Re: [Freedos-devel] EMM386 2.11 minor update, VDS fix

2006-07-20 Thread Alain M.
Hi everybody, we don't need to get so excited. A new guy that apparently was not used to this kind of list posted a few messages. I believe now that he understands better and can be forgiven. Don't we get so excited amongst ourselves... Michael Devore escreveu: > At 02:39 PM 7/20/2006 +0800, "

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.0 Testing distribution soon available

2006-07-20 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 20-Июл-2006 18:43 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andreas Bollhalder) wrote to [email protected]: >> Does this mean, that when you run some program, which shows clock (for >> example, Norton and Volcov Commander may show clock), then this clock is too >> fast? And how it fast - 1.5

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.0 Testing distribution soon available

2006-07-20 Thread Andreas Bollhalder
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 As I can tell from my experince, the factor depends a lot from the host speed and emulation / virtualisation software. I saw speed differences from about a bit faster ( > 1.0) up to 10 times. Most emulators / virtualizer are now close to 1 (as of QEMU

Re: [Freedos-devel] EMM386 2.11 minor update, VDS fix

2006-07-20 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 20-Июл-2006 12:36 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Japheth) wrote to [email protected]: >> Strange. I was think, that "bugzilla", "private email" or "post in >> group" is only ways to transfer reports to author and have nothing with >> "distance between me and program". J> Bugzilla i

Re: [Freedos-devel] Attitude of coding.

2006-07-20 Thread Jim Hall
All: Please don't make any further replies to this thread on the list. This is nothing but a troll. Earlier, I had given Johnson a warning off-list to stop his trolling, but he chose to ignore that warning. I have removed him from the list. -jh -- I'm sorry my president's an idiot. I didn't

[Freedos-devel] Attitude of coding.

2006-07-20 Thread Johnson Lam
On Thu, 20 Jul 2006 14:37:07 +0200, you wrote: Tom, I'm no enemy of you, or someone. But someone really think I'm the enemy of his, I can't control their mind. He don't talk to me polite, why should I have to? >Wow. 'I'm not allowed to tell the details...' seems to suggest that's >it's some ing

Re: [Freedos-devel] EMM386 2.11 minor update, VDS fix

2006-07-20 Thread Japheth
> btw: it looks to me as if japeth wrote a tiny program to produce the > bug; it's always helpful for maintainers if they get this > program/source/description how to reproduce, > so the time to reproduce the bug (and thereby time > spend on the problem) is significant reduced, and often motivation

Re: [Freedos-devel] EMM386 2.11 minor update, VDS fix

2006-07-20 Thread tom ehlert
>>Seems FD-HIMEM can't do a MERGE with others free blocks, even the >>MS-HIMEM did the job well. My friend told me how but sorry I'm not >>allow to tell details, Wow. 'I'm not allowed to tell the details...' seems to suggest that's it's some ingenious (patent pending) technology art. In fact it's m

Re: [Freedos-devel] EMM386 2.11 minor update, VDS fix

2006-07-20 Thread Jim Hall
Arkady V.Belousov wrote: > Hi! > > 20-Июл-2006 12:09 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Japheth) wrote to > [email protected]: > > >>> Do you think, that "distance" allows/mean more rude behavior?! :) :( >>> > J> No, it means using Bugzilla for bug reports - if anything at all. :)

Re: [Freedos-devel] EMM386 2.11 minor update, VDS fix

2006-07-20 Thread Michael Devore
At 05:50 PM 7/20/2006 +0800, Johnson Lam wrote: >On Thu, 20 Jul 2006 03:52:02 -0500, you wrote: > > >>XMS free blocks fragmentation ... they should not exist (now is 21 > >>century!). I hope he found the time to fix it. > > > >Fragmentation always exists, and if you were a programmer you would know

Re: [Freedos-devel] EMM386 2.11 minor update, VDS fix

2006-07-20 Thread Japheth
> Strange. I was think, that "bugzilla", "private email" or "post in > group" is only ways to transfer reports to author and have nothing with > "distance between me and program". Bugzilla is more complicated and you have to login - several - times. That makes you think twice before you inde

Re: [Freedos-devel] EMM386 2.11 minor update, VDS fix

2006-07-20 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 20-Июл-2006 12:09 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Japheth) wrote to [email protected]: >> Do you think, that "distance" allows/mean more rude behavior?! :) :( J> No, it means using Bugzilla for bug reports - if anything at all. :) Strange. I was think, that "bugzilla", "privat

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.0 Testing distribution soon available

2006-07-20 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 19-Июл-2006 17:49 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andreas Bollhalder) wrote to [email protected]: AB> for two days and I had to read about 70 mail... I personally use QEMU AB> and VMware Server for testing purposes and timers often run too fast. I AB> remember that I saw this effect in B

Re: [Freedos-devel] EMM386 2.11 minor update, VDS fix

2006-07-20 Thread Japheth
> Do you think, that "distance" allows/mean more rude behavior?! :) :( No, it means using Bugzilla for bug reports - if anything at all. :) - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Te

Re: [Freedos-devel] EMM386 2.11 minor update, VDS fix

2006-07-20 Thread Johnson Lam
On Thu, 20 Jul 2006 03:52:02 -0500, you wrote: >>XMS free blocks fragmentation ... they should not exist (now is 21 >>century!). I hope he found the time to fix it. > >Fragmentation always exists, and if you were a programmer you would know Fragmentation always exist for XMS manager, not user.

Re: [Freedos-devel] EMM386 2.11 minor update, VDS fix

2006-07-20 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 20-Июл-2006 14:39 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Johnson Lam) wrote to [email protected]: JL> XMS free blocks fragmentation ... they should not exist (now is 21 JL> century!). Dynamic memory fragmentation was and will exist in any century. This is unavoidable behavior. Issue is on

Re: [Freedos-devel] EMM386 2.11 minor update, VDS fix

2006-07-20 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 20-Июл-2006 08:15 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Japheth) wrote to [email protected]: >> Be polite never late! J> You're right. But to be safe I will maintain a tiny security distance between J> me and everything FD-related in the future. Do you think, that "distance" allows/

Re: [Freedos-devel] EMM386 2.11 minor update, VDS fix

2006-07-20 Thread Michael Devore
At 02:39 PM 7/20/2006 +0800, "someone" wrote: >On Wed, 19 Jul 2006 06:32:11 +0200, you wrote: > > >> I never seen similar reports before, so Michael, > >> probably, unaware about this behavior and thus have no chance to fix > it. :) > >Yes, let's assume this. :) > >XMS free blocks fragmentation ..