Re: Bad disk or kernel (ATA Driver) problem? - SOLVED

2005-01-20 Thread Darryl Okahata
("average"/boring performance, yes, but nothing really bad). Thanks. -- Darryl Okahata [EMAIL PROTECTED] DISCLAIMER: this message is the author's personal opinion and does not constitute the support, opinion, or policy of Agilent Technologies, or of the litt

Re: Very large directory

2005-01-20 Thread Darryl Okahata
nt0 | xargs -0 rm -f Slightly more typing, but more robust. -- Darryl Okahata [EMAIL PROTECTED] DISCLAIMER: this message is the author's personal opinion and does not constitute the support, opinion, or policy of Agilent Technologies, or of the little green men that have b

Re: Bad disk or kernel (ATA Driver) problem? - SOLVED

2005-01-20 Thread Darryl Okahata
ranty expires (for me, just over a year). I'm now switching back to Seagate, as they now have a nice 5-year warranty, but I don't have much experience with these new drives. -- Darryl Okahata [EMAIL PROTECTED] DISCLAIMER: this message is the author's personal o

Re: User's cron job creates zombie process on 5.3

2005-01-19 Thread Darryl Okahata
er-to-read way, assuming that a Bourne-compatible shell is used (e.g., /bin/sh and not /bin/csh), would be: ( /usr/bin/ssh -n -f ${tunnel} & ) -- Darryl Okahata [EMAIL PROTECTED] DISCLAIMER: this message is the author's personal opinion and does not consti

Re: Serious (ha-ha) bug in 4.9-RELEASE

2003-11-04 Thread Darryl Okahata
e the xterm and > open another. An easier fix is to run vi and exit, which resets the highlighting. -- Darryl Okahata [EMAIL PROTECTED] DISCLAIMER: this message is the author's personal opinion and does not constitute the support, opinion, or policy

Problems with package repository

2002-02-28 Thread Darryl Okahata
f: "dist/All/teTeX-1.0.7.tgz": 18944 (remote) vs 38717508 (local) As much as I'd love to think that gcc and emacs can each be compressed to under 40KB, it's wishful thinking. ;-( For that matter, what happened to all of the kde and gnome packages (the main ones are miss

Re: Recovering from clobbered boot manager?

2001-10-18 Thread Darryl Okahata
B limit, assuming your BIOS supports it, and virtually all recent BIOSes do). See the boot0cfg man page for more info. Note that the boot0cfg uses the term, "packet", to refer to LBA booting. Among other things, you need to use the boot0cfg option, "-o packet". Read

Re: Radeon + A7A266 + XFree86-4.1.0 + spontaneous reboot woes...

2001-09-10 Thread Darryl Okahata
discussions on it, and they said > that they're "working on it." You didn't look hard enough. A fix was discussed last week (right here, in fact, although the fix itself originated from the XFree86 DRI folks). -- Darryl Okahata [EMAIL PROTECTED] DIS

Re: FreeBSD and Athlon Processors

2001-09-02 Thread Darryl Okahata
"Juha Saarinen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Have a look at www.viahardware.com, where they test a variety of boards > for the data corruption bug. For the lazy, the URL is: http://www.viahardware.com/686b_1.shtm -- Darryl Okahata [EMAIL

Re: Ethernet Card Recommendation...

2001-09-02 Thread Darryl Okahata
blems I've The Netgear card is definitely an issue with the ASUS A7M266 motherboard (AMD 760-based, single CPU however). Check out the alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.asus newsgroup for more info. -- Darryl Okahata [EMAIL PROTECTED] DISCLAIMER: this message is the author

Re: FreeBSD and Athlon Processors

2001-08-31 Thread Darryl Okahata
ption, of course, being AthlonMP Heh. I'm writing this on an Asus A7M266 (I didn't want to wait for the nForce). -- Darryl Okahata [EMAIL PROTECTED] DISCLAIMER: this message is the author's personal opinion and does not constitute the support, opinion, or

Re: ast0: TAPE

2001-02-01 Thread Darryl Okahata
for the SCSI version of the Onstream drive, it was much easier to write a userland "driver" that used the passthrough device. This way, you can malloc() as much space as you want (the real reason I did it that way, was because it could be much easier to port to other operating systems). --

Re: affordable wireless

2000-09-05 Thread Darryl Okahata
net. Then you don't care about the security > of the link, only the end nodes. Very true. If people want to know why, see: http://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-net/2000/02/04/0001.html -- Darryl Okahata [EMAIL PROTECTED] DISCLAIMER: this message is the

Re: affordable wireless

2000-09-05 Thread Darryl Okahata
t when it comes to the 128-bit encryption upgrade, though. * Keys can be entered as hex (yes!). * The $279 model doesn't have a modem. With a modem, it's $299 (the same as the AirPort). * It works fine with my Lucent Orinoco (WaveLan) gold card (we didn't try enabling encrypti