Re: pkgupgrade

2007-02-11 Thread Scott Mitchell
ou only ever look in packages-X.Y-release at the moment, and those never change after the release as far as I know. Best regards, Scott -- ======= Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID | "Eagles ma

Re: pkgupgrade

2007-02-11 Thread Scott Mitchell
On Sun, Feb 11, 2007 at 01:31:59PM -0500, Mike Meyer wrote: > In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Scott Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed: > > Good work, this script is pretty cool! One thing that might be nice to add > > is an option to download new packages from the packages-X

Re: SMP and Celerons...

1999-06-21 Thread Scott Mitchell
de to P-II's as I can afford it. Cheers, Scott -- ======= Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID | "Eagles may soar, but weasels London, England | 0x54B171B9 | don't get sucked into jet engines" s.mitch...@co

Reading CIS from kernel?

1999-07-10 Thread Scott Mitchell
ld like to see a *working* version of this code in the tree... Cheers, Scott -- === Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID | "Eagles may soar, but weasels London, England | 0x54B171B9 | don't get sucked into jet en

Re: Reading CIS from kernel?

1999-07-14 Thread Scott Mitchell
be bogus :-) Believe me, I know it's ugly, but there's no getting around the fact that the driver needs to read the CIS, and right now there's no clean way to do that in -STABLE (is there?). Scott -- ===

Re: region code in cdrecord

2005-04-24 Thread Scott Mitchell
ode. I think 'no region code' might actually be region 0, but it amounts to the same thing. IMHO there's nothing dishonest in taking whatever steps you need to play a piece of legitimately purchased media. Scott -- ==

Re: region code in cdrecord

2005-04-24 Thread Scott Mitchell
ode. I think 'no region code' might actually be region 0, but it amounts to the same thing. IMHO there's nothing dishonest in taking whatever steps you need to play a piece of legitimately purchased media. Scott -- ==

Re: Xircom CEM56 problem

2004-02-22 Thread Scott Mitchell
ill triggers a panic, could you file a PR on it? If it's something in the xe driver I'll take a look at it. Cheers, Scott -- === Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID | "Eagles may soar, but wease

Re: HEADSUP.. USB MFC coming..

2004-02-29 Thread Scott Mitchell
has always been the case. Otherwise it looks good. Scott -- ======= Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID | "Eagles may soar, but weasels Cambridge, England | 0x54B171B9 | don't get sucked into jet engines" scott at fishballoon.org | 0xAA775B8B | -- Anon __

/bin/ls sorting bug?

2004-06-19 Thread Scott Mitchell
Scott -- === Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID | "Eagles may soar, but weasels Cambridge, England | 0x54B171B9 | don't get sucked into jet engines" scott at fishballoon.org | 0xAA775B8B |

Re: /bin/ls sorting bug?

2004-06-19 Thread Scott Mitchell
On Sat, Jun 19, 2004 at 09:01:37PM +0200, Dimitry Andric wrote: > On 2004-06-19 at 19:50:07 Scott Mitchell wrote: > > > (562) tuatara:/tmp/foo $ ls -lt > > total 0 > > -rw-rw-r-- 1 scott wheel 0 19 Jun 17:48 c > > -rw-rw-r-- 7 scott wheel 0 19 Jun 17:13 b >

Re: /bin/ls sorting bug?

2004-06-19 Thread Scott Mitchell
On Sat, Jun 19, 2004 at 11:47:21AM -0700, Tim Kientzle wrote: > Scott Mitchell wrote: > > > >ls(1) says that the -t option will: > > > > Sort by time modified (most recently modified first) before sort- > > ing the operands by lexicographical order. >

Re: /bin/ls sorting bug?

2004-06-19 Thread Scott Mitchell
get the order in which these entries are listed > in the directory itself. Indeed. The proposed change will always give you a predictable ordering for a given set of entries. Scott -- ======= Scott Mitchell

Re: /bin/ls sorting bug?

2004-06-20 Thread Scott Mitchell
On Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 09:59:12AM +0100, David Malone wrote: > On Sat, Jun 19, 2004 at 11:52:29PM +0100, Scott Mitchell wrote: > > On Sat, Jun 19, 2004 at 10:06:01PM +0200, Dimitry Andric wrote: > > > Looking through ls source shows that the sorting is done by passing a > &g

Re: /bin/ls sorting bug?

2004-06-21 Thread Scott Mitchell
of the recorded timestamps to produce the displayed ordering, which is probably all you can reasonably ask of it... Scott -- === Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID | "Eagles may soar, but

Re: /bin/ls sorting bug?

2004-06-22 Thread Scott Mitchell
Well, -standards says that POSIX is silent on the subject of ls and nanoseconds, so I guess we can do whatever we like... I was going to just commit my original patch and be done with it, but David appears to have beaten me to it: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/bin/ls/cmp.c Anyway, bi

Re: 5400RPM|7200RPM Cable bottleneck?

2003-01-18 Thread Scott Mitchell
ers. > Also, if the 5400RPM IDE HD was RAIDed, would that match an unRAIDed > 7200RPM IDE HD? Thanks in advance. Depends on what sort of RAID it is and what you're doing with it. HTH, Scott -- ==

Re: make world + kernel with gcc 3.2?

2003-03-15 Thread Scott Mitchell
ys, trying to build -stable with gcc3 is probably doomed to failure. Scott -- ======= Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID | "Eagles may soar, but weasels Cambridge, England | 0x54B171B9 | don't get suc

Re: RBEM10/100+56k at 32-bit cardBus

2003-05-30 Thread Scott Mitchell
;t remember which driver they use. The xe driver only supports 16-bit Xircom cards, though. Their CardBus stuff uses entirely different hardware. Cheers, Scott -- ======= Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID | "Eagl

Re: Out of Office AutoReply: LinkSys WPC54G PCCARD (fwd)

2003-06-22 Thread Scott Mitchell
hem :-) It's just MS Outlook being lame and sending autoreplies to messages that weren't even addressed to the person on vacation. Followups to -chat, please... Scott -- === Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID

Re: SimpleTech USB HDD driver

2003-09-22 Thread Scott Mitchell
On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 08:24:06AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I just bought a 120GB SimpleTech USB harddrive and I want to use it with > FreeBSD 4.8 (the > HDD is part number STI-U2F35/120). AFAIK, 4.8 doesn't support USB HDDs. Why > is this? Did you try plugging it in? If it really is a

Re: SimpleTech USB HDD driver

2003-09-22 Thread Scott Mitchell
On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 09:12:50AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hey Scott, > > I just bought the thing and I'm at work, so I haven't had a chance to try > it out yet. I've sent a > message to the SimpleTech support people... hopefully they're OSS friendly. > I'll give more > information as

Re: SimpleTech USB HDD driver

2003-09-22 Thread Scott Mitchell
On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 04:48:16PM +0200, Devon H. O'Dell wrote: > Well, what do you know, a quick mount_msdos /dev/da0s1 worked just fine > ;). Something to add to the hardware compatibility list I guess. Here's > the dmesg entry: > > umass0: In-System Design USB Storage Adapter, rev 2.00/11.01

Re: SimpleTech USB HDD driver

2003-09-24 Thread Scott Mitchell
On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 08:33:15AM +0200, Devon H. O'Dell wrote: > Scott Mitchell wrote: > > >This is fine - just an informational message rather than anything > >actually wrong. > > > > > Out of curiosity, what does that indicate (or where can I find commen

Re: ANyone seen a touch screen on BSD?

2002-01-22 Thread Scott Mitchell
'll get someone there to dig out the details of where we got them from. The suppliers were pretty helpful (they built the screens as well as selling them), so all other things being equal I'd recommend them. HTH, Scott -- ====

PAM, setusercontext, kdm and ports/32273

2002-01-26 Thread Scott Mitchell
either write the PAM module or fix kdm, but I'd rather not waste my time learning about PAM internals if people think this would be a pointless exercise. I await your pearls of wisdom... Scott -- === Scott Mitc

Re: PAM, setusercontext, kdm and ports/32273

2002-01-27 Thread Scott Mitchell
On Sat, Jan 26, 2002 at 04:52:03PM -0800, Terry Lambert wrote: > Scott Mitchell wrote: > > However, this got me thinking -- is the right solution here to have a PAM > > module that does the setusercontext(), so programs that already know about > > PAM will just work, without

Re: PAM, setusercontext, kdm and ports/32273

2002-01-27 Thread Scott Mitchell
On Sun, Jan 27, 2002 at 04:20:30AM -0800, Terry Lambert wrote: > Scott Mitchell wrote: > > OK, but could you explain *why* you think it's a bad idea? > > It adds a side effect that wasn't there before in order to > work around an improper usage of an interface. It ad

Re: PAM, setusercontext, kdm and ports/32273

2002-01-27 Thread Scott Mitchell
hopefully less so after I'm done with it, however :-) Scott -- ======= Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID | "Eagles may soar, but weasels Cambridge, England | 0x54B171B9 | don't get sucked into jet engines" [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 0xAA775B8B | -- Anon To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: getting started with -CURRENT

2002-02-27 Thread Scott Mitchell
had machines with multiple, primary Windows partitions before now, with no obvious problems. Scott -- === Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID | "Eagles may soar, but weasels Cambridge, England | 0x54B171B9 | don't get sucked into jet engines" [EMAIL PROTECTED] |

Re: How to correctly detect POSIX 1003.1b features on FreeBSD?

2002-03-21 Thread Scott Mitchell
n me for beta-testing as necessary :-) Scott -- ======= Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID | "Eagles may soar, but weasels Cambridge, England | 0x54B171B9 | don't get sucked into jet engines" [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 0xAA775B8B | -- Anon To Unsubscribe: send mail

Re: FreeBSD NIS serving linux clients.

2002-04-14 Thread Scott Mitchell
$(RMV) $(TMP) $@ + @$(DBLOAD) -c + @if [ ! $(NOPUSH) ]; then $(YPPUSH) -d $(DOMAIN) $@; fi + @if [ ! $(NOPUSH) ]; then echo "Pushed $@ map." ; fi + .endif + + + shadow.byname: $(MASTER) + @echo "Updating $@..." + .if ${MASTER} == "/dev/null" +

Re: dhcp problems with my ISP

2002-08-04 Thread Scott Mitchell
nd say "My NIC broke. Here's the MAC address of the one I'll be using from now on". When they ask what OS you're using, say "Windows". :-) Cheers, Scott -- === Scott Mitchel

Reading CIS from kernel?

1999-07-10 Thread Scott Mitchell
ld like to see a *working* version of this code in the tree... Cheers, Scott -- === Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID | "Eagles may soar, but weasels London, England | 0x54B171B9 | don't get sucked into jet engine

Re: Reading CIS from kernel?

1999-07-14 Thread Scott Mitchell
:-) Believe me, I know it's ugly, but there's no getting around the fact that the driver needs to read the CIS, and right now there's no clean way to do that in -STABLE (is there?). Scott -- === Scott Mi

clk0 interrupt accounting weirdness ???

2000-01-30 Thread Scott Mitchell
ng the xe0 and ed0 drivers. Any ideas? Scott -- ======= Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID |"If I can't have my coffee, I'm just Cambridge, England | 0x54B171B9 | like a dried up piece of roa

Re: Porting linux drivers to FreeBSD

2000-03-15 Thread Scott Mitchell
x just express that a little differently. I've typically found that figuring out how to make the d*mn badly documented hardware behave is way harder than glueing it into your OS of choice :-) Scott -- ======= Sco

Re: Xircom Card

2000-05-01 Thread Scott Mitchell
Sorry if this appears multiple times; it didn't show up on -hackers after 24 hours, so I'm sending again... - Forwarded message from Scott Mitchell - On Sun, Apr 30, 2000 at 03:44:46AM -1000, FreeBSD MAIL wrote: > I just cvsuped and built a kernel as of Sun Apr 30 03:2