Re: Creating BSD bootable CD

2001-02-21 Thread Murray Stokely
On Thu, 22 Feb 2001, Julian Stacey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: % I hadn't heard of mkhybrid, so investigated: it's been merged into mkisofs: I still prefer old versions of mkhybrid over the new merged mkisofs for some tricky environments. The new mkisofs will coredump with very large hybrid

Re: gcc 2.95.3 and STL

2001-03-28 Thread Murray Stokely
On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Arjan Knepper wrote: % Could anyone make recommandations on the STL to use with C++. I'm using % the build in gcc 2.95.2 on -stable and build in gcc 2.95.3 on -current. % % What is preffered the build-in STL (/usr/include/g++) or STLport? In general you should stick with

Re: gcc 2.95.3 and STL

2001-03-28 Thread Murray Stokely
On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, David O'Brien wrote: % But the point is actually mute. The STLport will not build on FreeBSD % using either bmake or gmake. If someone wants to put some time into % getting around the problems, then people would have a choice again. The NetBSD guys have STLport in

Re: How many files can I put in one diretory?

2000-06-23 Thread Murray Stokely
On Fri, 23 Jun 2000, Daniel O'Connor wrote: % I chunk of binary data you can put in a DB. % % Like an image, or an mpeg, or a sound file.. % % AFAIK postgres supports BLOBS. So does MySQL. You can display a BLOB using a Perl/DBI cgi script with about 5 lines of code. Just print the correct

FreeBSD vs Linux, Solaris, and NT

2000-12-18 Thread Murray Stokely
I'm trying to come up with a comprehensive comparison that shows off the strengths of FreeBSD when compared to alternative operating systems. In particular, I would like information about : * Large BSD installations * Performance advantages of FreeBSD * Specific subsystems where

Large FreeBSD Users / Impressive Metrics

2004-09-07 Thread Murray Stokely
especially use more pointers to embedded uses of FreeBSD), or otherwise have impressive statistics or benchmarks that we should be getting more leverage out of, please let me know. Thanks! - Murray - Forwarded message from Murray Stokely [EMAIL PROTECTED] - From: Murray Stokely

Re: pci device driver writing newbie

2001-07-19 Thread Murray Stokely
On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 09:08:31PM -0400, Kenneth Wayne Culver wrote: get my module (which right now does mostly nothing except probing and attaching) to detect the ACPI function of this chip, but right now pciconf -l shows it as chip0. I found the devid in /usr/src/sys/pci/pcisupport.c,

Re: No tools on 4.4-RELEASE ISO?

2001-09-21 Thread Murray Stokely
On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 12:27:31PM -0500, Alfred Perlstein wrote: Oh, I don't give a cr*p about ISO downloaders, I find them annoying. People downloading ISO can find it, people trying to install from pressed CDroms without net access might find it a bit more difficult. [ Picking a random

Re: NFS Patch #4 -- survived overnight test. (was Re: Found NFS data corruption bug... (was Re:...))

2001-12-13 Thread Murray Stokely
On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 11:03:54AM -0800, Matthew Dillon wrote: I can hold-off the vm_page_set_validclean() patch for a week but there is no reason not to 3-day MFC the rest of the bug fixes. I would also be more comfortable if we gave this change a week in -CURRENT. This is great

Re: Announcing DragonFly BSD!

2003-07-17 Thread Murray Stokely
On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 12:42:07PM -0700, Matthew Dillon wrote: Hello everyone! For the last few months I have been investigating and then working on a new approach to the BSD kernel. This has snowballed into a far more ambitious project which is now ready for wider

Re: Jdk13/14 still hangs in 4.8 Prerelease. Outstanding Fix needs to be committed.

2003-02-25 Thread Murray Stokely
On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 01:10:25PM +0100, Martin Blapp wrote: To tell the short story. Linux-mozilla works like a charm as root, but it doesn't as a user if you have a java-applet. This has been a problem for years and it affects other Linux appications such as LabView. There is some

Re: Jdk13/14 still hangs in 4.8 Prerelease. Outstanding Fix need

2003-02-25 Thread Murray Stokely
On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 11:20:34AM -0500, John Baldwin wrote: Basically, it changes p31b_proc() to not always return an error for non-root. If rwaston@ signs off on the security implications (should be minimal, basically means that you can change your own scheduling params and can change the

Re: Documents on FreeBSD Make system?

2002-03-19 Thread Murray Stokely
On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 10:24:58AM -0800, George V. Neville-Neil wrote: Is there a set of docs or a Daemon News article on working with the BSD make system? I'd like to write my code as closely to whatever that standard is as possible but reading through all the .mk files seems a bit less

Summer of Code 2008 Project Ideas

2008-03-17 Thread Murray Stokely
The FreeBSD Project was again accepted as a mentoring organization for the Google Summer of Code. The student application period will begin next week so if you have any ideas for great student projects, please send them to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or post them here for discussion. A good student project

Summer of Code 2008 Project Ideas

2008-03-17 Thread Murray Stokely
The FreeBSD Project was again accepted as a mentoring organization for the Google Summer of Code. The student application period will begin next week so if you have any ideas for great student projects, please send them to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or post them here for discussion. A good student

Please welcome our Summer of Code Students

2008-04-22 Thread Murray Stokely
Google announced today that they are funding 21 of our Summer of Code applicants (out of over 100 applications). We had at least 10 highly competitive applications that were not funded by Google, and we've encouraged some of those students to work on FreeBSD this summer anyway. We are very much

Re: A prob to Installing FreeBSD7.0 in VMWare 5.0

2008-05-14 Thread Murray Stokely
On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 8:21 AM, John Timony [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BlankBODY { MARGIN-TOP: 25px; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 25px; COLOR: #00; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica}P.msoNormal { MARGIN-TOP: 0px; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0px; COLOR: #cc; FONT-FAMILY:

Re: Lack of Flash support is no longer acceptable. Bounty established...

2008-06-20 Thread Murray Stokely
On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 9:59 PM, David E. Thiel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 02:37:48PM -0700, John Kozubik wrote: FreeBSD is not useful as a desktop environment without the ability to support Flash in a stable, well-performing fashion. Nonsense. This presumes anything