Re: Calomel.org

2012-07-26 Thread Weldon Goree
On Thu, 2012-07-26 at 10:54 -0700, Eric Oyen wrote: well, I am wondering what packages I can use to edit man pages. The pages themselves are marked-up text; just use a text editor. Note that OpenBSD doesn't use groff anymore to render them. Look at mandoc(1) mdoc(7) (the suggested format)

Re: Upgrading OpenBSD

2012-05-22 Thread Weldon Goree
On Mon, 2012-05-21 at 20:46 -0700, Richards, Toby wrote: With BSD I must rely on the package system. Funny, all this time I thought OpenBSD came with a compiler... WMG

Re: Openbsd 5.1 Review on Distrowatch

2012-05-14 Thread Weldon Goree
On Mon, 2012-05-14 at 16:48 -0400, Ralph Ellis wrote: You are quite right. I meant that the i386 version could access flash via linux emulation through Opera. This is no longer true. http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/ports/www/opera-flashplugin/Attic/Makefile NB Kill it with fire.

Re: a live cd/dvd?

2012-05-11 Thread Weldon Goree
On Fri, 2012-05-11 at 18:47 -0700, Eric Oyen wrote: hello everyone. I was thinking that if we had a live image (A full running system) with an installer, we could have easier installations for the blind (and others as well). Like this one? http://livecd-openbsd.sourceforge.net/ Or, if

Re: OT: SSH not secure?

2012-05-09 Thread Weldon Goree
On Wed, 2012-05-09 at 11:53 -0400, S. Scott wrote: Good luck with your malicious administrator and the other 999,999 things you really need to be concerned about. It's more of the DAC silliness: you're not secure because you trust your systems administrator; I don't have to do that... (I

Re: fw_update

2012-05-09 Thread Weldon Goree
On Wed, 2012-05-09 at 21:33 +0200, mark sullivan wrote: Hi everybody, I was coming to OpenBSD 5.1 looking for reasonable privacy and when I install it (amd64 flavour), I see that fw_update automatically installs propietary firmware without my permission. Actually even worse, it updates it

Re: fw_update

2012-05-09 Thread Weldon Goree
On Wed, 2012-05-09 at 23:39 +0200, David Coppa wrote: What's the purpose of having a non-working wifi card? If you have concerns with firmwares, swap your card with, for example, an atheros or another card that doesn't need a firmware. And, btw, the other firmware is for a webcam

Re: kqemu in 5.1

2012-05-07 Thread Weldon Goree
On Mon, 2012-05-07 at 15:21 +0300, lilit-aibolit wrote: qemu-0.14.1p4.tgz and kqemu-1.3.0pre11p3.tgz in packages. is this not work? http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/ports/emulators/kqemu/Attic/Makefile Also, it's not in packages for 5.1 (I think it got yanked after the freeze for 5.0,

Re: acer aspire one D270

2012-05-05 Thread Weldon Goree
On Fri, 2012-05-04 at 19:26 -0400, Ted Unangst wrote: The only google hit for netbsd ignphy is... your email. ??? My mistake -- I was seeing igphy(4), which is for the ethernet, not the wireless. At any rate, the iwn(4) driver does not need Intel's firmware, and seems to work pretty well.

Re: kqemu in 5.1

2012-05-04 Thread Weldon Goree
On 05/04/12 06:12, Jes wrote: Hi all: I can't find kqemu between snapshots packages, ports, or even in 5.1 packages. I think I've read something about kqemu is deprecated in newer versions of qemu (1.0.1) Is this correct? Because performance without kqemu is horrible. Any solution? Yes, it

Re: acer aspire one D270

2012-05-04 Thread Weldon Goree
On Fri, 2012-05-04 at 07:37 +0100, Laurence Rochfort wrote: I wouldn't recommend the iwn(4) devices. I've had a bad experience even with those in the man page. YMMV; I've had good results with the 4965 AGN. Of note: NetBSD 6 (in beta) has a new largely-non-Damien driver with its own PHY

Re: Why so old firefox in 5.1?

2012-05-04 Thread Weldon Goree
On Fri, 2012-05-04 at 11:43 -0300, Jeronimo Baldino wrote: Is the development cycle the cause of older firefox in packages? But firefox isn't shipped with core OS. No, but binary packages are built against the core OS as shipped, so the ports people try to approach something like stability

Re: acer aspire one D270

2012-05-04 Thread Weldon Goree
On Fri, 2012-05-04 at 19:26 -0400, Ted Unangst wrote: The only google hit for netbsd ignphy is... your email. ??? I may have misremembered the name of the PHY, but iwn(4) in NetBSD 6.0-BETA does produce a PHY named something and doesn't require Intel's firmware to run. Though this may also

Re: kqemu in 5.1

2012-05-04 Thread Weldon Goree
On Sat, 2012-05-05 at 14:02 +1000, Peter Ericson wrote: Could there be a KVM for OpenBSD? I have been wondering for a while if the answer is an absolute no because it could never be trustworthy enough, not likely to happen because of lack of interest, or somewhere in between. There

Re: Please send email directly to misc@openBSD.org (no cc please)

2007-11-16 Thread Weldon Goree
On Fri, 2007-11-16 at 00:28 -0500, Piet Slaghekke wrote: I like to filter my openBSD emails and the only way I can do it is if everyone send their email with misc@openBSD.org in the To field. Please send email To misc@openBSD.org and do not CC it to this address. Thanks! If only

Re: bcw(4) is gone

2007-04-06 Thread Weldon Goree
Would it be wrong to develop software using existing GPL'ed code as a starting point. And bit by bit rewrite the code until you have rewritten all of it. Then releasing the final code under an BSD license? *shrug* Personally I consider that a derivative work and try to avoid it, though

Re: bcw(4) is gone

2007-04-06 Thread Weldon Goree
On Fri, 2007-04-06 at 10:22 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: They stated that they don't want Broadcom to take their work and close it. Why do they care? What possible difference does it make? Broadcom will get a driver that actually works well? What do you care if that's what they care about?

General question about intl and iconv

2006-07-15 Thread Weldon Goree
with OpenBSD's versions as opposed to everyone else's, I'd really appreciate it. Thanks! Weldon Goree

Re: sensorsd configuration

2006-07-13 Thread Weldon Goree
, length_of_that_buffer, NULL, 0); some_allocated_buffer will then hold the struct sensor containing its current state. Weldon Goree Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEtnuvixcispFzVm8RAttkAJ95eFTvJaaqn4R1Tkf1Kpo9c1KtuwCfS5aG 0ET6NQe4/KoC6iUw2w6qipk= =PTNG -END PGP SIGNATURE-

Re: No Java in OpenBSD

2006-07-11 Thread Weldon Goree
Karel Kulhavy wrote: I appreciate there is no Java in OpenBSD. I searched for java, jre, jdk, j2se, sun, blackdown and ibm in the packages and didn't find anything. /usr/ports/devel/jdk subpackages are 1.3-linux (requires linux emulation; this one is needed to boot strap the others), 1.3, 1.4,

Re: sysctl(3) and iteration over HW_SENSORS

2006-07-11 Thread Weldon Goree
Constantine A. Murenin wrote: You can't get them all at once with one sysctl(3) call, as the memory they occupy is not allocated continuously -- a linked list is used, and each driver does sensor allocation on its own, and it's not a sysctl(3) job to merge this linked list together into an

sysctl(3) and iteration over HW_SENSORS

2006-07-10 Thread Weldon Goree
sysctl(3) says that sysctl({CTL_HW, HW_SENSORS}, 2, NULL, some_size_t, NULL, 0) should give me the size of the array of struct sensor's that sysctl({CTL_HW, HW_SENSORS}, 2, some_buffer, length_thereof, NULL, 0) will put into some_buffer. Or so I thought. In fact, it returns -1 and sets errno to