Re: Wasting our Freedom

2007-09-16 Thread Can E. Acar
Daniel Hazelton wrote: > On Sunday 16 September 2007 23:00:09 Can E. Acar wrote: [snip] >> Theo summarized the latest situation here, some days ago: >> >> http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=118963284332223&w=2 >> >> and here is a very brief summary: >> >> http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=1189

Re: sudo & wheel group

2007-09-16 Thread Clint Pachl
Matthew Szudzik wrote: The fact that you need to provide normal users with these kind of privileges indicates a possible flaw in your overall scheme. You may find that, after careful reconsideration, there are precious few commands that you would actually have to allow the users to run with su

Re: Bug in the wireless wpi driver ?

2007-09-16 Thread Damien Bergamini
| # ifconfig wpi0 down | # ifconfig wpi0 nwid NAME up | wpi0: timeout waiting for thermal sensors calibration | wpi0: fatal firmware error This means that your radio switch is off. Damien

Re: sudo & wheel group

2007-09-16 Thread Antoine Jacoutot
On Sun, 16 Sep 2007, Matthew Szudzik wrote: Does anyone currently use the operator group for anything, or is it just a I do, for backups. -- Antoine

Re: Wasting our Freedom

2007-09-16 Thread Daniel Hazelton
On Sunday 16 September 2007 23:00:09 Can E. Acar wrote: > Daniel Hazelton wrote: > > On Sunday 16 September 2007 14:48:47 Can E. Acar wrote: > > [snip] > > >> First, these developers got questionable advice from senior Linux kernel > >> developers, and SLFC (which is closely related to FSF) in the

Re: modifying mfs configuration

2007-09-16 Thread Philip Guenther
On 9/16/07, Juan Miscaro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi. I am running OBSD 4.0 with a memory filesystem. My fstab file > contains: > > swap /var/mini/tmp mfs rw,nodev,noexec,nosuid,-s=75 0 0 ... > I would like to regain some RAM by reducing the size (to 50). > > I figure I will stop the

Re: SMP Support?

2007-09-16 Thread Daniel Ouellet
Paul Taulborg wrote: I went through every option in the BIOS, and there is nothing at all related to ACPI. :( Your BIOS is version 35, and there is a very long list of BIOS upgrades from Intel. The latest one for this board, if I am not mistaken is 44 and you have 35. > bios0: vendor Intel

Tulsa, OK 182 units for Sale

2007-09-16 Thread Aaron Hargrove
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modifying mfs configuration

2007-09-16 Thread Juan Miscaro
Hi. I am running OBSD 4.0 with a memory filesystem. My fstab file contains: swap /var/mini/tmp mfs rw,nodev,noexec,nosuid,-s=75 0 0 and my mount command shows: mfs:9659 on /var/mini/tmp type mfs (asynchronous, local, nodev, noexec, nosuid, size=75 512-blocks) I would like to regain so

Re: Wasting our Freedom

2007-09-16 Thread Jeff Garzik
Can E. Acar wrote: Furthermore, since it is compatible with the binary HAL from Atheros, the interface is fixed and the same both in Linux and *BSD. Hardly. It is software; the interface most definitely can and will change. Jeff

Re: Wasting our Freedom

2007-09-16 Thread Can E. Acar
Daniel Hazelton wrote: > On Sunday 16 September 2007 14:48:47 Can E. Acar wrote: [snip] >> >> First, these developers got questionable advice from senior Linux kernel >> developers, and SLFC (which is closely related to FSF) in the process. > > IIRC, the advice was "Yes, it is legal to choose to f

Re: sudo & wheel group

2007-09-16 Thread Matthew Szudzik
> The fact that you need to provide normal users with these kind of > privileges indicates a possible flaw in your overall scheme. You may > find that, after careful reconsideration, there are precious few > commands that you would actually have to allow the users to run with > superuser privil

Re: Thank You OpenBSD

2007-09-16 Thread Lawrence Teo
Sean Darby wrote: Question: Is it true there was a developer's comment line in the Linux kernel that said, "Does this belong here?" http://lxr.linux.no/source/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/common.c#L677 -- Lawrence Teo Calyptix Security http://www.calyptix.com/

Re: Bug in the wireless wpi driver ?

2007-09-16 Thread Darren Spruell
On 9/16/07, Catalin Stoian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I did a fresh install of OpenBSD-CURRENT on my new laptop, an Acer > Aspire 5610 that comes with an Intel 3945 wireless adapter. But it > seems I can't use the adapter with OpenBSD.Following the wpi manpage, > I installed the wpi-firmware-2.14

Re: Nvidia drivers

2007-09-16 Thread Sam Fourman Jr.
On 9/16/07, Cyrus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I researched this time, and nothing. > Does anyone know of a port of the Nvidia driver so I can finally run my dual > screen setup I had with Slackware? > If no, anyway to run dual monitor? Im using a NVIDIA 6800 XT > Cyrus > > Well if you are ref

suggestions for good video card

2007-09-16 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
Hello, I'm transitioning my systems from Debian to OpenBSd. For my older boxes, this is just fine as Xorg comes with great drivers for the video on them. However, my year-old amd64 will need some verifying before I wipe out debian and put on OBSD. Its an AMD Athlon64 3800+ with 1 GB ram, with

Nvidia drivers

2007-09-16 Thread Cyrus
I researched this time, and nothing. Does anyone know of a port of the Nvidia driver so I can finally run my dual screen setup I had with Slackware? If no, anyway to run dual monitor? Im using a NVIDIA 6800 XT Cyrus

Re: SMP Support?

2007-09-16 Thread Daniel Ouellet
Paul, If you want to try the AMD64 mp kernel with the patch I point out to you on tech of a few days ago and see if that help you or not, I can make the kernel I built that night for you to download and try if you trust it. I would say to built your own, but if you want to do a quick test and

Re: SMP Support?

2007-09-16 Thread Daniel Ouellet
Paul Taulborg wrote: Kind of bummer, as I will be losing 64 bit support by use i386. This is an Intel Xeon, which should be compatible with the amd64 branch. To answer your question, I guess it depend on the version of your processor. http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=117112049507303&w=2 I t

Re: SMP Support?

2007-09-16 Thread Paul Taulborg
i386 GENERIC works, and boots up normally. i386 SMP (bsd.mp) hangs at the line below (and additional lines in my other message). I have to hard power the machine down at this hang (i386 SMP kernel). This same exact thing occurs with both 4.1 and current (just downloaded the current today).

Re: Wasting our Freedom

2007-09-16 Thread david
On Sun, 16 Sep 2007, Jacob Meuser wrote: On Sun, Sep 16, 2007 at 05:12:08PM -0400, Theodore Tso wrote: reimplement them. Why don't you go and try asking NetApp for sources to WAFL, and claim that they have "moral" duty to give the code back, and see how quickly you get laughed out of the offi

Re: SMP Support?

2007-09-16 Thread Daniel Ouellet
Paul Taulborg wrote: Update: I ran boot -c with verbose on, and here are the last entries: various probing failed messages (doesn't look like any problems), then: ioapic0: conflicting map entries for pin 0 pctr: 686-class user-level performance counters enabled mtrr: Pentium Pro MTRR Support -

Re: Wasting our Freedom

2007-09-16 Thread Jeff Garzik
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: you claim that it's unethical for the linux community to use the code, but brag about NetApp useing the code. what makes NetApp ok and Linux evil? many people honestly don't understand the logic behind this. please explain it. There are two highly relevant angles to

Re: SMP Support?

2007-09-16 Thread Daniel Ouellet
Paul Taulborg wrote: Kind of bummer, as I will be losing 64 bit support by use i386. This is an Intel Xeon, which should be compatible with the amd64 branch. I am not expert to say yes or no here. May be someone else will confirm or deny. For now I would assume wrongly may be, but I wouldn't u

Re: SMP Support?

2007-09-16 Thread Paul Taulborg
Update: I ran boot -c with verbose on, and here are the last entries: various probing failed messages (doesn't look like any problems), then: ioapic0: conflicting map entries for pin 0 pctr: 686-class user-level performance counters enabled mtrr: Pentium Pro MTRR Support -- no further messages

Re: SMP Support?

2007-09-16 Thread Paul Taulborg
Hi Daniel, Kind of bummer, as I will be losing 64 bit support by use i386. This is an Intel Xeon, which should be compatible with the amd64 branch. In any case; when attempting to run the i386 bsd.mp it hangs here: mtrr: Pentium Pro MTRR support It's a hard freeze-up, the keyboard will not re

Re: sudo & wheel group

2007-09-16 Thread Tobias Weingartner
Ted Unangst wrote: > > cp /bin/sh /usr/local/bin/xsh > chmod u+s /usr/local/bin/xsh > > then only tell the trusted users about xsh, > and you can avoid sudo altogether. Ohhh... EEEVVVILLL... :) -- [100~Plax]sb16i0A2172656B63616820636420726568746F6E61207473754A[dZ1!=b]salax

Re: Wasting our Freedom

2007-09-16 Thread Jacob Meuser
On Sun, Sep 16, 2007 at 05:12:08PM -0400, Theodore Tso wrote: > reimplement them. Why don't you go and try asking NetApp for sources > to WAFL, and claim that they have "moral" duty to give the code back, > and see how quickly you get laughed out of the office? which is _exactly_ what you guys a

Re: [Possibly OT] 16-bit Assembly Programming

2007-09-16 Thread Tobias Weingartner
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Aaron Hsu wrote: > > I am attempting to create an assembly program (for a class) on > OpenBSD. The teacher has no issue with me developing the code based > on the UNIX-based assembly (int 0x80 syscalls vs. int 0x21 Dos > Function), but he does not want me to use

Re: SMP Support?

2007-09-16 Thread Daniel Ouellet
Paul Taulborg wrote: I appologize for not including this, here is the dmesg of a successful boot of the amd 4.2 DEFAULT kernel: Paul, Not sure all the tests you did, but first do not run AMD64 on Intel processor. I would do this first thing if you haven't done already. - Go into BIOS and di

Re: SMP Support?

2007-09-16 Thread Paul Taulborg
I appologize for not including this, here is the dmesg of a successful boot of the amd 4.2 DEFAULT kernel: OpenBSD 4.2-current (GENERIC) #1191: Thu Sep 13 14:19:37 MDT 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC real mem = 2142949376 (2043MB) avail mem = 2069811200 (1973MB

Re: Wasting our Freedom

2007-09-16 Thread Theodore Tso
On Sun, Sep 16, 2007 at 02:17:53AM -0700, J.C. Roberts wrote: > Look at what you are saying from a different perspective. Let's say > someone took the linux kernel source from the official repository, > removed the GPL license and dedicated the work to public domain or put > it under any other l

Re: Wasting our Freedom

2007-09-16 Thread Theodore Tso
On Sun, Sep 16, 2007 at 10:39:26PM +0200, Hannah Schroeter wrote: > >The most questionable legal advice in this thread was by Theo de Raadt > >who claimed choosing one licence for _dual-licenced_ code was illegal... > > JFTR, I do *not* think that that assessment was questionable. Unless the > du

Bug in the wireless wpi driver ?

2007-09-16 Thread Catalin Stoian
I did a fresh install of OpenBSD-CURRENT on my new laptop, an Acer Aspire 5610 that comes with an Intel 3945 wireless adapter. But it seems I can't use the adapter with OpenBSD.Following the wpi manpage, I installed the wpi-firmware-2.14.1.5.tgz file with pkg_add, and it seemed to install fine. #

Re: Wasting our Freedom

2007-09-16 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Sun, Sep 16, 2007 at 10:39:26PM +0200, Hannah Schroeter wrote: > Hi! > > On Sun, Sep 16, 2007 at 09:59:09PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > >On Sun, Sep 16, 2007 at 11:48:47AM -0700, Can E. Acar wrote: > >>... > >> First, these developers got questionable advice from senior Linux kernel > >> develo

Re: Perl segfault on >3.7

2007-09-16 Thread mickey
On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 08:10:35PM -0300, Alejandro Lozanoff wrote: > Thanks for your explanation and quick response, however with > -Uusemymalloc it segfaults almost when it starts. At least it showed > that the problem comes from that way, probably the mymalloc is worse > than the OpenBSD one. :

Re: Wasting our Freedom

2007-09-16 Thread Daniel Hazelton
On Sunday 16 September 2007 16:39:26 Hannah Schroeter wrote: > Hi! > > On Sun, Sep 16, 2007 at 09:59:09PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > >On Sun, Sep 16, 2007 at 11:48:47AM -0700, Can E. Acar wrote: > >>... > >> First, these developers got questionable advice from senior Linux kernel > >> developers,

Re: Thank You OpenBSD

2007-09-16 Thread Jona Joachim
On Sun, 16 Sep 2007 14:14:29 +0200 Pierre Riteau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Le 16 sept. 07 ` 01:25, Sean Darby a icrit : > > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > Hello fellows from the OpenBSD community, > > > > I just wanted to stop and smell the roses. I occasionally pl

Re: Wasting our Freedom

2007-09-16 Thread Hannah Schroeter
Hi! On Sun, Sep 16, 2007 at 09:59:09PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: >On Sun, Sep 16, 2007 at 11:48:47AM -0700, Can E. Acar wrote: >>... >> First, these developers got questionable advice from senior Linux kernel >> developers, and SLFC (which is closely related to FSF) in the process. >The most ques

Re: Intel motherboards and ACPI

2007-09-16 Thread Michał Koc
Hello, Well, actually I've already tried this without any luck. The problem lies somewhere deeper, I was trying to get at least acpidump working, and what I found is, that RSD PTR looks fine, but under address pointed by rs->addr all I can find are zeroes. May be a problem with physical memory

Re: Wasting our Freedom

2007-09-16 Thread Daniel Hazelton
On Sunday 16 September 2007 14:48:47 Can E. Acar wrote: > On Sunday 16 September 2007 15:23:25 Daniel Hazelton wrote: > > On Sunday 16 September 2007 05:17:53 J.C. Roberts wrote: > >> On Sunday 16 September 2007, Jeff Garzik wrote: > >> > J.C. Roberts wrote: > >> > > http://marc.info/?l=linux-wirel

Re: Wasting our Freedom

2007-09-16 Thread Jeff Garzik
Daniel Hazelton wrote: If the OpenBSD developers want to attack the Linux Kernel community over patches that were *NEVER* *ACCEPTED* by said community, it should be just as fair for the Linux Kernel community to complain about those (unspecified) times where OpenBSD replaced the GPL on code wit

Re: Intel motherboards and ACPI

2007-09-16 Thread Didier Wiroth
Hello, I have an Asus P5WDG2 WS Professional (Intel 975X) motherboard, and I was not able to load bsd.mp as it hangs at some point in the boot process. I was able to work with the bsd.mp kernel with acpi enabled and by explicitly disabling apm! boot -c enable acpi disable apm quit Now it

Re: Wasting our Freedom

2007-09-16 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Sun, Sep 16, 2007 at 11:48:47AM -0700, Can E. Acar wrote: >... > First, these developers got questionable advice from senior Linux kernel > developers, and SLFC (which is closely related to FSF) in the process. The most questionable legal advice in this thread was by Theo de Raadt who claimed

Re: Wasting our Freedom

2007-09-16 Thread Jeff Garzik
Can E. Acar wrote: There have been complete silence from the leaders of their own community (Linux Kernel developers, FSF, ...) all perhaps used your Regarding "Linux Kernel developers," false. _I_ have posted. ath5k, wireless, and net driver maintainers have all sent emails. License and c

Re: Statement by SFLC (was Re: Wasting our Freedom)

2007-09-16 Thread bofh
I don't thinl this helps openbsd or anyone else. As Theo is already working with the individuals involved, and hasn't asked for help, I think rather than saying "I think you're going to suck", let's see what happens. Going ovewrboard isn't going to help anyone. On 9/16/07, J.C. Roberts <[EMAIL

Re: Wasting our Freedom

2007-09-16 Thread Can E. Acar
On Sunday 16 September 2007 15:23:25 Daniel Hazelton wrote: > On Sunday 16 September 2007 05:17:53 J.C. Roberts wrote: >> On Sunday 16 September 2007, Jeff Garzik wrote: >> > J.C. Roberts wrote: >> > > http://marc.info/?l=linux-wireless&m=118857712529898&w=2 >> > >> > Link with outdated info. >> >

Re: dmesg of i386 on Virtual Iron 4.0.5

2007-09-16 Thread Cabillot Julien
Hi, If it's based on Xen, you probably can change the type of network card in the configuration file to avoid the network problem. I have try each of them (pcnet, rtl8139(by default) and ne2kpci) on Xen dom0 and launch a iperf to test performance : vif = [ 'type=ioemu, bridge=xenbr1, model=pcnet'

Re: Statement by SFLC (was Re: Wasting our Freedom)

2007-09-16 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Sunday 16 September 2007, Eben Moglen wrote: > Also, and again for the last time, let me state that SFLC's > instructions from its clients are to establish all the facts > concerning the development of the current relevant code (which means > the painstaking reconstruction of several independent

SMP Support?

2007-09-16 Thread Paul Taulborg
Hello, I recently built a newer box that is running an Intel Xeon Quad Core X3210 processor. I cannot get the SMP kernels to work with this. I tried various things with the 4.1 branch, including i386 and amd64. The i386 branches hangs during boot, while the amd64 gets caught in an infinite loo

Re: Intel motherboards and ACPI

2007-09-16 Thread Michał Koc
Hi, yes, I've already googled for the issue and found this one, but it does not help. I think it is whole another problem. regards M.K. Chris Kuethe pisze: > http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=118975639013313&w=2 > > On 9/16/07, Micha3 Koc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hello everyone, >> >>

dmesg of i386 on Virtual Iron 4.0.5

2007-09-16 Thread Rolf Sommerhalder
Virtual Iron (VI) is a commercial virtualisation product based on Xen 3.1 dom0 which boots unmodified bsd.rd i386 and installs in a domU. As you can see from the dmesg below, it occasionally complains about timeouts on re0, and the virtual console gets cluttered in the later stages of the install.

Re: Intel motherboards and ACPI

2007-09-16 Thread Chris Kuethe
http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=118975639013313&w=2 On 9/16/07, Micha3 Koc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I have a bunch of machines based on Intel motherboards, most of them are > D945GCNL, > but unfortunately I'm not able to use SMP because of ACPI problems. > Beside the ker

Re: sudo & wheel group

2007-09-16 Thread Ted Unangst
On 9/16/07, Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So what's the "ideal" way to do things? Adding joeuser in the wheel > group and then add - joeuser ALL=(ALL) ALL in sudoers? And when the > joeuser account gets cracked, the cracker would be able to run > privileged commands? cp /bin/sh /usr/local/b

Re: sudo & wheel group

2007-09-16 Thread Aaron W. Hsu
Chris, Thanks for the message... Chris> So what's the "ideal" way to do things? Of course, the ``ideal'' way to do anything really depends on what you want to do. It would help if you could give us some more details about what you are trying to do on the grand scheme of things, so that we coul

Intel motherboards and ACPI

2007-09-16 Thread Michał Koc
Hello everyone, I have a bunch of machines based on Intel motherboards, most of them are D945GCNL, but unfortunately I'm not able to use SMP because of ACPI problems. Beside the kernel side problems, acpidump outputs a strange error: RSDT is corrupted. Can someone tell me if there is any chance

Re: Wasting our Freedom

2007-09-16 Thread David H. Lynch Jr.
J.C. Roberts wrote: You and the rest of the linux kernel devs need to realize there are a lot of angry people who are tired of being ignored by the powers that be in the GNU/FSF/GPL/SFLC. The claimed distinction between the linux kernel, the linux operating system, the various linux distros, the

Re: Statement by SFLC (was Re: Wasting our Freedom)

2007-09-16 Thread David H. Lynch Jr.
Constantine A. Murenin wrote: Most noticeably, I fail to see any credits to Reyk Floeter in the above press release. Moreover, back when the release was first posted at the above address, there was no credit even to the OpenBSD project, which I found simply outrageous! Only after I (and possibl

Re: Wasting our Freedom

2007-09-16 Thread Daniel Hazelton
On Sunday 16 September 2007 05:17:53 J.C. Roberts wrote: > On Sunday 16 September 2007, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > J.C. Roberts wrote: > > > http://marc.info/?l=linux-wireless&m=118857712529898&w=2 > > > > Link with outdated info. > > > > > http://madwifi.org/browser/branches/ath5k > > > > Link with ou

Re: A simple about the openbsd kernel

2007-09-16 Thread Nick Guenther
On 9/16/07, PowerMan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2007/9/16, PowerMan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > dear sir or madam, > >My first language is not English, please forgive me if I > > made some bad words or sentences. > >I am an embedded system engineer writing device drivers

Re: Statement by SFLC (was Re: Wasting our Freedom)

2007-09-16 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 16/09/2007, Marc Espie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Sep 16, 2007 at 09:17:41AM -0400, Eben Moglen wrote: > > We will make no more public statements until the work is complete, and > > we will be neither hurried nor intimidated by people who shout at us > > instead of helping. > > http://

Re: Statement by SFLC (was Re: Wasting our Freedom)

2007-09-16 Thread Lars Noodén
Thanks for the detailed response. There have also been some very articulate and fact-oriented responses here from the OpenBSD Misc list as well. I will repeat and elaborate on what I wrote in my first response which I gave the subject "Divide and conquer (was Re: Wasting our Freedom)" Although t

Re: sudo & wheel group

2007-09-16 Thread Darrin Chandler
On Sun, Sep 16, 2007 at 05:14:30PM +1000, Chris wrote: > So what's the "ideal" way to do things? Ok, here's the scoop... there is NO single best way. There are lots of ways to solve these kinds of problems, and "ideal" changes with what the problem is. This is why people keep asking you to explain

Re: Statement by SFLC (was Re: Wasting our Freedom)

2007-09-16 Thread Marc Espie
On Sun, Sep 16, 2007 at 09:17:41AM -0400, Eben Moglen wrote: > We will make no more public statements until the work is complete, and > we will be neither hurried nor intimidated by people who shout at us > instead of helping. http://www.softwarefreedom.org/news/2007/jul/31/openhal/ As I said in

Re: Wasting our Freedom

2007-09-16 Thread Peter Philipp
Am 16.09.2007 um 12:05 schrieb J.C. Roberts: Can I ask a question here? You're getting worked up over nothing. Open Source doesn't work without Open Hardware. The level of the software is approaching a good level to use for Open Hardware, IMO. While it's your time to relax the hardware ha

Statement by SFLC (was Re: Wasting our Freedom)

2007-09-16 Thread Eben Moglen
On Sunday, 16 September 2007, J.C. Roberts wrote: Let's say someone took the linux kernel source from the official repository, removed the GPL license and dedicated the work to public domain or put it under any other license, and for kicks back-dated the files so they are older than

Re: Thank You OpenBSD

2007-09-16 Thread Pierre Riteau
Le 16 sept. 07 ` 01:25, Sean Darby a icrit : -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello fellows from the OpenBSD community, I just wanted to stop and smell the roses. I occasionally play around with other systems, of the Unix variety and, for the sake of seeing things through the look

Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words

2007-09-16 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 06:34:03PM -0700, J.C. Roberts wrote: > As ironic as it may seem, with today being the long anticipated release > of the very first working decompiler, the world of open source drivers > is going to get very interesting in the near future. In a few hours, > possibly days,

Re: Thank You OpenBSD

2007-09-16 Thread Andrés
On 9/16/07, Martin Reindl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Andris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Question: Is it true there was a developer's comment line in the Linux > > > kernel that said, "Does this belong here?" > > > > Don't know that. But I do see this: > > ftp -Vo - > http://www.openbsd.o

Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words

2007-09-16 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 07:34:36PM -0400, William Boshuck wrote: > The evidence indicates that Rui is not, in fact, a human > being, but the latest (and possibly the most impressive > to date) application of the Dada Engine. I can mail you some biological evidence, if you want ;) *giggle* Rui -

Re: Wasting our Freedom

2007-09-16 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Sunday 16 September 2007, Kyle Moffett wrote: > Secondly, what the HELL is with you guys and the personal > attacks?!?!? You said I am "hopelessly misinformed, or a habitual > liar"??? You are right and I apologize. I've received plenty of personal attacks from your group, and failed to

Re: Wasting our Freedom

2007-09-16 Thread Jeff Garzik
That's the wonderful thing about open development: our mistakes, and the corrections made to fix mistakes, are out in the open for all to see. And we wouldn't have it any other way. Jeff

Re: Thank You OpenBSD

2007-09-16 Thread Martin Reindl
"Andris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Question: Is it true there was a developer's comment line in the Linux > > kernel that said, "Does this belong here?" > > Don't know that. But I do see this: > ftp -Vo - http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/~checkout~/src/sys/arch/mac68k/mac68k/m achdep.c?r

Re: Wasting our Freedom

2007-09-16 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Sunday 16 September 2007, Jeff Garzik wrote: > J.C. Roberts wrote: > > http://marc.info/?l=linux-wireless&m=118857712529898&w=2 > > Link with outdated info. > > > http://madwifi.org/browser/branches/ath5k > > Link with outdated info. > > > I suggest actually taking the time to get the facts befo

Re: Wasting our Freedom

2007-09-16 Thread Rene Herman
On 09/16/2007 10:12 AM, Jeff Garzik wrote: So let's everybody calm down, ok? Or rather, can everybody please just shitcan those perverted dipshits you are replying to and get on with it? These people are here for one reason only and that's to cause a stir -- however righteous they may feel a

Re: Wasting our Freedom

2007-09-16 Thread Kyle Moffett
There's no need to CC all those FSF people on this as I'm sure they're plenty busy with other things, have lots of people to dispel FUD for them, and certainly don't need the excess email in their inboxes. On Sep 16, 2007, at 03:52:43, J.C. Roberts wrote: On Sunday 16 September 2007, Kyle

Re: sudo & wheel group

2007-09-16 Thread Rob
On 9/16/07, Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So what's the "ideal" way to do things? Adding joeuser in the wheel > group and then add - joeuser ALL=(ALL) ALL in sudoers? And when the > joeuser account gets cracked, the cracker would be able to run > privileged commands? That defies the whole p

Re: Wasting our Freedom

2007-09-16 Thread Jeff Garzik
J.C. Roberts wrote: http://marc.info/?l=linux-wireless&m=118857712529898&w=2 Link with outdated info. http://madwifi.org/browser/branches/ath5k Link with outdated info. I suggest actually taking the time to get the facts before making completely baseless statements. When you make obviou

Re: Wasting our Freedom

2007-09-16 Thread Rob
I do happen to agree with one of Jason Dixon's original arguments: this and the related discussions on this list are an utter waste of time and resources. (Of course, this means I'm going to contribute to the waste a little more.) Theo made his arguments. There have been some conversations between

Re: sudo & wheel group

2007-09-16 Thread Lars Noodén
Chris wrote: > ... > user server = NOPASSWD: /sbin/mount, /usr/libexec/locate.updatedb I might suggest using groups rather than individual users in sudoers. On the small scale both are about the same, but using groups scales better (both time and quantity). So the above could be for the group ej

Re: Wasting our Freedom

2007-09-16 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Sunday 16 September 2007, Kyle Moffett wrote: > On Sep 15, 2007, at 06:33:18, J.C. Roberts wrote: > > Would Linus put up a fight if someone took his source tree and > > relicensed the whole thing as GPLv3 without his permission? Yep, > > you betcha he'd fight and he has already had to put up

Re: sudo & wheel group

2007-09-16 Thread Alexander Hall
Chris wrote: On 9/16/07, Aaron W. Hsu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: What exactly are you trying to enable users to do? The fact that you need to provide normal users with these kind of privileges indicates a possible flaw in your overall scheme. You may find that, after careful reconsideration, the

Re: Wasting our Freedom

2007-09-16 Thread Kyle Moffett
On Sep 15, 2007, at 06:33:18, J.C. Roberts wrote: Would Linus put up a fight if someone took his source tree and relicensed the whole thing as GPLv3 without his permission? Yep, you betcha he'd fight and he has already had to put up with a lot of strong arm nonsense from the GPLv3/FSF zealot

Re: sudo & wheel group

2007-09-16 Thread Chris
On 9/16/07, Aaron W. Hsu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What exactly are you trying to enable users to do? The fact that you need to > provide normal users with these kind of privileges indicates a possible flaw > in your overall scheme. You may find that, after careful reconsideration, > there are p