Re: FreeBSD development on Mac OS

2010-11-21 Thread Daniel O'Connor
or if there is some other thing that needs tweaking first. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C

Re: changing label text in boot0

2011-01-15 Thread Daniel O'Connor
nd > "F2" (slice 2) is "FreeBSD-CURRENT" It isn't possible. The text is printed based on the partition ID (which is the same for both) and there is no room in there for any extra logic. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software

Scheduler question

2011-02-03 Thread Daniel O'Connor
This is running on FreeBSD 8.1-STABLE, Core 2 Duo with ICH9 chipset. Thanks. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GP

Re: Scheduler question

2011-02-04 Thread Daniel O'Connor
sn't allocate memory once it's going, everything is preallocated before the data transfer starts. I'll have a go with mlock() and see what happens. Thanks :) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thi

Re: Scheduler question

2011-02-04 Thread Daniel O'Connor
I'll be looking at it on Monday, I will let you know :) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GP

Re: Scheduler question

2011-02-06 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On 05/02/2011, at 12:43, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > On 05/02/2011, at 11:09, Ivan Voras wrote: >>> It doesn't allocate memory once it's going, everything is preallocated >>> before the data transfer starts. >>> >>> I'll have a go with

Re: Scheduler question

2011-02-06 Thread Daniel O'Connor
ombs out straight away. If I start it streaming and then start md5 it stays running... (even if it's rtprio'd) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to c

Re: Scheduler question

2011-02-07 Thread Daniel O'Connor
mething like 'diskinfo -vt /dev/ad14'? OK, I wrote the data to /dev/null from USB and ran diskutil in a loop and it doesn't drop out. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that

Re: Scheduler question

2011-02-07 Thread Daniel O'Connor
so loaded by something else - heavy reads? > > ? Yes, however CPU loading also seems to affect it. Unfortunately I don't have a useful measurement to show the problem - ie I don't have a metric which correlates with the hardware FIFO filling up. This makes the testing rather ann

Re: memstick.img is bloated with 7% 2K blocks of nulls

2011-02-12 Thread Daniel O'Connor
ernel could go onto the flash drive too, however I couldn't get it to work :( -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenb

Re: Scheduler question

2011-02-14 Thread Daniel O'Connor
ta analysis. > It takes a considerable amount of VM/buffer-cache tuning to get those > subsystems to pipeline properly and sometimes things can go stale and > stop pipelining properly for months without anyone realizing it. :( I am waiting on a new buffer card with 8 times bigger FIF

Re: Scheduler question

2011-02-18 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On 04/02/2011, at 13:26, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > I only have about 10 milliseconds of buffering (96kbyte FIFO, 8Mbyte/sec) in > the hardware, however I have about 128Mb of USB requests queued up to libusb. > hps@ informed me that libusb will only queue 16kbyte (2msec) in the ke

Re: Scheduler question

2011-02-23 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On 04/02/2011, at 13:26, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > I am writing a program which reads from a data acquisition chassis connected > to a radar via USB. The interface is a Cypress FX2 and I am communicating via > libusb. I ended up writing a kernel driver (thank you hps for usb_fifo_

Re: listing all modules compiled into a kernel instance

2011-03-01 Thread Daniel O'Connor
expectation was that "kldstat -v" would list it, if present, but it > does not. A design flaw? Sounds like a bug, but I'm not sure where.. Maybe ucom doesn't appear because it doesn't have a DRIVER_MODULE() declaration (because it isn't a driver). -- Dani

Re: Add SUM sysctl

2011-04-15 Thread Daniel O'Connor
hen you boot into single user mode it asks you want to run rather than starting /sbin/init. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andre

Re: Add SUM sysctl

2011-04-15 Thread Daniel O'Connor
t; How can I fiducially ensure that I am in SUM. > On what to rely/look on. Oh oops, I guess the kernel runs init -s which then asks you.. > I wana put it in sh's function, for usage in scripts. Why? -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://ww

Re: Add SUM sysctl

2011-04-15 Thread Daniel O'Connor
utdown > now) in SUM. There IS no "solution" because it isn't really a problem. You still didn't reply to my asking why you need to know.. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about stan

Re: Add SUM sysctl

2011-04-16 Thread Daniel O'Connor
n /etc/rc which causes the problem. Your example doesn't say why you need to be in single user mode when using geli.. The only reason you need to be in single user mode during an upgrade is so that running programs don't find libraries ripped out from under them and then they crash. I

Re: Add SUM sysctl

2011-04-16 Thread Daniel O'Connor
tion of world and kernel, bla, > bla..., what is NOT a subject, of this "thread" > > > DO YOU KNOW, what to look for, in sys that will indicate to my function, > that it is in SUM? Well, I give up. You aren't reading & thinking about what I'm writing. -- Danie

Re: Add SUM sysctl

2011-04-16 Thread Daniel O'Connor
simulate" > SUM. My point is that the difference is only in your brain. The kernel doesn't know the difference because there isn't one. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about stan

Re: [LIBC] Modfied Version of sscanf

2011-04-30 Thread Daniel O'Connor
("%d %s->%s\n", i, name, value); exit(0); } -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanen

Re: Mapping /dev/gptid numbers to /dev/adXpY

2011-07-24 Thread Daniel O'Connor
the numbers emitted from that don't match up. Looking > at the major/minor numbers of the devices don't help either. Does > anyone have an idea? If you run 'gpart list' you will see a list of device names and UUIDs. Mapping it by hand is a bit tedious though.. -- Daniel

Re: Mapping /dev/gptid numbers to /dev/adXpY

2011-07-24 Thread Daniel O'Connor
art man > page doesn't seem to mention the list command, which is probably why I > missed it. Anyways, now all I have to do is label my hotswap drawers > properly…. Yes, unfortunately(?) 'list' is a standard GEOM command so the part man page doesn't explicitly mention i

Re: Best GB Nic for 8.2?

2011-07-31 Thread Daniel O'Connor
. Any Intel one. They come in both PCI and PCIe forms. I have a.. Intel 82574L Gigabit Ethernet Controller (82574L) (that's the chip in it anyway, I can't remember the model number) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au &quo

Re: best way to get distfiles added to ports.tgz during make release

2011-08-27 Thread Daniel O'Connor
an tweak to your hearts content and it is considerably faster than pkg_add. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerp

Re: Detach USB Device Driver and Attach it to ugen driver at runtime

2011-09-05 Thread Daniel O'Connor
. I suspect you wouldn't be able to if the kernel driver that did attach is in use, but I am not sure. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from.&qu

Re: CAM framework for FLASH devices

2011-09-23 Thread Daniel O'Connor
(I haven't really looked in detail though..) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerp

Re: CAM framework for FLASH devices

2011-09-23 Thread Daniel O'Connor
devices. The > flash device supports write, read and flush operation. Sector size is 512 > byte. But it doesn't support any ATA or SCSI commands except flush. > I think you could use make_dev() etc.. although I haven't used it :) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network

Re: Installation of kernel symbols file in a separate directory [Was: Re: Experiences with FreeBSD 9.0-BETA2]

2011-09-27 Thread Daniel O'Connor
dules files. By default ${KODIR_SYMBOLS} = ${KODIR}. Hooray, thanks :) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fin

Re: Does anyone use nscd?

2011-10-04 Thread Daniel O'Connor
-to-live. If I am installing ports which create a new user or group I have to restart nscd. I also find if openldap dies (not infrequent) I have to restart nscd after restarting openldap.. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The

Re: Does anyone use nscd?

2011-10-04 Thread Daniel O'Connor
nge of options, from "just fixing the bug > so those who want to use it can" in one end to "finding someone willing > to clean it up and maintain it and enable it by default" in the other. > > (no, I'm not volunteering to maintain it) I'd be interested in

Re: Does anyone use nscd?

2011-10-05 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On 05/10/2011, at 19:13, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > "Daniel O'Connor" writes: >> I'd be interested in testing your workaround(s) :) > > It wasn't a workaround, actually, just a one-line change that enables > additional logging (when running with f

Re: Measuring memory footprint in C/C++ code on FreeBSD

2011-10-20 Thread Daniel O'Connor
ich I did, but I found > descriptions of certain fields of struct rusage in the manpage too cryptic to > make a proper use of the call. >Could someone please point me in the right direction? getrusage should be portable and the man page (at least on FreeBSD) explains each of the field

Re: Checking for other kernel modules on load

2011-12-28 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On 28/12/2011, at 22:07, Chris Rees wrote: > Is there a simple way to check for existence of a driver? I could > even check for /dev/sndstat, though that doesn't seem elegant to me... kldstat -v, but really /dev/sndstat seems simpler and just as effective. -- Daniel O'Con

Re: Rebooting/Halting system from kernel module

2012-01-22 Thread Daniel O'Connor
rs> >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscribe@** >> freebsd.org " >> > _______ > freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers > To unsubscribe, send

Re: Can I take a snapshot of the current stack for every thread in some process from outside?

2012-03-02 Thread Daniel O'Connor
ing gdb, but it requires the process to exit the system call to > attach (?). > DTrace is only activated particular sensors are crossed. > > So is there such a tool/command? Will gcore do what you want? -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://

Re: reverse USB driver - is it possible?

2012-06-04 Thread Daniel O'Connor
emory (pendrive). ISTR someone on the lists was talking about a device by http://i-odd.com which does what you want. I found http://renosite.com/ which is a home brew version of the same basic idea. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.co

Re: trafficserver and raw disk access in FreeBSD

2012-07-22 Thread Daniel O'Connor
as read access so it can run dump. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C

Re: Custom FreeBSD usb memstick

2012-11-08 Thread Daniel O'Connor
se/release (Obviously /dev/da1 should be your USB key, check dmesg etc etc) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fi

Re: FreeBSD for serious performance?

2012-12-27 Thread Daniel O'Connor
$work we use a USB interface to acquire ~10MB/sec from a data acquisition system which has a 96k FIFO (which is ~10 msec of buffering). We use 3ware RAID cards to write to disk on Supermicro boards though, you get what you pay for.. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Ge

Re: Chicken and egg, encrypted root FS on remote server

2013-02-20 Thread Daniel O'Connor
ly is written assuming everyone uses a VPN. There is no logic behind the use of the VNC protocol but bastardised enough that normal clients can connect. That inspired me to send a longer rant to Supermicro about it, maybe nothing will come of it but I feel better ;) -- Daniel O'Connor sof

Re: IPMI console [Re: Chicken and egg, encrypted root FS on remote server]

2013-02-20 Thread Daniel O'Connor
ould say it's a hangover from sio(4) where 0x20 forced the device in question to be the console. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from."

Re: IPMI console [Re: Chicken and egg, encrypted root FS on remote server]

2013-02-21 Thread Daniel O'Connor
with > the 0x10 flag." Yes but that is about sio, not uart. sio(4) has.. 0x00010 device is potential system console 0x00020 device is forced to become system console but uart(4) just has.. 0x00010 device is potential system console -- Daniel O'Connor softwa

Re: KDE installation

2013-06-22 Thread Daniel O'Connor
uot;YES" and reboot or run (as root) /usr/local/kde4/etc/rc.d/kdm4 start Then select KDE as your session type and login. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them

PCI slave performance (OT?)

2007-02-28 Thread Daniel O'Connor
l core CPU and then one core would spend all its time reading from the PCI bus while the other did data processing, etc.. Any suggestions gratefully received! -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards

sendto() giving EPERM outside a jail

2007-03-21 Thread Daniel O'Connor
eone shed light on what the problem is? The application appears to work fine even with this error though. I am running it on a FreeBSD 6.2 system. Thanks. PS please CC me as I am not subscribed. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com

Re: sendto() giving EPERM outside a jail

2007-03-22 Thread Daniel O'Connor
firewall rules aren't doing exactly what I though because adding a specific rule to allow the packets worked. Thanks! -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them

Re: sendto() giving EPERM outside a jail

2007-03-27 Thread Daniel O'Connor
earch for SO_BROADCAST. It doesn't say anything about EPERM. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum

Re: sendto() giving EPERM outside a jail

2007-03-28 Thread Daniel O'Connor
sending broadcast broadcast or multicast datagrams, you need > to set the SO_BROADCAST socket option, as well. Ahh, understood. Still, it seems to work without that - the sendto() call works fine now I have explicitly allowed multicast. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer

Device sysctl confusion..

2007-04-15 Thread Daniel O'Connor
ar in kern.disks as daX but the corresponding sysctl tree is dev.umass.X. I can add some code to handle it but it would be nice if it were fixed (if it really is broken :) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing

Floppy detection probems with 6.2

2007-04-17 Thread Daniel O'Connor
anyone have a suggestion how I can do this? Thanks. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0

Re: Floppy detection probems with 6.2

2007-04-18 Thread Daniel O'Connor
en we can't allocate enough memory for their DMA at boot. That'd be a nice fall back but it surely it can't be too hard to reserve some memory for stuff like this? -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice th

Re: Floppy detection probems with 6.2

2007-04-19 Thread Daniel O'Connor
the kernel low down in memory or something? (Wild guess..) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B7

boot0 vs XP

2007-05-30 Thread Daniel O'Connor
fore the partition table. I'm not sure how big boot0 is though :) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprin

Re: How to read events from usb keyboard/mouse

2007-11-13 Thread Daniel O'Connor
(one for each head) and tell them which mouse & keyboard device to use in each config file? ie don't use sysmouse or kbdmux. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so ma

Re: questions on development(7)

2007-11-13 Thread Daniel O'Connor
't appear to grok Hg branches (probably because it predates them) and it would be Really Nice(tm) if it did. (ENOCLUE is my excuse for a lack of patches :) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about stan

Re: How to read events from usb keyboard/mouse

2007-11-14 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Wed, 14 Nov 2007, Girish Venkatachalam wrote: > On 14:20:51 Nov 14, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > Couldn't you just run N copies of X (one for each head) and tell > > them which mouse & keyboard device to use in each config file? > > > > ie don't use s

Re: Linux executable picks up FreeBSD library over linux one and breaks

2007-12-01 Thread Daniel O'Connor
I think the only way to 'fix' it would be to kludge the linuxulator to treat ld.so specially but that would be pretty gross :( It IS a pain tho! :) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standa

Re: Large array in KVM

2007-12-07 Thread Daniel O'Connor
ent process can do some leg work for it? :) If you explain what you are trying to achieve in more detail then people could comment on the best approach.. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is tha

Linux version of libusb that works with FreeBSD

2007-12-16 Thread Daniel O'Connor
s how ioctl's would get mangled on the way through. I guess the other approach would be to use a standard Linux libusb but emulate the device tree it uses in Linux.. Would be a lot of work though I think. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://w

Re: Linux version of libusb that works with FreeBSD

2007-12-17 Thread Daniel O'Connor
v. Not sure I can specify the devices, but there's always ln :) > AFAIR HPS' USB stack has linux compatibility, maybe you should ask > him / have a look at it. I had a look at the code but I can't see any Linux related code. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network en

Re: Linux version of libusb that works with FreeBSD

2007-12-17 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Mon, 17 Dec 2007, Mike Meyer wrote: > On Mon, 17 Dec 2007 16:26:58 +1030 "Daniel O'Connor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am wondering if anyone has tried building such a beast? > > ie a Lunux libusb that will be able to access devices in FreeBSD.. > &

Re: Stale mount on disconnected device: how to delete it?

2007-12-18 Thread Daniel O'Connor
for critical filesystems, but I can see nothing > wrong with this approach for removable devices and/or non-critical > fs's. There was a long, long thread which discussed this earlier. It's easy to say what should be done, it's harder to submit patches that clean up the respective fa

Re: Nvidia Driver w/RELENG_7

2008-01-13 Thread Daniel O'Connor
nd using nvidia's. Load the module in the loader rather than after the kernel has booted. acpi_video can also grab the device I believe.. I am running current (ie 8) and I ran -current when it was 7.x and loading it from the loader has always worked (modulo incompatible source changes :

Re: mplayer failure /usr/ports/UPDATING entry 20070519

2008-01-18 Thread Daniel O'Connor
your email I think you'll be fine.. Check what installed them with pkg_info -W to be sure. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- A

Re: quotactl returns double values

2008-02-09 Thread Daniel O'Connor
am doing wrong. From my reading of the header I would say the quota is reported/set in terms of the number of 512 byte disk blocks rather than in kilobytes. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is

Re: emulate an end-of-media

2008-02-25 Thread Daniel O'Connor
nk to solve this was to add an argument that specified a pipeline to stick after the data is generated but before it's fed to the output, although even then it gets a bit gnarly.. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au &

Re: Comments on pmake diffs for building on Linux

2008-03-03 Thread Daniel O'Connor
me of our code to Linux because it builds with pmake.. Your patches are much nicer than mine however :) The tailq stuff could be shoved into a linux.h or some such.. So it's more obvious what it's for and why it's there. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for

Re: Comments on pmake diffs for building on Linux

2008-03-04 Thread Daniel O'Connor
dcompat.h" or similar. Sounds good to me. notfreebsd.h :) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596

Re: valgrind on FreeBSD 7

2008-03-17 Thread Daniel O'Connor
send me questions about it - I'm not an expert on it, I'm > just the guy who grabbed it from perforce and found that it seems to > work. :) Thanks for that (and to whomever is cutting the code)! Valgrind is an enormously helpful tool. -- Daniel O'Connor software and networ

Re: Vital Patches for ataraid with Intel Matrix RAID (ICH7)

2008-03-21 Thread Daniel O'Connor
& ar1 after a boot where ar0 is stale, it's awesome fun to debug :( -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG

Re: Vital Patches for ataraid with Intel Matrix RAID (ICH7)

2008-03-26 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Sat, 22 Mar 2008, Stef Walter wrote: > Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > I have seen this bug in other ATA RAID implementations (VIA & > > Promise) too. From what I can tell this part of your patch is > > general to all ATA RAID arrays, right? > > Yes, a small pa

Re: Adding .db support to pkg_tools

2008-05-14 Thread Daniel O'Connor
the master data stored in the same files > as always, it doesn't really matter if the BDB is occasionally > corrupted, as long as it can be rebuilt fairly quickly. So long as you can tell it is corrupted.. It's also a drag from a user POV when the tool crashes because the DB is hos

Re: USB Install Method

2008-05-15 Thread Daniel O'Connor
to create it.. http://typo.submonkey.net/articles/2006/4/13/installing-freebsd-on-usb-stick-episode-2 (I haven't actually tried this but it looks OK - I have done it with FreesBIE though) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The

Re: BSD voice synthesis

1999-08-03 Thread Daniel O'Connor
I liked the speak: device for the Amiga.. type foobar.txt >speak:someoptionsgohere :) --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew

Re: Jail syscalls

1999-08-04 Thread Daniel O'Connor
would seem to be not too uncommon.. --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum pgpFOORb26UPR.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: fetch: default to passive mode?

1999-08-05 Thread Daniel O'Connor
atures.. Are there any plans to make fetch use a http proxy for ftp requests like ftp does? At the moment I usually do 'make FETCH_CMD=ftp' when making ports since it honours ftp_proxy (like wget, netscape and lynx) --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Soft

Re: fetch: default to passive mode?

1999-08-05 Thread Daniel O'Connor
. Hmm.. sneaky :) I should have read the man page more thoroughly it would seem. --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum

Re: IDE quirk in 3.2-STABLE kernel ?

1999-08-05 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On 06-Aug-99 Wes Peters wrote: > Because it's wrong. If you don't believe me, buy a copy of the spec. Why > should we waste valuable developer time trying to support mis-configured > hardware? Since when has PC hardware followed the specs? --- Daniel O'Connor softw

Re: IDE quirk in 3.2-STABLE kernel ?

1999-08-05 Thread Daniel O'Connor
lot of PC's are shipped with a CDrom a secondary slave.. I'm not saying its RIGHT but it IS reality. --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to

STAILQ macros..

1999-08-10 Thread Daniel O'Connor
Hi, I am looking at the STAILQ macros defined in and I am curious why it is necessary to declare stqh_last in the STAILQ_HEAD as a pointer to pointer, rather than just a pointer? (like the head pointer) Please don't laugh too hard.. my head hurts :) --- Daniel O'Connor software a

Kernel malloc problem?

1999-08-10 Thread Daniel O'Connor
args->which, gb->g_link.stqe_next, buildlist.stqh_last); } } --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum pgpW4KKiLTChh.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Kernel malloc problem?

1999-08-10 Thread Daniel O'Connor
the list (the code I showed you). The list in question is used by _nothing_ else (the list is built and then 'transfered' to the list the interrupt handler will used). The corruption seems to occur while the list is being built, but only with some specific buffer sizes :-/ --- Daniel

RE: libcompat proposition

1999-08-11 Thread Daniel O'Connor
that we can try to be more compatible with. Yay.. It would be quite handy.. No more digging through the source tree for a version of getopt.c and adding it by hand to the port.. --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice th

Re: vnc on nat-proxy/firewall

1999-08-16 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On 17-Aug-99 Julian Elischer wrote: > vnc is cool, but also check out back-orafice > (not sure where you get it but the new one can take over NT as well as > W95) BO2K does NT (much to MS's chagrin)... --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Gene

RE: Need some advice regarding portable user IDs

1999-08-17 Thread Daniel O'Connor
it works) and write some nice shell scripts to do it automatically.. Alternativly you could just use MSDOSFS for all intermachine transfers, its crap, but everything reads it and you don't get those nasty UID:GID problems either ;) --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer

Re: RE: Need some advice regarding portable user IDs

1999-08-17 Thread Daniel O'Connor
want proper username mapping shouldn't you be using a distributed user map (like NIS)? --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andre

Re: Need some advice regarding portable user IDs

1999-08-17 Thread Daniel O'Connor
override UID:GID's would be useful in a normal mount because umapfs adds more complexity to work. (Though I can see that doing it in the various FS's would suck royally) --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thi

Re: Need some advice regarding portable user IDs

1999-08-17 Thread Daniel O'Connor
ixed it, but it might be broken again :) --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum pgpmkECOXzeod.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: RE: Need some advice regarding portable user IDs

1999-08-17 Thread Daniel O'Connor
it in your machine. Ahh, the complexities are endless :) --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum pgp7B5q3NN7QE.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: RE: Need some advice regarding portable user IDs

1999-08-17 Thread Daniel O'Connor
fragile, and it works out better if we keep that information > on the mounted media rather than on the root volume. You could wire all the disks down.. :) What happens with conflicting names? --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft

Re: Mandatory locking?

1999-08-22 Thread Daniel O'Connor
tion like -> option NO_MANDATORY_LOCKING Phew, that was tough. --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum pgpUZ9kdbjmC7.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Are the ethernet drivers time dependent?

1999-08-27 Thread Daniel O'Connor
;cut in half": Half duplex, but split into seperate TX and RX > lines. I'm also looking at a scaleable way to go up or down in speed, > without dealing with async... A layer two device if you will. RS232? RS485? VERY cheap and the later is at least moderatly resistant to noise :)

Re: Are the ethernet drivers time dependent?

1999-08-27 Thread Daniel O'Connor
t I feel like > cutting into. I'm going to be bearing the financial end of this project > of mine, so I'm going to save where I can. :-) Well serial ports come free on all new computers ;) --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.g

RE: Cheap link (was: Are the ethernet drivers time dependent?)

1999-08-28 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On 28-Aug-99 Greg Lehey wrote: > So what's wrong with PLIP? Last time I used it, I was getting about > 50 kB/s out of it. PLIP has a terrible CPU/speed ratio.. You have to busy wait while bashing the parallel port which is just yech :( --- Daniel O'Connor software and netw

Re: Are the ethernet drivers time dependent?

1999-08-28 Thread Daniel O'Connor
's 20. MHz crystal oscillator and feeding it a > lower speed signal. I'm going to walk them down to see just how far I > can go. After all, 2 Mbps isn't bad, it just requires a little more > work. Ahh eeww :) I hope you have a lot of spare time ;) --- Daniel O&#x

Re: CS Project

1999-09-08 Thread Daniel O'Connor
only 8 proccess, for this current scenario. > > > > do you understand now, what i meant? > > > > Linux already have such a facility! Hack ps and turn off procfs :) --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "

RE: CS Project

1999-09-08 Thread Daniel O'Connor
ly use ps on them.. Even so you could have 2 implementations of ps, or a ps which allows you to compile in a different 'back end'. That way you can use either easily. > Unfortunately I don't have my proposal written in diff(1) at the > moment, but writing all this out makes m

RE: CS Project

1999-09-09 Thread Daniel O'Connor
One could also #ifdef the kvm version. Yeah.. well I await the patches 8-) --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum pgpEA77kDiCmT.pgp Description: PGP signature

RE: damn ATX power supplies...

1999-09-09 Thread Daniel O'Connor
jumpers on the mobo to help with this? The ones I have seen (Supermicro and Epox) are labelled 'Save PD State' and 'PIIX4 Ctl'..The later is the one you want. --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thi

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