Re: OpenSSH HPN

2015-11-11 Thread Jason Birch
On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 6:59 PM, John-Mark Gurney wrote: > If you have a trusted network, why not just use nc? Perhaps more generally relevant is that ssh/scp are *waves hands* vaguely analogous to secure versions of rsh/rlogin/rcp. I'd think that most cases of "I wanted to send files and invoke

portversion doesn't seem to know what's out of date

2014-07-27 Thread Jason Birch
I built FreeBSD for my Beaglebone Black a couple of weeks ago, and went to do an update just then. After updating /usr/ports, I ran `portversion | grep \<` to see a list of what could be updated. Knowing that this takes a bit longer and needing to run out the door, I also type `portupgrade -aF` aft

Re: 2013 MacBook Air Project

2013-09-02 Thread Jason Birch
On Mon, Sep 2, 2013 at 4:16 AM, Adrian Chadd wrote: > did you contribute this stuff back up to the linux driver? > I did not; I was simply following a few how-tos on a colleague's machine to help her get a stable network connection. We never did fully crack that nut; I quickly realised how far o

Re: 2013 MacBook Air Project

2013-08-31 Thread Jason Birch
> Yup. I hope I get some positive responses from Broadcom. I really don't > want to port the Linux driver(s), it's just plain silly. > I've noticed a hell of a lot of problems with the B4331 rev2 under Linux on several distributions, which have been resolved for me by splicing apart the _Windows_

Re: BSD sleep

2013-05-29 Thread Jason Birch
> Seriously, that explanation about different hours is not enough to prevent > at least useful option. > like > sleep -f 1h > (-f means force convert, without it you can see good explanation why sleep > for 1 hour will be not sleep for 1 hour, and etc, and not get sleep at > all.). > Do one thing,