Re: Status of hardware encryption accelerators

2006-11-04 Thread shanejp
Bhima, Quoting Bhima Pandava [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Interesting. I had assumed that hardware accelerators kept more or less the same pace of improvement as general purpose CPUs. Can you point to any literature that shows that it doesn't? CPU's keep getting faster and crypto accelerators keep

Re: RMS vs TdR (WAS: Re: OLPC)

2006-10-11 Thread shanejp
Breen, Quoting Breen Ouellette [EMAIL PROTECTED]: PS - Jack, some friendly advice, you are only encouraging them each time you reply. They obviously don't care about why you find interest in this subject. They only want to find a way to link you to RMS and then trash you. I wasn't trying to

Re: Version 4.0 release

2006-10-09 Thread shanejp
Quoting Darrin Chandler [EMAIL PROTECTED]: The willingness to take in code submissions is almost surprising, really. Surely no person has any right to *gripe*! I'm really surprised by the attitude of some people. Generous person: Here, have a free car. Ungrateful person: Aww, it's RED! I

FYI SK(4) D-Link DGE-530T Rev B1 does not appear in dmesg.

2006-06-21 Thread shanejp
Hello list, Just an FYI on the B1 revision of the D-Link DGE-530T. I recently purchased another D-Link DGE-530T and noticed when I got it home that it is a Rev B1 card, unlike all my others which are Rev A1. The Rev B1 card is not shown in the dmesg and thus does not yet work. The chips on the

Re: Doubts about OpenBSD security.

2006-06-21 Thread shanejp
Quoting Jared Solomon [EMAIL PROTECTED]: That's why I always hardware hack my servers with a fragmentation grenade. And, for good measure, anti-personnel mines underneath the raised flooring. I prefer to have the doors automatically locked and then have the halon deployed. Much cleaner. ;

Re: FYI SK(4) D-Link DGE-530T Rev B1 does not appear in dmesg.

2006-06-21 Thread shanejp
Hello Nick, Quoting Nick Holland [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... The dmesg with the B1 card only lacks the three appropriate lines which appear for the Rev A1 card when it is inserted in the same PCI slot: IF that is true, your card wasn't inserted properly. I saved

Re: FYI SK(4) D-Link DGE-530T Rev B1 does not appear in dmesg. (SOLVED)

2006-06-21 Thread shanejp
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Quoting Nick Holland [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... The dmesg with the B1 card only lacks the three appropriate lines which appear for the Rev A1 card when it is inserted in the same PCI slot: IF that is true, your card wasn't inserted

Re: Fw: Why packets are not blocked

2006-03-08 Thread shanejp
Hey Jim, Quoting Jim [EMAIL PROTECTED]: If I were her, and I saw these rules, I would just change my IP with ifconfig :D two problems here. 1. she is not smart enough I hope you mean, she is not knowledgeable enough. Shane

Re: Pf que for voip

2006-02-02 Thread shanejp
Quoting Graham Gower [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi Graham, This begs the question, what should you do if your bandwidth is variable? I've wondered that myself. I figured someone in that situation might have to settle for an upload bandwidth limited to the worst case? Shane

Re: track release cycle by mumber of whiny posts to misc@

2005-10-19 Thread shanejp
Quoting Diana Eichert [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Perhaps I should post a URL for a plot of whiny posts vs. worthwhile posts over time. A Signal to Noise Ratio of sorts? We could measure it in decitrolls! This email was sent from Netspace

Re: OpenBSD's 10th birthday

2005-10-18 Thread shanejp
Quoting Theo de Raadt [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Now it is really OpenBSD's 10th birthday ;) A big thank you and congratulations for this one-of-many milestones, to Theo and all the other developers. Shane J Pearson, Sydney. A happy OpenBSD user since 2.5.

Re: External, USB hard drives

2005-06-24 Thread shanejp
Quoting Steven Bowers [EMAIL PROTECTED]: speaking are they all compatible? Are there specific brands/models to stay away from? I have a USB2/Firewire combo unit based on the Prolific PL-3507 chipset. It is problematic and doing a search for it with Google finds that many other people have

Re: OpenBSD in commercial firewalls?

2005-06-14 Thread shanejp
Quoting James Harless [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I know that several firewall vendors use various flavors of Linux as the basis for their devices. Are there any that use OpenBSD similarly? If so, which? Any comments on the devices? Links would be appreciated.

Re: Problems with CPU/ARCH specific compilation!?

2005-06-02 Thread shanejp
Quoting Markus Kolb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: official offend those people. Where is your respect. Respect? That is pretty rich. You come in here, challenge an OpenBSD policy which strives for highest stability and then state: I don't want to ask OpenBSD.org-developers because they always think they

Re: howto clean disks ?

2005-06-01 Thread shanejp
Hi Dennis, Quoting Dennis Lindahl [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Once information on a digital media has been overwritten, it cannot be recreated/restored in any lab. All this talk about electron microscopes and overwriting in multiple passes is just a load of crap derived from an old DoD standard. It