Re: randomize spamd-setup time in cron?

2010-12-23 Thread Peter N. M. Hansteen
problem will be corrected. -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team http://bsdly.blogspot.com/ http://www.bsdly.net/ http://www.nuug.no/ Remember to set the evil bit on all malicious network traffic delilah spamd[29949]: 85.152.224.147: disconnected after 42673 seconds.

Re: OT - gmail alternatives

2010-12-09 Thread Adam M. Dutko
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 have to trust the owners of Sealand not to snoop. Again, the best solution is

Re: OT - gmail alternatives

2010-12-09 Thread Adam M. Dutko
IANAL but can't they hold you in jail for contempt or insert charge here until you hand it over. I thought I remember something similar in the news recently. On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 3:38 PM, Brad Tilley b...@16systems.com wrote: Adam M. Dutko wrote: How do they deal with legal jurisdiction

Re: OT - gmail alternatives

2010-12-09 Thread Adam M. Dutko
On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 8:20 PM, James Hozier guitars...@yahoo.com wrote: My ISP refuses to modify any DNS settings and won't give me a static IP address without a business account, so no proper reverse DNS. I don't have the resources to run my own nameservers, so what alternatives do I have

Re: Donations

2010-12-05 Thread Adam M. Dutko
Are you planning on having the OpenBSD development team perform some sort of illegal activity soon? If not, you shouldn't be worried about Paypal. You're discussing intent. Intent is a tricky thing that in the past lawyers had to jump through hoops to prove in the (fed)nited States.

Re: Donations

2010-12-05 Thread Adam M. Dutko
I hope that one day due process is denied you. I am wondering what type of due process should be granted to these individuals. What basis/jurisdiction of law are we talking about? Natural human rights? US law? International Law? I'm just wondering because I think it's critical to the whole

Re: soekris + openbsd server buy question

2010-12-03 Thread Adam M. Dutko
On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 5:28 AM, shweg...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I'm considering buying a Soekris net5501-70 and install OpenBSD on it to make myself a small server and use it as a proxy (ssh tunnel), it might serve as backup file sever as well. I guess at the most there will be two-three

Re: Advice on learning C as first language

2010-11-25 Thread Nicolas P. M. Legrand
On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 09:26:52AM -0500, Kenneth Gober wrote: On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 7:20 AM, Christiano F. Haesbaert haesba...@haesbaert.org wrote: On 24 November 2010 13:55, Kenneth Gober kgo...@gmail.com wrote: since you've indicated that you are interested in a 'first' language, I

Re: Advice on learning C as first language

2010-11-24 Thread Nicolas P. M. Legrand
On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 03:49:27PM +, Jona Joachim wrote: On 2010-11-24, Jan Stary h...@stare.cz wrote: On Nov 24 06:55:20, James Hozier wrote: I read online that the first programming language one learns could be crucial to the person's future programming skills and habits that

Re: OpenCVS in Base?

2010-11-20 Thread Nicolas P. M. Legrand
On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 01:05:21AM -0700, Clint Pachl wrote: I am starting a new project that needs version control and I was thinking about using OpenCVS. However, I'm not sure if it is in the base (I'm running -current). My old 4.4 firewall has /usr/bin/opencvs. Is /usr/bin/cvs actually

Re: Seeking inexpensive RAID 1 hardware recommendation

2010-11-19 Thread m...@mdaniel.de
My conclusion: B Marco's suggestion that I look for cards with the letters IR/IS or IM led me to buy a Fujitsu LSI MegaRAID 1064 Part-NoS26361-F3257-L4 which has the -IR in its firmware name and a SAS1064LE chip. It looks good but I'm still waiting for the SAS - SATA cable which I forgot to order

Re: Book of PF 2nd Ed. Kindle edition validity

2010-11-19 Thread Peter N. M. Hansteen
you could go directly to the source at nostarch.com and get several ebook formats together (in zip archive I think). All the best, Peter -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team http://bsdly.blogspot.com/ http://www.bsdly.net/ http://www.nuug.no/ Remember to set

Re: virtualhost and httpd -U output

2010-11-18 Thread Adam M. Dutko
You probably have another NameVirtualHost *:80 directive set in another included config file. You can also check http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/vhosts/name-based.html for more information.

Re: An OpenBSD smartphone

2010-11-17 Thread m brandenberg
On Wed, 17 Nov 2010, Jona Joachim wrote: The hardware is slow and buggy and the OpenBSD Moko port is dead. Just don't buy it ;) That said, I have a Neo 1973 available for a deal if anyone wants to play... -- Monty Brandenberg

Re: An OpenBSD smartphone

2010-11-17 Thread Paul M
On 18/11/2010, at 10:15 AM, Martin Schrvder wrote: 2010/11/17 Ted Unangst ted.unan...@gmail.com: Compared to the hardware available today, the openmoko is ridiculously obsolete. And the supplier in question is known to hate Theo and OpenBSD. Best Martin ... And is a fraudster and a

Seeking inexpensive RAID 1 hardware recommendation

2010-11-15 Thread m...@mdaniel.de
I have a hard time finding a RAID1 capable controller that is well supported via bioctl, available, and not too expensive. Is there e.g. a nice mpi or mpii card that can be controlled via bioctl? The man page only mentions that some mpi cards offer Raid1. Of course it doesn't have to be a mpi

Re: Seeking inexpensive RAID 1 hardware recommendation

2010-11-15 Thread m...@mdaniel.de
mpi/mpii cards that do IR/IS or IM should do RAID 1 just fine and are supported by bioctl.B You just have to purchase the card carefully and make sure it has one of those acronyms. Thanks for the info. This will make it easier to find the right cards I don't want to appear lazy but finding the

Re: My pf.conf and an nmap scan

2010-11-14 Thread Peter N. M. Hansteen
queue and pass with some negligible value for probability? - Peter -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team http://bsdly.blogspot.com/ http://www.bsdly.net/ http://www.nuug.no/ Remember to set the evil bit on all malicious network traffic delilah spamd[29949

The Book of PF, second edition

2010-11-10 Thread Peter N. M. Hansteen
N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team http://bsdly.blogspot.com/ http://www.bsdly.net/ http://www.nuug.no/ Remember to set the evil bit on all malicious network traffic delilah spamd[29949]: 85.152.224.147: disconnected after 42673 seconds.

Re: How to convert .img to .iso

2010-11-08 Thread Peter N. M. Hansteen
with file system type as the only difference. - Peter -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team http://bsdly.blogspot.com/ http://www.bsdly.net/ http://www.nuug.no/ Remember to set the evil bit on all malicious network traffic delilah spamd[29949]: 85.152.224.147

Re: OpenBSD PPC on iBook G3 -- Wireless alternatives?

2010-11-07 Thread Nicolas P. M. Legrand
Hello, On Sat, Nov 06, 2010 at 08:30:54PM -0600, David Astua wrote: I've just got an old iBook G3, and want to run OpenBSD on it, so there's some recommendation about which USB wireless adapter would work better on this PPC laptop? The idea is to to learn PPC assembly and do some C code on

Re: Enough is enough!

2010-11-02 Thread Peter N. M. Hansteen
Ahlsen-Girard, Edward F CTR USAF AFSOC AFSOC/A6OK edward.ahlsen-girard@hurlburt.af.mil writes: Stop! Or I shall say stop! again! Ekki-ekki-ekki-te-pang! -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team http://bsdly.blogspot.com/ http://www.bsdly.net/ http

Re: error when compile the kernel

2010-11-01 Thread Peter N. M. Hansteen
this isn't really the supported way) 3) copy the snapshot's bsd.rd to / 4) reboot; boot bsd.rd 5) follow the friendly prompts, choose disk and your local directory as the install source. couldn't be easier really. -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team

Re: nfsv4?

2010-10-29 Thread Adam M. Dutko
Interesting read(s)... http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2623.txt http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3530.txt http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1813.txt On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 9:26 AM, Jan Stary h...@stare.cz wrote: On Oct 29 06:05:28, James A. Peltier wrote: - Original Message - | On Fri, 29 Oct 2010

Re: softraid ignorance (mine).

2010-10-22 Thread Adam M. Dutko
Yes it is possible. The actual commands are dependent on the firmware and device manufacturer. For instance if you have an LSI card you'll want to look into the MegaCLI.

The Book of PF, 2nd edition is becoming available

2010-10-21 Thread Peter N. M. Hansteen
rewrite than I had initially anticipated, I hope you will enjoy the result. - Peter -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team http://bsdly.blogspot.com/ http://www.bsdly.net/ http://www.nuug.no/ Remember to set the evil bit on all malicious network traffic delilah

CVS ls Disabled on Mirrors?

2010-10-21 Thread Adam M. Dutko
I recently tried to list contents of some of the CVS servers without doing a checkout to see if it would be feasible to write a small script to identify hot spots in the development tree based on recent commits. I believe this functionality is disabled due to security or resource usage concerns.

Re: java/amd64/4.7?

2010-10-21 Thread Adam M. Dutko
I think i386 prebuilds b/c of the Kaffe piece. Should be in the FAQ. On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 1:19 PM, Jay K jay.kr...@cornell.edu wrote: ok, 1.5 built, 1.6 built, 1.7 in progress. Thanks. I did say A for all during 15's extract. Maybe there is a way to automate that. I can remove 1.5 and

Re: CVS ls Disabled on Mirrors?

2010-10-21 Thread Adam M. Dutko
It's quite old, but I think that answer may be inside http://www.openbsd.org/papers/anoncvs-paper.pdf A listing would require write ability to /tmp and the paragraph right before section 4 indicates this is disabled (in the chroot environment). That seems to be the answer. Thanks.

Re: Force passwordcheck in login.conf

2010-10-18 Thread Adam M. Dutko
Thanks. I'll add that as a possible solution for folks who wish to add Python to the base install. Brad http://www.deweyonline.com/files/openbsd/login_-custompasswd Thanks for sharing. I didn't see any explicit log file closing but then again sys.exit() should clean up.

EuroBSDCon 2011 Call for Proposals

2010-10-14 Thread Peter N. M. Hansteen
EuroBSDCon 2011 === EuroBSDCon is the European technical conference for users and developers on BSD based systems. The EuroBSDCon 2011 conference will be held in the Netherlands from thursday 6 october 2011 to sunday 9 october 2011, with tutorials on thursday and friday and talks on

Re: Auto Logout Idle Users

2010-10-14 Thread Adam M. Dutko
Any good reason to not do this? They're not the same shell. I can't think of any security reasons because I'm not familiar with the code but as far as logs and noise factor I imagine it would go up or various things might start breaking that depend on csh.

Re: quick EuroBSDCon report

2010-10-11 Thread Peter N. M. Hansteen
/eurobsdcon-2010-finest-software-tool-is.html if you're into that kind of thing. Posted before I left Karlsruhe, on the evening right after the conference ended. Cheers, Peter -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team http://bsdly.blogspot.com/ http://www.bsdly.net

Re: Connecting to Oracle DB from OpenBSD

2010-10-07 Thread Adam M. Dutko
Can any one share any wisdom on connecting to an Oracle DB from OpenBSD? The above is a rather nebulous question...are you doing this from a program and if so, in what language?

Re: Wireless Network GUI

2010-10-07 Thread Paul M
On 8/10/2010, at 1:44 AM, Guillaume Duali wrote: On Thu, 7 Oct 2010 09:33:44 -0300, Christiano F. Haesbaert haesba...@haesbaert.org wrote: Why not make a curses GUI ? I find it much more useful than gtk/qt (IMHO). In my opinion, the aim of this project is to provide a graphical tool, which

Re: Bandwidth consume by IP address

2010-10-02 Thread Peter N. M. Hansteen
(the first edition has only the labels part). - Peter -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team http://bsdly.blogspot.com/ http://www.bsdly.net/ http://www.nuug.no/ Remember to set the evil bit on all malicious network traffic delilah spamd[29949]: 85.152.224.147

ibm 380d pcic irqs

2010-09-24 Thread James M. Pothering
Why does OpenBSD 4.7 i386 assign the pcic irq to 4 which is the com0 isa port irq? Also, if there is a pcmcia card in a slot during boot that card gets irq 3 which is the com1 isa port irq. Later in the boot when com0 and com1 are detected dmesg shows: com0: irq 4 already in use com1: irq 3

Re: EuroBSDcon

2010-09-23 Thread Peter N. M. Hansteen
will not come to eurobsdcon. Yes, an unambiguous confirmation is needed. Please supply one with no further delay. - Peter -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team http://bsdly.blogspot.com/ http://www.bsdly.net/ http://www.nuug.no/ Remember to set the evil bit on all

Re: Linux or OpenBSD

2010-09-23 Thread Peter N. M. Hansteen
one of the better summaries by a Linux person, actually a quite sane one. But note the date, a lot has happened on the PF side of the fence since then, not least performance-wise. - P -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team http://bsdly.blogspot.com/ http

Re: Spamd and window size

2010-09-20 Thread Peter N. M. Hansteen
Kevin Chadwick ma1l1i...@yahoo.co.uk writes: Can anyone suggest a good setting? My boxes have been running with -w 1 for a few years, doesn't seem to scare them off, unfortunately: pe...@skapet:~$ sudo spamdb | grep -c TRAPPED 23969 - Peter -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC

Re: OpenBSD 4.8

2010-09-15 Thread Peter N. M. Hansteen
is likely to be available roughly in time for this release) /plug -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team http://bsdly.blogspot.com/ http://www.bsdly.net/ http://www.nuug.no/ Remember to set the evil bit on all malicious network traffic delilah spamd[29949

Re: 4.7 PF match problem

2010-09-10 Thread Peter N. M. Hansteen
in the criteria for your match rule. Hard to be more specific without the full rule set. - P -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team http://bsdly.blogspot.com/ http://www.bsdly.net/ http://www.nuug.no/ Remember to set the evil bit on all malicious network traffic

Re: Finicky Website and Outbound Load Balancing

2010-09-08 Thread Adam M. Dutko
relativity slow links it helps speed things up. On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 10:46 AM, Adam M. Dutko dutko.a...@gmail.comwrote: Are you using two ISP's for redundancy or throughput because I would probably opt for a Virtual IP to make sure the session management system isn't getting confused

Re: preserving editor files

2010-09-08 Thread Peter N. M. Hansteen
:~$ file /usr/libexec/vi.recover /usr/libexec/vi.recover: a /usr/bin/perl -w script text executable Several minutes sounds like a lot, was the last shutdown not a clean one? - P -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team http://bsdly.blogspot.com/ http

Problem with dhclient and resolv.conf

2010-08-31 Thread ted . m . w
Hello: Using 4.6 (updating to 4.7 is my next project), I have set up two machines at two separate sites to that create a ipsec tunnel between them. Both machines get a dynamic ip address for their internet connection from the ISP (comcast at one end, AT+T at the other). Both machines have the

Re: pf.conf : rdr-to IF rather than IP

2010-08-29 Thread Peter N. M. Hansteen
://home.nuug.no/~peter/pf/bsdcan2010/addresspools.html could do the trick. Or you could try relayd (the next couple of slides) - P -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team http://bsdly.blogspot.com/ http://www.bsdly.net/ http://www.nuug.no/ Remember to set the evil bit

Re: Recommendations for a SATA controller ?

2010-08-28 Thread Paul M
AFAICT most (or all, if it's a PCI limitation) PCI SATA cards do not run at full speed. Perhaps you already know this, but I thought it worth mentioning. paulm On 28/08/2010, at 2:19 AM, Christiano F. Haesbaert wrote: Hi there, I'm willing to buy a SATA controller (PCI) with at least 4

Re: help on rewriting ftp-proxy rules for 4.7 up

2010-08-17 Thread Peter N. M. Hansteen
be) and reproducible numbers and statistics. (otherwise, we will call it 'flags wanking', nevermind the quick gushers) - P -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team http://bsdly.blogspot.com/ http://www.bsdly.net/ http://www.nuug.no/ Remember to set the evil bit on all

Re: MTA choice

2010-08-13 Thread Peter N. M. Hansteen
Siju George sgeorge...@gmail.com writes: what about qmail? ;-) beavis huh, hurr, he said qmail /beavis -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team http://bsdly.blogspot.com/ http://www.bsdly.net/ http://www.nuug.no/ Remember to set the evil bit on all malicious

Re: MTA choice

2010-08-13 Thread Mike M
On 8/13/2010 at 9:04 AM Christer Solskogen wrote: |On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 8:55 AM, open...@e-solutions.re wrote: | Hi, | | I want to install a mailserver. | What is the easiest and the most secure solution ? | OpenBSD comes with Sendmail. I seen a lot of people use Postfix instead | Sendmail. |

Re: MTA choice

2010-08-13 Thread Mike M
On 8/13/2010 at 3:43 AM Peter Miller wrote: | I only want to know what is better (easiest way, most secure) to use. | And have your advice. | |He just gave it to you. sendmail. = My opinion, and my opinion only - if you do notd to change any of the configuration settings from the

Re: Same shit all over again

2010-08-13 Thread m brandenberg
On Fri, 13 Aug 2010, disgrun tled-developers wrote: This date to day, on Tuesday the 13th of August 2002, Theo had another fit and kicked out all the OpenBSD developers for a couple of days or so: All I can say is: Thank you Theo for giving a damn and not running some kind of peewee

Re: MTA choice

2010-08-13 Thread Mike M
On 8/13/2010 at 11:26 PM Benny LC6fgren wrote: |Steve Shockley wrote: | On 8/13/2010 2:55 AM, open...@e-solutions.re wrote: | Is there someone to advice me about the choice of the MTA ? | | I've used Courier-MTA on OpenBSD for a few years. I think it's a good | choice if you want an all-in-one

Re: How to Downgrade from 4.7 to 4.6

2010-08-07 Thread Peter N. M. Hansteen
poster describes, some not terribly well thougth out scrub options carried over from an earlier version), but going to match in all scrub (no-df max-mss 1440) made my home network a lot more pleasant. And yes, the 4.8 snapshots are really worth trying. - Peter -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member

Re: OpenBSD Training

2010-07-28 Thread Peter N. M. Hansteen
, the BSDA exam will be offered during the conference. - Peter -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team http://bsdly.blogspot.com/ http://www.bsdly.net/ http://www.nuug.no/ Remember to set the evil bit on all malicious network traffic delilah spamd[29949]: 85.152.224.147

Re: HP laptops again

2010-07-28 Thread Peter N. M. Hansteen
Jan Stary h...@stare.cz writes: Actually a test with up to the second -current would be helpful to get a baseline where we are at with this machine. What is the second -current? up to the second -- as fresh as physically possible - p -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149

Re: OpenBSD users.

2010-07-18 Thread Peter N. M. Hansteen
Mateusz Gierblinski mateusz.gierblin...@gmail.com writes: I'm just wondering. Where are you OpenBSD users from? Bergen, Norway - P -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team http://bsdly.blogspot.com/ http://www.bsdly.net/ http://www.nuug.no/ Remember to set

Re: pf question: no rdr problem, upgraded 4.2-4.7

2010-07-15 Thread Peter N. M. Hansteen
with the appropriate rdr-to, depending on just how you handled the conversion of the general case. -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team http://bsdly.blogspot.com/ http://www.bsdly.net/ http://www.nuug.no/ Remember to set the evil bit on all malicious network traffic

Re: 302 redirection doesn't work ?

2010-07-10 Thread Peter N. M. Hansteen
-- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team http://bsdly.blogspot.com/ http://www.bsdly.net/ http://www.nuug.no/ Remember to set the evil bit on all malicious network traffic delilah spamd[29949]: 85.152.224.147: disconnected after 42673 seconds.

Re: Ordering CDs in Europe becoming increasingly difficult

2010-07-08 Thread Nicolas P. M. Legrand
I've bought from the computer shop directly on three occasions, I get the CDs in the right time and I didn't felt the shipping was that expensive. In fact, I think it was quite the same. I'm working near Eyrolles, and I didn't saw OpenBSD sets their for a long time. Not far from Eyrolles, the

Re: pf - allow only inbound packets to be forwarded

2010-07-04 Thread Peter N. M. Hansteen
a destination ip hosted by the desktop. But for this to work I would need a static ip or modify the pf rules everytime my public ip changes. you could use the () notation to compensate for dynamically assigned addresses, ie block to ($ext_if) -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC

diff for getenv.3

2010-07-03 Thread Nicolas P. M. Legrand
to reflect changes from this commit : http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvsm=127778468909371w=2 Index: getenv.3 === RCS file: /cvs/openbsd/src/lib/libc/stdlib/getenv.3,v retrieving revision 1.14 diff -u -r1.14 getenv.3 --- getenv.310

Re: Phoronix Test Suite

2010-06-23 Thread Adam M. Dutko
crickets chirping yawn /crickets chirping Continues working...

Re: Phoronix Test Suite

2010-06-23 Thread Adam M. Dutko
By the way, I like OpenBSD and I really appreciate its strong points but, unlike You, I have no problems in admitting its weaknesses (I see to much zealotry here)... Not that I have a lot of room to talk because I haven't submitted a patch yet... However, I think the general belief is that

Re: Phoronix Test Suite

2010-06-23 Thread Adam M. Dutko
this statement is weird, in some way. I concur. I'll shutup. :-)

Re: OT: Australia may allow punitive damages for security vulns

2010-06-22 Thread Adam M. Dutko
when ford sold the pinto with the 'exploding' gas tank, it just paid money out to settle claims after many people were burned to death. although i don't believe there is a precedent for it, possibly until now, many software companies have been doing the same thing: selling crap products that

Re: OT: Australia may allow punitive damages for security vulns

2010-06-22 Thread Adam M. Dutko
I disagree with this. How many times a year are motor vehicles recalled? They don't replace the car, they fix it. Why can't defective software get a recall or a hefty fine if they refuse to fix it? This is a major reason I walked away from the paid software world, impossible to pay for

Re: OT: Australia may allow punitive damages for security vulns

2010-06-22 Thread Adam M. Dutko
This is obviously not the intent. The intent is to have software that is reasonably crafted by software engineers. Not some slapped together turd with peanuts from different development teams. I agree it shouldn't be slapped together but you strike upon an interesting debate... Should

Re: 1 out of 3 hunks failed--saving rejects to kerberosV/src/lib/krb5/crypto.c.rej

2010-06-21 Thread Peter N. M. Hansteen
no surprise the patch doesn't apply cleanly. If you want -current, the best advice is to install a snapshot and take it from there (or just keep fetching snapshots). On the other hand, if you want 4.7-stable, check out the 4.7 source and apply the errata patches. - P -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member

Re: OT: Australia may allow punitive damages for security vulns

2010-06-21 Thread Adam M. Dutko
Illegal to run without antivirus ... disconnection of vulnerable computers. A much needed kick up the arse for software makers or just bat-shit insane? Coming soon... I tend to agree with your last comment. begin article summary Idiotic politicians with no business setting arbitrary rules

Re: OpenBSD as a laptop OS

2010-06-18 Thread Peter N. M. Hansteen
the flashplayer plugin means firefox will crash slightly less often and you're spared a lot of the less useful ads. -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team http://bsdly.blogspot.com/ http://www.bsdly.net/ http://www.nuug.no/ Remember to set the evil bit on all

Re: audio recording levels

2010-06-16 Thread Paul M
On 16/06/2010, at 6:45 PM, Alexandre Ratchov wrote: On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 12:06:40AM +1200, Paul M wrote: On 15/06/2010, at 11:18 PM, Paul M wrote: On 15/06/2010, at 8:25 PM, Alexandre Ratchov wrote: On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 08:20:57AM -0600, Ted Roby wrote: Sound cards just get too

Re: audio recording levels

2010-06-15 Thread Paul M
On 15/06/2010, at 8:25 PM, Alexandre Ratchov wrote: On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 08:20:57AM -0600, Ted Roby wrote: Sound cards just get too much noise off the motherboard. well, it depends on the sound card; properly engineered cards don't get noise, including pci ones. It seems the best I can

Re: audio recording levels

2010-06-15 Thread Paul M
On 15/06/2010, at 11:18 PM, Paul M wrote: On 15/06/2010, at 8:25 PM, Alexandre Ratchov wrote: On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 08:20:57AM -0600, Ted Roby wrote: Sound cards just get too much noise off the motherboard. well, it depends on the sound card; properly engineered cards don't get noise

Re: ABOUT PEOPLE WITH WHOM MATRIMONY IS PROHIBITED

2010-06-15 Thread Adam M. Dutko
What about marrying blowfish? On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 8:34 AM, S H sahservi...@gmail.com wrote: And the relevance of this to the OpenBSD community is? On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 8:22 AM, Sam Singh samsingh...@absamail.co.za wrote: 1 : If a man commits adultery with a woman, then it is not

Re: audio recording levels

2010-06-14 Thread Paul M
On 14/06/2010, at 12:49 PM, Jacob Meuser wrote: On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 11:37:52AM +1200, Paul M wrote: I have a large amount of analog audio I need to digitize and naturaly want to ensure best transfer quality. So I need to set the analog level at the input to the adc as high as possible

Re: audio recording levels

2010-06-14 Thread Paul M
On 14/06/2010, at 6:54 PM, Jan Stary wrote: On Jun 14 11:37:52, Paul M wrote: I have a large amount of analog audio I need to digitize and naturaly want to ensure best transfer quality. So I need to set the analog level at the input to the adc as high as possible without clipping. It is good

Re: audio recording levels

2010-06-14 Thread Paul M
On 15/06/2010, at 2:20 AM, Ted Roby wrote: On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 2:29 AM, Paul M l...@no-tek.com wrote: On 14/06/2010, at 6:54 PM, Jan Stary wrote: It would be my guess that this is the audio chip that's integrated with the Asus P5QPL-AM motherboard. If you are really after best

audio recording levels

2010-06-13 Thread Paul M
I have a large amount of analog audio I need to digitize and naturaly want to ensure best transfer quality. So I need to set the analog level at the input to the adc as high as possible without clipping. Ideally, I'll get the workstation hardware set to certin defaults, then adjust the incomming

Re: Free PF ruleset 4.7

2010-06-10 Thread Paul M
Please, please let this thread die. It's degenerated into banal wittering. paulm On 10/06/2010, at 1:09 PM, Edho P Arief wrote: On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 10:24 PM, VICTOR TARABOLA CORTIANO vt...@c3sl.ufpr.br wrote: If i chose web hosting using iis, it is not your problem but mine. So keep

Re: It is 2010. Still no 3GB support by default?

2010-06-07 Thread Adam M. Dutko
Maybe it's more attributable to increased interest and the increase has brought a proportional increase in what you call trolls. More noise is distracting but has fringe benefits...sometimes... On Jun 7, 2010 9:01 PM, Jason Beaudoin jasonbeaud...@gmail.com wrote: maybe I haven't been on this

Time te restart plus.html, the daily changelog

2010-06-03 Thread Nicolas P. M. Legrand
Hello, after a talk initiated by Rod Whitworth on www@ it seems some people are willing to restart the daily changelog, after it stopped in last november. We could set up a team to submit plus.html diffs. If you are interested please email me. cheers, -- nicolas

Re: new mirror: ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de

2010-05-27 Thread Adam M. Dutko
Regardless of what list is appropriate...thank you for mirroring!

Re: Help contacting Richard Stallman

2010-05-26 Thread Peter N. M. Hansteen
than free software and mentions Linux without GNU/ prepended too often. But still the wrong mailing list. - P -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team http://bsdly.blogspot.com/ http://www.bsdly.net/ http://www.nuug.no/ Remember to set the evil bit on all malicious

Re: Toshiba L505D-S5983 ACPI

2010-05-25 Thread Paul M
On 25/05/2010, at 10:48 PM, Kevin Chadwick wrote: unlikely. your systems should regulate the fan on its own when needed, even without an acpi enabled os. if it is doin that, don't worry. Usually if anything the fan will just run at full speed, which may be a little noisy but may also make

Re: thinkpad sl500: iwn0: radio is disabled by hardware switch

2010-05-22 Thread Peter N. M. Hansteen
Gregory Edigarov g...@bestnet.kharkov.ua writes: Where is that 'hardware switch'? on my SL500 it's a little slider switch on the front, to the left and down from where you fumble your trackpad -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team http://bsdly.blogspot.com

PF: Example: Firewall for Home or Small Office

2010-05-22 Thread Mike M
At one point, I saw *somewhere* a sample ruleset for pf using the new 4.7 syntax. However, neither I nor my usage of google seems to be able to dig up that web page again. Could someone post a quick link to the ruleset, so that I can start understanding the new syntax? thanks.

Re: PF: Example: Firewall for Home or Small Office

2010-05-22 Thread Peter N. M. Hansteen
Mike M the.li...@mgm51.com writes: At one point, I saw *somewhere* a sample ruleset for pf using the new 4.7 syntax. However, neither I nor my usage of google seems to be able to dig up that web page again. a little odd that the pf faq has not been updated, it must be an oversigth

Re: PF: Example: Firewall for Home or Small Office

2010-05-22 Thread Mike M
On 5/22/2010 at 7:03 PM pe...@bsdly.net wrote: |Mike M the.li...@mgm51.com writes: | | At one point, I saw *somewhere* a sample ruleset for pf using the new | 4.7 syntax. However, neither I nor my usage of google seems to be | able to dig up that web page again. | |a little odd that the pf faq

Re: PF: Example: Firewall for Home or Small Office

2010-05-22 Thread Peter N. M. Hansteen
Henning Brauer lists-open...@bsws.de writes: * Peter N. M. Hansteen pe...@bsdly.net [2010-05-22 19:08]: a little odd that the pf faq has not been updated huh? it has been updated, the same day 4.7 has been released It looks like they missed a spot in the examples at http://www.openbsd.org

Re: PF: Example: Firewall for Home or Small Office

2010-05-22 Thread Mike M
On 5/22/2010 at 7:26 PM Henning Brauer wrote: |* Peter N. M. Hansteen pe...@bsdly.net [2010-05-22 19:08]: | a little odd that the pf faq has not been updated | |huh? it has been updated, the same day 4.7 has been released | = I see the pre-4.7 info here: http://openbsd.org/faq/pf

Re: PF: Example: Firewall for Home or Small Office

2010-05-22 Thread Mike M
On 5/22/2010 at 7:56 PM Henning Brauer wrote: |* Mike M the.li...@mgm51.com [2010-05-22 19:45]: | On 5/22/2010 at 7:26 PM Henning Brauer wrote: | | |* Peter N. M. Hansteen pe...@bsdly.net [2010-05-22 19:08]: | | a little odd that the pf faq has not been updated | | | |huh? it has been updated

Re: OT - Resilient RAID

2010-05-21 Thread Paul M
Water by itself is pretty harmless to most electronic components - as long as there is no power present. If it is thoroughly and completely dried before power is applied, there's unlikely to be any issues. Even the heat of the drier is unlikely to be a problem. Consumer electronic components

Re: Openbsd 4.6 free ram

2010-05-20 Thread Adam M. Dutko
This list is NOT a handholding bureau for lazy people. Dangit! I knew I was subscribed to the wrong list...

Re: Openbsd 4.6 bash and email notification

2010-05-19 Thread Adam M. Dutko
Wow. Sorry for my massive fail...I totally misread your question. Seems Jan read it correctly. :-/ On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 4:45 PM, Hect tagah...@email.it wrote: I can't get to disable email notification with bash. You know the message that says You have new mail in /var/mail/user. I tried,

Re: Differences between www.openbsd.org and openbsd.org

2010-05-19 Thread Peter N. M. Hansteen
, 4.7 is a flag day release. - P -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team http://bsdly.blogspot.com/ http://www.bsdly.net/ http://www.nuug.no/ Remember to set the evil bit on all malicious network traffic delilah spamd[29949]: 85.152.224.147: disconnected after

Re: Openbsd 4.6 bash and email notification

2010-05-18 Thread Adam M. Dutko
I can't get to disable email notification with bash. You know the message that says You have new mail in /var/mail/user. I tried, as bash manual says, to add variable MAILPATH to profile but doesn't do the job. There's no biff in ps command output, anyway i tried also with biff n. no

Re: time based rules on pf

2010-05-17 Thread Peter N. M. Hansteen
, you could write rules that match on table membership and manipulate the tables. Depending on your specific needs, cron or at jobs with pfctl one-liners could go a long way. - P -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team http://bsdly.blogspot.com/ http://www.bsdly.net

Re: something to do

2010-05-17 Thread Adam M Dutko
On 5/17/10 9:13 PM, Ted Unangst wrote: Here's something for the great OpenBSD todo list. George Neville-Neil gave a talk at BSDCan about hardware performance monitors in FreeBSD. There was a similar talk at DCBSDCon too. You should be able to find the slides online. It sounds like the driver

typos in upgrade47.html

2010-05-09 Thread Nicolas P. M. Legrand
Hello, received the CDs on friday, a very nice moment as always, thanks everyone :-). I saw minor typos in upgrade47.html while upgrading, useless prompt, useless sudo and use of obsolete -F pkg_add flag: Index: upgrade47.html ===

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