Re: ZFS Striping and Optimizing Capabilities

2011-04-10 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Apr 09), Chris Telting said: Just a few questions about what ZFS actually does. So if anyone has intimate knowledge about ZFS's implementation on Freebsd I'm sure I and others would appreciate the answers. When you add a second and or thrid drive/partition to a zpool

Re: Problem with an ATI x2900 video adapter

2011-04-10 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 10 Apr 2011, Michael D. Norwick wrote: surprised this afternoon when, while the installation of gnome2 was working, I think it was building GCC 4.4 and friends, the HP 2010i LCD monitor I use on the machine appeared to lose the input to its DVI port. The HD activity light was still

Re: malloc: errno: 22: Invalid argument

2011-04-10 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 9 Apr 2011 17:17:06 +0200, Sami Kerola kerol...@iki.fi wrote: On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 16:43, John Levine jo...@iecc.com wrote: Your code is wrong.  There's only a useful value in errno after something fails.  This would be more reasonable: int main(void) {        int *i;      

Re: Problem with an ATI x2900 video adapter

2011-04-10 Thread Michael D. Norwick
On 04/10/11 06:44, Warren Block wrote: On Sun, 10 Apr 2011, Michael D. Norwick wrote: surprised this afternoon when, while the installation of gnome2 was working, I think it was building GCC 4.4 and friends, the HP 2010i LCD monitor I use on the machine appeared to lose the input to its DVI

expr problem

2011-04-10 Thread Manish Jain
Hi Dino, It looks to me like you don't want to FreeBSD's expr (pretty much like me). You probably want to install the GNU version, which I think is available in the coreutils port. Let me know if this helps. Regards Manish Jain ___

Re: ZFS Striping and Optimizing Capabilities

2011-04-10 Thread Daniel Staal
--As of April 9, 2011 9:27:41 PM -0700, Chris Telting is alleged to have said: Does ZFS in any way do performance testing of read/right operating in light of where the data is stored on the drive? i.e. the outside sectors of hard drives perform faster. If it does do read/write location

Re: Problem with an ATI x2900 video adapter

2011-04-10 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 10 Apr 2011, Michael D. Norwick wrote: On 04/10/11 06:44, Warren Block wrote: Sounds like the video card went into power save. Pressing a shift key might have brought it back. I would like to know if anyone else has experienced this or, if a PR is necessary against the Xorg radeon

ANNOUNCING: FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE Custom XFCE builds (32/64bits) released

2011-04-10 Thread Manolis Kiagias
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hey all, I have just completed an 8.2-RELEASE based build of the 'Custom releases' project hosted here: http://freebsd-custom.wikidot.com Both 32 and 64 bits are available for download: http://freebsd-custom.wikidot.com/downloads-page This

I'm looking for a curses one-iner.

2011-04-10 Thread Gary Kline
People, Can anybody point me to a one-line of curses (it may be *long* and obscure) that allows keyboard input _without_ hitting cr/enter. So, in effect, I couold use the curses getchar() and have things echoed to stdout without bothering to type Enter. There may be a matching one-liner to

Re: I'm looking for a curses one-iner.

2011-04-10 Thread Chip Camden
Quoth Gary Kline on Sunday, 10 April 2011: People, Can anybody point me to a one-line of curses (it may be *long* and obscure) that allows keyboard input _without_ hitting cr/enter. So, in effect, I couold use the curses getchar() and have things echoed to stdout without bothering to type

Re: I'm looking for a curses one-iner.

2011-04-10 Thread Gary Kline
On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 12:22:50PM -0700, Chip Camden wrote: Quoth Gary Kline on Sunday, 10 April 2011: People, Can anybody point me to a one-line of curses (it may be *long* and obscure) that allows keyboard input _without_ hitting cr/enter. So, in effect, I couold use the curses

full disk encryption with geli - where does the stuff in /boot/kernel

2011-04-10 Thread Gil Mordron
I am attempting to set up full disk encryption with GELI, booting from an unencrypted thumb drive, using the following PDF by Marc Schiesser as a guide: http://events.ccc.de/congress/2005/fahrplan/attachments/586-paper_Complete_Hard_Disk_Encryption.pdf In section 3.5.5, The removable medium,

Re: full disk encryption with geli - where does the stuff in /boot/kernel

2011-04-10 Thread Gil Mordron
Oh, one other difference between what I've done and what the document says to do: I don't actually have a /dev/ad0. I have ad4, ad5, and ad6. Wherever the document says /dev/ad0, I've been using /dev/ad4 instead. I'm guessing that this is not important to the problem I'm facing, but I

Options for Secondary DNS Service?

2011-04-10 Thread Pierre-Luc Drouin
Hi, I am looking for a secondary DNS service. Any suggestion? It is not for a non-profit organisation so I am not necessarily looking for a free solution, but I am wondering if there are reliable solutions for less than what dyndns charges ($40 /year/zone). Thanks!

Re: Options for Secondary DNS Service?

2011-04-10 Thread Outback Dingo
whats the org ? could consider domating On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 11:43 PM, Pierre-Luc Drouin pldro...@pldrouin.netwrote: Hi, I am looking for a secondary DNS service. Any suggestion? It is not for a non-profit organisation so I am not necessarily looking for a free solution, but I am