Re: power button suspends netbook instead of shutdown

2009-12-10 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 04:23:20AM +0100, Robert said that Closing the lid on a running notebook is a bad idea, because a lot of heat will be capture under the closed screen that would be otherwise transfered through the keyboard. yes, that is true. but, 1) my notebook so far didn't

Re: power button suspends netbook instead of shutdown

2009-12-10 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 04:23:20AM +0100, Robert said that Btw, to shutdown just type: 'sudo halt -p' that will even work with generic. i wish i could agree with this, but my netbook's proper shutdown and reboot ratio is more like 50%. (and that includes -stable as well) ctrl+alt+esc boot

power button suspends netbook instead of shutdown

2009-12-09 Thread frantisek holop
hi there, a couple of days ago, after seeing the cvs commit for initiating suspend upon closing the lid, i have asked to question how to revert this, as i fairly often close the lid but prefer no action taken. as my netbook dies a horrible death on wakeup (and possibly at suspend itself) the

Re: power button suspends netbook instead of shutdown

2009-12-09 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 01:30:07AM +0100, Robert said that dmesg of whatever openbsd version you are running atm might help. yes, sorry, i did not send it because i thought this might have been a more generic kind of a change not dependent on hw. OpenBSD 4.6-current (GENERIC) #447: Fri Dec

make acpi ignore closing the lid

2009-12-01 Thread frantisek holop
hello there, what is the proper way of telling openbsd i want no suspend action when i close the lid? -f -- small world, but i wouldn't want to paint it.

Re: tmux as an educational facilitator

2009-11-05 Thread frantisek holop
thanks everyone on/off-list for pointing out that screen can do this as well. it was not the point of my mail though. it was not a pissing contest what screen and tmux can/can't do. everyone can now stop sending screen -x, thank you. $ screen -x ksh: screen: not found -f -- if they can send a

Re: can't load library 'libXdmcp.so.10.0

2009-11-04 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Wed, Nov 04, 2009 at 07:43:33PM +0100, TomC!E! BodEC!r said that Hi all, I have full installation of i386 snapshot from 1.11.2009 (latest on mirrors) and I can't use X. When I try startx either as root or normal user I get : $ startx xauth: can't load library 'libXdmcp.so.10.0'

Re: PKG_PATH never works as stated

2009-10-26 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 02:56:49AM +, Jacob Meuser said that If a given package name cannot be found, the directories named by ^^^ PKG_PATH are searched. It should contain a series of entries separated by colons. Each entry consists of a

Re: PKG_PATH never works as stated

2009-10-26 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 01:05:26AM +, Jacob Meuser said that On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 08:41:44PM +0100, frantisek holop wrote: hmm, on Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 02:56:49AM +, Jacob Meuser said that If a given package name cannot be found, the directories named

Re: automating 'fsck -y' after a power failure

2009-10-04 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Fri, Oct 02, 2009 at 10:49:56PM +0200, Otto Moerbeek said that here's the thing: even though every single diagnostic message fsck may produce is documented in /usr/share/doc/smm/03.fsck_ffs i dont see how these questions help at all. what i mean is, there is nothing to compare the

Re: automating 'fsck -y' after a power failure

2009-10-02 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Fri, Oct 02, 2009 at 07:31:39PM +0200, Otto Moerbeek said that fsck -y after a power or other type of failure, in cases the automatic file system check fails? If that was a wisething to do, we would have already done so. In other words, it is not wise. It's foolish. as

Re: apachectl and/or /etc/rc

2009-09-27 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 01:58:49PM +1000, Damien Miller said that why not just fix mod_php? (or avoid it altogether) if you read about this on other lists where people brought it up, some argue that this is a feature, and so there is nothing to fix. perhaps this is something suhosin could

apachectl and/or /etc/rc

2009-09-26 Thread frantisek holop
hi there, given that apache is often re-started using apachectl and that apache/mod_php leaks environment variables and that mostly sudo is used in this process as well, i thought it would make good security sense to start httpd with env -i so that the admin's environment doing the restart is not

Re: Shutdown problem.

2009-09-26 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 03:11:32PM -0700, Buzzer said that /etc/rc.shutdown in progress... /etc/rc.shutdown complete. syncing disks... if you don't get the done part of syncing disks... than it's not the problem of shutdown and halt -p. the syncing is not finished. i get this

Re: procfs in OpenBSD

2009-09-25 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 10:26:48PM -0400, Ted Unangst said that 2009/9/22 Sergio Andris Gsmez del Real sergio.g.delr...@gmail.com: maybe a little reference would be great, cause very little or non literature is found about OpenBSD implementation... (or maybe I'm struggling searching).

Re: procfs in OpenBSD

2009-09-25 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 03:01:18PM +, Matthew Szudzik said that On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 04:34:20PM +0200, frantisek holop wrote: to remove unused bit rotting stuff. what's the deal with procfs? if it's use is far from recommended, indeed rather forbidden, why is it left to rot

Re: procfs in OpenBSD

2009-09-25 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 02:44:07PM -0600, Theo de Raadt said that The major reason for moving away from procfs is that there are numerous TOCTOU problems. out of curiousity, in principle, what is the difference between accessing a through /procfs and the same value through sysctl, and/or

funny (svn bug)

2009-09-25 Thread frantisek holop
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/09/25/svn-strikes-back-a-serious-vulnerability-found/ -f -- forecast for tonight: dark all night.

Re: eurobsdcon

2009-09-22 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 04:05:01PM +0200, Henning Brauer said that http://bulabula.org/papers/2009/eurobsdcon-faster_packets/ please, please, i'll order 2 cd's, just stop using comic sans ms. -f -- microsoft is suing apple 'cause they have employees too.

tmux neww syntax

2009-09-21 Thread frantisek holop
hi there, i am having difficulties understanding the syntax tmux new-windows command. if i read it correctly, this is the equivalent of screen's screen command. i am trying to do the screen equivalent of this: # - screen 0 vmstat 5

Re: tmux neww syntax

2009-09-21 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 06:36:17PM -0700, Aaron Stellman said that take a look at ./examples/n-marriott.conf in http://downloads.sourceforge.net/tmux/tmux-1.0.tar.gz thanks for the pointer. it seems that i am missing new-session before creating new-window's. .tmux.conf:

Re: OpenBSD on first gen Asus eeePCs

2009-09-19 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 03:38:06PM +0400, Alexander Polakov said that Try setting OS Installation in BIOS Setup to Finished. has been like that all the time. -f -- nothing is fool-proof to a sufficiently talented fool.

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-17 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 11:43:07AM +0200, Stephan A. Rickauer said that Our Institute moved away from Linux servers always everwhere, just *because* of updates are unreliable. Very often we did an apt-get update or an yum bla, reboot, machine dead or fucked up otherwise. everyone is

Re: OpenBSD on first gen Asus eeePCs

2009-09-17 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 04:20:09PM -0400, Brad Tilley said that drives so I lay them out manually, but other than that, everything works OK (except the built-in wireless). I'm considering an Acer does the built in usb emulated sd card reader works? i can read anything from it, but writing

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-16 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 02:14:27AM +, Jacob Meuser said that On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 02:09:32AM +0200, frantisek holop wrote: hmm, on Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 06:46:27PM +, Jacob Meuser said that so who's benchmarking install/upgrade time? lost time due to instability? lost

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-15 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 08:41:22AM +0200, Claudio Jeker said that Hah. That's why he did not update his site since 2003. Do you realy think that OpenBSD 3.4 and 4.6 are the same? nobody is arguing 3.4 and 4.6 is the same. or that that particular benchmark has any more than historic value..

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-15 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 01:41:01PM -0500, Marco Peereboom said that the devs are sitting around smug saying nothing until someone comes up with this theme again and then they send something like: i have a bgp machine forwarding 800MBit/s of real world generic internet

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-15 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 06:46:27PM +, Jacob Meuser said that so who's benchmarking install/upgrade time? lost time due to instability? lost time due to gratuitous API changes? lost time tuning setups? lost time searching on google instead of reading manuals? i am afraid my world

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-14 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 10:23:58PM +0200, Claudio Jeker said that like to prove. In the end many of fefe's test programs did not actually measure what he assumed they would. and he was open to get patches to remedy those problems. general dislike of any benchmark in the world is also part

adduser vs useradd (rmuser vs userdel)

2009-09-13 Thread frantisek holop
hi there, this question was always kind of in the back of my mind: why are there 2 sets of commands for adding and removing users? looking at the man pages their functionalities quite overlap and i am not really sure which one is the preferred, if any. the ports framework uses useradd/userdel if

Re: adduser vs useradd (rmuser vs userdel)

2009-09-13 Thread frantisek holop
one more thing, if there was such a notion of axing one of these (and probably offering patches for any functionality to cross over to the victor) would it be the C version to stay? -f -- you can give a man a fish, or you can teach him to fish.

Re: adduser vs useradd (rmuser vs userdel)

2009-09-13 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 12:50:23AM +0200, Robert said that adduser is something interactiv which makes is easy to do manually. useradd is what i use in my scripts with lots of options i only have to look up once to have them right in that case. Should one of them removed? No?! They

Re: adduser vs useradd (rmuser vs userdel)

2009-09-13 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 01:12:53AM +0200, Ingo Schwarze said that If you insist on breaking scripts for many users... the way i see it, adduser has no advantage in scripts at all. adduser/useradd is quite completely not-portable anyway... googling around a bit, it seems that historically,

Re: adduser vs useradd (rmuser vs userdel)

2009-09-13 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 01:42:44AM +0200, frantisek holop said that googling around a bit, it seems that historically, adduser is a vendor added convinience script to make useradd friendlier, whatever that means. but of course there are as many variations on this as there are unices

Re: Little update to authpf

2009-09-06 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Sun, Sep 06, 2009 at 11:15:36PM +0200, Rafal Bisingier said that + struct stat sb; + char *path_message; printf(\r\nHello %s. , luser); printf(You are authenticated from host \%s\\r\n, ipsrc); setproctitle(%...@%s,

interesting article about gpl and bsd license

2009-09-02 Thread frantisek holop
http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1390172 -f -- light doesn't emit energy; it emits little dark eaters

bgpd question

2009-08-31 Thread frantisek holop
hi there, i found this interesting article http://www.renesys.com/blog/2009/08/staring-into-the-gorge.shtml i am not a bgp user so i would be grateful if someone answered how openbsd's bgpd handles the described problem. thanks, -f -- so you think you can tell heaven from hell.

calendar typo?

2009-08-25 Thread frantisek holop
hi there, Aug 25 Constitution Day in Paragual shouldn't that be Paraguai? -f -- life is like... an analogy.

Re: weird thing hapenning during upgrade

2009-08-13 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 08:44:21AM +0200, Jan Stary said that On Aug 13 02:33:09, frantisek holop wrote: hi there, i welcome everyone reading this mail with the hollywood plot like subject line. here's what's happening, plain and simple: during the upgrade process, for some

Re: mount point busy, can't find process holding it [solved]

2009-08-12 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 09:53:57AM +0200, Jan Stary said that On Aug 12 02:59:38, frantisek holop wrote: hi there, it seems that i have found the sequence to reliably reproduce this problem. # mount /adata # cd /adata # vnconfig svnd0 install46.iso # mount /dev/svnd0c

weird thing hapenning during upgrade

2009-08-12 Thread frantisek holop
hi there, i welcome everyone reading this mail with the hollywood plot like subject line. here's what's happening, plain and simple: during the upgrade process, for some months now --- every couple of week i upgrade to -current --- the upgrade process stops/stalls always exactly at 77% of

systat making system under load stop responding

2009-08-12 Thread frantisek holop
hi there, under certain load (copying from one external disk to the other, pkg_add -ui, etc) starting systat in a new terminal makes the system stop responding. no core dump, no ddb, nothing. the screen freezes and the machine can be ony turned off. sorry that i can't get any more details but

Re: mount point busy, can't find process holding it [solved]

2009-08-11 Thread frantisek holop
hi there, it seems that i have found the sequence to reliably reproduce this problem. # mount /adata # cd /adata # vnconfig svnd0 install46.iso # mount /dev/svnd0c /mnt # umount /mnt # umount /adata umount: /adata: Device busy # vnconfig -u svnd0 # umount /adata why wasn't fstat showing this

/etc/pf.os typo

2009-08-06 Thread frantisek holop
hi there, # Windows TCP/IP stack is a mess. For most recent XP, 2000 and # even 98, the pathlevel, not the actual OS version, is more ^ -f -- bad is never good until worse happens.

Re: mount point busy, can't find process holding it

2009-07-30 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 12:20:51PM +0200, Jurjen Oskam said that On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 04:12:56PM +0200, frantisek holop wrote: hmm, on Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 09:56:29AM -0400, Dan Harnett said that On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 06:06:16AM +0200, frantisek holop wrote: amaaq$ sudo

Re: mount point busy, can't find process holding it

2009-07-29 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 12:58:42AM -0400, Brynet said that I've never had this problem before.. but according to the man page, you can forcefully remove the mount using.. your signature.. '-f'. If this fails, unplug the USB cable or power down the drive.. detaching it from the system.

Re: mount point busy, can't find process holding it

2009-07-29 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 09:56:29AM -0400, Dan Harnett said that On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 06:06:16AM +0200, frantisek holop wrote: amaaq$ sudo fstat /adata USER CMD PID FD MOUNTINUM MODE R/WSZ|DV NAME You should use the '-f' option to fstat

vmstat -i

2009-07-29 Thread frantisek holop
hi there, i meant to ask this for some time but i always forget. amaaq$ vmstat -i interrupt total rate irq0/clock 26305056 99 irq130/acpi0264720 irq82/azalia0 9429503 irq83/iwn0

bind 9.x DoS

2009-07-28 Thread frantisek holop
morning, https://www.isc.org/node/474 http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/725188 -f -- if its stupid and it works - its not stupid

mount point busy, can't find process holding it

2009-07-28 Thread frantisek holop
hi there, amaaq$ uname -a OpenBSD amaaq 4.6 GENERIC#29 i386 amaaq$ sudo fstat /adata USER CMD PID FD MOUNTINUM MODE R/WSZ|DV NAME amaaq$ sudo umount /adata/ umount: /adata: Device busy what are my other choices hunting down the process that makes the mount

Re: mount point busy, can't find process holding it

2009-07-28 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 02:18:56PM +1000, Aaron Mason said that Type pwd, make sure you're not in it. Do the same for any terminals you have accessing that machine. no, i am not there. i closed all the shells too. but that would show up in fstat anyway: amaaq$ cd /adata/ amaaq$ fstat

Re: EuroBSDCon 2009, Cambridge, UK

2009-07-15 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 08:21:16PM +0200, ropers said that Please don't require me to submit myself to facefuck in order to see it's not facefuck. it's fuckbook. -f -- so easy, a child can do it. child sold seperately.

Re: tmux vs screen questions

2009-07-15 Thread frantisek holop
hi there, replacing screen with tmux is going fabulously. the very last thing i can't seem to make to work is (from man screen) escape xy Set the command character to x and the character generat- ing a literal command character (by triggering the meta command) to

Re: tmux vs screen questions

2009-07-15 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 07:34:13PM -0400, Mike Erdely said that On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 12:46:44AM +0200, frantisek holop wrote: but i can't seem to be able to send a real ^x to the window. screen's escape command lets me set that if i press ^x x (control-x, followed by a single x

Re: tmux vs screen questions

2009-07-13 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 08:13:42AM +0200, Thomas Pfaff said that On Mon, 13 Jul 2009 05:38:33 +0200 frantisek holop min...@obiit.org wrote: hmm, on Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 09:57:48PM -0500, neal hogan said that On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 02:15:33AM +, Wayne M. Scace wrote

bastille day in calendar

2009-07-13 Thread frantisek holop
hi there, Jul 14 Storming of the Bastille by the citizens of Paris, 1789 Jul 14 Bastille Day is this needed twice? -f -- when childhood dies, its corpses are called adults.

Re: tmux vs screen questions

2009-07-13 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 01:58:52PM +0200, Thomas Pfaff said that Really? $ man tmux(1) ksh: syntax error: `(' unexpected i meant, the man page itself is only in current... so it might be better to send online references because of people not on -current... I know

Re: tmux vs screen questions

2009-07-13 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 10:59:00AM +0200, Alexander Hall said that Nicholas Marriott wrote: I see, thanks. I don't think a customisable message is necessary, ... as long as the default is not Wuff Wuff!! :-) hey! i heard that! :p Wuff! Wuff!! -f -- a true friend knows who

freebsd accf_smtp kernel level spamd?

2009-07-13 Thread frantisek holop
hi there, is this http://www.swinog.ch/meetings/swinog18/accf_smtp.pdf implementing spamd at the kernel level? -f -- there are no skeptics in hell.

tmux vs screen questions

2009-07-12 Thread frantisek holop
hi there, old habits die hard, but i wouldn't mind drowning screen(1).. so i am biting the bullet and trying to convert my spartan .screenrc to .tmux.conf, this mail being the result of that process, hopefully seen as constructive criticism... a cosmetic start, i personally think that

Re: tmux vs screen questions

2009-07-12 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 04:45:18PM -0500, Marco Peereboom said that bind '' choose-window you sure this works? i am still getting split-window... bind s split-window does it work without this? it's as if if the function is not reassigned to something else or unbound, then it overrides

Re: tmux vs screen questions

2009-07-12 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 12:09:08AM +0100, Nicholas Marriott said that However, you will be glad to hear that in -current, tmux no longer issues these commands (they are not necessary and interfere with alternate screens), but if i am using current :] What is copy mode missing?

Re: tmux vs screen questions

2009-07-12 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 09:57:48PM -0500, neal hogan said that On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 02:15:33AM +, Wayne M. Scace wrote: Hello, What exactly is tmux? man tmux(1) that'll work only on -current. hmm. man.cgi doesn't see it either in current. what's going on? -f

Re: tmux vs screen questions

2009-07-12 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 01:54:51AM +0100, Nicholas Marriott said that What is copy mode missing? nothing, i just put it on the list what is needed for tmux to dehtrone screen :] I don't understand. What is tmux copy mode missing? it is not missing anything. that was just a list

set require-order in pf.conf

2009-06-30 Thread frantisek holop
hi there, now that set require-order is disabled by default, is there a practical use for it? isn't it now a 'useless knob'? -f -- friends are people you can be quiet with.

spamlogd(8) man page

2009-06-30 Thread frantisek holop
hi there, i was wondering if it is a good idea to put actual hosts into man pages as examples as in: EXT_IF = fxp0 MAILHOSTS = {129.128.11.10, 129.128.11.43} pass in log on $EXT_IF inet proto tcp to $MAILHOSTS \ port smtp pass out

Re: set require-order in pf.conf

2009-06-30 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 08:08:45PM +0200, Henning Brauer said that * frantisek holop min...@obiit.org [2009-06-30 18:47]: now that set require-order is disabled by default, is there a practical use for it? isn't it now a 'useless knob'? it will be very much useless soon

transcript of installing or capturing a tty screen

2009-06-28 Thread frantisek holop
hi there, is there an easy way to make a complete and full transcript of an upgrade or install using bsd.rd without a serial console? might come handy for bug reports and also archiving the choices one made at install time. script(1) is only about 10k but i doubt it might make onto the install

pf timeout questions

2009-06-19 Thread frantisek holop
hi there, reading about the recent apache timeout DoS (ha.ckers.org/) i had look at the default pf timeouts. i have two questions. where does the number for tcp.established 86400s come from? what is the rationale behind a 24h timout for estabilished tcp connections? just curious, i

mounting a dmg file

2009-05-28 Thread frantisek holop
hi there, does anyone know how to mount a .dmg file on openbsd? $ file image.dmg image.dmg: Apple Partition data block size: 2048, first type: Apple_partition_map, name: Apple, number of blocks: 15, anybody tried anything of these? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Disk_Image#Non-Macintosh

[ot] debian switching to eglibc

2009-05-07 Thread frantisek holop
http://www.osnews.com/story/21441/Debian_Switching_to_EGLIBC i only send this because of the past clashes between Ulrich and the gang. -f ps. hint hint nudge nudge :] -- courage is fear that has said its prayers.

Re: [ot] debian switching to eglibc

2009-05-07 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Thu, May 07, 2009 at 03:13:53PM +0200, frantisek holop said that http://www.osnews.com/story/21441/Debian_Switching_to_EGLIBC http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4980 hillarious. good fun. who does this remind me? let's see... and as added bonus, thorsten is there, long

Re: Samsung HD License Issue

2009-05-04 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Mon, May 04, 2009 at 10:43:43AM +0800, David Schulz said that Hybrid Disk Drive products are licensed for use only on devices that deploy the Windows VISTA Operating System as their principal operating System. If you or any other party install(s) an operating system on the

Re: 4.5 - strange performance issue

2009-05-04 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Mon, May 04, 2009 at 12:24:20PM +0200, Otto Moerbeek said that Check top(1) without a runing X first. You might have problems with interrupts. If that's the case, top should show prettu high interrupt %'s. Espcially some nvidia chipsets have these problems. If you are suffering from

Re: rt.fm ftp server dumps core

2009-04-25 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 08:48:31AM -0600, Jeff Ross said that For a while now I've been getting segmentation faults when I try to download snapshots from rt.fm i had problems with rf.fm as well. dropping ftp connections in the middle of transfer and making cvs go wild. i was not sure

Re: Slow SATA write speeds with SMB

2009-04-20 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 09:30:58PM +1000, Kristian Rooke said that ahci0 at pci0 dev 14 function 0 NVIDIA MCP73 AHCI rev 0xa2: irq 11, AHCI MCP77 is also unsupported. but there was a patch floating about on tech@ regarding ahci. my notebook is quite unusable at the moment so i can't test

Re: Slow SATA write speeds with SMB

2009-04-20 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 01:33:25PM -0600, Bob Beck said that some of the devs really need to give up their thinkpads and start buying cheap msi or other stuff with amd and nvidia monstrosities :] Yeah... you're like... the guy who is sits outside the estwing factory hitting his

Re: Slow SATA write speeds with SMB

2009-04-20 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 02:48:15PM -0500, Marco Peereboom said that some of the devs really need to give up their thinkpads and start buying cheap msi or other stuff with amd and nvidia monstrosities :] Right, dealing with hardware that is unreliable on a daily basis is exactly what I

Re: Slow SATA write speeds with SMB

2009-04-20 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 05:19:05PM -0500, Tony Abernethy said that frantisek holop wrote: all hw is unrealible to some degree, ... and all degrees of unreliability are equivalent? Methinks some people like stuff that is LESS unreliable. Even going so far as to make an OS that is LESS

Re: beating the fdisk horse

2009-04-16 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 10:15:00PM -0600, Tobias Weingartner said that Frantisek Holop wrote: i am reading the fdisk source to have a better understanding what is what... it is not going really well i am afraid :] Please read up on hale landis' how it works series. It's

Re: AHCI License?

2009-04-16 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 01:21:05PM -0400, Ted Unangst said that On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 12:41 PM, J.C. Roberts list-...@designtools.org wrote: I was looking into AHCI stuff this morning and found something kinda disturbing, namely the fact Intel requires a license for AHCI. The real

beating the fdisk horse

2009-04-15 Thread frantisek holop
hi there, i am reading the fdisk source to have a better understanding what is what... it is not going really well i am afraid :] first of all, i had a long hard look at the basic programs that give information about disks in general: fdisk, disklabel, and atactl (obviously, only for ata disks)

usb and wireless mouse

2009-04-11 Thread frantisek holop
hi there, after removing my wireless mouse receiver from the usb port i was greeted with the following message: wsmouse1 detached ums0 detached uhidev0 detached uhid0 detached uhidev1 detached ehci0: port reset timeout ehci_freex: xfer=0xd1386700 not busy, 0x4f4e5155 uhub0: port 2 reset failed

Re: European orders

2009-04-01 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Wed, Apr 01, 2009 at 12:37:16PM +0200, Artur Grabowski said that It's his choice and none of your business. It's his reasons and none of your business. It's his choice and none of your business. It's his choice and none of your business. and a thousand more none of your business

Re: the fdisk man page and the fdisk behaviour

2009-04-01 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Wed, Apr 01, 2009 at 01:41:52PM +0200, Henning Brauer said that * Nick n...@holland-consulting.net [2009-04-01 03:52]: I think most the developers wouldn't mind seeing a smoother fdisk program... what is fdisk? oh I remember using it. fdisk -i sd1. why it can do anything else is

Re: the fdisk man page and the fdisk behaviour

2009-04-01 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Wed, Apr 01, 2009 at 06:54:44AM -0700, J.C. Roberts said that Though they could logically do it now, is there a *need* to do this, let alone available hardware? -You're really talking about a personal hacking project with a *very* serious cash requirement to buy the necessary

love me love me, fool me fool me

2009-04-01 Thread frantisek holop
hey there, so no 1st of april fools this year, hm? how about we start a big flamewar about something? oh wait... happy fools' day fools! :] -f -- plus puto, minus scio -- the more i learn, the less i know

Re: the fdisk man page and the fdisk behaviour

2009-03-31 Thread frantisek holop
first of all, thanks Nick for your time going through all of that. here is my answer. it is all quite i386 specific though. hmm, on Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 11:34:38PM -0400, Nick Holland said that I really don't want to ignore what you call an exotic geometry. A lot of people seem to think there

Re: OpenBSD mta with postfix

2009-03-31 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 02:46:13PM -0500, John Brooks said that I've just received this response from a large corporate email system regarding their claim that emails sent to them are not getting through even though our logs contain acknowledgements of accepting the mail sent. In our

Re: European orders

2009-03-31 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 07:48:54PM -0400, Ted Unangst said that On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 7:37 PM, Richard Ben Aleya richard.benal...@gmail.com wrote: We do not want to purchase CDs to pay the salary of an American guy who Bitch, please. Now I'm insulted. You think Theo's an American?

Re: OpenBSD mta with postfix

2009-03-31 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 02:35:15PM -0500, John Brooks said that that was the entire point of my original post, they strip out their queue id from their acknowledgment for security reasons, and then accept all mail including bogus recipients. I was curious if this practice is very

Re: interrupt count in the clouds on a new msi notebook

2009-03-31 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 08:32:18PM +0200, frantisek holop said that i will reboot this machine asap with ahci setting in the bios... that, unfortunately resulted in this: http://cvs.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-wrapper?full=yesnumbers=6118 lots of new hardware in this machine :] -f

Re: the fdisk man page and the fdisk behaviour

2009-03-31 Thread frantisek holop
hi there, i am just reading up on things, and here is a very nice explanation how and why some of the bioses chose their geometry. http://www.pcguide.com/ref/hdd/bios/modesECHS-c.html quite some russian rulette, innit :] it also kind of explains why when a certain disk capacity is surpassed,

Re: the fdisk man page and the fdisk behaviour

2009-03-31 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Wed, Apr 01, 2009 at 05:05:10AM +0200, frantisek holop said that i wonder what will happen when 65536/255/63 is reached, what kind of frankenstein translation table will come into life just to save c/h/s again. maybe there will come an LBA only age, i mean fdisk-wise, not disk-wise

Re: correct HELO behaviour in SMTP connections

2009-03-25 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 09:22:30AM -0500, L. V. Lammert said that On Wed, 25 Mar 2009, Jose Fragoso wrote: Hi, If a host is responsible for sending outgoing messages from multiple domains, should it always use the same HELO command (ie. the same hostname) or could it use a

Re: European orders

2009-03-25 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 03:41:04AM +0100, Floor Terra said that Why doesn''t Wim explain the situation here. Less work isn't it. ;) I don't know. And I don't want to get involved. I'm concerned about Theo, Wim, the project and anybody else who is involved and don't want to make this

Re: correct HELO behaviour in SMTP connections

2009-03-25 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 03:40:09PM +0100, Gilles Chehade said that Are you sure ? just because you demonstrated a smtp session with a questionably set up mail server it doesn't mean you are right. sendmail by default does not check helo. /etc/postfix/main.cf: smtpd_helo_required = yes

Re: correct HELO behaviour in SMTP connections

2009-03-25 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 09:16:53AM -0300, Jose Fragoso said that If a host is responsible for sending outgoing messages from multiple domains, should it always use the same HELO command (ie. the same hostname) or could it use a different HELO command when sending mail from different

Re: correct HELO behaviour in SMTP connections

2009-03-25 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 08:27:03AM -0700, Brian Keefer said that The amount of connections rejected by those settings will be pretty small as a percentage, and it's not even close to reliable sign of i forgot to add: YMMV. those postfix settings have for the current week rejected 69084

Re: European orders

2009-03-25 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 10:40:13AM -0500, Marco Peereboom said that Don't you think theo has the best interest of the project as his first priority? best interest: yes. best attitude and people skills: i am not so sure... all i am saying is that the other side still hasn't spoken up. i

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