Re: [Freedos-devel] EMM386 2.11 minor update, VDS fix

2006-07-20 Thread Japheth
Be polite never late! You're right. But to be safe I will maintain a tiny security distance between me and everything FD-related in the future. PS: Last 5 days news.openwatcom.org misbehaves for me. Is it my troubles or it broken itself? I've experienced the same troubles. It seems to

Re: [Freedos-devel] EMM386 2.11 minor update, VDS fix

2006-07-20 Thread Johnson Lam
On Wed, 19 Jul 2006 06:32:11 +0200, you wrote: I never seen similar reports before, so Michael, probably, unaware about this behavior and thus have no chance to fix it. :) Yes, let's assume this. :) XMS free blocks fragmentation ... they should not exist (now is 21 century!). I hope he found

Re: [Freedos-devel] EMM386 2.11 minor update, VDS fix

2006-07-20 Thread Michael Devore
At 02:39 PM 7/20/2006 +0800, someone wrote: On Wed, 19 Jul 2006 06:32:11 +0200, you wrote: I never seen similar reports before, so Michael, probably, unaware about this behavior and thus have no chance to fix it. :) Yes, let's assume this. :) XMS free blocks fragmentation ... they should

Re: [Freedos-devel] EMM386 2.11 minor update, VDS fix

2006-07-20 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 20-Июл-2006 08:15 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Japheth) wrote to freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net: Be polite never late! J You're right. But to be safe I will maintain a tiny security distance between J me and everything FD-related in the future. Do you think, that distance allows/mean

Re: [Freedos-devel] EMM386 2.11 minor update, VDS fix

2006-07-20 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 20-Июл-2006 14:39 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Johnson Lam) wrote to freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net: JL XMS free blocks fragmentation ... they should not exist (now is 21 JL century!). Dynamic memory fragmentation was and will exist in any century. This is unavoidable behavior. Issue is

Re: [Freedos-devel] EMM386 2.11 minor update, VDS fix

2006-07-20 Thread Japheth
Do you think, that distance allows/mean more rude behavior?! :) :( No, it means using Bugzilla for bug reports - if anything at all. :) - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.0 Testing distribution soon available

2006-07-20 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 19-Июл-2006 17:49 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andreas Bollhalder) wrote to freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net: AB for two days and I had to read about 70 mail... I personally use QEMU AB and VMware Server for testing purposes and timers often run too fast. I AB remember that I saw this effect in

Re: [Freedos-devel] EMM386 2.11 minor update, VDS fix

2006-07-20 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 20-Июл-2006 12:09 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Japheth) wrote to freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net: Do you think, that distance allows/mean more rude behavior?! :) :( J No, it means using Bugzilla for bug reports - if anything at all. :) Strange. I was think, that bugzilla, private email

Re: [Freedos-devel] EMM386 2.11 minor update, VDS fix

2006-07-20 Thread Japheth
Strange. I was think, that bugzilla, private email or post in group is only ways to transfer reports to author and have nothing with distance between me and program. Bugzilla is more complicated and you have to login - several - times. That makes you think twice before you indeed post

Re: [Freedos-devel] EMM386 2.11 minor update, VDS fix

2006-07-20 Thread Michael Devore
At 05:50 PM 7/20/2006 +0800, Johnson Lam wrote: On Thu, 20 Jul 2006 03:52:02 -0500, you wrote: XMS free blocks fragmentation ... they should not exist (now is 21 century!). I hope he found the time to fix it. Fragmentation always exists, and if you were a programmer you would know

Re: [Freedos-devel] EMM386 2.11 minor update, VDS fix

2006-07-20 Thread Jim Hall
Arkady V.Belousov wrote: Hi! 20-Июл-2006 12:09 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Japheth) wrote to freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net: Do you think, that distance allows/mean more rude behavior?! :) :( J No, it means using Bugzilla for bug reports - if anything at all. :) Strange.

Re: [Freedos-devel] EMM386 2.11 minor update, VDS fix

2006-07-20 Thread tom ehlert
Seems FD-HIMEM can't do a MERGE with others free blocks, even the MS-HIMEM did the job well. My friend told me how but sorry I'm not allow to tell details, Wow. 'I'm not allowed to tell the details...' seems to suggest that's it's some ingenious (patent pending) technology art. In fact it's maybe

Re: [Freedos-devel] EMM386 2.11 minor update, VDS fix

2006-07-20 Thread Japheth
btw: it looks to me as if japeth wrote a tiny program to produce the bug; it's always helpful for maintainers if they get this program/source/description how to reproduce, so the time to reproduce the bug (and thereby time spend on the problem) is significant reduced, and often motivation to

[Freedos-devel] Attitude of coding.

2006-07-20 Thread Johnson Lam
On Thu, 20 Jul 2006 14:37:07 +0200, you wrote: Tom, I'm no enemy of you, or someone. But someone really think I'm the enemy of his, I can't control their mind. He don't talk to me polite, why should I have to? Wow. 'I'm not allowed to tell the details...' seems to suggest that's it's some

Re: [Freedos-devel] Attitude of coding.

2006-07-20 Thread Jim Hall
All: Please don't make any further replies to this thread on the list. This is nothing but a troll. Earlier, I had given Johnson a warning off-list to stop his trolling, but he chose to ignore that warning. I have removed him from the list. -jh -- I'm sorry my president's an idiot. I

Re: [Freedos-devel] EMM386 2.11 minor update, VDS fix

2006-07-20 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 20-Июл-2006 12:36 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Japheth) wrote to freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net: Strange. I was think, that bugzilla, private email or post in group is only ways to transfer reports to author and have nothing with distance between me and program. J Bugzilla is more

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.0 Testing distribution soon available

2006-07-20 Thread Andreas Bollhalder
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 As I can tell from my experince, the factor depends a lot from the host speed and emulation / virtualisation software. I saw speed differences from about a bit faster ( 1.0) up to 10 times. Most emulators / virtualizer are now close to 1 (as of QEMU

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.0 Testing distribution soon available

2006-07-20 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 20-Июл-2006 18:43 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andreas Bollhalder) wrote to freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net: Does this mean, that when you run some program, which shows clock (for example, Norton and Volcov Commander may show clock), then this clock is too fast? And how it fast - 1.5