Re: Curious/strange calendar entry

2018-08-12 Thread Paul Goyette
And, with help from agc@ and the archives at tuhs.org, we have: https://minnie.tuhs.org//pipermail/tuhs/2002-January/001581.html In article by Mark E. Mallett: Somebody pointed me at this URL: http://minnie.tuhs.org/pipermail/pups/2000-January/000152.html and others where the question of the

Re: Curious/strange calendar entry

2018-08-12 Thread roarde
On Mon, 13 Aug 2018 09:50:42 +0800 (+08) Paul Goyette wrote: > Got this entry today: > > 08/14 First Unix-based mallet created, 1954 > > > This is presumed to be some sort of unix "inside joke" but so far > no-one hasyet been able to explain it. And despite some diligent >

Curious/strange calendar entry

2018-08-12 Thread Paul Goyette
Got this entry today: 08/14 First Unix-based mallet created, 1954 This is presumed to be some sort of unix "inside joke" but so far no-one hasyet been able to explain it. And despite some diligent searching through archives, no-one has been able to determine its origin. Maybe some

Re: NetBSD reboots if hdmi monitor is switched off

2018-08-12 Thread maya
On Sun, Aug 12, 2018 at 03:34:13PM +0530, Mayuresh wrote: > On NetBSD asusnetbsd 8.0_RC1 NetBSD 8.0_RC1 (GENERIC.201804191727Z) amd64 > > If I switch off hdmi monitor by pressing power button on the monitor, I > find that netbsd reboots. > > There are files saved in /var/crash. I saw the

Re: Libreoffice after upgrade to NetBSD 8.0

2018-08-12 Thread Cág
Bruce Nagel wrote: > File attached for the output of that, thanks for the tip on using tee. > It appears to still be failing in much the same way. [...] Okay, I'm at loss now. Upgrade to pkgsrc-2018Q2 maybe? On CURRENT boost-jam builds and installs without errors, the same 1.67.0 as in 2018Q2.

Re: Some questions about NetBSD

2018-08-12 Thread maya
On Sun, Aug 12, 2018 at 10:15:10AM -0400, alec wrote: > Q3: What happens if a security vulnerability is found in the base > system? Do I really have to fetch things from CVS and recompile them? Or > is there some way to get updates? You can unpack new sets on top of old sets. There's daily builds

Re: NetBSD block vs raw disk I/O

2018-08-12 Thread Sad Clouds
On Sun, 12 Aug 2018 15:52:44 +0100 Sad Clouds wrote: > On Sat, 11 Aug 2018 18:09:15 +0200 > Martin Husemann wrote: > > > On Sat, Aug 11, 2018 at 04:02:44PM +0100, Sad Clouds wrote: > > > Hi, so you're saying that with ucb_direct read/write on mounted > > > file system should also speed things

Re: NetBSD block vs raw disk I/O

2018-08-12 Thread Sad Clouds
On Sat, 11 Aug 2018 18:09:15 +0200 Martin Husemann wrote: > On Sat, Aug 11, 2018 at 04:02:44PM +0100, Sad Clouds wrote: > > Hi, so you're saying that with ucb_direct read/write on mounted file > > system should also speed things up compared to NetBSD-8? I see > > terrible I/O performance with

Re: Some questions about NetBSD

2018-08-12 Thread Greg Troxel
Also, you asked about auto-resizing. If you write the image, and then mount it on a system before booting it on the RPI, you can look in /etc/rc.conf and /etc/rc.d and find the resize_root and resize_disklabel variables and scripts. You can turn these off before booting. I'm not sure why you

Re: Some questions about NetBSD

2018-08-12 Thread Greg Troxel
alec writes: > I recently saw news about the NetBSD 8.0 release, and I thought it might > work well for a personal project I've been planning to do, and I've been > wanting to try something new. I'm a longtime Linux user, but I never > used BSDs before. I had a spare Raspberry Pi, so I decided

Some questions about NetBSD

2018-08-12 Thread alec
Hello I recently saw news about the NetBSD 8.0 release, and I thought it might work well for a personal project I've been planning to do, and I've been wanting to try something new. I'm a longtime Linux user, but I never used BSDs before. I had a spare Raspberry Pi, so I decided to first throw

NetBSD reboots if hdmi monitor is switched off

2018-08-12 Thread Mayuresh
On NetBSD asusnetbsd 8.0_RC1 NetBSD 8.0_RC1 (GENERIC.201804191727Z) amd64 If I switch off hdmi monitor by pressing power button on the monitor, I find that netbsd reboots. There are files saved in /var/crash. I saw the instructions at https://wiki.netbsd.org/panic/. But I do not have a debug