Re: Skype.
You wrote: On 16 October 2012 19:48, David Coppa dco...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 7:40 AM, Jay Patel rockworl...@gmail.com wrote: Hi ... i copied the libskype.so under /usr/local/purple/ but it wont show up under adding account or in plugin options ...how to link this library to pidgin to get access to skype.. let me know ... I would have thought a better route would be inside a Linux/Windows VM inside of QEMU? But then sound won't usually work, which sort of defeats the point of skype. There are much better IM networks and clients than skype. What there isn't so far is a voice chat that's better than skype, although they only offer it on 32 bit Linux and Windows and some other not very useful fringe platforms.
Re: Bitcoin client for OpenBSD?
You wrote: Anonymous writes: Is there a bitcoin client for OpenBSD or is anyone porting one? pstumpf@ posted one to ports@ a few months back: http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-portsm=133804045927036w=2 Haven't heard of any updates since then. Thanks I'll have a look.
Re: OpenBSD forked
Marc Espie wrote: W. Richard Stevens was THE best unix books author *ever*, bar none. He's on a par with such CS giants as Don Knuth, writing-wise. Advanced Unix programming is *the* best book to understand how to write Unix code, PERIOD. Are you saying the 1992 edition is still worthwhile now in 2012?
Re: German Government claims to be able to break PGP and SSH
You wrote: Hi there! What do you guys think about the reliability of the news (unfortunatelly in German only) on www.golem.de (http://www.golem.de/news/bundesregierung-deutsche-geheimdienste-koennen-pgp- entschluesseln-1205-92031.html) that the German government claims to be able to break PGP and SSH. The official answer to some MPs and the party Die Linke is here: http://www.andrej-hunko.de/start/download/doc_download/225-strategische-fernm eldeaufklaerung-durch-geheimdienste-des-bundes For the non-German speaking (found on page 3 of the official document): Question: 3. Is the technique used also able to at least in part decode and/or analyze encrypted communication (e.g. by SSH of PGP)? Answer: Yes, the technique used is in principle able to do this, Another theoretical attack? Yawn RC4? MD5? don't use them. depending on the way and quality ^^^ 512 bit pubkeys, definitely factorable. 768 maybe. 1024 with the help of the MIBs. More than that, not for another 5-10 years. If you have the private key, weak passphrases are always susceptible to dictionary attacks. Is this some sort of Governmental FUD by just NOT adding s.th. like if the password/passphrase is weak enough? Can't read the article but sounds like FUD from what they answered. Password or passphrase has nothing to do with breaking PGP or SSH unless you have the user's private key. Only the length of the public key matters. Use 2048 bit keys and nobody is getting your plaintext without bashing your balls. -BEGIN PGP MESSAGE- jA0ECgMKIXIw0QVfan1g0lUBkJ3SZO7SlnfESJIKbRHgSr+1VlpnsD/zs6lephjt Xd8LKAMjYZIkTtgNdnusBSz4Y7H53sV4i8jvHSomZUi1F1dcQFIyUT9JZXnyrq8q JLJeyIHw =NcjT -END PGP MESSAGE-
Delete key not working normally in Emacs console mode
I am running OpenBSD 5.1 SPARC (32 bit) under QEMU. It seems to work perfectly except for a couple of minor annoyances one of which may be QEMU related/fixable. In Emacs 23.4.1 -no-x from packages I am having a problem getting both backspace and delete to work correctly at the same time, correctly being defined as backspace causing the cursor to move to the left and consume characters and delete as remaining in the current column and consuming characters to the right. Terminal type is sun (default). Can anyone help with this please? Thank you.
Re: My OpenBSD 5.0 installation experience (long rant)
That's interesting, as for me bsd.rd only creates sd0, so I have to find the right sdN in dmesg and then cd /dev; sh MAKEDEV sdN if I want to install OS there... as somebody else said the easiest thing is to use whatever fdisk you prefer and make an OpenBSD partition before starting the OBSD installer. The OBSD installer usually finds that and you go right to disklabel
Re: My OpenBSD 5.0 installation experience (long rant)
So I downloaded all the package files, wrote them to a USB stick, created a bootable image with GRUB, booted into the OpenBSD installer and off we go. Now, this computer already had Windows 7 and Linux, plus about 16 GB of unpartitioned space where OpenBSD is going. It's actually the same notebook from two years ago. Not very smart trying to install another OS on a disk that has anything else you want on it. I think you took a silly risk. Did you see the part where it says you're supposed to have a good backup? password. Configuration of network interfaces. I'm not actually paying a whole lot of attention to the questions as this is just a test installation and I figure I can always explore and configure the system later. Big mistake, as you found out later. And my partition table is gone. Poof! Instantly, with no confirmation. Yeah, BSD spares us the endless hair pulling OK confirmation dialogs that come standard with Windows and BSD users appreciate that. No, we demand it. I immediately realized what had happened and rebooted. Too late. I got a No OS message. It seems that the OpenBSD installer actually overwrites the partition table the instant you press Enter. It's pretty offensive when software does what you tell it, is that what you are saying? What saved me was an Ubuntu installation CD and the wonderful tool gpart (http://www.brzitwa.de/mb/gpart/). With a bit of tinkering in gpart and some very careful work with the Linux version of fdisk, I managed to reconstruct the partition table and saved my system. Great. Do that a few more times and you'll have the know-how to multiboot a new OS. BTW many Linux distros will do the same thing to you. No intelligent person adds a new OS to an existing disk with important stuff on it unless he knows what he is doing. For you, VirtualBox or VMWare would have made alot of sense. It still would except from your whining I don't really think you're cut out for OpenBSD. Ubuntu would be good for you, probably. Distributing an installation program that can wipe out the user's hard disk instantly on a single wrong keystroke, without so much as a confirmation prompt is so shortsighted and irresponsible that I can barely believe it. Try installing another copy of Windows on the same disk and let us know how you make out. Even better, try OS/2. It will nail every disk you have. Actually so will most Windows, they write bootloaders on every disk they find, without asking you and with no confirmation dialogs. This is not about being an expert user or knowing what you want to do, because I knew exactly what I wanted to do. Maybe, but you had no idea *how* to do it. Critical difference there buddy. This is about incredibly stupid user interface design. Sorry, it's just too unbelievable that someone would think that this is actually a good idea. Well honestly the BSD installers are mostly old and cranky but we know how they work pretty well by now and they very seldom do anything but what you tell them. You're coming from Windows and hand-holding OS and you got a taste of a serious OS. You can't really blame the installer for believing you meant what you typed. I joined this mailing list just to tell you this: Right now, I feel like never, ever touching OpenBSD with a ten-foot pole again. Have a nice day luser! I didn't even have to join the list to say that.
Re: Trusting the Installation
the reason is you can download source code, look at it, make sure for yourself there's no backdoors, build your own ISO from source code You can but nobody does. If the entire OpenBSD team can't finish a complete audit of OpenBSD in one release cycle how long do you suppose it would take one person to do that? Not very practical.
Re: Router project on OpenBSD questions
Brauer spewed: * Patrick Lamaiziere patf...@davenulle.org [2012-02-29 13:12]: I don't think. it is very tempting to comment on that :) As far I can see here with a rate of 50K packets through the system, it already spents 50% in interrupt. oh, really! that applies to each and every box and usage scenario on the planet of course. details just complicate things. What a surprise, another 100% noise level post from Henning. For a smart guy you sure have alot of free time. Maybe you ought to be designing and coding more and flaming less huh buddy?
Re: smartphones and managing openbsd servers
I just downloaded PaderSync SSH Trial and I think I will buy the full version. I got it before it was a paid app whilst still in testing. It seems very good and handles large keys well enough. The only objection I've got is the menus and dialogs can be a bit wordy but it does seem to work fine. It has a semi transparent keyboard with easy access to Ctrl, Alt, etc keys (in contrast to ConnectBot) and works in landscape mode giving larger characters. BlackBerrys have a physical keyboard so we've got to use the transparent onscreen kb just for bits like control and alt keys (emacs is fun on a BB) keyboard, ...). It also claims to do scp... yeah sftp telnet and maybe smb. an nfs client would be grand.
Re: Backup Redundancy Etcetera
Anonymous cripto () ecn ! org wrote: Solaris ZFS I've heard of it (ZFS) but here's the thing, I struggle enough keeping up with Wndows and OpenBSD I don't want to put another system into the mix. Understood. Unfortunately or fortunately however you look at it OpenBSD doesn't have ZFS. But FreeBSD does. That could be another option with less of a learning curve than Solaris which admittedly is steep. Another thing to consider is a prebuilt NAS appliance based on FreeBSD or OpenSolaris. There are numerous ones out check distrowatch.com What ZFS does for you aside from offering pretty high quality software RAID and other redundancy/protection from data loss is give you really nice management features like being able to do quotas and resize filesystems and compress (and with Solaris 11 even encrypt them) all from one central management interface instead of external or add-on tools. It's one stop shopping. It also makes NFS and SAMBA less painful since you don't have to play around with the normal share tables and portmapper stuff (not THAT big of a deal but not zero) you can just turn features on or off at the ZFS filesystem level. It's really ideal for a backup or NAS appliance. Again you must have known good hardware from the disks to the backplane to the RAM or ZFS will ruin your week or even your whole month. When it works, it works. When it doesn't, oh shit. You could probably script Filezilla to SSH what you want to the file server. Good idea. I'll probably end up either installing the Microsoft NFS client and scripting that or use the bog standard ftp client and script that. The problem is the M/S NFS client only works on certain versions of Windows and not others. Even on the versions it is supposed to work on it doesn't always work. I have an XP Pro box that SFU refuses to install on.
Re: looking for hardware recommendations, x86 or otherwise.
What's so funny is that they put GNU/Linux on it, when gNU is supposed to be about FREE dom. LOL. Fucking LOL. That's perfect. GNU has nothing to do with free, it has to do with butt fucking people until they become ASSimilated. Sounds like a match. For poor people in third world countries I think they would be better off buying used 1ghz-2ghz Desktop computers for $50/each Obviously you don't live in a 3rd world country. I do and nothing is 50 bucks here except the women. Nobody throws anything out except dead cats and PCs cost about 350 USD for a new build based on 3-5 year old NOS parts the Americans dumped on the market after they went obsolete.
Re: sparc64 5.0
Now that I have it setup with the correct package path, etc, I am finding out 5.0 is much better than 4.9 was; Can you say exactly what is better? I found 4.9 very nice and had no issues running it on a server.
Re: locate weirdness
Perhaps he did. Wouldn't it be useful to help the guy trying to help you (you know, the wheat) by giving a really simple and straightforward answer, even if it is repeating yourself ? Probably would've been less typing than what you just did (e.g. Sorry, I think it runs as user ). No, we've been over that and the answer from the argumentative sonsabitches was as long as you contribute one patch you are permitted nay might we suggest *encouraged* to flame rather than help. I guess it makes them feel like men, but to the rest of us they only seem like girl scouts. If you point this out you spawn an entire new subthread of postings by the abovementioned argumentative sonsabitches reaffirming their girl scout status. Why actually answer a question when you can create a sharkfest of insults and make yourself feel like a man? So what if you contribute? I fired a few assholes like you. I don't need prima donnas, you're not worth it. Helpful people who actually know something aren't mutually exclusive. To you primma donnas, go fuck yourselves. You aren't worth it.
Re: Longsoon/Godson MIPS boxes, where to buy?
i saw them on face book and amazon also 250 500 us dollars Like Kurt Russell said, That's TOO FUCKING HIGH!!! When they start selling them for a fair price let's say 50 bucks for the black box and maybe 150 for a loaded laptop then it's time to buy. Until then, tekmote isn't getting my business.
Re: Where do I buy Lemote Loongson/Godson MIPS hardware? (was Re: Longs buy?)
Thanks and HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYBODY
Re: Where to buy Lemote FuLoong MIPS boxes?
I say again: The prices at the official European shop in the Netherlands are sky high.
Re: Narcicism?
And in common tradition hoardes of OpenBSD devs shall come to the rescue and spend hours of unpaid time so you won't have to spend US$300 on a new computer. :rolleyes: Fuck you man! Who needs a new computer? Blades rule! ;-)
Re: Narcicism?
I came to openbsd only recently trying to find a modern OS which will run on my old sun blade 100. Net and FreeBSD probably also support it. Depending on what you want to do with your system I would recommend OpenBSD or FreeBSD. FreeBSD will have more current apps (your complaint below) and is a better desktop if you define a good desktop by more apps and more current apps. I don't need the latest of anything so OpenBSD works fine for me. However on SPARC I really like Solaris for a server or desktop. OpenBSD would be better for an applicance like a router, firewall etc. if you have an extra SPARC box. Then again Solaris 10 will go away but OpenBSD hopefully is here to stay. I wanted to use a linux but the only current linux for sparc64 is debian 6.03 Gentoo/Funtoo also run on SPARC64. Openbsd seems to have better drivers since it works fine. OpenBSD always works fine on everything I have tried it on. annoys me. Also no recent browser support. Seamonkey 2.04 is old. What about Solaris 10? The latest Firefox builds are available and so are very recent copies of almost every app. I build everything else from source though. If you're going to run an old box you will either need to accept living with an old OS and old apps or learn to build whatever you want from source. In some cases the latter isn't possible though.
Re: Dennis Ritchie
You wrote a brown nosed post. I think No evidence of that from your post that there are few things in this world that are held in as high esteem as the C language. Har dee har har. C is shite. Useful maybe but still shite. It is a privilege to be able to write it really Did you pay your C-tax this year, serf boy? Another ass-kissing idiot atheist wrote: Today is a sad sad day :( Like hell it is, heathen! Rest in Peace. Without you, we would never be here. Har dee har har. You're a dumb sonofabitch ain't ya? Did Ritchie bang your mom? Otherwised he has nothing to do with why you're here.
Re: What should I do with a remote AIX machine if I accidentally chmod /usr/bin/ksh?
Call IBM support. You will have 10 technicians onsite in a week. And 10 invoices in tomorrow's mail.
