Re: Getting envolved

2007-12-13 Thread Mathieu Stumpf
Le mercredi 12 dC)cembre 2007 C 11:22 -0800, Ted Unangst a C)crit : On 12/12/07, Mathieu Stumpf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To my mind software quality also depends on ease of use. So I would be happy to help improve OpenBSD by making it easier to install and use. But I don't know if you

Re: : : rouge IPs / user

2007-12-13 Thread Otto Moerbeek
On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 02:25:21AM -0500, Daniel Ouellet wrote: Otto Moerbeek wrote: I'm only talking about the tear-down. The three-way handshake happens before that, both sockets are in ESTABSLIHED state. You have to read half-close as a verb (action), and half-open as a description of the

Re: Getting envolved

2007-12-13 Thread Otto Moerbeek
On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 08:44:35AM +0100, Mathieu Stumpf wrote: Le mercredi 12 dC)cembre 2007 C 11:22 -0800, Ted Unangst a C)crit : On 12/12/07, Mathieu Stumpf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To my mind software quality also depends on ease of use. So I would be happy to help improve OpenBSD

Re: login_radius possible changes.

2007-12-13 Thread Brad Arrington
Yes, I did test it many times. login_radius as it is in current does not work for me at all. Did I test it for all cases/scenarios..? No, I doubt it. -Brad -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 22:00:46 +0100 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re:

Re: login_radius possible changes.

2007-12-13 Thread Brad Arrington
Yes, I did test it many times. login_radius as it is in current does not work for me at all. Did I test it for all cases/scenarios..? No, I doubt it. -Brad -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 22:00:46 +0100 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re:

Re: login_radius possible changes.

2007-12-13 Thread Brad Arrington
Sorry I missed the point... Yes, you are correct about 'passwd != ' my mistake.. I should have be using strncmp. This is what the diff should be: --- raddauth.c 2007-12-13 00:38:24.0 -0800 +++ login_radius/raddauth.c 2007-12-13 00:31:35.0 -0800 @@ -117,6 +117,7 @@ int

Re: KDE presents a distorted screen or quits in the middle of starting up

2007-12-13 Thread Antoine Jacoutot
On Thu, 13 Dec 2007, Predrag Punosevac wrote: ever used in my life. On the another hand KDE is 200m very elaborate GUI coded for mostly with Linux in mind. I am not aware that one can use any Well, AFAIK they're actually very open to !linux systems, much more than GNOME for instance. of

Re: no 4.2-stable package updates??

2007-12-13 Thread ttw+bsd
On 12.12-16:25, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried using pkgsrc-2007Q3 but it sucks. Updating userland in production environment with pkgsrc on a non-NetBSD platform is a nightmare. i'm working on this. will post when significant progress has been made. in my opinion having a working pkgsrc

Re: login_radius possible changes.

2007-12-13 Thread Brad Arrington
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 16:20:51 -0500 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: login_radius possible changes. In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] so spake Brad Arrington (bradla): Would it be possible to change login_radius.c actually

Re: : no 4.2-stable package updates??

2007-12-13 Thread Janne Johansson
Raimo Niskanen wrote: On Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 08:35:50AM +0100, Antoine Jacoutot wrote: This was announced on ports@ IIRC. So if there are security bugs in a package or port shipped with OpenBSD 4.2, there will be no updated package or updated port available? That is correct. Now, this

Re: A very good OpenLDAP tutorial - Notes

2007-12-13 Thread xavier brinon
Thanks a lot, it gives the opportunity to read something new. Now I know better about it. I think it's a good idea to share our current reading. On Dec 13, 2007 12:25 AM, badeguruji [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.acay.com.au/~oscarp/tutor/ for all new Openldap users. thx, and sorry if

Re: : no 4.2-stable package updates??

2007-12-13 Thread Robert Nagy
On (2007-12-13 10:28), Janne Johansson wrote: The solution is very simple though. Everyone has been told what was lacking in order to keep it up, so just make those resources available and it will spring back up again. Simple as that. Noone said we dont want stable packages. It's

Re: Getting envolved

2007-12-13 Thread Ulf
On Thu, 13 Dec 2007 08:44:35 +0100 Mathieu Stumpf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] I agree easy to use and sample are not the same for everyone. That's why, to my mind, a good installer should provide several methods to install. If you like the current way it works, you should be able to

Re: no 4.2-stable package updates??

2007-12-13 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2007/12/12 14:54, Unix Fan wrote: Why even have a -CURRENT ports tree?... So that there are updated ports/packages for people running -current, and quite importantly, for the next release. IME it's a lot easier to run snapshots than -stable. Have you tried it, or did you just decide you

Re: OSPF and CARP question

2007-12-13 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2007/12/12 16:18, Prabhu Gurumurthy wrote: bge0: flags=8943UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,PROMISC,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST mtu 1500 inet 172.21.171.6 netmask 0xff00 broadcast 172.21.171.255 bge1: flags=8943UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,PROMISC,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST mtu 1500 inet 172.21.71.2 netmask

Duplicate entries in the output of mixerctl

2007-12-13 Thread Amarendra Godbole
Hi, mixerctl output has some duplicate entries (duplicated names, but different values), which leaves me confused. Here is the output: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $] mixerctl outputs.dac.source=hdaudio outputs.line.source=dac2 outputs.line.mute=off outputs.line=124,124 outputs.line=85,85

Re: 4.2 i386 install fails on a HP Compaq dc7700

2007-12-13 Thread mufurcz
Greetings, Replaced the suspected CDR/DVD drive with another (known good working condition) Panasonic DVD (SATA) drive, the same result, install fails at the point of accessing the CD to install the software sets, so I swapped back the original (TSSTcorp) CDR/DVD drive. Below is the the full

Re: : : rouge IPs / user

2007-12-13 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2007/12/13 09:09, Otto Moerbeek wrote: It's depening on the application if sockets staying in CLOSE_WAIT are a problem or not: it might be intentional (in the hulp duplex case), or it might be a program forgetting to do a close. Does select() notify the application of FIN from the other

Re: : : rouge IPs / user

2007-12-13 Thread Hannah Schroeter
Hi! On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 11:10:51AM +, Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2007/12/13 09:09, Otto Moerbeek wrote: It's depening on the application if sockets staying in CLOSE_WAIT are a problem or not: it might be intentional (in the hulp duplex case), or it might be a program forgetting to do a

Re: : : rouge IPs / user

2007-12-13 Thread Otto Moerbeek
On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 11:10:51AM +, Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2007/12/13 09:09, Otto Moerbeek wrote: It's depening on the application if sockets staying in CLOSE_WAIT are a problem or not: it might be intentional (in the hulp duplex case), Strange typo by me... that's a Dutch word,

Re: Inaccurate restart of Apache 1.3

2007-12-13 Thread Alexander Hall
Mats Erik Andersson wrote: Hello, three weeks I set up a Subversion/Apache2 on my private OpenBSD 4.2 to be publicly available. It was not migrated from an earlier system. Doing this I hade cause to restart Apache 1.3 and Apache 2.2 repeatedly until my access control worked correctly. This

Re: Inaccurate restart of Apache 1.3

2007-12-13 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2007/12/13 13:22, Mats Erik Andersson wrote: # apachectl configtest # apachectl restart claims to restart httpd, but in fact only kills off the previous service without starting a new one. However, # apachectl configtest # apachectl stop # apachectl start is perfectly in order.

Inaccurate restart of Apache 1.3

2007-12-13 Thread Mats Erik Andersson
Hello, three weeks I set up a Subversion/Apache2 on my private OpenBSD 4.2 to be publicly available. It was not migrated from an earlier system. Doing this I hade cause to restart Apache 1.3 and Apache 2.2 repeatedly until my access control worked correctly. This disclosed a shortcoming in Apache

Re: no 4.2-stable package updates??

2007-12-13 Thread Jonathan Thornburg
First, I'd like to thank those who provided useful responces to my query (which started this thread), both on- and off-list. I had missed the announcement (http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-portsm=119347390302171w=1) that -stable ports packages are no longer maintained. Because -stable ports/packages

Re: Inaccurate restart of Apache 1.3

2007-12-13 Thread Edd Barrett
On 13/12/2007, Alexander Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Apache is chrooted by default, making `apachectl restart' unusable for quite some time. It should be in the archives and possibly in the FAQ. /Alexander This comes up a lot. Perhaps `apachectl restart` should display a message as a

Re: KDE presents a distorted screen or quits in the middle of starting up

2007-12-13 Thread Rob Lytle
Rob Lytle wrote: Predrag Punosevac to me, misc Rob Lytle wrote: I searched back through the archives using KDE as a keyword and as far as I can tell I am the only OpenBSD post. This is typical for me. I end up with a unique problem that no one can solve because it never came up before.

Re: : : : rouge IPs / user

2007-12-13 Thread Raimo Niskanen
On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 12:35:03PM +0100, Otto Moerbeek wrote: On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 11:10:51AM +, Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2007/12/13 09:09, Otto Moerbeek wrote: It's depening on the application if sockets staying in CLOSE_WAIT are a problem or not: it might be intentional (in

Xorg warnings related to GART

2007-12-13 Thread Rob Lytle
Now that I have established that KDE is not the source of my occasional distorted Xorg display I noticed several things in the Xorg.0.log: (Windowmaker has the problem too) (ww) xf86AcquireGART: AGPIOC ACQUIRE failed (inappropriate ioctl for device) and (ww) GARTinit: AGPIOC_INFO failed

Re: Inaccurate restart of Apache 1.3

2007-12-13 Thread Antoine Jacoutot
On Thu, 13 Dec 2007, Edd Barrett wrote: This comes up a lot. Perhaps `apachectl restart` should display a message as a reminder... What is wrong with reading the FAQ? http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq10.html#httpdchroot -- Antoine

Re: HP LaserJet P2015 on OpenBSD -- BEWARE

2007-12-13 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Dec 13, 2007 1:59 AM, visc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a mix of HP models depending on purchase date - 1300n, 1320n, etc. Also had about 10 HP 2015s that were working FINE... ...until they upgraded their server to the most recent Redhat/Linux kernel. Forgive me for not knowing

Re: Inaccurate restart of Apache 1.3

2007-12-13 Thread Nick Holland
Alexander Hall wrote: ... Apache is chrooted by default, making `apachectl restart' unusable for quite some time. It should be in the archives and possibly in the FAQ. it is (and has been for quite some time)... http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq10.html#httpdchroot Nick.

openbsd 3.9 and httpd-2.2.6

2007-12-13 Thread Monah Baki
Hi all, I'm trying to install httpd-2.2.6 on my openbsd 3.9 from source. I get the following error when I run make Making all in support make[1]: Entering directory `/export/home/mbaki/httpd-2.2.6/support' make[2]: Entering directory `/export/home/mbaki/httpd-2.2.6/support'

Re: openbsd 3.9 and httpd-2.2.6

2007-12-13 Thread Kyle George
On Thu, 13 Dec 2007, Monah Baki wrote: I'm trying to install httpd-2.2.6 on my openbsd 3.9 from source. I get the following error when I run make [snip] /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lexpat collect2: ld returned 1 exit status You are missing expat (or the linker can't find it). pkg_add it.

Re: IPSEC with Checkpoint Sonicwall ?

2007-12-13 Thread Michael Gale
Yup ... apparently it is now just a Checkpoint ... Thanks for the catch .. Michael Steven Surdock wrote: Michael Gale wrote: Hey, I have been asked if we can setup an IPSEC connection with a Checkpoint Sonicwall. Currently I have NO information on the remote end except that it is

Re: openbsd 3.9 and httpd-2.2.6

2007-12-13 Thread Stuart Henderson
The ports tree is there for a reason. On 2007/12/13 08:39, Monah Baki wrote: /usr/local/apr/lib/libapr-1.la -lpthread ^ this is wrong, it should be -pthread. /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lexpat in 3.9 this was in a separate port. In 4.2 it's in xbase. In

Re: no 4.2-stable package updates??

2007-12-13 Thread jere
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12.12-16:25, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried using pkgsrc-2007Q3 but it sucks. Updating userland in production environment with pkgsrc on a non-NetBSD platform is a nightmare. i'm working on this. will post when significant progress has been made. in my opinion

OpenBSD 3.9 and Httpd-2.2.6 compile error

2007-12-13 Thread Monah Baki
Hi All, I'm compiling httpd with the following: ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/apache2 --enable-ssl --enable-dav --enable-dav-fs --enable-vhost-alias --enable-rewrite --enable-so When I run make I get the following error: Making all in support make[1]: Entering directory

Re: Getting envolved

2007-12-13 Thread Bob Beck
If you like the current way it works, you should be able to continue with this system. But what if my mum, who has low computer skill, would like to install a free, functional and secure system? I think the software should help her to make the most accurate choices. Because I think my

Re: A very good OpenLDAP tutorial - Notes

2007-12-13 Thread Tom Rosso
I've been asked to deploy an openldap server so that we can test our software's authentication layer against it. I've never messed with LDAP before now, so I look forward to going through this tutorial. I read the first few slides last night and it looked pretty good. Thanks! Tom On Dec 12,

Re: Getting envolved

2007-12-13 Thread Jason Beaudoin
On Dec 13, 2007 11:11 AM, Bob Beck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you like the current way it works, you should be able to continue with this system. But what if my mum, who has low computer skill, would like to install a free, functional and secure system? I think the software should

Re: NEW: games/chocolate-doom

2007-12-13 Thread Andrés
On Dec 13, 2007 12:41 PM, Antti Harri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 13 Dec 2007, Andris wrote: there's already games/prboom, so why another Doom-engine? Because someone ported it? I don't get this there's already a ported implementation of idea. Sounds like monopoly. IMHO, any

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-13 Thread Richard Stallman
Interestingly enough, if you specified that as the reason you recommend against using OpenBSD, this thread would have been a lot shorter. Maybe it would have led to a shorter thread, but it would not have been accurate. My decision not to recommend OpenBSD was not based on

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-13 Thread Richard Stallman
From license.txt in the unrar source archive: - The UnRAR sources may be used in any software to handle RAR archives without limitations free of charge, but cannot be used to re-create the RAR compression algorithm, which is proprietary. - UnRAR seems to be a

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-13 Thread Richard Stallman
If a library has a book on [insert-controversial-topic-here], does that imply endorsement of said topic by the library or by someone who reads the book? Should the library burn copies of books on such topics to protect the citizenry? Absolutely not. A system distribution is

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-13 Thread Richard Stallman
Richard's words are the essence of the Free Software Foundation and the GNU General Public License: people _must_ use free software, people _can_ decide whether to use free software or not, but people _must not_ be free to exercise that desire. That is not what I said. See

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-13 Thread Richard Stallman
LAME is free software, but distributing it may be dangerous. I do not criticize those who distribute it. Meanwhile, the FSF support efforts to reject MP3 format and adopt OGG formats.

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-13 Thread Richard Stallman
his absolutism also causes people to see BSD as a problem, a social failure. If some people think that, they did not get it from me. I do not call BSD either of those things. I say that releasing free software under a non-copyleft free software license is basically good (i.e., not

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-13 Thread Richard Stallman
However, if distribution D includes this easier way to install in its ports system, by doing so distribution D endorses it and takes on the ethical responsibility for it. Using the same argument I can say that gcc isn't ethical because it allows compilation of non-free

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-13 Thread Richard Stallman
gNewSense uses the Linux kernel. The Linux kernel facilitates utilization of non-free blobs. gNewSense does not include, or refer to, or tell people about the drivers that use non-free blobs. Torvalds's decision to put blobs into Linux was a bad one, but gNewSense is ok because it does

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-13 Thread Richard Stallman
Users have responsability for what they do. We do not take responsability for them. We give them enough information to make their informed decision. In my opinion, that's the ethical way to do things. In my opinion, we ought to take responsibility for the recommendations and

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-13 Thread Richard Stallman
So, it would seem that (barring human error) the primary philosophical difference between the packaging systems of OpenBSD and gNewSense is that gNewSense tries to prevent you from seeing any packages they consider non-Free, while OpenBSD directly provides only Free software

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-13 Thread Richard Stallman
As far as I understand, the OpenBSD position appears to be that trying to police users by forbidding them to maintain and retrieve port metadata about unfree software via this adjunct service (that is not included in the OS) would be a restriction of the users' freedom. Obviously

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-13 Thread Theo de Raadt
Users have responsability for what they do. We do not take responsability for them. We give them enough information to make their informed decision. In my opinion, that's the ethical way to do things. In my opinion, we ought to take responsibility for the recommendations and

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-13 Thread Richard Stallman
However, it is trivially easy to use the gNewSense apt system to install unfree software. Any general-purpose system can run non-free software, but that's not the issue. The issue is whether a distribution refers people to the non-free software or not. Since so many messages have been

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-13 Thread Richard Stallman
Do you believe that The Pirate Bay is guilty of copyright infringement? That is a legal question, not an ethical question. I do not know what the law of any given country would say about the Pirate Bay. You would need to ask a lawyer. Instead of that legal question, we could ask an ethical

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-13 Thread Gordon Grieder
On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 11:52:06AM -0500, Richard Stallman wrote: Maybe it would have led to a shorter thread, but it would not have been accurate. My decision not to recommend OpenBSD was not based on personalities. Interesting. So have you sent these types of unrecommendations to other

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-13 Thread Richard Stallman
Your definition of free is replete with chains; you would deny the freedom of choice in the name of freedom. Freedom means having control of your own life; Freedom of choice is a partly accurate and partly misleading way to describe that, and taking that expression too literally leads to

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-13 Thread marina
On Thu, 13 Dec 2007, Richard Stallman wrote: If a library has a book on [insert-controversial-topic-here], does that imply endorsement of said topic by the library or by someone who reads the book? Should the library burn copies of books on such topics to protect the citizenry?

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-13 Thread Richard Stallman
Yes, that's what I was told. I was also told that OpenBSD's ports system includes non-free programs. Is that accurate too? Strictly speaking, no. If you unpack ports.tar.gz you will find a bunch of makefiles, packing lists, c., all of which are free. I should

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-13 Thread Mayuresh Kathe
Good people of MISC land, could we please drop this thread, its lasted way longer than really needed. RMS has his viewpoint and would prefer to defend it. We have our own war cry, Shut-up and hack :-) Best, On Dec 13, 2007 10:22 PM, Richard Stallman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: LAME is free

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-13 Thread Tom Rosso
On Dec 13, 2007 9:51 AM, Richard Stallman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You cannot claim the credit for letting them, because it is a fact that they can do so in any case. It is misleading to speak of letting or stopping the users from installing non-free software. What's really going on is that

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-13 Thread Nick Guenther
On 12/13/07, Richard Stallman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: recently we saw theft of BSD to GPL, and a large part of the GPL community thinks there's no problem with that, that the BSD community is being petty to make an issue out of it. I don't think it is wrong in general to relicense code

Re: Real men don't attack sign men

2007-12-13 Thread L
Not calling someone unfriendly and just focusing on the conversation/technical details at hand, would be much more friendly.. even considering friendship wasn't the subject of discussion in the first place. Someone else attacked me on this list for not discussing this with

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-13 Thread Mattieu Baptiste
On Dec 13, 2007 5:52 PM, Richard Stallman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: gNewSense uses the Linux kernel. The Linux kernel facilitates utilization of non-free blobs. gNewSense does not include, or refer to, or tell people about the drivers that use non-free blobs. You manipulate my

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-13 Thread Theo de Raadt
However, if distribution D includes this easier way to install in its ports system, by doing so distribution D endorses it and takes on the ethical responsibility for it. Using the same argument I can say that gcc isn't ethical because it allows compilation of

Re: : no 4.2-stable package updates??

2007-12-13 Thread Raimo Niskanen
On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 01:07:17PM +, Jonathan Thornburg wrote: First, I'd like to thank those who provided useful responces to my query (which started this thread), both on- and off-list. I had missed the announcement (http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-portsm=119347390302171w=1) that -stable

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-13 Thread Erik Wikström
On 2007-12-13 17:51, Richard Stallman wrote: If a library has a book on [insert-controversial-topic-here], does that imply endorsement of said topic by the library or by someone who reads the book? Should the library burn copies of books on such topics to protect the

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-13 Thread Theo de Raadt
As far as I understand, the OpenBSD position appears to be that trying to police users by forbidding them to maintain and retrieve port metadata about unfree software via this adjunct service (that is not included in the OS) would be a restriction of the users' freedom.

Re: Getting envolved

2007-12-13 Thread Bob Beck
Users who can no invest the effort learn enough to use a simple interface do not deserve a reliable operating system. They deserve windows, and they deserve pop up buttong in their browsers that they click ok blindly for everything. -Bob Do you apply this reasoning to

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-13 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 13/12/2007, Richard Stallman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If a library has a book on [insert-controversial-topic-here], does that imply endorsement of said topic by the library or by someone who reads the book? Should the library burn copies of books on such topics to protect

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-13 Thread Darrin Chandler
On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 11:52:14AM -0500, Richard Stallman wrote: As far as I understand, the OpenBSD position appears to be that trying to police users by forbidding them to maintain and retrieve port metadata about unfree software via this adjunct service (that is not

Re: Getting envolved

2007-12-13 Thread Joe
On Dec 13, 2007, at 12:40 AM, Otto Moerbeek wrote: On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 08:44:35AM +0100, Mathieu Stumpf wrote: Le mercredi 12 dC)cembre 2007 C 11:22 -0800, Ted Unangst a C)crit : On 12/12/07, Mathieu Stumpf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To my mind software quality also depends on ease of

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-13 Thread Ben Calvert
Would everyone in the room who maintain a complete, working operating system please raise their hands? would everyone who is forced to co-opt or recommend other people's operating systems... because their own is unfinished... please go away and write some code or something? thank you

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-13 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2007/12/13 11:51, Richard Stallman wrote: I'm talking about something else: what the system distro suggests that the user do. OpenBSD does not suggest that people use ports. We suggest people use binary packages. With two exceptions (which look like they're marked in error since their

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-13 Thread Theo de Raadt
If a library has a book on [insert-controversial-topic-here], does that imply endorsement of said topic by the library or by someone who reads the book? Should the library burn copies of books on such topics to protect the citizenry? Absolutely not. A system

Re: Xorg warnings related to GART

2007-12-13 Thread Rob Lytle
Even the Xorg list archives don't contain any thing like my warnings, so I guess I will just live with it. Rob -- Emancipate yourself from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds Bob Marley, Redemption Song

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-13 Thread Tom Rosso
On Dec 13, 2007 10:30 AM, Mayuresh Kathe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good people of MISC land, could we please drop this thread, its lasted way longer than really needed. I'm enjoying watching RMS struggle and fail to make any headway with his argument.

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-13 Thread Eric Furman
On Thu, 13 Dec 2007 11:52:01 -0500, Richard Stallman [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: However, it is trivially easy to use the gNewSense apt system to install unfree software. Any general-purpose system can run non-free software, but that's not the issue. The issue is whether a distribution

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-13 Thread Eric Furman
On Thu, 13 Dec 2007 11:52:10 -0500, Richard Stallman [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Your definition of free is replete with chains; you would deny the freedom of choice in the name of freedom. Freedom means having control of your own life; Freedom of choice is a partly accurate and partly

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-13 Thread William Boshuck
On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 11:52:11AM -0500, Richard Stallman wrote: Yes, that's what I was told. I was also told that OpenBSD's ports system includes non-free programs. Is that accurate too? (William Boshuck replied:) Strictly speaking, no. If you unpack ports.tar.gz

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-13 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 13/12/2007, Richard Stallman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you believe that The Pirate Bay is guilty of copyright infringement? That is a legal question, not an ethical question. I do not know what the law of any given country would say about the Pirate Bay. You would need to ask a

Re: Duplicate entries in the output of mixerctl

2007-12-13 Thread Deanna Phillips
Hi, Amarendra Godbole writes: mixerctl output has some duplicate entries (duplicated names, but different values), which leaves me confused. Here is the output: I see... this happens when an item has both input and output levels that can be adjusted. Could you try this diff please? It

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-13 Thread Jack J. Woehr
Theo de Raadt wrote: ... your pants are full of hypocritical poo. There's one for usr.bin/mg/theo.c -- Jack J. Woehr Director of Development Absolute Performance, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 303-443-7000 ext. 527

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-13 Thread Theo de Raadt
Richard, you are a total hypocrite. You are in here creating a fuss about our software, saying it is non-free, when you are doing exactly the same thing yourself. Please see http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/windows/faq2.html And ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/windows/ What's

Re: Getting envolved

2007-12-13 Thread Daniel Ouellet
Bob Beck wrote: Users who can no invest the effort learn enough to use a simple interface do not deserve a reliable operating system. They deserve windows, and they deserve pop up buttong in their browsers that they click ok blindly for everything. I love this one. May be will need a

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-13 Thread Marc Balmer
Richard Hypocrite Stallmann, we, OpenBSD, are endorsing non-free software? what is that: http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/windows/faq2.html ? old man, stop trolling.

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-13 Thread Marc Balmer
Richard, while we do provide a free operating system, http://www.gnu.org/software/for-windows.html makes it total clear that you are a hypocrite and a liar. (while others promise the moon, we deliver.) - Marc

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-13 Thread Christopher Linn
http://xkcd.com/356/ -- Christopher Linn celinn at mtu.edu | By no means shall either the CEC System Administrator II | or MTU be held in any way liable Center for Experimental Computation | for any opinions or conjecture I Michigan Technological University | hold to or

Re: Duplicate entries in the output of mixerctl

2007-12-13 Thread Rob Lytle
Hi, mixerctl output has some duplicate entries (duplicated names, but different values), which leaves me confused. Here is the output: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $] mixerctl outputs.dac.source=hdaudio outputs.line.source=dac2 outputs.line.mute=off outputs.line=124,124 outputs.line=85,85

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-13 Thread mickey
On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 11:58:51AM -0700, Tom Rosso wrote: On Dec 13, 2007 10:30 AM, Mayuresh Kathe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good people of MISC land, could we please drop this thread, its lasted way longer than really needed. I'm enjoying watching RMS struggle and fail to make any

Re: cvsweb browsing out of sync with latest src?

2007-12-13 Thread Nick Guenther
On 12/10/07, Mayuresh Kathe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey Nick, sorry to go against you, but do take a look at; http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/gnu/usr.bin/sudo/ It's been eliminated since there's a replacement by Todd under a non-GNU license. ~Mayuresh Crazy, but

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-13 Thread Rafael Almeida
On Dec 13, 2007 2:52 PM, Richard Stallman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If OpenBSD could spin off the ports system (perhaps people could put it on the Pirate Bay), and break off connection with it, then it would cease to convey any message from OpenBSD to the users. Then I could recommend OpenBSD

Re: : Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-13 Thread Raimo Niskanen
On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 11:52:11AM -0500, Richard Stallman wrote: : It contains URL's to non-free software, and free Makefiles that knows how to build that non-free software. But the entire ports tree has no non-free software in it at all. Does that make it non-free?

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-13 Thread bofh
On Dec 13, 2007 12:53 PM, Tom Rosso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Dec 13, 2007 9:51 AM, Richard Stallman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What's really going on is that you are helping them use the non-free software, which grants it legitimacy. That is what I object to. I don't believe anybody who

Re: Strange line in the routing table after carp failover?

2007-12-13 Thread Charles Price
yes,that is the result of games carp plays with routes (which it shouldn not, imo, but anyway). it should finally work as advertised in -current even with unnumbered carpdevs. Hi Henning, Updating to -current did the trick. Thanks very much. What was the problem here? Charlie

Re: : : : rouge IPs / user

2007-12-13 Thread Raimo Niskanen
On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 12:35:03PM +0100, Otto Moerbeek wrote: : or it might be a program forgetting to do a close. Does select() notify the application of FIN from the other side? If not, that would explain things, it wouldn't be reasonable for httpd to manually try and receive

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-13 Thread Jason McIntyre
On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 11:52:11AM -0500, Richard Stallman wrote: Even giving the URLs has the effect of referring people to those non-free programs. It gives those non-free programs legitimacy, and thus contradicts the idea that software should be free. there are reasons for the saying

Intel DQ35MP

2007-12-13 Thread Marcos Laufer
Hello, I've just installed OpenBSD current on an Intel DQ35MP motherboard with a Quad processor, this is the dmesg log. Some devices are not recognized (PCI slot, ethernet, etc) OpenBSD 4.2-current (GENERIC) #558: Tue Nov 20 10:36:15 MST 2007 [EMAIL

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-13 Thread Gregg Reynolds
On 12/13/07, Richard Stallman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... Even giving the URLs has the effect of referring people to those non-free programs. It gives those non-free programs legitimacy, and thus contradicts the idea that software should be free. Dadgummit! Now we're going to have to tell

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-13 Thread Marco Peereboom
On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 11:51:37AM -0500, Richard Stallman wrote: his absolutism also causes people to see BSD as a problem, a social failure. If some people think that, they did not get it from me. I do not call BSD either of those things. I say that releasing free software under

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