportable yet powerful and really silent. I thought about the X61. However, my laptop w

Re: Need Advice: Thinkpad T60 or T61?

2010-10-24 Thread Clint Pachl
Henning Brauer wrote: * Clint Pachl [2010-10-24 22:33]: Henning Brauer wrote: intagp0 at vga1 agp0 at intagp0: aperture at 0xe000, size 0x1000 inteldrm0 at vga1: apic 1 int 16 (irq 10) drm0 at inteldrm0 "Intel GM965 Video" rev 0x0c at pci0 dev 2 function 1 not configured

Re: Need Advice: Thinkpad T60 or T61?

2010-10-24 Thread Clint Pachl
Henning Brauer wrote: 2. I would like graphics hardware acceleration. I know I need to > stay away from nVidia. The T60 comes with ATI Radeon and the T61 is > the integrated Intel 965GM. > > Is there anything else I need to be concerned with regarding OpenBSD > on the T-Series? What would you

Re: Need Advice: Thinkpad T60 or T61?

2010-10-24 Thread Marco Peereboom
It means you get hardware acceleration :) Intel video driver is probably the best supported on X. On Oct 24, 2010, at 15:30, Clint Pachl wrote: > Henning Brauer wrote: >> intagp0 at vga1 >> agp0 at intagp0: aperture at 0xe000, size 0x1000 >> inteldrm0 at vga1: apic 1 int 16 (irq 10) >>

Re: Need Advice: Thinkpad T60 or T61?

2010-10-24 Thread Henning Brauer
* Clint Pachl [2010-10-24 22:33]: > Henning Brauer wrote: > >intagp0 at vga1 > >agp0 at intagp0: aperture at 0xe000, size 0x1000 > >inteldrm0 at vga1: apic 1 int 16 (irq 10) > >drm0 at inteldrm0 > >"Intel GM965 Video" rev 0x0c at pci0 dev 2 function 1 not configured > > Does this mean you

Re: Need Advice: Thinkpad T60 or T61?

2010-10-24 Thread Clint Pachl
Henning Brauer wrote: intagp0 at vga1 agp0 at intagp0: aperture at 0xe000, size 0x1000 inteldrm0 at vga1: apic 1 int 16 (irq 10) drm0 at inteldrm0 "Intel GM965 Video" rev 0x0c at pci0 dev 2 function 1 not configured Does this mean you don't get hardware graphics acceleration?

Re: Need Advice: Thinkpad T60 or T61?

2010-10-24 Thread Luca Corti
On Sat, 2010-10-23 at 19:47 +0200, Henning Brauer wrote: > > That used to be the case, but with current lately my wpi is not losing > > connectivity anymore. > you have 3 free guesses on what i run Probably -current and wpi. What I still get are occasional kernel asserts at boot at wpi firmware l

Re: Need Advice: Thinkpad T60 or T61?

2010-10-23 Thread Henning Brauer
* Paolo Aglialoro [2010-10-23 18:38]: > Just a small hint after the 60 series all thinkpads rock... but I > wouldn't go to T series unless you'll be moving quite seldom. My advice is a > whooping X61, ultraportable yet powerful and really silent. the 4:3 14" T61 is st

Re: Need Advice: Thinkpad T60 or T61?

2010-10-23 Thread Henning Brauer
* Luca Corti [2010-10-23 16:41]: > On Sat, 2010-10-23 at 15:04 +0200, Henning Brauer wrote: > > the wpi is crap (if anyone wants to do me a favor: send me something > > that works reliably. the wpi in the X61s is the same shit, btw). loses > > connectivity regularily and needs an down & up dance.

Re: Need Advice: Thinkpad T60 or T61?

2010-10-23 Thread Paolo Aglialoro
Just a small hint after the 60 series all thinkpads rock... but I wouldn't go to T series unless you'll be moving quite seldom. My advice is a whooping X61, ultraportable yet powerful and really silent.

Re: Need Advice: Thinkpad T60 or T61?

2010-10-23 Thread Martin Schröder
2010/10/23 Kevin Chadwick : > I've seen a "revolutionary" panasonic tv advert recently that reckons > they're tv is "cinema proportion" at 21:9. Rediculous, I've never seen a > cinema that shape and wouldn't go if there was one. The local 3d Imax > is almost square and it's much better!!. That "al

Re: Need Advice: Thinkpad T60 or T61?

2010-10-23 Thread Luca Corti
On Sat, 2010-10-23 at 15:04 +0200, Henning Brauer wrote: > the wpi is crap (if anyone wants to do me a favor: send me something > that works reliably. the wpi in the X61s is the same shit, btw). loses > connectivity regularily and needs an down & up dance. That used to be the case, but with curren

Re: Need Advice: Thinkpad T60 or T61?

2010-10-23 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Sat, 23 Oct 2010 14:56:26 +0200 Henning Brauer wrote: > I hate all that widescreen > shit. 14.1" 1400x1050 is awesome. Hear, Hear. I'm not alone in the quest that gets harder every day. I've seen a "revolutionary" panasonic tv advert recently that reckons they're tv is "cinema proportion" at

Re: Need Advice: Thinkpad T60 or T61?

2010-10-23 Thread Henning Brauer
* Luca Corti [2010-10-23 05:19]: > No big issues, but the fan is in fact a bit loud on OpenBSD, even when > running apmd -C. It could even suspend and resume correctly recently, the T61 is completely silent btw, and suspend & resume work just fine. the wpi is crap (if anyone wants to do me a fav

Re: Need Advice: Thinkpad T60 or T61?

2010-10-23 Thread Henning Brauer
* Clint Pachl [2010-10-23 03:11]: > I've been using an IBM Thinkpad T22 (P3 900MHz) laptop for quite > some time and I want to upgrade. I am looking for some expert advice > on what to upgrade to in the Thinkpad T-Series. > > Two main considerations: > > 1. Core Duo

Re: Need Advice: Thinkpad T60 or T61?

2010-10-23 Thread Tomas Bodzar
Was using T61s and worked like a charm On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 4:04 AM, Clint Pachl wrote: > I've been using an IBM Thinkpad T22 (P3 900MHz) laptop for quite some time > and I want to upgrade. I am looking for some expert advice on what to > upgrade to in the Thinkpad T-Series

Re: Need Advice: Thinkpad T60 or T61?

2010-10-22 Thread Luca Corti
On Fri, 2010-10-22 at 19:25 -0700, Clint Pachl wrote: > I've seen T60 with Core or Core 2 selling here locally on craigslist. I > figured, if I go with a 64-bit Core 2, I would just opt for the T61 with > the slightly faster bus and supposedly lower acoustics. Plus they are > selling for the sam

Re: Need Advice: Thinkpad T60 or T61?

2010-10-22 Thread Clint Pachl
Neal Hogan wrote: On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 8:04 PM, Clint Pachl wrote: I've been using an IBM Thinkpad T22 (P3 900MHz) laptop for quite some time and I want to upgrade. I am looking for some expert advice on what to upgrade to in the Thinkpad T-Series. Two main considerations: 1. Cor

Re: Need Advice: Thinkpad T60 or T61?

2010-10-22 Thread Clint Pachl
Ted Unangst wrote: On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 9:04 PM, Clint Pachl wrote: 1. Core Duo 32-bit (T60) or Core 2 Duo 64-bit (T61)? I've only used i386, should I think about amd64? Are you sure about that? I didn't think they made any T60s with plain Core chips, though I could be wrong. My

Re: Need Advice: Thinkpad T60 or T61?

2010-10-22 Thread Ted Unangst
On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 9:04 PM, Clint Pachl wrote: > 1. Core Duo 32-bit (T60) or Core 2 Duo 64-bit (T61)? I've only used i386, > should I think about amd64? Are you sure about that? I didn't think they made any T60s with plain Core chips, though I could be wrong. My T60 has a Core 2, anyway. Re

Re: Need Advice: Thinkpad T60 or T61?

2010-10-22 Thread Neal Hogan
On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 8:04 PM, Clint Pachl wrote: > I've been using an IBM Thinkpad T22 (P3 900MHz) laptop for quite some time > and I want to upgrade. I am looking for some expert advice on what to > upgrade to in the Thinkpad T-Series. > > Two main considerations: > &g

Need Advice: Thinkpad T60 or T61?

2010-10-22 Thread Clint Pachl
I've been using an IBM Thinkpad T22 (P3 900MHz) laptop for quite some time and I want to upgrade. I am looking for some expert advice on what to upgrade to in the Thinkpad T-Series. Two main considerations: 1. Core Duo 32-bit (T60) or Core 2 Duo 64-bit (T61)? I've only used i386

Re: openfile advice / clarification

2010-05-11 Thread Keith
Thanks for reply, it was the openfiles-cur that had been causing us problems. I've upped the limit so something like 1 and everything seems fine now . Thanks Keith On 07/05/2010 01:25, Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2010-05-06, Keith wrote: Hi, I am having trouble increasing the openfile

Re: openfile advice / clarification

2010-05-07 Thread Christopher Zimmermann
On 05/07/10 11:20, Otto Moerbeek wrote: > There is an overall system limit, set with sysctl > kern.maxfiles=n, > current in-use fds can be displayed with sysctl kern.nfiles. > > There is also a per-process limit. Processes inherit the limits from > the parent process, but can change the lmits via

Re: openfile advice / clarification

2010-05-07 Thread Otto Moerbeek
On Fri, May 07, 2010 at 11:01:19AM +0200, Christopher Zimmermann wrote: > Hi, I got another question regarding this matter. > How is the openfile count accounted for? Is it per process, per > user, per shell? How does this work? > > I recently had problems when running rtorrent, which used about

Re: openfile advice / clarification

2010-05-07 Thread Christopher Zimmermann
Hi, I got another question regarding this matter. How is the openfile count accounted for? Is it per process, per user, per shell? How does this work? I recently had problems when running rtorrent, which used about 100 file descriptors (sockets). Pjsua then failed with "Too many open files" (

Re: openfile advice / clarification

2010-05-06 Thread Philip Guenther
On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 4:48 PM, Keith wrote: > Hi, I am having trouble increasing the openfile limit in a default install > run Pound (reverse http proxy) stably without it stopping at random times > (Always seems to be the weekend) and to do that I need to crank up the > openfile limit. ... > I'

Re: openfile advice / clarification

2010-05-06 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2010-05-06, Keith wrote: > Hi, I am having trouble increasing the openfile limit in a default > install of OpenBSD 4.6 x64 from the default setting of 128 to say 5000. > I want to run Pound (reverse http proxy) stably without it stopping at > random times (Always seems to be the weekend) an

Re: openfile advice / clarification

2010-05-06 Thread Jacob Meuser
On Fri, May 07, 2010 at 12:48:30AM +0100, Keith wrote: > Hi, I am having trouble increasing the openfile limit in a default > install of OpenBSD 4.6 x64 from the default setting of 128 to say > 5000. I want to run Pound (reverse http proxy) stably without it > stopping at random times (Always seem

openfile advice / clarification

2010-05-06 Thread Keith
Hi, I am having trouble increasing the openfile limit in a default install of OpenBSD 4.6 x64 from the default setting of 128 to say 5000. I want to run Pound (reverse http proxy) stably without it stopping at random times (Always seems to be the weekend) and to do that I need to crank up the

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