Update: PR bin/60636

2003-12-29 Thread William Grim
Hey there. I emailed that PR into the FreeBSD team the other day. I didn't remove a line that said unix, because the above lines said comments and anything between and would be removed. It put [EMAIL PROTECTED] as my email, and now I'm getting all sorts of spam to that mail box (all

Re: Power consumption in desktop computers

2003-12-29 Thread Gregory Sutter
On 2003-12-27 19:59 -0800, Wes Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 26 December 2003 05:41 pm, Martin Cracauer wrote: I found that the requirment to run Mozilla Firebird outpaces this CPU. It's really too bad, if it wasn't for that thing I could happily run my old hardware forever.

Re: Update: PR bin/60636

2003-12-29 Thread William Michael Grim
Thank much. I know the damage is probably already done though; I'll have to setup a filtering system of some sort to block all email to that account. Again, thanks for the swift response. I hope the PR helps some people out. :-) BTW, this email is also in response to all others that emailed

Re: Install problem

2003-12-29 Thread Peter Pentchev
On Tue, Dec 23, 2003 at 12:44:01PM -0500, soupman wrote: Hello. I am getting the following error when attempting an FTP install from a Windows machine: Cannot parse information file for the bin distribution: I/O error. Please verify that your media is valid and try again. How did you

Re: Update: PR bin/60636

2003-12-29 Thread Jason Slagle
So I'm not the only one? After submitting a single PR, I started getting innudated with klez emails. 12+ a day, to an account that had never received one. Me thinks it's time to obscure the emails somehow. Jason -- Jason Slagle - CCNP - CCDP /\ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Re: Update: PR bin/60636 / SPAM

2003-12-29 Thread Kai Mosebach
I am getting these MS Update stuff too for 3 month now ... very annoying ! Kai So I'm not the only one? After submitting a single PR, I started getting innudated with klez emails. 12+ a day, to an account that had never received one. Me thinks it's time to obscure the emails somehow.

Re: kern/37043: Latest stable causes SCSI bus freeze on sym0 when running SMP

2003-12-29 Thread Alan Lew
Gentlemen, Since upgrading our kernels to 4.x, we’ve noticed this problem. After installing Gérard’s Sym workaround (http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20020810.g7MMABwT084798), the issue seems to have vanished on 3 of our 5 affected servers. The 5 servers are all Asus AP1400 boxes (CUR-DLSR

Re: Unprobed PCI bus on VXPro II chipset

2003-12-29 Thread John Baldwin
On 27-Dec-2003 Bernd Walter wrote: On Fri, Dec 26, 2003 at 10:54:27AM -0800, Sean Welch wrote: That change seems to have done it!! I left in the extra PCI IDs I had added to pcisupport.c and pci_cfgreg.c -- looks like that helps get things going. I've got options PCI_ENABLE_IO_MODES in

Re: Install problem

2003-12-29 Thread soupman
Hi, thanks for the reply. I downloaded the files from ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/4.8-RELEASE/ onto my computer with Windows XP, and then used the Windows Direct Cable Connection (DCC) to transfer the files from the XP machine to the Windows 95 machine. I then checked the

Re: Power consumption in desktop computers

2003-12-29 Thread Martin Cracauer
Tim Kientzle wrote on Sun, Dec 28, 2003 at 11:22:10AM -0800: Ouch! I've tested a bunch of 'business-grade' desktops around my office, and they all run 40-60 watts during normal use (not including monitor) with peak power at boot time up to 70-80 watts. This includes some P4s with lots of

Happy and Wonderfull New Year !

2003-12-29 Thread Anton Alin-Adrian
I would like to thank again the FreeBSD hackers for their support during this passing year, and I wish you all the best wishes I have for my own self. Also I thank you for developing and hacking the best operating system out there! It may be a bit early for this, but I am going to spend the

Re: Unprobed PCI bus on VXPro II chipset

2003-12-29 Thread Sean Welch
How 'bout that! I've got USB now! I went back to the original pcisupport.c as requested but left in the extra stuff I had added to pcibus.c (the same stuff that was added to pcisupport.c). Now most everything looks to be attaching normally. If you want me to take that out as well I'll give it

Re: Update: PR bin/60636 / SPAM

2003-12-29 Thread soralx
I am getting these MS Update stuff too for 3 month now ... very annoying ! you can setup DrWeb (/usr/ports/security/drweb-mailer-daemon) on the mailserver and tune it to drop all emails with Klez - that _really_ helps Timestamp: 1072746574 [SorAlx] http://cydem.org.ua/

FreeBSD 5.x source update and compilation problem in HP Vectra VE18

2003-12-29 Thread Ganbold
Hi, I installed FreeBSD 5.1 in HP Vectra VE18 PIII 450MHz with 128MB RAM and 4GB HDD. However I'm having problem compiling sources. Whenever I try to make buildworld make stops sometime later saying some variable not found etc. When I check that variable from source it is somehow changed

Re: Power consumption in desktop computers

2003-12-29 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, Martin Cracauer wrote: Tim Kientzle wrote on Sun, Dec 28, 2003 at 11:22:10AM -0800: Ouch! I've tested a bunch of 'business-grade' desktops around my office, and they all run 40-60 watts during normal use (not including monitor) with peak power at boot time up to 70-80 watts. This includes

Re: Power consumption in desktop computers

2003-12-29 Thread Marcin Dalecki
Erich Dollansky wrote: The actual power can go down to less than 10% if the CPU is idle. Are these business-grade ones maybe equipped with mobile P-4s? No, it is just the fact that modern CPU are most of the time just idle. Which is bullshit becouse most of the CPUs those days don't run

Re: FreeBSD 5.x source update and compilation problem in HP Vectra VE18

2003-12-29 Thread Drew Eckhardt
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] net writes: Hi, I installed FreeBSD 5.1 in HP Vectra VE18 PIII 450MHz with 128MB RAM and 4GB HDD. Without ECC or even parity memory? However I'm having problem compiling sources. Whenever I try to make buildworl d make stops sometime later

Re: Power consumption in desktop computers

2003-12-29 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, Marcin Dalecki wrote: Erich Dollansky wrote: The actual power can go down to less than 10% if the CPU is idle. Are these business-grade ones maybe equipped with mobile P-4s? No, it is just the fact that modern CPU are most of the time just idle. Which is bullshit becouse most of the

Re: FreeBSD 5.x source update and compilation problem in HP Vectra VE18

2003-12-29 Thread Mike Silbersack
On Tue, 30 Dec 2003, Ganbold wrote: Hi, I installed FreeBSD 5.1 in HP Vectra VE18 PIII 450MHz with 128MB RAM and 4GB HDD. However I'm having problem compiling sources. Whenever I try to make buildworld make stops sometime later saying some variable not found etc. When I check As has