Re: Random driver for insanely old hardware

2008-02-11 Thread User Ota
On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 09:07:14PM -0700, Warren Block wrote: On Mon, 11 Feb 2008, User Ota wrote: I have a question, just out of totally pure curiosity about one particular piece of hardware. Today I was browsin around Value Village (big giant thrift department store in Canada) here

Random driver for insanely old hardware

2008-02-11 Thread User Ota
I have a question, just out of totally pure curiosity about one particular piece of hardware. Today I was browsin around Value Village (big giant thrift department store in Canada) here in Sudbury, and I came across A GCC Technologies UltraDrive 50R, SCSI based and external -- from 1990. Now

Re: Random driver for insanely old hardware

2008-02-11 Thread User Ota
On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 09:10:13PM -0500, Robert Huff wrote: User Ota writes: Today I was browsin around Value Village (big giant thrift department store in Canada) here in Sudbury, and I came across A GCC Technologies UltraDrive 50R, SCSI based and external -- from 1990

Re: 7.0 RC2

2008-02-09 Thread User Ota
On Sat, Feb 09, 2008 at 08:13:27PM -0600, Chris wrote: I see that the ISO is there! Not updated on the site yet! :P Wonder what's new in this RC release, gonna test it in vmware and maybe qemu :D ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Three wishes of a wannabe developer

2008-02-09 Thread User Ota
On Sat, Feb 09, 2008 at 09:12:40PM -0700, cpghost wrote: On Sat, Feb 09, 2008 at 11:01:53AM -0500, John Almberg wrote: I'd suggest looking into a real object oriented language, rather than a systems programming language like C, or a glue language like Perl. I personally think Smalltalk is

Re: freenx server

2007-12-22 Thread User Ota
On Fri, Dec 21, 2007 at 10:41:59AM -0600, Jack Barnett wrote: Anyone get the freeNX server working from nomachine? When I try to build it from /usr/ports/net/freenx it says it is broken under xorg 7.2 I've upgrade to xorg 7.3.x and modified the make file and it builds everything but

Re: xclients and remote display (WAS: Re: freenx server)

2007-12-22 Thread User Ota
On Sat, Dec 22, 2007 at 03:40:48AM -0600, Jack Barnett wrote: Thanks, yea, but I don't think he's maintaining it any longer? In ports it's version 1.4.x, but nomachine.com has latest version has 3.5.x My friend emailed nomachine.com and he said they refused to support any of

Re: cvsup not getting 'everything' with standard-supfile?

2007-12-19 Thread User Ota
On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 03:43:21PM -0700, Steve Franks wrote: I see folks talking about building snd_hda on 6.2, but when I cvsup, /usr/src/sys/modules/sound/driver/hda doesn't exist. I'm using an unmodified (except for the url) standard-supfile, which has src-all in big letters uncommented

Re: common filesystem for Linux and FreeBSD

2007-12-18 Thread User Ota
On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 03:17:00AM -0700, Chad Perrin wrote: On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 11:06:15AM +0530, Girish Venkatachalam wrote: I generally shy away from any multiboot situation since I have few machines with me. Even then I too have to multiboot once in a while. I prefer to avoid