Re: multicore processors gain

2011-01-08 Thread Mihai Popescu B.S.
Well, Thank you for on topic answers. I've seen the -pthread parameters on some ports' compile, but I thought is an alias for process. I will read about them. Damn, am I the only one who gets mad when receiving a link to wikipedia ? It looks like a sindrome on internet. I'm confused about

Re: multicore processors gain

2011-01-07 Thread Mihai Popescu B.S.
Hi folks, I will reformulate the question. Sorry for this, but it sleeps off topic. So, I'm interested about Intel Core 2 Duo family and i3, i5, i7 families. I don't know what SMP is about. I remember UNIX has no threads, just processes spawn by fork(). Having this in mind, will a processor

multicore processors gain

2011-01-06 Thread Mihai Popescu B.S.
Hello, I got the idea from FAQ that OpenBSD is not using more than one core from multicore processors. Pretending I got it right, what's the benefit to buy an Intel Core 2 Duo ? Just the bigger cache and some extra instructions? Is there a difference in how OpenBSD handles let's say a multicore

symbol ( - - - - ) size mismatch, relink your program

2010-12-11 Thread Mihai Popescu B.S.
Hello, I did a snapshot install and I got many warnings like this one. What could be this warning, is it about mismatch on .so files ? Thanks.

Re: symbol ( - - - - ) size mismatch, relink your program

2010-12-11 Thread Mihai Popescu B.S.
Sorry folks, I was to quick in posting. Here are the details: I've installed from what is (was) today on snapshots on ftp server. Then I used the same ftp snapshot mirror for packages. That's all, no CVS, no compile, just plain install from what is (was) on snapshots - base packages. This was

OpenBSD release

2010-10-03 Thread Mihai Popescu B.S.
Off topic, was he looking for 4.8 release: http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=532_1285949897

Re: undeadly article

2010-08-19 Thread Mihai Popescu B.S.
Hello, Here is my last post to this thread. No time to argue out of the subject. My point is it is safer not to hurt yourself, in this case is safer to avoid unnecessary conflicts and treatments on the airport. Why ? The worst thing it can happen in this situation is well, you are held

Re: undeadly article

2010-08-18 Thread Mihai Popescu B.S.
Hello, My post was not intended as a direct hit for the article. I told my opinion to misc@ because undeadly ask for subscription, no more anonymous coward post. Am I wrong ? I target airport behaviour with my comment. I use the airport for 6 flight until now, no problem at all with security

undeadly article

2010-08-16 Thread Mihai Popescu B.S.
Hello, I have read the undeadly.org article about how to play with airport security. I don't know who is the guy acting like this on an airport, but my brain triggered something I read in the past, about a well known guy from open source who was throw out from an airplane by the security team.

panic: pool_do_get(mcl2k) on -current

2010-05-23 Thread Mihai Popescu B.S.
Hello, It's the first time on getting panic: on openbsd. I have an old computer without display in a not so accessible place. Many times I got not ping response after some usage, and no keyboard feedback so I suspected a panic. This was with -current before 4.7 version modification ( the files

openbsd web hosting

2010-05-10 Thread Mihai Popescu B.S.
Hello, I need some infos about web hosting companies that offer openbsd based web hosting, please. The other requests are apache, php, postgresql and maybe mysql, decent monthly fee ( 5 - 10 euro /month). I got some google hits, but I trust some suggestions made here. Thanks

router not responding state investigation

2010-02-10 Thread Mihai Popescu B.S.
Hello, I'm running an early snapshot on a router. Things are fine until I start transmission torrent clinet on a host behind the router. After some time of download, the transmission client stops all the traffic. When I try to check the router with ping, I got no response. Ctrl+Alt+Del is setup

Re: diff on running an application from xterm or graphical menu ?

2009-12-13 Thread Mihai Popescu B.S.
On 12/12/09, Remco re...@d-compu.dyndns.org wrote: Mihai Popescu B.S. wrote: Hello all, I've run in some problem with gnome-mplayer. Basicaly, there is a difference in functioning if I run this application from xterm or graphical menu ( i use fbpanel menu). From xterm it works fine

diff on running an application from xterm or graphical menu ?

2009-12-09 Thread Mihai Popescu B.S.
Hello all, I've run in some problem with gnome-mplayer. Basicaly, there is a difference in functioning if I run this application from xterm or graphical menu ( i use fbpanel menu). From xterm it works fine, it plays the movie. From graphical menu, it doesn't. It reports a Bad file descriptor.

SHA256 still used or not ?

2009-11-21 Thread Mihai Popescu B.S.
Hello, I'm installing -current from snapshots, from time to time. I use to download the .iso file then burn it and check the files on cdrom against SHA256 file downloaded together with .iso. Since some time, the x*.tgz are reported as FAILED in this check. I send another email to the list, I got

Re: SHA256 still used or not ?

2009-11-21 Thread Mihai Popescu B.S.
On 11/21/09, Theo de Raadt dera...@cvs.openbsd.org wrote: I'm installing -current from snapshots, from time to time. I use to download the .iso file then burn it and check the files on cdrom against SHA256 file downloaded together with .iso. Since some time, the x*.tgz are reported as FAILED

Re: SHA256 still used or not ?

2009-11-21 Thread Mihai Popescu B.S.
On 11/21/09, Philip Guenther guent...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 1:07 AM, Mihai Popescu B.S. mihai...@gmail.com wrote: ... Since some time, the x*.tgz are reported as FAILED in this check. I send another email to the list, I got one answer but I'm not able yet to get the idea

SHA256 check for snapshots fails

2009-11-07 Thread Mihai Popescu B.S.
Hello, I have downloaded the 4-Nov-2009 snapshot from ftp.openbsd.org. Running the `cksum -a sha256 -c SHA256` against .iso file I got the OK result. After CD burning I run again the command agains files on the CD - all the x*.tgz checksums are reported as FAILED. I thought it's the damn burner

Re: SHA256 check for snapshots fails

2009-11-07 Thread Mihai Popescu B.S.
base and x may be built at different times. if that happens you might get the failure on the x* checksums. just the way it is atm. - Robert Hmm, I got the feeling that SHA256 will hold the checksums for the existent files in that directory, plus the fact that files are used to generate the

SATA hardisk appearing offline

2009-07-12 Thread Mihai Popescu B.S.
Hello, I have a DELL Precision 370 workstation and BIOS allows me to select the SATA behaviour mode: it can be AHCI mode or emulate the good old known ATA mode. The hardisk I'm using is a SATA 300 model ( aka SATA II ). I was using it in ATA mode for some time, but I tried the AHCI at each

firefox+greasemonkey+hqtube error

2009-06-13 Thread Mihai Popescu B.S.
Hello, I installed on a snapshot the hqtube and greasemonkey like it was explained on an undeadly article. For a few minutes everything worked fine, then i got this error after a while and the sound is dead: 'greasemonkey chromewin.firebug is undefined.' Did anyone succed to install this

snapshot package error: pixman-1.12.0 dependency not found

2009-06-09 Thread Mihai Popescu B.S.
Hello, I'm trying to install OpenBSD 4.5 i386 from snapshots and this is the third snapshot which gives me this error when trying to install mozilla-firefox package. [...] Can't install cairo-1.8.6p1: lib not found pixman-1.12.0 [...] pixman-1.12.0: partial match in /usr/X11R6/lib: major=15,

Re: snapshot package error: pixman-1.12.0 dependency not found

2009-06-09 Thread Mihai Popescu B.S.
. Drop this issue, I got the idea. The base was providing a newer version of pixman than the package was linked against, it's the other way around what I thought. So I should wait for another _package_ set snapshot, not base. Thanks and excuse me for the noise.

failed packaged install from snapshots

2009-06-07 Thread Mihai Popescu B.S.
Hello, I got the install45.iso from snapshots/i386/, the files data is 6-June, except for X* based packages wich are listed from 5-June. The packages are listed from 6-June, all of them. I tried to install mozilla-firefox, but at some point I got this error and installation stopped: [...] Can't

Re: European orders

2009-04-19 Thread Mihai Popescu B.S.
OK then, can someone explain from the start to the end how this was set up ? Please include prices and discounts. I'm still confused about the method and reading again the thread is not helpful. Thanks On 4/18/09, Theo de Raadt dera...@cvs.openbsd.org wrote: I was comming late to the show since

the power of one

2009-02-27 Thread Mihai Popescu B.S.
Hi, I don't want to be a smart ass, but I was a little bit confused about some answers on undeadly.org message post by me. Basicaly, I was saying that even 1 euro matters for the donations. I was thinking that thousands of OpenBSD users donating at least 1 euro will bring thousands of euro for

(bit)torrent openbsd client

2009-01-28 Thread Mihai Popescu B.S.
Hello, Could you make some suggestion for a good openbsd (bit)torrent client with or without GUI ? I know some names, but I want to have some user experience presented. Thanks.

laptop choice

2008-12-23 Thread Mihai Popescu B.S.
Hello, I will open another well known topic for misc list: laptop acquisition. I did some research on the list's emails but I'm not fully satisfied. I want to buy a laptop (second hand is my first choice). I want some strong point on it, reliability - I want to use it for a long time (excluding

Re: laptop choice

2008-12-23 Thread Mihai Popescu B.S.
Thank you for your answers. I was amazed that IBM is having the top place - my only experience with IBM was using an expensive server which decided to blow up the electrolytic capacitors from the motherboard after one year. Since my concern is reliability I will stay with IBM T series then which

Re: incorrect MD5 file on mirror

2008-11-03 Thread Mihai Popescu B.S.
I used md5 -c MD5 to check. Could someone give me a hint with this checksum file, should I rely on it or not anymore ? Thanks

Re: incorrect MD5 file on mirror

2008-11-03 Thread Mihai Popescu B.S.
My mistake was not to include the files. The confusing thing was that _BOTH_ md5 files had the same size and the one from uni-erlangen.de was one day delay like it should be (aprox) . I include here the file content and maybe someone can pinpoint more accurately: MD5 - ftp.openbsd.org

incorrect MD5 file on mirror

2008-11-01 Thread Mihai Popescu B.S.
Hello, I got the install44.iso and MD5 from snapshots from openbsd.informatik.uni-erlangen.de and the MD5 file failed the test. I got the MD5 from ftp.openbsd.org and run it against the install44.iso from openbsd.informatik[...] and it reports OK. Comparing the two MD5 files, there are major

broken dependencies ?

2008-06-21 Thread Mihai Popescu B.S.
Hello all, Back in time I switched from -release to -current, but I'm installing from snapshots. I saw the announce about uvideo stuff and I am very interested about this that's why I installed the most recent snapshot for testing. The date of the snapshot is 19-June, I also proceeded to install

mplayer snapshot install

2008-05-04 Thread Mihai Popescu B.S.
Hello, Did anyone actually installed and tried to use mplayer on a snapshot install? I've installed OpenBSD 4.3 from snapshots and then mplayer package (of course, from snapshot pacakges.) When I run mplayer, i get this - mplayer: can't load library 'libjack.so.0.0' Already searched the web,

Re: mplayer snapshot install

2008-05-04 Thread Mihai Popescu B.S.
it as a dependency? On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 1:25 PM, Mihai Popescu B.S. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Did anyone actually installed and tried to use mplayer on a snapshot install? I've installed OpenBSD 4.3 from snapshots and then mplayer package (of course, from snapshot pacakges

the snapshots way

2008-05-02 Thread Mihai Popescu B.S.
Hello, Since the applications packages are not updated anymore for -release / -stable I decided to follow the snapshots. I know that this way is for experienced users and I'm not as good as a developer but I need to stay with this. The FAQ is not so rich in answers for this section. The other