Re: dmenu: was When will be created a great desktop experience for OpenBSD?

2019-05-07 Thread Sean Howard
I compiled dwm and dmenu directly and then just wrote an xinitrc, no adjustments necessary to be functional On Tue, May 7, 2019, 16:42 Steve Litt wrote: > On Tue, 07 May 2019 14:47:15 -0500 > Edgar Pettijohn wrote: > > > > I use dwm on everything so my desktop experience is the same > >

Re: HP 1020 G1 OpenBSD 6.0 Beta status and dmesg

2016-06-15 Thread Sean Howard
Sent from my phone.   Original Message   From: Bodie Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2016 03:49 To: misc@openbsd.org Reply To: bodz...@openbsd.cz Subject: HP 1020 G1 OpenBSD 6.0 Beta status and dmesg Hi all, trying to find if OpenBSD will be usable on this laptop via USB live OpenBSD 6.0 Beta install.

Re: generate xorg.conf

2016-06-13 Thread Sean Howard
‎  Sent from my phone.   Original Message   From: Rudolf Sykora Sent: Monday, June 13, 2016 04:44 To: misc@openbsd.org Subject: generate xorg.conf Hello, please, how do one generate an xorg.conf file on openBSD? I thought running X -configure (or X :1 -configure, if X is running) would

Re: Upgrade to 5.9 full disk encryption

2016-04-17 Thread Sean Howard
 J o ‎l Sent from my Phone.   Original Message   From: Predrag Punosevap ‎ Sent: Sunday, April 17, 2016 09:11 To: erling.westen...@gmail.com Cc: misc@openbsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrade to 5.m. J9 full disk encryption Erling Westenvik wrote: Tn. I‎ > On Sat,

Re: Request for Funding our Electricity

2014-01-14 Thread Sean Howard
There's a lot of reasons why I want to avoid this conversation, but since it's started, I'd say look at http://www.patreon.com/ for a crowdfunding model - much nicer than Kickstarters. (and a way to get people to formalize their buying of CD sets every release)

Re: dwm in base

2012-07-10 Thread Sean Howard
Almost everyone compiles dwm on their own, binaries are almost useless. At least amongst the users I've known. On 2012-07-10 5:44 PM, Norman Golisz li...@zcat.de wrote: On Tue Jul 10 2012 20:52, z...@sdf.org wrote: Hello, there are a lot of nice window managers in OpenBSD base (fvwm, cwm,

Re: My OpenBSD 5.0 installation experience (long rant)

2012-03-09 Thread Sean Howard
Somebody claiming to be Henning Brauer wrote: * David Vasek va...@fido.cz [2012-03-07 18:56]: what about this Use (W)hole disk or (E)dit the MBR? [edit] while the OP did make a mistake, he could modify the default to be edit the MBR. so he would be forced to pay attention while

Re: My OpenBSD 5.0 installation experience (long rant)

2012-03-07 Thread Sean Howard
Somebody claiming to be Leonardo Sabino dos Santos wrote: I have to apologize to everyone on this list for the tone of that first message. I was angry and venting, and I apologize if it offended anyone. I understand that the installer works the way it does because that's what's useful to the

Re: Why aren't you running -current?

2011-09-08 Thread Sean Howard
I want an OS that works right out of the box. I am not a kernel hacker, nor am I wanting to do nightlys or even weekly system upgrades. I want to grab the release and have a compter that lets ne actually use the damn thing like I wasn't an idiot. I've been meaning to compile -current, but

Re: Another weird notebook-booting problem.

2011-06-20 Thread Sean Howard
I am also using a ProBook 4520s I am however using OpenBSD-4.9 amd-64. I could try to see if I can install -current, but it would take me a few days (find time, backup again, reinstall, etc), however - I have attached my amd64 dmesg. I had to disable ACPI to get it to work, since, well, that

Re: Need Suggestion: To limit the access of root account

2011-04-28 Thread Sean Howard
Somebody claiming to be Mehma Sarja wrote: On 4/28/11 7:52 PM, Stefan N wrote: Hi All, I would need some suggestions from you. Currently I am setting up OpenBSD Firewall using PF at my working place. However, some of my colleagues are not so familiar with the OpenBSD and we would like to

Re: USB stick 4GB Kingston not working

2010-04-19 Thread Sean Howard
I have a Kingston, it has behaved very erratically (and currently lost its partition, leaving the drive unformatted). I've done no research into this, but a similar problem is there. I found formatting it would work for a few days (but didn't want to try harder than that for just a USB drive).

Re: Opera on bsd.mp kernel

2009-11-29 Thread Sean Howard
Thanks a lot. I've honestly always had issues with Opera on OpenBSD, but I expected it was just due to problems in Linux emulation. Somebody claiming to be Predrag Punosevac wrote: Dear All, This is not really a question but an observation that I made which might be useful to others so I

Re: Forum engine

2009-10-11 Thread Sean Howard
Not seen a good test, nor run one. But YaBB has been good to me in the past. --Sean Howard Somebody claiming to be jean-francois wrote: Hello, Sorry to bother you with something more or less external to OpenBSD, however since I am settling a forum on my server and want to keep security

Re: Forum engine

2009-10-11 Thread Sean Howard
I think you're being pretentious a little bit. A good usenet implementation is *closer* to a forum, which is what you want. But forums are a different (more dynamic) use case. With smaller entry barriers to large amounts of content. --Sean Somebody claiming to be Samuel Baldwin wrote:

Re: question about mozilla-firefox port

2009-09-13 Thread Sean Howard
When I last got this error, it's because my time program was off by a few years, and therefore the cert was not inside it's trusted times, and therefore the cert was seen as invalid. --Sean Somebody claiming to be bofh wrote: I noticed something is different about the openbsd 4.5