Re: ZFS License and Future

2010-11-05 Thread Steven Susbauer
On 11/5/10 4:34 PM, Chad Perrin wrote: Will Oracle start using patent suits to try to stop people who aren't paying for ZFS or who are using it on platforms other than Solaris from using it? Whether you think concerns like these will prove reasonable in the long run, they make a lot more sense t

Re: ZFS License and Future

2010-11-05 Thread Steven Susbauer
On 11/5/10 5:19 PM, Alejandro Imass wrote: Precisely. This is Larry Ellison's position on Open Source: If an open source product gets good enough, we'll simply take it. [...] So the great thing about open source is nobody owns it – a company like Oracle is free to take it for nothing, include i

Re: Installed memory today, questions immediately

2010-11-05 Thread justin v
On Fri, 05 Nov 2010 15:29:35 -0700, Robert Bonomi wrote: From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Fri Nov 5 01:18:07 2010 Date: Fri, 05 Nov 2010 08:19:43 +0100 From: Leslie Jensen To: justin v Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List , Jon Radel Subject: Re: Installed memory today, questions imm

Re: ZFS License and Future

2010-11-05 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 11:19 PM, Alejandro Imass wrote: > So, my inquiry to this community is: should we really be promoting the > use of ZFS directly by putting it on the FBSD handbook? Maybe it > should go on a different document, and make it really optional. MySQL > is another example, and Open

Re: Installed memory today, questions immediately

2010-11-05 Thread Adam Vande More
On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 5:29 PM, Robert Bonomi wrote: > > > > I suspect you are running the 32-bit version of FreeBSD and it cannot > > address more that 3 Gb of RAM. > > > Must be a hardware issue, too. I'm running 7.2/i386 on a P-III box, and > the boot messages shows 3.9+ gigs 'avail mem'. I d

Re: Installed memory today, questions immediately

2010-11-05 Thread Robert Bonomi
> From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Fri Nov 5 01:18:07 2010 > Date: Fri, 05 Nov 2010 08:19:43 +0100 > From: Leslie Jensen > To: justin v > Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List , > Jon Radel > Subject: Re: Installed memory today, questions immediately > > > > On 2010-11-05 04:41, justin v wr

Re: ZFS License and Future

2010-11-05 Thread Alejandro Imass
On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 5:34 PM, Chad Perrin wrote: > On Fri, Nov 05, 2010 at 08:25:05PM +0100, Svein Skogen (Listmail account) > wrote: >> >> Well ... CDDL was (iirc) based on the Mozilla Public License. Are you >> similarly worried about Thunderbird or Firefox? > > I think Alejandro's more worri

Re: portmaster

2010-11-05 Thread RW
On Fri, 05 Nov 2010 20:15:27 +0100 Dick Hoogendijk wrote: > Trying to update with portmaster (-a -B -d) but everytime the process > stops after some time and I can't find out why this happens. All I > see is a screen full of names, but no message why the thing dumped > core. > > Is there a way

Re: ZFS License and Future

2010-11-05 Thread Chad Perrin
On Fri, Nov 05, 2010 at 08:25:05PM +0100, Svein Skogen (Listmail account) wrote: > > Well ... CDDL was (iirc) based on the Mozilla Public License. Are you > similarly worried about Thunderbird or Firefox? I think Alejandro's more worried about what will happen with future versions of ZFS based on

Re: ZFS License and Future

2010-11-05 Thread Chad Perrin
On Fri, Nov 05, 2010 at 03:11:47PM -0400, Alejandro Imass wrote: > > A while back I started the thread "Troubles on SATA drives ZFS". I > decided to bring the zpool down check each disk and re-construct the > pool. Nevertheless, I was revising one of the ZFS error message links > and Oracle made m

Re: Glue records (was Re: ATTN GARY KLINE)

2010-11-05 Thread Robert Bonomi
> From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Fri Nov 5 02:26:31 2010 > From: Jonathan McKeown > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2010 10:27:38 +0200 > Subject: Glue records (was Re: ATTN GARY KLINE) > > On Friday 05 November 2010 09:28:27 Ian Smith wrote: > > But you don't alwa

Re: FreeBSD - POP3 timeouts

2010-11-05 Thread Grant Peel
Please see below. - Original Message - From: "Odhiambo Washington" To: "Grant Peel" Cc: Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2010 2:12 AM Subject: Re: FreeBSD - POP3 timeouts On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 11:36 PM, Grant Peel wrote: Hello all, I have serveral servers setup with FreeBSD 8.0.

Re: ATTN GARY KLINE

2010-11-05 Thread kline
On Fri, Nov 05, 2010 at 01:32:11AM -0400, Jon Radel wrote: > On 11/5/10 12:22 AM, kline wrote: > > > >i''m using evo to be able to click on. i have fewer ``Fail'' type > >responses, but do not understand the failure messages. Also, since it > >has been 9.5 years since I read DNS AND BIND, the jar

Re: ZFS License and Future

2010-11-05 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 8:14 PM, Alejandro Imass wrote: > Maybe I should go back to UFS, CCD, GEOM, etc. instead of continuing > to support f***ing Oracle. ZFS was honestly very easy and seemed very > reliable and fast, but I would like the opinion and position of people > here on ZFS before I cont

Re: ZFS License and Future

2010-11-05 Thread Svein Skogen (Listmail account)
On 05.11.2010 20:14, Alejandro Imass wrote: > Hey folks, > > A while back I started the thread "Troubles on SATA drives ZFS". I > decided to bring the zpool down check each disk and re-construct the > pool. Nevertheless, I was revising one of the ZFS error message links > and Oracle made me create

Re: how to generate pi in c

2010-11-05 Thread Alex Stangl
On Fri, Nov 05, 2010 at 05:40:39PM +0100, Arthur Bela wrote: > Does anyone has a "generate-pi.c" source code? Search for pi spigot algorithm. Here is a tiny C program from Jeremy Gibbon's Unbounded Spigot paper (due to Dik Winter and Achim Flammenkamp): a[52514],b,c=52514,d,e,f=1e4,g,h;main(){fo

portmaster

2010-11-05 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
Trying to update with portmaster (-a -B -d) but everytime the process stops after some time and I can't find out why this happens. All I see is a screen full of names, but no message why the thing dumped core. Is there a way to find out _WHY_ portmaster can't complete the proces? __

ZFS License and Future

2010-11-05 Thread Alejandro Imass
Hey folks, A while back I started the thread "Troubles on SATA drives ZFS". I decided to bring the zpool down check each disk and re-construct the pool. Nevertheless, I was revising one of the ZFS error message links and Oracle made me create a developer id to access the info. This really pissed m

ZFS License and Future

2010-11-05 Thread Alejandro Imass
Hey folks, A while back I started the thread "Troubles on SATA drives ZFS". I decided to bring the zpool down check each disk and re-construct the pool. Nevertheless, I was revising one of the ZFS error message links and Oracle made me create a developer id to access the info. This really pissed m

Re: how to generate pi in c

2010-11-05 Thread Julian Fagir
Hi, > Does anyone has a "generate-pi.c" source code? The solution of Ivan Klymenko is surely much more suffisticated, but as I wrote this down, I just want to publish it... ;-) 1 #include 2 #include 3 #include 4 5 // Change this for a more accurate result. 6 long max = 1;

Re: how to generate pi in c

2010-11-05 Thread Ivan Klymenko
В Fri, 5 Nov 2010 13:39:05 -0400 Alejandro Imass пишет: > This is how I do it in perl > use constant PI => 4 * atan2(1, 1); > > In C it owuld probably be (using math.h): > > pi = 4.0*atan(1.0); > > On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 1:15 PM, Remko Lodder > wrote: > > > > No, but a simple search reveals s

Re: how to generate pi in c

2010-11-05 Thread Ivan Klymenko
В Fri, 5 Nov 2010 13:39:05 -0400 Alejandro Imass пишет: > This is how I do it in perl > use constant PI => 4 * atan2(1, 1); > > In C it owuld probably be (using math.h): > > pi = 4.0*atan(1.0); > > On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 1:15 PM, Remko Lodder > wrote: > > > > No, but a simple search reveals s

Re: how to generate pi in c

2010-11-05 Thread Alejandro Imass
On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 2:13 PM, Polytropon wrote: > On Fri, 5 Nov 2010 13:39:05 -0400, Alejandro Imass wrote: >> This is how I do it in perl >> use constant PI => 4 * atan2(1, 1); >> >> In C it owuld probably be (using math.h): >> >> pi = 4.0*atan(1.0); > > Or use M_PI from /usr/include/math.h, a

Re: how to generate pi in c

2010-11-05 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 5 Nov 2010 13:39:05 -0400, Alejandro Imass wrote: > This is how I do it in perl > use constant PI => 4 * atan2(1, 1); > > In C it owuld probably be (using math.h): > > pi = 4.0*atan(1.0); Or use M_PI from /usr/include/math.h, as we already #include'd it. :-) #define M_PI3.

Re: how to generate pi in c

2010-11-05 Thread Alejandro Imass
This is how I do it in perl use constant PI => 4 * atan2(1, 1); In C it owuld probably be (using math.h): pi = 4.0*atan(1.0); On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 1:15 PM, Remko Lodder wrote: > > No, but a simple search reveals some information; > > http://einstein.drexel.edu/courses/Comp_Phys/General/C_basi

Re: Vimium on Chromium on FreeBSD

2010-11-05 Thread Chip Camden
Quoth Chad Perrin on Thursday, 04 November 2010: > On Thu, Nov 04, 2010 at 02:25:23PM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: > > > > Vimium is one of several Chromium extensions that provide some vi-like > > keybindings, and arguably the one with the best vi-like experience. > > Unfortunately, it is not quite

Re: how to generate pi in c

2010-11-05 Thread Remko Lodder
No, but a simple search reveals some information; http://einstein.drexel.edu/courses/Comp_Phys/General/C_basics/ On Nov 5, 2010, at 5:40 PM, Arthur Bela wrote: > Does anyone has a "generate-pi.c" source code? > > Thanks.. :D :\ > -- /"\ Best regards,| re...@freebsd

how to generate pi in c

2010-11-05 Thread Arthur Bela
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Re: Glue records (was Re: ATTN GARY KLINE)

2010-11-05 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 335, Issue 9, Message: 7 On Fri, 5 Nov 2010 10:27:38 +0200 Jonathan McKeown wrote: > On Friday 05 November 2010 09:28:27 Ian Smith wrote: > > But you don't always have any control of what parent nameservers do; > > eg we do DNS for a .com but both NS are in .au

Re: Installed memory today, questions immediately

2010-11-05 Thread Justin V.
On Fri, 5 Nov 2010, Leslie Jensen wrote: On 2010-11-05 04:41, justin v wrote: On Thu, 04 Nov 2010 19:35:20 -0700, Jon Radel wrote: On 11/4/10 10:13 PM, justin v wrote: I installed 4GB or memory today. I rebooted and see this, the first line after the splash menu thing: 983040K of memo

Re: Android usb tethering

2010-11-05 Thread freebsd-questions
On Thu 4/11/10 10:28 PM , four.harris...@googlemail.com wrote: On Tue 2/11/10 11:37 AM , wrote: On Tue 2/11/10 10:11 AM , Alejandro Imass wrote:On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 6:25 PM, Ivan Voras wrote: > On 11/01/10 15:42, Mark Atkinson wrote: >> >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-

SAS2-controller for 64bit-FreeBSD

2010-11-05 Thread Julian Fagir
Hi, I'm going to buy a new storage-server and don't know yet which storage-controller to take. We found it the cheapest way to buy an external jbod-storage and a small server with an sas-controller. The chosen jbod will support SAS2, and as the system will have to last at least three years, we wan

Re: Vimium on Chromium on FreeBSD

2010-11-05 Thread Chris Brennan
On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 3:21 AM, Chad Perrin wrote: > On Fri, Nov 05, 2010 at 12:55:41AM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 04, 2010 at 08:32:11PM -0400, Chris Brennan wrote: > > > On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 8:21 PM, Chad Perrin > wrote: > > > > > > So are there plans to get 7x into ports? I w

No Attachments Please

2010-11-05 Thread Lyris ListManager
You sent an email to the Exchange list with an attachment. We have disabled this option as recently a virus was attached. Please resend your posting without it? Thanks! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/li

Re: kldunload(8) returns 0, although it fail

2010-11-05 Thread Alexander Best
On Fri Nov 5 10, CyberLeo Kitsana wrote: > On 11/03/2010 05:34 PM, Alexander Best wrote: > > hi there, > > > > is this a known issue with kldunload(8)? > > > > ***beginn*** > > otaku% kldunload sound > > otaku% echo $? > > 0 > > otaku% kldstat > > Id Refs AddressSize Name > > 1

Glue records (was Re: ATTN GARY KLINE)

2010-11-05 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Friday 05 November 2010 09:28:27 Ian Smith wrote: > But you don't always have any control of what parent nameservers do; > eg we do DNS for a .com but both NS are in .au so DNS reports always > whinge about lack of glue They should be whingeing about lack of clue (their own) unless I'm horribly

Re: Android usb tethering

2010-11-05 Thread four . harrisons
On Tue 2/11/10 11:37 AM , freebsd-questi...@herveybayaustralia.com.au wrote: On Tue 2/11/10 10:11 AM , Alejandro Imass wrote:On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 6:25 PM, Ivan Voras wrote: > On 11/01/10 15:42, Mark Atkinson wrote: >> >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 [...] >

Re: ATTN GARY KLINE

2010-11-05 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 335, Issue 8, Message: 29 On Fri, 05 Nov 2010 01:32:11 -0400 Jon Radel wrote: > On 11/5/10 12:22 AM, kline wrote: [..] > > It is time to get this stuff arrow-straight, so hoping that someone > > on-list can clue me in. [..] > > http://www.dnscog.com/report/tho

Re: Vimium on Chromium on FreeBSD

2010-11-05 Thread Chad Perrin
On Fri, Nov 05, 2010 at 12:55:41AM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: > On Thu, Nov 04, 2010 at 08:32:11PM -0400, Chris Brennan wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 8:21 PM, Chad Perrin wrote: > > > > So are there plans to get 7x into ports? I would love to go back to Chrome > > as a browser ... I find Firef

Re: Installed memory today, questions immediately

2010-11-05 Thread Leslie Jensen
On 2010-11-05 04:41, justin v wrote: On Thu, 04 Nov 2010 19:35:20 -0700, Jon Radel wrote: On 11/4/10 10:13 PM, justin v wrote: I installed 4GB or memory today. I rebooted and see this, the first line after the splash menu thing: 983040K of memory above 4GB ignored dmesg shows avail mem a

Re: version of slapd?

2010-11-05 Thread perryh
Tim Dunphy wrote: > I will put /usr/local/libexec/ on my path when I get a chance ... This is not necessarily a good idea. Usually things are installed into libexec instead of into bin to keep them _out of_ the path. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: Vimium on Chromium on FreeBSD

2010-11-05 Thread Chad Perrin
On Thu, Nov 04, 2010 at 08:32:11PM -0400, Chris Brennan wrote: > On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 8:21 PM, Chad Perrin wrote: > > So are there plans to get 7x into ports? I would love to go back to Chrome > as a browser ... I find Firefox so clunky now! :D Well . . . I have no idea what plans there are fo