Re: How to run Microsoft Internet Explorer on NetBSD?

2016-01-29 Thread coypu
If you're content with VirtualBox, Microsoft themselves provide images of various versions of Windows with various versions of IE already installed. https://dev.windows.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/tools/vms/windows/

Re: How to run Microsoft Internet Explorer on NetBSD?

2016-01-29 Thread Eric Haszlakiewicz
On January 29, 2016 5:31:17 AM EST, Jose Luis Rodriguez Garcia wrote: >I need to use Internet Explorer for access a web from my company: >Siebel software. > >It uses Active X and it only works with Internet Explorer. (They >haven't activated the mode of Siebel Software for

Re: How to run Microsoft Internet Explorer on NetBSD?

2016-01-29 Thread Marina Brown
On 01/29/2016 05:31 AM, Jose Luis Rodriguez Garcia wrote: > I need to use Internet Explorer for access a web from my company: > Siebel software. > > It uses Active X and it only works with Internet Explorer. (They > haven't activated the mode of Siebel Software for non Microsoft > browsers). > >

Re: How to run Microsoft Internet Explorer on NetBSD?

2016-01-29 Thread Mayuresh
On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 11:31:17AM +0100, Jose Luis Rodriguez Garcia wrote: > I need to use Internet Explorer for access a web from my company: www/ies4linux? [ I haven't used of late. ] Mayuresh.

How to run Microsoft Internet Explorer on NetBSD?

2016-01-29 Thread Jose Luis Rodriguez Garcia
I need to use Internet Explorer for access a web from my company: Siebel software. It uses Active X and it only works with Internet Explorer. (They haven't activated the mode of Siebel Software for non Microsoft browsers). .It is a application that I must use, very few times. It is the option

Re: How to run Microsoft Internet Explorer on NetBSD?

2016-01-29 Thread Swift Griggs
On Fri, 29 Jan 2016, Mayuresh wrote: This may be an OT. Nah, it's "user" related. Spot on the topic. :-) I don't think using i386 is a bad idea either, unless one has some specific reason to use amd64. I mostly agree with this sentiment. I recently switched to amd64. I gained nothing, at

Re: How to run Microsoft Internet Explorer on NetBSD?

2016-01-29 Thread Swift Griggs
On Fri, 29 Jan 2016, Mayuresh wrote: On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 11:31:17AM +0100, Jose Luis Rodriguez Garcia wrote: I need to use Internet Explorer for access a web from my company: www/ies4linux? [ I haven't used of late. ] That is a useful package, but it won't work if you are on NetBSD 7.0

Re: How to run Microsoft Internet Explorer on NetBSD?

2016-01-29 Thread Mayuresh
On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 09:13:29AM -0700, Swift Griggs wrote: > On Fri, 29 Jan 2016, Mayuresh wrote: > >On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 11:31:17AM +0100, Jose Luis Rodriguez Garcia wrote: > >>I need to use Internet Explorer for access a web from my company: > >www/ies4linux? [ I haven't used of late. ] >

Re: gpt/fdisk and harddrive identified with 2 cylinders?

2016-01-29 Thread Robert Elz
darren...@yahoo.com said: | wd0: | wd0: drive supports 16-sector PIO transfers, LBA48 addressing | wd0: 2794 GB, 5814021 cyl, 16 head, 63 sec, 512 bytes/sect x5860533168 sectors That is too big for 32 bit labels, which means that you cannot use either fdisk or disklabel to manipulate it

gpt/fdisk and harddrive identified with 2 cylinders?

2016-01-29 Thread Darren
NetBSD armv7 7.0 NetBSD 7.0 (CUBIETRUCK.201509250726Z) evbarm wd0 at atabus0 drive 0 wd0: wd0: drive supports 16-sector PIO transfers, LBA48 addressing wd0: 2794 GB, 5814021 cyl, 16 head, 63 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 5860533168 sectors wd0: drive supports PIO mode 4, DMA mode 2, Ultra-DMA mode 6

Re: gpt/fdisk and harddrive identified with 2 cylinders?

2016-01-29 Thread Michael van Elst
darren...@yahoo.com (Darren) writes: >wd0 at atabus0 drive 0 >wd0: >wd0: drive supports 16-sector PIO transfers, LBA48 addressing >wd0: 2794 GB, 5814021 cyl, 16 head, 63 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 5860533168 sec= >tors >wd0: drive supports PIO mode 4, DMA mode 2, Ultra-DMA mode 6 (Ultra/133)

Re: How to run Microsoft Internet Explorer on NetBSD?

2016-01-29 Thread Mayuresh
On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 09:58:52AM -0700, Swift Griggs wrote: > * I get slightly better performance on system benchmarks (again mostly the > memory benchmarks) with AMD64. Interestingly, lately with NetBSD 7.0 > some benchmarks are beating Linux across the board on the same hardware > (I use

Re: Speaking of PAE

2016-01-29 Thread John Nemeth
On Jan 29, 10:23pm, Martin Husemann wrote: } On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 02:09:17PM -0700, Swift Griggs wrote: } > } > Can any of the kernel gods comment on if PAE is still considered unstable? } > It's hard to tell if it's disabled by default because it conflicts with } > the Xen memory model, or

Re: How to run Microsoft Internet Explorer on NetBSD?

2016-01-29 Thread Hal Murray
swiftgri...@gmail.com said: > All in all, Mayuresh, while I can see some reasons to run AMD64, I'm really > on the same wavelength as you are - what's the point of hassling with AMD64 > anyway ? Perhaps someone will point out the "killer feature" that we > missed. :-) The thing you get with

Re: How to run Microsoft Internet Explorer on NetBSD?

2016-01-29 Thread Swift Griggs
On Fri, 29 Jan 2016, Hal Murray wrote: The thing you get with 64 bits is pointers that work in more than 4 gigabytes of memory. Yes, of course, but with PAE that shouldn't be a problem. Of course, it appears that PAE is still considered experimental in NetBSD, since it's not enabled by

Re: Speaking of PAE

2016-01-29 Thread Martin Husemann
On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 02:09:17PM -0700, Swift Griggs wrote: > > Can any of the kernel gods comment on if PAE is still considered unstable? > It's hard to tell if it's disabled by default because it conflicts with > the Xen memory model, or if it's because it causes stability issues. Not