Re: boot menu option to disable graphics mode

2012-06-08 Thread Aled Morris
On 7 June 2012 16:12, Garrett Cooper wrote: > I've run into _multiple_ scenarios where this isn't possible because > the terminal settings are screwed up in single user mode, and had to > resort to `sed -i '' `. > > ed is the standard text editor Aled

Re: ZFS installs on HD with 4k physical blocks without any warning as on 512 block size device

2011-08-23 Thread Aled Morris
On 23 August 2011 10:52, Ivan Voras wrote: > > I agree but there are at least two things going for making the increase > anyway: > > 1) 2 TB drives cost $80 > 2) Where the space is really important, the person in charge usually knows > it and can choose a non-default size like 512b fragments. > >

Re: ZFS installs on HD with 4k physical blocks without any warning as on 512 block size device

2011-08-19 Thread Aled Morris
On 19 August 2011 11:15, Tom Evans wrote: > On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 6:50 PM, Yuri wrote: > > Some latest hard drives have logical sectors of 512 byte when they > actually > > have 4k physical sectors. > ... > Shouldn't UFS and ZFS drivers be able to either read the right sector size > > from th

TCP MD5 (was Re: XL driver checksum producing corrupted but checksum-correct packets)

2004-01-25 Thread Aled Morris
to make that work on FreeBSD (with Zebra/Quagga.) Aled Morris QiX Limited ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: serial console com1 to com1 == login race condition?

2002-08-09 Thread Aled Morris
On Fri, 9 Aug 2002, Terry Lambert wrote: >My money is on the hacked CR-greedy getty, though... Why not bring up ppp or slip on the line permanently 10.0.0.1 -> 10.0.0.2 Maybe you could bind a standalone telnetd to that IP only? Aled -- Cheap server colo in Telehouse London - http://www.qix.co

Re: FreeBSD 4.3 and windows 98 don't play well together

2001-08-01 Thread Aled Morris
>I was wondering whether someone could shed some light on this for me: I've installed >FreeBSD 4.3, Debian Linux 2.2r2 and windows 98 on my laptop. Everything is fine >except >that after using FreeBSD if I try to go into windows, the system locks up. If I turn >the power off and back on after

Re: EBCDIC -> ASCII

2001-02-12 Thread Aled Morris
On Thu, 1 Feb 2001, Warner Losh wrote: >Even the name (dd) comes from IBM's control language (JSYS?). I don't disagree, but someone once told me the name came from what it does "Convert and Copy a file" - see dd(1) - but "cc" was already taken... Aled To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PR

Julian's World tour

2000-12-22 Thread Aled Morris
On Thu, 21 Dec 2000, Julian Elischer wrote: __--_|\ Julian Elischer / \ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ( OZ) World tour 2000 ---> X_.---._/ presently in: Budapest v Is that map strictly correct? Or is Budapest also a suburb of Perth? Aled To Unsubscribe: send

Re: Why not another style thread? (was Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/gen..

2000-12-21 Thread Aled Morris
On Wed, 20 Dec 2000, Peter Seebach wrote: >In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Aled Morris >writes: >>Shouldn't you use "kill(0, SIGSEGV)" ? > >Gratuitously verbose! > raise(SIGSEGV); > >(To be fair, raise(SIGSEGV) is quite likely to just jump t

Re: Why not another style thread? (was Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/gen..

2000-12-20 Thread Aled Morris
On Mon, 18 Dec 2000, Matt Dillon wrote: >void * >safe_malloc(int bytes) >{ > void *ptr; > > if ((ptr = malloc(bytes)) == NULL) > *(int *)0 = 1; /* force seg fault */ Shouldn't you use "kill(0, SIGSEGV)" ? I'm sure we went through a long and painful Y2K s

Re: pipe

2000-12-05 Thread Aled Morris
On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, G. Adam Stanislav wrote: >> Use malloc() instead. > >Unfortunately, that only works in C. :) > >I tried to figure out how to allocate memory, but, so far, was completely >unsuccessful. malloc appears to mmap pages from fd -1, and makes them private and read/write (except on s

Re: ILOVEYOU

2000-05-05 Thread Aled Morris
On Thu, 4 May 2000, Jeremiah Gowdy wrote: >lol. The only way you could really have a virus in freebsd is if it was >launched or infected as root. Otherwise the virus would be VERY limited. I don't agree that it would be limited. The reason for the "success" of ILOVEYOU is that its replication

Re: Please review: rc file changes

1999-09-01 Thread Aled Morris
On Wed, 1 Sep 1999, Andrzej Bialecki wrote: >On Sat, 28 Aug 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote: > >> :>I've never heard of that. I've always found that two spaces >> :> after end-of-sentence punctuation makes things easier to read! >> : >> :I vote for two spaces after the period before the start of a

Re: Please review: rc file changes

1999-09-01 Thread Aled Morris
On Wed, 1 Sep 1999, Andrzej Bialecki wrote: >On Sat, 28 Aug 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote: > >> :>I've never heard of that. I've always found that two spaces >> :> after end-of-sentence punctuation makes things easier to read! >> : >> :I vote for two spaces after the period before the start of