utf-8 support in libc?

2006-03-20 Thread Vivek Khera
Reading thru one of the postgres mailing lists regarding which character encoding to use for a database, someone chimed in and claimed this: Umm, you should choose an encoding supported by your platform and the locales you use. For example, UTF-8 is a bad choice on *BSD because there is no

Re: utf-8 support in libc?

2006-03-20 Thread [LoN]Kamikaze
If you make sure that your data goes into the database in a binary safe form (look for escape methods supplied by your favourite programming language) it doesn't matter how the database is encoded, because you will always get the data back the way you put it in. Vivek Khera wrote: > Reading thru o

Re: utf-8 support in libc?

2006-03-20 Thread Vivek Khera
On Mar 20, 2006, at 12:16 PM, [LoN]Kamikaze wrote: If you make sure that your data goes into the database in a binary safe form (look for escape methods supplied by your favourite programming language) it doesn't matter how the database is encoded, because you will always get the data back th

Re: utf-8 support in libc?

2006-03-20 Thread Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH
On Mar 20, 2006, at 12:21 , Vivek Khera wrote: I expect that to happen. What I'm more curious about is the collating speed. Ie, how fast are the sorting and string comparison functions. The clam here is that in *BSD these are somehow not fast. I'm not sure if that is a BSD issue or a

FreeBSD box dropping packets

2006-03-20 Thread Anton Nikiforov
Dear All, I have a FreeBSD box running 5.4-RELEASE-p8. Two interfaces: fxp0 - internet, SKA4 internal interface fxp0: bge0 - internal with 30 vlans on it, old bge Gigabit 64/32 PCI-2.1 adapter. bge0: Firewall is pf with about 5000 rules. A week ago it was working just properly, but after addi

rpc.lockd fails to run on server-only config

2006-03-20 Thread Michael Butler
I've raised this before but I haven't tested it recently. With a NFS server-only kernel built from 6.1-pre cvsupped today, rpc.lockd still refuses to run with .. rpc.lockd: open: nfslock: No such file or directory .. appearing in /var/log/messages. nfslock obviously refers to /dev/n

Urgent FreeBSD Boot question!

2006-03-20 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear friends: I decided to go out and buy the latest issue of Linux Format with the FreeBSD 6 CD. I am very glad I did. FreeBSD is tough to install, but after spending several hours I finally succeeded in doing a perfect installation. ONE BIG PROBLEM: When I removed the CD and rebooted, I got int

Re: Urgent FreeBSD Boot question! -- Addendum

2006-03-20 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear friends: I have an old but very reliable Dell Dimension 8200 that's 6 years old. It does not have a boot option for both of my separate hard disks. The only BOOT options are: floppy, CD or hard drive. That's why I need the boot manager solution. Thank you again. Benjamin __

Re: Urgent FreeBSD Boot question! -- Addendum

2006-03-20 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear friends: I have an old but very reliable Dell Dimension 8200 that's 6 years old. It does not have a boot option for both of my separate hard disks. The only BOOT options are: floppy, CD or hard drive. That's why I need the boot manager solution. Thank you again. Benjamin _

Re: Urgent FreeBSD Boot question!

2006-03-20 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 04:43 PM 20/03/2006, Benjamin Sher wrote: I read the instructions about the FreeBSD Boot Manager. It said clearly that it should allow switching from one OS to another. But I did not see any configuration for that. How, may I ask, do I do this while installing FreeBSD? Google around for "Wi

Re: Urgent FreeBSD Boot question!

2006-03-20 Thread Kevin Oberman
> Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 16:43:25 -0500 > From: Benjamin Sher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Dear friends: > > I decided to go out and buy the latest issue of Linux Format with the > FreeBSD 6 CD. I am very glad I did. FreeBSD is tough to install, but > after spending several

Re: Urgent FreeBSD Boot question! -- Addendum

2006-03-20 Thread Jung-uk Kim
On Monday 20 March 2006 04:44 pm, Benjamin Sher wrote: > Dear friends: > > I have an old but very reliable Dell Dimension 8200 that's 6 years > old. It does not have a boot option for both of my separate hard > disks. The only BOOT options are: floppy, CD or hard drive. That's > why I need the boot

Re: Urgent FreeBSD Boot question!

2006-03-20 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear Kevin: Sounds great! Just what I need. One question before I proceed: what is the holographic shell. Please be specific and provide step-by-step instructions. I am a bit nervous about this kind of brain surgery. Thank you again. Benjamin To write the MBR on the first disk, just boot the

Re: Urgent FreeBSD Boot question!

2006-03-20 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Benjamin Sher wrote: Dear Kevin: Sounds great! Just what I need. One question before I proceed: what is the holographic shell. Please be specific and provide step-by-step instructions. I am a bit nervous about this kind of brain surgery. Thank you again. Benjamin To write the MBR on the firs

Re: Urgent FreeBSD Boot question!

2006-03-20 Thread Kevin Oberman
> Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 17:44:28 -0500 > From: Benjamin Sher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Dear Kevin: > > Sounds great! Just what I need. One question before I proceed: what is > the holographic shell. Please be specific and provide step-by-step > instructions. I am a bit

Re: Problem with 16-in-1 card reader

2006-03-20 Thread M. Warner Losh
In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Damian Gerow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: : Thus spake Alex Dupre ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [11/03/06 22:18]: : : > This problem has been discussed many times on the lists. In order to : : > update devfs you can use: : : > : : > cat /dev/null > /dev/daX : : >

Urgent FreeBSD Boot question! -- Almost there!

2006-03-20 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear Kevin: You sure know your stuff, Kevin. No question about it. I am almost there. The only problem is that when I boot up to the new FreeBSD system (CD unselected and hardrive selected in boot sequence), I get a kind of login that says: FreeBS/i386 boot Default: 1: ad (1,a) default No /b

Urgent FreeBSD Boot question! -- Note on CD

2006-03-20 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear Kevin: By the way, I have a CD Rom drive and a DVD drive. The FreeBSD CD is in the first CD Rom drive. Benjamin ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail t

Urgent FreeBSD Boot question! -- Question

2006-03-20 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear Kevin: By the way, for future reference, what boot manager should I choose next time I install FreeBSD? Lilo? Grub? If so, where is the option for installing it? Thank you. Benjamin ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.free

Re: 6.0-REL problems with ISA ed0, FFS corruption and ancient hardware

2006-03-20 Thread M. Warner Losh
In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: : On Sun, Mar 19, 2006 at 04:39:19PM -0500, Matt Emmerton wrote: : > On Sun, Mar 19, 2006 at 11:28:45AM -0500, Matt Emmerton wrote: : OK, now you can post about your other panic :-) Yes. Please. I'm interested

Urgent FreeBSD Boot question! -- Note on FreeBSD Boot

2006-03-20 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear Kevin: By the way, when I booted up, I did see and use the F1 for Windows option and the F5 for FreeBSD (F1) along with Other (F5). So, it's working. But its' not getting me into FreeBSD. Would appreciate your explanation. Thank you. Benjamin ___

Urgent FreeBSD Boot question! -- Note 3

2006-03-20 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear Kevin: Here is another line from the FreeBSD boot sequence: Loader: not a directory No /boot/loader. Benjamin ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[

Re: Urgent FreeBSD Boot question! -- Almost there!

2006-03-20 Thread Kevin Oberman
> Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 18:43:04 -0600 > From: Benjamin Sher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Dear Kevin: > > You sure know your stuff, Kevin. No question about it. I am almost > there. The only problem is that when I boot up to the new FreeBSD system > (CD unselected and hardrive selected in boot sequ

usb related panic in 6.1-prerelease

2006-03-20 Thread Surer Dink
All, I have two USB hard drives attached through an "Adaptec" USB2 card. The disks were working fine (although seemed a bit slow ~3MB/s random reads/writes as reported by iostat while rsync was copying from one to the other a complete freebsd install). The drives were left connected to the machi

Re: FreeBSD box dropping packets

2006-03-20 Thread Peter Jeremy
On Mon, 2006-Mar-20 21:26:56 +0300, Anton Nikiforov wrote: >I have a FreeBSD box running 5.4-RELEASE-p8. ... >A week ago it was working just properly, but after adding more RAM (2GB >additional RAM, and i do not thing that this is the reason of the >problem) it starts to drop large packets. How

Re: Urgent FreeBSD Boot question! -- Almost there!

2006-03-20 Thread Peter Jeremy
As mentioned, this belongs on freebsd-qyestions, not freebsd-stable. Also, could you please keep your questions as a single thread - it makes it much easier to follow. On Mon, 2006-Mar-20 18:43:04 -0600, Benjamin Sher wrote: >FreeBS/i386 boot >Default: 1: ad (1,a) default >No /boot/kernel/kernel >

Re: usb related panic in 6.1-prerelease [more info]

2006-03-20 Thread Surer Dink
> All, > > I have two USB hard drives attached through an "Adaptec" USB2 card. > The disks were working fine (although seemed a bit slow ~3MB/s random > reads/writes as reported by iostat while rsync was copying from one to > the other a complete freebsd install). The drives were left connected >