Re: On cooperative work [Was: Re: newbus' ivar's limitation..]

2012-08-02 Thread Kevin Oberman
hip.) For small rooms, microphones are fairly easy to handle and one-way streams don't require echo cancellation. As costs for video come down, that might be something to think about some day, but is not required to allow remote "attendance". Of cour

Re: On cooperative work [Was: Re: newbus' ivar's limitation..]

2012-08-02 Thread Kevin Oberman
or observers. Some are set up for full remote participation including presentations, questions (via chat) and voting/polling. It is surprising to me that something is not available for significant FreeBSD meetings. By the way, WGs that gave me major issues were SNMP and DNS. SNMP was dissolved and

Re: On cooperative work [Was: Re: newbus' ivar's limitation..]

2012-08-01 Thread Kevin Oberman
g to accomplish something that comes under the heading of brainstorming in a truly open environment is a wonderful goal, but really is not efficient. And, no, I don't expect you to agree. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer E-mail: kob6...@gmail.com _

Re: [CFC/CFT] large changes in the loader(8) code

2012-06-28 Thread Kevin Oberman
able about all of this. And when people start claiming that, by a very strained interpretation of what appears on the surface to be a clear specification, they are not violating the standard. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer E-mail: kob6...@gmail.com __

Re: [CFC/CFT] large changes in the loader(8) code

2012-06-26 Thread Kevin Oberman
of partitions available on GPT, tying up one just for GEOM seems like a low price and it moves the device GEOM out of the realm of FreeBSD unique and subject to serious issues when/if a disk is shared with some other OS. I have seen little comment on this and have never seen any argument that that

Re: ifconfig accepting hostname as ipv4 address

2012-06-09 Thread Kevin Oberman
d where on systems that had numerous interfaces, though this was more common in the day of async serial lines and modems. I'll admit that I have mixed feelings about its practicality today, though it does not hurt anything, as far as I can tell. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Eng

Re: Automatic per-site configuration

2011-06-26 Thread Kevin Oberman
For a tool that supposedly would suffer from long-term viability, I have been using it for FreeBSD 5 through 8. I suspect it will work fine in 9, when I get around to trying it. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer - Retired E-mail: kob6...@gmail.com ___

Re: something fails with svn

2010-01-03 Thread Kevin Oberman
svn? > > > > SVN never has problems "It's powered by FreeBSD ;)" > > > > Take a look at your git config. The problem lies there and is very > > visible. After you are done fixing that re-read the whole email that you > > posted. > > I'd app

Re: something fails with svn

2010-01-01 Thread Kevin Oberman
asked someone why the code would not work, you are either truly exceptional (along with the adjectives listed above) or have written little or no code of your own. Please either provide reasonable assistance when responding to questions or don't reply at all. No one likes a smart ass, -- R. Kev

Re: bad NFS/UDP performance

2008-09-26 Thread Kevin Oberman
does NOT require -u. If you use -b, UDP is assumed. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: +1 510 486-8634 Key fingerprint:059B 2DDF 031C 9BA3 14A4

Re: Laptop suggestions?

2008-07-30 Thread Kevin Oberman
at said, I suspect that my next laptop with be a Mac with either VMware or Parallels, My wife already runs one and it's pretty nice. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: [EMAIL PRO

Re: Sysinstall is still inadequate after all of these years / sorry I started flame war

2008-07-04 Thread Kevin Oberman
ly eliminates all of the disc shuffling. If the nag screens annoy you, use BATCH=yes to build ports with default values. That gives you the same build as the package system uses. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (

Re: Sysinstall is still inadequate after all of these years / sorry I started flame war

2008-07-03 Thread Kevin Oberman
es an Intel Core 2 Duo at 2Ghz or thereabout. That is one hell > of a long compile time. For this request I will just have to wait for > FreeBSD 10.0. I have not seen this, but I don't sue sysinstall to install packages/ports. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Netw

Re: Call for testers: CVSMode for csup

2008-03-06 Thread Kevin Oberman
ted soon. Many thanks for working on this! While I greatly appreciate all of the work John Polstra did to create and maintain cvsup over the years, it will be very nice to be able to bid it goodbye. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley

Re: [patch] enhance powerd(8) to handle max temperature

2007-08-02 Thread Kevin Oberman
.0C hw.acpi.thermal.tz0.active: -1 hw.acpi.thermal.tz0.passive_cooling: 1 hw.acpi.thermal.tz0.thermal_flags: 0 hw.acpi.thermal.tz0._PSV: 94.5C hw.acpi.thermal.tz0._HOT: -1 hw.acpi.thermal.tz0._CRT: 99.0C hw.acpi.thermal.tz0._ACx: -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 These are correct. During heavy

Re: A smarter mergemaster

2005-10-01 Thread Kevin Oberman
FreeBSD before mergemaster, it's a huge improvement on those ugly days. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: +1 510 486-8634 __

Re: Standard sbc and pcm support in GENERIC kernel?

2004-03-06 Thread Kevin Oberman
> Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2004 20:08:35 +0100 > From: Tijl Coosemans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > On Fri, 5 Mar 2004 17:58:26 +0100 (MET), Helge Oldach wrote: > > > So yes: some machines require a kernel with PNPBIOS even when sound > > modules can be kldload'ed. I presume these a