Re: USENIX scribe bit

1999-05-27 Thread Alex Belits
On Thu, 27 May 1999, Doug White wrote: > If anyone had a DV (FireWire) camera they could make available, I could > ship my mac G3/350 down and edit the data it into video clips, then serve > it with QuickTime Streaming. Put together a decent webpage for it all ... > burn it to CD... whee ... :)

Re: hardware

1999-07-09 Thread Alex Belits
On Fri, 9 Jul 1999, Axis wrote: > I have been using *BSD* for around 3 years now. My problem is thatI have > always used the console for system administration duties. I really want to > put a kick *** system together to run X with all of the luxuries. > I have noticed there is not that much suppor

Re: subscribe alexey@nsl.ru

2000-08-08 Thread Alex Belits
On Tue, 8 Aug 2000, Charlie ROOT wrote: > Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2000 21:31:12 +0400 (MSD) > From: Charlie ROOT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: subscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > subscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Users started "subscribing" in this manner? Congratulations, FreeBSD

Viruses are ok, but monkeys are becoming a problem

2000-11-02 Thread Alex Belits
Can monkeys' owners keep them from posting to lists? Please? On Thu, 2 Nov 2000, Peter Wagner wrote: > Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2000 09:34:46 - > From: Peter Wagner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: FreeBSD Hackers List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: US PRESIDENT AND FBI SECRETS =PLEASE VISIT => > (

Re: Time to close the list?

2000-11-02 Thread Alex Belits
On Thu, 2 Nov 2000, Mike Silbersack wrote: > Just having the list ensure that it was in the To: or Cc: header would be > sufficient in this case. Such a change would block relay spam as well. Some places with not-so-nice connectivity to the rest of the Internet use local lists to distribute

Re: Multithreaded tcp-server or non-blocking ?

2000-11-16 Thread Alex Belits
On Thu, 16 Nov 2000, Nicolai Petri wrote: > What's the best approach for a simple web-server(never more the 10 clients) > ? Is it using pthread and a thread per connection . Or to make a > non-blocking single thread server. Can people show me some simple examples > of the 2 techniques ? > > And

Re: compiling X apps

2000-11-16 Thread Alex Belits
On Thu, 16 Nov 2000, Jamie Heckford wrote: > Very sorry for posting such a dumb question, but since I cvs'upd something > weird seems to have happened. > > I am using this to compile my X app (which just uses Xlib.h at the mo) > > gcc -L/usr/X11R6/include -o test test.cc > > but it cannot loca

Re: SIGPIPE in multithread http server.

2000-11-21 Thread Alex Belits
On Wed, 22 Nov 2000, Nicolai Petri wrote: > I hope someone can help me with this issue.. > > When the application recieves a SIGPIPE the thread hangs hard.. What is the > correct thing to do when a socket is closed by the remote end ?? When application receives SIGPIPE the correct thing to do

Re: FreeBSD vs Linux, Solaris, and NT

2000-12-23 Thread Alex Belits
On Sun, 24 Dec 2000, Wes Peters wrote: > > To be pedantic, you only need to provide source for works derived > > from GPL'd software which in this case means the kernel propper. User > > land applications and device drivers may be shipped in binary-only > > form because they are separate works, e

Re: FreeBSD vs Linux, Solaris, and NT

2000-12-24 Thread Alex Belits
On Sun, 24 Dec 2000, Warner Losh wrote: > One could argue that adding a driver is a derived work. You are > modifying tables in the kernel with references to your device, and the > rest comes in under the contamination theory. Until the matter has > been properly adjudicated, you cannot say wit

Re: FreeBSD vs Linux, Solaris, and NT

2000-12-25 Thread Alex Belits
On Sun, 24 Dec 2000, Warner Losh wrote: > : No. This issue was beaten to death multiple times, large amount of > : software was created based on this, and its legality is absolutely > : certain by now. > > No. You are wrong. The fact that large amounts of software has been > created is irrel

Re: FreeBSD vs Linux, Solaris, and NT

2000-12-25 Thread Alex Belits
On Mon, 25 Dec 2000, Warner Losh wrote: > Date: Mon, 25 Dec 2000 11:32:03 -0700 > From: Warner Losh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Alex Belits <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs Linux, Solaris, and NT > > In message <[EM

Re: if_strip for FreeBSD?

2001-08-15 Thread Alex Belits
On Tue, 14 Aug 2001, Devin Butterfield wrote: > > Some All > >versions of the metricom modems would allow point to point > > communications when they weren't on the merticom net. I don't know if > > this driver is for one of these or not, but it might not be a bad > > thing to do if so. I'l

Re: sorting in C

2002-06-14 Thread Alex Belits
On Fri, 14 Jun 2002, David Schultz wrote: > Thus spake echo dev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I am pooling in as many different ways of sorting data in C i can anyone > > have a fav??? If anyone can give me some ideas on the best way to sort data > > in C would be helpful.. Thanks > > I've always been

Re: hardware

1999-07-09 Thread Alex Belits
On Fri, 9 Jul 1999, Axis wrote: > I have been using *BSD* for around 3 years now. My problem is thatI have > always used the console for system administration duties. I really want to > put a kick *** system together to run X with all of the luxuries. > I have noticed there is not that much suppo

Re: Netscape Bus Error

1999-09-28 Thread Alex Belits
On Tue, 28 Sep 1999, Darren R. Davis wrote: > I believe that a Bus Error is specifically referencing miss aligned data vs > segmentation violation > (SIGSEGV) which is accessing data that is either free'd or not yours, etc. > I always thought > it strange on an Intel processor, since this was mor

Re: Netscape Bus Error

1999-09-29 Thread Alex Belits
On Wed, 29 Sep 1999, Konstantin Chuguev wrote: > Or Netscape crashes with SIGBUS in SIGSEGV handler? :-) This is what I mean "in disguise" -- however SIGBUS seems to be intentional. strace output on Linux (21116 is netscape's pid): ---8<--- oldselect(9, [8], NULL, NULL, {1, 0}) = ? ERESTART

Re: qcam/cqcam driver

1999-10-04 Thread Alex Belits
On Tue, 5 Oct 1999, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: > > Just a question: has the Quickcam and ColorQuickcam (if there was any) > > been removed from the kernel? And, if yes, for what reason? > > Well, people tried to once. I do not recall what happened in the > end. The reason was that the driver did no

Re: Pthread blocking I/O

2000-03-06 Thread Alex Belits
On Mon, 6 Mar 2000, James FitzGibbon wrote: > > Some comments? Isn't so? > > In my experience, threads are the perfect way to speed up an I/O bound > application. While one thread is blocked in iowait, others can be > performing operations that do not contend for the same resource > (calculatio

Re: Unicode on FreeBSD

2000-04-03 Thread Alex Belits
On Mon, 20 Mar 2000, MikeM wrote: > Has anyone thought of Unicode support on FreeBSD? Really the question is much more basic -- who benefits from having Unicode (or Unicode in the form of UTF-8) support. It isn't me for sure -- I am Russian. -- Alex

Re: Unicode on FreeBSD

2000-04-03 Thread Alex Belits
On Mon, 3 Apr 2000, G. Adam Stanislav wrote: > > Really the question is much more basic -- who benefits from having > >Unicode (or Unicode in the form of UTF-8) support. It isn't me for sure > > Everyone who works with multilingual documents. I feel perfectly fine with "multilingual" documen

Re: Unicode on FreeBSD

2000-04-04 Thread Alex Belits
On Mon, 3 Apr 2000, G. Adam Stanislav wrote: > At 20:59 03-04-2000 -0700, Alex Belits wrote: > > I feel perfectly fine with "multilingual" documents that contain English > >and Russian text without Unicode. > > Those are bilingual, not multilingual. I o

Re: Unicode on FreeBSD

2000-04-04 Thread Alex Belits
On Tue, 4 Apr 2000, G. Adam Stanislav wrote: > At 22:51 03-04-2000 -0700, Alex Belits wrote: > > I agree that Unicode created a good list of glyphs, and it can be > >useful for fonts and conversion tables, but it's completely inappropriate > >as the base of format used

Re: Unicode on FreeBSD

2000-04-04 Thread Alex Belits
On Tue, 4 Apr 2000, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > I don't understand what possible benefit there is in having *NO* > options to deal with all the language-characters in the world. Even > if unicode isn't perfect, it is a damn sight better than nothing. The existing "market" of multilingual appli

Re: Unicode on FreeBSD

2000-04-04 Thread Alex Belits
On Tue, 4 Apr 2000, Anatoly Vorobey wrote: > You mean, MIME multipart documents are better than Unicode if I, for instance, > want to handle Tolstoy's "War and Peace" with French quotes in the middle of > Russian sentences? > > I don't think so. This is what multipart format exists for --

Re: Unicode on FreeBSD

2000-04-04 Thread Alex Belits
On Tue, 4 Apr 2000, Alex Belits wrote: > > You mean, MIME multipart documents are better than Unicode if I, for instance, > > want to handle Tolstoy's "War and Peace" with French quotes in the middle of > > Russian sentences? > > > > I don

Re: Unicode on FreeBSD

2000-04-04 Thread Alex Belits
On Tue, 4 Apr 2000, G. Adam Stanislav wrote: > On Tue, Apr 04, 2000 at 05:05:05PM -0700, Alex Belits wrote: > > The existing "market" of multilingual application is so small, and it's > >based on so simplistic requirements (to be able to display and print > &

Re: Unicode on FreeBSD

2000-04-05 Thread Alex Belits
On Wed, 5 Apr 2000, G. Adam Stanislav wrote: > On Tue, Apr 04, 2000 at 07:19:06PM -0700, Alex Belits wrote: > > It is. However if you look at the current efforts of its "adoption", it > >is not used as one. It's touted as the solution to all language-related &g

Re: Unicode on FreeBSD

2000-04-05 Thread Alex Belits
On Wed, 5 Apr 2000, Taavi Talvik wrote: > > the _replacement_ for languages/charsets handling infrastructure -- "we > > know all the characters, so we can write all the words, right?". > > Multilingual tools market and small? Get real - just China and India > together are >2 billion possible use

Re: Unicode on FreeBSD

2000-04-05 Thread Alex Belits
On Wed, 5 Apr 2000, Anatoly Vorobey wrote: > > that the way that TeX handles such a text is even more inconvenient, > > however even now it's most likely that TeX would be used for this kind of > > typesetting. > > But we're *not* talking about typesetting -- rather about multilingual > text ha

Re: Unicode on FreeBSD

2000-04-05 Thread Alex Belits
On Wed, 5 Apr 2000, Jason wrote: > > i18n needs such as non-English users? Linguists don't see Unicode as being > > sufficient, > > What do you mean by "Linguists don't see Unicode as being sufficient"? > Where I work, we have a gaggle of linguists and are currenly posting our > software to UNIC

Re: Unicode on FreeBSD

2000-04-05 Thread Alex Belits
On 5 Apr 2000, Christian Weisgerber wrote: > > > the most inclusive one in existence. > > > > It is. However if you look at the current efforts of its "adoption", it > > is not used as one. It's touted as the solution to all language-related > > problems, as a replacement of language/charset l

Re: Unicode on FreeBSD

2000-04-05 Thread Alex Belits
On 5 Apr 2000, Christian Weisgerber wrote: > Unicode certainly *is* sufficient as a character repertoire since > it aims to include all the scripts in the world. This goal hasn't > been achieved yet, but for some time now Unicode has been expanding > into areas where *no* previous character sets

Re: Unicode on FreeBSD

2000-04-05 Thread Alex Belits
On Wed, 5 Apr 2000, G. Adam Stanislav wrote: > On Wed, Apr 05, 2000 at 03:51:29PM -0700, Alex Belits wrote: > > I think, I have heard statements like this way too much in my life -- > >"Communism is the bright future of the humankind -- this goal hasn't been > >ac

Re: Unicode on FreeBSD

2000-04-05 Thread Alex Belits
On Wed, 5 Apr 2000, G. Adam Stanislav wrote: > > Lack of extensibility and variants. Don't they just love the great > >extensibility means aka non-standardized and non-standardizable "private > >use area" that defeats the whole idea of having a standard charset? > > Absurd! The private use area

Re: Unicode on FreeBSD

2000-04-05 Thread Alex Belits
On Thu, 6 Apr 2000, Patryk Zadarnowski wrote: > > without destabilizing "standards" by constant changes. > > Can it? People have been begging ISO to standarise 8 bit charsets for ages. > If you tried to exchange information in polish in the pre-8859 days, you'd > know why (about five radically d

Re: Unicode on FreeBSD

2000-04-06 Thread Alex Belits
On Thu, 6 Apr 2000, Nikolai Saoukh wrote: > > koi8-r, one of the oldest cyrillic charsets, primarily designed to keep > > "intuitive" mapping to ASCII, to remain usable after passing through > > characters-mangling old software and to be readable on 7-bit dumb > > terminals -- and the last ment

Re: Unicode on FreeBSD

2000-04-06 Thread Alex Belits
On Thu, 6 Apr 2000, Anatoly Vorobey wrote: > > Can you guess, which one of of multiple cyrillic charsets never was > > actually used in Russia? > > > > ISO 8859-5. > > It's actually being used quite often now by users of MS Outlook 2000 > (those of them not sophisticated enough to select th

Re: Unicode on FreeBSD

2000-04-06 Thread Alex Belits
On Fri, 7 Apr 2000, Kazutaka YOKOTA wrote: > Multilingual text processing in the userland is a completely different > issue which, I think, should be discussed separately. I agree with this completely. The question is, where? -- Alex -

Re: ILOVEYOU

2000-05-04 Thread Alex Belits
On Thu, 4 May 2000, Matthew Dillon wrote: > :Lloyd Rennie VBCnet GB Ltd [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > The 'virus' is the warning message itself, silly! > > -Matt Nope -- it was a genuine virus copy, self-replicating thr