> Does that mean that such BIOS's are proprietary in the sense that they
> don't recognize the dedicated format?
There are times when the politically-correct of the world use the term
"proprietary" when they actually mean "dumb" or "really badly
designed". But yes, that's what it means... :)
> > A couple days ago I was mentioning about my ps and top problems. Well at the
> > advice of a FreeBSD user I went and installed the bin distribution for
> > 4.2-RELEASE rebooted with the 4.2-RELEASE kernel and everything was golden.
> > I could ps and top and kill I was one happy guy.
> >
> >
Mike Tancsa wrote:
>
> At 05:30 PM 06/09/2002 -0400, Mike Nowlin wrote:
>
> >On Friday, September 6, 2002, at 05:15 PM, Mike Tancsa wrote:
> >
> >>At 09:51 PM 05/09/2002 -0400, Peter Radcliffe wrote:
> >>>I use kermit to /dev/cuaR0 and can get out
> We also have a few Solaris machines around. We've purchased a SNMP agent
> from Empire Technology (www.empiretech.com) which can report various system
> performance related parameters, like swap usage, system load, cpu
> utilization, number of open file descriptor, number of processes, etc.
>
(Taken from "Re: Server Farms?")
> You mean you don't have a serial console? And yes, I can see where it may
> be impractical (network access only, no serial ports, etc).
Speaking of serial consoles, I keep getting bit by a little bug that is a
descendant of the RS-232 specification (mother) an
> I'd never do a server farm w/o a serial console machine to serve the
> serial consoles on all the machines It would be a nightmare
> otherwise...
Long live "retired" Equinox 16-port terminal servers! VT100 on one
port, modem on another, and 14 machines. (Plus a parallel port as an
added
D numbers. Does he/you
have any info as to how they work??
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"I was thinking of the immortal words of Socrates, who said, 'I drank
what?'" -- Chris Knight (Val Kilmer), Real Genius
Mike Nowlin, N
> : One of the old Fijitsu 1GB scsi drives had an air flow requirement of
> : so many feet/second of air flow. The fan died and the drive case metal
> : turned blue just before the drive died. I never thought of an HD
> : getting that hot. I am not sure what got hotter the HD or the Celeron.
>
>
lthough the S3 Savage-IX patch for XFree-3.3.6 has some
problems (with work-arounds), it's kicking along nicely!)
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Understated/funny man-page sentence of the current time period:
>From route(4) on FreeBSD-3.4, DESCRIPTION section:
"FreeBSD provides some packet
