Benchmarks FreeBSD 4.9./5.1 - contra - Linux kernel 2.4/2.6

2003-12-15 Thread Theo
http://bulk.fefe.de/scalability/index.html Imprvoments perhaps here: http://www.fsmlabs.com/products/rtcorebsd/ best regards Theo ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe

Benchmarking FreeBSD 5.1 against Linux-kernel 2.6 - tests here........

2003-12-24 Thread Theo
please read here: http://bulk.fefe.de/scalability/index.html ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

New benchmark-tests an wide more from FreeBSD 4.9 and Linux kernel 2.4-2.6....please foreward to the current systemdeveloppers.

2004-01-03 Thread Theo
Benchmarks of all BSD's and Linux http://bulk.fefe.de/scalability/index.html - Benchmark-tables only in german language Also a comparison with SCO-OpenUnix 8 http://www.wikiservice.at/dse/wiki.cg

Re: interesting past 4 hours...

2005-10-14 Thread Theo
On Thursday 13 October 2005 00:36, Gary Kline wrote: > Second question: as its default, firefox uses mplayer for > both real and windows audio streams. Why and can I chance at > least the Real Audio to use /usr/local/bin/realplay? I use an extension for firefox which let me c

FreeBSD licence and 'the advertisement clause'

2003-08-20 Thread Theo Markettos
I see that: ftp://ftp.cs.berkeley.edu/pub/4bsd/README.Impt.License.Change suggests the advertising clause may simply be deleted - but it's been 4 years since this was issued and the code is still contradictory. Thanks, Theo -- Theo Markettos [EMAIL PROTECTED] Liphook, Hampshire, UK

aac support

2005-03-19 Thread Theo de Raadt
re: http://osnews.com/comment.php?news_id=10032&offset=15&rows=28 See a posting from Scott Long of FreeBSD; --- Thanks for going to a public forum and saying I am full of crap. I really appreciate that. Boy, you sure do want to see all of our projects do well, don't you. Apparently you have ze

Re: aac support

2005-03-19 Thread Theo de Raadt
nto the openbsd-misc list, but anyways.... First, Theo is full of crap. I'll say that again: Theo is full of crap. I don't think that he's actually interested in making the AAC cards work. Instead, I think that he's interested in stirring controversy, petty bullying, and silly &#

Re: Adaptec AAC raid support

2005-03-19 Thread Theo de Raadt
> Theo de Raadt wrote: > >>While I understand what you want Theo lets not remove the support for > >>stuff that currently works. I just spent $349 on a Adaptec RAID card > >>for my home server and if the support is removed I will be very upset. > >>The d

Re: Adaptec AAC raid support

2005-03-19 Thread Theo de Raadt
lic posting sites and slag me, instead of calling you your buddy Doug and saying "Hey, these guys have a point, and you really ought to sell it to Adaptec management, since you are the guy who can make this change, as you already told Theo and others four months previously that you were the gu

Re: Adaptec AAC raid support

2005-03-19 Thread Theo de Raadt
> It's not a binary driver, it's a 2-clause BSD licensed driver that > contains full source. You said that the OpenBSD driver is unstable, > so I offered to help. That has nothing to do with binary apps. > Deleting it from the OpenBSD tree is always an option, of course. The driver is free, but

Re: Adaptec AAC raid support

2005-03-19 Thread Theo de Raadt
> It's not a binary driver, it's a 2-clause BSD licensed driver that > contains full source. You said that the OpenBSD driver is unstable, > so I offered to help. That has nothing to do with binary apps. From http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/pds.cgi?ports/sysutils/aaccli Sources for ports/s

Re: Adaptec AAC raid support

2005-03-19 Thread Theo de Raadt
> Sigh. Theo, there are lots of ways of interacting with other people: > if you go out of your way to antagonize somebody, the result is > generally not going to be positive. I think Scott is mature enough to > continue to help other BSD projects-- including OpenBSD-- regardless,

Re: Adaptec AAC raid support

2005-03-19 Thread Theo de Raadt
> I personally don't care about Adaptec anymore, but I do care about the > people there. If LSI or whoever else can provide better support, then > that's fine with me. I do however have quite a bit of experience in > knowing how things work at Adaptec and knowing what compromises can be > made.

Re: Adaptec AAC raid support

2005-03-19 Thread Theo de Raadt
> What part of the FreeBSD AAC driver is closed, emcumbered, or otherwise > non-free? The bits that do management. Therefore, the bits that let it do what RAID controllers are meant to do. Can you fully operate an aac(4) card -- 100% of it's abilities, on a FreeBSD machine, without using a bina

Re: Adaptec AAC raid support

2005-03-19 Thread Theo de Raadt
> I'll heartily agree that there is little reason for any company to > keep information like this closed. Yet you are not helping. > But going around making personal > attacks on company employees that don't give you the cookie you want > is pretty shitty too. Then I guess that Doug Richardson m

Re: Adaptec AAC raid support

2005-03-19 Thread Theo de Raadt
ng one fights for. Freedom is not something that just happens. Freedom is something that happens when someone puts their toes out there, with a stance, an attempt, a struggle. Freedom is not something that happens when Scott long makes apologies for Adaptec and slags Theo on public sites ... when

Re: Adaptec AAC raid support

2005-03-19 Thread Theo de Raadt
rays RIGHT > NOW. No, they don't meet the goals of open source, but they meet the > goals of getting the job done. If not having the source is a problem, > then that's your choice and you don't have to use it. But why deprive > people of a choice, like Theo wan

Re: Adaptec AAC raid support

2005-03-19 Thread Theo de Raadt
te time and resources > to fight the noble causes like Theo does, and I think that cooperation > and comprise are better in the long run than constant conflict. If > Theo or anyone else wants help on making the kernel driver better, > let me know. If they want to help Adaptec follow throu

Re: Adaptec AAC raid support

2005-03-19 Thread Theo de Raadt
t; > While I'm sure nobody's perfect...surely there are other vendors who > produce products which aren't so buggy in the first place, who fix > their bugs once they find them, and warn people what to look out for? > > Frankly, if Mr. Long is providing an accurate desc

Mail Delivery Subsystem: Returned mail: see transcript for details

2005-03-19 Thread Theo de Raadt
Adaptec, as a vendor, really cares about you. That is why their commercial contacts disable their email accounts when the shit hits the fan. That is Doug Richardson Title? Global Channel Marketing Manager The guy who said *HE* was the one responsible for changing views within Adaptec. Buggy h

Re: aac support

2005-03-19 Thread Theo de Raadt
> There has got to be a better way to work with the vendors in order to > get the support we need. It just seem to me that the "screw you guys, I > am going home" stuff just does not work. Well, there is. We do it all the time! We mail a vendor, and then we start a frank dialogue. I (or some

Adaptec

2005-03-20 Thread Theo de Raadt
Since the original Adaptec guy Doug has blocked his mail, here is the email address of the next person at Adaptec who is involved in this. He has also previously indicated that he would be involved in any decision to provide documentation on the aac RAID management interface. Marty Turner [EMAIL

Re: Adaptec

2005-03-20 Thread Theo de Raadt
about being able to have drivers for their hardware. Otherwise what you are asking for is simply ... that the developer's hands be tied. Flat out, you are wrong. This affects everyone. > > -Tomas Quintero > FreeBSD User > > > On Sun, 20 Mar 2005 15:10:29 -0700, Theo de

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2005-03-20 Thread Theo de Raadt
[EMAIL PROTECTED] is another person who can be talked to about this matter. He just sent me a long private mail, none of which really indicates that anything is really happening at Adaptec about our concerns. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing lis

Adaptec Information I have received

2005-03-20 Thread Theo de Raadt
I have received information from a few sources that indicates that Adaptec does not have documentation on their management interface in-house. They only have a source-code implimentation, for a variety of models. So that is perhaps why they are so slow. That does however speak rather badly. I h

Re: can't use subscript on split

2004-02-05 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 01:08:32PM +0200, Toomas Aas wrote: > Maybe there is something in the Perl code above that is immediately obvious to > anyone knowing Perl, but IANAP. Yeah, it's the issue that caused 2.63 to be released. perl 5.005 doesn't like that subscript trick. we fixed the issue a

problems creating tun1 tun2 etc devices

2003-02-15 Thread Theo Purmer (Tepucom)
how to make it so that tun interfaces are cloneable? thanks theo purmer To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message