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2010-12-10 Thread Lemuel Houyhnhnm
Having a hard time getting my Broadcom wireless card to connect to a wpa network using OpenBSD 4.8. It sees networks when scanning, but doesn't seem able to make a connection. # ifconfig bwi0 nwid SomeNet wpa wpapsk `wpa-psk SomeNet xx` # ifconfig bwi0 bwi0:

Re: OT - gmail alternatives

2010-12-10 Thread Joachim Schipper
On Thu, Dec 09, 2010 at 10:41:32PM +0100, roberth wrote: Brad Tilley b...@16systems.com wrote: Adam M. Dutko wrote: How do[es Lavabit] deal with legal jurisdiction? Technically the government can still subpoena and they'd have to turn over the documents in the persons account,

Re: HP NC550SFP 10GE card

2010-12-10 Thread Jonathan Gray
There is no support for these 10g serverengines chips, the best bet at the moment are Intel 82599 based devices, the documentation is freely available to all and there is a working driver. On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 01:37:19PM +0800, Patrick Coleman wrote: Can't seem to find anything bout this, so

Re: sha256 hash for /bsd

2010-12-10 Thread J Sisson
On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 11:29 PM, OpenBSD Geek open...@e-solutions.rewrote: So how can i proceed ? http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/4.7/i386/SHA256 That file contains the correct sha256 for all the install sets, including bsd.

Re: OT - gmail alternatives

2010-12-10 Thread C. Bensend
are that stupid). Or that the crackberry can only use an encrypted connection with a blackberry server? Certainly not; at my previous job, *all* of our Blackberry email traffic to/from our non-Blackberry mail server was encrypted. Benny -- I'm no meteorologist, but I'm pretty sure it's

Re: Donations

2010-12-10 Thread Leonardo Rodrigues
To paraphrase Benjamin Franklin (an american! diplomat!): Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both.

Re: Donations

2010-12-10 Thread Ted Unangst
Err, that's supposed to be essential liberty and temporary security. Any society that *doesn't* give up at least a little liberty is anarchy and Franklin was not, to my knowledge, an anarchist. On Dec 10, 2010, at 8:19 AM, Leonardo Rodrigues leonardov...@gmail.com wrote: To paraphrase Benjamin

Re: OpenBSD-capable, fanless, diskful computer with ECC RAM

2010-12-10 Thread Christian Weisgerber
Mehma Sarja mehmasa...@gmail.com wrote: Can anyone recommend a small, fanless computer that will accept a HD (perhaps a 2.5 drive) that uses ECC RAM? Needless to say, it must run OpenBSD. I have a supermicro atom(D510) system with a 32 GB SSD in it running pfsense (FreeBSD) and IPMI -

the new rc.d subsystem

2010-12-10 Thread frantisek holop
hi there, i am making the transition to the new rc.d thingie and of course am happy to see the system becoming a bit more admin friendly. is there an official way to start a service as someone else? most of my daemons for example use the service login class. for example, in the old rc.local:

Re: OT - Switzerland domain name registrars

2010-12-10 Thread Wolf Stettler
The official registrar is Switch (http://switch.ch/) a foundation to provide internet services to swiss universities. They have quite a good reputation. Regards Wolf On 12/08/10 17:03, Brad Tilley wrote: Can anyone recommend good/reputable domain name registrars in Switzerland to buy .ch

Re: OT - Switzerland domain name registrars

2010-12-10 Thread Samuel Baldwin
2010/12/10 Wolf Stettler wolfstett...@bluewin.ch: The official registrar is Switch (http://switch.ch/) a foundation to provide internet services to swiss universities. They have quite a good reputation. I use nic.ch (part of switch.ch) for my .li (Liechtenstein) address; they handle the .ch and

Re: OpenBSD-capable, fanless, diskful computer with ECC RAM

2010-12-10 Thread Martin Schröder
2010/12/10 Christian Weisgerber na...@mips.inka.de: The Atoms don't use ECC memory, do they? Of course not; Intel reserves ECC for Xeons. Most athlons do, though. Best Martin

Re: the new rc.d subsystem

2010-12-10 Thread Antoine Jacoutot
On Fri, 10 Dec 2010 16:25:40 +0100, frantisek holop min...@obiit.org wrote: why not reuse the /etc/rc.conf style set these to NO to turn them off. otherwise, they're used as flags approach? It's not how it works, it won't start anything unless you add it to the rc_scripts variable. this

NAT64 via pf/OpenBSD

2010-12-10 Thread Pete Vickers
Hi, We're currently deploying some IPv6 connectivity (no flame wars please), and need to provide a suitable transition solution for IPv6 only clients to access IPv4 services. At a bare minimum generic TCP/UDP/ICMP services should be supported for large pools of users. I'm aware of Reyk's work

Re: OpenBSD-capable, fanless, diskful computer with ECC RAM

2010-12-10 Thread Edho P Arief
On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 7:14 AM, Damien Miller d...@mindrot.org wrote: Hi, Can anyone recommend a small, fanless computer that will accept a HD (perhaps a 2.5 drive) that uses ECC RAM? Needless to say, it must run OpenBSD. Being 64 bit, having accellerated crypto and/or supporting multiple

Re: OpenBSD-capable, fanless, diskful computer with ECC RAM

2010-12-10 Thread Jonathan Gray
On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 04:35:42PM +0100, Martin Schrvder wrote: 2010/12/10 Christian Weisgerber na...@mips.inka.de: The Atoms don't use ECC memory, do they? Of course not; Intel reserves ECC for Xeons. Most athlons do, though. Intel's EP80579 embedded processors also do ECC, there are

Re: OpenBSD-capable, fanless, diskful computer with ECC RAM

2010-12-10 Thread Sergey Bronnikov
sorry for offtopic: have you tried to install openbsd on it? On 22:56 Fri 10 Dec , Edho P Arief wrote: On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 7:14 AM, Damien Miller d...@mindrot.org wrote: Hi, Can anyone recommend a small, fanless computer that will accept a HD (perhaps a 2.5 drive) that uses ECC

Re: ext2fs 2GiB file size limit

2010-12-10 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Wed, Dec 08, 2010 at 12:47:06PM +0100, Peter J. Philipp said that -O filesystem-format Select the filesystem-format. 0`GOOD_OLD_REV'; this option is primarily used to build root file systems that can be

Re: OpenBSD-capable, fanless, diskful computer with ECC RAM

2010-12-10 Thread Edho P Arief
On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 11:11 PM, Sergey Bronnikov este...@gmail.com wrote: sorry for offtopic: have you tried to install openbsd on it? Nope - I'm still saving money to buy it I found that someone posted its freebsd's dmesg though:

Re: Donations

2010-12-10 Thread Stuart VanZee
Err, that's supposed to be essential liberty and temporary security. Any society that *doesn't* give up at least a little liberty is anarchy and Franklin was not, to my knowledge, an anarchist. On Dec 10, 2010, at 8:19 AM, Leonardo Rodrigues leonardov...@gmail.com wrote: To paraphrase

[PATCH] uticom driver fix

2010-12-10 Thread Daniel Gracia
Hi there! Being in need of uticom driver noticed that it didn't worked out of the box. Compiled, but opening the serial port twice panics the kernel. With the attached fix applyed to sys/dev/usb/uticom.c it's working for me now with single port devices. Regards, Dani Patch

Re: the new rc.d subsystem

2010-12-10 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 05:38:19PM +0200, Antoine Jacoutot said that On Fri, 10 Dec 2010 16:25:40 +0100, frantisek holop min...@obiit.org wrote: why not reuse the /etc/rc.conf style set these to NO to turn them off. otherwise, they're used as flags approach? It's not how it works, it

Re: the new rc.d subsystem

2010-12-10 Thread Ingo Schwarze
Hi Frantisek, frantisek holop wrote on Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 06:26:36PM +0100: hmm, on Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 05:38:19PM +0200, Antoine Jacoutot said that On Fri, 10 Dec 2010 16:25:40 +0100, frantisek holop wrote: why not reuse the /etc/rc.conf style set these to NO to turn them off.

editing user disk usage quota

2010-12-10 Thread Friedrich Locke
Dear folks, i am trying to set quota for a user and a grace period too. I am using edquota to manage this, but when a try to to execute repquota -a no information about grace period is show! Here you have: lion# edquota sioux Quotas for user sioux: /: KBytes in use: 5582, limits (soft = 10,

Re: Donations

2010-12-10 Thread Martin Schröder
2010/12/10 Stuart VanZee stua...@datalinesys.com: I would have to agree that the people of the United States have lost some of their essential libertys. The problem has been in defining what exactly ARE the essential libertys and then getting our congress and our president to keep their mitts

Re: the new rc.d subsystem

2010-12-10 Thread Marc Espie
On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 06:26:36PM +0100, frantisek holop wrote: hmm, on Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 05:38:19PM +0200, Antoine Jacoutot said that On Fri, 10 Dec 2010 16:25:40 +0100, frantisek holop min...@obiit.org wrote: why not reuse the /etc/rc.conf style set these to NO to turn them off.

Re: editing user disk usage quota

2010-12-10 Thread Otto Moerbeek
On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 04:34:13PM -0200, Friedrich Locke wrote: Dear folks, i am trying to set quota for a user and a grace period too. I am using edquota to manage this, but when a try to to execute repquota -a no information about grace period is show! Here you have: lion# edquota

Re: OT - gmail alternatives

2010-12-10 Thread David Newman
On 12/9/10 12:34 PM, Kapetanakis Giannis wrote: On 09/12/10 17:07, Gilles Chehade wrote: Own box :-) lhmaig...@netvisao.pt wrote: That's ofcourse the best solution. But YOU have to make it secure and private. If you're not able to do this yourself, then your best option is to choose a

pf: default queue issues

2010-12-10 Thread David Hardy
[sorry if I posted this twice but I haven't see it show up ] I have an openbsd box doing queuing for 200+ users, each with their own cbq queue to limit bandwidth on a per-client basis. My issue is that I'm seeing a good 60-80% of the traffic on the client-facing interface going into the default

Re: Freeze with Western Digital Caviar Green HDD

2010-12-10 Thread Paolo Aglialoro
ok, what manufacturers are left??? :)) just toshiba??? On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 11:16 PM, roberth rob...@openbsd.pap.st wrote: On Thu, 9 Dec 2010 22:50:21 +0100 roberth rob...@openbsd.pap.st wrote: WD's trackrecord is reaching Seagate levels. Heck, even Hitachi has remidied itself from the

Re: Freeze with Western Digital Caviar Green HDD

2010-12-10 Thread roberth
On Fri, 10 Dec 2010 23:25:56 +0100 Paolo Aglialoro paol...@gmail.com wrote: ok, what manufacturers are left??? :)) just toshiba??? i am happy with samsung, because in that area i am a cheapskate. hardware dies, deal with it, don't buy the new kid on the block and be happy. :) sata disk got

Re: Freeze with Western Digital Caviar Green HDD

2010-12-10 Thread Nick Holland
On 12/10/10 17:25, Paolo Aglialoro wrote: ok, what manufacturers are left??? :)) just toshiba??? I'm going to say Anyone who says brand X is great and Y is crap has just exposed themselves as a newbie in the computer business. :) I've seen every make of drive have some real stinkers, and also

Re: OT - gmail alternatives

2010-12-10 Thread Mark Shroyer
On Thu, 9 Dec 2010 15:03:42 -0500, Adam M. Dutko dutko.a...@gmail.com wrote: How do they deal with legal jurisdiction? Technically the government can still subpoena and they'd have to turn over the documents in the persons account, including backups. I pine for Sealand but even then one would

Re: OT - gmail alternatives

2010-12-10 Thread Mark Shroyer
On Fri, 10 Dec 2010 00:01:41 -0300, Hugo Osvaldo Barrera h...@osvaldobarrera.com.ar wrote: ARP Networks DOES have OpenBSD VPS. I run my mail there. I'll second ARP Networks. I've been running Postfix and stuff on a FreeBSD VPS there for many months now, and they've been wonderful. They

Re: OT - gmail alternatives

2010-12-10 Thread Mark Shroyer
On Thu, 09 Dec 2010 22:34:40 +0200, Kapetanakis Giannis bil...@edu.physics.uoc.gr wrote: But YOU have to make it secure and private. If you're not able to do this yourself, then your best option is to choose a strong password and change it often. Also you have to trust the machine and the

Re: Freeze with Western Digital Caviar Green HDD

2010-12-10 Thread Jan Stary
Me? I usually buy whatever is cheap and on sale. And if it fails, I test my tolerance and recovery plans :) Do this right, your system will be back up faster than you can digest dozens of people's opinions about the best drives and pick one (which may turn out to be a stinker anyway). +100