Re: gcc and variable length arrays

2006-10-10 Thread Sam Chill
On 10/10/06, Joe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: By the way, if anyone has any pointers (no pun intended) for a CS newbie, any help and recommendations are always appeciated. I like the OpenBSD development community and hope to contribute some code and patches in the future. Read the source tree. No

Re: Version 4.0 release

2006-10-10 Thread Sam Chill
On 10/10/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would think that there would be some sense of urgency to get the new rthreads implementation up-an-running (at least for the i386 and AMD64 platforms) otherwise OpenBSD will become less and less viable as a general purpose server

Re: anyone have any nmea(4) stories?

2006-10-07 Thread Sam Chill
On 10/7/06, Henning Brauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: inserts USB GPS device uplcom0 at uhub1 port 4 uplcom0: Prolific Technology PL2303 Serial, rev 1.10/2.02, addr 4 ucom0 at uplcom0 # nmeaattach cuaU0 # sysctl hw.sensors.30 hw.sensors.30=nmea0, GPS, 0.77 secs, OK, Fri Oct 6 21:23:53.453

Re: anyone have any nmea(4) stories?

2006-10-07 Thread Sam Chill
On 10/7/06, Chris Kuethe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: usb gps receivers don't usually have any sort of PPS signal which is what this code depends on. CK As I understand it, ntpd uses a timedelta sensor to make adjustments to the clock. If nmeaattach properly creates a timedelta sensor (and it does

Re: FTP Account Lockout

2006-10-06 Thread Sam Chill
On 10/6/06, stuartv [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello list, Hi! snip However, now that we need this cert, one of the few things still standing in the way is the requirement that we set up the FTP server to lockout (for 30min.) any account that fails to login 3 times in a row. I haven't been able

Re: anyone have any nmea(4) stories?

2006-10-06 Thread Sam Chill
On 10/6/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone set up a GPS to serve as a ntp source yet? Care to share any insights gained? Thanks. j inserts USB GPS device uplcom0 at uhub1 port 4 uplcom0: Prolific Technology PL2303 Serial, rev 1.10/2.02, addr 4 ucom0 at uplcom0 #

Re: rthreads

2006-09-22 Thread Sam Chill
On 9/22/06, Anton Maksimenkov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: May I ask about what is the current state of rthreads library? It was cool to hear about this excellent project, but I found nothing in tech@ and misc@ since old time... My $0.02. I don't know the offical status of the project, but I have

Re: qcad and qt3

2006-09-07 Thread Sam Chill
On 9/7/06, Karel Kulhavy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello I tried to install qcad2 and I wonder how to actually install that qt3 which is in the requirements. But I can't find anything that would look like generic qt3 in the packages. There are: qt3-examples-3.5.tgz qt3-html-3.5.tgz

Re: Website(s) being blocked by CARP/PF firewall

2006-09-07 Thread Sam Chill
On 9/7/06, Chris Cameron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have two 3.8 firewalls in a CARP setup, and through this firewall I'm unable to get to ticketmaster.ca or .com. They both have different IPs. On the master CARP firewall, with tcpdump on the external interface: It might be useful if you post

Re: sk driver

2006-09-05 Thread Sam Chill
On 9/5/06, Brian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I thought the issue with the watchdog timing out was fixed. I was seeding a torrent file this morning, so when I came home and turned it off, I received these errors: sk0: watchdog timeout sk0: cannot stop transfer of Tx descriptors I am running a

Re: sysctl modifications during install?

2006-08-27 Thread Sam Chill
On 8/27/06, Ingo Schwarze [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: During the install, before downloading the sets, he can escape to a shell (there is even a prompt Do you want to do any manual network configuration? at one point), get the binary via ftp into the ramdisk, run it (if the install kernel does

Re: Intel Core2 Duo E6400 BOXDP965LTCK

2006-08-26 Thread Sam Chill
On 8/26/06, Jack Woehr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My interpretation from searches of the mailing lists is that this is not explicitly supported and that average users who have tried the latest Intel Core Duo CPU mb's have not been successful. (True, he asks?) I'm afraid I don't have many details,

net.inet.recvspace/spendspace defaults (was Re:sysctl modifications during install)

2006-08-26 Thread Sam Chill
On 8/24/06, Scott Radvan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been installing 4.0- beta snapshots via FTP on a few machines (i386 and amd64) and after installation, one of the sysctl modifications I always make is increasing net.inet.tcp.recvspace so I can make full use of my 9Mbit ADSL2+ line.

Re: ksh vs bash

2006-08-26 Thread Sam Chill
On 8/27/06, Default User [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just know I'm going to regret asking this, but . . . why does OpenBSD have ksh as the default shell, rather than bash? ksh is free while bash is GNU licensed. If it is possible to use free (bsd, public domain, etc) software it is preferable.

Re: SMS from OpenBSD

2006-08-21 Thread Sam Chill
On 8/18/06, Tomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi list, I was wondering is there any way to send SMS messages from OpenBSD OS? May be there is any program to do such task? Many cell phone providers provide an email address that sends a SMS to phone. Verizon Wireless, here in the U.S., for example

Re: system lock-up - RTFM?

2006-06-06 Thread Sam Chill
On 6/6/06, Ian Watts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Other than swapping out various bits of hardware, which would involve buying new bits, are there any other man pages or useful documents that might help me figure out what the problem is? There is a very handy program called memtest86 which can

Re: Recommended window manager for OpenBSD

2006-05-30 Thread Sam Chill
On 5/30/06, akonsu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hello has anyone tried evilwm (http://www.6809.org.uk/evilwm/)? is it any good? Try it yourself. Its one of the smallest wms I have ever used. It doesn't do much, but it does all it claims well. I've used it in the past when I just wanted a bunch of

Re: Using cursor keys with VIM...

2006-05-17 Thread Sam Chill
the file vimrc_example.vim to ../vimrc (/usr/local/share/vim/vimrc) and edit it as I see fit. It provides some sane defaults and makes vim very usable for me. The other option would be to copy it to ~/.vimrc. Thanks very much! You're welcome! Ken Morley Sam Chill

Re: hw.sensors question

2006-05-14 Thread Sam Chill
On 5/14/06, Tor Houghton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: List, This may sound daft, but the man pages don't appear to mention it. I have a box that sometime gives me a warning about fan RPM failure (or rather, the RPM is low, so sensorsd logs that it is outside the limits). Thing is, sysctl doesn't

Re: Can't install vim from ports

2006-05-11 Thread Sam Chill
On 5/9/06, Bachman Kharazmi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's recommended to use packages as long as you don't need any extra options from what I can recall from FAQ. man pkg_add then sudo pkg_add ftp://ftp.su.se/pub/OpenBSD/3.9/packages/i386/vim-6.4.6p1-no_x11.tgz; note, it's 3.9 package and for

Re: Laptop recommendations

2006-05-11 Thread Sam Chill
On 5/11/06, Chris Cappuccio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pretty much any older dell that I try is very well supported, for what it's worth. I have noticed the same thing. I have a Dell Latitude c600 which goes for only a few hundred on ebay and works very well. Everything works but the winmodem.

Re: kde: kio accessing files in /etc

2006-05-07 Thread Sam Chill
On 5/7/06, dave feustel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK I didn't get it the first time. What was the answer? On 5/7/06, Darrin Chandler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Window managers such as KDE or Gnome try hard to be all things to all people. They (and their applets/panel apps/whatever) get their

Re: clueless bluetooth quesiton

2006-05-04 Thread Sam Chill
On 5/4/06, Javier Solsrzano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Question is, how do I get access to the serial port on the dongle? From what I see, there are only human interface devices? Bluetooth is not currently supported by OpenBSD. You will probably need to figure out some other ticky way of making