Re: ftp.fr mirror is going down

2014-06-13 Thread Sime Ramov
On Thu, 12 Jun 2014 23:50:53 +0200, Antoine Jacoutot ajacou...@bsdfrog.org wrote: Thank you! No, thank *you* for all your work, the mirror (using it), ports/packages, mtier openup stuff etc... Also, Jon Lajoie :)

Re: OpenBSD 5.5 support for hw crypto in OpenSSL

2014-06-09 Thread Sime Ramov
On Mon, 9 Jun 2014 21:40:16 +0200, wessels wessels...@gmail.com wrote: Suggestions how to get this (acceleration) working again? Should it be invoked differently? Is `sysctl kern.usercrypto` enabled?

Re: hp microserver n40l dmesg

2012-02-02 Thread Sime Ramov
seems to work okay so far though I haven't pushed it yet; nice and quiet (fairly slow large fan), pity about the lack of rs232 though. It is a nicely built machine indeed, N36L over here, used as a general purpose desktop workstation.

Quotas and DUIDs

2012-02-01 Thread Sime Ramov
What is the latest status on this? Latest info I could find is a patch on dev list from September last year. Snapshot from few days ago is still affected, e.g: quotacheck -a quotacheck: 6fa46c18fccf6125.h: No such file or directory THE FOLLOWING FILE SYSTEM HAD AN UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY:

OpenBSD related jobs?

2012-01-14 Thread Sime Ramov
OpenBSD is so far above and beyond anything else out there that I am having a hard time using other systems. I would *love* to work for an OpenBSD-centric company, either part-time, or full-time, preferably from home. Feel free to email me at s...@ramov.com for further details, if you're

Short adsuck guide (local resolver setup)

2011-12-05 Thread Sime Ramov
http://ramov.com/doc/adsuck.html Let me know if you notice anything amiss. -Sime

Easy way to follow -current, a write-up

2011-12-03 Thread Sime Ramov
I just wrote this document outlining the steps I do to keep up with -current: http://ramov.com/writing/obsd-current.html Hope someone finds it useful. More of an end-user method as there is no source code involved.

Re: Easy way to follow -current, a write-up

2011-12-03 Thread Sime Ramov
* Marc Espie es...@nerim.net [2011-12-03 20:36+0100]: Bad advice. As discussed with Antoine, sysmerge should be run *after* the update, not before, even though you may have to reboot an extra time. Thanks for pointing that out, fixed.

Re: Easy way to follow -current, a write-up

2011-12-03 Thread Sime Ramov
* Marc Espie es...@nerim.net [2011-12-03 20:36+0100]: As discussed with Antoine, sysmerge should be run *after* the update, not before, even though you may have to reboot an extra time. I am not sure about one more thing. Do I select etc.tgz and xetc.tgz file sets when upgrading? Or do I

Re: Easy way to follow -current, a write-up

2011-12-03 Thread Sime Ramov
* Antoine Jacoutot ajacou...@bsdfrog.org [2011-12-03 23:12+0100]: You cannot select etc.tgz and xetc.tgz when upgrading. Ah, missed that. I usually do a full install on desktops so I don't pay much attention to file sets. Shouldn't then net result be effectively the same whether one runs

Re: Easy way to follow -current, a write-up

2011-12-03 Thread Sime Ramov
* Marc Espie es...@nerim.net [2011-12-03 23:10+0100]: Duh, are you smarter than update ? why do you think it doesn't select them ? Have I said that anywhere? I was asking for a clarification.

Re: Easy way to follow -current, a write-up

2011-12-03 Thread Sime Ramov
* Ingo Schwarze schwa...@usta.de [2011-12-04 00:15+0100]: That sounds strange, especially on desktops; after reinstall, you have to install all packages from scratch, and desktops typically need lots of packages. What I was trying to say is that I generally install all sets (do a full install)

Re: Narcicism?

2011-12-01 Thread Sime Ramov
Hi, * John Tate j...@johntate.org [2011-12-02 02:25+1100]: I'm 24 years old. I was a Linux hacker since I was 13. I am a bit of a guru and do my own Kerberos and such on an all BSD/Linux network. I am the guru sort of guy, I know a hell of a lot but I'm still connecting it and in that sense

Something similar to Soekris boards, for server applications

2011-11-30 Thread Sime Ramov
Hello, I am looking for something in the spirit of Soekris boards, but more suited for server applications, e.g. for hosting Django apps. Current net6501 is maxed out at 2 GB of RAM and 1.6 Ghz *single-core* (two threads) atom. The reason I am considering Soekris is because dedicated servers are

Re: Something similar to Soekris boards, for server applications

2011-11-30 Thread Sime Ramov
* Christiano F. Haesbaert haesba...@haesbaert.org [2011-11-30 14:39-0200]: You may consider the new AMD E-350, the fusion ones, they're very low-power and might suit you. They're very, very cheap, I've never used them, but sounds a better alternative than the atom. Fusion stuff is consumer

Re: Something similar to Soekris boards, for server applications

2011-11-30 Thread Sime Ramov
Hi, * Jason Crawford ja...@purebsd.net [2011-11-30 12:27-0500]: Maybe look at this: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816101364 I know about that one, it's not bad but I would like to fit two boards in 1U. Which is exactly what kerberos.si is doing for Soekris with their

Re: Recommended working IDE

2011-11-19 Thread Sime Ramov
* John Tate j...@johntate.org [2011-11-19 12:51+1100]: Is there an IDE that works? What is it? nvi, ksh.

Re: gkrellm and uuid's for filesystems

2011-11-19 Thread Sime Ramov
* John Tate j...@johntate.org [2011-11-19 11:46+1100]: Also, where do I get started on learning to make ports? http://openbsd.org/faq/ports/index.html. I have a hard time understanding you were unable to find docs on this.

Re: systat colors?

2011-11-10 Thread Sime Ramov
* Ted Unangst t...@tedunangst.com [2011-11-10 16:41-0500]: No, nor will they. colorized utilities are not particularly welcome. Amen to that. When I first started using OpenBSD I immediately noticed how colorless everything is. With time, I got this realization that I actually prefer things

Re: bootstrap.pl

2011-11-01 Thread Sime Ramov
* Ingo Schwarze schwa...@usta.de [2011-11-01 14:12+0100]: You are reinventing parts of site50.tgz, install.site, and rc.firsttime(8), but in a way that requires more manual labour. Yep, you are right, forgot about those, thanks! Parts seem to be missing here to edit mailer.conf(5) and

herbstluftwm

2011-11-01 Thread Sime Ramov
http://wwwcip.cs.fau.de/~re06huxa/herbstluftwm/ I find it extremely good and it has just replaced ratpoison as my WM. Maybe it will be a good match for someone else too (it is virtually unknown). Here's a patch for it to compile on OpenBSD (you'll need `gmake` and `asciidoc`): diff --git

Re: herbstluftwm

2011-11-01 Thread Sime Ramov
Also, forgot that default autostart file needs some adjustments in order to work in other shells (it is a bash script). I just removed brackets in function names and commented tag stuff to work with ksh.

bootstrap.pl

2011-10-31 Thread Sime Ramov
I've got tired of setting up my system after clean installs of -current so I wrote this simple script which I pipe to perl immediately after first boot. Maybe someone finds it useful. #!/usr/bin/perl # Usage: ftp -o - -V http://dl.ramov.com/bootstrap.pl | perl - use 5.010; use strict; use

Re: bootstrap.pl

2011-10-31 Thread Sime Ramov
For completeness sake, first one is for files in /etc and /var/adsuck and the second one for my home dotfiles: $ cat src/etc/bootstrap.sh #/bin/sh rsync \ -av \ --exclude 'bootstrap.sh' \ /storage/src/etc / cp resolv.conf /var/adsuck/files/ $

Re: Multi-byte nvi

2011-10-29 Thread Sime Ramov
* Marc Espie es...@nerim.net [2011-10-29T10:53+0200]: You should read undeadly, in particular the 3rd part of the hackathon report. Missed that, thanks!

Re: Multi-byte nvi

2011-10-29 Thread Sime Ramov
* patsy open...@ethernull.org [2011-10-28T23:57+]: Check the latest post on http://undeadly.org (naddy@'s report) Nice to know this is on the radar, about the only thing I miss occasionally.

Re: Pointers on starting X, then run browser and when it quits, automatically shutdown the computer X

2011-10-29 Thread Sime Ramov
* Tito Mari Francis Escaqo titomarifran...@gmail.com [2011-10-29T17:50+0800]: My idea is for the whole system to run off a Live CD, but I'm quite lost how to start the X windowing system, then the web browser and then automatically shutdown the whole system after quitting web browser. As for

Multi-byte nvi

2011-10-28 Thread Sime Ramov
Since OpenBSD libc now supports multi-byte characters, are there any forthcoming plans to bring this support to nvi? There is no editor in base which supports it and I don't want to install or use vim.

Multiple smarthost relays with smptd

2011-10-21 Thread Sime Ramov
I am trying to set up forwarding to two remote SMTP servers. Not at the same time obviously, but depending on the from line (personal and work address and accompanying outgoing servers). Secrets file: smtp1.example.com u...@example.com:pass smtp2.example.org u...@example.org:pass

Suspend not working on HP MicroServer N36L

2011-10-18 Thread Sime Ramov
Here's dmesg[1] on -current. `apmd` is loaded with the '-C' option and that appears to be working. ~]$ apm Battery state: absent, 0% remaining, unknown life estimate A/C adapter state: not known Performance adjustment mode: cool running (800 MHz) CPU is scaled up and down as

Re: Suspend not working on HP MicroServer N36L

2011-10-18 Thread Sime Ramov
* David Coppa dco...@gmail.com [2011-10-18T12:34+0200]: You can help by making a tarball with files generated by: sudo acpidump -o HP_MicroServer_N36L and putting it somewhere on the net, so acpi experts can have a look. Here it is: http://dl.ramov.com/acpidump.tgz

Re: openbsd web site design proposals (from HOTO write bad docs)

2005-11-28 Thread Sime Ramov
On 13:28 Mon 28 Nov, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: They welcome contributers. You are not a contributor. And it won't become one because of all the people on this mailing lists with such attitude. -- http://coastaldisturbance.com/

Re: Newbie Q: freeBSD vs openBSD

2005-11-27 Thread Sime Ramov
On 15:57 Sun 27 Nov, Sanjay Arora wrote: Now, some quick question...which BSD flavour to try first...thrust is on easy to install learn for a newbie. Try FreeBSD first. Than the others... Second, which would be more suited to a production web/mail server with djbdns, apache, php, perl

Re: HOTO Write bad documentation

2005-11-27 Thread Sime Ramov
On 14:55 Sun 27 Nov, frantisek holop wrote: your page is unreadable at 800x600 :) I know, it's personal site (well, just splash at this moment), and I decided for 1024x768. But I was talking about *code*. Offcourse that I would design OpenBSD site totaly different... It's about code

Re: HOTO Write bad documentation

2005-11-27 Thread Sime Ramov
On 14:46 Sun 27 Nov, Simon Morgan wrote: time soon. I have a sneaking suspicion that the only people who keep raising this are i know what's best HTML programmers who have nothing interesting or worthwhile to contribute or discuss but feel the overwhelming need to nitpick, bitch and moan

Firefox Thunderbird GTK2?

2005-11-26 Thread Sime Ramov
Hello, On OpenBSD Firefox and Thunderbird packages/ports are GTK1.x, how can I get them or compile them so that they use GTK2.x.x? Thanks.

UTF-8 terminal emulator and fonts

2005-11-26 Thread Sime Ramov
Hello, Where can I find utf-8 capable terminal emulator, similar to aterm? It must have proper utf-8 support. Also, is there any utf-8 fonts available in ports/packages? I want to use mostly console apps (mutt, vim, slrn, etc) but I can't because I need proper utf-8 support for email, web