Re: Re: kernel-headers rpm ?

2003-01-23 Thread Florin Andrei
. Linux is FAR from being user-friendly, in the Windows sense (and so much more in the MacOS sense). There's a lot of serious work needed to fix that. Architectural changes need to be done. No amount of vendor/sysadmin support can replace it. -- Florin Andrei I'm only arguing against stupid people

nForce and APIC

2003-01-10 Thread Florin Andrei
_appears_ to work somewhat better, but i need to do more testing. But that won't work anymore once i'll get the new IDE controller card, and possibly a SCSI controller too, because those things will eat up more IRQs. -- Florin Andrei Were any orcs or 'dark men' offered coalition positions in King

RE: Problem Compiling Linux Kernel 2.4.20

2002-12-17 Thread Florin Andrei
On Mon, 2002-12-16 at 14:45, Joseph D. Wagner wrote: [root@localhost linux-2.4.20]# make xconfig cat header.tk ./kconfig.tk ./tkparse ../arch/i386/config.in kconfig.tk -: 6: unknown command make[1]: *** [kconfig.tk] Error 1 Did you installed the Tcl and Tk stuff? -- Florin Andrei

Re: Pentium 4 Optimizations

2002-12-13 Thread Florin Andrei
your binaries for better speed, and then there's the issue of oh, my system is sooo pure, it doesn't have a trace of i386 code on it! ;-) You can argue with the former, because that's logic. You can't argue with the latter, because that's religion. -- Florin Andrei When it comes to discussing

Re: Pentium 4 Optimizations

2002-12-12 Thread Florin Andrei
after compiler optimizations and then they get slower to launch precisely because they get bigger). Common sense is strongly recommended. ;-) -- Florin Andrei If you play the WinXP CD backwards, you get a satanic message. That's nothing, if you play it forward, it installs WinXP

Re: Pentium 4 Optimizations

2002-12-12 Thread Florin Andrei
of the programs compiled with gcc-3.2, depending on the CPUs and on the specific workloads and on the phases of the Moon, etc. ;-) -- Florin Andrei If you play the WinXP CD backwards, you get a satanic message. That's nothing, if you play it forward, it installs WinXP

Re: building for 6.2 on 8.0

2002-12-02 Thread Florin Andrei
On Mon, 2002-12-02 at 10:43, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it possible to build it on 8.0 so that it can run on 6.2? If so, how? Use VMware. :-P -- Florin Andrei It's ok to use the names of your pets or children as passwords as long as they contain several non-alphanumeric characters

Re: GPA/GPG

2002-10-31 Thread Florin Andrei
://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=gpa As always, the Libc6 packages are the ones built for Red Hat. -- Florin Andrei The record business is the only industry in which the bank still owns the house after the mortgage is paid. - sen. Orrin Hatch

XFS [was: ACL in RedHat]

2002-10-31 Thread Florin Andrei
to switch) -- Florin Andrei The record business is the only industry in which the bank still owns the house after the mortgage is paid. - sen. Orrin Hatch ___ Redhat-devel-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo

Re: optimised glibc

2002-10-25 Thread Florin Andrei
or smth like that). (I wanted to say a DivX encoder, but that already has assembler parts optimised for CPU architecture, usually. Well, i guess the tests could be refined indefinitely.) -- Florin Andrei Many would-be screenwriters seem to have the impression that they can write a script based only

Re: GCC incompatibility

2002-10-22 Thread Florin Andrei
packages have a history of screwing up your /etc/modules.conf. Make backups of it, and keep them for a long time; otherwise, when you uninstall the package, you may lose information from that file. They don't seem to be willing to fix the problem. -- Florin Andrei I hope you're not that kind

optimised glibc

2002-10-14 Thread Florin Andrei
What is the reason why there are kernel RPMs optimised for Athlon, but no glibc RPMs for Athlon? Which is the reccomended glibc package to install on an Athlon system? The i386 or the i686? -- Florin Andrei If you wear a tinfoil hat nowadays, people will just think you're advertising for some

Re: optimised glibc

2002-10-14 Thread Florin Andrei
a compiler to do the right thing. Seems like gcc doesn't. -- Florin Andrei If you wear a tinfoil hat nowadays, people will just think you're advertising for some Mel Gibson movie. ___ Redhat-devel-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https

glibc for athlon ?

2002-07-24 Thread Florin Andrei
What is the reason there are no glibc...athlon.rpm packages in 7.3? When upgrading glibc on an AthlonXP machine, what are the packages reccomended to install (i386? i686?) -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ Redhat-devel-list mailing

Re: fonts

2002-07-18 Thread Florin Andrei
be configured in /etc/X11/fs/config, not in XF86Config. I believe he disabled the font server. Then indeed, you have to put font paths in XF86Config. -- Florin Andrei If you spend more on coffee than on IT security, then you will be hacked. What's more, you deserve to be hacked. - - Richard

Re: fonts

2002-07-18 Thread Florin Andrei
a lot. -- Florin Andrei If you spend more on coffee than on IT security, then you will be hacked. What's more, you deserve to be hacked. - - Richard Clarke, president Bush's advisor on cybersecurity ___ Redhat-devel-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED

fonts

2002-07-17 Thread Florin Andrei
, the author has a point. Someone should consider more sriously the problem of the fonts. -- Florin Andrei Theories are never abandoned until all their proponents are dead. - Max Born ___ Redhat-devel-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https

Re: Installer from SGI for XFS

2002-06-05 Thread Florin Andrei
On Wed, 2002-06-05 at 09:12, Florian Lindner wrote: From: Florin Andrei [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's just an example, but... I'm already using it for heavy disk I/O stuff (video editing, transcoding between different video formats, MPEG and so on) and it's flawless until now. Which

Re: What about breaking rc.sysint up into an rc.sysinit.d

2002-06-05 Thread Florin Andrei
in a SysV structure. The idea behind SysV is to modularize, so that there's no need to edit critical files, but just create symlinks as needed. Breaking rc.sysinit into a directory is the logical next step towards a fully modularised startup mechanism. -- Florin Andrei You can get excited about just any

Re: Installer from SGI for XFS

2002-06-04 Thread Florin Andrei
an example, but... I'm already using it for heavy disk I/O stuff (video editing, transcoding between different video formats, MPEG and so on) and it's flawless until now. -- Florin Andrei You can get excited about just any subject if you study it enough. It's the deep knowledge that makes a topic

7.3 installer with XFS

2002-05-20 Thread Florin Andrei
into the implantisomd5 and checkisomd5 from the anaconda 7.3 source *) examined the anaconda source code for claimed xfs support (it appears to append XFS to the list of available filesystems if that filesystem choice is available, more work here is needed) -Mike -- Florin Andrei

Re: chkconfig ate my symlinks :-)

2002-05-09 Thread Florin Andrei
On Wed, 2002-05-08 at 19:56, Bill Nottingham wrote: Florin Andrei ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: Arghhh!... I just installed a 7.3 system and played a little bit with chkconfig, using the old chkconfig --del service syntax. :-( chkconfig --del has *always* removed symlinks, barring bugs

RE: XFS support

2002-05-09 Thread Florin Andrei
, it's going to take a few days/weeks before the SGI 7.3 installer will be provided. But it looks like some people are too anxious to get XFS faster! ;-) -- Florin Andrei There's nothing to be ashamed of in coming up with the obvious, especially when nobody else is coming up

Re: ReiserFS in Installations

2002-05-06 Thread Florin Andrei
with everything you said, especially with the fetichistic part :-) and the comparison with XFS. However, there is one thing ReiserFS is good at: creating/removing lots of small files, especially in a single directory. That's why it's quite good for Squid and news spools. -- Florin Andrei There's nothing

Re: ReiserFS in Installations

2002-05-06 Thread Florin Andrei
. ;-) Short answer: Pretty fast, actually. Days, weeks. -- Florin Andrei There's nothing to be ashamed of in coming up with the obvious, especially when nobody else is coming up with it. ___ Redhat-devel-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https

preemptive kernel in 7.3?

2002-05-06 Thread Florin Andrei
Does the kernel in 7.3 includes the pre-emptive patch or the low-latency patch? -- Florin Andrei There's nothing to be ashamed of in coming up with the obvious, especially when nobody else is coming up with it. ___ Redhat-devel-list mailing list

Re: preemptive kernel in 7.3?

2002-05-06 Thread Florin Andrei
identify it? No. :-( But wouldn't you love it if Red Hat would provide somewhere a nice little list saying these are the patches that were included in the kernel that goes with this distribution? ;-) -- Florin Andrei There's nothing to be ashamed of in coming up with the obvious, especially

Re: preemptive kernel in 7.3?

2002-05-06 Thread Florin Andrei
, as a convenience, that's why i asked for it. I'm aware that the spec file has everything one needs. -- Florin Andrei There's nothing to be ashamed of in coming up with the obvious, especially when nobody else is coming up with it. ___ Redhat-devel-list

Re: Is skipjack 7.3 beta

2002-05-03 Thread Florin Andrei
drwxr-xr-x3 004096 Nov 27 21:57 ibm drwxr-xr-x9 529 529 4096 May 03 09:23 rawhide drwxrwsr-x 20 0235 4096 Oct 22 2001 updates lftp ftp.redhat.com:/pub/redhat/linux ;-) -- Florin Andrei There's nothing to be ashamed of in coming up

Re: Better File systems? Was Re: XFS - here's the solution

2002-04-18 Thread Florin Andrei
-- Florin Andrei The ability to remember useless stuff is inversely related to the useful knowledge in one's head. ___ Redhat-devel-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-devel-list

Re: Alternative file systems? Was Re: Better File systems?

2002-04-18 Thread Florin Andrei
it somewhat unappropriate for proxy servers and mail relays. The latest stable release (1.1) fixes that (although some people still believe sync deletes are the right way ;-)). You can get an XFS-enabled RH installer from here: http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/ -- Florin Andrei There's nothing

Re: New Openssh packages? When?

2002-04-17 Thread Florin Andrei
, rebuild fails. Did anyone had any success with 6.1? (no, i cannot upgrade the OS) -- Florin Andrei The ability to remember useless stuff is inversely related to the useful knowledge in one's head. ___ Redhat-devel-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED

apache 2.0 RPM

2002-04-16 Thread Florin Andrei
Apache-2.0 RPM for RH 7.2 anyone? ;-) (of course, with the same layout as the official v1.3 RPM, with hooks for the PHP and SSL packages, etc.) -- Florin Andrei The ability to remember useless stuff is inversely related to the useful knowledge in one's head

Pure-FTPd

2002-01-28 Thread Florin Andrei
that does that). Even nicer than that, the project looks very alive. ;-) -- Florin Andrei The security of any corporate network is inversely proportional to the number of systems administrators on the network. - - Petreley's law of sysadmins

Re: Announcing a beta release of Red Hat Linux: Wolverine

2001-02-26 Thread Florin Andrei
On 22 Feb 2001 18:17:07 -0500, Nalin Dahyabhai wrote: Announcing... Red Hat Linux "Wolverine" (a beta release) What's the difference between this and Fisher? -- Florin Andrei

webalizer stuff

2001-01-30 Thread Florin Andrei
, whereas the default path should be /var/www/html/usage) -- Florin Andrei ___ Redhat-devel-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-devel-list