Re: ext2fs 2GiB file size limit

2010-12-10 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Wed, Dec 08, 2010 at 12:47:06PM +0100, Peter J. Philipp said that -O filesystem-format Select the filesystem-format. 0`GOOD_OLD_REV'; this option is primarily used to build root file systems that can be

Re: the new rc.d subsystem

2010-12-10 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 05:38:19PM +0200, Antoine Jacoutot said that On Fri, 10 Dec 2010 16:25:40 +0100, frantisek holop min...@obiit.org wrote: why not reuse the /etc/rc.conf style set these to NO to turn them off. otherwise, they're used as flags approach? It's not how it works

randomize spamd-setup time in cron?

2010-12-21 Thread frantisek holop
hi there, i was wondering if it's a good idea to randomize the time of the spamd-setup cronjob. are there some numbers how big traffic are we generating with this? is this an issue? -f -- think carefully before wishing, it might just come true.

Re: randomize spamd-setup time in cron?

2010-12-23 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 12:54:04AM +0100, frantisek holop said that are there some numbers how big traffic are we generating with this? is this an issue? i see that in the currect crontabs the spamd-setup line is commented out. spamd-setup(8) does not mention cron at all. i am a bit

Re: randomize spamd-setup time in cron?

2010-12-23 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 02:41:05PM +, Jason McIntyre said that On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 02:51:38PM +0100, frantisek holop wrote: hmm, on Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 12:54:04AM +0100, frantisek holop said that are there some numbers how big traffic are we generating

Re: 4.6 box periodic 100% cpu on vmware

2010-12-26 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 07:26:36AM +0100, Tomas Bodzar said that Let's skip that bad idea to have virtual FW for now. OpenBSD improved support for virtualization (especially VMware platforms) between 4.6 and 4.8 a lot. There is in kernel implementation of VMware tools i think vmt(4) at

vmt(4) issues

2011-01-04 Thread frantisek holop
hi there, i use an instance of openbsd regularly inside vmware player (3.1.3 build 324285). i see the following messages in /var/log/messages: Dec 24 17:34:49 ghost /bsd: VMware guest entering suspended state Dec 24 17:34:50 ghost /bsd: vmware: get data failed, ebx=0010 Dec 24 17:34:50

extent_alloc_region: can't allocate region descriptor

2011-01-07 Thread frantisek holop
hi there, with the latest snapshot my dmesg has changed regarding bios0: (inside vmware player) bios0: ROM list: 0xc/0x8000extent_alloc_region: can't allocate region descriptor :12 0xc8000/0x1e00!extent_alloc_region: can't allocate region descriptor :12 0xca000/0x1000extent_alloc_region:

Re: Predictable network interface numbering

2011-02-03 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Wed, Feb 02, 2011 at 10:24:55PM -0500, Nick Holland said that problems which are easy to fix. Having worked with similar problems (and their recovery) on other OSs...ick. talking about other OS's and risking making a fool of myself, what do the others think about the new scheming

Re: Predictable network interface numbering

2011-02-04 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Fri, Feb 04, 2011 at 01:28:31PM +1100, Rod Whitworth said that So it's easy to remember 0 is for 0utside, 1 is for 1nside and 2 is for 2ervers. that is really nice actually. now i appreciate the blanket numbering more. -f -- has a room temperature iq.

Re: netword's wireless security settings - how to determine

2011-02-15 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 03:56:24PM +0100, Dmitrij D. Czarkoff said that I'm sitting in a caffee with a protected wireless network available for clients. I was told the NWID and KEY settings, and I try to connect with command: ifconfig iwn0 nwid NWID wpakey KEY $ cat /etc/hostname.iwn0

Re: netword's wireless security settings - how to determine

2011-02-16 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 01:14:06AM +0100, Dmitrij D. Czarkoff said that On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 12:00:37AM +0100, frantisek holop wrote: hmm, on Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 03:56:24PM +0100, Dmitrij D. Czarkoff said that $ cat /etc/hostname.iwn0 dhcp nwid $SSID wpa wpapsk $PASSWORD

spamd praise

2011-03-01 Thread frantisek holop
hi there, some interesting changes in the 2.8 line of postfix, esp the postscreen(8) daemon that was partly inspired by no other than openbsd's spamd. very good job! http://www.postfix.org/postscreen.8.html -f -- questions, questions! does it ever end?!

dmesg changes

2011-04-10 Thread frantisek holop
hi there, my new dmesg puzzles me in 2 ways: --- dmesg.boot.2011-04-02 Sat Apr 2 17:57:35 2011 +++ dmesg.boot.2011-04-11 Mon Apr 11 01:11:59 2011 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -OpenBSD 4.9-current (GENERIC.MP) #814: Wed Mar 23 13:00:06 MDT 2011 +OpenBSD 4.9-current (GENERIC.MP) #12: Sat Apr 9

Re: linux default shell, how annoying

2011-04-22 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 01:00:46PM +, Kevin Chadwick said that mksh is the only pdksh derivate currently being actively developed. It includes bug fixes and feature improvements, in order to produce a modern, robust shell good for interactive and especially script use. mksh has UTF-8

Re: linux default shell, how annoying

2011-04-22 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 02:45:44PM +, Kevin Chadwick said that On Fri, 22 Apr 2011 14:36:45 +0200 frantisek holop wrote: on every debian i have to use, 'sudo apt-get install pdksh' is the first thing i do, the second being 'scp {.profile,.kshrc} debian:' I was going to replace

Re: Remembering Jun-ichiro Hagino

2007-11-01 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 12:04:37AM +0100, ropers said that How would people feel about creating a Wikipedia article for Itojun? Surely his IPv6 work makes him notable enough? eg. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itojun it all comes down to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:Notability my life

Re: USB drive problem

2007-11-01 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 01:23:15PM +1100, Craig Findlay said that umass0: BBB bulk-in stall clear failed, IOERROR definitely try another USB cable too. a flakey cable produces a lot of different errors. i was bitten by this in the past. -f -- show me a sane man and i will cure him for

Re: when was a pkg installed !!!

2007-11-12 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 12:40:21PM -0800, badeguruji said that i ran pkg_info with all common options but none tell me when was the pkg installed!!! the daily script will check also added packages.

mount_cd9660 options

2007-11-12 Thread frantisek holop
hi there, i just noticed that i see an option i haven't seen before.. /dev/cd0c on /cdrom type cd9660 (local, noexec, read-only, norrip) what is norrip? it is not in mount_cd9660(8) or in mount(8)... -f -- the borg assimilated my race all i got was this t-shirt

Re: mount_cd9660 options

2007-11-12 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Mon, Nov 12, 2007 at 08:24:40PM +0001, Jason McIntyre said that On Mon, Nov 12, 2007 at 08:57:24PM +0100, frantisek holop wrote: i just noticed that i see an option i haven't seen before.. /dev/cd0c on /cdrom type cd9660 (local, noexec, read-only, norrip) what is norrip

nptd regression in 4.2

2007-11-16 Thread frantisek holop
hi there, i have upgraded to 4.2 and because i am frequently without net access i see the following: at startup time ntpd just hangs indefinitely and must be terminated. /etc/rc.conf.local: ntpd_flags=-s /etc/hostname.rl0: dhcp NONE NONE NONE otherwise a stock 4.2 install. could someone test

Re: nptd regression in 4.2

2007-11-16 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 12:30:00PM +0100, Toni Mueller said that could someone test this before i submit a bug report? I've removed the '-s' flag for this reason, although I would very much prefer to have it in place in the case that I have net access. I don't know whether it would be

Re: mount_cd9660 options

2007-11-19 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 09:58:20AM +, Jason McIntyre said that On Mon, Nov 12, 2007 at 10:00:13PM +0100, frantisek holop wrote: if you mount a cd9660 filesystem w/ -R (no rockridge extensions) you get norrip in the output. i don;t think you can specify this as a mount option

Re: mount_cd9660 options

2007-11-20 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Mon, Nov 19, 2007 at 06:10:27PM +, Jason McIntyre said that On Mon, Nov 19, 2007 at 05:46:59PM +0100, frantisek holop wrote: there are sub-headings in some man pages (e.g. ksh(1)), perhaps that could be doable, somewhere lower in DESCRIPTION, e.g. A fitting subtitle

Re: nptd regression in 4.2

2007-11-22 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Wed, Nov 21, 2007 at 11:50:59AM +0100, Otto Moerbeek said that On Sat, Nov 17, 2007 at 05:37:17PM +0100, Otto Moerbeek wrote: So, did anybody test this? -Otto i see the diff went in, sorry i'll test it asap. thanks. -f -- dick drank, dick drove, dick died. don't be a dick.

Re: nptd regression in 4.2

2007-11-22 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Wed, Nov 21, 2007 at 11:50:59AM +0100, Otto Moerbeek said that So, did anybody test this? -Otto Index: client.c === RCS file: /cvs/src/usr.sbin/ntpd/client.c,v retrieving revision 1.76 diff -u -p

Re: nptd regression in 4.2

2007-11-22 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Thu, Nov 22, 2007 at 10:37:39PM +0100, Henning Brauer said that * frantisek holop [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-11-22 22:30]: my mirror still did not get this, so i applied manually. ofcourse not, it wasnot commited but asked to be tested... http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvsm

Re: nptd regression in 4.2

2007-11-23 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Sat, Nov 17, 2007 at 11:13:59PM +0100, Joachim Schipper said that Notwithstanding that this is a real bug that should really be fixed, there is a simple solution to such problems: just like OpenBSD has a Real Shell Script for an installer, it has a Real Shell Script for a boot script.

netstat question

2007-11-23 Thread frantisek holop
hi there, i have a question regarding netstat output. Active Internet connections (including servers) Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address(state) tcp 163 0 195.168.92.92.7054 aa.bb.cc.dd.23001 CLOSE_WAIT tcp 101 0 195.168.92.92.7503

Re: Firefox/Thunderbird ignore GTK2 font settings on OpenBSD

2007-11-23 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Thu, Nov 22, 2007 at 10:55:59PM -0800, J.C. Roberts said that Since you already do have anti-aliasing working, I figured I didn't need to mention it but what the heck... You should have the following defined and exported for anti-aliasing to work with gtk and qt. GDK_USE_XFT=1

Re: OpenBSD in the webcomic XKCD

2007-11-26 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 02:19:41PM +0100, Peter N. M. Hansteen said that David Vasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is there OpenBSD actually mentioned anywhere? Hmm, I see. Not all browsers display properly. Source always helps. It's a title, not an ALT, btw. in the browsers I have

Re: OpenBSD in the webcomic XKCD

2007-11-26 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 05:14:50PM +0100, Artur Grabowski said that worked. Dual boot is for sissies who can't get a second machine. single boot is for sissies who drag around 3 notebooks with themselves :p -f -- unicorns aren't myth, virgins are!

Re: OpenBSD in the webcomic XKCD

2007-11-26 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 11:14:29AM -0500, Nick Guenther said that 'poor dude' probably never even tried... did you actually read the comic? meh. I find it more interesting that BSD appearently defaults to OpenBSD and not FreeBSD here. it's for the massses. still more people know bsd than

Re: Replace sendmail with qmail?

2007-11-30 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 12:27:32AM -0800, Matthew Dempsky said that Dan Bernstein has placed qmail 1.03 into the public domain (see http://cr.yp.to/qmail/dist.html). Is there any interest in replacing sendmail with it to remove another component from the src/gnu/ hierarchy? everyone

Re: pfctl - show port numbers

2007-12-04 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 02:24:05PM -0500, MikeM said that toggle between symbols and numbers (e.g., -n for netstat or tcpdump) it may be helpful as well. That's the main reason why I originally though +1 one man's worthless feature is other man's best friend. please put it in... -f --

Re: pfctl - show port numbers

2007-12-04 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 09:47:17PM +0530, Girish Venkatachalam said that On 14:45:41 Dec 04, frantisek holop wrote: +1 one man's worthless feature is other man's best friend. please put it in... No use shouting yourself hoarse over this. shouting? are you serious

tale of two nic's and dhclient

2009-01-27 Thread frantisek holop
hi gang, i am at a bit of loss here. i have finally a notebook where both the wireless (iwn0) and normal nic (lii0) get recognized. both are dhcp clients of my home router. consider the following scenario: 1. boot up, lii0 gets a lease 2. i disconnect the wire 3. route -n flush; dhclient iwn0

Re: (bit)torrent openbsd client

2009-01-28 Thread frantisek holop
transmission is ok and you could also try unworkable that is developed on openbsd. -f -- why does the att logo look like the death star?

vnconfig and fsck

2009-01-30 Thread frantisek holop
hi gang, i have an encrypted ffs diskimage. it was created some time ago the usual way. after my update to -current this is what happens: $ sudo vnconfig -k svnd0 imagefile Encryption key: $ sudo mount /dev/svnd0a /mnt mount_ffs: /dev/svnd0a on /mnt: filesystem must be mounted read-only; you

Re: vnconfig and fsck

2009-01-31 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 01:56:31PM +0100, Hannah Schroeter said that Try fsck /dev/rsvnd0a yes, this works. thanks. so i guess the man page should be changed as well, no? -f -- synonym: a word you use when you can't spell the other.

Re: vnconfig and fsck

2009-01-31 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 07:20:00PM +0100, Tobias Ulmer said that On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 06:46:15PM +0100, frantisek holop wrote: hmm, on Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 01:56:31PM +0100, Hannah Schroeter said that Try fsck /dev/rsvnd0a yes, this works. thanks. so i guess the man page

Re: vnconfig and fsck

2009-01-31 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 07:20:00PM +0100, Tobias Ulmer said that On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 06:46:15PM +0100, frantisek holop wrote: hmm, on Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 01:56:31PM +0100, Hannah Schroeter said that Try fsck /dev/rsvnd0a yes, this works. thanks. so i guess the man page

Re: usb storage device detected as USB1.1

2009-02-08 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Thu, Feb 05, 2009 at 06:44:25PM +0100, Jesus Sanchez said that On windows, formated as FAT32, the copy of 1,2 GB took about 6 minutes, so it's about 3.41 MB/s, that's more than USB1.1 speed (I think) but in OpenBSD 4.4 I have 1.5 MB/s speed. I will attach dmesg as soon as possible.

Re: upgrading packages and ports, ugh

2009-02-11 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 03:02:28AM +0100, Ingo Schwarze said that unace-1.2bp0 unarj-2.43 unrar-3.81 Due to nasty licences, you must build those from source. or perhaps use p7zip which can deal with these, if i am not mistaken. -f -- i have nothing to say, but i can say it loudly.

ifconfig lladdr issues

2009-03-05 Thread frantisek holop
hi gang, i have run into an interesting problem. to connect through upc at a friend's place i need to change my lladdr to his. today i bought them a router so now we can all share internet. after i hooked it up i was about to change my lladdr back to factory setting, and i had a look at the

Re: ifconfig lladdr issues

2009-03-05 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 07:00:35PM -0500, Ted Unangst said that On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 6:46 PM, frantisek holop min...@obiit.org wrote: amaaq$ sudo ifconfig lii0 lladdr 71:ec:da:32:72:24 ifconfig: SIOCSIFLLADDR: Invalid argument 1. would it be a good idea to implement a (perhaps

two nics and dhclient

2009-03-05 Thread frantisek holop
hi there, i have reported this before, and i am fighting again with this. i think the current scenario is becoming more and more common nowadays, and i would like to understand it more: frantisek holop wrote: i am at a bit of loss here. i have finally a notebook where both the wireless

Re: Can someone please suggest a replacement for xterm for me?

2009-03-06 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Fri, Mar 06, 2009 at 11:45:49AM +, Matthew Szudzik said that On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 11:43:58PM -0800, patrick keshishian wrote: cut-and-paste no. copy-and-paste yes. is that not good enough? Most modern applications (like firefox, openoffice, etc.) can use both the PRIMARY and

Re: pkg_add -u updating same package

2009-03-10 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Fri, Mar 06, 2009 at 07:54:53PM +, Stefan Sperling said that On Fri, Mar 06, 2009 at 07:26:21PM +0100, Thomas Pfaff wrote: $ sudo pkg_add -ui ... libglade2-2.6.2p2 (extracting): complete libglade2-2.6.2p2 (deleting): complete libglade2-2.6.2p2 (installing): complete

Re: Can someone please suggest a replacement for xterm for me?

2009-03-10 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Fri, Mar 06, 2009 at 04:24:52PM +, Matthew Szudzik said that On Fri, Mar 06, 2009 at 02:16:05PM +0100, frantisek holop wrote: hmm, on Fri, Mar 06, 2009 at 11:45:49AM +, Matthew Szudzik said that PRIMARY. So, if you've copied something to the CLIPBOARD in firefox, then you

Re: How to break the httpd's 4G file size limit?

2009-03-16 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 03:34:30AM +0800, John Wong said that I want to set up the web server to share file, but i know apache-1.3.x (which is openbsd default httpd) had the 4G file size limit, can i break this limit? i dont remember such a limit, but i could be wrong. but i definitely

gkrellm memleak?

2009-03-17 Thread frantisek holop
hi there, is it normal for gkrellm to use as much memory as 100 megs? PID USERNAME PRI NICE SIZE RES STATEWAIT TIMECPU COMMAND 24630 f 20 120M 128M sleeppoll 0:14 0.00% gkrellm could this be some kind of memory leak? this is on a -current (feb 28) with

the fdisk man page and the fdisk behaviour

2009-03-22 Thread frantisek holop
hi there, this is for the dying breed of fdisk gurus... prepare some snacks, it's long. i am about to install openbsd -current (feb 28) on a notebook with a 320G hard drive in IDE mode, although it is AHCI really. bsd.rd dmesg at the end. my goal is to have the 2 ntfs partitions followed by a

Re: European orders

2009-03-24 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 04:52:04PM -0600, Theo de Raadt said that From a commit message an hour or so ago: Disable future European orders since the distributor is way too far behind in reconciling payments to the project for past sales, and years of trying to resolve it have made very

Re: correct HELO behaviour in SMTP connections

2009-03-25 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 09:22:30AM -0500, L. V. Lammert said that On Wed, 25 Mar 2009, Jose Fragoso wrote: Hi, If a host is responsible for sending outgoing messages from multiple domains, should it always use the same HELO command (ie. the same hostname) or could it use a

Re: European orders

2009-03-25 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 03:41:04AM +0100, Floor Terra said that Why doesn''t Wim explain the situation here. Less work isn't it. ;) I don't know. And I don't want to get involved. I'm concerned about Theo, Wim, the project and anybody else who is involved and don't want to make this

Re: correct HELO behaviour in SMTP connections

2009-03-25 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 03:40:09PM +0100, Gilles Chehade said that Are you sure ? just because you demonstrated a smtp session with a questionably set up mail server it doesn't mean you are right. sendmail by default does not check helo. /etc/postfix/main.cf: smtpd_helo_required = yes

Re: correct HELO behaviour in SMTP connections

2009-03-25 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 09:16:53AM -0300, Jose Fragoso said that If a host is responsible for sending outgoing messages from multiple domains, should it always use the same HELO command (ie. the same hostname) or could it use a different HELO command when sending mail from different

Re: correct HELO behaviour in SMTP connections

2009-03-25 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 08:27:03AM -0700, Brian Keefer said that The amount of connections rejected by those settings will be pretty small as a percentage, and it's not even close to reliable sign of i forgot to add: YMMV. those postfix settings have for the current week rejected 69084

Re: European orders

2009-03-25 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 10:40:13AM -0500, Marco Peereboom said that Don't you think theo has the best interest of the project as his first priority? best interest: yes. best attitude and people skills: i am not so sure... all i am saying is that the other side still hasn't spoken up. i

Re: correct HELO behaviour in SMTP connections

2009-03-25 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 10:05:09AM -0700, Brian Keefer said that On Mar 25, 2009, at 9:41 AM, frantisek holop wrote: of course its true downside (just like greyfiltering's) is that it needs a considerable amount of babysitting. but it's worth it for me. So basically, it's not reliable

Re: the fdisk man page and the fdisk behaviour

2009-03-31 Thread frantisek holop
first of all, thanks Nick for your time going through all of that. here is my answer. it is all quite i386 specific though. hmm, on Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 11:34:38PM -0400, Nick Holland said that I really don't want to ignore what you call an exotic geometry. A lot of people seem to think there

Re: OpenBSD mta with postfix

2009-03-31 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 02:46:13PM -0500, John Brooks said that I've just received this response from a large corporate email system regarding their claim that emails sent to them are not getting through even though our logs contain acknowledgements of accepting the mail sent. In our

Re: European orders

2009-03-31 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 07:48:54PM -0400, Ted Unangst said that On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 7:37 PM, Richard Ben Aleya richard.benal...@gmail.com wrote: We do not want to purchase CDs to pay the salary of an American guy who Bitch, please. Now I'm insulted. You think Theo's an American?

Re: OpenBSD mta with postfix

2009-03-31 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 02:35:15PM -0500, John Brooks said that that was the entire point of my original post, they strip out their queue id from their acknowledgment for security reasons, and then accept all mail including bogus recipients. I was curious if this practice is very

Re: interrupt count in the clouds on a new msi notebook

2009-03-31 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 08:32:18PM +0200, frantisek holop said that i will reboot this machine asap with ahci setting in the bios... that, unfortunately resulted in this: http://cvs.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-wrapper?full=yesnumbers=6118 lots of new hardware in this machine :] -f

Re: the fdisk man page and the fdisk behaviour

2009-03-31 Thread frantisek holop
hi there, i am just reading up on things, and here is a very nice explanation how and why some of the bioses chose their geometry. http://www.pcguide.com/ref/hdd/bios/modesECHS-c.html quite some russian rulette, innit :] it also kind of explains why when a certain disk capacity is surpassed,

Re: the fdisk man page and the fdisk behaviour

2009-03-31 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Wed, Apr 01, 2009 at 05:05:10AM +0200, frantisek holop said that i wonder what will happen when 65536/255/63 is reached, what kind of frankenstein translation table will come into life just to save c/h/s again. maybe there will come an LBA only age, i mean fdisk-wise, not disk-wise

Re: European orders

2009-04-01 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Wed, Apr 01, 2009 at 12:37:16PM +0200, Artur Grabowski said that It's his choice and none of your business. It's his reasons and none of your business. It's his choice and none of your business. It's his choice and none of your business. and a thousand more none of your business

Re: the fdisk man page and the fdisk behaviour

2009-04-01 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Wed, Apr 01, 2009 at 01:41:52PM +0200, Henning Brauer said that * Nick n...@holland-consulting.net [2009-04-01 03:52]: I think most the developers wouldn't mind seeing a smoother fdisk program... what is fdisk? oh I remember using it. fdisk -i sd1. why it can do anything else is

Re: the fdisk man page and the fdisk behaviour

2009-04-01 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Wed, Apr 01, 2009 at 06:54:44AM -0700, J.C. Roberts said that Though they could logically do it now, is there a *need* to do this, let alone available hardware? -You're really talking about a personal hacking project with a *very* serious cash requirement to buy the necessary

love me love me, fool me fool me

2009-04-01 Thread frantisek holop
hey there, so no 1st of april fools this year, hm? how about we start a big flamewar about something? oh wait... happy fools' day fools! :] -f -- plus puto, minus scio -- the more i learn, the less i know

usb and wireless mouse

2009-04-11 Thread frantisek holop
hi there, after removing my wireless mouse receiver from the usb port i was greeted with the following message: wsmouse1 detached ums0 detached uhidev0 detached uhid0 detached uhidev1 detached ehci0: port reset timeout ehci_freex: xfer=0xd1386700 not busy, 0x4f4e5155 uhub0: port 2 reset failed

beating the fdisk horse

2009-04-15 Thread frantisek holop
hi there, i am reading the fdisk source to have a better understanding what is what... it is not going really well i am afraid :] first of all, i had a long hard look at the basic programs that give information about disks in general: fdisk, disklabel, and atactl (obviously, only for ata disks)

Re: beating the fdisk horse

2009-04-16 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 10:15:00PM -0600, Tobias Weingartner said that Frantisek Holop wrote: i am reading the fdisk source to have a better understanding what is what... it is not going really well i am afraid :] Please read up on hale landis' how it works series. It's

Re: AHCI License?

2009-04-16 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 01:21:05PM -0400, Ted Unangst said that On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 12:41 PM, J.C. Roberts list-...@designtools.org wrote: I was looking into AHCI stuff this morning and found something kinda disturbing, namely the fact Intel requires a license for AHCI. The real

Re: Slow SATA write speeds with SMB

2009-04-20 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 09:30:58PM +1000, Kristian Rooke said that ahci0 at pci0 dev 14 function 0 NVIDIA MCP73 AHCI rev 0xa2: irq 11, AHCI MCP77 is also unsupported. but there was a patch floating about on tech@ regarding ahci. my notebook is quite unusable at the moment so i can't test

Re: Slow SATA write speeds with SMB

2009-04-20 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 01:33:25PM -0600, Bob Beck said that some of the devs really need to give up their thinkpads and start buying cheap msi or other stuff with amd and nvidia monstrosities :] Yeah... you're like... the guy who is sits outside the estwing factory hitting his

Re: Slow SATA write speeds with SMB

2009-04-20 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 02:48:15PM -0500, Marco Peereboom said that some of the devs really need to give up their thinkpads and start buying cheap msi or other stuff with amd and nvidia monstrosities :] Right, dealing with hardware that is unreliable on a daily basis is exactly what I

Re: Slow SATA write speeds with SMB

2009-04-20 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 05:19:05PM -0500, Tony Abernethy said that frantisek holop wrote: all hw is unrealible to some degree, ... and all degrees of unreliability are equivalent? Methinks some people like stuff that is LESS unreliable. Even going so far as to make an OS that is LESS

Re: rt.fm ftp server dumps core

2009-04-25 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 08:48:31AM -0600, Jeff Ross said that For a while now I've been getting segmentation faults when I try to download snapshots from rt.fm i had problems with rf.fm as well. dropping ftp connections in the middle of transfer and making cvs go wild. i was not sure

Re: Samsung HD License Issue

2009-05-04 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Mon, May 04, 2009 at 10:43:43AM +0800, David Schulz said that Hybrid Disk Drive products are licensed for use only on devices that deploy the Windows VISTA Operating System as their principal operating System. If you or any other party install(s) an operating system on the

Re: 4.5 - strange performance issue

2009-05-04 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Mon, May 04, 2009 at 12:24:20PM +0200, Otto Moerbeek said that Check top(1) without a runing X first. You might have problems with interrupts. If that's the case, top should show prettu high interrupt %'s. Espcially some nvidia chipsets have these problems. If you are suffering from

ksh and # in the command line

2012-04-24 Thread frantisek holop
hi there, how can i make ksh leave the '#' alone in the url i am passing as a parameter? $ curl -v http://example.com/test#1; GET /test HTTP/1.1 ^ $ curl -v 'http://example.com/test#1' GET /test HTTP/1.1 ^ $ curl -v http://example.com/test\#1; GET /test\ HTTP/1.1

acer aspire one D270

2012-05-03 Thread frantisek holop
hi there, here is the dmesg for a spanking new acer aspire one D270 netbook. installation was easy and fast. devices not supported (yet): intel integrated video, BCM4313 (probably gonna replace with an iwn) there is a curious ehci0 timeout.. the 6 cell battery is supposed to give 8h, so would

Re: acer aspire one D270

2012-05-04 Thread frantisek holop
here is sysctl hw as well: hw.machine=i386 hw.model=Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU N2600 @ 1.60GHz (GenuineIntel 686-class) hw.ncpu=4 hw.byteorder=1234 hw.pagesize=4096 hw.disknames=sd0:73fc4ae5314f89db hw.diskcount=1 hw.sensors.acpitz0.temp0=40.00 degC (zone temperature)

Re: acer aspire one D270

2012-05-04 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Fri, May 04, 2012 at 07:37:45AM +0100, Laurence Rochfort said that I wouldn't recommend the iwn(4) devices. I've had a bad experience even with those in the man page. I recently replaced an iwn(4) with ral(4) and athn(4) as advised on misc and they've been excellent. No firmware

suspend ok, wake up not so much (on acer aspire one D270)

2012-05-04 Thread frantisek holop
hi there, things are looking promising with this little netbook, but there is room for improvement :] suspending seems to work, but the problem is waking up. what happens is, i hear the machine coming up, but there is no visible sign except the power led going from blinking orange (sleeping) to

Re: suspend ok, wake up not so much (on acer aspire one D270)

2012-05-04 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Fri, May 04, 2012 at 08:30:43PM +0100, Laurence Rochfort said that I have the same experience with a Toshiba R840 with Intel GT2+ Sandy Bridge graphics. this one has an Intel GMA 3600. i am not sure thats part of the sandy family, i dont know. the pci id is so new, one of the only

netbooks, intel GMA 3600

2012-05-05 Thread frantisek holop
hi there, honeymoon being over with my acer aspire D270 i am starting to realize that even if i replace the broadcom 4313 wifi (thanks for nothing broadcom) the intel GMA 3600 being not really an intel thing, thus with no chance of an open source driver, i have bought a cheap netbook, but an

systat total freeze

2012-05-06 Thread frantisek holop
hi there, i was copying using rsync between two openbsd notebooks on LAN, and i tried to run systat on both of them to try and see why the transfer speed hovered around 700KB/s both notebooks are -current. first i ran it on the receiving machine, no problem. however on the other notebook systat

Re: systat total freeze

2012-05-07 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Sun, May 06, 2012 at 12:38:49PM -0700, Philip Guenther said that On Sun, May 6, 2012 at 3:38 AM, frantisek holop min...@obiit.org wrote: ... however on the other notebook systat froze the system solid. i have no idea how to reproduce this, obviously, running systat now works fine

Re: systat total freeze

2012-05-11 Thread frantisek holop
so i had another systat complete freeze, this time remotely, so again, no dump... sorry about another useless report, but looking at the mailing list looks like other people are experiencing hangs during disk activity. (i am speculating in this direction simply because systat's first screen

hotplugd/disklabel + smartphone sd card

2012-05-11 Thread frantisek holop
hi there, i am trying to trick /etc/hotplug/attach into mounting the sd card from my android smartphone. the principal problem seems to be that at the time of e.g. sd2 showing up, the disklabel is not ready yet. (maybe the delay is the time android needs to unmount it) as no disklabel is ready,

puffy copyright infringement?

2012-05-23 Thread frantisek holop
do i see it correctly that this is the openbsd puffy logo? http://www.windowsphone.com/en-GB/apps/3bebd4c5-3514-4df0-a738-fd1db5ae11bf (cookies must be enabled for this idiotic site) -f -- i don't have a solution but i really admire the problem.

samsung netbooks

2012-05-27 Thread frantisek holop
hi there, does anybody have a dmesg for the samsung netbooks like NP305U1A-A03NL ? -f -- no one has ever died an atheist. -- plato

Re: Large (3TB) HDD support

2012-06-03 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Sat, Jun 02, 2012 at 10:44:22AM +, Christian Weisgerber said that Otto Moerbeek o...@drijf.net wrote: I just fsck'ed a 2.7TB filesystem in 1 minute, 43 seconds. 61% full, 447166 files. What CPU and how much RAM? SATA2 or 3? Even more important: block size,

Re: Large (3TB) HDD support

2012-06-03 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Fri, Jun 01, 2012 at 08:06:24PM +, Christian Weisgerber said that Scott McEachern sc...@blackstaff.ca wrote: I'm trying to add a pair of 3TB drives to my workstation, which I plan on turning into a ~3TB RAID 1 array, and seem to be having difficulty realizing the full size

Re: Large (3TB) HDD support

2012-06-03 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Sun, Jun 03, 2012 at 01:39:18PM +0200, Tobias Ulmer said that these must be some really nice disks :] for example only a 200G slice (also 64k/8k) of music/film/picture collection (not even full yet) on a notebook disk (5400 RPM) takes ages: Filesystem SizeUsed Avail

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