Re: Free BSDI CD!

1999-07-26 Thread Marc Nicholas
I needed a new drinks coaster... ;-) -marc Marc Nicholas netSTOR Technologies, Inc. http://www.netstor.com 1.877.464.4776 416.979.9000 fax: 416.979.8223 cell: 416.346.9255 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with

Re: hey

1999-08-12 Thread Marc Nicholas
entation of BIND (or possibly NT!). -marc ---- Marc Nicholas netSTOR Technologies, Inc. http://www.netstor.com "Fast, Expandable and Affordable Internet Caching Products" 1.877.464.4776 416.979.9000 fax: 416.979.8223 cell: 416

Re: Saving system image to disk (NOT on a laptop)

1999-08-17 Thread Marc Nicholas
Wasn't there already a project that did this??? The project name escapes me, but I believe it was linked from the FreeBSD Projects page... -marc Marc Nicholas netSTOR Technologies, Inc. http://www.netstor.com "Fast, Expa

Re: Saving system image to disk (NOT on a laptop)

1999-08-17 Thread Marc Nicholas
Yeah...I was thinking of RIO which isn't 100% what Andrzej wanted...but maybe a step in the right direction? -marc Marc Nicholas netSTOR Technologies, Inc. http://www.netstor.com "Fast, Expandable and Affordable Intern

Re: Gigabit ethernet support?

1999-08-18 Thread Marc Nicholas
Yes, several vendors cards are supported in 3.2...most notably cards based on Titon I or Titon II chipsets (Alteon cards, 3Com 3c985, Netgear GA620, etc). -marc Marc Nicholas netSTOR Technologies, Inc. http://www.netstor.com "

Re: StarOffice giveaway of source code

1999-09-01 Thread Marc Nicholas
> > Also, don't discount the possibility that Sun may be talking about this in > > order to achieve some leverage with the likes of (say) Microsoft. For > > example, "If we don't get [xxx] from you, we'll do something to hurt your > > cash cow, MS Office".. Maybe I'm just being too cynical though,

Re: MAC takeover

1999-09-02 Thread Marc Nicholas
-marc --- Marc Nicholas netSTOR Technologies, Inc. http://www.netstor.com "Fast, Expandable and Affordable Internet Caching Products" 1.877.464.4776 416.979.9000x11 fax: 416.979.8223 cell: 416.346.9255 On Thu, 2 Sep 1999, Andrzej Bialecki wrote: > Hi, > > IIRC some time ago ther

Re: CFD: "bogomips" CPU performance metric

1999-09-02 Thread Marc Nicholas
> If we must have it, how about a port? - I'm definitely for the "this isn't a > good idea" crowd, When I was using Linux, I thought it was 'cute'... I've > grown up a bit since then... Create /usr/ports/useless_linux_utils Add this and code for making the keyboard lights blink in time to whateve

RE: Custom boot.flp

1999-09-14 Thread Marc Nicholas
Doesn't the boot.flp actually use sysinstall and a custom init process? Therefore, you'd have to replace sysinstall with an init process of some sort... Someone correct me if I'm talking out of my a.out ;-) -marc --

ISA LM78 driver help

1999-05-22 Thread Marc Nicholas
edged driver... TIA. -marc ---- Marc Nicholas netSTOR Technologies, Inc. http://www.netstor.com 1.877.464.4776 416.979.9000 fax: 416.979.8223 cell: 416.346.9255 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe fre

Gigabit Ethernet performance

1999-05-31 Thread Marc Nicholas
Has anyone done any performance benchmarking on the TIGON Gigabit Ethernet drivers? Curious to see what sort of link saturation can be achieved with various boxen/applications... -marc To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the mess

Re: DOC Flash Support

1999-06-10 Thread Marc Nicholas
river...get a nasty atpanic on booting the kernel. Email to the mailing list PHK mentions hasn't yielded a response. Email me privately if you wish to discuss. -marc P.S: Didn't have these probs with Linux! ;-) ---- Marc N

Re: DLINK quad ethernet board

1999-06-16 Thread Marc Nicholas
beasties (PCI bridging and all). So, in short, it should work...but I've never tried it :-) Out of interest, how much do DLink knock these puppies out of? -marc Marc Nicholas netSTOR Technologies, Inc. http://www.netstor.com

Re: DLINK quad ethernet board

1999-06-16 Thread Marc Nicholas
w. -marc ---- Marc Nicholas netSTOR Technologies, Inc. http://www.netstor.com "Fast, Expandable and Affordable Internet Caching Products" 1.877.464.4776 416.979.9000 fax: 416.979.8223 cell: 416.346.9255 On Wed, 16 Jun 1999, Dennis wrote: > At 05:06 PM 6

Re: SMP and Celerons...

1999-06-19 Thread Marc Nicholas
Hmmm...I always thought there was something "broke" inside Celerons to prevent SMP...maybe I'm wrong? Sure would be neat if you could run them SMP... -marc ---- Marc Nicholas netSTOR Technologies, Inc. http://www.ne

GRE encapsulation under FreeBSD 3.2

1999-06-30 Thread Marc Nicholas
s. -marc ---- Marc Nicholas netSTOR Technologies, Inc. http://www.netstor.com "Fast, Expandable and Affordable Internet Caching Products" 1.877.464.4776 416.979.9000 fax: 416.979.8223 cell: 416.346.9255 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with

Re: GRE encapsulation under FreeBSD 3.2

1999-06-30 Thread Marc Nicholas
Jonathan: You're the man :-) I think we're both going in similar directions here... Thanks. -marc ---- Marc Nicholas netSTOR Technologies, Inc. http://www.netstor.com "Fast, Expandable and Affordable Internet C

Re: devices in sysctl MIB?

1999-07-03 Thread Marc Nicholas
I would certainly welcome such info... The info in the /proc filesystem in Linux is certainly nice. (One of the few things that is!). -marc Marc Nicholas netSTOR Technologies, Inc. http://www.netstor.com "Fast, Expandabl

Re: Where are the Disk on Chip drivers?

1999-07-06 Thread Marc Nicholas
http://phk.freebsd.dk/doc2k/ Linked from http://www.freebsd.org/~picobsd. -marc Marc Nicholas netSTOR Technologies, Inc. http://www.netstor.com "Fast, Expandable and Affordable Internet Caching Products" 1.87

Re: Where are the Disk on Chip drivers?

1999-07-06 Thread Marc Nicholas
Leigh: PHK wrote a driver (under the watchful eye of M-Systems) for the "true" DOCs that have a BIOS driver to make them look like a disk rather than an IDE interface. That's what Jaye is referring to... -marc ---

Re: Anyone see todays Wall Street Journal article: Microsoft UsingFree Software (or something to that effect)

2001-06-18 Thread Marc Nicholas
http://public.wsj.com/news/hmc/sb992819157437237260.htm On Mon, 18 Jun 2001, Jonathan Slivko wrote: > While I didn't read the article (I saw it when someone was reading > the opposite page on the subway today), I thought it might make > for some interesting conversation and views on the list.

Re: Anyone see todays Wall Street Journal article: Microsoft UsingFree Software (or something to that effect)

2001-06-18 Thread Marc Nicholas
On Mon, 18 Jun 2001, Matt Dillon wrote: > :http://public.wsj.com/news/hmc/sb992819157437237260.htm > > Ahhh very nice. BSD is more viral then GPL it would seem :-) It > will be interesting to see if MS now tries to rewrite TCP/IP. I got > dibs on the front row aisle seat! W

GRE encapsulation under FreeBSD 3.2

1999-06-30 Thread Marc Nicholas
s. -marc ---- Marc Nicholas netSTOR Technologies, Inc. http://www.netstor.com "Fast, Expandable and Affordable Internet Caching Products" 1.877.464.4776 416.979.9000 fax: 416.979.8223 cell: 416.346.9255 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: GRE encapsulation under FreeBSD 3.2

1999-06-30 Thread Marc Nicholas
Jonathan: You're the man :-) I think we're both going in similar directions here... Thanks. -marc ---- Marc Nicholas netSTOR Technologies, Inc. http://www.netstor.com "Fast, Expandable and Affordable Internet C

Re: devices in sysctl MIB?

1999-07-03 Thread Marc Nicholas
I would certainly welcome such info... The info in the /proc filesystem in Linux is certainly nice. (One of the few things that is!). -marc Marc Nicholas netSTOR Technologies, Inc. http://www.netstor.com "Fast, Expandabl

Re: Where are the Disk on Chip drivers?

1999-07-06 Thread Marc Nicholas
http://phk.freebsd.dk/doc2k/ Linked from http://www.freebsd.org/~picobsd. -marc Marc Nicholas netSTOR Technologies, Inc. http://www.netstor.com "Fast, Expandable and Affordable Internet Caching Products" 1.87

Re: Where are the Disk on Chip drivers?

1999-07-06 Thread Marc Nicholas
Leigh: PHK wrote a driver (under the watchful eye of M-Systems) for the "true" DOCs that have a BIOS driver to make them look like a disk rather than an IDE interface. That's what Jaye is referring to... -marc ---

Re: Free BSDI CD!

1999-07-26 Thread Marc Nicholas
I needed a new drinks coaster... ;-) -marc Marc Nicholas netSTOR Technologies, Inc. http://www.netstor.com 1.877.464.4776 416.979.9000 fax: 416.979.8223 cell: 416.346.9255 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: hey

1999-08-12 Thread Marc Nicholas
entation of BIND (or possibly NT!). -marc ---- Marc Nicholas netSTOR Technologies, Inc. http://www.netstor.com "Fast, Expandable and Affordable Internet Caching Products" 1.877.464.4776 416.979.9000 fax: 416.979.8223 cell: 416

Re: Saving system image to disk (NOT on a laptop)

1999-08-16 Thread Marc Nicholas
Wasn't there already a project that did this??? The project name escapes me, but I believe it was linked from the FreeBSD Projects page... -marc Marc Nicholas netSTOR Technologies, Inc. http://www.netstor.com "Fast, Expa

Re: Saving system image to disk (NOT on a laptop)

1999-08-17 Thread Marc Nicholas
Yeah...I was thinking of RIO which isn't 100% what Andrzej wanted...but maybe a step in the right direction? -marc Marc Nicholas netSTOR Technologies, Inc. http://www.netstor.com "Fast, Expandable and Affordable Intern

Re: Gigabit ethernet support?

1999-08-18 Thread Marc Nicholas
Yes, several vendors cards are supported in 3.2...most notably cards based on Titon I or Titon II chipsets (Alteon cards, 3Com 3c985, Netgear GA620, etc). -marc Marc Nicholas netSTOR Technologies, Inc. http://www.netstor.com "

Re: StarOffice giveaway of source code

1999-09-01 Thread Marc Nicholas
> > Also, don't discount the possibility that Sun may be talking about this in > > order to achieve some leverage with the likes of (say) Microsoft. For > > example, "If we don't get [xxx] from you, we'll do something to hurt your > > cash cow, MS Office".. Maybe I'm just being too cynical though

Re: MAC takeover

1999-09-02 Thread Marc Nicholas
-marc --- Marc Nicholas netSTOR Technologies, Inc. http://www.netstor.com "Fast, Expandable and Affordable Internet Caching Products" 1.877.464.4776 416.979.9000x11 fax: 416.979.8223 cell: 416.346.9255 On Thu, 2 Sep 1999, Andrzej Bialecki wrote: > Hi, > > IIRC some time ago ther

Re: CFD: "bogomips" CPU performance metric

1999-09-02 Thread Marc Nicholas
> If we must have it, how about a port? - I'm definitely for the "this isn't a > good idea" crowd, When I was using Linux, I thought it was 'cute'... I've > grown up a bit since then... Create /usr/ports/useless_linux_utils Add this and code for making the keyboard lights blink in time to whatev

RE: Custom boot.flp

1999-09-14 Thread Marc Nicholas
Doesn't the boot.flp actually use sysinstall and a custom init process? Therefore, you'd have to replace sysinstall with an init process of some sort... Someone correct me if I'm talking out of my a.out ;-) -marc --

Re: mrtg,FreeBSD, asus p2b temperature

1999-09-26 Thread Marc Nicholas
Specifically, what 'tips' are you looking for? -marc --- Marc Nicholas netSTOR Technologies, Inc. http://www.netstor.com "Fast, Expandable and Affordable Internet Caching Products" 1.877.464.4776 416.979.9000x

Re: Temperature

1999-12-29 Thread Marc Nicholas
You're referring to the temps reported via an LM78 or similar, yes? And not reporting that the machine is actually getting HOTTER under FreeBSD? -marc --- Marc Nicholas netSTOR Technologies, Inc. http://www.netstor.com

Re: T1 / E1 PCI card for FreeBSD?

2000-02-08 Thread Marc Nicholas
Try: http://www.etinc.com Never used their products, however. -marc --- Marc Nicholas netSTOR Technologies, Inc. http://www.netstor.com "Fast, Expandable and Affordable Internet Caching Products" 1.877.464.4776 416.9

SYM driver -- where to find?

2000-02-26 Thread Marc Nicholas
Sorry for the lameness of this question...but where can I find the Symbios driver for FreeBSD developed by Gerrard Roudier? I'm having some issues with a Symbios controller that I suspect may be the fault of the NCR driver and not the controller itself. Thanks. -marc To Unsubscribe: send mai

Re: IP

2000-03-22 Thread Marc Nicholas
Use the "alias" descriptor in ifconfig. You may wish to attach alias addresses to a loopback interface rather than a physical interface, too. -marc On Wed, 22 Mar 2000, Kasper Kristiansson wrote: > I wonder how i can add more than one ip number on the same network card. > > ./Kasper > > > T

Re: GPS heads up

2000-05-03 Thread Marc Nicholas
On Wed, 3 May 2000, Brian O'Shea wrote: > Even with SA, much more accurate numbers could be obtained by averaging > several measurements. I think that the speed at which the earth's > plates move is slow enough to get a good average measurement (except > during an earthquake, of course!). Isn

Re: GPS heads up

2000-05-03 Thread Marc Nicholas
Acool :-) On Wed, 3 May 2000, Warner Losh wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Marc >Nicholas writes: > : Isn't that the idea behind Differential-GPS? > > Not quite. The Differential GPS has GPS receievers at locations that > have been surveyed down

Re: ILOVEYOU

2000-05-04 Thread Marc Nicholas
Pine is my friend ;-) -marc On Thu, 4 May 2000, Nicole Harrington. wrote: > > On 04-May-00 Alexander Langer wrote: > > Thus spake Matthew Dillon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > >> The 'virus' is the warning message itself, silly! > > > > Nope, ILOVEYOU is a real virus. > > > > It's quite fu

Re: ILOVEYOU

2000-05-04 Thread Marc Nicholas
On Thu, 4 May 2000, Nicole Harrington. wrote: > "or some gay trojan written" > >EXCUSE ME? Hehe...'gay' means 'silly' to some of us (especially Canadians). Nothing to do with being happy or homosexual. -marc To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-h