Re: Why I abandoned OpenBSD, and why you should too...

2013-07-06 Thread Douglas Allen
On 7/4/2013 10:56 PM, Thomas Jennings wrote: Regretfully, I have decided to abandon OpenBSD and thought I would share my reasoning with this list. I thought the 4th of July was a good date to do so since my reasons address national security implications. As a group of people who take

Re: Why I abandoned OpenBSD, and why you should too...

2013-07-06 Thread Rudolf Leitgeb
NSA would be foolish to go through all the effort it takes to place a back door into OpenBSD. I find it funny how people focus on potential back doors in software and completely ignore that all this software is executed on micro processors that are made by a select handful of US companies. We also

Re: Why I abandoned OpenBSD, and why you should too...

2013-07-06 Thread gjones
http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/ken/trust.html

Re: Why I abandoned OpenBSD, and why you should too...

2013-07-06 Thread Benjamin Heath
Sent from a gmail address, just to season this with a little irony.

DF flag with af-to rule

2013-07-06 Thread Marios Makassikis
Hello misc@, I currently have a VM running as a NAT64 gateway. It is running OpenBSD 5.3 with the vio stability patch. I have the following pf.conf: pass in inet6 proto { tcp, udp, icmp6 } from network to pref64 af-to inet from $ipv4_addr While this works fine in one environnment, the same VM

Re: DF flag with af-to rule

2013-07-06 Thread Pawel Jurusz
Hello Marios DF bit shouldn't be cleared, because it's necessary for PMTUD (Path MTU Discovery). There is also nothing amazing, that packets has DF flag set (it depends on operating system) Hello misc@, I currently have a VM running as a NAT64 gateway. It is running OpenBSD 5.3 with the vio

Re: DF flag with af-to rule

2013-07-06 Thread Marios Makassikis
On 6 July 2013 21:26, Pawel Jurusz mailing.s...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Marios Hello Pawel, DF bit shouldn't be cleared, because it's necessary for PMTUD (Path MTU Discovery). There is also nothing amazing, that packets has DF flag set (it depends on operating system) I'm aware of the

Re: [chrisbenn...@bennettconstruction.us: Re: X or cwm got slower]

2013-07-06 Thread Chris Bennett
I have KDE installed but I don't use it. I tried using KDE, but still same problems. Chris

Re: Why I abandoned OpenBSD, and why you should too...

2013-07-06 Thread Alexander Hall
On 07/05/13 09:04, eric oyen wrote: Sighted assistance. It simply means that I am blind (as in I wear prosthetic eyes and can't see a thing). I can use most of my equipment here with either some screen reader access or braille. Unfortunately, that can't be said for installation and first time

new topic: blind support for OpenBSD.

2013-07-06 Thread eric oyen
what hardware? my laptop machine. also, its new enough that the only serial it has is USB (which, as far as I know, doesn't support sserial redirection). I also have a desktop machine and its new enough not to have any classic serial ports either. so, no redirection there either. and since there

Re: Why I abandoned OpenBSD, and why you should too...

2013-07-06 Thread Chris Cappuccio
Thomas Jennings [thomas.jennings...@gmail.com] wrote: Dear OpenBSD developers and users: Happy 4th of July. Thomas, I don't understand why you make such a breach of OpenBSD list etiquette. We all know these posts belong on tech@, not misc@ Please behave yourself better next time.

Re: new topic: blind support for OpenBSD.

2013-07-06 Thread eric oyen
I have tried windows XP with NVDA on that laptop. I have also tried Vinux on there as well. Windows did to me the same thing that OpenBSD does. I had to have someone else install it (ugh!). Vinux was a bit better as it allowed me to install using orca speech on a live dvd. The problem is that I

Re: new topic: blind support for OpenBSD.

2013-07-06 Thread Nick Holland
Keeping in mind that that those of us who have not had the opportunity to work with computer tools used by the blind or visually challenged know very little about them, so naming names of products by themselves doesn't help us understand the process well...what would the ideal solution look like

Re: new topic: blind support for OpenBSD.

2013-07-06 Thread Johan Beisser
On Jul 6, 2013, at 21:53, Nick Holland n...@holland-consulting.net wrote: Feel free to take this off list with me if you prefer. I kind of hope you keep this on list, actually. While I'm not affected by the problem, I'm interested in the problem and solutions.