Re: your mail

2014-01-25 Thread Shawn K. Quinn
On Sat, Jan 25, 2014, at 08:53 AM, Marc Espie wrote: > I agree with "so-called" having negative connotations. > > I think both those instances are using it intentionally, namely there > are nasty surprises in some MBR blocks that are not covered by > the so-called MBR standard. There's an actual

Re: your mail

2014-01-25 Thread Ted Unangst
On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 15:53, Marc Espie wrote: > On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 08:08:29PM -0500, Ted Unangst wrote: >> I generally associate negative connotations with so-called, as in >> the "so-called free world". I wouldn't use it just to name something, >> as in "the kernel is written in the so-cal

Re: em(4): Don't count RX overruns and missed packets as input errros

2014-01-25 Thread Brad Smith
On 31/12/13 5:50 AM, Mike Belopuhov wrote: On 31 December 2013 09:46, Brad Smith wrote: On 31/12/13 3:14 AM, Mark Kettenis wrote: Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2013 01:28:04 -0500 From: Brad Smith Don't count RX overruns and missed packets as inputs errors. They're expected to increment when using MCLG

Re: help needed from someone with an sk(4)

2014-01-25 Thread David Higgs
On Jan 25, 2014, at 12:48 AM, David Higgs wrote: On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 4:24 AM, Henning Brauer wrote: * Henning Brauer [2014-01-24 05:50]: i need this tested on an sk(4). I don't have that hardware at all. this gets rif od a slight little bit more. Resurrected an old box, kernel compile

Re: your mail

2014-01-25 Thread Marc Espie
On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 08:08:29PM -0500, Ted Unangst wrote: > I generally associate negative connotations with so-called, as in > the "so-called free world". I wouldn't use it just to name something, > as in "the kernel is written in the so-called C language". so-called > implies "it's called this

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2014-01-25 Thread Ted Unangst
I generally associate negative connotations with so-called, as in the "so-called free world". I wouldn't use it just to name something, as in "the kernel is written in the so-called C language". so-called implies "it's called this, but it's not". Two imo dubious occurrences in the install notes. I

Re: pkg_add tests

2014-01-25 Thread Marc Espie
On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 11:15:21PM -0600, Shawn K. Quinn wrote: > On Fri, Jan 24, 2014, at 06:50 AM, Marc Espie wrote: > > You should realize that the pkg tools have gone thru *major internal > > changes* > > over the last month or so. > > > > If you see weird things happening, now is a really goo